F3 Knoxville

Tag: Sparky

A visit with Fat Amy

**The name “Fat Amy” is used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

The Scene: 53 degrees and calm

F3 Intro and Disclaimer

Warm-O-Rama
Imperial Walkers x 15 IC
Russian Rockette x 15 IC
Windmills x 15 IC
Cherry Pickers x 10 IC
SSH x 15 IC
Mountain Climbers x 15 IC
Plank Jacks x 15 IC
Squat x 15 IC
BurpeeCircle x PAX count

The THANG
Fat Amy:
50 Squats
– 10 Burpees
40 BBS
– 10 Burpees
Lunge to Cone, Sprint Back
– 10 Burpees
20 Star Jacks
– 10 Burpees
Bear Crawl to Cone, Sprint Back
– 10 Burpees
20 Star Jacks
– 10 Burpees
Lunge to Cone, Sprint Back
– 10 Burpees
40 BBS
– 10 Burpees
50 Squats

Dora’cides (Partner Up!)
Suicides – Incremental Burpees for each cone (1,2 & 3)
150 Merkins (Audible as we were running out of time!)
200 Jumping Squats (touch ground)
300 BBS

MARY
Flutter Kick
Marge / Homers
Shoulder Blasters

WORD
Intensity is important, but for short duration.  Forget the hour long meetings, hour long back-breaker workouts – strive for 10-20 minutes of high intensity every hour and make those moments count.  Do this in your “service” – to God, country, family, friends, and service for those who you don’t know, and yourself.

Resolution Restart

The Scene: 45 and no rain (some stench?!)

F3 Welcome and Disclaimer  (…at the Boat as we had to move the COP because Tank brought a skunk for show and tell)

WARM-O-RAMA
11 IC Cherry Pickers
30 IC Side Straddle Hops
15 OYO Merkins

THE THANG
Mosey to Sign
– 15 OYO Merkins
Mosey to top of Matterhorn
– 15 OYO Squats
Mosey to Pavilon for a “Christmas party”

  • Round 1: 5 pullups, 20 stair steppers, then run back up to the top and touch the gate and return back. (Rinse and repeat for 7 minutes)
  • Round 2: 5 decline push-ups, 10 squats, then run back up to the top and touch the gate and return back. (Rinse and repeat for 7 minutes)
  • Round 3: 5 hanging knee raises, 10 dips, then run up to the top and touch gate and return back (Rinse and repeat for 7 minutes)

Mosey back up to the top of Matterhorn

15 OYO Squats
– Mosey to Sign
10 Merkins
– Mosey to Boat
10 OYO Merkins
– Mosey to AO

MARY:
14 IC Flutter Kicks
Dealers Choice:
– IC Marge/Homers 1minute
– 20 IC American Hammers
– OYO Death by Burpees 3 Minutes

BOM:  “Resolution Restart”- learning how to restart after failing. LIFE- Learn, Integrate, Fail, Evaluate (Rinse and repeat)!

Moleskin:  So I show up with some of the PAX already there a few minutes early as you might expect.  I notice the skunk smell.  I say something.  I think Bartman points out to me that Tank parked his car far…and I mean FAR away from his normal parking spot.  “Tank hit a skunk on the way in this morning”.

Not only did Tank hit a skunk, but the STENCH really stuck with the car.  He must have squeezed that thing with a tire at just the right angle…it was enough to make you gag, repeatedly.  Tank’s nickname for the workout was “STANK”.  I’m wondering how many car-washes he’ll need to make it “go away”…  How is he going to roll up in a suit for work, with a car that smells like Skunk?

Ok, enough of that – Doubtfire’s VQ was excellent!  Good planning, great variety and he kept the PAX engaged and even added a little creativity! (Nice extra effort with the Christmas lights!)  TCLAPS!

Chalk Games

The Scene: 40 and clear

F3 welcome and disclaimer

Warm-o-Rama
10 IC forward arm circles
10 IC reverse arm circles
20 IC x 4ct Merkins
Mosey to hockey rink and BB up

The THANG
Hopscotch
1st round
burpees
1 partner does 20 SSH and 20 LBC while other completes the burpee hopscotch
Switch
When both finish take a lap

2nd round
Carolina dry docks/bear crawl
Domo squats
Switch
When both finish take a lap

Mosey to Pee Rocks
AMRAP
20 x Clean and press
20 x Squats
20 x Curls
20 x Tris
While partner sprints across the parking spots

3 rounds of Pinwheels (aka shuffle press in a circle)
Partner does Rocky Balboa until Pinwheel is complete

Ab-o-rama
Pickle pounders
BBS
American Hammers

BOM

This past fall I read a book by John Eldridge called “Fathered by God” and it spoke of how many men seek their strength from a woman instead of seeking it from God. By doing this it leads us to begin to resent the woman because the strength we as men need is not something we can obtain from her. That is something we must obtain from God. I’m sure I was partially doing this to my wife as well, but ever since reading that I have been trying to get my strength from God, F3 being a part of that, and providing my strength to her. You know what? It has helped our relationship and our family.

Tomorrow my wife goes in for surgery, and the last time she went in for surgery was about 4 years ago when she had an unplanned operation for an eptopic pregnancy. I didn’t realize the severity of the operation until the doctor came out and said “ok the chances she won’t make it, or that there will be complications are slim, but there is a possibility she could not return”. As I sat in the waiting room my mind raced, we had a 2 year old son at home, she was a stay at home mom, which means she did everything for him and me, and at that time the woman I had been gaining my strength from might not come back to me. I was freaked the fudge out, and I was a weak weak man.

As we approach this surgery tomorrow, I know we are in a different place, I’m giving her my strength instead of taking my strength from here and I know in my heart God is watching over her. However, I’m still a weak man. We now have 2 wonderful children and a 9 week old puppy at the house, her recovery time is 4-6 weeks and I’m scared of the wheels falling off the bus . I don’t struggle with the thought of losing my wife on this one, because that is in God’s hands. But daily I struggle with not being the husband she needs or the father my kids need.

I also know all of us here are all struggling with something or another, injuries, illness, divorce, death of a loved one, depression, loss of a job, possible move, etc. What we need to do is turn it to God. This is when God wants us to turn it to Him. It says so in:

2 Corinthians 12:8-10

“Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But He said to me “My grace is sufficient for you for my power is made perfect in weakness” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses so that Christ power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong”

I am a weak man. But I am strong because I know God is with me, and my M. I know he will watch over her, protect her, and bring her out of this better than before.

See M U? Yes, I See M U, Do you?

The Scene: 54 degrees cloudy
F3 Welcome and Disclaimer

Warm up:
SSHs
20 Baby arm circles
20 Rocketts
10 mericans
5 burpees

The Thang:
Mosey to CMU pile.
Mosey to parking lot by rink
Divide into groups of 4
Put CMUs in even stacks on one end of lot. Pax on the other. (50 yards apart)
One team member runs to CMUs and brings them to team however many trips that takes.
Remaining members do:
200 push-ups, 400 squats, 50 burpees
Repeat with all members running to CMU s till 6 catches up on first round.

Then…
20 curls-sprint to other end and back
20 overhead presses-sprint & back
10 tricep raises-sprint & back
X2

Indian run around lot while carrying CMU (overhead for advanced) Two groups opposite directions.x2

Mosey to Return CMUs

Mosey to track, two groups run opposite direction doing burpees at each corner 2,4,6,8
10 burpees at end together

Mosey to AO
Calf raises till 6 catches
Bear crawl from fence to cones (30yds) and back and sprint to cones and back.
Repeat 2x

Mary:
20x Imperial walkers
20x Rocketts
30x LBCs

BOM:
Kids attitude towards death and heaven. Example of my daughter Molly. We told her about her grandmother dying and that she is in a much better place with God in heaven now and she simply replied: “that’s great! Can I have a waffle now.”
She got it, she simply knew that her grandmother was in a better place, that she is with our father in paradise. A comforting fact that we can bank on as believers.
It can also motivate us to reach out to the lost and help lead them to eternal peace and fellowship with other believers in paradise.

Be Aware

F3 Welcome & disclaimer

The Scene

Saturday January 15, 2017

Low 50s with fog. Great weather for January.

Welcome and Disclaimer

Warm up:

20 SSH – 4 COUNT

ONE – BURPEE

10 – MERKINS – 4 COUNT

TWO – BURPEES

10 – BIG ARM CIRCLES – 4 COUNT

THREE – BURPEES

10 – SMALL ARM CIRCLES – 4 COUNT

FOUR – BURPEES

10 – CHERRY PICKERS 4 COUNT

FIVE -BURPEES

20 – SQUATS – 4 COUNT

SIX – BURPEES

SUICIDES RUN WITH 5 STATIONS

MERKINS 2 4 6 8 10 8 4 2

STRAIGHT RUN SUICIDES

BURPEES 1 2 3 4 5 4 3 2 1

STRAIGHT RUN SUICIDES

LUNGES 2 4 6 8 10 8 4 2

FOOR CORNERS 20 COUNT

1. FOOTBALL RUN

SQUATS

2. DIAMOND MERKINS

WIDE ARM MERKINS

3. CALF RAISES

LUNGES

4. BURPEES 10

STAR JUMPS

Shoulder Tag Exercise

ABBS:

20 – LBCs

20 – Leg Raises

20 – In/outs

20 – One leg toe touches

20 – Mountain Climbers

Count Off

F3 roll call with FNG (1)

Message: Self Defense – Always be aware of your surroundings.

Prayer