F3 Knoxville

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Shovelflag Handoff at The Project

THE SCENE:  68 and clear – perfect.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:  Administered
WARM-O-RAMA:

RFTS/LIH
Willy Mays Hays
Seal squats
Down/up dog
Mountain climbers
Merkins

Mosey to the Friendship Bell
10 lateral box jumps
20 dips
30 derkins

THA THANG:

Dirty MacDeuce
1. 12 Flutter kicks (4 count)
2. 12 Shoulder taps (4 count)
3. 12 Hello dollys
Run a lap.
Repeat x 4

Mosey to K-25 Hill
11s – Burpees and Freddy Mercury (4 count)

Long Bernie up the road

MARY:

Mosey back to the Friendship Bell

Mucho Chesto

Freddy Mercury IC

Another Mucho Chesto

Another Freddy Mercury IC

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Me and 22 of the best men I know

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

We showed honor to Erector and acknowledged that The Project exists today because he and others (Rocket, Chaco, Snaggletooth, Samaritan) launched it in February 2019.  What a positive difference it has made in my life – and in the lives of many other men in the Oak Ridge area.  T-Claps, brothers!  Erector led for a while, then Snaggletooth, and it was my joy and honor to lead for a season, and today it was a privilege to pass the flag to a man whom I esteem so highly.

The mission of F3 is to plant, grow, and serve small workout groups of men for the invigoration of male community leadership.  Fitness is not the endgame or the goal.  Your virtuous leadership – in your family, in your work, at your church, in this community – that is the goal of F3.

What makes a man a Leader?  What enables a man to do what a Leader does?

What F3 says it takes to be an effective leader are these four capabilities;

  • Vision – the ability to recognize Advantage and the Movement required to achieve it
  • Articulation – the act of describing his Vision to others
  • Persuasion – the initiation of first Movement
  • Exhortation – A leader is ready to use Exhortation to incentivize his followers

But an Effective Leader is not necessarily a Virtuous Leader. For that, F3 says he must also possess the Leadership Virtues.

  • Candor: graciously telling the hard truth and demanding to hear it from others
  • Commitment: unwavering loyalty to the Group and unflinching determination to accomplish its Mission
  • Consistency: to be unchanging in nature, standard, or effect over time
  • Contentment: stability of emotion engendered by the Consistent pursuit of Joy rather than Happiness
  • Courage: setting aside fear to turn hardship into grace

To Lead Right a person must be both an Effective and Virtuous Leader

We could have a BOM on each one of those capabilities and virtues separately – but I wanted to cover the whole F3 leadership model this morning as an introduction for the man who is accepting the shovelflag.  That dude is the whole package.  He possesses every one of these capabilities and I’ve seen each of the virtues reflected in his life.  Mathlete is going to be an outstanding leader of this group – and I look forward to following his lead and am excited to see where we go!

MOLESKIN:

If he had been there, Baby Chest would have loved the double Mucho Chesto.

Mucho gracias to our visitors from JUCO, Shamrock, and Equalizer – awesome to see you guys!

PRAYERS / ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Prayers for Ribbed’s wife’s healing, for Boy George’s wife’s interview today, for an unnamed F3 brother.

Ungroomed

THE SCENE:  68 and clear
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:  Blurted out at 0529 so we could squeeze every last minute of fitness in.  No FNGs…you all know the drill.  
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Phelps
  • Fence steppers
  • Grady corns
  • Finkle swings
  • Cherry Pickers
  • Willy Mays Hays
  • Merkins
  • Mountain climbers
  • Down/up dog

THA THANG:

  • Mosey to the guardrail. 20 bulgarian split squats (10 each leg) + 20 Dips + 20 Derkins

 

  • Mosey across the street to JUCOmanjaro.  Mosey up the hill to a cone.  Stop for some merkins and flutter kicks, then back down the hill.
    Give each man a playing card.  When I say “go” – sprint up the hill toward the cone.  The first man who makes it there will turn around at the cone and come back down.  When that man passes you, lay your card down where he passed you, then come back down the hill with him.
    Back at the bottom…we do some Mary and a short rest.
    Time for another sprint up the hill.  You know how far you made it last time (where you laid your card down).  You can make it farther this time!  When your legs and lungs are aching, dig deep and keep going.

 

  • Mosey to Tune-Up Salon.  7 of diamonds with…
    • Diamond Merkins
    • Iron Mikes
    • Burpees

MARY:

3 minutes of Mary – dealer’s choice

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Me, 14 of the best men I know, and two of the best 2.0s I’ve ever known

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

I combed my hair this morning…because every third Friday in August is “National Men’s Grooming Day”.  So, that’s what we talked about…grooming.

Of all the books in the New Testament that are attributed to Paul, the book of 2 Timothy is believed to be his last writing.  Paul was imprisoned in Rome and knew that he would be executed soon.  In writing to Timothy, Paul warns him about types of men that he should avoid.  Paul says to avoid men who are arrogant…abusive…ungrateful…treacherous…reckless… he names 19 characteristics of men to avoid.  The last of those is “have nothing to do with men who have the appearance of godliness, but deny its power”.  Men who have an appearance…who created and maintain a façade…men who groom themselves to look like something that they are not authentically.  Avoid that type of men.  We talked this morning about how we can avoid being the type of man who grooms himself to try and look like something that he is not. 

In F3, we use the acronym EQV.  It’s short for the Latin phrase, “Esse Quam Videri” – “to be, rather than to seem.”  To BE…rather than to seem.  All these things that you are called to be as a HIM – faithful, trustworthy, kind, supportive, generous – to strive to genuinely BE them in your core, not just to seem to be them.  EQV means your motives and thoughts match your actions.  We are striving to be the Real Deal.

“To be, rather than to seem.”

Here’s the hard question:  Is there an area of your life that you’ve groomed yourself to have an appearance of something instead of genuinely being?

I have two.

  1. I want to BE a fully devoted and faithful husband.  By that I mean not only outwardly…not just 99.9% of the time… but also in every action…in every secret thought…in every private moment… Truly faithful at all times, in all ways, in my very core.
  2. I want to BE an authentic friend.  Not just the appearance of a friend – but a real, genuine, valuable, friend.  That requires me to be transparent and vulnerable with my friends.  It also requires me to speak hard truths to my friend about his missteps, it requires me to hold him accountable to a high standard*.  None of those I enjoy – but they are what an authentic friend does.

I’m working on those things.  How about you, BB reader?  Will you do some work today on living authentically?  Work on BEING instead of SEEMING.  Not groomed, not appearance, but the genuine real deal.

Proverbs 10:9, “The one who walks in integrity will experience a fearless confidence in life, but the one who is devious will eventually be exposed.”

MOLESKIN:

*Hat tip to Guardrail for being this kind of friend.  After a time I was Q a few weeks ago, he caught up with me and corrected me on an important point I made during the BOM.

PRAYERS / ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Prayers for BK’s uncle, for Guardrail’s daughter, Dart’s father, Shrubbery’s friend, for Wingman’s family.

Passing the shovelflag at The Project on Tues.

4th Annual Road Less Traveled

THE SCENE: Not bad, decent breeze and 65 degrees
WARM-O-RAMA:

Warm Up Jog including High Knees and Kick Backs
SSH
Tempo Squat
Merkins
Freddy Mercury

THA-THANG:

Mosey to the Greenway Path, doing 1 set of the following every 3-4 min
30 Merkins
40 Freddy Merkins
40 Squats
Leaders will wagon wheel after every set to get back to the 6, and start each new leg together
Continue to do 1 set of each of the above until we complete the nearly 3 miles course
Mosey back to the AO

MARY:
Various types of Core exercises (Flutter Kicks, Box Cutters, etc)

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
Is this more than a workout for you?  Are you reaching out? I hope you use this group to encourage, to seek wisdom, to strengthen, to uplift — I have seen this group become the Body of Christ

Here am I! Send me.

THE SCENE: Cool and comfortable (for August)
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
1. Projectivator
2. Tempo Squats
3. Cherry Pickers
4. Tempo Merkins
THA-THANG:

  1. Mosey to the bell
  2. Read Isaiah 6:8:  And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?”  Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.”
  3. Ask for a volunteer.  They will run the loop while the group does merkins awaiting their return.
  4. Repeat this until each PAX has run the loop cycling through these exercises:
    1. Merkins
    2. Big Boys
    3. Squats
    4. Merkins
    5. Flutter Kicks
    6. Lunges
    7. Merkins
    8. LBCs
    9. Step Ups
    10. Merkins
  5. Run a lap together and continue to the playground
  6. 10ish pull ups
  7. 5 wallpies
  8. 20 inverted rows
  9. Run to the bell
  10. 20 Dippity-do-das
  11. Run another lap and finish at the flag

MARY:
PAX ab rotation

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
1. Isaiah 6:8-13
2. God asked for a volunteer.
3. Isaiah volunteered without hesitation and without knowing the task.
4. God sent him to send a dire warning to the people of Israel.
5. How hard would that message been to carry and deliver?
6. How is that message any different than the Great Commission? (answer: the Great Commission has hope)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
AOQ change next Tuesday! Family workout September 3. Iron PAX!

A la Mexicana

THE SCENE: 69 and a little foggy.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Overhead claps x 10.
  • Seal claps x 10.
  • Side straddle hops x 10.
  • Cherry pickers x 10.
  • Mountain climbers x 10.
  • Tempo merkins x 10.

THA-THANG:

Played a game with boxes and tennis balls. The objective was to score in the opposite goal. In order for the team to score, the player had to do one of the below exercises and throw a tennis ball in the goal.

  • 10 Burpees.
  • 10 Heels to heaven.
  • 10 Lunges (2-ct).
  • 10 American hammers (2-ct).
  • 10 Freddy Mercuries (2-ct).

The team that scored more goals decided what exercise we all would perform at the end as a group (Flutter Kicks x 20).

Mosey to the CMU piles.

We kept the same two teams than in the previous game and we ran a circuit starting at the CMU piles going to the small hill all the way to the pull-up bars and down the stairs. During this small loop there were different exercises that should be completed as a team to add up 200 reps of the following:

  • Bicep curls x 2.
  • Triceps extension x 2.
  • Overhead press x 2.
  • BBS.
  • Squats.
  • Pull ups.
  • Merkins.

MARY:
Hello Dollies X 21.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 Hombres Valientes.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Reflected about the importance of having a balance in our life and try to plan things in advance to meet our goals. Also commented about over planning, that is the other extreme of the equation, so depending on where we are, we should lean towards one end or the other.
MOLESKIN:
Prayed for our kids and the return to school, our families and dear friends.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
IPC.