F3 Knoxville

The Mexican Wave

THE SCENE

55 degrees and cloudy

Welcome & Disclaimer

Warm-up:

Butt kickers, high knees, lunges front and side, kangaroo hops

THE THANG

  • Group big boy sit-ups in unison x 50 which turned into the Mexican wave. Enough said
  • Hill chase – 1 with block running up hill, other sprint to catch him. Rinse and repeat x2 each way
  • Mose to flag pole – 2 sets of ATM 15,10,10
  • Mose to baseball field – leap frog over under relay challenge.
  • Mose back to AO – block workout in pairs – big boy sit-ups, overhead press, side press, flutter kicks, hello dolly’s.
  • Suicide sprints in parking lot with 20 merkins x2
  • Finish with a game of sharks and minnows.

COT – 35

BOM

Choices, Choices.

“Life is a matter of choices…..and every choice you make, makes you” John Maxwell.

UF3 Championship: The Comeback

The scene: 55 degrees and absolutely perfect outside
 
F3 Welcome and Disclaimer
Warm-o-Rama:
Mosey around the outhouse
5 jump squats with knees up
20 seconds of air punches L/R combos
10 seconds of girl fight arm windmills
5 sprawls
5 knockdowns w/one hand getup
Get loose with the Billionaire shuffle
Tha Thang:
Slow Mosey w/CMU in two lines 10 feet apart to boats. At each command, sprawl to the ground do 5 merkins on CMU and 5 overhead presses
At boat area do high knees with consecutive sprawls and “knock downs” with one hand get ups on command
Mosey w/CMU down dock trail to bottom of steps. Wagon wheel with side shuffle till 6 catches 10 count, mosey w/CMU to top of restaurant lot. Alternating time with CMU overhead.
At restaurant lot, wagon wheel w/CMU till 6 catches up 10 presses, 10 curls, 10 triceps w/CMU
The Octagon:
8 stations
1)Grappling: bear crawl to center cone and back x2
2) Boxing: 10 left/right combos then burpee x10
3) Jujitsu: 10 BBS roll to 10 merkins repeat 3 times
4) Muy Thai: high knee while holding CMU 20 on 3-count
5)Karate: 20 front kicks each leg
6) wrestling: CMU get ups (start w/CMU on chest)..get up x10
7) judo: “throws” take CMU from shoulder height to the ground 10x each shoulder
8) kickboxing: 10 karate kids (or front kick) and 10 side kicks each leg
Run around Octagon after completing station w/o CMU then pick up CMU and move to next station.
Mosey w/CMU Back to AO doing sprawls w/5 mericans and 5 presses w/CMU
MARY:
Jacares (lizard walks)
CMU V -holds
Flutter kicks
Pickle pounders
BOM: Getting back up
The parable of the sower
“Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy. But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.”
‭‭Mark‬ ‭4:16-17‬ ‭
Persecution, strife, pain, struggle and trials in our lives will come. So what do we do? Will we wither away or will we dig in with our roots?
James 1:2-3 says
“Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.”
Push through Physically and mentally with faith in our God who strengthens us. Pray. Read his word, lean on your brothers and do not give up.
Our Championship Belt is waiting on us in heaven!
Moleskin:
Great work by the PAX today, I saw some men pushing themselves to get better.  Here is some F3 math for you…
17 men + a large Octagon shape + moaning and grunting + CMUs + private parking lot= cops being called
Who better to diffuse the situation than Mayberry!

Full House Monday

THE THANG

COP
  •  SSH x20 (IC)
  • Cherry Pickers 4 count x 15
  • Imperial Walkers 4 count x20
Mosey to field office for 10 Burpees on your own. ->Mosey to the soccer field some fun!
Groups of 3. Exercises on each touch line with 3rd man sprinting from one side to the other. Excercises:
Carolina Dry Docks
Sprint ->
Big Boys
Burpees
<- Sprint
Superman/Swim
Plank Jacks
Sprint->
Flutter Kicks
Mosey to the paved hill that peaks at the Asylum
Repeat above exercises with the hill being your sprint. 
 
Mosey to back to the SP up for MARY

MARY

One round of ATM’s (15/10/10)
COT
42 with one FNG
BOM
 
Romans 5:2-5
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we[a] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith[b] into this grace in which we stand, and we[c] rejoice[d] in hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
 
Hebrews 5:7-10
In the days of his flesh, Jesus[a] offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence. 8 Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. 9 And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him, 10 being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek
 
Obiding through Suffering results in HOPE! Stay with the PAX and keep your head down. Iron sharpens iron. if you are suffering reach out to the PAX and ultimately God as He is the one that provides us Hope!

Run Forrest Run…

THE SCENE

38 and Clear

Welcome & Disclaimer

THE THANG
COP
SSH x30 IC
Windmill Merkins x10IC
Cherry Pickers x10 IC
Arm Circles Forward x12 IC
Arm Circles Backward x12 IC
Mountain Climbers x15 IC

Mosey to curb and partner up in teams of 3

 

Triple Sprints #1, Upper Body
2 men at Cone 1 (orange cone) and 1 man at Cone 2 (orange cone).  One man at Cone 1 runs to Cone 2 while other two men do exercises at the cone, stopping in the middle at the yellow cone to do 3 burpees.  Then man at Cone 2 runs to Cone 1 while other men do exercises.  First man now runs to Cone 2.  Rinse and repeat for 8 minutes.

Cone 1 = Diamond Merkins / Carolina Dry Docks
Cone 2 = CMU BOR / CMU Press

Mosey to road in front of Asylum
– Stop half-way, 4ct Merkins x15

Triple Sprints #2, Abs
Same as before except:
Cone 1 = American Hammers / Lance Armstrongs
Cone 2 = Flutter Kick / Hello Dolly

Mosey to hill in front of the Asylum

Lt. Dan’s Revenge
Start at base of hill.  Perform 1 Lt. Dan (2 squat, 4 lunges), run the hill.  Rinse and repeat adding 1 Lt. Dan each time then back down (i.e. 2/4, 4/8, 6/12, 8/16, 10/20).

Mosey back up to road in front of the Asylum and form into 4 groups.

Bumper Circuit
One group at cones 1-3, two groups at cone 4. When Q says “go” one team at cone 4 makes the loop up the stairs, down the road and back down the other set of stairs to cone 1. All other groups do the exercise at the cones, alternating between the exercises.  When the group running gets to cone 1 all the groups shift and the group at Cone 4 runs the loop. Rinse and repeat.

Cone 1 – Dry Docks x10 / BBS x10
Cone 2 – Wide Merkins x10 / Squat Jumps x10
Cone 3 – Dive Bombers x10 / Hello Dolly x10
Cone 4 – Reverse Lunges x10 each leg / Superman Swims x10

Mosey to SP

Cash-Out
Flutter Kicks 4ct 25 IC

COT
Number off and Name-O-Rama (42 PAX, 5 FNGs)

BOM
Element of Authentic Manhood – Stewardship
Matthew 25:14-30
“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property.  To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away.  He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more.  So also he who had the two talents made two talents more.  But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master’s money.  Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them.  And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here I have made five talents more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’  And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here I have made two talents more.’  His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’  He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.’  But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed?  Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.  So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents.  For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.  And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

You get one life.  You get one shot at the work and relationships in your life.  Don’t be a consumer.  As HIMs our call is to stewardship, to taking what we have been giving and multiplying it for the glory of another.  It’s counteractive, but this is where real joy come from!  We find our lives as we give them away.

Rise of the Merdipkin

The Scene: 46 and chilly wet

F3 Welcome and Disclaimer

Tha Thang:
COP –
SSH 10x IC
Cherry Pickers 10x IC
20 Merkins oyo
LBAC 10 forward 10 reverse IC
Michael Phelps 5x
Little some o’ this/that

Mosey to little Everest –
Partner Merdipkin 11’s

Dora – pole to pole
Sit-ups

Route 66 – to the base of the Matterhorn
Drydocks & Squats

To the pavilon
Alternating 12 Merkins/ 10 table-ups

Mosey back to the AO

BOM
“And as Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed him, crying aloud, “Have mercy on us, Son of David.” When he entered the house, the blind men came to him, and Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They said to him, “Yes, Lord.” Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith be it done to you.””
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭9:27-29‬ ‭ESV‬‬
Why would anyone ask God to do something and not believe He could do it? Why would Jesus ask them that question? He was standing right in front of them, they knew He had healed others, why wouldn’t they believe that He was able to do it?

How does this play out with us? We just don’t bother asking. We go about life doing our own thing. We all know the scripture “God helps those who help themselves,” right? Except that’s not a scripture, it’s an old Greek teaching popularized by Ben Franklin. Start inviting Him into your daily decision making…and see what happens. When you come up against a big one, and you hear the question echo through your mind, “do you believe I can do this”…lean in
Moleskin
The Merdipkin 11’s were brutal, but the men hammered it out…just about left me in the dust. The hard work in the cool with a storm threatening the entire time was the definition of working in the gloom.