F3 Knoxville

Mr Serve On

AO: juco
Q: Butterknife
PAX: Butterknife, Noodles, Booster, Stye (Hal Phillips), Dart Gun, Wanderer, Love Shaq, Windex, Mailbox, Guardrail, Survivor, Fetch, Data, Erector
FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
WARMUP:
Side straddle hop in cadence 20
Tempo squats
Cherry Pickers
Grady Corns
Arm rotations thumbs up in cadence
Reverse thumbs down in cadence
10 tempo merkins
30 seconds oyo

THE THANG:
Mosey with the leader falling off for two burpees to the big lot for
Drills:
Side shuffles, high knees & butt kickers, walking planks, and sprints.

Line up on the curb
Bear crawl, lunge, burpee leapfrogs, lunge w/ twist

Core:
Hello Dolly’s and BBS

Snake mosey to sophomore hill with the 6 snaking their way to the front of the line.

Partner up
Wheel barrow up switching halfway

Mosey to coupon pile
Dora partner runs stairs and does 5 pull ups
100 curls

Mosey around to the duck 🦆 pond stopping for flutter kicks and 8 ct Merkins.

Mosey to the Haslam Center for 20 dips.

Then back to the flag.

MARY:
No time
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Convergence coming up.
Look for ways to serve!
COT:
Look for ways to serve:
Sign up for a Q, give blood, volunteer at the shelter, look for opportunities in and outside the community, serve at church. In fact, Mailbox has an opportunity this afternoon.

You will not regret it. It’s rewarding not only to those you’re helping but also to yourself.

“For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭20‬:‭28‬ ‭

[running] Thawing Out

AO: running
Q: Butterknife
PAX: Cosmo, Tooth Fairy, Butterknife, Zippy, Trash Panda (JUCO), Fetch, Erector, Wagon Wheel (John-Mark Chesney)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8

WARMUP: Run one lap around campus for the warmup and close to that for the cool down.  THE THANG: 30/60/90 Fartlek style workout, but on the on campus. 30 seconds on w/ 30 second recovery, 60 seconds on w/ 60 second recovery, 90 seconds on w/ 90 second recovery. We would come back for the six on the recovery allowing us to stick together as a group. We did this about 5 times before beginning the cool down.  

A balmy stroll around JUCO

AO: juco
Q: Data
PAX: Booster, Fetch, Mailbox, Lil’ Spice, Dart Gun, Wanderer, Guardrail, 5K, Noodles, Erector, Stye (Hal Phillips), Love Shaq, Butterknife
FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
ONE-MINUTE WARNING
WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Reach for the sky & let it hang
Abe Vigodas
Moroccan Nightclubs
Motivators
TN Rocking Horses
ONE THANG:
Play a game of infection in a section of the parking lot blocked-off by cones. One person is infected and moves by bear crawl. Everyone else is a crab walker. Once you are tagged, do 10 Pickle Pounders and then you are an infected bear crawler. We played 3 times.
ANOTHER THANG:
Mosey to the really large parking lot with 10 rows of parking lines.
Building blocks, courtesy of a @Tank backblast I found.
Run to first line of parking and do 1 of 1st exercise. Move to next line, do 2, etc. Total of 10 lines across the lot. Mosey back to the beginning before doing next set.
1. Merkins with runs
2. Squat jumps with bear crawls (every other)
3. Dry docks with Bernie Sanders
4. Lunges with side shuffles
JUST ONE MORE THANG:
Mosey to the loading docks. Split into 2 groups and perform a Newton’s Cradle for 2 full rotations.
Everyone holds a plank
Person in front runs and jumps up on the loading dock, runs back down the ramp, performs 5 Merkins, and goes to back of the line.
MARY:
Imperial Walkers
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Convergence on 1/20
COT:
Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper
“Making Much of Christ from 8 to 5”
1. We can make much of God in our secular job through the fellowship that we enjoy with him throughout the day in all our work.
2. We make much of Christ in our secular work by the joyful, trusting, God-exalting design of our creativity and industry.
3. We make much of Christ in our secular work when it confirms and enhances the portrait of Christ’s glory that people hear in the spoken Gospel.
4. We make much of Christ in our secular work by earning enough money to keep us from depending on others, while focusing on the helpfulness of our work rather than financial rewards.
5. We make much of Christ in our secular work by earning money with the desire to use our money to make others glad in God.

2024 kick off – eleventy-twos

AO: the-project
Q: Mathlete
PAX: Flying Dutchman, Biohack, Munge, Erector, OBrother, Ocho, Mathlete, Rocket
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WARMUP: Projectivators, tempo squats, Imperial walkers, hillbilly walkers, tempo merkins
THE THANG:
Mosey to playground – 3 pull ups, 10 squats, 20 BBS x3
Mosey to friendship bell – 20 rocket stepups, 20 dips
Mosey to K-25 hill – Eleventy-twos (it’s like 11s, except 20-2, 18-4, 16-6, etc.) One legged merkins and hillbilly squawkers.
Mosey to friendship bell – 10 slow derkins
Mosey to parallel bars – 20 inverse rows and 20 BBS
MARY: About 10 seconds of plank
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Convergence at Arsenal on 6th, BigBall on 20th, and get ready for GTE24
COT:
The virtue of innocence
“I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.” Matthew 10:16
“And he said: ‘Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.'” Matthew 18:3

I like to be savvy. I like to know what is going on behind the scenes and play it to my advantage. If I am worried about my kid getting into trouble, my instinct is to learn everything I can about that particular vice and cleverly counter every move before he makes it.
This is not how Jesus operated. He openly, innocently ignored the subtext of his day. He chatted with the despicable Samaritan woman at the well, the untouchable leper, and the treasonous tax collector just like they were his own kin. And it produced unprecedented results.
Fairy tales show us this through the princess. Because of Snow White’s innocence, the huntsman cannot bring himself to kill her in the forest. Beauty accomplishes transformation of the Beast not by being shrewd in dealing with monsters, but because she expects of him just as she does a man. And so he becomes one.
How often do we think we are being clever and shrewd, but actually making a problem worse than if we would just do the simple right thing, as though we were just innocently good?

December metric

AO: the-project
Q: Mathlete
PAX: Biohack, Ocho, OBrother, Icey Hot, Erector, Munge, Flying Dutchman, Mathlete, Haggis
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9

WARMUP:
Windmills, cherry pickers, tempo merkins, mountain climbers
THE THANG:
Escalators
1: Burpees x 5
2: 1 + Squat Thrusters with CMU x 10
3: 1-2 + CMU Bicep Curls x 15
4: 1-3 + Merkins x 20
5: 1-4 + Little Baby Crunches (LBCs) x 25
6: 1-5 + Lunges x 30 (15 each leg)
7: 1-6 + Carolina Dry Docks x 35
8: 1-7 + Mountain Climbers x 40 (two-count)
9: 1-8 + Goblet Squats with CMU x 45
10: 1-9 + American Hammer with CMU x 50 (single-count)
MARY:
no time
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
convergences Jan 6 Arsenal, Jan 20 big ball
COT:
We live in a culture that tends to value masculine virtues like strength and courage, but feminine virtues are just as important. One of these is vulnerability. Vulnerability is showcased especially during Christmas, when God, who is most powerful, chooses to lower himself to the place of the most vulnerable, a baby human, living in a country oppressed by a conquering nation, to poor parents. Jesus demonstrates this virtue throughout his ministry with the climax at Calvary, when he gives himself up to his enemies, though he had legions of angels at his call. He preferred His own suffering and death at their hands over the destruction of His enemies. Vulnerability is necessary for any relationship. Ocho gave us a great quote from CS Lewis’s Four Loves about how vulnerability is a non-negotiable part of love. With those stakes, we better learn to be vulnerable.