F3 Knoxville

Tag: Rep Sleepy

Sua Sponte

THE SCENE: 69 degrees F., 97% humidity, cloudy with threat of rain.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH, baby arm circles, windmills, overhead claps, squats (all x11).
THA-THANG:

Pick up a CMU and overhead carry on Route 66 from Illinois to the Missouri state line.

Route 66 was a 0.33 mile loop.  A total of six state line stops in the loop at Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.  The listing of the workouts at each station is below:

  • Missouri State Line:

Lap 1: CMU Thrusters x11

Lap 2: Dips with CMU x11

Overhead Carry CMU to Kansas

Lap 3: Squat Jumps x11

Lap 4: Dry Docks x11

Lap 5: BBS x11

Lap 6: SSH (4 count) x11

  • Kansas State Line:

Lap 1: Merkins x11

Lap 2: CMU Upright Rows x11

Lap 3: CMU Dips x11

Overhead Carry CMU to Oklahoma

Lap 4: Squat Jumps x11

Lap 5: Dry Docks x11

Lap 6: BBS x11

  • Oklahoma State Line:

Lap 1: SSH (4 count) x11

Lap 2: Merkins x11

Lap 3: CMU Swings x11

Lap 4: CMU Dips x11

Overhead Carry CMU to Texas

Lap 5: Squat Jumps x11

Lap 6: Dry Docks x11

  • Texas State Line:

Lap 1: BBS x11

Lap 2: SSH (4 count) x11

Lap 3: Merkins x11

Lap 4: CMU Thrusters x11

Lap 5: CMU Dips x11

Overhead Carry CMU to New Mexico

Lap 6: Squat Jumps x11

  • New Mexico State Line:

Lap 1: Dry Docks x11Lap 2: BBS x11

Lap 3: SSH (4 count) x11

Lap 4: Merkins x11

Lap 5: Lunge Dead Lift x11/arm

Lap 6: CMU Dips x11

Overhead Carry CMU to Arizona

Arizona State Line:

Lap 1: Squat Jumps x11

(Bear Crawl Back to Missouri for Lap 2)

Lap 2: Dry Docks x11

(Bear Crawl Back to Missouri for Lap 3)

Lap 3: BBS x11

(Bear Crawl Back to Missouri for Lap 4)

Lap 4: SSH (4 count) x11

(Bear Crawl Back to Missouri for Lap 5)

Lap 5: Merkins x11

(Bear Crawl Back to Missouri for Lap 6)

Lap 6: CMU Curls x11

Overhead Carry CMU to California (Back to the AO)

  • California State Line:

Squat Jumps x11

Dry Docks x11

BBS x11

SSH (4 count) x11

Merkins x11

CMU Swings x11

 

MARY:
Squats, Dry docks, BBS.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 HIMs – welcome back Tightspot.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

We typically start our F3 workout with the word “voliltion.”  What got me thinking about this was a photo I saw a few years ago.  It was a picture of the football field with Army and Navy playing.  The caption said something about it being the only game where every player on the field was willing to die for me and my freedom.  I also thought of my son-in-law, Travis.  During one of his 8 tours of duty he received the Bronze Star for Valor because he chose to live by the Ranger creed to leave no man behind, put himself in harms way, neutralized the situation, and dragged his wounded teammate to safety.  Sua Sponte is the Ranger motto – of our own accord or volition.

If you saw Saving Private Ryan, you may remember when a dying Captain John Miller (a Ranger) tells Private Ryan to “earn this.”  This disappointed many Army Rangers because they believe that a Ranger would not say something like that.  Rangers don’t expect their service to be “earned”, their service is their own volition.  Sua Sponte!

This is Christ like action. He chose to obey his Father on His own volition.  Yes, in His prayer in the garden, He did ask if there was some other way to accomplish His mission but he always came back to say that He would do the will of His Father.  Jesus didn’t ask us to earn it.  He did it by choice so that our sins would be forgiven, we would be declared justified in God’s eyes, and redemption could be ours.  We don’t have to earn it.  We only need to repent, profess Christ, obey, and follow.  Not easy, but at least we know the way to everlasting joy and peace.

MOLESKIN:
Prayers for healing for Swerve (and Postpone), Avocado as he gets ready to deploy, Arnold as he prepares to ship out in late September, Drifter as he and Caroline train to help with refugees coming to Knoxville, Rep Sleepy in his prayer request.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Gathering at Woodshack’s Friday evening to bid “see you later” to Avocado, Dog Pound CSAUP on Saturday morning, Hardship Hill the first Saturday of October, IronPax Challenge signup.

No Excuses

THE SCENE: Rainy and extra gloomy

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER


WARM-O-RAMA:
Assorted stretches and mosey to learn the loop for the morning

THA-THANG:
DORA with the following exercises:

  • Decline Merkins x100
  • Big Boy Sit Ups x200
  • Step Ups x300

One partner ran the loop while other partner worked through the exercises. All PAX completed the exercises and some were about halfway through a second round.

MARY:
Overhead Claps x50

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
6 HIMs left their excuses at home this morning

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Question to think about today: What excuses are you making to keep from doing what you are supposed to be doing?

MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

Chariot Dice

THE SCENE: mild. 70s. Not too humid. Good day for a run
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 SSH and a warm up lap with stretches
THA-THANG:
8 squares with different exercises.

  • Goblet Squats
  • Dips
  • BBS
  • Merkins
  • Bent Rows
  • Box Jumps
  • Flutter Kicks
  • Decline Merkins

Start on a square and roll the dice. Do the number of reps shown and repeat. When you roll doubles, do double reps and then murder bunny to the next square.

MARY:
Nope.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 HIMs and a 2.0
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Life can feel pretty random when you’re in the middle of it. My own life was extremely random and chaotic in college. Drifting from place to place. Doing random jobs to make ends meet. But when you look back on life, you can see God’s providence at work. For example, all of my seemingly random work and school experience led to a random encounter for a great job which led to moving out here which led to randomly running in the park and randomly joining F3 and randomly dealing with a deep sin issue in my life. You see my point that it’s not really random. God is in control, and whatever random, chaotic, scary thing is going on, you can trust that God is working it out for your good even if it hurts.
MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Lots going on.

3rd F type event at Swerve’s Church

Going away party for Avocado

CSAUP at dog pound

All the stuff for Hardship Hill

How Many Hills Are There?

THE SCENE: Clear sky’s, bright eyes and humid but that’s expected
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Warm up lap around AO. Included Mosey, High Knees, hill kicks, side lunges, lunge stretch, Frankenstein’s
THA-THANG:

The goal of this beatdown was to try and name three of the Hill surrounding the AO. You can only name something after you have experienced it

  • Thang 1-  Blind Man’s Hill ( named for the fact that not only can you barley see the top from the bottom but you also really cant see where you are running when in the gloom)
    • Hill Repeats- Straightforward, Q set a 5 min timer. Sprint up the Hill jog back. The work came from the 7.7% grade of the hill.
  • Thang 2 Second Hill -Cedar St to Anderson St ( Still needs a name possible Cardiac Hill? This was also only half of this hill, it keeps climbing)
    • Dora- 50,75,100- Hip Raises, HR Merkins, Leg Raises. The exercises were straightforward, the 7% grade put the stress on the pax.
  • Thang 3- Third Hill- Anderson St- Gut Check Hill ( Avocado so pointedly pointed out that as your sprinting and you think you are near the top you look up and realize you’re not close and its a real gut check moment)
    • Spartan- pax all starts at the bottom together, Q said go and the pax sprinted up the hill. (Q did win all three races but who is counting.) At the top 10 Merkins and hold plank for the 6. Pax walked back down the hill together, lined up and repeated.

MARY:
20 LBC during the mosey back to the grindstone
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I was reading some quotes about success and motivation. There were three themes that kept sticking out to me in all the quotes. Not only did these themes show up in all the quotes, but than i started to think what all the people that gave these quotes had in common. They are all considered highly successful and respected people. Therefore what i took away is that these three themes really are the keys to success in life.

  • Not having regrets act now!
  • failure is key to success
  • don’t look for others to give you what you want
  • “Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm” Winston Churchill
  • “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong” Benjamin Franklin
  • ” If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on”  Sheryl Sandberg
  • “Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.” Dalai Lama
  • “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing , and be nothing”  Aristotle
  • ” It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you don’t stop” Confucius

The last quote was very meaningful to todays beatdown. We can not stop, we cant question on direction, we must move forward regardless of the of the obstacles in front of you or the negative voices telling you its impossible.

 

MOLESKIN:
Please keep Rep Sleepy in your prayers as he helps his friends family morn their lose.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
22nd is CSUP, Aug 28th 2.0 workout #2, October is Hardship Hill. Need to work on ideas for our obstacle.

It was easier

THE SCENE: Mild
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
1 Cherry Picker
THA-THANG:
Indian Run around the AO, man in front rolls the workout dice. Execute the movement, “water break” read body builders.

Return to the AO press and walk with a CMU between lines doing 10 big boys, 20 triceps extensions, 30 curls and 40 goblet squats.

 

It was easier than Swerve’s Tuesday beatdown.

MARY:
Ab work for time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Comparison is the thief of Joy:

If you watch HGTV too long, you’ll become dissatisfied with your home. If you stay on social media too long, you’ll become dissatisfied with your life. If you watch the news to long you’ll become dissatisfied with the world. Unplug, Pray. Read a book. Spend time with loved ones. Our minds are easily influenced, but you get to choose the influence!
MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.