F3 Knoxville

Tag: Stripped

The Ol’ Switcheroo

THE SCENE: 70ish. Beautiful.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH IC | Windmills IC
  • BACs | Rockettes IC (Right Leg First)

THA-THANG:

Partner up. Alternate working your way through the list of exercises and running to the next station and back. After both partners have done all three exercises, advance to next station. Rinse. Repeat. Enjoy.

Station 1

  • Diamond Merkins
  • Lunges
  • Box Cutters

Station 2

  • Mountain Climbers
  • Squats
  • Flutter Kicks

Station 3

  • Shoulder Taps
  • SSH
  • BBS

Station 4

  • Inch Worms
  • Single-Leg Bridge
  • Imperial Walkers

MARY:

  • Fellowship Mosey™️
  • Hello Dolly
  • Freddie Mercury
  • BBS

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

We talked about the impact our words can have on the people around us.

It was a pleasure to be in the gloom with a group of HIMs that do such a great job engaging in community, stepping up to lead, and checking in with each other.

Thanks to Mermaid for trading places for a day.

Prioritizing time with Millennium

  • THE SCENE: Perfect
    F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
  • Of Course, definitely not a professional!
    WARM-O-RAMA:
  • 20 SSH
  • 10 Baby Arm Circles Forward & Reverse
  • 10 Tempo Squats
  • 10 Tempo Merkins
    THA-THANG:
    1st Pax to 100 reps allows everyone to stop and run.
  • Curls
  • Overhead Presses
  • Rows
  • Dry Docks
  • Dips
  • Step ups
  • Squats
  • Merkins
  • Line Hops
  • Bear Crawl Burpees

MARY:
No time(lol)

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
TIME is the most valuable coin in your life.  You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent.  Be careful that you do not let other people spend it for you.
MOLESKIN:
Loved having Charlotte Brother La Bamba join us!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
F3 Dad’s Camp

 

 

Mystery Station Number 4

THE SCENE: Air Temp: 70°. Asphalt Temp: 700°.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH IC | Windmills IC | Rockettes IC

THA-THANG:

Partner up. Alternate working your way through the list of exercises and running to the next station and back. After both partners have done all three exercises, advance to next station. Rinse. Repeat. Enjoy.

Station 1

  • Diamond Merkins
  • Lunges
  • Box Cutters

Station 2

  • Mountain Climbers
  • Squats
  • Flutter Kicks

Station 3

  • Shoulder Taps
  • SSH
  • BBS

Station 4

  • REDACTED

The Q got the stations out of order, audibled the wrong station while waiting on a truck on the boat ramp, and—as a result—cheated the PAX out of station 4. We will work to rectify this ASAP.

MARY:

  • Fellowship Mosey™️

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Ten HIMs, including La Bamba from CLT.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Friendship and Servant Leadership

The Scene: 70 and humid

Welcome/Disclaimer – YES

Warmup: SSH, Tempo Merkins, Mountain Climbers, Overhead Clap, LBAC-fwd/bckwd, Projectivator, Cherry Pickers

The Thang
• Follow the Leader to Library Parking Lot: mosey, side step, karaoke, bear crawl, skip, high knees to library parking lot: burpee broad jump toward Amphitheater
• Mucho Chesto @ Amphitheater: 10 – merks, 10 – werkins, 10 – diamond merks, 10 – stagger right, 10 – stagger left (hold plank – someone lead until 6)(rinse/repeat)
• 10 Box Jump/Step Up and Bernie up hill, 10 jump squats at top. (rinse/repeat)
• @ Playground: Baby Murph – 5 pull-ups, 10 merks, 15 squats (5 rounds) = 25 pull-ups, 50 merks, 75 quats
• Bear Crawl to Pool: 10 Wallups
• Follow the Leader to Friendship Bell: mosey to Parallel Bars – hold Al Gore till each pax has a chance to hand walk across bars, BBS till 6, mosey to Friendship Bell for Mary

MARY:
Kick-Flip to lead, other AOQs and guests, and Judge Judy

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
16 STRONG

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
2 years and 2 months ago, David Greer became Kick-Flip. (He pointed out that I was on Q that day!) Today we know him as a man of character, a leader among men. When he leads, he’s creative, he’s personal, he pushes us. He serves us by leading. So many of his Qs are memorable, the workout, the word, his leadership and drive, his friendship and encouragement. We are all better men because of him and we are glad to give him the Shovel Flag as our AOQ at the Project.
Maybe one of you will be AOQ after him. I hope you will all step up to Q soon. Just as we need Kick-Flip to show up, we all need you/each other to show up. It’s not only how we get better as men and leaders, it’s how we see and experience the diversity and creativity of God in fitting us together, in both our leading and our following. Your strengths pushes us in our weakness and vice versa. We are all disciples, followers/fellow travelers, friends, of Jesus. In Christian friendship, we disciple each other. We encourage each other. We call each other higher up and further in. Friendship is discipleship when Christ is in you. When you Q, you both lead and serve the men around you as friends. It is both friendship and servant leadership.

MOLESKIN:
Much appreciation to Judge and guys from other AOs who came to support and celebrate the passing of the The Project Shovel Flag to Kick-Flip. Shout out to Trolley who began the tradition of taking the picture at the Friendship Bell.

PRAYER:

Ribbed’s wife, men at Equalizer and other AOs whose marriages are struggling, Kick-Flip’s wife and new baby on the way

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
July 24 CSAUP “Off the Chain”

 

Cheating Our Abs

THE SCENE: 70 & clear with a light dew on the ground and the warm stench of raw sewage hanging lightly in the air.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Cherry Pickers IC 
  • Baby Arm Circles IC | SSH IC

THA-THANG:

Three circuits of four corners, each done three times (Reps: 30/20/10) as time allowed:

Upper

  • Dips at Flag Circle
  • Pull-ups (half reps) at playground
  • Merkins at tennis court
  • Dry Docks at stinky corner
  • Mountain climbers to wait for six 

Lower

  • Box jumps (or step-ups) | Squats
  • Walking Lunges | Pickle pointers 
  • Crab toe touches to wait for six

Core

  • BBS | Vups 
  • Flutters | Box cutters
  • Only got one core round in until time was us

MARY:

  • Cheated our abs. Shame on us.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

6 PAX

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Just finished Is This Anything? – Seinfeld

A few things struck me from a self-leadership standpoint:

Relentless pursuit of his priorities. – At one point he talks about when he was young that comedy was all he really wanted to do and he realized that it was a tough way to make a living, but if he could just make enough to buy a jar of Skippy PB & a loaf of Wonderbread each week, he could survive and it would be worth it. – Relentless pursuit of your priorities will mean giving up other good things.

Willingness to fail & the discipline to learn from those failures. Jerry talks about the way he develops new material: the same way that all comics get new material—by going out to the clubs and trying it out. And when he’s in that mode of working on new material, if he goes out and does a thirty minute set and comes away with one bit that gets a laugh, it was all worth it. Here’s a guy who has a rare level of success because he understands and respects how rare success is. If he only fails 90% of the time, it was worth it to him. And he’s going to go home, reflect on what didn’t work, make what did work even better, and try again the next day. I think there’s a lot to be said for being willing to try something new and understanding that even if you fail, you’ll learn.

That’s the challenge for each of us this week: to be willing to make the sacrifices necessary to chase what really matters to you, to not be so scared as to be unwilling to fail, and if you do fail to treat it as a learning opportunity.