F3 Knoxville

HEAVY PT @ The Project

THE SCENE: Beautiful – 46 and clear

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Yes – all the things

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH, Imperial Squawkers, LBAC, Grady Corns, Tempo Merkins, Mountain Climbers, Cherry Pickers, Mosey to Pool Wall

THA-THANG:
Pool Wall – 5 Wallpees, Playground – 7 pull-ups, Mosey to Recruiting Center

Heavy Stations: Pax rotate through every station with one pax as the timer until everyone makes it back to their original station. 2 Rounds.

Round 1

  1. CMU Thrusters
  2. CMU Lunges
  3. CMU Tricep Extensions
  4. Tire Flips
  5. Heavy Ball Slam
  6. Pull-ups
  7. TIMER – Bear Crawl to next Parking Lot island

Round 2:

  1. CMU Kettleswing
  2. CMU Squats
  3. CMU Curls
  4. Sledge Hammer on Tire
  5. Heavy Ball Toss Up
  6. Blockees
  7. TIMER – Bernie down to next Parking Lot island and Bernie back

Circle up for Merkin Pyramid – All pax hold plank while one pax does one merkin. Each pax in turn till all have done one merkin. Work up to 4 merkins, and then back down to one merkin.

MARY:
Pax Choice – American Hammers, LBC led by Bobbit, Prone Row led by Tuba, till time.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
7STRONG in HEAVY PT, 1 Runner

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Tuesday Kickflip shared from Philippians 4:8, “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.” Today, I wanted to add to that filling our minds with the Word of God has great benefit to each person who endeavors to know Him, and has many more benefits to reap of temporal and eternal value. From Psalm 1:1-3,

Blessed is the man[a]
who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
2 but his delight is in the law[b] of the Lord,
and on his law he meditates day and night.

3 He is like a tree
planted by streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season,
and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers.

MOLESKIN:
If the result of meditating on the Word of God reaps immeasurable personal benefits, imagine how much more in our marriages and families, and workplaces, and relationships.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Collecting coats for KARM, serving at the Oak Ridge Thanksgiving Meal contact Kickflip or see Project Slack Channel, Oak Ridge Christmas Parade Dec 11 – great opporunity for our kids and families to participate with the F3 float, some may want to attend the Nantan’s Xmas Party earlier that evening as well

Totem Pole

THE SCENE:  So nice.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:  Nah
WARM-O-RAMA:

Round robin

The Real Cherry Pickers
Projectivators
Moroccan nightclub
Tempo Squats
Tempo merkins
Imperial Squawkers

THA THANG:

Mosey to the pool wall – 10 Wall-ups

Mosey to the playground, partner up.  Partner 1 does max pull-ups.  Partner 2 matches P1’s reps with burpees.  Switch – repeat x4

Mosey to the amphitheater.  10 box jumps, 10 derkins.  Repeat

 

Totem Pole:  Do all exercises in the set then run.

Next time, skip the highest rep exercise and repeat sequence until finished.

Exercises were;

12        Burpees

11        Squats

10        Werkins

9          LBCs (4-ct)

8          Flutter kicks (4-ct)

7          Hello Dolly (4-ct)

6          Bobby Hurleys

5          Carolina Dry Docks

4          Broad jumps

3          Diamond Merkins

2          Donkey kicks

1          Clap Merkin

RUN!

 

MARY:

Mosey to parking lot.

30 squats, 30 second Al Gore – sprint
30 merkins, 30 second plank – sprint

Repeat for 20/20 seconds, 10/10 seconds

 

Guantanamo

 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

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CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Philippians 4:8

“…whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

 

Also revisited the fundamentals of F3;

The mission of F3 is to plant, grow, and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership.

It’s not just about the workout – “it’s more than a workout”.  The purpose is to inspire your leadership as a man, a father, a friend, a husband.  You post at F3 to become motivated to be a better version of yourself.  “Leave no man behind, leave no man where you found him.”

5 core principles: Free of Charge, Open to All Men, Held Outdoors, Peer-led, Ends with a Circle of trust.

“ISI” – Iron Sharpens Iron.  Proverbs 27:17: “As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another”.

F3 has a leadership model that they call the Q Source – 52 elements divided into four quadrants; Get Right, Live Right, Lead Right, Leave Right.

The ultimate goal of F3 is to mold you into a HIM – a high-impact man. A man who leads and who serves and lives third.  Living third means choosing to live and serve God, family and/or community, and then yourself.

MOLESKIN:

PRAYERS / ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Prayers for Bobbitt as he presides over a tough funeral today – grace and peace, brother.

Prayers for Rocket’s son’s friend, Ty – and his family.

Welcome Three-peat!

THE SCENE: 50s dark and misty.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: followed as suggested
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • seal claps (IC) 4ct
  • Imperial squakers
  • rapid merkins, 4ct (3 half way and full hand release on 4th)
  • upward and downward dog

THA-THANG:

Mosey to the blocks
Chest-o-rama
  • Archers (5 left, 1 center, 5 right)
  • full length, half low, half high, full length (5 each)
  • Diamond stress form (10)
  • Wide with hands pointing out
  • push until hands come off ground (10)
  • decline (10)
  • Incline (10)
  • Circle of pain, starting at 6, reduce until 0.
Biceps, finish below circuit then bear crawl to other side and repeat. Repeat below going from 5, 10, 15, 20 reps.
  • full curls
  • Right arm curl
  • Left arm curl
  • triceps
We finished by making a snake line indian run to block. went until failure.
Run back to AO

MARY:

Mary (45 sec exercise, 15 sec rest)
  • Scissors
  • Flutter
  • heals to heaven
  • start fish
  • stair master (on back 4 steps up and 4 steps down)
  • side crunch
  • side crunch
  • push-up plank jacks
  • leg lift

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

thought about what Bobbit said about treating yourself like you treat others. we took 30sec of silent self reflection and then asked for forgiveness.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Coat collection announcement made

Infinite Competition – Everybody Wins

THE SCENE: Perfect fall gloom; 45 degrees with fog
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH x 20 (IC); T-Merkins (aka Mother Earth) x 5 (OYO); Snow Angels x 5 (OYO); 4ct Starfish Crunches x 5 (OYO); 2 Cherry Pickers
THA-THANG:
Mosey over to lower baseball parking lot; divide into two teams; Q picks first exercise for infinite pain stations; six cones placed along 1/4 mile figure eight route; at “go” PAX sprints to first cone and performs 1 rep of the chosen exercise – at each additional cone an additional rep is added (total of 21 reps per round); first team member back to start picks the next round exercise (rotated through whole, upper, and lower body, and core); arriving PAX holds plank until 6 arrives; rinse and repeat for as many rounds as possible. Finished nine rounds.

MARY:
Plank to downward dog to cobra to child’s pose… slowly over 1 minute to cool down and stretch.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Psalm 34:8 “Taste and see that the Lord is good…”  After missing several weeks recovering from Covid, I was amazed how weak and undisciplined I became in just a few short weeks.  Thankfully many HIMs continued to encourage me and call me to come back out in the gloom.  Reminded of the Lord’s grace to continue to call us back to Him each day with new mercy in spite of our weakness or undisciplined lives.  Paul says in Philippians 1 that to “die is gain”, so he clearly understood the treasure that awaited him in Christ.  For those outside of faith in Christ, this broken world is as close to the Lord and His kingdom you will get.  It’s like the reality that William Shatner just experienced with a ten minute ride in “almost space”… paling in comparison to the many universes he saw on Star Trek.

Stairway to (CMU) Heaven

THE SCENE: Serious gloom
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Yes with cell phone for emergency
WARM-O-RAMA:

Easy lap around parking lot, SSH x10, tempo squats x5, tempo Merkins x5, stretch OYO
Mosey to Parallel Bars for 10 squats, 10 inverse rows
Mosey to Pool Wall for 5 Wall-ups
Mosey to Playground for 5 Pull-ups
Mosey to Recruiting Center – 5 burpees along the way, bear crawl along the way
Grab 1 CMU/pax, Rifle carry to theater side stairs, 10 lunges along the way

THA-THANG: Stairway to (CMU) Heaven

ROUND 1:
• 10 Single arm rows (each side) – CMU stairs
• 10 Lunges (each leg) – CMU stairs
• 10 Good Mornings + 10 BBS– CMU stairs
• 10 Uneven Merks (each side) – CMU stairs
• 10 Kettle swings + 10 Overhead Calf Raises – CMU stairs
ROUND 2:
• 10 Narrow Merks + 5 plio merks (each side) – STAIRS
• 10 Thrusters + 10 Squats – STAIRS
• 10 Curls + 10 OHP – STAIRS
• 10 Dolly + 10 Flutterkick (4-ct) – STAIRS
• 10 Tri Ext + 10 Curls – STAIRS

MARY:
Ring of Fire – Work up 1 to 5 merkins, and back to 1 Merkin

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Mathlete, Chako, Tuba, and me

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Meditating (square breathing method) on Proverbs 3:5-6

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him and he will direct your path.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Project Halloween – City of Oak Ridge Halloween on Thursday, Oct 28 – info on Slack