F3 Knoxville

Thunder Cards

AO: the-project
Q: Biohack (Andrew Ditmer)
PAX: Mathlete (Jacob Platfoot), KickFlip (David Greer), OBrother (Luke Platfoot), Borg (Mark McKeever), Ocho (Matt Hudson), Munge (Nathaniel Bond), Snaggletooth (Elijah Tafao), Biohack (Andrew Ditmer)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WARMUP:
-Projectivator
-Seal squats
-Overhead clap
-Merkins
-Cherry pickers

THE THANG:
Flip cards and do the reps:
-Clubs: Curls
-Spades: Goblet Squats
-Hearts: Overhead Press
-Diamonds: Diamond Merkins

After each PAX has a chance to flip a card, travel across the back porch alternating through: bear crawl, heavy walking lunges, rifle carry.

MARY:
Flip Borg’s F3 cards and do the exercises on them

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Dad camp this weekend, Q101 next Saturday, Forg3 on September 22nd. Equalizer shovel flag handoff on September 1

COT: Kickflip stepped up to share about preparing for his oldest son to turn 13. He has been reading books and preparing a plan to turn him into a man. His challenge to us is to be intentional in our lives. Work directly towards the outcomes we seek. Don’t hope they happen by accident.

Trust Too

AO: the-project
Q: Mathlete (Jacob Platfoot)
PAX: Biohack (Andrew Ditmer), Mathlete (Jacob Platfoot), Snaggletooth (Elijah Tafao), Rocket (dave weston), OBrother (Luke Platfoot), Ocho (Matt Hudson), Munge (Nathaniel Bond), Fire inthe Hole (Dave Duhamel), slappy (Nathan Evers), Boy George (Carey Allen), KickFlip (David Greer), Comfort Zone (Colin Courtney), Duke (Anthony Kahn)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
Warm-o-rama: SSH, tempo squats, LBACs, Grady corn, tempo merkins, down/up dog.
The Thang: Mosey to pool wall and remember 3 wall ups.
Mosey to playground – Dora: 250 hanging knee raises while partner runs to pool wall and does 2 wall ups.
Mosey to Pool Wall – Dore: 150 Merkins while partner runs to playground and does 2 pull ups.
Mosey to amphitheatre – 50x 4-ct core exercise, 10 derkins, then run up the hill and back. Core exercises are LBCs, Flutterkicks, Freddy Mercury, and box cutters.
Mosey to fountain and do 50 dips.
Mosey to parking lot and do a sprint.
Mary: prone rows for time
Word: some great take aways from a lecture I heard from Craig Groeschel.
Trust is built by Transparency, Empathy, and Consistency.
Transparency – When communication decreases, uncertainty increases. Better to disappoint with a hard truth than to deceive with a lie.
Empathy – Talk less, listen more. Your team will never care about your mission if you don’t care about your team.
Consistency – It’s not what you do occasionally that matters, but what you do consistently.
To earn trust, you have to give trust.
The best way to figure out if you can trust someone is to trust them.
You may be disappointed if you trust too much, but you will always be limited if you don’t trust enough.

Societal trust is as low as it has ever been. People default to distrust. Thus, we must be more intentional about building it. Go first in trust. Be transparent about your weaknesses. And remember that the three most important ingredients for success are consistency, consistency, and consistency.

Army-Marine Q Relief

AO: the-project
Q: Mathlete (Jacob Platfoot)
PAX: Borg (Mark McKeever), skewer, slappy (Nathan Evers), Erector (Jason Champion), Rocket (dave weston), Biohack (Andrew Ditmer), Comfort Zone (Colin Courtney), Duke (Anthony Kahn), OBrother (Luke Platfoot), Munge (Nathaniel Bond), Fire inthe Hole (Dave Duhamel), Piston (Ralton Emory), Outnumbered (Daniel Hildebrandt), Econoline (Joshua Middlebrook), Mathlete (Jacob Platfoot), Ocho (Matt Hudson)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 16
WARMUP:
Projectivators, LBACs, Grady Corn, Chatty Cherry Pickers, Moroccan night clubs, tempo squats, tempo merkins, mountatin climbers
THE THANG:
Mosey to the pool wall – 13 wall-ups
Mosey to the recruiting center, grab a brick and do 3 pull ups, whichever bar you pick, that’s your team
Head up to the theater steps. Each team has a mission to complete 12 sets of 25 reps of 10 exercises: Derkins, OHP, Curls, Tricep Ext, CMU Swings, Hvy Squats, Hvy Lunges, Hvy Hammers, Hvy Freddies, and Good Mornings. After each set, run up the steps and mark it on the score card.
Ended by time.
MARY: – No time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Biohack is the new AOQ!!! BFF at Quanken Saturday, Dad Camp the next week, Forg3 in September.
COT:
The Q source provides us with Leadership Competencies (Vision, Articulation, Persuasion, and Exhortation) and Virtues (Candor, Commitment, Consistency, Contentment, and Courage), but ahead of these things, there is a fundamental reality – Trust. Without Trust, there can be no Team, and without a Team there is no Leader. While Trust-worthiness might be guessed at by evaluating the other leadership traits, there is only one way to truly get Trust – the Stress Test. Trust only truly develops when a man stands with you under stress and does not give way. Though I could speak on Biohack’s leadership traits, what gives me greatest confidence in his success is the Trust that I have in him, having stood with me in many gaps and proven himself reliable. So it is with no hesitation that I step aside to give him the lead of this fine and flourishing AO.

Back To School

AO: the-project
Q: Biohack (Andrew Ditmer)
PAX: Ocho (Matt Hudson), skewer, Mathlete (Jacob Platfoot), Biohack (Andrew Ditmer), Munge (Nathaniel Bond), Rocket (dave weston), Comfort Zone (Colin Courtney), OBrother (Luke Platfoot), Tom Tom (Peter Thies), Fire inthe Hole (Dave Duhamel)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
WARMUP:
1. Projectivator
2. Run a lap around the parking lot
a. Bernie
b. High knees
c. Butt kicks
3. Tempo squats
4. Run a lap
a. Tempo merkins
b. Seal squats
c. Cherry pickers

THE THANG:

1. Mosey to the front doors of Oak Ridge High School.
2. Travel merkins up the steps. (hold Al Gore for the six).
3. Dora time! (1 pax doing reps; the other running the bus loop)
a. 100 merkins
b. 200 big boys
c. 300 squats
4. Tennis court abs
a. 25 box cutters
b. 25 flutter kicks
c. 25 heels to heaven
d. 25 Basilisks
e. 25 Freddy Mercuries
f. 50 LBCs
5. Relay race
a. 2 or 3 teams
b. Sprint across the parking lot
c. Do 1 burpee
d. Sprint back and tag your teammate

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

[f3knoxvillemain] F3 in the NUDE

AO: f3knoxvillemain
Q: Mermaid (Bradley Roberts) , slappy (Nathan Evers), KickFlip (David Greer)
PAX: Eliza (Kevin Parrott), Pele (Jon Lindberg), Lilydipper (John Neece), Skeletor (Tyson Canup), OnStar (Arthur Dias), Pusher, Lucille (Austin Williams), Scott McGuire (Cinco), Airborne (Chase Perkins), Mathlete (Jacob Platfoot), Ocho (Matt Hudson), Chris Poetzel (Mustard), slappy (Nathan Evers), Monstar (Josh Sparrow), Waxjob (Josh Brady), Abacus (Erik Ella), Daniel Callis – Anchorman, Caveman, KickFlip (David Greer), Outnumbered (Daniel Hildebrandt), Butterknife, Sparkler (Brian Pitstick), Windex, Mermaid (Bradley Roberts), Google(Tim Dugas), I-Beam (Ryan Gerken), Smoky (Raymond Hale), Twitch, Port Hole
FNGs: 1 Port Hole
COUNT: 30
Warm up (all 4 ct except for things on own)
(Get in ankle deep water)
reach for the sky/cherry picker combo (3 cad)
Hairy Rockets (10 cad)
Catalina wine mixers (10 on own)
Tempo Merkins (10 cad)
Big boys (10 on own)
American hammer (10 cad)
Flutter kicks (10 cad)
(move to deep water)
SSH (10 cad)
Squat jumps (10 cad)
Burpees (5 on own)

We then divided into three groups to hit the following three stations where we budgeted about 10 minutes per station.

LOG PT
Review the approach and the positions (Ready, right shoulder, left shoulder, waist, chest, sitting, overhead)
2 groups w 2 logs
1st group carries log out and around the float and 2nd group stays on beach doing log workouts. When 1st group returns they do log workout and 2nd group carries around float. This is the workout pattern.
workouts (shoulder to shoulder OHP, squats, good mornings, big boys, OH hold, and squat thrusters)

Volleyball station looked like this;
Bobby Hurleys – 20, run, 15, run 10
Sharks and Minnows, Round 1: Sharks bear crawl – minnows crab walk
Hand release merkins – 20, run, 15, run 10
Sharks and Minnows, Round 2: Sharks lunge walk – minnows broad jump
Hello dollys (4ct) – 20, run, 15, run 10
Sharks and Minnows, Round 3: Sharks frog jump – minnows army crawl
Set of 7s – dive bomber and BBS

Bucket Challenge Relay
divide into two teams, that worked out to two teams of four. One man carried a 5 gallon bucket full of water from the lake to a 45 gallon trash can. Only one team member could carry at a time. While he was carrying, two members held a 5 gallon bucket full of water while the 4th member did waterlogged merkins. They ran a relay in this fashion until the trash can was full.

After the relay was won or lost, we got into the water and did a race to the buoys. And finally did some Big Boy situps and some carolina dry docks where you had to dunk your face underwater to perform the exercise.

We moseyed back to the volleyball pit for some old fashioned tug of war. This was with the team you rotated with, and no shoes and gloves in deep sand left no advantage, and was quite fun.

The Mary consisted of an ab exercise of 10 reps, followed by 10 merkins. We did about 5 rounds of this before going back to the lake and do an out and back race to the buoys and back. Time was called and we got into the COT.

The COT was about being vulnerable. Working out in the “nude” with no gloves, no shirt, and no shoes leaves you exposed. I issued a challenge to the men of F3 Knoxville to be vulnerable and share times of vulnerability with the group. Sharing these types of stories endear ourselves to one another, and my experiences could help others going through similar situations. I then shared about a dark time in my life where I lost two jobs in one year, but how in hindsight that was one of the best things to ever happen to me. We then closed in prayer and ate a great breakfast provided by the Dog Pound (Google, I-beam, & Smoky).