F3 Knoxville

BB Tabata

  • Welcome to the sweaty beatdown gloom: All free – All the time – All welcome – All warnings – All cautions
  • Warmup:
    • 100 burpees for time
      • Total
        Osteen 8:00.35
        Slappy 8:10.61
        Trolley 8:41.81
        Interpol 8:51.73
        Honeydew 8:58.38
        Betty 9:04.87
        Mermaid 9:20.65
        Dumpster Dive 9:27.63
        Crawl Space 10:07.65
        Ribbed 10:21.05
        Curveball 10:55.54
        Curry 11:04.69
        Baby Boomer 11:07.00
        Jenner 11:09.83
    • Mosey to track.
  • Workout: Burpee Broad jump Tabbata
    • Three parallel HIM single file lines (on track)
    • Each him calls out rep & rest count which are equal (10 reps & 10 count rest, or 15 reps and 15 rest, or 5 and 5 etc etc)
    • Pack does that many reps as a group then stops and rests that many seconds (or audible HIM counts)
    • Go across and down the line taking turns who chooses rep&rest count.
    • the first two lines do core exercises and a broadjump
    • the last line does broadjump burpees
  • Wrap-up
    • Put to death sin – it doesn’t say slap it on the wrist.  Take out a freakin sword and decapitate it.

      Colossians 3:5  Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.

    • THE WHAT – Does it say snuggle up with sin, does it say elbow sin..No no.

    • THE HOW: No killing sin is pretty serious. If we were to just punch sin in the face then it wouldn’t be so serious and wouldn’t take so much effort. If we were to try to knock sin out then maybe we would train a little bit for it – maybe you’d read a book or two to help. But no it says to kill sin. So to kill something you need a plan – its VERY SERIOUS. You can’t just wing it. And sometimes even with a plan you’re plan my fail. And so what are you to  do.

      1. Team-mates: Well you might recruit some friends you might recruit some teammates. However, sometimes that sin might be so big and so terrible that a plan and teammates aren’t enough
      2. Professionals: A next step up is you might have to bring in professionals. You might have to go see a Pastor you might have to go see a counselor you might have to go see several counselors maybe a personal counselor and/or maybe a marriage counselor.
      3. Homework: You might have to study. You might have to read a book you might have to take a course. ( FPU example). And sometimes if you’re fighting a big enough war let’s, let’s say for example a culture war then even a plan with teammates and professionals might not be enough if you really want to kill this sin.
      4. Join the Army: In those cases, the next step up is you need an army. For example in World War II we needed a team , we needed a plan,  we needed teammates we needed professionals and we needed an army and we need to tactics.
      5. Attrition: And sometimes even with all those things the sin might hang on. But with agood leader ship ,which we have (Jesus), and good teammates which we have (F3 Brothers), and good pastors,  which we have, and a good army which we have, The last several ingredients of killing sin can be time and attrition which in scriptural terms is called perseverance.

I want to encourage you brothers to enroll each other in each others armies to fight sin until you have decapitated it – in all its forms which are:

Anger, malice, sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, rage, slander, and filthy language. That’s 11 sins to go kill – use every tactic, every brother, every book, every course, every captain and General, then hang on and starve that sin to death through attrition if need be.  Kill it brothers! Kill it!

It’s about the cones.

THE SCENE: Cozy, warm, dry, certainly not snowing, and altogether pleasant on this Opposite Day.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH x25 IC
Burpees x2 OYO
LBAC fwd, back, grady corns all x15 IC
Burpees x4 OYO
Rockettes x15 IC
Burpees x6 OYO
TN Rocking Chairs x15 IC
Burpees x8 OYO
Hindurkins x10 IC
Would have ended the warmup here, but upon asking, nobody said they were warmed up, so,
Burpees x10 OYO
Now everyone is warm.

THA-THANG:
Insert information about the workout.
Mosey to the CMU pile.
Touch a CMU and continue moseying to the Covered Colonnade
Split into two teams, each team has an identical stack of exercises/reps.
Team 1 rolls a die (numbers 1-3) to determine how many laps of the parking lot to run.
While Team 1 runs, Team 2 works through the stack together.
When Team 1 finishes laps, Team 2 stops where they are, rolls, and runs while Team 1 starts work.
R&R
When your team finishes the stack, you get a cone and start over. Most cones wins!

Stacks:
10 Jump Squats
20 Big Boys
15 Merkins
10 Iron Mikes (each leg)
20 Flutter Kicks (4ct)
15 Monkey Humpers (4ct)
15 Dry Docks
20 Mountain Climbers (4ct)

After 3 cones per team, time’s up. Mosey back to the AO

MARY:
No time… Actually almost 2 minutes late.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
16 men got better today.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
My Utmost for His Highest from Jan. 27 (from utmost.org)
Look Again and Think
By Oswald Chambers
Do not worry about your life… —Matthew 6:25
A warning which needs to be repeated is that “the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches,” and the lust for other things, will choke out the life of God in us (Matthew 13:22). We are never free from the recurring waves of this invasion. If the frontline of attack is not about clothes and food, it may be about money or the lack of money; or friends or lack of friends; or the line may be drawn over difficult circumstances. It is one steady invasion, and these things will come in like a flood, unless we allow the Spirit of God to raise up the banner against it.

“I say to you, do not worry about your life….” Our Lord says to be careful only about one thing— our relationship to Him. But our common sense shouts loudly and says, “That is absurd, I must consider how I am going to live, and I must consider what I am going to eat and drink.” Jesus says you must not. Beware of allowing yourself to think that He says this while not understanding your circumstances. Jesus Christ knows our circumstances better than we do, and He says we must not think about these things to the point where they become the primary concern of our life. Whenever there are competing concerns in your life, be sure you always put your relationship to God first.

“Sufficient for the day is its own trouble” (Matthew 6:34). How much trouble has begun to threaten you today? What kind of mean little demons have been looking into your life and saying, “What are your plans for next month— or next summer?” Jesus tells us not to worry about any of these things. Look again and think. Keep your mind on the “much more” of your heavenly Father (Matthew 6:30).
MOLESKIN:
Nothing like working out in sleet and snow to start your day…
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Nothing on the docket this week.

Tree Biscuit – Shamrock 2021

  • Welcome: Below freezing and they knew what was coming – but 14 came out anyway.
  • Warmup:  1 SSH
  • Workout:  The Tree Biscuit
    • As a group, Run to an un-slapped tree, slap it, everyone call out the running burpee total,  do A single burpee, repeat.
    • Rules:
      • A tree only gets tagged once
      • Scaling/Modification: Skip a burpee if you need to but stay with the pack always.
      • Taggers: Be sure to take turns tagging/slapping a tree
      • In Cadence: The group also calls out the running total, not just the tagger. The tagger calls it out first though. the louder the better.
      • What’s a Tree: Don’t waste time & energy on shrubs – skip the shrubs – tag the trees
      • No Poison Ivy: Pass trees that are surrounded by shrubs, ivy, waist high grass.
      • Terrain:  Be careful when running not to twist and ankle – trees have lots of bumpy roots around them.  And don’t hit your face on a rock or root when doing a burpee in the dirt.
      • Milestones: At 50, 100, 150, 200 make sure the group catches up and circles around the tree, wait a few seconds. Do the burpee.  Celebrating these milestones adds to the encouragement factor.
    • We shattered the 216 record by doing 258 Burpees.
    • Previous Tree Biscuits:
  • Wrap – up:
    • Salvation – Justification – Sanctification – All heady words.  I’m hoping to encourage Harmony with the Holy Spirit, as my brother in Christ, Alistair Begg does here: https://www.truthforlife.org/resources/sermon/sanctification/ .  Scripture is clear that God designed you in the womb, he numbers your days.  He is the Alpha and the Omega. He knows all and is in all.  Know that although you may have bowed the knee to Christ and your destiny is secured – there is still a process going on.  God is not finished with you.  He wants a relationship with you. He will not force himself on you.  God waited 80 years to get started with Moses. He will patiently wait for you to come to Him with eagerness.  If you are not listening to God and want to – pray about it.  God runs back to any prodigal son with open loving arms.  No matter where you are at – you can still work with God.  He knows you inside and out – don’t try to hide anything from him.  Draw close, listen, walk with him. If you need a very slow still pace – He will understand. If you want to ramp things up – he will challenge you appropriately – he will not bury you with Mt Everest if you can only handle the foothills.  Trust him.

The Manhattan Project

THE SCENE:

Partly Cloudy Temperature Humidity Feels like Wind Speed Wind Direction
43 ℉ 83% 39 ℉ 5.7 mi/h NNE

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER.
I am not a professional.

WARM-O-RAMA:

25 SSHs .
10 Storm Troopers.
10 Windmills.
10 Tie Fighters
10 Merkin/Mtn Climber Combination

THA-THANG:
Mosey towards main parking lot near St. Patrick statue.  Divide into two teams. Thang consists of running around parking lot and back to statue area. Each PAX rolls two dice and perform two sets of exercises defined by the numbers that show up on each dice. After completing the exercises and lap, they record a tally for their team. Running and Rolling dice for ~15 minutes. Team with most tallies wins.

Exercises are:
Dice #1
1 – Burpee x 10
2 – Bear Crawl
3 – Derkins x 25
4 – Flutter Kicks 4 cnt x 20
5 – Box Jumps x 20
6 – Dips x 30
Dice #2
1 – Bernie Bear Crawl
2 – Wide Merkins x 25
3 – Hello Dollys 4 cnt x 20
4 – Iron Mikes x 20
5 – Diamond Merkins x 25
6 – Motivators from 5

Then mosey to picnic pavilion. Divide into 5 groups. There are 5 stations with different exercises at each. Rotate the stations doing the exercises until time to recover. Rinse and Repeat. Stations where:
1. Picnic Pavilion – Using picnic table benches, 15 straight leg lifts and 15 knees to chest. Ab work with legs hanging off end of bench.
2. Pull Up bars – AMRAP twice. Carolina Dry Docks for those not wanting to share equipment.
3. Stonehenge – 20 Derkins and 20 Irkins.
4. Fire Pit – 20 Box Jumps and 10 single leg squats (5 each leg).
5. Volleyball Benches. PAX pick two from the following: – 20 Derkins, 20 Dips, 20 Box Jumps or Step Ups, 20 Carolina Dry Docks, or 20 Bicep Push Ups

Then Mosey back to AO.

MARY:
31 LBCs.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
18 Brothers.  Welcome to FNG – Interpol and congrats to being of the watch list for 5(?) years.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Lots of very interesting things have happened at ORNL since its beginning in 1943.  One was that they hired me 20 years ago on Jan 29th 2001.  Here’s a link describing ORNL’s history.  https://www.ornl.gov/content/seventy-five-years-great-science.  Check out the timeline and interactive mural.

 

MOLESKIN:
Prayers for the wives recovering from and going into surgery.  For the kids struggling with issues at school.  For our brothers battling illness.  For Pom Pom, who is 4 months from his wedding day.  And for what are the far too normal requests that continue to be issues for us all (Covid, Racism, ….).

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Blood Drive on Friday

Asylum CSAUP on Saturday

Hamstrung @ Shamrock

 

THE SCENE: Mid 40’s and drizzle
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Tempo Squats
Thai Fighters
Cherry Pickers
THA-THANG:

Start at #1, work through the list, drop the top item each time until complete
Reps 1 30 second hamstring plank
20 2 diamond pushups
20 3 squats
20 4 American hammers
20 5 Hamstring walk out
20 6 Wide arm push ups
20 7 lunges
20 8 pickle pounders
20 9 Hamstring leg lift
20 10 merkins
20 11 monkey humpers
20 12 big boy sit-ups

 

MARY:
Mary was included in the workout
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Where are you invested with your time?  Where you spend your time shows those around where your priorities are.  If you are out of line, like me, then focus your time where it belongs and get back on track.  For me, being more present while home with the wife and kids, as well as doing intentional things on the weekends.  Work sucks up an inordinate amount of time for me, and my family doesn’t need to feel like they are 2nd to work.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
January 30, CSAUP at Asylum.