F3 Knoxville

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Around and Around we Go

The Scene: 63 nice breeze Perfect weather

The Thang:

Warm Up:

  • Cherry Picker x10
  • Merkins x10

Everyone grab CMU and split evenly in 4 corners of parking lot.

  • 1st corner: x20 Curls
  • 2nd corner: x20 Overhead press
  • 3rd corner: x10 Burpess jumping over CMU
  • 4th corner: x20 Row

After you finish rep run to next, constantly moving. After 4th corner run up hill and back to start back on 1st corner. Did this over and over and over and over.

Mary:

  • X35 Flutter Kicks
  • Captain Thor 1-7 BBS and 4-28 American Hammers
  • X20 Flutter Kicks
  • X12 Cherry Pickers
  • X10 Merkins

Count-O-Rama: 31

Name-O-Rama: 2 FNG’s Tonka and Hack Job

BOM: Difference between Joy and Happiness. Are you Joyful? Where does your Joy come from? What are you seeking? Spoke on Contentment.

 

Conquer the Kraken!

THE SCENE
44 and Clear

Welcome & Disclaimer

THE THANG
COP
SSH x25 (IC)

Form two lines and mosey to Everest.  Stop at front parking lot
– Windmill Merkins x10 (IC)
– Squats x20 each leg (IC)
– Arm Circles Forward x15 (IC)
– Arm Circles Backward x15 (IC)
– 10 Burpees

Warm-up at Everest
Start at the base of Everest.  Perform the following:
– Rd 1: 10 Count, 10 Merkins, run up Everest, 2 Froggie Squats
– Rd 2: 20 Count, 20 Merkins, run up Everest, 4 Froggie Squats
– Rd 3: 30 Count, 30 Merkins, run up Everest, 6 Froggie Squats
– Rd 4: 40 Count, 40 Merkins, run up Everest, 8 Froggie Squats

Mosey to field on Northshore side of the Asylum.  Once there, form two groups.

The Kraken
Group 1
Spread out to 8 cones.  Complete exercise at that cone and run around the cones counter-clockwise to the next cone (make the whole loop + one cone). Rinse and repeat until you complete the whole loop or until tie is up.
– Cone 1 – Dry Docks x30
– Cone 2 – Narrow Squats x30
– Cone 3 – 4ct Flutter Kicks x20
– Cone 4 – Star Jumps x30
– Cone 5 – 4ct Shoulder Taps x20
– Cone 6 – Reverse Lunges (each leg counts as 1) x30
– Cone 7 – 4ct Hello Dollys x20
– Cone 8 – Smurf Jacks x30

Group 2
Start at cones.  Complete 30 reps of the exercise then shuttle run.  Repeat, each round subtract 5 reps and add one shuttle run each time.
– Rd 1 = Superman Swims
– Rd 2 = BBS

Switch after 8 minutes.

Mosey to SP.  Stop at half-way, circle up and do the following:
– 10 Burpees, 10 BBS
– 8 Burpees, 8 BBS
– 6 Burpees, 6 BBS
– 4 Burpees, 4 BBS
– 2 Burpees, 2 BBS

MARY
4ct Flutter Kicks x25 (IC)
ATMs

 

COT
Number off and Name-O-Rama (43 PAX, 4 FNGs – Baby Face, Curves, Putt-putt, Sk8town)

BOM
One of the reoccurring themes of Western civilization is the pursuit of comfort and convenience. Down time isn’t bad, everyone needs time to recharge, recalibrate and refocus, and there is no sense in making something harder than it needs to be.  But when we seek to eliminate all discomfort and struggle we loose something…the growth that comes from overcoming adversity.  There is a reason that most champions have notoriously difficult training regimes, without challenge there is no growth.

Fredrick Douglass (1818-1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York.  Rather than allowing those evil circumstances to define him, he allowed them to strengthen him and gave himself to a higher cause. Read the strength in his words, “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.”

Challenges change us.  As former Navy SEAL Eric Greitens says in his book Resilience, “The magnitude of the challenge × the intensity of your attack = your rate of growth.”  This is true not only physically, but mentally and spiritually.  HIMs are men that push against the status quo, both externally and internally.  They wake each day looking for ways to get better and make their world a better place.  They recognize it requires sacrifice, but count the cost and move forward.  HIMs are able to see past the immediate challenge to the greater purpose that guides them.

MOLESKIN
This PAX was pumped and ready this morning!  Mummblechatter was high and everyone gave 100% the whole time.  For YHC, this was a special one.  The men of F3 Knoxville have been inspiring me for a little over a year now, and show absolutely no sign of letting up.  Everyone once in a while you get to be a part of something special…F3 Knoxville is one of those times.

Five Balls

THE SCENE: 39 degrees and raining

F3 WELCOME AND DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA

  1. Standing Arm Circles with Abs squeezed Fish hook to spine ..take deep breath shoulder rolls baby arm circle or shrug circle
  2. Reverse
  3. Cherry pickers
  4. Rockettes
  5. Legs wide arms open and close doors
  6. Wide reach wide stance touch left hand to right foot then swing back
  7. Presentation squat lunge with left leg forward hands to head and twist

Side Straddle hop
15x IC
Lean over walk out to 2 merkins walk back up to side Straddle hops to cross Straddle hops
Right left juke hops to butt kicks with hands getting kicked by heels
To high knees

THE THANG
Battle buddy Indian run in 2 columns for loop
– Mosey to pavilion
Divide into four groups of battle buddies
60 second H.I.I.T intervals
Round 1
– Chair lunges
– Box jump Burpees
– Jumping lunges to crisscross jacks
– Pistol squat or bench squat
– Mountain climbers
– Decline Merkins
– Wall squat
– Merkins

Sprint all the way past AO up the hill touch gate and come back
Round 2
– Leg lifters on bench
– Jugglers jumping jacks (Knee, knee, ankle, ankle)
– Lateral side hops while standing
– Lateral side hops while planked
– Rotating pickle pounding plank
– Reverse plank pounders
– Elevated side plank on bench
– Burpees

Back To AO

COUNT OFF
NAME-O-RAMA

BOM
“Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them—work, family, health, friends and spirit…and you’re keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls—family, health, friends and spirit—are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life.
How?
Don’t undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special.
Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important. Only God & you know what is best for you.
Don’t take for granted the things closest to your heart. Cling to them as you would your life, for without them, life is meaningless.
Don’t let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future. By living your life one day at a time, you live all the days of your life

Party Time!

THE SCENE – Ice Cold 28 Degrees and Clear
F3 Welcome and Disclaimer

WARM-O-RAMA
High Knees
Butt Kickers
SSH IC x 25x
BA CIR FWD/BACK IC x 5x
Burpees x 11 x 3x

THE THANG
Mosey to the track
– Run .33 Mi (1 lap)
Merkins x 33
– Lap
Lo Plank Jacks (4 ct) x 33
– Lap
Mountain Climber (4 ct) x 33
– Lap
In-N-Outs x 33
– Lap
Bobby Hurley
– Lap
(Victory Lap if finish early)

BBS & Al Gore til we catch the 6

Mosey back to the AO
Suicide Run x 4
Caterpillar Merkin x 5
LBC (4 ct.) x 33

COUNT-OFF
NAME-O-RAMA

BOM
Today is my 33rd Birthday and I’m honored to share it with you men. When I turned 30 I was determined to make the next 10 years the best years of my life. I refused to believe that my best years were behind me. I was so mad that I was 30 I had planned on beginning an F30 campaign. I would gather my friends who were all about the same age, we would get “F30” T-Shirts made with nicknames and would sign up for all kinds of Mud Runs and make sure our best years were to come. God has a funny way about things… Instead of F30, he gave me F3 with a circle around it and instead of a cool name nickname like Maverick, I was dubbed La-Z-Boy. I’m thankful to be a part of this PAX and humbled by you all every time I come out!

MOLESKIN:
Mumblechatter ended quickly with our Warm-O-Rama Burpees this morning. But picked back up when I mentioned how distraught I was at 30, some snickers and comments like “Wait til you turn 40 or 50!”. It’s great to be out with HIMs who can offer such great perspective on life.

We need each other

F3 Welcome & Disclaimer

Warm-up: Cherry Pickers x 20, Side Straddle hop x 25, Arm circles forward and backwards x 10, Michael Phelps, Carolina Drydocks (4 count) x 20, Imperial Squat Walkers x 20

Mosey to CMU pile and do 20 Block Burpies

Mosey to playground and do 50 big boy situps

Mosey to wall of pavilion and do 1 minute wall seat

Mosey to picnic tables –half of group do 20 table horizontal pull-ups and half do 20 pull-ups in dugout—–switch. Then do 15 at each station, then 10 at each station.

Mosey to stairs: calf raises: both feet x 25, left foot x 25, right foot x 25, both pointed out x 25, both pointed in x 25

Mosey to baseball outfield: run forward to halfway point and do 2 burpies, run backwards to end line and do 10 burpies, run sideways to halfway point and do 2 burpies, then turn other way sideways to end and do 9 burpies. Always 2 burpies in middle and 10, 9, 8, to 1 on ends (did have to modify)

Mosey to hill behind baseball field at bottom of Cardio Hill. 11’s Merkins to and bottom—- bearcrawl up and crab walk down (ran out of time and had to audible)

Run up cardio and back to AO.

Circle up for BOM: message—-John 15:5. We are all dependent on God and He made us interdependent on each other. Introduced John Veit (Sparty). He told PAX about his struggles. Proud of PAX for overwhelming love and support!