F3 Knoxville

DORA Bricklayer

THE SCENE: 35 and foggy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH x25, Imperial Walker x10, Cherry Picker x5, Tempo Merkins x10, BAC x10 (both ways), little bit of this and little bit of that.
THA-THANG:
Mosey to location where Blair Witch Project was filmed to retrieve bricks.

DORA in upper parking lot.  Goal was to hold onto your bricks the whole time.

  • 100 — Merkin rows
  • 200 — V-ups
  • 300 – Squat press
  • Partner runs with bricks around island while other is doing exercises.

Mosey to playground for Pull-ups and Flutter-kicks (alternating between partners)

MARY:
Hello Dolly x25

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Encourage the PAX to make memories with their families. Put ideas on the calendar in pen, not pencil.  Make it stick. Make memories. Invest in your kids and your relationship with them. It’s the most productive thing you can do with your time.

If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail.

Getting Misty at the Splash Pad

THE SCENE: Windy. Wet. Wonderful.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Cherry Pickers | Baby Arm Circles IC
  • SSH IC
  • Rockettes IC 

THA-THANG:

Tabata workout: eight 20-second rounds of an exercise with a 10-second rest between rounds. Short mosey between exercises as rain allows.

Exercises:

  • Pull-ups (Four rounds instead of eight)
  • Step-ups with Leg Raise
  • LBCs
  • Squats
  • BBS
  • Dips
  • Lunges
  • Flutter Kicks
  • Incline Merkins

MARY:

  • Didn’t neglect her during the workout, don’t have to make it up to her now.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

7 including an FNG: Jet Lag

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

1Pet1:13-16 – So prepare your minds for action and exercise self-control. Put all your hope in the gracious salvation that will come to you when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world. So you must live as God’s obedient children. Don’t slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires. You didn’t know any better then. But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God who chose you is holy. For the Scriptures say, “You must be holy because I am holy.”

Reading about holiness this week and came across this passage. Part that spoke to me especially was “Don’t slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires. You didn’t know any better then. But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God who chose you is holy.” 

Once we know better, we have to do better. I experience this as a parent: when your 18mo takes a toy, they don’t know better. When your 5yo takes a toy, you know better than that. Once we know better, we have to do better.

For the men in this circle, we have all experienced some level of growth, whether that’s in our maturity & leadership, in our nutrition, in our fitness, but this is a time of year that it seems especially easy to slip back into our old ways: we’re around friends and family we haven’t been around, there’s food appearing that hasn’t been around in awhile, it’s cold and we don’t want to get out of bed. But coasting and satisfying our own desires in the moment will not help us grow, it won’t get us to where we want to go, and it won’t make us feel any better about ourselves at the end of the day.

Today, God is choosing you; he’s calling you to be holy as he is holy. Keep your foot on the gas; keep accelerating.

Earn that pie

THE SCENE: low 40’s…about perfect.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH x20, Imperial Walkers x10, Windmills x10, Tempo merkins x10, cherry pickers x10, little bit of this and that.
THA-THANG:
Mosey to Playground for 7’s

  • Pull-up at playground and v-ups at the flag.

Mosey to splash-pad

20-minute AMRAP of:

  • 50 Squats
  • 50 SSH
  • 40 Lunges (total)
  • 50 SSH
  • 30 Merkins
  • 50 SSH
  • 20 Big Bois
  • 50 SSH
  • 10 Burpees
  • Run to outhouse and back
  • Rinse and repeat until 20-minutes was up.

Route 66 of merkins at each light until we got back to AO.

MARY:
No time for dat.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 HIM’s
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Psalm 103 — a psalm of gratitude and blessing the Lord for his goodness in our lives.  He does not treat us as our sins deserve!
MOLESKIN:
Next time, I’d switch it up and do the same number of SSH as the exercise we are on (so decrease it by 10 each rep)

“These Go to 11.”

THE SCENE: Mid-30s and clear, but it seemed colder after all of the warm weather
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH x 25 (4 ct)

Windmills x 10 (4 ct)

Little baby arm circles forward x 10 (4 ct)

Little baby arm circles backward x 10 (4 ct)

Overhead claps x 10 (4 ct)

Seal claps x 10 (4 ct)

Little bit of this, and a little bit of that

Some Michael Phelps

Burpees x 5

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the tennis courts

11s – from one sideline of the tennis courts to the far sideline of the other tennis courts – merkins and squats

Mosey to the rock pile

11s – from the rock pile to the dock – curls and CDDs

Mosey to the Bermuda Triangle

11s – from the triangle to either the bathrooms or the playground – burpees and pull-ups

Mosey back to the tennis courts

Jack Webbs to 10 in honor of Waffle House’s epic Q at the Asylum on Saturday

Mosey to the AO

MARY:
Flutter kicks x 20 (4 ct)

Side crunches x 20 each side (single ct)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 PAX, which fit perfectly with today’s theme and was completely unplanned

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I had two experiences this weekend that brought me face to face with my arch-nemesis, Time.

On Saturday, I picked up my 1993 Mustang 5.0 that I bought brand new at 16 that I hadn’t driven since 2001.  After 19 years in a garage (including about two years of getting tuned up and detailed), she drove just the same as she did when I was 16 or when I last drove her in 2001.  It was as if those 19 years that she sat in the garage hadn’t passed at all.  With one turn of the ignition, I was 16 again.  Take that, Time.

On Sunday, my oldest child went through his confirmation service at church.  Just like that, 13 years were gone in the blink of an eye, and I was 43 again.  You suck, Time.

As they say, Time is undefeated.

Here is my favorite advice for/description of parenthood: “The days are long, but the years are short.”

Fact: Time does not stop and goes by too fast.

Fact: You will have regrets, no matter how much you try to avoid them.

Here is one of my personal mottos: “If you’re happy with where you are, then you can’t complain about how you got there.”

If you are not happy with where you are, then make a change.

2 Peter 3:8 – But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

So, Time is not undefeated after all.

MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Ribbed’s wife and people who are struggling with addiction, depression, and other problems, especially in these times

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Coat drive

Aiken legs for Equalizer

THE SCENE: 65 balmy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Slow Mosey to the Front of the park as we moved up to the pavilion for the rain
THA-THANG:
Aiken legs

  • 20 Squats
  • 20 Box Jumps
  • 20 Lunges (10 each leg)
  • 20 split jacks (10 each leg forward)
  • mosey to the outhouse and back
  • Rinse and repeat

MARY:
Insert information about any additional post-THANG work (if applicable).
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
done