F3 Knoxville

Tag: Pele (Jon Lindberg)

Travel through Time

AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: Waffle House (Brady Greene)
PAX: Dain Bramage (Will Olson), Veggie (Rylen Huddy), lebowski, High Heels (Henry Ritchie), High Heels, Pele (Jon Lindberg), Doubtfire (Nick Bond), Lizzy, Double Wide, F3 Pluto ( Hugh Nystrom), Proton, Pusher, Crawdad (Robbi Dickens), Lilydipper, Jason Sutton
FNGs: 1 Jason Sutton
COUNT: 15
Triple Q Fail, triple confessions:

1) I would like to say I was following in the footsteps of my predecessor Crawdad (Robbi Dickens) and I took the week to meditate on last week’s Q before posting the backblast. But the truth is I went home after the workout and immediately started working on the yard, which I do not care about. Spent all day on it and was too tired to post this.

2) I like to get a little chatter going when I’m Qing, you know? But we went up everest and were generally on the move so much that I was out of breath and couldn’t say a whole lot. And we didn’t even get to the Jack Webb I had planned 🙁

3) I forgot our FNG’s name. Little Roll? Double Wide his potential brother in law will have to remember if/when Jason Sutton comes back.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Proton! Great October surprise

COT: High Heels (Henry Ritchie) requested prayer for his write-in campaign to become Weasel Shaker

Gameday Games

AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: Steam
PAX: Pele (Jon Lindberg), Pusher, Crawdad (Robbi Dickens), Dain Bramage (Will Olson), Choir Boy, Farley, Lilydipper, Crash Dummy, Doubtfire (Nick Bond), High Heels
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WARMUP
– SSH: 50×4
– Willie Mays Hayes: 6×4
– Baby Arm Circle F: 10×4
– Baby Arm Circle B: 10×4
– Hillbilly: 10×4

THE THANG
Mosey to El Dorado (The Lost City)

(1) Mini-OCR
– Divide into 2 teams
– The Route (POCs)
– Start/End: Picnic Table
– Run across the log bridge
– 10 merkins
– Run to Stonehenge
– 10 merkins
– Run to the big log + crawl through
– Run across the bridge
– 10 merkins
– Run around the Lincoln log village and run across the stumps
– Just do this once
– If you’re not running – continually rotate through these 4 Xs:
– 15 LBCs
– 15 Dips
– 15 Toe Touches
– 15 CDDs

10 count or so
Mosey to the middle of the Coliseum Overlook
– Stop Signs = 10 squats

(2) BB Ladder
– Get a BB
– POC
– Rock Pile: 15 curls
– Stairs: Rocky Balboas
– Top of Coliseum: Chest Presses
– Admin Doors: 15 Monkey Humpers
– Movement
– Think of it as a chain reaction ladder
– 1st BB goes down to grab a rock and knock out 15 curls / 2nd BB stays at the stairs and knocks out continuous rocky balboas
– Carries rock to the other BB
– Switch rock possession
– 1st BB stays at the stairs and knocks out continuous Rocky balboas / 2nd battle buddy rifle carries the rock to the top of the coliseum
– When he gets to the top, that’s the signal to converge on his location
– Switch rock possession
– 1st BB knocks out continuous chest presses / 2nd BB runs to the admin doors and knocks out 15 monkey humpers
– Comes back down and takes the rock back down to the rock pile / other BB stays at the stairs
– The BB start points are now switched
– Each person gets to hit each station / movement

Put rocks back
Mosey to the Bros Bowl
Every football pass dropped = 5 merkins

(3) Bros Bowl Nickel, Dime, Quarter
– 5 man-makers here at 6
– Run up to the top (12)
– 5 incline merkins
– 10 Incline Plank Jacks
– 25 Imperial Walkers

Mosey to the NP (New Pav)

(4) The Pavilion 200
– 100 table pull-ups at the NP
– 100 incline merkins at the BP (Big Pav)
– Organize them however you’d like (100:100, 4 rounds of 50 each, etc.)

Mosey back to the AO parking lot

MARY
30×4 SSH

COT

There’s a lot of buzz about this game tonight, when Tennessee takes on Oklahoma. As I was looking up some of the stories and quotes and info around tonight, there are a couple that really popped out at me.

Josh Huepel’s return to Oklahoma
– He won a national championship as a Heisman Trophy runner up QB for Oklahoma
– Later coached there as the OC and was then fired
– This reminds me of another story where someone was fired, but it had a different ending as well
– In Genesis 37 we see a gifted young man get fired — from his own family.
– Joseph’s brothers essentially fired him, throwing him into a pit and then eventually selling him.
– But then — how does the story come back around?
– “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.”
– ‭‭Genesis‬ ‭50‬:‭20‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Even though you may go through experiences of “being fired” or “cancelled” as the current language would say, it’s not the end of the story.

Eric Cain (covers the Vols for volsquest)
– You can only play the team in front of you.
– Referring to TN destroying Kent State but the fact that it was Kent State

Let’s Go To The Beach

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Steam
PAX: Doubtfire (Nick Bond), Lizzy, Pusher, MD Hammer, High Heels, Brick, Rooney (Carl Whipple), Switchhitter (Tony), Colonel (Alex Wallace), Pele (Jon Lindberg)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WARMUP
– The Mosey: to the Coliseum overlook
– Squat: 12×4
– The Mosey: down to the rock pile
– Curl: 25 up/down
– Chest presses: 25 up/down
– The Mosey: to the big tree
– Baby arm circles (F + B): 12×4
– The Mosey: to the road
– The SSH: 12×4
– The Mosey: to Muscle Beach

THE THANG
Muscle Beach Mania
(1) 10s
– POC: Muscle Beach + Pavilion
– Xs: Inverted Rows + Dips

(2) BB Pyramid
– Get a BB
– POC: Muscle Beach + Pavilion
– Pyramid: 3 levels (all reps as a team)
– L1: 400 LBCs
– L2: 200 knee-ups (Modification: Imperial Walkers)
– L3: 100 flutter kicks (2 count)
– While one BB is cranking out reps here, the other is running around to the other end of Muscle Beach and then knocking out 10 reps on one of the machines + coming back
– If you get done – help another BB team finish their reps

Time crunch — left Muscle Beach NLT than 6:18pm to account for the travel time back to the AO.
– Get a new BB
– Somewhere between here and the flag — share 1 thing that was good in your week and 1 thing that was challenging.
– Stopped 2x and asked different guys to share what they learned.

MARY
– ATMs
– Light stretching

ANNOUNCEMENTS
– The 2024 F3 Knoxville Leadership Survey is LIVE and the RDT (Regional Direction Team) wants to hear from YOU. Head over to the announcements channel or check your email to learn more about “the why” behind it and complete this year’s survey. Reach out to me with any questions/issues.
– 9 Year Anniversary Convergence: Saturday, November 16th @ The Asylum. More details to come. If you want to be on the planning team to help with this – let me know.

COT
>From The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis
Check out the passage I read from the book in this message thread for context.

Mini-Word built inside the Word — from the last line that I read: “The Enemy (God) wants a world full of beings united to Him but still distinct.”
– It’s an election year — tensions are high and you don’t have to look far to see how deep the division and emotionally charged rhetoric goes.
– Even though we are united in Christ (if you are a Christian) or united under the banner of F3, we are still distinct beings with unique thoughts, opinions, and world-views. This is good, btw.
– That being said — F3 is not the place to blast your political views out there in a way that isolates or excludes others. That’s anti-F3 mission. Respectful conversations? 100%. During the workout, let’s be about the workout and be about challenging and encouraging each other – not our political views. After all, F3 Core Principle #2 is that F3 is open to all men.
– Dark Helmet said it best when asked the question “What is F3’s position on this?” Relating to something political, viewpoint, etc.
– We don’t have a position as F3. The mission of F3 is to plant, grow, and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership.
– If I can find this video/audio clip or message from him I will share it.

The part in there that really stands out for me is the line “He wants servants who can finally become sons.”

– John 10:10 — A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.

– Galatians 5:1 — For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
– The word “again” stands out to me and causes my focus to shift to the last part of Romans 7 and beginning of Romans 8

– MSG (22) Something has gone wrong deep within me and gets the better me every time. (23) It happens so regularly that it’s predictable. The moment I decide to do good, sin is there to trip me up. I truly delight in God’s commands, but it’s pretty obvious that not all of me joins in that delight. Parts of me covertly rebel, and just when I lease expect it, they take charge. (24) I’ve tried everything and nothing helps. I’m at the end of my rope, Is there no one who can do anything for me? Isn’t that the real question? (25) The answer, thank God, is that Jesus Christ can and does. He acted to set things right in this life of contradictions where I want to serve God with all my heart and mind, but am pulled by the influence of sin to do something totally different.

– Romans 8:1 — Therefore, (meaning because of everything I just stated) there is now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus.

– Why? Romans 8:2 (MSG) — Those who enter into Christ’s being-here-for-us no longer have to live under a continuous, low-lying black cloud. A new power is in operation. The Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind, has magnificently cleared the air, freeing you from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of sin and death.

We are men are continuously learning what it means how to be a true son. And as He invites us further into redemptive sonship, we step further up and further into the men we were always called to be.

Bill of Rights

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Rooney(Carl Whipple)
PAX: Brick, Lilydipper, Lizzy, F3 Pluto ( Hugh Nystrom), Pele (Jon Lindberg), Rooney(Carl Whipple), Swimmies (Nathan Chesney), Welch’s, Colonel (Alex Wallace), Renaissance, Fistbump
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WARMUP:
SSHs
Windmills
5 Burpees
Tempo Squats
Rockettes

THE THANG:
1st Amendment – 10 Merkins, Run to Coliseum
2nd Amendment – 10 BBS, Sprint to West end of overlook, 10 BBS
Mosey to circle
3rd Amendment – 30 Rocky Balboas
Mosey to back Jim Haslam building
4th Amendment – 11’s w/dips & step ups
Mosey to Muscle Beach
5th Amendment – 5 1 minute rounds of exercise of choice
Mosey to amphitheater
6th Amendment – 10 incline merkins, 10 jump ups
Mosey up the hill to large oak
7th Amendment – box cutters
Run up to Coliseum
8th Amendment – Bernie to Asylum building
9th Amendment – 2 Bernie’s
Mosey to AO
10th Amendment – SSHs

MARY: American Hammers

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT: George Washington
“The Constitution is the guide which I will never abandon”.

James Madison
“The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world”.

Thomas Jefferson
“It is every Americans right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself (or herself)”.

Abraham Lincoln
“Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties”.

Benjamin Franklin
“The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself”.

America is unique as a country that was founded around a set of ideas of liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Stay Positive

AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: High Heels (Henry Ritchie)
PAX: Brick, Doubtfire (Nick Bond), Lilydipper, Pele (Jon Lindberg), lebowski, Dain Bramage (Will Olson), Choir Boy, Veggie (Rylen Huddy), Honeydew, Lulu (Greg Huddy), Swimmies (Nathan Chesney), Crawdad (Robbi Dickens)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
WARMUP:
Burpees – 50, Squats – 20, LACs-20, Lunges -10, Imperial Walkers – 15, Twisties – 10, Tennessee Rocking Chair – 10

THE THANG: O9 hundred, 60 SSH, 30 Merkins, 30 BBS, 9 Burpees,

DORA – 75 Merkins, 150 LBCs, 150 SSH

Over to Carkiac Hill – 60 Merkins up the hill, then ran back down, 60 Box Cutters, then ran to AO.

MARY: 20 Gas Pumps

ANNOUNCEMENTS: None

COT: Having a positive attitude is essential to being successful in anything you do. Work, marriage, health, and family. Positive thinking does guarantee success, but negativity almost guarantees failure.