F3 Knoxville

Hungry Hippo was hot!

THE SCENE: Humid with a bit of humidity in the air
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

yep
WARM-O-RAMA:

Set the standard for what’s to come

SSH x 20

Morracan night clubs x20

Froggie squats x10
Merkins x10
Iron mikesx10
Hillbillies x20
Burpo
Madonna x10
Bodybuilder x10
Iceskators

THA-THANG:

  • Mosey to the pavalon for 11s box jumps and bench pull ups
  • Mosey the FIA pavalon for Rockettes in front of the ladies, bandwagon led us in cadence . Stellar job bruh!
  • Mosey to the new open field for Hungry Hippo!
  • With the game hungry hippo, lots of exercises and lots of hard work done. Hit me up for all the details if you want to do this workout. It’s a lot of fun !
  • Each team has 2 of their pax wheel barrow to grab one ball . Switch partners once you barrow back. Go until each team has 6 balls. Last 2 teams get the orange burpee balls
  • once all teams finish, each team performs said exercise written on their ball,
  • we did 2 rounds of hungry hippo .
  • it was hot!!
  • Mosey towards the Asylum for 7s of LBC at the top of little hill and reverse lbc at the bottom
  • running out of time , we stopped short and moseyed to where we were going to do bearway to heaven
  • no time for that so we beat crawled from the first come to the last cone
  • mosey back to the AO for Mary

MARY:
Dolly x10

boxcutters x10

flutters x10

proton Parker’s x20
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
15 including one FNG from Colorado Springs aka Slash and F3 visitors from Jacksonville (Pom Pom ) and Trace from Bristol . Welcome !!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Memorial Day info and the sacrifices our our men and women made for our freedom !
MOLESKIN:
During Hungry Hippo, one team only had 3 guys, clear disadvantage . They ended up w the burpee ball 2 times . The last time, I saw a bunch of guys willing to take the burpee ball from the loosing team , this sacrificing themselves for the other pax. Really made me proud to be a part of our pax. Little did they know, I knew it would turn out this way and was going to give the loosing pax the option to embrace the suck and do the burpees or give the burpees to another team . What happened ? The loosing team kept the ball and did the burpees! Well done men!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Special convergence , Monday for 21 gun salute . 5:30-630 . Be there!!!! It’s gonna be great!

Circuitry

THE SCENE: It was nice!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • BA Cir FWD/REV IC x 6
  • Merkin IC x 10
  • Yoga Stretches – gotta get the hips loose

THA-THANG:
5 stations w/ 3 exercises & 25 reps each – 3x thru -> then move to the next

  • Station 1
    • Merkins
    • Shoulder Taps
    • Thrusters
  • Station 2
    • Squat
    • Lunge
    • Skater
  • Station 3
    • Mtn Climber – Heel Tap
    • BC Merkin
    • Plank Jack
  • Station 4
    • Am Hammer
    • Hello Dolly
    • Flutter Kick
  • Station 5
    • LBC
    • Turkish Get-Up
    • Star Jack

MARY:

  • Mayberry – Floor Wipers
  • Butters – BBS
  • Respect – V-Ups (Had to cut him short!!)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
24 HIM’s strong
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
When you are feeling angry about a work situation, you may be too close to it. Step back, check your ego, detach yourself and approach with with a different attitude.
MOLESKIN:
I meant for this workout allow the cheetah’s out front. However, when the PAX gets divided into groups we instantly go into TEAM mode. All of the teams stuck together and finished the workout together. That was great to see. I think if I were to do this again, I would start everyone at the same spot and have an order to the stations that didn’t smoke the shoulders 3 straight times.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
See Announcements Page

Coupon Escalator

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

Side stratal hop x20
Imperial squat walker x10
Cherry Pickers x10
Baby arm circles x10
Baby arm circles back x10


THA-THANG:

Grab Coupon and mosey to lower lot.
Escalator
Stop 1- 5 Hand release burpees
mosey towards cardic
Stop 1.5 – 40 coupon squats while
Stop 2- add 10 rows & curls at the top of cardiac
mosey to upper lot
Stop 3 – add 15 hand release Merican’s
Mosey to bottom across from the playground
Stop 4 – add 20 on a 3 cnt or 40 lbc’s (with or without coupon)
Mosey to end of bottom
Stop 5- add 25 froggy squat(jump squat)
Reverse escalator removing an exercise each time back to AO

MARY:

Ring of Fire Captain thor’s boat ride
Pax hold boat or canoe while waiting your your turn for captian Thor

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
18 Pax and 1 FNG
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Words are important. Be mindful of the impact your words have in all situations.
Proverbs 13:3
Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life;
he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.


MOLESKIN:
Excerpt from Bible in one year by Nicky Gumbel

Your words are powerful. With kind and encouraging words, you can change a person’s day – or even their entire life.
Proverbs 10:11-20
Speak words of love
Your words have the power to bring great blessing: ‘The mouth of the good person is a deep, life giving well’ (v.11a, MSG). But words can also do a great deal of harm: ‘The mouth of the wicked is a dark cave of abuse’ (v.11b, MSG).
Words have the power to destroy relationships: ‘Hatred starts fights’ (v.12a, MSG). On the other hand, they have the power to heal relationships: ‘But love covers over all wrongs’ (v.12b). ‘Love pulls a quilt over the bickering’ (v.12b, MSG).
Control of the tongue is vital. ‘When words are many, sin is not absent, but the wise hold their tongues’ (v.19). Abraham Lincoln said, ‘It is better to be silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt!’
Throughout this passage, the writer of Proverbs contrasts ‘the mouth of a fool’ (v.14b) with ‘the mouth of the righteous’ (v.11a). One speaks words of hatred (v.12a). The other speaks words of love (v.12b) and wisdom (v.13).
Words of hatred (v.12a) lead to violence (v.11b), dissension (v.12a), ruin (v.14b) and spreading slander (v.18b).
Words of love (v.12b) are a fountain of life (v.11a); they cover over ‘all wrongs’ (v.12b) and are ‘choice silver’ (v.20a). If someone has offended you, don’t return the offence. It is said that holding a grudge is like letting someone live rent free in your head. Instead, return hatred with love. Speak well of the other person even behind their back and you may find that your love puts an end to the bickering and heals the relationship.

Monday Funday

THE SCENE
67 and Muggy

 

Welcome & Disclaimer

 

THE THANG
COP

  • SSH x30 (IC)
  • 4ct Diagonal Lunges x15 IC
  • 4ct Windmill Merkins x10 IC
  • 4ct Tempo Squats x12 IC
  • Arm Circles Forward x12 IC
  • Arm Circles Backward x12 IC
  • Run two loops around the parking lot

Mosey to curb and line up.

 

Jelly Legs
Start at one side of the parking lot.  Perform the following:

  • R1: Hold squat position for 10 count, perform 10 squats, run to the other curb, do 2 Burpees, run back
  • R2: Hold squat position for 20 count, perform 20 squats, run to the other curb, do 2 Burpees, run back
  • R3: Hold squat position for 30 count, perform 30 squats, run to the other curb, do 2 Burpees, run back
  • R4: Hold squat position for 40 count, perform 40 squats, run to the other curb, do 2 Burpees, run back
  • R5: Hold squat position for 50 count, perform 50 squats, run to the other curb, do 2 Burpees, run back

Line up in four separate lines.  Each group mosey to the far parking lots and to one of four cones set up in the corner.

 

Four Corners
Spread out to 4 cones.  Alternate exercises at the cones for set time. When time is done, counter-clockwise to the next cone. Rinse and repeat.

  • Cone 1: Dry Docks x15 or x25 & Narrow Squats x15 or x25
  • Cone 2: 4ct Flutter Kicks x15 or x25 & Star Jumps x15 or x25
  • Cone 3: 4ct Shoulder Taps x10 or x15 & Reverse Lunges (each leg counts as 1) x10 or x15
  • Cone 4: 4ct Hello Dolly x15 or x25 & Smurf Jacks x15 or x25

Round 1: 60 seconds at each station
Round 2: 45 seconds at each station

Mosey to the hill near the SP.

 

Cash Out
Merkin Hill
Run up and down hill doing the following:

  • Start at bottom of hill with 10 Merkins, run to top
  • Top of hill 9 Merkins, run to bottom
  • Bottom of hill 8 Merkins, runt to top
  • Top of hill 7 Merkins, run to bottom
  • Bottom of hill 6 Merkins, runt to top
  • Top of hill 5 Merkins, run to bottom
  • Bottom of hill 4 Merkins, runt to top
  • Top of hill 3 Merkins, run to bottom
  • Bottom of hill 2 Merkins, runt to top
  • Top of hill 1 Merkins, run to bottom

Circle up for Mary.

 

Mary
4ct American Hammers x20 IC
Rt Side Crunches x20 IC
Lft Side Crunches x20 IC
ATMs

 

COT
Number off / Name-0-Rama (40 PAX, 3 FNGs – Petro, Chaco and Fullstack)

 

BOM
“Honorable men refuse to wallow in the small and the bitter.
Honorable men refuse to hate life because something once went wrong.
Honorable men don’t build monuments to their disappointments, nor do they let others brand them and curse them to their destruction.
Honorable men seek out the highest definition of their lives, the nobler meaning granted by heritage, by their ancestors’ dreams and their parents’ hopes.
Honorable men cry out to God until curses are broken and a grander purpose is achieved.
Honorable men don’t settle for lives of regret.”

Stephen Mansfield, “Mansfield’s Book of Manly Men”

As we push ourselves physically each week it is important to remember that we must also be pushing ourselves mentally, emotionally and spiritually…to grow as HIMs.  Physical fitness is important, but character, virtue, integrity and leadership are paramount.  Our world is starving for men with these characteristics.  Men of honor who live beyond themselves.  Men who are life-givers, not life-takers.

I believe there is a direct correlation between strenuous physical exercise and the strenuous pursuit to live a life of honor, integrity and impact.  Both take effort and focus. Both take intentionality, consistency and daily commitment.  Both are met with resistance from the status quo and my own passivity.  Both can’t be pursued alone and require me to surround myself with like-minded men who inspire, encourage and challenge me along the journey.

Each morning in the gloom we have an opportunity to experience these AND be these things for the men on our left and right.  Iron sharpen iron. This is what it means to wear the “F3”.

The Hills Are Alive…

THE SCENE: Cloudy, a bit on the humid side…about 70 degrees.  Good morning to get after it.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Start with 20 SSH on 4ct., 20 Windmill on 4ct., Cherry Picker x10, Baby Arm Circle front and Back x8, Lap around A/O x2
THA-THANG:
Mosey to top of Cardiac, perform 25 reps of Merkin’s at top, 25 at curve 1, 25 at curve 2, and 25 at bottom then run back up to top.  100 reps total…Then perform the same routine with squats, DD’s,  and LBC’s.  When complete flutter kicks till 6 is up.

 

Mosey back to A/O but not done yet!  4 corner workout with same 4 exercises as on cardiac.  Corner 1 Merkin x15, Corner 2 Squat x15, Corner 3 DD’s x15, Corner 4 LBC’s x15, then run up little hill…rinse and repeat until time called.

MARY:
Dose of American Hammer’s x20 on 4ct and then 2 min plank hold (1 min in regular plank, 30 sec right hand in air, 30 sec left hand in air) Recover…
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Big Tuesday crowd! 18 PAX came out to get better… Wouldn’t let me tag Petro, or Thread Count so shout out to u both

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Word today was on Anxiety and how it is present in all our lives and how God calls us to be anxious about nothing but instead pray about everything.  That we are constantly under attack by the things of this world and that we must always be re-calibrating our minds like Philippians 4:8 instructs us “Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.”  An awesome word from Paul who had every reason to be anxious and worried about his future when he sat in shackles in prison.  Instead, he saw his state as a way to praise and spread the kingdom.
MOLESKIN: