F3 Knoxville

Tag: High-Heels

The Last Fake Gloom

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Steam
PAX: Pusher, Lilydipper, Sparkler, Tenderfoot, Pele (Jon Lindberg), High Heels, Jeevan Kypa (Scrubs), OnStar, Crash Dummy, Mermaid, Brick, Toretto, 50Cal
FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
Let me throw out a date to you all: January 2nd, 2016 — this is the date a backblast by Ratchet on our website identifies the first evening workout launching here at The Asylum.
– On Thursday, January 7th, 2016 the first Thursday night workout launched here at the Asylum PM.
– 7 years later here we are ready to rock the last Thursday night workout of 2023 together.
– f3knoxville.com/2016-meet-the-men-of-f3-knoxville/

WARMUP:
– SSH: 105
– Hillbilly: 10×4
– Rockette: 4×4
– Cherry Pickers: 10×4
– Man-Maker: 5×8

THE THANG:
(Mosey to the New Pav)
1 — Nickel, Dime, Quarter
– Get a BB
– 3 POC in The Island: End curb, middle, end curb (corresponding with the # of reps: 5, 10, 25)
– All POC in The Island = merkins
– Xs in the New Pav switch every time you come back to relieve your BB
– Squats, dips, box jumps/step-ups until recovered
– Rinse and repeat with your BB until both of you have completed all 3 POC in The Island

2 — There And Back Agains
– Start at the top of The Island
– 4 POC: top, 1/3, 2/3, other top
– 25, 50, 75, 100 LBC
– Run to the POC – execute the reps for that station, run back and touch here
– When you finish the 100 LBCs at the other end, stay there
(Mosey to the base of Pickett’s Charge —> run up to the lookout at the Coliseum)

4 — The Silent Trifecta
– 30 seconds of silence while holding the squat/plank/etc
– Sprint the Coliseum loop
– Rinse and repeat for a total of 3x
– On the 2nd + 3rd time: think of someone that has made an impact on your life this year
(Run back to the 🇺🇸)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Polar Bear Plunge on 1/1/24 (checkout the #polar-bear-plunge2024 channel in Slack for more info)

COT:
Enemy Occupied Territory
(See more in message thread)

Harmony in the Shadow: An Ode to Blindside

AO: the-equalizer
Q: Ribbed
PAX: Madoff, Headgear, mouthwash (Mike), High Heels (Henry Ritchie), High Heels, Ribbed, Ice Cold, Stripped
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WARMUP:
7 tie fighters front and back
7 SSH
3 Cherry pickers
THE THANG:
Mosey to the splash pad.
we have a ladder workout. 12 down to 1 and then do a lap around Stonehenge and back down to the bathhouse and back to the splashpad.

12- BBS
11- 2ct moutain climbers
10- 2ct shoulder taps
9- merkings
8- squats
7- 2ct flutter kicks
6- flutter kicks
5- step ups
4- 2ct hello dolly
3- imperial squat walkers
2- HR / ST Merkins
1- Burpee
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

enjoys this season of advent.

Tour de Lights

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Steam
PAX: High Heels, Drum Major, Pele (Jon Lindberg), Duggar, Doubtfire (Nick Bond), Rooney (Carl Whipple), Title IX (Christian Prescott), Brick, Pusher, CRISPR, Lilydipper, Sparkler, Swimmies (Nathan Chesney), Abacus, Tenderfoot, Whitey Titey, Gridiron, Cheetah Boy
FNGs: None
COUNT: 19
WARMUP:
– Mountain Climbers: 10×4
– Imperial Walker: 10×4
– Rockette: 10×4
– BAC: F + B — 10×4
– TN Rocking Chair: 10×4

THE THANG:
Mosey to the big lit up tree by the bathrooms
(1) Ring of Lights – Core 4
– Get in a circle around the tree
– Christmas Lights Fun Fact #1 — Prior to the 1880s, Christmas trees were lit by candles.
– American Hammer: 25×4
– Run to the sidewalk: 10×4 CDDs
– Back around the tree
– Christmas Lights Fun Fact #2 — After Edison patented the light bulb in 1880, Edward Johnson hand-wired 80 red, white and blue bulbs and strung them together around a tree in New York City, and then placed the trunk on a revolving pedestal. Then he called a reporter. A new fashion was born.
– LBCs: 25×4
– Run to the sidewalk: 10×4 CDDs
– Back around the tree
– Christmas Lights Fun Fact #3 — A string of 16 vaguely flame-shaped bulbs sitting in brass sockets the size of shot glasses sold for a pricey $12 (about $350 in today’s money) in 1900. But in 1894 President Cleveland put electric lights on the White House tree, and by 1914, a 16-foot string cost just $1.75.
– Flutter Kicks: 25×4
– Run to the sidewalk: 10×4 CDDs
– Back around the tree
– Christmas Lights Fun Fact #4 — There are an estimated 150 million light sets sold in America each year
– Gas Pedals: 25×4
– Run to the sidewalk: 10×4 CDDs
– Christmas Lights Fun Fact #5 — About 5,800 people are hospitalized annually for injuries involving falls while decorating their houses for the holidays.
– 25 SSH
Mosey across the street to the LAKESHORE lit up sign and/or trees
(2) The LAKESHORE Lit Workout
– All Xs are 25 reps on a 1 count
– L = LBCs
– 15 SSH at the small chapel
– Run back
– A: Alternating Shoulder Taps
– 15 SSH at the small chapel
– Run back
– K: Knerkin (merkin, but on your knuckles)
– 15 SSH at the small chapel
– Run back
– E: E2K (oblique crunch)
– Right ankle on left knee / switch after 14 reps or so
– 15 SSH at the small chapel
– Run back
– S: Squats
– 15 SSH at the small chapel
– Run back
– H: Hallelujahs
– 15 SSH at the small chapelq
– Run back
– O: Overhead Claps
– 15 SSH at the small chapel
– Run back
– R: Rockette Hillbillies
– 15 SSH at the small chapel
– Run back
– E: El Capitans to the chapel
– 15 SSH at the small chapel
– Run back
Mosey back to the big lit up tree
– Knock out Onstar’s 1st F Challenge today: 90 BBS
Mosey to the flag

MARY:
No time

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Starfish convergence at the Rampart AO this Saturday at 7am

COT:
Talked about my Spotify Wrapped overview from 2023 (see below for what it looks like). If you looked back at this past year:
– Who did you listen to this year?
– Where did you listen this year?
– What were you tuned into this year?
– Did you pay attention to what you were paying attention to?
The word “listen” occurs 195 times in 188 verses in the Bible (ESV)

Fellowship-Snake for 36

AO: the-equalizer
Q: Blindside
PAX: Stripped, Ribbed, mouthwash (Mike), Snitch (Cory Beilharz ), High Heels, Brick, Glamper, Madoff (Daniel Hereford), Podium, Eliza, Junk (Sam Yoakum), Headgear, Ice Cold, MegaArm, Messi, SplashPad
FNGs: None
COUNT: 17
WARMUP:
SSH IC x36 | LBAC each way IC x10 | Cherry Pickers IC x3
THE THANG:
Mosey to Dock:
6 down of 6 exercises (CDD, BBS, Shoulder Taps, Plank Jacks, Mountain Climbers, No Cheat Merkins)
Mosey to Rock Pile:
6 reps of each of the following –> Bench, Goblet Squats, Rows, Curls, OH Press, and Triceps Ext.
Mosey to BathHouse:
6 reps of each of the following –> Pullups, Merkins, Lunges, Squats, Imp. Walkers, and Wide Merkins
Mosey to SplashPad:
6 reps of each of the following:
Step-ups/Box-Jumps, dips, Diamond Merkins, V-Ups, Incline Merkins, 4 ct. Hello Dollys
Mosey to Top of the World:
6 reps of each of the following:
Burpees, Squat Jumps, Smurf Jacks, Iron Mikes, Skater Boys, Georgia Cheerleaders
Mosey back to dock to do 5 of each exercise.
Time was called after the complete round of 5 at the Top of the World and a Fellowship Mosey ™ was made back to the ShovelFlag.

MARY:
Squat Ring of Fire (3 down)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Bro-lympics
Go Ruck Basic
F3KnoxRucks

COT:
Don’t live your life passively. Don’t let things happen to you, go out and make them happen yourself. Take responsibility. Do the hard thing. Or risk losing it all.

Let Freedom Ring

THE SCENE: Partly cloudy, low 80s but humid
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
25 Side-Straddle Hops, 10 Burpees, 10 Tennessee Rocking Chairs, 10 Tempo Merkins, 10 Tempo Squats, Patriotic High Knees Around Parking Lot, Patriotic Butt Kick Around Parking Lot, Patriotic Bernie Sanders Around Parking Lot, 7 Twisties, 7 Windmills, 7 Pterodactyls Forward and Backward
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the parking lot with the nice restrooms.  We will Bear Crawl to First Island, Lunge to Second Island and Sprint to End of Parking Lot.

Mosey to the Caribbean Parking Lot.  We will do candy canes, moving in a counter-clockwise direction around parking lot until we get to the cone at the end of the candy cane.  We will stop at every other island to do the listed exercise.  Once the first man arrives at the end of the candy cane and completes the exercise, he sweeps all men back to the start.  We then do the next exercise.  Here are the exercises:

  • 10 Merkins.  Sprint between islands.
  • 10 Squats. Sprint between islands.
  • 10 Baby Crunches.  Bernie between islands
  • 10 Hello Dollies. Sprint between island.

Mosey to picnic tables that are east of the Caribbean.  We will alternate between 20 picnic table pull ups, 20 Bench Dips, and 20 Step Ups.

Mosey on the perimeter trail south until we get to the area that splits into three trails:  the boardwalk trail, the pine needle trail, and the concrete trail.  We will split into teams for Doras.  While one partner does the exercise, the other partner takes one of the routes to the other convergence of trails and then comes back.  Then partners switch.  Partners should take alternate routes each time. Here are the exercises that partners will do as a team:

  • 100 Jump Squats
  • 100 Big Boy Sit-ups
  • 100 Carolina Dry Docks

Mosey north to grassy area by where perimeter trail and serpentine trail converge.  We will stop to do 20 American Hammers.

Mosey to the Pavilion near baseball field entranceway.  We will do 20 Incline Merkins on picnic tables.

Mosey to the AO.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
We had 12 with no FNGs.  Kentucky brought his 2.0s, Smartie and LeBron.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Let Freedom Ring

Herbert Hoover

“Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.”

Albert Einstein

“For everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom.

Alice Walker

“No person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”

The news of today is often a running complaint on American politicians, cities, institutions, and the state of our nation.  I sometimes get caught up in that stuff and wonder about our nation.  But gents, we are so lucky to live in a land that is built on the notion of freedom and continues to work to protect our rights to be free.  Many of us tend to take that for granted.  But think of people in other countries that do not have our freedoms:  the freedom of religion, to choose where we want to live, to go into the vocation that we desire, to associate with whom we desire.

I am thankful for that freedom and thankful for those who helped establish it.  I am thankful for those who fought for our independence. I am thankful for those who continue to fight for our freedom.  I am thankful for those who serve our government, whether federal or state.

Like my brother High-Heels was saying the other day, we have plenty of brothers in F3 who were born in other countries but who are thankful to be living here in the United States.  And like he was also saying, in the United States, if you are willing to work hard and put in the effort, you are going to do alright in life.

So on this independence day, let’s give thanks.  Thank you God for our country.  Let Freedom Ring.

MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Wedding Singer’s son who graduated from high school in May, for Soot and his health after the fainting spell, and for Q-Bert’s father and father-in-law.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Convergence at Shamrock at 7 am on July 8.  Arrive at 6:45 am.