F3 Knoxville

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Garbage

THE SCENE: I didn’t even look. Probably 70. Felt like 100.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Lap of park including 20 & 20 at school parking lot.
THA-THANG:

Mosey to base of Lover’s.

11’s

Start with 10 coffin sit-ups and 10 4 count plank jacks at the bottom. Bernie up for 1 ruck burpee and 1 mr. spectacular. Circle back down to continue. We did about half before I called it for time. So much to do!

Mosey to field across bridge

15 thrusters

Lt dan across 2 lunges 1 squat

15 wide merkins

Army crawl back and repeat x 5

MARY:
Flutters w/ ruck overhead x 25 4-count IC

Ruck hammers x 30

ATMs

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
13 Strong Brothers

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

We tend to make judgements about people based on our preconceived notions of who a black person a trans person a Muslim person any person is. Why do we do this? What is the point? Why can’t we just love and accept who people are?

John 15:17 says

“This is my command: Love each other.”

1 John 4:8 says

“But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.”

As someone relatively on the outside of religion, when I hear the hateful words coming from leaders and others who claim to be godly, it makes me think I don’t want any part of religion. So I plead with you who do proselytize your faith to set a better example. The example of Christ to love everyone.

MOLESKIN:
I had about 5 hours of work for us. I’ll tuck the rest away for another day. ANNOUNCEMENTS:
June 16 – Beer Mile at Moses’ house in the evening.

Murph this Sunday at Bomb Shelter 630 am.

More Than Halfway

THE SCENE: 70-something and pretty muggy.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
The good ol’ Zero Burpee warmup.
Zero Burpees
25x SSH IC
2 Burpees OYO
20x Cossack Squats IC
4 Burpees OYO
20x Crab Kicks IC
6 Burpees OYO
10x Travoltas IC (each side)
8 Burpees OYO
15x LBAC each way
10 Burpees OYO

THA-THANG:

Start with a Calf Killer – Calf Raises on the curb, then mosey across the parking lot: 20-25%-20-50%-20-75%-20-AYG-20

Mosey to the base of Mount Crumpet, partner up for Dora 1-2-3
Running partner runs up the hill and around the tree.
100 Merkins
200 BBS
300 Squats

After each exercise reps complete, both partners mosey to the Fountain of Youth.
Plank-walk sideways with feet up on the curb of the fountain – one clockwise, one CCW.
When you meet on the other side, head back to Mt Crumpet and start the next exercise.

Everyone made it at least halfway through the squats before time was up!

Indian Run back to the AO

MARY:
We crammed in 10x side crunches each side, 15x flutter kicks, and 5x slutter kicks before the clock hit 6:15.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 PAX killed it today.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Plank-walk around the outside of the fountain sucked by an appropriate amount for a good beatdown. But as difficult as it was, I didn’t see anyone look up when they were halfway around, stop, and say, “I did my half!” Each individual kept pushing until the two completed the circle together.

That’s similar to the way it should work at home. Every household has a pile of hard stuff to do. Don’t “meet your partner halfway”. Take it together as a team. Try to do more than “your half.” As Paul said, we should love our wives as Christ loved the Church, and He didn’t “meet us halfway”. He came all the way around for us. Romans 5:8 says that “God demonstrates His own love for us in this: while we were still sinners Christ died for us.”

MOLESKIN:
Congrats to Pup on HS graduation! He’s off to the Citadel in July.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Everyone is super sore from Hardship Hill and super stoked for the next CSAUP!

Tabata Together

THE SCENE: Low 40s, drizzle

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:
10 reps each exercise, cadence count

    • Horizontal Gators
    • 4 Corners jump around CMU
    • Hip Hop shoulders
    • Squat Jacks

THA-THANG:

Tabata (20 seconds on, 10 sec rest, repeat) 2 minute duration for each exercise

  • Toe taps on CMU
  • Plank Hand Walk over CMU
  • Jump Squat High Knees
  • Crab Hip Thrusts
  • Lizard Hops
  • Plank walk feet over CMU
  • Mosey (jog quarter mile)
  • Crab Kicks
  • Inch worm
  • Plank, elbow to hands
  • Down Dog, alternating hand to foot
  • Sit, shoulder press CMU
  • Mosey (jog quarter mile)
  • Frog Burpees
  • Plank Jacks
  • Supermans
  • V-sits left, middle, right, knee to chest
  • Run in Place, alternating hands to knees and toes
  • CMU Clean & Jerk
  • Could have done 2 to 3 more exercises

MARY:

    • Face down, extend legs and arms hold core off ground
    • Supermans
    • Crab Hip Thrusts
    • Side plank Hip Thrusts
    • On back, ball up to extension
    • Hollow Rocks
    • Hello Dollys

    COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA: 12 PAX and Laettner, Doug Carswell, forgive me for not starting off correctly. Dont hold it against me and good to meet you.

  • CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

The Falling Man, Esquire article:
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a48031/the-falling-man-tom-junod/
The Falling Man, Documentary: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810746/

The Falling Man is one of the several people who purposefully jumped from the WTC towers on 9/11.

The story of the jumpers vanished from the 9/11 coverage and narrative. There was an aggressive resistance to acknowledging people jumped. When a family was approached about identifying the falling man, a family member’s response was “That piece of shit is not my father.”

The thought that a person was in such despair, suffering, beyond hope that he would, in a sense, give up was buried, dismissed, and denied. Instead the 9/11 coverage and narrative focused on bravery, courage, generosity and bringing enemies to justice.

Understandably, the preferred flavors of Christianity tend to be that of courage, hope, bravery and will power. We gravitate to these flavors so much that we deny, bury, dismiss the reality of despair and hopelessness. When we do this, we unintentionally alienate those who are deeply hurting.

When Jesus was on the cross, he didn’t hear “the Lord has a plan for you” or “this is God’s will.” As a matter of fact, he cried, “My God, my God why have you forsaken me?” Ultimate despair, alienation, hopelessness, just like The Falling Man and all the others who jumped from the towers. Jesus didn’t bury or deny despair, he endured it.

During our times of real despair, hopelessness and alienation, the cross is God crying “I know how bad it hurts and you are not alone, together we will endure this, I AM with you.” We too are the falling man and at the same time living reminders to each other “you are never alone. We will endure the suffering together. I am here with you.”

MOLESKIN:

The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud and challenge ourselves without being crushed. Tim Keller

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

20-1

THE SCENE: Low 50’s

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Tempo Merks x 10
  • Jog across PL, high knees back
  • Jog across PL, wide knees back
  • Jog across PL, butt kicks back

THA-THANG:

20-1 Circuit

  • 20 Decline Mt Climber 2 count
  • 20 Step ups each leg
  • 20 Derkins – Feet on top of table
  • 20 Close-grip Under table pulls
  • 20 Release Squat with Coupon

Do 1 round through, then suicide out for increasing burpees at the other end. Mosey back, dropping rep each round. Repeat until no reps left.

MARY:

  • Cross leg sit up x 20 OYO
  • Side v-ups x 20 each OYO

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
13 including 2 FNGs Tin Man & Neighbor

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Push hard to the end. This temporary discomfort will not last forever. When you want to stop, just keep moving. One foot in front of the other.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Sign up to participate or volunteer for Hardship Hill May 19!

Slick Bernie

THE SCENE: Mid-30s and clear.  Perfect beatdown weather.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Tha zero burpee warmup:
-Zero Burpees OYO
-25x SSH IC
-2x Burpees OYO
-15x TN Rocking Chairs IC
-4x Burpees OYO
-30x Mountain Climbers IC (10x standard, 10x hands as far fwd as possible, 10x hands as far back as possible)
-6x Burpees OYO
-8x Cossack Squats each leg
-8x Burpees OYO
-20x 4-ct Monkey Humpers IC
-10x Burpees OYO
THA-THANG:
Mosey over behind the maintenance building
-10x on-the-wall pullups
-Circle up with CMU for Pass-The-CMU BBS
-30x curls

Put back CMUs. Then look at Weinke.
Pick up 2 CMUs each for Rock the Block Merkins:
-Plank up on 2 landscaping CMUs.
-Do 1 Merkin.
-While holding plank, Q calls direction to rock the CMUs by 90° (Fwd, Back, In, Out), then another Merkin.
-R&R until groans from PAX reach sufficient volume

Put back CMUs for realz this time.

Mosey down the road a little ways to the hill
Partner up for Dora 1-2-3 (Merkins, Squats, SSH)
Bernie up the hill, Bear Crawl down.
Except the hill is really slick from frost! Nix the Bear Crawl after the first attempt. Too hazardous.

Mosey back to AO

MARY:
Just enough time for a couple rounds of Row Your Boat, then cash out with AMRAP merkins for 30s or so
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
15 PAX today, including FNG Cubby!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Do the hard thing.  Hard things come up frequently in life.  Sometimes we look for an easy way around it.  Sometimes we avoid it or put it off.  Don’t do that.  Just like you tackle those 30 burpees in a beatdown, take on the hard thing head-on, and do it with all your might!
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Sign up for Hardship Hill OCR Relay!  If you need a team, just post on GroupMe.  You’ll get recruited quick!

https://www.active.com/kingston-tn/running/distance-running-races/hardship-hill-2018