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Traveling by BLIMPS

THE SCENE: Chilly; in the 40s. Great weather for a blimp ride.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Warmed up with some:
    • Abe Vigoda
    • Arm Circles forward/back
    • tempo squat
    • plank jacks

THA-THANG:

Travel to new campus building. Partner up and complete the following in pairs. One person does 10 of the main exercise while the other does the waiting exercise. Then they swap until 100 reps of the main exercise have been completed.

100 Merkin – Plank
100 LBC – Low Plank
100 Squat – Al Gore

Travel to Far end of Pond. Travel by BLIMP around the smaller pond loop.

  • Burpee x5
  • Lunge x10
  • Imperial Walker x15
  • Merkin x20
  • Plank Jack x25
  • Squat x30

Traveling by BLIMPS is slow as you can imagine. The Lunges, Imp Walker and squat with side step kept us slowly moving forward. Needless to say we didn’t make it around the loop.

Headed back toward the flag, stopping to do a modified Beast.

Completed 6 reps of LBC, squats, Werkin, American Hammer and Burpee. Started heading back toward the flag as time wound down.

MARY:
Finished it out with some Hello Dollies and Flutter Kicks.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Previously, I had talked about  the humility of Christ from Phil 2:5-7. His coming to earth to serve others and sacrifice of himself. (On so many levels)
That same passage continues and connects that humbleness of Jesus with God exalting him and giving him the name that is above every name. Lets look at the next few verses.

Phil 2:9-11

Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name. So that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

God has declared Jesus as synonymous with himself and given him his own name. One day there will be no choice but everyone will recognize the glory of God and bow.

Short Circuit

THE SCENE: 55 Degrees
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Side straddle hop in cadence 20
Weed Pickers
10 tempo merkins
Arm rotations thumbs up in cadence
Cherry Pickers
Reverse thumbs down in cadence
THA-THANG:
Black snake Mosey to Sophomore Hill

  • Bear Crawl up half way
  • Partner up and wheel barrow up the rest of the hill switching at the half way mark

Mosey to the coupon pile

  • Grab one and rifle carry it to the spot

16 stations/45 secs each/run in between

  • Merkins
  • BBS
  • SSH
  • Man makers
  • Jump Rope
  • Cling Press KB Swings
  • Freddy Mercuries
  • Burpees
  • Goblet Squats w/ coupon
  • Curls w/ coupon
  • Dead Bug lowering opposite arm and leg
  • Squat thrust with coupon
  • Ladder drills in,in,out,out
  • Heavy Hammers American Hammers w/ weighted ball
  • Walking lunges with coupon
  • Bear Crawl

Mosey to the center of campus

  • 20 dips/20 derkins

Mosey to the flag with a jail break

MARY:
no time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
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CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.”“I can do all this through him who gives me strength.”
Philippians 4:12-13

We often forget to be praise God when we’re on top of the mountain, or during the climb. Somehow we always remember to ask for his help in the valleys. Let’s be greatful for all he’s given us at every stage.

MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP at Haw Ridge May 6th 9p-midnight
Family workout this weekend and May 7th at the Project
July 2nd Convergence at JUCO (updates to follow)

Happy Friday eve workout

THE SCENE: Insert info about the weather, etc.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Insert information about the warmup.

DDYP: dynamic resistance stretching

THA-THANG:
Insert information about the workout.

Relay race with tire flips, Devil press 6 reps, Rope wips 6 reps, pike walk around box

AMRAP:  partner up 8reps the swap

  • 2minutes  hollow hold , hop over using Cmu
  • 2minutes partner 4 toe touches squat holding CMU
  • 2minutes partner plank pop overs

MARY:
Insert information about any additional post-THANG work (if applicable).
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
1Peter 3:1-7 PRAYing for your wife by showing empathy with all she does throughout the day and what God has called her to do.

 

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP in two weeks

 

USAF Fitness Measurement – Round 2

THE SCENE:   38 and clear
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:  Nah
WARM-O-RAMA: 

  • Grady corns
  • Moroccan nightclub
  • Michael Phelps
  • Willy Mays Hays
  • Cherry picker
  • Projectivator
  • Merkins
  • Mountain climbers

THA THANG:

  • Mosey to the playground;
    4 pullups + 20 bobby hurleys
    4 pullups + 20 iron mikes
    Partner-up:  Max sit-ups in 1 minute
  • Mosey to the bell
    Max merkins in 1 minute
  •  1.5 miles for time
  • Galway hookers
  • Bear crawl – 30 merkins – crawl bear
  • Mosey to the playground;
    4 pullups + 10 heals to heaven + 4 pullups

MARY:

No time!

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Me and 8 of the best men I know

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

The workout and Word were inspired by something that Erector said when he led two weeks ago.  He repeated a workout from a year or so ago and had to modify toward then end and stack more on us because we were finishing too fast.  He said, “I’m not sure if the group has gotten stronger…or if I was just more efficient with explaining the workout.”  We repeated the Air Force PT test that we did 6 months ago – to measure whether the group is, in fact, getting stronger/faster.

Unless you currently are recovering from an injury, I hope you are getting steadily stronger and faster.  More than that, I hope you are applying the wisdom that you hear in the BOM and seeing positive impacts in your life.  Fitness and wisdom will not happen overnight.  I’m reminded of something Mathlete said a few weeks ago about our progress being like an ascending spiral.  All these different facets of me are getting better as I make steady improvement.

  • …a little stronger…
  • …a little more graceful toward those I disagree with…
  • …a little less selfish…
  • …a little faster…
  • …a little more engaged with my loved ones…
  • …a little more intentional in my fathering…
  • …faith that is not just in the head and heart, but in actions…

None of these happen by accident.  They happen only when you do the hard work of applying yourself toward them.  If even a tenth of what you hear in the BOM is taking root in your life, what a man you will be!

A pair of quotes for you;

  • “Well done is better than well said.” – Benjamin Franklin
  • “Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.” – Dale Carnegie

From Scripture;

“But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves.  …if you look carefully into the perfect law that sets you free, and if you do what it says and don’t forget what you heard, then God will bless you for doing it.”  James 1:22-25

“What good is it, dear brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but don’t show it by your actions? Can that kind of faith save anyone? …faith by itself isn’t enough. Unless it produces good deeds, it is dead and useless.”  James 2:14, 17

“All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.” Proverbs 14:23

“Keep putting into practice all you learned and received from me.” Philippians 4:9

MOLESKIN:

  • 4 men set their baseline score today because they did not do the PT test last Sept.
  • 5 men repeated the test – EVERY MAN improved his score from last time.  BOOM, BABY!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • Skewer VQ on Thursday!
  • Rampart OTB on Saturday – 7:00 AM
  • CSAUP May 6th
  • Family Workout May 7th

Having fun at JUCO

THE SCENE: 40ish…a little chilly, perfect to increase the temperature through good exercise 🙂
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • 10x Overhead claps.
  • 10x Seal claps.
  • 10x Side Straddle Hops.
  • 10x Cherry Pickers.
  • 10x Baby Arm Circles.
  • 30 sec to stretch on your own.

THA-THANG:
Mosey to Pond.

There were 4 stations around the pond, each station with a different exercise (single count):

  • 10 Burpees.
  • 15 Moving Lunges.
  • 20 American Hammers.
  • 25 Mountain Climbers.

The game would be finished when either:

  • 1 HIM would complete 3 laps or
  • All HIMs would complete 2 laps or
  • We exceed 12 mins (the punishment for this would be to do 30 burpees).

We all ended up doing only 10 burpees since we were almost able to beat the clock 🙂

Mosey to big parking lot.

We were divided in two teams. There were two boxes 100 m apart with equal number of tennis balls. The goal was to move as many balls as possible to the opposite box (carrying one ball at a time). In order to be able to score, you had to bear crawl for 30 feet and do either 5 push-ups or 5 squads. It was a nice battle and the team of the runners was the winner (all of us had fun :).

Mosey to bars and bricks area.

All together completed these exercises:

  • 10 Curls.
  • 10 Overhead press.
  • 10 Triceps.
  • 10 pull-ups.
  • 10 crunches.

MARY:
No time.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
14 HIMs (One FNG, Pre-K, thanks for joining man).

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Thankful for the opportunity of being part of F3 and be surrounded by amazing men.

Reflected about the loneliness and the meaning of it. It is always important to designate some time during the day to able to reinvent us and think about what we are doing. Rather than a punishment, loneliness should be a treasure that will allow us to connect with ourselves and God. We need to keep in mind that we are never alone, He is always there for us.

Matthew 28:20 – “Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age”.

MOLESKIN:
Prayed for all of us during this Holy week and for Hal and his family.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
BK was not here for the announcements. We ended up the party at DD.