F3 Knoxville

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Bracket Reveal

THE SCENE: nice and cool. Threat of rain never materialized. Perfect
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER  
WARM-O-RAMA:
8 motivators in honor of Kentucky’s 8 national championships
THA-THANG:
Everyone drew a team and their seed and was sent to the corresponding pod

  • San Diego: top seeds. Easiest pod. AMRAP of shuttle sprints. Big boys. Lunges
  • Greenville: decent seeds. AMRAP of squats, flutters, merkins
  • lndianapolis. Harder road to navigate.  AMRAP  of step ups. Decline merkins. Butt touches
  • Buffalo: lowest seeds. Run a mild then bump the other pods

MARY:
Stretched to One Shining Moment. (The Luther Vandross version…not that other abomination.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Use the TAGS on right-side to record PAX (BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOURSELF) in attendance. Be sure to select the AO in CATEGORY above TAGS and then delete these notes!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Matthew 6:34. Live for today. Don’t wish your life away looking to the future. Serve God and others today. Tomorrow will be fine on its own
MOLESKIN:
This word is still weird
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
F3 bracket challenge benefitting Wesley House

CSAUP in 49 short weeks

The Fab Four

THE SCENE: Not bad at all.  About 45 degrees give or take at circle up
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Warmed up with 20 SSH on 4ct, Baby arm circles x10 front and back, a bit of ole fashioned stretching, some Imperial Walkers x10, and a quick lap around the parking lot
THA-THANG:
11’s with CMU’S in the parking lot with Curls on one end Thrusters on the other.  Carry CMU back and forth.  Once done with 11’s we completed 50 reps of 4ct flutters and weighted squats.

When completed, partnered up for: Partner 1 does farmer carry down and back while partner 2 does AMRAP LBC’S. Rinsed and repeated that.

Then to pavilion for a 6 minute EMOM of table rows, dips, LBCs, wall sit, and side straddle hops

then 7 minute Ab EMOM of dollys, flutters, LBC, BIG BOYS, gas pumpers, and right and left side crunch

MARY:
She didn’t show up.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Talked about the importance of what we do as men and being there for eachother.  Reaching out to those men around us and leading them.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Little Captain

THE SCENE:  Pretty morning.  Around 39 degrees at circle up
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
25 4ct ssh , 12 baby arm circles front and back, 10 dive bombers, 12 imperial walkers and 2 laps
THA-THANG:
4 Cones:

Flagpole at the pavilion

Bottom of Baby Everest

Heading up Dragons Tail

Bend heading towards the cloud

Perform 10 diamond Merkins at cone one, 10 4ct LBC at cone 2, 10 man makers at cone 3, and 10 4ct Hello Dolly’s at 4.  Rinse and repeat 4 times

Mosey to flagpole for session of 10 merkins, 10 4ct flutters, then 9 merkins 9 4ct flutters…all the way to 5 merkins and 5 4ct flutters.  Then we went back up 6 reps, 7 reps…up to 10

then to bleachers:

step ups on bleachers with 1 squat at every step on the way up and on the way down.  Then 5 jump squats at the bottom.  Rinse and repeat 5 times

MARY:
20 4 count hello dolly’s and 20 4ct freddy mercury’s
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
We tend to look at the big picture too much.  All God is asking us to do is today.  Do what he has asked us to do today in the moment.  When we are faithful and do that, we string them together and we end up where he desires.  Lamentations 3:22-23
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Baseball & Magnets

THE SCENE: Misty, slightly chilly morning. Perfect short sleeve hoodie weather…

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER Done and done well. 

WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH IC x10 | LBAC IC x10 each way | Michael Phelps | Little of This, Little of That | Tempo Squats IC x10 

THA-THANG:

Mosey to Coliseum with a pit stop for 10 Merkins, 10 Squats, 10 BBS on the way

Ghostman Baseball at the Coliseum 

Partner up and one partner runs to first, completes the exercise, returns home while their partner does the Home exercise. Switch when running partner returns. Second round: Run to 1st, do the exercise, run to second, do the exercise, return home. Continue the pattern until you reach home. You do not need to run back from home. 

  • First Base (1st tree up the right side)
    • 10 Squat Jumps
    • Hello Dolly at Home 
  • Second Base (Steps of the Admin building)
    • 20 calf raises
    • Flutter Kicks at Home 
  • Third Base 
    • 30 Imperial Squat Walkers 
    • V-ups at Home 
  • Home Plate 
    • 5 Body Builder +’s 
    • LBCs at Home

Opposites Attract 

Partner up. 5 partner Merkins (facing each other, do a merkin and clap hands at the top, switching hands each time). Run to the opposite end of the coliseum, do 5 Burpees, race back to the middle. The losing partner has to do an extra Body Builder+ when returned to the middle. 5 Rounds, dropping 1 Burpee each round.

Fellowship Mosey transitioning to Regular Mosey back to the AO 

MARY:

SSH IC x10 | “Feet together down” stretch for the last 10 seconds before time is called 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

12 PAX; 0 FNGs

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Job 1:21 “The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away.” 

I have spent most of my life in comfort. In recent years I have had hard times (financially, mentally, spiritually, physically, etc.), but not near as difficult as those that are truly in need. Today, I saw the men of the Asylum AM step up for a family that they did not even know, for a guy who is a regular at a completely different AO across town. I put the word out last night that a family at my school was in need. They don’t have the resources to get their daughter to school in order to graduate. The nature of my school (which, while a Knox County Public High school) is that it has ‘less than ideal’ transportation options and this family does not have the means to buy gas in order to get their daughter to school. She is a senior on the cusp of graduation and needs to attend regularly to earn her diploma. The generosity of the PAX of the Asylum, both in attendance and not, was overwhelming to me. I will be able to present this family with a $250 gas card from Weigals tomorrow morning. 

I say it often, but it is ALWAYS worth repeating… The High Impact Men of F3 and F3Knoxville are the best men I know. Jumping at opportunities to make our community a better place. I don’t know where I would be without this group, and I know that if I ever need anything, an F3 HIM will be right there to help me along the way. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Continue donations to The Wesley House

Convergence at JUCO on July 2nd 

Bro-lympics coming in November 2022

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Steam Can’t Count Because He’s Not A Professional, But It Was Still A Pretty Good Q

[ The Scene ]

TBSIA (The Best Sunrise In America) was slowly beginning to arrive on the scene.

[ Welcome/Disclaimer ]

  • Welcome to F3: Fitness, Fellowship, Faith
  • My name is Steam and I’ll be your Q this morning
  • A few things before we begin however:
    • I’m not a professional
    • You’re here on your own volition
    • If you need to modify anything we do this morning feel free to do so. But in that moment of potential modification ask yourself this question: CAN I DO BETTER? Then ask the HIM on your left and right if they can as well.

[ Warm o Rama ]

  • Motivator: 5 (Steam can’t count to 5 for Motivators so he will need a Q101 soon)
  • Baby Arm Circles: 10×4 F / 10×4 B
  • Mountain Climber: 10×4
  • Merkin: 10×4

[ The Thang ]

(Mosey to the flagpole)

(1) Flagpole — 5s

  • 5 Xs: 25 reps on a 1 count
    • SSH
    • Merkin
    • Squat
    • LBC
    • American Hammers
  • 5 stations
    • Flagpole: 25 SSH
    • Corner 1 of parking lot: 25 merkins
    • Corner 2 of parking lot: 25 squats
    • Corner 3 of parking lot: 25 LBCs
    • Corner 4 of parking lot: 25 AHs
  • The movements
    • 5 rounds
    • Doing your SSHs here, running to corner 1 and doing that exercise, running back here, and rinse and repeat what you just did, but adding the next corner into the mix
    • For example: SSH, merkins, squats — back to the flagpole
    • Adding a corner each time until you’ve done all 4 corners in one round
  • Recover back here when you’re done

(Mosey to The 3 Strands)

(2) The 3 Strands

  • Strand 1 (Far Left) — run to the other side + execute 5 man-makers + run back on strand 1
  • Strand 2 (Middle) — run to the other side + execute 10 man-makers + run back to the other side
  • Strand 3 (Far Right) — run to turn other side + execute 15 man makers + run back to the other side
  • You’re always starting on this side, and running back to this side after the man-makers

(Mosey to The Dock)

(3) The Dock

  • Core 4 25×4
    • LBCs
    • Cockroaches
    • Flutter kicks
    • Reverse BBS

(Mosey back to the Pavilion)

  • 10 step ups
  • Run to the parking lot (AO)
  • Execute 50 SSH (1 count)
  • Rinse and Repeat

[ Mary ]

Down + Back sprints and squats and merkins across the parking lot

Cash-Out: ATMs

[ COT ]

  • # off
  • Name o Rama
  • FNGs
  • BOM

[ The Zelensky Leadership Model ]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s response to a potential airlift from the U.S., in light of Russia invading Ukraine, has gotten a lot of attention and spotlight over the past week or so. Here was Zelensky’s response: “I need ammunition, not a ride.”

Take the politics, the names, positions, locations out of this and what do you have? You have an incredible leadership principle +  model. In this specific situation, you have a leader asking for the tools to stay in the fight, rather than taking the first chance to get out. And don’t we do the opposite of this in our lives sometimes?

If you subscribe to the Christian faith, here’s what this can sound like, at least for me sometimes:

“God if you would just airlift me out of this situation.”

“God please get me out of this.”

If you don’t, and more culturally speaking, the soundtrack of this goes something like this:

“That’s not my job/problem.”

“This is a sign that this isn’t what the universe has for me.”

—versus—

“God supply me what I need to stay in the fight.”

“God – you have me here for a reason. Please supply me with the tools to do your will.”

—Or—

“What tools do I have at my disposal to attempt to make this situation better?”

So what is the “ammunition” that helps us keep the faith + fight the good fight, even when the fight we’re in seems insurmountable? If you’re a follower of Jesus is the Bible or the word of God. So then we take this leadership principle from Zelensky and ask ourselves “Am I asking for ammunition to fight the enemy or simply looking and waiting for a way out?” 

Takeaway: The world needs more High Impact Men that are willing to stay in the fight and ask for the ammo/tools to battle, than jump ship after the first shot is fired. Because here’s what HIM do: 3 things

  • They don’t flee from the fight, they stay rooted in the darkest of night
  • They don’t look for an extraction point, they find and create rallying points
  • They don’t escape, they elevate

“Quit looking for rides out and start asking for ammunition to stay rooted where you are.”