F3 Knoxville

What goes up…must come down.

Asylum AM

THE SCENE: Awesome and 39 degrees
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Baby arm circles x10 each direction IC
  • High knees x 20 IC
  • Windmills x 10 IC
  • SSH x 25 IC
  • Global Warming: Get in circle and rotate while in Al Gore until exercise is called out. When exercise is done continue rotating until next exercise is called out. (10 merkins, 10 jump squats, 5 burpees)

THA-THANG:

7s: Dips and box jumps

Escalator: Five locations spaced across AO. Carry each exercise from each location until reaching last location. Upon completion of five locations repeat exercise at each location in reverse, dropping an exercise at each location until arriving back at start.

  • 10 Burpees
  • 20 Merkins
  • 30 Mtn Climbers
  • 40 Squat
  • 50 Lunge Walks

MARY:
Flutter kicks
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

“we are swept along in a powerful stream, and as long as we drift with the current we don’t feel its power. Most people drift along in little groups, focusing only on each other, but some of us look at the banks of the river, and notice that we are being swept away to an unfamiliar landscape far from our home. We plant our feet on the bottom and try to grab hold of the people we care about, but immediately we feel the enormous power of the current, and it is all we can do to resist. Meanwhile our friends just think we’re acting very strangely indeed, and making things very unpleasant for ourselves and for them. It’s so much more pleasant to drift, you see, especially when everyone else is — and as soon as we put our feet down on the bottom everyone else is suddenly moving away with the current. (To them, it seems as if we are moving backward.)

…I seek out people who are also resisting the current. They are out there, and it is important to know that they are out there.

I refuse to be broken. I am blessed with reason and intelligence and wisdom, and I will not lay them aside. I will believe in myself, and I will be faithful to myself.

I have friends who respect my intelligence. I try to show them a living example of someone who doubts and questions and denies their secular religion, and who is yet still a friend they can respect. This is, I think, the most effective thing I can do: to show them that a decent, intelligent man of firm moral principles can question the things they take for granted and not be struck by lightning.

I want to make them doubt, even just a little, even just for a moment, the unholy doctrine of this new secular religion. If I can do that, if I can make that tiny crack in the wall, the flowing power of Truth will do the rest. I will believe that Truth is real, that it is mighty, and that it will prevail.”

MOLESKIN:
Keep your feet planted where you are in life. Hold tight to what you believe. The current will get stronger and the water deeper.