F3 Knoxville

We’re Working – Rain or Shine!

THE SCENE: 45 and wet
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Slosey to shelter
  • Cherry Pickers (IC) 4 CT X 10
  • Baby Arm Circles Forward/Backward X 10 followed by Michael Phelps
  • Side Straddle Hop (IC) X 25
  • Tempo Squats (IC) X 10
  • Hand Release Merkins (OYO) X 10

THA-THANG:

Clayton Performing Arts Center Overhang

13 Stations X 3 Rounds

  • Upper Body Exercises – 15 dips, 20 Merkins, 25 CMU curls, 20 CMU bent over rows, 25 CMU overhead press
  • Lower Body Exercises – 20 squats, 40 calf raises, 16 step-ups (8 per leg)
  • Cardio/Core – 10 burpees, 10 mountain climbers, 25 LBCs, 15 flutterkicks (4ct), 10 Supermans (4 ct)

F3 Activity Card Game – Each member of the PAX pulled a card and we “played” what was dealt

Some of the fun included:

  • wide merkins, carolina dry docks
  • lunges, side squats
  • bear crawls
  • Bernie to the light pole, run to various locations several times

MARY: She was part of the workout

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

5K, Bagger, Doubtfire, Gump, Judge Judy, Pinnochio, Rocket, Spotter, Stye, Trolley and Booster

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

I follow Jon Gordon, an author, on Twitter (@jongordon11).  Every day, he posts positive messages.  He released 20 Tips for a Positive New Year and I love it!  Please take a moment to read his words and see what you might be able to apply to your personal life.  Some of these are common sense but many I take for granted!

20 Tips for a Positive New Year

1. Stay Positive. You can listen to the cynics and doubters and believe that success is impossible or you can trust that with faith and an optimistic attitude all things are possible.

2. Take a daily “Thank You Walk.” You can’t be stressed and thankful at the same time. Feel blessed and you won’t be stressed.

3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and less foods manufactured in plants.

4. Talk to yourself instead of listen to yourself. Instead of listening to your complaints, fears and doubts, talk to yourself with words of truth and encouragement.

5. Post a sign that says “No Energy Vampires Allowed.” Gandhi said, “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.” Watch This.

6. Be a Positive Team Member. Being positive doesn’t just make you better, it makes everyone around you better.

7. Don’t chase success. Decide to make a difference and success will find you. [ Tweet This ]

8. Get more sleep. You can’t replace sleep with a double latte.

9. Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip, energy vampires, issues of the past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control.

10. Look for opportunities to Love, Serve and Care. You don’t have to be great to serve but you have to serve to be great.

11. Live your purpose. Remember why you do what you do. We don’t get burned out because of what we do. We get burned out because we forget why we do it.

12. Remember, there’s no such thing as an overnight success. Love the process and you’ll love what the process produces.

13. Trust that everything happens for a reason and expect good things to come out of challenging experiences.

14. Implement the No Complaining Rule. If you are complaining, you’re not leading.

15. Read more books than you did in 2018. I happen to know of a few good ones. : )

16. Don’t seek happiness. Instead live with love, passion and purpose and happiness will find you.

17. Focus on “Get to” vs “Have to.” Each day focus on what you get to do, not what you have to do. Life is a gift not an obligation.

20 Tips for a Positive New year in 201918. The next time you “fail” remember that it’s not meant to define you. It’s meant to refine you.

19. Smile and laugh more. They are natural anti-depressants.

20. Enjoy the ride. You only have one ride through life so make the most of it and enjoy it.

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • Pray for Doubtfire’s neighbors with the loss of a friend & one of my best friends JJ who lost his mother
  • Record you shifts once the scoring is ready for the monthly challenge

A little of this, a little of that…

THE SCENE: 51 and nice.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

All in cadence:

SSH
Windmill
Merkins
Mt Climbers
Tempo Squats
Imperial Walkers
Flutter Kicks
Burpees (OYO)

THA-THANG:
Indian Run to the Pond (about .6 mile)

– Circuit Training at the Pond
— Station 1 = 10 Burpos
— Station 2 =10 Catalina Wine Mixers
— Station 3 = 10:40 Captain Thors
— Station 4 = 20 Merkins
4 laps

Indian Run back to the AO

MARY:
N/A – no time.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Romans 6:12-13, Integrity in all matters in the New Year

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Lots of open Q slots, fill them

Core Mountain III

THE SCENE: Wet, Sloppy Wet!

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

Join us if you dare. This is our third attempt at core mountain. It is modified to help us actually make it to the top.

WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH, Side Lunges, Lunges, Merkins, Cherry Pickers

Core Mountain version 3.0:

Do 25 of subsequent exercises at each station which are 100 feet apart. Run between each station. Going up our beloved Juco-manjaro.
We’ll determine what a 100 feet is by taking turns carrying a CMU that is tied to each end of a 100 foot rope.
While the team does the 25 reps, one person carries one cmu until the rope gets taught. Then stops and the team picks up the other end of the rope (with cmu attached) and we run to the lead cmu HIM and begin the next exercise. This proceeds to the top of JUCO Manjaro.  It’s approximately 1800 feet to the top, so here are the 18 stations.

  • Big Boy Situps
  • Crunches
  • Scissors
  • Flutters
  • American Hammers
  • Leg Lifts
  • Bicycles
  • Cross Toe Touches
  • Rainbow Drops
  • Windshield Wipers
  • Cross Mountain Climbers
  • Heel Touches
  • Box Cutters
  • Hello Dollys
  • Groiner
  • Side Crunches
  • Supermans
  • Plank Destroyers

The plank destroyers toasted us as we ran out of time. But we did make it to the top!!! Yay, third times a charm.

MARY: No time for marry.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Happy New Year! Thanks for a great 2018!

Bear Mountain

THE SCENE:  35 and cloudy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

This much fun can’t be free is it???

WARM-O-RAMA:
20 reps of

  • SSH
  • LUNGES
  • CHERRY PICKERS
  • HIGH KNEES
  • BUTT KICKERS
  • RUNNING WITH BURPEES

THE THANG

The workout had three stages.

1) Tabata warmup

Run to cmu pile, with a few burpees along the way. Get yourself a cmu and run to the brick wall.

Do 20 seconds of work (with 10 seconds of rest) of the following

  • CMU Pull Overs
  • CMU Push ups (on your back)
  • CMU Freddy Murcuries
  • CMU Pull Overs
  • CMU Push ups (on your back)
  • CMU Freddy Murcuries

2) BBB’s Over to the bowl

Take about 15 minutes to get to the bowl hill (perhaps Stadium is a better name, yeah I like that). You only move the block by doing a big boy by grabbing the block which is behind you and moving it to between your feet. Then get up and do a broad jump (hopefully about equal to your fully extended body length), and roll back to grab and move the block by doing a big boy situp. Thus moving the block.

We sucked up some time with this one and made it about 3/4 of the way there and then transitioned to mosey with it, in the interest of what was to come!!!!

3) BEAR MOUNTAIN

Start at the bottom of the stadium and take two lunges up the hill with your cmu. Drop your CMU and backwards bear crawl back to where you started and then forwards bear crawl back up to your CMU. Pick up your CMU and do two lunges.

Repeat this cycle until we get to the top of the hill.

MARY:

Back at the AO, do 20 exercises, in cadence, of your choosing. We ended up with a wicked core workout:

  • Merkins
  • Flutter Kicks
  • Side Crunches
  • Freddy Murcuries
  • Squats
  • Mountain Climbers
  • can’t remember??

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Challenged by @FAST-N-EASY several weeks ago I was reflecting on scripture backup for the “God says NO” verses which are:

  • I asked God to take away my habit. God Said, No. It is not for me to take away, but for you to give it up.
  • I asked God to make my handicapped child whole. God said, No. His spirit is whole, his body is only temporary.
  • I asked God to grant me patience. God said, No. Patience is a byproduct of tribulations; it isn’t granted, it is learned.
  • I asked God to give me happiness. God said, No. I give you blessings; Happiness is up to you.
  • I asked God to spare me pain. God said, No. Suffering draws you apart from worldly cares and brings you closer to me.
  • I asked God to make my spirit grow. God said, No. You must grown on your own, but I will prune you to make you fruitful.
  • I asked God for all things that I might enjoy life. God said, No. I will give you life that you may enjoy all things.
  • I asked God to help me love others as much as he loves me. God said, Ahhhh, finaly you have the idea.

This day is yours, don’t throw it away

This letter really challenges and resonates with me. We know we have a loving God but are still faced with the reality of so much suffering in this world. In reading 2 Kings 23, I was floored by the scripture saying:
https://www.bible.com/bible/100/2KI.23.NASB

25Before him there was no king like him who turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; nor did any like him arise after him.
26However, the Lord did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath with which His anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him. 27The Lord said, “I will remove Judah also from My sight, as I have removed Israel. And I will cast off Jerusalem, this city which I have chosen, and the temple of which I said, ‘My name shall be there.'”

Which sort of, in my mind, backs up the “God says No” writtings. His ways are not our ways, Today is a gift from God, His will, will not be thwarted. We are called out into the deep deep ocean of God’s challenges which do not shy away from challenges and struggles, but push through them. He will not spoil us with forever saying yes to us. Indeed, his challenges are a sign of his love for us. https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/the-painful-discipline-of-our-heavenly-father

For consider him who has endured such hostility by sinners against himself, so that you may not grow weary and lose heart. You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin; and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; for those whom the Lord loves he disciplines, and he scourges every son whom he receives.” It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? . . . All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness. (Hebrews 12:3–11)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Come on out this Friday for what could possibly be your last chance in 2018 to ascend our beloved JUCO-Manjaro.

The 12 Stations of Christmas

THE SCENE: 33 Degrees with clear skies
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH (IC) x 15, Moroccan Night Clubs (IC) x 10, Cherry Pickers (IC) x 10, Hand Release Merkins (OYO) x 10
THA-THANG:

Mosey to parking lot just north of AO and gather around the tree (light pole).  Everyone gets 12 presents (stations).  The PAX will perform the exercise at each station for 45 seconds. Every third station, QIC will call out an exercise that each PAX will do as a group for 45 seconds.  Should make at least through all exercise at least 2 times.

  1. Bicep Curls with CMU
  2. Flutter Kicks
  3. Overhead Press with CMU
  4. Big Boys
  5. Squats with CMU
  6. Freddie Mercury
  7. Triceps Extension with CMU
  8. Plank
  9. CMU Chest Press/Merkins
  10. LBCs
  11. CMU Pull Overs
  12. Star Crunches

Extras (Every Third Station)

  • SSH
  • Imperial Walkers
  • Burpees
  • Lap around parking lot
  • Mountain Climbers
  • Parking lot suicides
  • Alternating lunges

MARY:
No time today
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
7 PAX strong today
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

As most of you know, I’m in the process of getting a new job and relocating.  It has been a very lengthy process with several hurdles along the way.  I find myself constantly thinking about it and wanting it to hurry up.  I basically wish my days away at times looking forward to the future because I’m not happy with my current work situation.  Be happy with what you have and don’t constantly wish for other things.  If you are always looking forward, you will not be able to enjoy the moment you have now.

Psalm 118:24 – This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

MOLESKIN:
Safe travels to everyone for the holidays.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: