F3 Knoxville

Just Miles, Ya’ll…

AO: shamruck
Q: Blindside (Davis Bodie)
PAX: Free Fall (Justin Whitaker), slappy (Nathan Evers), Curry (Steve Coy), Dumpster Dive (Brad Burnette), Oscar Meyer (Brett Harris), I-Beam (Ryan Gerken), Betty (Tyler Alexander), Ribbed (Joshua Sagraves), Mermaid (Bradley Roberts), Eliza (Kevin Parrott), Voodoo (Eric A), Blindside (Davis Bodie), Toretto (Larry Seufert), Sonny & Mac (dogs)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
We walked. We walked with heavy backpacks.

COT:
Philippians is often known as the “Epistle of Joy.”
Paul wrote this letter from jail.
What can we learn from this?
Your circumstances SHOULD NOT dictate your attitude.

The obstacle is the way

AO: the-farm
Q: Trunk (Seth Knisley)
PAX: Mayberry, Driftwood (Gary Bloom), Choir Boy (Kenny Saffles), I-Beam (Ryan Gerken), Earmuffs (Dan Studt), Trunk (Seth Knisley)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARMUP:
A healthy dose of static stretches followed by a warmup tabata-like routine:
– 4 rounds of each, 30 seconds on / 15 seconds off: Side Straddle Hops | Reverse Lunges | Front-Jacks | Squat Jumps

THE THANG:
Mosey to the hilltop for the following:
1 – 10 min E.M.O.M consisting of: 10 high steppers | 10 imperial walkers | 10 mountain climbers
all on a 2-count

2 – 8 round double E.M.O.M (every 2nd minute on the 2nd minute) consisting of: 10 merkins | 10 squats | 10 V-ups

MARY: no time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: none spoken
COT: C.H. Spurgeon’s quote from his sermon about the Israelites’ hesitancy to take their inheritance (linked below). Pay attention to Resistance in your life, and assess whether or not the internal and external obstacles you face might actually be lighting your way.

www.ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/sermons35.xxv.html

13th Palindromic Birthday

AO: dogpound
Q: Waxjob (Josh Brady)
PAX: Tank (Chris DeFranco), Aladdin (Mansour Hasan), Google(Tim Dugas), I-Beam (Ryan Gerken), Mayberry
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
Conditions: Just finished up drizzling. Plenty muggy.
WARMUP:
13x SSH IC
9 Burpees OYO
4 Tempo Squats
8 Burpees OYO
4 Imperial Walkers IC
7 Burpees OYO
4 Windmills IC
6 Burpees OYO
4 Squats IC
5 Burpees OYO (you get the picture, down to 2 for total of 44)
THE THANG:
Mosey up to the Backbone:
4 Pullups
44 yard Mosey up the Matterhorn
4 V-ups,
44 yard mosey back down
R&R for a total of 11 rounds
Take the long way back to the flag, stopping for:
11 Squats
11 Merkins
11 Squat Jumps
11 BBS
MARY:
Not much time for such tomfoolery this morning.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: My son Shuttlecock just found out yesterday that he leaves for Basic this Monday instead of next Monday. He’s now trying to cram in a lot of things that he thought he had more time for. A small reminder that we all may not have as much time as we think. Live so that if you ran out of time tomorrow you would not have regrets.

[f3knoxvillemain] F3 in the NUDE

AO: f3knoxvillemain
Q: Mermaid (Bradley Roberts) , slappy (Nathan Evers), KickFlip (David Greer)
PAX: Eliza (Kevin Parrott), Pele (Jon Lindberg), Lilydipper (John Neece), Skeletor (Tyson Canup), OnStar (Arthur Dias), Pusher, Lucille (Austin Williams), Scott McGuire (Cinco), Airborne (Chase Perkins), Mathlete (Jacob Platfoot), Ocho (Matt Hudson), Chris Poetzel (Mustard), slappy (Nathan Evers), Monstar (Josh Sparrow), Waxjob (Josh Brady), Abacus (Erik Ella), Daniel Callis – Anchorman, Caveman, KickFlip (David Greer), Outnumbered (Daniel Hildebrandt), Butterknife, Sparkler (Brian Pitstick), Windex, Mermaid (Bradley Roberts), Google(Tim Dugas), I-Beam (Ryan Gerken), Smoky (Raymond Hale), Twitch, Port Hole
FNGs: 1 Port Hole
COUNT: 30
Warm up (all 4 ct except for things on own)
(Get in ankle deep water)
reach for the sky/cherry picker combo (3 cad)
Hairy Rockets (10 cad)
Catalina wine mixers (10 on own)
Tempo Merkins (10 cad)
Big boys (10 on own)
American hammer (10 cad)
Flutter kicks (10 cad)
(move to deep water)
SSH (10 cad)
Squat jumps (10 cad)
Burpees (5 on own)

We then divided into three groups to hit the following three stations where we budgeted about 10 minutes per station.

LOG PT
Review the approach and the positions (Ready, right shoulder, left shoulder, waist, chest, sitting, overhead)
2 groups w 2 logs
1st group carries log out and around the float and 2nd group stays on beach doing log workouts. When 1st group returns they do log workout and 2nd group carries around float. This is the workout pattern.
workouts (shoulder to shoulder OHP, squats, good mornings, big boys, OH hold, and squat thrusters)

Volleyball station looked like this;
Bobby Hurleys – 20, run, 15, run 10
Sharks and Minnows, Round 1: Sharks bear crawl – minnows crab walk
Hand release merkins – 20, run, 15, run 10
Sharks and Minnows, Round 2: Sharks lunge walk – minnows broad jump
Hello dollys (4ct) – 20, run, 15, run 10
Sharks and Minnows, Round 3: Sharks frog jump – minnows army crawl
Set of 7s – dive bomber and BBS

Bucket Challenge Relay
divide into two teams, that worked out to two teams of four. One man carried a 5 gallon bucket full of water from the lake to a 45 gallon trash can. Only one team member could carry at a time. While he was carrying, two members held a 5 gallon bucket full of water while the 4th member did waterlogged merkins. They ran a relay in this fashion until the trash can was full.

After the relay was won or lost, we got into the water and did a race to the buoys. And finally did some Big Boy situps and some carolina dry docks where you had to dunk your face underwater to perform the exercise.

We moseyed back to the volleyball pit for some old fashioned tug of war. This was with the team you rotated with, and no shoes and gloves in deep sand left no advantage, and was quite fun.

The Mary consisted of an ab exercise of 10 reps, followed by 10 merkins. We did about 5 rounds of this before going back to the lake and do an out and back race to the buoys and back. Time was called and we got into the COT.

The COT was about being vulnerable. Working out in the “nude” with no gloves, no shirt, and no shoes leaves you exposed. I issued a challenge to the men of F3 Knoxville to be vulnerable and share times of vulnerability with the group. Sharing these types of stories endear ourselves to one another, and my experiences could help others going through similar situations. I then shared about a dark time in my life where I lost two jobs in one year, but how in hindsight that was one of the best things to ever happen to me. We then closed in prayer and ate a great breakfast provided by the Dog Pound (Google, I-beam, & Smoky).

Smile for the Camera

AO: the-farm
Q: Trash Panda
PAX: Aladdin (Mansour Hasan), Sharpie (Gary Mitchell), School Zone (Michael Shope), Mayberry, I-Beam (Ryan Gerken), Monstar (Josh Sparrow), Trash Panda
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WARMUP:
Mosey down the road to find a nice spot to WOR – SSH, WMH & runner stretch, BAC, BAC-BAC, a few good mornings and we are off!

THE THANG:
1. 3x(10 dips, irkins, derkins, merkins w/ 50 Spicollis (calf raises)) mosey to next pain station w/ a little bear crawling down the stairs
2. Parking Lot Work:
-lunge, lunge, broadjump (some variation of Lt Dans) x 2
-alligator merkins
-inch worms
mosey to the right section of hill for next speed bump
3. 40s w/ merkins at the bottom and squats at the top, MOT = politician up (bernie’s?) bearcrawl down

MARY:
50 LBCs (during the Thang)
13 burpees
13 Leg raises
13 windmills (2 is one)
20 Suzanne Sommers (3 positions per leg)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
F3 in the nude coming up – check slack

COT:
I appreciate everyone being so hospitable since I’ve moved to Knoxville. F3 Community is strong here and I am excited to join. Challenge to PAX is to make sure that this mentality is present in other aspects of our life as it applies to greater impact to our community. A smile and a kind word goes a long way to build a stronger community.