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200 Merkins, A Simple Workout

THE SCENE: Mid 60’s and glorious
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Even though Pool Boy was in attendance, we did zero Side Straddle Hops
Tempo Merkins
Tempo Squats
Baby Arm Circles forward and backward
Moroccan Night Club
Cherry Pickers, nice and slow

THA-THANG:
Mosey to to the pull up bars.
Simple workout, just do 200 merkins, and a twist.
The twist is that you do this routine every time you stop doing merkins:
5 Pull ups
10 Big Boy Sit ups
15 Squats
resume merkins and repeat until you hit 200 merkins.

Once over half of the group reached 200, time was called and we ran to the CMU’s.
Each HIM grabbed a CMU and repeated this 3X:
25 Curls
10 Tri ext (after 200 merkins)
25 Bench Press

Mosey back to the AO for the Mary

MARY:
The first exercise called was LBC’s and someone said take us to 100, so we did 50 LBC’s in cadence equaling 100.  Be careful what you ask for.  Then we did 36 flutter kicks only because I failed to stop at 35, finally we all did 10 big boys on our own, and for the last few seconds dumpster dive had us do jumping beans.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
We did have one FNG, named Carter.  We named him Flintstone because he was wearing minimalist running sandals, and was practically barefoot!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I talked about my struggle to pray when times are good, and my desire to pray when times are tough.  I recently dropped my daughter off at a camp in Palo Alto CA.  She is 15, and we were both struggling at the prospect of her being on her own.  I finally left her, and I was a wreck emotionally.  I took a long walk around the Stanford Campus to clear my head and spent a lot of time in prayer.

My daughter met some people and did great, and I hailed an UBER back to San Francisco.  I encountered the best driver I have ever had.  He had over 28,000 trips and maintained a 4.99 star rating out of 5.  Nasim was a Jordanian immigrant.  He retired from the grocery business, and drives UBER for fun.  He loves people, and was raised as a Christian in Jordan, before immigrating to the US.  We had a delightful conversation, and he was an answer to prayers, and maybe even an angel.  Nasim and I swapped numbers and he texted me the next day (Father’s Day) to see how I was doing.

We need God all of the time, not just when things are rough, the challenge this week is to remember that and spend some time in prayer.  God is real, He is there just waiting for you to have a relationship with Him.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Thank you for the beer

THE SCENE: 59 and cool
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
1 Burpee

5 cherry pickers

some of these some of those
THA-THANG:
mosey over to the rock and we had 5 stations and a list of 5 exercises. you start and the first station and do 1 then run up to station 2 and do two. Run back to the first station and run up to station 3, and do 3. And so on and so forth.

  • merkns
  • air taps
  • V-ups
  • BBS
  • Squats

Everyone completed we mosey to the entrance to the auditorom.

  • 5 incline monkey humpers – audible because it’s a monkey humper

11’s

1 dip and run the long way around the parking lot to the porch and 10 4x plank jacks

 

MARY:
streching and cool down after 3 miles of running

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
remember the 2 greatest commandments

Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

38 This is the first and great commandment.

39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Convergence July 2nd Be there!

Character Building Circles Around the Track

F3 Q: 6.10.22

AO: Shamrock

0530 – 0615

[ The Scene ]

  • Comfortable cool
  • Runners came in hot from the pre-run

[ Welcome/Disclaimer ]

  • Welcome to F3: Fitness – Fellowship – Faith
  • My name is Steam and I’ll be your Q this morning
  • A few things before we begin:
    • I’m not a professional
    • You’re here on your own belief
    • You know your injuries if you have any so if you need to modify anything we do today feel free to do so, but push yourselves and the men around you. They deserve it and so do you.
  • FNGs?

[ Warm o Rama ]

  • SSH: 10×4
  • Rockette: 10×4
  • Imperial Walker: 10×4
  • Army Merkin: 10×4
  • Bend and Reach: 10×4
  • Twisty: 10×4
  • Mountain Climber: 10×4

[ The Thang ]

Mosey to the track

(1) 4 POC warm-up

  • 2 end zones + 2 sides (middle of the field)
  • End zones: 10 body builders/man-makers
    • Walk to the straightaway
    • Run to the 50
  • Middle of the field on either side: 25 imperial walkers
    • Run the other 50
    • 10 body builders/man-makers

(2) Quarter Pounder

  • 2 POC: End zones
  • 1 EZ: Merkins (25)
  • 1 EZ: BBS (25)
  • Sprint (not mosey) the sides of the field
  • Rinse and repeat until you rack up 100 total reps (2 laps)
  • Start with the sprint and end up in the end zone closest to the gates

(3) 20s

  • Start at the end zone
  • Sprint to the 20 yard line
    • 2 burpees
  • Sprint back to the end zone
  • Sprint to the 40 yard line
    • 4 burpees
  • Sprint back to the end zone
  • Spring to the opposite 40 yard line
    • 6 burpees

Mosey back to the AO

[ Mary ]

Core 4

  • 25 LBCs
  • 25 American Hammers
  • 25 Flutter kicks
  • 25 Hello Dollys

Ring of Fire: merkinse

[ COT ]

  • # off — 10
  • Name o Rama — Curveball, Long Noodle, Betty, Dumpster Dive, Anchorman, Jitters, Osteen, Mermaid, Voo Doo, Steam
  • FNGs — 0
  • BOM

De Oppresso Liber

  • Latin for “to free the oppressed”

There are some things in my life that feel pretty oppressive.

“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.”

‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭6:12‬ ‭ESV‬‬

There’s only one person who can truly free the oppressed and his name is Jesus.

Shamrock – Treasure Hunt

THE SCENE: Hot and muggy sweat fest
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Run in circles 

Side shuffle then reverse 

High knees

Butt kicks

Side Straddle hop (IC) 4 CT x 10

Tie Fighter 4 CT x 10 each

Cherry Pickers x5

Buns of steel balance (lean forward balancing on 1 foot with other leg balancing you behind, then do 4-count little up and down moves with rear leg while trying to maintain balance. We did 1 set of 10 per side.

Quad stretch

THA-THANG:

Mosey to the track and field 

Round 1: start at the end zone, run to the 10 yd line do 5 Big Boys, run back to the goal line do 5 merkins. Run to the 20, do 5 BBS, run back to the 0, repeat until we have done 50 BBS, 50 merkins and a lot of running. 

Round 2 the same deal, but with 20 single flutter kicks = 200 flutter kicks and 50 merkins. 

Round 3: the same deal, but with 20 single count American Hammers = we made it to the 50 yard line so we did 100 hammers and 25 merkin. 

With 5 minutes to spare, treasure hunt, then back to the flag. Slappy found the red T-rex. 

MARY:
Twinkle toes, LBCs and more buns of steel.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
12 – Voo Doo, Skid Mark, Honeydew, Betty, Pom-Pom, Dumpster Dive, Slappy, Pool Boy, Jenner, Osteen, Baby Boomer, Anchorman,
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Matthew 6:19-21 – What do you treasure? 

From the devotions of Thomas à Kempis in “The Imitation of Christ” 

This is the greatest wisdom – to seek the kingdom of heaven through contempt of the world. It is vanity, therefore, to seek and trust in riches that perish. It is vanity also to court honor and to be puffed up with pride…It is vanity to wish for long life and to care little about a well-spent life. … It is vanity to love what passes quickly and not to look ahead where eternal joy abides. 

MOLESKIN:
Prayer for the 14 yr old kid Silas who is in the hospital with a severe head injury.

Leading Ultimate Frisburpee

THE SCENE: April showers bring May flowers… and sweat. But what do Mayflowers bring?
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER – Not a Professional
WARM-O-RAMA:
The first exercise is… Mosey to the track. Partner up as we’re heading there. Extra person find a group with two good runners because today will include a lot of running in it.

Warmup in the End Zone aka “the 0-Yard” per Anchorman.
1. Lunges with a twist across
2. Finger walk – to walk (aka Inch Worm)
3. Over over under under (switch halfway)
4. High knees
5. Butt kickers
6. Side lunges with a skip (switch halfway)
7. Tennessee Rocking Chair

Final warmup lap around the track to the opposite end zone. Today we are going to be playing / doing a variant of a routine on the F3 Exicon known as “ultimate frisburpee”

THA-THANG:
We need to do a throwing warmup so everyone has a chance to get touches on the disc.

First we’ll be doing a game of hot potato – toss the disc to a fellow pax while everyone in the circle does squats. When the timer is up the person left with the disc (or who last was supposed to catch it) calls an exercise not named SSH or a SSH variant. Then we’ll do 15 reps of that exercise. Every time the disc is dropped or not caught, the PAX will do a decreasing number of burpees starting from 5, then 4, 3…

Find your partner and pick even or odd (group of 3 just figure this out).

Field size based on # of PAX (odd number rounding down to give a PAX “rest” as he will be doing alternating flutter kicks and pickle pointers in sets of 10 each with a 10 count rest after each set of two exercises)
4 (2v2) – A single 5 yard x 5 yard square for the goal aka Hot Box
6 (3v3) – A single 5 yard x 5 yard square for the goal aka Hot Box
8 (4v4) – 5 yard deep end zones, 40 yard long x 30 yard wide field
10 (5v5) – 10 yard deep end zones, 50 yard long x 30 yard wide field
12 (6v6) – 15 yard deep end zones, 60 yard long x 35 yard wide field
14 (7v7) – 20 yard deep end zones, 70 yard long x 40 yard wide field

The routine is simple: Similar to ultimate frisbee but with penalty burpees. On the 1st turnover, 5 burpees for all PAX. On the 2nd turnover, 4 burpees. On the 3rd, 3 burpees. On the 4th turnover, 2 burpess. On the 5th turnover, 1 burpee. If neither team has scored, the remainder of the point is played like regular ultimate frisbee. Burpee count resets after every point. You do not have to wait for all PAX to finish burpees to begin playing (i.e., it is advantageous to finish your burpees faster). Usually played for about 20 minutes. A PAX favorite in F3 Hampton Roads.

Our variant will be waiting for PAX to finish burpees (to give us a break and let everyone not run into each other since it was light-ish at first but eventually was fine to play). Also, after every point every PAX on the team that scores will do 5 squats and 5 merkins while the team that did not score walks to their end zone.

We ran out of time but it was super fun for everybody (& skins won).

MARY:
Ain’t nobody got time for that.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
12 men having too much fun for an F3 beatdown!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

The decision to lead (a Q or anything else)- what factors come down to it? What factors do you consider when making any decision? What should you consider? I think there are 3, but we’ll focus on the first one:

Qualifications
Ability
Desire

So I’m going to read verses on authority of those with the right qualifications. See where you fit in and see how you can properly exercise and submit to that authority in your life today:
“For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer.” –‭‭Romans‬ ‭13:3-4‬ ‭ESV‬‬
“So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly;”
“Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,” –‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭5:25‬ ‭ESV‬‬
“Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.” –‭‭John‬ ‭15:13‬ ‭ESV‬‬

So, today step into the role you’ve been given to lead – as an official of the government (which is established by God), as an elder in a church, as a husband and a father in your home, and as a friend to a brother who you’re walking with daily. God will be glorified and pleased.

MOLESKIN:
Ultimate used to be an idol in my life. I gave it up for almost 3 years and now I’m playing again. It’s still a lot of fun but with a lot more freedom than I used to. It held me captive and now it is really as the verse says:

17 Now the Lord[a] is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” –2 Corinthians 3:17

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Convergence July 2 at JUCO. See Slack for more info!