F3 Knoxville

Go 4th and Be Godly – There Is No “Try”

THE SCENE: 60’s. A little damp ground.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER – Administered
WARM-O-RAMA:

May the 4th be with you. In honor of Star Wars day, today we will be doing themed exercises. Some you know, some you might know, & some you might even be surprised Pool Boy is leading…

Cantina Night Club (Moroccan Night Club)
Cloud City Rocking Chair (Tennessee Rocking Chair)
Little Princess Leia’s (Little Mermaids)
Chewbacca Humpers (Monkey Humpers)
Hans Solo Release Merkins (Hand-release merkins)
Rebel Squadron Run (Falling Indian Run) past the track to the Cheatsheet merkin parking lot past the track. Do Chewbacca Humpers while we pass then fall in when 6 passes you.

THA-THANG:

11’s:
Imperial Squat Walkers
Lunge between 2 parking spaces
Hans Solo Release Merkins
Lunge between 2 parking spaces (Bear Crawl optional)
Mosey to Coruscant Manufacturing Unit (CMU) pile

Death Star – A routine done with a deck of playing cards where each suit is an exercise and each card dictates the number of reps you do of that exercise all the way up to an Ace being 14 reps. Exercise complete when all 52 cards have been flipped:

Spades – Parking Space Light Speed Suicides
Hearts – Run down to the curb and back each
Clubs – Heavy Core (PAX drawing the two cards picks
Diamond- Hans Solo Relase Merkins
Additional stuff we didn’t have time for: R2D2 & C-3PO  (aka Dora)-
Partner exercises except each round your partner start with 1 Cloud City Rocking Chair
100 Chewbacca Humpers
200 Tie Fighters (100 each way)
300 Imperial Walkers
Mosey to the Rebel Base (Shovel Flag):

MARY:
Light Saber Game for Dealer’s Choice.
Except Yoda Jacks

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 Jedi Knights
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Do or do not, there is no try. Yoda says this and in some ways this is true & others not. But what I think Yoda means is what I’ll sum up in a different way:

God doesn’t expect more of us than we can do. Pause & think about that. He only expects what we’re capable of. But as we all know- & the past few weeks of study & rest I’ve done (legit or not, it’s a decision I made), I chose to do that.  You chose to get out here today & workout. Others chose to be on a business trip out of town, preparing for new life changes, or simply to stay at home. But you did it- you came here.

So now consider this:
“Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness; for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.”
Have you heard the phrase ‘should implies can’? It’s simple yet profound. It’s similar to ‘do or do not, there is no try.’ If you should do something, it means you can. But even that is only what God has given us the ability to do. Today we got some bodily training on Star Wars day. But each new day, whether it’s Cinco de Mayo tomorrow, or another day 20 years from now or after this life, if we are disciplining ourselves for the purpose of godliness, it will have value now & forevermore.

MOLESKIN:
Mandolin is back! Prayed for Mandolin, Long Noodle’s wife and him, Dumpster Dive traveling and Waxjob’s adoption & financial court stuff. Good to be back after studying for and taking the PE Exam. Hilarious commentary from Dumpster Dive (especially during prayer requests) today – great mumblechatter and had a lot of fun.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP Escape from Haw Ridge this Friday 9pm-midnight! See Slack for details. Shamrock Flag handoff May 15.

The Whole Story

THE SCENE: Cool and clear
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Projectivator
  • Easy lap w/ high knees, butt kicks, strides
  • Tempo merkins
  • Cherry pickers
  • Tempo squat

THA-THANG:

  • Death march to ORAU Hill the long way
  • After each exercise sprint up hill; mosey down
  • 1 minute merkins
  • 1 minute big boys
  • 1 minute squats
  • 1 minute plank
  • 1 minute merkins
  • 1 minute LBCs
  • 1 minute imperial squalkers
  • 1 minute plank

Mosey back to the flag. We stopped at the playground for some pull ups.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
May the 4th is tomorrow.  When watching the Original Trilogy, you think the story is about Luke, but after watching the Prequel Trilogy, you realize that the story is about Anakin.  A story of redemption.

Also, God laid on my heart this week to be aware of the legacy I’m leaving.  I shared the tale of Steve Jobs.  He built a huge company that changed the world, but within months of his death, Apple launched a product he said they’d never sell:  the iPad Mini.

Our legacy is much more affected by the people we influence throughout our lives.  Our children, wives, friends, coworkers, and others.  The values we invest in them and the fruit of the Spirit we bear around them will make a bigger impact than the work of our hands.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP this Friday!  Family workout postponed to May 14th.

Count It All Joy

THE SCENE: A comfortable 59 degrees and clear

WARM-O-RAMA:

15 SSH, 15 Mountain climbers, 10 temp merkins, 20 (4ct) Moroccan nightclubs, 10 squats

THA-THANG:

– “Around the World” team competition rules:

  • split into even teams (4 person minimum)
  • each team gets 2 CMUs
  • 1 team member runs to the first parking lot line with their CMU while the rest of the team performs a team exercise using the other CMU.
  • Once the 1 team member returns to the group, the team sends out another member to the next parking lot line. This process repeats until all parking lot lines have been visited by the team.
  • 1st team to make it all the way across the parking lot and return back to the rest of their team wins

Parking Lot Line Sequence:

5 burpees, 10 merkins, 15 squats

Team exercises:

Cross the river

  • each team member sits one in front of the next as in a boat. While the whole team is rowing in place, the team member in the rear will pass the CMU to the front then send it back to the rear using the opposite side
  • repeat this until it is time to send another member out to the parking lot

Over the mountain

  • Each member gets into the mountain climber position one in front of the other in a straight line.
  • The team must pass the CMU to the front of the line and back to the rear of the line using the opposite side while remaining in the mountain climber position
  • repeat this until it is time to send another member out to the parking lot

Through the desert

  • each team member is separated about 10-20 steps from another in a straight line. As everyone runs in place, the team member holding the CMU in the back runs to the person directly ahead of them and passes off the CMU, then returns back to their spot behind.
  • the next team member then takes the CMU to the person ahead of them in the same fashion. This process repeats until the gear is in the front of the line. Once in the front, the CMU comes back to the rear of the line in the same way
  • repeat this until it is time to send another member out to the parking lot

Into the swamp

  • the entire team lines up in a straight line horizontally. Once given the verbal “go” there is no stopping until the whole team is across the designated finish line.
  • the team must cross the line as one unit
  • The team will move by crab walking, and the team’s CMU must make it across the finish line however means necessary but it must be at the same time as the whole team crosses together.
  • Once across, the team must come back if time permits

The End

  • Once 1 team reaches the last line (or time runs out and the team who made it the furthest is recognized) – everyone will stop and form up together
  • All CMU’s will be returned and the group will move back to AO

MARY:

– Once back to the AO, the winning team lines up opposite the losing team(s). Each member of the winning team takes turns either choosing a card from a deck or rolling a die to determine the exercise that is to be dished out to the losing teams.

Dice:

  • 1=merkins, 2=BBS, 3=squat jumps, 4=Carolina Dry Docks, 5=toe taps, 6=iron mikes

Cards:

  • hearts= 8ct push-ups, diamonds= inchworms, club= lunges, spade= LBC, Joker= 10 burpees
  • multiply each exercise by the number on the card

 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

11 HIMs

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
James 1:2-4 – count it a joy when you come across trials and hardships in your life because we can know that it is the Lord that is testing our faith which will produce patience and steadfastness. One day we will be perfect and complete in the sight of the Lord, and the trials we are put through are intentional. Built in to remind us of who we are to truly rely on!

Friday eve:Floor is Lava

THE SCENE: clear brisk 50 degrees morning
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

10 lumberjack , 10 inchworm, 10 merkin nightclub ,10 cherry pickers

THA-THANG:
Floor is lava: 10 safe zone with different exercises , one tagger with yoga ball. The tagger hits a runner . Runner 10 merkins an becomes tagger.

  • 10 round the world
  • 5 burpees
  • 10 CMU thrusters and 10 CMU biceps
  • 20 ball slams
  • 10 incline merkins
  • 20 rope whips
  • 21 preacher curls
  • 4 tricep bends
  • 15 goblet squats

5 Minute  EMOM ( every minute on the minute) 30 seconds  exercise 30 second  rest.

1. Mountain climbers

2. Weighted American hammers

3. Heavy big boys

1 minute  20:20:

20 seconds pull up leg lifts

20 seconds  pull up leg hold

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:
Insert the WORD: God us amazing Father who always listens to us

God’s rich grace

THE SCENE: rainy but warm
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

15 SSH, 15 Mountain climbers, 10 tempo merkins, 10 Moroccan night club, 10 imperial walkers, 10 tempo squats
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the high school parking lot. Start at the south most edge and do the following.

  • Run to the next parking row
  • 5 burpees
  • 10 merkins
  • 15 squats
  • Return to start
  • Repeat but run to the next farthest row
  • Follow the same pattern until the end (5 spaces)
  • Suicide style to return all the way back to the start

Mosey to the playground.

  • 6 pull-ups
  • 15 heels to Heaven
  • 10 wall-ups at the pool wall
  • 15 4-ct Freddie Mercury
  • Repeat 3x

Mosey to the amphitheater. 10 dips and bear crawl up the hill. 10, 2-ct shoulder taps and Mosey down. Repeat once.

Mosey back the shovel flag.

MARY:
20 flutter kicks IC, 20 LBCs IC, Protractor
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
7 in attendance despite the rain.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” – Romans 5:6‭-‬8 NASB1995

Christ didn’t die only for those who were righteous, but he died for all sinners.

“And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,”-Ephesians 2:1‭-‬6 NASB1995

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP is fast approaching!