F3 Knoxville

Tag: Steam

Find A Dry Spot

[ The Scene ]

  • Cold, wet, rainy, but Friday

[ Welcome/Disclaimer ]

  • Welcome to F3: Fitness/Fellowship/Faith
  • My name is Steam and I‘ll be your QIC this morning
  • A few things as we begin:
    • I’m not a professional
    • You’re here on your own volition
    • If you need to modify anything we do this morning, feel free to do so! But here is what this is not: an excuse to modify if you’re tired or sore. Here’s what this is: a call to action to push a little harder, a little longer, and encourage the man on your left and right to do the same.
  • FNGs?

[ Warm o Rama ]

***Everything on a 1 count***

  • 25 SSH
  • 10 merkins
  • 25 SSH
  • 10 squats
  • 25 SSH
  • 10 Rockettes
  • 25 SSH
  • 10 Imperial Walkers
  • 25 SSH

[ The Thang ]

  • Mosey to the CMU pile

(1) 25s

  • 25 curls (1ct)
    • Carry it to the street
    • 25 BBS
    • Carry it back to CMU site
  • 25 chest presses (1ct)
    • Carry it to the street
    • 25 BBS
    • Carry it back to the CMU pile
  • 25 dips (1ct)
    • Carry it to the street
    • 25 BBS
    • Carry it back to the CMU pile
  • 25 rows (1ct)
    • Carry it to the street
    • 25 BBS
    • Carry it back to the CMU pile
  • 25 incline merkins
    • Carry it to the street
    • 25 BBS
    • Carry it back to the CMU pile
  • Drop CMUs

(Mosey back to AO)

(2) 50s

  • POC 1: AO
    • 50 LBCs
    • Run to POC 2
  • POC 2: Entrance to the school
    • 50 calf raises
    • Run to POC 1
  • Rinse + Repeat 3x, for a total of 300 reps on total.

[ Mary ]

Front/Back (100)

  • 10 merkins
  • 10 LBCs
  • 10 Carolina dry docks
  • 10 American hammers
  • 10 mountain climbers
  • 10 flutter kicks
  • 10 pickle pounders
  • 10 shoulder taps
  • 10 cockroaches
  • 10 merkins

Down/Backs

  • 10×4 squats
    • Karaoke down/karaoke back
  • 10×4 squats
    • 50% sprint + back
  • 10×4 squats
    • 75% sprint + back
  • 10×4 squats
    • 100% sprint and back

Stretching With Steam (SWS)

[ COT ]

  • # off — 7 
  • Name o Rama
  • FNGs — 0
  • BOM

I am a product of the men of F3 Knoxville’s leadership and faithfulness. When I started with F3 6 years ago, I was just some college kid that was wasting his life away. Through the High Impact Men of F3, I was shown a different way. Surrounding myself with high impact fathers, husbands, leaders, and men helped me grow into the man I am today. And that is something I will never be able to payback. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. 

MR. ROGERS @ 50

THE SCENE: CLEAR AND COLD.  VERY NICE.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
2 OF ;  GET-UP, NAVY SEAL BURPIE, V-UP, IRON MIKE, MERKIN, BIG BOY SIT UP, MT. CLIMBERS, AMERICAN HAMMER, SIDE STRADDLE HOP, BEAR CRAWL (1), SQUAT, RUN TO FOOTBALL FIELD
THA-THANG:
AT THE FOOTBALL FIELD:

EXERCISES AT EACH GOAL LINE AND EVERY 10 YARD LINE.  O E YOU COMPLETE THE 1ST EXERCISE RUN DOWN THE FIELD AND BACK . REPEAT THE FIRST EXERCISE MOVE UP 10 YARDS AND DO THE NEXT EXERCISE, RUN DOWN THE FIELD AND BACK REPEAT THE 1ST 2 AND MOVE TO THE 3RD.  AND SO ON.

1 MOVEMENT EVERY 10 YARDS, STARTING AT THE GOAL LINE. 1 GET UP.  5 NAVY SEALS , 10 V-UPS, 15 IRON MIKES, 20 MERKINS, 25 BIG BOY SIT UPS, 30 MT. CLIMBERS, 35 AMERICAN HAMMERS, 40 SIDE STRADDLE HOPS, BEAR CRAWL 10 YARDS, 50 SQUATS.

 

MARY:
SOME AMERICAN HAMMERS AND SOME BOX CUTTERS
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
23
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
AT 50 YEARS OLD I ASK MYSELF, WHY AM I DOING THIS? ALL OF US HAVE SOME KIND OF DRIVE KEEPING US MOVING.

THE ANSWER TO MY QUESTION,  PERSONALLY,  IS…I HAVE NO ANSWER.  I TRULY DON’T KNOW WHAT MY DRIVE IS OR WHY.  I DO KNOW I FEEL A DRIVE.  I ALSO KNOW NOW, AT 50, THAT ITS OK TO NOT KNOW.

YOU MAY NOT KNOW WHY OR WHAT DRIVES YOU BUT AS LONG AS THE DRIVE IS A POSITIVE ONE, ITS OK TO NOT KNOW.
MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

Tuesday Evening Big Circle

THE SCENE: Beautiful afternoon over 60 degrees at the start. Clear and a lot of people in the Asylum enjoying a pretty day.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Side straddle hops
  • Rockettes
  • Baby arm circles
  • Little of this and that
  • Imperial Squat walkers
  • 5 Burpees

THA-THANG:

Mosey to base of Pickett’s Charge

 

Picketts charge suicide

1st –  5 prisoner getups

2nd – 10 imperial walkers

 

10 merkins at bottom before and after each time down

 

LBCs up top until 6 comes in

 

Big circle stations

 

Start at coliseum and go all the way up to top of Everest/office parking lot and back around to coliseum start

 

Stop at each cone do exercise listed and follow instruction of where to go next and how

 

Coliseum start

  • 15 dips
  • Lunges to next cone

 

Cone 1 – halfway down walk

  • 15 big boys
  • Bear crawl to next

 

Cone 2 – little ways down

  • 20 squats
  • Karaoke to next cone

 

Cone 3 – halfway to stop sign

  • 10 no touch merkins
  • Sprint to next cone

 

Cone 4 – stop sign

  • 15 2 count flutter kicks
  • Bernie to next cone

 

Cone 5 – end of guardrail

  • 15 bobby hurleys
  • Run to next cone

 

Cone 6 – top of hill by parking lot

  • 15 merkins
  • Skip to next cone

 

Cone 7 – little ways down back of the hill

  • 15 2 count rocky balboas
  • Go all the way backwards to the 6 and repeat all cones you go back past
  • After coming back the 2nd time and doing Rocky Balboas again karaoke to the next cone

 

Cone 8 – stop sign area

  • 15 2 count hello dollys
  • Run to next cone

 

Cone 9 – up by pathway to Coliseum

  • 5 burpees
  • Lunges to next cone

 

Cone 10 – little ways down path

  • 10 star jumps
  • Bernie to starting spot of Coliseum and do LBCs until the 6 comes in

5 Motivators before running back to the AO for the word.

MARY:
n/a
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Use the TAGS on right-side to record PAX (BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOURSELF) in attendance. Be sure to select the AO in CATEGORY above TAGS and then delete these notes!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Discussed the following:

Kurt Vonnegot story about Joseph Heller:

I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel
to know that our host only yesterday
may have made more money
than your novel ‘Catch-22’
has earned in its entire history?”
And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.”
And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?”
And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.”

“Don’t make stuff because you want to make money — it will never make you enough money. And don’t make stuff because you want to get famous — because you will never feel famous enough,” John Green

MOLESKIN:
Q was followed by a well attended and lively Board Meeting at the Asylum to cap off a great evening.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP end of February

Shamrock – 3>2

THE SCENE: 30F
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Run in circles

Side shuffle then reverse 

High knees

Butt kicks

Side Straddle hop (IC) 4 CT x 25

Tie Fighter 4 CT x 10 each

Cherry Pickers x5

Flutter Kicks 25 – 4 count 

Buns of steel balance (lean forward balancing on 1 foot with other leg balancing you behind, then do 4-count little up and down moves with rear leg while trying to maintain balance. We did 2 sets of 10 per side. This will be a go-to for my Qs. 

Stretch 

THA-THANG:

Mosey with 3 dice (better than the original 2) to Cedar Bluff School Stairs 

Halfway stop for a little break

Curb Alperts  – Step ups with hands – 1 minute

Rocky Balboas – 1 minute

Curb Dips – 1 minute 

Use the 3 custom made cardboard dice to play your luck. Stair climbs after each roll. 

Mosey back to the AO

Stopped at CMU pile for 50 curls and 50 presses. 

MARY:

Trolley led us with some Freddie Mercurys to finish the time.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 – with 1 being a FNG Anchorman, Dumpster Dive, Steam, Mermaid, Interpol, Pom-Pom, Trolley, Curveball, Manscape,
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

The Word: Psalm 46:9-11

9 

He makes wars cease
to the ends of the earth.
He breaks the bow and shatters the spear;
he burns the shields[d] with fire.

10 

He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.”

11 

The Lord Almighty is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress.

John 16:33

33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

 I love hearing the all powerful statements from both God the Father in the Old Testament and from Jesus in the New Testament. 

I just want to encourage you men to lean on this all powerful God that created the universe.

 

Live in God

THE SCENE:  Partly cloudy and cold, temp about 20 degrees.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 Side-Straddle-Hops, 10 Mountain Climbers, 10 Imperial Walkers, 10 Mountain Climbers, 10 Twisties, 10 Tempo Merkins, 10 Windmills, Michael Phelps, Little of This and That
THA-THANG:
Mosey to stop sign by intersection of main roadway and road that goes to the Admin Bldg.  We will do 20 American Hammers.

Mosey on perimeter trail until it intersects with trail coming from Lyons Bend Gate.  We will do 20 Hello Dollies.

Next, we will head west and then east on the perimeter trail.  We will do nickel, dime, quarters with the following exercises:

  • Jump Squats
  • Iron Mikes (both legs = 1)
  • Dive Bombers

We will stop when we get to the Northshore Gate.

Mosey to Area 51 and go to the curb.  Find a partner for teams of two.  One one partner runs to the entrance of Area 51, does 5 merkins, and runs back, the other partner works on the listed exercises below.  Then partners trade places.  Each team will do:

  • 200 Baby Crunches (4 ct)
  • 150 Flutter Kicks (4 ct)
  • 150 Bicycle Kicks (4 ct)

Next, we will run up hill above area 51.  At the top, we will alternate between 10 Merkins and 10 Big-Boy Sit-ups until the six is there.

Mosey to the stop sign by the roadway that goes to the soccer fields.  We will stop to do 20 Box Cutters.  Mosey to the soccer fields.  We will do suicides, with Bernie Sanders to each cone, a mosey to the left of cone parallel with that cone, and then sprint back.  We will do 20 Baby Crunches each time we get back until we finish the suicides.

Mosey to the open outdoor structure that is close to the outdoor chapel.  We will do 20 four count bench dips and 20 decline merkins.

Mosey to parking lot by the playground.  We will do 20 Georgia Cheerleaders (inverted Pickle Pounders).

Mosey to the bottom of mini-cardiac.  We will Bernie Sanders to park sign, then sprint to top.  We will then run back down to AO.

MARY:
We will cash out with ATMs.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
19 men, no FNGs.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

LIVE IN GOD

Psalm 19: 7-10:

7 The law of the Lord is perfect,[c]
reviving the soul;
the testimony of the Lord is sure,
making wise the simple;
8 the precepts of the Lord are right,
rejoicing the heart;
the commandment of the Lord is pure,
enlightening the eyes;
9 the fear of the Lord is clean,
enduring forever;
the rules[d] of the Lord are true,
and righteous altogether.
10 More to be desired are they than gold,
even much fine gold;
sweeter also than honey
and drippings of the honeycomb.

I need to remember that the law and ways of the Lord are perfect.  They are more to be desired than gold.  As Van Morrison asks in his song by the same name, “When will I ever learn to live in God.”  He goes on to say, “He gives me everything I need, and more – when will I ever learn?”  I don’t know about you, but I find myself getting caught up in the ways of the world time and time again.  Am I successful enough in my job?  How does my house look compared to my neighbors?  In an effort to “get ahead”, to be liked, to be popular, to be “a winner”, I focus on things that may be out of sorts with how I truly should be.  I may go along with a business idea that is not truly honorable.  I may cut corners to get something I want, not considering how that will impact others around me.  I might participate in conversation or laugh at jokes that, if I look closely, are belittling to certain segments of our population.  Our brother, Rooney, gave a message at a recent BOM that I need to consider more carefully for myself.  He said that when we consider what we are willing to do in our life, it should align with our moral compass.

When I consider what I am to do this day, does it align with God’s laws and way?  They are perfect and I need to remember that.  I don’t have to worry so much about getting ahead, pleasing other people, or being successful.  If I act as God asks me to do, that is success.  That is what I should live for, not what Gentleman’s Quarterly, Money Magazine, Newsweek, or the latest get rich book tells me to do.  God’s ways are finer than gold and sweeter than the drippings of a honeycomb.

MOLESKIN:
Prayers for the disenfranchised, for those who have lost loved ones, for Operation and his wife who are hoping she gets pregnant, and that F3 brothers will find activities that continue to help our community.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP!!!