F3 Knoxville

Tag: Waxjob

Hello my name is Kraken

THE SCENE: upper 60’s and clear

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER


WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH x 20
  • Tempo Merkins x 10
  • Cherry Pickers x 5
  • Rockettes x 10
  • OYO stretches

THA-THANG:

Attack of the Kraken.   8 cones in a circle.  Pick a cone as your starting point, complete the exercise for that cone, then run around the circle with your CMU to the next cone.  Goal is complete 2 full laps (16 stations).

Lap 1 exercises:

  • CMU lunge to sign & back
  • 8-count body builder x 25
  • CMU deltoid raise x 50
  • CMU flutter kick (4ct) x 50
  • CMU goblet squat x 50
  • Spread eagle merkin x 50
  • CMU calf raise x 100
  • Nose wipers x 25

Lap 2 exercises:

  • Bear crawl around circle
  • CMU squat/press x 50
  • CMU overhead press x 50
  • CMU american hammer (4ct) x 50
  • Jump squats x 50
  • Diamond merkins x 50
  • Mountain climber (4ct) x 50
  • Shoulder taps (4ct) x 50

MARY:
n/a

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
19 this morning:  Ski Dog, La-Z-Boy, Bowflex, Tweet-E, Nook (fng), Aladdin, Biscuits, Air Ball, Waxjob, Troller, Ribbed, Homebody, Ladyfingers, Driftwood, Mudpuppy, Turtle, Mayberry, Yo-yo, Bartman

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Read from John 15 in which Jesus teaches by using the vine/branches analogy.  I focused my attention this morning on abiding in Christ.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
For those who drive to the Dog Pound via Concord Rd, a section of Concord Rd near the roundabout at Northshore will be closed from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. on Aug. 5, 6, 9 and 10

Taking the ‘Next Step’

THE SCENE:

Nice and warm
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
– Cherry pickers (4ct IC) x5
– SSH (4ct IC) x20
– some of these/some of those
– bent over back stretch

-Mosey

5 T-merkins
5 Navy seal burpees

-Mosey

THA-THANG:

-field suicides (end line, 18 yard, 50 yard, opposite 18 yard, full field)
-> navy seal burpees (5)
-> bear crawl
-> T merkins (10)
-> run back
-> Navy seal burpees (5)
-> bearcrawl
-> air squats (50)
-> run back
-> Navy seal burpees (5)
-> lunge
-> T merkins (10)
-> run back
-> Navy seal burpees (5)
-> run full field
-> Navy seal burpees (5)
->Run back
-> abs until six gets back

 

60 seconds on 20 seconds off

->Abs

->Tire flips

->Abs
->Rope tire pulls

->Abs
->Weighted jumping jacks with battle rope

->Abs
->Plate ground to overhead

->Abs
->Single arm KB clean

->Abs
->Overhead DB lunges

->Abs

->American hammers

MARY:

3 sets of 30 sec handstand holds

Variations: Handstands, Elevated pike position, CDD

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Today I wanted to get everyone doing something different than what we normally do. One of the key points of F3 is to grow ourselves and help others grow.

We focused on that ‘Next Step’ today, being better than we were yesterday. I bet if I asked you yesterday if you could do the workout you just did that you would say that you couldn’t do it. This was meant to be the “progress, not perfection mentality”.

To often do we find ourselves becoming comfortable with where we are and not taking that next step. Just because we feel like we aren’t getting closer to that next plateau. We are farther than we were.

So an example I saw that really had a profound effect is the distance we have to get to God. So every time we take that step toward God, so does God. So even though we are still some distance away from God, we are much farther away from Sin than we were. And every day we can take this next step and be somewhere that we thought was impossible.

MOLESKIN:
Clothing donation for Mend’s house. Ask Tank or Doubtfire.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Welcome FNG Freshman

Classics

THE SCENE: Warm & muggy

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER


WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH x 10
  • Tempo Merkins x 10
  • Tempo Squats x 10
  • This/that stretches
  • Cherry Pickers x 5
  • A few burpees sprinkled in….

THA-THANG:

  • 7’s on the hill – Squat Jumps at top, Lunges at bottom
  • Mini seabiscuit around the long island.  10 burpees, 10 merkins, 10 dips at designated intervals.
    • Had to call an audible on this…I’ve been out of the gloom for a few months and I was smoked….if you can’t do it, don’t Q it!!
  • Moseyed back to the pee rocks for some DORA:  100 OH Press, 100 Curls, 100 Goblet Squats.   Partner runs to gate & does 5 merkins.   Maintained social distance and no rock sharing.

MARY:

Dealers choice:

  • Hello Dolly x 20 – QIC
  • Side Crunches – Waxjob
  • Big Boys – Frosty
  • Freddie Mercury – Butters

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
17 strong:  Homebody, Driftwood, SkiDog, Mayberry, Yo-yo, Excitebike, Tweet-E, Junk, Waxjob, Frosty, Butters, Biscuits, Wagon Wheel, Snitch, La-Z-Boy, Turtle, Bartman
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Talked about a recent 10 year study that showed men who can crank out 40+ merkins in a single setting are 95% less likely to develop heart disease.   Do your merkins!!

MOLESKIN:

I’ve been out for a while with a busy work and family schedule.   Great to be back in the gloom with you men on a regular basis….even better to be able to lead today.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

JUCO REFORMED

THE SCENE: Nice and steamy.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER  ✔
WARM-O-RAMA:
Cherry Pickers, Merkins, Squats, Burpees – all in perfect form
THA-THANG:

  • Large Parking Lot – Stops at Every Line (10 Lines) – Round 1: 5 Perfect Merkins (50 total), Round 2: 5 Perfect Squats (50 total), Round 3: 2 Perfect Burpees with clap at top (20 total)
  • Sophomore Hill – Two groups, Each runs to the top for Round 1: 10 Perfect Merkins, Round 2: 5 Perfect Burpees with clap at top.  (Group was split to maintain Covid Distance)
  • Coupon Pile – Partner Up for “Bo Knows” – P1 holds squat against the wall with coupon extended, P2 does 100 High Knees.  Round 2: 50 High Knees.
  • With Coupon – 30 Curls, 30 Tricep Extensions  (perfect form, nice and slow)
  • Newer Parking Lot – Short Leadership Lesson – to be a good leader, you must be a good follower first – even when it sucks………….Bear Crawl across the entire lot.
  • Mosey back to Shovel Flag

MARY:
No time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
10 Strong
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Q talked about the importance of discipline maintaining proper form during exercises, something JUCO is going to emphasize from now on.  This discipline transitions into everyday life, to include our walk with Christ. Q emphasized believers need to be bold in sharing their faith, something that can be costly at times – even at the cost of close relationships with family in the Q’s case.  Most people are one relationship away from hope that is found in Jesus.  Do you love him? Do you talk about him with others? God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him. BE BOLD.
MOLESKIN:
The PAX worked hard and noticed a difference in the amount of reps they could complete when they paid attention to form.  Great lesson and one we will continue to hold each other accountable on.  If you are cheating at the workouts, you are likely cheating in other areas of your life.  Let’s Go!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
N/A

Hold the Line

THE SCENE: 76 w/ 100% humidity.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH and Tempo Squats IC x21 Each, Cherry pickers x5,

THA-THANG:

Hold the Line:
21s – Merkins and Single Leg Squats
  • when done, Star Jacks/Burpees til 6 up
  • Duck walk or Lunge across the court together
21 gun salute
  • 21 curls, OHP, triceps x 5

MARY:
Dealer’s choice x3min.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
16 PAX

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Man A Post vs Hold the Line
To man a post is a good thing. You stand your ground against incursion protecting a defined territory. The challenge is, you can forget why you are on the post, and instead be motivated by the need to dominate and succeed or by your innate fear of failure and incompetence. You can end up focusing on the task as it relates to you only.
I have spent most of my life manning a post. Trying to be successful, competent and do what is right…at least when someone is looking. When I got married the post changed, and it did again when we started having kids, but I was still manning a post.
A year ago tomorrow Kim started chemo for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and we had no idea how much help we would need. We were still in a “man the post” mentality and I took the day of chemo off and prepared to head back to work the next day. She came downstairs and couldn’t keep her eyes open. I quickly called a friend who had been through chemo a few years before and she came over within 20 minutes. Hannah Jackson held the line with us.
2 weeks later we had moved out of our home (with the much needed help of F3 men) and were staying with Mayberry and his crew as our house was finished up. We hit the second treatment, while staying at their house. Kim’s hair started falling out, she was a wreck so they gave us their master bathroom so I could shave her head. That was the single worst experience of my entire life, but they held the line with us, and we cried and laughed around the fireplace together afterward.
Manning a post is about personal responsibility, personal ability, personal integrity and can get confused with pride, self-congratulations and pseudo-independence.
Holding the line is about everyone else. It is about whom you are protecting, what you are protecting against and with whom you are locking shields.
You can man a post WHILE holding the line but don’t get confused, the post is important, not because of the importance of the man on the post, but because the LINE is important,. Look for ways to hold the line with the HIMs around you, and even more with and for the sad clowns who don’t know they need the help, protection and comfort. Don’t just man a post…hold the line.

MOLESKIN:
It was gross out this morning, slimy and sultry, but the men out in hard work. Even when we did the 21 guns, they kept pushing for the most part. This was my first Q in a long time, and it was worth it.