THE SCENE: 0530: Wet/Rainy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
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- Welcome to F3: Fitness – Fellowship – Faith
- My name is Steam & I’ll be your Q this morning
- A couple things before we begin
- (1) I am not a professional
- (2) You are here on your own volition
- you made a choice to be here – so did the man on your left and right
- don’t take that lightly – you’re here for them, because without you, they probably wouldn’t be here
- (3) You know your body better than anyone – meaning I don’t know any injuries you may or may not have
- if you need to modify any of the exercises we do this morning – do it. But don’t use that as a cop out.
- see that guy on your left and right? He came here to work so don’t half ass it for him or you this morning.
- We will be doing a modified version of the Murph this morning – it’s not just a beatdown – it’s a workout honoring Lt. Michael Murphy – who sacrificed his life in the Hindu-Kush mountains of Afghanistan for the rest of his SEAL team and country. When we’re all gonna be hurting at some point this morning, we all will I promise, think of that.
- Lock in and Dig Deep – we’re gonna do this together.
- That being said – it’s an honor to be here this morning with you men – I couldn’t think of a better way to kick off Thursday morning than with y’all.
WARM-O-RAMA:
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- SSH: 11×4 (in cadence)
- Cherry Picker: 11×4 (in cadence)
- Rockette: 11×4 (in cadence)
- Merkin: 11×4 (in cadence)
- SSH: 11×4 (in cadence)
THA-THANG:
Big Ball AO –> Downtown YMCA (around 1 mile roundtrip)
- Mosey with 20lb vest and 20lb ruck from AO –> past convention center –> into the Downtown YMCA on Clinch Ave.
- PAX heads up to the YMCA’s Attic, aka badass crossfit style room up top
- QIC explains the history of The Murph, background on Mike Muprhy
- PAX executes a Modified Murph along with hype music over the Attic loudspeakers by the QIC
- Pull-Ups: 50
- Push-Ups: 150
- Squats: 250
- When PAX members are done –> execute flutter kicks on a 4 count (led by Swanson & Steam)
- PAX takes super awesome GP in front of the Y logo #GP
- PAX American-Indian moseys to field across from AO
- QIC goes down the line and affirms each PAX member by a chest-clearing cadence grunt that each PAX member repeats
- TAKE. IT.
- All PAX take the field like it’s their last.
MARY:
Rain still coming down – all PAX are soaked but happy to be here
QIC checks in with each PAX member in the COT: How you feeling? Met with a response of affirmation of being here.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 PAX including Q
No FNGs
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
- I feel like God has been tapping on my shoulder pretty intentionally in ways that I can only explain as divine appointment.
- When you feel that, when you are, uh, awakened to that tapping or divine call, will you take it?
- I’ve wrestled with mine for a couple weeks because it regards my job and the list goes on and on.
- With that I’ve isolated myself. We talk a lot in F3 about the isolated male.
- When you feel that calling or divine appointment, bring others into the fold and share that with them.
- I guarantee any one of us are more than willing to walk with you in that.
- What I was vaguely referring to up above in my word is this: 2 weeks ago I met with the YMCA of East TN COO. She was asking how my new role with the Downtown YMCA was going, thanks to the Knoxville Fellows. I told her I was enjoying it, but there was not a lot of concrete structure – it was more a shadowing/figuring it out on your own. And with this new role at the Y, which seems pretty unclear at times, I feel like there are all these things that I want to do to benefit members and add more value to the Y than “just being a gym.” One thing that the Lord has put on my heart within the past month is the idea of going deeper at work than just surface-level membership questions and support. More specifically, leading a bible-study or small-group, or book-study. After all, this is the Young Men’s Christian Association, and I feel a charge to bring back some light that I feel we as an organization have lost (a little).
- When my COO brought up the idea of bringing back a bible study, etc into the Downtown Y – i knew that’s what the Lord had put on my heart. I could clearly hear His voice through my COO.
- Fast forward to the next Monday: my direct boss was away and I was in his office, 10 minutes into being clocked in, with my bible open, starting my day off thinking about what my COO said, and the idea of a bible study being brought back into the Y and honestly – feeling really insecure and negative and doubtful about it. The next thing I’m about to say can only be divine appointment: around the corner and into the office comes a man and the first words out of his mouth were “Hey man, do y’all do any bible studies here?”
- My jaw literally dropped. To me, this was clearly the Lord putting this man in front of me as affirmation that his voice had been made clear. I got to talking to the man, and through our conversation it became more apparent this is something I feel called to do.
- Later that week (Wednesday) I was walking home from work and saw the man outside after recently talking with a friend about the experience, and he asked again about the bible study. This was uncanny – it was Christ.
- I’ve felt convicted about my doubts for this after clearly seeing the the call of God for this through this divine appointment – I knew what to do.
- However, when I was feeling doubtful, I was isolating myself – what we talk about in F3 as the isolated male. My BOM today was about answering the taps on the shoulder from the Lord and inviting other men and HIM and people into the fold and grace of that – so you don’t isolate yourself.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
G-6 has 2 job opportunities that can be longterm – for more info, see G-6
Oct. 6 = Abscess & Steam are co-leading a hike with the Downtown YMCA (See F3 Knoxville GroupMe events for more info) – DM Abscess or Steam for more info
Nov = Anniversary month! 3 Years! Keep your eyes peeled for more info on the shindig celebration that will ensue.
3rd F will likely be around the first couple weeks of December