F3 Knoxville

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.

Trick or Treat

THE SCENE: Clear & 40

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER


WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Cherry Picker x 5
  • Mountain Climbers x 20
  • LBAC x 10 each direction
  • OYO Stretches

THA-THANG:
It’s time to Trick or Treat!   QIC had index cards in hand – each card had a Trick exercise and a Treat exercise listed.  PAX blindly chose “Trick” or “Treat” and then we did that exercise

  1. Warm Up Circle – TREAT
    • Shock & Awe Burpees.   10 Burpees, 9 Burpees, 8 Burpees….. all the way down to 1 Burpee
  2. Pee Rocks – TRICK
    • Pee Rock Inchworm Merkin.  Grab a rock and slide it forward…do a merkin on the rock…then walk your feet up to the rock.   Rinse & Repeat the length of the parking spaces and back to the start line.
  3. Baby Everest – TRICK was chosen but we quickly audibled and did the TREAT
    • TRICK:  backward bear crawl up the hill x 5.   Dumb idea…we could barely do it once….audible…
    • TREAT:  7’s on the hill.  Thrust Merkins at top – Starjacks at bottom
  4. Long Island – TREAT
    • 3 laps around the island.  At each end of the island do increasing reps of burpees:  3,6,9,12,15,18.  Time ran out…we didn’t make it past 12.

MARY:

  • TREAT
    • Captain Thor
    • Side Crunch x 10
    • Pickle Pounder x 15

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
12 brothers.   Tweet-E, Bueller, Wallball, Bluecross, Tonka, Ribbed, Waxjob, Podium, Judge Judy, Mayberry, Tank, Bartman

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Is your Christian walk a cruise ship or a war ship?   It is so easy to slip into complacency and comfort as a Christian in America.  The Bible continually tells us we are at war with the evil one – our lives should reflect this.  On a cruise ship the captain is the head entertainer, on a war ship the captain leads us into battle.  On a cruise ship the crew is there to meet your needs, on a war ship you are expected to hold up your brothers up and hold them accountable.  A cruise ship docks when the war begins, a war ship sails headlong into battle.  As men we should all have a warship mentality – Christ promised us this life would be tough if we chose to follow him.  I pray that you find your strength in Christ as you put on Gods armor and go headlong into battle each day.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

3rd anniversary celebration 11/3 & 11/4

Lake Life

THE SCENE: Crisp, clear 42 degrees
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH x20

Squats with 30 sec hold x 5

Windmills x15

Cherry pickers x 10

Baby arm circles forward and back

THA-THANG:
Lake Living:

4 laps around Juco lake with 5 stops along the way for “Breaks”

Mountain Climbers 2 count x20

Merkins x20

Big Boy Sit-ups x25

Imperial Walkers 2 count x 20

Squat thrust x 20

MARY:
No time today, made it back with a few seconds to spare
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
My favorite exercise is the Recover. So, I thought I would share 4 things we can’t recover

  1. A WORD after it is spoken
  2. TIME after it is gone
  3. An OPPORTUNITY after it is missed
  4. TRUST once it is lost
    ANNOUNCEMENTS:
    F3 olympics and picnic this coming weekend!