F3 Knoxville

Leaning Into the Ache of Advent

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Lilydipper
PAX: MD Hammer, Switchhitter (Tony), Lizzy, Pele (Jon Lindberg), Steam, Drum Major, Duggar, Crash Dummy, Glamper, Abacus, Doubtfire (Nick Bond), Brick, Pusher, Lilydipper, Gridiron, Birdie (Clyteroll Cabual)
FNGs: 1 Birdie (Clyteroll Cabual)
COUNT: 16
WARMUP: Stretches to left toe and stretches to right toe, 20 High Knees, 20 Side Straddle Hops, 10 Twistees, 10 Cherry Pickers, 7 Pterodactyls Forward and 7 Pterodactyls Backward
THE THANG: Mosey to the Caribbean Parking Lot. We will do Candy Canes, starting at the first island and running counterclockwise around the parking lot until we reach the last cone at the end of the candy cane. There will be a cone on every other island. At each cone we will do the exercises listed below. When we reach the end of the candy cane the first person to finish the exercise sweeps everyone back to the starting island. We then do another candy cane with the next exercise. Here are the exercises:
• 10 Shoulder Taps
• 15 Squats
• 20 Merkins
• 10 Lunges
Mosey to the start of the Serpentine Sidewalk where it touches the road. We will do 14’s on the Serpentine Sidewalk until it merges with the Perimeter Trail. We will bear crawl ahead for one light, then run for four lights, then bear crawl for one light and run for four etc. until we reach the perimeter trail.
Next we will get on our sixes and do 20 American Hammers and 10 Gas Pumps.
Mosey to the start of Cardiac. We will run up Cardiac, stopping at each curve in the sidewalk and finally stopping at the benches. Here are the exercise we will do on the way up:
• Curve 1: 20 Carolina Dry Docks
• Curve 2: 20 Hello Dollies
• Curve 3: 20 Decline Merkins
• Benches: 20 Bench Dips
Mosey to baseball field entryway parking lot.
We will go to the center of the parking lot where Doubtfire parked his truck and trailer. Each man will get a CMU out of the trailer. We will do the following exercise in cadence.
• 20 Overhead Presses
• 20 Curls
• 20 Rows
Place the CMUs back in the trailer.
Mosey to the AO.

MARY: 30 Seconds of High Knees
ANNOUNCEMENTS: RoCo Starfish Convergence at Rampart at 7 am this Saturday. Hot Toddy Triple Birthday Q at Asylum Daybreak on Saturday, January 6 at 7 am. F3 Knoxville Winter Convergence at Big Ball, 7 am on Saturday, January 20.
COT: Our brothers Ocho and Kick Flip have been talking about Advent on Slack, urging us to discuss it with our families. What is Advent? For Christians it is the four weeks before Christmas and it represents the waiting for the coming of Christ. But it is more complex and significant than that. It isn’t all about Christmas lights and getting gifts for others while we wait, although those are certainly nice things. Advent represents a yearning for change in the recognition that all is not right with the world. The American Writer and Anglican Priest, Tish Warren, states we need to lean into the ache of Advent, recognizing that the world, racked with conflict, violence, suffering and darkness, needs change. We need a savior. And Christmas represents the coming of that Savior.

Crazy 8s

AO: shamruck
Q: slappy
PAX: The Situation, Glamper, Toretto, Tonka, Mermaid, Swifty, Betty,
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WARMUP:
None – we just went for it

THE THANG:
We did a figure 8 loop. At the top and bottom of each loop we did 10 merkins, 10 squats, and 10 mtn climbers. Best day ever.

MARY:
None

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Glamper’s VQ is tonight at Asylum PM!

COT:
-Have a great Thanksgiving. Lead your family well by engaging, being joyful, and forgiving.
-I confess that I’ve been on X too much. It’s a problem because it drags my spirit down and cut into my productivity. Maybe you guys have something similar that you struggle with.

Thinking About Death Can Be A Key for Happiness

AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: Lilydipper
PAX: Brick, Lulu (Greg Huddy), F6, Waffle House (Brady Greene), Dung Beetle (Scott Kimsey), Qbert, CRISPR, Pele (Jon Lindberg), P3 (Jordan Simmons), Drum Major, Toto (James Smith), Pusher, Glamper, OnStar, Lilydipper
FNGs: None
COUNT: 15

WARMUP:
THE THANG:
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

Q101

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Pele (Jon Lindberg)
PAX: Ghost Flag (F3Knoxville), Brick, Crash Dummy, Tenderfoot, Swimmies (Nathan Chesney), CRISPR, Rooney (Carl Whipple), Lilydipper, Madoff (Daniel Hereford), Steam, Drum Major, Pele (Jon Lindberg), F6, Glamper
FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
Regular workout with some Q-Tips and Pele’s Pointers mixed in
WARMUP: -10 Side Straddle Hops (4-ct), in cadence
– 10 Cherry Pickers (4-ct), in cadence
– 10 Grady Corns (4-ct, IC)
– 10 Windmills (4-Ct, IC)

THE THANG: MOSEY to DORA Parking Lot. Everyone do 10 BURPEES OYO! Q FAIL: Can’t do it, don’t do it.
Battle Buddy Up
DORAS:
– 100 MERKINS
– 100 DEAD BUGS (2-count)
– 100 BOBBY HURLEYS

When finished do alternating Imperial Squat Walkers (10x, 4-ct) and SSH (10x, 4-ct) until 6 is done.
Mosey to STOP SIGN at the southern point of the Loop Road.
QUARTER POUNDER:
– Run to first cone, 25 merkins, run back.
– Run to second cone, 50 Squats, run back
– Run to third cone, 75 Mountain Climbers, run back
– Run to Fourth cone, 100 SSH, run back

Mosey to some random trees, do 1) BEAR CRAWL with 5x Merkins at each tree up and back, then 2) LUNGES with 10 Froggy Jumps at each tree up and back.
MARY: Various ab and stretching exercises, called on PAX to lead.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bolympics Nov 4, shovel flag handoff Nov 2, Rucking 4-hour event Dec. 2
COT: Discussed the Word and Prayer portions of the Q. JOHN PRINE says about one of his best songs Angel of Montgomery): ‘The opening lyric is “I am an old woman, named after my mother…” I was very nervous about singing this in public for the first time. Because I thought that it would come across as too detailed, too amateurish. And I thought there must be a reason for that. I must not be doing it the right way, whatever the right way is.’ Just like with songwriting, there really IS no right way to do a BOM. Just speak about something you have learned, something important to you, something that might help others. Not everyone will respond the same way but I can guarantee that pretty much every one of your brothers will get something out of your message. From Exodus 4: But Moses said to the LORD, “Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue.” 11 Then the LORD said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the LORD? 12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.”

All You Can Ruck Tuesday #1

AO: shamruck
Q: Eliza
PAX: Glamper, Mermaid, Betty, Brick, Dumpster Dive, Eliza, Imaginary, Photograph, Ribbed, The Situation, Tonka, Toretto, Mailbox
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
WARMUP: Ruck to Track
THE THANG: Ruck as fast as you want as much as you want as heavy as you want with whoever you want for 45 minutes
MARY: none
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Brolympics, Ruck GTE training,
COT: “People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude” – John Maxwell