F3 Knoxville

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Bait & Switch Do-Si-Do

THE SCENE: 44 degrees & gloomy.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Yes, all the right things
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH, Tie-Fighters, Spider Merkins, Windmills, Rocky Balboa’s, Butt-Touchers & Bernie in the Lot
THA-THANG:

  • 10 Merkins at the bottom of Baby Everest for a faint
  • Route 66 with Partners:
    • Going Up, Partners Alternate work out at Each Pole
      • 1 Man-Maker or Squats
    • LBC’s (While Waiting on the 6)
    • Going Down, Partners help each Other Up at Every other light pole
  • Picket’s Charge with 3 Burpees at Landings
  • Partner Stations at the Overlook (Partners Alternate Which Exercise Each Round):
    1. Station
      • Big Boys (10)
      • X-Factor (10 – 4 Count)
    2. Station
      • Box Jumps (10)
      • Step-Ups (10)
    3. Station
      • Box Cutters (10 – 4 Count)
      • Imperial Squat Walkers (10 – 4 Count)
    4. Station
      • Box Jumps (10)
      • Step-Ups (10)
    5. Station
      • Lt. Dan (10)
      • Hand Release Merkins (10)
    6. Station
      • Calf Raises (10 – 4 Count)
      • Carolina Dry Docks (10)

MARY:
Captain Thor
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
7 HIM’s.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Following the second greatest commandment of loving our neighbor by being present for others. Inspired by early podcast interview by Steam of Junk and how others in the COT circled around and were their for a HIM in need.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Wesley House Donations, via Matlock’s March Madness Bracket Challenge

Baseball & Magnets

THE SCENE: Misty, slightly chilly morning. Perfect short sleeve hoodie weather…

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER Done and done well. 

WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH IC x10 | LBAC IC x10 each way | Michael Phelps | Little of This, Little of That | Tempo Squats IC x10 

THA-THANG:

Mosey to Coliseum with a pit stop for 10 Merkins, 10 Squats, 10 BBS on the way

Ghostman Baseball at the Coliseum 

Partner up and one partner runs to first, completes the exercise, returns home while their partner does the Home exercise. Switch when running partner returns. Second round: Run to 1st, do the exercise, run to second, do the exercise, return home. Continue the pattern until you reach home. You do not need to run back from home. 

  • First Base (1st tree up the right side)
    • 10 Squat Jumps
    • Hello Dolly at Home 
  • Second Base (Steps of the Admin building)
    • 20 calf raises
    • Flutter Kicks at Home 
  • Third Base 
    • 30 Imperial Squat Walkers 
    • V-ups at Home 
  • Home Plate 
    • 5 Body Builder +’s 
    • LBCs at Home

Opposites Attract 

Partner up. 5 partner Merkins (facing each other, do a merkin and clap hands at the top, switching hands each time). Run to the opposite end of the coliseum, do 5 Burpees, race back to the middle. The losing partner has to do an extra Body Builder+ when returned to the middle. 5 Rounds, dropping 1 Burpee each round.

Fellowship Mosey transitioning to Regular Mosey back to the AO 

MARY:

SSH IC x10 | “Feet together down” stretch for the last 10 seconds before time is called 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

12 PAX; 0 FNGs

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Job 1:21 “The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away.” 

I have spent most of my life in comfort. In recent years I have had hard times (financially, mentally, spiritually, physically, etc.), but not near as difficult as those that are truly in need. Today, I saw the men of the Asylum AM step up for a family that they did not even know, for a guy who is a regular at a completely different AO across town. I put the word out last night that a family at my school was in need. They don’t have the resources to get their daughter to school in order to graduate. The nature of my school (which, while a Knox County Public High school) is that it has ‘less than ideal’ transportation options and this family does not have the means to buy gas in order to get their daughter to school. She is a senior on the cusp of graduation and needs to attend regularly to earn her diploma. The generosity of the PAX of the Asylum, both in attendance and not, was overwhelming to me. I will be able to present this family with a $250 gas card from Weigals tomorrow morning. 

I say it often, but it is ALWAYS worth repeating… The High Impact Men of F3 and F3Knoxville are the best men I know. Jumping at opportunities to make our community a better place. I don’t know where I would be without this group, and I know that if I ever need anything, an F3 HIM will be right there to help me along the way. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Continue donations to The Wesley House

Convergence at JUCO on July 2nd 

Bro-lympics coming in November 2022

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Steam Can’t Count Because He’s Not A Professional, But It Was Still A Pretty Good Q

[ The Scene ]

TBSIA (The Best Sunrise In America) was slowly beginning to arrive on the scene.

[ Welcome/Disclaimer ]

  • Welcome to F3: Fitness, Fellowship, Faith
  • My name is Steam and I’ll be your Q this morning
  • A few things before we begin however:
    • I’m not a professional
    • You’re here on your own volition
    • If you need to modify anything we do this morning feel free to do so. But in that moment of potential modification ask yourself this question: CAN I DO BETTER? Then ask the HIM on your left and right if they can as well.

[ Warm o Rama ]

  • Motivator: 5 (Steam can’t count to 5 for Motivators so he will need a Q101 soon)
  • Baby Arm Circles: 10×4 F / 10×4 B
  • Mountain Climber: 10×4
  • Merkin: 10×4

[ The Thang ]

(Mosey to the flagpole)

(1) Flagpole — 5s

  • 5 Xs: 25 reps on a 1 count
    • SSH
    • Merkin
    • Squat
    • LBC
    • American Hammers
  • 5 stations
    • Flagpole: 25 SSH
    • Corner 1 of parking lot: 25 merkins
    • Corner 2 of parking lot: 25 squats
    • Corner 3 of parking lot: 25 LBCs
    • Corner 4 of parking lot: 25 AHs
  • The movements
    • 5 rounds
    • Doing your SSHs here, running to corner 1 and doing that exercise, running back here, and rinse and repeat what you just did, but adding the next corner into the mix
    • For example: SSH, merkins, squats — back to the flagpole
    • Adding a corner each time until you’ve done all 4 corners in one round
  • Recover back here when you’re done

(Mosey to The 3 Strands)

(2) The 3 Strands

  • Strand 1 (Far Left) — run to the other side + execute 5 man-makers + run back on strand 1
  • Strand 2 (Middle) — run to the other side + execute 10 man-makers + run back to the other side
  • Strand 3 (Far Right) — run to turn other side + execute 15 man makers + run back to the other side
  • You’re always starting on this side, and running back to this side after the man-makers

(Mosey to The Dock)

(3) The Dock

  • Core 4 25×4
    • LBCs
    • Cockroaches
    • Flutter kicks
    • Reverse BBS

(Mosey back to the Pavilion)

  • 10 step ups
  • Run to the parking lot (AO)
  • Execute 50 SSH (1 count)
  • Rinse and Repeat

[ Mary ]

Down + Back sprints and squats and merkins across the parking lot

Cash-Out: ATMs

[ COT ]

  • # off
  • Name o Rama
  • FNGs
  • BOM

[ The Zelensky Leadership Model ]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s response to a potential airlift from the U.S., in light of Russia invading Ukraine, has gotten a lot of attention and spotlight over the past week or so. Here was Zelensky’s response: “I need ammunition, not a ride.”

Take the politics, the names, positions, locations out of this and what do you have? You have an incredible leadership principle +  model. In this specific situation, you have a leader asking for the tools to stay in the fight, rather than taking the first chance to get out. And don’t we do the opposite of this in our lives sometimes?

If you subscribe to the Christian faith, here’s what this can sound like, at least for me sometimes:

“God if you would just airlift me out of this situation.”

“God please get me out of this.”

If you don’t, and more culturally speaking, the soundtrack of this goes something like this:

“That’s not my job/problem.”

“This is a sign that this isn’t what the universe has for me.”

—versus—

“God supply me what I need to stay in the fight.”

“God – you have me here for a reason. Please supply me with the tools to do your will.”

—Or—

“What tools do I have at my disposal to attempt to make this situation better?”

So what is the “ammunition” that helps us keep the faith + fight the good fight, even when the fight we’re in seems insurmountable? If you’re a follower of Jesus is the Bible or the word of God. So then we take this leadership principle from Zelensky and ask ourselves “Am I asking for ammunition to fight the enemy or simply looking and waiting for a way out?” 

Takeaway: The world needs more High Impact Men that are willing to stay in the fight and ask for the ammo/tools to battle, than jump ship after the first shot is fired. Because here’s what HIM do: 3 things

  • They don’t flee from the fight, they stay rooted in the darkest of night
  • They don’t look for an extraction point, they find and create rallying points
  • They don’t escape, they elevate

“Quit looking for rides out and start asking for ammunition to stay rooted where you are.”

The Saint Francis

THE SCENE: Cool around 44 degrees but spring was in the air!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
25 4ct SSH, 10 Tempo Merkins, 12 4ct Mountain Climbers, 12 4ct Freddie Mercury, Stretch it out and Rocky Balboa’s (20 on 4ct)
THA-THANG:
Thang 1 in the main parking lot (Merkins and Suicides)

  • 20 Merkins 1 Suicide
  • 15 Merkins 2 Suicides
  • 10 Merkins 3 Suicides
  • 5 Merkins 4 Suicides

Thang 2 2 Rounds (10 Reps then 5 Reps) of 4 Corners

Corner 1 perform:

10 Burpees, 10 Jump Squats, 10 Carolina DD, and 10 Big Boys

Corner 2 Drop the first exercise, and so on

Rinse and repeat for round 2 but drop reps to 5

Thang 3

2 Rounds at Cloud of 15 dips and 15 table rows then…

Thang 4

2 Trips around the pavilion: Bear Crawl sides and lunge ends

Up to the AO parking lot for 12 4ct flutters at all 4 corners

 

MARY:
Cashed out with some ATM’s
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Prayer by Saint Francis

Lord make Me an instrument of Your peace
Where there is hatred let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light.
Where there is sadness joy.
O Divine master grant that I may
Not so much seek to be consoled as to console
To be understood, as to understand.
To be loved. as to love
For it’s in giving that we receive
And it’s in pardoning that we are pardoned
And it’s in dying that we are born…
To eternal life.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

World Wide Webb

THE SCENE: Shorts Weather and Mitten Conditions
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH, Stretchies, Tie Fighters. I would have taken us all the way but I knew we needed unblasted shoulders.
THE WORLD WIDE WEBB:
Jack Webb + lap

The Pop-up Ad (Jump Squat/2-ct Iron Mike) +2 laps

The Cryptobubble (Dip/2-ct Aw Yeah) + lap

The Compuserve (Table Row + Bicycle) + AO/Baby Everest lap

The Dark Webb (Burpee/SSH)

The Dark Webb turns out to be pretty dark and the Q was toast. Crab Legs is made of sterner stuff so he led us in a Bicep Burnout. Mall Walkers halfheartedly joined us for Tempo Squats. The addition of Gibbler turned the mumblechatter into a mumbleroar, as predicted.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Dads, yours and your kids’

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
¡ASYLUM CSAUP THIS SATURDAY!