F3 Knoxville

Mount Butterbilly

  • THE SCENE: Cool and Foggy (43 F)
    F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
    WARM-O-RAMA:

    Short run and then (15 SSH’s, 10 Tempo Merkins, 5 or 6 Hillbilly’s, and 10 Cherry Pickers) in the crosswalk leading to Mount Butterbilly.
    THA-THANG:
  • 11’s on Mount Butterbilly….(Burpees at the top and 2 count Mount Climbers at the bottom)….3ish miles of awful 🙁
  • Short run back to the grinder for some Tibata 30 seconds step up and 30 seconds of Merkins for 2 rounds each.

MARY:
Ab-Kraken (Flutters 20, LBC’s 20, BBS 20, V-Ups 20) about 1.5 times around.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Eleven Enjoying some Rich Living at the Bomb Shelter!  Backup, Butterfingers, Cable Guy, Dreamer, Hammy, Moses, Pinocchio Sake, Snorkel, Tinman, Woodshack,
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.  We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.  -Dale Carnegie

One important source of unhappiness is the habit of putting off living to some fictional future date.  Men and women are constantly making themselves unhappy because in deferring their lives to the future they lose sight of the present and its golden opportunities for rich living.

-W. Beran Wolfe

Route to the Plateau of Pain

THE SCENE: Mid 40s. A little damp. Didn’t really start raining until the BOM.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

High knee skips across parking lot and back
Butt kicks across parking lot and back
20 4-count hillbillies
THA-THANG:
Mosey around the fountain and back to road and stop at greenway by Crumpet.
Route 66:
Dry docks
V-Ups
Iron mikes 2-count
While waiting On the six, run up crumpet and back down for 20 4-count flutter kicks.
Mosey to Plateu of Pain
Colombian necktie
Start with run to nearest cone. Grab cone and run back for 20 burpee squats and decrease burps each time.
We run at the same time every round. In between BBS.
MARY:
Sun salutation
Warrior 1
Sun salutation
Warrior 1 other side
Sun salutation
Warrior 1, 2
Sun salutation
Warrior 1, 2 other side
Sun salutation
Warrior 1, 2, Reverse Warrior
Sun salutation
Warrior 1, 2, Reverse Warrior other side
Sun salutation
Chair 30 seconds
Boat, single leg right, single leg left, boat
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 men put in the work.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Again, I gotta say – it’s all about attitude. A guy at my work spoiled my attitude and I let it ruin a day and half for me. I made a conscious decision to be positive (or not negative) and it completely turned things around for me. Just enter every situation, every new day, every greeting with positivity. Smile, great pleasantly, banish negative thoughts and you will feel so much better.
MOLESKIN:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Snorkel induced Sea biscuit

THE SCENE: 32 and clear
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Woodshack led the warm up, Snorkel called the thang!

squats, baby arm circles forward and backward, merkins, and some sort of ZUMBA stretch…
THA-THANG:
VQ did not show up or lets say that he showed up late for his Q. ALL GOOD! We did a quick warm up while waiting on butterfingers and went straight into a sea biscuit induced by Snorkel. Exercises were

  • 10 pull ups or bar pulls
  • 20 merkins
  • 30 big boys
  • run laps as per seabiscuit with exercises between

MARY:
Cable Guy led us in Boxcutters and american hammers
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 pax
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
LOVE ON YO PARENTS!!
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

10 Years After

  1. THE SCENE:   34 degrees with calm winds
    F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
    WARM-O-RAMA:

    Windmills x20, Overhead hand claps x20; Side scissor jumps x20; Cherry pickers x12.

Jog, karaoke, jog, skip across parking lot.

Indian run to Mt. Crumpit.

THA-THANG:
Phase 1.

7’s on Mt. Crumpit starting with 1 BBS at the bottom and 6 burpees at top.

Ascents were run, Bernie, run, run, Bernie, run.

Indian run back to AO

Phase 2.

Consisted of 4 Cell Blocks in a square pattern – each corner is 50 feet apart.

Starting at Alpha Block perform the first exercise.  Move to Bravo Block as directed and perform first exercise.  Continue to Charlie Block and Delta Block before returning to Alpha Block to perform exercise #2.  Continue until time is exhausted.

Alpha

  1. CMU Swings                   OH Carry
  2. Merkins                         Lunge
  3. SSH (4 ct)                       Inch worm
  4. Release merkins              Crab crawl

Bravo

  1. Mtn Climbers (4 ct)           Bear Crawl
  2. CMU goblet squat             OH carry
  3. Dry docks                       Lunge
  4. Flutter kicks (4 ct)             Inch worm

Charlie

  1. Plank Jacks (4 ct)             Crab Crawl
  2. Box Cutters                    Bear Crawl
  3. CMU clean/press             OH Carry
  4. Squat Jumps                  Lunge

Delta

  1. WWII Sit-ups                    Inch worm
  2. Shoulder taps (4 ct)          Crab Crawl
  3. Dips w/CMU                   Bear Crawl
  4. CMU Curls                      OH Carry

(Repeat)

MARY:
Box cutters x20, Flutter kicks x20, ABC’s to cash out.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
15 HIM’s, no FNG’s
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I heard a song a few days ago by the band, Ten Years After.  The song didn’t get me to thinking.  It was the groups name.  I thought back to ten years ago (2009) – give or take a few months.  Memorable in many ways.  I remembered finding my wife, Julie, on the floor, blue in color. I remembered my stroke and heart surgery and the few warning signs I had a few weeks earlier.  I remembered Staff Sgt Jason Dalhke, 1st Battalion Ranger Regiment.  He was Emily’s and Travis’ (daughter and son-in-law) best friend.  Julie and I made full recoveries.  Jason was killed in action at the age of 29 in the mountains of Afghanistan.

I have been given the gift of the last ten years, as have Julie.  Jason, for whatever reasons God has, didn’t get to experience them.

So here I was a few days ago, not thinking “why” but thinking “what.”  Not why me.  Rather, what have I done with the last 10 years.  Sure, I can remember successes, failures, mistakes, joy, … all kinds of things.  Did I earn those 10 years?  No way.  I don’t believe that’s how it works.  Rather it made me think about the things I need to learn from the past 10 or whatever number of years.  I need to take what I have learned and build on it for the future.  I challenge each of you to think about the last 10 years and to think of the personal progress made – and the personal miscues experienced.  Then think about the way you have been able to build upon the past – hopefully in a positive way.

I intend to get into some follow up BOM talks in my upcoming Q’s.  We’ll see how that goes.  Until then, remember that in many ways our future is built upon our past.  First, though, we have to learn from it.

MOLESKIN:
Sake asked for prayer in an upcoming interview.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Habitat for Humanity work day for the Bomb Shelter is Saturday, March 9th.

BURBS with the Twins

THE SCENE: 51 and chances of rain but not really until the last 5 minutes but just for a few seconds…….:)
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Standard Warm up loop to the school and back stopping once for 20 merkins/ 20 squats
THA-THANG:

  • DORA inspired workout called BURBS. partner up, Pax 1 does exercise while P2 is running a lap, switch…cumulative total for reps between partners
  • 100 B.odybuilders
  • 125 U.pright rows
  • 150 R.uck rows. Bend over with back as parrell to ground as possible and for rows with the ruck/ RUCK ROWS
  • 175 B.ig boy sits up with ruck on front as high as possible on chest
  • 200 S.quats with ruck on back

Once completed above, stayed as partners for heavy ruck carry. P1 carries sand bag while P2 carries the twins (2-50lb buckets). Switch when partner can not carry the twins any longer. Do this for just under a mile/ main loop. Once we got back, we had 4 minutes. We ran to Lovers lane, bernied up lovers lane and back to AO.

TOTAL work out included 4.5 miles of distance covered with LOTS of reps and a dash of good livin at the end!

MARY:
Insert information about any additional post-THANG work (if applicable).
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
7 Mother ruckers
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Insert the WORD here.
MOLESKIN:
Today was a good mix of mumblechatter, cardio, and suck!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.