F3 Knoxville

Tag: Skeletor

Remission

THE SCENE: The brisk 40 degree weather returns!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Side straddle hops, Knox cherry pickers, Tempo merkins & squats, Tennessee rocking chairs, mountain climbers.
THA-THANG:
Rugby shuttle run to the Freedom bell

  • The mission: Gather the required hash (tally) marks for each exercise group…and beat Juco’s time in the same event last week!  Most hash marks required multiple reps to count, and approved modifications to earn a tally were included:
    • Bodybuilders
      2 burpees (w/ merk) : 1 BB
      3 burpees (no merk): 3 BB
      1 hash = 5 BB, 10 with, 15 w/o
      20 hash marks required
    • Pull-ups
      10 Bent Over Rows : 1 PU
      1 hash = 5 PU, 50 BOR
      20 hash marks required
    • Running Laps
      1 hash = 1 lap
      20 hash marks required
    • Clean & Press (with CMU)
      2 squats : 1 C&P
      4 OHP : 1 C&P
      1 hash = 10 C&P, 20 squats, 40 OHP’s
      40 hash marks required
    • Freddy Mercuries
      2 Big Boys : 1 FM
      5 LBC : 1 FM
      1 hash = 10 FM, 20 BB, 50 LBC
      40 hash marks required
    • Clock Merkins
      20 merkins : 1 CM
      30 knee merkins : 1 CM
      1 hash = 1 CM, 20 m, 30 km
      40 hash marks required

    MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!  Beat Juco’s time by 1 minute!  Victory mosey back to the flag.

MARY:
Had time for the Chumbawumba music challenge.  By the end most had some issues getting “up again”, the Q included.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

“And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.”  (Matthew 6:13, NIV)

 Temptation: Question: What’s the best way to handle temptation?  Answer:  Don’t try to handle the temptation!  Turn away from it!  “A wise man is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is arrogant and careless.” (Proverbs 14:16, NASB) It’s common sense that if you don’t want to get stung, stay away from the bees!  If you don’t want to get burned, don’t get close to the fire!  If you don’t want to fall off the cliff, don’t hang off the ledge! The goal is not to see how close you can get to temptation but rather how far away from it you can stay! Only a fool thinks they can handle temptation.  Analyze when and where you are most tempted and vulnerable, and then stay away from those situations as much as you can.

-Credit to Larry Blakeburn of First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Oak Ridge, TN

MOLESKIN:
Great to get our party crashed by three HIMs from Rampart and a Respect FNG!  An honor and privilege to lead you all this morning!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
None passed.

Skeletor’s Toy Box

THE SCENE: It’s a beautiful morning
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

As always, ticked those boxes

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH: 15 x 4 IC
  • Tempo Merkin: 10 x 4 IC
  • Tempo Squat: 5 x 4 IC
  • Little baby arm circles 10 x 4 F & 10 x 4 B
  • Chattanooga cherry picker
  • Seal claps
  • Overhead claps
  • SSH: 10 x 4 IC

THA-THANG:

Round 1 Man at each toy.

120# sandbag Mosey out, Bernie back

60# bag Dead lift

40# bag clean

40# bag overhead press

20# bag tricep extension

35# kettle bell swings

53 # kettle bell farmers carry out with right, back with left

30# rucksack merkins

20# plate heavy big boys

Mosey around for rest

Round 2

120# sandbag Mosey out, Bernie back

60# bag bent rows

40# bag curl

40# bag Heavy Squat

20# bag Dead lift to press

35# kettle bell single arm row

53 # kettle bell farmers carry

30# rucksack get ups

20# plate clean

Mosey to sign and back

MARY:
No time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Use the TAGS on right-side to record PAX (BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOURSELF) in attendance. Be sure to select the AO in CATEGORY above TAGS and then delete these notes!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

We aren’t called to carry the burdens of life alone. Galatians 6:2 Bear one another’s burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ.

How do we do that:

  1. Be available – This is the easiest one. Show interest in helping a brother carry his load. Ask him how he is doing, how you can pray for him.
  1. Be a listener- We as men can be  bad listeners, we want to take cation to solve the problem. Sometimes folks just want to share what’s on their heart and need someone to confide in. Be there to listen and give a hug or fist bump to say, I love you and I’ve got your back.
  1. Be a conduit – sometimes we aren’t the right people for the situation a friend is in. Be someone who points others to a friend who has dealt with something similar and has experience with the same type of pains.
  1. Be a witness – no matter what the problem, sin, or affliction, there is only one resolution, the Gospel. The Gospel is a daily reminder that we cannot do it, we need a savior, and that savior is Jesus Christ. He is the one who lived a perfect life, that we can’t live, died a righteous death that we can’t die, and rose again defeating death forever and providing a way for his children to dwell with him forever.

Carry your brothers burdens, look for opportunities to be a blessing.

Prayer requests

BOM

MOLESKIN:
None
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

📢IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT📢
We are now moving to an official boot camp on Saturday at 0700. I will work with leadership to get us set. Saturday workouts are a great opportunity to EH guys and be in the community.

Saturday “Beatdown & Breakfast” @ Rampart

THE SCENE: Crisp with a steady autumnal wind flowing steadily off the river.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Diligently Delivered.

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH x15
  • Knox Pickers x5
  • Willy Mays Hayes x6
  • Tempo Squats x10
  • Tempo Merks x10
  • Shoulder Burn
    • FLBAC x10
    • RLBAC x10
    • Seal Claps x10
    • OH Claps x10
    • Moroccan Nigh Clubs x10
    • Hallelujahs x10
    • Chatty Pickers x10
  • Michael Phelps OYO

Mosey (cut short so as to not scare the poor woman walking ahead of us…awareness is key).

THA-THANG:
PAX formed two teams of three. Each team drew a card from the deck and performed the routine designated by suit and the number on the card for each exercise. Once all four exercises are complete, mosey to the cone and back. Winning team will have completed and collected the most cards from the deck.

♦️Mucho Chesto! (We’re coming for you, Snaggletooth!)

  • Merk
  • Wide
  • Diamond
  • Uneven

♠️ Can’t Feel My Legs!

  • Squats
  • Hurleys
  • Monkey Humpers
  • Iron Mikes

♣️ My Poor Core!

  • Big Boys
  • Basilisk
  • LBCs
  • Flutter Kicks

❤️ Build-a-Burpee!

  • Merkins
  • Kickbacks
  • Squat Jumps
  • OH Clap

PAX were 3 cards short of finishing the deck at time.

MARY:
No time. Sorry, Mary. Next time.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

The word “diligent” has been standing out to YHC lately. There’s a sign on the turnpike YHC passes every day.

Proverbs 13:4 “The lazy have strong desires but receive nothing; the appetite of the diligent is satisfied.”

Hebrew word for “diligent” is charuwts. Related to skillfully mining for gold. Mining for gold takes diligently digging. Once you stop digging, the likelihood of finding gold is zero. In Jewish wisdom “A rabbi is the geologist of the soul. He can show you where to dig and what to dig for. But the digging you must do yourself.”

The most practical skill in life is learning to do things when you don’t feel like doing them. Anyone can do it when it’s easy, but most people drop out the minute easy stops. Muhammad Ali was asked how many sit-ups would do to prepare for a fight. “I don’t count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting. When I feel pain, that’s when I start counting, because that’s when it really counts.” Doing something when it’s difficult is when it counts the most!

The person who is consistent outperforms the person who is not every time. Inconsistent effort might get SOME results for the things that really matter you need to be consistent.

If you want to be consistent, you need strategies to keep you going when things are hard.

  • Create habits so that you can set important things on autopilot.
  • Categorically remove the option to quit.
  • Keep the real goal in front of you.

On the last point, Piston reminded us last week of Christ who kept before Him the ultimate goal. Heb 12 says “Who for the joy set before him endured the cross.”

Galatians 6:9 says, “So let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest time, if we do not give up.” F3 is place to practice diligence so you can make hard choices in life and in faith.

MOLESKIN:

  • Welcome FNG “Thai Hot”!
  • *Sidebar: Apparently, ordering Thai Hot is not a good decision the night before an F3 beatdown. Thank you Skeletor for your investigation into this mystery. Inquiring minds. Props to you and Thai Hot for also not sharing last night’s delectable Thai dinner with the rest of the PAX this morning. YHC is impressed and surprised…and maybe a little disappointed. That’s diligence!
  • Prayers for hurricane victims, our Airforce HIMs, Binks’ family, and Foghorn Leghorn.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Brolympics in November!
SYITG Monday morning, boys! ISI!

Walk that walk

THE SCENE: Foggy and cool
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

Chiggity-check!


WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Willie mays Hayes
  • SSH: 15 x 4 IC
  • Tempo Merkin: 10 x 4 IC
  • Toe Merkin: 25 x 4 IC
  • 4 count cherry pickers
  • Tempo Squat: 5 x 4 IC
  • Little baby arm circles 10 x 4 F & 10 x 4 B
  • Chattanooga cherry picker
  • Seal claps
  • Overhead claps
  • Knoxville cherry pickers

THA-THANG:

Mosey to bus then back to shovel flag hold Al Gore until 6 in

Round 1

10 burpees.

Mosey to fort then back to shovel flag hold Al Gore until 6 in

Round 2 

10 Burpees

25 push-ups

Mosey to bus and back to shovel flag hold Plank until 6 in

Round 3

10 Burpees

25 push-ups

50 lunges

Mosey to fort then back to shovel flag hold Al Gore until 6 in

Round 4

10 Burpees

25 push-ups

50 lunges

100 LBC’s

Mosey to bus and back to shovel flag hold Plank until 6 in.

Round 5

10 Burpees

25 push-ups

50 lunges

100 LBC’s

150 air squats

Completed with 3 minutes to go.

HIM’S you did:

50 Burpees

100 push-ups

150 single count lunges

200 LBC’s

150 air squats

MARY:
Roulette for 3 minutes

olive oyl 10 box cutter

Airborne 60 second Freddie Mercury

Feeny 30 second leg lift hold

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

COT today is about walking in Faith

I am teaching through Ephesians. Yesterday we covered a portion of chapter 2 verse 2. It begins with the phrase, in which you formerly walked. It is referring to the spiritual state of the Ephesians people when they were dead in trespasses and sins.

I asked my youth kids what it meant to walk with something, and what was a life like if you are walking in sins. If you are walking with sins and trespasses, it’s a way of life for you. You have no relationship with holiness if you are walking in trespasses and sins.

Once we defined an unrighteousness walk, we looked at a Holy walk, and specifically Enoch. Enoch was Noah’s great grandfather, and Genesis 5 tells us that He walked with God and he was not, for God took him.

Then in Hebrews 11: 5-6 we see that Enoch was translated, he never died, and was taken up to be with God, for he pleased God. Then it says:

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

So my friends, if you want to please God, then by faith, walk with Him, believing that He is, and diligently seeking Him.

There are only two ways to do this, that is reading His word, and prayer. There are many ways to serve Him, but service does not grant you an audience with Him. Again, Hebrews 11:6 ,without Faith it is Impossible to please him.

MOLESKIN:
Walk in Faith, believing in Him and earnestly seeking Him.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Saturday beat down, 7am with coffeteria

Discipline v Motivation

THE SCENE: Beautiful fall morning, clear sky for star gazing
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Projectivators
  • LBACs
  • Grady Corn
  • Morocan Night Clubs
  • Chatty Pickers
  • Tempo squats
  • Cherry Pickers
  • Tempo Merkins
  • Mountain Climbers

THA-THANG:

  • Mosey to the stadium seats
  • Dora – One works while the other goes down the seats and back up
    • 200 Merkins
    • 200 LBCs
  • Mosey to the playground and rotate through pull ups while working on 150 squats OYO
  • Mosey to upper parking lot and line up on first spaces
  • Mosey to each line do squats, then merkins, then imperial walkers then bernie back. Start with 10 each, then 20, 30, 40.
  • Same idea, except broad jump between, do lunges, dry docks, and freddie mercuries. Start with 10 and add 5 each time.

RTF (with a JB)

MARY:
No time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

I heard this idea from Jocko Willink, who is a former Navy SEAL officer and author of a book called Extreme Ownership. He articulates the difference between motivation and discipline. Motivation is the opposite of discipline. Motivation is the spontaneous urge or desire to do something, and often leads us to start something new. But motivation is a feeling, transient and fleeting. It may support you for a while, when you are well rested, healthy, and relaxed. But like all feelings, it has a tendency to abandon us when we are tired, or sick, or stressed. Discipline is, by contrast, the learned behavior of perseverance in spite of obstacle. Discipline receives the conclusion of mental activity, in which we identify what we ought to do, and holds us to the doing. Motivation is like the impassioned “falling in love” which often propels us into a romance, but discipline is the agape/caritas/charity love that stands against the flux of time.

Motivation feels good, but discipline bears fruit. Discipline reminds you what you know to be true in spite of what you feel right now. I often desire motivation so that I need not exercise discipline, but my experience is that it usually cuts the other way: When I exert discipline and do what I know I should but don’t want to, I find that motivation often follows. The key is to enjoy it while you have it without becoming dependent on it, for as soon as you start seeking motivation, it will abandon you.

In Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis discusses this idea in his chapter about faith:

Now Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods. For moods will change, whatever view your reason takes. I know that by experience. Now that I am a Christian, I do have moods in which the whole thing looks very improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.

So when we see this common thread running through love and faith and discipline, I suppose it comes as no surprise that Jesus followers were first called Disciples, functionally “those under discipline.” So, I exhort you to abandon efforts to “get motivated” and instead “get discipline”.

MOLESKIN:
Always a pleasure to visit the Men of the Fort. I’m even buyin’ the t-shirt…
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
2nd F on Saturday Oct. 1. 2.0 Q at The Project Oct. 8. Brolympics Nov. 5.