F3 Knoxville

Tag: Mathlete

the path to eagle

AO: the-project
Q: Mathlete
PAX: Ocho, Tuba (Dylan Cox), Munge, Tom Tom, Hoorayus, Icey Hot, Mathlete
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WARMUP: tempo squats, LBACs, Grady corn, cherry pickers

THE THANG:
Cubs – on the way to the recruiting center: Bell – step ups, Parallel bars- inverse rows, Playground – merkins and pull ups, Creek Hill – bear crawl
At the recruiting center get some weight
Tenderfoot/2nd/1st – 20 Rocky Balboas, 25 second plank, 10 merkins, repeat til we’ve earned it
Dan beard inst. – a round of Mary
Star – 4 burpees, heavy hammers, moving lunges
Dan beard – a round of Mary
Life – 6 burpees, Aiken legs with al gores between, lawn mowers both sides
Dan Beard – a round of Mary, but let one of my Counselors in training lead
Eagle – 21 burpees then we ran out of time, but planned to:
choose your own project – 100 reps of any of the following: derkins, pull ups, heavy Bulgarian split squats, WWIII situps, airplanes, thrusters
MARY:
Box cutters!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
IPC is coming next week, so expect to start early on Thursday.
COT:
Of all the benefits I received from scouts, one of the most impactful was the system of virtue it embedded in my person. The tenets of the scout oath and law provided a good working standard for my young life by which I could usefully evaluate a situation and choose a course of action. While my faith was still developing, they gave me something I understood well enough to use, and they still provide good guideposts.

I have often reflected on how F3 in many ways gives me as an adult similar benefits that scouting gave me as a youth. Likewise, in the area of leadership, F3 provides a set of virtues that can serve as useful guideposts. These are:
Candor, commitment, consistency, contentment and courage.
If you have never read these five articles in the Q source, I would encourage you to, because, when understood, I think they do a good job of going deeper than the surface level virtue we often settle for.

Playtime

AO: the-project
Q: Mathlete
PAX: Ocho, Munge, Biohack, OBrother, Hoorayus, Flying Dutchman, Mathlete, Nerf
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WARMUP:
Tempo squats, imperial walkers, tempo merkins, cherry pickers

THE THANG:
Mosey to recruiting center
Work through stations at own pace, upgrade your level each time you finish a full circuit.
Jump rope – 25/50/100
Agility drill – 5/10/20
Plank extended rows – each side 10/20/40
Thrusters – 10/20/40
Pull ups – 3/5/7
Tire flips – 3/6/10
Airplane flutters – 10/20/40
Ascending derkins – 3/6/9
A break for some Mary about halfway through.
Cleanup and head back to the flag
MARY:
No time
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Iron pax coming at ya!
COT:
Games and Rules
Is a game defined by its rules? I don’t think so, but I think we commonly fall into the trap of behaving as though it is. A game is defined by its activity. I think we play games because there are things we want to do, like run jump throw catch chase problem solve overcome double down, that we just don’t get to do in our daily life. While we could do some of these things on their own, we thrive on purpose, so we arrange a game to make our activity less arbitrary. As we play the game, it becomes clear that some constraints or boundaries will help keep the game alive. Ideally the players see their use and keep to them such that the game thrives.

However, things go awry when the activity ceases to be the focus of the game. With children, this looks like a slow descent into chaos, but with adults this often comes in the form of a focus instead on victory. You can tell this is happening when the rules start to get really detailed, and carefully leveraging rules becomes just as important as the true activity. Sadly, this is the state of most high level competitions, whether they are professional sports or spelling bees. The game loses its joy and just becomes one more means by which the oppressors oppress.

The Bible shows us how this pattern is a transposition of the history of humanity. In the beginning, God gave humanity an activity, to be fruitful and multiply and to work and keep the garden, then he gave a single rule, not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. At root, this is the truly fundamental rule, to choose not to focus on the good and bad of each thing but rather to focus on the activity of God. But humanity, desiring to elevate the self rather than submit to God, began a cycle of oppression that continues today.

Jesus saw this pattern in the treatment the Pharisees gave to the Mosaic law, using it as a way to elevate themselves above their fellow Israelites. But Jesus did not come to abolish this law, which is truly designed for human flourishing, but rather to reclaim its prime directive, to fulfill it by example and to fill us up with His spirit so we might become truly obedient.

ULA

AO: the-project
Q: Haggis
PAX: slappy, Tom Tom, Ocho, Mathlete, Hoorayus, Flying Dutchman, Nerf
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
Lord’s Prayer
Mission of F3
Core Principles
Disclaimer- modify if you have an injury or feel an injury coming on. Do not modify if it is hard.
WARMUP:
SSH X 20
IW X 15
Ranger Merkin x 10
Don Quixote x 10

THE THANG:
Mosey to Brickyard and stop halfway for 2 burpees

Upright row x 15 with CINDY
Aiken legs (15 squats, 15 step ups, 15 lunges, 15 calf raises x 3 modes)
Flutters x 15 F3 count with CINDY raised

Kraken Burpee (3 hand release merkins at bottom of burpee) x 5
Lt Dan 1-5 with coupon, 6-9 without coupon, 10 with coupon
Hello Dolly x 15

Colt 45 curls (10 bottom half of movement, 10 top half of movement, 10 regular movement, followed by 5 of each to reach the full 45)
Bonnie Blairs x 15
E2K x 10 each leg
Burpees x 10
Overhead Press x 15
V ups x 15

Overhead press walk to Staples
Complete 15 Hello Dollys
OHP walk back to Brickyard with 15 curls half way
Something else and then rack the bricks and head back to flag
Half way complete 8 more burpees

MARY: No time

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT: Colossians 3:23-24
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

With everything you do, remember that you are not just serving a client, a patient, your wife, your family, but it is the Lord who receives all that we do.

Also when thinking about your WHY for coming to F3 in the morning, what is your purpose and goal. Think back to your first Q and the joy/difficulty that it brought to know that you are making a difference for yourself. The challenge is to focus on 3S2T (Strength, Stamina, Speed and Toughness: Mental and Physical). Some days you may be able to focus on 1 or 2 and others your can strive for all 5, but whatever you do, just get 1% better.

Prayers for all in attendance and those who couldn’t make it. Prayer requests for Haggis closing on home in 45 minutes.
Pledge of Allegiance

I got to Run

AO: the-project
Q: Erector
PAX: Biohack, Mathlete, Ocho, Rocket, Tom Tom, Icey Hot, landonladd54321, Erector, Nerf
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WARMUP:
15 SSH, 15 Mountain climbers, 10 tempo merkins, 15 Moroccan Night Club, 10 tempo squats, 5 cherry pickers
THE THANG:
Mosey to the amphitheatre. Perform one exercise and take a lap around th creek. Repeat with the next exercise AMRAP.
-20 merkims, squats, Freddie Mercury (2-ct)
MARY:
Flutter kicks and plank
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Dad camp
COT:
Our children are precious. Do they know how special they are to us? Do we tell them?
Psalms 127:3-5 NASB1995
[3] Behold, children are a gift of the Lord, The fruit of the womb is a reward. [4] Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, So are the children of one’s youth. [5] How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them; They will not be ashamed When they speak with their enemies in the gate.

Proverbs 22:6 NASB1995
[6] Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Ephesians 6:4 NASB1995
[4] Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Don’t let angry outbursts be the thing that our children remember most about us.

Ghostbusters

AO: the-project
Q: Tom Tom
PAX: Biohack, Flying Dutchman, Munge, Mathlete, Ocho, OBrother, Tuba (Dylan Cox)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WARMUP:
15-counts in cadence
Tempo squats
Tempo merkins
Projectivators
-> Cherry pickers

THE THANG:
Grab a block and go to the track where there are 24 stops around the 1/4-mile loop. Each stop has a “Ghostbusters” trivia question and an exercise.
Pair up and start at a pole (space each pair out)
Do exercise then try question
Wrong = move 1 space; right = move 2 spaces
2nd time at spot do 2 sets
Can anyone complete 2 laps?

The stations:
10 thrusters
20 Good Mornings
20 curls
15 lunges each leg
20 big boys
20 tricep extensions
20 squats
5 blockies
20 derkins
20 Freddie Mercurys
20 overhead press
20 American Hammers
5 urkie durkies
20 CMU swings
20 LBCs
10 thrusters
20 Good Mornings
15 lunges each leg
20 curls
20 squats
20 tricep extensions
20 Flutter kicks
5 blockies
20 goblet squats

COT:
Romans 8:1-2
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.

If you have accepted the gift of faith in Jesus.
If you have chosen to follow Him.
You are no longer condemned.
The world can tell you suck.
The devil can remind you of everything you’ve ever done.
But you are forgiven.

John 5:24
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

Jesus has placed the Holy Spirit in you.
You are no longer under the law, but under grace.
You are no longer a slave to sin.
Your setbacks and your stumbles are part of your sanctification, for God will take that evil and use it for good.

You are free to do good.
You are empowered by the Spirit to do what you could not do in your old flesh.

Rejoice, my brothers. You are free.
You are not fatherless. You will never be abandoned. You will never be condemned.
Jesus took every punishment you deserve so that you are free to be the man He made you to be.

So go live it.