F3 Knoxville

8 Year Anniversary Brolympics Pre-Blast

THE SCENE

Date: Saturday, November 4th, 2023

Time: 7:00am – 9:00am

Location: The Asylum AO

➡️ Register For Our 8 Year Anniversary Brolympics Here ⬅️

Click the link above to register either as a competitor or volunteer. If you’re not competing this year, please consider participating as a volunteer – to help make this event a success. Someone from our Brolympics planning team will reach out to you soon with more info.

THA-THANG:

Our Brolympics team is working on putting on an awesome event to celebrate 8 years of F3 being in Knoxville.  Stay tuned into Slack over the next few weeks as we share some of the things you can expect this year. You’ll also see updates and info in the weekly regional newsletters Kickflip sends out.

⬇️ Check out some of the photos from our anniversary / Brolympics events in the past below ⬇️

Including this epic hype video that La-Z-Boy made

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What you don’t want to do is miss this epic event!  Join F3 brothers from around Knoxville in this epic event of Fitness, Fellowship, and Faith. Iron Sharpens Iron!

-Onstar and the 2023 Brolympics Planning Team

Copycat Workout

WARMUP:
Tempo Squats x 10
Tempo Merkins x 10
Cherry Pickers x 3
THE THANG:
Two decks of cards.  Find a battle buddy, draw a card and multiply the card value by 10, and split the exercises with you battle buddy, each doing half of the total.  Once you complete the exercises, take a lap, draw a card and repeat.
The suit of the card determined the exercises.
Spades: Big Boys & Hello Dollies
Hearts: Merkins & Dips
Diamonds: Squats & Lunges
Clubs: Bench Press & Curls
Joker: 25 Thrusters eachCollect as many cards as you can and build your best poker hand.  Caveman and Twitch managed a royal flush with one wild card, which was the winner and it wasn’t close.
MARY:
We went arounf the group calling an ab exercise, and followed each with 10 merkins until time ran out.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
F3 in the Nude 7/29/2023
COT:
The importance of using a back blast.  With Pax miner rolling out next week, we discussed the highlights and reasons for back blasts.  I was able to share information from my first workout 4 years ago and recognized the members in attendance and even could even recall the message from that workout.Prayer Requests
Dumpster Dive’s attorney friend struggling with a forced retirement due to kidney failure.
Anchorman’s daughter who is recovering from a successful tonsillectomy.

Concentrica

THE SCENE: Humid and gloomy. Storms threatened, but were ultimately scared of us.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Side straddle hops
  • Run around the parking lot
    • High knees
    • Bernie
    • Butt kicks
  • Tempo merkins
  • Tempo squats
  • Cherry pickers

THA-THANG:

Concentrica:

  • M – Relationship with your wife – your center
    • 100 merkins
    • Hold Al Gore for the 6
  • Shorties – Relationship with your kids – your legacy
    • 50 LBCs
    • 50 flutter kicks
    • 50 Freddy Mercuries
    • Hold plank for the 6
  • Shieldlock – Your team for mutual defense
    • 100 step ups
    • Dips for the 6
  • Whetstone – Mentor/mentee
    • 20 burpees – it’s hard, but it makes you better
    • Hold Al Gore for the 6
  • Mammon – Your work, love it or hate it
    • Run 2 laps
    • Wagon wheel for the 6

MARY:
Pappa Lock destroyed our arms, then Snaggletooth our abs, and Oh Brother led some Basilisks

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

  • How do you measure success in your life? Money? Things? Friends? Church attendance? Fitness?
  • Wrong scoreboards!
  • The Concentrica should be our scoreboard as seen from a Biblical worldview.
  • We should measure our success by the quality of the relationships we have on the Concentrica.
  • Which of these 5 rings are you missing in your life?
  • Which of them do you need to invest more in?

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Family workout on Saturday.  Next weekend is F3 in the Nude. GTE Baseline ruck is August 5. F3 Dad camp is August 11-13.

The Impossible Mile

Shamrock 7/14/2023
See picture above
THE SCENE:
80 degrees at 0530 with humidity around 96%, some would call it terrible
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

3 very slow cherry pickers
SSH to around 15
THA-THANG:
The workout was simple, but due to the Ghostflag, we had two well represented groups from Juco & F3 Smokies vying to take it home.  We chose to host a competition, and the first group with 3 to finish the workout below took home the flag.
The workout was as follows:
The Impossible Mile
400 M Run
100 Merkins
400 M Run
100 Squats
400 M Run
100 BURPEES
400 M Run

Following that sweat fest, we moved over to the Jesus statue and found a battle buddy.  One partner held a wall squat while the other partner did 50 dips.  After both partners completed the exercises, we switched one partner held a balls to the wall while the other partner did 50 step ups.  Once both partners completed both exercises, we moseyed back to the flag for a Mary.

MARY:
The Mary was very popular today.
10 snow angels in cadence followed by 10 merkins
20 Flutters in cadence followed by 10 merkins
13 Shoulder taps in cadence followed by 10 merkins
finally 7 more burpees
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Today we talked about the Golden rule and simply treating others the way that we want to be treated.  Especially making a hard workout for those trying to steal the Ghost Flag because I expect a hard workout if I want to steal it back!!
MOLESKIN:
Prayer requests:
Mailbox’s mom in the ER
Cheat Sheet as a caregiver and for prayer regarding his ongoing parenting plan.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
F3 in the Nude on 7/29
A workout with no shoes, shirt or gloves required that will take place in and out of the water at the Cove with breakfast provided by the Dog Pound boys.

Quality Time With Sandy – Forg3 Tour

The Scene 

  • The Project
  • 5:30am – 6:15am
  • Weather, etc

F3 Welcome + Disclaimer

  • Welcome to F3: Fitness – Fellowship – Faith 
  • My name is Steam and I’ll be your Q this morning 
  • A few things before we begin: 
    • I’m not a professional 
    • You’re here on your own volition
    • You know your injuries if you have any so if you need to modify anything we do today feel free to do so, but push yourselves and the men around you. They deserve it and so do you. 
  • FNGs? – 0

Warm-o-Rama

  • SSH: 10×4
  • Squat: 10×4
  • Merkin: 10×4
  • Cherry Pickers: 10×4
  • Chattanooga Cherry Pickers: 51×4
  • Cherry Pickers: 2×4
  • 5 burpees

The Thang 

Heavy Day @ The Project

(1) Intro to Sandy Warm Up

  • Battle buddy up
  • Sandy – 1 120lb, 2 40lb
  • 1 BB stays here and executes the following: 
    • 5 deadlifts 
    • 5 rows 
    • 5 one-hand on merkins 
    • 5 Chest presses 
  • BB2 takes a lap around the parking lot 
  • Rinse and repeat for a total of 2x – each BB does this twice 

(Take sandbags on the move to the bench and B post to the right)

(2) Sandy Strength 

  • 3 points of contact 
    • Bench 
    • Light 1 on the left 
    • Light 2 on the left
  • Get with your BB again 
  • Do this as a team 
    • Here:
      • 5 Sandy squats 
      • 5 merkins (Sandy or not)
      • 5 presses (back or standing up depending on your weight)
      • 5 Sandy drop offs (deadlift – drop – use your core) 
    • Figure out a way to take your weight to Light 1
    • Light 1
      • 10 of each X
    • Figure out a way to take your weight to light 2
      • 15 of each X
  • When you finish at light 3 — flutter kicks until the 6 is up 

(3) Around Town With Sandy

  • You and your BB are going to carry your weight around the loop back to the AO
    • Stopping at each light:
      • 10 merkins (no Sandy)
      • 10 squats (no Sandy)
      • Switch weights at every light
  • Last light is the one straight across from the 🇺🇸

(4) American Indian Run with The Twins

  • American Indian run around the AO parking lot
  • 1 man executes 5 sandbag suitcase pickups and then yells “Done” – alerting the man in front to circle back to the sandbags and execute 5 sandbag suitcase pickups
  • Rise and repeat until every man has complete the sandbag X
  • BTTW to the flag on the last lap

Mary 

ATMs

SWS


COT (Circle of Trust)

Count Off

  • 10

Name o Rama

  • Papa Lock, Mathlete, Snaggletooth, Biohack, Borg, Skewer, Kick-Flip, Ocho, Slappy, Comfort Zone, Steam

Word — Forg3 2023

https://f3knoxville.com/forg3-2023-registration-is-live/

We are rolling out our first F3 Knoxville men’s retreat this fall – Forg3! Forg3 was created with F3 men in mind – to strengthen the bonds we have with each other and our Creator, over the course of a weekend retreat.

Forge (v.) – to shape and mold into a new condition, by heating in a fire / to move forward gradually and steadily.

Forg3 (n.) – an invigorating 40-hour weekend retreat to challenge and encourage F3 men in their pursuit of high impact manhood. You can expect to engage with other men in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd F sessions, to better understand who you are, whose you are, and the High Impact Man God has called you to be. You’ll have opportunities throughout the weekend to seek adventure, to rest, and to sharpen iron with other F3 men physically, mentally, emotionally, relationally, and spiritually.

If you love adventure of the heart, mind, body, and soul – Forg3 is for you. Forg3 was created for F3 men, by F3 men, as a way to engage together for a purposeful and relationally-driven weekend to step further into the men God has called us to be.

Here are the fast facts about Forg3 2023:

  • Dates: Friday, September 22nd (7pm) – Sunday, September 24th (11am)
  • Location: Doe River Gorge (Hampton, TN)
    • Situated in the F3 Northeast TN region up near Johnson City and Elizabethton, Doe River Gorge’s campus is tucked into the side of a mountain and offers incredible beauty, very clean and comfortable cabins by the river, and miles and miles of adventures to be had.
    • From Knoxville: only around 1.5 – 2 hour drive
  • Cost: $110 (Covers all of your lodging, meals, and retreat materials for the weekend)
    • Via Venmo or cash to Waxjob