F3 Knoxville

Battle Buddy Extravaganza

AO: asylum-am
Q: Breaststroke (Will Duncan)
PAX: Sawdust, Matlock (Bill Maddox), Love’s, Cat Gut (Mike Davis), Cinco (Scott McGuire), Farley, P3, Code Brown, Hands, Doublewide (David Schwall), Cosmo 2, Bunny, Snitch (Cory Beilharz ), Shotgun (Will Warwick)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 15
WARMUP:
Stretch, SSH, Tempo Merkins and Squats, Tie fighters, Rocky Balboas and Super Mario’s

THE THANG:
At the AO:
Partner up. Each pair completes 100 reps of Merkins, LBC’s (4 count), Iron Mikes (2 count), and Shoulder Taps (4 count). One partner runs the perimeter of the parking lot while the other does as many reps as possible. When partner returns the position’s switch and the rep count picks up wherever it was left off, repeat until completion.

Mosey up to the top of Baby Everest:
Run down to the parking lot doing 1 manmaker per light, adding as we go (2 at the second light, 3 at the third, and so on). Go for 10 lights

Mosey over to the Rose Bowl
Choose a different Battle Buddy:
One partner runs the inner circle while the other does BB’s. Each partner runs the loop once before heading back to the AO.

MARY:
what’s that?

Announcements:
None

COT:
Remembering the story of Abraham and Issac in Genesis 22. Recognizing that God calls us into hard things to test our faith, but is with us intimately in those trials. God himself offered up his only son just as he asked Abraham to do, and Jesus willingly went and did actually die. The Lord knows us more intimately than any human ever could hope too, and therefore in hard times we can lean on Him and remember that he truly knows our suffering.

Hebrews 4:12-16
[14] Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. [15] For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin. [16] Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

The Calm Before the Snowstorm

AO: asylum-am
Q: Double Wide
PAX: Waffle House (Brady Greene), Bunny, Cat Gut (Mike Davis), Double Wide, Hands, P3, Sawdust, Tropicana
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WARMUP:
SSH, big and small arm circles, cherry pickers, this and that, calves on the curb, jog down and back

THE THANG:
To the Cloud
Up downs while chopping,
11’s with Hand release merkins and hots seats
Increasing reps of jump squats on the lower dragon
Interval sprints on the upper dragon
Return on the dragon with Iron Mikes at each pole
Back to the Cloud for 7’s with burpees and LBC’s

MARY:
A quick stretch

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
P3 gonna work in a Cardinal next week

COT:
Need refocus my prayer efforts. It’s spiritual warfare out there brothers.

[the-pulpit] Cardinal Memorial Workout

AO: the-pulpit
Q: Betty
PAX: Snitch (Cory Beilharz ), Ike, Leland Robbins (Geiger), Sawdust, Smoked Pickle, Chuck
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
THE THANG: To honor & recognize :cardinal:, we replicated :cardinal:’s :vq: that included an escalation of burpees in 2 sets of 4 rounds starting at 5 reps and increasing by 5 reps each round. The final round had the PAX performing 2 sets of 20 burpees in cadence.

MARY: Series of ab workouts with Hello Dolly & Flutter Kicks

ANNOUNCEMENTS: N/A

COT: Remembering we’re not promised tomorrow and to live today to the fullest and tell our loved ones that we love them.

1970 was Easy Listening

AO: asylum-am
Q: Charmin (John Willis)
PAX: Gibbler, Matlock (Bill Maddox), Rainbow, Charmin (John Willis), Cosmo 2, P3, Sawdust, Waffle House (Brady Greene)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WARMUP: Cherry Pickers and then some never ending (54 4 count) SSH

THE THANG:
While listening to a sampling of the Billboard Hot 100 chart from 12/26/1970, do some circuit work. Work our way around the AO parking lot, dropping down to the Coupon Pile, and then up Baby Everest and down the Dragon to start again. Exercises as follows at various stations:
– 20 Merkins;
– 20 Curls with coupon;
– 9 Burpees;
– 54 Flutters;
– 20 Carolina Dry Docks;
– 54 Squats;
– 9 Manmakers;
– 54 LBCs;
– 20 Bonnie Blairs

MARY: Gas pumpers

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Hot toddy triple Q coming up Jan 11

COT: Remembering my dad who shares a birthday with me and passed away in 2017. One of his lessons to me was to challenge my perspective, my assumptions. Always try to see things from other perspectives. Challenge your viewpoint. Are you seeing things as God intended? Or do our selfish desires get in the way?

Bonus: Lots of easy listening when I was born: James Taylor, the Carpenters. Still some Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath in there, too though. :sign_of_the_horns:

Christmas Ruck

AO: asylum-am
Q: Sawdust , Coolio (Greg Fox), Matlock (Bill Maddox), Tropicana, bluebird, Fabio (Joe Hamilton)
PAX: Sawdust, Coolio (Greg Fox), Matlock (Bill Maddox), Tropicana, bluebird, Fabio (Joe Hamilton), Jack-Jack 🐕, Rugby 🐕
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARMUP: Get the leashes out for the pups

THE THANG: Ruck at a Christmas pace for 4.1 miles

MARY: No time for her

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Tomorrow Matlock (Bill Maddox) will Q at 0600.

COT: P3 told us to remember the quote from Scrooge to keep Christmas in our hearts all year through.