F3 Knoxville

The Lord Will Provide

AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: Lilydipper
PAX: Pele (Jon Lindberg), High Heels (Henry Ritchie), Swimmies (Nathan Chesney), Honeydew, Choir Boy, Farley, Kentucky, Snitch (Cory Beilharz ), Matlock (Bill Maddox), Dung Beetle, Tropicana, Doubtfire (Nick Bond), Crash Dummy, CRISPR, Abacus, Pusher, Veggie (Rylen Huddy), Lulu (Greg Huddy)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 19
WARMUP: 20 Side Straddle Hops, 10 Mountain Climbers, 7 Twisties, 10 Tempo Merkins, 7 Tempo Squats, 10 Windmills, 7 Pterodactyls Forward and 7 Backward. From West end of parking lot to East End, Bear Crawl 3 parking spaces and lunge 3 spaces alternatively. When everyone has made it to curb we will sprint back to the West end. Next we will Bernie from the west to the east end of the parking lot, then sprint back.

THE THANG: Mosey up Mini Cardiac to the Crosswalk. We will do 20 American Hammers.
Mosey to Haslam’s Rock. We will do 20 Imperial Walkers.
Mosey to Coliseum Area. We will do 20 Diamond Merkins and 20 Hello Dollies.
Mosey south to the circle by the main park road. We will do 20 Rocky Balboas.
Mosey to the parking lot near the Northshore gate. We will go counterclockwise around parking lot, with High Knees and then Butt Kicks until we get to the pavilion.
Mosey to East end of the pavilion. We will split into groups of two to do Doras. While one man runs counterclockwise around the pavilion, the other will do exercises. Then partners switch. Here are the exercises each group will do as team:
100 Picnic Table Pull-ups.

100 Bench Dips

100 Decline Merkins

100 Incline Merkins

100 Step Ups.

Mosey to the end of the baseball field area. Then mosey south of the playground and go to the west end of the soccer fields parking lot. We will sprint north, stopping at the two crosswalks to do 10 Squat Jumps and then stopping at the stop sign to do 10 more Squat Jumps.
Mosey to the Bros Bowl. We will run clockwise to benches at top. Those getting their first do Bench Dips until the six arrives. We will then take a 30 second gander at the BSIA. Then we will mosey back to the bottom of the Bros Bowl. Those getting there first do Baby Crunches until the six arrives.
Mosey to the west end of the Caribbean Parking Lot. We will then sprint two islands forward, do 10 Merkins, sprint 10 more islands forward, do 10 more merkins, and continue that pattern until we have done 10 Merkins at the cone that is placed about 2/3s of the way up the other side of the parking lot.
Mosey to the Pavilion near the AO. The, mosey to the AO parking lot.

MARY: Nada this morning.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Haw Ridge on March 28.

COT:

Message

The Lord Will Provide

James 1:17 “Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights.”

Genesis 22:14 “So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, ‘On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.’”

Malachi 3:10 “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse… Test me in this, says the Lord Almighty, and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven.”

As HIMs, we are charged to do good for others. Sometimes, in our everyday lives and amongst the battles we ourselves face, we forget that charge. Yet, I think all of us at times do try with great effort to help others. And, we see positive impacts such as the improvement in the conditions of Lakeshore Park when so many F3 brothers came out with chain saws and willing hands to cut up fallen trees and clear tree wreckage after the horrible winds and tornadoes of several summers ago. Such as the when many of us spend a Saturday working to paint and beautify the Cerebral Palsy Center and received such thanks from the staff there who were amazed at what we accomplished. And, such as the gratitude of our brother, Backflow, when we collected over $400 to help he and his wife with the recent birth of their baby or the gratitude of our brother, Jenner, when we gave him that copy of the trivia book that we purchased for him and signed.

But what happens when our efforts seen to fall short? The needs of this world are so great. We beautified the Cerebral Palsy Center but this one small region in our nation still has so many that suffer from that horrible disease. Poverty is abundant in Knoxville and in the United States, the richest nation in the world, no matter how much time or money we give to charities. How can we help so many in pain when there seems to be no answers and we fall short of giving those what they need? Because, God will provide. We must have faith in that. God is in control. He asks us to give generously, as that is part of his plan. And in that giving, we must trust in God to do the rest, whether here on earth or in heaven. Our giving is not in vain. So, let us do what we can and give with glad hearts, looking to the Mountain of God and knowing that He Will Provide.

Prayers

Prayers for Lizzy whose brother died in the past year, whose father-in-law has terminal cancer and whose stepbrother recently died. Prayers for Jenner in his continuing recovery from a stroke. Prayers of praise for Matlock’s teenage nephew, Jonathan, who has not had seizures in over 6 months. He, therefore, is able to drive a car now and work the high parts of the stage as stage crew team member at his high school.

CMUesday = Longer Arms

AO: asylum-am
Q: P3
PAX: Matlock (Bill Maddox), Dung Beetle, Tropicana, Grandslam, Pac-man
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARMUP:

5 EASY Burpees
15 SSH
20 Carltons/Front Swings/Michael Phelps
Runners Stretch
Tie Fighters
Cherry Pickers
Deep Squat

THE THANG:

Farmers Carry to the Rustic Pavilon..

Round1:

20 Merkins
15 Table Rows
20 Jump Squats

Round 2:

20 Derkins
15 Table Rows
20 Iron Mikes (10 Each Side)

Round 3:

20 Irkins
15 Table Rows
20 Air Squats

Farmers Carry to the Amphitheatre

Station One:
1.) Up and over Merkins

2.) Lawnmowers (R/L)

Transport = Farmers Carry (Switch halfway R/L)

Station 2

1.) Curls

2.) Big Bois

Transport = Rifle Carry to the bottom

MARY:

ditch the CMUs at the charging station and hustle back to the AO

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Convergence this weekend!

COT:

Story of a man teaching his son that when you love someone… you serve them.

Broad Shoulder Birthday Q

AO: asylum-am
Q: Tropicana
PAX: Cosmo 2, Dung Beetle, Gibbler, Grandslam, Hot Tub (John Muller), Matlock (Bill Maddox), P3, Pac-man, Rainbow, Sawdust, Snitch (Cory Beilharz ), TRC/Crab legs, WaxJob, Wham-o
FNGs: None
COUNT: 15
WARMUP:
1 burpee
2 squat jumps
3 cherry pickers
4 Tn Rocking chairs
5 pike ups
6 Abe Vagotas
7 Dry docks
8 SSH
9 BBQ squats
10 Mericans
1 burpee
56 total
THE THANG:

Pair Up

Plank hold
Run to cone 7 Mericans
Run back
Switch 4 rounds

Squatting rifle hold
Run to cone. Bernie back
Switch

Lunging rifle hold
Run to cone. Crab back

Rifle surrenders
Run to cone. Bear crawl back.

Mountain climbers
Run to cone 7 Mericans
Run back
4 rounds

Plank with CMU on back
Rifle Carry to cone and back

Side plank
Farmer carry

Wheel barrow races

56 total Mericans
MARY: No Time

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Asylum Shirts coming soon. Dad Camp

COT: Fathers and Husbands need broad shoulders to stand strong and resilient amid family chaos and conflict. We need other men to help us build and maintain those broad shoulders.

#2ForTuesday

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Steam
PAX: CRISPR, Pac-man, Rooney (Carl Whipple), Pele (Jon Lindberg), Brick, Sparkler, Lilydipper, Dung Beetle, Swimmies (Nathan Chesney), Lizzy
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
Disclaimer + Intro
– Welcome to F3: Fitness – Fellowship – Faith
– My name is Steam and I’ll be your Q this evening
– A few things before we begin:
– I’m not a professional
– You’re here on your own volition
– You know your injuries if you have any so if you need to modify anything we do today feel free to do so, but push yourselves and the men around you. They deserve it and so do you.
– 5 Core Principles of F3
– F3 is free of charge
– F3 is open to all men
– F3 is held outdoors
– F3 is are peer-led
– F3 always ends in a COT
– F3 Credo — Leave no man behind, but leave no man where you find him.
– The mission of F3 is to plant, grow, and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership.

WARMUP
– Willie Mays Hayes: 4×4
– BAC: F 10×4
– BAC: B 10×4

Cash-In
– 3 Man-Makers
– 25 SSH (1-count)
– 25 Imperial Walkers (1-count)
– 3 Man-Makers
#2ForTuesday — Run it back

THE THANG
(Mosey to the rock pile closest to Lyons View Pike)
– Stop Signs = 25 butterfly sit-ups

(1) Rock Work
– POC: rock pile and tree
– Round 1
– Rock pile: Curls
– Cone2: Chest presses
– 11+1, 10+2, etc
– Modified about halfway through for time: ran between the POC without the rock and executed Hallelujahs instead of presses
#2ForTuesday — Run it back
– Round 2
– Rock Pile: Alternating hand on rock merkins (both hands = 1)
– Tree closer to the rock pile: dips
– 10 reps each POC x2 rounds

(Mosey to the base of the Summit)

(2) Up + Over
– Bottom: 10 Imperial Walkers (1 count)
– SPRINT to the top of the Summit as fast as you can go
– Top: 10 Apollo Ono lunges (5/leg)
– Mosey to the :shovelflag:

MARY
1 more round of the Cash-In Xs — Cash Out
– 3 Man-Makers
– 25 SSH (1-count)
– 25 Imperial Walkers (1-count)
– 3 Man-Makers

SWS
– Willie Mays Hayes
– Twisty

ANNOUNCEMENTS
– GTE — knoxville-gte-2024
– It’s not too late to participate and/or volunteer!
– Saturday Convergence asylum-daybreak on 4/27 — 6:30am – 7:30am

COT
“Back to Basics”

www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/53200.html
Page 147 – 149 in Freed To Lead
Each F3 workout ends with what we call the Circle Of Trust, the COT. That’s not just a statement, it’s the fifth and final Core Principle. If your want to call yourself an F3 workout, you have to do a COT. You can do whatever you want to do in your COT, but there are three things you must do.
– First, there must be a Counterama. The first man says “one” and so on around the circle until you get to the Q sitting in the middle. We do this because keeping track of the PAX growth in the workout is the only way to strop DRTF (Diminishing Return To Fellowship – the concept that too large a workout group can erode Fellowship among PAX) before it sets in.
– Second, there must be a Namerama. Starting with the man who counted “one” in the Counterama, each man says his hospital name, his F3 name, and his age. If there is an FNG, the Q names him. Personally recognizing each veteran, and immediately integrating every new man is a must. There can be no anonymity in the workout for it to prosper.
– Third, a volunteer must lead the COT in a prayer. No particular prayer is prescribed or proscribed. Admittedly, most COT prayers sound Christian because (right now) that’s the predominant worldview of the PAX in F3. That may change, it may not. It depends on where and how F3 grows, not on some predetermined goal. F3 is about overcoming adversity, not achieving diversity.

Originally, when we started the COT, the prayer was done from the seated position in the circle, and some workouts still do it that way. However, over time, many have gone to the Ball Of Man formation, where the PAX gather tightly around the Q in the center and place hands on each other.

We realize that not all of the PAX in the Ball Of Man may share the same worldview, and that some may be uncomfortable with any form of prayer. If this is the case for you, then bowing your head respectfully while another man shares his faith (whatever that may be) is all we ask. If you are the kind of man who can’t or won’t do that, then F3 probably won’t be a good fit for you. No offense taken. No offense meant.

We have heard a lot of things in the Ball Of Man. It’s not unusual to hear men asking for help for another man or family member who is sick or in pain. We often hear thankfulness for the day, the Big Ball (the Earth, that is) upon which we just sweated together, or even just for the very presence of one another.

One constant theme in the Ball Of Man is the importance of sharpening each other, as Iron Sharpens Iron. Thus, we often seek help being better husbands, fathers, sons, uncles, bosses, and employees; all the things that men are called upon to be. The Third F is a realization that just being those things is hard enough without trying to to be them without help. More than that, it is a surrender to this idea: an insistence upon going it alone is not noble; it is selfish and prideful. The people who depend upon us to be those things that a man must be are more important than we are. We are not first. If we need help (and we know we do, each of us) then we owe it to them to seek and accept help. That help is the essence of the Third F. It has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with love.

This, my friends, is why maintaining discipline in the basic principles of what we do is so crucially important. If we stray too far off (as I myself have at times) from executing the basic principles and order of operations of F3, we are simply a group of men that workout together. Let’s not let that be our future – let’s stay the course and stay disciplined to preserving the principles and culture that we have here in F3. Iron Sharpens Iron!

Stargazing at Asylum

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Title IX (Christian Prescott)
PAX: Brick, Drum Major, Abacus, Pusher, Shuttlecock (Riley Brady Parmer), Steam, Tenderfoot, High Heels (Henry Ritchie), Dung Beetle, Lizzy, Crash Dummy, Swimmies (Nathan Chesney), Title IX (Christian Prescott), Renaissance , Platinum
FNGs: 1 Platinum
COUNT: 15
WARMUP:

5 Burpees
5 Motivators | Starting from 10 to 5
15 Rockettes
20 Grady Corns
15ea Baby Arm Circles

THE THANG:

Colosseum | 5 Points of Exercises (1 Burpee at each point)
Pt. 1 | 10 Burpees
Pt. 2 | 20 Hello Dolly
Pt. 3 | 30 Big Boys
Pt. 4 | 40 LBCs
Pt. 5 | 50 Flutter Kicks (4ct)

Run 1 Lap around the Colosseum

Rock Gathering at the Rock Pile | 5 AMRAPs (1’ ea) – Rinse-N-Repeat
• Curls
• Rows
• Triceps
• Overhead Press
• Shoulder Taps

Legs to Everest | Starting at 3-way Stop
• 2 Squats at every Light Post til at bottom of Everest

Everest | Wuhan Special (Bernie up Hill)
• Mini Suicide

COT:

5 Thoughts for 5 Minutes | Songs being played during this time (“Snowfall” by Øneheart | “Spirit Lead Me Where My Trust is Without Borders” by Raspo)

1 | Clear the Noise

– Close our eyes and carry the mind to heart-centered
– Clearing your head with all the noise around you
– Find Yourself where you are at the Present

2 | Visualize

– Visualize | Where you are.. What you want to do with your life.. who do you want to be tomorrow.. what needs to change

3 | Present Day Question

– If death stood in front of you would you hug it?
– Identify why, what, and who is bringing you to that.. address the situation

4 | Muhammad Ali Poem

“Friendship is a priceless gift that cannot be bought nor sold, but its value is far greater than a mountain made of gold. For gold is cold and lifeless. It can neither see nor hear. In times of trouble, it’s powerless cheer. It has no ears to listen, no heart to understand. It cannot bring you comfort or reach out a helping hand. So when you ask God for a gift, be thankful if sends not diamonds, pearls, or riches but the love of real, true friends”

• Ponder on who those figures are that God has given you

5 | Why do we close our eyes?

“Why do we close our eyes when we pray, when we cry, when we kiss, when we dream, because the most beautiful things in our life are not seen but felt by the heart”

• Clean up the mind and come back to life at the present moment.. still at heart-centered remain calm and reduce the noise