F3 Knoxville

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Slugger Special

THE SCENE: Mid 50’s and rain

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Mosey around the diamonds

THA-THANG:

Mosey to soccer field

At goal – 5 burpees, bear crawl to outside box line

10 dry docks, crawl bear to quarter field

15 merkins, bear crawl to half

20 jump squats, crawl bear to 2nd quarter

25 BBS, bear crawl to next box

30 Mt climbers single count, crawl bear to next goal

35 Squats, all out sprint back to opposite goal

Repeat

MARY:
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COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5 PAX got a jump on the day

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

James 1:19

Understand this my dear brother and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.

I have a tendency to just hear and not listen and sometimes my knee-jerk reaction is anger or saying something hurtful that I don’t really mean. Instead I try to keep my mouth shut and think about what was said and where that person is coming from and my reactions tend to improve.

MOLESKIN:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

No Limits

THE SCENE: In the 40’s and sunny, felt great!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x25 IC
Little Baby Arm Circles x12 each side IC
Cherry Pickers x10 IC
Rockettes x10 IC
THA-THANG:

Indian run to the parking lot at the pool and do bear crawls up two cones, then crawl bear back one. Go all the way to the end of the lot. Then continue the Indian run to Mt. Suckmore. At Mt. Suckmore, one partner went up the hill and ran to the greenway while the other partner completed 4 exercises. Once the exercises were completed, the partners switched. While your partner was doing his first round, you bernied up the hill. While your partner was doing his second round, you bear crawled. Switch each round. The exercises were as follows:

  • Toe Touches on monkey bars x10
  • Hand release burpee pull-ups x10
  • Squat Jumps x10
  • Merkins x10

Reverse indian run to parking lot. Do full out, AYG sprint from curb to curb. Then continue reverse indian run back to AO.

MARY:
BBS x20
Boxcutters x15
Captain Thor 5×20
Snorkel takeover:
Flutter Kicks x15
Slutter Kicks x15
Xs & Os x A Lot
Cash out with ATMs
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 strong this morning with no FNGs
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
When trying to get people to F3, I hear “I could never do that” all the time. It’s too early, or it’s too intense, or they don’t think they can physically do it. Whether they mean to be negative or not, they are. They’re putting themselves down and putting limitations on themselves. We as humans have the ability to do literally anything. If we believed, had faith, and focused on the positive, we could do it. Yesterday at the end of the West Hills workout, Woodshack told us to do one last thing. Proton (he said it, we were all thinking it) said that he did’nt think it was possible for us to do. Woodshack’s response was to look him in the eyes and say “Get your mind right.” It reminded me of when Peter tried to walk on water. In Matthew 14:29-31 Jesus said “Come. So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus; but when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, ‘Lord, save me.’ Jesus immediately reached out his hand and caught him, saying to him, ‘O you of little faith, why did you doubt?'” We need to take a leap. We need to have faith. We need to trust in Jesus, but also in ourselves. Peter trusted that Jesus would save him as he was drowning, but he did not believe in himself, that he could get to Jesus. He focused on his limitations. Jesus already believes in us, he is waiting for us to believe in ourselves. He is there to pull us up if we begin to drown, but if we truly have faith, if we truly get our minds right, we’ll never realize that drowning is even an option.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship hill coming up quickly, we need more teams!

Sacred Cow visits the burbs

THE SCENE: 37
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
With Ruck on, 20 merkins 20 squats oyo. Figure 8 mosey to the top of the Y parking lot , 20 and 20 again. Figure 8 through the parking lot back down to AO for last round of 20 and 20 oyo
THA-THANG:
Sacred Cow ruck march

  • 10 pax buddy up
  • 8 pax carrying sandbags
  • 2 pax carrying Sacred cow on his chariot!
  • The catch? The sacred cow can NEVER EVER touch the ground . She is sacred , of course!
  • Once burned out from carrying the cow, we switch out the pax to take the cow. We had to work as a team to do this. 2 pax would grab the sides of the chariot to releave the pax carrying for the next 2 to carry.
  • We rucked to the school and back to an open field
  • at the field , who ever was not carrying the sacred cow would squat thrust and throw their sandbag forward, also switching out w carrying the cow and not letting the cow touch the ground. We squat thrust threw sandbags for about 100 yards.
  • Once at the bridge , we went back to Rucking w the sandbags in order to make it back to the AO for some PT sandbag work
  • once at the AO, 2 pax carry the cow the short loop. Once 2 pax complete the short loop w the cow, 2 more pax take the cow around the short loop. Again, not letting the cow touch the ground
  • While the cow made it the loops , pax not carrying the cow did said exercises .
  • Sandbag lunge twists
  • front loaded ruck big boys
  • lovers squat ( goblet style squat w sandbag)
  • sandbag chest press
  • over shoulder sand bag cleans
  • you do the same exercise until the cow made a complete loop, then you bump to the next exercise
  • reps were not counted. You did as many as you could w good form until you got bumped
  • the cow actually touched the ground 3 times, which meant a penalty
  • 5 Ruck burpees each time the sacred cow touched the ground. We did 15 Ruck burpees

MARY:
Ruck flutters x 20 ic

ruck overhead presses x15 ic

American Ruck hammers x 20 oyo
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
10 pax strong
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Nothing inspirational for me to say but we did carry the cow for almost an hour and covered just over 2.5 miles with out it touching the ground This could only be done working as a team and we conquered ! Not a lot of miles, no lung busting runs,  not a lot of reps of said exercise , just team work and embracing the suck together !
MOLESKIN

sacred Cow sucks!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

Gold Stars for Everybody

THE SCENE: Mid 50’s and windy

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Ssh x 15
  • Arm circles little/big on Q
  • Squat Jacks x 30
  • Cherry pickers x 8

THA-THANG:

Pyramid at Waxjob Hill

Find a battle buddy

P1 at bottom doing exercise 5, 10, 15, 20, 15, 10, 5

P2 doing alternating Burpees/BBS on Top until P1 tags

Exercises:

  • Rd 1 – Werkins
  • Rd 2 – Star Jacks
  • Rd 3 – Dry Docks
  • Rd 4 – Deadlift squat

MARY:

Captain Thor 5:20

Superman press (superman then lift core up and hold)

Superman/banana

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
14 Men and no FNGs

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Proverbs 17:28

Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise;
when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.

We all need to think before we speak.

As Hammy put it: Better to be silent and let them think you a fool than to open your mouth and confirm it.

MOLESKIN:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Fireteam Drills and Running in Squares

THE SCENE: 34 Chilly spring degrees
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Windmills IC x 10, LBAC IC Thumbs Up x 10, Thumbs Down x 10, Tempo Squats IC x 10, SSH IC x 10

THA-THANG:
Mosey to One Tree Hill and assemble PAX at the bottom.  Q explained fireteam movement (stand, run to the cadence of “I’m up they see me I’m down, get on the ground).  PAX took the hill using that cadence and performing 3 rounds of exercises while down.  Round 1: 5 Merkins, Round 2: 5 BBS, Round 3: Carolina Dry Docks.  At the end of R3, stay at the top of the hill.  Each PAX grabbed a CMU and moseyed to the baseball field where 4 cones were set up in a square.  PAX divided into groups of 3 (or 4 where appropriate) and began with the first exercise on the list.  They then ran clockwise to the next cone and repeated the exercise, continuing to each cone until they reached their starting point.  Once back at the starting point, they moved to the next exercise on the list and proceeded clockwise until returning to their original spot.  If all of the exercises were completed, they started again at the top.  The exercises were as follows:

Merkins x 10

Overhead CMU press x 10

Burpees x 10

Squat Jumps x 10

Iron Mikes x 10

SSH x 10

Goblet Squat x 10

Clean and Press x 10

MARY:
With 3 minutes of work time left, PAX went all in with Absolution OYO until time expired.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
One of the techniques that Marines are taught in basic training is counterintuitive to human nature.  That technique is to run toward the threat rather than away from it, thereby lessening our exposure to risk.  If we are ambushed and turn to run, we increase the amount of time the enemy has to get us sighted in.  Often times in life we face challenges that we want to run from, to avoid or to ignore.  We see many examples in the Bible where God calls his people to face the enemy and know that He is in control.  My challenge to the PAX (and myself) is to be strong and present in the face of attack and know that God has my six.  It can be really difficult for me to see how my suffering is for the greater good, especially at that moment, but I know that God is good and I can trust Him to provide the strength I need to face adversity head-on.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill is coming up in about a month.  Opportunities are out there to join a team or volunteer.