F3 Knoxville

Lucky’s Hangover

AO: shamrock
Q: slappy
PAX: Free Fall (Justin Whitaker), Stitch, Mermaid, Skidmark, Dumpster Dive, Anchorman, Tailhook, Nacho Libre, Crawlspace, Eliza, Lizzy
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
WARMUP:
– fat guy in a little coat (renamed from twistys)
– reach for the sky-let it hang
– Tie fighters
– Tempo merkins
– Mountain climbers

THE THANG:
Lucky the leprechaun partied too hard last night and lost all of his gold. He needed our help collecting it and he left clues across campus on where to find it and what to do to retrieve it.
– 1 burpee per shamrock
– 1 set of stadium steps down and back
– 50 dips and 50 step ups
– 1 set of mucho CHESTO
– 25 – curls, OHP, squat thrusters, and KBS
– 7s at the hill with iron mikes and squats

MARY:
Flutters, dollys (2x), Freddy mercs, plank, big boys, something Lizzy led, pickle pointers

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Sign up for Escape from Haw Ridge

COT:
St. Patrick’s Breastplate Prayer:

Go you Chicken Fat, Go!

AO: shamrock
Q: Eliza
PAX: Dumpster Dive, Base Salary, Curveball, Eliza, LeBling, Lizzy, Mermaid, Waxjob, Stitch
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WARMUP: “Go you Chicken Fat Go!”- Robert Preston complete with exercises

THE THANG: Part I: Mosey to the Pavillion. Complete sets of 12,10,8,6,4,2 of Step Ups, Derkins, Dips

Part II: Grab 2 CMUs. Murder bunny Merkin 6 parking spaces. 25 bench press, 25 curls. Lunge walk back to first CMU. 25 American Hammers, 25 Flutters. Lunge walk back and repeat exercises. Farmer carry back and rack em.

Part III: Elevens- squats and iron mikes OR rocky balboas

MARY: hello dolly’s, snow angels, captain thors

ANNOUNCEMENTS: respect q Wednesday with Stitch

COT: Post downrange even if it’s locally.

Battleship at the Shammy

AO: shamrock
Q: KickFlip
PAX: Commission, slappy, LeBling, Oscar Meyer, Stitch, Gringo, Honeydew, Mermaid, Jardet, Anchorman, Eliza, Base Salary, Curveball, Crawlspace, Toretto, KickFlip, Snaggletooth (Elijah Tafao), Nutcracker (2.0)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 17
WARMUP: RFTS/LIH, Cherry pickers, TIE fighters, down dog, $tretch, merkins, mountain climbers, predator jacks, walking stretch kicks, walking fence steppers. Mosey to the big parking lot.

THE THANG:
Divide into two teams for Battleship. 5 sets of cones set out facing each other. Run and grab a tennis ball, sprint to your far side, sprint to a battle station and perform the exercise on the cardboard, fire your tennis ball at the other team’s ships. Repeat until one team sinks all of the other team’s ship.

Team 1 wins Round 1. Team 2 wins Round 2.

Teams hold plank while 1 man sprints to collect a tennis ball and comes back. First team to 17 balls is our winner.

MARY:
“Turn it Up” by Oh the Larceny. Burpee each time the song says “Turn it Up” – SSH the rest of the time. Crawlspace and Toretto finished and hereby join Erector in the PAX Hall of Fame as men who have completed this challenge!

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Mermaid’s home tonight, Rainbow Falls hike tomorrow, Mountain Biking AO launches Monday, Escape From Haw Ridge April 5th – details for all these are on Slack.

COT:
Tagged on to Crawlspace’s COT from Wednesday – specifically about having discipline over your thoughts.

Take every thought captive…and make it obedient to Christ… 2 Corinthians 10:5

Philippians 4:8
“…whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.”

Let’s work to get really good at realizing when our thoughts are negative and we are daydreaming about guilt, mistakes, slights (real or imagined), and other unhelpful darkness where (whiny voice) “I’m the victim…” Let’s get good at shifting out of that mindset and into virtuous thinking. One of the best ways to shift from negative thinking to positive thinking is by expressing gratitude.

You vs You

AO: shamrock
Q: KickFlip
PAX: Mermaid, Anchorman, Voodoo, Curveball, Snaggletooth (Elijah Tafao), Commission, Stitch, KickFlip
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WARMUP: RFTS/LIH, Up/Down Dogg, shoulder taps, run on the football field.

THE THANG: Partner up. max merkins in 1 min. max BBS in 1 min. Record scores. 2-mile run. Record times.

MARY: Mountain climbers, big booties (or something like that – it was Anchorman’s call).

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: To be a HIM, F3 promotes the idea of “Living Third”. Live for God first, family second, and self third. It seems a paradox, but one of the best ways you can love your family is to serve them second – and put God and your faith first. A selfless and sacrificial love for your family comes from a 1) pure heart, 2) good conscience, and 3) sincere faith (1 Tim 1:5). Seek those things first – and then you will be able to serve and love your family out of abundance. Putting your family second to God – prioritizing your faith and heart and virtue – is loving your family BETTER than putting them first.

Prayers for Eliza’s wife, Megan – for Anchorman’s travel – for Mermaid’s friend, Adam.

Bro Love

AO: shamrock
Q: Anchorman
PAX: Stitch, Snaggletooth (Elijah Tafao), Honeydew, Oscar Meyer, Swifty, The Situation, Dumpster Dive (Brad Burnette), Curveball, KickFlip, Mermaid, Anchorman, Dos Años
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
WARMUP:
Run in circles

Side shuffle then reverse

High knees

Butt kicks

Tie Fighters X10

Cherry Pickers x5

Smurf Jacks (IC) 4 CT x 10

Stretch quads, runners, downward dog, cobra
THE THANG:
Mosey to rock pile

Grab 2 rocks

Butterflies – 60 seconds

Twinkletoes with rocks held out – 60 seconds

Butterflies – 60 seconds

Curb squats – rocks out in front – 60 seconds

Butterflies – 60 seconds

Drop the rocks and mosey to the CMU pile
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Stop halfway for 25 curb dips and 25 Merkins
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CMU push pull or drag sale

AMRAP: CMU bench press, curls, rows, triceps: while 1 man drags 2 CMUs around the circle to hand off to the next guy. Modify to farmer carry if you want.

Pull-up bars and swing set pulls

One more round of 25 curb dips and 25 Merkins

MARY:
Dealers choice
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
Slappy asked us if we really believe that God loves us. He asked us to dwell on that and what it means.
What came to my mind was my experience the day before on Sunday at church. We had communion and I walked down like we do once a month. For some reason I was flooded with a wow moment. I was just shocked and honored that Jesus wanted me to come have this special fellowship with him. I was invited to this? It wasn’t so much an “I’m not worthy shameful” feeling, but I just felt honored to be invited to his table.

So that was Slappy’s word and I really appreciated his thought provoking words.

I want to talk real quick about another love. Brotherly love. Loving your neighbor.
This group of men and what you guys display. I feel honored to be invited and welcomed into this circle of awesome dudes.

I’m naturally prone to hang back in the shadows and could easily slip away from a group. When I started to consistently show up for F3 years ago I already played it out in my head that I would probably just do this for a while and then casually slip away.

Then Judge Judy said “Hey Anchorman, when you are going to sign up to Q” I was like, oh crap, I stayed too long. Then I lead my 1st and I freaking loved it.

To further keep me from leaving I could rattle off countless men at Shamrock that consistently reached out to me and made me feel like I belonged here. I have witnessed so many examples of love thy neighbor at this location. So, thank you guys for living that out! Let’s keep it up.