F3 Knoxville

A balmy stroll around JUCO

AO: juco
Q: Data
PAX: Booster, Fetch, Mailbox, Lil’ Spice, Dart Gun, Wanderer, Guardrail, 5K, Noodles, Erector, Stye (Hal Phillips), Love Shaq, Butterknife
FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
ONE-MINUTE WARNING
WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Reach for the sky & let it hang
Abe Vigodas
Moroccan Nightclubs
Motivators
TN Rocking Horses
ONE THANG:
Play a game of infection in a section of the parking lot blocked-off by cones. One person is infected and moves by bear crawl. Everyone else is a crab walker. Once you are tagged, do 10 Pickle Pounders and then you are an infected bear crawler. We played 3 times.
ANOTHER THANG:
Mosey to the really large parking lot with 10 rows of parking lines.
Building blocks, courtesy of a @Tank backblast I found.
Run to first line of parking and do 1 of 1st exercise. Move to next line, do 2, etc. Total of 10 lines across the lot. Mosey back to the beginning before doing next set.
1. Merkins with runs
2. Squat jumps with bear crawls (every other)
3. Dry docks with Bernie Sanders
4. Lunges with side shuffles
JUST ONE MORE THANG:
Mosey to the loading docks. Split into 2 groups and perform a Newton’s Cradle for 2 full rotations.
Everyone holds a plank
Person in front runs and jumps up on the loading dock, runs back down the ramp, performs 5 Merkins, and goes to back of the line.
MARY:
Imperial Walkers
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Convergence on 1/20
COT:
Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper
“Making Much of Christ from 8 to 5”
1. We can make much of God in our secular job through the fellowship that we enjoy with him throughout the day in all our work.
2. We make much of Christ in our secular work by the joyful, trusting, God-exalting design of our creativity and industry.
3. We make much of Christ in our secular work when it confirms and enhances the portrait of Christ’s glory that people hear in the spoken Gospel.
4. We make much of Christ in our secular work by earning enough money to keep us from depending on others, while focusing on the helpfulness of our work rather than financial rewards.
5. We make much of Christ in our secular work by earning money with the desire to use our money to make others glad in God.

JUCO Cardinal memorial workout

AO: juco
Q: Wanderer
PAX: Love Shaq, Guardrail, 5K, Lil’ Spice
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP:
15 Side Straddle Hops
10 Tempo Merkins
10 Flutter Kicks
10 Little Baby Arm Circles Forward
10 Little Baby Arm Circles Backward
10 Hallelujahs
10 Knoxville Cherry Pickers
20 Sec. Samson Hold
10 Willie Mayes Hayes

THE THANG:
Choose two points about 100 yards from each other – these will be Point A and Point B. Starting at “Point A” perform Set 1 exercises, then run to “Point B” and repeat those same exercises. Run back to “Point A”.
Repeat this sequence for exercise Sets 2, 3, and 4.

Set 1
5 Burpees
5 Big Boys
5 Heels to Heaven

Set 2
10 Burpees
10 Little Baby Crunches
10 Mt. Climbers Double Count

Set 3
15 Burpees
15 Air Squats
15 Freddy Mercury’s

Set 4
20 Burpees

~~ end of cardinal workout ~~
Continued on to courtyard where we did 2 loops alternating 10 Irkins/dips and 10 dirkins/step ups on the part benches.

Ran to coupons by flag and completed some rounds of kettle bell swings, thrusters, curls and other heavy exercises.

MARY:
hello dolly until RUSH made it back to the flag.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
The story of cardinal is best told by others:
By our own Mathlete in the f3knoxville newsletter and other articles.
mattcrossman.substack.com/p/f3-cardinal-and-the-victory-of-broken
mattcrossman.substack.com/p/a-tribute-to-f3-cardinal-kind-down

I personally was not directly involved but got to watch (and participate) with F3 as they responded to this tragedy.
The men who were on the scene and started CPR and called for help.
The gofundme campaign that surpassed it’s goal 100x to raise over $100,000 for the family.
The more then 100 men who showed up to finish Cardinals workout and support the PAX and family.
The men who helped Cardinals family paint and move houses.
These actions demonstrated what F3 is about and why F3 not only survived this tragedy but thrived and grown through it.
I hope this story encourages you the same way it has me.

Not Meant To Arrive!!

AO: juco
Q: Butterknife
PAX: Wanderer, Windex, Data, Commission, Mailbox, Butterknife, Dart Gun, Lil’ Spice, 5K, Trash Panda (JUCO), Fetch, Booster, Miss Fire, Love Shaq
FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
WARMUP:
Side straddle hop in cadence  20
6 Windmills in cadence
10 squats
5 sparring merkins
Line up in the curb. Run 2 lines do a burpee.
Run back to the start do a burpee. 3 x’s
10 Slow Freddy Mercury’s (opposite shoulder to opposite knee)

THE THANG:

Run two lines and do 5 sparring merkins (opposite knee to opposite elbow). Repeat across the lot.

Run two lines and do 10 single count slow Freddy Mercury’s (opposite shoulder to opposite knee). Repeat across the lot.

Run two lines and do 5 Peter Parker merkins. Repeat across the lot.

Run two lines and do 20 single count flutter kicks. Repeat across the lot.

Walking lunges to first line. Leap frog to the next. Bear crawl to the next.
Repeat across the lot.

Mosey to the top of JUCOManjaro with the person in the back sprinting to the front.

20 flutter kicks
20 BBS
10 ct stargazers 💫

Mosey back to the flag. Jailbreak in the parking lot.

MARY:
Crunchy Frogs 🐸
Sidestep lunging side to side and reaching for your toes.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
NMTA Not Meant To Arrive
There are 4 Pillars of arrival:
Can’t arrive. This is a negative mindset. You don’t believe in yourself and we need to fix that immediately.

Has arrived. You’ve made it, now what?
You’re not trying anymore. Afraid to take chances, because you might lose the title. Do not stop. Continue to set goals!

Will arrive. Once XYZ happens, then I’ll be happy. There are people sitting in nursing homes right now, still waiting on XYZ.

Not meant to arrive. This is where we should all strive to be! Become the next best version of yourself. Enjoy the journey just as much if not more than destination.
My development has no end. There is always more to learn, always more to do, and you can learn from every situation and everyone.

Be “Blissfully Unsatisfied!” Brothers!

”Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you your heart’s desires.“
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭37‬:‭4‬ ‭NLT‬‬

Partner Workout

AO: juco
Q: Noodles
PAX: Butterknife, Guardrail, Wanderer, 5K, Booster, Lil’ Spice, Dart Gun, Stye (Hal Phillips), Windex, Fetch
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
WARMUP: SSH, Hairy Rocket, MTN climbers, Merkins, windmill.

THE THANG:

AMRAP 20 (team of 2)
– 20 burpee pull-ups
– 1x PAX working out, 1x PAX holding plank. Switch until 20 reps completed as team
– Run down hill, 20x HR Merkins, Hold plank if not doing Merkins

AFAP: 50x blockees as a team

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Lots of Thanksgiving Day runs, Happy Veterans Day!
COT: Psalm 103:2-5.
To be thankful meditate on how God in Christ has:
– Forgiven all of our sins
– Healed all our diseases (some now, completely later)
– Redeemed our lives from the pit
– Crowned us with His steadfast love and mercy
– Satisfied us with good

Reason #5

AO: juco
Q: Mailbox
PAX: Butterknife, Fetch, Guardrail, Lil’ Spice, Mailbox, Waffles, Wanderer, Windex, Archie
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WARMUP: SSH, Moroccan Nightclub, Windmills, High Knees/Burpees, TN Rocking Chair
THE THANG: 9 Round Tabata Timer x2 x2 – no counting necessary.
MARY: No time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Need a Q on Wednesday and flag handoff at Shamrock Friday. Would have to miss IPC week 4 to attend. I know tough decision
COT: Windshield and the rear view mirror. Spend more time focused on future instead of worrying about passed. “Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”
‭‭Philippians‬ ‭3‬:‭12‬-‭14‬ ‭ESV‬‬
bible.com/bible/59/php.3.12-14.ESV