F3 Knoxville

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The pain train

  • THE SCENE: cool and misty
    F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
    WARM-O-RAMA:
    15 BLIMPS, 5 at either end of the parking lot and back to start point
    THA-THANG:
    Mosey to upper soccer field, start at one corner bear crawl to center field, then lunge to the other corner followed by 20 merkins, then back the other way ending with 40 merkins, and back again with 60 merkins.
  • Lap around the field
  • Start back at center field with 10 4ct iron mikes, burney Sanders across the field followed by 10 8ct body builders, then repeat this with 15 reps of each, then 20 reps. This evolution somehow broke cosmos calf muscle (which are the size of watermelons normally) so he was firemen carried from place to place from this point on.
  • Mosey to the concrete bleachers

20 decline wide grip merkins IC and 20 diamonds IC

  • Mosey to dooky hill

Crawl bear up the hill and complete 20 easy ups then run down and 20 4ct OH claps

X2

  • Mosey back to concrete bleachers

A second round of wide grip decline and diamond merkins

  • Mosey to AO

MARY:
we opted to stay dry and finish up with some ring of fire merkins and diamonds.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

MOLESKIN:
I recently heard a statistic about Farragut high school that included the fact three students took their own lives in a single school year. I encouraged the PAX to daily challenge their kids to be different than most others in school and be kind to and stand up for their classmates who are being bullied.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Hills anyone?

THE SCENE:  25-ish

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Merkins x 10 IC
  • Squats x 10 IC
  • High knees to speed bump and back
  • Butt kickers to speed bump and back

THA-THANG:

Mosey to Matterhorn.  3 rounds of a 5 cone suicide up the hill.  Reps of 2,4,6,8,10 at each progressive cone.

  • Round 1:  Monkey Humpers
  • Round 2:  Thrust Merkins
  • Round 3:  Plankjacks

Mosey to the Pavalon.  5 rounds of exercises.

  • Round 1:  10 pullups, 10 knee ups, 10 incline merkins.  Run to top of hill and back
  • Round 2:  8 pull ups, 8 knee ups, 8 incline merkins.  Run to top of hill and back
  • Round 3:  6 reps of each
  • Round 4:  4 Reps of each
  • Round 5:  2 reps of each

10 Burpees OYO before leaving the pavalon.  Mosey back to top of Matterhorn.

Suicide back down the Matterhorn using the same 5 cones as before.  This time run frontwards down, then Bernie Sanders back up until you’ve worked your way down the entire hill.

MARY:

  • v-ups (Mayberry)
  • Peter Parker (Tweet-E)
  • Box Cutters (Sparky)
  • Fire Hydrants (Tank)
  • LBCs (Scooter)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Tank, Mayberry, Scooter, Sparky, Tweet-E, Bartman

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

 

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The Farmers Track meet

THE SCENE: Cold , clear and dry
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Run to get warm to the outhouse and back. SSH, merkins
THA-THANG:

Farmer walks with two CMUs
American Kettle bell swings
Merkins on CMU
Get ups with small KB
Sandbag 40lb THROW OVERS
Sandbag squats 60lbs
LBCs holding 35lb plate
Jump rope
Medicine ball press and catch
35lb tricep squats
Switch exercises once the farmer carry gets back. Then take one lap around circle to next exercise. Repeat

MARY:
Flutter kicks x30, LBCs

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

10 PAX.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

“Obsessed is what the lazy call the dedicated.”
Have someone think you are obsessed with getting better. Not just at workouts, but at everything. Work, being a better father, son, brother, person. Be obsessed with helping others and serving God.

MOLESKIN:
Good work and mumble-chatter this morning. The gas from the pax (Scooter) was much more tolerable than yesterday. The pax was jealous of my activity slacks (khakis).
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Mend house workout tonight

3rd F Prep Work

THE SCENE: Brisk morning, temp in the 30’s
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH, A little of this and a little of that, Tempo Squats, Tempo Merkins
THA-THANG:

Mosey to Sunsphere to tackle the stairs.

  • Bear crawl up stairs with 5 Merkins at the middle and top
  • Lunge up stairs with 5 squats at the middle and top
  • Repeat

Mosey to parking lot S7.  Divide up into 4 teams for a relay.  One man runs the length of lot while others do flutter kicks.  Each man takes a turn running.  Recover.  Same thing with plank/Merkins.

Mosey to parking lot C15.  Everyone grabbed a coupon for the following:

  • Curls x 10 – run up stairs and back
  • Presses x 10 – run up stairs and back
  • Flutter kicks with coupon over head x 10 – run up stairs and back
  • Squats x 10 – run up stairs and back

Recover then everyone does American Hammer with coupon x 10 IC.  Also a round of circle burps without coupons.

Mosey to amplitheater for some SSH IC.  Mosey back to AO while Steam lead F3 cadence. Wrap up with a round of “leg pushes” (not sure if it has a name, everyone on their backs, legs up pointing outside circle. Each man runs around pushing everyone’s legs down.)  Over head claps x 25
MARY:

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
22 HIM’s total with 3 FNG’s
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Philippians 2:3-4  Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.  Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

We can all be selfish with our time and resources.  Let’s humble ourselves and seek to serve others in a way that glorifies God.  Put others first and seek to do what we can to meet their needs and not just our own.
MOLESKIN:
Everyone keep in mind the Fountain City AO that they are trying to get started.  If anyone can attend some of those workouts it would be greatly appreciated especially to the Mend House guys who have been coming out.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

3rd F event immediately followed.  Great job to the guys who spoke!!  Very encouraging and insightful.

Bringing F3 to the Mend House

F3 Knoxville has partnered with the men of The Mend House to bring our fellow brothers some Fitness, Fellowship and Faith. Reico Hopewell, The Mend House director invited us to hold a group workout a few weeks ago drawing over 30 men out on a cold evening. We have continued this with three additional workouts to date with more planned and possibly the birth of a new F3 location in Fountain City. One of the new F3 brothers who we named Bacon, said this after the last workout. “I Think I speak for all of us when I say even though its rough on us right now we truly enjoy and appreciate y’all taking the time and giving us the opportunity to be a part of something bigger than ourselves. “. That is what it’s all about, leading, serving, and  encouraging each other. Stay tuned for a possible AO launch announcement in the Fountain City area in the next few weeks thanks to the effort of these men!