F3 Knoxville

The 44

THE SCENE: Perfect.  62 degrees.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

44 SSH IC

10 arm circles forward IC

10 arm circles backwards IC
THA-THANG:
Mosey Loop over troll bridge turn right and back to the grinder.

Four Stations at Grinder 20 yards apart – Perform 11 reps at each station then move to next exercise.  (I checked on my calculator.  4×11=44 for those that went to public school like me.  🙂 )

  • Merkins
  • Big Boy Sit Ups
  • Catalina Wine Mixers
  • Supermans
  • Jumping Squats
  • Side Straddle Hops (4 ct)
  • Carolina Dry Docks
  • Ankle Biters (4 ct)
  • Apollo Ohno (2 ct)
  • Monkey Humpers

Mosey the Loop, Rinse, and Repeat  (All made it to somewhere in the 2nd round when time expired.)

MARY:
Little Baby Crunches for 1 minute

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Insert the WORD here.
MOLESKIN:
“Do Hard Things!”  I believe that I’m supposed to do hard things.  I was in some training for work this week, and it rubbed me the wrong way because the central point was to find ways to reduce, minimize, avoid stress in life.  The premise was that stress is a negative.  I believe stress is neutral.  It is neither good or bad.  It is my reaction to stress that can be good or bad.  You come to F3 and apply stress to your body.  The body reacts and gets a little stronger.  There is a value in stress and doing hard things.  I know someone whose spent the last 20 years retired and avoiding stress.  From my point of view, it does not look like a very fulfilling life.  Maybe it’s not even a physical thing.  Maybe you need to have a tough conversation with someone.  That’s hard, but there is value in it.  Maybe you don’t feel right about your relationship with God or a higher power, if you prefer.  It can be hard to find the courage to talk with someone who seems to have that good relationship.  Do hard things.  James 1:2-5
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Good luck to all Hardship Hill participants.

It was easier

THE SCENE: Mild
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

1 Cherry Picker
THA-THANG:
Indian Run around the AO, man in front rolls the workout dice. Execute the movement, “water break” read body builders.

Return to the AO press and walk with a CMU between lines doing 10 big boys, 20 triceps extensions, 30 curls and 40 goblet squats.

 

It was easier than Swerve’s Tuesday beatdown.

MARY:
Ab work for time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Comparison is the thief of Joy:

If you watch HGTV too long, you’ll become dissatisfied with your home. If you stay on social media too long, you’ll become dissatisfied with your life. If you watch the news to long you’ll become dissatisfied with the world. Unplug, Pray. Read a book. Spend time with loved ones. Our minds are easily influenced, but you get to choose the influence!
MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

A Hill Worth Dying On

THE SCENE: 67 Degrees of Perfection
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • LBAC x 10 (forwards and backwards)
  • SSH x 20
    THA-THANG:
    We picked up our blocks of woe, aka CMU’s, and moseyed to the Educator, where the pax gathered at the bottom of the hill.
  • At the bottom, we did Grave-digger steps (1 set of grave-diggers per step) to the top of the hill. Then proceeded to 5 stations on the cones.
  • CMU swings x 20, 40, 60
  • CMU curls x 20, 40, 60
  • Big boys x 20, 40, 60
  • Thrusters x 20, 40, 60
  • Goblet squats x 20, 40, 60
  • Carry CMU back to the bottom of the hill and repeat.
  • Most pax were on the 2nd round when recover was called, a few made it to round 3.

MARY:
A nice long CMU carry back to the grinder for the Mary seemed appropriate.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Hundo, Radioshack, Espy, Limbo, Hammy, Pinocchio, Veep, Rep Sleepy, Drifter, Swerve
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Reflected on Psalm 115:4-8 where the Bible indicates that those who make idols become like them. The truth is we all have these in our lives, and we need to strive to identify them, and ask the Lord’s help in removing them.  Our families, our churches, and our communities deserve that we will be men who fight against the pull of idols in our lives.  If you want an example of a time when men didn’t care about this, just read the entire book of Judges, where “everyone did what was right in his own eyes.”  The crazy thing is almost anything can become an idol.  If you wonder what your idol is, just do a little self-diagnosis with this question, “what is the one thing that, if God took it away tomorrow, I couldn’t live without?”  The answer to that question will tell you what your idols are.  We have to put Christ first men, to be who God has called us to be.  If anything else occupies the throne of your heart, then we are headed for trouble.
MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
August 14th, Drifter is speaking at Mt. Olive Baptist in South Knoxville for a Men’s Meating Breakfast at 9:00am.  Join us!!!

Run The Rock

THE SCENE: 70 degrees and 85% humidity

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x10, Guardian (in honor of our guest from Cleveland) run to the fountain carrying a 20 pound rock

THA-THANG:
The person with the rock runs counter clockwise around the loop while rest of the pax runs clockwise. Person with rock gives rest of pax an exercise as he passes them. (20 reps of all exercises) When person with rock gets back to the start he sets down the rock and joins the pax running clockwise, next man to get to the rock picks it up and goes counter clockwise.

MARY:
Guardian run back to the Grinder; Boxcutters x10; LBCs for time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 HIMs this morning including Undertaker from F3 Cleveland

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

“Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,” Romans‬ ‭5:3-4‬

“do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Philippians‬ ‭4:6-7‬ ‭

When we go through difficult times in our life we can have peace and hope through Jesus. No matter what you have faced, are facing, or are going to face hold onto the promises of God.

MOLESKIN:
Pray for Drifter’s wife as her leg continues to heal

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Men’s breakfast at Swerve’s church on 8/14. Drifter will be the speaker. Cost is $5. Please let Swerve or Rep Sleepy know if you plan on coming.

I got your 6

THE SCENE: Warm, sunny, and muggy. Seems like we say that a lot right now.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Jog from end to end of Grindstone, 5 goofballs at far end, run back 5 more goofballs. Bernie end to end, 5 goofballs at each end.

THA-THANG:
Thang 1

Partner race- ( Q realized if you want pax to actually challenge themselves, racing may not always be best) – we did two rounds of this

  • Race starts at end of Grindstone, near pavilion.
  •  Bearbrawl from start to first cone, switch partners and bearbrawl till second cone.
  • From second to third cone, teams are doing partner plank jump overs. One partner holds a plank the other partner jumps over them and then goes into plank. repeat till you get to the end.
  • each pax then did 10 pullups or 20 body rows and 20 Derkins
  • Once each pax completed exercises, repeat the jump overs and bearbrawls, starting with jump overs.
  • This was intended to be a race, all three groups finished around the same time. Handed out burpees trophies- 5 for 1st, 10 for 2nd and 15 for 3rd

Thang 2

Pax split into two groups.

Group A had Hanging knee raises- 20 and Bulgarian split squats 20 ( 10 each leg)

Group B had Balls to the Wall for 30 seconds and a wall squat till 6 finished in group A.

Pax switched, completed two rounds.

Thang 3- Bucket Barraged- Picked up the biggest CMU at the BS and Indian ran from Grindstone to Mt. Crumpet taking the scenic route up the side of the mountain to the top.

Pax lined up arms distant apart. Q started off , handed CMU to next pax and than ran to end of the line, CMU moved down the Mountain in that fashion, pax handing off and running to end of the line. We completed 4 rounds, 2 down and 2 up rounds.

Pax transported the CMU back to the Grindstone via an Indian Run taking the long way back and going over the troll bridge.

MARY:
Wall Hold Push ups- Feet on wall 5 derkins, walk up wall two more steps 5 more derkins ( all done IC)

Pax choice on the rest of the Mary- Q apologizes i do not recall the specific exercises we did.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Value the time you have with your kinds now. i look back on my daughters younger years and hate that i put time with friends especially vacations over her. I wish i had those times back, relationships change, kids grow up and you cant get that back.
MOLESKIN:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: