F3 Knoxville

Little Captain

THE SCENE:  Pretty morning.  Around 39 degrees at circle up
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

25 4ct ssh , 12 baby arm circles front and back, 10 dive bombers, 12 imperial walkers and 2 laps
THA-THANG:
4 Cones:

Flagpole at the pavilion

Bottom of Baby Everest

Heading up Dragons Tail

Bend heading towards the cloud

Perform 10 diamond Merkins at cone one, 10 4ct LBC at cone 2, 10 man makers at cone 3, and 10 4ct Hello Dolly’s at 4.  Rinse and repeat 4 times

Mosey to flagpole for session of 10 merkins, 10 4ct flutters, then 9 merkins 9 4ct flutters…all the way to 5 merkins and 5 4ct flutters.  Then we went back up 6 reps, 7 reps…up to 10

then to bleachers:

step ups on bleachers with 1 squat at every step on the way up and on the way down.  Then 5 jump squats at the bottom.  Rinse and repeat 5 times

MARY:
20 4 count hello dolly’s and 20 4ct freddy mercury’s
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
We tend to look at the big picture too much.  All God is asking us to do is today.  Do what he has asked us to do today in the moment.  When we are faithful and do that, we string them together and we end up where he desires.  Lamentations 3:22-23
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Bait & Switch Do-Si-Do

THE SCENE: 44 degrees & gloomy.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Yes, all the right things
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH, Tie-Fighters, Spider Merkins, Windmills, Rocky Balboa’s, Butt-Touchers & Bernie in the Lot
THA-THANG:

  • 10 Merkins at the bottom of Baby Everest for a faint
  • Route 66 with Partners:
    • Going Up, Partners Alternate work out at Each Pole
      • 1 Man-Maker or Squats
    • LBC’s (While Waiting on the 6)
    • Going Down, Partners help each Other Up at Every other light pole
  • Picket’s Charge with 3 Burpees at Landings
  • Partner Stations at the Overlook (Partners Alternate Which Exercise Each Round):
    1. Station
      • Big Boys (10)
      • X-Factor (10 – 4 Count)
    2. Station
      • Box Jumps (10)
      • Step-Ups (10)
    3. Station
      • Box Cutters (10 – 4 Count)
      • Imperial Squat Walkers (10 – 4 Count)
    4. Station
      • Box Jumps (10)
      • Step-Ups (10)
    5. Station
      • Lt. Dan (10)
      • Hand Release Merkins (10)
    6. Station
      • Calf Raises (10 – 4 Count)
      • Carolina Dry Docks (10)

MARY:
Captain Thor
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
7 HIM’s.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Following the second greatest commandment of loving our neighbor by being present for others. Inspired by early podcast interview by Steam of Junk and how others in the COT circled around and were their for a HIM in need.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Wesley House Donations, via Matlock’s March Madness Bracket Challenge

Steam Can’t Count Because He’s Not A Professional, But It Was Still A Pretty Good Q

[ The Scene ]

TBSIA (The Best Sunrise In America) was slowly beginning to arrive on the scene.

[ Welcome/Disclaimer ]

  • Welcome to F3: Fitness, Fellowship, Faith
  • My name is Steam and I’ll be your Q this morning
  • A few things before we begin however:
    • I’m not a professional
    • You’re here on your own volition
    • If you need to modify anything we do this morning feel free to do so. But in that moment of potential modification ask yourself this question: CAN I DO BETTER? Then ask the HIM on your left and right if they can as well.

[ Warm o Rama ]

  • Motivator: 5 (Steam can’t count to 5 for Motivators so he will need a Q101 soon)
  • Baby Arm Circles: 10×4 F / 10×4 B
  • Mountain Climber: 10×4
  • Merkin: 10×4

[ The Thang ]

(Mosey to the flagpole)

(1) Flagpole — 5s

  • 5 Xs: 25 reps on a 1 count
    • SSH
    • Merkin
    • Squat
    • LBC
    • American Hammers
  • 5 stations
    • Flagpole: 25 SSH
    • Corner 1 of parking lot: 25 merkins
    • Corner 2 of parking lot: 25 squats
    • Corner 3 of parking lot: 25 LBCs
    • Corner 4 of parking lot: 25 AHs
  • The movements
    • 5 rounds
    • Doing your SSHs here, running to corner 1 and doing that exercise, running back here, and rinse and repeat what you just did, but adding the next corner into the mix
    • For example: SSH, merkins, squats — back to the flagpole
    • Adding a corner each time until you’ve done all 4 corners in one round
  • Recover back here when you’re done

(Mosey to The 3 Strands)

(2) The 3 Strands

  • Strand 1 (Far Left) — run to the other side + execute 5 man-makers + run back on strand 1
  • Strand 2 (Middle) — run to the other side + execute 10 man-makers + run back to the other side
  • Strand 3 (Far Right) — run to turn other side + execute 15 man makers + run back to the other side
  • You’re always starting on this side, and running back to this side after the man-makers

(Mosey to The Dock)

(3) The Dock

  • Core 4 25×4
    • LBCs
    • Cockroaches
    • Flutter kicks
    • Reverse BBS

(Mosey back to the Pavilion)

  • 10 step ups
  • Run to the parking lot (AO)
  • Execute 50 SSH (1 count)
  • Rinse and Repeat

[ Mary ]

Down + Back sprints and squats and merkins across the parking lot

Cash-Out: ATMs

[ COT ]

  • # off
  • Name o Rama
  • FNGs
  • BOM

[ The Zelensky Leadership Model ]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s response to a potential airlift from the U.S., in light of Russia invading Ukraine, has gotten a lot of attention and spotlight over the past week or so. Here was Zelensky’s response: “I need ammunition, not a ride.”

Take the politics, the names, positions, locations out of this and what do you have? You have an incredible leadership principle +  model. In this specific situation, you have a leader asking for the tools to stay in the fight, rather than taking the first chance to get out. And don’t we do the opposite of this in our lives sometimes?

If you subscribe to the Christian faith, here’s what this can sound like, at least for me sometimes:

“God if you would just airlift me out of this situation.”

“God please get me out of this.”

If you don’t, and more culturally speaking, the soundtrack of this goes something like this:

“That’s not my job/problem.”

“This is a sign that this isn’t what the universe has for me.”

—versus—

“God supply me what I need to stay in the fight.”

“God – you have me here for a reason. Please supply me with the tools to do your will.”

—Or—

“What tools do I have at my disposal to attempt to make this situation better?”

So what is the “ammunition” that helps us keep the faith + fight the good fight, even when the fight we’re in seems insurmountable? If you’re a follower of Jesus is the Bible or the word of God. So then we take this leadership principle from Zelensky and ask ourselves “Am I asking for ammunition to fight the enemy or simply looking and waiting for a way out?” 

Takeaway: The world needs more High Impact Men that are willing to stay in the fight and ask for the ammo/tools to battle, than jump ship after the first shot is fired. Because here’s what HIM do: 3 things

  • They don’t flee from the fight, they stay rooted in the darkest of night
  • They don’t look for an extraction point, they find and create rallying points
  • They don’t escape, they elevate

Quit looking for rides out and start asking for ammunition to stay rooted where you are.

Roxanne for Charmin

Workout

Stairs always 🐰 hop

Every stop with no music

5 mountain stompers, 10 Hand release,15 bbq squat, 20 lbc 4 count

Chambawamba

  • start with SSH at beginning of song, then every time they say, “I get knocked down, but i get up again” you do a Getup. While not doing get ups, you are continuously doing SSH.

Bodies

  • Plank. When you hear bodies hit the floor do donkey kick(), when they count(1,2,3,4) do a Merican

Roxanne

  • Al gore, When your hear Roxanne drop to plank, when you hear red light “squat jump”

Moby (boat/canoe)

  • When you hear bring sally up boat, bring sally down canoe

Proverbs 13:3

Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life;

he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Proverbs 10:19

‘When words are many, sin is not absent, but the wise hold their tongues’.

Abraham Lincoln said, ‘It is better to be silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt!’

And It Was Good

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

Lap around the parking lot, 20 Side Straddle Hops, 10 Burpees, 10 Twistees, 10 Windmills, 10 Baby Arm Circles Forward and 10 Backward, 5 Wide Arm Circles Forward and Backward.
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the Caribbean.  We will run Candy Cane with the following exercises at every other island, then sweep back.

  • 20 Merkins
  • 15 Iron Mikes (both legs = 1)
  • 20 Big Boy Sit-ups.

Mosey to street side end of the Serpentine Sidewalk.  We will Bear Crawl one light and sprint four lights all the way down the Serpentine Sidewalk until it hits the perimeter trail.  There, we will do 20 Bicycle Kicks, 4 ct.

Mosey to Cardiac.  We will go up Cardiac, stopping to do the following exercises along the way:

  • At start:  20 American Hammers (4 ct)
  • First turn:  20 Flutter Kicks (4 ct)
  • Second turn:  20 Hello Dollies (4 ct)
  • Third turn:  20 Decline Merkins
  • Benches:  20 Bench Dips

Mosey to bottom of mini-cardiac.  We will Bernie up to the park sign, then run to the top.  Run back down to AO.

MARY:
Stretching
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
15 men, no FNGs.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

And It Was Good

Some verses from Genesis, Chapter 1:

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. 

And God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry land Earth,[d] and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.

12 The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 13

And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars. 17 And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18 to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 

20 And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds[g] fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.” 21 So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 

25 And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

26 Then God said, “Let us make man[h] in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

27 So God created man in his own image,
    in the image of God he created him;
    male and female he created them.

31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.

One sentence that echoes through the creation story of the Bible is, “God saw that it was good.”  And, indeed, His creation is good.  That is easy to see here in East Tennessee where, as Crawdad would say, we are blessed to view “best sunrise in America.”

Amidst the strife and toil of our world, amidst Covid 19, the conflict among our people, the wars between nations, we may fail to recognize the blessings of God’s creation.  We, as human, may sometimes mess things up.  But God is good and his creation is good.

Let us recognize the blessings of the earth and firmament.  Let us rejoice in it, be stewards of it, and protect it.

MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Steam’s girlfriend who has Covid, and for his girlfriend’s mother who has cancer.  His girlfriend lives with her mother and, although quarantining, is worried about giving her mother, whose immune system is compromised, cancer.  Prayer’s for Steam’s good friend, Nathan, whose mother recently died.  Prayers for a coworker of Pusher.  The coworker had to leave work early today to go the the hospital where his stepfather is in critical condition.  Prayers for Operation as he and his wife have been working at getting pregnant for three years now in hope of having a baby.