F3 Knoxville

Surprise Q. Out of Left Field. Never saw it coming.

SCENE: Crisp.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH IC | Grady Corns IC
  • SSH IC | Windmills IC 

THA-THANG:

Mosey to the top of the Equalizer. Kraken. Pick station, complete 5 reps of the prescribed exercise, then run a full lap around the course to the next station. Rinse and repeat. On each subsequent round, add 5 reps to each exercise. Push yourself & push each other. Try to catch the guy in front of you. Stations included:

  1. Super Marios – bottom of splash pad ramp
  2. BBS – top of splash pad ramp
  3. Calf Raises – Picnic
  4. Step Ups – picnic tables
  5. Crab Toe Touches – splash pad handicap exit
  6. Squats – below splash loading zone
  7. Flutter Kicks – mid splash pad parking
  8. Single Leg Bridge – end of parking lot under light
  9. VUps – top of curvy parking

STRETCHES:

  • Bend down & grab toes
  • Sit squat
  • Butterfly

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

As a great Christian writer (George MacDonald) pointed out, every father is pleased at the baby’s first attempt to walk: no father would be satisfied with anything less than a firm, free, manly walk in a grown-up son. In the same way, he said, “God is easy to please, but hard to satisfy.”

I think every one who has some vague belief in God, until he becomes a Christian, has the idea of an exam or of a bargain in his mind. The first result of real Christianity is to blow that idea into bits. When they find it blown into bits, some people think this means that Christianity is a failure and give up. They seem to imagine that God is very simple-minded! In fact, of course, He knows all about this. One of the very things Christianity was designed to do was to blow this idea to bits. God has been waiting for the moment at which you discover that there is no question of earning a pass mark in this exam or putting Him in your debt.

Then comes another discovery. Every faculty you have, your power of thinking or of moving your limbs from moment to moment, is given you by God. If you devoted every moment of your whole life exclusively to His service you could not give Him anything that was not in a sense His own already. So that when we talk of a man doing anything for God or giving anything to God, I will tell you what it is really like. It is like a small child going to his father and saying, “Daddy, give me sixpence to buy you a birthday present.” Of course, the father does, and he is pleased with the child’s present. It is all very nice and proper, but only an idiot would think that the father is sixpence to the good on the transaction. When a man has made these two discoveries God can really get to work. It is after this that real life begins.

From Mere Christianity

Distance matters and mumble chatters with Airtaps

THE SCENE: 70 hot
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Mosey to the boat dock with lunges and a fellowship mosey
THA-THANG:
partner up, 4 stations a little farther apart than normal. each station has three exercises and you have to complete all three before you move on to the next. When you get to the top of the ladder go back down.

  • Mountain Clumbers
  • Pickle Pounders
  • Monkey humpers

 

  • Burpees
  • Iron Mikes
  • Welsh Dragons

 

  • CCD
  • Hand Release Merkins
  • Shoulder taps

 

  • V-Ups
  • Air Taps
  • BBs

MARY:
WW1 Sit ups  and hello dolly’s

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Insert the WORD here.
MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Flag handoff Thursday

Wait a Minute… This is Basically Just a Run!

THE SCENE: Lower humidity is a God-send

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER Check it off the list. 

WARM-O-RAMA:

Typical Blindside warm-up: 

SSH IC x25 | LBAC IC x10 each way | Little of this, little of that | Cherry Pickers IC x5 

THA-THANG:

1st “Stop:” 7s 

  • Box jumps at BathHouse 
  • BBS at Trailhead

2nd “Stop:” 11s

  • Lunges at BathHouse 
  • Dips at the first pole after the start of the guardrail 

3rd “Stop:” Lightpole Suicides 

  • Round 1: Squats
    • 1 Squat, run to 1st lightpole
    • 2 Squat, run to 2nd lightpole
      • Repeat to 5th lightpole
  • Round 2: Merkins 

Fellowship Mosey back to the AO

MARY:

Just a little SWB “Stretching with Blindside”

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

12 HIMs; 0 FNGs 

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

You do hard things. YOU chose to get out of the fartsack this morning and put in hard work. You chose the difficult path today. 

Something has happened to men. It has caused a dormancy & that is why F3 was born. Invigorate male community leadership. Instead of focusing on the 1st F all the time at F3, instead of just focusing on the sweat, it’s the other things that really matter. We are all men who are equal under the eyes of God. Not just us here this morning, but ALL men. It is not for us to decide which man is better, or which man is the strongest, or which man is the fastest, or even which man is allowed here or not. In F3, we leave no man behind and we leave no man where we found him.

We need to forge these bonds & make our community stronger. So I ask you, “How do you want to leave your legacy? How do you want to live beyond yourself?” 

Great leaders influence people after they are gone. Get into a Shield Lock, get those daily disciplines in, no matter what they are. DON’T FAIL! 

It’s why we are here. It takes a heart of change. Love has EVERYTHING to do with leadership. You may not often lead workouts (and you should do it more), but by being here, you are a leader… a leader in your household, a leader in your workplace, and a leader in your community, OUR community. 

In everyman beats the heart of a lion and once he has been picked up & scraped off, his heart is going to drive him to help and lead others. The man you help today will be the man who helps you in the future. 

What will your legacy be? 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

F3Knoxville Family Picnic this Sunday, Sept. 11th, sign up link on Slack

9/11 Memorial climbs are available (Asylum at 10:00 am(?) and Farragut High at 6:00 AM) 

Shovelflag Handover at the DogPound on Thursday, September 22nd

Brolympics Nov. 5th at the Asylum AO, 0645 start time

Choir Boy’s Night Out

THE SCENE: Oh the weather outside is … weather

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER Done and done well-ish

WARM-O-RAMA:

Typical Blindside warm-up: 

SSH IC x25 | LBAC IC x10 each way | Little of this, little of that | Cherry Pickers IC x5 

THA-THANG:

Mosey to Flagpole for what is definitely NOT Ghostman Baseball, but a new routine that will be called “Choir Boy’s Night Out,” since no one scores during this routine. 

Partner up. One partner stays at the Flagpole and does an ab circuit OYO, while the other takes off. Run to “1st Base” does the exercises, returns, and partners swap. Next round go to 1st then 2nd, Final round includes 1st, 2nd, and then 3rd. No one scores. 

  • Exercises at each base 
    • 1st: 10 Merkins, 10 BBS, 10 Squats 
    • 2nd: 20 Merkins, 20 BBS, 20 Squats
    • 3rd: 30 Merkins, 30 BBS, 30 Squats 
  • Ab Circut at Flagpole
    • V-ups
    • Hello Dollys 
    • Heel Touches 
  • When the majority of the PAX returns, turn around and pick up the SIX and help finish the work
    • Fellowship Mosey™ back to the Flagpole 

Just enough time for a round of 7s at the Flagpole:

  • Dips 
  • Shoulder Taps (2-count)

Fellowship Mosey™ back to the AO

MARY:

A short session of SWB (Stretching with Blindside)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

9 HIMs; 0 FNGs; 3 Pre-Ruckers 

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Hell on earth is meeting the man you COULD’VE been. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

F3Knoxville Family Picnic this Sunday, Sept. 11th, sign up link on Slack

9/11 Memorial climbs are available, see Slack for details 

Shovelflag Handover at the DogPound on Thursday, September 22nd

Brolympics Nov. 5th at the Asylum AO, 0645 start time. Look for a signup link soon.