F3 Knoxville

The Bros Bowl

AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: Steam
PAX: Pusher, F3 Pluto ( Hugh Nystrom), Stitch, Kung Blue, Choir Boy, Pele (Jon Lindberg), Cart Girl (John Sadler) (Chatt, TN), Dain Bramage (Will Olson), Lilydipper, Waffle House (Brady Greene), Brick, Billie Jean, Stiff Arm, Sweat Kankle
FNGs: 1 Sweat Kankle
COUNT: 15
WARMUP
1. Mountain Climber: 12×4
2. Plank Jacks: 12×4
3. Rockette: 12×4
4. Imperial Walker: 12×4
5. Apollo Onos: 10×4

THE THANG
(Mosey to the BP)

1 — BP Warm-Up
– 50 bench pull-ups
– 50 dips

(Mosey to the front of the Super Bowl)

2 — Rings of Power Part 1
– Run up the inner ring
– Top: 10 Star Jacks (1ct)
– Base: 10 man-makers
– Total of 1 round

3 — Rings of Power Part 2
– Run the outer middle ring to the top
– Top: 10 heels to heaven (4ct)
– Base: 10 Butterfly situps (1ct)
– Total of 1 round

4 — Rings of Power Part 3
– Run the outer perimeter ring
– Opposite side: 10 elevated heel squats (1ct)
– Base: 10 Iron Mikes (1ct)
– Total of 1 round

5 — Muscle Beach Mania
– Different Xs — only 5 reps each
– 5 reps = a higher expectation of good form rather than sprinting through
– Once you’re done with 5 reps of an X, run to the CCP (Country Club Pav) and do 25 LBCs (1ct)
– Rinse and repeat for (x amount of minutes)
– The Xs (On Notecards)
– Dips
– Pull-ups/chin-ups
– Incline Merkins
– Decline Merkins
– Balanced Squats
– Box Jumps (fully stand up)
– Rope pull-ups
– Forearm plank leg lifts
– Elevated split squats
– Monkey bar gauntlet

MARY
American Indian run 1/2 back to the flag
Jailbreak / BTTW 1/2 back to the flag

ANNOUNCEMENTS
– 2024 Summer Convergence — uncovered-summer-convergence
– 7/13/24
– The Cove @ Concord Park
– 7am – 8am workout / 8am – 9am COT + coffeteria
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COT
Notes & takeaways from a portion of GrowSchool
(From GTE-46 (SEND ME))

1. What is your “F3 story?”
1. This matters!
2. Not only do people outside of F3 need to hear this as you EH them, but it’s also important to remind ourself and other men in F3 of this story — it helps us better understand each other and how F3 has changed our lives.
1. Rightness is a process – not a destination
2. f3nation.com/get-right-q1/ — The Pursuit of Personal Alignment
1. Commitment to the DRP (Daily Red Pill)
2. King — Fitness
1. Fatigue makes cowards of us all
2. No one cares what you can do when you’re fresh – it’s the level of integrity that you execute at when you’re smoked and tired that fights against the quote above
3. This is a daily discipline of the body
1. Queen — your “put in the body” discipline
1. Typically viewed from a nutritional perspective (diet, etc.)
2. But broaden the scope to include anything you are consuming – physically, mentally, emotionally, relationally, spiritually, etc.
3. Your King can’t outwork your Queen
1. If I workout 7x a week but have a terrible diet, it doesn’t matter how hard I’m working
1. Your King and Queen are intrinsically related and connected
1. Jester — temptation of the flesh
1. anything. that hinders the acceleration of your King, Queen, Fitness, Fellowship, and Faith.
1. https://soundcloud.com/f3nation/f3-q-source-get-right-q1

Stars and Stripes

AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: Lilydipper
PAX: Drum Major, Windex, Pusher, Doubtfire (Nick Bond), Tenderfoot, Glamper, Dain Bramage (Will Olson), Brick, Pele (Jon Lindberg), F3 Pluto ( Hugh Nystrom), Billie Jean, Honeydew, MD Hammer, Gridiron, Shogun
FNGs: None
COUNT: 16
WARMUP: 20 Side Straddle Hops, Curly Stomps, 8 Twistees, 10 Baby Arm Circles Forward, 10 Baby Arm Circles Backward, March around parking lot to Stars and Stripes Type Music, Butt Kick and High Knees around parking lot to Stars and Stripes Music.

THE THANG: Mosey to the Pavilion. We will do Elevens starting with 10 Picnic Table Pull-ups and 1 Bench Dip.
Mosey to Caribbean Parking Lot. We will go in counterclockwise circle stopping at every other island to do 10 Merkins. Those finishing first run back to meet the six. Rinse and Repeat with 20 Baby Crunches.
Mosey to the Mound. We will run up clockwise to the top and do 10 Decline Merkins on the benches there.
Mosey to Muscle Beach. Each man does 25 reps on exercise instrument of their choice, then runs to first crosswalk in parking lot, does one Burpee, and runs back to do 25 reps of next exercise of choice. After that, run to second crosswalk. Rinse and repeat to third crosswalk on the far end of the parking lot. All men finish by doing reps until the six returns from 3rd crosswalk.
Mosey on the sidewalk that goes past the Mound and to the shade tree where the sidewalk meets the Serpentine Trail. We will do 20 Flutter Kicks
Mosey on the Caribbean parking lot to the trail that goes back to the Pavilion. We will do 10 Tempo Merkins.
Mosey to the Pavilion. Drop off any unnecessary gear and then mosey past the batting cage area and down to the start of Cardiac. We will each get a boulder and do the following exercises in cadence:
20 Overhead Presses

20 Curls

20 Rows

20 Tricepts

Replace boulders. Next, we will run up Cardiac, stopping at the following to do the following exercises:
1st Turn, keep running!

2nd Turn, 20 Hello Dollies

3rd Turn, 20 Decline Merkins with feet on grass

Benches, 20 Bench Dips

Mosey to AO.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: UnCOVEred is Saturday, July 13 at the Cove at 7 am.

COT: Prayers for continuing healing for Maddie, Windex’s daughter. We found out after the COT that Maddie get’s to transfer from the hospital to a rehab facility today. Prayers of thanks for the recent “clean bill of health” that Shogun received. Prayers for the safe return of Pusher’s wife who will be heading back home from the Philippines this Sunday.

Message:
On this day of our celebration of America’s independence I have some quotes for you that reflect the principles our nation was found on. When I reflect on great American quotes I think of “Give me liberty or give me death” by Patrick Henry or “Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country” by John F. Kennedy. But here are five more quotes, not all by Americans, that reflect on America and it’s principles:
True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth. –Eleanor Roosevelt
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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. – Albert Camus
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In America, nobody says you have to keep the circumstances that somebody else gives you. – Amy Tan.
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We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions – bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. – Bob Dylan
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Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. – Calvin Coolidge
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When thinking of that last quote, I think particularly of our military veterans who have fought to keep our country free. That freedom gives us “the chance to be better” like Camus says. It comes with responsibility as Dylan proclaims. And because of our freedom, as Tan states, we don’t “have to keep the circumstances that somebody else gives” us.

PMers Triple Q

AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: Pele (Jon Lindberg) , Lilydipper, Pusher
PAX: Glamper, Pusher, Dain Bramage (Will Olson), Pele (Jon Lindberg), Brick, Swimmies (Nathan Chesney), Veggie (Rylen Huddy), Snitch (Cory Beilharz ), Lulu (Greg Huddy), Waffle House (Brady Greene), Matlock (Bill Maddox), F3 Pluto ( Hugh Nystrom), Lilydipper, Lizzy, Rip-Tide
FNGs: 1 Rip-Tide
COUNT: 15
WARMUP: Lily started us off with some good ol’ stretching exercises that were borderline The Thang, include Curly Stomps, Tempo Squats, and Tempo Merkins! Pele Sweat Level: (PSL) Moderate already…

THE THANG: Lily took us to the new workout area, preliminarily called LA Beach. We did stations there and ran in the parking lot between sets. Switched off to Pusher, who started us moseying before Ol’ Pele was back from the end of the lot. PSL: Severe

Pusher took us up Pickett’s Charge, doing something painful at the bottom of each hill. Can’t remember, since I was beginning to become dehydrated and starting to hallucinate. We did some things with rocks and cones, though, as I recall, and ran around the Colosseum area until it was time to pass it off to….

PELE! Finally! My turn had arrived. Put down an insurrection that was attempting to hijack the Q and have us go up Everest to show it off to Mouth to Mouth, who was DR from GA. Nope. Not enough time to do that (or was there?… we’ll never know…). Did Route 66 (Peter Parkers) to Pav-a-Lon. Then did some PT sets, running around the building and then the parking lot until Time. PSL: Critical flow. Everything soaked. Everything…

MARY: Did some Homer/Marge and Hello dollies mixed in. Stretching until time. PSL: Pruning up from stewing in own sweat.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: UnCOVEred July 13 at the Cove. Fourth of July Asylum PM workout at 9 am, with Board Meeting and Soccer Taco lunch to follow. Come one come all.

COT: Talked about the importance of joy and humor by recounting some funny F3 stories. PSL: Formed a substantial sweat puddle in the prayer from sweat dripping off head. Also was unknowingly giving Snitch a form of Chinese Sweat Torture from sweat dripping on his arm in the circle. :face_holding_back_tears:

[bluegrass-pm-otb] Keep it simple

AO: bluegrass-pm-otb
Q: Tenderfoot
PAX: Pele (Jon Lindberg), Brick, Abacus, Welches (Leland Murphy), Doubtfire (Nick Bond), The Situation, Dain Bramage (Will Olson), Drum Major, Pusher, Finger Lickin’, Gridiron
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
WARMUP:
SSH
Tempo Squats
Tempo Merkins
High Knee mosey
Lunges downhill
Bernies uphill
BAC (F & R)

THE THANG:
Tree Biscuit until 6:25/6:30
Remainder of time: battle buddy – 5 stations/exercises:
– Decline Merkins
– Squats
– Knees on swing, bring knees to chest
– Dips
– Calf raises
1 Station =
Battle buddy #1: AMRAP one exercise from above
Battle buddy #2: runs down to park exit, then Bernies back uphill
Battle buddy #2: AMRAP one exercise from above
Battle buddy #1: runs down to park exit, then Bernies back uphill
Rotate to next station, try finish all 5 exercises

MARY:
American Hammers

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Summer Convergence: UnCOVEred on 7/13
– uncovered-summer-convergence
– westhills-ruck-otb

COT: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” -Emerson
Keep it simple. Do what works. Don’t overcomplicate. Focus on fundamentals, discipline, and routine. Too many intricacies in a plan/mission can result in confusion, inaction and excuses/justifications.
“”The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so the necessary may speak.” -Hans Hoffman”Assess your commitments and schedule, set boundaries, prioritize what’s critical, minimize the distractions/non-essentials. Know your limits. Know your flaws/negative tendencies. Be honest with yourself. Take accountability when your plan isn’t working – and adjust accordingly.
“”See it big, and keep it simple.” -Wilferd Peterson”An ambitious vision is a powerful thing, but keep your goals grounded and your tactics tight.
Lastly, forgot to say this, but…Avoid the temptation of shortcuts, shiny trends and silver bullets.

Cheerful Hearts

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Tenderfoot
PAX: Abacus, Lilydipper, Pele (Jon Lindberg), Colonel (Alex Wallace), Crash Dummy, Glamper, Pusher, Steam, Brick, Shogun, Catnip, Billy Jean
FNGs: 2 Catnip, Billy Jean
COUNT: 13
WARMUP:
– SSH: 25
– BAC (F): 10
– BAC (R): 10
– *Speed Skaters: 15
– Groin stretch OYO: 30 seconds
– Wedding Singer’s hamstring stretch

THE THANG:
(1) Active “Warmup”
– Ballerinas/Toe Squats: 10
– Mosey to base of Everest
– Bernies halfway up Everest (to base of peak)
– Mosey
– *Apple Pickers
– Mosey toward shady grove at NE corner of park
– Butt kicks
– SSH: 50

(2) Set #1
– *Mountain Merkins: 5/10?
– Hillbilly Squats: 15
Dad Joke: How does Moses make his coffee?
– BBS: 15
– Mosey
Dad Joke: After an unsuccessful harvest, why did the farmer decide to try a career in music?

(3) Set #2
– Air Squats: 20
– Dive-bombers: 5
– *Muay-Thai Lunges (right leg): 10
– BBS: 15
– *Muay-Thai Lunges (left leg): 10
Dad Joke: Did Eve have a date with Adam?
Dad Joke: I went running with my Bible…
– Mosey up toward Asylum building
Dad Joke: I seem to get sick on weekdays…

(4) Set #3
– *Indian Bear Crawl
– Split into 2 single-file lines
– Loser does 10 burpees
– Winner does 5 burpees
– Walking Lunges
– Bernies
– Sprint to the flag

Apologies if I’ve forgotten any add-on exercises or gotten anything out of order.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Summer Convergence: UnCOVEred on 7/13
– uncovered-summer-convergence
– Asylum PM Camping Trip
– bluegrass-pm-otb
– westhills-ruck-otb

COT: F3 (and our community of brothers) challenges us to do hard things – physically, mentally, etc. – but one of the hardest things in life, especially as a man, is reclaiming the cheerful heart and jovial innocence that we were born with but have lost along the way. F3 provides the opportunity to experience a safe space amongst brothers where we can let down our guard, be lighthearted, and have fun. It’s okay to be silly, goofy, and playful here because we know that we won’t be judged. We’re surrounded by men who love and trust one another. I believe that we should embrace this opportunity and challenge ourselves and each other to open up, to laugh, and to reclaim the cheerful heart that God has gifted us.

New Exercises Descriptions
*Speed Skater (from half-squat starting position): 1 rep = (push off with left leg into a long right-hop, landing on right foot in single-leg half-lunge; left foot swings behind, remaining raised; from this position, repeat same movement over to left foot in one fluid motion)
*Apple Pickers (skipping-like forward motion): single-leg jump, opposite leg high-knee; arm opposite of high-knee reaches for the apple; repeat w/ opposite leg/arm
*Mountain Merkins: 1 rep = (plank, right knee to right chest, left knee to left chest, right knee to outside right elbow, left knee to outside left elbow, right knee across to left chest, left knee across to right chest, Merkin)
*Muay-Thai Lunge: reverse lunge, same knee then proceeds to high knee (in one fluid motion); repeat w/ opposite leg
*Indian Bear Crawl: same as Indian Run, but Bear Crawl instead of a Mosey