F3 Knoxville

A Little Bit of Everything

THE SCENE:  upper 60’s & clear

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER


WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Cherry pickers x 5
  • Side Straddle Hops x 20
  • Mountain Climbers x 20
  • This/That stretch

THA-THANG:

  1. Mosey to the walking track
    • Run the track Route 66 style.  Start with 1 Squat and 1 Big Boy at the first light pole.  Increase by one rep at each light pole.  Total of 15 poles….I think.
  2. Pick a battle buddy and wheelbarrow across the parking lot.  5 Merkins at each parking space line.  Switch at the end of the lot and come back the same way.
  3. Mosey to the end of the parking lot by the playground.  Descending ladder.  Run to the top of the hill by the bathrooms after each time down the ladder.
    • 10 Spread Eagle Merkins
    • 9 Squat Jumps
    • 8 Big Boys
    • 7 Plankjacks
    • 6 Iron Mikes
    • 5 Box Cutters
    • 4 Shoulder Taps
    • 3 Lunges
    • 2 Superman Swims
    • 1 Burpee
  4. Mosey back to the AO parking lot for some Pyramids
    • 25 Merkins, run to top of hill
    • 25 Merkins, 25 Big Boys, run to top of hill
    • 25 Merkins, 25 Big Boys, 25 Squats, run to top of hill

MARY:
No official Mary, but plenty of abs/core today.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Swirlie, Judge Judy, La-Z-Boy, Ratchet, Shameless (FNG), Shooter, Mayberry, Bartman

 

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
John chapter talks about sin – specifically about the ramifications of having sin in your life and how it affects your walk with Christ.  the Bible says that all sin committed in darkness will be brought into the light.  I shared about how my oldest son is struggling with adult sized sin for the first time as a 15 year old and how I am dealing with that.

MOLESKIN:
For the record, Frosty and Butters were there today too – but they walked around with backpacks on the whole time.   Something about getting ready for a 12 hour Go-Ruck tonight???

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
F3 Olympics coming up 11/3

Muchas Grassyas

THE SCENE: Pretty standard late-summer atmosphere. Still hot and humid, but with an air of winding down .
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH x26 IC
Cherry Pickers x10 IC
Buddy the Elf x10 each leg IC
Crabettes x20 IC
Mosey up to the boats
Failure to Launch (formerly Al Gore Tuck Jumps) x8 IC
Mosey back to AO
Plank Rolls for about 20yd. Created much more dizziness than anticipated….

THA-THANG:
Grab a CMU and head to the grassy field. Cones set up in a square about 16 yards apart.
Each cone has a card with an exercise.
Bears and Blocks to the first cone and do that exercise.
Bears and Blocks to next cone and do first cone exercise plus next cone exercise.
Continue to 3rd and fourth cone, adding exercises escalator style.
After adding the fourth exercise, switch to Blocks and Bears (backward bear crawl with block) to first cone. Drop that exercise, do the other three.
continue back down the escalator. Exercises:
10 Hand Release Merkins
30 Pickle Pounders
20 Carolina Dry Docks
16 Catalina Wine Mixer (8 each arm)

Guess what… Every card has a flipside! Repeat above, except crab walk carrying CMU on abdomen.
First round forward, second round backward. Exercises:
10 Prisoner Getups each leg
30 Monkey Humpers
10 Donkey Kicks
15 Squat Jumps

Pretty sure everyone made it around to at least get the Monkey Humpers in…

 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
10 PAX this morning, including FNG Unibrau (Nick Robinson)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
1 Timothy 2:1-4:
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior

Looking around at what is going on with our leaders today, there’s not much you can describe as dignified in any way. However, no matter which side of the current issues you come down on, one thing we all have in common is that we’re called to pray for those who are in high positions. Notice, even thanksgivings is in that list of what we’re supposed to make for all people. Remember that God’s ultimately in charge, and He’s the one we’re responsible to.
MOLESKIN:
The grass this morning had a pleasant herby, minty sort of smell. Very refreshing when you’re nose-deep doing hand-release Merkins…
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
3rd Anniversary Extravaganza first weekend in November.

The 600 Club

THE SCENE: Beautiful Late Summer morning
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH IC x 25
  • Squat IC x 10
  • Demonstrate Crab Toes, Side MTN climber, lunge hops & Pistol Merkins

THA-THANG:

  • Circuit – Decline Merkins, Box Jumps, Squats x25 – 1 hill climb R&R x 2
  • Merkins OYO x 25
  • The 600 club:
  • Lunge Hops x 20
  • Crab Toes x 20
  • CDD x 20 (feet on hill)
  • Slap Squats x 20
  • Side MTN Climbers x 20
  • Pistol Merkins x 20
  • Run to parking lot R&R x 5
  • Mosey to the clean soccer field – Bear Crawl, back peddle, Sprint the goal box x 3

MARY:
Swirlie worked over the boys while I grabbed my phone.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
What we do here at F3 has been passed down from man to man for generations. It’s not just a workout it’s a right of passage.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Tennis Anyone?

THE SCENE: Dog Pound, Very nice morning with a hint of Fall perhaps?

Warm up:
SSH
Cherry Pickers
Imperial Burpees
Other stuff
Tha Thang:
Mosey to tennis courts
8 stations:
1) “Jump rope” x100
Imperial Burpees x10 (5 Ct IW between)
CMU squats x30
Bear crawl down and back
Merkins-10 wide, 10 reg, 10 diamond, 10 shoulder taps
Bobby Hurley’s x20
Anti gravity Merkins x15
Lunges down and back
After each exercise run lap around inside of courts
Repeat till Q calls off the dogs
Then suicides at every line on courts across with 10 Imperial Burpees and 10 diamond merkins at the end.
Form two lines next to each other-
fire chase while holding Boat canoes each member does 20 LBCs up and down the line. Sprint to end line and recover.
COT: 15 pax including one FNG Walkman
BOM :
Heard this song and the lyrics really let me know the extent of Gods love for us.
Reckless Love lyrics
When I was Your foe, still Your love fought for me
When I felt no worth, You paid it all for me
There’s no shadow You won’t light up
Mountain You won’t climb up
There’s no wall You won’t kick down
Lie You won’t tear down
Coming after me
……the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God
…..it chases me down, fights ’til I’m found, leaves the ninety-nine
……I couldn’t earn it, I don’t deserve it, still, You give Yourself away
Oh, the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God.
Moleskin: Welcome FNG Walkman to the pax! He was run-by EH by a couple of us during the TTTP, saw the shirts and looked us up online.

 

8 Men and a Matterhorn

THE SCENE: upper 60’s…felt like October – great weather

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER


WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH x 20
  • Tempo Merkins x 10
  • Tempo Squats x 10
  • Cherry Pickers x 5
  • This/that stretch

THA-THANG:

  • Indian run to the base of the Matterhorn
  • 4 Cones spread along the upper half of the hill.  1=closest, 4=farthest.  Exercises written at each cone.
    • 4-Burpees;  3-Diamond Merkins;  2-Plankjacks;  1-Squats
    • PAX run to the 4th (farthest) cone and do 25 reps of the exercise written.  Then mosey back down the hill stopping to do 25 reps of the exercise written at each cone.   Rinse & repeat eliminating the furthest cone each round until you end with only going to the 1st cone.
  • DORA work
    • 50 Thrust Merkins;  50 Squat Jacks;  50 Leg Pass Throughs
    • Partner 1 does reps at the speed bump, while partner 2 runs up the lower portion of the Matterhorn to where the rock ditch starts.

MARY:

  • Hello Dolly x 20
  • Box Cutter x 20
  • Spread Eagle Merkins x 10
  • Superman/Banana

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 PAX:  Ratchet, Pepper, Scooter, Woodshack, Shooter, Barn Door, Moped, Bartman

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Words matter.  Say what you mean and don’t generalize.  Shared from John 21 an example of this when Jesus asked Peter “do you love me?” 3 times.  The first 2 times Jesus asked if Peter loved him he used the word Agape which is a deep, unconditional love…Peter in return said that yes he loved Jesus, however he used the word Phileo, which is a brotherly love.  Finally, the 3rd time Jesus asked Peter, he said “Do you Phileo me?”, in other words Jesus said “is that all Peter, do you only love me with a brotherly love and not a deep unconditional love?”.  Jesus was making the point that we should love him unconditionally.  It’s a good example of how our English language doesn’t quite capture the gravity of scripture.  Our word “love” is used for everything:  I love my wife, I love coffee, I love exercising.  The word doesn’t allow you to differentiate between its different meanings in different contexts.  Therefore we should take the time to be specific when we can be….to use the word that will relay our message the clearest.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Truckin to the Pound this weekend – 6am at the Truck Stop;  F3 anniversary celebration in November