F3 Knoxville

Incremental Growth

The Scene: perfect conditions – 55 degrees, clear

The Thang:

5:30 COP – 7 min

  • Baby arm circles X 10 (forward/backward)
  • Cherry Picker
  • Merkin
  • Goofball
  • Jog 2 parking lot laps

Line up in parking lot Burpee Dans

Beginning at the curb, perform 4 lunges then 4 burpees, rinse and repeat across parking lot, run back to curb. Then 4 lunges and 3 burpees. Rinse and repeat (then 2 burpees, then 1 burpee). Plank or BBS until group finishes.

Mosey to lower parking lot – find a battle buddy

One man runs the length of the parking lot, performs 5 Merkins, then runs back while partner does Merkins (100), then BBS (200), then jump squats (100). Trade each lap until the total number is completed.

Next exercise:

Group splits: Half begin Bearpees (10 bear crawls followed by 1 Burpee), while the other half start Bernie Sanders on the hill. Bernie Sanders group relieves Bearpee group. Endless until 6:15am.

INCREMENTAL GROWTH

Growth is hard to see. We measure growth. When an acorn is crushed by a 1,000 lb. tombstone, who wins? It’s a no brainer. The acorn always wins. God waters it, and slow growth appears. Let’s all work toward incremental growth in our spiritual life– the same way we are working toward growing in fitness and strength.

Pavilion Playtime

THE SCENE
63 and Stormy

Welcome and Disclaimer

THE THANG
COP
Squat Jacks 10 xIC
Triple Merkins (Regular – Wide – Diamond) 4ct x10 IC
Diagonal Lunges x10 each leg IC
Baby Arm Circles Forward x11 IC
Baby Arm Circles Backward x12 IC

The Accumulator
Start with 1 exercise, adding another exercise until all 5 exercises are completed in succession. Then, work back down until only the last exercise is left. 20 seconds (20s) per exercise:

– Exercise 1 then 20s rest
– Exercises 1 and 2 then 20s rest
– Exercises 1, 2, 3 then 20s rest
– Exercises 1, 2, 3, 4 then 20s rest
– Exercises 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 then 20s rest
– Exercises 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 then 20s rest
– Exercises 5, 4, 3, 2 then 20s rest
– Exercises 5, 4, 3 then 20s rest
– Exercises 5, 4 then 20s rest
– Exercises 5

Exercises:
– Exercise 1 = Burpees
– Exercise 2 = Narrow Squats
– Exercise 3 = Dry Docks
– Exercise 4 = Tuck Jumps
– Exercise 5 = Merkins

Partner Circuit
Partner 1 – Lunge the length of the building, bear crawl back
Partner 2 – Alternate x20 Let Me Ups (on the picnic tables) and x20 4ct Flutter Kicks until Partner gets back

Switch. Rinse and repeat x3

10 to 1
Alternate BBS and Derkins doing 10 reps each exercise, then 9, and so on to 1

Cash Out
10 Box Jumps
15 Dips
Rinse and repeat, x3

COT
Number off and Name-O-Rama (6 PAX + 1 Skunk)

BOM
Ephesians 4:29 – Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.

HIMs are life-givers, not life-takers.  One of the most powerful ways we influence others around us is with our words.  Our words can either build up or tear down, the choice is ours.  What YHC has found, is we tend to get back what we give out!

MOLESKIN
Lightening thew us a curve ball this morning, but men showed up and put in work to get better.  We did an impromptu workout and it was a great morning.

In all honesty, YHC was ready to head back home and enjoy a cup of coffee, but when I saw my brothers getting out of their cars ready to push themselves and each other…I realized there was no place else I’d rather be.  Iron sharpens Iron!

Embrace the Suck

The scene : Pretty Dang nice out!

The Theme: Embrace the suck
THE THANG
COP
Ratchet Effect x3
Hill Billys
Sumo squats x20
Narrow Squats x20
Mountain merkins x10
Surfees x10

MOSEY to the Playground for Leg ups/quad blasters 3 sets each leg x30

Mosey to the PAVALON for bench pull ups. while others are hanging leg/ab execersise in the dug out. Rinse and repeat 4 times x20 reps

Mosey back to the AO for Doracides.
100 merkins, 200 LBC, 300 squats P1 does reps while other does suicides with increaing burpees at each cone

Circle up for PAX choice. CONES OR MUSIC! Pax chose music. I get Knocked down. Do a burpee everytime the song says I get knoecked down, SSH between. TOtal of about 32 burps
BOM
As Shakespear once said “Let thee embrace me, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course” = Embrace the Suck. Get out there and challenge yourself and push your self so you can change yourself for the better.

Cardiac 50’s

The Scene: perfect conditions – 65 degrees, overcast

The Thang:

5:30 COP – 7 min

  • Baby arm circles X 10 (forward/backward)
  • Cherry Picker
  • Sumo squat

Mosey to Cardiac “50’s” (5 Burpees/10 Mercan’s/15 Jump Squats/20 Dips)

Beginning at the bottom, perform 5 burpees, then at each turn perform the next exercise. Rinse and repeat for a total of 5 times up the hill. On the 6th hill, backpedal to the first turn then sprint the remaining hill. Hold Al Gore’s until everyone finishes at the top.

Mosey to parking lot – rotate with battle buddy

One man backpedals the hill while the other performs Lunge, Lunge, Squat. Trade when the hill runner returns.

Next exercise: Sharks and Minnows

Next exercise: abs

  • Leg throws X 10
  • Hands of time X2
  • American Hammer on the 4 count
  • ATM’S

Romans 12: 1-6

BEING INTENTIONAL

So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life – your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life – and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out.

So much of life can be just going through the motions. We need to be intentional in the things we do. Whether it’s a theme like forgiveness, which the Lord has put in my life lately, or the way you treat your wife, kids, co-workers, etc. Let’s be intentional in our deeds and actions this week.

Burpee Fest

F3 Welcome & Disclaimer

5:30 COP

Side Straddle Hop X 30
Imperial Squat Walkers x 20
Little baby arm circles Front x 10 and back x 10
Speed Skaters x 20
Mountain Climbers x 20
Burpee Dan’s – Groups of 4

4 Burpee : 4 lunges across lot.
Down to touch the fence and back up in reverse sprint back to start
3 burpees : 4 lunges back to starting position.
2 burpees : 4 lunges back to starting position.
1 burpees : 4 lunges back to starting position.
*Speed Skaters until everyone returns

 

The Pull up Run

10 Pull ups, 25 Rows, 25 Mercans x 3.
Burp Back Mountain

The exercise is then performed by pairing up with one person proceeding to run backward up the hill/forward down the hill 5X while the other person is performing burpees. The individuals continue to alternate running with burpees until 100 total burpees are completed. When finished, pax continue to run hills until entire pax completes.

Crawl Bear 1/2, Backwards Run, Sprint

Hands of Time

Q starts the PAX, legs up at 90 degrees, hands under your rear. One PAX at a time in a wave like motion- Each PAX counts off aloud as they drop and hold 1,2,3, etc around the circle until finished. Drop straightened legs to 10 degrees and hold until a full revolution has been made (as the second hands would move around a clock) then return to 90 degrees and repeat until smoked!

I do not do what I want but do everything I hate
Our spiritual life is just like our physical fitness. We get better with consistency and effort.  The same can be said about our spiritual growth.   We will get out what we put in and the more time we are with God in his word the more he will reveal himself to us and allow his spirit to work through us to accomplish his purposes.    He dies on the cross and has given us new life in his spirit to overcome sin.
Romans 7:15-25 – Paul
15What I don’t understand about myself is that I decide one way, but then I act another, doing things I absolutely despise. So if I can’t be trusted to figure out what is best for myself and then do it, it becomes obvious that God’s command is necessary.

17-20But I need something more! For if I know the law but still can’t keep it, and if the power of sin within me keeps sabotaging my best intentions, I obviously need help! I realize that I don’t have what it takes. I can will it, but I can’t do it. I decide to do good, but I don’t really do it; I decide not to do bad, but then I do it anyway. My decisions, such as they are, don’t result in actions. Something has gone wrong deep within me and gets the better of me every time.

21-23It happens so regularly that it’s predictable. The moment I decide to do good, sin is there to trip me up. I truly delight in God’s commands, but it’s pretty obvious that not all of me joins in that delight. Parts of me covertly rebel, and just when I least expect it, they take charge.

24I’ve tried everything and nothing helps. I’m at the end of my rope. Is there no one who can do anything for me? Isn’t that the real question?

25The answer, thank God, is that Jesus Christ can and does. He acted to set things right in this life of contradictions where I want to serve God with all my heart and mind, but am pulled by the influence of sin to do something totally different.

The Solution Is Life on God’s Terms

1-2 With the arrival of Jesus, the Messiah, that fateful dilemma is resolved. Those who enter into Christ’s being-here-for-us no longer have to live under a continuous, low-lying black cloud. A new power is in operation. The Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind, has magnificently cleared the air, freeing you from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of sin and death.