F3 Knoxville

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THE SCENE: 35 and damp
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Cherry Pickers 15x
Burpees 10x
Ice Skaters 20x
Hand Release Merkins 20x
ISO Squats 20x
Burpees 10x
Ice Skaters 20x
Hand Release Merkins 20x
Mosey to the track…

THA-THANG:
Buddy up and do laps around the track…stopping at 6 stations for some good livin’

50x Carolina Dry Docks
100x Big Boy Situps
60x ‘Merkins
50x Toilet Seats
50x Plank Jacks
50x Burpees

MARY:
Flutter Kicks 27x

Hello Dolly! 15x

Little Baby Crunches 20x

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
16 PAX (and NO FNGs)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Manage Up and Manage Down.

Good leaders manage up the chain of command. They understand the perspective of their commanders. They ask questions. They provide information and build confidence. Engage with your higher-ups; keep them in the loop–especially when they frustrate you. Leading down the chain of command means being able to convey the overall strategic mission to everyone downstream, while also giving people ownership of certain decisions, which leads to higher buy-in.
“If your boss isn’t making a decision in a timely manner or providing necessary support for you and your team, don’t blame the boss. First, blame yourself. Examine what you can do to better convey the critical information for decision to be made and support allocated.

Fluffhead

THE SCENE: Moissssssstt

WARM-O-RAMA:
Side straddle hoppity x 20 cadence

Bit o duck walking

Baby arm circles forward and backwards x 12 cadence

10 merkins

short mosey
THA-THANG:

  • 20 Gob squats with CMU, 20 Burpees, 20 merkins…. Followed by 19 of each etc. Ended after ~10 minutes
  • mosey to the hockey rink
  • Alligator crawl 1/2, bear crawl 1/2
  • At the end we did some fun flutter kicks….. ended up being in cadence
  • 3 Sprints across the rink

Wandered outside to the parking lot

Superman swims followed by a long sprint across the lot

More superman swims

Hello Dolly x 20 Cadence

Sprint back to the beginning

10 merkins

20 Gorilla humpers

Mosey to Tennis Court

Wheelbarrow 1/2, Lunge 1/2  ~2 sets…. It was time to run again

 

Indian Run to the Matterdorn (dom…. dum… korn… thorn…. THOR?) hill

Lunge 1/2 the hill followed by a run to the AO

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
17 PAX
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
This morning I shared a quote from one Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s books, The Gulag Archipelago. The quote was referencing those that were able to survive the brutality of the system, particularly during interrogations after being arrested.

What do you need to make you stronger than the interrogator and the whole trap?

From the moment you go to prison you must put your cozy past firmly behind you. At the very
threshold, you must say to yourself: “My life is over, a little early to be sure, but there’s nothing to be
done about it. I shall never return to freedom. I am condemned to die — ^now or a little later. But later
on, in truth, it will be even harder, and so the sooner the better. I no longer have any property
whatsoever. For me those I love have died, and for them I have died. From today on, my body is
useless and alien to me. Only my spirit and my conscience remain precious and important to me.”

What I gleaned from this is that our spirit and minds are something that we can truly say belong to us. We can allow these things to deteriorate and we will become weak, or we can be strong mentally and stick to our value structures. In multiple points throughout the book, Solzhenitsyn suggests that the ones who survived are the ones who relinquished the suffering and grounded themselves spiritually and mentally. So, be strong. Be disciplined. Live according to your values unerringly.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hike LeConte this weekend led by Abscess and Steam

Crowdpleaser

THE SCENE:  54 and gloomy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Imperial Walkers x 15 IC
Windmills x 15 IC
Cherry Pickers x 15 IC
SSH x 15 IC
Mountain Climbers x 15 IC
Plank Jacks x 15 IC
Squat x 15 IC
BLIMPS x 2 OYO
   Burpees x 5
   Lunge each leg x 10
   Imperial Walker x 15
   Merkins x 20
   Plank Jacks x 25
   Squats x 30

THA-THANG:

Quads v. Abs
Outhouse Mosey to across-the-street
Squat / Slap Ground / Jump x 10 OYO
Inchworm 20 yards
LBC x 25 IC
Duck Walk 20 yards
Chinook Squats – Chinook Arm Circles x 3 / Squat x 15 OYO
Ice Skaters x 20
WWII Sit-up x 15
Ice Skaters x 20
Copperhead Squat x 15
Karaoke Right Face 20 yards
Superman/Banana x 10 IC
Karaoke Left Face 20 yards
Gorilla Humpers – Wide Monkey Humper x 15
Backwards Run 20 yards
American Hammer x 20 IC
Fire Hydrants x 15 Each Leg IC
Frog Jump 20 yards
Rosalita x 20 IC
Frog Jump 20 yards
Happy Jacks – SSH x 5 / Jump Squat x 2
Inchworm 20 yards
Mosey back to AO

MARY:
Shoulder Blasters
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Just a quick story and encouragement around planning for the unexpected.
MOLESKIN:
We worked a few exercises that the men hadn’t seen in a while – kept everybody moving so there was little standing around.  I was glad to hear the mumblechatter this morning…
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
See you Saturday for the Convergence at the Asylum 7am!

Kraken’s Revenge

THE SCENE
32 and Clear

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA
SSH x25 IC
Tempo Merkins x15 IC
SSH x15 IC
Tempo Squats x15 IC
2 Laps around the parking lot and line up on the curb

THA-THANG
Warm-Up Sprints
Start on the curb at one side of the parking lot.  Lunge to the cones (approximately 1/3 of the lo) and do 2 buprees at the cone.  Then sprint to end of parking lot and do 2 hand-release mekins.  Sprint back and do 2 BBS.  Rinse and repeat the merkins and BBS each trip until you get to 10 each.

Mosey to new parking lot

The Kraken!
Spread out to 8 cones.  Complete exercise at that cone and run around the cones counter-clockwise to the next cone (make the whole loop + one cone). Rinse and repeat until you complete the whole loop or until tie is up.

  • Cone 1 – Dry Docks x15 or x20
  • Cone 2 – Narrow Squats x15 or 20
  • Cone 3 – 4ct Flutter Kicks x15 or 20
  • Cone 4 – Star Jumps x15 or 20
  • Cone 5 – 4ct Shoulder Taps x10 or 15
  • Cone 6 – Reverse Lunges (each leg counts as 1) x10 or x15
  • Cone 7 – 4ct Hello Dollys x15 or x20
  • Cone 8 – Smurf Jacks x15 or x20

Mosey back to SP.

MARY
American Hammers x20 IC
Hand-Release Merkings x10 IC
4ct Flutter Kicsks x20 IC
Diamond Merkins x15 IC
Hello Dolly x20 IC
Wide Merkins x15 IC
Side Crunches, Rt x20 IC
Side Crunches, Lf x20 IC
Ranger Merkins 15 IC
American Hammers x20 IC

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
29 PAX

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM
Often we measure our sense of security and significance by our external circumstances…where we “are.”  A stronger, truer expression is to look at the direction we are heading in.  Our circumstances may be tough, but if keep our eyes fixed on God, and seek to live with honor and integrity we will find a strength and resilience we didn’t know we had access to.  Conversely, we may be in a “good place” circumstantially, but if we don’t guard our heart and mind we will soon find life looses it’s joy and wonder.  Bottom Line: Life is a pursuit, not a destination!  What are your eyes fixed on?  How can you help someone in your life shift perspectives?

MOLESKIN
Cold weather is creeping into to K-Town, but the PAX greeted it head on and did strong work this morning!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • 2 Year Anniversary THIS SATURDAY! Workout in the AM and party in the afternoon.
  • Online Q-Sign Up is live.  Go to www.f3knoxville.com to sign up for November!

Remember Grace and Old Glory

THE SCENE: A cool, 44 degrees and clear and 31 men pull into the gloom that is the parking lot.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

Welcome and you are here on your own volition and you know your hurts, please take care but push yourself and use proper form.


WARM-O-RAMA:

  • 2 laps around the parking lot
  • 20 Side straddle hop
  • 15 Imperial squat walkers
  • 15 (each) Baby arm circles front and back
  • 10 Cherry pickers
  • Some of these and some of those

THA-THANG:

Form two lines
To the playground
Four rounds:
  • 20 Decline Merkens
  • 20 Box jump
  • 20 Squats
  • 20 Star jacks

 

  • The first man to the top of the poll competition Barby, Proton, Woodshack, and Smalls.
    • Then everyone did 5 Burpees
Run to new parking area
  • Four rounds:
  • 20 Merkens
  • 20 LBC’s
  • 20 Squats
  • 20 dry docks
Run to flag pole
  • Side Crunches Rt. x20 IC
  • Flutter Kicks x20 4ct IC
  • Side Crunches Lft. x20 IC
  • Hello Dolly x20 4ct IC

 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Thinking about the pain and sickness in our lives should remind us that this is not our home! We will one day stand before the Lord and hear those words, “Well done good, and faithful servant.” – we must remember that the Good and Faithful is not because we did those things, in fact, most of our lives are opposites of that. But Christ is the perfect sacrifice he died once and for all! It’s his perfect righteousness that we live under and are clothed by that God see! We didn’t earn it!