F3 Knoxville

Tag: Erector

Intentional examples

THE SCENE: nice southern summer morning around 70 degrees and muggy.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
15 SSH, 15 Imperial walkers, 10 tempo merkins, 15 Mountain climbers, 10 tempo squats, 15 Moroccan night club
THA-THANG:
Reverse Indian run (merkins until the 6 passes) to the coupon pile. The following circuit workout is on the docket for this morning. Follow the circuit clockwise.

  • 25 OHP
  • 25 squats
  • 25 Freddie Mercury
  • 25 merkins
  • 25 heels to Heaven
  • 10 pull-ups and 10 burpees

MARY:
25 flutter kicks, Protractor
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 worked through that circuit!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I have had something on my heart recently that often comes back around. I am sure we all think often about the examples we set for those around us. A lot of times these are not intentional because they aren’t planned…they just happen because someone is watching. I heard a song on the radio in the morning yesterday as I was driving to work. It was “Watching you” by Rodney Atkins. In this song, he lists a couple of examples that he inadvertently sets for his son. One of them was a four letter word that he let slip and another was his prayer for help to be a better example. His son witnessed both and mimicked his dad because he wanted to be just like him. This got me thinking about the example that I set for my children. Do I let things slip and is this the only type of example that I show? Or do I intentionally show an example that I would be proud to have my children follow?

“Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it.” – Proverbs 22:6 NASB1995

MOLESKIN:
Nice to see the early runners heading to All-pro Dads as we got started!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Iron PAX coming up soon.

Shovelflag Handoff at The Project

THE SCENE:  68 and clear – perfect.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:  Administered
WARM-O-RAMA:

RFTS/LIH
Willy Mays Hays
Seal squats
Down/up dog
Mountain climbers
Merkins

Mosey to the Friendship Bell
10 lateral box jumps
20 dips
30 derkins

THA THANG:

Dirty MacDeuce
1. 12 Flutter kicks (4 count)
2. 12 Shoulder taps (4 count)
3. 12 Hello dollys
Run a lap.
Repeat x 4

Mosey to K-25 Hill
11s – Burpees and Freddy Mercury (4 count)

Long Bernie up the road

MARY:

Mosey back to the Friendship Bell

Mucho Chesto

Freddy Mercury IC

Another Mucho Chesto

Another Freddy Mercury IC

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Me and 22 of the best men I know

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

We showed honor to Erector and acknowledged that The Project exists today because he and others (Rocket, Chaco, Snaggletooth, Samaritan) launched it in February 2019.  What a positive difference it has made in my life – and in the lives of many other men in the Oak Ridge area.  T-Claps, brothers!  Erector led for a while, then Snaggletooth, and it was my joy and honor to lead for a season, and today it was a privilege to pass the flag to a man whom I esteem so highly.

The mission of F3 is to plant, grow, and serve small workout groups of men for the invigoration of male community leadership.  Fitness is not the endgame or the goal.  Your virtuous leadership – in your family, in your work, at your church, in this community – that is the goal of F3.

What makes a man a Leader?  What enables a man to do what a Leader does?

What F3 says it takes to be an effective leader are these four capabilities;

  • Vision – the ability to recognize Advantage and the Movement required to achieve it
  • Articulation – the act of describing his Vision to others
  • Persuasion – the initiation of first Movement
  • Exhortation – A leader is ready to use Exhortation to incentivize his followers

But an Effective Leader is not necessarily a Virtuous Leader. For that, F3 says he must also possess the Leadership Virtues.

  • Candor: graciously telling the hard truth and demanding to hear it from others
  • Commitment: unwavering loyalty to the Group and unflinching determination to accomplish its Mission
  • Consistency: to be unchanging in nature, standard, or effect over time
  • Contentment: stability of emotion engendered by the Consistent pursuit of Joy rather than Happiness
  • Courage: setting aside fear to turn hardship into grace

To Lead Right a person must be both an Effective and Virtuous Leader

We could have a BOM on each one of those capabilities and virtues separately – but I wanted to cover the whole F3 leadership model this morning as an introduction for the man who is accepting the shovelflag.  That dude is the whole package.  He possesses every one of these capabilities and I’ve seen each of the virtues reflected in his life.  Mathlete is going to be an outstanding leader of this group – and I look forward to following his lead and am excited to see where we go!

MOLESKIN:

If he had been there, Baby Chest would have loved the double Mucho Chesto.

Mucho gracias to our visitors from JUCO, Shamrock, and Equalizer – awesome to see you guys!

PRAYERS / ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Prayers for Ribbed’s wife’s healing, for Boy George’s wife’s interview today, for an unnamed F3 brother.

4th Annual Road Less Traveled

THE SCENE: Not bad, decent breeze and 65 degrees
WARM-O-RAMA:

Warm Up Jog including High Knees and Kick Backs
SSH
Tempo Squat
Merkins
Freddy Mercury

THA-THANG:

Mosey to the Greenway Path, doing 1 set of the following every 3-4 min
30 Merkins
40 Freddy Merkins
40 Squats
Leaders will wagon wheel after every set to get back to the 6, and start each new leg together
Continue to do 1 set of each of the above until we complete the nearly 3 miles course
Mosey back to the AO

MARY:
Various types of Core exercises (Flutter Kicks, Box Cutters, etc)

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
Is this more than a workout for you?  Are you reaching out? I hope you use this group to encourage, to seek wisdom, to strengthen, to uplift — I have seen this group become the Body of Christ

Here am I! Send me.

THE SCENE: Cool and comfortable (for August)
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
1. Projectivator
2. Tempo Squats
3. Cherry Pickers
4. Tempo Merkins
THA-THANG:

  1. Mosey to the bell
  2. Read Isaiah 6:8:  And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?”  Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.”
  3. Ask for a volunteer.  They will run the loop while the group does merkins awaiting their return.
  4. Repeat this until each PAX has run the loop cycling through these exercises:
    1. Merkins
    2. Big Boys
    3. Squats
    4. Merkins
    5. Flutter Kicks
    6. Lunges
    7. Merkins
    8. LBCs
    9. Step Ups
    10. Merkins
  5. Run a lap together and continue to the playground
  6. 10ish pull ups
  7. 5 wallpies
  8. 20 inverted rows
  9. Run to the bell
  10. 20 Dippity-do-das
  11. Run another lap and finish at the flag

MARY:
PAX ab rotation

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
1. Isaiah 6:8-13
2. God asked for a volunteer.
3. Isaiah volunteered without hesitation and without knowing the task.
4. God sent him to send a dire warning to the people of Israel.
5. How hard would that message been to carry and deliver?
6. How is that message any different than the Great Commission? (answer: the Great Commission has hope)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
AOQ change next Tuesday! Family workout September 3. Iron PAX!

A la Mexicana

THE SCENE: 69 and a little foggy.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Overhead claps x 10.
  • Seal claps x 10.
  • Side straddle hops x 10.
  • Cherry pickers x 10.
  • Mountain climbers x 10.
  • Tempo merkins x 10.

THA-THANG:

Played a game with boxes and tennis balls. The objective was to score in the opposite goal. In order for the team to score, the player had to do one of the below exercises and throw a tennis ball in the goal.

  • 10 Burpees.
  • 10 Heels to heaven.
  • 10 Lunges (2-ct).
  • 10 American hammers (2-ct).
  • 10 Freddy Mercuries (2-ct).

The team that scored more goals decided what exercise we all would perform at the end as a group (Flutter Kicks x 20).

Mosey to the CMU piles.

We kept the same two teams than in the previous game and we ran a circuit starting at the CMU piles going to the small hill all the way to the pull-up bars and down the stairs. During this small loop there were different exercises that should be completed as a team to add up 200 reps of the following:

  • Bicep curls x 2.
  • Triceps extension x 2.
  • Overhead press x 2.
  • BBS.
  • Squats.
  • Pull ups.
  • Merkins.

MARY:
Hello Dollies X 21.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 Hombres Valientes.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Reflected about the importance of having a balance in our life and try to plan things in advance to meet our goals. Also commented about over planning, that is the other extreme of the equation, so depending on where we are, we should lean towards one end or the other.
MOLESKIN:
Prayed for our kids and the return to school, our families and dear friends.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
IPC.