F3 Knoxville

IPC 2018 WK 3

THE SCENE: Hot and humid
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH x 20 IC

Merkins x 10 IC

Squats x 10 IC

Slow run loop around half the park

THA-THANG:

15 Burpee Block Jump Overs

Broad Jump 10 yds out and back

50 Hand Release Merkins

Broad Jump 10 yds out and back

14 Burpee BJOs

Broad Jump 10 yds out and back

50 Goblet Squats

Broad Jump 10 yds out and back

13 Burpee BJOs

Broad Jump out 10 yds and back

50 CMU up leg raises

Broad Jump out 10 yds and back

Repeat reducing Burpee BJOs 1 rep each time

MARY:
50 Burpee penalty for the 50 stars on the flag that I forgot at home. We got to 20 before time.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
16 HIMS including One Bar – Charleston, Plank – Hickory and Bubblehead – Charleston
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Let the men know I RSVPed to GoRuck that I would not be attending Selection. Biggest reason to me was I had no WHY. I have struggled since I signed up to find my WHY and after the reality show joke that was Team Assessment I have basically decided I’m done with GoRuck challenge type events. Star Course is another story 🙂
MOLESKIN:
So this was worse than I remember it being when Moses and I did it last year. Turns out I added in too many Broad Jumps. My B.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Visitation for Mr. Rogers son is Sunday 2-5 at intermediate school.

Bombshelter Killer Bs IP challenge

THE SCENE: Upper 60s n dark
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

9 ssh IC silent count in honor of Garrett Jablonski
THA-THANG

  • Killer Bs iron pax week one challenge
  • 5 rounds for time .see picture ….
  • handy.

MARY:
Flutters x10 IC

alternating Superman’s x20
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
21 pax
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Remembering Garret . Thank you Tank for speaking this morning about Garret and thank you to Proton for praying us out.
MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

Leave your Burden…Jesus sacrificed for you!

THE SCENE: 63* and absolutely perfect! Bombshelter AO
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:
Tempo SSH Sealclaps x 10

Tempo Squats x 10

Tempo Merkins x 10

Tempo BBS X 10

Hurpees x 10

THA-THANG:

  • Mosey to lower softball field with Hammer/weight stopping along the way to do presses/thrusts x 10, 4 stops (Weights represent carrying burdens in life)
  • Circle the Waggons- without weight run single file around circle of cones, switch directions when hear “Switch”, when hear “Down” drop and do Burpee. Incorporate Highknees and side shuffle, RR for 5 min, pick up weights 10 presses, mosey w weight to next station Presses along the way
  • Trolly Grid- start w 3 Merkins at every star running from one star to next x 8, BBS at stars lunge to next x8, 3 Squat Jumps at stars x 8 BearCrawl to next, 2 Burpees at stars x 8 and Broad Jump to the next
  • Bo Knows- battle buddy up, one does wall sits while holding weight out while buddy does 100+ HighKnees, RR
  • Pick up weight mosey to next station pressing along way
  • run to cones stop and do 5 Carolina Drydocks at every cone x 10, go back the other way stopping to do 5 x Boxcutters at cone x 10

MARY:
Tempo flutter kicks x 15, Tempo Hello Dolly x 15, Dead Bug x 20, LBCs for last minute

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Use the TAGS on right-side to record PAX (BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOURSELF) in attendance. Be sure to select the AO in CATEGORY above TAGS and then delete these notes!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
We can not control our burdens through out life but we have hope for eternal life through Jesus’ sacrifice. Leave your burden with him and rest assured!
MOLESKIN:
🙏🏻Pray for Mayberry’s daughter, Mose’s Friend and people in Florida due to Hurricane, and our FNG @Treble’s friend who is having brain surgery
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Check out the calendar we have a lot going on!

Faith through Doubt

  1. THE SCENE: Insert info about the weather, etc.
    F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
    WARM-O-RAMA:

    10 Windmills, 10 Cherry Pickers, Little of This and That, Michael Phelps.
    THA-THANG:
    Mosey to large parking lot with gardens in middle.  We will perform Iron PAX Week 0 challenge, doing the following exercises six times:
  • 24 merkins
  • 24 squats
  • 24 lunges where both legs = 1
  • 400 meter run

Those men finishing first will do the following exercises:

  • 40 Baby Crunches
  • 30 Big Boy Sit-Ups
  • 20 Side Straddle Hops (4 count)
  • 20 Hello Dollies (4 count)
  • 20 American Hammers (4 Count)
  • 20 Mountain Climbers (4 Count)
  • 20 Bicycle Kicks (4 Count)

Mosey to AO

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Twelve men, no FNG’s.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

The whole problem with the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.  –Bertrand Russell

As a Christian, I get pissed off by people who are so damned sure about the bible and about God.  I’m talking about the guy who arrogantly proclaims that it is sacrilegious for us to question God.  Do these people really think about God?  With all the pain, injustice, greed, and despair in this world, don’t we have a right to question?  Are we supposed to follow God like robots, like automatons, never wondering, never doubting?

As a Christian, I have found my knowledge of God and faith in God strengthened by my questioning and doubts.  For, it is through my questioning that I seek, read, talk to others with more knowledge than I, and ultimately ponder, wrestle with, and finally converse with God.

It is nice to know that I am in good company.  Look at Christ’s disciples when he was taken to be crucified.  Look at Peter.  Christ told him that he would doubt and deny him, saying that before the rooster crowed Peter would deny his three times.  And, having done so, when the rooster crowed and Peter remember what Christ said, he wept bitterly.  But, like Paul, Peter would become a great apostle who spoke for and spread the word about Christ.  And, like Paul, he was willing to be killed to do so.  And most of Christ’s other disciples, who doubted just as Peter did, also died proclaiming Christ.

I read a 2014 Oped in the New York Times by Julia Baird.  In it, she talked about the backlash he received when Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has admitted that he sometimes questioned God.  The International Business Times proclaimed his statement was the “doubt of the century.”  The Australian atheist columnist, Peter FitzSimons, tweeted, “Victory.”  The Archbishop is a man who has reasons to doubt God.  As a teenager, he cared for an alcoholic father.  He lost his first daughter to a car accident when she was seven months  old.  But, as a follower of God, his questioning has strengthened him.  He understands others because he has suffered.  He understands doubt because he has doubted.  And, he knows that Christ, whJen he died on the cross, spoke for our doubts when He cried, “My God, Why have you forsaken me?”

As Ms. Baird aptly stated in her Oped, “Just as courage is persisting in the face of fear, so faith is persisting in the face of doubt.

So brothers, when you question this world, when you question it’s creator, know that you are in good company.  Doubt, but persist in the face of your doubt.  Persist in seeking answers to your doubts.  And have faith that God understands your doubts, but seeks you.

MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

Tuesday at the Bomb Shelter

THE SCENE: Cool and raining
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:

-Little baby arm circles

-Cherry Pickers

-SSH

-Overhead Claps
THA-THANG:
Make your way from the pavillion to the scrap yard in the following manner:

-5 WW2’s, transition into a Getup. Inchworm, then 5 Merkins. Bear Crawl five hands and repeat.

Once at the Scrapyard: 20 reps of Dips, Big Boys, Bodybuilders. Rinse and repeat until the PAX is finished.

Let’as go for a mosey: Running and pausing at every third light pole to AMRAP whatever the QIC calls out.

Back at the AO we farmer carried CMU’s while a battle buddy AMRAP’ed WW2’s

MARY:
LBC’s, Flutter kicks and Overhead Claps

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Flopper, Neighbor, Swazye, Hellbender, Fins, Mitten, Pinnochio, Napster, Goldfinger, Iceman, Butterfingers, Drifter, Taco, Tin Man, Flash, RadioShack, Moses, Espy
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
It was a short word but here’s the rub: I made one short Facebook post after the convergence and over the course of the next day and a half had 10 potential HIM’s from various aspects of my life ask me about it and how they can get involved. Two of them are now posted at different AO’s in Knoxville and I’m in the process of head locking the rest. The lesson here is to be vocal, not in a boastful way, but in a way that inspires potential HIM’s around you to break out of a tired old rhythm and find the potential within themselves. Speak from the heart about what F3 means to you!
MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Standby for info about the promised Bomb Shelter t-shirt order, Details coming to the group me this week!