F3 Knoxville

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Heavy day

THE SCENE:

Unseasonably cool

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Cherry Pickers
  • Tie Fighters
  • Tempo Squats
  • Tempo Merkins
  • Down Dog

THA-THANG:

Grab a CMU and rifle carry to big parking lot. We setup with the following list.

  1. 40 Tricep Extensions
  2. 35 Goblet Squats
  3. 30 Curls
  4. 25 Rows
  5. 20 Derkins
  6. 15 Thrusters
  7. 10 CMU Swings
  8. 5 Blockees

After completing the list, suitcase carry your CMU to the first parking lot line, return with it in opposite hand.
Repeat the list dropping the first row (start with #2). After all is complete, carry to second line.
Rinse and repeat dropping an exercise and carrying to a further line.
Last cycle would be 5 Blockees and carry 8 lines.

Workout credit: kick-flip

MARY:
20 flutter kicks

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

I’ve been memorizing verses recently using an app called fighter verses. https://www.fighterverses.com/ Check it out if interested.

One of those verses is Deut 10:12-13:

12 And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 and to observe the Lord’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?

— Deut 10:12-13

Two things I’d like to share.

  1. One is a reminder to obey God. These verses do a good job of fleshing out what that looks like.
  2. Two is a reminder it’s for our good. It’s amazing that God would set it up that obeying him is not just for him but also for us. Obey! and rest assured it’s the best thing to do.

 

Core Mountain IV

THE SCENE: 70° and enough humidity to share
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH, Lunge Left, Lunge Right, Mountain climbers, offset merkins, Windmills
THA-THANG:
25 of each of the below moving between the lines on Jucomajaro.

T-claps to Trolley who I stole this workout from, only making use of the lines, instead of rope: https://f3knoxville.com/core-mountain-iii/

  • BBS
  • LBC
  • Scissors
  • Flutters
  • American Hammers
  • Leg lifts
  • Freddy Mercury
  • Cross toe touches
  • Windshield wipers
  • Cross mountain climbers
  • Heel touches
  • Box cutters
  • Hello Dollys
  • Groiners
  • Side Crunches
  • Supermans
  • Plank Destroyers
  • Imperial Walkers

Ate some blackberries on the way down, added some stone work and dips on the guardrail with a little time for Mary

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
John 14:1 says, “Let not your hearts be troubled.  Believe in God; Believe also in me”.

I heard recently of a commentary by Frederick Bruner on John that this word “believe” more literally translates as “relax into”.  This of course made me think of a hammock.  We must put our full weight into a hammock to enjoy the swing, but it takes faith that it will hold us to really relax.  Ronald Rolheiser in Holy longing describes prayer as “Relaxing into God’s presence”.

My prayer for us today is that we can Believe, Rest and Relax into God’s goodness. Just as generations before us have found God to be enough to hold us up.
“But we believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will.”  Acts 15:11

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Shamrock Convergence in 4 days! Sat, July 8, 7am.

1000 Merkins for Merica

THE SCENE: Very humid
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  1. Side straddle hops
  2. Tempo merkins
  3. Cherry pickers
  4. Seal squats

THA-THANG:

We did 1,000 cumulative merkins for ‘Merica.  10 PAX were present, so each had to do 100.  We ran to the K25 hill and started our reps.  When you need a break, you run to the top of the hill and do LBCs.  The goal is 100 LBCs as well.

Next, we did 1,000 cumulative squats on the Y12 hill.  At each lamp post (12 total) we did 10 squats, running to the next lamp post.  The last 2 lamp posts we did walking lunges.

A quick stop at the playground for 10 pull ups, the pool wall for 5 wallpies, the back porch for 20 dips, and back to the flag.

MARY:
Heels to Heaven, 80% max run, Basilisk, 70% max run.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
The Declaration of Independence review.  How does it start? What are its principles? Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness.

It lists the grievances of the Colonies against the King. The founders signed the document and pledged their Lives, Fortunes, and sacred Honor to this cause.

What are we so convicted by and dedicated to in our lives that we would pledge such a high price and commit to pay it?

 

Confessing your faults

THE SCENE: Perfect June morning, 60s and no rain
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Projectivators, tempo squats, Hairy rockettes, tempo merkins, mountain climbers
THA-THANG:

START A TIMER – 40 minutes

10-round escalator, as follows:

Round 1: Burpees x 5

Round 2: 1 + Squat Thrusters with CMU x 10

Round 3: 1-2 + CMU Bicep Curls x 15

Round 4: 1-3 + Merkins x 20

Round 5: 1-4 + Little Baby Crunches (LBCs) x 25

Round 6: 1-5 + Lunges x 30 (15 each leg)

Round 7: 1-6 + Carolina Dry Docks x 35

Round 8: 1-7 + Mountain Climbers x 40 (two-count)

Round 9: 1-8 + Goblet Squats with CMU x 45

Round 10: 1-9 + American Hammer with CMU x 50 (single-count)

If you finish before time is up, start back at Round 1 and do a 2nd (or 3rd…) set!

MARY:
No time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Headshot as well.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Confession

When I reflect on the struggles of the church today, one of the main points I see against us is the tendency that church people have for attempting to project righteousness in spite of their internal condition. My experience with many different faith paths is that, at least in my part of the world, we train one another to “look right” but not much to BE right. We are good at saying churchy sounding things and picking churchy sounding activities, but in every case I have ever gotten a look into, behind that picture there was brokenness and turmoil. Why? I propose that we have lost a key piece of the ancient faith, confession.

There are few activities more trying and painful and difficult and, consequently, developmental than confessing my personal faults. Confessing to the Lord is a great start, but if you really want to get serious, you need to speak to another human being. Confession is the spiritual equivalent of the physical training we did today. NOBODY wants to do it, but those who do are easy to spot.

Want to learn empathy? Turn your eyes inward and gaze on your own failings, and you will find yourself much more understanding of others. Want to learn humility? Learn to see your own sins. Want to deepen your relationship with God? Give Him a few minutes each day to show him the things where you know you failed, then let him show you some places you didn’t realize you failed, and end by dwelling in His unbounded forgiveness. This is one of the most powerful, fulfilling and empowering forms of prayer. You don’t even realize how weighed down you are by your guilt until you let it go.

Speaking of guilt, let me mention that there is a little cultural defense the enemy has put in place against this life giving practice. It’s the idea that somehow it is morbid and unhealthy to dwell on your own faults. Like all effective lies, it isn’t entirely false. There are some people who struggle with an obsession with their own failings. But that isn’t most of us. Most of us could stand to spend a little more time. Second, this is not exactly the same thing. The unhealthy version of fault dwelling must be underpinned by the lack of experience with forgiveness. When you approach God with your faults, you must always do so with the image of Jesus in your mind, bleeding and dying upon the cross, and yet asking for his Father to forgive the ones who did it to him. He will make the same appeal for you is only you ask, and you will be forgiven.

MOLESKIN:
It actually didn’t go terribly long. Quick warmup, blocks on hand, explained and got right to it.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Convergence July 8th @ Shamrock, F3 in the nude – July 29th @ The Cove at Concord Park

Dedication

THE SCENE: nice and dry June morning at the Project.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
15 SSH, 15 mountain climbers, 10 tempo merkins, 15 Moroccan night club, 10 tempo squats, 5 cherry pickers
THA-THANG:
Mosey to K25 hill.

  • 20 merkins
  • Up and down the hill
  • 20 squats
  • Up and down the hill
  • 20 big boys
  • Up and down the hill
  • Repeat 3 times

Mosey towards the playground via the gravel path. Stop as directed and cycle through the following:

  • Carolina dry docks
  • Walking lunges
  • Freddie Mercury

At the playground, do 10 pull-ups, 10 burpees, run to the pool wall for 10 wall-ups, and finish with 10 jump squats. Repeat until time is called.

MARY:
PAX led dealer’s choice
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 today at the Project
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
What do you dedicate your self to? What occupies most of your time outside of work? Is it something for you? YHC is beginning another marathon training cycle and it got me thinking about the time commitment involved. Sure it is ok to have goals, but they can become too high of a priority if we are not careful. Consider the words of the apostle Paul.

“Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.”

Philippians 2:3‭-‬8 NASB1995

In the same way, we should place others’ interests, especially our families, before our own interests.
MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Convergence at Shamrock July 8th.