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A Little Bit of Everything

THE SCENE:  upper 60’s & clear

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER


WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Cherry pickers x 5
  • Side Straddle Hops x 20
  • Mountain Climbers x 20
  • This/That stretch

THA-THANG:

  1. Mosey to the walking track
    • Run the track Route 66 style.  Start with 1 Squat and 1 Big Boy at the first light pole.  Increase by one rep at each light pole.  Total of 15 poles….I think.
  2. Pick a battle buddy and wheelbarrow across the parking lot.  5 Merkins at each parking space line.  Switch at the end of the lot and come back the same way.
  3. Mosey to the end of the parking lot by the playground.  Descending ladder.  Run to the top of the hill by the bathrooms after each time down the ladder.
    • 10 Spread Eagle Merkins
    • 9 Squat Jumps
    • 8 Big Boys
    • 7 Plankjacks
    • 6 Iron Mikes
    • 5 Box Cutters
    • 4 Shoulder Taps
    • 3 Lunges
    • 2 Superman Swims
    • 1 Burpee
  4. Mosey back to the AO parking lot for some Pyramids
    • 25 Merkins, run to top of hill
    • 25 Merkins, 25 Big Boys, run to top of hill
    • 25 Merkins, 25 Big Boys, 25 Squats, run to top of hill

MARY:
No official Mary, but plenty of abs/core today.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Swirlie, Judge Judy, La-Z-Boy, Ratchet, Shameless (FNG), Shooter, Mayberry, Bartman

 

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
John chapter talks about sin – specifically about the ramifications of having sin in your life and how it affects your walk with Christ.  the Bible says that all sin committed in darkness will be brought into the light.  I shared about how my oldest son is struggling with adult sized sin for the first time as a 15 year old and how I am dealing with that.

MOLESKIN:
For the record, Frosty and Butters were there today too – but they walked around with backpacks on the whole time.   Something about getting ready for a 12 hour Go-Ruck tonight???

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
F3 Olympics coming up 11/3

Humpty-Dumpty

THE SCENE: 72. Pretty humid.  Wispy clouds scuttling across the pale face of the waning gibbous moon.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x30 IC
Crab Kicks x(something… PAX lost the count after 1. I blame Mayberry.)
Windmills x10 IC
Travoltas x10 each side IC
Cossack Squats x20 IC
Hand Release Merkins x10 OYO

Special add-on of 5 burpees for every vote of “*&$## Waxjob!” in last night’s poll about swimming in the beatdown… Surprisingly, only 5 burpees!

THA-THANG:

Grab a battle buddy, grab one CMU per team, and mosey to the hockey rink.

Line up on one side for some Humpty-Dumpty Dora 1,2,3!
Partners share 100 merkins, 200 big boys, and 300 squats.
As one partner does reps, other partner:
-Runs to opposite wall,
-Picks up CMU and sets it on the wall
-Vaults over the wall
-Sets CMU on the ground
-Runs to the asphalt and does a burpee
-Reverses the wall process with CMU and does another burpee
-Runs back to partner

After a 10 count, line up along the end line for 7s OYO: 8-count Body Builders on one end, Squat Jumps on the other.

Gather up CMUs and head back to the AO

Surprisingly, only one Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. 10 burpees all around in memoriam.

MARY:
On your six for 15x Flutter Kicks IC, hard switch to 15 more Slutter Kicks IC
Left-Right-Center LBCs OYO until time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
19 PAX today including FNG Earwig! (Jerry Valentin)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Ps. 37:4 – “Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart”.

Sounds great. “God’s gonna give me everything I want!” But that’s not what it says. He will give you the desires of your heart. His desires for you will be planted in your heart, such that they become your desires. These are his best for you, and these are what He will fill!

MOLESKIN:
I posted a poll last night to see who was interested in a swimming leg for today’s beatdown. Can’t say I was surprised by the responses to the negative, but also just a hair disappointed. That cool water woulda felt good this morning…
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Lunch this Thursday… It’s gonna happen! Also don’t forget F3-Versary first weekend in November.

8 Men and a Matterhorn

THE SCENE: upper 60’s…felt like October – great weather

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER


WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH x 20
  • Tempo Merkins x 10
  • Tempo Squats x 10
  • Cherry Pickers x 5
  • This/that stretch

THA-THANG:

  • Indian run to the base of the Matterhorn
  • 4 Cones spread along the upper half of the hill.  1=closest, 4=farthest.  Exercises written at each cone.
    • 4-Burpees;  3-Diamond Merkins;  2-Plankjacks;  1-Squats
    • PAX run to the 4th (farthest) cone and do 25 reps of the exercise written.  Then mosey back down the hill stopping to do 25 reps of the exercise written at each cone.   Rinse & repeat eliminating the furthest cone each round until you end with only going to the 1st cone.
  • DORA work
    • 50 Thrust Merkins;  50 Squat Jacks;  50 Leg Pass Throughs
    • Partner 1 does reps at the speed bump, while partner 2 runs up the lower portion of the Matterhorn to where the rock ditch starts.

MARY:

  • Hello Dolly x 20
  • Box Cutter x 20
  • Spread Eagle Merkins x 10
  • Superman/Banana

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 PAX:  Ratchet, Pepper, Scooter, Woodshack, Shooter, Barn Door, Moped, Bartman

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Words matter.  Say what you mean and don’t generalize.  Shared from John 21 an example of this when Jesus asked Peter “do you love me?” 3 times.  The first 2 times Jesus asked if Peter loved him he used the word Agape which is a deep, unconditional love…Peter in return said that yes he loved Jesus, however he used the word Phileo, which is a brotherly love.  Finally, the 3rd time Jesus asked Peter, he said “Do you Phileo me?”, in other words Jesus said “is that all Peter, do you only love me with a brotherly love and not a deep unconditional love?”.  Jesus was making the point that we should love him unconditionally.  It’s a good example of how our English language doesn’t quite capture the gravity of scripture.  Our word “love” is used for everything:  I love my wife, I love coffee, I love exercising.  The word doesn’t allow you to differentiate between its different meanings in different contexts.  Therefore we should take the time to be specific when we can be….to use the word that will relay our message the clearest.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Truckin to the Pound this weekend – 6am at the Truck Stop;  F3 anniversary celebration in November

Old Fashioned Family Beatdown

THE SCENE: 68 Degrees and oddly pleasant
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Little o’ this
  • Little o’ that
  • Little o’ Michael Phelps (exc. Ratchet who hates that stretch)
  • Cherry Picker x 10 IC
  • Imperial Squat Walker x 10 IC

THA-THANG:
I had the PAX count off into three equal groups; one lucky group got to run over and pick up CMUs from the pile.

Group 1 stood shoulder-to-shoulder at Cone A and Group 3 stood should-to-shoulder at Cone B. Groups 1 and 3 began an exercise while Group 2 traveled between them as instructed. When Group 2 reached Group 3, the PAX rotated and ran back to Group 1, where the rotation continued. Exercises are below:

Set 1: World’s Greatest Merkin/CMU Run/Freddie Mercury

Set 2: Squats/Sprints/CMU Curls

Set 3: Burpees/Bernie Sanders/CMU Press

Each set lasted approximately 10 minutes with minimal rest between sets.

MARY:

  • Plank Jacks x 25 IC (4 ct.)
  • LBCs x 25 IC (4 ct.)
  • Mountain Climbers x 25 IC (4 ct.)
  • Oblique crunches x 15 IC (single ct., each side)
  • Flutter Kicks x 25 IC

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
22 PAX including 1 FNG – strong showing!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Gerald Swindle is a professional bass angler that has been on the circuit for quite a while. He competes at the highest level in a stressful sport and yet he almost always seems collected, deliberate, and positive. I shared with PAX a quote that Swindle wrote regarding his personal slogan of “Positive Mental Attitude”:

“That’s the way my personal slogan of PMA (positive mental attitude) works in life. One of the PMA principles is that today’s bad news leads to tomorrow’s good news. You have to believe that today’s bad unexpected will lead you to tomorrow’s good unexpected.”

I really like what he’s getting at here. We will constantly have entropy in our lives, and we have to be intentional about embracing that and moving forward as HIMs.

MOLESKIN:
Felt good to be back with the PAX after several tumultuous weeks off-kilter schedules!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Don’t forget about kickball, Truckin’ to the Pound, and several F3 events coming up in October & November!

15×30 Doormen + 7×20 Tabata

THE SCENE: Cloudy with a chance of meatballs.
WARM-O-RAMA:
5x 30sec warmup sets of Windmills, Side Straddle Hops, Calf raises, Lunges, Cherry pickers,

THA-THANG:

30 Doormen

For 15 minutes, while running around the Performing arts building, do 30 exercises per door on the building.  If you run into stairs anywhere along the way do five burpees with a stair ascent in between each burpee.  If you find that you are the first one in the group, after your current set to 30 go-to the back of the pack.
The 30 exercises are:

  • 10 V-Ups
  • 10 Crunches
  • 10 Cross Toe Touches

720 Tabatas:

Do 20 minutes of Tabata exercises rotating between the following seven exercises:

  • CMU Pull Over
  • Calf Raises
  • Derkins
  • Step Ups
  • Carolina Dry Docks
  • Dips
  • Box Jumps

MARY:
Jailbreak back from CMU drop off.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

1 Corinth 9:24 Run in such a way as to get the prize..

2 Tim 2:4 Join with me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 4 No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in civilian affairs, but rather tries to please his commanding officer. 5 Similarly, anyone who competes as an athlete does not receive the victor’s crown except by competing according to the rules. 6 The hardworking farmer should be the first to receive a share of the crops.

Phil 3:14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Prayer:  Pray for Christian that his visa renewal goes well!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
https://f3knoxville.com/category/announcements/