F3 Knoxville

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Backbone and DORA’s

THE SCENE: 65 and Pleasant
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
5 cherry Pickers

1 Squat
THA-THANG:
We Mosey to the steps and partner up.

  • Dora Exercise while you partner runs up to the rock and completes 5 burpees.
    • 100 hand release merkins
    • 200 V-up
    • 300 Wide stance squats
  • Shoulder taps while we wait for the six.
  • Mosey to backbone
  • Dora exercise while you partner runs up to the top of the hill and holds position while doing hello dollies.
    • 10 burpee pull ups
    • 20 dive bombers
    • 30 merkins
  • Called for time and mosey back to the AO

MARY:
Everyone on their six

10 V-up

10 crouches on both sides
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Use the TAGS on right-side to record PAX (BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOURSELF) in attendance. Be sure to select the AO in CATEGORY above TAGS and then delete these notes!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I’ve enjoyed watching the “American Gosple” on Netflix. I recommend it. Also I recommend re-reading Gentle and lowly. It’s a wonderful read for your soul.
MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Starting next Tuesday at 5:15 we are competing in the Iron pax challenge. Watch Slack for more info.

Scenic Tour

THE SCENE: 75 Degrees & Humid
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 15 IC

Cherry Picker x 5 IC

Imperial Squat Walkers x 10 IC

Little Baby Arm Circles x 20 (10 each way)

THA-THANG:
Mosey to Tour Stop #1 Wax Job

  • 5 Merkins at bottom
  • Bernie to top
  • 5 Burpees at top (Repeat 3 times)
  • If you finish early do Air Squats

Mosey toTour Stop #2 at the Church

  • Run to 1st cone BBS x 10 then back to start
  • Run to 2nd cone Monkey Humpers x 10 then back to start
  • Run to 3rd cone Box Cutters x 10 then back to start (repeat 3 times)
  • If you finish early do Air Squats

Mosey to Tour Stop #3 The Educator

  • WW2s x 15 at bottom
  • Bear Crawl to top of hill
  • 1st cone Merkins x 15
  • 2nd cone Bobby Hurley x 15
  • 3rd cone Bicycle 4 count x 15
  • Run back to bottom (repeat 2 times)

Mosey back to Grinder for Mary

MARY:
Those who arrived 1st did Planks until everyone returned. Time ran out so no additional exercises were done.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
IITimothy 2:15 KJV Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the work of truth.

Encouraged and challenged each HIM to either continue or start reading and studying God’s word to know Him better and have a personal relationship as we go through out daily walk.

MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

Wanna Bet?

THE SCENE:

The epitome of fake gloom muggy, humid nastiness.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

Welcome to F3. Fitness, Fellowship, and Faith. I am CRISPR, your Q for today. This is a free workout and you’re here on your own volition. I am NOT a professional. I do not know your injuries or capabilities, so feel free to modify as necessary. Safety is the #1 priority. Remember we are under social distancing rules, so keep your distance from others.

WARM-O-RAMA:

15x Side Straddle Hops, 10x Windmills, 10x Imperial Walkers, 7x Cherry Pickers, A little bit of this, little bit of that, 10x Rockettes

THA-THANG:

Mosey to The Bowl. Black Jack (Round 1):  Do 1 Hill Run, then 20 Gas Pumps, then 2 Hill Runs, then 19 Gas Pumps, and so on.

Mosey to steps of Admin Building. Deck of Death (4x):  When a “Flipper” gets to a station, they flip to the next card, and do the exercise (2-Ace, where J=11, Q=12, K=13, A=14).  If you’re not a “Flipper”, just do the card facing up when you arrive. If a deck has been finished, keep going until all are finished.

Mosey to field by AO. Black Jack (Round 2):  Alternate between Jump Squats and Plank Jacks.  Do 1 Squat, then 20 Plank Jacks, then 2 Squats, then 19 Plank Jacks, and so on.

Black Jack (Round 3):  Alternate between American Hammers and LBCs.  Do 1 American Hammer, then 20 LBCs, then 2 American Hammers, then LBCs, and so on.

Finish up with some Catalina Wine Mixers and a Wave of Merkins.  Do an “Obama” (4 count bear crawl with 4 merkins) back to the AO.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

25 HIMs including one FNG – Furby

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Something that’s been on my heart lately Is whether or not to keep my kids home this fall or to send them back to school. I know this has been on a lot of people’s mind and we’re all wondering if we’re making the “right” decision.  As I’ve been wrestling with this decision I’m trying really hard to remember the lesson I learned from a book called “Thinking in Bets” by former World Series of Poker Champion Annie Dukes.

Essentially, we all confuse DECISIONS with OUTCOMES. For example, many of us know a guy who always buys his wife flowers remembers every birthday and anniversary shows up for all their kids’ events and provides financially and emotionally for his family, but ultimately winds up in a divorce.  Does the outcome of a divorce mean that his behaviors bad decisions just because they resulted in a bad outcome?

In her book, Annie Dukes describes the difference between, decisions and outcomes in a poker example. Imagine going all in because you’re holding 4 Kings, but then on the River card the guy across from you backs his way into a Straight Flush and wins the pot.  Was going all in with 4 Kings a bad decision just because it ended with a bad outcome?

I’ve used the phrase “make good decisions”, but how do you do that? Annie Dukes suggests one way to make better decisions is simply to ask, “Wanna bet?”

Consider this…  Every F3 workout ends in a “Name-o-Rama” where we give our birth name, age, and F3 name. At the end of every workout I say my birth name is “David”. But, if I said, right now, “Wanna bet $100 my birth name is David?”  How does that change what you previously knew to be absolutely true?  I guarantee you’ve already started questioning yourself. Maybe my name is Andrew David Smelser, III and I just go by David as not to be confused with other family members?

By just asking that simple question “Wanna bet?”  You’ve gone from knowing something with 100% certainty to something less than 100%. And, now that you’re less than 100% certain your brain can accept new information, options, and possibilities to come in which allows you to make better decisions.

I encourage us all to ask ourselves, “Wanna bet?” and to know things with less than 100% certainty so we can make better decisions for ourselves and for those around us.

GBED: Get Better Everyday

THE SCENE: Warm, clear, 75 degree July morning with high humidity.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

Still not a professional…nor a doctor

WARM-O-RAMA:
We started off with 15 SSH, followed by 8 Cherry Pickers, and 20 LBAC. We then moseyed the little loop where we stopped for a few merkins (10) and squats (10)
THA-THANG:
Station 1

  • 15 Thrusters
  • 5 3-count CMU merkins
  • 15 dips
  • Melungin to cone and back (10m)
  • Repeat circuit 3 times, melungins twice
  • Little lap

Station 2

  • 10 Body Builders
  • 20 Curls
  • 4-count CMU flutterkicks
  • CMU bear crawl to cone and back (10m)
  • Repeat circuit 3 times, melungins twice
  • Little lap

Station 3

  • 10 Mr. Spectaculars
  • 15 CMU bent Rows
  • 10 CMU swings
  • sprint stairs
  • Repeat circuit 3 times, stairs twice
  • Little lap

 

MARY:

We held plank til everyone was reunited, then proceeded to do a merkin circle, where each member did 3 merkins before running around the plank circle. After completion we did the same with 3 burpees. The final 30 seconds was spent doing 4 count flutterkicks

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
16

Avocado, Espy, Hammy, Hellbender, KY, Moses, Napster, Palmetto, Postpone, Snorkel, Swerve, Taco, Tonka, Veep, Woodshack, Tank

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone were two prominent British politicians in the 1800’s, but bitter rivals. A journalist had dinner with both and commented how Disraeli ‘made her feel like the most brilliant woman in all of London’. Disraeli was an effective leader because he possess charisma and could bring out the best in people

‘The greatest good you can do for another is not to just share you riches, but to reveal to him his own’
MOLESKIN:
Due to poor explaining, a select few got extra melungins in. Kudos to them for over achieving!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

Hold the Line

THE SCENE: 76 w/ 100% humidity.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH and Tempo Squats IC x21 Each, Cherry pickers x5,

THA-THANG:

Hold the Line:
21s – Merkins and Single Leg Squats
  • when done, Star Jacks/Burpees til 6 up
  • Duck walk or Lunge across the court together
21 gun salute
  • 21 curls, OHP, triceps x 5

MARY:
Dealer’s choice x3min.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
16 PAX

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Man A Post vs Hold the Line
To man a post is a good thing. You stand your ground against incursion protecting a defined territory. The challenge is, you can forget why you are on the post, and instead be motivated by the need to dominate and succeed or by your innate fear of failure and incompetence. You can end up focusing on the task as it relates to you only.
I have spent most of my life manning a post. Trying to be successful, competent and do what is right…at least when someone is looking. When I got married the post changed, and it did again when we started having kids, but I was still manning a post.
A year ago tomorrow Kim started chemo for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and we had no idea how much help we would need. We were still in a “man the post” mentality and I took the day of chemo off and prepared to head back to work the next day. She came downstairs and couldn’t keep her eyes open. I quickly called a friend who had been through chemo a few years before and she came over within 20 minutes. Hannah Jackson held the line with us.
2 weeks later we had moved out of our home (with the much needed help of F3 men) and were staying with Mayberry and his crew as our house was finished up. We hit the second treatment, while staying at their house. Kim’s hair started falling out, she was a wreck so they gave us their master bathroom so I could shave her head. That was the single worst experience of my entire life, but they held the line with us, and we cried and laughed around the fireplace together afterward.
Manning a post is about personal responsibility, personal ability, personal integrity and can get confused with pride, self-congratulations and pseudo-independence.
Holding the line is about everyone else. It is about whom you are protecting, what you are protecting against and with whom you are locking shields.
You can man a post WHILE holding the line but don’t get confused, the post is important, not because of the importance of the man on the post, but because the LINE is important,. Look for ways to hold the line with the HIMs around you, and even more with and for the sad clowns who don’t know they need the help, protection and comfort. Don’t just man a post…hold the line.

MOLESKIN:
It was gross out this morning, slimy and sultry, but the men out in hard work. Even when we did the 21 guns, they kept pushing for the most part. This was my first Q in a long time, and it was worth it.