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You Can Do Anything for 5 Minutes

THE SCENE: Chilly Spring Morning 39 degrees and clear Quickbooks and Dimples Co-Q
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Run in Place, High Knees, Squats, Jump Squats, Squat Pulse, Mary Katherines, lunge pulse – RT, Lunge Pulse LT
THA-THANG:
Mosey from the AO the Playground

  • 5 minutes of 10 Plank Jacks, 10 Box Jumps, 10 Bulgarian Lunges
  • Sprint in the parking lot (down and Back) 10 Burpees, Sprint (D&B) 10 Star Jumps, Sprint (D&B) MTN Climbers
  • Mosey to the new bathroom parking lot
  • 5 minutes of 10 Squats, 10 Squat Jacks, 10 Snowboarders
  • Bear Crawl (down and reverse Back) 10 Burpees, Bear Crawl (D&B) 10 Star Jumps, Bear Crawl(D&B) MTN Climbers
  • Mosey to the Pavillion
  • 5 minutes of 10 Mericans, 10 Dips, 10 Dry Docks
  • Sprint next to the dugouts (down and Back) 10 Burpees, Sprint (D&B) 10 Star Jumps, Sprint (D&B) MTN Climbers
  • Mosey to the AO
  • 5 minutes of 10 Squats, 10 Squat Jacks, 10 Snowboarders
  • Bear Crawl (down and reverse Back) 10 Burpees, Bear Crawl (D&B) 10 Star Jumps, Bear Crawl(D&B) MTN Climbers

MARY:
5 Squats Together
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
31
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

4 times in the OT God makes a formal covenant promise with Israel.  The covenant He makes with Abraham is just like the one we talked about.  The dead animals, the pathway, the whole bit.  It’s in Genesis 15.

The special thing about this promise was that God alone walked through the pathway, he didn’t require Abraham to walk through it.  It was as if to say… I want to bless you, and I am asking you to be faithful to Me, to seek Me, and to obey Me…. But regardless of your faithfulness towards me, I will still hold up my end of the bargain and I will be gracious to you.  Out of love, I chose you, no matter how you treat Me.

So, what does that have to do with marriage?

Everything.  Absolutely everything….

So, what should our response be to our spouse on their worst of days?  A selfless love that thinks first of them and their needs.

I mean, imagine for a second if God said to us on our worst of days, “I’m sick of it.  I give up!  You’re just never going to get it.  I’m done with you.”  Noooo… come on.  He is not like that!!  He is patient, He is kind, He is longsuffering with us, He perseveres with us, He is gracious with us, and He forgives us… and our call to love our husband or wife is the same.

Gimme Shelter

THE SCENE: 55 degrees with a light rain to wash the sweat away
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

Checked off.

WARM-O-RAMA:
To the music of Gimme Shelter by the Rolling Stones, circa 1969:

SSH – x20; Little Baby Arm Circles (forward and reverse) – x15; Cherry Pickers – x10; Imperial Squat Walkers – x15

Jog; Skip; Bear Crawl/Jog; Bear Crawl/Jog length of the grinder.

THA-THANG:

“A” Leg Exercises

Under the Pavilion:

Bench Step Ups x12; Dry Docks x12; Squat Jumps x12; Merkins x12; SSH (single count) x12; BBS x12

Intermission

Run from the Pavilion to the Road:

Merkins x6; BBS x6; Drydocks x6

Run back to the Pavilion.

“B” Leg Exercises

Under the Pavilion (Using CMU’s)

Kettlebell Swings x12; On the Shelf x6/side; Bent Rows x12; Curls x12; Squats x12; Deadlift x6/arm

Intermission

Run from the Pavilion to the Road:

Merkins x6; BBS x6; Drydocks x6

Run back to the pavilion

Repeat Above as Time Allows

MARY:
Leg Lifts, Box Cutters, Hello Dolly’s, and then cashed out with 1 minute of Little Baby Crunches.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 faithful, 0 FNG’s

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
We started the workout to the song Gimme Shelter, the opening track from the Rolling Stones 1969 album, Let It Bleed.  When asked who sang the song most will generically say the Rolling Stones or specifically, Mick Jagger.  When I listen to the song, I hear Merry Clayton.  She is the background vocalist and the one who puts her heart and soul in the song.  Merry was born on Christmas Day, 1948, and was the daughter of a Baptist minister in the New Orleans area.  She began singing gospel music in church before she was tagged as a background singer for Ray Charles and others at the ripe age of 14.

In 1969 she was pregnant and living with her husband in Los Angeles.  The phone rang around midnight and an agent said this British rock group needed a background vocalist for a track to complete a soon to be released album.  They needed her to come to the recording studio right away.  At first she said no, she was tired and she wasn’t feeling too well.  Her husband said she needed to go; that it might be good for her singing career.  Merry shows up at the studio and talks to Keith Richards about the song, the significance of the words written by Jagger, and the way they wanted it sung.

She sang one take, got some feedback from Richards and Jagger, and then said she would give it one more try.  After the second take she offered a third and then said goodnight.  The rest is history for the Stones.

Merry is always the singer I hear in the song.  She was the one that gave it everything she had and she blows it away – as a backup singer.  The Rolling Stones almost always gets the credit for this hit from almost 50 years ago.

There are many times that our roll in life is like Merry’s was that night.  We are not the one to make the decisions, we are not THE face in the crowd, we are not the leader, we may not get the recognition we deserve.  We are the backup, the support member of the team, the one given a specific task in the big picture, the one that will be an integral part of future success.  Regardless, our job is to push ourselves, attain the objective, and move on to the next.  Always remember that there is no limit to what can be attained if no one cares who gets the credit.

So where is Merry?  She went home after the Stones session and had a miscarriage late that morning.  She believes the stress she put herself in earlier was a factor and she could barely bring herself to sing the song for a few years afterwards.  She continued mostly in a backup singer roll and was highlighted in a 2012 documentary about others in similar rolls that made many of the legendary songs of the past.  Finally some well deserved recognition has come to her.  In 2014 a car accident left her without legs.  Her faith in God and the inner strength and determination derived from that faith is keeping her on her feet and her music alive.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Don’t forget Hardship Hill at Fort Southwest Point Park in Kingston, TN.  Can’t or won’t participate?  Volunteers are needed and welcomed for setup and event day.

100% Dry Beatdown.

THE SCENE: Warm-ish/light rain
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

Welcome to F3: Fitness – Fellowship – Faith. 

My name is Steam & I’ll be your Q this morning
I am not a professional
You are here on your own volition
Which means I don’t know any injuries you may or may not have so if you need to modify any of the exercises we do this morning feel free to do so BUT
Push yourself and those around you


WARM-O-RAMA:

  1. Side-Straddle Hop (SSH): 10 x 4 in cadence
  2. Flutter Kick: 10 x 4 in cadence
  3. SSH: 15 x 4 in cadence
  4. Little Baby Crunch: 10 x 4 in cadence
  5. SSH: 20 x 4 in cadence
  6. Merkin: 10 x 4 in cadence

THA-THANG:

Steam & Frank identified the 2 options for PAX

Steam: Cardio intensive workout \\ Frank: Core intensive workout

Steam’s Group

  • Mosey to Rock Pile @ Asylum Building
    • Every stop sign = 10 merkins on your own (1 count)
  • 12s @ Rock Pile
    • TOP (Rock Pile) = Rock Chest Presses
    • Bottom (Big ol Tree) = Burpees
    • 1 Rock Chest Press \\ 11 Burpees
  • Proton led PAX in squat circle until all recovered
  • American Indian style mosey back to AO
    • Every stop sign = 10 merkins on your own (1 count)
  • Last .25 mile –> sprint to the AO

Steam’s Group & Frank’s Group Link Back Up @ AO

  • Frank led core work for all PAX at AO (5 minutes)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
PAX Count = 31

FNG = 1 —> Dreamer
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

” I see you” – Jim Branch/God
– I recently had the pleasure of hearing Jim Branch speak and he talked about how God sees us.
– He volunteers as a chaplain for one of the high school football teams in Knoxville and he would see that during practice, one of the seniors who was on the sidelines would call out to the players on the field when they did something good that went un-noticed.
– And he would yell – “I see you – okay, I see you” – letting them know that the efforts they were making were not unseen or un-noticed.
– He went on to talk about his son running track in high school and seeing the other kids run around the track and feeling the excitement for them but when HIS son came around, he saw him from a distance and kinda stood up on his feet because he saw him. He saw his son coming around the track and was filled with so much joy!
– That’s how God sees us. He sees you and is so delighted and overjoyed because you are His son. I love that we have a heavenly father that sees us like that
– This week I want to challenge all of us to see each other. I challenge you to see someone this week. Be that voice of affirmation – “I see you” And also understand how our heavenly father sees us.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill is coming up men! Show out to rep F3 Knoxville in F3’s first OCR event in Knox! Here is the link!

https://www.visitknoxville.com/event/hardship-hill-obstacle-course-race/8079/

Sacred Cow visits the burbs

THE SCENE: 37
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
With Ruck on, 20 merkins 20 squats oyo. Figure 8 mosey to the top of the Y parking lot , 20 and 20 again. Figure 8 through the parking lot back down to AO for last round of 20 and 20 oyo
THA-THANG:
Sacred Cow ruck march

  • 10 pax buddy up
  • 8 pax carrying sandbags
  • 2 pax carrying Sacred cow on his chariot!
  • The catch? The sacred cow can NEVER EVER touch the ground . She is sacred , of course!
  • Once burned out from carrying the cow, we switch out the pax to take the cow. We had to work as a team to do this. 2 pax would grab the sides of the chariot to releave the pax carrying for the next 2 to carry.
  • We rucked to the school and back to an open field
  • at the field , who ever was not carrying the sacred cow would squat thrust and throw their sandbag forward, also switching out w carrying the cow and not letting the cow touch the ground. We squat thrust threw sandbags for about 100 yards.
  • Once at the bridge , we went back to Rucking w the sandbags in order to make it back to the AO for some PT sandbag work
  • once at the AO, 2 pax carry the cow the short loop. Once 2 pax complete the short loop w the cow, 2 more pax take the cow around the short loop. Again, not letting the cow touch the ground
  • While the cow made it the loops , pax not carrying the cow did said exercises .
  • Sandbag lunge twists
  • front loaded ruck big boys
  • lovers squat ( goblet style squat w sandbag)
  • sandbag chest press
  • over shoulder sand bag cleans
  • you do the same exercise until the cow made a complete loop, then you bump to the next exercise
  • reps were not counted. You did as many as you could w good form until you got bumped
  • the cow actually touched the ground 3 times, which meant a penalty
  • 5 Ruck burpees each time the sacred cow touched the ground. We did 15 Ruck burpees

MARY:
Ruck flutters x 20 ic

ruck overhead presses x15 ic

American Ruck hammers x 20 oyo
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
10 pax strong
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Nothing inspirational for me to say but we did carry the cow for almost an hour and covered just over 2.5 miles with out it touching the ground This could only be done working as a team and we conquered ! Not a lot of miles, no lung busting runs,  not a lot of reps of said exercise , just team work and embracing the suck together !
MOLESKIN

sacred Cow sucks!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

Gold Stars for Everybody

THE SCENE: Mid 50’s and windy

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Ssh x 15
  • Arm circles little/big on Q
  • Squat Jacks x 30
  • Cherry pickers x 8

THA-THANG:

Pyramid at Waxjob Hill

Find a battle buddy

P1 at bottom doing exercise 5, 10, 15, 20, 15, 10, 5

P2 doing alternating Burpees/BBS on Top until P1 tags

Exercises:

  • Rd 1 – Werkins
  • Rd 2 – Star Jacks
  • Rd 3 – Dry Docks
  • Rd 4 – Deadlift squat

MARY:

Captain Thor 5:20

Superman press (superman then lift core up and hold)

Superman/banana

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
14 Men and no FNGs

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Proverbs 17:28

Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise;
when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.

We all need to think before we speak.

As Hammy put it: Better to be silent and let them think you a fool than to open your mouth and confirm it.

MOLESKIN:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: