F3 Knoxville

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The two-headed monster

THE SCENE: Warm mid 50s
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
10 SSH (IC), 8 Imperial Squat Walkers (IC), did a quick mosey through circuit 2 with 5 reps of each exercise, but only two body builders.
THA-THANG:
This was a battle-buddy style beatdown from start to finish. Two circuits were in place, one with CMUs, while the other was running + PT. After AO loop was completed, PAX switched and picked up where left off.

Circuit 1: each Pax had 2 CMU, PT was completed with 1 CMU, farmer carry both CMU 10m to next station:

  • Blockees x10
  • Thrusters x20
  • Curls x30
  • CMU swings x15
  • Tricep extensions x20
  • CMU flutter kicks x50

Circuit 2: Run from AO to Apex, complete AO lab with the following PT nested within:

  • 15 Mountain Man Poopers
  • 15 Diamond Merkins
  • 40 1x Iron Mikes
  • 20 Merkins
  • 20 Jump Squats
  • 10 Body Builders

Modified MARY:
We kept up with the BB theme. One PAX completed the following core work while the other participated in a CMU wall sit. We did this for 10 minutes.

  • 15 Box Cutters
  • 20 1x Peter Parker
  • 15 WWII

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Scoutmaster, Drifter, Taco, Smoky, Postpone, Veep, Rep Sleepy, Radioshack, Clothesline, Toad, Avocado, Limbo, Swerve, Webelo (2.0), Hellbender
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some one saying that at this rate a man might as well go into a gravel-pit and count the pebbles and describe the colours. How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service!” — Charles Darwin

I was asked to interpret this quote last Friday. While it’s intended for science, the applicability of this quote has relevance to this time. Every day we make observations, but many times we let them stay as observations. Sometimes this is okay.. but if we extend this quote to our lives today, I think what Darwin is linking is the connection between observation and action. Observations of rocks are useless without taking action into how and why the observations matter. In the same way, F3 nation seeks to inspire HIM who not only can make observations, but transform those observations into actions to make our communities a better place. Let’s not be passive, but instead take a stand for justice and truth in our communities, and inspire others to do the same.

MOLESKIN:

The mumblechatter was high today! Good work everyone.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Drifter moving party next week.

The Rinse and Repeat Merit Badge

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THE SCENE: Clear skies, temperature 53 F, humidity 77%, winds SSW 2 MPH
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH, cherry pickers, baby arm circles FTU&BTD.
THA-THANG:
Starting from Grinder, mosey to the concession stand via Indian Run with each lead HIM receiving and carrying 20 pound weight. Stop at concession stand for flutter kicks IC as a regroup.  Continue to tennis courts for bear crawl OYO from gate for length of first net and crab walk OYO length of second net.  Lunge back to gate and start flutter kicks until regrouped.  Exit tennis court to retaining wall of greenway bridge and do ten Derkins OYO.  Cross bridge and begin explanation tour of OYO exercise stations along the Rinse and Repeat.  Scatter Pax to stations and initiate exercise.

  • WWII sit ups – ten
  • Squats – twenty
  • Merkins – ten
  • Monkey humpers – twenty
  • Dips – ten and Grady Corns – thirty  = Do both to relieve congestion at the bench for the dips.
  • Burpees – ten
  • Rinse and Repeat above by running back to WWII sit up station.

MARY:
Hello Dollies.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat.  Just get on!
MOLESKIN:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Race around Bombshelter

THE SCENE: Clear day at Bombshelter. About 50 degrees

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
PAX splits into 2 groups. Each group Indian runs to base of Mt. Crumpet, handing off 60lb sandbag to whoever is in front
THA-THANG:
1 member of each group performs sand bag throws along loop from base of Crumpet, to road, and around the fountain. Other members of group run a lap. When HIM reaches the sandbag, they perform 10 BBS, 15 Merkins, and 20 flutter kicks before continuing run. Bag is passed to the person who started behind the current man with the sandbag

MARY:
Pax choice of in cadence exercises.

Cherry pickers

Box cutters

Hello Dolly

Mountain man poopers

Tempo Merkins

V ups (not in cadence)
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
14, including Scoutmaster’s 2.0, Webelo
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
The mind will quit 100 times before the body does. Take this into everything in life, give it your all.

MOLESKIN:
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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DORAtastic

THE SCENE: 2nd winter cold but the sun warmed it up nicely.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Drifter took the pax through a loop around the parking lot. From what i could see as i was coming in on two wheels were some lunges and a jog back to the grindstone. Then there was some mountain man poopers.
THA-THANG:
Dora #1- Musical Dora– Exercises are done for the full duration of the song no rep count. We also switched up the partner movement between bear crawls, crab walks, broad jumps.

  • Song 1- Everlong- Foo Fighters- OH CMU Press- Bear Crawl
  • Song 2- Thunderstruck- AC/DC – Squat Hold Curl- Crab Walk
  • Song 3- Sick Boy- The Chainsmokers- Pull Ups/Body Rows- Bear Crawl
  • Song 4- Believer- Imagine Dragons– BBS- Crab Walk
  • Song 5- Power- Kanye West- Prisoner Merkins- Broad Jumps

Dora #2- Heartbreak Hill- We moseyed to Mt. Crumpet for our Second Dora- 15 min to complete – Partner ran to top and around Tree.

  • 50 Iron Mikes
  • 100- Turkish Getups no weight – ( This was a challenge but two of the groups finished the full set in time)
  • 150- Leg Raises

Dora #3- DORAcide- We moseyed to the tennis courts for a four-line suicide run Dora. Burpee’s at each line 1,2,3,4. We had about 10 min to work the pax got into Foxholes.

  • 100- Gas Pumps
  • 200- Foxholes
  • 300 Star Fish

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MARY:
Crowd Pleasers- 1-4
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Sacrifice is key in leadership. The best leaders have always been servant leaders. A great leader will put others in front of himself to lift those up around him, they do not need the glory. In my professional life i have see both kinds of leaders and the leaders that have put themselves first failed. The only way a team can over come challenges is with strong leadership. DORA’s are a great example of sacrifice in leadership. Your brother is reliant on you to not stop moving even when you’re tired. We have to sacrifice ourselves for the pax and our brothers.
MOLESKIN:
Keep Drifter in your thoughts as he goes through the moving process.

The Q was late today, because i allowed the fartsack to trick me into thinking i had 5 more min. Because of that i was rushing and left my phone at home. Impossible to run a musical DORA without music so Q had to drive back home to find his phone. I appreciate Drifter picking up for the Q’s slacking and took the pax through the warm up.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Backstage- Regional Nan’tan for Mid-Illinois is going to be Q’ing two beatdowns on April 13th at the Bombshelter and 14th at the Arsenal. This is going to be a great beatdown you don’t want to miss. lets show what F3 Blount is all about and show up in force.

Via Dolorosa Uno

THE SCENE: Cold, in the 30’s, and a brisk wind.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: 

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH X 20

Cherry pickers x 8

Tempo Squats X 10

Mosey to the short apex and back to the grinder.
THA-THANG:
Grab a battle buddy!  While on partner runs the apex loop, the other plays Uno.  The number of exercises is the number on the card times 10.  When the buddy gets back, he takes over where the other left off.  If you finish and exercise, go ahead and flip a card to start another.  The exercises were as follows:

  • Red = HR merkins.
  • Blue = BBS.
  • Green = Overhead CMU press.
  • Yellow = CMU thruster.
  • Draw 2 = repeat previous exercise.
  • Draw 4 wild = 15 body builder burpees.
  • Wild = 15 pax choice.
  • Skip = 15 Iron mikes (single count)
  • Reverse = 15 inchworms.

MARY:
We planked in a circle while some pax completed a Via Dolorosa bear crawl around the perimeter.  While waiting, we knocked out 10 tempo merkins and 10 Hello Dolly’s and time ran out.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
10 men and 2 2.0’s put in work. Much respect to Weebelo and Lumberjack!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Reflected on Easter weekend and this quote: “To you I say, do you know what Jesus does with those who squander his mercy? He pours out more mercy. God is rich in mercy.  That’s the whole point.  Whether we have been sinned against or have sinned ourselves into misery, the Bible says God is not tightfisted with mercy but openhanded, not frugal but lavish, not poor but rich.  That God is rich in mercy means that your regions of deepest shame and regret are not hotels through which divine mercy passes but homes in which divine mercy abides.  It means the things about you that make you cringe the most, make him hug hardest.  It means his mercy is not calculated and cautious, like ours.  It is unrestrained, flood-like, sweeping, magnanimous.  It means our haunting shame is not a problem for him, but the very thing he loves most to work with.  It means our sins do not cause his love to take a hit.  Our sins cause his love to surge forward all the more.  It means that on the day when we stand before him, quietly, unhurriedly, we will weep with relief, shocked at how impoverished a view of his mercy-rich heart we had.” ~ from Dane Ortlund’s “Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers”, pg. 179-180.
MOLESKIN:
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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