F3 Knoxville

Stop Stopping

THE SCENE: Insert info about the weather, etc.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

60 and warm

THA-THANG:

Warm-up
One Squat
Mosey to the ThunderDome.

Workout (35 minutes): Perform each exercise for 40 seconds, followed by a 20-second rest. Repeat the circuit twice.

1. Catalina Wine Mixer: Burpees
2. Mountain Climbers: Mountain Climbers (No modification needed)
3. Monkey Humpers: Jump Squats
4. Low Slow Flutter: Plank
5. Lunges in Cadence: Alternating Lunges
6. Merkins: Push-ups
7. Freddie Mercury: Bicycle Crunches
8. High Knees: High Knees

Cooldown (5 minutes): – No time
1. Side Straddle Hop – 1 minute
2. Shoulder Pretzels – 30 seconds forward, 30 seconds backward
3. Standing Quad Stretch – 30 seconds each leg
4. Standing Hamstring Stretch – 30 seconds each leg
5. Shoulder Rolls – 30 seconds forward, 30 seconds backward

Remember to adjust the exercises based on your fitness level and feel free to modify them as needed. Take breaks when necessary and stay hydrated throughout the workout. Enjoy!

MARY:
Stop Stopping!

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Use the TAGS on right-side to record PAX (BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOURSELF) in attendance. Be sure to select the AO in CATEGORY above TAGS and then delete these notes!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Insert the WORD here.
MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

Truck Stop Saturday 6-11-22

THE SCENE: Low humidity.  Ideal temp.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: added a rapid fire pre-workout name-o-rama and struggled to remember all 5 F3 Pillars

WARM-O-RAMA:
typical
THA-THANG:
EV.1 – PAX mosey’d to the upper field to complete the Ab Circuit below – 4 exercises; 4 sets per exercise before moving to the next; 30 seconds of work and 15 seconds of rest

1 – Elbow Plank     2 – Flutter Kick     3 – Full Range Freddie Merc     4 – Dead Bug / X-Up

EV.2 – 1-Mile Mosey around the perimeter greenway

EV.3 – Bleacher E.M.O.M – prescribed rep count for each exercise, every minute on the minute for 10 minutes

1 – High Stepper x 10 (2=1)     2 – Air Squat x 5 (10 for some)     3 – Imperial Walker x 10 (2=1)

  • after the 10th minute – PAX scaled the bleacher and charged up the hill to the greenway, then mosey’d back to Field 1 for EV.4

EV.4 – Touchdowns – 4 rounds of the following – perform the rep-count of the round’s exercise on the end line of the field, then run to the other side of the field and do the same before running back to the start.  Early finishers circle back for the Six

– Round 1 – 20 Merkins (Lunge to the Six)

– Round 2 – 15 Reverse Crunches (Bear Crawl to the Six)

– Round 3 – 10 Prisoner Get-Ups (Run to the Six)

– Round 4 – 5 Burpees (Encourage the Six)

MARY:
Group Merkins in Ring-of-Fire Format (3,2,1,1,2,3)
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 HIMs and a 2.0 (Champ)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Invite Christ into the areas of your life that are holding you back.  That’s where He wants to be.  Break the cycle.
MOLESKIN:
2 Corinthians 5:17 – Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.   The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
July 2nd convergence at JUCO.  No Truck Stop (or any other workouts) that day.

Hide-n-go-work-out

THE SCENE: Dry-ish, 60°
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Side Straddle Hops, Cherry Pickers, Maracan Night Clubs, Kick Throughs, Windmills, Mountain Climbers
THA-THANG:
Two Teams of 4 followed a map to locations with prescribed exercises at each spot.  Counts are per man.  If you finished early you help the guys still working so you stay as a team.

  • 20 dips & 10 right leg squats & 10 left leg squats
  • Merkin city      10 wide 10 regular 10 canyon
  • 15 leg raises & 30 smurf jax
  • 10x  Loading dock jump ups & run down Ramp, 2 Donkey Kick
  • 20 4ct Flutter kicks & 10 kick throughs
  • 10 (or amrap) Pull ups  & 10 (or Amrap) hanging Heels to heaven
  • CMU: 20 Overhead Press, 20 Tricep & 20 Curls

The catch: It’s hide and go seek style.  If the other team sees you they start a count down from 5 on the walkie Talkie.  If you are still visible at the point they get to 0, 5 burpees for the team. Good time had by all.

I wanted to see someone dive into a bush but no such luck.  Thanks to the guys who got into it and hid behind trees (even if they were only 3″ in diameter)  It was good for a laugh.

MARY:
A little bit of time for some BBS and heels to heaven while we waited for the rushers.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

I’ve been reading Judges and there are a lot of “great” men. By worldly standards that is and some trying really hard to be godly men. But there is a noticeable lack of great fathers. Even the good judges didn’t have kids that followed in their ways.

One of these men was a non PG story. Who is the strong man of the Bible? Long hair?God used him; even his sinful and stubborn and perverted ways, but his life wasn’t the life we would want for our sons.Outside of having rather silly riddles and a bent toward violence, his wife was given to a different man after his wedding feast. Frequented prostitutes. Eyes gouged out. Years in prison. Died in a suicidal building collapse.

Yet, God used him. We’ll never know how God would have used him had his Parents told him no. If he had learned to control his desires.  But instead we see the young Samson say of a Philistine woman to his dad: “Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”

We as fathers need to tell our kids no. Tell them to curb their appetite for what they feel they need so they can learn to win over the desires of this world, over sexual desire, over selfishness. It’s not easy.  Laying aside His own interests for the interests of others is what we celebrate this weekend – Jesus did that perfectly.

If we get out here and get as strong as Samson and not figure out how to be a good father – we will have missed the mark.  Being a good father is about daily caring about the spiritual development of your kids.  That’s going to look very different for each kid, but be praying for your kids, talking with them about spiritual things and having the hard conversations.  Don’t avoid the uncomfortable conversation or hard consequences win out over spiritual growth of your kids. I don’t have it all figured out- I’m talking to myself as much as anyone, but I’d love to talk it out over coffee or on a run.

And here is a tip – you can’t do it on your own strength.  Ask the Holy Spirit, in the power of Jesus’ name to guide you in your parenting.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Family friendly workout at the Project Saturday, 7am.

Plan for the CSAUP May 7 9pm-12am.  If you enjoyed this mornings workout, that will be 10x better.

Fun with Cones

THE SCENE: Crisp spring morning

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:  This workout comes courtesy of our brother, Waxjob.  Thanks, Waxjob, for posting your old workout!  <https://f3knoxville.com/its-about-the-cones/>

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Cherry Pickers x12 IC
  • SSH x25 IC
  • Burpees x2 OYO
  • Grady Corns x15 IC
  • Burpees x4 OYO
  • Rockettes x15 IC
  • Burpees x6 OYO
  • TN Rocking Chairs x15 IC
  • Burpees x8 OYO
  • Guardrail Dips x10 IC

THA-THANG:

Mosey’d a very short distance to the strip mall.  Split into two teams.  Flipped a coin to see who started with a run.  Then flipped 3 coins and counted heads to see how many laps the team ran around the strip mall.  While Team 1 runs, Team 2 works through the exercise stack together.  When Team 1 finishes laps, Team 2 stops where they are, flips coins, and runs while Team 1 starts work.  When a team finishes the stack, they get a cone and start over.  Keep going until a team wins 3 cones.

Exercise Stack:

  • 10 Jump Squats
  • 20 LBCs
  • 15 Merkins
  • 10 Iron Mikes (each leg)
  • 20 Flutter Kicks (4ct)
  • 15 Monkey Humpers (4ct)
  • 15 Dry Docks
  • 20 Mountain Climbers (4ct)

MARY:

Grabbed some rocks by the guardrails for Grady Corns, Presses, and Bent Over Rows.  20 Guardrail dips.  Mosey’d back to the flag.  Time left for 5 burpees and some flutter kicks.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

John 2 (NLT) – The Wedding at Cana

2 The next day there was a wedding celebration in the village of Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, 2 and Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the celebration. 3 The wine supply ran out during the festivities, so Jesus’ mother told him, “They have no more wine.”
4 “Dear woman, that’s not our problem,” Jesus replied. “My time has not yet come.”
5 But his mother told the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
6 Standing nearby were six stone water jars, used for Jewish ceremonial washing. Each could hold twenty to thirty gallons. 7 Jesus told the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” When the jars had been filled, 8 he said, “Now dip some out, and take it to the master of ceremonies.” So the servants followed his instructions.
9 When the master of ceremonies tasted the water that was now wine, not knowing where it had come from (though, of course, the servants knew), he called the bridegroom over. 10 “A host always serves the best wine first,” he said. “Then, when everyone has had a lot to drink, he brings out the less expensive wine. But you have kept the best until now!”
11 This miraculous sign at Cana in Galilee was the first time Jesus revealed his glory. And his disciples believed in him.
12 After the wedding he went to Capernaum for a few days with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples.

You are Never Alone by Max Lucado

“Of all the needs of the people in the planet, why would _____ matter? Simple. It mattered to Jesus because it mattered to Mary. If Jesus was willing to use divine clout to solve a social faux pas, how much more willing would he be to intervene on the weightier matters in life?”

“He wants you to know that you can take your needs – all your needs – to him. Phil 4:6 ‘Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.'”

Sweating with the Oldies

THE SCENE: Low 70’s with some humidity
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Side straddle hop x 20 (4 Count)

Cherry pickers x 5 

Tempo merkins x 10

Failure to launch (modified to a 3 count) x 10

Scorpions (from plank, raise legs individually as high as you can) x 10

Supermans x 10 (4 Count)

Swimmers x 10 (4 Count)

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the courtyard

  • Dora with one lap around the short path
    • 100 Imperial Walkers (4 Count)
    • 100 Swimmers (4 Count)
    • 100 Mountain Climbers (4 Count)
    • 100 Superman (4 Count)
  • 11’s on the bricks – Dips and Scorpions
  • 30 sec of Bobby Hurleys followed by 30 sec of Wall Sits (2 rounds)
  • Mosey to the AO
    • 10 merkins (4 Count)
    • 10 lunges (4 Count)
    • 10 Failure to launch (modified to a 3 count) x 10
  • Jailbreak to the flag

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

ONCE THERE WERE two brothers who inherited their father’s land. The two brothers divided the land in half and each one farmed his own section. Over time, the older brother married and had six children, while the younger brother never married.

One night, the younger brother lay awake. “It’s not fair that each of us has half the land to farm,” he thought. “My brother has six children to feed and I have none. He should have more grain than I do.”

So that night the younger brother went to his silo, gathered a large bundle of wheat, and climbed the hill that separated the two farms and over to his brother’s farm. Leaving the wheat in his brother’s silo, the younger brother returned home, feeling pleased with himself.

Earlier that very same night, the older brother was also lying awake. “It’s not fair that each of us has half the land to farm,” he thought. “In my old age my wife and I will have our grown children to take care of us, not to mention grandchildren, while my brother will probably have none. He should at least sell more grain from the fields now so he can provide for himself with dignity in his old age.”

So that night, too, he secretly gathered a large bundle of wheat, climbed the hill, left it in his brother’s silo, and returned home, feeling pleased with himself.

The next morning, the younger brother was surprised to see the amount of grain in his barn unchanged. “I must not have taken as much wheat as I thought,” he said, bemused. “Tonight I’ll be sure to take more.”

That very same moment, his older brother was also standing in his barn, musing much the same thoughts.

After night fell, each brother gathered a greater amount of wheat from his barn and in the dark, secretly delivered it to his brother’s barn. The next morning, the brothers were again puzzled and perplexed.

“How can I be mistaken?” each one scratched his head. “There’s the same amount of grain here as there was before I cleared the pile for my brother. This is impossible! Tonight I’ll make no mistake – I’ll take the pile down to the very floor. That way I’ll be sure the grain gets delivered to my brother.”

The third night, more determined than ever, each brother gathered a large pile of wheat from his barn, loaded it onto a cart, and slowly pulled his haul through the fields and up the hill to his brother’s barn. At the top of the hill, under the shadow of a moon, each brother noticed a figure in the distance.  Who could it be?

When the two brothers recognized the form of the other brother and the load he was pulling behind, they realized what had happened. Without a word, they dropped the ropes to their carts and embraced.

Romans 12:9-13

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.