F3 Knoxville

The Princess Bride

AO: the-project
Q: Biohack
PAX: slappy, Erector, Boy George, 3-Peat (Carlos Rodriguez), Biohack, Mathlete, Flying Dutchman, Munge, Tom Tom, Papa Lock, Ocho
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
– Warm Up
1. Projectivator
2. Imperial Squalker
3. Tempo merkins
4. Cherry pickers

– Workout
1. Run to the parallel bars
2. 20 inverse rows as we sail to the Cliffs of Insanity!
3. 10 Wallpies and go over the pool wall.
1. First one over must say the quote (I swear on the soul of my father, Domingo Montoya, you will reach the top alive).
1. Left side plank for 30 sec.
1. Why are you smiling?
2. I know something you don’t know.
3. I’m not left handed
1. Right side plank for 30 sec.
2. My way is not very sportsman-like
1. Hang from the monkey bars for 1 min.
1. Run to the bell.
2. Build immunity to iocane powder.
1. 20 dips
1. Run to K25 hill and to the top.
2. Roll down the hill towards the fire swamp.
3. Run back up and over and leap the fire geyser at the bottom.
4. Ring of fire as we battle rodents of unusual size.
5. Squatting ring of fire as we escape the lightning sand.
6. We are men of action. Lies do not become us.
7. Death march to the bell as we fall into the pit of despair.
8. Not to 50! 50 dips
9. Buddy carry to the playground as we take Westley to Miracle Max
1. Switch out at the parallel bars
1. If only we had a Wheelbarrow
1. Partner wheelbarrow back and forth to the amphitheater
1. Mawage is what bwings us togetwar, today
1. Al Gore while we quote the scene (Wuv, twoo wuv also)
1. The chase! Jail break to the shovel flag. No wammies!
2. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
1. Overhead clap. In cadence. Until it hurts like you’ve been stabbed in the arms.
2. Round Robin of core exercises until it hurts like you’ve been stabbed in the belly.
1. To the pain!
1. Ring of fire.

Word
“We are men of action. Lies do not become us.”
Who do we lie to? Others? Ourselves? Our God?

One way we lie to all three is by pretending we will live forever.
Think of your legacy. What do you picture? Money? A business? Heirlooms or possessions?
Which of these will survive 10 years? 20 years? 50? 100? Eternity?

Steve Jobs was one of the most influential people in the world while he lived and continues to be. However, within months of his death, Apple released a product he said they’d never make: the iPad Mini.

Do not lie to yourself and pretend that your material work will leave a legacy for your family. The only true legacy we can leave is by passing our values from the Word of God to others in our lives. The disciples we make will outlive us way longer than any work of our hands.

Easter Zombies!

AO: shamrock
Q: KickFlip
PAX: Mermaid, slappy, Crawlspace, Caveman, Gringo, Toretto, KickFlip, Waxjob, Hot Pants, Stitch, Double Scoop, Twitch
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11 + 1
WARMUP: This and that – short mosey to the ichthys

THE THANG:
20 second incrementing workout
1. Mountain Climber
2. HR Merkins
3. * Shoulder taps
4. Flutter kicks
5. Box cutters
6. Imperial walkers
7. Lunges
8. Bobby Hurley
9. Iron Mikes
10. * Monkey humpers

The Beast – keep track of your total # of cumulative reps. 15 minutes of work.
– 5 min burpees
– 4 min squats
– 3 min BBS
– 2 min merkins
– 1 min plank jack

MARY:
No time!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
April 5 – Escape from Haw Ridge
April 10 – Launching The Pulpit
April 26-28 – GTE
April 27 – Convergence

COT:
Zombies on Easter!
Mathew 27:50 Then Jesus shouted out again, and he released his spirit. 51 At that moment the curtain in the sanctuary of the Temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth shook, rocks split apart, 52 and tombs opened. The bodies of many godly men and women who had died were raised from the dead. 53 They left the cemetery after Jesus’ resurrection, went into the holy city of Jerusalem, and appeared to many people.

Is there a part of your spirit that is dead? Your prayer life? Your ability/desire to forgive? Your compassion for people who are disadvantaged? Your leadership role over your family? Your contentment? If so, what better way to commemorate the original Good Friday than to let Jesus resurrect that part of you and make it come alive again….TODAY!

Let’s get Physical

AO: shamrock
Q: Eliza
PAX: Dumpster Dive, Eliza, Jardet, slappy, Anchorman, Tailhook, Free Fall (Justin Whitaker), Curveball, Stitch, Tinker, Honeydew
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WARMUP: Chicken Fat song

THE THANG: Grab a partner. Run from end zone to end zone rotating 90 degrees every 10 yards. Max merkins in two minutes. One partner counts. Run back and switch. Repeat with big boy sit ups.

Little stretching with sit and reach.

One mile for time.

MARY: scissor kicks, LBCs, H2H, pickle pointers, hello dollys, PLANKs

ANNOUNCEMENTS: EFHR

COT: read Brick’s Asylum PM post. Don’t give up. God will deliver you.

Keep After It

AO: the-project
Q: Ocho
PAX: Papa Lock, Mathlete, Biohack, slappy, Munge, OBrother, Flying Dutchman, Icey Hot, Tom Tom, Erector
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WARMUP:
On a 53 degree beautifully dark and rainy morning in the gloom, 11 brothers gathered to see if we still have what it takes. The question hung in the air as the men gathered under the Ocho Memorial Overhang at the Ocho Memorial Sr Center.

After the preliminaries were pronounced, we warmed up our arms and shoulders. Then we leaned out into some Willie Mayes Hayes.

When we were starting to get stretched, we moved the pack to the back porch.

THE THANG:
For our workout, we committed to 9 exercises for 40 second durations followed by a 20 second rest between each exercise. After completing the 9 exercises, we prep for 20 seconds and then started over. We worked that circuit 4 times.

Some people call that a “Tabata” or something. We just called it repetition and consistency.

The exercises were:
– HIGH KNEES
– SQUATS
– PLANK JACKS
– MERKINS
– MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS
– APOLLO ONOS
– AMERICAN HAMMERS
– PICKLE POINTERS
– HELLO DOLLYS

MARY:
At the end we saved 4 precious minutes to spend with our girl, Mary. We (by which I mean I) decided to call out exercises that hit any muscle group we’d missed in our Thang. It was glorious. We worked our backs with some basilisks. We did some side crunches to hit those obliques. We tested our coordination and mental resilience with some Projectivators. And we ended the round with a particularly sinister round of shoulder burn.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Haw Ridge, Haw Ridge, Haw Ridge, Haw Ridge…and something about a banana hammock…

COT:
Galatians 6:9
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

My word was a simple encouragement to not give up on doing good. As men, and particularly as men of faith, we must not let off the gas. We must do the same simple (right and good) things over and over. It’s our liturgies that are making us, not we who are making our liturgies.

3/25

AO: shamrock
Q: Voodoo
PAX: Mermaid, Anchorman, Dumpster Dive, Waxjob, Eliza, Curveball, LeBling, Caveman, Crawlspace, Smoky (Raymond Hale), KickFlip, Swifty, slappy, Twitch
FNGs: None
COUNT: 15
WARMUP:

THE THANG:

MARY:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT: