F3 Knoxville

The Ol’ Switcheroo

THE SCENE: 70ish. Beautiful.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH IC | Windmills IC
  • BACs | Rockettes IC (Right Leg First)

THA-THANG:

Partner up. Alternate working your way through the list of exercises and running to the next station and back. After both partners have done all three exercises, advance to next station. Rinse. Repeat. Enjoy.

Station 1

  • Diamond Merkins
  • Lunges
  • Box Cutters

Station 2

  • Mountain Climbers
  • Squats
  • Flutter Kicks

Station 3

  • Shoulder Taps
  • SSH
  • BBS

Station 4

  • Inch Worms
  • Single-Leg Bridge
  • Imperial Walkers

MARY:

  • Fellowship Mosey™️
  • Hello Dolly
  • Freddie Mercury
  • BBS

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

We talked about the impact our words can have on the people around us.

It was a pleasure to be in the gloom with a group of HIMs that do such a great job engaging in community, stepping up to lead, and checking in with each other.

Thanks to Mermaid for trading places for a day.

Four Rails

  • Welcome
    • Summer is awesome in the rain.
  • Warmup
    • Low wide slow squats
    • Tempo Merkins
    • Long Lunge (in Plank) stretch
  • Workout
    • Mosey to Cedar bluff
    • In a line facing the brick wall (The Burpee Rail)
      • Do a side Lunge (towards downhill)
      • Do a burpee
      • Hop over the wall
      • repeat until end of wall.
    • In a line facing the next wall (The Irken-Dip Rail)
      • Do an slow Irken (Incline Merkin)
      • Roll over and do a dip
      • Roll over (in same direction) do an Irken
      • repeat until end of the wall.
    • In a line facing the next wall (after mosey there)
      • Do a wide low lunge (to the left)
      • Do a long stretching step up.
      • Do a wide low lunge on the wall edge.
      • Do a long stretching step down.
      • repeat until end of wall.
    • At final wall (mosey a few yards to get there)
      • Kick up to a handstand support your feet on the wall.
      • Side step while in handstand as far as you can then kick down.
      • Repeat until at the wall end.
  • Warm Down
    • In circle on six facing out. Do leg lift as one person goes around to throw down your legs.
    • 30 Flutter Kicks
    • 30 Mountain Climbers
    • 30 Freddy Mercuries
  • Wrap Up
    • Marriage is tough.  Huge prayer for all those involved with it.  Nuff said.  Basically I’m not at liberty to put in writting what was shared in person.

11 doing ELEVENS

THE SCENE:

Partly Cloudy Temperature Humidity Feels like Wind Speed Wind Direction
71 ℉ 95% 73 ℉ 6.2 mi/h SW

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER.
I am not a professional.  Flat out stolen from F3 Naperville. Thanks Sir Mix-A-Lot.

WARM-O-RAMA:

Happy Jacks (5)
Do 5 side straddle hops in cadence then after the 5th one everyone does two jump squats. Like this… Side Straddle Hops IC: One, two, three, ONE! One, two, three, TWO! One, two, three, THREE! One, two, three, FOUR! One, two, three, FIVE! Quickly followed by two jump squats. Repeat 4x or until no one can breathe
High Knees (15)
Abe Vigodas (10)
Arm Circles (10 forward, 10 back)

THA-THANG:
Mosey to CMUs. Get one. Mosey to parking lot.  On way, Burpeevators to 8.  (Start regular Burpee, 2nd is Burpee with 2 Merkins. 3rd, Burpee with 3 Merkins up to 8th and Burpee with 8 Merkins.)  I made this up.

Six rounds of ELEVENS. Modifications were done for those on vacation without a coupon or access to something heavy. Once completed, do lunges till the 6 is in.
Round 1: Squats & Merkins
Round 2: Curls & Burpees
Round 3: Chest Press & Big Boys
Time To Put up CMUs – But more options if you’ve got time.
Round 4: Swings & Mountain Climbers
Round 5: Overhead Press & Bobby Hurleys
Round 6: Rows & SSHs

MARY:
• Flutter Kicks – 20 IC
• Star Gazers – 30 seconds

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 men.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Run/Train to Win!!!!
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win! All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize. So I run with purpose in every step. I am not just shadowboxing. I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others I myself might be disqualified.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Friendship and Servant Leadership

The Scene: 70 and humid

Welcome/Disclaimer – YES

Warmup: SSH, Tempo Merkins, Mountain Climbers, Overhead Clap, LBAC-fwd/bckwd, Projectivator, Cherry Pickers

The Thang
• Follow the Leader to Library Parking Lot: mosey, side step, karaoke, bear crawl, skip, high knees to library parking lot: burpee broad jump toward Amphitheater
• Mucho Chesto @ Amphitheater: 10 – merks, 10 – werkins, 10 – diamond merks, 10 – stagger right, 10 – stagger left (hold plank – someone lead until 6)(rinse/repeat)
• 10 Box Jump/Step Up and Bernie up hill, 10 jump squats at top. (rinse/repeat)
• @ Playground: Baby Murph – 5 pull-ups, 10 merks, 15 squats (5 rounds) = 25 pull-ups, 50 merks, 75 quats
• Bear Crawl to Pool: 10 Wallups
• Follow the Leader to Friendship Bell: mosey to Parallel Bars – hold Al Gore till each pax has a chance to hand walk across bars, BBS till 6, mosey to Friendship Bell for Mary

MARY:
Kick-Flip to lead, other AOQs and guests, and Judge Judy

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
16 STRONG

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
2 years and 2 months ago, David Greer became Kick-Flip. (He pointed out that I was on Q that day!) Today we know him as a man of character, a leader among men. When he leads, he’s creative, he’s personal, he pushes us. He serves us by leading. So many of his Qs are memorable, the workout, the word, his leadership and drive, his friendship and encouragement. We are all better men because of him and we are glad to give him the Shovel Flag as our AOQ at the Project.
Maybe one of you will be AOQ after him. I hope you will all step up to Q soon. Just as we need Kick-Flip to show up, we all need you/each other to show up. It’s not only how we get better as men and leaders, it’s how we see and experience the diversity and creativity of God in fitting us together, in both our leading and our following. Your strengths pushes us in our weakness and vice versa. We are all disciples, followers/fellow travelers, friends, of Jesus. In Christian friendship, we disciple each other. We encourage each other. We call each other higher up and further in. Friendship is discipleship when Christ is in you. When you Q, you both lead and serve the men around you as friends. It is both friendship and servant leadership.

MOLESKIN:
Much appreciation to Judge and guys from other AOs who came to support and celebrate the passing of the The Project Shovel Flag to Kick-Flip. Shout out to Trolley who began the tradition of taking the picture at the Friendship Bell.

PRAYER:

Ribbed’s wife, men at Equalizer and other AOs whose marriages are struggling, Kick-Flip’s wife and new baby on the way

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
July 24 CSAUP “Off the Chain”

 

Survive the Kraken

THE SCENE: Perfectly cool summer morning

WARM-O-RAMA:
Went through exercises for the day:

K-nerkins, R-eaching crunches, A-merican hammers, K-neel downs (prison getups), E-lbow to full plank (Catalina wine mixers), N-ewton’s cradle, and Kraken Burpees

THA-THANG:
Mosey up to football field

Starting on sideline work through 5 reps of each of the KRAKEN exercises; run to 1st hash marks and do 1 Kraken Burpee; run to 2nd hash marks and do 2 Kraken Burpees; run to far sideline and do 3 Kraken Burpees; run back to original sideline

Repeat multiple times adding 5 reps to KRAKEN exercises (@Trolley was working on 25 reps when we stopped)

MARY:
Mosey back to AO (stopped for 1minute of Rocky Balboas); Howling Monkey circle with added twist of running lap around circle when it was your turn to count; 1 more Kraken Burpee; and finished with 25 4-ct Flutter Kicks.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 HIMs and 2 with respect

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Read lyrics from Casting Crowns song “Who am I”; Read from Psalm 8 & John 10; Reminded PAX of the Good Shepherd and those who know Him – He cares for you and is in pursuit of you.