F3 Knoxville

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What’s the name of this hill?

THE SCENE: Light snow on the grass, an ice skating rink on the grindstone, real feel of 11 and a crescent moon at sun rise. Gloom really means beautiful.
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WARM-O-RAMA:

– 22ssh 10 tempo squats
THA-THANG:

  • Thang 1- colonel trautman- pax a did 10 merkins and held chillcutt while pax b “ran” to pull up bars and did 3 pulls ups. “Ran”back and switched. Went for 8 min
  • mosey to base of springbrook rd hill.
  • Thang 2 -Totem pole
  • bernie up hill stoping at first light post.
  • 5 HR merkins
  • run back to bottom
  • bernie back up stop at light post one complete HR Merkins, Bernie to light post two.
  • complete 10 imperial stromkickers SC.
  • run back to bottom
  • repeat for 3 more light post
  • 3- 15 V-ups
  • 4- 20 Iorn Rockets
  • 5- 30 groiners
  • pax finished one full round so we started over working through the whole totem pole and then taking off the last one every round.
    -note light post on “unnamed hill” are not equal distance which is a “ Pleasant surprise”

Mary:

pax a 10 sc step ups pax b bbs till a done. Repeat for time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

“It’s very easy to forgive others their mistakes it takes gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.”

“It’s A sign of strength not weakness to admit that you don’t know all the answers”

 

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The Magnificent 7 Doing 67

THE SCENE: Cool, about 32 degrees
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WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 20.

LBAC x 10 (both ways)

Overhead claps x 27.
THA-THANG:

Partner up, because no soldiers should ever fight alone. We did a modified Dora, so here we go. While one partner does the exercise, the other partner will melungeon to the cones and back. Challenge: other than for the blockees, you will not set your block down.

  • Exercise 1 – Thrusters x 67.
  • Exercise 2 – CMU Big boys x 67.
  • Exercise 3 – Curls x 67.
  • Death round – Blockees x 67.
  • Rinse and repeat.
  • All pax completed one round and were deep in the second when recover was called.

MARY:
We worked right up until time.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
For today’s workout, I wanted to honor Bill Barnfield, my wife’s grandfather. This past weekend, I preached the funeral of his wife of 67 years. Bill is a committed man. He served as a medic in the Korean War, and saw heavy action that he still can barely talk about. After returning from the war, he married, raised four kids, and worked, worshipped, and honored his family. In the last few years of her life, he served his wife in a way that should humble each of us. He loved, cherished, and served her even when the pandemic hastened here dementia, and she no longer knew who he was. He meant what he said in his vows, and he completed his mission of loving her until death do us part. I believe he got his commitment and grit from the example of his Savior, who also had a mission. Philippians 2:5-8 says, “Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.” We ended on a challenge to examine where we needed to step up our commitment.
MOLESKIN:

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5 minutes of pain

  • THE SCENE: Cold and breezy made for supreme gloom
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    WARM-O-RAMA:
  • 2 laps around the grind stone with some Frankenstein and worlds greatest stretch
    THA-THANG:
    Mosey to top of blind man’s hill.
    4 different pieces of equipment
  • Sandbag, CMU, Weight plate, your legs
  • each equipment is a different suit of cards
  • Hearts- sandbag, spades-CMU,Clubs- Weight Plate, Diamonds- legs
  • draw a card and complete the exercises and then complete the cardio portion of that suit
  • Hearts- Carry sandbag.2 walking lunges and one squat till first light post heading up the hill. Carry back to start and repeat.
  • Spades- 10 CMU swings 10 Curls. Bear crawl to first light post, run back to start
  • Clubs- 10 Squirrels, 10 Al Gore with a plate push press, run to stop sign up the hill.
  • Diamonds- run to very top of Mt. Wombo, 10 Iron Crosses run back to start
  • pax works for 5 min and then draws a new card. Repeat for time

MARY:
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
My gratitude for F3 and more specifically the men of our paxs continues to become greater and grater. I recently started reading the Bible with a group that Drifter put together. I was skeptical at first and still find myself questioning things but what I have started to discover is that the pain, weakness and struggles I go through are no different than Abraham or anyone else. I’m fact it’s through those struggles that God makes us better if we are willing to listen. Without F3 i would not be strong enough to face my own personal failures and challenges like I am now. And through my devotion and bible study I’m learning to be at peace with myself.
MOLESKIN:
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Lunch Friday 1/28 at noon at BWW

10-15-20

THE SCENE: Clear skies, balmy 28 degree
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WARM-O-RAMA:

30 SSH IC

10 thighmaster IC bilateral

10 jump squats OYO

5 burpee OYO

THA-THANG:
Mosey around the loop used for beatdown.

6 cones laid on benches along running path with one starting at grindstone. 5 burpee buy in before running loop. At each bench perform the prescribed exercises:

incline merkin

split squat

decline merkin

Rep count for first loop is 10. Second loop is 15. Third is 20. Once all loops completed, move on to next exercise.

MARY:
Ring of fire, sent squats around circle while pax hold Al gore with increasing rep count

Ring of fire, sent tempo merkin around circle while pax hold high plank with increasing rep count

hold iron cross to hello dolly IC x 10

Alphabet abs spelling I LOVE F3!

Heel taps IC x 20

LBCs to close

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
7 HIMs with special guest Espy at the Arsenal
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I’ve been reading a few more books these days trying to invest in myself and grow in areas where I need it. I recently read a great book entitled Wild at Heart where the author John Eldredge talks about how men have lost themselves in this world. He uses words like freedom, adventure, and passion to describe things that men long for but are unable to attain due to mainly self limitations. The book really challenged me to find passion in things again and take chances in this life. Here is one of my favorite quotes from the book:

I have studied many times

the marble that was chiseled for me—

A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor.

In truth it pictures not my destination

But my life.

For love was offered to me, and I shrank from its disillusionment;

Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid

Ambition called to me, but I dreaded the chances.

Yet all the while I hungered for meaning in my life

And now I know we must lift the sail

And catch the winds of destiny

Wherever they drive the boat.

To out meaning in one’s life may end in madness,

But life without meaning is the torture

Of restlessness and vague desire—

It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

– Edgar Lee Masters

MOLESKIN:
Had to audible d/t too many reps for each exercise, was initially pyramid of 10 15 20 15 10
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Avocado care package sent at end of week. Attend a beatdown to sign card/ deliver goods

Poles in the Cold

THE SCENE: 25 degrees and breezy.  Misting off and on.  No breeze where we did the workout so that was nice.
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WARM-O-RAMA:
Side straddle hops, little baby arm circles, and then mosey across bridge behind softball field.
THA-THANG:
There are 10 light poles between the 2 bridges behind the softball fields.  We did a take on a suicide using these poles.  At each pole was an exercise the each HIM was to do to the next pole.  Once they reached the next pole they were to run back to the start are do all the exercises all over again until they got to a new pole/exercise.  Ended up modifying about half-way in to where you just ran to the new pole/exercise after going back to the start.  The exercises were (maybe in the correct order):

  1. lunges
  2. bear crawl
  3. broad jump
  4. crawl bear
  5. inch worm
  6. burpee broad jumps
  7. murder bunnies
  8. overhead carry
  9. redrum/ressurection bunnies

MARY:
Had no time for Mary
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
We did this thanks to Smuggler!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Monday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day so I’ve been reading his letter from Birmingham jail this week.  If you’ve not read or listened to this, I highly recommend it. It obviously addresses a lot of racial injustice, which we still need to hear today because it’s still happening!  He also makes many fantastic points that are just great for life in general.  I wanted to highlight a few that stuck out to me this week from the first half of the letter.

“But more basically, I am in Birmingham because injustice is here.”

He sought out areas of injustice and went there.  Are you where injustice is?  We often don’t like getting out of our comfort zones and injustice is definitely uncomfortable, even if you are not the victim of it.  I’m challenging us to find injustice and be there!

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”

If you are part of something bigger than yourself then you are indirectly affected when others withing that bigger entity are affected.  Injustice impacts us all so we should all find ways to be part of the solution.

“In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self purification; and direct action.”

Steps 1 and 2 are so often and so easily skipped over.  If you are going to be a conduit for positive change, none of these steps can be skipped.

“we repeatedly asked ourselves: “Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?””

We can all stand to ask ourselves this each day.  This is very applicable to any relationship but especially those we are close to like our spouse.  Retaliation, typically with words, is often our instinct. Let’s work on training that out of our systems.

Go read or listen to his letter!

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