F3 Knoxville

Tour Around the Strip Mall

THE SCENE: Mid-60s, calm
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Baby Arms Circles forward IC x 11

Baby Arms Circles reverse IC x 11

Overhead Clap IC x 9

Cherry Pickers IC x 5

Harry Rockets IC x 10

Plank Ups x 5

Motivators IC down from 8

THA-THANG:
First Leg: Line up on the end of the parking lot, Mosey to the end with x20 Calf Raises.  Repeat on the way back.  Hold Al Gore for the six.

Second Leg: Grab a spot on the guardrail, Dips and Derkins, 20 each.  Hold Al Gore for the six.

Tour around the Strip Mall:  Four corners; start with x30 at each location.  Rinse and repeat, reducing reps by 5 each lap.

  1. Corner 1: Alpo, Lunge to C2
  2. Corner 2: Heels to Heaven, Mosey to C3
  3. Corner 3: Jack Squats, Bear Crawl to C4
  4. Corner 4: Moving Merkins, Mosey back to C1

MARY:
Flutter Kicks IC x15

Pickle Pounder IC x15

Side Pounder IC x 15

Freddie Mercury IC x20
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
15 HIMs
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Habakkuk

Chapter 1
Versus 3-5
“Must I forever see these evil deeds? Why must I watch all this misery? Wherever I look, I see destruction and violence. I am surrounded by people who love to argue and fight.”
‭‭ “The law has become paralyzed, and there is no justice in the courts. The wicked far outnumber the righteous, so that justice has become perverted.”
‭‭ “The Lord replied, “Look around at the nations; look and be amazed! For I am doing something in your own day, something you wouldn’t believe even if someone told you about it.”
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We can easily feel like everything around us is chaos and have anxiety or stress about how to overcome it. This can be true for many aspects of our lives but remember as God told the prophet Habakkuk in a vision that he’s working plans that you could even fathom if he told you about them.
Try not to get overwhelmed with the aspects of life that you cannot control and focus on bettering yourself and the ones around you…there’s only one way to eat an elephant, one…bite…at…a…time

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Nine Line

THE SCENE:  50 and clear.  Perfect for a beatdown.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:  Administered 
WARM-O-RAMA:
 

Reach for the sky
Chinook OYO
Michael Phelps OYO
Finkle swings OYO
Imperial walker IC x 9
Tempo squat IC x 9
Tempo werkins IC x 9
Carolina dry dock IC x 9
Heals to heaven IC x 9
Parker Burpee x 2 OYO
Projectivator from 9

THA THANG:

Mosey to Jucomanjaro.  Stop at the coupons and do 20 curls, 20 shoulder presses, 20 triceps, 20 curls, and hold over your head while I explain what comes next.

Nine Line:  Divide into groups of 3.  As you run up Jucomanjaro, there are nine lines spaced 100’ apart.  At each line is a cone with an exercise.  Run to the cone, perform the exercise, and run back to the base of Jucomanjaro.  Perform 2 parker burpees at the base, then go back up and move to the next cone in sequence.  Each team starts at a different cone, to keep us spaced out.

Exercises were:

  • Base: 2 parker burpees
  • Line 1: 30 merkins
  • Line 2: 30 flutter kicks 4-ct
  • Line 3: 30 carolina dry dock
  • Line 4: 30 heals to heaven
  • Line 5: 30 diamond merkins
  • Line 6: 30 hello dolly (4-ct)
  • Line 7: werkins
  • Line 8: 30 side crunch (15 each side)
  • Line 9: 30 mountain climbers (4 ct)

MARY:

Run down Jucomanjaro, performing 15 air squats at each cone.  Mosey back to the shovel flag.  10 rosalitas + 10 hello dolly + 20 LBC.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Me and 8 of the best men I know

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Bottom line up front – Today’s Word was about thinking about the broken men (Sad Clowns) in your life and inspiring them to better themselves.  I opened by echoing part of Butterknife’s Word from a couple of weeks ago.  This group means so much to me.  You guys challenge me to be better as a father, husband, and friend.  I am grateful for you all.  BUT…

 

I want you to imagine yourself as an American soldier, on a humanitarian mission in little mountain village in Afghanistan.  It is a peaceful and beautiful early fall morning, but you sense a tension in the villagers.  All the sudden, the peace is shattered, and your unit is under attack from a hidden enemy.  You and another soldier take cover behind the heavy wheel of a Humvee and are returning fire when, to your left, you hear a thud and a groan.  You look over and see that he’s been hit in the leg and is bleeding.  What do you do?  In that moment, what is your obligation to that solider?

Get him into a safe position!  Apply first aid – help him put pressure on the wound to stanch the bleeding – elevate his feet!  Once he’s stable, you secure the scene – continue to return fire until advantage is won!  Next, call in the casualty and get a medevac on the way!

The battlefield version of dialing 911 is “calling in a nine line”.  It is a standardized, efficient, way to send casualty information by radio traffic.  Here is the format:

  • Line 1. Location of the pick-up site.
  • Line 2. Radio frequency, call sign, and suffix.
  • Line 3. Patient precedence: (A – Urgent, B – Urgent Surgical, etc.)
  • Line 4. Special equipment required: (Extraction equipment, ventilator, etc.)
  • Line 5. Number of patients:
  • Line 6. Security at pick-up site: (e.g. enemy troops in area, approach with caution)
  • Line 7. Method of marking pick-up site: (e.g. smoke signal)
  • Line 8. Patient nationality and status: (e.g. US military, US civilian)
  • Line 9. NBC Contamination: (e.g. nuclear, biological, chemical)

The expectation is that you will relay this information in less than 25 seconds.  Therefore, you have to know exactly what you’re going to say before you make the call.  Before you call in the nine line, you must first pause to deliberately and accurately evaluate the wounded man’s condition.  Where is he?  What is the situation?  How bad off his he?  Ultimately, how are we going to get him out of this mess that he’s in?  Now…call in that nine line!

I want to use that as a metaphor.  In the battlefield of life, there are wounded men around you.  Think about the men in your life – your coworkers, your neighbors, your brothers, your friends.  Which of those men is a casualty?  The coworker whose health is so poor that he can’t play with his own kids? (I’ve been that man).  The friend who has checked out from his marriage? (I’ve been that man).  The brother who drinks every night – not to relax, but to retreat? (I’ve been that man).  The neighbor who is pretending to have it all together, but you know it’s just a façade?  (I’ve been that man).  Who is a hot mess right now?  Now, prep a quick nine line for him.  What I mean is…pause to deliberately and accurately evaluate that wounded man’s condition.  Where is he (physically, relationally, spiritually)?  What is the situation (health, relationships, habits)?  How bad off his he?  Ultimately, what can we do to get him out of this mess that he’s in? 

I love this group…BUT…we are missing something – THAT MAN.  The mission of F3 is to “to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership”.  If JUCO is going to make a real impact on the Hardin Valley community, then we must bring out the men who need to be invigorated.  Those who are hurting need to come and be encouraged.  Those who are self-absorbed or arrogant need to come and be humbled.  Those who are listless need to come and be spurred into action.

Q-Source 1.1 says this about those men, “A man needs help to get right.  The boats of some men have been so long capsized that they have gradually surrendered to a life of being swept downstream by circumstances.”  You are called to be that man’s disruptorYou are called to bring a disturbance to his life which is led only by inertia.  Bring him out.  F3 is not going to save his marriage, it isn’t going to give his life purpose, it certainly isn’t going to redeem his soul.  But…waking up early, working hard with hardworking men, being challenged by challenging words, praying together – those habits just might spur MOVEMENT, then ACCELERATION, then MOMENTUM in the right direction. Over time, the impact of that routine can be huge.

Bring that man out here.

MOLESKIN:

Repeating part of Stye’s Word from last week; Proverbs 27:17, “As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.”

Romans 15:1-2, “We who are strong must help those who are not strong. We must not do what pleases us. But each of us must please his neighbor. He must do what is good for him and what will help him do better.”

Q Source 1.1 https://f3nation.com/drp-2

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Prayers for Darryl in the hospital.  Rejoicing for Bailey!

Choose your own adventure vs The Kraken

THE SCENE: Low 60’s, pretty chill
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

10xCherry Pickers, 15xlbac fwd/bck, 20xSSH, 10 Tempo Merkins, 10 Tempo Squats
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the large parking lot and “Belch” our way back towards the coupon pile. 5 merkins on every line then pop up and sprint to the next line. 10 rounds in total.

At the coupon pile, grab a CMU and complete the following.

5 exercises to choose:

  1. CMU Squats
  2. CMU Curls
  3. CMU Tricep Press
  4. CMU Thrusters
  5. CMU Swings

Over 5 rounds, pick one exercise and perform 50 reps, then run to the top of the stairs and perform 1 burpee, repeat with 40 reps, and so on down to 10 reps. Must perform all exercises, but you pick which round to do them.

Mosey over to the bright parking lot to meet the Kraken.

The Kraken: 9 cones spread out in a circle with an exercise written at each cone:

  1. Travoltas
  2. Star Jumps
  3. Heals-to-Heaven
  4. Diamond Merkins
  5. Bobby Hurley
  6. BBS
  7. Werkins
  8. Imperial Squat Walkers
  9. Monkey Humpers

Partner up and perform 25 reps of the exercise. One partner must crab walk and one must bear crawl to the light pole in the middle then back to the next cone.

Called time a little before one full round.

MARY:
20xFlutter Kicks, 20xFreddie Mercuries, 20xBBS, 20xPickle Pounders

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
13 HIMS with 1 FNG, Welcome Scrubs! Kudos for driving all the way from Clinton.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Plugged the book “Point Man” by Steve Farrar

Discussed the importance of Quantity vs Quality of time spent with our kids/family. It’s impossible to know when you will have a “teaching moment”, especially with younger kids. There is a major issue in America today and a lot of it stems from a lack of male leadership, hence the importance of F3’s mission. In order to make a lasting and impactful impression on our families, we need to be spending a lot of time with them. There is a negative trope often portrayed in media that fathers are supposed to spend “quality” time with their children (i.e. being the fun dad by taking kids for ice cream), however, we need to be sure we aren’t neglecting “quantity” time with our children.
MOLESKIN:
Shoutout to Dartgun for taking my jab at doing 50 thrusters to heart and knocking them out like the beast he is.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill this Saturday. Even if you’re not racing, consider coming out for a bit to check it out and encourage the team.

Eh, what’s up doc? I’m hunting wabbits!

THE SCENE: 60 ish and raining
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Short warmup of SSH, tempo squats, and cherry pickers
THA-THANG:
Murder Bunnies IRON PAX week 4

  • 10 Burpee block jumps followed by “murder bunnies” to the yard lines with exercises below and then carry CMU back for more Burpee block jumps
  • 25 yard 25 thrusters
  • 50 yard 50 Hand change block Merkins
  • 75 Yard 75 curl/press with CMU
  • 100 yard 100 windshield wipers over the CMU

MARY:
No mary, running late
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

FNG pink panther

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“If you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far go together.”  As an F3 pax, community, or country we need to work together, if we want to go far in this life.  We all have talents, gifts, and ideas that may be different.  That is what God intends.  He expects for us to use these as the Body of Christ to move together and help one another.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill coming up next weekend.

IPC Week 3 – Simple Training

THE SCENE: Mid 60’s 👌👌
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Warm up before on your own, tight schedule for IPC 2020 Week 3.
THA-THANG:

IPC 2020 Week 3: https://f3greenwood.com/2020/09/13/2020-ironpax-challenge-week-3-keep-it-simple-stupid/

MARY:
Run with the 6 to finish the challenge
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

17 strong

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Titus 2:11-12

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

  1. It starts with the grace of God, Jesus Christ. Rom 3:23 tells us all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. We have no standing with God except for his grace. Good news, Jesus has appeared, and not just for the self righteous or physically fit, but for all people. Accept his grace and salvation.
  2. The grace is not only our salvation. Not only a one time application but it trains us to live. We are bent toward this world, toward ungodliness. Just like we train in the gloom for our physical fitness, we must training for our spiritual fitness. Training to turn from worldly passions and toward upright and godly lives.
  3. Lastly, our hope is not in this world. This present age is where live and struggle and train but our bodies will all fail and pass away. Our hope is not in these bodies or this training but in the grace of God and his restoration of  the world in the age to come.

Don’t only train physically, but train with the grace of God for eternity.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS: