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Tending the garden v2

THE SCENE: 60-65* no sure exactly, but loving the cool weather
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Shouler taps x20 IC
Imperial walkers x10 IC
Plank merkins x10 IC
Bend and reach x10 IC
SSH x19 IC (see if we’re paying attention)
THA-THANG:
Mosey out of AO and stop under first bridge we come to for a few more quick exercises.

  • Dirty hookups x20 IC (from plank position, put left hand up on wall, right hand on wall, left back down, right back down)
  • Wall sit Indian run
  • Hand release merkin x15 OYO
  • Wall sit OH claps x20 IC

Mosey on, Bernie up the hill behind the amphitheater then turn and continue mosey towards campus.  Stop on bridge that crosses Cumberland Ave for 20 box cutters and 20 BBSUs.  Up and continue mosey to C15 parking lot along Neyland Drive.  Grab a boulder and make it heavy.
Perform exercise, then drop your rock, run across pedestrian bridge, up the stairs next to engineering building and back down and return to your rock and move on to next exercise.

  • Brickyard manmakers x5
  • Curls x20
  • OH press x20
    Plank up until everyone finishes.  Then rest from rocks with seven 8 count bodybuilders together.  After our rest, repeat the same routine except increase reps by 5 for each exercise.

Get another rest with another round of bodybuilders and change up exercises and routine just a touch.  Instead of running all the way up the stairs, just have to go to the far end of the pedestrian bridge and back.  But you have to tote your rock this round. Exercises:

  • Hand swap merkins x10 (one hand on rock, one on ground, merkin, then swap hands)
  • BBSUs with rock x20
  • Curls again x25 (it is summer…)

Cash out with 20 hand swap merkins before returning the boulder back to its home.  Begin mosey back, going the way we came.  Bernie halfway up the ramp beside S7 parking lot.  Stop again at the bridge over Cumberland Ave for 15 box cutters and 15 BBSUs.  Up and mosey, passing amphitheater and make a left turn throwing everyone off who thought we were done.

Stop at the grass hill beside Clinch Ave bridge.  Crawl bear up the grass hill, then do 5 burpee box jumps on the World’s Fair Park marker at the top and mosey back down.  Only had time to do one iteration, but we’ll revisit at a later date.  Mosey back to start point for Mary.

MARY:
Flutter kicks x20 IC
Side crunches left x10 IC
Side crunches right x10 IC
Flutter kicks x20 IC
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
6 Strong: Pfeiffer, Magic Mike, Duggar, Carrot, Swanson, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Around a year ago when I had Q on Saturday, I’d spoke about tending the garden.  Just the simple of idea of making sure you take the time necessary to give all the things in your life the attention that they need.  Sometimes we don’t think we have the time, but we have to make sure we make it for everything to thrive.

Today I wanted to just add that when our garden performs well and we have a bounty, to share that surplus with those whose gardens are struggling.  Make sure we’re giving away what we have an abundance of.

Duck and Weave

THE SCENE: 55 degrees! 55 DEGREES Y’ALL!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Cherry Pickers x10 IC

Tempo Squat x10

SSH x25 IC

Annie’s x7 IC each way each arm

Moroccan Night Clubs x20 IC

THA-THANG:
Mosey to Gresham Upper Lot

  • Line up and Duck Walk from mid point to stop sign and back

DORA back at mid point @ cones – 1 partner runs to stop sign at the bottom and back while the other does the thing

  • 150 Merkins
  • 175 BBS
  • 200 Squats
  • 250 Flutter Kicks – 1CT (or 2CT if you’re bad at math)

MARY:
Mosey back to church lot.

Bear crawl one end to the other, do 5 Captain Thors, bear crawl back to the start, do 5 more Captain Thors. Plank O Rama til time.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Wilson, Herbie, Abort, Swanson, Duggar, Filter
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Isaiah 40:31 – “But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”
MOLESKIN:
Don’t take for granted your preparation and discipline when you Q. It’s easy to take it for granted when you’ve got a regular crew that gets into a rhythm. Stay alert. Stay focused.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
July 4 parade in Farragut

July 1 VQ for Wilson!!!

Quacken Circuit at The Quacken

THE SCENE: low 60s. Perfect!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x25 IC

BAC x15 ea IC

Cherry Pickers x10 IC

Little bit of This

Tempo merkins x10 IC

THA-THANG:
Mosey to hill behind church. Dubbing this Mount Frasier from now on.

7s.

1 BBS at the bottom. 6 squat jumps at the top.

Mosey around a bit. Do 2 burpees en route. Mosey back to FC park from top of Hotel down.

6 Station Quacken Circuit – stations placed around the park circuit. Do 20, 25, 30 reps respectively for each lap.

  • #1 5 Burpees each time
  • #2 Merkins
  • #3 Lunges 2CT
  • #4 Diamond Merkins
  • Do 1 Burpee each side of the two Quacken bricks in front of the Lions Club Building as penance.
  • #5 American Hammers 4CT
  • #6 roll the dice – do 25 of whatever exercise you get. Each PAX rolls for their own exercise (skip the Burpees)
  • Bear crawl from #6 to #1
  • Repeat until time.

MARY:
Ain’t nobody got time for that today!

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Wilson, Mr. Wedgie, Duggar, Herbie, Filter
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
1 Corinthians 10:31 “Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it for the glory of God”
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

P3 at F3

THE SCENE: Temp in the 70’s with a little breeze.  Perfect weather.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Baby Arm Circles IC x 10 each way

A little of This and a little of That

Hillbilly’s x10 IC

Tempo squats x10 IC

Tempo Merkins x10 IC

THA-THANG:

  • Mosey to rock pile behind Veterans Memorial
    • Walk to corners of the field with rock over head
      • 1st corner – Mountain climbers x10 IC
      • 2nd corner – Peter Parkers x10 IC
      • 3rd corner – Mountain climbers x5 / Peter Parkers x5
      • Walk with rocks over head to return them to pile.
  • Mosey to Big Ball steps
    • Battle Buddy:  #1 runs up stairs, stops at first landing for 2 burpees.  Top landing 4 burpees.  Back to first landing 2 more burpees then to bottom to tag buddy.  Meanwhile buddy #2 does flutter kicks, American Hammers, etc until buddy #1 tags.  Each buddy up stairs 4 times.
  • Mosey around the corner and up the hill to the intersection close to the Art Museum.
    • Circle up:
      • flutter kicks x 10
      • Merkins x 10 OYO
      • Hello Dolly x 10
      • Merkins x 10 OYO
      • Box Cutters x 10
      • Merkins x 10 OYO
      • LBC’s x 10
      • Merkins x 10 OYO
      • American Hammer x 10
      • Merkin x 10 OYO
  • Mosey back to AO

MARY:
Had time for a little “Amazon shoulder shredder”:  Baby Arm circles, overhead claps, seal claps, etc

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
13 PAXs total with 2 FNG’s
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Remembering a friend who I was able to spend some time with and learn from his wisdom.  He was a WWII veteran and shared his experiences and relationship with God with me over breakfast each Friday morning.  One morning he shared his thoughts as we talked about God’s Glory. As we usually think of F3 as a lot of physical fitness, I present to you “P3” for spiritual fitness.  My friend shared with me 3 things he thinks about when he thinks about God’s Glory.  God’s Presence, God’s Power, and God’s Purpose.  Let’s remember to be in God’s presence, rely on His Power, and seek His Purpose for our lives.  When we do we will not only experience His Glory but we will glorify Him.
MOLESKIN:
Pray for Passports foster daughter, Jobs for people in the Fellows program, and for Lee Murphy’s job situation.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

False finish five

THE SCENE: 67* or so, great morning
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Even/odd stretches – middle left right
Short mosey to overpass
Shoulder taps x15 IC
Super squats x10 IC
Tempo merkins x10 IC
Wall sit OH claps x15 IC
THA-THANG:
Very short mosey to amphitheater .  Assemble at the stage for 11s’s big brother, 25’s.  Same concept as 11s except increase/decrease by 5 reps.  Start at the stage and do 20 feet elevated crunches (legs straight out and 6″ off the ground, hands on head and crunch), run up the stairs to the top and do 5 pull ups/inverted rows on rails.  Return to the bottom for 15 crunches/10 rows, etc. working up and down in count.

Mosey out of amphitheater and across bridge adjacent to railroad.  Stop in the parking lot just below Church St. United Methodist for a round of leg blasters before tackling the hill.  In cadence and with no rest in between: 15 squats, 10 lunges each leg, 10 jump squats.  Then immediately run up the hill beside the church and over to the parking lot beside Henley St. Bridge.  Lots of chalk on the ground for some fun with rocks.

Each time you perform the exercise, then drop your rock and run across the street, up the ramp to the front door of the church, do 5 merkins, and return for the next exercise.  Exercise list:

  • Curls x20
  • OH press x20
  • Curls x20
  • Front rock raise x20
  • Curls x20
  • Mr. Spectacular (rock on ground, walk your hands out to plank, merkin, walk back in, lift rock and press overhead for 1 rep) x20
  • Curls x20
  • Lap around parking lot holding rock overhead
  • Curls

This was the original list on the ground when we got there.  I’d hidden some chalk during set up and started adding exercises as people started getting the near the finish.  I may have gotten some groans and poopy faces. Added exercises still had run across to the church and do 5 merkins in between.  Exercises added:

  • Rock OH squats x20
  • Curls x20
  • Rock pressed flutters x20

After everyone had finished, I thought it would be good to do some curls.  So we did tempo 21s with rocks.  7 reps of bottom to halfway nice and slow in tempo, 7 reps halfway to top in tempo, 7 reps full range in tempo.

10 count and start mosey back to SP.  When we got back to start point everyone kind of stopped and I kept running right through it and told them we weren’t finished yet.  So we ran through the start point and up past the playground and around back to start point.

MARY:
Flutter kicks x25 IC
Boat/canoe typical Abort finish
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
False finish five: Duggar, Anchorman, Hang Tight, Amazon, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
The whole idea of the workout was that sometimes you think you’re almost to the finish, only to find out there is more work to be done.  The lesson was to always be prepared, and that you obviously place limits on yourself when you think you know where the end is.

TCLAPS to Hang Tight graduating Saturday (and fighting off the merlot Sat morning)!!