F3 Knoxville

Driftwood VQ – Catchin the Tail

THE SCENE: 33F and calm, dark and overcast – not as cold as yesterday!

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

Also included Tony Cozy (A-di-das) but he is not registered on site
WARM-O-RAMA:

  1. SSH (Side-Straddle-Hop) 15×3 in cadence
    • 1 Burpee on your own
  2. Imperial Walkers 15X3 in cadence
    • 2 Burpee on your own
  3. Cherry Pickers 5×3 in cadence
    • 3 Burpee on your own
  4. Baby Arm Circle 15×3 in cadence forward and backwards
    • 4 Burpee on your own
  5. 15 Air squats 15×3 in cadence
    • 5 Burpee on your own

THA-THANG:

[PAX mosey’s to stop sign at parking lot split] (0.18 miles)

  1. 15’s at stop sign 3X each exercise
    • 5 Burpee on your own
    • 5 air squat on your own
    • 5 Merkin on your own

[Pax mosey to parking lot and split into teams of 3-4 people] (0.13 miles)

  1. Catch the tail – 4 loops (0.56 miles) – run circle of outside parking spaces at Lakeside parking lot
  2. Parking lot 4 corners X 3 times Double row parking with handicap (0.21 miles)
    1. Corner 1 start
      • 15 shoulder taps (both shoulders =1)
      • 20 big boy sit up
    2. Bear Crawl to Corner 2
      • 15 hand release merkins
      • 20 hello dollies
    3. Sprint to corner 3 – full speed give it everything
      • 20 Overhead press
      • 10 squat jumps
    4. Lunge to Corner 4
      • 15 side crunches left
      • 15 side crunches right
    5. Sprint to Corner 1
  3. Mosey to grass hill – directly across from restaurant facing house X 3 times 120 length of grass (0.13 mi)
    1. 15 Dry docks using curb at top of grass hill
      • Run down the hill
    2. 15 Star jack at bottom
      • Bear Crawl to top
    3. Pax return to AO (0.23 miles)
    4. Suicides in tennis court
      1. Suicide 1 (down and back)
        • 15 big boy sit ups
      2. Suicide 2 (down and back)
        • 15 side crunch left and 15 side crunch right
      3. Suicide 3 (down and back)

MARY:
ABSCESS – 10 Merkins OYO

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Positive Thinking / Positivity is a current leadership trend and buzz word.  If you take it serious and not as Pollyanna (“an excessively or blindly optimistic person”) there are great habits and leadership skills that can be learned. Don’t just be positive, when life is easy. If you stay positive when life is hard it’s not Pollyanna. It’s about trusting God, overcoming obstacles, finding a way forward, and believing the best is yet to come!  Many COT’s provided by F3 HIM’s will give you fuel to stay positive.  The one thing that has really helped me to create a positive environment with my family is to Pray Continuously – what that means is that when you know it is about to erupt – stop for 2 seconds and say a prayer – pray for words, humility, and patience, it works – I always wondered how to Pray Continuously and by starting when I knew things might erupt I learned.

I encourage you (this means it’s really for me!) to take a 23 day challenge up to Christmas (this is practice for the Woodshack eating challenge), you don’t have to commit to eating better just try to do one “Positive” thing for the next 23 days … Truly Spread the Spirit of Christmas, Smile first, say thank you more, open the door for everyone, choose faith and not fear – Pray Continuously.

MOLESKIN:
Special thanks to Mr Jinky for getting me into F3 (it took persistence, but I am forever grateful) and Abscess the “fake gloomers” that got me hooked on F3 and for coming all the way out to the Dog Pound (my AO home) in the early morning hours.  Only true friends/HIMs do this for their fellow brother.

Also, special thanks for La-Z-Boy for putting on the Q101 a few weeks ago, that was an EH for me to step up to the Q plate.  For those that have not Q’d yet, do it sooner rather then later, you’ll be glad you did.  And don’t worry you won’t remember most of the work-out, you will only remember the great support of F3 HIM!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
3rd F convergence at the Truck Stop – Saturday at 7AM Workout followed by 3rd F at Two Rivers Church

21’s & stuff

THE SCENE: Relatively Warm for the Day
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

I washed my Weinke
THA-THANG:

  • 3 to a Group
  • Partner A/B are doing workout routine while Partner C does travelling exercise
  • Again, washed my Weinke
  • There were some Merkins, Broadjumps, American Hammers
  • Then I ran short on exercises so we did Sprints and 21’s

MARY:
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Be ready for the unexpected Temptation

MOLESKIN:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

99 Problems

THE SCENE:

35 and slightly gloomy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

LBAC x 15 Forward and Back

15 Imperial Walkers IC

10 tempo Merkins

THA-THANG:
PAX completed 99 reps of the following exercises:

  • Merkins
  • Squats
  • CMU curls
  • LBCs
  • Star Jacks
  • CMU OH press
  • Flutter kicks
  • Rocky Balboa
  • CMU tri extension

MARY:
30 second plank

Hello Dolly x 20 IC

30 second plank

ATMs

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
It’s really easy to focus on a mountain of problems and become overwhelmed. Remember to count the blessings in your life as closely as you count your problems. Chances are your balance sheet looks better than you think.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

THE SCENE: Cold and Snowyish
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Walked through the importance of cadence and how to call it.

  • SSH IC * 15
  • Merkins IC * 15
  • Imperial Walkers IC * 15

THA-THANG:
Mayberry took over

 Partner Workout

  1. 50 pullups
  2. 50 Burpees
  3. 100 Merkins
  4. 100 V-Ups
  5. 200 Squats
  6. 200 gas pumpers
  7. Alternate between SSH, Flamingos and Step ups

MARY:
I-Beam took over and showed us how to run the ab cycle.

  • Six Minutes Of Mary aka 6MOM Routine, Mary An abdominal #Routine of no specific composition as long as it promotes #TBQ.  Inspired by psycho-killer with the 7-minute ab workout in Something About Mary.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
14 strong
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Junk delivered a great message that can be found here: https://f3knoxville.com/not-my-timing-but-yours/

Also, walked us through the importance of the BOM for our PAX. How the BOM is one of the biggest parts of F3 and shouldn’t be glossed over.
MOLESKIN:
Great turnout on a cold snowy day. We met at the Pav-A-Lon and had coffee brewing for coffeeteria at the end of the workout. Hardbody really brought donuts!!! Hopefully we demystified the Q and we’ll see a couple of guys jump on rotation.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill obstacles, 3rd F on 12/7

Not my timing, but yours…

THE SCENE: 40 and brisk
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Quick demonstration of the exercises while the PAX shook their arms to stay warm.
THA-THANG:
Modified Kraaken

Exercises in the circle:

La-Z-Boy curls

CMU Squat Press

CMU Tri-lunge

CMU Row

kettle Bell Single OHP

medicine ball jump shot

hula hoop (sling 40# sandbag around the waist, grab behind the back with the other hand and repeat around the horn)

60# Sandbag Clean and Press x12

Clean and Press was the timer, everyone continue until the C+P guy is done. Then one lap around the circle with the CMU overhead. Pick a new station and keep going.

MARY:
25 4 count CMU LBCs

25 4 count CMU flutter kicks
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Mayberry, Wallball, Excitebike, Frank, Aladdin and Junk
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

“Though he slay me, I will hope in him”
‭‭Job‬ ‭13:15‬a
Many times over the last few years I have considered this little snippet of scripture. Sometimes while teaching a lesson on the sovereignty of God, or considering my sin in comparison to His eternal goodness, or simply recognizing that I am His creation/soldier/son to will and to do of His good pleasure. I have considered challenges, illnesses or even persecution’s and in my hubris thought, “yeah, I would respond that way. Though He slay me yet will I trust Him.” I realized last week, I have never once allowed for “though He slay HER, yet will I trust Him.” There is something about being a man that we can consider ourselves being sacrificed and see it as noble, tough, even our duty. But as I consider the potential loss of my wife, or the loss of a child…it becomes so much more real. The tears come fast and easy. Finding the joy of the Lord is hard; hope seems so distant. How shallow of me to be willing to give of myself, but not to give of what I love so dearly. In a way, giving my own life costs me nothing – and I am reminded of David’s insistence that he would not give what cost him nothing. So, while I am confident in Kim’s diagnosis and treatment plan and know that this should not take her life – I will spend these months trying to learn to say and believe that “though He slay her/them, yet will I trust Him.”

Moleskin

This was my first Q in a while. Many of the PAX have stood by Lady Junk and Me during this battle with Hodgkins Lymphoma and we are grateful. What a wild ride.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Brolympics Saturday

Butters’ son’s heart/lung condition