F3 Knoxville

Keep Your S–t Together

THE SCENE: It was an inferno! Perfect day
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER Done did it.
WARM-O-RAMA:
The standard SSHs, Rockettes, Cherry Pickers, little baby arm circles front and back
THA-THANG:
Whoa, man. Like that’s some heavy stuff.

Swing (4 minutes)

40 seconds on, 20 seconds off

Swing the CMU back and forth, focusing on proper form and posture.

Squats (4 minutes)

40 seconds on, 20 seconds off

Squat with the CMU, focusing on proper form and posture.

Lunges (4 minutes)

40 seconds on, 20 seconds off

Lunge forward with the CMU, focusing on proper form and posture.

Merkins (4 minutes)

40 seconds on, 20 seconds off

Place the CMU on the ground and do merkins with your hands on the block, focusing on proper form and posture.

Bicep Curls (4 minutes)

40 seconds on, 20 seconds off

Use the CMU to do bicep curls, focusing on proper form and posture.

Tricep Dips (4 minutes)

40 seconds on, 20 seconds off

Use the CMU to do tricep dips, focusing on proper form and posture.

Plank Hold (4 minutes)

40 seconds on, 20 seconds off

Hold a plank with your hands on the CMU, focusing on proper form and posture.

One round of PAX Choice:  Blockees or Murder Bunnies

Suitcase carry back to Smokehouse

MARY:
No time for love, Dr. Jones
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
10 PAX
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“Keep your $h!t together” – Hold the middle; Live the Golden Rule
MOLESKIN:
Madoff from the top rope. I’ll prep the music better next time, fellas. It’ll be all thrash.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Inch worms again?!

THE SCENE: around 35, full moon and dry
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

warm up stuff

THA-THANG:
I had a stack of about 30 or so cardboard pieces with different exercises and quantities on them. The PAX grabbed an exercise and ran to the next cone, roughly 30 yards away and did the exercise and quantity. Then they ran back to grab another card and brought it up to the cone as well. We continued until all cards were brought to the next cone. We repeated the process along a marked path. Some runs were longer than others, and we also picked up additional cards along the way. Exercise included were as follows: Merkins, squads, toe touch planks, inchworms, Burpees, dry docks, crunches, big boy sit ups, side straddle hops, jump, squats, and maybe a couple more I can’t remember. Quantities varied from five Merkins to 30 dry docks.

MARY:
Not much in terms of at work today. We just finished the last couple minutes with a round of ring of fire inchworms
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
13 in attendance
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
What is a chiral molecule?

A molecule is said to be chiral if the object and its mirror image are non-superimposable, just like our right and left hand. They are essentially the same but completely different. One hand when placed over the other on a table do not line up, but when placed up against them selves they do. In the case of the well-known chiral painkiller, ibuprofen, the (S) or right -enantiomer has the desired pharmacological activity while the (R) left -enantiomer is totally inactive. In the case of Thalidomide, The R-enantiomer is an effective sedative, which has a soothing effect that relieves anxiety and makes the patient drowsy; while, the S-enantiomer is known to cause very serious teratogenic birth defects.
We can see this example with God. God created us in his own image when looking at us, we may look like him, but we are way different than he is. The difference that separates us from him is sin. When we separate ourselves from him we can become ineffective or even toxic and deadly. So how can we change this? Turn away from sin and come closer to God. Read his word, pray to him, follow his commands. When we turn towards him we change.

MOLESKIN:
Inchworms are difficult when you have to do 30 in a row
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill obstacle building. CPR training.

Heavy at the Equalizer

THE SCENE: Just north of shorts weather.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER Done and Done semi-ok!

WARM-O-RAMA:

Typical Blindside Warmup-y things: 

SSH IC x15 | LBAC IC x10 each way | Cherry Pickers IC x5 | Little bit of this, a little bit of that

THA-THANG:

Equalizer’s First Heavy Workout:

Mosey to Smokehouse for CMUs, take to Pickleball Courts. PAX each choose a cardboard piece. Do AMRAP of the exercise while the PAX with the “Blockees” piece does 20. Once done, rotate clockwise to the next exercise. 

  1. Blockees
  2. Goblet Squats
  3. OH Press
  4. Bench Press
  5. Curls
  6. BBS with CMU Press
  7. Lunges with CMU Twist 
  8. Rows 
  9. Jump Rope
  10. Calf Raises
  11. CMU Merkins
  12. Squat Thrusters with CMU

Return CMUs to Smokehouse, return to AO

MARY:

Flutter Kicks IC x20 | Box Cutters IC x15 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

13 HIMs; 0 FNGs; 4 PreRuckers  

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Quote from St. Augustine: 

Now, may our God be our hope. He Who made all things is better than all things. He Who made all beautiful things is more beautiful than all of them. He Who made all mighty things is more mighty than all of them. He Who made all great things is greater than all of them. Learn to love the Creator in His creature, and the maker in what He has made.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The Equalizer will start doing “Heavy” workouts on Wednesdays. While today was obviously Monday, this will start to be the norm on Wednesdays moving forward with the official start on April 5th. Get some diversity in our workouts and promise some of those guys who want to have a little less running in their lives an opportunity to get some work in.

Oh, the Places We Will Go

THE SCENE: Beautiful 27 degree darkness
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH

Abe Vagoda

Rockettes

This and That
THA-THANG:

7s – merkins and pull-ups

11s – big boys and SSHs (4 count)

21s, 20 overhead press, 20 rows

EMOM – 10 box jumps, 10 ground dips, 10 crunches

EMOM – 10 squats, 10 CDDs, 10 freddie mercs

MARY:
No time for Mary
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 HIMs
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Proverbs 1:8-19

A Little R and R (Running and Reps)

THE SCENE: Upper 30s and dry
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Some stretching followed by 85 SSHs
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the flag pole

85 merkins and then run to the Top of the World

85 squats and then run to the dock

85 Carolina dry docks and then run back to the Top of the World

85 leg lifts and then run back to the flag pole

Rinse and repeat until time

Fellowship mosey to the AO

MARY:
Timed it right, so we only held an Al Gore for a few seconds before the clock struck 6:15.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 HIMs

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Today is my dad’s birthday.  He would have been 85.  After almost 6 years, it has gotten easier, but it never gets better.  Time is precious.  Live it up.

MOLESKIN:
Prayers were requested by Ribbed and Blindside and prayers were made.

We didn’t know it at the time, but prayers for the family of our fallen F3 brother, Cardinal.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Check Slack