THE SCENE: Muggy as all get out
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER – Administered
WARM-O-RAMA:
10 x Overhead Clap IC
10 each Tie Fighters forward & backward IC
10 Forward lunges in place OYO
10 Reverse lunges OYO
10 x Tempo Squats IC
5 x Hand Release Merkins OYO
5 x Burpees
5 x Werewolves OYO
THA-THANG:
Falling Indian Run to the Cheatsheet Merkin’ parking lot.
Modified exercise: Werewolves on Route 66 in ‘Murica:
Lunge across 1 parking space.
Do 1 Werewolf
Mosey/jog/run back to the start.
Do 1 Merkin.
Lunge across 2 parking spaces.
Do 2 Werewolves.
Mosey/jog/run back to the start.
Do 1 Merkin.
Lunge across 3 parking spaces.
Do 3 Werewolves.
Mosey/jog/run back to the start.
Do 1 Merkin.
All the way to 11 parking spaces & 11 Werewolves.
Finish with a Salute to America:
10 x American Hammers
5 x Merkins
(the 6 was up or there would have been a 10 second rest before repeating)
Mosey to CMU Pile
Air CMU Runs – 10 each of the following:
Air
Air Press
Squat
Lunges
Merkin
Freddie Mercury
Add a CMU
Thruster
Goblet Squat
CMU Lunges
CMU Merkins (or Bench Press)
Heavy Freddies
Run all the way through the Fia parking lot (since Fia wasn’t there) and back.
The Q called an audible and we only repeated the Air part and then put the CMU’s up.
Falling Indian Run (Squats again) 2x through and then fellowship mosey back to the #shovel-flag.
MARY:
Dealer’s Choice (1x through and then Betty led Flutter kicks til time was called).
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5 PAX. Basically the fab five.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Today we celebrate the Declaration of Independence being signed on July 4, 1776. But today’s cultural climate is very different from what can be summed up in the following verses say:
Judges 17:6, 21:25 – In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
I want to be a Christian – wholly, through and through. What are some terms we have that mean things aren’t
consistent. Bifurcated, hypocritical, house-divided, tension.
All of these things describe our culture. But the distinction is stark and we need to reconsider culturally where we are going and the consequences of many in society assuming what I’ve heard termed “the myth of neutrality” (meaning that politics and religion can be separated like you can split a person and say you believe one thing and do another). As John Adams said “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Of course, Jesus said the same thing in Matthew 6:24 – “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.[a]
So in reflecting on today and how we are split, divided, hypocritical…
But on July 4, 1776, the following words were signed not hastily or arrogantly, but as a means of last resort to be whole:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
They didn’t separate lightly. It wasn’t done after much longsuffering (aka PATIENCE!). I challenge you to not be a split, hypocritical, divided person. Serve the Lord with gladness. Love your neighbor. Sacrifice for your children. Ask your wife to forgive you (but only if you’ve actually done something wrong).
As Jesus said in Matt 16:25 For whoever would save his life[g] will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
MOLESKIN:
Before the workout began Betty said (subject matter doesn’t quite matter because of how applicable it can be used in various situations going forward) “That was under the old leadership. We’re under new leadership now.” HILARIOUS and will definitely be quoted many times going forward.
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