F3 Knoxville

Forgiving the Deck of Pain

THE SCENE: 9 brave souls came out today. Threats of rain, but dry-ish pavement in most places.  Wet grass and hills but a nice 70 degrees.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

  • CRISS CROSS: We’ll be criss crossing the campus today – somewhat of a campus tour if you will.
  • CROW FLYS: It’s up to you to find the shortest distance between exercise stations.
  • JAILBREAKS: We’ll be doing a jailbreak sprint between each exercise…

WARM-O-RAMA:
No cadence. Silent count, more by time. Keep going until I say the next one.

SSH, High Knees, burpees, merkins, hand release merkins, wind-mills, cherry pickers, slap merkins, burpees.

THA-THANG:  The DECK OF PAIN

Each person takes a turn picking a card from a deck of 18 cards.  These cards have an exercise that is specific to a location around campus.  Sprint to that location using any trail, path, or road possible and do the exercise.  Once several people have finished the exercise, some one counts off a 30 second count and then another card is chosen.

Of the 18 cards we completed:

  1. Burpee Base Run ( 1 burpee per base on baseball diamond)
  2. 5 Stadium Hill Runs (on Success way)
  3. 30 Guard Rail Derkins (behind Maple Street)
  4. 3 Reverse Bear Crawl loop in front of ERC Building.
  5. Alternating Side straddles in Parking Lot 05 (go one full lot length)
  6. Bernie two lengths of the Welcome Way Parking Lot.
  7. 40 CMU Push Presses.

To find out what the other 11 cards are you’ll have to show up to JUCO when we do the rest.

MARY:
Jailbreak back to AO was Mary enough.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Peter asked Christ how many times he should forgive his brother and Jesus said 70*7 times.  As we celebrated Fathers day last Sunday this can be a challenge for some of us who need to forgive our fathers.  But all things are possible through Him who strengthens us.  If forgiving someone seems way beyond your capability … way beyond what your heart wants to do.. way beyond what you think is deserved … Then ask your heavenly Father to give you strength, courage and grow your heart so that you can obey him and forgive others.  I believe Jesus enjoys answering that prayer.

 

Saved By the Bell

THE SCENE: 71°F, No rain yet, but plenty of humidity
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH x20 IC 4-count
  • Burpees x4 OYO
  • Imperial Walker x20 IC 4-count
  • Burpees x6 OYO
  • Imperial Squawkers x20 IC 4-count
  • Burpees x8 OYO

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the Bell
21s- box jumps and dips

Mosey to the ORAU pond walkway (scenic route)
Run laps around the pond:
Before the lap, OYO

  1. Merkins x20
  2. Squats x20
  3. Shoulder Taps (4ct) x10
  4. Smurf Jacks x20
  5. Scorpion Dry Docks x20

Mosey back to SP

MARY:

  • Flutter Kicks x25 IC
  • LBC x20 IC
  • American Hammer x15 IC
  • Stretching Flow: touch the sky–> touch your toes–> touch the sky–> touch your toes–>plank–> leg stretch–> plank–> leg stretch

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5- Erector, Kickflip, Chaco, Snaggletooth, Archie (QIC)

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.”
‭‭1 Timothy 4:8 NIV‬‬
https://www.bible.com/111/1ti.4.8.niv

Don’t neglect the 3rd F

Moleskin:
We did 21s by the bell and we stopped the laps at the pond right before it was time to do burpees, so today’s theme was being saved by the bell 🙂

Half a pyramid

THE SCENE: JUCO AO, humid and about 70 deg.

DISCLAIMER:  administered
WARM-O-RAMA:

15 SSH, 15 Mountain climbers, 10 tempo merkins, 10 tempo squats, 10 windmill, 15 Moroccan night club

THA-THANG:
Mosey through to the coupon pile by the maintenance building. Grab a coupon and head to the end of the parking lot.  Start with an exercise at the end of the parking lot facing the hill, do an exercise at the base of the hill, and one at the top. Increasing reps along the way.

  • 10 burpees
  • 10 Freddie Mercury IC
  • 10 Lunges each leg
  • Mosey back to start
  • 20 Peter Parkers with merkin
  • 20 flutter kicks IC
  • 20 jump squats
  • Mosey back to start
  • 30 tricep extensions
  • 30 plank Jack’s
  • 30 squats
  • Mosey back to start
  • 40 curls
  • 40 hello Dollys
  • 40 iron Mike’s
  • Mosey back to start
  • 50 merkins
  • 50 LBCs
  • 50 squats

MARY:
Imperial Walker (thanks Spotter), 5 burpees OYO, 10 merkins IC
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
15 present today
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Matthew 5:43-48 – love your enemies as well as neighbors.  God doesn’t play favorites like we as humans tend to do sometimes.  Strive to be “perfect” like God and treat even our enemies with love and we might just win them over to follow the Lord.
MOLESKIN:
This workout was meant to be a pyramid, but due to YHC’s forgetfulness, no one had a chance.  YHC meant to have a nice large-print page with all the exercises written down so that everyone could move at their own pace.  Instead, we were limited to a cell phone.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

None today.

Ring of Fire

THE SCENE: 51 degrees F.  Clear and cool summer morning.  Perfect for a beatdown.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

LBAC Forwards & Backwards
Windmills
Cherrypickers
Mosey…tempo merkins…mosey….tempo squat…mosey…H2H…mosey….

THA-THANG:

Following the road main road at PSCC puts you on a wide arc around most of the campus, maybe ½ mile.  Pair up.  Work around the ring – stopping at each of the 12 crosswalks to do the exercise set that is labeled on the ground – move the to next crosswalk per instructions (mosey, sprint, bear crawl).  First pair that finishes – turn around and start back the other way.  Collect the other HIMs as you pass them and work backwards as a pack, eventually collecting everyone.

Exercise 1

15x Monkey Humpers

5x Peter Parkers (2 count)

20s LBCs

Sprint to the next crosswalk!

 

Exercise 2

15x Squats

20x Merkins

20x BBS

Sprint to the next crosswalk!

 

Exercise 3

5x Burpees

15x Dry Docks

15x Flutter Kicks (4 count)

Mosey to the next crosswalk

 

Exercise 4

5x Iron Mikes (5x each leg)

20x Diamond Merkins

15x Heels to Heaven (4 count)

Bear Crawl to the next crosswalk

 

Exercise 5

10x Broad Jumps

10x Burpees

15x Hello Dollys (4 count)

Mosey to the next crosswalk

 

Exercise 6

20x Monkey Humpers

20x Merkins

20x Flutter Kicks (4 count)

Mosey to the next crosswalk

 

Exercise 7

30x Squats

20x Dry Docks

20x Heels to Heaven (4 count)

Mosey to the next crosswalk

 

Exercise 8

10x Burpees

20x Diamond Merkins

20x Hello Dollys (4 count)

Bear Crawl to the next crosswalk

 

Exercise 9

10x Iron Mikes (10x each leg)

5x Burpees

30x LBCs

Mosey to the next crosswalk

 

Exercise 10

10x Broad Jumps

10x Peter Parkers (2 count)

30x BBS

Sprint to the next crosswalk!

 

Exercise 11

5x Burpees

15x Dry Docks

20x Heels to Heaven (4 count)

Sprint to the next crosswalk!

 

Exercise 12

10x Iron Mikes (10x each leg)

20x Diamond Merkins

25x Hello Dollys (4 count)

About-Face – Repeat – Collect the PAX!

 

MARY:
Mosey to each crosswalk in reverse order, performing 1 exercise per stop (PAX choice).  Jailbreak.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
10 HIMS

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads!  Being a father is one of the most important roles you play in life.  Doing it well is worth every once of energy that you can muster!  This Father’s Day weekend, I encourage you to spend some time praying and reflecting on your role as a father – protector, provider, encourager, discipliner, teacher, etc.  Take pride in the things that you are doing well – and commit yourself to improving the areas that you are not doing well.  Here are three things from scripture that you can mediate on;

  1.  Do your best to live your life with honor. When you screw up, own your mistakes and recommit yourself to be a better man.

Proverbs 20:7 “The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him.”

2. As fathers, your words have immense power over your children. Use them with care.

Proverbs 18:21 “Death and life are in the power of the tongue”

Proverbs 15:4 “Gentle words bring life and health…”

Proverbs 16:24 “Kind words are like honey, sweet to the soul and healthy for the body”

Proverbs 18:4 “A person’s words can be life-giving water…”

Colossians 3:21 “Fathers, do not discourage your children, so that they will not lose heart.”

Ephesians 6:4 says, “Fathers, don’t make your children bitter about life. Instead, bring them up in Christian discipline and instruction.”

3. If you are a believer, teach your children about God and the gospel of Jesus Christ. There is nothing more important that you could be teaching them.  If you spend hours each week showing them how to kick a soccer ball, and 30 seconds at night praying with them – you’re missing the point.

Proverbs 22:6 “Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old, they will not turn from it”.

Deuteronomy 6:6-9 “These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up….”

Here are some resources for you to check out;
For younger kids;
Jesus Storybook Bible
Action Bible

For kids of all ages;
Download the free app “YouVersion Bible”.  Search plans by “kids” or any other keyword.  Gazillions of free devotions.

Live with integrity, use your words with care, teach your kids about God.

MOLESKIN:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Booster called for assistance tomorrow – see Group Me text for deets.

Welcome “Chop Shop” from Chicagoland!

Rocky Balboa moment at the Project

THE SCENE: A little cooler.  Perfect!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

15 SSH, 15 mountain climbers, 10 tempo squats, 10 windmill
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the AO’s biggest hill (i.e. K2/5 hill, The Ridge, etc…it goes by many names at this point).  Perform a pyramid with merkins at the bottom and squats at the top:  10, 20, 30, 20, 10 reps.

Covering some ground this morning we moseyed over to the track at the high school.  We got the whole body covered at the track.  We performed the following exercises at the 100 meter marks and added a station up the steps on the west side of the school (definitely feeling some Rocky Balboa at the top!).

  • 10 diamond merkins
  • 20 narrow squats
  • 15, 4-ct Freddie Mercury

We moseyed back to the flag and got a little Mary in.
MARY:
15 Heels to Heaven, 20 American Hammer, and 15 Hello Dolly
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5 HIMs!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Matthew 7:13-14 – “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.  For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.”

We can be “all-in” with our faith, but if we have errors in our convictions, we can be one of the many mentioned above.  Paul, before he met Christ on the road to Damascus, was zealous for the Lord.  However, he was persecuting Christians!  Jesus corrected Paul and he became one of the biggest influencers for the Church.  Consider the things you hear about God and the Bible and study them to make sure they are true.  Always seek the truth!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Planning in the works for upcoming CSAUPs.  Look for announcements about 2nd F lunches in Oak Ridge!