F3 Knoxville

Drexler is the new Barkley?

THE SCENE: Mid-60s, post-rain, really nice!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

The Q was late, so Hot Tub got us started with SSHs, Q arrived in time to throw in some Cherry Pickers.  Time to Mosey
THA-THANG:
It’s the Barkley.  But with 25s at each station, so I guess that makes it the Drexler, although there was this whole Slack back and forth that led to that.  Trust me, you just had to be there.

 

So, the Barkley is the circumnavigation of the top of Everest, the Colosseum, and the the Asylum building.  There are 4 stations to check in:

  • Station 1: 25s of Merkins and Big Boys;
  • Station 2: 25s of Calf Raises and LBCs (4 count for each);
  • Station 3: 25s of Carolina Dry Docks and Amer. Hammers (4 ct)
  • Station 4: 25s of flutters (4 ct) and squats

Complete as many laps as possible. (2-3)

MARY:
None today.  Ran out of time.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Grief has been on my mind lately.  We all grieve. We grieve the loss of a loved one, the loss of friendships, the loss of a marriage, a job, a pet, activities or function from injury.  The list goes on.  If we don’t deal with it, it will deal with us.  It will get out and cause damage.  For me, I get angry at people I love for no reason.  Rely on God to help, reach out your brothers in the Pax, to loved ones.  Exercise the body, the spirit, and the mind.  Don’t let grief take hold of you.  Hat-tip to Omaha for the verse for the day: 2 Corithians 12:9-10
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill – sign up and help with obstacle builds!

5 Round CMUesday

THE SCENE: A warm early fall morning. Not as cool as I’d like.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH x20 IC
Cobra Burpees x5 IC
Tempo merkins x10 IC
Crabettes x10 IC
TN Rocking Chairs x10 IC

THA-THANG:
Carry CMUs over to the corner of the parking lot where the stash used to be, just for nostalgia sake.

We have 5 rounds of 20 reps of each exercise:

  • Squat Thrust
  • 4ct Curls
  • BBS (CMU on chest)
  • Up/Over Merkins (each side = 1)
  • Alpos

After each round, take laps around the parking lot. Round 1 = 1 lap, Round 2 = 2 laps, etc.

If you finished, it was 100 reps of each, plus 15 laps around the parking lot. YHC didn’t quite finish.

MARY:
Barely sneaked in 30x 4ct LBCs
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 CMUs plus 2 ruck plates = 11 PAX
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Repeat of James 3. Because I still haven’t got mine tamed yet:
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. 2 For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. 3 If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. 4 Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. 5 So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things.

How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life,[a] and set on fire by hell.[b] 7 For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, 8 but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. 10 From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers,[c] these things ought not to be so. 11 Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? 12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.

MOLESKIN:
Really looking forward to when it finally gets cool… That was not today.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship hill is just ahead!

#NeverForget2021

[ The Scene ] 

[ Welcome/Disclaimer ]

  • Welcome to F3: Fitness/Fellowship/Faith
  • My name is Steam and I will be your Q this morning 
  • Few things before we begin:
    • I’m not a professional 
    • You’re here on your own volition – meaning you are here on purpose 
    • I don’t know any injuries you may or may not have so feel free to modify any of the exercises we do this morning as need be. 
    • FNGs? — No
    • I’m going to go back to the modify clause for a second.
      • Just because you can modify, is not an excuse to do so
      • Today is not the day to half-ass anything we do………
      • Here’s why: 20 years ago….
        • 246 people went to sleep in preparation for their morning flights
        • 2,606 people went to sleep in preparation for work in the morning
        • 343 firefighters went to sleep in preparation for their morning shift
        • 60 police officers went to sleep in preparation for their morning patrol
        • 8 paramedics went to sleep in preparation for their morning shift
        • None of them saw past 10:00am on September 11th, 2001
        • #NeverForget

[ Warm o Rama ] 

SSH: 20×4 IC 

Merkin: 20×4 IC 

Squat: 20×4 IC

Imperial Walker: 20×4 IC

Mountain Climber: 20×4 IC

[ The Thang ] 

(The flag will always stay out front of us this morning)

(Mosey down to the bottom of Mini-Cardiac)

  1. Back Up Again
    • Battle Buddy teams of 4
    • 2 POCs (Points of Contact)
      • Bottom: SSHs
        • Execute 25 SSHs (1ct) and then hold the plank for 20 seconds until your team of 4 is recovered to go up top 
        • THE FLAG WILL ALWAYS GO TO THE TOP
      • Top: Merkins
    • In battle buddy teams of 4, farmers carry the 2 40lb Sandy’s up to the top — everyone executes 10 merkins (1ct)
    • Farmers carry back down to the bottom (other 2 in the battle Buddy team)
  • Rinse and repeat until every battle buddy group has gone up and executed merkins (550 —> 2 locations (275) —> 40 merkins

(Mosey to the bottom of Pickett’s Charge — WITH 2 40lb sandbags)

  1. Pre-Across and Up
  • 2 40lb sandbags 
  • 1 60lb sandbag
  • 2 120lb sandbags
  • 2 POCs
    • Sandys 
      • Rotate between 
      • Curls
      • Deadlifts 
      • Rows
      • Execute 10 reps (1ct) of one exercise and run across the field
    • Across the field 
      • Squats (10)
  • Once you complete your curls, deadlifts, and rows — pick someone who’s not done and run with them. Do not stay behind and do not hold a position here — pick up with someone 

(15 count) 

  1. Across and Up 
  • 2 40lb sandbags 
  • 1 60lb sandbag
  • 2 120lb sandbags 
  • Describe the situation 
  • Get in battle buddy teams of 2-4
  • Our mission is to get these items to safety across this field and up to the Colesium. 
  • When you can’t lift it anymore, your battle buddy should step in and help you carry it
  • Finish at the flat area of the bottom of the Coliseum
     
  • PAX say the pledge of allegiance and knock out some SSHs

(Movement to the bottom of Everest – battle buddy carries and drags the 2 120lb sandbags, 1 60lb sandbag, and 2 40lb sandbags)

  1. Up Everest 
  • with Sandys (gear) 
  • Flag up front always 
  • Plant it at the top
    • 25 SSHs
    • 25 Big Boy situps
    • 25 Merkins
    • 25 squats
  • Make our way back to the AO (flag out front)[ COT ]
    • # off 
    • Name o Rama 
    • FNGs
    • BOM

    Where was God?

Millions of people asked this question on this day 20 years ago, and years later as well. God where were you when those towers fell and these innocent people died?

He was right there with them. He was at the Pentagon, He was in those two towers, He was on Flight 93, and He was right there with them. 20 years later, as we honor the men and women and children and heroes that were killed on this day, we remember that even though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death, He is with us. We also remember that on that day and the days afterwards as well, something changed, even for a little bit –> faith, religion, politics, credence, country affiliation aside — we were reminded of our humanity. We were reminded that no matter what we call ourselves or how, we are all humans first and foremost.

So if you remember where you were that day, don’t forget your location – physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. And if you don’t remember where you were that day, ask someone who does.

And yet the question remains 20 years later — “God, where are you? Do you not see what’s happening in our world and country? Where are you?” Each man must wrestle with this question, daily. We must choose to see God and seek Him out. At our coffee shops, in our conversations, in our workouts, in our places of work, in our families, in our wife and children, in our friendships and relationships — He is there. I have a hunch that if you make the ask of “God where are you,” He will reveal himself in ways that only He can.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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IPC Asylum Week 1

THE SCENE: Nice and cool.  Around 56 degrees
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Stretching OYO. Go over IPC week 1 rules and go
THA-THANG:

Round 1▪ 800 meter run▪ 25 yard murder bunny▪ 10 shoulder tap merkins (merkin-tap each shoulder is one rep)▪ 25 yard reverse murder bunny▪ 20 blockees with a thruster▪ 25 yard murder bunny▪ 10 shoulder tap merkins (merkin-tap each shoulder is one rep)▪ 25 yard reverse murder bunny

Round 2▪ 800 meter run▪ 25 yard murder bunny▪ 10 shoulder tap merkins (merkin-tap each shoulder is one rep)▪ 25 yard reverse murder bunny▪ 20 horizontal burpee block jumpover (20 total jumps). Block is laying flat. You can jump over the block to the side. Or to the front.▪ 25 yard murder bunny▪ 10 shoulder tap merkins (merkin-tap each shoulder is one rep)▪ 25 yard reverse murder bunny

Round 3▪ 800 meter run▪ 25 yard murder bunny▪ 10 shoulder tap merkins (merkin-tap each shoulder is one rep)▪ 25 yard reverse murder bunny▪ 20 vertical burpee block jumpover (20 total jumps). Block is standing up on one end. You can jump over the block to the side. Or to the front.▪ 25 yard murder bunny▪ 10 shoulder tap merkins (merkin-tap each shoulder is one rep)▪ 25 yard reverse murder bunny•

 

 

 

MARY:
None
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Philippians 4:8-9
MOLESKIN:

IPC Week Zero…

THE SCENE: Twas nice.  60 degrees and no humidity
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Did 20 ssh on the 4ct and some stretching
THA-THANG:

Iron Pax Week Zero Challenge of

  • 100 Merkins
  • 800 meter run
  • 75 merkins
  • 1200 meter run
  • 50 merkins
  • 1600 meter run
  • 25 merkins
  • 2000 meter run

MARY:
Nope
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Philippians 4:8

And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing.  Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable.  Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.  Keep putting into practice all you learned and received from me-everything you heard me and saw me doing.  Then the peace of God will be with you.