THE SCENE: Partly cloudy, low 60s, beautiful, but breezy as heck!!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER Check
WARM-O-RAMA:
-SSH x 20 (4-ct, IC)
– 10 Cherry Pickers (4-ct), in cadence, maintain position…
– Hamstring stretches, sky reaches
– 20 Grady Corns (4-ct), in cadence
– Little of this and that
– Tempo Squats, 4-ct, IC
THA-THANG:
MOSEY to Amphitheater.
- JINXY’S FOUR AND A QUARTER. Start at bottom of hill, run to top of slope and do 25 reps of an exercise, return to starting position. R&R 4 times, totaling 100 of the exercise.
- Round 1: Carolina Dry Docks
- Round 2: Lunges (single count)
- Round 3: Imperial Walkers (single count)
MOSEY to FIELD Below Colosseum.
RECTANGLE of DEATH!!
Blue cones on Corners, Orange Cones on sides (one side has blue cone in middle). Sheets will tell you what to do and how to get to next Blue Cone. Rinse and Repeat. First one done yell RECOVER.
Corner 1: Do 20 Iron Mikes (10 each leg). Suicide using orange cones to next blue cone.
Corner 2: Do 20 Plank Jacks, Bear Crawl to next Blue Cone
Corner 3: Do 20 Big Boy Situps, Bernie to Blue Cone ½ way down.
½ Way Cone: Do 10 Burpees, Bernie to next Blue cone
Corner 4: 20 Dive Bombers , EL CAPITAN to next Blue Cone
RINSE AND REPEAT (didn’t quite get 2x around)
Mosey to Area 51. Check for cars with undressed people inside.
Totem Pole. Start at 10, do all the exercises, then run to CONE, do 10 SSH, and return. Then start at 9, etc. Only got about 1/2 way done with this.
- 10 Burpees
- 9 Mountain Climbers (4-ct)
- 8 Diamond Merkins
- 7 Box Cutters
- 6 American Hammers (4-ct)
- 5 Imperial Squat Walkers (4-ct)
- 4 Hand Release Merkins
- 3 Bobby Hurleys
- 2 Squats
- 1 Star Gazers (10 seconds). Rabbits R&R
RUN UP HILL. WATCH FOR BEES. Mosey to AO
MARY:
Steam led the PAX in some ab work while the QIC picked up the Six.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
13 strong.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I hope you all read Judge Judy’s newsletter that came out this week. Its title was Cracks in the Foundation, and alluded to some situations both in F3 and outside of it that have resulted in fractures within groups and between individuals. We recently experienced a little bit of that here, at our very own AO. So for my Word, I just wanted to reiterate what I feel is F3’s absolutely greatest attribute: it’s ability to inspire us all to be better men through SHARING. Sharing of the Suck from the workout, Sharing in the responsibilities of being Q, etc., and Sharing of life experiences in the Circle that others may learn from or be inspired by.
We often use the term “Lock Shields” in F3. Think about that for a second. What does that look like, literally? I have this image from Lord of the Rings of a bunch of warriors facing a common enemy, and each one of them standing shoulder to shoulder with their shields up. If it was just one dude, he’d get surrounded, overwhelmed. But it’s a bunch of bad hombres that are aligned in a common purpose, that being to protect each other and protect what’s behind them by being an integral part of that wall. If there’s a crack, if there’s a gap in the wall, then everyone is in deep doo doo. So we have our differences. We have our differences in Faith, Politics, what kind of workouts we want to do out here, and maybe even differences in how we think F3 should operate. That’s fine! If everyone agreed on everything, life would be boring. And probably those guys in the days of the Roman Empire standing next to each other didn’t see eye to eye during the course of their daily lives. But the 45 minutes we have out here are not for solving all our differences about those things. It’s about working hard physically, improving ourselves, supporting our brothers, and being inspired to bring positivity, leadership, and GOODNESS, dagnappit, outside of the Circle. When we’re out here, we lay our differences aside. When we’re out here, I’m continually trying to figure out ways to better serve you so that you can serve others. And I hope that’s all of our mindsets. But whatever cracks in our foundation we have are superficial, and can be overcome with Grace and empathy and understanding. And Boys, from the bottom of my heart, it’s an honor and a privilege to come out here and lock shields with each and every one of you.
MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Steam and his fiancee and their venture down a new path, prayers of thanks that Lillydipper’s daughter got a job that she really wanted, prayers for Pusher and his family as his daughter deals with heartbreak.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Escape from Haw Ridge coming up!