F3 Knoxville

Trail of Tears

40 Strong and 1 FNG take the day start the day off right at the Asylum!

  • Side Straddle Hop X 25
  • Little baby arm circles Front x 15 and back x 15
  • Merkin x 20
  • Imperial Squat Walker x 20

Trial of Tears – 15 Min

  • Burpees x 5
  • Squat Jumps x 10
  • Thrusters x 15
  • Merkin x 20
  • Squats x 25
  • Burpees x 5

Mosey to Everest -15 Min

  • Run to the top
  • Rock Pile Curls to Press 2 – 16

Burpee Dan with Core Team

Core

  • 11’s
    • Body builders top of lot and flutters 4 cr bottom.
  • Mosey to bottom of the dragons tail for rt 66
    • Hand release merkins
    • LBC 4 ct
    • Star Jacks
    • Squats
    • Dry docks
    • CMU curls and tris w CMU
  • Mosey back to PLot and burpee Dan , go touch the fence , Bernie up, repeat …

Aborama – 5 min

  • Flutter Kicks x 25
  • Peter Parkers – Cadence

Empathy
1- Considering that someone has a life outside of the situation
2-Everyone is right. if you understood what the other person wants and why they want it you would likely want it too.

“”All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up. Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.”
‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭10:23-24‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Fist-full

THE SCENE: Sunny and warm, temp in low 80’s.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

20 Side-straddle hops, 10 Twisters, 10 Windmills, 10 Cherry Pickers, 10 Tempo Merkins
THA-THANG:
Mosey to stop sign at southeast corner of Admin Bldg.  20 American Hammers

Mosey down hill by road east of Admin Bldg and below stairs that lead down from road.  We will do Doras.  Partner one runs up hill, then up stairs to road.  Partner one does 10 Merkins then runs back down stairs and down hill.  Meanwhile partner two is exercising.  Then partners switch places.  The partners together will do the following exercises at bottom of hill:

  • 250 Baby Crunches
  • 200 Squats
  • 100 Big Boy Situps

Mosey to stop sign at northeast corner of admin bldg.  20 American Hammers

Mosey to trail coming off lower northeast end parking lot.  We will bear crawl distance of one light then run for distance of four more lights.  We will repeat this procedure until we get to entry road at Northern gate of park.

Mosey across street and for short distance until we hit grass at bottom of Roadshow Run.  20 American Hammers

Mosey up Roadshow Run to road north of Admin Bldg.  Do Baby Crunches until all men arrive.

Mosey to Rock Pile.  Each man grabs boulder.  We will do the following exercises, with boulders, in cadence:

  • 25 Overhead Lifts
  • 25 Curls
  • 25 Rows
  • We then run down summit of Mt. Everest to grove of trees.  We do five burpees and run back up to rock pile.
  • Rinse and repeat the lifts, curls and rows.

Drop rocks in pile and mosey back to AO.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Five men.  No FNG’s.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Recently saw Beautiful/The Carole King Musical and was inspired by it.  First, was amazed at how many hit songs she wrote BEFORE she created her famous Tapestry Album.  These hits were sung by other artists.  For most of the songs, she wrote the music while her husband at the time, Gerry Goffin, wrote the lyrics.  These songs, many of which hit no 1, included Locomotion, Up on the Roof, One Fine Day, I’m Into Something Good, Pleasant Valley Sunday and Natural Woman.  Carole King was not confident in her own voice.  Others, such as James Taylor, had to encourage her to sing her own music.  After her divorce from Gerry Goffin, she did start to create albums where she sang.  This woman, who was afraid to sing on her own, created the famous Tapestry album.  It not only was voted the best album of the year, it included the best song of the year “It’s Too Late” and had a song on it that James Taylor made a number one hit “You’ve Got a Friend.”  Also, this woman who felt she didn’t have a good enough voice became female vocalist of the year.

Sometimes we fail to see how much talent we have.  I look at the men in our PAX and I see amazing talent.  That talent comes in athleticism, in a personal connection with others, in a willingness to grow, in a capability of being true influences in our community.  We may not see it.  But a great thing about F3 is that your brothers do see it.  In F3 we encourage each other, help each other.  This leads to a greater belief in ourselves and how we can help our community.  Who knows what you are capable of – what each one of us are capable of!

MOLESKIN:
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
May 19 – the Big Event!!!

You Can Do Anything for 5 Minutes

THE SCENE: Chilly Spring Morning 39 degrees and clear Quickbooks and Dimples Co-Q
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Run in Place, High Knees, Squats, Jump Squats, Squat Pulse, Mary Katherines, lunge pulse – RT, Lunge Pulse LT
THA-THANG:
Mosey from the AO the Playground

  • 5 minutes of 10 Plank Jacks, 10 Box Jumps, 10 Bulgarian Lunges
  • Sprint in the parking lot (down and Back) 10 Burpees, Sprint (D&B) 10 Star Jumps, Sprint (D&B) MTN Climbers
  • Mosey to the new bathroom parking lot
  • 5 minutes of 10 Squats, 10 Squat Jacks, 10 Snowboarders
  • Bear Crawl (down and reverse Back) 10 Burpees, Bear Crawl (D&B) 10 Star Jumps, Bear Crawl(D&B) MTN Climbers
  • Mosey to the Pavillion
  • 5 minutes of 10 Mericans, 10 Dips, 10 Dry Docks
  • Sprint next to the dugouts (down and Back) 10 Burpees, Sprint (D&B) 10 Star Jumps, Sprint (D&B) MTN Climbers
  • Mosey to the AO
  • 5 minutes of 10 Squats, 10 Squat Jacks, 10 Snowboarders
  • Bear Crawl (down and reverse Back) 10 Burpees, Bear Crawl (D&B) 10 Star Jumps, Bear Crawl(D&B) MTN Climbers

MARY:
5 Squats Together
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
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CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

4 times in the OT God makes a formal covenant promise with Israel.  The covenant He makes with Abraham is just like the one we talked about.  The dead animals, the pathway, the whole bit.  It’s in Genesis 15.

The special thing about this promise was that God alone walked through the pathway, he didn’t require Abraham to walk through it.  It was as if to say… I want to bless you, and I am asking you to be faithful to Me, to seek Me, and to obey Me…. But regardless of your faithfulness towards me, I will still hold up my end of the bargain and I will be gracious to you.  Out of love, I chose you, no matter how you treat Me.

So, what does that have to do with marriage?

Everything.  Absolutely everything….

So, what should our response be to our spouse on their worst of days?  A selfless love that thinks first of them and their needs.

I mean, imagine for a second if God said to us on our worst of days, “I’m sick of it.  I give up!  You’re just never going to get it.  I’m done with you.”  Noooo… come on.  He is not like that!!  He is patient, He is kind, He is longsuffering with us, He perseveres with us, He is gracious with us, and He forgives us… and our call to love our husband or wife is the same.

The cure for loneliness, 4/28/2018

THE SCENE: Sunny and cool but warming.  The dew twinkling on the new green grass.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH x 50, Tie-Fighters, Some plank streches.  Tempo merks…

3 man Dora with  CMU 150 curls/rows/press with the other two doing 5 burps at the opposite side of lot.
THA-THANG:

Pulling a log together around the Asylum. Volunteers pull the log, others mosey.  Starting an escalator (1; 1&2; 1&2&3 to 5 and then back down.  Pull log a little farther each stop.

  1. 5 burpees,
  2. 10 BBS
  3. Tempo squats
  4. CDD
  5. SSH
  • During the above we stopped at the foot of Everest and did some bear crawl up with reps of mountain climbers, plank jacks, CCDs, Flutter kicks and the back to the log.

MARY:
Hello dolly’s and captian Thors, ATM’s and stop..
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
21 strong with one FNG, Alex (Retreat)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Talked about how endemic loneliness is in middle aged men and how a group like F3 can be the cure.

Quote from media report on health risk of low social relationships.

An analysis of nearly 150 studies has found that people with strong social relationships had about a 50 percent lower mortality risk than those with weaker ties. Julianne Holt-Lunstad and her co-authors concluded that those with weaker social relationships had a greater risk of death than people who were physically inactive or obese. Let me put that another way. Spending time building and nurturing your friendships might be just as important to your health as eating right and exercising.

I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. – John 10:10

 

Six Pack

THE SCENE: In fifties, the rain was nice to us and held off for the 45 minute work out.  Plenty of rain both before and after the beat down.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

20 Side-straddle hops, 15 Mountain Climbers, 10 Swings, 10 Windmills, 10 Cherry Pickers
THA-THANG:

Mosey to Stop Sign at Northeast Corner of Asylum.  20 American Hammers.  20 Hello Dollies.

Mosey to bottom area of Dragon Fly.  We will do Route 66 up the Dragon Fly until reaching the cone at top.  The first person to reach the top sweeps everyone back.  These are the exercises we will do at each light along route:

  • Squat Jumps
  • Squats
  • Star Jumps
  • Dive Bombers

Mosey to roadway, then to top of hill where it meets perimeter trail.  20 American Hammers.  20 Hello Dollies.

Mosey to bottom of Cardiac Hill.  We will run up Cardiac Hill doing the following exercises along the way:

  • Start of cardiac hill:  Big Boys
  • First Turn:  20 Carolina Dry Docks
  • Second Turn:  20 Decline Merkins
  • Benches:  20 Bench Lifts

Mosey on perimeter trail until it hits trail coming from Lyons Bend Entrance.  20 American Hammers.  20 Hello Dollies.

Mosey up Roadshow Run and to roadway.  Ring of fire starting with 5 merkins by each man and going down to one by each man.

MARY:
20 American Hammers.  20 Hello Dollies.  20 Bicycle Kicks.  ATMs.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

10th commandment:  Thou shall not covet.

Spend less time coveting and more time appreciating.

Ways that I covet:  Wishing for better home, wishing for all those things in magazines, wishing for the incredible vacation, wishing for the easy high paying job. Wishing for more time to be lazy.

12. 1 John 2:15-17 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world–the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life–comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.

When we covet we waste our time wrapped up in things of this world.  Our world is oriented toward coveting.  We see this in commercials on television, in magazines, on billboards, in the plain way that we are.  There is the worldly allure of something always being better, no matter how much money we have.  But these things come from the world, not from God.  They are a trap, leading us to ruin.  They do not lead to life.  What leads to life is connection to God, the joy of knowing Him, the satisfaction of having Peace in the Loving hands of God.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Fellowship afterward at Union Jacks.