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Birthday ABC’s

June 24, 2020 Pool Boy

THE SCENE: 68°F and clear
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER Done
WARM-O-RAMA:
Moroccan night club IC x 10
Hillbillies IC x 10
Rotational Merkins IC x 10
Tennessee Walking Chair IC x 10
Hand Release Merkins 5 OYO
Slurpee 5 OYO
All PAX on the curb
Run to first light pole 50%, run 60% back to curb, 70% , 80%, 90%, 100%
Calf Raises on the curb x 20
THA-THANG:

Today’s Theme: ABC’s – Arms, Burpees, Core

Mosey to big parking lot across grassy knoll

Big Parking Lot – Do the following exercises and run to the next light pole. At the end of the parking lot do Stargazing Starfish (Starfish but do arms & legs all in and out at the same time) until we pick up the 6

Arms 24 x Walking Merkins (Wide, Plank walk into Diamond, repeat, counting each Merkin as 1)
Burpees 24 x Burpees
Core BBS

Get a 10 count, number off 1 to 3 for groups. Mosey to coupon pile – each PAX has their own.

Coupon Pile – 3 stations (7-minute timer)

Arms – Top of Hill 4 x Pull-ups + 20 Hand-release Merkins
Burpees – Bottom before the stairs 4 x Blockees + 20 Burpees
Core – Bottom after the stairs – 4 x Louganis (BBS + CMU above your head) + 20 4ct Heavy American Hammers

Call time, get a 10 count. Mosey to newer parking lot with lots of lighting.

Newer parking lot with lots of lighting

Arms 24 x (Hand-release?) Merkins (the Q had a mental lapse here but we did Merkins of some variation)
Burpees 24 x Burpees
Core 24 x 4-ct Flutter kicks
D # x Derkins (S/O to Anchorman for calling an exercise that starts with ‘D’ when I tasked him with it)

Mosey back to the AO with the JUCO Rush PAX joining us.

Everyone on the curb, it’s time for Burpee-cides for approx. 3 minutes
Sprint/run/jog to first light pole, do a burpee, sprint back to the curb
Sprint/run/jog to second light pole, do a burpee, sprint back to the curb
Sprint/run/jog to third light pole (curb before water retention pond where the geese are), do a burpee, sprint back to the curb

Repeat. We got approximately 1 full rep in and some got a 4th sprint + burpee.

MARY:
Ain’t nobody got time for that
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
14 for Beatdown, 7 for RUSH (click for picture)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Do you remember where you were on June 24, 2019? I do. @5k gave me this idea a while back because in their family they celebrate Spiritual Birthdays (the more important ‘date’ if you ask me). It’s not necessary for salvation to remember the date / time / place you repented of your sins, confessed Jesus as Lord, and choose to take up your cross and follow Him- but the idea stuck out to me because of where I was on June 24, 2019.

So where was I on June 24, 2019? My grievous and wicked sin had caused my wife to kick me out of the house and I was sleeping at some wonderful people from church’s house one night because I was too ashamed to go to my parents’ house at first. I woke up at 3am and was overwhelmed by my sin- not just trying to avoid consequences as I had “fake repented” before, but truly confessing them to God and asking Him to forgive me because of Christ’s finished work of a perfect life lived, unjustly crucified, and the Father raising Jesus from the dead. I told Jesus I didn’t know if the prayer I’d prayed when I was 10 was real or if I was confessing Him for the first time truly, but it didn’t matter because I repented and turned from my sins through His power. I was face down on rug for who knows how long, but after I did that I was indeed as 2 Corinthians 5:17 says “a new creation”.

So what did I do? It was as easy as ABC:
Admit that I was a sinner (specifically by confessing them to God and repenting of them)
Believe that Jesus is the perfect Son of God and He died on the Cross for my sins
Call upon God to save me because of what Jesus did and I am dead without Him

My sin was pervasive, wicked sexual sin and LOTS of lying. I turned from those to Jesus. There’s more to it, and I’d be glad to share more with any of you about how God has changed me, but the question you need to ask is:

Are you repenting? Are you confessing your sins to God? This isn’t a one-time thing even though once you truly confess and repent you are saved. It is ongoing, daily humble confession and repentance. When God resurrects our souls, He expects us to bear fruit as the sign we’re alive in Christ. When we confess and repent of our sins, we do several things (and more I’m sure I’ve not exhaustively listed below):

-we demonstrate fruit in keeping with repentance (Matthew 3:8)
-we make sure our calling (2 Peter 1:10)
-we show others Jesus in us bearing the fruit in ourselves and others (Matthew 13:8)
-we prove ourselves truly repentant (2 Corinthians 7:8-11)

I wasn’t truly repentant before this day last year. I had faked it and lied so much I even lied when I didn’t intend to. But the Scripture just mentioned does indeed tell the story of how I’ve walked this past year

2 Corinthians 7:8-11

8 For even if I made you grieve with my letter, I do not regret it—though I did regret it, for I see that that letter grieved you, though only for a while. 9 As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us.

10 For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. 11 For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.

Q1: What is the sin you’re needing to keep putting to death (Colossians 3:5-11)?

Q2: What part of repentance do you need to work out (2 Corinthians 7:8-11)?

MOLESKIN:
Prayed for more increasing unity in our city and nation. I’m thankful for F3. You men have pushed and pursued and sharpened me in ways I couldn’t have imagine on this date last year. My 1-year F3iversary is coming up so be on the lookout for a repeat (or possibly modification) of that beatdown in the near future!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Q101 this Friday, June 26, at Shamrock led by Tank (with extended time after for discussion & teaching of how to lead a Q)
Q101 also Friday July 10, at JUCO led by Judge Judy.

SYITG soon, HIMs!

Fibonacci Unity

May 27, 2020 Pool Boy

THE SCENE: Upper 60s. Dew on the ground. Fibonacci about to happen
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER – Administered + cell phone check
WARM-O-RAMA:
IC Moroccan Night Club x 10
IC Imperial Squat Walker x 10
IC Hillbillies (thanks to Kick-Flip for introducing me to this one!)
OYO Lunges in Place x 5 each leg
IC Tempo Merkin x 7
IC Tennessee Rocking Chair x 10
OYO Flying Squirrel x 5
IC Dancing Bear x 10

THA-THANG: Fibonacci time!

Mosey toward coupon pile. Stop along the way to do some exercises and build up the current Fibonacci number (start with 0 and add the previous two numbers together to get the current one)

0 Star Gazers, 0 Fartsacks
1 ea x Burpee, Donkey Kick
1 ea x Squat Jump, Jumping Spider (0 + 1 = 1)
2 ea x Burpees, Donkey Kicks (1 + 1 = 2)
3 ea x BBS, Flutter Kicks (IC) (1 + 2 = 3)

Upon arrival at the CMU pile, each PAX grabbed a CMU and did:

5’s Heavy American Hammers (bottom of the steps), Pull-ups at the top

Mary at the end fro PAX who finish before the 6.
After 5’s, mosey to Freshman Hill

8’s with CMU’s: Monkey-humping goblet squat (leave CMU at bottom of the hill), Bobby Hurley’s (at the top of the hill)

Q cut this short as it was brutal and we returned the CMU’s to their home. Mosey to the newer back parking lot beside Sophomore Hill

13’s next: (Air) Thrusters (originally planned to be at Freshman Hill with CMU’s), LBC’s

Mosey to other parking lot.

21 each: Single count dancing bears, single count merkins

Mosey to other half of parking lot.

34 each: Merkins, single leg calf raises

MARY:
Mosey to AO with just enough time for 30 seconds of pickle pounders (and even invented a new exercise – the pickle jumper where forearms stay on the ground but toes come off the ground when hips are elevated)
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 men at the beatdown but 9 men built up.

COT also added 10 yes TEN guys for JUCO Rush).

All HIMs. Not a Fibonacci number but maybe next time we can get to 55 (the next Fibonacci number)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Guardrail sent me a text ~2 months ago asking me what I’d been working to memorize lately. I’d been slacking on Romans 15:1-7 but I determined that week I’d memorize it. It’s been an encouragement to me since then:

15 We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. 3 For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.” 4 For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. 5 May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, 6 that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 7 Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.

We live in such a time of division. There’s so much information out there. But we can be unified in bearing with the failings of the weak (and admitting when we are weak so our brothers can do this for us). We can choose to bear with those failings (meaning it will be harder for us) and letting whatever scorn and reproach fall on us, remembering that Jesus did it for us. Then as we spend time in the Word, the things that were written in former days, we will endure and be encouraged from those and THAT will give us to glorify God with one voice as a barbershop quartet or a magnificent choir ends on the same note and you get goosebumps from the sound. That is how God will work in and through us as we do these things.

MOLESKIN:
Praise for Guardrail’s daughter’s stomach issues being able to be treated with medication. Continued prayer for Jitters Dad (Stem Cell treatment begins this week) and Spotter & Gump’s mom (doing well but still undergoing chemo). Pray for Butterknife’s vasectomy on Friday.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Sign up for a Q or ask me or another PAX to co-Q with you. F3 is about ISI (Proverbs 27:17) and as HIM’s we are called to humbly lead.

Be Wise: Know Your Own Body and Get Wisdom!

March 16, 2020 Pool Boy

THE SCENE: 45 & misting… aka perfectly gloomy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER – Administered + cell phone check
WARM-O-RAMA:
10 x Alternating aka “Freestyle swim” (LBACF & R but alternating arms) IC
10 x Tempo Squat IC
5 x Imperial Rockette IC
10 x Tempo Merkin IC
10 x Tennessee Rocking Chair IC
Move to curb
20 Calf Raises OYO
5 Burpees OYO

THA-THANG:
Mosey to big parking lot. All PAX spread out to do proper “social distancing” aka 6 feet apart and do a (standing instead of planking) Bear Crawl Snake: Similar to Bear Crawl Inch Worm, but adds a weave. PAX line up head to feet in plank position. The man at the back of the line, bear crawls to front of the line, weaving in and out of planking PAX and yells when at front. Next man does the same thing until all PAX have completed. Repeat as necessary.

Mosey to coupon pile
Each PAX grabs a coupon (sharing is not caring in this case)
Number off 1-2-1-2 to split into 2 groups:

Round 1
One group starts with the following exercises
Kettle Bell Swing x 10
Goblet Squats x 10

The second group does the following as a “head start” to stagger the groups

Bear crawl up first two sets of stairs
Lunge x 3 each leg
Run up sidewalk and the next to the Pull-up bars
Alternating AMRAP pull-ups (palms pronated aka facing away from you) & chin-ups (supenated aka palms facing away from you) -> suggested reps is 5 each round but if a PAX could not continue to do any pull-ups suggested substitution was an “eccentric pull-up hang” which is defined as jumping up and starting with your head at or above the bar and doing a ~10-second hang lowering yourself as slowly as possible to still get the workout in for reps.
Jog/run back down the stairs to the CMU station

Repeat the circuit for 10 minutes then recover at the CMU station at the bottom

Q asked Spotter for a 30 count and he obliged perfectly with 5 second notifications while the Q explained the variation for round 2 (listed below)

Round 2
One group starts with the following exercises:
CMU Squat Thrusters x 10
Alternating per round with CMU (incline merkins one round / derkins the next)
Incline Merkins / Derkins x 10

The second group does the same thing for the second round up and down the stairs as in Round 1

The group that started with the CMU exercises the first time starts on the stairs.

Exercise again for 10 minutes

Q called recovery and after CMUs were put up Guardrail led core exercise of his choice (4-count flutter kicks IC) until the Q finally made it over for reps ~13-20.

Q asked Curveball for a 15-count

Mosey to AO

MARY: We had time for some new / “fun” exercises:

Dancing bear x 10 IC
Tony Hawk Burpees x 10 OYO
Dead bug (Pool-boy variation) x 10 IC
Rotational Merkins x 10 each OYO

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Picture (because it definitely happened)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM + MOLESKIN:

We have lots of questions about the future with COVID-19. In thinking about all that we need, what should come first? When I considered this, I was reminded of when Judge Judy or someone else posts “ISI” in the F3 GroupMe. What does he mean by this, you ask? He’s referring “Iron Sharpens Iron” and to the following verse from Proverbs 27:17 – Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

Proverbs was written by Solomon the wisest man (save Christ) to ever live.

Q: In these times of social distancing, uncertainty, and worry, where did he say to start?
A: Start with wisdom.

Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs has SO MUCH to say about wisdom, but there are 3 aspects of it we’re covering today:

1. Get wisdom – Proverbs 4:7 The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, & whatever you get, get insight.
Seek after wisdom. We know this, but we have to do it. Don’t leave it to chance to get it- walk with wise men (Proverbs 13:20). The opposite is true (1 Corinthians 15:33) and it won’t happen haphazardly but with inteionality. Read the Bible, especially Proverbs (& James which is the “Proverbs of the New Testament”), and seek out men who are wise to learn from.

2. Listen to others – Proverbs 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.
We want to think we know so much, especially if we’re reading a lot and getting a lot of good knowledge and information. But to truly be wise, we MUST not only listen to others but seek their input. This was exemplified when I was in college and vacuuming out my parents’ garage because it was messy with leaves and debris that had blown in- they hadn’t even asked me to do it. Then my dad came out into the garage and suggested I use a different attachment on the vacuum when I thought I was “doing just fine.” But that morning I’d read Proverbs 12 and this verse came to mind, I was convicted, and changed what I was doing per my dad’s suggestion… and (of course) it worked better than what I was doing. Listen to others!

3. Listen THEN give wisdom – Proverbs 18:13 If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly & shame.
Last but not least, we must listen and then give advise. We don’t cast our pearls before swine (Matthew 7:6), but we do need to speak in due time. Giving an apt reply (Proverbs 15:23, Proverbs 25:11) is something we have to work at, constantly fight for to both hush AND speak in God’s timing for a situation while we walk in the Spirit.

After reading this, the Q explained we’d be reading what is written below about Solomon asking for wisdom from God, but to honor social distancing and to be bold we got on our knees and prayed after taking several prayer requests: Mermaid’s parents being a little flippant about the Coronavirus, Trolley asked for pery about his family and all those over Knox County’s Spring Break with all of the kids and everyone in homes on mostly self-quarrantines, and Guardrail’s daughter is coming back early from her mission trip to Nicaragua because of the way the virus is continuing to spread.

1 Kings 3:5-9

5 At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, “Ask what I shall give you.” 6 And Solomon said, “You have shown great and steadfast love to your servant David my father, because he walked before you in faithfulness, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart toward you. And you have kept for him this great and steadfast love and have given him a son to sit on his throne this day. 7 And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in place of David my father, although I am but a little child. I do not know how to go out or come in. 8 And your servant is in the midst of your people whom you have chosen, a great people, too many to be numbered or counted for multitude. 9 Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?”

May God grant our prayer for wisdom, to give us understanding because we do not know anything compared to the riches of wisdom that flow from Him in Christ (1 Corinthians 1:24)!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Be wise and let’s provide for our community in big and small ways. See Junk’s message about hand sanitizer for healthcare workers.

Be Bold & Juicy- Make the Best Use of the Time!

February 28, 2020 Pool Boy

THE SCENE: 36°F and gloomy but about to be BOLD and JUICY!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER – Administered + Cell Phone Check (will actually be used for music during Mary… read to the end to find out)
WARM-O-RAMA:

Standard
LBACF & R IC x 5ea
Tempo Squat IC x 5
Tempo Merkin IC x 5
Werewolf OYO x 5
Burpee OYO x 5
Imperial Walker IC x 5

Bold & Juicy
Hummingbird Wings (really fast LBACF & R) – IC x 5ea
Squat Jumps OYO x 5
Diamond Merkins IC x 5
Tennessee Rocking Chair IC x 5
Flying Squirrel OYO x 5
Squat Walking Rockette IC x 5

Calf raises x 25

THA-THANG:
Falling Indian Run (count to 3, do burpees off to the side of the line until the rear of the line reaches you and then fall in) to the Coupon Pile and then over to Freshman Hill. Partner Up and do the following:

DORA on Freshman Hill	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4
Length	4 minutes	3 minutes	4 minutes	4 minutes
Rest	1 minute	1 minute	1 minute	1 minute
Bottom of Hill	Squats	Goblet Squats	Squat Thrusters	Heavy American Hammers
Up Hill	Run	Bernie	Bear Crawl	Run
Top of Hill	5x Merkins	5x Jumping Spiders	5x Burpees	5 x 4-ct Flutter Kicks

Q called recover and return CMUs to coupon pile, doing a wall sit until the all PAX at on the wall. Guardrail for *SOME STRANGE REASON* did a quicker than normal 10-count.
Black Snake back to the AO.

MARY:
All PAX got in a tight circle while the Q explained what “Thunderstruck” meant and how we were going to modify it to be BOLD & JUICY

Exicon explanation of Thunderstruck: “Q plays “Thunderstruck” by ACDC. PAX complete 1 standard Merkin for every “thunder!” that is heard in the song. Plank during the rest of the song. Awesome way to end a workout and just make sure any juice that’s left is burned away.”

BOLD & JUICY “Thunderstruck” modification:

Start the song with pickle pounders.
When they start saying “thunder” go into plank and do 1 merkin every time it’s said.
Hold plank until at the end of the first verse when he says “thunderstruck.”
For the rest of the song when he says “thunderstruck” do 1 burpee.
After the first thunderstruck, the Q led the following changes to exercises at certain points in the song:
BBS until the first “shaking at the knees”, doing burpees as they say “thunderstruck”
Flutter kicks until the second “shaking at the knees”, doing burpees as they say “thunderstruck”
BBS until the last round of “thunderstruck” starts and do burpees until the end of the song.

PAX were exhausted and the Q *might* have gone over 1-minute on time (my plan even said I was 1-minute over but I was trying to be BOLD & JUICY with what I’d planned for the workout)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
21 PAX (2 left early + 19 pictured + 1 Pool Boy behind the camera)

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Last week in the JUCO GroupMe @Curveball posted a photo of this beer and asked “Side business @Pool Boy?”. The next comment about the subtext of the IPA from @Anchorman made me decide to absolutely include it in my BOM: “Bold and Juicy”!!!!

I was already thinking about the following passage, but with Leap Day tomorrow (2-29) that we ought to be BOLD and JUICY. What does this mean? Let’s look at Ephesians 5:15-18 to find out what I’m thinking Scripture says:

¹⁵Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, ¹⁶making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. ¹⁷Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. ¹⁸And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

This passage calls us to be BOLD by walking carefully and making the best use of the time and to be JUICY by drawing people in through understanding what the Lord’s will is and by being filled with the Spirit and not wine [or Pool Boy beer!].

Ways PAX can be BOLD: Sign up for course or a test you need to take (educationally or professionally), train for a marathon, trying to be a HIM day in and day out, have “the talk” with your son/daughter, confessing sin to your wife, serving at your church without being asked, talking to your neighbor who is clearly in need of a friend, and even sign up for your VQ / next Q!

When I think of being JUICY I’m reminded of what Jesus said in Matthew 5:13 – “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.” and what Paul said in Colossians 4:6 – Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person. We’re called to live in such a way that people should constantly be drawn in to us because of how we’re different in living out our lives not for ourselves but for Christ. That we would emanate His love, grace, and be the aroma of life.

Ways PAX can be JUICY: Talk about Christ with your coworkers and seek to lift them up in prayer in their presence and on your knees when it’s just you and the Lord, immerse yourself in the Bible and let it pour into and out of your soul, spend time praying and fasting asking that God would give you more of a heart for the things He wants you to do, speaking with kindness and compassion to those in need because Christ is your Savior, listening to that one guy who nobody wants to listen to but you know God has put in your life to minister to and love and even as 1 Thessalonians 2:8 says “So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us”, and much more!

Remember, you only have one “today” as Ephesians 5:15-18 reminds us. Walk carefully. Be wise. Don’t get drunk but be BOLD and be JUICY!

MOLESKIN:
Prayer for Cheatsheet & his daughter, Spotter’s & Gump’s mom’s successful surgery & lymph node removal (prayer for no further cancer), prayer for Flashback’s son (lost 1-year old child last year and now has a new 4-month old baby), prayers for Jack, Commission’s friend.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
TRUEbadours tomorrow at 7am at the Asylum on Leap Day 2/29

Pull-up bar install tomorrow from 8am at The Dog Pound

OTB Exploratory Workout next Friday, March 6 at Catholic High School led by Waxjob

Look A Turtle (Press On!)

January 24, 2020 Pool Boy

THE SCENE: 42F and rainy. Things were already going swimmingly.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER– Administered and cell phone check done too. $Free.99, Q was looking like a Turtle and not a professional that’s for sure.

Gazelle Trot (aka Mosey) to overhang outside of CPAC
WARM-O-RAMA:
Donkey Kick x 5
Frog Jump in place x 5
Jumping Spider x 10
Werewolf x 5
Spider Man w/Reach x 5
Flying Squirrels x 5
Copperhead Squat x 5
Monkey Humper x 5

Black Snake 1x each PAX through the line and then continue in formation to the ERC

THA-ANIMAL-THANG:Pyramid Workout – Start with the first exercise and add an exercise each round until you get to all 5 exercises and then drop an exercise until you get to 1 exercise:
10 Monkey Humpers
10 Mountain Goats
10 Frog Jumps
10 Flying Squirrels
10 Jumping Spiders
Choose Your Own Adventure
Duck Walk or Bear Crawl up the ramps at the ERC (alternate at the end of each round) and
Back down the stairs or run 1 lap (~1/8 mile) in the courtyard in the rain

Example Animal Adventure Workout
Round 1 – 10 Monkey Humpers, Bear Crawl
Round 2 – 10 Monkey Humpers, 10 Mountain Goats, Duck Walk
Round 3 – 10 Monkey Humpers, 10 Mountain Goats, 10 Frog Jumps, Bear Crawl, 1 lap around the courtyard in the rain
Round 4 – 10 Monkey Humpers, 10 Mountain Goats, 10 Frog Jumps, 10 Flying Squirrels, Duck Walk, 1 lap around the courtyard in the rain
Round 5 – 10 Monkey Humpers, 10 Mountain Goats, 10 Frog Jumps, 10 Flying Squirrels, 10 Jumping Spiders, Bear Crawl, 1 lap around the courtyard in the rain
Round 6 (drop an exercise) – 10 Monkey Humpers, 10 Mountain Goats, 10 Frog Jumps, 10 Flying Squirrels, Duck Walk
Round 7 (drop another exercise) – 10 Monkey Humpers, 10 Mountain Goats, 10 Frog Jumps, Bear Crawl
Round 8 (drop another exercise) – 10 Monkey Humpers, 10 Mountain Goats, Duck Walk, 1 lap around the courtyard in the rain
Round 9 (drop down to 1 exercise) – 10 Monkey Humpers, 1 lap around the courtyard in the rain,

If time permitted, Round 10 would add an exercise and repeat. I think we had a few PAX finish Round 6. After Round 5 the Q said no more adventures in the courtyard and after another 3 minutes the Q called recover.

MARY (Q had asked Jitters to lead):

20 American Hammers 4 ct OYO
20 LBC’s OYO
20 Flutter Kicks IC (fastest flutters ever I’m pretty sure)
10 Pickle Pounders IC

After calling recover, the Q decided our grand finale would be better done under shelter so “on your 6” was called and the Q asked Waxjob to lead “Row, row, row your boat” as he combined American Hammers + Boat / Canoe and singing all together so that “life is but a dream!”

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
21 PAX including 1FNG, plus 1 Wookie & and 1 Turtle on Q (here’s the ‘picture or it didn’t happen’. Dart Gun had to leave early).

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

For 23 years I thought I was a Christian. There was no fruit, confession, or repentance in my life for over two decades. I was self-absorbed, self-focused, and self-exalting. But God brought me down in my sexual idolatry and humbled me and broke me… and in the process, I believe genuinely saved me. The next steps in my journey are unsure, but the weight of my sin Christ has borne. As Philippians Philippians 3:12-16 says

12 Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 13 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. 16 Only let us hold true to what we have attained.

Last week my divorce became final. I have confessed, repented, prayed, and begged for the Lord to be pleased with how I walked out the end of my marriage that I destroyed. God is not mocked. But my life is not over. I am called to be a HIM in every sense of the word. Christ died on the cross so I could walk in newness of life. In short, Jesus has called me to PRESS ON. And He has called many HIMs to do the same – in (at least from our perspective) “good” and “bad” circumstances (including rainy 42F F3 workouts):

5k is waiting on Venture Capital funding for his new job.
Mandolin is considering a new job, wife’s job struggles including losing her first patient.
Trolley’s Mom in Cali is recovering from water on the lungs
Judge has a new house, his wife went through post-partum depression (and is now on the other side of it PTL), and has a new mentee who doesn’t like cops or the church.
Anchorman has many Emerald Youth kids he cares for
Guardrail has ongoing heel issues so has to take a break from F3
Snaggletooth is caring for the kids alone this weekend while his wife travels for work
Ginger is moving to Nashville
Mailbox M has heart issues

All of us are called to press on for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. This earth and no one and
no thing, job, salary, pleasure are our prize. Christ is our prize. Remember God’s Word through Paul:

13 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,

14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Press on!

MOLESKIN:

Prayer for:
Hideout’s church plant
Mandolin’s job opportunity
Waxjob’s mother-in-law (signs of Alzheimer’s)
Prais for Survivor (FNG Welcome) over 2 years ago getting through his battle with cancer.

The turtle onesie was harder and the workout was harder than the Q expected .
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Waxjob on Q Monday! Don’t forget to keep signing up for future Q’s as the JUCO Q-calendar fills up quickly. Also don’t hesitate to do a JUCO Bomb or a guest Q to help out and encourage other AO’s!