F3 Knoxville

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Between Two Bridges

THE SCENE: mid 50s, calm
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH, little baby arm circles, tempo squats, tempo merkins, mosey across bridge toward tennis quarts with CMUs
THA-THANG:
There 8 CMU workouts positioned at and in between each light post.  15 reps at each station and murder bunny to the next station.  If a jogger passes during the workout, stop what you are doing and run the opposite direction of the runner until you get to the bridge.  Then return to your CMU and continue where you left off.  The exercises were as follows (all involve CMU):

  • Curls
  • American Hammers (2 ct)
  • Thrusters
  • Big Boys
  • CMU press
  • Grave diggers (2 ct)
  • Swings
  • Blockees

MARY:
Mosey back to grindstone.  Overhead claps, box cutters, and ABCs.
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:
The other day my sister made a super long Facebook post about her views on Covid-19.  It was so long I didn’t even take time to read it all but I knew where she was going and what she was trying to do.  It was written as an attempt to convince someone to agree with her point of view.  I likely agreed with what she said, as we have very similar stances on things, but my thought was, “whose mind are you actually going to change?”  No one goes on to Facebook to have their mind changed which made me realize that sometimes things are just best left unsaid.  Even if something is 100% true, it doesn’t always make it appropriate.  As leaders, we like to speak up and be heard, but sometimes the best thing you can do as a leader is to keep your mouth shut.  So please take the time before you speak, before you post, to ask, is this the appropriate time and/or place for this and will it benefit anyone?  If not then lead through silence.
MOLESKIN:
About 5 runners passed me when I was setting out the papers marking the exercises before the beatdown.  Only one runner passed us during the beatdown.  Baby Weight hulked up and broke his CMU.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

No Cardio

THE SCENE: warm and wet
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
little baby arm circles, side straddle hops, tempo merkins, Tempo squats, cherry pickers

THA-THANG:
Workouts were in a circle. Pax had to Frog jump, bear crawl, or crab walk to each workout station. Reps started at 12 and each time you made it around the circle your rep count went down by 1.

  • Reverse merkins
  • LBC
  • Decline merkin
  • Merkin
  • Ww2
  • Pickle thrusters
  • Squat
  • Bulgarian squat split

MARY:
Asked Pax lead different ab exercises for the last few minutes.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
James 2:2-4
MOLESKIN:
Warm ups are important.

Bags full of Problems and a Grinder to Boot

THE SCENE: 60s light breeze. Pretty nice.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 SSH, 15 IC Merkins, 15 IC Squats, warm up jog.
THA-THANG:
Drifter’s part. Three teams.

Valley: One team carries all the crap (tires, flag, buckets of water, bags of rocks) from one end of the baseball field to the other. When they get there, they swap with the team on the hill. The crap just keeps going back and forth.

Hill 1: 10 4ct Bicycle kicks, bear crawl down the hill, 10 hand release t merkins, Burnie up the hill, repeat.

Hill 2: 10 box jumps, 10 chest to bar, 10 4ct mountain climbers

ESPY’s part.

Grab a CMU on the grinder

  • 10 CMU good mornings
  • Walking curls to next part
  • 15 blockees
  • Walking Skull crushers
  • 20 CMU squats
  • Melunges (which suck by the way)
  • 25 CMU press / 2ct flutter kicks
  • 30 merkins
  • Run the Apex loop
  • Grab your CMU and head back to start.

MARY:
Tempo merkins, Box cutters, flutter kicks

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
17 HIM
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Sometimes, we go through valleys in our lives. The crap and bags of problems don’t go away. Leaders grab a hold of that bag, and do what they can to help. And great Leaders come along side others to help them pull. ESPY is one of those leaders, and I (Drifter) am super excited to pass the AOQ flags over to ESPY. He and His family have often come along side me and mine in the midst of our valleys. I know he will continue to lift up those around him, but he needs us to take a handle of the bag too.
MOLESKIN:
N/A
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP on Friday. Get a team together.

Peach Fuzz

THE SCENE: Mid/Upper 40s
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH (IC x10)
Merkins (IC x10)
Squats (IC x10)
27 Line jumps @ each line (FL, FR, FF)
THA-THANG:

Mosey Greenway to Cardinal St. (.5 Miles) stopping at Anderson Street. Beatdown location is on Cardinal St. hill between Anderson Street and West Ray Avenue.

‘Bottom of hill’ – Anderson Street Complete the following – Continuous (without break between exercises):

  • (20) Shoulder taps
  • (10) Push-ups
  • (20) Shoulder taps

Burnie up hill to West Ray Ave.

Complete the Peach (like a Kraken) at Intersection and run back down to the bottom. Remove 1 exercise each time up the hill until there are no more exercises.

Top of the hill and going counter-clockwise:

  • (50) Star Jacks
  • (40) Monkey Humpers
  • (20) Pickle Pointers
  • (30) Air Squats
  • Lunges (across the circle and back)

MARY:
1 Minute of LBC
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5 Pax
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Encourage the men to show their support and backing of the leadership change going down this weekend at the Bomb Shelter. Drifter will be passing the flags to Espy and I encourage the men to attend if at all possible. If not, I encourage the Pax to encourage other pax to attend.

Plan for a 6am step off for a general ruck march
7am Beatdown Start
8am Breakfast at Drifters
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Support the passing of leadership at the Bomb Shelter this Saturday; Breakfast at Drifters after!

Revenge of the Monthly Challenge

THE SCENE: Warm enough for me to wear shorts and short sleeves.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Side straddle hops, jog to other baseline on bb court, butt kicks back, mummy kicks to other baseline, lunches back.  Mosey to track
THA-THANG:
Do 5 reps of each exercise then run a lap.  Then do 10 reps and 2 laps, 15 reps and 3 laps, 20 reps and 4 laps.  Exercises are below and sound familiar to those in the “monthly challenge feed” in Slack.

  • Leg lifts
  • Hip raises
  • LBCs
  • 100s (but just the corresponding number of reps)
  • Crunchy frogs

MARY:
Cherry pickers then overhead claps until 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:
Every once in awhile, those articles that show up when you open an new window in your browser gets me.  One got me this week that I thought was worth the quick read:

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/8-rules-to-do-everything-better?utm_source=pocket-newtab

MOLESKIN:
Weebalow is aspiring to be Swerve and Baby Weight with his new hair-do.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Triple threat this Saturday!

  1. Flag hand off at bomb shelter.
  2. Breakfast at Drifter’s.
  3. Possible pre-ruck.