F3 Knoxville

Tag: Herbie

tightrope walking

THE SCENE: 66* and a little muggy, perfect sweat angel weather
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Shoulder taps x15
OH Claps x15
Merkins x10
Hillbilly’s x12
Tempo squats x12
SSH x15
THA-THANG:
Mosey out of the start point towards parking lot, make a left and head towards Broadway.  Didn’t have to wait long at the light, crossed over Broadway and through the Commercial Bank parking lot over to the back parking lot of Regions Bank.

Four cones spaced out in the parking lot, paying homage to Magic Mic’s beatdown at BB from last week.

Round 1: Lunge walk between cones, perform jump squats at cones increasing reps 4, 6, 8, 10.  Mosey back
Round 2: Crawl bear between cones, perform merkins at cones increasing reps 5, 10, 15, 20. Mosey back
Round 3: Frog jump (hands must touch ground) between cones, perform (someone said you like) burpees at cones increasing reps 2, 4, 6, 8.  Mosey back.

10 count breath snagger and then mosey up Lynnwood Drive a few buildings until we reach the parking lot with the coupons.  Everyone grab a rock, start the music up and run through as many rounds as you can in 10 minutes.

  • Boulder squats x15
  • Curls x20
  • OH Press x20
  • Rock swap merkins x10
  • Run at 80% pace to the brick wall and return.  Lather rinse repeat until timer goes off.

Quick mosey back down Lynnwood to the Regions parking lot again and circle up.  Amazon style swapper, two exercises back and forth with no rest between, decreasing reps each round.  Also, a different PAX leads the round each time.  Rep counts were 10, 7, 5 for each exercise.

  • Four count merkins
  • Tempo squats

Mosey back the way we came, through the bank parking lot and back across Broadway to the church parking lot to finish up.

MARY:
CASH OUT WITH ATMS!!!
American hammers x15
Flutters x10
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
10 Strong: Duggar, Swanson, PDA, Filter, SpaceX, Magic Mic, Walrus, Herbie, Puck, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I asked if anyone knew who Karl Wallenda or Nik Wallenda are, which Filter did (I forgot your Applebee’s trivia gift card).  Karl Wallenda was a pretty famous tightrope walker who began his career in the 20s.  The Ringling Brothers added him to their circus, and he helped create some crazy stunts including the pyramid of people walking on a tightrope (which did kill a few members of his team in one accident).  Karl was killed as well while attempting to walk between two hotels in Puerto Rico.

Later on, his great grandson went back to the same spot and accomplished the walk.  Funny enough, earlier this year he walked 1800′ across an open volcano that took him over 31 minutes to cross.  Why would someone go back to the spot that killed their ancestor and attempt the same thing?  Legacy.  He wanted to keep the family legacy alive.  I hope that I am capable of something that will inspire someone else to come behind me and repeat, or even elevate to another level.  And I sincerely hope if I can that its something worthy of being referred to as legacy.

Action

THE SCENE: Clear and wonderful
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Wind Mill x 10 IC

Manly Arm Rotations x 10 IC

Overhead Clap x 50 IC

Imperial Squat Walker x 15 IC

SSH x 30 IC
THA-THANG:

Aiken Legs: x 4 Rounds

  • 20 squat
  • 20 box jumps
  • 20 lunges (10 each leg)
  • 20 split jacks (10 each leg)

F3 Individual Medley: Start with 5 reps and add one rep each round up to 10. Each round is 1:30. Time for each round does not change.

  • Burpee
  • BBS
  • 2 ct Flutters
  • SSH

Squat/Lunge Thing: Split into two groups. Group 1 is 25 yards away and holding squat. Group 2 does four lunges/one squat until meeting Group 1. Then Group 2 will hold squat while Group 1 lunges/squats.

  • Round 1: Reglar squat
  • Round 2: Al Gore
  • Round 3: Sumo
  • Round 4: Narrow Squat

Growing Pains: 30 LBCs, 30 BBS in cadence

Proud Mary: Play Proud Mary by CCR. Do BBS until “Rolling” and switch to gas pumps. Then Flutters until “Rolling” and switch to gas pumps. Keep alternating between BBS and flutters until song is over. “Rolling” is always gas pumps.

MARY:
30 second superman

Fire Hydrants

Hello Dolly

Boat Canoe

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Read first two chapters of Mark. Notice the number of times the word “immediately” appears and why. We are called to immediately follow. Drop your nets and follow me. Jesus knew where He was going when he called the disciples and knows where he is going with each of us.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Team Building at the Quacken

THE SCENE: Upper 50’s, clear
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 25, Arm Circles x 10 forwards and backwards, Shoulder Taps x 10, Tempo Squats x 10, Imperial Walkers x 10
THA-THANG:
Ran a lap around the park, then ran up to Gresham. Here we got into two teams of three for doras, but instead of each team working on their own with one partner running while the other did exercises, we had one team doing exercises in cadence while the other team ran together. So all the exercises were added amongst all of us, but each team of three did the workout together in cadence. We ran from the front of the school down to the loop at the bottom of the hill and back while the other team did exercises. The exercises were 100 x burpees, 200 x squat jumps and 300x LBCs

MARY:
Ran back to parking lot across from AO and did a ring of fire with merkins, starting with 1 rep and ending with 5
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Welcome to SpaceX
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Been reading The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, which opens by saying “Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It’s teamwork that time and again proves to be the ultimate competitive advantage both because it is so powerful and so rare.” From experience we can all say that being on a team that is “rowing in the same direction” is a huge game changer. If I had tried to do this workout on my own I probably would have done 5 burpees and called it quits. My word of encouragement was to consider the teams we’re a part of, at work, home and anywhere else, and how to work together with them and “row in the same direction”

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP coming up July 18th

Death by Squat

THE SCENE: Not too hot, not to cool.  Just perfect for a Charmin return to the Brickyard.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Everybody knows the drill
WARM-O-RAMA:
One minute and 23 sec late waiting for Belding, but we got started with:

SSH x 20, IC; Tempo Squats x20, IC; Tie Fighters x 10 each direction, IC

THA-THANG:
Lotta legs today, men:

  • Burpee Dans:  Start with 4 lunges, then 4 burpees, rinse and repeat to the end of the parking lot, run back to start and again, only 3 burpees this time.  Rinse and repeat 2 more times, dropping a burpee each round.
  • Time for Aiken Legs:  20 of each of the following: Squats, box jumps, Mary Catherines (let me see those jazz hands!), reverse lunges.  Rinse and repeat.
  • Mosey to the football field for 7 of diamonds.  Corners are 30 yards apart.  4 complete rounds, stopping at each corner to complete a set of exercises.  Increase by 7 reps each round.  Start with burpees (7 at each corner), then flutter kicks, 4 ct (14 at each corner), then Merkins (21 at each corner), then squats (28 at each corner).
  • Offered the Pax an audible away from squats.  Belding said no way.  So, it’s Death by Squats.  In circle formation, start with 10 jump squats, then 10 squats, then 9 jump squats and 10 squats, then 8 jump squats and 10 squats.  So on and so forth down to 1 jump squat.
  • Take a leg break:  Mosey across the field.  At each 10 yard line, do 20 BBS. 100 total.
  • Back to the AO.

MARY:
Ring of Fire, some Howling Monkeys and a few box cutters till Recovery.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
All you need is love — The Beatles.  Sounds simple enough till we read what real love looks like from the Apostle Paul:

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8.  Love is hard, but if we work to follow the Lord’s command, we will find that the Beatles are generally right.  A difference between a HIM and a sad clown is the HIM wakes up every day intent on trying to practice love, even though we’ll fail at it in some way each day.  Keep at it!
MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Natty’s friend Hill and his recovery, for Natty’s 2.0 Audrey as she drives to the beach with a friend (and for Natty and the M for peace of mind), for the Belding and the Hardin Valley Academy community as Belding leads them through graduation, that it goes smoothly and is truly a time of celebration.  Big praises for Tuba’s M for a permanent position as music director at their church and the opportunity to minister.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Belding might be available to mow yards, apparently, if the pay is right.  He has the equipment.

Choose the Hard stuff

THE SCENE: Clear, 65°F, Feels like 65°F, Humidity 87%, Wind 4mph from SW
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH 30x IC
  • Tempo Squats 15x
  • Little of this, little of that
  • Merkins 15x OYO
  • Some of those, some of these
  • Leg stretches

THA-THANG:

  • 1 Mile run
  • 6 Rounds
    • 30x Burpees
    • 30x BBS
    • 30x SSH
    • 30x Lunges

MARY:
No time for mary
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Natty, Biohazard, Herbie
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
With everything that has been happening in the world around I’ve been thinking about the hard conversations that we have with our 2.0s, our co-workers, and our neighbors. These conversations aren’t easy and our 2.0s will ask questions that we don’t have an answer to. I have avoided commenting and posting on social media because I would rather have these types of conversations in person just to be able to read body language and reactions. Within our families, these conversations are hard but necessary. We need to raise our 2.0s to choose to have the hard conversations, make the hard choices, do the hard things. As men of F3, we choose to do the hard thing each morning by getting up in the gloom and doing these crazy workouts. If we can do that, why can’t we men step up and lead these hard conversations in our families, our jobs, and our communities?

Make the hard choice no matter what the situation, it’s no more difficult than 100+ burpees.

THE GLOOM BELONGS TO US!

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS: