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Blasters and BOMBS

THE SCENE: 22* which would have felt like summer compared to the last few days if not for the WIND
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Quick lap around the world’s fair lawn to get everyone moving.
SSH x 20 IC
Merkins x10 (on 4 count) IC
Imperial Walkers x11 IC
THA-THANG:
PAX mosey out behind amphitheater, and pause at the first pedestrian bridge for a round of leg blasters.  All exercises done in cadence with no breaks.  Squats x20, lunges x20 (10 each leg), jump squats x10.  Recover and continue mosey to parking lot behind Min Kao building on campus.  PAX partner up for BOMBS routine.  Dora style, partner one runs up and back down ramp while the other partner performs exercises.  Once the partner running makes it back to the parking lot, they pick up in exercises and partner two runs.  Each pair of partners performs:

  • Burpees x50
  • Outlaws x100
  • Merkins x150
  • BBS x200
  • Squats x250

PAX who finish early begin planks, pushups, and Mary.  Once most of the PAX completes BOMBS, we do another round of leg blasters waiting for the last pair to complete.  10 count to recover.  Mosey back to AO.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
10 PAX total: G6, Gretzky (FNG), Petey, Swanson, Waxjob, Careless, Operation (FNG), Filter, Steam, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today… The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”

Make today count, and leave no doubt.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Saturday beatdowns at Big Ball resume in two Saturdays.

Bucket List

THE SCENE: Clear and, what, maybe 8°? 9°?  Who’s counting?.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Let’s get warm quick!
5 Burpees OYO
15 Imperial Squat Walkers IC
5 Burpees OYO
15 Hindurkins IC
5 Burpees OYO
1 Windbreaker (solo exercise by Q)
15 Firecrackers IC (similar to Smurf Jacks)

Mosey to Waxjob’s Hill
(Q alerts PAX to the presence of speed bump by tripping and falling flat)
5x down hill and immediately back up, 5x 4ct Merkins IC at the top each time.
First trip up sprint, next 3 Bernie, final trip sprint
(3rd was planned as reverse bear crawl, but frosty grass deemed too dangerous for digits)

THA-THANG:
Mosey on around outside of the park to the Scrapyard stairs.
Hop up stairs on one leg. Turn around and mosey back to the street, then back and hop stairs on other leg.

Mosey across grinder to meet Sandy: a bright orange 5 gallon bucket filled with 60lb of sand.
Bucket contains a list of exercises:
Merkins
Mtn Climbers
LBCs
Flutter Kicks
SSH
PAX split into 2 groups of 5. One group sets up at cones 60yd away.
Both groups start doing top exercise.
One man carries bucket to other line and stays there. Another man carries the bucket back to original line. R&R
Whenever bucket arrives at line, PAX switch to next exercise.
Continue until all PAX have made 2 trips

Cooldown: Mosey one lap around the park, pause halfway for 2 sets of 20 dips and 20 squats

MARY:
Circle up for:
20 Reverse Crunch IC
15 Side Crunch IC each side
4 rounds of Row Your Boat
Merkin ring of fire – 5 to 1
16 Tempo Cossack Squat

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Largest gathering of HIMs in the Knoxville area this morning: 10 strong!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Not so wordy this morning to avoid becoming a sweatcicle.  As we start this year, remember Paul’s words in Philippians 3:13: “Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”  We all want to forget the bad parts of the past, but Paul here is not talking about that.  He just got done listing all of his own accomplishments done in the flesh, and how they are not of worth.  Don’t rest on things you’ve done.  Forget that past as well, and press forward for His calling!
MOLESKIN:
Coldest day of the year was no problem for these guys.  Killed it hard.  Icicles were forming on beards from breath condensation, but everyone was sweating by the end.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Burpee Land

THE SCENE: 32 and mostly cloudy. But is it really 32?  Seems warmer than that for some reason.  Maybe because we’re comparing to Thursday’s 18…
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x20 IC
Hindurkins x15 IC
AGTJ x8 (I think… Fast-N-Easy said it was 9)
LBAC x20 each way IC
Box Cutters x20 IC

Super Mario style! Run and box jump all 20 Goombas lined up in front of the school!

THA-THANG:
Mosey over to the entrance of the park for a rousing game of Burpee Land.
Starting at Card #1, do the number of burpees corresponding to card number, then follow the instructions on the card:

1. Turn right, Lunge to the next card

2. -Mosey 1 full lap around the park
-20 Dips, 20 BBS, R&R
-Bunny Hop to next card

3. -Mosey 1 lap
-7’s on the hill – Diamond Merkins and Squat Jumps
Up the hill: Sprint, Bernie, Backward Bear (repeat)
-Burpee Broad Jump to the next card

4. -Sprint 1 lap and go to the splash pad

5. -15 4-count Monkey Humpers IC
-15 4-count Side Crunch each side IC
-15 more Monkey Humpers IC
-Crab walk to the Pavalon

6. -5 Leg-Up each leg
-10 Derkins from the bench
-10 Leg-Up each leg
-10 Derkins from the tabletop
-Bear crawl to the splash pad for

7. -20 Burpees For the Win!

MARY:
30s of Star Gazers after those burpees!
Mary right here at the splash pad:
Flutter Kicks x25 IC
LBC x25 IC
Leg Pushdown Ring of Fire
4-3-2-1 Merkin Ring of Fire
One more lap around the park to pick up the cards

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5 players in the game this morning, no FNGs
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Playing the game this morning was a little bit like our Christian walk… Everyone read the cards and followed the instructions, but I was also there alongside, and I knew exactly where we were going and what was coming next.  For real life, we have written instruction that we can follow to the best of our ability, but we also have the Holy Spirit within us, walking with us.  He knows the beginning, middle, and end. He knows what’s written on all your cards because He wrote them.  And they’re for our good, because He loves us.  Sometimes it’s difficult, but we need to make the choice daily to trust Him.
MOLESKIN:
Fun morning getting to work with these men! Worked hard playing hard!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Start training for Alcoa CSAUP! End of February…

Frozen Chosen

THE SCENE: 17 degrees, clear…yup, straight up cold.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Cherry Pickers (Cadre Danny style)

Merkin x 10 (4ct) IC

SSH x 25 IC
THA-THANG:
Four cones: Run to cone, perform exercise, run backwards to start, then run to next cone.

  • 25 yrd cone = 25 merkin
  • 50 yrd cone = 50 squat
  • 75 yrd cone = 75 Mtn Climbers (single ct)
  • 100 yrd cone = 100 SSH

Deconstructed Burpee: 10:1 Exercise. Squat, leg thrusts, merkin, leg thrusts (10 of each, then 9, 8, 7, etc)

Suicides: Same four cones. Sprint to each cone and run backwards back to start. Complete 5, 10, 15, 20 merkin working through cones.

Ascending Curb Crawls: Bear crawl between curbs in driveway and perform merkin each time you cross to other side. First time across 1 merkin and keep adding 1 merkin each time you cross until reaching 13.

MARY:
100s (20), Crunchy Frog (15), WWII sit-ups (25), flutters (20). Final Sprint.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
FNG – David Eubanks (Dilbert)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Read Matthew 1:1-17 about the Genealogy of Christ. We also have a great pedigree. We are sons of the Living God. We live here on His earth and represent Him. As we head into the new year remember who we represent. All our words, actions, and thoughts should be pleasing to Him. We are not perfect but we need to remember who we represent. The World is watching.
MOLESKIN:
Matthew 1:1-17
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Wax Job will be on Q Saturday 12/30/17. Our Coffeteria is closed until after the New Year. Wax Job will choose where to meet after Post.

Many Happy Returns

THE SCENE: Some sort of 20’s… But dry and calm so it’s not really cold.  Except them stones!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH IC x30
Cossack Squat Tempo IC x16 (8 each leg)
Hindurkins x15 IC
Al Gore Tuck Jump x7 (I thinK)
LBAC IC x20 Fwd, x20 Bwd
OK, time to open the present! Box Cutters IC x30

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the Pee Rock pile to pick out your gift – CMU-ish pee rock
Great… Now you have to pretend you love it. Hold it proudly above your head for a lap around the parking lot!
Drop this one in a parking spot, head over and grab 2 hand-size pee rocks. Drop in adjacent spot

Pick up the CMU-size pee rock, move about 20 yards away and form 2 single-file lines.
Now it’s time to wait in line to exchange your gift.
To pass the time waiting in line, do an exercise. Start with curls.
First man in each line runs to the service desk to exchange CMU-size for 2 hand-size and a new exercise.
He heads to the back of the line and the next PAX makes the exchange. When 2-rocks gets back to the front, run down and switch to 1-rock and a new exercise:

One Rock Two Rocks
Curl Man Makers
Fwd Shoulder Raise Side Raise
Rows Wax On/Off
Tricep Extension Raise the Roof
Goblet Squat Bent Over Side Raise

MARY:
Standing in line always takes longer than you think… No time for Mary this morning!
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
14 PAX, no FNGs
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
We exchanged gifts with my in-laws on Christmas Eve night.  They headed home, and then the next morning we found the gift cards that we’d given them sitting on the side table where they had left them.  It made me think about the fact that just being offered a gift isn’t everything. You have to reach out and take it, a conscious act of receiving.  Some of God’s gifts we just get (and often take for granted), no acknowledgement or recognition required.  A sunrise, our next breath, a baby’s laugh… But His greatest gift requires an act of receiving or it just sits there like my in-laws’ gift cards. Theirs for the taking, yet unused.  Be sure you’re not leaving God’s greatest gift for you sitting on the table.
MOLESKIN:
That circuit took much longer than I expected… I was thinking we’d run through it twice, then maybe I’d need to fill the time with some 7’s or something… Not so! Made it about 97% through once before we ran out of time.

Gonna be feeling a tingle in the fingertips all morning from the freezing pee rocks!

Great to be out this morning with my F3 brothers working off some of that goo!  Coffeeteria was a good unwind as well.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
February 24th – Bomb Shelter CSAUP!