F3 Knoxville

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Mr. Tuesday’s Pre-Turkey Ramble

THE SCENE:  Partly cloudy, temp in the 50’s.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Five Burpees, 20 Side Straddle Hops, Four Burpees, 15 Mountain Climbers, Three Burpees, 10 Cherry Pickers, Two Burpees, 10 Slow Timed Squats, One Burpee, 10 Little Baby Arm Circles Forward, 10 Backward
THA-THANG:

Mosey to Lighted Parking Lot Above Playground

Suicide Sprints to Each Light Along Parking Lot.  Each time back we will do 10 Merkens.  Repeat but each time back do 10 Big Boy Sit-ups.

Mosey to Lighted Sidewalk that Is North of Chapel and which Leads to Park Perimeter Trail

Bear crawl to first light.  Sprint to fifth light.  Bear crawl to sixth light. Sprint to tenth light.  Keep doing this in increments of five lights until we get to perimeter trail.

20 Squats and 40 Baby Crunches in grassy area by perimeter trail.

Mosey to Cardiac Hill

Sprint up hill and do:

  • 20 Bicycle Kicks at First Turn
  • 20 Carolina Dry Docks at Second Turn
  • 20 Bench Lifts at top
  • Repeat

Mosey Back to Base Camp

Run around the bases with each base being a corner of the parking lot.

  • First Base:  20 Squats
  • Second Base:  20 Squat Jumps
  • Third Base:  20 Imperial Walkers
  • Home Plate:  20 Star Jumps
  • Repeat

MARY:

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Four men attended, all over 50 years in age.  The Goats!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
On this day, two days before Thanksgiving, we do have much to be thankful for.  Our health is one thing and we thank God for the recovery of Crawdad, Edit, and Preacher, who hopefully will be able to work out soon.  We also pray for the recovery of Barney, who has been sidelined for months and may be sidelined for many more months.  We are thankful for our nation and the abundant resources we have in America.  We are thankful for our families and our brothers in F3.  We are mostly thankful for our God that watches over us.
MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Next 3rd F event is December 9.

Tammy Wynette at the Ball

THE SCENE: 64 degrees and clear
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Windmills 10x in cadence
  • Tempo squat 10x in cadence
  • Side straddle hops 25x in cadence
  • Tempo merkin 10x in cadence

THA-THANG:
PAX move as a group to 11th Street parking garage, stopping for Al Gore at crosswalk. Once in the garage, PAX partner up for Tammy Wynette.

One PAX performs 10 merkins, while the partner stands by his man and does 10 squats. Then partners swap and perform the opposite exercise. PAX then run to the next level and repeat until they reach the top of the garage and 100 of each exercise.

Recover and 10 count. Descend parking garage using same partner and same concept, this time stopping on only one end of the garage for exercises not both. 10 count of Big boys and 10 count Smurf jacks.

Recover and 10 count, mosey back to worlds fair park. PAX start on southern end of lawn facing four cones in a line. PAX go to each cone performing increasing number of exercises, mosey back and start next set.

Set 1 – lunge to cones, perform burpees 3/6/9/12 reps

Set 2 – bear crawl to cones, perform superman swims 5/10/15/20 reps

Set 3 – crab walk between cones, perform merkins 5/10/15/20

Recover to fountains

MARY:
4 count flutter kicks, 20x in cadence
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
26 PAX including 5 FNGs.  Hang Tight, Neutron, Noah, Jenner, Target, Madoff, Blazer, G6, Singlet, Gogurt, Steam, Pfeiffer, Jalen, Putt-Putt, Bessie, Snookie, Preacher, Quarantine, Commando, Savannah, Manwich, Red Writer, Careless, Sheldon, Anchorman, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”

Bear Square

The scene:  73 & muggy

F3 Welcome and Disclaimer

Warm-o-rama:

SSH IC x 20

LBAC IC:  10 fwd / 10 bkwd

Burpees OYO  x 10

Tempo Squat IC x 10

Dive Bombers IC x 10

Tha Thang:

  • Bear square crawls
    • 4 cones in a square.  Bear crawl the square while always facing one direction.  Stop at each corner  & perform exercises (25 reps each):
      • Lap 1:  ball burpees, ball merkins, squat jumps, big boy situps
      • Lap 2:  merkin side lunge, ball in/outs, iron mikes, superman swim
      • Lap 3:  flutter kicks, squats w/ ball overhead, carolina dry docks, speed skaters
  • Suicides:  pick exercise from bucket lottery style to perform at each cone
    • Merkins x 10
    • Burpees x 3
    • Bear Crawls
    • Crab Walks

MARY:

ABCs

Count off and name-o-rama

BOM:

Adversity –  We all face it.  The journey through adversity is inevitable if we’re striving for improvement.  It’s not the adversity itself, rather it’s your reaction to the adversity that is important.  As we go through life as husbands, fathers, employees and employers it is important to understand that don’t get to choose our circumstances at all times.  Adversity finds us whether we want it to or not.  We would all do well to remember that the world’s eyes are on us to see how we handle ourselves when we face difficulties – and more importantly, God’s eyes are on us in that same moment.

James 1:2-3   Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because the testing of your faith produces perserverence.

Moleskin:

Tons of fun at the Big Ball today.  Thanks for pushing hard today & hope to see you HIMs out west at the Dog Pound soon.

Fundamentals

The Scene: hot and muggy

F3 Welcome & Disclaimer

The Thang:

Michael Phelps IC x10

Imperial Walker IC x20

Side Straddle Hops IC x20

Circuit. Go for time: 20 Minutes. Each round, add 2-3 reps to each exercise. Start with 10 reps.

  1. Mosey to Playground:

Box Jumps

Derkins

  1. Sprint to Pavilion:

Picnic Pull Ups

Dips

III. Sprint to Dugout:

Pull-ups

  1. Sprint to Flag at Pavilion:

Merkins

LBS

MOSEY SLOWLY BACK TO PLAYGROUND. Rinse and Repeat.

At the end of time, regroup at the flag:

Vups IC x10

Sundials OYO x20

Mosey to Cardiac Hill

-5 merkins @ bottom.

-Sprint to first turn.

-Mosey back to start.

-5 merkins @ bottom.

-Sprint to 2nd turn.

-Mosey back to start.

-5 merkins @ bottom.

-Sprint to top.

-Plank until everyone is finished. Mosey to bottom, picking up PAX, and then mosey to AO.

BOM: CountaRama, Name-a-Rama, etc.

29 PAX, 1 FNG – Two-Ply

Bears Playing Poker

The Scene: 60 and clear

Welcome and Disclaimer

THE THANG
COP –

SSH x21 IC
LBAC IC x11 forward, 10 backward
Little some o’ this/that x2
Imperial Walkers IC x21
Ballerinas (toe squats) x21 IC

Mosey to the trail and line up shortest to tallest.

Bearcrawl IC on a 4 count up the hill
Every 10 reps stop for 10 squats OYO

To the Casino (upper soccer field)

Blackjack – lineup on sideline
1 Merkin, run across the field, 20 LBC
2 Merkins, etc…
– after each set of Merkins, Squats til the 6 is up and then proceed across the field to LBC and back

Main Table (circle up at mid-field)
PAX alternates Al Gore and Plank
– one player at a time runs to sideline and hits (Merkins) however they wish (1-21)
-proceed around the circle
AUDIBLE: changed to two men at a time to keep up the pace

Double Down: back to the sideline for 11s
1 Merkin, run across, 10 squats, back
– this time oyo

Bearcrawl backwards down the hill to the softball field and mosey back to the AO

Mary –
American hammers x20
Mountain climbers x20

BOM
“But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.”
‭‭Galatians‬ ‭5:16-17‬ ‭ESV‬‬

The next few versus after this contain a list of products of the desires of the flesh. The things the tender stand out to us for things such as “sorcery” or “orgies.” Most of us do not participate in things like that and so it’s easy to glass of the rest of the list. However, “jealousy” and “fits of anger” should really be the ones that stand out to us on a list like this. Everyone of us has her own tendencies, but usually we know that we are satisfying the desires of the flesh when we do these things.

I don’t know exactly what completely walking by Spirit looks like, but I know where it starts. It starts with asking for the Spirit’s help in these situations and in life in general. Also, looking around at the men with whom we are in community and reflecting ourselves against them can be significantly helpful. Most frequently we are all dealing with the same issues and can learn from each other and hold ourselves to a standard together.

The men that came out today pushed themselves hard, but in so doing they also set an example for the man dragging behind them. This is no different in the spiritual life, although sometimes the roles are reversed.

Moleskin
This is a brutal workout, but the men attacked it was bigger and finished faster than expected. They were moans and groans with the double down, but the men rose to the challenge and push themselves hard. I am usually the last guy finishing in these long running workouts, and the same was true today…but the men made me proud to be a Q today!