F3 Knoxville

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Read me like a book

THE SCENE: 35* and NO RAIN
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Imperial walker x10
  • Bat wing
    • BAC forward x20
    • BAC reverse x20
    • OH Claps x20
  • Tempo squat x10
  • 4 count merkin x10
  • SSH

THA THANG:

Ascending curb crawl 1-13. Bear crawl from one curb to the other, do 1 merkin. Bear crawl back to the original side, 2 merkins. Continue up to 13 merkins.
Decision time: 5 exercises at 5 different places, PAX choose rep count of 10, 20, 30, 40, 50. PAX choose the reps before knowing the exercise, and once they’ve used a number they can’t use it again.
  • Star jumps @ Big Ball (50)
  • Sit ups @ stage (40)
  • Burpees @ fountain (10)
  • Curls with rocks @ L&N (30)
  • SSH @ South end of park (20)

PAX read me like a book, burpees only 10 reps. G6 called it before we ever got there too.

20 sprints. Do 20 of exercise, sprint to the other end of the road and continue reps of said exercise until everyone has made it. Call a new exercise and repeat.
  • Diamond merkins
  • Squats
  • Sit ups
  • Wide merkins
  • Plank jacks
  • Burpees (10)

MARY:
Flutter kicks x20
Sit ups x20
Box cutters 10
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
10 Strong (get to keep my beard): G6, Reverb, The Voice, Amazon, Rousey, Passport, Cowbell, Duggar, Swanson, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
The Einstellung Effect: the negative aspect of having experience.  We all usually think having experience and even success somewhere is a good thing, and it is.  However, this effect describes the type of confirmation bias that arises from having success at something: you might not consider other options which might be even better or more beneficial.  Challenge to myself and other PAX to not only try to get better at things which they struggle with, but also occasionally take a look at things you do well, and consider that you might have another option.  My personal challenge is to try to find a way to love my family and friends in a better way. AYE!!
MOLESKIN:
Continue to pray for Passport and that hopefully he can avoid another back surgery, for G6’s son Rick who still has a fever following his operation, and for Swanson and his wife and family.

Mend House – Burpees and Bear Crawls

THE SCENE: Clear and 48
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Mosey from the Mend House to the Gresham Parking Lot

  • Burpees 0
  • SSH 10x 4ct IC
  • Burpees 2
  • LBAC 10x 4ct IC Forward & Backward
  • Burpees 4
  • Cherry Pickers 10 4ct IC
  • Burpees 6
  • Air Squats 10x IC
  • Burpees 8
  • Overhead claps 10 4ct IC
  • Burpees 10

THA-THANG:

  • Ascending Bear Crawls
    • 1 Merkin, Bear crawl across the lot, 2 Merkins, Bear crawl, …. to 10 Merkins
  • 21s
    • BBS – Start with 1 (increase by 1 each time)
    • Run to end of the lot
    • Leg Lifts – Start with 20 (reduce by 1 by each time)
    • Continue until numbers are flip-flopped.

MARY:

  • Circle of Pain – Merkins (start with 5 down to 1)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 Hims, 9 from Mend House (2 FNGs)

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
As a group of men we need to hold one another up, strengthen and encourage each other. Just as a body has different aspects to build it up, we each have unique strengths that can apply to the group.

Ephesians 4:16

16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Quaken will launch on March 1st. Mark your calendars.

Tour de Fountain City Park

THE SCENE: 24 degrees and calm in Fountain City Park.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH 25 ct

Baby Arm Circles (up and down) 13 ct ea

Cherry Pickers 15 ct

Merkins 6 IC 4 ct

THA-THANG:
Indian run from AO to the Duck Pond. Loop around once and back to AO.

6 Stations around Fountain City Park. 3 PAX go clockwise going up the numbered stations and 3 PAX go counter clockwise around the loop going down the numbered stations.

3 laps total around the loop increasing reps by 5 each time: 15, 20, 25.

  1. Merkins (15, 20, 25)
  2. BBS (15, 20, 25)
  3. Diamond Merkins (15, 20, 25)
  4. American Hammers (15, 20, 25)
  5. Squats (15, 20, 25)
  6. Burpees (10, 10, 10)

Plank when done.

MARY:
1/11 celebration!

Middle of the park: big tree and little tree are the stations. Reverse numbers til done like 11s.

Big tree: 1 BBS

Little tree: 11 merkins

*ran out of time about halfway through.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
6 HIMs present: Wilson, Vertigo, Duggar, Casper, Herbie, Filter on Q.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

MOLESKIN:
Don’t be afraid to look at the squiggly things under the rock. You can pick up the rock and put it back down saying, “I don’t need to deal with that” and ignore the squiggly things, or you can pick up the rock, look at the squiggly things and deal with them.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
none.

Rock piles and cathedrals

THE SCENE: 29 actual temp, 23 feels like temp. Shorts weather!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • 6 count squat (not tempo)
  • 6 count shoulder tap
  • Merkins on 4 count
  • SSH (varied pace)

THA-THANG:

“Bro I’m cold” rule in effect for durarion – I call out person when I’m cold and we do 5 burpees. Person I call out must call six count cadence. They then nominate the next person when they’re cold – or want to be a jerk.

Mosey out of SP toward amphitheater. Stop at back part of amphitheater for 10 eight count merkins, 10 jump squats. Sprint the hill and hold squat waiting for the 6. Continue mosey to church parking lot for rock PT.
  • Curls x15
  • Thrusters x10
  • Offset merkins x10
  • 10 meter duck walk and back
  • Overhead squats x 10
  • Overhead press x15
  • Hammers x10 (4ct)
Escalator style. Between each iteration run and touch the church and come back. Pick up next exercise and work back through beginning with curls.
Mosey back to SP.

MARY:

  • Iron cross IPTBAW. Last man standing picks next exercise and count, calls cadence but only does half the reps. Careless wins, calls out 30 Edward scissor-legs. Like a boss, does them all instead of stopping at 15.
  • Low plank on elbows IPTBAW. Run out of time with most PAX still holding, so we all win.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
12 strong, 1 visitor from Charlotte and 1 first time baller from Dog Pound: Reverb, Amazon, Passport, Dingar, Brooks, Duggar, Filter, Careless, Cowbell, Swanson, JPEG, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”  Go about your day viewing things not the way the are, but the could be if you applied impact to them.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill OCR coming up in May. I want us to have minimum one team, hopefully two. We also will be building an obstacle, details to follow.

Iron Sharpens Iron

THE SCENE: damp but just about perfect temp!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER – certainly not a professional

WARM-O-RAMA:
– 20 Big Boy Sit-ups – oyo
– 20 tempo squats – ic
– 10 tempo Merkins – ic
– 30 Side straddle hops – 4-count ic
THA-THANG:
mosey to base of the big ball

4 circuits with one lap around the pond between each circuit. Everything completed with a Battle Buddy.

Circuit 1
– 50 squats
– 40 Merkins
– 30 shoulder taps (Left, Right = 1)
– 20 dips
– 10 squats with knee lift to elbow (Left, Right = 1)

Circuit 2
– 50 burpees
– 40 reverse lunge with twist (20 each side)
– 30 Cross Body Mountain Climbers (Left, Right = 1)
– 20 high knees
– 10 inchworm Merkins

Circuit 3
– 50 jump squats
– 40 Ranger Merkins
– 30 bicycle crunches (Left, Right = 1)
– 20 superman flies
– 10 donkey kicks (Left, Right = 1)

Circuit 4
– 50 alternating scissor jumps
– 40 wide squats with heel raise
– 30 Plank knees to elbows (Left, Right = 1)
– 20 single leg deadlift (touch the ground/10 each side)
– 10 clams

MARY:
no time for miss mary
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

the 2 reasons that i continue to return to F3 are the ideas of 1)no man is left behind, yet no man is left where they were found, and 2)Iron Sharpens Iron. I have never felt “put down” for how out of shape I was/am at F3, only encouraged to keep going and to get better. We do a good job of sharpening each other physically, my challenge is to shift that in to our every day life. We did every exercise with a battle buddy this morning, we need battle buddies in our relationships, our workplace, in ever day decisions. We so often isolate ourselves; lets break out of that isolation in 2019!