F3 Knoxville

Peanuts & Crackerjacks

THE SCENE: Upper 60’s.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Warm up was on the fly due to nearly double the number of pax for a Saturday and not having enough space for my planed warm-up.
SSH
Tempo Curls w CMU
Ankle Taps
Tempo Squats

THA-THANG:
Took the Pax to the Baseball Field for a baseball themed beatdown (music and all!) The dice calls the beatdown movements, roll the dice complete the exercise and return to roll the dice.  If running to a base you run them as if you would in baseball. (Example – Dice roll of 4 – Run to 3rd base and complete 30 Merkins; you would run as if you “hit” a triple, running to first then 2nd and finish at 3rd base with 30 Merkins prior to running back to re-roll the dice for the next movement.

ROLL 2 DICE AND COMPLETE THE EXERCISE:
2. Run to 1st base and complete 10 burpees
3. Run to 2nd base and complete 20 V-ups
4. Run to 3rd base and complete 30 Merkins
5. Run to pitchers mound and complete 20 CMU Thrusters
6. run to right field and complete 50 Air Squats
7. Run to center field and complete 40 BBS
8. Run to left field and complete 50 Ankle Taps
9. Millennial run around baseball field
10. Run stairs 10 times
11. Complete 30 bleacher Dips
12. Walking Lunge around all the bases

MARY:
CMU Flutter Kicks
CMU American Hammers
LBC Cash Out

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
14 H.I.M.S
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
James 1:2-4
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

*James doesn’t say IF you face trials, but WHENEVER you face them. He assumes that we will have trials and that it is possible to profit from them. The point is not to pretend to be happy when we face pain, but to have a positive outlook (“consider it pure joy”) because of what trials can produce in our lives. James tells us to turn our hardships into times of learning. Tough times can teach us perseverance.

Word to Ya Moms

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

SSH x 20
Arm circles x 10 each way
Hillbillies x 10
Burpees x 5
Lunges x 5
Merkins x 5
BBS x 5
Squats x 5
THA-THANG:
Drop BOMBS on this side the park.
5 targets on the loop. Run and drop BOMBS. Run and drop BOMBS. Etc.
B Burpee 10
O Lunges 15
M Merkins 20
B BBS 25
S Squats 30
MARY:
B O M B S
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
14 including 2 FNGs Kipper and 3Rivers
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
The bombs in our lives fall on our heads and attempt to blow us to pieces. We here at the Bomb Shelter have an circle of protection from the destruction. Through our bond of sweat and pain we support each man and lift them out of the ashes when it all becomes too much.
MOLESKIN:
Fun!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Surrender

THE SCENE: 67 degrees F, 90% humidity, sprinkles turning to partly cloudy.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH, Overhead Claps, Cherry Pickers, Imperial Squat Walkers

THA-THANG:

With a CMU, run to the first light pole and perform 12 exercises indicated

Light Pole (LP) #1:  Floor Press (leave CMU at light pole)

Run back to starting point, run to LP #2 (pick up CMU on the way)

LP #2:  Floor Press, Bent Rows (leave CMU at LP #2)

Run back to starting point, run to LP #3 (pick up CMU on the way)

LP #3:  Floor Press, Bent Rows, Curls

Repeat above sequence until all listed exercises are completed.

LP #4:  Floor Press, Bent Rows, Curls, Lawn Mowers

LP #5:  Floor Press, Bent Rows, Curls, Lawn Mowers, Triceps Extensions

LP #6:  Bent Rows, Curls, Lawn Mowers, Triceps Extensions, Incline Merkins

LP #6:Curls, Lawn Mowers, Triceps Extensions, Incline Merkins, On The Shelf

LP #5:  Lawn Mowers, Triceps Extensions, Incline Merkins, On The Shelf, Upright Rows

LP # 4:  Triceps Extensions, Incline Merkins, On The Shelf, Upright Rows, CMU Swings

LP #3:  Incline Merkins, On The Shelf, Upright Rows, CMU Swings, Squat Press

LP #2:  On The Shelf, Upright Rows, CMU Swings, Squat Press, Blockees

LP #1:  Upright Rows, CMU Swings, Squat Press, Blockees, Decline Merkins

MARY:
Box Cutters, Protractors, LBCs

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 HIMs plus Lactose and Pigpen
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
The small group I’m in with my church had a Zoom meeting last week with Petra and Tom Damms of Dignity International in Prague, Czech Republic.  They provide Christian ministry services to refugees detained in an area camp.  Most are seeking political asylum and some are escaping imprisonment and/or death.  The goal for the majority is to reach Germany but the Czech Republic is in the way and that government is not too sympathetic to their plight.  Some are granted visas but most are turned back and deported.  The whole process can take as long as three years for each refugee to learn their fate.

During the conversation, Tom and Petra were asked what kept them going physically and emotionally.  Part of the answer was anticipated.  Part was not.  Faith in God and the desire to be the hands and feet of Jesus was the obvious.  “Surrender” was not, yet proved the be the most convicting to me.  Petra said she used to pray for wisdom and to know God’s will.  Now she prays for surrender.  She believes she knows God’s will for her and that He has given her the wisdom to determine what her response is to be.  She now prays that she surrenders herself fully to God to carry on His mission.

What a powerful thought!  I looked up what that should look like to those who believe in God and what that should mean.  This is what I found.

Surrender means to yield ownership, to relinquish control over what we consider ours: our property, our time, our “rights.” When we surrender to God, we are simply acknowledging that what we “own” actually belongs to Him. He is the giver of all good things. We are responsible to care for what God has given us, as stewards of His property, but by surrendering to God, we admit that He is ultimately in control of everything, including our present circumstances. Surrendering to God helps us to let go of whatever has been holding us back from God’s best for our lives. By surrendering to God, we let go of whatever has kept us from wanting God’s ways first.

Please God, help me surrender to You.

MOLESKIN:
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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Perspective

THE SCENE: Noice!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER yep
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSHx30, squats x10, round the clock merkin, v ups, sundial big boys
THA-THANG:

The Count down – Complete each exercise is succession.  When completed do 25 Box jumps or run the hill.   PAX choice!  Remove the bottom exercise after completing each set.  Rinse and repeat

  • 11 Rows
  • 10 Burpees
  • 9 Sun Dial to Big Boy
  • 8 Plank jack tucks
  • 7 Squats
  • 6 V ups
  • 5 Iron mikes (each leg)
  • 4 mountain Climbers (4 Count)
  • 3 Around the clock merkins (12 total)
  • 2 Super star jacks
  • 1 Body builder

MARY:
Flutter kicks

iron cross, the power T( flutter kicks while holding iron cross)
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
20 pax including pigskin and lactose (not tagged yet)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Capn crunch sent to me in a group text w a few others and really like it so I wanted to share the following ;

For a small amount of perspective at this moment, imagine you were an American born in 1900. When you are 14, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday with 22 million people killed. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until you are 20. Fifty million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million.

When you’re 29, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, global GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren’t even over the hill yet.

When you’re 41, the United States is fully pulled into WWII. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war and the Holocaust kills six million. At 52, the Korean War starts and five million perish.

At 64 the Vietnam War begins, and it doesn’t end for many years. Four million people die in that conflict. Approaching your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could well have ended. Great leaders prevented that from happening.

As you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends. Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you survive all of that? A kid in 1985 didn’t think their 85 year old grandparent understood how hard school was. Yet those grandparents (and now great grandparents) survived through everything listed above.

Perspective is an amazing art. Let’s try and keep things in perspective. Let’s be smart, help each other out, and we will get through all of this. In the history of the world, there has never been a storm that lasted. This too, shall pass.

MOLESKIN:
Not to say there isn’t any suffering out there today but overall, our generation has been blessed.
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Don’t sink the ship

THE SCENE: Weather perfect
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Line up on base line

High knees to one end and back

Heels to butt one end and back

Skip to one end and back

50% sprint one end and back

100% sprint one end and back
THA-THANG:
mosey to the river walk.

  • route 66
  • 5 Burbees
  • 10 Big boys
  • 15 star jacks
  • 20 merkins
  • 25 mountain climbers
  • 30 squats

Repeat 3 times

mosey to cardiac

Backwards run to the 1st turn

Bear crawl to the 2nd turn

Sprint to the hill

repeat 2 times

Top of the hill one last round of:

  • 5 Burbees
  • 10 Big boys
  • 15 star jacks
  • 20 merkins
  • 25 mountain climbers
  • 30 squats

MARY:

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
28 strong
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Do not neglect areas of your leadership and don’t sink the boat.
MOLESKIN:
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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