F3 Knoxville

Weight for the Fun

THE SCENE: Clear, 72°F, Feels like 74°F, Humidity 90%, Wind 1mph from SSW – by Klimat.app

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH 20x IC
  • Imperial Walkers 20x IC
  • Tempo Squats 20x IC
  • Little of this, little of that, Some of these and Some of those

THA-THANG:

  • BruteForce Sanddeck
    • Ace of Spades
      • Tabata – 8 rounds, 20s work, 10s rest
        • Body weight squats
        • Merkins
        • BBS
    • Two of Spades
      • 5 Rounds with CMU/Sandbag/Ruck
        • 10x Rows
        • 10x Floor Presses
        • 10x CMU/Sandbag/Ruck Swings
  • Mosey around the Parking lot with weight
    • Three of Spades
      • AMRAP in 12 min
        • 400m run (2 laps around the parking lot)
        • 10x Front Squats
        • 10x Push Press
        • 10x Burpees
    • Four of Spades
      • 5 Rounds
        • 5x CMU/Sandbag/Ruck Get-ups
        • 10x CMU/Sandbag/Ruck High-Pulls
        • 15x Cleans
        • 20x Push-ups
  • Slick mosey (no weight) around the parking lot

MARY:

  • Captain Thor 5x BBS/20x Hammers
  • Around the circle for PAX callout exercises
    • A-Rod: 20x Flutter Kicks IC
    • Simmons: Boat/Canoe
    • Barney: 20x LBC IC
    • Biohazard: Ring of Fire (Legs up, PAX runs and pushes legs down)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Herbie, A-Rod, Fast-n-Easy, Biohazard, Oscar, Belding, Kick-Flip, Simmons, Barney (From Memphis), and FNG Pom-pom

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Hesitation – Jocko Willink
Amazon Music – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076HN6PXJ/ref=dm_ws_tlw_trk25

Hesitation is the enemy. Don’t it allow those moments to pass us by. Move forward, do not wait, take a chance and step out into the unknown.

MOLESKIN:
Continue to keep Matt from Jefferson City in your thoughts and prayers.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1776 Patriot Games

THE SCENE: 70 and a bit humid…a great day in the gloom!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • 50 Overhead Claps
  • 50 High Knees
  • 50 Side Straddle Hops
  • 50 Moroccan Nightclubs
  • 50 LBCs
  • 50 Merkins
  • 1-Mile Mosey

THA-THANG:

  • 50 pullups on the rails
  • 50 squats
  • 50 step-ups on the benches
  • 50 Plank Jacks
  • 50 Dips
  • 50 Leg Scissors
  • 50 Shoulder Touches
  • 50 American Hammers
  • 50 Lunges
  • 50 Mountain Climbers
  • 100 Yard Bear Crawl
  • 76 Burpees (38 per partner)

MARY: 
Part of the Q
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Commission, Erector, Gump, Judge Judy, Kenjo, Kick-Flip, Mandolyn, Snaggletooth, Spotter, Stye, Trolley, & Booster

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

There is different kinds of love but they are all important. I celebrated my wedding anniversary yesterday. Like many of you, I married WAY OVER MY HEAD! My wife is a great person with a big heart and tons of patience! I can and do learn a lot from her. There’s also brotherly love like we have for our friends. There’s God’s love for us even though we sin and fail everyday. We should strive to love others like God loves us.

Ephesians 5:25-33: “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, …”

1 Corinthians 13:4-5: “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.”

1 Corinthians 16:14: “Do everything in love.”

Psalm 143:8: “Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life.

John 15:12: “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.”

Ephesians 4:32: “Be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you.”

1 John 4:12: “No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.”

MOLESKIN:

Thanks Stye for offering to babysit my kids yesterday so Lora and I could go on a date. We’ll take you up on it when we’re not so tired and just want to stay home and sleep!!!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • Farragut 4th of July parade tomorrow at 8:30
  • F3 Father Child Camp September 6-8

The Dash

THE SCENE:  74 degrees and clear
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Cherry Pickers – IC
Windmill – IC
Motivators (brought this one back from a post in St. Louis)
Tempo Squats – IC
Tempo Merkins – IC
Leg stretches OYO

THA-THANG:

Mosey to the track for Hundred Yard DASHes:

Set a recurring timer for 1-minute intervals.

DASH 100 meters.  Upon arriving at the mark, begin exercise (called by Q) and continue until the timer sounds (every minute, on-the-minute).  When the timer sounds, DASH again to the next mark and perform the next exercise (called by Q).  Repeat for 4 laps.

Example:  Lap 1
0-1:00 – DASH to 100 meters and perform hand-release merkins until timer sounds
1:01-2:00 – DASH to 200 meters and perform flutter kicks until timer sounds
2:01-3:00 – DASH to 300 meters and perform Carolina dry docks until timer sounds
3:01-4:00 – DASH to 400 meters and hold plank

Repeat (changing exercises) for Laps 2-4

Lap 2: Wide-arm merkins, Dollys, scorpion dry docks, side crunch (one side)
Lap 3: Diamond merkin, LBFC (flutter crunch), peter parkers, side crunch (other side)
Lap 4: merkins, War Hammer (BBS + 4 AH), shoulder taps, low plank

Mosey to the parking lot for Cone Battle

8 cones set out – 4 standing (“up”) and 4 tipped on their side (“down”).  Divide into two teams; Team Up and Team Down.  Goal of each team is to get all 8 cones either up or down.  Perform exercise and DASH to a cone, placing it up – or knocking it down.  Continue until one team gets all cones simultaneously up or down – call out when completed.  Stop at 3 minutes, if not completed.

Round 1: 10 BBS
Round 2: 3 HRBs
Switch to 1-minute intervals
Round 3: 5 Sumo Squat
Round 4: Lunges
Round 5: LBCs
Round 6: No exercise, just DASH

MARY:

Squeaky Bed Dolly (when your legs open, crunch and push your hands between your legs)
Superman/Merkin Intervals

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Last week, we buried my grandmother – Edith Otten.  At her funeral, my mother shared many fond memories and spoke of the legacy that her mother passed down to her.  She also read from the Psalms;

Psalm 39:4-5

“Lord, remind me how brief my time on earth will be.

Remind me that my days are numbered—

how fleeting my life is.

You have made my life no longer than the width of my hand.

My entire lifetime is just a moment to you;

at best, each of us is but a breath.”

 

Seneca the Younger was a citizen of ancient Rome – a philosopher, a statesman, and an advisor to emperor Nero.  According to legend, he corresponded with Paul the Apostle.  Some early Christian writers, such as Martin of Braga, were influenced by his philosophies.  Among Seneca’s many known works is “De Brevitate Vitae” – The Shortness of Life.  This stoic work contains many nuggets of wisdom, including;

“It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

 

Psalm 90 is unique among the Psalms; in that it is the only Psalm attributed to Moses.  Verse 12, “Teach us to number our days carefully so that we may develop wisdom in our hearts.”

 

Someday there will be a headstone with your name on it.  It will have the date you were born and the date that you died.  In between those dates, there will be a DASH.  That dash represents today, this week, this year.  You are living that DASH.  Are you doing your utmost to use your precious few years wisely?

What bad habits do you need to put to death?

What good habits do you need to cultivate into your life?

What hatchets need buried?

What relationships need investment?

Lord, teach us to number our days carefully – not so that we would fear death, but rather that we would be encouraged to live life well!

MOLESKIN:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Independence Day Parade

Jailbreak Tour (aka Deck of Pain)

THE SCENE: 71 degrees, cloudy, felt like 90.

WARM-O-RAMA:

High knees, burpees, high knees, SSH, side lunges, burpees, Iron Mikes, burpees

THA-THANG:  

The second installment of the Deck of Pain (as mentioned here: Deck of Pain ) .

This time the lucky winners picked these spots and exercises to sprint between

  • Art Center Burpee Broad Jumps (card said 2 lengths, but we trimmed it to one … Cause they’re hecka hard)
  • Mount Jucante (run to the top)
  • 30 Brick Dips
  • 2 Career Path – Bear Crawl Loops
  • 10 Maintenance Hand Stand push ups

Some said we logged around three miles of running.

MARY:
We were short on time and so even though our last pick was Jucomanjaro we stopped at the AO for a little Mary.

  • 50 Freddy Murcuries (4 ct)
  • 2 Minutes of Protractoring (included 180 degrees)
  • 25 American Hammers (4 ct)
  • 25 LBCs
  • 50 Side crunches (25 left and right sides).

 

We’ve been averaging around 5 – 6 Exercise completions for the Deck of Pain and still have six more unused cards.  Stay tuned for the third installment in which we tackle the last six exercise cards.

JUCO Mega Circuit

  • THE SCENE: 65 and muggy
    F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER Yep
    WARM-O-RAMA:
  • 10xCherry Pickers
  • 20x Hairy Rockettes
  • 10xMerkins
  • 15xlbac forward/back
  • 10xTemp Merkins

THA-THANG:
Split into two lines and Indian run towards NW parking lot.

Stop at the stop sign for 5xBurpees OYO

Mosey to NW parking lot for some circuit training. 12 stations were set up for the circuit, each HIM grabbed their own station to start with. Perform the prescribed number of reps and run to stop sign and back before moving on to the next station. If the next station is taken, skip it and come back later. Stations were as follows:

  1. 10xSandbag Toss-overs w/60lbs sandbag
  2. 30xMerkins
  3. 30xCMU Swings
  4. 30xMountain Climbers 4-count
  5. 20xSlams w/20lbs slam ball
  6. 30xDiamond Merkins
  7. 30xCMU Squats
  8. 30xFlutter Kicks 4-count
  9. 30xSandbag Pull-throughs w/30lbs sandbag
  10. 10xBurpees
  11. 30xCMU Push Press
  12. 30xHeels to heaven

The PAX completed one full round plus 2-3 extra sets before it was time to head back to the non-existent shovel flag (missed you Booster).

MARY:
40xImperial Walkers, 26xHello Dollies

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 HIMs showed up to get better at JUCO this morning.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“WWJD” Many of us remember when the “What Would Jesus Do” fad happened in the 90’s. Although the fad was more about collecting bracelets and trying to look cool, the words are just as true today as they ever have been. We should consider this phrase every time we make a decision.

Romans 13:14

“But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.”

MOLESKIN:
Trolley’s beatdown on Wednesday was still fresh, so today’s workout was intended to allow each HIM to move at their own speed.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
None