F3 Knoxville

Slot Cars (The Grateful Grid)

THE SCENE: 73 very nice.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER ( I got the order right!)

WARM-O-RAMA:

20 SSH, High Knees + Burpee + toe-tap-shuffle, Cherry Pickers, Plank Destroyers, Donkey Kicks, Crabets, Clap Merkins, Freddy Mercuries, Mtn parkers, Peter Parkers, Squat Walkers, Iron Mikes.

THA-THANG: 

Welcome to the Grid! A 10×10 square parking lot with over a 100 stalls in it.  We did one exercise per stall in a snaking fashion in teams of two.  The 10 rows of exercise were:

  1. Plank Destroyers
  2. Crabets
  3. Freddy Mercuries
  4. Mountain Parkers
  5. Peter Parkers
  6. Squat Walkers
  7. Donkey Kicks
  8. Iron Mikes
  9. Burpees
  10. Clap Merkins

The exercises stayed the same for each column and only changed when you completed a row.  The distance between columns were determined by the painted lines of the parking stalls.  We did one rep per stall.

So we did 10 reps of each exercise, but each rep was separated by about 30 feet.  So we got up and got down at least 100 times in addition to the exercises.

We started off in teams of two (the slot car drivers) and launched successive teams as the previous team reached the next column of stalls.  It spread out nicely but we were all close enough to encourage one another on the passes or the different directions.  The “slots” were the rows of stalls we tried to stay in.

We finished one round then started on the next round. In round two, instead of moseying from stall to stall we burnied down and bear crawled back.  Almost finished the crabets and then called time.

MARY:
Freddy Mercuries
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Welcome FNG Pool Boy!

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
This F3 stuff is the best thing ! Feeling so grateful for it. It’s the best part of my day.  Creative, challenging, always different, always free.  Rain or shine.  Always encouraging.  Great testimonies and BOM’s.  We be sittin’ on GOLD fellas!  I hope where ever I go I can always find an F3 PAX to workout with!

MOLESKIN:
Booster has an announcement about an announcement… but that’s all we heard.  🙂

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Again welcome FNG ==> Pool Boy!

Be a High-Impact Friend

THE SCENE: 70 and clear
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Administered
WARM-O-RAMA:

Cherry Pickers – IC
Windmill – IC
Tempo Squats – IC
Motivators – Single count
LBAC (F/R) – IC
Tempo Merkins – IC

THA-THANG:

Everyone partner up with a “friend” (a.k.a. a CMU) and mosey to the Friendship Bell (a monument at Bissell Park) for the CMU Deck Workout (hat tip to Cap’N Crunch!)
– Draw a card and perform the exercise.  First one finished draws the next card and starts immediately.
– Work at the pace of the fastest man.  If you are lapped, skip the next exercise and get back in rhythm with the PAX.
– For all suits with a card value of A-5 = run that number of laps around the Friendship Bell (with your “friend”, of course)
– For the rest of the deck, perform the number of reps based on the value of the card according to the list below:

Card Value Reps
A-5 Run that many laps around the bell
6-10 Reps = Face Value
J, Q, K Reps = 15

 

Card Value Exercise
Hearts 4-count curls
Spades Step ups
Clubs 4-count flutter kicks (arms extended w/ CMU above chest)
Diamonds 4-count shoulder press

 

Next up….45-second intervals.  Perform each exercise for 45 seconds – 15 seconds of rest in between sets.

Flutter Kick w/ CMU
Merky-Derky
CMU Iron Mike (or lunge)
Dips w/ CMU in your lap
Lion Kings
Crunch-press w/ CMU
Curls

Mosey back.

MARY:
Heavy Freddies
Derkin Pyramid

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 HIMs

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

In April 2011 the General Assembly of the United Nations declared July 30 as official “International Friendship Day”.  I’m thrilled to be standing here this morning with one of my oldest and dearest friends (Archie) and six of my newest and dearest friends.

William Penn was a Quaker and a writer in pre-revolution America.  Notably, he was an early advocate for democracy, founder of the colony – later state – of Pennsylvania, and planner of the city of Philadelphia.   He wrote a book titled “Some Fruits of Solitude” – a collection of sayings (similar in tone to Ben Franklin’s Farmer’s Almanac).  It is included in Volume 1 of Harvard’s Non-fiction Classics.  In this book, Penn wrote of pride, of education, of justice, of fidelity…and of friendship.

About friendship, Penn wrote;

“A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”

That’s what I would call a “high-impact friend”.

Let’s zoom in on those first two characteristics.

One:  As a high-impact friend, you must be advising your friends justly.  This means speaking candidly into the lives of your friends who are falling short of a high standard.  It means giving straight talk to those men around you who are acting foolishly, who are harming themselves and others around them, and who are temporarily blind, ignorant, or uncaring of their foolishness.  Our culture will accommodate, and even encourage, their foolishness.  If you are their friend, you owe it to them to show courage and speak correction and truth into their lives.

Proverbs 27:6

“Faithful are the wounds of a friend [who corrects out of love and concern]…”

Two:  In order for you to have any credibility whatsoever to speak candidly to a hurting friend, you must first consistently unbosom yourself freely to him – which is an old-fashioned way of saying “open your heart to him”.  You must be candid about your own struggles, fears, insecurities, shortcomings, dreams.  Only then have you earned to right to speak truth to him about his struggles.

As high-impact men, you are set apart from your peers – held to a higher standard.  Friendships built on common interests alone are cheap.

I challenge you today, on International Friendship Day, to unbosom yourself to a friend (share your heart) and to speak courageously into the life of a friend who is headed down a destructive pathUncomfortable as it may be at first, be a High-Impact Friend and you’ll be valued and cherished by those who are dear to you. 

 

MOLESKIN:
Praises for Samaritan’s 20th anniversary and for the safety of KickFlip’s friend’s daughter – who nearly drowned over the weekend.  Prayers of peace for Erector’s friend.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Do your friends a favor and invite them to F3!

I like to crawl.

THE SCENE: Beautiful!!!!!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Tempo squats

Moroccan night club

manly arm rotations up and down

tempo merkins

SSH

Man-Makers
THA-THANG:
Partner up!!

Sets of 100 merkins collective count

bear crawl

100 arm taps

bear crawl

100 Catalina wine mixers

bear crawl

100 squats

beae crawl

100 lunges

bear crawl

 

mosey to the sophomore

bear crawl to the top, 10 flutter kicks

cralw bear down, 10 hello dollys

mosey back to the large lot

go bakerds’ through the routine oyo sets of 20

 

MARY

5 Apollo creeds each arm

leg drops ( no idea exercon )

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

17 HIMS!!!

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Never take a moment of life for granted

MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

Take The High Road

THE SCENE: Somewhat cool, not too shabby
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Cherry Pickers, Tempo Squats, Flutter Kicks (x50, hehe), Tempo Werkins, TN Rock’n Chair
THA-THANG:
1) Alligator Crawl 50 yards, 3 Double Burpees, Frog Jump 50 yards, 3 Double Burpees

2) Side Straddle Run parking lines across the entire large student lot

3) 11s at L shaped drive-thru: Squat Wall Jumps — Body Builders

4) 7s at same location: London Bridges — Donkey Kicks

5) 100 yard Sprints, 1st place calls Ab Ex after each sprint. We did American Hammers (x50) Freddie Mercuries (x50) and LBCs (x50)

MARY:
N/A
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
17 men, 1 FNG: welcome “Mermaid!”
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
From a recent work experience of the Q :

Take the highroad when you receive harsh criticism undeservedly.  Often, after the other person realizes their error, it opens an awesome door to share the Gospel – the same grace and forgiveness that makes you as a believer tick.  Follow what God says about these situations: rich in kindness, slow to anger. Then let Him work through you.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

30sec HiTech

THE SCENE: Clear, 60°F, Feels like 60°F, Humidity 91%, Wind 1mph from NW – by Klimat.app
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH 20x IC
  • Tempo Squat 15x IC
  • Little of this, Little of that
  • Tempo Merkins 10x IC

THA-THANG:

  • Mosey around the parking lot at the whim of the Q
  • Timed Exercises 30 sec on, 30 sec off 3 Rounds, 1 min rest between rounds
    • Seal Jacks (SSH with arms going to front instead of above)
    • Merkins
    • Lunges
    • Hip Raises (kick legs to sky)
    • SSH
    • Superman
    • Mountain Climbers
    • Close Squats
    • Plank
    • Burpees
  • Mosey around the parking lot until Q leads back to AO

MARY:

  • Flutter Kicks 20x IC
  • Hello Dollies 20x IC
  • Captian Thor 5x BBS to 20x Hammers
  • Boat/Canoe till time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Leadership – As men in our communities, we need to look for the opportunities to step up into leadership positions and not have the expectation that someone else will do it. We also need to seek out those opportunities for us to become mentors to those men not as far along the path as we are and to seek out mentors for ourselves. Everyone of us need to be sharpening the men following us and in turn getting sharpened.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS: