F3 Knoxville

G-6 is Raw and QVC Doesn’t Need Oxygen

THE SCENE:  9000 feet of Colorado Rocky Mountain High. 15% humididty, 25% dust. G-6 in his natural setting, leading father-son camp.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER Sure but is there enough oxygen getting to your brain to understand?
WARM-O-RAMA:

Stole camp van from nonprofit ministry. Drove 1.5 miles on the road up to Cottonwood Lake. Parked, hid keys so nobody else would steal stolen van. QVC did about 30 seconds of what must have been D1-level stretching, so YHC did too. Warm-o-rama complete.

THA-THANG:

  • Ran uphill until Q couldn’t breathe and called for PAX to stop
  • QVC wasn’t even breathing heavy but he stopped anyway.
  • Walked until Q regained consciousness, then resumed run
  • Ran 1.5 mi up to Cottonwood Lake
  • Found a fishing pier on the lake, did baby arm circles forward and back.
  • Merkins to failure
  • 30 squats
  • Ran 1.5 mi back to stolen van. 30 more seconds copying QVC’s D1-level stretching
  • Returned stolen van.

MARY:
Mary is overrated  when there’s no oxygen in the air
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
G6 had so much energy and testosterone that he had to work out separately or he would have hurt us. QVC and Waffle House co-Q. Barney fartsacked twice. Matlock posted the day before, so that counts.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Thinking about how we can better understand and serve our wives.
MOLESKIN:
Special thanks to G6 for hosting us at Spring Canyon. Incredible!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Twofer CMUesday

THE SCENE: Both of my weather apps claimed it was 72°.  The sweat dripping to the ground by the third warmup exercise begged to differ…

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH x25 IC
Failure to Launch x8 IC
Travoltas x15 IC each side
Tie Fighters x10 IC each way
Hindurkins x10 IC
Cossack Squats x16 IC (8 each leg)
Calfkiller (5 sets of 20 calf raises punctuated by runs across the parking lot)

THA-THANG:
Grab a CMU and head around past the ballfields and adjoining parking lot.
Battle buddy up. One PAX does traversing exercise until the other other completes 20 reps of stationary exercise and relieves him.
Switch to next exercise pair after each PAX has done both stationary and traversing twice.
Traversing – Stationary
Bear Crawl w/ CMU Drag – CMU Curl/Press/Tri
Crab Walk carrying CMU – CMU BBS
Farmer Carry (both CMUs) – Merkins (no CMU)
Blockee Broad Jump – Crabette (no CMU)

Ran out of time after just one set of the last exercise… Head back to the AO, stopping at the flagpole for 20 curls OYO

MARY:
No time today
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
6 PAX this morning
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Last week I had the privilege to spend four days with family and good friends in Elkmont. It was a sweet time of disconnecting from phone/internet/tv/etc (no service out there!) and intentionally connecting person to person with others. We can’t always take four days, but I encourage you to try one hour a day in the evening, intentionally disconnecting from distractions and connecting with your family.
MOLESKIN:
Second Tuesday in a row I’ve been on Q out here with CMUs… Is CMUesday gonna be a thing?
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
None today… That I could remember anyway.

Peanut’s Here

THE SCENE: Slightly cloudy, temps in sixties.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

20 Plank Jacks, 10 Pinto Twists, 10 Windmills, 10 Rockettes, 10 Tempo Squats, Michael Phelps
THA-THANG:
Mosey to large parking lot that is south of northern ball fields and north of serpentine sidewalk.  Each man picks up a two bricks.  We will run, with bricks, counter-clockwise around the parking lot, stopping at each cone to do the listed exercise.

  • Cone 1:  10 Mini-man-makers
  • Cone 2:  20 Overhead Presses
  • Cone 3:  20 Wings Up
  • Cone 4:  20 Curls
  • Cone 5:  20 Wings Down
  • Cone 6:  20 Tricepts
  • Cone 7:  20 Wings Out
  • Cone 8:  20 Rows

Run one more time around parking lot with bricks, doing Bernie Sanders during first half and sprinting for the second half (not stopping at cones).  Lunge at semi circles ends of the parking lot.  Then dump bricks back in pile.

Mosey to start of serpentine sidewalk.  We will do 14’s on the sidewalk all the way to the perimeter trail.  We will bear crawl to first light, run for four lights, lunge to next light, run four more, then repeat sequence to perimeter trail.  We will do 20 Imperial Walkers as a group at the perimeter trail.

Mosey on perimeter trail until we reach cardiac hill.  We will run up cardiac hill, performing the following exercises at each of the following areas:

  • Start of cardiac hill:  20 Hello Dollies (four count).
  • Turn 1:  20 American Hammers (four count)
  • Turn 2:  20 Flutter Kicks (four count)
  • Turn 3:  20 Decline Merkins
  • Benches:  20 Bench Dips

Mosey to parking lot by entrance to the northern ball fields.  Go to CMU Pile.  We will do 20 Overhead Presses, 20 Curls, 20 Rows, and 20 Squats with CMUs.

Mosey to northern-most ball field.  We will do the great football throw.  In this, one man runs to first base and then rounds towards second.  The next man must lead him with a pass of the football as he heads to second.  If the ball hits the ground then all men must do five burpees. The ball is passed back and the man who passed the ball is now the receiver going to first and second base with the next man in line being the passer.  The group must do five burpees for any ball that hits the ground on a pass.

Mosey to playground.  We will do elevens at the benches with decline merkins as one exercise and bench hops as the other.

Mosey back to CMU pile.  We will repeat the 20 Overhead Presses, 20 Curls, 20 Rows, and 20 Squats with CMUs.

Mosey to bottom of Mini-Cardiac.  We will Bernie Sanders to No Parking Sign then sprint to the gate at the top of the hill.

Mosey to AO.

MARY:
20 Box Cutters.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Eight men, including P-nut visiting us from UT Martin and Abscess’ dog, Tank.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
How Do We Color Our World?

I recently viewed a quick video by Christian rapper Andy Mineo.  He talked about how he reads scripture to help relieve him from doubt about Christ.  He also talked about how scripture helps to color his world with what is good, with what is right.  And by coloring his world in that way, he then can do more in regards to what is good and right for others, because he is viewing those around him in a way that God wants him to view them.

How do we color our worlds?  Sometimes when I wake up on a work day I do not color my world with much beauty.  I may start off with a stroke that goes like this:  “Crap, another day of work.”

I can chose to color it in a different way.  I can chose to paint my morning this way:  “God, help me to greet others with strength and love today.  Help me to know you are there with me in each and every activity I perform.  Let me hear your voice whispering to me and help me to feel your hand upon me.”

Further, I can read from the bible at the start and/or end of my day.  I can get together with people who will get me in the correct frame of mind and help me to color my world in the right kind of way.  For example, I can go to F3, bust my butt with my brothers, and hear the message within the Circle of Trust that will thrust me forward with a strong spirit to meet the day.

Some of you may remember a song by the group Chicago called “Color My World.”  The last line of the song, directed toward a lover, says “Color my world with hope of loving you.”  What if we were to change the line, thinking of our Father in Heaven, and say, each day, to God “Color my world with the love you have for me.”  Saying that to ourselves may color our day with hope, with strength, with conviction, and with joy.

MOLESKIN:
Prayers for the pregnancy of Small’s wife who is due in mid to late July.  Prayers for Crawdad’s wife, Kaitlin, who is having surgery.

Harness your spirit animal

THE SCENE: humid low 70s
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

10 cherry pickers in cadence

10 baby arm circles in cadence 10 reverse baby arm circles in cadence
THA-THANG:

Sloth crawl to parking lot then 10 supple hip squats

Bear crawl back with high knee lunges 10

Gorilla hops to end then mountain climbers 10  4 count cadence then jog back

3 rounds beat the clock 15 minutes

10 CMU press

10 inch-worms

10 lunges with CMU

20 spider merkins (10 per side)

20 side straddle hops single cadence

We made it in 7:32 seconds

3 Bears bear hug relay

3 people  bear hug carry a sandbag of differing weights  to end of parking lot and back while others are doing an exercise until all have completed their run carrying each bag

Hold my Bear:

4 rounds

Bear crawl with CMU pull throughs

10 CMU bearpies

MARY:

Clean-up

50 Squat

25 LBCs

40 SQuat

20 LBCs

30 squat

15 LBCs

40 squat

20 LBCs

50 Squats

20 LBCs

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Hands Assfault Cheatsheet lillydipper Pele Flashback Waffle House Husker
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Be a wolf
Be a Lion

Take nothing for granted Set goals

Be a better person

 

Gibbler is Always Ready

THE SCENE: The kind of morning where nobody signed up for Q
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER No but he lack of Q could be read as a meditation on the meaning of the word “volition”
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH x 30 IC. Rocky Balboas on the curb. Squats.
THA-THANG:
Let’s get it out of the way that nobody signed up for Q. Normally that might precipitate some real Headlocking, Iron Sharpening, or High-Impact soul searching, but for the Tuesday AM crowd it’s an opportunity. Gibbler’s always the fastest out of the gate, and he took the Q quicker than anybody else could. Considering his travel schedule, YHC estimates that he Qs at 83% of the mornings he posts. This morning, on the fly, he cooked up:

  • An unholy pyramid of table rows, Irkins, and three other things I can’t remember and don’t want to remember
  • Calf raises (Gotta keep those Legs Crabby)
  • A boatload of Bulgarian squats, step ups (don’t judge, youngsters…your back will one day deteriorate like ours), and bicycle kicks. Imagine what kind of mind can think up this kind of torture on the spot.

YHC wanted to be Gibbler’s understudy so we invited Jack Webb to the party. We tried Ascending Testicles (probably not a repeat), and picked up the CMUs. Mixed in with some burpees and bernie, that took us home.

MARY:
Not when your timing is as good as Gibbler’s
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

MOLESKIN:
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