F3 Knoxville

Who Left Their Balls Out in the Rain

THE SCENE: Moist. Dark. Cool. Like a cave.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER (Heavy emphasis on the disclaimer.)

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH IC | Grady Corns | BACs
  • Tempo Squats

THA-THANG:

  • Bearmuda Triangle – three rounds, drop five reps on each round
    • 20 Merkins, bear crawl to next corner
    • 20 BBS, crawl bear to next corner
    • 20 Squats, mosey to next corner
    • Hold squat for six
  • Splash Pad -> Playground – five rounds, drop reps each round, lunge back
    • 25 Dips
    • 25 Step-ups
    • 25 Imperial Walkers
    • Run to playground, perform 5 pull-ups, return to splash pad
  • Elevens
    • Burpees on one end of tennis court
    • V-Ups on the other

MARY:

  • For mary, we all named our favorite orthopedic doctors.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:  Self-pity chisels into stone what discouragement whispers. –Carey Nieuwhof

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Rest, Convergence, Ice, Brolympics, Compression, Podcasts, Elevate

PRAYER

Just Another Merkin Monday…

THE SCENE: AB Morning with a slight wind

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Done and Done 

WARM-O-RAMA:

SHH IC x20 | LBAC each way IC x10 | A little bit of This. A little bit of That | Michael Phelps | Tempo Squats IC x10 

THA-THANG:

Ghostman Baseball at the Flagpole. 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 
    • 15 Merkins 
    • CDD at Home 
  • Second Base 
    • 15 Diamond Merkins 
    • Dips at Home 
  • Third Base 
    • 15 Wide Merkins 
    • Incline Merkins at Home 
  • Home Plate 
    • 5 Body Builder +’s 
    • Pick up the SIX 

Fellowship Mosey through Hans Memorial Field to RockPile for a “Reacher Curl Circut” 

  • 25 Curls, OHPress, Tri Ext. → Mosey to BathHouse
  • 10 Pullups → Mosey back to RockPile
  • 20 Curls, OHPress, Tri Ext. → Mosey to BathHouse
  • 8 Pullups → Mosey back to RockPile
  • 15 Curls, OHPress, Tri Ext. → Mosey to BathHouse
  • 6 Pullups → Mosey back to RockPile
  • 10 Curls, OHPress, Tri Ext. → Mosey to BathHouse
  • 4 Pullups → Mosey back to RockPile
  • 5 Curls, OHPress, Tri Ext. → Mosey to BathHouse
  • 2 Pullups → Mosey back to RockPile

 

MARY:

There just wasn’t enough time.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

13 HIMs; 3 Pre-Ruckers; 0 FNGs 

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

The hardest day to read your Bible, work out, or do anything is the day AFTER you don’t do it. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

2.0 Friendly Beatdown at the Equalizer on Friday 2/18 at the normal time (5:30), no Pre-Ruck. Breakfast afterward. 

Subscribe, Download, and listen to the F3Knoxville Family of Podcasts  

Convergence 7/2 at JUCO 

Bro-lympics are coming back in November

Partner Work at The Equalizer

THE SCENE: cool

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH IC | Windmills IC
  • Baby Arm Circles IC
  • Grady Corns IC | Rockettes IC

THA-THANG:

Partner up & alternate AMRAP of the exercise with running to the next station and back. Teams advance when both partners have done all three exercises.

Station 1

  • Diamond Merkins
  • Lunges
  • Box Cutters

Station 2

  • Dry Docks
  • Squats
  • Flutter Kicks

Station 3

  • Shoulder Taps
  • SSH
  • LBCs

Station 4

  • Hand Release Merks
  • Some other stuff

Ring of fire to 4

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM

PRAYER

Fear Not

THE SCENE: Clear and 38 degrees
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Side straddle hops

Cherry Pickers

Abe vagodas

Rockettes

This and that

THA-THING

Act 1

38 pull ups. Rep to failure, run around Stonehenge

Act 2

7 of diamonds

7 burpees at each corner

14 merkins at each corner

21 squats at each corner

28 big boys at each corner

Act 3

Ring of Fire

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

ISAIAH 41:10

“Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”

JEREMIAH 29:11

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

2 TIMOTHY 1:7

“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”

MOLESKIN:
Praying for Sarah’s hands and for Choir Boy’s move.

Beating Back Sad Clown Syndrome

THE SCENE: There was weather.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: You’re here on your own… etc. etc. etc.

WARM-O-RAMA:

We did a warmup 

THA-THANG:

Mosey to Smokehouse for CMUs; Return to the field for a Prison Break. Cones are set out in 20-yard increments for 100 yards. 

    • Rifle Carry CMU 20 yards, drop and sprint back to start
    • 10 Prisoner Get Ups and sprint back to CMU
    • Carry CMU another 20 yards, drop and sprint back to start
    • 5 Prisoner Get Ups and sprint back to CMU
    • Repeat until you reach 100 yards 
  • Return Journey:
  • Rifle carry to first cone; 5 blockees, rifle carry to second cone; 5 blockees
  • Repeat at each cone until returned to the start
  • Begin the cycle again until the SIX is up

Mosey to Flagpole for Aiken Legs Workout 

20 of each: Squats; Box Jumps; Lunges; Flutter Kicks 

Repeat 3 times w/ no rest 

Take a lap while waiting on the SIX. When SIX is up, they will run the opposite way to sweep everyone back to the Rockpile 

Field 11s (First exercise done at the Rock Pile, Second exercise done at the opening of the ramp)

1st Round: Curls/Squats

…Time called on account it was time to finish

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

11 HIMs; 3 Pre-Ruckers; 0 FNGs

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

In Exodus 32, the people of Israel are concerned. This man, Moses, led them out of Egypt and now hasn’t returned down from the mountain. Where is he? What happened to him? We know that Moses is talking with God, he is actually in the presence of God.

[When Moses returns from the Mountaintop he has to cover his face because it has seen God’s face and is radiating God’s light. Rays of light radiated from his face. These “rays” of light were sometimes misinterpreted as horns and misrepresented in statues of Moses. There is a statue of Moses in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome that shows Moses holding the 10 Commandement Tablets and he has goat horns on his head. When I taught Old Testament, I once had a 6th grader ask me why Moses had devil horns]

While Moses is gone, the people become upset, they become uncertain. In the midst of their uncertainty, they try to take control. Here is God, trying to give them everything He has promised and because they are uncertain, they want to take control. I am tired of waiting, I am tired of not knowing, so I am going to take matters into my own hands. The motivation for the people of Israel was not to turn away from God, they did not want to defy God who brought them out of Egypt. They don’t know what happened to Moses, so they are going to take matters into their own hands and take control of the situation. This is where they ask Aaron to make the Golden Calf. They are not turning away from God to another god represented as the Gold Calf, they are saying that THIS IS the God who led us out of Egypt. 

This is so often us. We turn to idols for sources of trust or confidence. We take good things and we make them the ultimate thing, especially when we are uncertain. We don’t actively “turn away from God,” but rather, I am making God of my own will,  that I can control. I may still say, “No this is God!” But it is God that I can put away when I am done with Him and take him out when I need Him. How often do we treat God like that toy or like that book on the shelf? Take Him down and use Him when we are in need, but return Him to the shelf when we find comfort. You can isolate Him and dismiss Him when you feel like it, that is idolatry. When we do this, we are trading uncertainty for control. 

MOLESKIN:

Exodus 32