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Jail Break with a Parting Gift from Your Q

THE SCENE: Slight chill in the air. APPARENTLY, there’s a nice moon this morning, I don’t know, ask Aladdin. A nice, soft glow from a newly fixed street light. 

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

Not a professional. Here on your own. Know your injuries, but don’t tell me. Modify. COVID-ish rules? 

WARM-O-RAMA:

Little Baby Arm Circles Forward/Backward x10

Windmills x10

THA-THANG:

JAILBREAK @ THE EQUALIZER!! 

  • “Oldest” F3 HIM picks a card (has been coming to F3 the longest)
  • Jailbreak to the location on the card
    • Wagon Wheel with the six
  • Complete exercise on the card
  • 10 count while next “oldest” HIM chooses a new card
  • Q has the right to veto a card (if the location is too close to the current location)
  • Locations and exercises:
    • Splash Pad 
      • 30 Dips 
      • 30 Incline Merkins
    • Flag Pole 
      • 30 Dips 
      • 30 Plank Jacks 
    • Dock
      • 30 Incline Big Boys 
      • 30 Squat Jumps 
    • PlayGround 
      • 1 Round of Rocky Balboas 
      • 30 Smurf Jacks
    • Stonehenge 
      • 1 lap of Walking Lunges 
      • 30 Side Straddle Hops 
    • Tennis Courts 
      • 1 Bear Crawl Lap 
      • 10 Imperial Walkers @ Corners 
    • Basketball Court
      • 30 Jump Shots 
      • 30 Monkey Humpers 
    • Return to A.O. 
      • 30 Pickle Pounders 

MARY:

Let’s just stretch on our own. Everyone gets to keep the card of their “favorite” location from the Jailbreak. Souvenirs will NOT become a normal thing at a Blindside Q

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

8 HIMs no FNGs (thank goodness, because I only had 7 cards to hand out)

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Counsel (Right Judgment): With the gift of counsel/right judgment, we know the difference between right and wrong, and we choose to do what is right. A person with right judgment avoids sin and lives out the values taught by Jesus. The gift of truth that allows the person to respond prudently, and happily to believe our Lord. 

Counsel is the perfection of the cardinal virtue of prudence. Prudence can be practiced by anyone, but counsel is supernatural. Through this gi4 of the Holy Spirit, we are able to judge how best to act almost by intuition. Because of the gi4 of counsel, Christians need not fear to stand up for the truths of the Faith, because the Holy  Spirit will guide us in defending those truths.  

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Close the week out strong!

Weighty Words & A Kraken

SCENE: Great weather for standing around. Mid 60s. Breezy. Some PAX actually missed the cold weather.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Windmills IC | Grady Corns IC
  • SSH IC | Cherry Pickers IC

THA-THANG:

Mosey to the top of the Equalizer. Kraken. Pick station, complete 25 reps of the prescribed exercise, then run a full lap around the course to the next station. Rinse and repeat. On each subsequent round, drop 5 reps from each exercise. Push yourself & push each other. Try to catch the guy in front of you. Stations included:

  • Lunges
  • BBS
  • Dips
  • Box jumps
  • Diamond Merks
  • Flutter Kicks
  • Burpees
  • Squats

MARY & STRETCHES:

  • Fellowship Mosey ™️
  • 40secs of OYO Stretching

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Been thinking about words lately. I’ve got relatively young kids, so the past six years have been a lesson in how my words can affect another human being. As a dad & as a husband, I am a leader in my household; as a leader, my words have weight. Usually I see this when I let out a sarcastic comment at breakfast that manages to set an awful tone for the whole day, but every once in a while it works the other way too.

In my work, I’ve been with the same organization for years, but after joining the leadership team last year, I have learned that as a leader, my words have more weight.

F3 is a peer-led workout. Out here, we’re all leaders. Whether your the AO Q, the Q in charge that day, or just a guy posting to a workout—you are a leader; because even if you’ve only been around for a couple weeks, once the next FNG shows up you are a leader setting an example. And your words have weight.

One thing I really appreciate about Doubtfire is his positivity and his ability to make everyone feel welcome, even while pushing us to be better.

That tone that Doubtfire has set here at The Equalizer ⚖️ is the reason I can count on my hands the number of times I’ve missed; it’s the reason that I keep coming back and it’s what I want The Equalizer ⚖️ to continue to be known for. And I’ve come to realize that means I’m going to need to work on that; I need to be more positive, I need to be more encouraging, push more of the guys around me to be better—and I need y’all to not just join me in that pursuit, but hold me accountable to it.

 

MOLESKIN: Great PAX this morning

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Check out the upcoming kickball tourney & grab a Q

Quantity over Quality

THE SCENE: 44 and cool
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
5 merkins

butterflies stretch

5 cherry pickers

20 SSH

THA-THANG:
Mosey over to the Triangle. One Thing then run to the next corner repeat until you have done all three corners and wait for the 6.

  • 20 4 count BBS and bear crawl up to the next corner and repeat
  • 20 squat press with a rock we got from the rock pile. Dung Beatle to the next corner and repeat
  • 20 Squats and lung to the next corner and repeat
  • 20 OHP and Bernie sanders to the next corner and repeat
  • 20 curls and Bernie sanders to the next corner and repeat
  • 20 SSH and run all around the triangle to the next corner and repeat
  • Walk to the OA with some fellowship time.

MARY:
Spend quality and quantity time with your kids and loved ones. No amount of “quality” time will replace you being in their lives. 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Taking a tour of The Equalizer for a VQ

THE SCENE: Little chilly, probably the last day for Action Slacks for a while. 

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

Not a professional, here on your own, COVID rules still going, got my phone, et cetera et cetera et cetera…

Also, this is my VQ…

WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH x25, Little Baby Arm Circles (

THA-THANG:

Mosey to Flagpole: 7 downs → Drop top exercise each round 

  • 7 Merkins
  • 6 Squats
  • 5 Dry Docks
  • 4 Squat Jumps 
  • 3 Shoulder taps (4 count)
  • 2 Burpees 
  • 1 Trip to the Bleachers 

Rabbits: Hold Squat 

Mosey to Dock: 20s → Grab a coupon

  • 20 Curls 
  • 20 Shoulder Presses
  • 20 Tri-extensions 
  • 20 Imperial Walkers 
  • 20 Squat-Press 
  • 20 Merkins 
  • 20 Rows 

Rabbits: Hold Beast Plank

Mosey to Splash Pad: 10s → Run and touch the fence after each exercise 

  • 10 Box Cutters 
  • 10 Leg Lifts 
  • 10 Hello Dolly’s 
  • 10 Freddie Mercurys 
  • 10 Flutter Kicks 
  • 10 Big Boys 
  • 10 Dips 

Rabbits: Hold wall sit until the 6 finishes

Mosey to Playground: 15s 

How long will it take Blindside’s cardboard? 10 seconds? 10 burpees.

  • 15 Pull-ups or knee-ups
  • 15 Big Boys
  • 15 Lunges each leg
  • 15 Monkey Humpers 
  • 15 SSHs (4 count)
  • 15 Plank Jacks 
  • 15 Pickle Pounders 

Rabbits: Rocky Balboas (IN PLACE)

Fellowship Mosey back to AO 

MARY:

*Note to self* Do not ask Aladdin for ideas (Peter Parker’s)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA 

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

WISDOM → Wisdom is not the quoting of facts. It is a gift that allows a person to understand things from God’s point of view. Wisdom allows us to recognize Truth (That’s Truth with a capital T). It is the perfection of Faith. Someone with the gift of wisdom is able to take this truth and use it to glorify God by choosing Godly solutions to problems. 

Also, the gift of wisdom, we see God at work in our lives and in the world. For the wise person, the wonders of nature, historical events, and the ups and downs of our lives take on a deeper meaning. The matters of judgment about the truth, and being able to see the whole image of God. We see God as our Father and other people with dignity. Lastly being able to see God in everyone and everything everywhere.

“Where faith is a simple knowledge of the articles of Christian belief, wisdom goes on to a certain divine penetration of the truths themselves.” The better we understand those truths, the more we value them properly. Thus wisdom makes us relish and love only the things of heaven. 

MOLESKIN:

Thank you ALL for supporting me through my VQ. I was nervous jumping in so quickly after starting F3, but you all have made me feel so welcome that I had to join in on the fun! Also, this workout was a mix/tribute to some of my very first times in the Gloom! 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Donations for Safe Haven are still needed. 

Dog Pound Tree Biscuit

  • Welcome: 43 degrees –
  • Warmup:  10 SSH, 10 Windmills, 10 Cherry Pickers
  • Workout:  The Tree Biscuit
    • As a group, Run to an un-slapped tree, slap it, everyone call out the running burpee total,  do A single burpee, repeat.
    • Rules:
      1. One Tag: A tree only gets tagged once
      2. Scale = Skip: Skip a burpee if you need to but stay with the pack always.
      3. Tag Turns: Be sure to take turns tagging/slapping a tree
      4. Cadence Call Out: The group also calls out the running total, not just the tagger. The tagger calls it out first though. the louder the better.
      5. No Shrubs: Don’t waste time & energy on shrubs – skip the shrubs – tag the trees
      6. No Poison Ivy: Pass trees that are surrounded by shrubs, ivy, waist high grass.
      7. Terrain Caution:  Be careful when running not to twist and ankle – trees have lots of bumpy roots around them.  And don’t hit your face on a rock or root when doing a burpee in the dirt.
      8. Milestones Celebrations: At 50, 100, 150, 200 make sure the group catches up and circles around the tree, wait a few seconds. Do the burpee.  Celebrating these milestones adds to the encouragement factor.
    • Previous Tree Biscuits:
  • Wrap – up:
    • The Spirit and the Flesh struggle:
      • Romans: 7:19 For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. 20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.
      • Galations 5:17 For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please.
      • Numbers: 15:39It shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, so as to do them and not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you played the harlot,