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Regular Old Workout @ The Equalizer – 9/8/21

THE SCENE: Balmy 74 degrees with a gentle breeze at the waters edge
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Cherry Pickers, Side Straddle Hops, Rifle Carry CMU to the Flag Pole (approx 120 yards)
THA-THANG:
Cardboard slabs labeled with the following exercises were laid out around the flagpole.  5 of the 6 performed the exercise called for on the slab while the 6th performed a suitcase carry of a 35lb kettle bell to the gate and back, switching hands at the gate (approx 200 yards).  Once the 6th man returned, he fell to the back of the rotation, and everyone else move up 1 spot.  Exercises included:

  • Squat Thrusters
  • Left side Lawn Mower
  • Right side Lawn Mower
  • Hernias
  • Split Squats
  • Flutter Kicks
  • Overhead press
  • Curls
  • Derkins
  • American Hammers
  • Shoulder Tap / Alt Leg Raises
  • Chest Press
  • Body Builders (w/CMU)
  • Right Leg Flamingos
  • Left Leg Flamingos

MARY:
returned to the AO 2 minutes past time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
6
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Quote from “The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone” by John Filson (1784)

“Thus situated, many hundred miles from our families in the howling wilderness, I believe few would have equally enjoyed the happiness we experienced.  I often observed to my brother, you see now how little nature requires to be satisfied.  Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatsoever state he is.  This consists in full resignation to the will of Providence; and a resigned soul finds pleasure in a path stewed with briars and thorns.”
MOLESKIN:
Boone’s first foray into Kentucky included the discovery of beautiful land and bountiful hunting, his and his parties capture by Natives, his escape, the murder of the other party members, and his chance meeting with / rescue by his brother in the wilderness.  All of that happened in the span of about 6-9 months, and even after all of that – his memory of the events centered around the quote above.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Equalizer shirt pre-order deadline is approaching and we need a few more orders

Hardship Hill

IPC Week 0 at the Equalizer

THE SCENE: Rain has moved out (for now) 0515 start 

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER  Check and Check 

WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH IC x15 | LBAC IC x12 each way | Tempo Squat x10 | Little bit of this, Little bit of that 

THA-THANG:

Iron Pax Week 0 at the Equalizer! All HIMs decided to participate in the full workout. Q measured out 200 meters and 400 meters out on the “400 Meter” Equalizer Track. PAX was in charge of doing mental math while running to decide how they got their distance in (Spoiler Alert: 2 HIMs messed up. They MAY have several advanced degrees between them, but hey, math is hard). 

  • 100 Merkins
  • 800 Meter run
  • 75 Merkins 
  • 1,200 Meter run
  • 50 Merkins
  • 1,600 Meter run
  • 25 Merkins
  • 2,000 Meter run

MARY:

Picked up the 6 as Snitch finished his last run. It’s not that Snitch was the slowest, he just decided to show up at the normal start time. A man like him doesn’t need the extra time to bust out the Iron Pax Challenge! 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

6 HIMs completed the IPC Wk 0 workout. Snitch came in late and Mudpuppy left as soon as he finished. 

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

You have to be humble. You have to acknowledge your faults and your failings. Stretch yourself as a man, husband, and father, but do not OVER-extend yourself. Know your limits. Push them, but if you go too far, you can burn out and fall. 

The grass is not greener

THE SCENE: Perfect weather at the Equilizer
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
warmup stuff
THA-THANG:
In honor of Bartman, who has to work mornings, I give you the Drapen Kracken.
Giant oval with exercises listed at the 8 cones. Do the exercise and qty and then run a lap around the circle (extended to Stonehenge) then moving on to next exercise. The exercises are;

  • 30 Merkins
  • 30 dry docks
  • 10 burpees
  • 10 curls,10 tris, 10 squat and press w/CMU
  • 3 round-the clock Merkins
  • 20 squat jumps
  • 15 Superman’s and 15 cobra Kais  Merkins
  • Bear crawl to center and back

about 3/4 of the way done we stopped for some sprints to break up the breathing pattern and then went back to work. Eventually stopping for everyone to do 3 round the clock Merkins and 10 burpees. Add on a few more sprints then mosey back to the AO by way of the Snake to use our tax dollar investment…

MARY:
Snitch led us in some flutters and we added on some side crunches and LBCs.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
12
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
The grass is not always greener on the other side. The phrase actually originated over 2000 years ago as a poetic proverb by Publius Ovidius Naso, better known as Ovid, regarding agriculture and the harvest always looking more fruitful in another man’s field. With social media today. It’s very easy to look into other lives and think they have everything together. That their lives are perfect and ours is crap. Nothing could be further from the truth. I talked about how I literally thought my neighbors grass was greener and prettier than my lawn. But it wasn’t until I walked over to talk to him that I could see all the imperfections and bare spots in his yard once standing in it. Looking back at my yard from his, I noticed mine didn’t look that bad from his angle. In fact it looks better than his yard. So, the point of all this is that we should not look at others and try and base our lives on them. But we should look to God for guidance and try to better ourselves every day.
MOLESKIN:
It was great being back at the equalizer today. I missed the crew there very much. Last night I had a pretty good wreck on my mountain bike and it was pretty tough for me to get going this morning. Once getting in the groove and seeing everyone working hard my injuries loosened up and didn’t bother me as bad.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill, Wesley House

The Equalizer – Monday 8/30/21

THE SCENE: Pre-Ida
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Side straddle hops; touch your toes; windmills; baby arm circles front/back; this/that
THA-THANG:
CMU Ladder:

10 – Squat thrusters

9 – KB Swings

8 – Tall Rockys (toe tap the CMU standing upright)

7 – Bicep 21s

6 – Shoulder tap / alt leg raises

5 – Blockees

4 – American Hammers

3 – Over The Top Merkins

2 – Goblet Squats

1 – Imperial Walker

  • complete the assigned number of reps for each exercise, in sequence.  When finished, run (not mosey) to midfield to complete 10 reverse crunches or plank jacks, then bernie back to your CMU
  • Pick up the SIX and work through what they have remaining alongside them.  No man left behind.
  • One the SIX is up, return to your CMU and begin again – this time starting one step down the ladder (R1 – start with thrusters; R2 – start with KB swings).

MARY:
Finished a few seconds past time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
2 Timothy 4:3-4 – For there will come a time when men will not put up with sound doctrine.  Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.  They will turn away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

Romans 12:2 – do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind
MOLESKIN:
Don’t look to the things of this world for comfort, satisfaction, or any other type of fulfillment; and stay away from echo chambers – they are the way of the world, not of God.

I shared this quote at Dogpound a few weeks ago, but it’s applicable every day and worth sharing again

“If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too week.  We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea.  We are far too easily pleased.”

CS Lewis – “The Weight of Glory”

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill is going to be an awesome time.  Let’s shoot for 100% Equalizer registration.  Tank will be out to Q us and fill us in on all of the specifics this Friday.  Be there.

Back to back coffee-terias coming up Friday 9/3 and Monday 9/6

Equalizer and F3 Knoxville shirts have active pre-orders right now.  Get one or two today, and go in with another PAX to avoid shipping charges.

F3 Knoxville – https://f3.mudgear.com/collections/active-preorders/products/f3-knoxville-send-me-pre-order-august-2021

Equalizer – https://f3.mudgear.com/collections/active-preorders/products/f3-knox-the-equalizer-pre-order-may-2021

100th Post / 20th Q for Blindside!

THE SCENE: “LOOK AT THAT MOON, YALL!” -Aladdin

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER Done & Done (albeit with a LOT of chatter from the gallery)

WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH IC x 20 | LBAC IC x10 each way | Tempo Squat IC x10 | Tempo Merkin x10

THA-THANG:

The Q might have mentioned to many of the PAX at the CSAUP on Saturday that there wouldn’t be any running during this CSAUP Recovery Q. The Q misspoke and meant that there wouldn’t be a lot of running. 

Mosey to each location and perform 5 exercises, 20 reps, or for 20 seconds each (Five 20s = 100)

  • Flagpole 
    • 20 Dips | 20 Derkins | 20 Squats | 20 Imperial Walkers | 20 Second High Plank
  • Playground
    • 20 Shoulder Taps | 20 Toe-Touches | 20 Knee-ups | 20 Merkins | 20 Second Rocky Balboas 
  • Dock
    • 20 CDD | 20 Skater Jumps | 20 LBCs | 20 SSH | 20 Second Low Plank
  • Rock Pile 
    • 20 Rows | 20 Curls | 20 OH Press | 20 Triceps | 20 Second Jump Overs 
  • Bath House
    • 20 Burpees | 20 Pull-ups | 20 BBS | 20 Australian Snow-Angels | 20 Second Beast Plank
  • Stonehenge 
    • 20 Box Jumps | 20 Lunges | 20 Squat Jumps | 20 BBS | 20 Second Plank
  • Splashpad
    • 20 Flutter Kicks | 20 Hello Dollys | 20 V-Ups | 20 Box Cutters | 20 Second High Knees
  • Basketball Court (missed the turnoff, completed exercises at the Tennis Courts)
    • 20 Diamond Merks | 20 Wide Merks | 20 Right hand forward merks | 20 Left hand forward Merks | 20 Second Butt Kicks
  • Tennis Courts
    • 20 Mountain Climbers | 20 Freddy Mercury | 20 Plank Jacks | 20 Bear Crawls | 20 Second Hold Squat
  • AO
    • 20 Smurf Jacks | 20 American Hammers | 20 Iron Mikes | 20 Broad Jumps | 20 Monkey Humpers 

MARY:

Finished before Mary was an option. 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

2 for Pre-Ruck

12 for Beatdown 

0 FNGs 

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Today was my 100th posting and 20th Q. While a vast majority of those posts and Q’s have come from the Equalizer, I have also been able to post at Asylum AM, Asylum PM. Asylum Sat., Truckstop Sat., The Dogpound, Shamrock, and the Quacken. I have also was lucky enough to have 2 downrange postings at F3Low Country on Hilton Head Island this summer. I started tracking my Posts and Q’s a while back after noticing a “100 Posts in 2021” patch on the F3 Gear website. 

The HIMs of F3Knoxville will never know their impact on my life in just the few months I have been participating in workouts. Before March 1st, I was in a rut that I didn’t even know how deep. The running workouts I was doing on my own became less and less frequent and when I did run, I pushed myself less and less. Most of my friends had moved away from Knoxville over the past few years, and those that were in town were able to get together with little to no frequency. My faith was waning. I did not have a routine in which I had a healthy prayer life. 

F3Knoxville allowed me to find the answers to all 3 of these problems. I didn’t realize it at the time, but the answers were even in the name! I was struggling with all three F’s and didn’t even know it! Since that early Monday morning on March 1st, all three F’s in my life have grown tremendously. I have a fitness routine that mixes up all styles of exercises that I can always count on a great beatdown, I have men in Knoxville that I can call on for anything and everything, and I now know that I will leave each workout uplifted through the prayer of the PAX. 

Thank you F3 Brothers. I am lucky to have all of you in my life. 

MOLESKIN:

Prayers for: 

Ribbed’s wife and family

Hans’ ankle

Seeking joy and life from God and not the world.