F3 Knoxville

Tag: Papa Lock

gloom /ɡlo͞om/ (noun) 1. partial or total darkness.

THE SCENE: Insert info about the weather, etc.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Side straddle hop in cadence 20
Arm rotations thumbs up in cadence
Reverse thumbs down in cadence
Cherry Pickers
Bear Crawl in and hi-fives 2x
Motivators 8x
THA-THANG:
YOU VS. YOU WORKOUT #2
1. ~1.5 mile (2,400 meter) run for time
Distance does NOT have to be precise. Should be approximately 1.5 miles – and the same AO-specific route should be run each time this workout is performed (February / August).
2. Max BBS in 1 minute
Partner up. Partner can hold your feet, if desired. Arms crossed at your chest or hands behind your head. Elbows touch your knees on “up”. Shoulders touch the ground on “down”.
3. Max merkins in 1 minute
Partner up. Partner puts his fist on the ground while other does merkins. Chest must touch his fist to count as a rep.
4. Max pull-ups
Max that can be performed before letting go of the bar. No time limit. Modify as necessary if AO lacks a good bar.
5. Max burpees in 5 minutes
Standard “full” burpee with a merkin and a jump. Clap or don’t clap…your choice.

This workout will be used to set your baseline score.  We’ll repeat it in August and you can see how your King is accelerating!

MARY:
No time.
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:
The warrior ethos (AKA Jedi Training) consist of 13 pillars: commitment, honor, respect, prepared, faithful, fighter, hungry, humble, lover, teachable, firestarter, truthful, and generous.
Each one is tied to a Bible verse.

Hungry: the 7th pillar
The verse for this pillar is Proverbs 15:14

“A wise person is hungry for knowledge, while the fool feeds on trash.”
Proverbs 15:14 NLT

Stay hungry!!

“For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.”
2 Timothy 1:7 NLT
MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
VQ Workout Friday Messy Hobbs
2/18 Family Workout at The Project at 8a

  • AO RECON WORKOUT!
    • Off-the-books workout to evaluate whether a new AO should be planted
    • Spread the word to men you know in the East Oak Ridge, South/West Clinton, Claxton, and Marlow communities!
    • Saturday, February 25th
      • 7:00AM
      • Melton Lake Park in Oak Ridge – meet at the rowing center
      • Leaders:  Biohack and Mathlete
  • HOUSE PAINTING FOR CARDINAL’S WIDOW
    • Cardinal’s widow and kids will be moving to a new home in the Karns area.  Before they move, they need help painting some rooms.
    • March 18
    • We will supply the paint, tape, drop clothes, and roller covers.  Plan to bring a roller frame and/or your favorite paintbrush – or just show up to work.  We’ll have a registration sheet to sign-up for 2-hour time block(s).  We’d like at least 6 men for each time block – more is better.
    • Leader:  Skeletor
  • WILD AT HEART: BASIC RETREAT
    • March 24-26
    • ~$50 will cover food, lodging, course materials
    • Jacksboro, TN
    • Friday 2:00PM – Sunday Noon
    • REGISTER HERE
    • Leaders:  Survivor and ICP

 

Chain Gang

THE SCENE: 36 degrees and a steady drizzle
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Side-Straddle Hops; Tempo Merkins; Little Baby Arm Circles; Harry Rockettes; Tempo Squats; Cherry Pickers
THA-THANG:

Mosey to the awning

The mission: Gather the required hash (tally) marks for each exercise group.  Most hash marks required multiple reps to count, and approved modifications to earn a tally were included.

  • Bodybuilders
    2 burpees (w/ merk) : 1 BB
    3 burpees (no merk): 3 BB
    1 hash = 5 BB, 10 with, 15 w/o
    20 hash marks required
  • Pull-ups
    10 Bent Over Rows : 1 PU
    1 hash = 5 PU, 50 BOR
    30 hash marks required
  • Running Laps
    1 hash = 1 lap
    20 hash marks required
  • Clean & Press (with CMU)
    2 squats : 1 C&P
    4 OHP : 1 C&P
    1 hash = 10 C&P, 20 squats, 40 OHP’s
    30 hash marks required
  • Heels to Heaven
    2 Big Boys : 1 H2H
    5 LBC : 1 H2H
    1 hash = 10 H2H, 20 BB, 50 LBC
    30 hash marks required
  • Spidermans
    2 merkins : 1 SM
    3 knee merkins : 1 SM
    1 hash = 10 SM, 20 m, 30 km
    30 hash marks required

Indian Run with a large towing chain being passed to the back and sprinted to the front

MARY:
Break to do some flutter kicks on the wet ground during the chain run, just to ensure everyone was fully cold and wet before we finished.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Daily Bible Verse:  “A new commandment I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another.  By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
(John 13:34-35, NIV)

What Rules Your Life?  Leonard Sweet urges us to go past the Golden Rule to the Titanium Rule.  He says it’s Jesus’ idea.  This is the way he breaks it down:

  1. The Iron Rule.  “Do unto others BEFORE they do it unto you.”  This was the rule when humanity was first organized into clans.
  2. The Silver Rule.  “Do unto others AS they have done unto you.”  This is the “eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” mentality.
  3. The Golden Rule.  “Do unto others AS YOU would have them do unto YOU.”  The Golden Rule built the best of Western civilization.  But who does it put at the center?  YOU.
  4. The Platinum Rule.  “Do unto others as THEY would have you do unto them.”  The focus moves from you to them.
  5. The Titanium Rule.  Jesus established this rule.  The focus is not on “doing;” it focuses on “loving.”  “Love one another as I have loved you.”

MOLESKIN:
Prayers for those sick and injured.  Thanks for letting me lead!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hike tomorrow; Q101 on Saturday; Help needed for Hardship Hill

Simple…. beatdown

THE SCENE: 49 degrees and foggy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: was given  to the 13 Hims and four 2.0s that showed up.
WARM-O-RAMA:
10.SSH 10. BBSU. 10 floor wipers 10 tempo merkins

THA-THANG:   The PAX each picked a station.. complete the workout,  then run a lap around senior center then move to next station

  • Rainmaker: 20 little baby arm circle, 10 second hold, 20 side fist clinches, 20 forward arm circle,  10 second could hold, 20 forward fist clinches, 20 overhead arm circle, 10 second count hold, 20 overhead fist clinches,
  • Gladiator: 10 Lunges, 4 jumping Lunges, 10 squats, 10 shoulder taps, 10 slow mountain climbers,  4 merkins, 4 commando
  • Ninja warrior: 20 jumping Lunges, 20 mountain climbers, 20 jumping Lunges,  max pull-ups, max leg raises, 40 burpees with jump knees tuck.
  • Ironman: 30 SSH, 20 Squats, 10 cross punch merkins, 10 planks with rotation, 10 elbow plank arm lift, 6 merkins, 12 wall mountain climbers, 12 doorframe rows.
  • Super Saiyan: 4 wide grip merkin, 6 merkin, 4 raised leg merkin, 60 punches, 40 turning kicks, 30 high knees, 10 set ups, 10 leg raises, 10 sitting twist.
  • Bruce lee abs : 20 reps of American twist, leg raises, crunches, heel touches,  modified V-ups, hundreds.

MARY:

Move to the beat. Stop drop roll.  Did SSH until you heard stop=plank hold,  drop=merkin, roll= roll

Box cutters, Awkward turtles, Flutter kicks.

 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11 NKJV
This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil,
Hebrews 6:19 NKJV
Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
Romans 5:5 NKJV

Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart, All you who hope in the Lord.
Psalms 31:24 NKJV

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.
Proverbs 13:12

MOLESKIN:
While living on this earth we will always hope for things… sometimes those things are temporary and others eternal.

  1. Just remember that God is our living hope.. and is building a place for us to have eternal bliss..  so while we are waiting,  remember he gave us his spirit to give us some kind of comfort and keep hope burning.
    ANNOUNCEMENTS:
    . Q101 On Saturday at the project DM Mathlete

. Hike on Friday  DM Slappy

. VQ week Feb 11th

Enemies – So Far As It Is Up To You

THE SCENE: Post rain but a not too cold 43 degrees.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Side straddle hop x 25

Cherry pickers x 5 

Tempo merkins x 10 

Tempo squats x 10

Mountain Climbers (4 count) x 15 

THA-THANG:

Mosey to the coupon pile

  • 1 block for every 2 HIMS
  • Circle up, shoulder to shoulder, facing outward and on your 6, pass the block to clockwise for approximately 1 minute. 
  • At the break, those with the blocks do bench presses. Those without do squats for approximately 30-45 seconds
  • Circle up, pass the block to counterclockwise for approximately 1 minute.
  • At the break, if you did bench press last time, do squats and vice versa. (1 round complete)
  • 2 rounds completed

Mosey to the large parking lot between the coupon pile and the flag

Parking lot suicides 

At each line:

  • 5 head, shoulders knees and toes with merkin (modified to 3 after 2 rounds)
  • 10 monkey humpers
  • 5 get ups 

Mosey to the flag

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Sometimes when we are facing an enemy, our effort to do right feels like we are just passing a coupon around in a circle, not building anything. Sometimes it feels like heads, shoulders knees and toes…lots of motion but no movement.

I became a Christian when I was 26. For 16 years, I enjoyed life without enemies…not a single one. That peace was broken recently and it has been the single biggest challenge of my faith to date. Maybe it was Satan attacking me or maybe it was providential that I should prepare for it but I taught a class at church about ‘Dealing With Enemies.’

The key to dealing with any challenge, including an enemy is Romans 12:18 – If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men. This takes away the excuse of what they have done to you or how they react or ignore your efforts to reconcile. I simplified that to myself as ‘I can’t say anything or do anything that would keep me from asking them to have a Bible study in the next breath.’ This is ultimately handling the situation in a way that is beyond reproach.  

In context, vs 18 is surrounded by additional guidance: Romans 12:​​14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. 16 Be of the same mind toward one another; do not be haughty in mind, but associate with the lowly. Do not be wise in your own estimation. 17 Never pay back evil for evil to anyone. Respect what is right in the sight of all men. 18 If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men. 19 Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. 20 “But if your enemy is hungry, feed him, and if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Be beyond reproach.

Captivating

THE SCENE: Some sweet gloom, 30s and drizzle with a little sleet to finish!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH
  • LBACs
  • Moroccan nightclubs
  • Grady corn
  • Tempo Squats
  • Hairy Rockettes
  • Projectivators

THA-THANG:

  • Mosey to the recruiting center
  • Stations – Work for 50s / Rest and move 20s
    • Big Bertha – swings/OHP
    • Tire Flip/ Sledge hammer
    • Black Betty – Dead lift/Rows
    • Golden Arches/Lunges
    • Curls/Tri-extensions
    • Heavy Step ups/Derkins
    • Heavy BBS/Flutters
    • Flappers/Clappers
    • Slam Ball – Slam and Hi-throw
    • Jump Rope – speed / doubles
    • Core station – Flutter kicks / Plank
    • Kettlebell – Halos/Halos
  • RTF

 

MARY:
Dealer’s choice in the sleet: LBCs, Heel touches, Prone Rows, (whatever Ocho called), Basilisk, Shoulder Taps, and Burpees to finish from Noisy Cricket!
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
2.0 – Traxis
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

My son recently started reading a new book series called Redwall. It comes highly recommended from a few different folks, so I am sure it is good. One of the books was laying on the floor, and a word on the back cover caught my eye. “Welcome to the captivating world of Redwall”. Captivating. Somehow in that moment, the root of that word was really clear to me – captive. It’s funny sometimes how two closely related words can have totally opposite meanings. Awe and Awful and Awesome. Terror and Terrific. Captive and Captivating.

And I know that is likely to be a good description for my son. When he finds a book he wants to read, he is truly a captive. It often requires a bit of forcefulness to get him free of it, even for the simplest things. But that’s not unique to him, I have the same experience, just with different things. But it’s not my instinct to think of positive things when I hear the word captive. My mind goes to ropes, chains, and bars. But I think it is much more common to be held captive by a pleasure than by force. Pointing at addictive substances is an obvious move here. But our colorful light boxes capture our attention much more often and effectively. Heck it’s pretty much impossible to consume alcohol in the quantity that I have consumed a tv series. Two packs a day hardly compares to the frequency that my phone captures my eyes.

The apostle Paul knew well that our fate is captivity, whether we like it or not. We will be captive, the only question is to What? Romans 6 ends with a classic memory verse, but hear the lead up:

16Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. 18You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

19I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness. 20When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. 21What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! 22But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. 23For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I said the question is What will you be a slave to, but perhaps a better question is To Whom?
MOLESKIN:
Had to add a couple stations because we had such a showing! Developed some mental toughness doing Mary in the sleet.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Q101 on Feb 4, VQ week Feb 13-18, Cardinal Shirt Order on Slack, CPR Training, Escape from Haw Ridge and Hardship Hill planning is going strong – get involved!