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Is this Moses’s Birthday?

THE SCENE: It’s getting hot…
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Side Straddle Hop (15), LBAC (10 F/B), Cherry Pickers (10)…………Run to the sandbag bridge

THA-THANG:
It’s back….inspired by what I could only imagine might have been the rest of the Moses birthday Q

3 reps at every light pole……. starting at sand bag bridge, over the wooden bridge, past the troll bridge, and back up the grinder for bear crawl and crawl bear. Oh…and there is about 30 light poles…sorry.

  • Merkins
  • Squats
  • Burpees
  • and for Snorkel and some others…….Big Boys

MARY:
Iron Boys…30 ish
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Butterfingers, Deep Dish, Fins, Flash, Henhouse, Hammy, Ma’am, Mr Rogers, Neighbor, Snorkel, Tin Man
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
We each build a prison of our own personal preference.  Our preference dictates what we eat, where we go, and the people we meet.  As a consequence we get closer and closer to the people inside our bubble and further away from people outside of this preference bubble.  This limit our potential and we become stagnant.  I believe we should break out of this bubble and actively search out people who can make us better.  F3 has definitely been a bubble hopping experience for me, and your strength and passion has made me a better person.

Proverbs 27:17

As iron sharpens iron,so one person sharpens another.

Game of Cards

THE SCENE: Nice and Warm
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Side Straddle Hop (20)
  • Little Baby Arm Circles (15 F/B)
  • TN Rocking Chair (10)
  • Cherry Picker (10)

THA-THANG:
Two teams played a game of cards….card number for rep and exercise by suit.

  • Clubs=Merkins, Spades=Over Press, Hearts=CMU Rows, Diamonds=CMU Curls
  • Bonus:  Kings=1/4 lap, Aces=10 Burpess

MARY:
30 LBC, 30 Hello Dollies, 30 Leg Lifts…………and then some. random stuff thanks to Snorkel and Hammy.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
——-15 Men———Butterfingers, Cable Guy, Deep Dish, Drifter, Fins, Hammy, Ma’am, Neighbor, Pinocchio, Rain Check, Slugger, Snorkel, Tinman, and FNG (Cat5)

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Thomas Carlyle (Essay on Labor)

“For there is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in Work . . . in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.” In work, we communicate with nature and with truth.  Labor is a “purifying fire.” Destiny “cultivates” us through our labor, and Destiny cannot help the lazy man. “Labor is Life,” and our only knowledge comes from our work. God lets us find a “sacred celestial Life-essence” through our labor:

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mud-swamp of one’s existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows;–draining-off the sour festering water, gradually from the root of the remotest grass-blade; making, instead of pestilential swamp, a green fruitful meadow with its clear-flowing stream. How blessed for the meadow itself, let the stream and its value be great or small!

 

More Than Halfway

THE SCENE: 70-something and pretty muggy.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
The good ol’ Zero Burpee warmup.
Zero Burpees
25x SSH IC
2 Burpees OYO
20x Cossack Squats IC
4 Burpees OYO
20x Crab Kicks IC
6 Burpees OYO
10x Travoltas IC (each side)
8 Burpees OYO
15x LBAC each way
10 Burpees OYO

THA-THANG:

Start with a Calf Killer – Calf Raises on the curb, then mosey across the parking lot: 20-25%-20-50%-20-75%-20-AYG-20

Mosey to the base of Mount Crumpet, partner up for Dora 1-2-3
Running partner runs up the hill and around the tree.
100 Merkins
200 BBS
300 Squats

After each exercise reps complete, both partners mosey to the Fountain of Youth.
Plank-walk sideways with feet up on the curb of the fountain – one clockwise, one CCW.
When you meet on the other side, head back to Mt Crumpet and start the next exercise.

Everyone made it at least halfway through the squats before time was up!

Indian Run back to the AO

MARY:
We crammed in 10x side crunches each side, 15x flutter kicks, and 5x slutter kicks before the clock hit 6:15.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 PAX killed it today.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Plank-walk around the outside of the fountain sucked by an appropriate amount for a good beatdown. But as difficult as it was, I didn’t see anyone look up when they were halfway around, stop, and say, “I did my half!” Each individual kept pushing until the two completed the circle together.

That’s similar to the way it should work at home. Every household has a pile of hard stuff to do. Don’t “meet your partner halfway”. Take it together as a team. Try to do more than “your half.” As Paul said, we should love our wives as Christ loved the Church, and He didn’t “meet us halfway”. He came all the way around for us. Romans 5:8 says that “God demonstrates His own love for us in this: while we were still sinners Christ died for us.”

MOLESKIN:
Congrats to Pup on HS graduation! He’s off to the Citadel in July.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Everyone is super sore from Hardship Hill and super stoked for the next CSAUP!

Can you hear me?

THE SCENE:  Mid 60’s, Clear Skies
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH x15 IC
  • Cherry Picker x10 IC
  • Little Baby Arm Circles (Forward) x10 IC
  • Little Baby Arm Circles (Backward) x10 IC
  • Jog Curb-To-Curb and Back
  • High Knees Curb-To-Curb and Back

THA-THANG:

PAX split into two groups.

Group 1 Started at Station 1 with the following:

  • Burpess x5
  • Dips x10
  • Flutter Kicks x15 Each Leg
  • Squats x20

Group 2 Started at Station 2 with the following:

  • Pull-ups x5
  • Herkins x10
  • Step Ups x15 Each Leg
  • Big Boy Sit-ups x20

After finishing at their respective stations, each PAX transitioned to the other station using transitional exercises between the cones. Rinse and Repeat Until Time

Transition Exercises Included:

  1. Bear Crawl
  2. Crawl Bear
  3. Sprint
  4. Sprint
  5. Lt. Dan’s (1 Squat)
  6. Lt. Dan’s (1 Squat)
  7. Berny
  8. Berny
  9. Crab Walk
  10. Crab Walk (Reverse)
  11. Broad Jump
  12. Broad Jump
  13. Rinse and Repeat

MARY:
With a little time left the PAX circled up for a some Mary

  • Box Cutter –  x10
  • Row Your Boat x2 (Lead by Waxjob)
  • LBC’s (Until Time)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
17 HIMS!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Worry and Stress

It’s part of human nature to worry and stress. I for one, worry about everything. Lately, I’ve been more worried about this VQ than anything else. I’m sure there have been times in everyone’s lives were you have been worried or stressed about something. Whether it is getting the promotion at work, or getting laid off and wondering how you will provide for your family. For me I have to constantly remind myself of what God said about worrying in Matthew 6:25-34.

Matthew 6:25-34

25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?[a]

28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,

29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’

32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.

33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

34 “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

There will be days were we will feel overwhelmed and worried about that day or the coming months, but as believers in something greater than ourselves we must continue to purse God. We must be patient for His plan to unfold and allow Him to work in our lives. Focus on His message and He will help you through your endeavors.

MOLESKIN:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill this Saturday.  Meet at the Bomb Shelter at 8:00am to carpool to the event.

99 Problems with a Buddy!

THE SCENE: nice but a little humid
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

took 2 times to repeat the disclaimer that I made up. No one was really buying in the first time so we repeated it for good measure. After all, its a legal statement right?

WARM-O-RAMA: 

jog across Parking lot x2, Millenial run x2, Millenial Sprint x2

Line up for ROckettes x20. Capn Crunch had some rebels with him and we were a little out of sync so we started over.

20 squats all together in a line, perfecto!! Well a little wavy but pretty good for 37 dudes doing squats together

circle up for Merkins x10 IC, Monkey humpers x10 IC, and 10 Body builders OYO
THA-THANG:
99 Problems with a buddy

  • 99 star jacks
  • Run a 1/4 mile lap(roughly)
  • 99 merkins
  • Run a lap
  • 99 squats
  • run a lap
  • 99 Mtn climbers
  • Run a lap
  • 99 LBC
  • Run a lap
  • 99 CDD
  • Run a lap

For the guys that finished first, they partnered up with the guys that had not finished. As they partners , each pax counted their reps toward the 99 needed(Like DORAs) Once the said exercise was completed, the buddies ran the hill instead of a lap. Pretty much all pax ended up running the hill regardless of partnering up or not. Plunger helped me finish my Dry docks and he pushed me to sprint up the hill. Thanks Buddy!

MARY:
Hello DOllys x10 IC

Boat, Catamaran, canoe

Flutters x10 IC

Side tri rises x10 IC
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
37 buddys gettin work done!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
What is the mission of F3? To Plant, Grow, and serve small workout groups to invigorate male community leadership! Well, based on that and what I read on the survey,most guys don’t want to Q because they feel uncomfortable , I think F3 is a huge success in Knoxville but we can do better to invigorate male community leadership. We buddy up, yes. We push our selves physically, yes, but how much are we really pushing our brothers to be leaders in our community?

Well, if you look at the F3 nation website, it gives 10 things a new guy should know. #5 says Q a workout. By leading workout, it enables you to lead your peers. Lets all be more proactive in getting more men to Q, If you brought an FNG out and he has been posting on a regular basis, get him to Q. We need more positive peer pressure for guys to Q! Anybody can do it. If I can do it, anyone can!

MOLESKIN:
I have Q’d several times. I like to Q and I like to sign up, BUT I get a lot of anxiety the night before and sometimes doubt myself. So why do I Q? I do it to challenge myself and get out of my comfort Zone. I am certainly good at one on one situations but put me in front of a bunch of my peers, men I look up to and respect tremendously and I get a bit of stage fright. I guess what I am saying is, if I can do it, so can you. If you have anxiety about leading a workout, then I think you should JUMP IN and Q! The only way we can get better is to do things we are not so good at. WHY did I or any F3 pax join F3? Well, we were looking for something different. Now that we are in F3 and for those that have been in F3 for a while, we need to evolve as the leaders we are meant to be. We need to put our big boy pants on and embrace the things we are not so comfortable with. More or less, Embrace the Suck or become a stale fish!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill this weekend!