F3 Knoxville

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You are a soul

THE SCENE: 65, pre fog, plenty damp
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Delivered

WARM-O-RAMA:
Reach for the stars, Let it hang, Baby Arm Circles, Mountain Climbers, Tempo Squats, Parking lot runs.
THA-THANG:G

Derkins on the guardrail, 1 at a time, couting off.   Black Snake to Brick wall for 30 dips, then mosey to the coupon pile.

At the pile we american hammered one CMU across the street.  Riffle carry a different CMU to the top of the small stairs.  Curl carry a third CMU to a spot 20 ft away.

Then we split into teams and team 1 job was to clear a pile, Team 2 tried to get the CMU count in any pile to 12.  If a goal was achived the other team had to do 10 burpies.  The “winning” team had to reset the course.  It was fun, a bit too complicated, but kept us all moving.

On the run back we made use of the excerises from monday (ya, no rain) around the new building.  PAX each chose their own light pole or 3 to push it.

MARY:
Had time for Flutter Kicks, Pickle Pointers and Protractor.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Proverbs 14:12  “There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end, leads to death.”

The application of this today is the tendancy we have to think of our body as most important, but we are predominatly spiritual beings who spend far too much time thinking of, working on, responding to the complaints and desires of our bodies.

The internet likes to give C.S. Lewis credit for this quote but turns out, he didn’t write it, but it still applies:
“You do not have a soul.  You are a soul and you have a body!”

God is making old things news.  “So we do not lose heart.  Though the outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.”  2 Corinthians 4:16

If your muscles scream at you today, you can ignore them, your soul is way more important.

 

Crawl Run Fun

THE SCENE: Foggy, low 60s
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER✔
WARM-O-RAMA:
Cherry Pickers, Windmills, Good Mornings, Tempo Merkins, Tempo Squats, Jumping Flamingos
THA-THANG:

  • Parking Lot:  10 yard crawls with ascending exercise at each end: Round 1) Bear Crawl to curb, 1 Merkin, Crawl Bear back to start, 2 Merkins.  Rinse and Repeat up to 5 Merkins.  Round 2) Same concept with Lunge/Squats. Round 3) Alligator Crawl/Werkins.  Round 4) Frog Jumps/Monkey Humpers.
  • New Building:  Exercises and Reps written on 15 light poles going around the building.  Run to first pole, perform the exercise, Run lap around building.  Repeat at each pole: exercise, then lap around the building. Exercises at poles – Merkins x40, Squats x50, Plank Jacks x50, Werkins x40, BBS x30, Iron Mikes x30, Shoulder Taps x50, Box Jumps x30, Derkins x30, Dips x30, SSH x100, and a few others.  Most completed 9 or 10 out of 15 poles with over 2 miles of running.

MARY:
No Time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 Strong
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
There is a God and you are not Him.
MOLESKIN:
N/A
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
N/A

When We Are Weak, He Is Strong

THE SCENE: Mid 60s with some sprinkles
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Cherry Pickers x 7, Harry Rockettes x 10, Lil’ Baby Arm Circles x 10 forward and backward, tempo squats x 5 then hold an Al Gore, tempo merkins x 5 then hold plank.

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the Courtyard for 21s

  • Start at the wall and do 20 box jumps onto the wall
  • Run to second overhang, stop and do 5 BBS at middle overhang
  • Do 1 hand release merkin at second overhang.
  • Eventually moved to 11s and got down to 6 box jumps and 5 hand release merkins

Mosey to the Coupon Pile

  • Get a coupon
  • Do 10 curls, 10 triceps, 10 swings, rifle carry up the first two staircases then back down
  • Take off 2 off each workout each time and go all the way to zero.

Mosey to the Parking Lot

  • Start at the first line doing 3 squats, duck walk to the line, lunge back to the start.
  • Then do 2 squats, duck walk, lunge
  • 1 squat, duck walk, lunge

Mosey back to the flag

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Read 2 Corinthians 12:8-10: “Concerning this, I pleaded with the Lord three times that it would leave me. But He said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is perfected in weakness.’ Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may reside in me. So I take pleasure in weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and in difficulties, for the sake of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

This is so opposite of our culture and really the opposite of what men think. It is difficult to admit our weaknesses and even boast in them, but this is what Paul says and we see throughout Scripture that we are to be dependent on God and rely on Him and not ourselves. We see throughout the Psalms that David cries out to the Lord to help Him. He knows that He is weak and often in danger, so he constantly cries out to God for help. And this is how we should look to God. It is like a child doing something and he is struggling and his father is right there waiting for the child to ask for help. The child (us) is stubborn, but the father (God) is right there waiting for us to ask Him for help and it is His desire and pleasure to help us and give us strength because He gets the glory in that, not us.

What’s a Bearpee?

THE SCENE: no rain, not too hot at JUCO
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
15 mountain climbers, 10 tempo merkins, 15 Moroccan night club, 15 imperial walkers, 10 tempo squats
THA-THANG:

Mosey to the south parking lot

Bearpees halfway across the parking lot. OYO 1 Burpee followed up by 4 count bearcrawl forward.  Increase burpees by 1 each time and bearcrawl by 4 (1:4 ratio).

Mosey to the Sophomore. Dora 1-2-3. 100 merkins, 200 2-ct flutter kicks, 300 squats.  Partner is running up the hill.

Mosey to coupon pile. Do 25 overhead presses, 25 curls, 25 tricep extensions and 25 thrusters. Run up the hill and do 5 pull-ups between each set.

MARY:
Flutter kicks, hello Dolly
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
12 PAX today at JUCO.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

“My brethren, if any among you strays from the truth and one turns him back, let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.”

James 5:19‭-‬20 NASB

There is so much in the book of James. This particular passage points to our responsibility to turn back an erring brother from sin. Of course, we ourselves are only helping to point out the error in their life. God will provide forgiveness.  Note that if they need to be turned back, that means that they once were in the truth. Not only do we have the responsibility to help correct, but we have to have the humility to accept correction as well. Be willing to face your brother one-on-one. No gossip but straight to the source.

MOLESKIN

It has been too long since Qing at JUCO. Sign up!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Remember those requesting prayers.

CMU Ladder

THE SCENE: Nondescript. Not hot, not cold.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
10x Abe Vigoda, 7x Cherry Pickers…Let’s mosey!
THA-THANG:
Mosey towards CMU pile stopping for 5 burpees OYO at two different spots.

Grab yourself a coupon and head to the start line to the west of the maintenance building.

CMU Ladder:

  1. 10 x CMU Thrusters
  2. 20 x CMU Swings
  3. 30 x CMU Tricep
  4. 40 x CMU Curls

Run to Cones:

  1. 10 x BBS
  2. 20 x HTH
  3. 30 x LBC
  4. 40 x Flutter Kicks

Start round 1 with both 1’s above, on round 2 do both 1 & 2 above, and so on.

After completing the CMU work, run to the cones (spaced about 50 yards apart) and complete the work.

Round 1 = 1&1; Round 2 = 1,2&1,2; Round 3 = 1,2,3&1,2,3; Round 4 = 1,2,3,4&1,2,3,4

Clear as mud.

Finished up the ladder work and moseyed over to the big parking lot for a taste of the Kraken.

8 Cones in a circle around the light pole. Start at any cone and perform the prescribed exercise until the timer PAX finished the 3 burpees (5 burpees on round 2).

Exercises were Burpees, Squats, Diamond Merkins, Monkey Humpers, X Factors, BBS, HRR Merkins, LBC

Made it two rounds through the Kraken.

Mosey back to the shovel flag for a bit of Mary.

MARY:
Flutter Kicks and Freddies
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 men got after it.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Talked about Galatians ch. 2 when Peter was rebuked by Paul for not following his own teachings regarding accepting the Gentiles as they were. Talked about not forcing others to fit into a box that we have created with no basis. Make sure that you are practicing what you preach.
MOLESKIN:
IPC is in session, and it hurts.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill is coming up. I need help preparing the obstacles and we need to fill out the JUCO team.