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Grateful Cards

THE SCENE: Cold and gloomy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

1. Run around the parking lot
2. Projectivator
3. Cherry Picker
4. Tempo merkins
5. Tempo squat

THA-THANG:

  1. Draw a card; do number in reps of:
    1. Clubs – LBCs
    2. Spades – Big Boys
    3. Diamonds – Merkins
    4. Hearts – Squats
    5. Joker – 1 burpee (double for each joker)
  2. Each PAX takes a turn drawing a card
  3. After each time around the circle, do a flutter kick ring of fire
  4. Add all jokers to the remaining deck and shuffle
  5. Run a lap around the parking lot with burnie, high knees, and butt kicks

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Thanksgiving

  • The more we have, the less grateful we are.
  • Challenge: daily gratefulness session
  • Example:  I’m thankful for Kickflip and his humble and authentic leadership.  I have ordered Jotham’s Journey based on his suggestion in the newsletter this week to read with my family during Advent.
  • Psalm 100

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
FNG:  Wet Bandit

Cadence

THE SCENE: 39 and raining, a Beautiful Morning to be outside!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:  Free, open to all men, held outdoors, led by men who participate in the workout with no training or certification necessary, end with Circle of Trust.  I have no knowledge of your injuries, so modify as necessary to prevent injury.

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • 20 SSH
  • 10 Moroccan nightclub
  • 20 Imperial Walkers
  • 10 Arm circles front/back
  • 10 Knoxville Cherry pickers
  • Mosey one lap around the parking lot

THA-THANG:
Setup: 4 stations.  Separate the F3 waterproof cards into cardio, legs, abs, upper and place one group of cards at each station.  Don’t include the sprint cards.

Team up into 3+ PAX, one team per station.

  • Each team flips a card and does the exercise x10 the face value (royalty value =10).  When done, discard and mosey/sprint to next station, rinse, repeat.
  • Each team does cumulative reps.  When each PAX completes 10 reps, he adds his 10 to the last count shouted and shouts the new total and keeps on doing reps until the team reaches the target.
  • If an ace is drawn by any group, they yell “Ace! 100 (name the exercise) 2 count! Starting Position…” and the one who yelled “Ace” leads everyone in 100 reps, 2 count.  (Everyone stops and does the 100 in cadence together, 2 count.  When the 100 are completed, discard the Ace, flip a new card, work that card.  The other Teams resume where they were in their station exercises.)
  • Bear crawl and crab walks are to the next station.
  • Scalability:  If your team finishes their reps and moves to the next station where a team is still accumulating reps, then work with them to finish their reps, when done they move to next station, but you remain at that station, flip a card and work that card.

MARY:
LBC’s and Pistol Crunches
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA: Done
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Get a cadence:  Traverse your limits and remember lessons learned.  Have men you trust to talk through decisions to help you not dig a hole too deep and to throw you a rope at times.  But that takes time.

Can you think of a time when a decision that was bad in hind sight may have gone better with input from men who you had taken time to get to know and trust?

F3 cadence – Fitness, Fellowship, Faith – workout have fun get better, talk with and watch each other, take a few minutes to listen to someone’s story once in a while.  Watch their fruit. Remember that every man is human with struggles.  Keep your guard up wisely, but look through it for legit HIM’s to connect with.  Team up with men who you trust by interacting with them over time.

F3Shieldlock –  Consider some non-workout focused interaction = Shieldlock is just a name, the connection of the men in the group is the substance.  I don’t think Shieldlock has to be in the gloom.

F3 Credo – “Leave no man behind and leave no man where you find him.”

Thanks for the discussion after the Word, you men always give me more to think about.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Outfitting the Christmas Float for the 3 Christmas parades will occur in the next several days.  Mathlete will coordinate the build.

Christmas parade dates:
Kingston – Nov 28
Oak Ridge – Dec 10
Rocky Hill – dec 3

Family workout – First sat in Dec at 9am

Look for a Q101 in the gloom soon at the Project.  Below is a link to a backblast by Steam that covers a Q101 for your reading pleasure.
Q101 + GrowSchool – F3 Knoxville.

Integrity is integral

THE SCENE: Downright pleasant with a bright moon overhead
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Projectivators
  • TN rocking chairs
  • Cheer leaders
  • Lbacs
  • Grady corn
  • Tempo merkins
  • Newton’s cradle

THA-THANG:

  • Mosey to parallel bars
    • Rotate 20 merkins, 20 rows, 20 freddies
  • Mosey to pool wall for a handful of wall ups – modify if necessary
  • Mosey to playground
    • Rotate 5 pull ups, 5 burpees, 10 heels to heaven
  • Mosey to amphitheater
    • 11sies – step ups and diamond Merkin
    • Bernie up hill and mosey down
  • Mosey to block pile
  • Line up along parking lot
    • 20 curls
    • Cross the parking lot doing a one-sided half blockee at each third space – right handed
    • 20 OHP
    • Cross back left handed
    • Repeat
  • If time, heavy core, 20 4ct each
    • LBCs, flutter kicks, Freddies, dollies
  • Rtf

MARY:
no time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

I was poking through a back blast sitting in the airport and read something I wanted to pass on. Integrity shares a root with the word integrate. This struck me as profound. Integrity, at its root, is about being complete, whole, pulled together and bound. To have integrity means unity. Between words and actions. Between image and heart. A single man regardless of where I am or who I am talking to.

So let’s consider how integrated we are. Man, son, husband, father. At work or at home. Around friends or around family or around strangers. Face to face, or on the phone, or in a text. My physical person compared to my digital identity. What does it take to draw all these different faces of our lives together into one complete man?
MOLESKIN:
Glad to be back on TN soil and out in the gloom.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Christmas parade December 10th, got an idea for a float…

Duespaid

THE SCENE: clear morning for 9 Hims to showup
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Stretch the shoulders 30 seconds
  • Mosey
  • Stretch IT band an triceps 30 seconds
  • Mosey
  • 20 SSH
  • Mosey to the recruiting center
  • Thread the needle

THA-THANG:
Duespaid: Buddy up one HIM did heavy farmer carry while other one did one of the stations

  • CMU Thrusters
  • Tire  jumps
  • Hammer curls
  • Triceps extension
  • Sumo Deadlifts

Mosey to the stairs  for 2nd Buddy challenge

One HIM went up the stairs with CMU while other one did exercise.  Rinse and repeat till all exercise were completed

  • 40 CMU goblet Squats
  • 30 mountain climber
  • 20 rep (10 each arm) CMU single arm row
  • 10 merkins
  • 5 Burpees

MARY:
playground for 2 finger pullups

then back to the flag for Thunderstruck
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Philippians 4:8 ESV

MOLESKIN:
God reminds me that through all my struggles in life I must think on these things in Philippians 4:8 so the gospel is satchurated in my community and home
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
December 10 Christmas parade

Dora B.L.I.M.P.S – Strength Under Control

THE SCENE: 55 and clear skies. The gloomiest of glooms.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Dutifully and “unprofessionally” administered.

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH x15
  • Knoxville Cherry Pickers x10
  • Abe Vigoda x10 
  • Willy Mays Haze x9
  • Tempo Merks x10
  • Tempo Squats x10
  • FLBAC x10
  • RLBAC x10
  • Grady Corn x10
  • Moroccan Night Clubs x10 (This is where the wincing *read growth* began.)
  • Chattanooga Cherry Pickers x10
  • SSH x10

THA-THANG:

Mosey for 11s on the “Little Baby Hill”. Hurleys at the bottom. Big Boys at the top.

Mosey to the fountain.

Grab a battle buddy for Dora. Pax one performs exercises below. Pax two bear crawls to the fountain and mosey back.

  • 50 Burpees
  • 100 Lunges (double single count)
  • 150 Imperial Walkers (double count)
  • 200 Merkins
  • 250 Plank Jacks
  • 300 Squats

RTB

MARY:
Flutter Kicks (IC – 15)
Basilisk (IC – 10)

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Matthew 5:5 – “Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.”

Often when a word is translated, we get the meaning but lose the all the underlying intent. The Greek word for “meek” is praus. We usually interpret that as gentle or humble, which it does mean that. But the background to the word Praus is actually loaded with something like,  “strength under control”.  It’s original use comes from something close to meaning a powerful horse that is tamed.

Matthew 21:5 says, “Look, your king is coming to you, humble (same word – praus) and mounted on a donkey.” This doesn’t mean weak. When we think about it, Jesus was the epitome of “strength under control”

Today, if we’re honest, guys typically struggle with taming their behaviors/habits, appetite (Hello, Halloween candy), thinking (negative self talk), bodies, temper, ego, sexual desires, worldly desires (spend money), etc.

How does one bring strength under control? Discipline.

3 Types of Discipline

  1. Reactive Discipline – when you’re tempted or drawn into something
    (eh hem…Halloween candy last night?). It’s important to know when you’re weakest and what to avoid.
  2. Structural Discipline – routines and habits that make you better.
    The best way to create a habit is to link it to something else.
  3. Expansive Discipline – opportunities for growth, “doing it anyway”
    In the face of fear, hesitation, difficulty, etc.
    Almost always thankful I did what I was most afraid of
    The more dread, the more reward.

Exercise meekness (praus) in your life.
Cultivate and strengthen the 3 types of discipline in your life – Reactive, Structural, Expansive. Know you have the strength to do what needs to be done. Know you have the discipline to control it.

MOLESKIN:
Welcome FNG – Blindspot! Prayers for Ocho finishing up doctoral work deadlines and for Mathlete traveling for work.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Brolympics – Nov 5! Get signed up! See Slack for details!
Christmas Parade is happening! We’re signed up! Watch Slack for details!