F3 Knoxville

Sunrise at the Sunsphere

THE SCENE: Calm, cool morning
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

THA-THANG:

Kiss My Grits throughout the entire beatdown (5 8-count Merkins every time a PAX calls out another PAX with “Kiss My Grits”)

Lunges to the Big Ball

7s

  • Big Ball Pull-ups
  • Burpees at the top of the stairs

Lunges back to AO

Partner Shoulder Presses and Lat Raises

Cobras and Overhead Arms Claps

‘Round the Fountains

  • Lunges, Bear Crawls, Crab Walks, Side Lunges

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
16 PAX
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Thanks for letting me come back and lead a beatdown! Explore F3 outside of Knoxville if you get the chance. Learn something from other cities and try to leave some Knoxville flavor as well.

Rise Up to Fall Back

THE SCENE: Cool and Dark… and a little grassy
WARM-O-RAMA:
Side-Straddle-Hops, Baby Arm Circles, Arm Stretches, Cherry Pickers, Windmills, 8-Count Merkins
THA-THANG:
Ring-of-Fire Merkins to 7

Buddy Bear Crawls (2x per PAX) + 25 Squats (4x)

Descending Sprint + Burpee Cardio Ladder

Tunnel of Love (2x)

MARY:
Row, Row, Row your boat (and canoe)
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
16 PAX
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Train your body, mind, and soul! You always fall back to the level of your training, so rise up and get better!

Old Miss Lucy’s dead and gone

THE SCENE: The air was thick!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Nope, not a professional

WARM-O-RAMA:
Stretching feels so good.

THA-THANG:
Mosey to “painted steps” for 10 minute circuit of:

  • bear crawl down steps
  • forward lunge, side lunge, other side lunge, backward lunge (light pole to light pole)
  • 80%-90% run up the ramp
  • R&R

Mosey to parking lot towards the Tn River

  • select a coupon (challenge yourself)
  • squat to the lyrics of “Flower” (Moby)

Mosey to greenway along TN River

  • stop at every third light pole alternating between 10 merkins and 10 squats

Mosey back to AO

MARY:
This was my VQ – step up and lead if you have not done so!

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
including 1 FNG – Gesundheit
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Run wild. To risk everything. To hold nothing back.
To lay it all on the line: your reputation, your success, your comfort.
It’s that moment when fear is overcome by faith. Live free.
It’s not the liberty to do whatever you want whenever and wherever you want,
But rather it’s living in accordance with the author of humanity
And finding freedom by connecting with the creator who conceived you.
Let the light flood into your eyes for the first time.
Feeling the blood course through your veins, finding the truest version of yourself
By knowing the one who knows you even better than you know yourself.
Love strong. Because you were first loved. Because without love we all perish.
Because the earth and the stars can and will pass away, but love, love will always remain.

from”Oh God Forgive Us” by For King and Country

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Make sure to attend 3rd F this Saturday and the CSAUP on the 25th at the truck stop!

Rock Doras

THE SCENE: 20 degrees (in Kentucky units) and damp.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:
Did that. Especially the disclaimer for the VQ.

WARM-O-RAMA:
25 SSH – IC
20 Rockette – IC
10+10 Baby Arm Circles – IC
10 Cherry Picker – IC
20 Squats – IC
Mosey to Light poles then alternate Mosey/Exercise up the hill so…
Mosey to next lightpole
Butt Kickers to next
Mosey…
High Knees…
Mosey…
Skip…
Mosey…
Bear Crawl…
then Mosey to top
(plank till 6 up)

THA-THANG:
Grab a BB Mosey to Rock Pile.  Wagon wheel for 6.

Take a rock and do some Doras.  While PAX1 does the exercise, PAX2 runs to Asylum steps and back.  Count up to a cumulative:

  • 100 behind head (tricep) curl
  • 100 up and out
  • 200 squats
  • 200 curl
  • 200 rows

Mosey to stop sign (Al Gore for 6).  Complete the following buddy/partner exercises:

  • 10 Hand Release Merkins (high-5 buddy with chest on the ground)
  • 20 Big Boys (sit up and patacake with buddy)
  • 30 Dolly Partners (Lie side by side, do Hello Dolly and tap feet)

Mosey to AO.

MARY:
Just a minute left for Boat-Canoe-Catamaran with some Paddling in cadence thrown in.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
29 PAX including one FNG – T-bone.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
When I’m with my kids I often blurt out the risk I see them taking – “don’t fall off that wall”, “don’t spill that drink”.  Telling someone not to fall makes them think about falling and usually leads to them doing the very thing I don’t want to happen.  Instead, to foster a Growth Mindset I should tell them the Mitigation – that thing they can positively do to protect themselves – “Watch where you are putting your feet”, “Carry your drink carefully”.

As HIMs we should try to affect the people around us positively and help them to get better by telling them the mitigation, not make them focus on the risk.

MOLESKIN:
This was my VQ.  Thanks to the PAX for following my lead and swinging those rocks.  From my post Q high, I’d recommend it to all the HIMS at the back to step forward and do it!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Everyone at the workout got their 100 squats in today.  Post them in the August challenge.

Another unneeded garage sale

THE SCENE: 70 and rain in the forecast, but no rain
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Tempo lunge x12 IC
Shoulder taps x12 IC
Monkey humpers x10 IC
SSH x20 IC

THA-THANG:
Get keys in the bag and mosey south toward 11th Street parking garage.  Once inside the garage, circle up for a super easy 3 minute workout.  Workout consists of alternating planks: high plank (front leaning rest/merkin position) for 15 seconds, followed by low plank (resting on elbows) for 15 seconds, then flapjack every 15 seconds until 3 minutes are up.

Slow mosey up the ramp to the next level of the parking garage for a Hot lap around that level.  Each exercise is a way to move to the next corner.  Jack rabbits wall sit while waiting on the 6 to complete each leg of the lap.  Exercises as follows:

  • Bear crawl
  • Duck walk
  • Burpee beam jump (at each overhead concrete beam, stop and do a burpee, on the jump portion you jump up and touch the beam overhead)
  • Inch worm

Mosey up another level for the four corners routine.  Simple run between each exercise.  Exercises as follows:

  • Box cutters x20
  • Alternating hand merkins x20 (10 each hand.  Start with one hand on the curb and one hand on the ground and perform a merkin, switch high and low hands each rep OR do 10 with one hand high then switch for the remaining 10)
  • Bobby Hurleys x10 (deep deep squat jumps – squat down and put palms flat on the deck, pause then jump)
  • Jump lunges x20 (10 each leg)

Rinse and repeat for three laps around.  Recover and 10 count.  Begin mosey back to start point.  Pause for squats while waiting on Preacher who took a wrong turn in the garage.

MARY:
Captain Thor up to 3:12
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
19 strong including 1 FNG: Passport, Soot, Swanson, Preacher, Amazon, Reverb, Quarantine, Red Writer, Guano, Jenner, G6, Gutenberg (FNG), Singlet, Butterfly, Moana, The Voice, Careless, Petey, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
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MOLESKIN:
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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