F3 Knoxville

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Monday Funday

THE SCENE: Beautiful weather
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH IC x15
Windmills IC x10
LB Arm Circles (forward only) IC x10
THA-THANG:
Run a loop around the basketball courts. Along the way there were 8 cones with exercises at each one. The exercises are below. Once a round was completed, run a suicide. Each lap add another suicide.

  • Cone #1 – 10 Burpees
  • Cone #2 – 10 Lunges (each leg)
  • Cone #3 – 15 Dry Docks
  • Cone #4 – 20 BBS
  • Cone #5 – 20 Squats
  • Cone #6 – 30 Ankle Touches (2 Count)
  • Cone #7 – Bear Crawl across basketball court
  • Cone #8 – 10 Bodybuilders

MARY:
Box Cutters IC x15
LB Crunches for a minute to cash out

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 men this morning
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
My wife and I are taking off in an RV to travel the country soon. While out there, I’m going to need to find a way to hold myself accountable and be self disciplined in my workouts. I talk about self discipline a lot but it’s very important to me. Pretty much nothing good can come without self discipline. The best things we can do start from within and take work to come to fruition.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
We need to fill up the Q calendar!

Church Of The Kraken

THE SCENE: Low to mid 40s and clear
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER


WARM-O-RAMA:
PAX did SSH while each man did a burpee, just 5 this morning so we went around the circle twice. Lined up and did lunges to the next line and then inchworm merkins back to the start.

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the gravel church parking lot across the street. Kraken set up this morning with 8 stations. Start at any station and do the exercise listed then run a full lap and go past the exercise you did to the next one. All exercises were 20 reps.

  • Burpees
  • WW2 Sit-ups
  • Mountain Climbers (2-ct)
  • Flutter Kicks (4-ct)
  • Merkins
  • Monkey Humpers
  • Shoulder Taps (2-ct)
  • Imperial Squat Walkers (4-ct)

MARY:
Overhead Claps IC (4-ct) x25; Leg Raises IC (4-ct) x10; Overhead Claps IC (4-ct) x25; Hello Dolly IC (4-ct) x10; Gas Pumps IC (4-ct) x10; Tempo Merkins IC x10; LBAC for time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Five men came out to worship at the church of the kraken this morning.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Shared part of my personal experience and testimony on waiting for God’s timing. Before I got married 17 years ago my wife and I had talked about how many kids we wanted to have and even had agreed that because she is adopted we would like to adopt some day as well. We were real busy telling God our plans and of course God had other plans in store for us.

After about 8 years of struggling with infertility we made the decision to adopt. We thought this would be a quick process and were so excited to hold our son/daughter. Of course, God had other plans. After about a year of paperwork, home studies, and red tape we were finally approved to adopt a kid. We just had to wait for the call. About six months later our agency called us and said they had a 1 year old girl that was being given up for adoption and would we be interested. Of course we said yes and hurriedly started packing our things to head to Florida the next day. The next day we got the call that the mother had changed her mind and not to come. Although tough, we chalked it up to not being right in God’s timing and just continued to wait.

Another 4 or so months later we get another call that we have been matched with a mother that is pregnant and expecting a baby boy! We of course are excited and say yes and start financially supporting the mother. We pick out the name Sebastian for our son and are over the moon excited to hold him in our arms. Then we get the call that rocked our world. The mother had a falling out with the agency and left them entirely. We would no longer be getting out son. We are now emotionally wrecked over losing a child, financially hit because of the money we would never get back from the birth mom, and struggling with the why. Looking back I know it was still just God asking us to wait and trust Him.

Another several months past and we get another call. We have been matched again. I must say that we said yes again but with much trepidation. We flew to Florida and got to meet the birth mother. The next seven or so months go smoothly and all is on track for us to adopt our baby girl. The birth mother could still back out but we were just relying on and trusting in God that this was His plan. We sat at the hospital for ever waiting on her arrival and on April 3rd, 2014 we held Carrie Isabella in our arms. God had showed us His timing was perfect and that His plan was what was right for our lives.

But you see, God has a sense of humor. Three years later, my wife that can’t get pregnant, got pregnant. So now we have two baby girls that were brought to us in God’s timing and there is no way we could say or believe that to be true any other way. I challenge you, when you are facing a difficult time remember that God is in control and His timing is perfect.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Circle of Life

THE SCENE: 42 degrees, no wind
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH IC x 20

Little Baby Arm Circles Forward IC x 10

Little Baby Arm Circles Reverse IC x 10

Imperial Squat Walkers IC x 6
THA-THANG:
Mosey around tennis court to get the blood circulating.  Pick up CMUs at grinder and head down to the greenway Circle of Life that stretches from Alcoa Rd to the fountain.  Exercises written in chalk at various stations around the Circle.  1st lap 5 reps, 2nd lap 10 reps, 3rd lap 15 reps, 4th lap 20 reps….then work back down the ladder as time permits.

  • CMU Swings & CMU Overhead Presses
  • Peter Parker 2ct
  • Jump Squats
  • Shoulder Taps 2ct
  • Big Boy Situps
  • Bernie for a stretch
  • Run for a stretch
  • Merkins
  • Crab Walk for a stretch
  • Run up Crumpet Hill to tree and back down
  • Burpees
  • Repeat until time runs out.  A few made it through the round of 20.  Most Pax were somewhere in the round of 20 when time ran out.  Making it through the round of 20 = 50 reps of each exercise.

MARY:
No time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Ecclesiastes 3:

A Time for Everything

3 There is a time for everything,
    and a season for every activity under the heavens:

2     a time to be born and a time to die,
    a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3     a time to kill and a time to heal,
    a time to tear down and a time to build,
4     a time to weep and a time to laugh,
    a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5     a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
    a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6     a time to search and a time to give up,
    a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7     a time to tear and a time to mend,
    a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8     a time to love and a time to hate,
    a time for war and a time for peace.

MOLESKIN:

There is a time for all things and that is the way it is intended.  Try to focus on being present in each of those times.  When the sad or difficult times come let’s not become depressed and pine for the “good old days”…Be present in the difficulty and try to help those around you.  When the happy times are here enjoy them and be present….rather than be burdened by regrets and things in the past.  If there is a time for all things then be present in that time when in happens.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Destroy the Death Star

THE SCENE: low 50s
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Imperial Squat Walkers

C3P0s – cherry pickers 3 count x 10

Hi-Low Rens – tempo squats x 10
THA-THANG:
3 different missions all with a partner

Mission 1- Training on Dagobah

With 1 partner with BTTW seated position counts out the reps of the partner.  The exercises are as follows:

  • CMU Curls x 20
  • Overhead press x 20
  • Big Boy sit-ups x 20

Switch and repeat x 3

Mission 2 – Destroy the Death Star

10 cones are in a big circle.  Start by doing with your partner:

  • Merkins x 10
  • AT-AT Walk (bear crawl) to next cone
  • Dry Docks x 10
  • BB8 (somersault) to next cone
  • Merkins x 10
  • AT-AT Walk (bear crawl) to next cone
  • Dry Docks x 10
  • BB8 (somersault) to next cone

After completing one round run a victory lap. After finishing the second and final time run 2 victory laps.

Congrats you destroyed the Death Star!!!!

Mission 3- Chewy Carrying C3P0

1 partner carries 2 CMUs to the end of the grindstone and leaves them and runs back to their partner.  While the one partner carries the other does:

  • Round 1 – Burpees
  • Round 2 – Squats
  • Round 3 – Shoulder Taps

Rinse and Repeat until recover.

 

MARY:
Chewbacca claps (overhead claps) until time.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-Rama

13 Hims were strong with the force.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Top 8 wise advice/quotes from Yoda
MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

Teamwork = Dreamwork

THE SCENE: 63 degrees, slightly windy, damp ground but no rain
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Tabata- 5 Min – 45 sec on 15 sec rest

  • Bear crawl left
  • Bear crawl right
  • Angel grinders
  • bear crawl left
  • bear crawl right

THA-THANG:
Thang  1- pax paired up. timed- 15 min

Pax A’s lined up along back side of pavilion, a little under arms length apart to create a little more of a reach  one CMU for the pax to pass along. Wall squat while doing one OH press with CMU and and hand off the CMU to the pax on your left until CMU gets to end of the line. pax at the front of the line does jump squats after the hand off to pax on their left while the CMU moves down the line, when it gets to the end move it back handing off to the right. Pax at the end of the line moves to the front once CMU makes it back to the front, line shifts down each time.

Pax B’s completed an Indian Run while carrying Q’s ruck sack around medium loop around park.

Switch groups when pax b returns from run

We got three rounds in during the time.

Thang 2- Murder circuit- timed 20 min

Pair up- Pax A is doing Murder Kings ( CMU frog jump with a Lino King’ess front lift of the CMU over head and back down to the ground, jumping feet towards CMU. )  from cone to cone, around a 30 feet and back to start. We used one of the baby humps, there was a slight incline which added a nice little extra element that we may not feel till later.

Pax B is doing continues circuit of – 5 Split legs jumps 2ct ( modify with split squat ) , 10 American Hammers 2ct, 10 Alt Superman’s 2Ct- repeat till your partner finishes the murder kings

pax switch once pax A gets back to start. start at the top of circuit not where partner stopped at.

MARY:
Tabata- 4 min was prescribed, we ended up with like 2 1/2 min after explanation. 30 sec on 10 sec off

  • BBS
  • Peter Parkers
  • Leg Raises
  • 100’s
  • Heels to heaven ( time was called before we got here)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
You cant out King your Queen- The first F is simple fitness, but its not just working out, in fact most of us cant just work out but we also need to understand what we are putting into our bodies. There was a time in the past 15 years of my life where i weighed 300 pounds. i was lazy and did not care what i put into my body. its important that we understand that setting up guiderails for ourselves to know what we can eat and still improve our fitness is a key part of being a HIM.

YHC read a small piece from Q Source, i encourage everyone to check it out and think about how your treating your Queen.

MOLESKIN:
Swerve’s son is having oral surgery today, keep him in your prayers. YHC’s M has a job interview for a promotion on Tuesday, KEEP HER IN YOUR PARYERS.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Evening PT at the Arsenal 7Pm Tuesday.