F3 Knoxville

The Assembly Line

THE SCENE: Muggy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Played text to speak, side straddle hops, little baby arm circle, and cherry pickers.
THA-THANG:
The Assembly line:

  • One man at each CMU setup in a line.
  • One extra man at the F-Bomb (60 pound over sized bag about 50″ wide)
  • While the one pax carries the F-Bomb down to the road and about 100 yards roundtrip.
  • The rest do one of 10 exercises(listed in pic below), once he returns, he goes to the end of the line and everyone moves up a space.
  • Switch to the next exercise.

MARY:
Flutter kicks and box cutters
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I have been treating some of my daily life like an assembly line.  There are large task that I need and want to finish and by setting aside a little time every day, I have started to complete some of these things.  Nothing is too large to accomplish or overcome.  Sometimes it takes a whole assembly line of support, or you learn how to do the next part of the assembly line and you keep moving.  Eventually you get a finished product.
MOLESKIN:

F3 Workout

The Narrow Road

THE SCENE: Felt a little hot, but nice overall.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSHs x20 IC
LB Arm Circles x12 each side IC
Michael Phelps for a bit
Cherry Pickers x8 IC
THA-THANG:
Four cones were set up in a rectangle across the grinder. Each person started at a different cone and did the first exercise there. Then they moved clockwise to the next cone by either bear crawling (shorter side of the rectangle) or doing a defensive slide (longer side of the rectangle). They then did the first exercise at the next cone and so on until they finished the first exercise at all four cones. Each time we completed four exercises, we ran up the troll bridge and did 10 bodybuilders before going back and moving on to the next set of exercises.

Exercises at each cone:
Cone #1

    • Goblet Squats – 20
    • Overhead CMU Lunges – 20 each leg
    • One Leg Deadlifts – 20 each leg
    • Step Ups – 20 each leg

Cone #2

    • Three Part Merkins – 10
    • CMU Chest Presses – 30
    • Hand Release Merkins – 20
    • Wide Merkins – 20

Cone #3

    • Bent Over Rows – 25
    • Tricep Extensions – 20
    • Curls – 30
    • Chest Ups/Pull Ups – 15

Cone #4

    • WWII BBS – 30
    • Boxcutters – 20 4 Count
    • Flutter Kicks – 20 4 Count
    • V-Ups – 20

MARY:
We did a little ring of fire holding an Al Gore while each person did a burpee. For round 2 we each did 2 burpees before time ran out.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
16 PAX Strong today
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Matthew 7:13-14 says “Enter by the narrow gate, since the road that leads to destruction is wide and spacious, and many take it, but it is a narrow gate and a hard road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”

I feel like this verse is applicable to anything we do in life. As F3 men, we walk a narrow road each day when we decide to wake up early and workout. We have to strive to take the narrow path in each and everything we do. Comfort and ease are the barriers to happiness and success.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Tuesday at the Bomb Shelter

THE SCENE: Cool and raining
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:

-Little baby arm circles

-Cherry Pickers

-SSH

-Overhead Claps
THA-THANG:
Make your way from the pavillion to the scrap yard in the following manner:

-5 WW2’s, transition into a Getup. Inchworm, then 5 Merkins. Bear Crawl five hands and repeat.

Once at the Scrapyard: 20 reps of Dips, Big Boys, Bodybuilders. Rinse and repeat until the PAX is finished.

Let’as go for a mosey: Running and pausing at every third light pole to AMRAP whatever the QIC calls out.

Back at the AO we farmer carried CMU’s while a battle buddy AMRAP’ed WW2’s

MARY:
LBC’s, Flutter kicks and Overhead Claps

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Flopper, Neighbor, Swazye, Hellbender, Fins, Mitten, Pinnochio, Napster, Goldfinger, Iceman, Butterfingers, Drifter, Taco, Tin Man, Flash, RadioShack, Moses, Espy
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
It was a short word but here’s the rub: I made one short Facebook post after the convergence and over the course of the next day and a half had 10 potential HIM’s from various aspects of my life ask me about it and how they can get involved. Two of them are now posted at different AO’s in Knoxville and I’m in the process of head locking the rest. The lesson here is to be vocal, not in a boastful way, but in a way that inspires potential HIM’s around you to break out of a tired old rhythm and find the potential within themselves. Speak from the heart about what F3 means to you!
MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Standby for info about the promised Bomb Shelter t-shirt order, Details coming to the group me this week!

Remembering Bill

THE SCENE: Dark, mostly cloudy, 71 degrees F, 93% humidity
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH, Imperial squat walkers, Peter Parkers, Little baby arm circles. Mosey to the bottom of Waxjob Hill.

THA-THANG:

Waxjob Hill 7’s

Burpees at the bottom

Bear crawl up hill

4 count flutter kicks at the top

Run down to the bottom

CMU SET at the Grinder

x12 each (or as noted) competed sequentially.

Bent Rows, Swings, Triceps Extensions, Upright Rows, Squat Press, Curls, On The Shelf (6 per side), Lawn Mower Pulls (12 per arm)

Run down path to junction with Alcoa Road

Calisthenics at Alcoa Road

x12 each completed sequentially.

Merkins, WWII Sit-ups, Shoulder Taps (4 count), Iron Mikes, Dry Docks, SSH (4 count), Get Ups, Body Builders (8 count)

Run back to Grinder and continue AMRAP.  Most completed two rounds.

Push Pull

Completed two rounds of 10 Pull Ups and 10 Box Jumps.

MARY:
Protractors, Box cutters, LBCs.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Total of 21 HIMs including 1 FNG (Mitten – Mike Hanlon).  Good to have a couple back at the Bomb Shelter after a break.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

April 1974, after touring Alcoa’s TN Operations, I was sitting across from Bill Mueller. He offered me a job prior to my flight back to Beaumont and the last few months of college. He is the reason I moved my wife to East TN two weeks after our marriage. Bill was a good manager. He wasn’t flashy. He was kind. He was giving. He had high expectations. He was a teacher. He had my back. He went before me. He protected me when engineering layoffs came in 1975. I wasn’t one of 7 mechanical engineers let go.
Bill’s personal life was tough. His wife Donna fought brain cancer for several years and the surgeries and radiation left her with significant mental and physical limitations. Bill pulled extra duty raising their three children.  He never complained. He only provided his love, patience, and care. He was devoted to Donna, Jeff, Julie, and Jayne.
Bill gave himself to Habitat in his retirement and has over 100 builds under his belt. His final one was called the Bill Mueller Build. Bill died last Saturday at the age of 91 and was buried yesterday.
I use Bill as an example of someone who has gone before me. Someone who has made my path straighter and less difficult. We all have these kind of people in our lives. Sometimes we realize it. Many times we don’t.  As Cap’n Crunch said after our F3 Convergence, “we all need Paul’s in our life.”  Bill Mueller was one for me.
Today I encourage us all to reflect on the Bill Muellers in our lives and to give thanks. Better yet, if your Bill Mueller is still alive, call him up and let him know just how much he means to you.
MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Daniel, a friend of Flash, as he give the eulogy at a funeral tomorrow.  Prayer for guidance, reconciliation in next steps as one of our HIMs faces the prospect of divorce.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.