F3 Knoxville

Who Needs Gloves?

AO: asylum-am
Q: Mermaid
PAX: Mermaid, Cat Gut (Mike Davis), Shotgun, Farley, Matlock (Bill Maddox), Hands, Tropicana, Cinco (Scott McGuire), Rainbow, Aquafina, P3, Fabio (Joe Hamilton), Holler, white belt
FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
WARMUP:
What is the best warmup exercise ever? The PAX answered Cherry Pickers, so we did three low and S L O W cherry pickers, followed by SSH, Runner’s stretch, both legs, Up dog & down dog, with some tempo merkins and tempo squats
THE THANG:
Mosey to the pavalon, and remind the PAX that the chose the full Mermaid, and not the lite version.
We proceeded to do 20 lunges, followed by a 30 second wall squat, then subtracted one lunge each round. 19 lunges, 30 seconds, 18 lunges, 30 seconds, all the way down to 1 lunge and a 30 second wall squat.
Following the sweatfest of the above, we went to the picnic tables and did two round of bulgarian split squats, 10 each leg for a total of 20 each leg. We moseyed back to the curb next to the flag and did 20 heel elevated squats. We then divided into two groups. One group stayed at the bottom of the hill and did 5 merkins, while the other group sprinted to the top. At the top, the runners tried to complete 5 merkins before the second group sprinted to the top. We did an up and down hill with merkins, then an up and down hill with squats.
MARY:
We walked back to the flag and finished with going around the circle and the PAX calling a mary exercise, and following each with 10 merkins. We closed out with some simple runner’s stretching and quad stretching.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
10 yr anniversary on the horizon for 11/8
COT:
I want to normalize men being vulnerable. We don’t have to suffer through our problems alone. We can share the trials, and our friends can help us walk through the challenges. I shared a story about a friend whose wife left him almost a year ago, and she also abandoned the kids. He is trying to put his life back together, and it is a real challenge. Pay attention to your friends, be there when you notice a problem, and don’t be afraid to verbalize your problems as many of us may have some wisdom to share so that you don’t repeat the same mistakes we made when we were faced with tough times.

CMUesday for the Ladies

AO: asylum-am
Q: P3
PAX: Tropicana, Sawdust, Matlock (Bill Maddox), Pac-man, Gibbler, Tramp Stamp, Nordberg
FNGs: 1 Nordberg
COUNT: 8
WARMUP:

5 Easy Burpees
39 SSH
Lap around the parking lot
Cherry Pickers
Runners Stretch Sequence
Shoulder Lubricator

THE THANG:

Catch me if you can with CMU farmer carry and 5 Burpees to Poets Amphitheatre

Partner 1 – AMRAP at Muscle Beach
5 pull-ups / 10 Rows
15 Decline Merkins
20 Big Bois
30 Squats

Partner 2 – Poets Amphitheatre

20 deficit Merkins – bottom
20 Thrusters – Tier 1
30 Curls – Tier 2
10 Blockies – Tier 3
– run back and switch with partner

Catch me if you can with CMU farmer carry and 5 Burpees back to AO

MARY: Notta

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Cat Gut Retiremenet lunch on Friday! Make sure and let Rainbow know

COT:

Talked about how fortunate we are to have the women in our lives. M’s, mothers, sisters, daughters. They show us the grace of God through them (most of the time)

Ephesians 5:25, 28 – “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her… In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.”

Rage Q Part II

AO: asylum-am
Q: Waffle House (Brady Greene)
PAX: Rainbow, Cat Gut (Mike Davis), Matlock (Bill Maddox), Cinco (Scott McGuire), Fabio (Joe Hamilton), P3, Pac-man, Tropicana, Tramp Stamp
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7, 8, or 9 depending on who we include
I think I might be more suited to like a Tin Pax, or a Lead Pax. Friday’s workout ground me down to nothing and I spent the weekend facing the sad truth that I am not an iron pax. I took it all out on myself and you today. Thanks guys!

Today’s Copper Pax™ Challenge included a Shoulder Blaster, followed by a First Nations Run (sincere apologies to those offended, specifically Matlock (Bill Maddox) ‘s non-loose and unhappy groin). In this post-Wayne Dunn world in which we’re living, it’s the Q’s fault if a guy inflames a groin like that. I apologize.

But hey! We added 10 years to your life with a Junk Science. We bear crawled a long way. Some quick trips around the baseball diamond while the other guys did ab work. Jack Webb made an appearance during the 7th inning stretch. Home run sprints followed by more bear crawls and mosey home. Couple of trips up baby cardiac to close us out.

Happy Monday! Thanks for getting out there together – what a privilege it is.

COT: a thought from from Alan Jacobs in 2017. His prediction was accurate, I’m sorry to say. If we take our cues about how to think about others from social media (as opposed to the gospel), we will become vindictive moralists like everybody else. Here’s the quote:

“When a society rejects the Christian account of who we are, it doesn’t become less moralistic but far more so, because it retains an inchoate sense of justice but has no means of offering and receiving forgiveness. The great moral crisis of our time is not, as many of my fellow Christians believe, sexual licentiousness, but rather vindictiveness. Social media serve as crack for moralists: there’s no high like the high you get from punishing malefactors. But like every addiction, this one suffers from the inexorable law of diminishing returns. The mania for punishment will therefore get worse before it gets better.”

The F Scott Fitzgerald

AO: asylum-am
Q: Rainbow
PAX: Cinco (Scott McGuire), Waffle House (Brady Greene), Cosmo 2, Matlock (Bill Maddox), F3 Pluto ( Hugh Nystrom), Aquafina, P3
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WARMUP: Started with some good ole SSH’s on the 4ct. Took that in to some Code Brown tie fighters followed by some windmills and tempo merkins. Quick slowzy around the “car park” (for Kentucky) the off we went.

THE THANG: Mosey to the front part of the Asylum for a Route 66 or a Route 78 if you’re Cinco (Scott McGuire) with Merkins. Sweep the group then meet at the cross walk. Grab a coupon (rock) for 50 curls and 50 oh press OYO.
Tim to mosey so we took it slow in the dark up the Asylum PM steps to the Asylum back porch for 2 rounds of 20 incline merkins and 20 dips. Up and back the space needle after each round.
Hit the front porch of the Asylum for some Russell Crook/Crablegs toe merkins on the steps then mosey’d down to the overlook. 3 Ab rounds here with a 20 4ct for each. Flutters, LBC’s, and Heel touches. Saw some OG F3 Royalty rucking (Cap’n Crunch (Ted Ancelet) Woodshack (Dave Carter Proton)
To head back down we hit 5 squats at every tree and lunged in between (insert F3 Pluto ( Hugh Nystrom) joke here) When done took the long mosey around and back down to the pavilion for 2 rounds of 20 table rows and 20 step ups. Had a bit of time left so we headed to Baby Everest for one good sprint up and then circled up to hold plank for about 30 seconds until 6:15.

MARY: Just the plank

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Anniversary Convergence in November

COT: Today was novelist F Scott Fitzgerald’s birthday. Hit the group with this quote of his:

For what it’s worth, its never too late, or in my case too early, to be whatever you want to be. There’s no time limit. Start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. We make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you’ve never felt before. I hope you meet people who have a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start over again.

Random Hills

AO: asylum-am
Q: Fabio (Joe Hamilton)
PAX: Farley, P3, Aquafina, Pac-man, F3 Pluto ( Hugh Nystrom), Waffle House (Brady Greene), Cinco (Scott McGuire), Matlock (Bill Maddox), Hands, Tropicana
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WARMUP: SSH, Tie fighters, Tempo squats, Cherry Pickers, finished w/Tempo merkins trying to give P3 enough time to join us

THE THANG: Left P3 as he headed to the Pavalon to take care of business and headed to the bottom of Cardiac.

Two rounds up cardiac, 20 curls at the bottom, Bernie to the first bend, 20 jump squats, bear crawl to the next corner, 20 CDDs, run to the top, 20 dips. P3 finally joined us on the second round.

After the second headed to the trail of tears?? (Not sure what we call it). Starting at the wall did 5 merkins, 5 BBS and 5 Smurf jacks at every other light till we got to the road. Rabbits did burpees while they waited on the six.

Headed to Everest, partnered up for two trips up each. One partner runs other does AMRAP. First round lunges, second round hello Dollie’s

Headed back to the AO stopping for some CCDs and other random exercises in random spots on the way.

MARY: one deep squat

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT: looking for opportunities to be servant leaders. Lead behind the scenes. Pick up a Q


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