F3 Knoxville

Tag: Hellbender

Getting off the bench

THE SCENE: Nice, clear morning with a temperature of 35 degrees
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

Not a professional or doctor, socially distance, push yourselves to get better

WARM-O-RAMA:

Warm up consisted of SSH (15), 10 Imperial Squat Walkers, 8 little baby arm circles, 8 Mountain Man Poopers,

THA-THANG:
We started off with a merkin exercise of bring sally up to the song Flower by Moby. This consists of 3 minutes of merkins, with holding at various positions.

PAX then took to the AO benches to do a battle buddy style beatdown consisting of:

  • 20 Single Count Step Ups
  • 10 Burpee Bench Jumps
  • 15 Derkins
  • 15 CMU RDL’s
  • 30 Dips
  • 15 Seated CMU overhead press

While one partner was working, the other took an AO lab. Workout was completed independently, meaning each PAX kept track of individual reps and excercises.

MARY:

A brief Mary was done by PAX picking an exercise for other PAX to complete while they mosey to the other end of the AO to complete 10 single count Iron Mikes. Exercises completed were 10 Thrusters, 10 CMU swings, 10 Mountain man poopers, and 10 4 count CMU flutterkicks

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
18 Came out. Napster, Hammy, Drifter, Postpone, Scoutmaster, Moses, Avocado, Taco, Espy, Limbo, Smoky, Genome, Nado, Toad, Nair, Hundo, T-Bone, Hellbender.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Insert the WORD here.
MOLESKIN:

“There’s three things, to my account, that I need each day: One of them is something to look up to, another is something to look forward to, and another is someone to chase,” McConaughey

I encouraged PAX to answer these three questions, and challenged them to be the person today they want to be tomorrow. Everyday we must make hard decisions to better ourselves and our community.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Arsenal AO launch is scheduled for March 6th!!

28 Years Young

THE SCENE: 35 degrees with slush and rain
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x20 IC
Cherry Pickers x10 IC
LB Arm Circles x12 IC (forward and backward)
THA-THANG:
28 reps of each exercise at each cone (5 total cones). Rinse and repeat! Everyone finished at least one loop and most finished two. Exercises are below:

Cone #1 (at the grinder)
CMU Curl, Press, Tri
Goblet Squats
Flutter Kicks Holding CMU (4 count)
Cone #2 (end of troll bridge)
Dry Docks
Iron Mikes (Single Count)
BBS
Cone #3 (Halfway to road)
Side tri rises
Jump Squats
Boxcutters IC
Cone #4 (At the road)
BURPEES!
Cone #5 (Start of Sidewalk)
Bear Crawl 2 light poles

MARY:
Little Baby Crunches OYO for about 20 seconds to finish it off.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
12 men this morning including a 2.0.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Looking back at the last 28 years, I started thinking a lot about words vs. action. Benjamin Franklin said “Well done is always better than well said” and that speaks volumes to me. No famous speech is famous just because of the words, but because of the action the speaker took or inspired others to take. Words mean nothing, actions mean something, and words along with actions mean everything.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

02/11: Bombshelter

THE SCENE: Cozy day for February, with some lite fo drizzle
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Jumping jacks, arm circles, and a mozey
THA-THANG:

  • Merkins
  • Squat jumps
  • Shoulder taps
  • Peter parkers
  • Burpees
  • Curls
  • Rows
  • Toe taps
  • Swings
  • Thrusters
  • Lunge jumps

MARY:
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
MOLESKIN:
10% better every day!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Keeping warm with battle buddies

THE SCENE: A cold, bone chilling 23
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

Not a professional, follow COVID-19 guidelines

WARM-O-RAMA:
15 SSH, 10 Imperial Squat Walkers, 10 LBAC, 8 Cherry Pickers
THA-THANG:
PAX completed a Bataan Death March over to the church to get the blood flowing. We then met up with Dora at the church for a little fun in the parking lot. 3 sets were attempted

  • Set 1: Run to far side for 2 Imperial Squat walkers, run back while completing
    • 50 Body Builders
    • 75 Iron Squats
    • 50 4ct Flutter Kicks
  • Set 2: Run to Bernie to 2nd Median for 2 Burpees, run back while completing
    • 100 Jump Squats
    • 200 Dry Docks
    • 100 Merkins
  • Set 3: Crawl Bear to first median, bear crawl back while completing
    • 200 Monkey Humpers
    • 200 Dry Docks
    • 100 Diamond Merkins

Most Pax Pairs completed <2 sets.

MARY:
We practiced spelling our our alphabet with our legs
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
17 total including 1 FNG (Nado): Taco, Postpone, Espy, Moses, Pinnocchio, Nair, Drifter, Genome, Hundo, Veep, Limbo, Smoky, Scoutmaster,Toad, Hellbender, Lumberjack
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
‘Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.’ 

There’s a lot of important takeaways from this quote, but two things are shared between the lion and the gazelle that are applicable to our lives. 1) They know what they have to do every day to accomplish their goals and 2) They make the decisions every day to help them reach their goal, knowing the wrong decision can result in their demise.

 

Burn Loop

THE SCENE: 30 Degrees and beautiful.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

Warm Up:

  • SSH (x15 IC)
  • Jog to entrance – LBC (x15 IC)
  • Jog to grinder – LBAC forward/backward (x12 IC)
  • Jog to entrance – Merkins (x12 IC)
  • Jog to grinder – Tempo squats (x10 IC)

The Thang:

Starting at greenway Pax perform 5 reps of each movement. 6 total movements, Bernie up hill, run down, rinse and repeat increasing the reps of each movement x5 for every lap completed. Worked up to 20 and started back down to 15.

  • Burpees
  • Froggie Hops
  • Peter Parker
  • Wide Flutter Kicks
  • Merkins
  • CMU Swings

 Mary:

  • 10 WW2
  • 10 V-Ups
  • 10 BBS
  • 10 LBC
  • Protractor for time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
19 Pax including a FNG and a 2.0!  Welcome Hundo!

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
PT Barnum once said “Comfort is the enemy of progress.”…It’s only when we step outside our comfort zone that we truly improve.

Encourage and challenge the Pax to step out of their comfort zones

  • stepping up to Q a beatdown
  • stepping into leadership wit the Arsenal AO launch
  • Sign up and commit to your first 5K or Marathon
  • Maybe you have already done the above, how about an obstacle course? Hardship Hill plug 🙂
  • What about 50 miles….100? crazy! ya, but why not?!

Maybe this resonates more from a job standpoint for you, have you become complacent in your work environment, let this be a call out to dig for more!

If your walking in fear you not walking in faith

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.