F3 Knoxville

Stairway to Heaven

AO: shamrock
Q: slappy
PAX: Anchorman, Honeydew, Lizzy, Mermaid, slappy, Skidmark, Stitch
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
Warm Up
– 10x SSH
– 1 burpee
– 5x failure to launch
– 1 burpee
– 10x Grady corns
– 1 burpee
– AMRAP Twistys
– 1 burpee
– Up dog/calf stretches/down dog/runner stretches
– 1 burpee

Mosey to stadium steps

The Fun
We ran the bleacher stairways starting on the left side and ending on the far right side. At the bottom of each stairway did named exercise. We changed exercise on the way back running this time from right to left and always stopping at the bottom of steps for exercise.
– 10 dips
– 10 flutter 2ct
– 10 derkins
– 10 Freddy’s 2c
– 10 irkins
– 10 shoulder taps
– 10 gas pumpers
– 10 American hammers & 1 burpee

Ran overtime by about 5 min by the time we did name o Rama.

COT
“The power of No”

I’ve recently struggled with integrity issues involving commitments. I find it easy to over commit and under deliver. It’s easy to say yes to everything but not to think about the cost of saying yes. I shared examples of how liberating it was when I recently said no to two “good” things (hanging Christmas lights & Son’s sport team).

“Wielded wisely, no is an instrument of integrity and a shield against exploitation. It often takes courage to say. It is hard to receive. But setting limits sets us free”

CMU Mile

AO: shamrock
Q: Pom Pom
PAX: Anchorman, Pom Pom, slappy, Honeydew, Mermaid, Toretto, Flower Pot, Baby Boomer, Skidmark, Lizzy, Squatter, Stitch
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
WARMUP:
– run in circle (jog, shuffle, butt kicks, high knees, jog)
– Baby arm circles forward/back x 10 ic
– Tempo Squat x 10
– Moroccan night clubs x 10 ic
– Side straddle hops x 20 ic

THE THANG:
CMU mile
– lap 1: one hand at a time. If you need to switch, set it down where you’re at and take a lap. Then you can switch. Only can run if you put the CMU down
do work until everyone is done
– lap 2/3: carry the CMU around the circle however you want. Every 2-5 mins, will stop and do 10 burpees
do work until everyone is done
– lap 4: carry the CMU any way you want. If you need to adjust, 5 burpees then continue
MARY:
– 5 cherry pickers to finish out
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:
hard skills

Not merely a difficult task. Rather, things that should be running at full speed at all times without thinking. Things that are hard-wired into our routine, into our lives. Hard skills are repped and repeated so many times that they should run in the background flawlessly. These skills are what we must find to be top performers in our lives. A few hard skills that we can focus on are:
– good attitude at all times
– being a good family leader
– pursuit of faith

Rolling rolling rollin

AO: shamrock
Q: Haggis
PAX: Lizzy, Honeydew, Hot Toddy, Crawlspace, Mermaid, slappy, Squatter, Stitch
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WARMUP: SSH IW Tempo Merkins Don Quixote

THE THANG: mosey to football field

Rolling dice to determine our fate
White for distance (10,20,30,40,50,60)
Green Travel to distance
1 sprint
2 jog
3 bear crawl
4 lunge walk
5 Indian bear crawl
6 frog jump

Black for Work
1 Merkins
2 Squats
3 Dips
4 hello Dolly
5 flutters
6 diamond merkins

2 rounds that seemed like a lot of bear crawl and lunge walks with flutter and Squats

20 second star gazer

Sprints
20 and mosey back
55 and mosey back
5 (which was 95) and back to flag

MARY: no time

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Brolympics tomorrow
COT:
Q shared importance of sprint distance. 2,555 days is 7 years. It’s been that long since my bone marrow transplant after battling leukemia.
Some days you wake up and have an idea as to what will happen and some days the dice of fate you give you hardship. Along the way there have been ups and downs and issues galore but thankful to be on this side of it all.
Going into my fight I was as lukewarm in life as one could be, but that quickly changed as God kept peeking through in numerous ways. It helped to have a strong support system that continues to this day and has grown with F3. It’s an honor to be out with yall in the mornings.

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