F3 Knoxville

Descending Ladder

THE SCENE: Low 40s & clear

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER


WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH x 30
  • Tempo Squat x 10
  • 4ct Merkins x 10
  • Cherry Pickers x 5
  • this/that stretch

THA-THANG:

  1. Descending ladder.

Each man OYO work your way down the ladder from top to bottom.  After each round run across the parking lot & down the hill to the ball field fence.  Rinse & Repeat eliminating the lowest remaining exercise each round.  Alternate bernie sanders each trip up the hill when coming back from the ball field fence.

  • 10 Thrust Merkins
  • 9 Reverse Lunges
  • 8 Box Cutters
  • 7 Burpees
  • 6 Squatjacks
  • 5 Superman Swims
  • 4 Dry Docks
  • 3 Iron Mikes (4 ct)
  • 2 Flutter Kicks
  • 1 Ultimate Merkin

 

2.  Bear Square Crawl.

Four cones set up in a square.  Crawl the square while always facing the same direction.  Stop at each corner & perform the following:

  • Round 1:  10 Merkins
  • Round 2:  10 Pickle Pounders
  • Round 3:  out of time!  One long crawl to the end of the parking lot & Crawl Bear back.

MARY:
No Mary today….plenty of abs in the workout.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
20 PAX:  Rainbow, Booster, Snitch, Abacus, Pusher, Cat Gut, Smalls, Fabio, Rusty, Bunny, QVC, Walkabout, Code Brown, Charmin, Toll Bridge, Passport, Gibbler, Cheatsheet, Ribbed, Bartman

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Repeat BOM from my last Q….it has still been on my mind.   Don’t let the cold weather make you a fartsacker!   Champions are made in the cold weather.  Keep setting the alarm, keep pushing….you’ll be glad you did once the spring arrives.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Truckin to the Pound – tomorrow 6am at the Truck Stop.

Remember Grace and Old Glory

THE SCENE: A cool, 44 degrees and clear and 31 men pull into the gloom that is the parking lot.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

Welcome and you are here on your own volition and you know your hurts, please take care but push yourself and use proper form.


WARM-O-RAMA:

  • 2 laps around the parking lot
  • 20 Side straddle hop
  • 15 Imperial squat walkers
  • 15 (each) Baby arm circles front and back
  • 10 Cherry pickers
  • Some of these and some of those

THA-THANG:

Form two lines
To the playground
Four rounds:
  • 20 Decline Merkens
  • 20 Box jump
  • 20 Squats
  • 20 Star jacks

 

  • The first man to the top of the poll competition Barby, Proton, Woodshack, and Smalls.
    • Then everyone did 5 Burpees
Run to new parking area
  • Four rounds:
  • 20 Merkens
  • 20 LBC’s
  • 20 Squats
  • 20 dry docks
Run to flag pole
  • Side Crunches Rt. x20 IC
  • Flutter Kicks x20 4ct IC
  • Side Crunches Lft. x20 IC
  • Hello Dolly x20 4ct IC

 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Thinking about the pain and sickness in our lives should remind us that this is not our home! We will one day stand before the Lord and hear those words, “Well done good, and faithful servant.” – we must remember that the Good and Faithful is not because we did those things, in fact, most of our lives are opposites of that. But Christ is the perfect sacrifice he died once and for all! It’s his perfect righteousness that we live under and are clothed by that God see! We didn’t earn it!

No Jabronis Allowed

THE SCENE: Darkish, gloomy, the air was almost as cold as the ice in my veins.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

2 laps around parking lot

Baby Arm Circles x20

SSH x15

Tempo Squat x15

Tempo Merkins w/ pause x5
THA-THANG:

  • Mosey to the Cloud
  • ELEVENS
    • Deck Squat Burpees
    • V-Ups
  • Mosey to Pavillion
    • Battle Buddy
      • One does wall sit and holds other’s feet
      • Other does 10 merkins, then switch, then 8,6,4,2
  • Mosey to Cardiac
  • Escalators
    • 10 burpees
    • 10 burps, 15 plank jax
    • 10 burps, 15 plank jax, 20 merkins
    • 10 burps, 15 plank jax, 20 merkins, 25 squats
  • Side plank taps in cadence (10 each side)
  • Mosey to AO
  • Doras across parking lot
    • One parter does alternate leg burpees while other runs across lot, 6 tuck jumps, then runs back and switch.
    • Accumulate 75 total alternate leg burpees
  • Circle of Core
    • Hello Dollys in cadence x20
    • Suitcases in cadence x20
    • Tempo merkin w pause x3

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Guppy, Too Late, Smalls, Cap’n Crunch, Doublewide, Anchorman, Butterfly, Pusher, Snitch, Neutron, Booster, Big Bird, Ponzi, Proton, Quickbooks, Charmin, Rusty, Rainbow, Woodchuck, Code Brown, Ribbed, Star Brite, Cat Gut, Flanders, Fabio, Jenner, Compost, Umbro, Bunny, Gibbler, Frank, G-6
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

“Familiarity is a danger for the church even today. The moment we become comfortable and over-familiar with our own culture, we tend to disregard those who are foreign to our ‘family.’

In order to be a High Impact Man, you need to be out of your comfort zone

Challenge: Bring someone who you have nothing in common with to F3. If they won’t come, share a meal with them

La La Leggy

THE SCENE: 65 with a chance of rain.   5 pax post for a pre-beatdown ruck.   25 more pax post to get the legs in shape to start the week of right.  Lots of good mumble-chatter catching up from the weekend.


F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

5:30am Sharp -Circle of Trust

  • Side Straddle Hop x 20
  • Imperial Squat Walkers X 15
  • Baby Arm Circles x 15 each way
  • Mountain Climbers x 15 (4 count)

Burpee Dan’s – Groups of 4

  • 4 Burpee : 4 lunges across lot.
    • Down to touch the fence and back up in reverse sprint back to start
  • 3 burpees : 4 lunges back to starting position.
  • 2 burpees : 4 lunges back to starting position.
  • 1 burpees : 4 lunges back to starting position.

Mosey to the playground

Aiken Legs – Done in succession with no rest — 20 Squats, 20 Box Jumps, 20 Mary Catherine Lunges (10 each leg), 20 Reverse Lunges (10 each leg forward). x 2

Mosey to Baby Cardiac

Burp Back Mountain

  • The exercise is then performed by pairing up with one person proceeding to run backward up the hill/forward down the hill 5X while the other person is performing burpees. The individuals continue to alternate running with burpees until 100 total burpees are completed. When finished, pax continue to run hills until entire PAX completes.

Wheel Barrel Push-ups – up to 10    

The Chase

  • Bear Crawl – 20 yards Sprint to the end 2 Burpees and run back
  • Crawl Bear – 20 yards Sprint to the end 2 Burpees and run back
  • Raccoon Crawl – 20 yards Sprint to the end 2 Burpees and run back

MARY – Hands of Time

Q starts the PAX, legs up at 90 degrees, hands under your rear. One pax at a time in a wave like motion- Each pax counts off aloud as they drop and hold 1,2,3, etc around the circle until finished.  Drop straightened legs to 10 degrees

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
30 PAX.

Coolio, Music City, Ivanka, Toll Bridge, Cougar, Hand tight, Pablo, G-6, Eggo, Cherry Picker, Pluto, Too Late, Snitch, High Heels, Bow-flex, Walkabout, Pusher, Rascal, Rusty, Charmin, Ribbed, Rainbow, Cat-Gut, Cheat sheet, A-Rod, Captain Crunch, Woodshack, Code Brown, Fabio, Proton, Barbie.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

I am grateful to the Brothers that come out and push me to get better physically every day.  God also calls us to push each other and support each other spiritually through prayer by lifting up our brothers.

James 5:13-18

13 Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise. 14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.

15 And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

As in the verses above God continually shows us in scripture that He intends for us to be in community with other believers.  God uses community to build and strengthen us, Satan uses isolation to destroy.   Make a commitment this week to pray for the brothers that were to the left and right of you today.

CMU Classics

THE SCENE:    44 and clear

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Side Straddle Hops x 10 IC
  • Merkins (4ct) x 10 IC
  • Burpees x 10 OYO
  • Run in place while those without a CMU ran to get a pee rock

THA-THANG:

 

Mosey to the hockey rink

  1. Battle buddy for DORA 3-2-1
    • 300 CMU Squats,  200 CMU Merkins (go deep between blocks),  100 CMU Big Boys
    • Battle buddy sprints to far side of rink & performs 10 BBS, stopping each time they cross center court to perform 2 Burpees (4 total per trip across & back).
  2. CMU elevators
    • Work your way up the elevator in the following order.  Then work your way down in reverse order.
    • Corner 1:  20 curls
    • Corner 2:  20 curls; 20 squats
    • Corner 3:  20 curls; 20 squats; 20 front deltoid raises
    • Corner 4:  20 curls; 20 squats; 20 front deltoid raises; 20 calf raises

MARY:

  • Little Baby Crunches (4ct) x 51 IC
  • Channel Changers

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
19 total:  Peach Fuzz, Rainfly, Tweet-E, Dinghy, Showcase, Shooter, Flute Loop, Underhand, Beuller, Ribbed, Bowflex, La-Z-Boy, Sharpie, Mayberry, Frosty, Butters, Barnacle, Bartman, Treehugger (FNG)

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
In 2 Timothy, Paul writes a very familiar passage stating that he has fought the good fight and finished the race.  In relating that to modern day F3 – today was the first cold morning of the fall season.  Long sleeves were out in abundance.  My challenge to the PAX was to not let the upcoming cold season be a barrier to getting better each day.  Keep setting the alarm, keep pressing forward, keep showing up.  Champions are made when it’s cold.  When I am older I want to look back on my life and say I gave it all I had…..that means leaning into the hard situations and dealing with sometimes miserable circumstances.  If we keep leaning in and don’t give up, we will also be able to say that we have indeed fought the good fight and finished the race strong.  Don’t let the winter weather turn you into a Fartsacker!!

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Truckin’ to the Pound:  Oct 28th