F3 Knoxville

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Grinding it Out

THE SCENE: 25 dry cold
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH IC x 31

Tempo Squat IC x 10

Tempo Merkin IC x 30ish until Spurt reached Grinder from parking lot

Imperial squat walker IC x 10

Bear crawl inch worm along the length of the Grinder (crowd favorite)
THA-THANG:
Stay on the Grinder at far end with basketball courts- everyone with CMU.

Count off and Battle Buddy up. One buddy completes 5 suicides or down and backs while other buddy knocks out rep count of prescribed exercise as below. Rinse and repeat until all rep counts are done. After each round, run down to Apex and along trail back to the Grinder.
3 rounds as follows:

1st Round:

• 200 shoulder taps (single count)

• 100 iron mikes (2 CT)

• 75 diamond merkins

*run lap*

2nd Round:

• 200 imperial squat walker (single CT)

• 100 dry docks

• 75 hand release merkins

*run lap*

3rd round:

• 200 CMU jump over (single CT)

• 100 CMU swings

• 75 jump squats

*run lap*

MARY:
High plank hold- Catalina wine mixer merkins single count around circle

Al gore hold and send jump squats around circle adding one at next member of PAX

Hold Iron cross Dolly IC x 20

LBCs to close

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 HIMs
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
– Michael Jordan

I have a tendency to always look for the immediate outcome and gratification in my life. Trust the process. Grind it out everyday with fitness, work, and faith life. We are going to fail. It’s not about this workout today. It’s about the culmination of workouts over the duration of weeks, months, years that make us who we are. The same goes for our faith. We might not have an immediate prayer answered but stay true and stay consistent. Put in the work with prayer, confession, love your neighbor and your God consistently and eventually we will get there. Trust the process!

MOLESKIN:
Trust the process.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Maryville beer ruck today- 6PM Sandy Springs park. Let’s get it!

mmhmm…

THE SCENE: Wind and some bits of snow here and there.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 SSH IC, 10 tempo merkins IC, 10 tempo squats IC

Warmup lap around the parking lot: butt kicks on first side, high knees on second side, stretch lunge half way on third side, jog and big daddy arm circles on second half of third side, sprint fourth side

THA-THANG:
mmhmm… start at baseline with 5 reps, next line 10, 15, then 20. Bear crawl between each line. Jog to the end for 5 pull-ups. Jog back. 20, 15, 10, and 5, crab walk between each line. Then start on the next exercise.

mmhmm stands for:

  • Merkins
  • Monkey humpers (single count)
  • Hammers (4 count)
  • Mountain Climbers (4 count)
  • Mountain Man Poopers (i.e. TN rocking chair)

If you finish all 5 rounds, repeat the warmup lap until the six catches up, or time is up.

Note: check the exicon. They really are called Mountain Man Poopers….

MARY:
20 Hello Dolly IC, 10 side tri rise on each side OYO, 10 Aqua Man IC

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
How many men can break a CMU? Most if not all. A chimp could break one if it wanted. How man men can build a CMU? Fewer. How many men can restore a brocken CMU to full strength when it has been broken? Even fewer. It is easy to break things. Our relationships can be broken by harsh words or neglect. Our faith can be broken in the same way if we let it. But you men got up early to build up your bodies. Keep that going throughout the day. Build up your relationships. Build up your faith. It is the harder, but better way. How much more precious is it that our God restores our brokenness? Let us image Him today and be builders and restorers.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Blood Drive on Friday. Check the slack for more details. CSAUP at lakeshore park on Saturday Morning. Beer Ruck on Saturday night.

Passing of the Torch

THE SCENE: Insert info about the weather, etc.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH for Pax coming in Hot! 40ish in cadence
Mosey to Football field, randomly stopping to acquire more reps of miscellaneous things for the 6 along the way.

THA-THANG:
Pax will work down and back on the football field doing the reps and exercises shown. Then, once pax have completed down and back Q calls out 10’s and 30’s for the pax to work down and back, then 20’s and 40’s.

Football Field:

  • Endzone = (5) Burpees
  • 10 = Merkins
  • 20 = WW2
  • 30 = Shoulder Taps
  • 40 = Ankle Touches
  • 50 = Line Jumps
  • 40 = Flutter Kicks
  • 30 = Monkey Humpers
  • 20 = Peter Parkers
  • 10 = Jump Squats
  • Endzone = 5 Burpees

Mary:
No Time!

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
18 Pax!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I struggled and battled with clearing my mind and coming up with the words to say ahead of time.  I went and spent some time at the football field and the AO the night before, to soak in the atmosphere and listen to God. I prayed over the field where we would work out and I prayed at the AO. Ultimately I asked God to provide me with the words that needed to be spoken and I believe He did so.

I sum it up like this:

Drifter,

  • Put the pax before yourself
  • Lead from the front, laying out the next 43 feet ahead of the pax
    • In reference to building a leadership road 43 feet ahead of the people driving on it. The metaphor extends to mentoring and being willing to share your life lessons with guys who are just behind you on their life journey.
  • Pax, you are all freed to lead. F3 promotes male leadership. This is not Drifter’s AO. It is yours, and he speaks for it.
  • Drifter, motivate and empower your pax. Lead from the front and always be ready to jump into the trenches with them.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
F3 Knoxville CSAUP Saturday Morning!
F3 Alcoa Rucking Beer Tour Saturday Evening!

Santa Came Early

THE SCENE: Mid 20s, 🥶 .
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

tempo squat IC x 10

little baby arm circles forward/ reverse IC x10
THA-THANG:
Gift giving day for the PAX. 5 gifts were scattered about Sandy Springs and the Grinder each containing exercise for the HIM who opened the gift or for a member of the PAX. PAX could only give a gift once and receive a gift once.

1. Completed a game of HANGMAN. PAX performed side straddle hops while guessing. If guesses wrong, performed 5 burpees. ESPY guessed ADVENT correctly: Drifter given gift of 60 box jumps while rest of PAX held plank.

word in box: HOPE

2. PAX lined up at end of grinder and bear crawled length. First place Napster opened gift and gave Nair 20 burpees while PAX performed push ups.

word in box: PEACE

3. PAX Indian ran to Mt Crumpet. Leader in front was Taco at Crumpet who gave Hellbender 40 thrusters with CMU that happened to be lying at top while PAX performed monkey humpers.

word in box: JOY

4. Indian ran back to Grinder when someone noticed a bonus package on side of trail. Nair opened and gave everyone the gift of 50 big boys. Al gore to wait for PAX once done.

5. Returned to Grinder and circled up at far end. Jingle Bells played while everyone performed 10 repetitions of an exercise of their choice and passed it to the next person. The person exercising when music stopped got to open last gift. Postpone enjoyed 10 pull ups, 10 merkins, 10 dry docks all to himself while PAX flutter kicked.

word in box: LOVE

6. One more round of jingle bells performed but no gift given at end. Crowd favorite exercise seemed to be body builders. Honorable mentions were little baby crunch, merkins, squats, burpees, and squat jumps.

MARY:
13 minute of abdominals as I totally overestimated length of time it would take to open gifts.

hold iron cross overhead claps IC, iron cross with little baby arm circles IC, high plank to low plank, Alabama but kickers IC, Peter parkers IC, Freddie mercuries IC, shoulder taps IC, box cutters IC.

passed protractor around circle with each member of PAX calling degree and group holding for 5 seconds. (ESPY called 1 degree)

Bear crawl to crawl bear merkin IC

Cash out with LBCs
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
16 with no FNGs, 2 2.0s
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
It’s the season of Advent, or the ‘not yet’ season leading up to the birth of Christ. Focus on preparing our mind and hearts for coming of Christ into this world. Don’t get so distracted by the day of Christmas, stay in the moment and prepare yourself. The workout today was based on the Advent wreath: Hope, peace, joy, love.
MOLESKIN:
Singing oh Lord, keep me in the moment
Help me live with my eyes wide open
‘Cause I don’t wanna miss what you have for me
(I don’t wanna miss, I don’t wanna miss)
Singing oh Lord, show me what matters
Throw away what I’m chasing after
‘Cause I don’t wanna miss what you have for me
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The Kraken who stole Christmas

THE SCENE: It was a cool, quiet, morning just a hair under 30 degrees
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
15 SSH

Mosey

10 Imperial Squat Walkers

Mosey

10 4ct LBC F and R.
THA-THANG:
We arrived at the AO to discover our CMUs had been taken by one of the most infamous Bomb Shelter villain: The Kraken. He had placed them under his Christmas Tree atop Mount Crumpet, so we moseyed over to take Christmas back.

The Kraken consisted of 7 Stations:

Station 1:

  • 40 single count CMU Flutter Kick
  • 20 CMU Bent Row

Station 2

  • 20 CMU Good Mornings
  • 30 CMU Curls

Station 3

  • 40 2 count Iron Mikes
  • 25 CMU Overhead Press

Station 4

  • Sprint up Mt. Crumpet
  • 20yd Sled push (45lb plate + CMUs)

Station 5

  • 20 CMU Thrusters
  • 50 Merkins

Station 6

  • 15 CMU Body Builders
  • 20 WWII

Station 7

  • 10 Elf on Shelf (each side)
  • 50 CMU LBC

MARY:
We arrived back with a two minutes left. We burned out with WWII, LBC, CMU Flutterkicks
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
16 Came out to rescue Christmas: Taco, Hammy, Warthunder, Double-tap, Drifter, Nair, Avocado, Pinnochio, Postpone, Scout, Scoutmaster, Espy, Smuggler, Swerve, Veep, Hellbender
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
The genealogy of Christ has been on my heart the past few weeks. Everyone’s got their fair share of embarrassing stories or forgettable moments in our families. But I think the genealogy of Christ provides a powerful story of the heart of God for his people. All throughout the old testament we see God redeeming his people to preserve a Holy lineage. Thus, the story of redemption is prevalent in the old testament and stories like Ruth remind us the gift of Christ is part of God’s omnipotent plan for redemption of all people.
MOLESKIN:
Pinnochio collected coats for Maryville Karm. Bombshelter donated a total of 36 coats! Awesome job HIMs.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.