F3 Knoxville

Plagiarism- A Q by Code Brown

AO: asylum-am
Q: Code Brown
PAX: Bunny, Cat Gut (Mike Davis), Charmin (John Willis), Cinco (Scott McGuire), Code Brown, Cosmo 2, Double Wide, Hands, Gibbler, Hot Tub (John Muller), Love’s, P3, Rainbow, TRC/Crab legs, Waffle House (Brady Greene), Woodpecker, Newton, Techmo, Flintstone, WHITE BELT
FNGs: None
COUNT: 20? (Going from a dim memory)
WARMUP: Code Brown padded his pockets with additional royalties from Tie Fighters. Did some plank things with varying degrees of success among the pax.

THE THANG: See my backblast from the previous week. Seriously.

MARY: A mercifully brief boat/canoe. It’s almost like Code Brown was playing with Cat Gut’s emotions.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Third F this Friday at Dead End for lunch, early dinner, pre-nap. Prayers for Doubtfire to show and pick up the tab.

COT: Imitation is a sincere form of flattery and an excellent way to lead the pax for a Q.

EMOM’s & AMRAP

AO: asylum-am
Q: Double Wide
PAX: Cat Gut (Mike Davis), Cinco (Scott McGuire), Cosmo 2, Double Wide, Hands, Hot Tub (John Muller), Matlock (Bill Maddox), Rainbow, Tropicana, Woodpecker, Warby, Red Card, Jumbo, Tecmo, Button Fly, Flintstone, , Cataract
FNGs: 1 Cataract
COUNT: 17
WARMUP:
SSH
This & that
Mike Phelps
Cherry picker
Rocky Balboa
Down & Back

THE THANG:
To the Cloud
EMOM 5 min and 1 bonus min of 12 burpees
Up Baby Everest & back

AMRAP 15 min
5 burpees
10 side lunges
15 hand release mercs
20 hot seats
25 Superman’s
30 Bonnie Blair’s
35 LBC
40 bunny hops
Run lap around double parking lots

EMOM 3 mins of 6 to 8 Mountain Climbers? uh nope, Iron Man? uh no, Man Makers! that’s it.

MARY:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Dad Camp final day to sign up

COT:
Don’t fear the hard work and hard choices

A roll of the dice

AO: asylum-am
Q: Hands
PAX: Cinco (Scott McGuire), Grandslam, Hands, Hot Tub (John Muller), Love’s, Matlock (Bill Maddox), P3, Rainbow, Rooney (Carl Whipple), Woodpecker, Flintstone
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WARMUP: SSH, Hi knees, Butt kickers, froggy squats, circle run, tempo merkins, plank jacks, stretching

THE THANG: Battle buddy up. Roll the dice and do the corresponding workout with your buddy
1 3 rounds of parking lot suicides and 10 CMU thrusters
2 Catch me if you can with 10 Merkins/Bernie around all the paver lots
3 3 rounds of 12 each butt touchers, table rows, step ups and run one lap
4 3 rounds of 20 (D)Irkins, 10 box jumps, 20 4 ct LBC’s
5 Bernie up Baby Everest, jog down, 10 man makers, repeat for 3 rounds total
6 Up the Tail of the Dragon two times, change mode of transport at each light pole – Bear Crawl, lunge, broad jump

MARY: Boat/canoe. Big wheel. Heel touches. Side crunches

ANNOUNCEMENTS: PM group is working out at 9 am on July 4th.

COT: Being a good example is not good enough these days, you gotta use words to lead.

Gratefully Being Told What to Do

THE SCENE: Not too hot… but so muggy I felt like I might get robbed *ba-dum-tss!*
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER– Administered (Fitness, Fellowship, Faith / Not a Professional / Modify as necessary / $Free.99 / Cell phone for Uber Eats or an emergency)

WARM-O-RAMA:
“Not a warm-up at all”
“The hardest warm-up ever”
“Sounds like a Trolley warm-up to me!”
(all of these were heard or in some variation today during the following warm-up)

This was taken from Trolley’s Q “Slot Cars: The Grateful Grid (and my first F3 workout ever).

1. Plank Destroyer
2. Crabet
3. Freddy Mercuries
4. Mountain Parkers
5. Peter Parkers
6. Squat Walkers
7. Donkey Kicks
8. Iron Mikes
9. Burpees
10. Clap Merkins

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the Cheatsheet parking lot.

Slot Cars… but only back and forth between rows of parking spots. Basically the warmup with a 60 second stretch between called by each PAX (we had exactly 10 today!). I didn’t write down all of the stretches but a few examples I remember:

Saigon Stretch (from our FNG Braden aka Tapas!)
Pickle Pointer aka Glute Bridge Hold
Pretzel Knee stretch
Up dog (S/O to Flintstone for getting my joke on this!)

Mosey to the CMU pile for “Heavy Air”:
Reach for the sky
Let it hang
Down dog
Up dog
Hold a glute bridge with your feet on the CMU
Skull crusher (horizontal reach for the sky)

Repeat without a CMU

Mosey to Shovel Flag -> Jailbreak was called

MARY:
Q gave PAX the choice of Dealer’s Choice or Baseball stretches. PAX (Betty) chose Dealer’s choice. We got about 5 reps into SSH’s (while the Q was doing lunges) when time was called.

 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
10 Grateful men.

 

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

 

3 years ago I was in the middle  of separation that ended in me losing my marriage. I had been humbled & was the most broken in my life I’ve ever been. I sowed & I reaped:
“Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.” –‭‭Galatians‬ ‭6:7-8‬ ‭ESV‬‬
Over those following months (which you can read about my journey if you starting here and working your way forward), but rather than focus on the negatives, today I want to focus on ‘the grateful grid’:
“Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.” – ‭‭Colossians‬ ‭4:6‬ ‭ESV‬‬
I’m going to shoutout men who have shield locked with me- and most of these have been done unofficially but very intentionally- & why I keep coming back. These are several of the men I’m grateful for:
Ribbed– you held my feet to the fire & made sure my faith, hypocritical in the past, was true & refined as more valuable than gold.
Trolley– you showed me what I was capable of when I pushed beyond when I want to give up as well as  such joy & camaraderie. Miss you brother.
Guardrail– you reached out even though you had no idea who I was. You’re a faithful brother who was so surprised ‘are you this open with most people?’, but my confidence in God’s ability to work & heal through a friend like you has been a great source of encouragement.
Jitters– you’ve kept in touch even though our paths don’t cross much. Your steadfast faith encourages me.
Anchorman– you just keep showing up. You’re positive & sacrifice for your family.
Mermaid– you’ve been there pretty much the whole time. You’re beyond consistent- you’re persistent! You don’t give up, you don’t let sad clowns go, & you don’t play disc golf much anymore either! Thankful to have shared 3 years of your 3 years & 2 week journey with you.
Judge Judy– you have showed me what it means to follow, lead, & lead well. Your challenges get me in a way that checks my ego just enough to make me want to get better for the right reason. Soli Deo Gloria.
Baby Boomer– we met at F3 even though we are members of the same church. What nonsense is that & yet what divine Providence to have a friend & brother in Christ like you.
And for the rest of you- your story is still unfolding.
Be the man you want as a friend.
Seek wisdom & counsel from those who you see laying down their lives for others.
Gladly assume sacrificial responsibility & when you do the authority will fall squarely on your shoulders to use it for the good of others and God’s glory alone.
“Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.”
‭‭Colossians‬ ‭4:6‬ ‭ESV‬‬
Grace be with you, my F3 brothers.
MOLESKIN:
Prayed for the teachers going back to school already/soon.
Hard to believe 3 years has passed! Missed Mermaid a good bit this morning as he’s been a part of the journey and a huge influence at Shamrock. Next time, sir!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Sign up to Q – I’m glad to help or get someone else to co-Q with you!

HubandSpokeandBurpees

The Scene

Sticky and Hot

F3 Welcome and Disclaimer

Fitness, Fellowship, Faith, Free, Modify, Not Professional, Own Volition, Social Distance, Phone

Warm-O-Rama

5 4-count Cherry Pickers

10 4-count BAC Forward

10 4-count BAC Backwards

10 4-count SSH

10  lunges

10 tempo merkins

 

Tha-Thang

Mosey to the start of Shamrock Row and lunged until it was time to do a burpee, then we lunged again and did another burpee, then we bear crawled and did a burpee, then we crab-walked and did a burpee…..PAX was trying to figure out the pattern with no luck. 

We recovered from that when we got to the Merkin Mile and then got into the meat of the workout. We partnered up and proceeded with the following: 

Hub and Spoke Workout 

Hub is 7 burpees

Spoke 1- 50 SSH

Hub 

Spoke 2-50 Shoulder taps

Hub 

Spoke 3-100 Freddy Mercury’s

Hub 

Spoke 4- 25 Imperial Walkers

Hub 

Spoke 5- 20 Lunges (10 each leg)

Hub .

Spoke 6- 25 Merkins

Everyone got 1 round

 

Mosey to the CMU pile and performed double CMU carries to the mouth of the parking lot and back (x2)

Moseyed back to the parking lot with enough time for 4 more burpees (Exactly what everyone wanted to do)

Mary

No time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

12 men of high impact

COT/BOM

“Hold fast, then, to this sound and wholesome rule of life – that you indulge the body only so far as is needful for good health. The body should be treated more rigorously, that it may not be disobedient to the mind.” – Seneca

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS: