F3 Knoxville

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Lifetime Brotherhood

THE SCENE: Sunny with a weather of 85F and a little breeze.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

Welcome to F3, Fitness, Fellowship and Faith. F3 is a free workout program designed to improve fitness, share some camaraderie, and foster male leadership in the community. I’m Jetlag and I will be your Q today.  I am not a professional, and I do not know your fitness level or injury history.  Please push yourself, but modify the workout as necessary to avoid making any existing injuries worse.  The goal is to get better together!

WARM-O-RAMA

  1. Brady corns
  2. Windmill
  3. Plank jacks 4ct
  4. Mountain climbers 4ct
  5. CMU – Increment: 5x squat – curl – overhead – tricep

THA-THANG:

Workout 1: CMU
Murder Bunny or bear crawl

Each cone: 10 merkins x 10 frog jumps
Then run to playground: 10 box jumps x 10 tricep dips

Workout 2: CMU 2x

Per corner:
Back: 20rows x 20deadlifts
Chest: 20merkins x 20shoulder taps
Shoulder: 20shoulder press x 20sumo squats (wide squats)
Arms: 20biceps x 20triceps

Mosey to Picketts Charge

Workout 3: 1st hill 4
1. Mountain climbers 4ct in cadence
2. Shoulder tapos 4ct on top

2nd hill 4x bearcrawl up
1. Prisoner getups 4ct
2. Toe taps 4ct

Workout 4: Colosseum 3 base

1st base: 10 side straddle hops – run around. 2nd base: 10 side straddle hops – run around 3rd base: 10 ssh – run around

Mosey back to AO.

MARY:
Wagon wheel the six

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
26 HIMs in attendance. Mickey not tagged.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
As may not all of you know, Me and my family are only visiting the US, supposedly for a few weeks for the holiday last year until Philippines declared another hard lockdown in January. Ever since then, we thought of staying here for a bit longer until we get the vaccine, and until the covid cases subside – which did not up until now. The past 8 months has been nothing short of amazing not just for me, but for my family as well. I get to spend a lot of time with parents again, them spending time with their grandchild and it feels so great to be home again with them.

Back tracking, when we first got here, my wife and I were really paranoid because of the pandemic, because of how bad the situation is where we came from. We’re scared for our child of getting sick so we always had our guards up against the virus. I met a bunch of guys working out at 5:30am under a drizzling, 35F weather. It was dark, winter, cold and awfully at the peak of the pandemic. It was my second day here in Knoxville and rest assured still jet-lag from our 27-hour flight (thus, the name, Jetlag). We worked out and it felt horrible, I’m not going to lie. But it amazes me how everyone stays for a while after the workout to say a few words, to say a little prayer for the others and for the community. Every workout is different, and I get to learn more about the community, more about what F3 means and how they make their impact in the society. And of course, these men became my brothers. These men lift each other up; cheer and pray for each other when one is down.

I have never seen anything like it. They welcomed me, a visitor, from a foreign country, in the middle of the pandemic, like I’m one of their own.

I absolutely love them, my brothers for life. And I will be forever grateful to them, for making me a better man, better partner, better son, better father – a HIM. And I’m truly honored to be part of this lifetime brotherhood.

MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Drum Major’s daughter, Hunter, who tore her acl; for Lily’s recovery from the hip surgery; Doubtfire’s grandmother-in-law’s recovery, who recently suffered a heart attack;

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP at Dog Pound is moved to August 21.

Sandbaggin’ it

THE SCENE: Muggy. Just muggy. Started sweating just doing Cherry Pickers.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
For possibly the first time ever, YHC started out with something other than SSH:
5x Cherry Pickers IC
15x Tn Rocking Chairs IC
10x Tempo Merkins IC
10x Tempo Lunges IC
5x Cobra Burpees OYO

THA-THANG:
Everyone grab a CMU and mosey over to the Dragon. There are 16 cardboard stations laid out a couple feet apart along the path, with a 90lb sandbag at the end.
Starting at the sandbag, everyone mans a station with no skips, leaving the ones at the end unmanned (YHC was prepared for a crowd…)
First PAX schleps the sandbag straight up the grass hill and back down around the path while everyone else does the exercise at their station AMRAP until he gets back.
He hands the sandbag to the next PAX while everyone moves up a station, and then goes to the last manned station.
Once everyone has done each station and carried the sandbag, everyone goes down to the end where the unmanned stations are, grabs a cardboard, and brings it back where they were. Repeat the AMRAPS/Sandbag carry.
For the third round, there are now two options at each station. Each PAX picks which exercise to do at each station.
Round 1:
Calf Raise
Twist Lunge
OHP
Ice Skaters
Curls
V-ups
Squat Thrust

Round 2:
Wood Choppers
Blockees
Squats
Tricep Extensions
Bent Rows
Up/Over Merkins
Alpos

Round 3:
To each his own.

MARY:
Bring the blocks back to the AO. Props to Repeat for schlepping the sandbag and Lebowski for doubling up on the CMUs!
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 PAX managed to avoid drowning in the wet air.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
My mother in law passed away from Alzheimers about a month ago. As the disease progressed and took more of her mind, she forgot who anyone was. But she never forgot the Lord, and still talked to Him and about Him to all of us. At her Celebration of Life service, we played the old hymn “It Is Well”, because even until the end she knew that it was well with her soul. Ended the COT by singing that hymn.
MOLESKIN:
Thanks to Matlock for calling out the CMUs! The PAX moved a lot of weight today!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Off the Chain coming up August 21st! Sign up! Also sign up for Hardship Hill… This will be year 4 and it’s bigger and better every year!

Ode to Cat Gut

THE SCENE: Steamy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Warmed up with 20 SSH on 4ct, 10 tempo merkins, 10 4ct plank jacks, 5 burpees OYO, 6 Cherry Pickers, a little this and that,  and a lap around the parking lot.
THA-THANG:
Partner up for DORA’S.  Partner one grabs rock and performs first part of 150 reps of

  • Curls
  • OH Press
  • Tri Extensions
  • Flutters with Rock

While partner 2 runs suicide.  Switch out when partner 2 is done with one suicide.

When completed mosey down cardiac to Skunk Hill.  Pay our respects to Cat Gut and run up Skunk Hill for 10 burpees OYO.  When done, mosey to base of cardiac.  10 jump squats at bottom, mosey to first curve for 10 more squat jumps, bernie to second curve for 10 squat jumps, then run to top for 20 dips.  6 up did 20 LBC’s in cadence.

Mosey to top of Dragon Tail for a route 66 with merkins.  When done, over to cloud for set of 20 butt touches and 20 step ups.  When done head back to AO

MARY:
Just enough time for some Freddie Mercury and Heal touches.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Romans 10:8

Spoke on the importance of scripture and how it is our guide.  When we face the difficult in our lives, it is a reminder that we are not alone.

 

The ladder at the dragns tail

THE SCENE: 86 and warm
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
1 Burpee

5 cherry pickers

2 burpees

some of these and some of those
THA-THANG:
Mossey down to the tail of the dragon. Partner up and work with your partner to

  • first station
    • squats
    • lunges
    • Welsh Dragons
  • Second station
    • V-Ups
    • Air Taps
    • BBS
  • third Station
    • Merkins
    • Pickle Punders
    • Monkey Humpers
  • 4th station
    • CDD
    • Hand release Merkins
    • Sholder taps

MARY:
Ring of fire but we ran out of time

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Off the chains event. Be there of be lazy 😉

CMUesday Gorilla Complex

THE SCENE: Low 70s, almost no humidity.  Really a perfect morning to throw some CMUs around.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Some SSHs (about 20); Baby arm circles both ways (about 10); Imperial Squat Walkers, 10.
THA-THANG:
Gorilla Complex: Curls x 8; Overhead Presses x 8; Triceps Extensions x8; ALPOs x 8; Run across AO parking lot to other side and back.  Rinse and Repeat for a total of 8 times.

Bump and Grind: One group starts running up Baby Everest and then down the Dragon back to the AO, where they bump the group from Station 1 to Station 2, Station 2 bumps to Station 3 and Station 3 does the run and then back to Station 1.  Each station does each exercise in succession – AMRAP – until bumped.  We only got about halfway through.

  • Station 1: Start with Curls, next time around Overhead Presses, then Up and Overs, and finally CMU Rows
  • Station 2: Kettlebell Swings; Goblet Squats; CMU Lunges; CUM Push and Pulls;
  • Station 3: Hernias (CMU V-ups); Sidewinders; Sledge Hammers; Flutters with CMU overhead

MARY:
Circle up for some Waxjob led Side Crunches.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.” Phil 2:4.  I had an experience the other day where God put somebody in my path and counseled me to be patient and listen to what they wanted to say more than to their words.  I tend to hurry conversations along, pulling only information I think is important for me to do what I think I need to do.  What God wants me to do is listen more so I can spot times when I might be able to help somebody.
MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Rainbow’s friend Paul, who is struggling right now; for Waxjob’s family and mother-in-law Karen, who is close to the end of her earthly journey; and prayers for Snag and his Dad.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Wesley House work day on June 26.  Sign up and show up!