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High Five

THE SCENE: Just about perfect. cool and dry
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
I am not a professional
WARM-O-RAMA:
25 ssh
10 Tennessee Walkers (mountain climbers but foot come up beside your hand)
Manly Arm Rotations – 15 each way
15 tempo squats

THA-THANG:

Five rounds a of five reps of each exercise:
– Merkins
– Incline
– Decline
– Catalina Wine mixers step up (normal wine mixer, but add done next to a bench so that you start in plank, drop to elbows, back to plank, up on to bench, back down to plank, with a push up every time you are in plank)
– Dry docks

Five rounds a of five reps of each exercise:
– Squats
– Step ups (each leg)
– Box jumps
– Lunges (each leg)
– Pistol squat (each leg)

10mins of EMOM (every minute on the minute):
5 Merkins
5 squats
5 burpees

MARY:
20 BBS
20 Flutters

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

“But what I’ve learned is that you don’t have to be perfect to do something extraordinary. Ordinary people are heroic, and an ordinary life lived well is, indeed, extraordinary.” – Chris Edmonds from No Surrender

MOLESKIN:
We had 4 visitors downrange!
Johnny Cakes from Jacksonville, FL
Outhouse from Gastonia, NC
Tebow from Atlanta, GA
Shoota from Franklin, TN

 

TGIM – Run Your Race.

THE SCENE: 40s – FEELS GOOD
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

  • Welcome to F3: Fitness-Fellowship-Faith
  • My name is Steam and I’ll be your Q this morning
  • Couple of things;
    • Despite popular belief I’m not a professional
    • You’re here on your own volition
    • You know your body better than anyone – if you need to modify anything we do today – do it. But push yourselves and those around you!

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH: 11×4 IC
  • Half-Burpee: 11×4 IC
  • Imperial Walker: 11×4 IC
  • Windmill: 11×4 IC
  • Iron Mikes: 11×4 IC

THA-THANG:

  1. The Quarter Pounder
    1. Battle buddy it up
    2. BB1: Big Boy sit-ups (feet under rail)
    3. BB2: Sprint to stairs going up to bridge = 25 merkins (1-count)
    4. R&R 2x for each battle buddy

[ Mosey to Bridge overlooking Cumberland Avenue/The Hill ]

  1. UT Wins, You Win – Papa Johns
    1. Line up in merkin plank facing UT
    2. Man in the back leads PAX in 2 merkins (up/down = 1)
    3. Sprints to the first position
    4. R&R until we’ve made it across

[ Mosey to bottom of parking lot across from WFP ]

  1. Seabiscuit
    1. 2 curves in the lot
    2. Each curve = 25 V-Ups
    3. 2 laps

[ Mosey to hill leading up to WFP ]

  1. American Indian Run
    1. TAKE THE HILL

[ Back at AO ]

    • All my benches
      • Correct-form box jumps (Up/Down = 1
    • Ring of Fire
      • Each HIM leads PAX in 14 reps of an exercise
    • ATMs
      • Cash out like a boss

 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

5 PAX – No FNGs

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

TGIM – Thank God It’s Monday. “Thanks for being out here this morning men, and pushing hard. This has nothing to do with you, nothing to do with me. Some people didn’t wake up with breath in their lungs this morning, you did. Thank God it’s Monday and the creator let us get physical in his creation.”

Usually what we hear about Mondays is negative and along the lines of “ugh I hate Mondays” or “here we go again.”

YES. HERE WE GO AGAIN – LET’S ROCK!

Monday is the best day of the week. A chance to do a little better than you did last week. A fresh start. Embrace Mondays as a fist-bump or slap on the back from our Divine Creator.

Think of Monday as the start of a race, in a far larger race that has been going on for years (25 for me). Hebrews 12 gives us the race, the gut-check, and the reassurance that this is a race that cannot be shaken.

12:1-2 (Jesus, Founder & Perfecter of our Faith) = are the introduction. This is the action item, this is the intro to the race, and a reminder of the race official and who HE is, regardless of who or when we are.

12:3-17 (Do Not Grow Weary) = For me this is the gut-check/slap motivational youtube video you watch at 3pm to psych yourself up for the rest of the workday. Do. Not. Grow. Weary. The race we run as High Impact Men is long. And it is hard. And it is full of curves and cracks in the road. And it is life-giving. How do you refuel when you get tired/weary in a race/OCR/GORUCK event? How do you refuel in the race you run in life?

12:18-29 (A Kingdom That Cannot Be Shaken) = As sons of the most-high King – we run a race that is set for the kingdom, a kingdom that cannot be shaken. This is the reassurance and light that the race we run is worthy of fighting hard for and pressing further in for.

Keep the Faith & Fight the Good Fight!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Check out the Q calendar on the F3 website – we need men to step up and lead! Grab a battle buddy and lead together!

Goliath at the Gorge/2nd F with F3 Northeastern TN this Friday-Saturday in Johnson City. It ain’t too late – contact Abscess, Tank, Steam to get more info and how to be a part of what is for sure going to be a character building weekend with PAX from around our state.

P.S. = GO VOLS. WE WANT BAMA.

Walter and Abraham

THE SCENE: 73* (I really can’t remember that is a guess, warm and humid and perfect)
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
I started the warm up by telling the story from this past weekend at the 9/11 Memorial in NYC.  I walked up to the north memorial and placed my hand on a name: Abraham Zelmanowitz.  I remembered the name just because of how unusual it is.  Later in the museum, as fate would have it I saw his name again, along with his story.  He refused to evacuate his building because his friend and coworker, Ed Beyea, was a quadriplegic and could not evacuate in the stairs.  He waited with his friend along with an FDNY firefighter for help and perished when the tower collapsed.  This man died before he’d leave a friend behind.

  • SSH
  • Three point squat
  • Shoulder taps from plank
  • Moroccan night clubs

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the Big Ball stairs for 9/11 WOD: Perform 9 reps at bottom, at first landing, and at top for 11 rounds: 9 merkins at bottom, 9 squats at first landing, 9 BBSUs at top.  Repeato x11.  Stop random person from walking away with the key bag and all our stuff.

On the ground, I had written the fallen first responders broken down into their jobs:

  • 8 EMTs
  • 23 NYPD
  • 37 Port Authority
  • 343 FDNY

These people charged into fire and unknown to provide aid to people they’d never met before.  So we are going to honor them with exercises.
EMTs – Eight, 8-count bodybuilders
NYPD – 23 plank jacks
Port Authority – pull ups
FDNY – 343 flutter kicks as a group

Return to SP

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
10 Strong: Operation, Casper, Wings, Swanson, Alter Boy (LexSC), Passport, Carrot, Quarantine, Ripper, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
My second person I wanted to honor did not perish on 9/11.  Though that was the day that ultimately determined his fate.  Walter Greene Jr, who was a Connecticut state trooper and Marine Corps veteran, passed away on May 31, 2018 from cancer caused from his involvement in the recovery efforts directly following the 9/11 attacks.  Trooper Greene was a canine handler, and was part of the search and rescue effort.  The search and recovery effort was a 24 hour a day operation that lasted 8 months.
We are losing first responders every day, STILL.  People who disregarded everything in an attempt to save just one person.  We cannot let the heroes of that day fade away.  We must tell their stories and learn of more, and repeat them to people who may not know.

Litton BOMBS

THE SCENE: Mid-60s. Very nice. Very very nice. Clear.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x25 IC 4CT

BAC x10ea front and back
OHC x10 IC 4ct

Seal Claps x10 IC 4ct

Cherry Pickers (the Amazon kind) x til it hurts

Cherry Pickers (the misnomer kind) x10 IC 4CT

THA-THANG:
Mosey to Litton’s for some BOMBS. Partner up. One partner runs to post office and back while the other does exercise. Flapjack til done.

  • B – Body Builder (8 count) Burpees – 50
  • O – Overhead Claps (1 count) – 100
  • M – Merkins (1 count) – 150
  • B – Big Boi Situps – 200
  • S – Squats – 250

Mosey back to AO for time

MARY:

  • Name your exercise
  • Waxjob – side situps x20 (10 each side)
  • Swanson – heaven legs (???) x20
  • Time!

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Waxjob, Swanson, Squints (FNG!), The Flash, Herbie, Filter
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
2 Timothy 1:7 – For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-discipline.

Root!

THE SCENE: Warm
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER almost forgot it
WARM-O-RAMA: intro to Spread Eagle Merkins 
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the trail head.  Hit the trail with flashlights on a mosey, stopping to do 20 3-ct merkins. High knees when we hit the grass at Admiral park.

5 station loop. Stop at each cone and do (reg,wide,diamond and spread eagle merkins) qty of 20 on first lap, 10, 5. On each lap stop at pavalon for 10 pull-ups.

Take a lap with only pull-ups and finish with flutters to 30. Take another lap w/o exercises.

Mosey back doing imperial walkers thru grass then mosey Thru woods back to CC Park. Stopping for 20 tempo squats and some rocketts. Bernie once out of the woods from pole to pole and then snake around the trail back up to the splash pad for 20 dips, 10 inclines and 10 declines. Snake around to the AO.

MARY:
100 LBCs, circle of pain with 5 Merkins
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

8 in attendance

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

“Be careful to thank God what you ask for”  many times we are quick to ask God for  things that will help us or others, we tend to forget about going back and thanking God for his intervention. Let’s  make a greater effort to appreciate what God does for us and thank him for his many answered prayers.

 

 

MOLESKIN:
Don’t leave a Q in drafts or someone will stalk you. I found this message in my Q notes.

Tank, I’m watching you….always watching you! Waaa ha ha ha.

Im guessing it’s Woodshack or Doubtfire
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Dad camp, dirt circuit, TTTP.