F3 Knoxville

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40-30-20 Triangle

THE SCENE:

Clear Temperature Humidity Feels like Wind Speed Wind Direction
65 ℉ 94% 65 ℉ 2.7 mi/h SSW

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER.
I am not a professional.  I have a phone.  Workout as injuries allow.

WARM-O-RAMA:

20 – SSH
20 – Tie Fighters 10 forward 10 backward.
4 – Cherry Pickers

THA-THANG:
Mosey to large parking lot. A triangle is set up with 3 cones. At each cone, do 40 of first exercise, 30 second exercise, 20 of third exercise. Mosey to next cone. Three sets of exercises at each cone. After 3rd cone, mosey back to first and doing row two.  Etc. So, nine stations of three exercises. Move at your own pace.

Do 40/30/20.
Cone 1
Merkins/Box Cutters/Calf Raises
Carolina Dry Docks/Flutter Kicks/Squat Jacks
Diamond Merkins/Hello Dollys/Monkey Humpers
Cone 2
Squat Jacks/Merkins/Box Cutters
Monkey Humpers/Carolina Dry Docks/Flutter Kicks
Calf Raises/Diamond Merkins/Hello Dollys
Cone 3
Flutter Kicks/Squat Jacks/Merkins
Hello Dollys/Monkey Humpers/Carolina Dry Docks
Box Cutters/Calf Raises/Diamond Merkins

After completion of 9 stations, mosey to CMU pile. Each PAX grab one CMU.
20 – Curls 4-cnt
20 – Triceps
20 – Thrusters
Short 1 minute mosey with a little Michael Phelps.
20 – Curls 2-cnt
20 – Triceps
50 – CMU press

Mosey back to AO.
20 – LBCs 4-cnt
10 – Flutter Kicks 4-cnt

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 men.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

You never know when you’ll not be able to talk to those that are important to you.  Reach out and do it.

 

MOLESKIN:
For the unsaid prayers in our hearts.  For my recently deceased college roommate and his family.  For my mother’s continued healing after broken hip.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Sweating with the Oldies

THE SCENE: Low 70’s with some humidity
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Side straddle hop x 20 (4 Count)

Cherry pickers x 5 

Tempo merkins x 10

Failure to launch (modified to a 3 count) x 10

Scorpions (from plank, raise legs individually as high as you can) x 10

Supermans x 10 (4 Count)

Swimmers x 10 (4 Count)

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the courtyard

  • Dora with one lap around the short path
    • 100 Imperial Walkers (4 Count)
    • 100 Swimmers (4 Count)
    • 100 Mountain Climbers (4 Count)
    • 100 Superman (4 Count)
  • 11’s on the bricks – Dips and Scorpions
  • 30 sec of Bobby Hurleys followed by 30 sec of Wall Sits (2 rounds)
  • Mosey to the AO
    • 10 merkins (4 Count)
    • 10 lunges (4 Count)
    • 10 Failure to launch (modified to a 3 count) x 10
  • Jailbreak to the flag

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

ONCE THERE WERE two brothers who inherited their father’s land. The two brothers divided the land in half and each one farmed his own section. Over time, the older brother married and had six children, while the younger brother never married.

One night, the younger brother lay awake. “It’s not fair that each of us has half the land to farm,” he thought. “My brother has six children to feed and I have none. He should have more grain than I do.”

So that night the younger brother went to his silo, gathered a large bundle of wheat, and climbed the hill that separated the two farms and over to his brother’s farm. Leaving the wheat in his brother’s silo, the younger brother returned home, feeling pleased with himself.

Earlier that very same night, the older brother was also lying awake. “It’s not fair that each of us has half the land to farm,” he thought. “In my old age my wife and I will have our grown children to take care of us, not to mention grandchildren, while my brother will probably have none. He should at least sell more grain from the fields now so he can provide for himself with dignity in his old age.”

So that night, too, he secretly gathered a large bundle of wheat, climbed the hill, left it in his brother’s silo, and returned home, feeling pleased with himself.

The next morning, the younger brother was surprised to see the amount of grain in his barn unchanged. “I must not have taken as much wheat as I thought,” he said, bemused. “Tonight I’ll be sure to take more.”

That very same moment, his older brother was also standing in his barn, musing much the same thoughts.

After night fell, each brother gathered a greater amount of wheat from his barn and in the dark, secretly delivered it to his brother’s barn. The next morning, the brothers were again puzzled and perplexed.

“How can I be mistaken?” each one scratched his head. “There’s the same amount of grain here as there was before I cleared the pile for my brother. This is impossible! Tonight I’ll make no mistake – I’ll take the pile down to the very floor. That way I’ll be sure the grain gets delivered to my brother.”

The third night, more determined than ever, each brother gathered a large pile of wheat from his barn, loaded it onto a cart, and slowly pulled his haul through the fields and up the hill to his brother’s barn. At the top of the hill, under the shadow of a moon, each brother noticed a figure in the distance.  Who could it be?

When the two brothers recognized the form of the other brother and the load he was pulling behind, they realized what had happened. Without a word, they dropped the ropes to their carts and embraced.

Romans 12:9-13

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.

Shamrock – 5 Brave Men Prep for Iron Pax

THE SCENE: 69F Light Rain
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Side Straddle Hops 20-4 count

5 Merkins

Cherry Pickers: 5

5 Merkins

Tie Fighters

5 Merkins

25 Calf Raises 

5 Merkins

THA-THANG:

Mosey to CMU pile then to covered walkway 

25 Curls

25 Flutter kicks – 4-count 

50 CMU Bench press

50 windshield wipers

10 Squat presses, but do 5 presses at the top before your next squat

20 Hello Dolly 4-count 

30 CMU rows

40 LBCs

50 CMU overhead press

60 American Hammers single count

70 Alternating CMU Merkins – about killed me. 

80 SSH single count 

90 CMU Bench Press

100 scissor kicks single count 

Return CMUs

Take a lap around campus

Mosey back to AO flag

MARY:

Monkey Humpers 10 x 4 count

Imperial Walkers 10 x 4 count 

Monkey Humpers 10 x 4 count

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Anchorman, Trolley, Repeat, Paper or Plastic, Slappy,
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

I really liked what Trolley did last week with the getting to know you COT. 

Get to know each other by saying something about ourselves that everyone might not know. 

 

Sandbaggin’ it

THE SCENE: Muggy. Just muggy. Started sweating just doing Cherry Pickers.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
For possibly the first time ever, YHC started out with something other than SSH:
5x Cherry Pickers IC
15x Tn Rocking Chairs IC
10x Tempo Merkins IC
10x Tempo Lunges IC
5x Cobra Burpees OYO

THA-THANG:
Everyone grab a CMU and mosey over to the Dragon. There are 16 cardboard stations laid out a couple feet apart along the path, with a 90lb sandbag at the end.
Starting at the sandbag, everyone mans a station with no skips, leaving the ones at the end unmanned (YHC was prepared for a crowd…)
First PAX schleps the sandbag straight up the grass hill and back down around the path while everyone else does the exercise at their station AMRAP until he gets back.
He hands the sandbag to the next PAX while everyone moves up a station, and then goes to the last manned station.
Once everyone has done each station and carried the sandbag, everyone goes down to the end where the unmanned stations are, grabs a cardboard, and brings it back where they were. Repeat the AMRAPS/Sandbag carry.
For the third round, there are now two options at each station. Each PAX picks which exercise to do at each station.
Round 1:
Calf Raise
Twist Lunge
OHP
Ice Skaters
Curls
V-ups
Squat Thrust

Round 2:
Wood Choppers
Blockees
Squats
Tricep Extensions
Bent Rows
Up/Over Merkins
Alpos

Round 3:
To each his own.

MARY:
Bring the blocks back to the AO. Props to Repeat for schlepping the sandbag and Lebowski for doubling up on the CMUs!
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 PAX managed to avoid drowning in the wet air.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
My mother in law passed away from Alzheimers about a month ago. As the disease progressed and took more of her mind, she forgot who anyone was. But she never forgot the Lord, and still talked to Him and about Him to all of us. At her Celebration of Life service, we played the old hymn “It Is Well”, because even until the end she knew that it was well with her soul. Ended the COT by singing that hymn.
MOLESKIN:
Thanks to Matlock for calling out the CMUs! The PAX moved a lot of weight today!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Off the Chain coming up August 21st! Sign up! Also sign up for Hardship Hill… This will be year 4 and it’s bigger and better every year!

Layers of the Pearl

THE SCENE: Pleasant 65 degrees
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Side straddle hop -20

Cherry pickers – 5

Tempo merkins – 10

Tempo squats – 10

Flutter Kicks – 20

THA-THANG:

  • Indian Run to Parking Lot
    • Run 2 lines forward and do 1 Burpee, Bernie 1 line back and do 1 Get Down (both cheeks and both shulder blades touch the ground), Repeat increasing reps by 1 until the end of the parking lot (Max 8). 
  • Mosey to CMU pile
    • Beginning at 1 rep, cycle through Squats, Curls, Raises, and then hold a coupon at eye level for the number of seconds equal to the reps, repeat cycle with 2 reps all the way up to 20 reps.
  • Mosey to the stairs
    • At the curb, beginning at 1 rep, cycle through CMU bench press and skull crusher. Repeat cycle with 2 reps all the way up to 5 reps. 
    • At the first level of stairs, beginning at 6 reps, cycle through coupon push up, skull crusher. Repeat cycle with 7 reps all the way up to 10 reps.
    • At the second level of stairs, beginning at 11 reps, cycle through coupon push up, skull crusher. Repeat cycle with 12 reps all the way up to 15 reps.
    • At the top of the stairs, beginning at 16 reps, cycle through coupon push up, skull crusher. Repeat cycle with 17 reps all the way up to 20 reps.
  • Mosey to the AO

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Matt 13: 45 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. 46 When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.

So valuable that he went away and sold everything…

There are two types of oyster produced pearls: natural and cultured. Natural Pearls form when an irritant – usually a parasite and not the proverbial grain of sand – works its way into an oyster, mussel, or clam. As a defense mechanism, a fluid is used to coat the irritant. Layer upon layer of this coating, called ‘nacre’, is deposited until a lustrous pearl is formed. A cultured pearl undergoes the same process except that the irritant is a surgically implanted bead. The cultured pearl is a pearl on the outside with a thin, exterior layer of nacre while the natural pearl is pearl throughout. 

Takes years to form a natural pearl. If we look within ourselves, we too find parasites that try to steal the best of our strength, thought, joy and holiness. The temptation is smother the parasite with a bunch of nacre all at once but then you will have an uneven pearl, which has no beauty. It takes thin layers, little by little, layer by layer, day by day, prayer by prayer, scripture by scripture. The natural pearl within is started and then grown into a thing to be desired. 

This is the fine pearl that the man in the parable went and sold all he had to go purchase. As HIMs, we embrace this grind in the spirit of James 1 – 2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. 

The kingdom of Heaven, the fine pearl, the natural pearl is worth selling all you have for. So if we are going to go all in,  we mist ensure that we have strength and faith throughout and not just a pretty exterior with a false center.