F3 Knoxville

Tag: Sparky

Muchas Grassyas

THE SCENE: Pretty standard late-summer atmosphere. Still hot and humid, but with an air of winding down .
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH x26 IC
Cherry Pickers x10 IC
Buddy the Elf x10 each leg IC
Crabettes x20 IC
Mosey up to the boats
Failure to Launch (formerly Al Gore Tuck Jumps) x8 IC
Mosey back to AO
Plank Rolls for about 20yd. Created much more dizziness than anticipated….

THA-THANG:
Grab a CMU and head to the grassy field. Cones set up in a square about 16 yards apart.
Each cone has a card with an exercise.
Bears and Blocks to the first cone and do that exercise.
Bears and Blocks to next cone and do first cone exercise plus next cone exercise.
Continue to 3rd and fourth cone, adding exercises escalator style.
After adding the fourth exercise, switch to Blocks and Bears (backward bear crawl with block) to first cone. Drop that exercise, do the other three.
continue back down the escalator. Exercises:
10 Hand Release Merkins
30 Pickle Pounders
20 Carolina Dry Docks
16 Catalina Wine Mixer (8 each arm)

Guess what… Every card has a flipside! Repeat above, except crab walk carrying CMU on abdomen.
First round forward, second round backward. Exercises:
10 Prisoner Getups each leg
30 Monkey Humpers
10 Donkey Kicks
15 Squat Jumps

Pretty sure everyone made it around to at least get the Monkey Humpers in…

 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
10 PAX this morning, including FNG Unibrau (Nick Robinson)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
1 Timothy 2:1-4:
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior

Looking around at what is going on with our leaders today, there’s not much you can describe as dignified in any way. However, no matter which side of the current issues you come down on, one thing we all have in common is that we’re called to pray for those who are in high positions. Notice, even thanksgivings is in that list of what we’re supposed to make for all people. Remember that God’s ultimately in charge, and He’s the one we’re responsible to.
MOLESKIN:
The grass this morning had a pleasant herby, minty sort of smell. Very refreshing when you’re nose-deep doing hand-release Merkins…
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
3rd Anniversary Extravaganza first weekend in November.

9/11 tribute

THE SCENE: 66 with low humidity – absolutely perfect

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER


WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Tempo Squat x 10
  • Tempo Merkin x 10
  • OYO stretching
  • Burpees x 5

THA-THANG:

  • Mosey 2001 feet to the workout point
  • Partner up and complete the 9 sets of exercises, 11 reps each.  Between each set, fireman carry your partner to the cone and back.
    • Fist Bump Merkin
    • Squat Jump
    • Burpee
    • Iron Mike
    • V-up, Roll-up
    • Spread Eagle Merkin
    • Smurfjack
    • Mountain Climber
    • Plankjack
  • Mosey back to AO while team-carrying 3 men at all times.
  • Back at the AO – Paula Abdul Bear Crawl the parking spaces doing 5 Dry Docks each time your forward or backward progression stopped.

MARY:

  • LBC x 50
  • Box Cutter x 25
  • AMRAP Merkins x 30 seconds

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
10 PAX:  Wagon Wheel, Junk, Mayberry, La-Z-Boy, Trap Door, Bueller, Sparky, Waxjob, I-Beam, Bartman

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Reflection on 9/11….where we were on that day & how it felt.   That day made me ask myself the question of what is really important in my life – and for a while I focused on that.  But like so many others I’ve lost that focus.   Today’s challenge is to re-center your priorities on your faith and your family.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
F3 Olympics coming up Nov 3-4

Bridge to Nowhere

THE SCENE: Very sauna like
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Overhead Claps x 20 IC

Partner Up and Mosey to the Outhouse

A – 20 Derkins, B – 20 Step ups  Complete your set then alternate with your battle buddy.  Do a total of 50 reps of each exercise

THA-THANG:
Mosey to bottom of Matterhorn with your battle buddy

Bridge to Nowhere

Partner A does the exercises at the bottom of the Matterhorn while Partner B is bear crawling up and down the Matterhorn if he’s as fast as Booger.  Once Partner A has completed the set of exercises, including running to the top of the Matterhorn, he switches with Partner B and continues the bear crawl.  Partner B runs to the bottom of the Matterhorn and does his set of exercises.  Continue until 100 reps of each exercise has been completed.  Should be 5 trips up the Matterhorn per partner.

  • 10 Merkins
  • 10 BBS
  • 10 Squats
  • Run to top of Matterhorn

Mosey to AO stopping twice for 10 merkins, 10 BBS, 10 Squats

MARY:
20 LBC’s led by Tonka

Marge/ Homer by Toto

World’s Greatest Merkin by Mayberry

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
We aren’t just trying to raise our children to have successful careers and be good adults.  It is much more important than that.  We are responsible for raising them to have a successful eternity.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Tennis Anyone?

THE SCENE: Dog Pound, Very nice morning with a hint of Fall perhaps?

Warm up:
SSH
Cherry Pickers
Imperial Burpees
Other stuff
Tha Thang:
Mosey to tennis courts
8 stations:
1) “Jump rope” x100
Imperial Burpees x10 (5 Ct IW between)
CMU squats x30
Bear crawl down and back
Merkins-10 wide, 10 reg, 10 diamond, 10 shoulder taps
Bobby Hurley’s x20
Anti gravity Merkins x15
Lunges down and back
After each exercise run lap around inside of courts
Repeat till Q calls off the dogs
Then suicides at every line on courts across with 10 Imperial Burpees and 10 diamond merkins at the end.
Form two lines next to each other-
fire chase while holding Boat canoes each member does 20 LBCs up and down the line. Sprint to end line and recover.
COT: 15 pax including one FNG Walkman
BOM :
Heard this song and the lyrics really let me know the extent of Gods love for us.
Reckless Love lyrics
When I was Your foe, still Your love fought for me
When I felt no worth, You paid it all for me
There’s no shadow You won’t light up
Mountain You won’t climb up
There’s no wall You won’t kick down
Lie You won’t tear down
Coming after me
……the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God
…..it chases me down, fights ’til I’m found, leaves the ninety-nine
……I couldn’t earn it, I don’t deserve it, still, You give Yourself away
Oh, the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God.
Moleskin: Welcome FNG Walkman to the pax! He was run-by EH by a couple of us during the TTTP, saw the shirts and looked us up online.

 

Humpty-Dumpty

THE SCENE: 72. Pretty humid.  Wispy clouds scuttling across the pale face of the waning gibbous moon.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x30 IC
Crab Kicks x(something… PAX lost the count after 1. I blame Mayberry.)
Windmills x10 IC
Travoltas x10 each side IC
Cossack Squats x20 IC
Hand Release Merkins x10 OYO

Special add-on of 5 burpees for every vote of “*&$## Waxjob!” in last night’s poll about swimming in the beatdown… Surprisingly, only 5 burpees!

THA-THANG:

Grab a battle buddy, grab one CMU per team, and mosey to the hockey rink.

Line up on one side for some Humpty-Dumpty Dora 1,2,3!
Partners share 100 merkins, 200 big boys, and 300 squats.
As one partner does reps, other partner:
-Runs to opposite wall,
-Picks up CMU and sets it on the wall
-Vaults over the wall
-Sets CMU on the ground
-Runs to the asphalt and does a burpee
-Reverses the wall process with CMU and does another burpee
-Runs back to partner

After a 10 count, line up along the end line for 7s OYO: 8-count Body Builders on one end, Squat Jumps on the other.

Gather up CMUs and head back to the AO

Surprisingly, only one Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. 10 burpees all around in memoriam.

MARY:
On your six for 15x Flutter Kicks IC, hard switch to 15 more Slutter Kicks IC
Left-Right-Center LBCs OYO until time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
19 PAX today including FNG Earwig! (Jerry Valentin)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Ps. 37:4 – “Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart”.

Sounds great. “God’s gonna give me everything I want!” But that’s not what it says. He will give you the desires of your heart. His desires for you will be planted in your heart, such that they become your desires. These are his best for you, and these are what He will fill!

MOLESKIN:
I posted a poll last night to see who was interested in a swimming leg for today’s beatdown. Can’t say I was surprised by the responses to the negative, but also just a hair disappointed. That cool water woulda felt good this morning…
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Lunch this Thursday… It’s gonna happen! Also don’t forget F3-Versary first weekend in November.