F3 Knoxville

Tag: Stripped

Forgot plans, chalk and cups, but didn’t forget to burn calories

THE SCENE: Checkerboard clouds above, cold but not too cold. Pretty ideal for this workout.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSHx20, 10 merks, 5 cobra Kais, 5 cherry pickers. Mosey around Course to explain exercises since I left chalk at home.
THA-THANG:
The Equalizing “kinda hard stuff but not really that hard unless you are out of shape and if you are out of shape it is good for you to do it because fitness is fun and why else would morons like us be up at 5:30am doing stuff in the darkness of a park that is not illegal” Obstacle Course. The obstacles are……

  • 5 burpees
  • 10 pull ups
  • Short chop steps around 11 cones
  • Line drills quick feet
  • 20 Merkins
  • duck walk 4 corners
  • The “didn’t we do this stupid thing before” climb on the “snake” railing
  • 20 BBS
  • Bear crawl up walkway
  • 20 dips
  • 20 rows under the picnic table
  •  20 pickle pounders
  • 20 flutter kicks

Repeat as many rounds as possible till time is up

MARY:
20 box cutters, Peter Parkers, times up!

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
14
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Be fun. Do fun stuff with your kids and your family.  We can sometimes get wrapped up in work, every day stressors of life, or even ourselves and forget to have some fun time with our loved ones. It doesn’t just have to be on the weekend. Take some time this week to do something fun with your kids that you normally wouldn’t. Play a game, wrestle, play 20 questions.
MOLESKIN:
Several prayer requests, good fellowship afterwards with some coffee even though I forgot cups.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
La-z-boys coffee, orange Ts coming soon

A Rainy VQ @ the EQ

THE SCENE: 40 & Rainy — Refreshingly Gloomy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSHx20 IC
  • Baby Arm Circlesx30 IC
  • This & That
  • Michael Phelps

THA-THANG:

We took a page out of Choir Boy’s playbook and did a tabata workout this morning. We did eight 20-second sets of each exercise with 10 seconds of rest in between and a short, rainy jog between exercises.

  • Dips
  • Squats
  • BBS
  • Hand-release Merkins
  • Lunges
  • Freddie Mercury
  • Grady Corns

MARY:
Snuck in some American Hammers before 6:15

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

6 HIMs made it out this morning

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

My biggest temptation is to coast: in my fitness, in my marriage, my parenting, and my career. It’s so easy for me to put out fires, get to a comfortable place, and plateau. My F3 brothers do a great job of pushing me.

The challenge today is to identify where you’ve been coasting, give that extra effort, and go to bed tired— knowing you gave your full effort. We set the tone for the day by showing up this morning; now just keep it going.

MOLESKIN:

I really appreciate all my F3 brothers for pushing me and not leaving me where they found me.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Make sure to read the F3 weekly email.

Keep it dry (sort-of)

THE SCENE: Mid-40’s and rainy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH (x20); Windmill (x10); little bit of this and little bit of that.

THA-THANG:
Mosey to back pavilion to get out of the rain for a while.

15-minute AMRAP

  • 5 burpees
  • 10 merkins
  • 15 dips
  • 20 box-jumps/step-ups
  • 25 squats

Knocked out some Mary in the pavilion:

  • LBC 4-ct (x20)
  • Side crunches 4-ct (x10 each side)
  • Rinse and repeat

Mosey to basketball court:

  • Lunge suicides w/ 15 dry docks at each line.

Lap around the track

Merkin ring of fire

  • go around and each HIM do 1… then 2… up to 5…  Hold plank while others go.
  • Worked our way back down to 1.

MARY:
Already took care of it in the dry

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Matthew 6:7-8 — 7 “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.”

Encouraged the PAX in the freedom there is in not feeling like you have to be some professional when you pray.  God knows what you need.  He loves for you to go to Him in prayer.  Prayers can be brief, simple, unimpressive.  There’s freedom in knowing we can pray short prayers to God all throughout the day.

The UN-Matched Game

THE SCENE: Cold. Very cold. But not too cold. But cold enough to be cold. But not really that cold. Kind of like cold when your cold and think it could be more cold but don’t want it to be colder. That kind of cold.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Mosey to the flag, 20 jumping jacks, 10 tempo push ups, 10 tempo squats.

THA-THANG:

Mosey to playground for three rounds of 5 pull ups, 5 burpees and 5 squats. Then…
Route 66 with shoulder tap merkins increasing at each cone by one. (11 cones, total of 66). Mosey back to the flag.
Time for the memory game!
12 Tiles  with two of each exercise for matching. Put the tiles face down and try and pick a match. If you get a match you do the exercise and toss the cards to the side. If you don’t get a match, you do both exercises and flip them back over.  After each turn, run down to the playground and do 5 pull ups and back.(we mixed it up a little and ran a lap instead on a couple of them)

MARY:
20 Flutters
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 pax
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”
‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭10:24-25‬ ‭

talked about our need for the church. Not the actual building, although important to be there, but being with other believers and leaning on each other, learning with each other and loving each other.
MOLESKIN:
Welcome back to the gloom Benchwarmer!  Your too close not to come more often.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
None.

A JUCO Invasion at The Equalizer

THE SCENE: An unseasonably warm January day with temps in the high 40’s
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
I failed to announce that I had a cell phone with me in case of emergency.  This is a new precaution that Q’s have been tasked with when leading the group.
WARM-O-RAMA:
-The Motivator from 11
-Tempo Squats
-Cherry Pickers

THA-THANG:
2 stations, at one station we did upper body work, then ran to the 2nd station to focus on the lower body.  We ran about .2 miles in between the tennis courts and the pavilion at the top of the hill.  We did one exercise, ran to the next station, and alternated until we ran out of time.  At the top we did 4 sets of 20, these were the exercises.  Merkins, Picnic table pull ups, and dips.  On the tennis courts we did 4 sets of 20 squats, calf raises, and then El Capitan’s across the width of the tennis courts.  We had the lights on at the tennis courts, and it made me realize how ugly the men of F3 really are.  No wonder we workout in the Gloom!  That is a joke, we are all amazing looking specimen.

MARY:
We began with a 10 count of Carolina Dry Docks, then the PAX got mouthy and it was recommended that we also do 4 sets of 20 of that exercise.  After our arms fell off at the shoulders, we did 20 flutter kicks in cadence, and 20 BBS as we ran out of time.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
We had a record of 15 in attendance at the Equalizer, the previous record was 13.  We had one FNG, who we named Gotcha. (Josh McMullen?, Age 28)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
The Great commission, Matthew 28:16-20  The challenge was to go out and make disciples as Jesus commanded in the Great Commission.
MOLESKIN:
Prayer Requests:
Tank- Praise that his wife has some relief from the kidney stone that has been ailing her.
Wax Job – Pray for discernment about his Mother in Law that is suffering from Alzheimer’s.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Doubtfire on Q Wednesday, and Bartman on Friday.