F3 Knoxville

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.

At the end of your rope / 4x100ft Tug Ropes

AO: brickyard
Q: Spellcheck
PAX: Appleseed, Biohazard (Jay Shepherd), fast-n-easy (Nate Votta), Lizzy, Otis, Simmons, Spellcheck, Manilow (Brent Hunter), (2.0) Bruce Lee, (2.0) DuckHunt
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
WARMUP:
Oil cans
Cherry pickers
Tempo squats
Thai fighters
SSHs
Overhead claps
Seal claps
Tempo Merkins

THE THANG:
100s… (4-5 rounds / 2 to 3 men in a group)
Pull the 100ft rope, 100 yards / down & back
Squat Thrusters (while waiting)
BBS (while waiting)

Rope Pulls / Run Down / Bear Crawl Back
CMU lunges (while waiting)
LBC’s (while waiting)

Battle Ropes
8 rounds 2 for each man.
1 man at the end of each set of ropes
1min battles 15sec to run to the other end of the rope for another 1min battle

10 Rounds 4 for each man (repeat)
30sec battles 10sec to run to the other end of the rope for another 30sec battle

100 yard Quartered Rope Carry
Fold the rope in half four times throw it over your shoulder, mosey 100 yards, follow the leader pass the rope at the other end of the field. Two rounds for each man.

MARY:
Flutter kicks

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
runsignup.com/streethopetn
In 2020, a group of men made it their mission to help push back the darkness of child sex trafficking in St. Louis. What started as a virtual 5K, turned into a weeklong event logging miles anyway we could. Running, cycling, rucking, walking, swimming…
Four years later, more than 2,600 participants logged more than 78,000 miles. We’ve raised more than $488,000 to help survivors of trafficking.
This year, F3 St. Louis has challenged pax of F3 Nation to raise awareness of sex trafficking in their local communities…
and the men of F3 Knoxville have answered the call.

COT:
Believe 1st, Obey & Follow…

“If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭10‬:‭9‬ ‭NLT‬‬

“Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross, and follow me.”
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭16‬:‭24‬ ‭NLT‬‬

“Now someone may argue, “Some people have faith; others have good deeds.” But I say, “How can you show me your faith if you don’t have good deeds? I will show you my faith by my good deeds.” You say you have faith, for you believe that there is one God. Good for you! Even the demons believe this, and they tremble in terror. How foolish! Can’t you see that faith without good deeds is useless?”
‭‭James‬ ‭2‬:‭18‬-‭20‬ ‭NLT‬‬

“But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,”
‭‭Galatians‬ ‭5‬:‭22‬ ‭NLT‬‬