F3 Knoxville

The 7 of Diamonds

THE SCENE: breezy mid 40’s
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:  Given
WARM-O-RAMA:

20 SSH, 15 mountain climbers, 10 tempo merkins, 15 imperial walkers, 10 windmills, 15 Moroccan night club
THA-THANG:
We played the 7 of diamonds this morning and won big! We started with a mosey and formed a line for an Indian run and found a nice “diamond-shaped” parking lot. Here’s the 7 of diamonds.  Do each exercise at each corner of the diamond.  All exercises are in increments of 7.

  • 7 burpees
  • 14 merkins
  • 21 squats
  • 28 SSH
  • 21 flutter kicks IC
  • 14 wide-arm merkins
  • 7 burpees

I had 2 rounds planned, but I didn’t think that we would get to the 2nd.  We got 7 diamond merkins at the corners and started on our way back.

  • 14 walking lunges at the beginning followed by a mosey for a little bit.
  • 21 mountain climbers and mosey to the F3 parking lot
  • 28 hello Dolly (single count)
  • jail break to the shovel flag
  • 21 crabets to finish off.

MARY:
I guess you could call the crabets our Mary.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
16 at JUCO this morning.  Great Friday crowd!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Be a servant leader.  John 13:13-16.  Jesus had just washed the disciples’ feet showing a great example of being a servant leader.  He humbled himself and became a servant to accomplish God’s will on this earth.  Look to His example and remember that being a leader is about serving others.  So, step up and take those leadership opportunities in front of you and serve!
MOLESKIN:
Pre-ruck with Doubtfire, Judge Judy, and Spotter was a great way to start the day!  Thanks men.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP tomorrow!  If you have never done an event like this, I highly recommend it!  It is definitely an experience you will enjoy and not forget.

The monthly challenge is burpees OYO!  Get ’em done boys!

Go Diego Go!

THE SCENE: Rainy, wet, too warm for February
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER  Yep
WARM-O-RAMA:
10 – Cherry Pickers, 15 – Rockettes, 10 – Windmills, 10 – Merkins OYO

THA-THANG:
Mosey to large West parking lot.

Belch across the parking lot stopping on every parking row for 5 tempo merkins. Wait for 6 to finish and sprint to the next line. 8 rows covered in total.

Mosey to the coupon pile and partner up. Each team grabbed one CMU and headed to the maintenance parking lot for some fun.

Dora’s cousin Diego made an appearance. Each team completed the following:

  • 100 – Merkins
  • 150 – CMU Overhead Press
  • 200 – LBC
  • 250 – CMU Curls
  • 300 – CMU Squats

One HIM performed the exercises while their battle buddy completed suicides across the parking lot with three stops. The PAX went above and beyond my expectations and knocked out Diego with minutes to spare.

Mosey back to the AO.

MARY:
No time. Diego was a beast.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
7 HIMs didn’t let a little rain scare them away. No FNGs
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
IWhen faced with a problem that seems insurmountable, take a step back and attack it one piece at a time. As Booster said, “You eat an elephant one bite at a time.” Don’t doubt your abilities when faced with trials in life, use those trials to grow and you will be better for it.
MOLESKIN:
Shoutout to Judge Judy for joining me on the pre-ruck and to Erector for knocking out a pre-run. Bagger has gotten word that his job in Atlanta is finally coming through and he will be moving in the coming month. It will be sad to see him move on, but we’re all excited for him as well.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The CSAUP is this Saturday at the Bomb Shelter. Start time is 6am and projected finish is 10-10:15am.

Blessed CMU

THE SCENE: 45 deg. Foggy but not soggy.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Welcome + No pro + Free + Injury Mindfulness
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH + Windmills + Cherry Pickers +
Partner up for some tough-mudder exercises https://www.instagram.com/p/BtQpsB-lkCl/:

  • Reverse Lunge (Iron mikeish) & Leg Lifts
  • Merkins & Claps
  • Plank & reverse Lunge

Blessed CMUs:
Enroute to CMU pile and mulch pile: Bear Crawls, Crab walks, Side Straddles, Kereeoke, Bernie, Zombie mosey.
Grab CMU take to Mulch pile.

Teams of Three do these:

  • Run over three mulch mounds with CMU as a relay – as other team member does SSH
  • Run over three mulch mounds with CMU as a relay – as other team member does Big Boy situps
  • Run over three mulch mounds with CMU as a relay – as other team member does SQUATS

Over at Sand Volley ball court.
Right arm CMU carry sprint Heisman Football Run across court.
Left arm CMU carry sprint Heisman Football Run across court.
Right arm CMU carry sprint Heisman Football Run across court.
Left arm CMU carry sprint Heisman Football Run across court.

Carry CMU to Soccer field.
100 Sprint from Goal to Goal on soccer field without CMU. 2X.

Back to AO.
MARY:

For this song  Lyrics https://www.google.com/search?q=david+crowder+I%27m+blessed+lyrics&oq=david+crowder+I%27m+blessed+lyrics&aqs=chrome..69i57.8416j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Stay in a plank the whole song.
When he says “My God is able” put right arm to sky and back to plank.
When he says “My God is good” put left arm to sky and back to plank.
When he says Blessed or blessing do a merkin.
When he says The days of the week, cycle through Freddy Mercuruies ending with a High Leg lift to the Sky on “All day Sunday”.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
13 HIMS.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
In being at a funeral this past week, death was constantly on my mind. Be sure to count every breath and heart beat as a blessing. Rest assured they are numbered.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Congrats on The Oak Ridge Men getting a brand new AO up and running tomorrow!!! Can’t wait !! It’s gonna be awesome!

Heavy Metal

THE SCENE: 35 and clear

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Stretch OYO
  • Merkins x 10 IC
  • SSH x 20 IC
  • LBAC fwd/bkwd x 10 IC
  • Squats x 10 IC
  • Run a lap around the island

THA-THANG:
Grab something heavy and begin a slow mosey.  Weights consisted of Ratchet’s gas cans, several kettlebells, 30, 25, 20 lb dumbbells, and the golden cmu.  We moseyed for about 100-150 yards at a time around the park, stopping for 25 reps of the following exercises.

  • Burpees
  • Nose wipers
  • Squats
  • Gas pumpers
  • Curls
  • Dry Docks

Once we reached the paved hill by the bathrooms.  11’s….sort of.  We started out doing 11’s but then the QIC changed it to just 10 reps at the top and 10 reps at the bottom each time.  Merkins at the top, Squats at the bottom.   Each trip up the hill the PAX carried all the weight and were allowed to leave the lightest weight at the top of the hill.  We were done once we’d worked our way down to just a single 87lb gas can.   Probably 10 or 11 trips up and down the hill with the weight.

Mosey back to the AO with the weight.  Stop along the way for sets of 25 of the following:

  • Dips
  • American Hammers
  • Burpees

MARY:

  • Star Crunch x 10 IC
  • Heel ups x 10 IC

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
10 this morning:  La-Z-Boy, Mayberry, Toto, Cosmo, Cornhole, Gibbler, Judge Judy, Sparky, Wagon Wheel, Bartman

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Don’t compare yourself to others.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
upcoming CSAUP at the Bomb Shelter

Chacet

Chaco & Rocket Co-Q

THE SCENE: a good day to feel some pain…
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Side straddle hops (IC) 4ct
  • Squats (IC) 4ct
  • Hand release merkins
  • Cherry pickers
  • Some other fun stuff…

THA-THANG:

Rocket on the Q

Mosey in 2 lines to the back of campus r of people(3 stops before maintenance building)

  • Indian line formation
    • Station 1, burpee (10 – OYO)
    • Station 2, big boys (20 – OYO)
    • Station 3, merkins (20 – IC)

At the maintenance building

  • 11s at the stairs (squat jumps – Carolina dry docks)

Chaco

Concentration game. Break into two groups, each group picks two cards. If they match to one exercise and sprint to end of parking lot and back to repeat. If cards don’t match, do both exercises.

MARY:

Rocket

10 V-ups 4ct then sprint

10 baby crunches (4ct) then sprint

10 box cutters (4ct) then sprint

10 Flutter kick (4ct) then sprint

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

5K, Bagger, Booster, Cable Boy, Chaco, Doubtfire, Dreamer, Erector, Judge Judy, Kenjo, Rocket, Snaggletooth, Spotter, Sweeper,

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

don’t stress about parts of like you can’t control. take that time and energy and apply it to things that you can control.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • Bring snacks for the Wesley House
  • Oak Ridge AO starts in February