F3 Knoxville

Over The Hill

THE SCENE: Mid 40s I think….nice & cool.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER


WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH x 40
  • Stretch OYO

 

THA-THANG:
Mosey to big hill on the other side of Hardin Valley Road.  5 cones set up at the top of the hill.  Start at bottom & run reverse suicide (go to furthest cone first) doing the following exercises at each cone.

  • Cone 5:  40 Burpee
  • Cone 4:  40 Hello Dolly
  • Cone 3:  40 Squat Jumps
  • Cone 2:  40 Carolina Dry Docks
  • Cone 1:  40 Merkins

PAX then mosey back to the top of the hill for final descent Paula Abdul style.  Run forward down the hill 2 cones, then bernie sanders back up 1 cone.  Rinse & Repeat until all the way down.

MARY:

  • LBC x 40
  • Mountain Climbers x 40
  • ABCs

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Tank, Doubtfire, La-Z-Boy, Booster, Snaggletooth, Toto, Hammy, Ratchet, Waxjob, Bartman

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
How are we living for Christ?  While we may not have the same physical needs as other Christians around the world, we do have a responsibility to stand in the gap for our brothers and sisters in Christ.   Are you routinely praying on behalf of others?   Jesus is in the people business and we should be too.

MOLESKIN:
Today is my 40th birthday—special thanks to those who came out for my Q today and for all of the birthday wishes!  F3 is an awesome brotherhood!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship hill – May 19th.  Booster says there are still some spots left on the JUCO team if anyone is looking for a team to join.

Q101 at JUCO – Mixin’ it up

THE SCENE: Recovering from the rain this week it was a little soggy but perfect weather for a beat down.   Not to hot not too cold. F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

4 Standards: Disclaimer, Proper count and cadence, BOM, COT

  • A – Authenticity – If you can’t do it, then don’t Q it. Period
  • C – Consistency – Count the same way every time, all the time.
  • E – Energy – The PAX feed off the Q’s energy. Bring the heat and be early.
  • S – Selflessness – The workout is about the PAX, not the Q. Not ever

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SH 25x (IC)
  • Wide Merkins x 10 (IC)
  • Merkin 15x (IC)
  • Arm Circles Forward 15x (IC)
  • Arm Circles Backward 15x (IC)
  • 3 Hand Release Burpees OYO

THA-THANG:

String of Pearls to Hill – No Man Left Behind, plan the workout with all fitness levels in mind.

  • Stop 1 – 100 Squats (P1 does 10 while P2 holds air chair; 100 total for group))

Explanations and transitions can make or break a workout!

Three stages of the PAX, where are you?

  1. Survival
  2. Push yourself
  3. Encourage

Grinders12 min

1st Battle Buddy lunges to the first cone, then sprints to 2 second cone, does 2 reps of the exercise while Battle Buddy 2 is jumping air rope.  Switch. Each round increase by 2 reps until each man does a total of 14 reps.  Three rounds:

  • Rd 1 = Burpees
  • Rd 2 = BBS
  • Rd 3 = Ranger Merkins (hands at should width, elbows in)
  1. Keep the PAX Moving. No down time
  2. Practice explanations the night before and make sure they are easy to explain!
  3. Demonstrate as needed
  4. Structure the workout with all skill levels in mind.
  5. Always start and end on time. Always have a watch or a phone
  6. Rehearse your exercises and your cadence aloud in prep for the workout.

The BEAST is 6 exercises, performing 6 reps at 6 stops. 12 min

4 lines (lined field or cones).  Start at first line, sprint to second and do 6 reps, then to third and do 6 reps, then to fourth and do 6 reps, back to third for 6 reps, back to second for 6 reps, back to start line and complete 6 reps.  Hold Plank until all finish.

  • Merkins
  • Star Jacks
  • Squats
  • Wide Arm Merkins
  • Bobby Hurley
  • Burpees

MARY:
Dealers Choice

  • Flutter Kicks x 25(IC)

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:

BOM

BOM

  • Plan your workout – Actually write it down and get someone who has Q’d before to review it.
  • Better to have too much than not enough
  • Have an alternative Plan! for rain, weather size of PAX etc.
  • Welcome everyone
  • Use good form
  • Cadence- Inflection and recover and practice out loud!

BOM

“Today you will spend solitary moments of conversation with yourself, either listing your complaints or counting your blessings.”

“Think with me for a moment. Do you live a life of blessing or complaint?

  • easy to find fault, discontent.
  • easy to be irritated and impatient.
  • easy to groan and moan about the difficulties of life
  • easy to be dissatisfied.

Why are these things so easy? Well, they’re easy because sin still causes us to make it all about us. ”

“Our readiness to complain is another argument for the forgiving and rescuing grace that Jesus, without complaint, willingly died to give us.”

Saint Francis Prayer

Lord make me an instrument of your peace
Where there is hatred let me sow love
Where there is injury, pardon
Where there is doubt, faith
Where there is despair, hope
Where there is darkness, light
And where there is sadness, joy

O divine master grant that I may
not so much seek to be consoled as to console
to be understood as to understand
To be loved as to love
For it is in giving that we receive
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned
And it’s in dying that we are born to eternal life
Amen

 

What’s Tabata With You?

THE SCENE: 42 and raining… Basically the very definition of gloom.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Q accidentally locked his keys in the car while attempting to unload equipment, causing slight delay in getting started. Therefore disclaimer was given during the first exercise…

SSH xDisclaimer
Windmills x15 IC
AGT x6 IC
LBAC x20 each way IC
Calfkiller (20 calf raise OYO, 25% run to other curb, 20 calf, 50% run, 20, 75%, 20, AYG, 20)

Mosey to a dry spot to continue warmup:
5x SuperWorm (Inchworm all the way out to full extension flat on the ground, 5 Supermans, Merkin and inchworm up)
10x 4ct Travoltas IC each side

THA-THANG:
Mosey on to the courtyard for Roll Your Own tabata.
Roll the exercise die and do 4 sets of 20s with 10s rest in between.
Best of my recollection, we had:
-Bicycles
-Star Jacks
-Crab Toe Touches
-Merkins
-Squat Jumps
-Bicycles again!
-Butt Kickers
-Burpees
-Star Jacks again! (time up after 2 sets though)

MARY:
None today, although the Bicycles hit the abs pretty well.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Only 3 PAX braved the gloom this morning.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Nobody got up this morning at 5:00 and decided to get out in the gloom and get better. That decision was made yesterday (or earlier!), long before the required time of action. That principle holds true in most areas of life. Make your decision ahead of time, and follow-through is that much easier when it comes time for action.
MOLESKIN:
Piece of advice for anyone who leaves keys in your car during a beatdown: Get a magnetic key holder for about tree fiddy and keep a spare somewhere in the undercarriage.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill OCR May 19th! Pray for Booster’s friend JJ (lingering surgery complications) and three of Snaggletooth’s friends to strengthen marriages.

Back From Spring Break

THE SCENE: 40 Degrees and Pure Awesome.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH x 25 (IC)
  • Merkins x 10 (IC)
  • Windmills x 10 (IC)
  • Cherry Pickers x 5 (IC)
  • BAC’s F&R x 10 (IC)
  • Double Burpees x 5 (OYO)

THA-THANG:

Mosey to the courtyard walls

  • Step-Ups x 10 then Dips x 10 (Rinse and Repeat)
  • Decline Merkins x 10 then Dips x 10 (Rinse and Repeat)

Mosey to the coupon pile

  • Curls, Tri-Ceps, Weighted Squats x 10 each
  • Curls, Overhead Press, Weighted Squats x 10 each
  • Run the steps with the coupon
  • Merkins x 10 (IC)
  • Rinse and Repeat.
  • Double Burpees x 5 (OYO)

Mosey to The Sophomore

  • Bobby Hurley’s x 10
  • Bernie Sanders up the hill
  • Sprint across the top
  • Bobby Hurley’s x 10
  • Mosey down and over.
  • Rinse and Repeat.
  • BBS x 10 and Plank to gather the PAX)

Mosey (with stops) back to the start

  • Stop 1, Bear Crawl 75 yards
  • Stop 2, Crunch Merkins x 10 (IC)

MARY:

  • Hello Dolly x 25 (IC)
  • Flutter Kicks x 25 (IC)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Mathew 18:21-35 – The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant (Forgiveness)

You gotta love Peter’s confidence here. How many times, Lord, should I forgive these people?   [Go ahead and open your bibles, read the passage.  Do it.]

The parable culminates with Jesus’ description of how our Father in Heaven will treat us if we continue the path of un-forgiveness. Did you catch it in verse 34?  Jesus equates un-forgiveness with jail.  That’s exactly what un-forgiveness will do to you.  You will be locked away behind anger, resentment, jealousy, pride, and selfishness.  Ironically, the offending party goes free.  The best part of this is…   You have the key to the prison.  It’s not easy, but it’s the only way out.  Start small, ask God for help.  As you kneel, ask God to forgive you for your offenses.   Lord, thank You that each day we have from You is a gift, another chance for a fresh start. Forgive us, Lord.  Help us to forgive, and to let go of the past.  Please help us to see Your strength through our weaknesses today, and then again tomorrow, and every day after.  I Jesus’ Name, amen.

Also, remember Jesus’ answer to Peter’s question.  “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.”

MOLESKIN:
Arms, chest, legs, cardio. A little mumble chatter, no grumbling at all.   What a great group of HIM’s this morning!  The Brickyardigans showed up in force, thanks to Natty’s mad leadership skills. We got to name an FNG.  Welcome Cindy!!  It was good to be in the gloom this morning.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
JUCO is working to round up a team for the upcoming OCR!  Interested parties contact Booster.  Keep your eyes and ears open for the next Q school happening soon at the JUCO, brought to you by the one-and-only Proton.  All are encouraged to attend the Q schools whether you’ve Q’d none or a 100 WO’s.  You will be better for it.  The PAX will be better for it.

The Crabby Bear Gut

THE SCENE: Slight Overcast 54 degrees.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • 20 Side-to-side squats
  • Practice round of the Crabby Bear

 

THA-THANG:
30 Min A.m.r.a.p.  (5:40-6:10) of Light Pole Loop around parking lot.  Seven Light pole stations each with choice of two exercises.  50 reps of either exercise (single counts).

To get to each light pole alternate between bear crawling and crab walking.

Light Pole Station Exercises:

  • Crunches  or Empirial Walkers
  • V-Ups  or On Back Legs up Side to side arches
  • Cross Toe Touches  or On back lets up and out
  • Russian Twists or Plank Knees to Elbows.
  • Supermans or Vert Scissor Kicks
  • Bicycles or On Side Plank side raises.
  • Heel Touches or Horz Scissor Kicks

After seven light poles reached, climb the hill to the guard rail and to 5 reverse incline push ups and 5 incline push-ups.   Hit the Light Pole with a “I own you Crabby Bear Gut” and round number.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
7 PAX, Booster, Snaggletooth, Scrum, Neutron, Waxjob, Toto, Trolley,

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Be gentle and loving — Don’t be crabby or a bear!!

Galations 5:13-26

13 For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. 14 For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”15 But if you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.

16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.17 For the flesh [g]sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you [h]please. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law. 19 Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: [i]immorality, impurity, sensuality,20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, [j]factions, 21 envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 Now those who [k]belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also [l]walk by the Spirit. 26 Let us not become boastful, challenging one another, envying one another.

MOLESKIN:
Trying to work off the big easter feasts from our guts.  We completed almost two rounds.