F3 Knoxville

Cardinal Memorial Q In The Rain

AO: the-project
Q: Biohack
PAX: Boy George, Mathlete, Ocho, Flying Dutchman, OBrother, Munge, Rocket, Biohack
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WARMUP:
15 Side Straddle Hops
10 Tempo Merkins
10 Flutter Kicks
10 Little Baby Arm Circles Forward
10 Little Baby Arm Circles Backward
10 Hallelujahs
10 Knoxville Cherry Pickers
20 Sec. Samson Hold
10 Willie Mayes Hayes

THE THANG:
Choose two points about 100 yards from each other – these will be Point A and Point B. Starting at “Point A” perform Set 1 exercises, then run to “Point B” and repeat those same exercises. Run back to “Point A”.
Repeat this sequence for exercise Sets 2, 3, and 4.

Set 1
5 Burpees
5 Big Boys
5 Heels to Heaven

Set 2
10 Burpees
10 Little Baby Crunches
10 Mt. Climbers Double Count

Set 3
15 Burpees
15 Air Squats
15 Freddy Mercury’s

Set 4
20 Burpees

MARY:
-Telling the Cardinal story
-Abs across the porch
-Squats and lunges across the porch

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
-2nd F Friday at the Greens at 5:30
-Cardinal Memorial Q at Birdhouse (F3RoCo) Thursday at 6PM
-Overnight Ruck w/ F3RoCo 0100-0500 Friday evening/Saturday morning

COT:
What is your legacy? What do you leave behind?

It’s not what you did or what you built, but who you impacted.

Take Steve Jobs as an example. He was one of the most influential men of our lifetime. He literally changed how everyone interacted with the world. However, within months of his death, the company he created (and grew to become the most valuable in the world) released a product he said they’d never sell: the iPad Mini.

Your children and other disciples are your legacy. How will they shape the world after you are gone?

2024 kick off – eleventy-twos

AO: the-project
Q: Mathlete
PAX: Flying Dutchman, Biohack, Munge, Erector, OBrother, Ocho, Mathlete, Rocket
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WARMUP: Projectivators, tempo squats, Imperial walkers, hillbilly walkers, tempo merkins
THE THANG:
Mosey to playground – 3 pull ups, 10 squats, 20 BBS x3
Mosey to friendship bell – 20 rocket stepups, 20 dips
Mosey to K-25 hill – Eleventy-twos (it’s like 11s, except 20-2, 18-4, 16-6, etc.) One legged merkins and hillbilly squawkers.
Mosey to friendship bell – 10 slow derkins
Mosey to parallel bars – 20 inverse rows and 20 BBS
MARY: About 10 seconds of plank
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Convergence at Arsenal on 6th, BigBall on 20th, and get ready for GTE24
COT:
The virtue of innocence
“I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.” Matthew 10:16
“And he said: ‘Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.'” Matthew 18:3

I like to be savvy. I like to know what is going on behind the scenes and play it to my advantage. If I am worried about my kid getting into trouble, my instinct is to learn everything I can about that particular vice and cleverly counter every move before he makes it.
This is not how Jesus operated. He openly, innocently ignored the subtext of his day. He chatted with the despicable Samaritan woman at the well, the untouchable leper, and the treasonous tax collector just like they were his own kin. And it produced unprecedented results.
Fairy tales show us this through the princess. Because of Snow White’s innocence, the huntsman cannot bring himself to kill her in the forest. Beauty accomplishes transformation of the Beast not by being shrewd in dealing with monsters, but because she expects of him just as she does a man. And so he becomes one.
How often do we think we are being clever and shrewd, but actually making a problem worse than if we would just do the simple right thing, as though we were just innocently good?

December metric

AO: the-project
Q: Mathlete
PAX: Biohack, Ocho, OBrother, Icey Hot, Erector, Munge, Flying Dutchman, Mathlete, Haggis
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9

WARMUP:
Windmills, cherry pickers, tempo merkins, mountain climbers
THE THANG:
Escalators
1: Burpees x 5
2: 1 + Squat Thrusters with CMU x 10
3: 1-2 + CMU Bicep Curls x 15
4: 1-3 + Merkins x 20
5: 1-4 + Little Baby Crunches (LBCs) x 25
6: 1-5 + Lunges x 30 (15 each leg)
7: 1-6 + Carolina Dry Docks x 35
8: 1-7 + Mountain Climbers x 40 (two-count)
9: 1-8 + Goblet Squats with CMU x 45
10: 1-9 + American Hammer with CMU x 50 (single-count)
MARY:
no time
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
convergences Jan 6 Arsenal, Jan 20 big ball
COT:
We live in a culture that tends to value masculine virtues like strength and courage, but feminine virtues are just as important. One of these is vulnerability. Vulnerability is showcased especially during Christmas, when God, who is most powerful, chooses to lower himself to the place of the most vulnerable, a baby human, living in a country oppressed by a conquering nation, to poor parents. Jesus demonstrates this virtue throughout his ministry with the climax at Calvary, when he gives himself up to his enemies, though he had legions of angels at his call. He preferred His own suffering and death at their hands over the destruction of His enemies. Vulnerability is necessary for any relationship. Ocho gave us a great quote from CS Lewis’s Four Loves about how vulnerability is a non-negotiable part of love. With those stakes, we better learn to be vulnerable.

12 Heavy Pains of Christmas

AO: the-project
Q: Biohack
PAX: Erector, Flying Dutchman, Biohack, OBrother, slappy, Papa Lock, Tom Tom, Feeny, Munge
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WARMUP:
-Projectivator
-Cherry Pickers
-Tempo Merkins

THE THANG:
Death march to hill on ORAU campus parking lot. Then do the first exercise, run up and down the hill, do 2 + 1, run, do 3 +2 + 1, run, etc. Just like the song.

1. Blockee
2. Elves on the shelf
3. Thrusters
4. Derkins
5. Big Boys
6. Lunges
7. Curls
8. Rows
9. Diamond derkins
10. Tricep extensions
11. Squats
12. Blockees

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
This month, billions of people around the world will celebrate the birth of a Jewish baby in a town in a land that they don’t think Jews lived in before 1948.

The current conflict (and past and future ones) were foretold in Genesis to Abraham by God. He promised that the decedents of his 2 sons would fight until the end times.

The Ocho Ocho (88) Q

AO: the-project
Q: Ocho
PAX: Flying Dutchman, Biohack, Munge, Mathlete, slappy, Icey Hot, Tom Tom, Rocket
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
Disclaimed the brethren.

WARMUP:
10 x each:
SSH IC, TEMPO SQUATS IC, TEMPO MERKINS IC, Mountain Climbers IC, Willie Mays Hayes, Michael Phelps

THE THANG:
Mosey to Bell
– watch your form, don’t blitz through it…aim for perfect form.
– everyone aim to hit 88 reps, break it up 4/22 or 8/11 or whatever.
– we’ll keep working until every man feels like he got the full benefit of that set.
– When you hit 88, start doing LBCs, big boys, box cutters, or flutter kicks (something core).

88 Dips/LBCs till 6 is done
Mosey to K25

88 Bobby Hurleys/LBCs till 6 is done
Mosey to Y12

88 Lunges up the hill/LBCs till 6 is done
Mosey back to Bell

88 Merkins/LBCs till 6 is done
Mosey to Sr Center

88 Curls w/ rocks/LBCs till 6 is done
Mosey to Flag

88 Monkey Humpers/LBCs till 6 is done

MARY:
We call this the Gloom.
Psalm 88 may be the gloomiest of the Psalms. Most end on hope. Not this one. But it’s so good to know God knows that we have days that feel like this and doesn’t turn us away. He calls us to cry out to Him.

Read PS 88 (NLT).

So just like in our workout: when things are gloomy, watch, wait, and pray. Check your form. Slow down. Wait on another guy. Know that God hears you even in the gloom.

Before you know it the gloom will be over. At least till next time.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
ROCO launch convergence. 12 Pains @ JUCO Wed.

COT: