F3 Knoxville

O @spotter Where Art Though

AO: juco
Q: Mailbox (Chip Keim)
PAX: Butterknife, Shrubbery, Mailbox (Chip Keim), Erector (Jason Champion), 5K (Derren Burrell), (Tooth Fairy) Dana Rust, Wanderer (Dave Staab), Windex, Full Tank, Wagon Wheel (John-Mark Chesney), Fetch (Joel Moran), Hall Pass
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
WARMUP:
The usual – SSH, reach for the sky, let it hang, tempo squats, tempo merkins
THE THANG:
To keep the legend of @spotter alive (trying to keep his name from fading from the memories of the gloom). We brought back the Burpin Bernie back but went heavy with CMU work. Started with 10 Blockees, ran to first line – 1 Burpee and Bernie back, next 20 Heavy lunges, ran to second line – 2 Burpees and Bernie back. Worked way up to 30 Tri Extension, 40 goblet squats, 50 curls, 60 heavy LBC, 70 overhead press/rows, 80 heavy flutter, 90 bench press, 100 heavy Freddy
MARY:
Had time for 30 box cutters
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:

Talked about Joy and seeing things through glass half full lens despite trials and tribulations life throws our way. Mom’s health struggles and subsequent miracle recoveries and positive attitude through it all has been a blessing in many ways and a gut check as well when I can be frustrated or down despite much better circumstances. Thank you for prayers and checking in. Means a lot.

Keep Climbing

AO: juco
Q: Butterknife
PAX: Butterknife, Windex, Ghost Flag (F3Knoxville), Po-Boy (Travis Dupre), Glamper, Incoming (Rodney Pointer), Booster (Les Fout), Dart Gun (Todd Mulder), Doubtfire (Nick Bond), Parkour, Fetch (Joel Moran), Brick
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
WARMUP:
Side straddle hop in cadence 20
Cherry Pickers
5 Burpees on your own
Arm rotations thumbs up in cadence
Reverse thumbs down in cadence
Motivators 8x

THE THANG:
Grab a CMU
Mosey to JUCOmanjaro
Partner up
Sprint to first stripe while partner farmer carries do 5 Burpees
Bear crawl next stripe while partner farmer carries do 10 Burpees
Sprint to Next stripe while partner farmer carries do 15 Burpees
Repeat with Squats, Derkins

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
“You are the sum of the 5 people you spend time with.

Show me your circle and I’ll show you your ceiling.

And if you’re the smartest and most successful person in the room….

It’s time to find a new room.

What an absolute honor to be in this room!!!

I’m a 🧽 “

Three things will last forever—Faith, hope, and love—the greatest of these is love.
‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭13:13‬ ‭NLT‬‬

[f3knoxvillemain] F3 in the NUDE

AO: f3knoxvillemain
Q: Mermaid (Bradley Roberts) , slappy (Nathan Evers), KickFlip (David Greer)
PAX: Eliza (Kevin Parrott), Pele (Jon Lindberg), Lilydipper (John Neece), Skeletor (Tyson Canup), OnStar (Arthur Dias), Pusher, Lucille (Austin Williams), Scott McGuire (Cinco), Airborne (Chase Perkins), Mathlete (Jacob Platfoot), Ocho (Matt Hudson), Chris Poetzel (Mustard), slappy (Nathan Evers), Monstar (Josh Sparrow), Waxjob (Josh Brady), Abacus (Erik Ella), Daniel Callis – Anchorman, Caveman, KickFlip (David Greer), Outnumbered (Daniel Hildebrandt), Butterknife, Sparkler (Brian Pitstick), Windex, Mermaid (Bradley Roberts), Google(Tim Dugas), I-Beam (Ryan Gerken), Smoky (Raymond Hale), Twitch, Port Hole
FNGs: 1 Port Hole
COUNT: 30
Warm up (all 4 ct except for things on own)
(Get in ankle deep water)
reach for the sky/cherry picker combo (3 cad)
Hairy Rockets (10 cad)
Catalina wine mixers (10 on own)
Tempo Merkins (10 cad)
Big boys (10 on own)
American hammer (10 cad)
Flutter kicks (10 cad)
(move to deep water)
SSH (10 cad)
Squat jumps (10 cad)
Burpees (5 on own)

We then divided into three groups to hit the following three stations where we budgeted about 10 minutes per station.

LOG PT
Review the approach and the positions (Ready, right shoulder, left shoulder, waist, chest, sitting, overhead)
2 groups w 2 logs
1st group carries log out and around the float and 2nd group stays on beach doing log workouts. When 1st group returns they do log workout and 2nd group carries around float. This is the workout pattern.
workouts (shoulder to shoulder OHP, squats, good mornings, big boys, OH hold, and squat thrusters)

Volleyball station looked like this;
Bobby Hurleys – 20, run, 15, run 10
Sharks and Minnows, Round 1: Sharks bear crawl – minnows crab walk
Hand release merkins – 20, run, 15, run 10
Sharks and Minnows, Round 2: Sharks lunge walk – minnows broad jump
Hello dollys (4ct) – 20, run, 15, run 10
Sharks and Minnows, Round 3: Sharks frog jump – minnows army crawl
Set of 7s – dive bomber and BBS

Bucket Challenge Relay
divide into two teams, that worked out to two teams of four. One man carried a 5 gallon bucket full of water from the lake to a 45 gallon trash can. Only one team member could carry at a time. While he was carrying, two members held a 5 gallon bucket full of water while the 4th member did waterlogged merkins. They ran a relay in this fashion until the trash can was full.

After the relay was won or lost, we got into the water and did a race to the buoys. And finally did some Big Boy situps and some carolina dry docks where you had to dunk your face underwater to perform the exercise.

We moseyed back to the volleyball pit for some old fashioned tug of war. This was with the team you rotated with, and no shoes and gloves in deep sand left no advantage, and was quite fun.

The Mary consisted of an ab exercise of 10 reps, followed by 10 merkins. We did about 5 rounds of this before going back to the lake and do an out and back race to the buoys and back. Time was called and we got into the COT.

The COT was about being vulnerable. Working out in the “nude” with no gloves, no shirt, and no shoes leaves you exposed. I issued a challenge to the men of F3 Knoxville to be vulnerable and share times of vulnerability with the group. Sharing these types of stories endear ourselves to one another, and my experiences could help others going through similar situations. I then shared about a dark time in my life where I lost two jobs in one year, but how in hindsight that was one of the best things to ever happen to me. We then closed in prayer and ate a great breakfast provided by the Dog Pound (Google, I-beam, & Smoky).

Just Like the Prodigal Son, I’ve Returned

AO: juco
Q: Mermaid (Bradley Roberts)
PAX: 5K (Derren Burrell), Mailbox (Chip Keim), Erector (Jason Champion), elf, Waffles (Pedro Da Silva), (Tooth Fairy) Dana Rust, Full Tank, Butterknife, Booster (Les Fout), Data (Joey Tipton), Fetch (Joel Moran), Wanderer (Dave Staab), Base Salary, Cosmo, MessyHobbs, Windex, Guardrail (Brandon Brown), Mermaid (Bradley Roberts)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 18
WARMUP:
SSH – 15
Baby Arm circles forward & backward -10
Arm Stretching
Cherry Pickers -3 (long and slow)
THE THANG:
Two decks of cards. Find a battle buddy, draw a card and multiply the card value by 10, and split the exercises with you battle buddy, each doing half of the total. Once you complete the exercises, take a lap, draw a card and repeat.
The suit of the card determined the exercises.
Spades: Big Boys & Hello Dollies
Hearts: Merkins & Dips
Diamonds: Squats & Lunges
Clubs: Bench Press & Curls
Joker: 25 Thrusters each
MARY:
ab exercise followed by 10 merkins for the last 5 minutes, we went through about 4 or 5 rounds
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
F3 in the Nude on Saturday at the Cove at 0700, ask Mermaid if you have questions
COT:
This is my 4 year anniversary of joining F3. We talked about the importance of using a back blast. I was able to recall from my first post 4 years ago the attendees, the workout and the message. Now that we have a new and improved back blast system, I would encourage everyone to record this data because it is important.

Legacy (You vs You Metric 1)

AO: juco
Q: Commission (Adam Wilson)
PAX: 5K (Derren Burrell), Base Salary, Booster (Les Fout), Commission (Adam Wilson), Data (Joey Tipton), Erector (Jason Champion), Fetch (Joel Moran), Guardrail (Brandon Brown), Waffles (Pedro Da Silva), Wanderer (Dave Staab), Windex, Shrubbery,Hall Pass,Messy Hobbs, Elf
FNGs: 1 Elf
COUNT: 15
Warm up
SSH x 25 (4 count)
Cherry pickers x 5 (4 count)
Tempo merkins x 10 (4 count)
Tempo squats x 10 (4 count)

The Thang:
Metric Workout #1
(Every man will need 1 CMU)

Set a timer for 30 minutes.
Complete as many cumulative reps as you can in that time.

The following list of exercises are performed in sets of 25 reps. After completing a set of 25 reps, put down your CMU, run 25 yards, do 2 burpees, return to your CMU, and continue.

Here are the exercises:

– 150 curls
– 125 heavy squats
– 100 OHP
– 75 CMU swings
– 50 Thrusters
– 25 Blockees
When you finish the Blockees, start back at the top with curls.

It will look like this:

25 curls → 25 yard run → 2 burpees → 25 yard run → 25 curls…repeat until 150 curls are finished, then switch to squats…etc.  

Once through the entire circuit is 525 reps (burpees do not count toward total).

How many cumulative reps can you complete?

MARY:
Flutter kicks and snow angels while the 6 caught up to the group during the Nosey back to the flag.

COT:
Last Thursday I hosted the young professional group from church. There were approximately 28 of them in my home. I loved seeing the good time they were having and the depth of relationships between them because this is the group that my wife and I started 12 years ago and that we stepped out of 5 years ago. The group has had its share of struggles with participation since we left but it has great momentum now and will be a spiritual blessing to each of them as they age as well as to the church. I see it as a spiritual legacy for me.

3 John 1:4 ESV
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

What is your legacy? What will you leave behind if anything? Will it be with family, work, history and or the church?