F3 Knoxville

Skater Haters

THE SCENE: 60ish & delightful

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Cherry Pickers IC | SSH IC | Grady Corns
  • Tempo Squats 

THA-THANG:

40sec at each station. 20sec to move to next station. Take a lap after each round. 3 rounds. Stations included:

  • Pull-ups
  • Wall sit
  • Hand release merks
  • Squats
  • Burpees
  • Step ups
  • Diamond merks
  • Skaters (there was much discussion of the Q’s form, especially as compared to Aladdin’s textbook execution of this exercise)
  • Table Rows
  • American Hammers

MARY: 

  • Flutter Kicks IC

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Malcolm Gladwell – Outliers. All about success. Great book.

Lays his points out through a series of really interesting vignettes—quick read. (Or listen)

Closes the book with this:

“The successful are those who have been given opportunities and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.”

Reflect on the opportunities we’ve been given and how different life could have been 

Reflect on how well you’re leading yourself right now

But also reflect on who you know, who has what it takes to succeed and just needs an opportunity.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Fill that Q Calendar. 7/24 CSAUP

PRAYER

Repeat 1st and 10s

THE SCENE: 60 degrees, clear with a heavy dew on the ground
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

20 Side Straddle Hops

5 cherry pickers

10 LBAC forward and reverse

mosey to the football field

THA-THANG

1st and 10s

North Bound

  • 10s starting with 9 burpees, 90 yard mosey, 1 merkin, 10 yard jail break, South Bound back
  • 8 burpees, 80 yard mosey, 2 merkins, 20 yard jail break, South Bound back
  • repeat until 1 burpee, 10 yard mosey, 9 merkins, 90 yard jail break

South Bound

  • 10 yard bear crawl
  • 20 yard lunges
  • 30 yard Marios
  • 40 yard karaoke run

Fellowship Mosey to the rock pile

  • 10 curls for the girls
  • 10 overhead press
  • 10 rows
  • Mosey to Stonehenge and back to rock pile
  • 10 curls
  • 10 overhead press
  • 10 rows
  • Mosey to the bath-house

7’s

  • Big Boy Sit-Ups
  • Pull-Ups
  • Fellowship Mosey to the AO

MARY:
Abdominal ring of fire

canoe with BBSU countdown from 5

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Psalm 27:1-3
MOLESKIN:
Prayed for Ribbed’s wife, Praise for Trunk’s wife passing her test, prayers for safe travels
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
na

Look For Opportunities, Not Excuses

THE SCENE: Upper 60s, sun rising, birds chirping
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

146th day of the year, 219 remaining

Mother’s Day in Poland

National Sorry Day in Australia

National Paper Airplane Day in the U.S.

On this day in 1868, the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson ended with an acquittal by one vote.  The PAX did not know how many senators voted for impeachment.  The answer is 35.

SSH x 35 (4 ct)

5 burpees since the PAX answered incorrectly.

Rockettes x 10 (4 ct)

The PAX answered incorrectly when asked where Andrew Johnson was from.  The PAX said TN.  The correct answer is NC.

5 burpees

Little baby arm circles forward x 10 (4 ct)

Little baby arm circles backward x 10 (4 ct)

Tempo squats x 10

The PAX correctly answered that Andrew Johnson served as the mayor of Greeneville, TN, so no more burpees before moseying.

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the steep hill to the left of the splash pad, which had never been used before and does not yet have a name.

Tomorrow is my 21st wedding anniversary, so the rest of the workout is brought to you by the number 21.

21s (like 7s and 11s just more of them) up and down the hill

Merkins at the bottom

Big Boy Sit-ups at the top

Mosey to the splash pad

Using the tables and benches – 21 box jumps, 21 dips, 21 pull-me-up rows, and 21 decline merkins

Run around Stonehenge when done and until the six arrives.

Mosey to the bathhouse

21 pull-ups

Mosey to the dock

21 Carolina Dry Docks

Mosey to the Flag Pole

One minute of silence followed by a 21-merkin salute in cadence in honor of the upcoming Memorial Day holiday.

Mosey to the AO

MARY:
No time, but we did 231 BBS during the 21s, which means we also did 231 merkins, not counting the merkins we did outside of the 21s.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 HIMs

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
America is known as the land of opportunity.  It seems like people today would rather have an excuse than an opportunity.  There are plenty of excuses out there for not being your best, doing your best, for not getting out in the gloom in the early morning, for not working hard, for not pushing yourself to your full potential, etc.  But, there are also plenty of opportunities to be better, do better, show up, work hard, step up, etc.  Look for opportunities in life, not excuses.

MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Ribbed’s wife, Lillydipper, Jinxy, Blindside and his wife and their efforts to improve their job situations, Cavalier and his family, Surplus for fartsacking, and Doubtfire for not holding up his HC.  Apologies if I missed any.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP at Dog Pound on 7/24

No One Actually “Enjoyed” This

THE SCENE: Clear and 60ish. 2 Pre-Rucked. 

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER Done and Done

WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH IC x15

Tempo Squat IC x10

Arm Circles IC x 13

Tempo Merkins IC x10 

Cherry Pickers IC x5 

THA-THANG:

Mosey to Flagpole to play, “Find the Cardboard” 

1 burpee for every second it takes the PAX to find the workout (10 seconds = 10 burpees).

Carry the cardboard to the playground. 

  • 25 Smurf Jacks 
  • 15 Plank Jacks (4 ct)

Mosey to Tennis Courts 

THE MADNESS LADDER

4 Rounds, 1 lap at your own pace between rounds

  • 10 Merkins, 20 Flutter Kicks, 30 Squats 
  • 20 Merkins, 30 Flutter Kicks, 40 Squats 
  • 30 Merkins, 40 Flutter Kicks, 50 Squats 
  • 40 Merkins, 50 Flutter Kicks, 60 Squats 

Work your way back down the ladder 

MARY:

We spent our Mary time cheering Tweet-E on as he was the only HIM to go all the way UP and DOWN the Madness Ladder

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA 

15 HIMs with 0 FNGs

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

With the gift of knowledge, we understand the meaning of God. The gift of knowledge is more than an accumulation of facts. Knowledge is often confused with both wisdom and understanding. Like wisdom, knowledge is the perfection of faith, but whereas wisdom gives us the desire to judge all things according to the truths of the Faith, knowledge is the actual ability to do so. Like counsel, it is aimed at our actions in this life. In a limited way, knowledge allows us to see the circumstances of our life the way that God sees them. Through this gift of the Holy Spirit, we can determine God’s purpose for our lives and live them accordingly.

Like wisdom, knowledge perfects the virtue of faith. The aims of knowledge and wisdom are different, however. Whereas wisdom helps us to penetrate divine truth and prepares us to judge all things according to that truth, knowledge gives us that ability to judge. The object of this gift is the whole spectrum of created things insofar as they lead one to God.”

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Memorial Day Murph at Dog Pound. Monday, May 31st at 7 am. Come to complete, come to watch, come to cheer on. Equalizer 5:30 workout will still happen with PLENTY of time to get to Dog Pound for the Murph!

The Equalizer shirt is now live for pre-order at the F3 Store! I think we are just a couple away from 12.

Convergence at Big Ball originally scheduled for June 12th has been postponed due to an event downtown. WH workday is also postponed. 

DogPound CSAUP: Off the Chain 2021 on Saturday, July 24th 0630-0930

Food, Coffeeteria, and a beatdown provided. Check Slack for the sign-up link

Dirty Dozen

SCENE: 60ish & pleasant

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Cherry Pickers
  • BACs | Windmills IC 
  • SSH IC

THA-THANG:

Mosey to Tennis Court. Twelve exercises on the whiteboard of fun. Do 12 reps of each and then take a lap. Go at your own pace & push somebody. Exercises were:

  1. Squats
  2. Box Cutters
  3. Diamond Merks
  4. Calf Raise
  5. Inch Worms
  6. Single Leg Bridge
  7. Hello Dolly
  8. Plank Jacks
  9. Hand Release Merks
  10. BBS
  11. Flamingo
  12. Dry Docks

MARY:

  • American Hammers IC
  • Australian Snow Angel
  • Cobra Kai

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

“So, friends, we can now—without hesitation—walk right up to God, into “the Holy Place.” Jesus has cleared the way by the blood of his sacrifice, acting as our priest before God. The “curtain” into God’s presence is his body.

So let’s do it—full of belief, confident that we’re presentable inside and out. Let’s keep a firm grip on the promises that keep us going. He always keeps his word. Let’s see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out, not avoiding worshiping together as some do but spurring each other on, especially as we see the big Day approaching.”

‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭10:19-25‬ ‭MSG‬

It always irritates me when I go out of my way to take my kids somewhere fun & they end up complaining, because there is nothing standing in the way of them having a good time but their attitude; they are squandering an opportunity 

But when I think about why I’m out here, the three Fs; I’m guilty of the same thing sometimes.

My fitness is not what I want it to be. Mostly because I like cookies. There’s nothing standing between me & fitness but me.

Fellowship: there’s plenty of times that I pass up real fellowship in favor of keeping my head down and being too nervous or lazy to open myself up.

And faith. We read the passage; there’s nothing standing between us and a deeper, nearer relationship with Jesus but us.

The question I’m asking myself today is “how do I want to be growing and how do I need to get out of my own way?”

ANNOUNCEMENTS: