F3 Knoxville

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Bags full of Problems and a Grinder to Boot

THE SCENE: 60s light breeze. Pretty nice.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 SSH, 15 IC Merkins, 15 IC Squats, warm up jog.
THA-THANG:
Drifter’s part. Three teams.

Valley: One team carries all the crap (tires, flag, buckets of water, bags of rocks) from one end of the baseball field to the other. When they get there, they swap with the team on the hill. The crap just keeps going back and forth.

Hill 1: 10 4ct Bicycle kicks, bear crawl down the hill, 10 hand release t merkins, Burnie up the hill, repeat.

Hill 2: 10 box jumps, 10 chest to bar, 10 4ct mountain climbers

ESPY’s part.

Grab a CMU on the grinder

  • 10 CMU good mornings
  • Walking curls to next part
  • 15 blockees
  • Walking Skull crushers
  • 20 CMU squats
  • Melunges (which suck by the way)
  • 25 CMU press / 2ct flutter kicks
  • 30 merkins
  • Run the Apex loop
  • Grab your CMU and head back to start.

MARY:
Tempo merkins, Box cutters, flutter kicks

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
17 HIM
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Sometimes, we go through valleys in our lives. The crap and bags of problems don’t go away. Leaders grab a hold of that bag, and do what they can to help. And great Leaders come along side others to help them pull. ESPY is one of those leaders, and I (Drifter) am super excited to pass the AOQ flags over to ESPY. He and His family have often come along side me and mine in the midst of our valleys. I know he will continue to lift up those around him, but he needs us to take a handle of the bag too.
MOLESKIN:
N/A
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP on Friday. Get a team together.

4 Lines and Agility Roulette

THE SCENE: So cold. Like getting close to what-the-heck-are-we-doing-out-here cold. But not quite. Just like 20 or so.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 SSH, 10 Merkins, 10 Squats
THA-THANG:
4 lines. Each has a rep count. 5, 10, 15, and 20. Work your way up each line, run to the Pull-up bars for 5 pull-ups. Work your way down each line. After completing the 3 below, only work up the lines.

  • Merkins and bear crawl
  • BBS and crab walks
  • Squats and lunges
  • Rinse and repeat for time (but only Work up to 20, not back down)

Agility roulette. Set up a bunch of Agility cones. One PAX calls out an exercise for all to do until they get back. Then the next person calls a new one while they run the cones and so on… surprisingly, no repeated movements. Well done y’all.

MARY:
N/A. lots of abs in the roulette.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
10 PAX
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Kind of a silly thing, but was listening to a workmate learn the hard lesson of not going to the dealership for tire issues and payed way more than needed for a new tire when a patch would have worked. Reminded me of the importance of learning from other people’s experiences, mistakes, and wisdom. Sometimes, it is super practical like the tire thing. But the ultimate example of this is Christ. We can trust His testimony having proved Himself via miracles and being vindicated through His resurrection which hundreds of people witnessed. If we are to learn from anyone’s experiences, it is His.
MOLESKIN:
N/A
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Thanks for coming to breakfast. I think Hot Squat is getting a camping trip started. Check the slack.

New Year – New Men

THE SCENE: 70 degrees? What the…
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 SSH, 10 tempo merkins, 11 tempo squats. Grab your bricks and run to the school.
THA-THANG:

21’s (Man Makers and Box Jumps) at the bleachers.

11’s (Pull-Ups and V-Ups) at the Pull-up bars.

11’s (Side Kicks and Swing Thrusters) at the swings

Start at the bleachers with 20 Man Makers and 1 Box Jump.  Run to Pull-up bars and do 10 pull-ups and 1 V-up.  Run back to bleachers and do 19 Man Makers and 2 Box Jumps.  Run to the swings and do 10 side kicks and 1 swing thruster.  Run Back to bleachers and do 18 Man Makers and 3 Box Jumps.  Keep moving through the rotation until time is called.

MARY:
Make it back to the ao with the dang bricks…
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 PAX
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
With the new year, it is a good opportunity to reorient on what is important and make a plan to invest time in those important things constantly. It took me like 3 or 4 times of listening to my boss deliver the same time/life management class before it really sunk in with me to invest small amounts of time regularly in the important things in my life. I encourage you to think about what is really important and prioritize time invested in those things.
MOLESKIN:
What are the top 3 most important things in your life?

How should we wisely spend out time

  • In light of my past experiences
  • In light of my current responsibilities
  • In light of my future hopes and dreams
  • There is a cumulative value to investing small amounts in certain activities over a long period of time
  • There are rarely any immediate consequences for neglecting single installments of time in any arena of life
  • Neglect has a cumulative effect
  • There is no cumulative value to the urgent things that we allow to interfere with the important things.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Breakfast at Drifter’s on the 8th. And every 2nd Saturday of the month this year.

The L and L express

  • THE SCENE: Wet ground, thick fog, no rain, 100% humidity and 55. the gloom in dec in e.tenn now.
    F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
    WARM-O-RAMA:
  • 6 Cherry pickers
  • indian run to the top of ButterBilly hill, we took the back way to get to the top, Q was pleasantly surprised that the paxs was surprised to be at the top. We did some frankenstein’s and knee hugs during our run all OYO

THA-THANG:

  • Thang 1
    • Starting at top of ButterBilly, run down to bottom. at stop sign Bernie up.
    • We completed this two times.
    • The lead group held at the top after rd 2, then we went and picked up the 6 and finished their 2nd bernie with them to the top
    • Mosey back down and to the entrance to the fountain loop
    • Thang  2- L&L Express
    • 4 stops (cones) set up around the fountain loop , equally distributed.
    • Cone 1- Iron Rockets- 10 reps
    • Cone 2- Jungle boy squats- 15 reps
    • Cone 3- Imperial Squat walkers- 20 reps 1ct
    • Cone 4- Mountain climbers- 25 reps 2ct
    • Each lap starts with 5 kranken burpees. Complete burpees than run loop, loop goes behind fountain, stopping at each cone and completing exercises.
    • Continue for time.

MARY:
10 BBS 10 Vups for time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Excerpt from The Collision Learner blog by Dredd:

https://www.collisionlearner.com/post/the-force-that-divides

“It need only make Paul and John jealous of one another and convince Ringo that it was not his place to intercede. It need only have me raise my voice to my daughter and convince me in the morning that the crack I had caused would heal itself. And, for our nation, it need only persuade some citizens to turn away from some others merely because the color of their skin is different. And then convince the rest of us that this is a problem that will take care of itself without Leadership.

It won’t. Whether family or nation, the Force that divides wins if the fathers ignore the cracks.

Don’t listen to that voice telling you to be Ringo. That’s the Force that divides. Listen to the other voice, the one telling you that a cord of three strands is not easily broken, that a house divided against itself cannot stand.

That’s the Father’s voice. Listen that voice. And act.”

F3 is about leadership. We must acknowledge our role in helping to unite our community. As we move into 2022, its clear we can no longer sit back and expect the crack to fix itself.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Keepin’ It “100”

THE SCENE: Wet & warm – ~62 degrees
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Cherry Pickers – IC x10

Frankensteins – sideline and back

Slow paced butt kicks – sideline and back

Slide & squat to the sideline & walking lunges back

THA-THANG:
Short mosey up to the road & pick up CMUs. Three stations with two workouts at each station. Complete 22 reps of each workout within the station and then run a lap down to the parking lot and back. Move to the next station, rinse and repeat until 100 reps per workout are completed.

  • Station #1 – Merkins / Overhead Press (CMU)
  • Station #2 – LBCs / Curls (CMU)
  • Station #3 – Squats / Rows (CMU)

MARY:
Arm Stretches – 10 second count per arm.

Tempo-squat – x10

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
My inner nerd came out and I spoke briefly about the life of Abraham Lincoln. Honest Abe faced many difficult obstacles throughout his lifetime – grew up extremely poor, suffered from clinical depression, lost multiple children at young ages, lost a U.S. Senate bid to Stephen Douglas in 1858, and many more as president. However, for each specific situation, he fought through the adversity by leaning on his faith, humility, and vulnerability. Every individual in his close circle of trust was aware of his struggles and he was not afraid to communicate his hardships to those closest to him. This is a rare trait that people truly admired about him.

With the past two years being trying times for everyone in their own way, it is important for us to utilize the F3 platform to encourage, support, serve, etc. each other. I challenged everyone to be vulnerable in 2022 and to never be afraid to speak up if there’s anything your fellow PAX can do to help in any way.

MOLESKIN:

None

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

None