F3 Knoxville

Entropy

THE SCENE: Mostly dark, 68 degrees F, 93% humidity
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH, Glute Marches, Windmills, Baby Arm Circles

THA-THANG:

Route 66 Burpees

Upper Springbrook Loop to Mt Crumpit, stop every 4th light pole with short mosey after final stop of 11 burpees.

Mt Crumpit Partner Dora

Pax 1 starts Base Camp exercise, Pax 2 ascends Mt Crumpit and does summit exercise. Pax switch until Base Camp exercises are complete.  (Had to recover before Mountain Climbers completed.)

Base Camp                                         Summit

100 Merkins             Run                     10 WWII Situps

200 Bobby Hurley’s    Bear Crawl/Run     10 Dry Docks

300 Plank Jacks        Bernie/Run           10 Heels/Heaven

200 Mtn. Climbers     Bear Crawl/Run     10 Flutters, 4 CT

100 Get ups             Run                     10 Squats

Mosey to the Scrap Yard

Push/Pull

Half do 20 dips while other half do 10 pull ups or inverted pull ups.

Switch exercise

(Total of 3 Rounds)

MARY:

Box cutters, Scissor legs, WWII Situps

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
18 HIMs and 2 FNGs:  Grasshopper (Whit Taylor) and Binary (Shawn Barnes).  Welcome you two.  Look forward to many upcoming workouts together.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Entropy

It takes effort, energy, to keep things orderly. Without it things tend toward it greatest level of entropy or disorder. In simple terms it take effort, your energy, to keep your house from getting disorderly. Water wants to seek its lowest level of existence, highest disorder. In our world that is the ocean. Dust and dirt falls to the lowest surface which may temporarily be your living room floor. Mountains get weathered into boulders, rocks, stones, and finally sand before it is carried to the ocean depths. Only the force, the energy, from wind drives the waves that deposit sand on our beaches.  This same wind prevents water from reaching its greatest disorder or calm. 

In thermodynamics, entropy is commonly associated with the amount of order, disorder, or chaos in a thermodynamic system. Technically, entropy, from this perspective, is defined as a thermodynamic property which serves as a measure of how close a system is to perfect internal disorder.

Rudolf Clausius in 1865, stated that:

“The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.”  Thus, if entropy is associated with disorder and if the entropy of the universe is headed towards maximal entropy, then many are often puzzled as to the nature of the “ordering” process in light of the second law of thermodynamics, which states that the universe is headed towards maximal “disorder”.   As was stated in the 2003 book, SYNC – the Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order by Steven Strogatz, “Scientists have often been baffled by the existence of spontaneous order in the universe. The laws of thermodynamics seem to dictate the opposite, that nature should inexorably degenerate toward a state of greater disorder, greater entropy. Yet all around us we see magnificent structures—galaxies, cells, ecosystems, human beings—that have all somehow managed to assemble themselves.” 

So the debate continues as to why there is such order when disorder is to reign. For me the answer is simple. It is found in a few simple verses in Colossians Chapter 1:

15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. 17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”

He is the power that keeps entropy from having its way. He can have the same impact on us and the forces that push us in the wrong direction, into disorder.  We need to trust and follow. 

MOLESKIN:
First day of school for Maryville City; Flash will be mentoring a high school student; Betsy, Fins aunt, recently diagnosed with lymphoma; Hammy’s M as she undergoes a CAT scan to determine health issue.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Convergence at the Big Ball Saturday at 7:00 am followed by a 3rd F at Redeemer Church, 1642 Highland Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37916.  $10 donation requested for breakfast.

Rinse, Repeat, Repeat Again

THE SCENE: Nice warm morning
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSHs x20
LB Arm Circles x12 each side IC
Michael Phelps for a bit
Squats x15
Cherry Pickers x10
THA-THANG:
Do each round 3 times with a 15 second rest between, then move on to the next round.

Round #1
20 Jump Squats
15 Lunge Punches (each leg)
10 Plank Jacks (4 count)

Round #2
12 T-Merkins
20 Plank Twists (knee to opposite elbow)
20 Crunches

Round #3
12 Low/High Plank to Merkins
20 Dips
12 Pull-ups (or chest-ups)

Final Round
Tabata Burpees – 4 sets of 25 seconds on, 15 seconds rest

Lt. Dan a little less than halfway across the grinder and then do 20 butt kicks. Lt. Dan back and do 20 high knees.

Bear crawl across grinder and do 15 dry docks, then bear crawl back and do 10 merkins.

We then repeated Rounds #1 and #2 twice and cashed out with the tabata burpees.

MARY:
25 Boxcutters
10 side tri rise (each side)
20 WWII Situps
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
12 Pax this morning, no FNGs
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I wasn’t very prepared for my Q today. I fell short with everything from drinking enough water so I could operate at my best to having enough planned to fill the whole hour. Lately I have either not shown up for a Q or I have been late. Luckily, F3 gives us something more than great workouts. We also get an amazing group of guys to keep us accountable and bring us back in when life starts pulling us away. By leaning on our brothers we can make it back in the gloom and be better men for it.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Building Thoroughbreds

THE SCENE: Absolutely Smoking Outside
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH IC x 20

Cherry Pickers IC x 5

Arm Circles front and back IC x 10

Walking Hamstring/Frankenstein Stretch

Walking Quad Stretch
THA-THANG:
We did a Seabiscuit workout today.  Do the work then run 1 lap.  Work stays the same, but lap increases by 1 each round until 4.  After 4, then the laps decrease.

  • 20 Merkins
  • SS with CMU of 20 Bent Row, 20 Curls, 20 OH Press, 20 Tricep Ext.  If you sit the block down, the must do 5 burpees before picking it back up.

This was brutal, but everyone put in work and it was amazing.

MARY:
Flash led Slutter Kicks IC x 20

Woodshack led Captain Thor up to 5 and 20

Neighbor led some horizontal SSH. (Forget what he called them)

Taco led some J Lo IC

Moses led some pickle pounders to cash out.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Flash, Moses, Snorkel, Radioshack, Tin-Man, KY, Drifter, Sake. Dreamer, Neighbor, Hammy, Taco, Woodshack, Pinocchio, Espy, Napster, Con-Air (FNG)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Stay Focused on your goals, your life, your mission for Christ, and the Word of God.  Stop worrying about outside things that are out of your control.  Peter walked on water when his focus was on Christ, but when his focus shifted to the storm going on around him and the fact that he was on top of the water, then he began to sink.  Make sure you stay focused on you, your family, your relationship with God, and stay focused in the Word.
MOLESKI
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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Not My Upper Body, Too

THE SCENE: Scorcher with an FNG
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH IC x 20

Cherry Pickers IC x 10

Monkey Humpers IC x 10

THA-THANG:
Intro Dora

  • 100 Pull Ups
  • 200 Merkins

In teams of two, one person is working and the other runs the length of the grinder and back.  Alternate until total work above completed.

Kraken

All 30 reps. Do work at a station, run around the outside of the circle and to the next station.  Once completed a full loop, then go for mosey OYO on short loop around playground and back.  Rinse and Repeat.

Movements were:

  • Merkins
  • OH Press
  • Chest Presses
  • Curls
  • Tricep Ext OH
  • Lawn Mowers
  • Upright Rows
  • Bent Rows

MARY:
Dealer’s Choice

Flash led x 20 Flutter Kicks

Taco led Roasters (30 sec front plank, 30 sec each side, 30 sec back plank)

LBC Cashout

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Pinocchio, Radioshack, Taco, FNG (Faceplant), Napster, Hammy, Flash.  7 Total.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
My goal as a man and as a Pastor is to always usher people into an encounter with God.  An encounter with God will NEVER leave one the same.  Look at the disciples, the people who came in contact with Jesus, King Nebuchadnezzar in the Old Testament, and Paul (writer of most of the New Testament).  They simply encountered the very real God of the universe and they were changed.  I want the church to be full of good preaching, good music, and good people, but most importantly, I want the church and my life to be a place where people can encounter God.
MOLESKIN:
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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Motown Beat Down

THE SCENE: Buckets of Rain
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

LBAC’s (Fwd/Bwd) 4ct x 10, Michael Phelps, 4 Pt Cossack Squats 4ct x 10, Spider Man Lunges (L/R) x 5, Side Straddle Hops 4ct x 10, Mtn Climbers 4ct x 10
THA-THANG:
CMU Circuit Time!  3 Stations 3 Exercises Each Station (20, 15 10) count.  All on the grinder…

  • Station 1: Bent Rows, OH Press, Goblet Squat
  • OH CMU Lunge from pavilion to middle of bathrooms.
  • Station 2: Incline Merkin, Decline Merkin, Mtn Climber….all on CMU
  • Bear and Block to 1st basketball goal
  • Station 3: Step Up on CMU, Burpee Box Jump, Upright Rows
  • Leave block and run quarter mile loop….and then start again.

MARY:
PAX circles up for burpees and running in place to Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine.  Every time the song says Gone or Go the PAX does burpees, and the rest of the time the PAX runs in place.          Mo Mary…..

Dancing Bears and ABC’s

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
The PAX enjoyed some soggy Motown and got buckets better! Butterfingers, Drifter, Fins, Flash, Hammy, KY, Moses, Napster, Pinocchio, RadioShack, Snorkel, Swayze, Woodshack
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I recently spent some time away from my family on business travel, and that always reminds me how much I love them.  I think that sometimes we take each other for granted.  This probably goes double for the people close to you.  Sometimes it’s really difficult to get past all of the day to day stress and take a moment to appreciate these relationships.  So I just wanted to encourage everyone to pause for a moment and spend some downtime with your family.  This could be as simple as playing Legos with kids or have coffee in the morning with your spouse.  These small moments are really what keeps us together and reaffirms our commitment to each other.