F3 Knoxville

Just. Be. Kind.

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Tenderfoot , Brick
PAX: Crash Dummy, Title IX (Christian Prescott), Brick, Steam, Dain Bramage (Will Olson), Pusher, Curveball, Rooney (Carl Whipple), Lilydipper, Drum Major, Lizzy
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
WARMUP: Brick covered for me while I finished setup. Not sure about the full list of warmups. I think I heard:
SSH
Cherry Pickers
Manmakers
??

THE THANG:
Mosey along the south end of Lakeshore, stopping for various exercises along the way, including:
Burpees
More burpees
Bernie up hill
Squats
SSH
Arrive at base of Everest
LBC
Run up Everest
Squat Jumps
Hello Dollies
Mosey…
Butt-kicks
Imperial Walkers

Grab rocks:
50 bicep curls
Lunges to end of parking lot (w/ rocks)
50 shoulder press

Full-length parking lot drills:
Carioca/Karaoke out-and-and back
Bernie sprint to end
Grab partner: sprint out-and-back, then other partner sprints out-and-back
High knees back to our rocks, return rocks to pile

MARY:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Brolympics
Beer ruck canceled

COT: Just. Be. Kind.
I know politics is off-limits, but I just had to address the elephant in the room. I am raw, and my heart is breaking as I bear witness to the vile behavior following last week’s election results. Tribalism and mean-spirited divisiveness is at an all-time-high. All around us, in every sphere of our lives. And it’s coming from BOTH “sides.” Please don’t contribute to this hatred and disunion. It is our job to bridge and heal gaps between each other, to facilitate understanding and love. We are all brothers and sisters created by the same God. The same Spirit animates our Souls. The affairs of governments do not supersede this truth. I know we all make mistakes on this front. I certainly have. But the key is to learn from these mistakes, to make amends, and to commit to a path of reconciliation, unconditional dialogue, and intentional relationship.

10 Centers for 20 men

AO: brickyard
Q: Spellcheck
PAX: Appleseed, Biohazard (Jay Shepherd), fast-n-easy (Nate Votta), Gmail, Gordie, Lizzy, Natty, Spellcheck, DUCKHUNT2005, Strings, Bruce Lee,
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WARMUP:
Oil cans for Herbie, cherry pickers, toy, soldiers, Tennessee rocking chairs, Thai fighters, tempo Merkens, tempo squats.
Boogaloop

THE THANG:
1 minute AMRAP Timer
1. Flutter Kicks / LBC’
2. CMU pulls
3. Mucho Lego / Imperial walkers
4. Medicine ball partner Big boys
5. Pull-ups / Merkins
6. Sandbag press and throw
7. J Lo’s / Mountain climbers
8. Medicine ball partner squat press throw
9. Triple threat squats / American hammers
10. Blockies
Boogaloop
30 sec AMRAP Timer
1. step ups
2. Bear crawl 1-5-10 merkins (repeat)
3. Cactus jump squats
4. Bear crawl 1-5-10 merkins (repeat)
5. Wall sit
6. Bear crawl 10 merkins (repeat)
Boogaloop
Repeat x 2

MARY:
Flutter kicks, Freddie Mercury’s, Australian snow angels, J Lo’s, American hammers.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Convergence & bro Olympics

COT:
“If “ you do these things you may become
“a man” but not a Godly man.

“If” by Rudyard Kipling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqOgyNfHl1U

1 Corinthians 13
If “Godly men” do all these things without LOVE they have just wasted their time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4jV1fxcHuE

Contentment

AO: shamrock
Q: Anchorman
PAX: Baby Boomer, Squatter, Lizzy, LeBling, Crawlspace, Anchorman
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6

WARMUP: High knees, butt kicks, over the fence forwards and back.  Cherry pickers  Smurf Jacks – IC – 4ct x10  Quad stretch  Down Dog / Cobra  

THE THANG: Mosey to the bleachers for Cardio  run up and down all of them to the end Catch our breath Stretch  
Mosey to the Ab area 50 LBCs 50 Awkward turtles  50 Dead bugs 50 American Hammers  50 Flutter kicks    
Mosey to Leg area 30 seconds wall sit 50 toe merkins, run 1 lap.
Repeat for 3 rounds total  
Mosey to Arm area  50 Bench press 50 lawn mowers 50 CMU press 50 Curls  50 Merkins on CMU

MARY:  Dealer’s choice  

 COT:  I need constant help with contentment. I get laser focused on something like a new pair of shoes, a car, house, a watch, etc. I want what I do not have, but I have been blessed with so much. I am so thankful for what I have. My family, my health, my job, etc.
I do t want to wait until Thanksgiving to appreciate what has been given to me.

Travel through Time

AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: Waffle House (Brady Greene)
PAX: Dain Bramage (Will Olson), Veggie (Rylen Huddy), lebowski, High Heels (Henry Ritchie), High Heels, Pele (Jon Lindberg), Doubtfire (Nick Bond), Lizzy, Double Wide, F3 Pluto ( Hugh Nystrom), Proton, Pusher, Crawdad (Robbi Dickens), Lilydipper, Jason Sutton
FNGs: 1 Jason Sutton
COUNT: 15
Triple Q Fail, triple confessions:

1) I would like to say I was following in the footsteps of my predecessor Crawdad (Robbi Dickens) and I took the week to meditate on last week’s Q before posting the backblast. But the truth is I went home after the workout and immediately started working on the yard, which I do not care about. Spent all day on it and was too tired to post this.

2) I like to get a little chatter going when I’m Qing, you know? But we went up everest and were generally on the move so much that I was out of breath and couldn’t say a whole lot. And we didn’t even get to the Jack Webb I had planned 🙁

3) I forgot our FNG’s name. Little Roll? Double Wide his potential brother in law will have to remember if/when Jason Sutton comes back.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Proton! Great October surprise

COT: High Heels (Henry Ritchie) requested prayer for his write-in campaign to become Weasel Shaker

The Long and Winding Road

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Lilydipper
PAX: Lizzy, Brick, Rooney (Carl Whipple), Pusher, Curveball, Crash Dummy
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WARMUP: 20 Side Straddle Hops, 10 Burpees, 10 Windmills, 5 Burpees, 10 Cherry Pickers, 3 Burpees, 7 Twistees, 2 Burpees, 10 Tempo Merkins, 1 Burpee, 6 Pterodactyls Forward, 6 Pterodactyls Backwards.

THE THANG: Mosey to Front Steps of Admin Bldg. We will do 20 Regular Calves Raises, 20 Calves Raises with right foot on higher step, and 20 Calves Raises with left foot on higher step.
Mosey past Cul-de-sac at southeast side of Admin Bldg and run to raised garden at intersection of roads. We will do 15 Rocky Balboas off garden curb.
Mosey to West Side of New Pavilion by ball fields. We will do 15 Merkins.
Mosey to the trails behind the Ball Fields area. We will then mosey to the pier area by Lake Inlet. We will break into groups of three. Each group will start at a different cone to do first exercise, then rotate clockwise to do first at next cone, then go to 3rd cone for first exercise, then back to cone the group started at. They will go through the same sequence with the second and third exercises. Here are the exercises at each cone:
Cone 1 at benches near pier: 20 Bench Dips, 20 Incline Merkins, 20 Decline Merkins

Cone 2 back on trail near ball field parking lot: 20 Star Jumps, 20 Smurf Jacks, 20 Squat Jumps

Cone 3 at Rocks Pile: with rocks 20 Overhead Presses, 20 Curls, 20 Rows

Mosey back to Ball Fields area and street. We will do sevens from outfield in small ball field area to street up the hill. Start with six plank jacks on field and one squat on street.
Mosey back to intersection with raised garden. We will do ten more Rocky Balboas off curb of garden
Mosey to Coliseum. We will do 10 Bench Jumps on steps.
Mosey to Stop Sign at Northeast Corner of Admin Bldg. We will stop to do 20 American Hammers.
Next, we will Bernie race toward first no parking sign toward the AO. Next, we will sprint race to the AO.

MARY: Stretches

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Brolympics November 16 at Asylum

COT:
Prayers
Prayers for all those impacted by Hurricane Helene.
Message
These words come from Wendell Berry in his book, Jayber Crow:
If I could do it, I suppose, it would be a good idea to live your life in a straight line – starting, say, in the Dark Wood of Error, and proceeding by logical steps through Hell and Purgatory and into Heaven . . . But that is not the way I have done it, so far. I am a pilgrim, but my pilgrimage has been wandering and unmarked. Often what has looked like a straight line to me has been a circle or doubling back. . . I have had my share of desires and goals, but my life has come to me or I have gone to it mainly by ways of mistakes and surprises. . . I am an ignorant pilgrim, crossing a dark valley And yet for a long time, looking back, I have been unable to shake off the feeling that I have been led – make of that what you will.

Guys, do you feel like Wendell Berry, like your life is anything but a straight path forward? So any of you feel like you are somehow being led?

These words come from Paul Tournier in his book, Reflections:
He leads us step by step, from event to event. Only afterwards, as we look back over the way we have come and reconsider certain important moments in our lives in the light of all that has followed them, or when we survey the whole progress of our lives, do we experience the feeling of having been led without knowing it, the feeling that God has mysteriously guided us.

Guys, I am 67-years-old. I am a psychologist and people often look to me for answers. I can tell you that when it comes to the difficult dips and turns in life – the conflicts where we just don’t know the way to turn – I generally don’t have “The Answer” whether that be for me or you. So I pray. I pray for guidance. And, that guidance often doesn’t come to me in crystal clear messages cut in stone. But, at age 67, I look back at me life and I see that God has been guiding me. He has provided beautiful answers for me without my recognizing it at the time, blessings that I am so thankful for. Those blessings often came after significant hardships.

Each one of you is on your own journey. Sometimes the path will seem clear. You know exactly what to pray to God for. At other times, the path will be unclear and arduous. You may not know what to pray for other than HELP. So, pray for help. Pray that God will direct you. God is mysterious, but he is powerful. And, although your prayers may seem unanswered, he is listening and he is guiding you.