F3 Knoxville

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Chariot Dice

THE SCENE: mild. 70s. Not too humid. Good day for a run
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 SSH and a warm up lap with stretches
THA-THANG:
8 squares with different exercises.

  • Goblet Squats
  • Dips
  • BBS
  • Merkins
  • Bent Rows
  • Box Jumps
  • Flutter Kicks
  • Decline Merkins

Start on a square and roll the dice. Do the number of reps shown and repeat. When you roll doubles, do double reps and then murder bunny to the next square.

MARY:
Nope.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 HIMs and a 2.0
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Life can feel pretty random when you’re in the middle of it. My own life was extremely random and chaotic in college. Drifting from place to place. Doing random jobs to make ends meet. But when you look back on life, you can see God’s providence at work. For example, all of my seemingly random work and school experience led to a random encounter for a great job which led to moving out here which led to randomly running in the park and randomly joining F3 and randomly dealing with a deep sin issue in my life. You see my point that it’s not really random. God is in control, and whatever random, chaotic, scary thing is going on, you can trust that God is working it out for your good even if it hurts.
MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Lots going on.

3rd F type event at Swerve’s Church

Going away party for Avocado

CSAUP at dog pound

All the stuff for Hardship Hill

How Many Hills Are There?

THE SCENE: Clear sky’s, bright eyes and humid but that’s expected
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Warm up lap around AO. Included Mosey, High Knees, hill kicks, side lunges, lunge stretch, Frankenstein’s
THA-THANG:

The goal of this beatdown was to try and name three of the Hill surrounding the AO. You can only name something after you have experienced it

  • Thang 1-  Blind Man’s Hill ( named for the fact that not only can you barley see the top from the bottom but you also really cant see where you are running when in the gloom)
    • Hill Repeats- Straightforward, Q set a 5 min timer. Sprint up the Hill jog back. The work came from the 7.7% grade of the hill.
  • Thang 2 Second Hill -Cedar St to Anderson St ( Still needs a name possible Cardiac Hill? This was also only half of this hill, it keeps climbing)
    • Dora- 50,75,100- Hip Raises, HR Merkins, Leg Raises. The exercises were straightforward, the 7% grade put the stress on the pax.
  • Thang 3- Third Hill- Anderson St- Gut Check Hill ( Avocado so pointedly pointed out that as your sprinting and you think you are near the top you look up and realize you’re not close and its a real gut check moment)
    • Spartan- pax all starts at the bottom together, Q said go and the pax sprinted up the hill. (Q did win all three races but who is counting.) At the top 10 Merkins and hold plank for the 6. Pax walked back down the hill together, lined up and repeated.

MARY:
20 LBC during the mosey back to the grindstone
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I was reading some quotes about success and motivation. There were three themes that kept sticking out to me in all the quotes. Not only did these themes show up in all the quotes, but than i started to think what all the people that gave these quotes had in common. They are all considered highly successful and respected people. Therefore what i took away is that these three themes really are the keys to success in life.

  • Not having regrets act now!
  • failure is key to success
  • don’t look for others to give you what you want
  • “Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm” Winston Churchill
  • “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong” Benjamin Franklin
  • ” If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on”  Sheryl Sandberg
  • “Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.” Dalai Lama
  • “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing , and be nothing”  Aristotle
  • ” It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you don’t stop” Confucius

The last quote was very meaningful to todays beatdown. We can not stop, we cant question on direction, we must move forward regardless of the of the obstacles in front of you or the negative voices telling you its impossible.

 

MOLESKIN:
Please keep Rep Sleepy in your prayers as he helps his friends family morn their lose.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
22nd is CSUP, Aug 28th 2.0 workout #2, October is Hardship Hill. Need to work on ideas for our obstacle.

It was easier

THE SCENE: Mild
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
1 Cherry Picker
THA-THANG:
Indian Run around the AO, man in front rolls the workout dice. Execute the movement, “water break” read body builders.

Return to the AO press and walk with a CMU between lines doing 10 big boys, 20 triceps extensions, 30 curls and 40 goblet squats.

 

It was easier than Swerve’s Tuesday beatdown.

MARY:
Ab work for time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Comparison is the thief of Joy:

If you watch HGTV too long, you’ll become dissatisfied with your home. If you stay on social media too long, you’ll become dissatisfied with your life. If you watch the news to long you’ll become dissatisfied with the world. Unplug, Pray. Read a book. Spend time with loved ones. Our minds are easily influenced, but you get to choose the influence!
MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

A Hill Worth Dying On

THE SCENE: 67 Degrees of Perfection
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • LBAC x 10 (forwards and backwards)
  • SSH x 20
    THA-THANG:
    We picked up our blocks of woe, aka CMU’s, and moseyed to the Educator, where the pax gathered at the bottom of the hill.
  • At the bottom, we did Grave-digger steps (1 set of grave-diggers per step) to the top of the hill. Then proceeded to 5 stations on the cones.
  • CMU swings x 20, 40, 60
  • CMU curls x 20, 40, 60
  • Big boys x 20, 40, 60
  • Thrusters x 20, 40, 60
  • Goblet squats x 20, 40, 60
  • Carry CMU back to the bottom of the hill and repeat.
  • Most pax were on the 2nd round when recover was called, a few made it to round 3.

MARY:
A nice long CMU carry back to the grinder for the Mary seemed appropriate.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Hundo, Radioshack, Espy, Limbo, Hammy, Pinocchio, Veep, Rep Sleepy, Drifter, Swerve
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Reflected on Psalm 115:4-8 where the Bible indicates that those who make idols become like them. The truth is we all have these in our lives, and we need to strive to identify them, and ask the Lord’s help in removing them.  Our families, our churches, and our communities deserve that we will be men who fight against the pull of idols in our lives.  If you want an example of a time when men didn’t care about this, just read the entire book of Judges, where “everyone did what was right in his own eyes.”  The crazy thing is almost anything can become an idol.  If you wonder what your idol is, just do a little self-diagnosis with this question, “what is the one thing that, if God took it away tomorrow, I couldn’t live without?”  The answer to that question will tell you what your idols are.  We have to put Christ first men, to be who God has called us to be.  If anything else occupies the throne of your heart, then we are headed for trouble.
MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
August 14th, Drifter is speaking at Mt. Olive Baptist in South Knoxville for a Men’s Meating Breakfast at 9:00am.  Join us!!!

Training Day

  • THE SCENE: 67 degrees & the smell of campfire.
    F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
    WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH x15

  • Swimmers x10 IC

  • High knees, side shuffle, bear crawl sidelines of basketball court

  • Tempo Dips x10

    THA-THANG: Q wanted to get some running in to recover from Drifter’s Q as well as train for Hardship Hill.

    Perform set of exercises & then run a lap. Perform exercises then run 2 laps, etc. up to 4 laps then back down.

  • 5 Superman’s  4CT (3 sec hold)

  • 10 Merkins

  • 15 Ab Blasters

  • 20 LBC’s

  • 25 Squats

MARY:
15 tempo dips & hold on 15
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Jim Rohn:

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”

It takes 6 people to lift your casket when you die. Make sure your 6 people are lifting you in life.

Ask yourself: Who are the people you most admire? Who do you spend the most time with? Are those two groups of people the same?

We become like the people that we (choose to) expose ourselves to. It follows that you can accelerate your personal growth in whatever direction you desire by spending time with people who already are who you want to become.