Mathlete – Page 2 – F3 Knoxville

[cvproject] Walk in the park

August 28, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: cv-the-project
Q: Haggis
PAX: Baby Face, Biohack, Flying Dutchman, Mathlete, Tom Tom, TombRaider, LowBid, Ocho
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WARMUP: Q was a few minutes late due to some… issues. Pax started with Projectivators.
Tempo Merkins x 10
Don Quixote x 10
Moroccan night clubs x 10

THE THANG:
The thang
Ruck and Sandy up

Stop at bell
Heavy flutters x 10
Hello Dolly x 10
Heavy flutters x 10

Inchworm (like Indian run but walking/shuffle)
Mosey to ORAU/K25 Hill

Bucket Brigade
Line up at bottom of the hill shoulder-to-shoulder. Man at bottom passes heavy object (i.e. 60lb sandbag, cinderblock, etc) up to next man, who passes it along the line. Once you hand off object, run up the hill to end of the line to receive object again. Once at top of hill complete 20 merkins, repeat bucket brigade going back down.

Mosey
Shake and Bake to parking lot for ORAU

Caterpillar

PAX forms lines down in plank position. Allow 2-3 feet between PAX. Last man box-jumps over the planking PAX to the head of the line, Indian Run style. Continue cycling through X 2 each Pax

Crawl bear back to weights
Grab Ruck for set

OHP x 10
Curls x 10
Bent over row x 10

Repeat Set of Caterpillar

Mosey back to flag

Dirty Man Maker – x 5 With a ruck, perform a man maker. Burpee with squat thruster. Except at bottom, 3 hand release merkins, at the top, 3 squat thrusters.

MARY: hold squat until time ends (about 90 seconds)

ANNOUNCEMENTS: new AO starting at Boat House

COT:2 Timothy 1:7

For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather of power and love and self-control.

Q talked about vice of pride vs virtue of humility. Pride can take many shapes and as Tombraider added can not only be how we see ourselves but how we want others to see us. Humility is not running from pride but running towards truth and seeking truth. Our ultimate Truth is our Lord and when we turn to Him and desire to be Him to those we meet, pride begins to fall.

[cvproject-vls] Q3.7 Exhortation

August 27, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: cv-the-project-vls
Q: Nosedive
PAX: Baby Face, TombRaider, Mathlete, Borg, Nosedive, None
FNGs: 1 None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP:
Coffee and almost a firepit

THE THANG:
We went Exhortation and its role among the 4 leadership principles and how to use it to overcome obstacles. Some points we talked about were:
– How bullying can happen if a leader uses power without missionality
– The fear of pain and chaos is something a leader must help his team to overcome through exhortation
– Leadership credibility and the difference between being empathetic and sympathetic

[cvproject] Pax Poker

August 26, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: cv-the-project
Q: Baby Face
PAX: LowBid, Munge, Tom Tom, Flying Dutchman, flyball, Mooch, Biohack, Mathlete, Ocho, Haggis, Lt. Dan, Boy George
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
WARMUP:Warm up
SSH x 30
Good Morning x 10
Willie Mayes Hayes x 10
Tempo Merkins X15
Tempo squats x 1
Cherry Pickers
Mosey to the side lot, Upper lot, Or the recruiting office lot

The Thang:

PAX Poker
PAX split into teams of 2 or 3. At the end of the parking Lot the cards were placed. Each group sends one member out to retrieve a card. The mode of travel varies (bear crawls, walking lunges, backwards run). The PAX who are not retrieving cards are doing stationary exercises called out by Q or another appointee.
Once each group has 5 cards, everyone recovers. Each group looks at their hand. The group can decide to fold and do 5 burpees or play. If you play and lose, you do 10 burpees. If you play and win you do no(or 5) burpees and get to shuffle the cards for the next round. The cards are returned to the pile, shuffled and then we start again. Everyone does all the exercises on the winning hands cards.
Round 1
Bear crawling to the cards while PAX do plank city (regular, low, right arm high, left arm high)
—-Everyone does all the exercises on the F3 card faces:
Round 2
Backwards run to the cards while stationary PAX holds a squat.
—-Everyone does all the exercises on the F3 card faces

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Boathouse OTB Tuesday evening at 7 00pm

COT: 10 years ago yesterday My Mother passed away I told the story of this and how it was leading up to my wedding 12 days later

[cvproject-vls] Sticks and Carrots

August 20, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: cv-the-project-vls
Q: Mathlete
PAX: Boy George, Borg, TombRaider, Mathlete
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WARMUP:
Coffee
THE THANG:
Three big parts to the section:
1) Why persuasion is better than compulsive chicanery, or Carrots over Sticks – we debated somewhat whether the extended analogy to communism v. capitalism verges on a tangent. We also tried to work through the question of whether compulsion is appropriate in certain situations, e.g. kids, gross trouble makers, etc.
2) The primary opposing force to persuasion is procrastination – some discussion of how inertia and momentum are two sides of the same coin
3) The best way to make progress with persuasion is small, incremental movements, not wholesale conversion – I think it was generally agreed that this was the golden nugget of the Q point. High resonance. Led into some work shopping of the particular and practical application.

[cvproject] DORA Double Down

August 14, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: cv-the-project
Q: TombRaider
PAX: Boy George, Tom Tom, Munge, Ocho, Squeaker, Baby Face, Biohack, Haggis, LowBid, Lt. Dan, Mathlete, TombRaider
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
WARMUP:
– projectivators
– Tempo squat
– Tie fighters
– Tempo merkins
– Shoulder taps
– Mountain climbers
– Cherry pickers

THE THANG:

Everyone grabs a CMU.
DORA workout, relocate between each round:
One partner runs to the other side of lot and holds plank. Other partner does a double farmer carry to said location.

DORA, non-working man runs a lap
– Step-ups x100
– Deep merkins x100
– Box squats x100
– Curls x100
– Bulgarian split squats x100
– Deep dry docks x100

MARY:
– Tempo merkins
– LBCs
– Flutter kicks

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– planning a family workout in the coming weeks. Date TBD

COT:
Talked about our “why”. Why we show up in the gloom every workout.
My reason is to get better, and to help the man next to me get better cause I know he’s gonna help to make me better.
Referenced Qsource to talk about why Fitness is the 1st F…
Self control is the foundation upon which all other areas are built.

Prov 25:28 – Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control.