F3 Knoxville

Get Low

THE SCENE: Low 50s and slightly overcast.  A number of hoodies present… Must be expecting a pretty low-key beatdown.  YHC came in on two wheels due to unplanned meeting with John, but at least Stu didn’t show up during the beatdown.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
A bit abbreviated, but mostly there. No FNGs… Let’s Get Low
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH Smurf Jacks x10 IC
Cherry Pickers x6 IC
Peter Parkers
Failure to Launch x8 IC
Freestyle Swims x15 IC
Hand Release Merkins x10 OYO

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the lowest point of the AO at the bottom of the stairs by the docks.
30 Merkins
Up the first set of stairs
60 BBS
Up to the rock
90 Overhead Claps

Mosey to the base of the Matterhorn
Balls-to-the-wall sprint to the top to earn 30s stargazer

Gather in the Pavalon and partner up for some Dora:
30 8-Count Body Builders
60 Super Mario step-ups (60 each leg)
90 6″ LBCs (hold feet 6″ off the ground)
Partner Gets Low and crawls under picnic tables Audible: lots of glass on the floor. Run to top of hill and back

Mosey back to the rock for:
30 Bobby Hurleys
Down to the landing
60 Single-ct shoulder taps
Down to the bottom
90 SSH
Out of time! Mosey back to the AO.
MARY:
Just enough time for about 20s of low plank.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 HIMs this morning
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I must admit, as research for this Q I checked out the video for the “song” Get Low.  I can’t say there was much of anything of value there.  But, God actually has quite a bit to say about getting low. Here’s just one of them:

    Mark 9:33-35

And they came to Capernaum. And when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?” But they kept silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest. And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, “If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”

This isn’t some sort of weird race where the slowest person who happens to be last is unexpectedly declared the winner at the end. This is a conscious choice, a decision to humble yourself and serve others. Get low. As usual, we get the ultimate example:

    Philippians 2:5-8

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

How will you Get Low today?

MOLESKIN:
When I was planning this Q, the whole “Get Low” theme started with the idea of low-crawling under the picnic tables.  And that’s the one exercise we didn’t do… Next time I’ll bring the leaf blower to the Pavalon…
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
F3 Cleveland Launch next week! Also, Mend House workoutreach Monday at 6. May parlay into Fountain City AO…

Grinders and Circuits

THE SCENE
51 and clear but wet

 

Welcome & Disclaimer

 

THE THANG
COP
SSH x30 (IC)
Imperial Squat Walkers x15 (IC)
Merkins x15 (IC)
4ct Side Lunges x15(IC)
Dive Bombers x15 (IC)
BAC Fwd x12 (IC)
BAC Bkwd x12 (IC)

Mosey to the curb.

 

Grinders
Partner up with Battle Buddy.  Battle Buddy lunges to the first cone, then sprints to 2 second cone, does 2 reps of the exercise while Battel Buddy 2 is jumping air rope.  Switch.

Each round increase by 2 reps until each man does a total of 8 reps.  Three rounds:

  • Rd 1 = Diamond Merkins
  • Rd 2 = Squat Jumps
  • Rd 3 = Dry Docks

Mosey to pavilion area and circle up around the flag pole.

 

Circuit Corners
Divide up and head to 4 Stations.  Compete AMRAP in 15 min.

  • S1: 15 Burpees / 20 Reverse Pickle Pounders
  • S2: 20 Superman Swims/ 20 4ct Flutter Kicks
  • S3: 10 Chin-ups / 25 Prisoner Squats
  • S4: 25 Derkins / 20 Let Me Ups

Mosey back to SP and circle up

 

MARY
American Hammers  x20 (IC)
Merkins x10 OYO
4ct Box Cutters x20 (IC)
Merkins x10 OYO
Right Side Crunches x15 (IC)
Left Side Crunches x15 (IC)
Merkins x10 OYO

 

COT
Number off and Name-O-Rama – 27 PAX

 

BOM

High Wind Advisory Stand In Q

THE SCENE:

At 4:30am, the alarm sounded along with a massive amount of noise from the heavy rain and high wind.  GroupMe messages started flying around to see if the QIC (Frosty) was going to cancel the workout.  A few shameful posts later and YHC drug himself out of the house in the now misty morning.  After arriving at the AO, YHC found no one in sight and again began the troll on GroupMe.  Many were attempting to arrive only to be turned around or forced back to the fartsack due to downed trees and blocked roadways.  Three vigilant PAX included YHC were able to post.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

Welcome and quick disclaimer due to lost time waiting on PAX to arrive

WARM-O-RAMA:
Short warm-up included the following:

  • SSH – IC x 20
  • Cherry Pickers – IC x 10

THA-THANG:
Due to the spontaneous Q to cover for Frosty, YHC pulled out the FitDeck Exercise Playing Cards.  Pulling one at a time, the PAX made it through around 30 cards before having to call it quits for the morning.  There was no shortage of soaking up the surrounding water, stretching out on all four sides getting better together.  A good amount of mumble chatter occurred along with the surrounding sounds of falling branches and trees.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
3 PAX including YHC (I-Beam), WaxJob and Bueller

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Listened to a good audiobook this week by Billy Crystal and Kevin Cline called “Have a Nice Day”.  The story told of a the final day of a man, actually the POTUS, who was contacted by the Grimm Reaper early one morning.  After some convincing, he was allowed to finish out the day to address some family matters that were incomplete.  The moral of the story was “live every day as if it were your last.”

Legs Run Legs

THE SCENE: Cool and dark
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH
  • Toy Soldiers
  • Cherry Pickers
  • BA Circles

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the East Field for 4 corners. Do an exercise at 1st corner, run a full lap. Perform Exercise at first corner, then run to second corner to perform exercise and then complete lap. Continue until you complete an exercise at each corner. Run a full lap, then continue exercises at each corner subtracting one exercise with each lap.

  • Dynamic Lung + Squat x 30
  • Curious Dolly x 30
  • Bobby Hurley x 30
  • BBS x 30

Burpee Over – Battle Buddy up. PAX 1 gets into a low plank position parallel with the midfield line, PAX 2 performs burpee and then jumps over PAX 1 and assumes low plank. Continue until both PAX reaches midfield.

Mosey to the cement bleachers for some 21’s. Super Mario’s and American Hammers.

MARY:
Gibbler led us in Boat/Canoe
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
It’s important to remember what you’ve learned in the light when you’re in the darkness.
MOLESKIN:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Thanksgiving Pi

THE SCENE: Mid 60s. On the first day of November. Really?
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

In honor of the first day of Thanksgiving season, today’s beatdown is brought to you by the number “pi”…
31 SSH IC
4 Cherry Pickers IC
15 Crabettes IC
9 Failure to Launch IC
26 Mtn Climbers IC
5 8-Ct Body Builders IC

THA-THANG:
Head to the scrapyard for a 3-exercise circuit:
3 Pullups
5 Dips (full weight on parallel bars)
8 Merkins
9 Repeats

793 yard Indian Run through the park and around the fountain to the base of Mt Crumpet
Pair up for Dora-style. One partner exercises, other runs up the hill, around the tree, and back.
23 Burpees
84 BBS
62 Iron Mike
64 8-ct Body Builders

338 yard easy mosey back to the grinder

MARY:
3 cycles of Row your Boat
27 Pickle Pounders
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
15 PAX this morning.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
As you know, pi is a number whose decimal representation has infinite digits. Today’s beatdown worked through just 32 of them, but it’s been calculated out to over 22 trillion digits and of course it just keeps on going. Just as we could never work out through the entire representation of pi, we could never comprehend or experience the entire fullness of God’s love and grace toward us. If you get a little twinge of sore muscles at some point today, let that remind you to be thankful we didn’t go to 22 trillion digits, but even more to be thankful for His infinite goodness.
MOLESKIN:
Apologies to Squiggly and Moses… I didn’t feel on my game much this morning and they did just about all the Dora reps. Hopefully just coming down off the Halloween sugar high.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
F3 Olympics/anniversary. Also, check GroupMe for service project info. Weekend of 11/17, Habitat project: demo and rebuild a deck.