F3 Knoxville

Packing parachutes

THE SCENE: Upper 40s a slight drizzle but mostly overcast
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

squats x10 Ic , ssh x 20 ic , merkins x10 ic  , flutter kicks x 20 ic , monkey humpers x20 ic , imperial walkers x 20 ic , merkins x 10 ic , dollys x 10 ic , squeaky dollys x 10 ic
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the summit of kiddie slope . On the way , possum cross the road , monkey humpers at the fountain x 10 ic , lunge a to a light pole , 10 merkins , lunge a light to the next light pole , 10 more merkins (Moses requested lunges so I obliged to his request 😈) continue a slow mosey to summit of kiddie slope

  • 11s (longest ever) w big boys and gas pumps (working that turkey belly)
  • At summit do 1 big boy
  • Run half way , stopping at the plateau of pain( said in a French accent)  do 10 burpees
  • Run to the base and do 10 gas pumps
  • run all the way back up and do 2 big boys …
  • every time you run DOWN, stop at PoP and do 10 burpees (rest stop)
  • rinse n repeat until 11s are done
  • ended up being about 2.5 miles of 11s , 100 burpees , 55 big boys, 55 gas pumps

MARY:
Mosey back to AO
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 pax giving me sarcastic laughs , evil looks , hands in the knees …. I knew they loved me !
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Story and credit the Q source ;

Leading Leaders

Charles Plumb, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, was a jet pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected and parachuted into enemy hands. He was captured and spent 6 years in a communist Vietnamese prison. He survived the ordeal and now lectures on lessons learned from that experience.

One day, when Plumb and his wife were sitting in a restaurant, a man at another table came up and said, “You’re Plumb! You flew jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. You were shot down!” “How in the world did you know that?” asked Plumb. “I packed your parachute,” the man replied. Plumb gasped in surprise and gratitude. The man pumped his hand and said, “I guess it worked!” Plumb assured him, “It sure did. If your chute hadn’t worked, I wouldn’t be here today.”

Plumb couldn’t sleep that night, thinking about that man. Plumb says, “I kept wondering what he might have looked like in a Navy uniform: a white hat, a bib in the back, and bell-bottom trousers. I wonder how many times I might have seen him and not even said ‘Good morning,’ ‘how are you?’ or anything because, you see, I was a fighter pilot and he was just a sailor.” Plumb thought of the many hours the sailor had spent on a long wooden table in the bowels of the ship, carefully weaving the shrouds and folding the silks of each chute, holding in his hands each time the fate of someone he didn’t know.

Now, Plumb asks his audience, “Who’s packing your parachute?” Everyone has someone who provides what they need to make it through the day. Plumb also points out that he needed many kinds of parachutes when his plane was shot down over enemy territory he needed his physical parachute, his mental parachute, his emotional parachute, and his spiritual parachute. He called on all these supports before reaching safety.

Sometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss what is really important. We may fail to say hello, please, or thank you, congratulate someone on something wonderful that has happened to them, give a compliment, or just do something nice for no reason. As you go through this week, this month, this year, recognize people who pack your parachute.

MOLESKIN:
F3 packs one of my parachutes everyday ! And That’s just one . My wife packs my parachute in a big way!! My kids pack another, the people I work with pack one.  Don’t take for granted those around you that make you who you are or if you are in a leadership role , be thankful for those that you lead . Often times , we do what we are supposed to do and those around us work just as hard . That’s to be expected right ? Sure , but we can still show love and appreciation. It can go a long way just to acknowledge someone’s hard work even though it’s what they are supposed to do anyway.  As move past thanksgiving, giving thanks shouldn’t t stop through out the year.
thank you !
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Leg Day

THE SCENE: Cool and dry
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

Welcome to F3. It stands for Fitness, Fellowship and Faith. You are here on your own volition. I am not a professional. This is a free workout. I do not know your injuries and if you need to modify, please modify.

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Side-Shuttle Hops incadence x 20
  • Merkins x15
  • Mosey to Church Parking lot while farmer carrying CMUs with 5 calf raises

THA-THANG:
DORA Style workout.

Round 1 – Bear Crawl up hill and 10 merkins

  • 150x 3sec hold Al Gore’s
  • 200x iron mikes
  • 250x

Round 2 – Bernie up hill with 10 WWII

  • 150x burpees
  • 200x
  • 250x

MARY:
Mosey back to Grinder while farmer carry CMUs with 5 calf raises
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
With going along with Leg Day, your legs are your base. In your lives, your family and friends are your base. You can’t always hold yourself up. It is okay to rely on others to be your base. With my grandmother in nursing home and getting worse every day, it has been critical to keep my base close to help hold me up. Keep your base close.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:.

 

Drifter’s 28th

THE SCENE: It was a good November gloom. Little on the chilly side, but I got them sweating still.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • 28 SSH IC to set the tone
  • 28 Boxer Jax IC
  • 7 cherry pickers
  • Soccer style warmup lap in parking lot

THA-THANG:
7s (+7 reps of each for a bonus) on waxjob hill – iron squats/best merkin ever and Bernie up hill

7s (+7, makes for 28 reps of each btw, MATHEMATICAL!) on bonus hill – 4ct calf raise / 4ct mtn Climbers and crawl bear up hill

7s (+7) on ma’am hill – body builders / box jumps

7 sit squats, 7 pullups, 7 sit squats, 7 pullups

Jail break to ao, 1min Al Gore, done!

MARY:

No time left

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Use the TAGS on right-side to record PAX (BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOURSELF) in attendance. Be sure to select the AO in CATEGORY above TAGS and then delete these notes!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Like all the crazy hills we went up and down on, life has us on peaks and in some dark valleys. But remember that God is at work in those valleys as well as the peaks. Trust him. He can even work through our stubbornness to make us into his son’s likeness. How much more if we’ll surrender and relax knowing that he’s got it all taken care of.
MOLESKIN:
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Breakfast @Drifter’s on Saturday the 23rd.

40 Years

THE SCENE: 28 degrees F, 92% humidity
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

40 SSH IC
40 yard Jog/butt kicks/high knees/skip
7 cherry pickers (to remember the sabbath and keep it holy)
THA-THANG:
Grab a block for a trip around the park. Stops along the way.
40 Decline Merkins
40 Dead Lifts
With block, Crawl Bear / Bear Crawl / Crab Walk / Walk Crab
With block 40 step ups (20 each leg)
40 4ct Mtn Climbers IC
40 left side crunch / 40 Right side crunch
40 curls
Side lunge 40 yards / other side 40 yards
40 burpees
40 box cutters
Circle up, hold Al Gore, pass block 40 times

MARY:
Super man / banana 40 sec
Shoulder taps til time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 HIMs
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
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MOLESKIN:
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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Old Man

THE SCENE: 33 degrees F, 93% Humidity, Snowing with 1″ on the ground.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH, Little Baby Arm Circles, Walk out Planks, Cherry Pickers
THA-THANG:

Modified Route 66:  Run to the 3rd light pole on the Greenway path and do 10 Merkins and 1 WWII Situp, run to 3rd light pole and do 9 Merkins and 2 WWII Situps, continue until the last stop 1 Merkin and 10 WWII Situp.  Continue run to base of Mt Krumpit but stop once to do 0 WWII Situps and 11 Merkins and a second  time to do 11 WWII Situps and 0 Merkins.

Mt Krumpit Partner

Partners alternate the types of ascents up Mt Krumpet until the follow exercises and reps are completed.

50 Bodybuilders, 100 Squat Jumps, 150 Dry Docks, 200 Flutter Kicks (2 ct), 150 Dry Docks, 100 Squat Jumps, 50 Bodybuilders

Ascents

1st ascent Run, 2nd ascent Bernie/Run, 3rd ascent Bear Crawl/Run then repeat the sequence until above is complete

Summit

Perform 10 LBC’s at the top of each ascent.

 

When complete, run back to scrapyard on the AO grinder.

Push/Pull

Perform two rounds consisting of 10 inverted pull ups and 10 Merkins

MARY:

ABCs (capital letters)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 HIMs total on this blistery, snowy morning.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Over a year ago I did a BOM about my favorite song, My Back Pages, written in 1964 by Bob Dylan and made famous by The Byrds in 1967.  I recently heard some comments made by Clint Eastwood on his 88th birthday last year that touches on the main refrain from My Back Pages.  He was asked how he continues to stay active and do the things he does.  His reply, “I just get up each morning and go out.  And I don’t let the old man in.”

It is easy to let the “old man” in.  He can creep in any time and rob us of our potential, prevent us from reaching our goal, or in some cases stop us in our tracks.  Routine helps to combat the old man.  One of the routines for me is F3.  Another is the reminder from Philippians 1:6 “Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completions until the day of Jesus Christ.”  That verse should poke us into action no matter the endeavor.  We are not ever done until our last breath … or until He returns … whichever comes first.

MOLESKIN:
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