F3 Knoxville

Lap after Lap

THE SCENE: Actually above freezing this time, tropical paradise
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH x20 IC
  • Worst Merkin Ever x5 OYO
  • Squats x20 IC

THA-THANG:

Mosey to hill at the AO with CMU

  • Run up hill with CMU over head – do 10 squats, 10 press, 10 merkins, mosey back down. Keep repeating, subtract 1 rep of the exercises until complete.

At the Grinder:

  • Exercises at each corner – Merkins, Squats, Dry Docks, Iron Mikes
  • Do 20 of each exercise at each corner. Once one lap is complete, repeat again but subtract two laps from last one. 20, 18, 16, 14, etc…

Back to AO:

  • Partner up – You and partner must total 200 BBS. One person does BBS while other does Farmer Carry with CMU

MARY:

  • Protractors!
  • LBC’s

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
PAX count – 9
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Be humble with your giving and your prayer. Do not use the good things you do to brag, but use that as motivation to do more.

In Matthew 6 –

Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then you Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Matthew 7:7 – Ask, and it will be given. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and the door will open
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

B.O.M.B. Drill

THE SCENE: Bone Chilling…Ice forming on clothing and beards
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Park Recon Capri Lap.
Steve Earle (copperhead squats, hillbilly) ICx10
Sixty Second Arm Circles (SSAC) (T-plank Arm Circles, LBC, T-plank Other Arm Circles, Merkins) ICx15
Goofball ICx20
Absolution OYOx15…ish
Febreze (2:10 Ratio – BBS:Air Press w/feet 6″ off ground) x10:50

THA-THANG:
Partner up. Partner 1 completes 50 meter suicides while partner 2 completes as many movements as possible. Once the team has completed 200 Merkins they will replace the suicides with burden carries; carrying 2 CMUs 50 meters down and back.
B.O.M.B.S.
Burpees x100
Overhead Triceps Extensions (w/cmu) x150
Merkins x200
BBS x250
Squats x300

MARY:
While waiting on 6 to finish B.O.M.B.S. we started Mary and each team joined as they completed B.O.M.B.S.
Cross Crunch ICx10
Heel Touches ICx10
American Hammers ICx10
X’s & O’s for time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 PAX Pushed Through The Extreme Cold Beatdown!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Short and sweet….The ability to see the Lord’s signs and take them for what they are.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Start making your Headlocks now, Most people are going to tell you it’s too cold, but with the new year resolutions going around and people wanting to get back into fitness now is the time to plant the seed!  Tell them about F3 and we’ll see them in a few weeks!!

West Hills meets the COW

THE SCENE: 14* and light wind
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Jog out around the greenway and back to start lot. Too cold to stand and stretch.
THA-THANG:
Multiple stations set up. Each weirdo has ruck on for each exercise. Move through each station and return to start to keep going. Each weirdo must take a lap up to the next lot and back down with the Casualty of War (the COW). PAX not on their COW lap continue moving through exercise stations. Stations as follows:

  • 60 pound sandbag – bag presses x10
  • 60 pound sandbag – rows x20
  • Battle ropes – x20 on four count
  • Squats x20
  • 50 pound sandbag – squat presses x20
  • Merkins x20
  • 60 pound sandbag – flutter kicks x20 on four count

Once all weirdos have taken a COW lap, PAX mosey up hill to narrow sidewalk.  Bear crawl up halfway, then Bernie Sanders the rest of the narrow sidewalk beside the Y entrance. Mosey back down to the pavilion.  Everyone performs 20 butt release squats on benches, then 20 step ups (10 each leg).  Exit pavilion and continue mosey around greenway in the opposite direction we usually go.  Once back to the original lot, repeat the same process as before.  PAX move through stations and repeat until all PAX have taken a COW lap.

Mosey around the greenway in the normal direction, with a jailbreak at the end just to empty the tanks.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 frozen weirdos: Proton, Ratchet, Woodshack, A Rod, Switchgrass, Ivanka, Snorkel, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Pray for Cap in his travels and Pfeiffer’s continued recovery

Music n Stuff

THE SCENE: Balmy 22 and clear
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

2 capri laps around the parking lot

BAC front and back x12 IC

Squats x10 IC

Greenway Mile 11’s with Merkins and big boys every sign

THA-THANG: Musical suicide

With each song, Pax ran between Point A and B for the entire song. At each point Pax performed:

  • Song 1 N2Deep/ back to the hotel- 10 burpees each side
  • Song 2 Jurassic 5/ sum of us -10 Froggie squats each side
  • Song 3 G Love and Special sauce / cold beverage – 10 big boys each side
  • Song 4 Doug E Fresh/ the show -10 Star Jacks each side
  • Song 5 beastie boys/ Paul revere – 5 burpees each side

MARY:
5 mins left for Mary, Hammy lead us in Flutter kicks x20 IC and some impromptu leg holds. Hello Dolly x20 and Side Tri Rises x 10 each side
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
12 Pax
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
As YHC have done F3 for 2 years now, I got into MY COMFORT zone with the Knoxville AOs. When Alcoa started, I thought it was great but selfishly wanted to stay at the AOs I was used to attending. I was open minded but still selfish about Alcoa started and it was out of my comfort zone because I did not know anyone except 1 or 2 guys. I cant tell you how glad I am for getting out of my comfort zone and getting to know the men of the Bombshelter. More or less, its a great example of getting out of your comfort zone. In reality to grow inside and out, we need to be out of our COMFORT ZONE most of the time. Everybody in F3 rocks and honored to be a part of F3! AYE
MOLESKIN:
Well, by asking Hammy to lead us in an exercise, Hammy got out of his comfort zone and is now ready to Q!!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

Bucket List

THE SCENE: Clear and, what, maybe 8°? 9°?  Who’s counting?.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Let’s get warm quick!
5 Burpees OYO
15 Imperial Squat Walkers IC
5 Burpees OYO
15 Hindurkins IC
5 Burpees OYO
1 Windbreaker (solo exercise by Q)
15 Firecrackers IC (similar to Smurf Jacks)

Mosey to Waxjob’s Hill
(Q alerts PAX to the presence of speed bump by tripping and falling flat)
5x down hill and immediately back up, 5x 4ct Merkins IC at the top each time.
First trip up sprint, next 3 Bernie, final trip sprint
(3rd was planned as reverse bear crawl, but frosty grass deemed too dangerous for digits)

THA-THANG:
Mosey on around outside of the park to the Scrapyard stairs.
Hop up stairs on one leg. Turn around and mosey back to the street, then back and hop stairs on other leg.

Mosey across grinder to meet Sandy: a bright orange 5 gallon bucket filled with 60lb of sand.
Bucket contains a list of exercises:
Merkins
Mtn Climbers
LBCs
Flutter Kicks
SSH
PAX split into 2 groups of 5. One group sets up at cones 60yd away.
Both groups start doing top exercise.
One man carries bucket to other line and stays there. Another man carries the bucket back to original line. R&R
Whenever bucket arrives at line, PAX switch to next exercise.
Continue until all PAX have made 2 trips

Cooldown: Mosey one lap around the park, pause halfway for 2 sets of 20 dips and 20 squats

MARY:
Circle up for:
20 Reverse Crunch IC
15 Side Crunch IC each side
4 rounds of Row Your Boat
Merkin ring of fire – 5 to 1
16 Tempo Cossack Squat

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Largest gathering of HIMs in the Knoxville area this morning: 10 strong!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Not so wordy this morning to avoid becoming a sweatcicle.  As we start this year, remember Paul’s words in Philippians 3:13: “Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”  We all want to forget the bad parts of the past, but Paul here is not talking about that.  He just got done listing all of his own accomplishments done in the flesh, and how they are not of worth.  Don’t rest on things you’ve done.  Forget that past as well, and press forward for His calling!
MOLESKIN:
Coldest day of the year was no problem for these guys.  Killed it hard.  Icicles were forming on beards from breath condensation, but everyone was sweating by the end.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: