F3 Knoxville

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Burpeelicious 2.0

THE SCENE: mid 30s and clear
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
15 SSH, 15 Mountain climbers, 10 tempo Merkins, 15 Moroccan night club, 10 tempo squats, 10 harry Rockettes, 5 cherry pickers
THA-THANG:
Mosey towards the Sophomore stopping halfway for 5 8-count body builders.  Continue mosey. 15 flutter kicks in cadence. At the Sophomore, perform the following exercises (one at each corner). Burpees and breaking down the burpee.

  • Bernie Sanders up the hill
  • 20 squats and run to next corner
  • 20 merkins and run down to the next corner
  • 20 leg thrusts and run back to start for 10 burpees
  • repeat 2 more times

Mosey to coupon pile and complete 15 squat, curl, press, and tricep extensions in one motion. Complete 5 Prison Cell Merkin burpees and run up the stairs for 5 pull-ups.  AMRAP.

Mosey towards the flag. Stop part way for some Freddie Mercury and continue mosey. Line up for a bear crawl inch worm. Jailbreak to the flag.

MARY:
No time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 at JUCO this morning.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Passivity can be both a good and a bad quality. It can be a peace-keeping quality between spouses or other family members. It is a submissive quality when it comes to submitting to the will of God or submitting to a fellow Christian’s preference on a matter of opinion.

“and while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously;”

1 Peter 2:23 NASB

Passivity is a bad quality if it prevents you from the action that may be necessary. Action is needed when standing up for the truth or when disciplining children. Also, when supporting your M and being the husband God calls us to be. This is something that YHC struggles with. I tend to be passive a lot of the time. I prefer to stay away from confrontation. I have come to realize that this may have stifled my growth as a follower of Christ. So, I challenge all of us to be men of action. Whether that be taking action to stand up for what is right or making an active choice to submit, be men of action.

MOLESKIN:
Reach out to those you haven’t seen in a while.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Don’t forget about the donation opportunity this month.

Good to be back

THE SCENE: 28 and dry.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Check, check, and check.
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Lap around the parking lot and straight to Recruiting Center.
  • SSH
  • tempo Squats
  • LBAC (fwd/back)
  • Cherry Pickers X5
  • Whatever other warmup/stretch you need while I set up the workout.

THA-THANG:

  1. 20-15-10 (Reps with CMU)
  • Curls
  • Thrusters
  • Tricep Extensions
  • Squats
  • LAP around parking lot w/CMU

2. FLORA 1-2-3

  • 100 Merkins while partner holds plank
  • switch every 10
  • LAP around parking lot w/CMU
  • 200 LBC while partner holds 6″ leg lift w/CMU (directly overhead or extended back)
  • switch every 20
  • LAP around parking lot w/CMU
  • 300 Squats w/CMU while partner holds CMU Gore
  • switch every 25
  • LAP around parking lot w/CMU

3. 10’s
• 10 Single arm rows (each side) – Mosey CMU to curb and back
• 10 Lunges (each leg) – Mosey CMU to curb and back
• 10 Good Mornings + 10 BBS– Mosey CMU to curb and back
• 10 Uneven Merks (each side) – Mosey CMU to curb and back
• 10 Kettle swings + 10 Overhead Calf Raises – Mosey CMU to curb and back
RECOVER FOR TIME – MOSEY BACK TO SHOVEL FLAG

MARY:
We had some time for a few: Freddy Mercury, Dolly, Basilisk.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CRAZY 8 – special shoutout to Wanderer and Miss Fire – welcome back to The Project – way to crush it!

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
What lessons are you still learning from the events of 2020-2021? With the world overturned by the pandemic, politics, social upheaval and violence, I have felt the deep need for more inner silence and stillness. However, being cooped up last year with continuing implications to the present day are no guarantee that we have achieved stillness or silence in our hearts and minds. We know this to be true. Out of the lessons that God is teaching me, I have felt pressed to keep leaning into these lessons which have become promises and blessings of God’s presence and peace. I have to keep rehearsing them, speaking them, reaffirming my faith in God’s strength, wisdom, and grace. In keeping with this practice of speaking blessing and promise over my life, my wife and I pray this blessing adapted from Deuteronomy over our children: “God, we ask that you would cause him [her/us] to flourish; cause him to be above and not below, the head and not the tail, a leader and not a follower, a giver and not a borrower; may he be blessed in order to be a blessing to others.” What do you need to speak out loud over your life? Over your marriage, children, and home? Over your work and your ministry? Learn your lessons. Speak blessing over all whom God has given you.

MOLESKIN:
Just turned 47 – respect is just a few years away! Can’t say how much it means to work out with these guys.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Coffeeteria @ Dunkins!

A Waxjob Classic

THE SCENE:  50 and a little drizzly.  Perfect!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:  Administered
WARM-O-RAMA:

Cherry pickers
Michael Phelps
Knee Tap Merkins x 10 IC
Mountain climbers

Quick mosey – stop for flutter kicks

Quick mosey – stop for Hello Dolly

THA THANG:

(Hat tip to Waxjob – he led this Q two years ago)

Mosey to the Tomo courtyard with a couple of stops along the way.

Split into 2 teams. Each team has an list of exercises.

One die with numbers 1,2,3.

One team rolls the die. That’s the number of laps up the stairs and back around.

While that team runs the laps, other team works through the exercises until laps are completed.

When entire team returns from laps, other team rolls.

When list is complete, set up a cone as a counter and start again.

See how many times each team can work through the list.

Exercises:

  • 15 Merkins
  • 15 4-ct Monkey Humpers
  • 15 Carolina Dry Docks
  • 10 Iron Mikes (each leg)
  • 20 Flutter Kicks
  • 10 Squat Jumps
  • 20 BBS
  • 10 Burpees
  • 20 4-ct Mtn Climbers

Mosey to the guardrail for 15 chest-tap merkins + 25 dips

Then to the big lot.  Sprint to 10 islands, stopping at each for a burpee

MARY:

Single file shuttle run back to the flag.  Every 10 seconds, front man falls off and does freddy mercury until the back of the line passes.  As you pass the man on the ground, shout out his F3 name.

Sleeping hillbillies L&R IC

Boat and canoe – Waxjob Classic

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

17 for the bootcamp + 2 rushers

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Almost 2 years ago, I came to my first JUCO F3 bootcamp and Waxjob led that awesome workout.  I was hooked – and JUCO has been a special part of my life ever since.  The Word this morning was about how unique and special this group is…

Early in the biblical story of Daniel, the nation of Babylon besieges Jerusalem – plundering the Temple of God and kidnapping some members of noble families.  Among the captives brought back to Babylon, where they would be taught to rule like Babylonians, were Daniel and his three friends; Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.  Once in captivity, they were given Babylonian names in order to conform to the culture; Belteshazzar, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego – and they were placed into service of Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar.

Two years later, Nebuchadnezzar had a nightmare and issued a threat to his sorcerers and counselors (whom Daniel/Belteshazzar was then among), “Tell me what my dream was and what it means – or you’ll be torn limb from limb and your houses destroyed…”  Picking up in Daniel 2:17-18, “Then Daniel went home and told his friends Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah what had happened.  He urged them to ask the God of heaven to show them his mercy by telling them the secret, so they would not be executed along with the other wise men of Babylon.” .  Daniel urged his friends to pray with him in his time of need.  Did you catch what Daniel called his friends?  When he needed true friends, Daniel found the men whom he knew in a special way.  He had a history with these men, and he called them by the names that few others in Babylon knew them as; Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

At JUCO, we call you by another name and we know you as few others do.  The only people who call you by your F3 name are the men who come out in the gloom with you…and they know you as a man who pushes himself to be better each day.  Those men do burpees in the rain with you…they sweat with you… they challenge you…they pray with you….  It is such a unique and special thing, and I don’t know of a better group of men out there.  Nowhere else do you see men doing what we do out here.

My challenge this morning was simple: To get all the benefits of F3, be engaged with this unique tribe.  It’s not about showing up for workouts, but about really having a community of men to live your life with.  If you’re not now, then how?  Start by sticking around after the photo to talk with another HIM about something besides the workout – family, life, struggles, victories, vacation plans – whatever…  Text some of these men throughout the week.  Post something on Slack for all of us to see.  Share a meal with another HIM – preferably including your families.  Live life together.

F3 JUCO is a special community of special men.  I’m grateful to know you all and want to you feel like part of a unique team.

Proverbs 27:17

Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

MOLESKIN:

Prayers for Booster’s father and mother-in-law.  Prayers for Sty’s employee.

Cosmo is the Trivia King.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Keep the donations for Safe Haven coming through the end of the month!

We didn’t melt…

THE SCENE: A wet 55 degrees.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
Good morning!
You gentlemen are here for F3. That stands for fitness, fellowship, & Faith. This is a free workout. You are here on your own volition. I do not know your injuries. Modify if necessary. Modification does not always mean backing down if something is too easy, I encourage you to add on. Covid guidelines make sure you maintaining 6 feet of space and we will not be sharing equipment. Let’s get started!

WARM-O-RAMA:
Side straddle hop in cadence 20
10 Windmills in cadence
10 tempo merkins
Arm rotations thumbs up in cadence
Reverse thumbs down in cadence
Cherry Pickers
Side straddle hop in cadence 20
THA-THANG:

  • Mosey to the large parking lot w/ the person up front falling off for 2 burpees after a 5 count
  • Soccer drill on the curb
  • Walking lunges to the next line 1 burpee
    Bernie back

    Sprint two lines 2 burpees
    Bernie back

    Bear crawl back to the 2nd line
    Flutter Kicks x20
    Repeat from new starting point

  • Mosey with the person in the back weaving to the front to the coupon pile
  • 10 Blockees run up the stairs and do 5 pull ups
  • 20 Thrusters run up the stairs and do 5 pull ups
  • 30 Curls run up the stairs and do 5 pull ups
  • Flutter kicks in cadence
  • Mosey to the flag stopping for flutter kicks and Freddy Mercury

MARY:
Mucho Chesto

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Use the TAGS on right-side to record PAX (BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOURSELF) in attendance. Be sure to select the AO in CATEGORY above TAGS and then delete these notes!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
So what’s the #1 commandment? Put God first.
What did Jesus say was the 2nd most important commandment?
Love thy neighbor as much as you love thyself.
Why is this so difficult?! That’s a question. Why?!
Our neighbor doesn’t necessarily mean our next door neighbor. It could be anyone we encounter.
The truth is, we don’t know what someone is going through and a simple act of kindness or a smile can be a game changer.
I challenge you to be kind to everyone you encounter this week. Volunteer your time to help someone , give blood, a simple smile can go a long way. Do it even if you don’t get a “Thank you” or a smile back. That’s not why you’re doing this!
MOLESKIN:
Matthew 22:34-40
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

Pelli Pond Circuit

THE SCENE: A bit cool for this time of year, but all good

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH
Windmill
Merkins
Mt Climbers
Catalina Wine Mixer
Tempo Squat
Captain Thor
Burpos

THA-THANG:

Indian Run/Last Man Up
– Circuit Training at the Pond
— Station 1 = 10 Burpos
— Station 2 =10 Catalina Wine Mixer
— Station 3 = 10:40 Captain Thor
— Station 4 = 20 Merkins
4 laps

MARY: No Time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Prov 6:16-19
16There are six things that the Lord hates,
seven that are an abomination to him:
17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
and hands that shed innocent blood,
18 a heart that devises wicked plans,
feet that make haste to run to evil,
19 a false witness who breathes out lies,
and one who sows discord among brothers.

MOLESKIN:
Anger should be controlled except in the area of sin; we should hate sin as much as God does.  Direct your anger towards sin (not the sinner) and realize how important that is in part of the sanctification process – abhor sin in the way our Father does and we’ll be less likely to repeat it.