THE SCENE: 62 and clear.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Administered.
WARM-O-RAMA:
- Knox CP
- M Nightclub
- Fence steppers
- Pendulum lunges
- Scrape the tip
- Double-tap squat
- Mosey to the playground: 5 pull-ups + 1:05 plank + 5 pull-ups + 1:05 plank + 3 pull-ups
THA THANG:
Mosey to the parking lot – split into 2 teams. One die with numbers 1,2,3.
Team 1 rolls the die, then runs that number of laps up the stairs and back around.
While Team 1 runs, Team 2 works through the exercises until laps are completed.
When first man from Team 1 returns from laps, other team rolls.
When list is complete, knock down a cone and start again.
* Also…there is a timer set for 2 minutes. Every 2 minutes stop and do 15 merkins *
Repeato for 25 minutes.
Exercises:
- 10 Monkey Humpers (4-count)
- 15 Mountain climbers (4-count)
- 10 Iron Mikes (10 each leg)
- 15 Side crunches (15 each side)
- 15 Squat jump 180s
- 15 BBS
- 15 Double-tap squats
- 20 Dollys (4-count)
- 10 Pendulum lunges (10 each side)
- 20 LBCs
MARY:
Mosey to the playground: 5 pull-ups + 15 diamonds + 5 pull-ups + 10 diamonds + 3 pull-ups + 2:10 seconds plank
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Me and 9 of the best men I know
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Genghis Khan was out with a Mongol hunting party. He was riding his horse and on his wrist sat his faithful hawk. After a long day of hunting, he saw water dripping on a rockface and dismounted to drink. While he was filling a cup, his hawk left his arm and flew. The water trickled into the cup frustratingly slowly, drip by drip – and just as the water came to the top and Khan raised it to his lips, the hawk flew by and knocked it out of his hand. He picked the cup up and began to refill it. This time, just as the cup was half full, he brought it again to his lips, but again the hawk swooped down and knocked it out of his hand. A third time, he filled the cup and a third time the hawk swooped down – but this time Khan was ready and struck the bird with his sword.
Instead of waiting for the drips to fill his cup yet again, he decided to climb the steep hillside and dip water where the stream pooled. When he reached the place, he found that there was indeed a pool of water; but lying in that pool was a large, dead, venomous snake. From the hawk’s vantagepoint, it could see the hazard. This faithful bird was trying to protect him from a danger that he could not see.
When you lock shields with other men, one of the benefits you get is their perspective. They can see your blind spots. They can see your foolishness. They can be your hawks – flying near you, perceiving what you cannot, protecting you from a danger that you do not even see. What a treasure! What an advantage in life! That is iron sharpening iron. You invite men to watch your six – as you watch theirs.
Having access to this benefit requires three things that most men are not comfortable with – and each takes courage.
- Vulnerability. On the receiving end, you only experience the benefit to the degree to which you are vulnerable about your struggles, vices, fears, and dreams. When you courageously share those things, that’s when real movement toward advantage can happen.
- Candidness. Being willing to speak a hard truth into another man’s life to his face takes courage. Like the flying hawk that sees the venomous snake – your duty to that man is to warn him of folly and danger. Your words may anger that man or cause him shame – but what a gift you have given him.
Prov 27:6, Wounds from a friend can be trusted
Prov 27:9, The pleasantness of a friend springs from their heartfelt advice
- Humility. A willingness to receive a tough critique with humility and the recognition that those you’ve locked shields with might, 1) know what’s better for you, 2) see hazards that you cannot, and/or 3) see through your BS.
My encouragement today is to find men in your life to lock shields with. In order to get the full benefit of their perspective, you’ll need to be courageously vulnerable with them and accept their input with humility. In order to be a valuable counselor to them, you’ll have to be willing to be courageously candid with them about their faults.
Prov 27:17, As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
MOLESKIN:
Nice to have Cheney with us from downrange! Borg crushed it today!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
- Convergence July 2
- Family Workout July 9
- Shield Lock backpacking trip July 15-16
