F3 Knoxville

Tag: Mr Jinxy

Leadership

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Lilydipper
PAX: Rooney(Carl Whipple), Glamper, Pusher, Mr Jinxy, High Heels (Henry Ritchie), Lizzy, Curveball, Tenderfoot, CRISPR, Crash Dummy, Switchhitter (Tony), Pele (Jon Lindberg)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
WARMUP: 20 Plank Jacks, Stretches, 10 Iron Mikes, 10 Tennessee Rocking Chairs, 10 Windmills, 10 Little Baby Arm Circles Forwards and Backwards.

THE THANG: Mosey past the parking lot with the nice restrooms to the open field. We will run Pickett’s Charge to the Coliseum. Men are to do 50 Merkins on the way up at any location they desire. They can also split up the merkins so that they are not doing all 50 at once.

At the Coliseum we will do 10 Imperial Walkers. Next, we alternate between Bear Crawls and Sprinting as we go to end of Coliseum Area.

Mosey to the circle where the road to the Coliseum intersects with the main park road. We will do 20 Rocky Balboas on the curb of the circle.

Mosey to parking lot by the Northshore Park Gate. We will do 20 American Hammers.

Mosey to the end of the new pavilion where there are picnic tables. We will do the following exercises, one at a time, and run two laps around the pavilion before doing the next exercise. Here are the exercises:
– 20 Picnic Table Pull-ups
– 20 Bench Dips
– 20 Decline Merkins
– 20 Squat Jumps
– 20 Carolina Dry Docks
– 20 Hello Dollies

Mosey east on the large sidewalk until we get to the end of the ball fields. We will do 20 Squats.

Mosey toward the Outdoor Chapel and then run to stop sign by main park roadway. We will do 10 Tempo Squats.

Mosey to the entry to the Caribbean Parking Lot. We will do 10 Tempo Merkins.

Walk for 30 paces, then sprint to the AO.

MARY: Stretches

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Hot Toddy Quadruple Q (Toddy Quaddy) will be this Saturday, 7 am at the Asylum.

COT:
Message: Bad leaders are more interested in self-promotion than services of others. They fail to take true interest in those they lead. They don’t truly participate with those they lead. They are not that interested in the growth of those they lead.

Good leaders are willing to get in the trenches with those they lead. They take interest in each person they lead and desire their enhancement versus self-promotion.

Bad leaders can suck the life out of those they lead. That leads to burnout for those being led and even quitting

Good leaders breathe life into those they lead. Good leadership leads to excitement, confidence and growth for those being led.

Prayers: For Crash Dummy’s wife who has Covid. For Lizzy who just got over Covid. For all people in this area who have been coping with the Covid, viral infections, or the flu. For those who died in the plane and helicopter crash, their loved ones, and all impacted.F

Cooperation and Accountability

AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: Pele (Jon Lindberg)
PAX: Mr Jinxy, Veggie (Rylen Huddy), High Heels (Henry Ritchie), Pele (Jon Lindberg), Choir Boy, Waffle House (Brady Greene), Lulu (Greg Huddy), Snitch (Cory Beilharz ), lebowski, Honeydew, CRISPR
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WARMUP: SSH x20 4 ct IC, Windmills x10 4ct IC, BAC forward and backward x10, Grady Corns x20 4ct IC, Bolt 45s, short mosey to show pain stations, Cherry Pickers x10 4-ct IC

THE THANG:
We will work together to accomplish a difficult task, which will be completing a high number of reps of various exercises, all together, as a PAX. As we complete the reps, we will cross off the markers to track progress. If we do not complete all reps with 5 minutes left, we end with 30 Deconstructed Burpees, otherwise, we will do Stargazers. I RECOMMEND GETTING IN LOOSE GROUPS OF 3-4. Tasks:
CMU Pile:
– 700 Curls (Marker indicators 20 reps each, 700/20 = 35 markers)
– 700 Overhead Presses (Marker indicators 20 reps each, 700/20 = 35 markers)
– 700 Rows (Marker indicators 20 reps each, 700/20 = 35 markers)
BABY CARDIAC:
– 30 Sprints up Baby Cardiac (Marker indicators 1 trip each, 30/1 = 30 markers)
SUICIDES:
– 30 Suicides (Marker indicators 1 suicides each, 30/1 = 30 markers)
CORE WORK:
– 700 LBCs (2-ct) (Marker indicators 20 reps each, 500/20 = 35 markers)
– 300 Big Boy Situps (Marker indicators 20 reps each, 300/20 = 15 markers)
– 300 American Hammers (2-ct) (Marker indicators 20 reps each, 300/20 = 15 markers)
PAVILION:
– 700 Jump or Step Ups (2-ct) (Marker indicators 20 reps each, 700/20 = 35 markers)
– 200 Decline Merkins (Marker indicators 10 reps each, 200/10 = 20 markers)
– 400 Bench Pullups (Marker indicators 20 reps each, 300/20 = 15 markers)

We actually got through TWO ROUNDs of this! Nice work!

MARY:
Not this time.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hot Toddy Quadruple Q (Quoddy Toddy) next Saturday!!
COT:
So I used this same Q on the evening of the January 6 riot at the Capitol in 2020 because I wanted to do something collaborative, where we work towards a common goal. And I’m doing it again today because we need more of that as a nation, because right now, guys, we are still a broken and lost community.

COOPERATION: I find that activities like what we did today, where guys of different perspectives on life collaborate and cooperate and work together, are very important these days. As the saying goes, Team Work Makes the Dream Work. I didn’t always get to do the exercise I wanted at several points in the workout, but my group did, or it needed to be done reach our goal. I’m sure the same goes for all of you. But there’s something satisfying and dare I say FUN in doing a task together and accomplishing something. If more HIMs around this country would embrace that mentality, I think we would be a much stronger nation.

ACCOUNTABILITY: The second concept that I think this workout exemplifies is accountability. If we didn’t reach our goal, we held ourselves accountable and did the punishment exercise. We talk about accountability a lot in F3, and I think that’s a real strength of this group. Whether it’s giving a shout out to a Brother who hasn’t posted in a while, or hasn’t Q’d recently (Thanks for the call-out, Crawdad!), or guys that participate in Shield Locks, or do a weight loss challenge, or whatever, we hold each other and ourselves accountable. Because without holding each other and our colleagues and fellow citizens accountable for their actions, it is much easier to slack off, break the rules, not make those hard decisions and take those difficult actions that help everyone, including yourself.

SO COOPERATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY. Those are the two concepts I wanted to focus on in the workout and my Word. Those are two things that I think are important to being a HIM and an effective Leader, and two things that are sadly lacking in today’s society.

You Can’t Take That Away From Me

AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: Lilydipper
PAX: Lulu (Greg Huddy), F3 Pluto ( Hugh Nystrom), Crawdad (Robbi Dickens), Swimmies (Nathan Chesney), Pele (Jon Lindberg), Cart Girl (John Sadler) (Chatt, TN), Brick, Veggie (Rylen Huddy), Jumbo(Carter Dickens), Choir Boy, Pusher, Mr Jinxy, Snap Glove (Sean Selos), Beaker (Manny Selos)
FNGs: 2 Snap Glove (Sean Selos), Beaker (Manny Selos)
COUNT: 15
WARMUP: Run Around the Parking Lot, 20 Side-Straddle Hops, Curly Stomps, 10 Imperial Walkers, 10 Windmills, 10 Tempo Merkins, 10 Tempo Squats, 5 Baby Arm Circles Forward and Backward, 5 Pterodactyls Forward and Backward.

THE THANG: Mosey up Mini Cardiac and to the benches by the trail before going downhill. From this point we will do the following: Do 20 Bench Lifts, run to first curve, do 20 Hello Dollies and run back; Do 20 Bench Lifts, run to second curve, do 20 Hello Dollies and run back; Do 20 Bench Lifts, run to 3rd curve, do 20 Hello Dollies and run back. The Clydesdales will sweep rabbits to 3rd curve after they finish the 3rd set of Bench Lifts.
Next, we will continue south on trail and do Nickel, Dime, Quarters. We will do these past the dock area. Once past the dock area we will mosey on the trail until it curves west. We will then resume with the nickel dime quarters until we reach pavilion that is near muscle beach. Here are the exercises:
Merkins
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Jump Squats
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Freddie Mercuries
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Mosey to Muscle Beach. Each man chooses two different exercise machines to do 25 reps with. After finishing, do Baby Crunches until all men have finished.
Mosey to parking lot by the soccer fields. We will go clockwise around the parking lot twice. The first time around we will sprint to one crosswalk, then walk to the next, continuing that pattern around the circle. The second time around we will Bernie Sanders to one crosswalk, then walk to the next, continuing the pattern around the circle.
Mosey to the Bidet. We will run clockwise around the inner circle, stopping at the benches to do 20 Decline Merkins. After arriving back down, those finishing first do Baby Crunches until the six arrives.
Mosey to the Caribean. We will go to the west end. From there we will sprint to the east end but stop at every island to do 2 Burpees.
Mosey toward AO parking lot but stop to get CMU weight rock by the entryway. We will do 25 Overhead Presses.
Mosey to AO.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Polar Bear Plunge on January 1, Smokies Convergence on January 4, Hot Toddy Triple Q at Asylum on January 11.

COT:
Prayers
Prayers for our brother, Sparkler, as he will be getting treatment for Prostate Cancer. Prayers for people traveling at Christmas like Crawdad and Jumbo who head toward Texas today. Prayers for those who are lamenting or suffering this Christmas. Prayers for us that we may be HIMs, keep an eye out for those who are suffering, and be an encouraging spirit for them.
Message

They Can’t Take That Away from Me
2024 was a year of loss and destruction for many people out in East Tennessee and Western North Carolina due to the almost unimaginable flooding and disaster caused by Hurricane Helene. It was horrific to see people losing their homes, their cars, their furnishings, and much of the belongings that they had saved for a lifetime.
As I approach retirement, I couldn’t help but think, “What if that was me?” Jan and I have saved part of our earnings each year through our working years, putting it in good ol IRAs. As we approach retirement we feel that we have enough savings to get by on. But what if that savings were to go away? What if our economy goes downhill and our stock market plummets? What if we lose our assets and home through some unforeseen disaster? Events like Hurricane Helene show us just how possible that can be.
There is a song that has come to my mind quite a few times related to all this. Some of you guys may know that song by Ira and George Gershwin called “They Can’t Take That Away From Me.”
Some of the lines go like this”
The way you wear your hat
The way you sip your tea
The memory of all that
No, no, they can’t take that away from me
The way your smile just beams
The way you sing off-key
The way you haunt my dreams
No, no, they can’t take that away from me.

Those are all things that money can’t buy. I guess that’s why the song has stuck in my mind. If I lost all my assets, what would I have? How about you guys? If you lost your possessions, what would you have? For me, I would still have the love of my wife and children. I would still be able go to my church and see my church family. As for tithing’s, 10% of nothing is nothing, so that would be fine! I would still get to see you brothers in F3. This incredible bond and experience we have is Free 99, baby! And, I would still have my Lord above. In fact, if they were to take everything I have and lay my head down in a guillotine, I might be shaking in my boots and crying my eyes out but I would still have my Lord above.

I encourage you to think about and ponder what “THEY”, that ubiquitous word for disaster in scenarios like we are talking about, can’t take away from you. As for me, I would hope I could survive disasters knowing that there are some things that money can’t buy, some things worth so much more than money or even earthly existence, some things they cannot take away from me.

For the Stats

AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: Choir Boy , Crawdad (Robbi Dickens)
PAX: Snaggletooth (Elijah Tafao), Honeydew, Farley, Pac-man, Wanderer, Butterknife, Choir Boy, Crawdad (Robbi Dickens), Dain Bramage (Will Olson), lebowski, Lulu (Greg Huddy), Mermaid, Mr Jinxy, Pele (Jon Lindberg), Pusher, Snitch (Cory Beilharz ), Steam, Swimmies (Nathan Chesney), Veggie (Rylen Huddy), Waffle House (Brady Greene), Right Said from Nashville and Chum Bucket from Illinois
FNGs: None
COUNT: 22
Stuff was done. See post by Crawdad above :point_up_2: because apparently Crawdad has not learned how to do a formal backblast in slack. First half by me, and the second have by Crawdad, who delivered two messages in the COT:

1. You can’t change your life without changing something that you do everyday.
2. If you come out and enjoy the BSIA, then you should be Qing 1-2 times per year, at a minimum.

Convergence next week, or, as Crawdad called it, a “Brovergence.” Crawdad will be there as a “Brovirgin.” I will not be there because my kids have a swim meet. Enjoy and don’t get hurt. It should help that the sun will be up at 7:00 since it is after the time change.

zuutopia

AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: skewer
PAX: Steam, Brick, Lilydipper, Pele (Jon Lindberg), Qbert, Pusher, Choir Boy, lebowski, Dain Bramage (Will Olson), F3 Pluto ( Hugh Nystrom), Mr Jinxy, High Heels (Henry Ritchie)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
WARMUP:

THE THANG:

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