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Chasing Weighty Goals

THE SCENE: Just about perfect with low humidity and comfortable upper 60’s
WARM-O-RAMA:
PAX got to enjoy an immediate round of burpees as the QIC screwed up the F3 order; finished off with a round of SSHs, one tempo merkin, some tai fighters, and squatting Grady corns
THA-THANG:

Never ending pain circle… 4 stations (aka corners) with specific workout at each (1. CMU Squat Thrusters, 2. Alternating CMU Merkins, 3. CMU American Hammers, 4. CMU Kettle Bell Swings).  Start at 20 reps per corner in first round and drop by 1 rep in each subsequent round.  Perform exercise, sit down CMU and run a lap, rifle carry CMU to next station, rinse and repeat.

Overtime fun… mixture of murder bunnies, rifle carries, dock loading, and some curls to finish off before restocking those lovely cinder beauties.  (@Betty managed to run through his CMU doing a murder bunny… so we worked in a few burpees on the way back to the AO)

MARY:

Had time for a howler monkey circle as we closed out the sesh.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 HIMs started and finished the beatdown

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Setting goals… been thinking through my personal goals for the year and recent months and considering ways to improve my success rate.  Important to set S.M.A.R.T. goals (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time Bound).  But more importantly to share them with others to hold you accountable.  Dave Ramsey said that “a list of goals with no actions [or accountability] is just a wishlist”.  Encouraged the PAX to set goals, share them someone, and get after them!  Read Proverbs 21:5 “Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity, but hasty shortcuts lead to poverty.” NLT

Prayer Requests:  1) @Dumpster Dive and @Charmin wisdom to make some key decisions at their practice; 2) @Longnoodle having some personal challenges and needs widsom, strength, and discipline; 3) @Pom-Pom’s 1 month old daughter having a medical procedure today – healing and recovery

No Man Left Behind, No Man Left the Same

THE SCENE: Muggy. Midsummer for sure.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER – Administered.
WARM-O-RAMA:
Wrist & neck roll (courtesty of Cave man)
Richard Simmons (inspired by Mermaid’s shorts but also pre-planned)
Ankle roll
Flamingo
Seal clap squats
Forward lunges
Backward lunges
Tennessee rocking chair

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the turf field
AMRAP
Reps in 30 seconds:
Skater hops (same)
Merkins (same)
Line over over under under (hop scotch)
Suicides – 10 yard increment
Monkey Humpers / Calf Raises

Mosey to CMU pile

Complete reps & then do more of an exercise: 11’s
Deadlifts
4-ct Flutter kicks
Q stopped about 1 rep left of deadlifts

Mosey to the shovel flag (jailbreak? Decided against it but pushed the normal mosey pace)

Do a circuit for time
4 corners- (aka Judge Judy special)
Mountain climbers/ Leg lifts – 20 each
Squats / LBC – 20 (4-count LBC’s)
Merkins / Dolly – 20 each
Gas Pump / Gas Pump – 20

Core at the end holding a plank, glute bridge or pick

MARY:
Dealer’s choice. We had lots of time for that. Crazy, huh?
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 Hard-working men.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings. Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.”
‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭9:21-27‬ ‭ESV‬‬

When we welcome people in from the outside, we ought to do both pieces of the F3 matra:
“No man left behind”. This means we run in such a way that we know how to bring others alongside us.

We get to circle back for other guys. Do exercises when we are done. Run through Dealer’s Choice. Count off. Count rest.

These are all things we do together.

But it’s also no man left the same.
AMRAP. Complete reps & then do more of an exercise. Do a circuit for time (4-corners). Push yourself!

Where do you need to become as one under the law? Where can you voluntarily submit to the authority in your life for the good of others and God’s glory?

Where do you need to become as one not under the law (but still under grace)? How can you submit yourself to God’s freeing law? Where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty?

So let’s read this again:
Today, become someone who leaves no man behind but leaves no man the same. For God’s glory & our good.

MOLESKIN:
I’m signing up for more Q’s so I’ll show up more. A little bit of healthy pushing myself a little bit of learning to lead better by stepping up. You can do the same or even join me for a co-Q!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Sign up to support the F3 / FiA booths – see Slack!

Shamrock – ABC easy as 123

THE SCENE: Very gloomy and humid
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER – Check 
WARM-O-RAMA:

Mountain Climbers – IC – 15 – 4 count 

Tie Fighter 4 CT x 10 each

Side Straddle hop (IC) 4 CT x 10

Cherry Pickers x5

Stretching – Quads and back 

Demo – the 1-2-3 MerkBurpee (1 Wide-2 Standard-3 Tri merkins, then up to complete a burpee) 

THA-THANG:

Mosey to Fox Lonas then back to the flag. 

A-B-C  easy as 1-2-3:  

 At the bottom of the hill do 5 sets of 1-2-3 MerkBurpees (1 Wide-2 Standard-3 Tri)  then walk backwards up the grassy hill. 

A – Air Squat – 10

B – Big Boys – 10

C – Crabettes- 10 

Repeat for a total of 4 rounds. The 1-2-3-MerkBurpees became really challenging after the 1st 2 rounds. 

Mosey over to some tall curbs

8-8-42 – My Dad’s 80th birthday today so in honor of him we did: 

8 – 4-count tricep dips in cadence 

8 – decline merkins 

42 – Calf raises 

Mosey to the river rock. Grab two 2-5 pound rocks. 

10 IC – Butterfly, then hold on the 10 for 10 seconds

10 IC – behind your back flutter with rocks – then hold for 10 seconds 

Hold rock in front of you and do LBS – Little Bouncy Squats 10 IC- then hold on 10. 

We did 2 rounds of this, then on round 3 we did 15 reps with 10 second holds. 

Round 4 we did 20 reps with 10 second holds. 

Mosey to the next parking lot. 

We traveled across the lot 4 times dealer’s choice: Bear, Crab or lunge. Can change it up each time if you want. 

 

MARY:

dealer’s choice – Curveball with LBCs, Caveman with Cherry Pickers, VooDoo with 5 Burpees before Betty had a chance to demand it. Betty snuck in some pickle pounders. 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Curveball, Caveman, Voo Doo, Betty, Osteen, Mermaid, Tailhook, Baby Boomer, Curry, Dumpster Dive, Honeydew, Slappy, Anchorman,
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

I may not know what the day may bring, but I know who brings the day. 

Job 38

3 Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.

4 

“Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.

5 

Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?

6 

On what were its footings set,
or who laid its cornerstone—

7 

while the morning stars sang together
and all the angels[a] shouted for joy?

We often do our best to control our day and we think we know what is best for us. 

Like the potter and the clay example, does the clay vase know what is best for it? Or does the potter who created it know what is best and care for it? The potter has already planned out all of the future steps for that lump of clay.

MOLESKIN:
Prayer for Skidmark’s new baby girl, PomPom’s foot, Curveball’s friend who lost their mom, teachers and kids, my work travel this week and that Betty does not steal my local legend segment while I’m gone.

Shamrock

THE SCENE:
Shamrock: 0530 / 70 degrees and muggy

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

The normal house cleaning/safety briefing

WARM-O-RAMA:
Neck rolls, shoulder rolls, tricep stretch, cherry pickers, flutter kicks, lower back stretches.

THA-THANG

10 Merkins, 10 SSH, 10 mountain climbers, 10 up/downs, then run 100 yards. We knocked out 10 rounds in 35 mins. 👊 Followed up w/dealers choice consisting of more abs, burpee’s, and motivation.

MARY:

Slow cherry pickers being a final stretch 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

11 Strong: Caveman, Curveball, Anchorman, Skidmark, Osteen, Mermaid, Poolboy, Voodoo, Betty, Curry, and Honeydew.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Romans 12:10. We discussed honorable characteristics and discipline.

MOLESKIN:

It was a sweat-fest, but the men got after it!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

– Shamrock family gathering tonight at Hey Bear.
– Pool Boy is the Q on Fri Aug 5th. Come get some!

Gratefully Being Told What to Do

THE SCENE: Not too hot… but so muggy I felt like I might get robbed *ba-dum-tss!*
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER– Administered (Fitness, Fellowship, Faith / Not a Professional / Modify as necessary / $Free.99 / Cell phone for Uber Eats or an emergency)

WARM-O-RAMA:
“Not a warm-up at all”
“The hardest warm-up ever”
“Sounds like a Trolley warm-up to me!”
(all of these were heard or in some variation today during the following warm-up)

This was taken from Trolley’s Q “Slot Cars: The Grateful Grid (and my first F3 workout ever).

1. Plank Destroyer
2. Crabet
3. Freddy Mercuries
4. Mountain Parkers
5. Peter Parkers
6. Squat Walkers
7. Donkey Kicks
8. Iron Mikes
9. Burpees
10. Clap Merkins

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the Cheatsheet parking lot.

Slot Cars… but only back and forth between rows of parking spots. Basically the warmup with a 60 second stretch between called by each PAX (we had exactly 10 today!). I didn’t write down all of the stretches but a few examples I remember:

Saigon Stretch (from our FNG Braden aka Tapas!)
Pickle Pointer aka Glute Bridge Hold
Pretzel Knee stretch
Up dog (S/O to Flintstone for getting my joke on this!)

Mosey to the CMU pile for “Heavy Air”:
Reach for the sky
Let it hang
Down dog
Up dog
Hold a glute bridge with your feet on the CMU
Skull crusher (horizontal reach for the sky)

Repeat without a CMU

Mosey to Shovel Flag -> Jailbreak was called

MARY:
Q gave PAX the choice of Dealer’s Choice or Baseball stretches. PAX (Betty) chose Dealer’s choice. We got about 5 reps into SSH’s (while the Q was doing lunges) when time was called.

 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
10 Grateful men.

 

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

 

3 years ago I was in the middle  of separation that ended in me losing my marriage. I had been humbled & was the most broken in my life I’ve ever been. I sowed & I reaped:
“Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.” –‭‭Galatians‬ ‭6:7-8‬ ‭ESV‬‬
Over those following months (which you can read about my journey if you starting here and working your way forward), but rather than focus on the negatives, today I want to focus on ‘the grateful grid’:
“Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.” – ‭‭Colossians‬ ‭4:6‬ ‭ESV‬‬
I’m going to shoutout men who have shield locked with me- and most of these have been done unofficially but very intentionally- & why I keep coming back. These are several of the men I’m grateful for:
Ribbed– you held my feet to the fire & made sure my faith, hypocritical in the past, was true & refined as more valuable than gold.
Trolley– you showed me what I was capable of when I pushed beyond when I want to give up as well as  such joy & camaraderie. Miss you brother.
Guardrail– you reached out even though you had no idea who I was. You’re a faithful brother who was so surprised ‘are you this open with most people?’, but my confidence in God’s ability to work & heal through a friend like you has been a great source of encouragement.
Jitters– you’ve kept in touch even though our paths don’t cross much. Your steadfast faith encourages me.
Anchorman– you just keep showing up. You’re positive & sacrifice for your family.
Mermaid– you’ve been there pretty much the whole time. You’re beyond consistent- you’re persistent! You don’t give up, you don’t let sad clowns go, & you don’t play disc golf much anymore either! Thankful to have shared 3 years of your 3 years & 2 week journey with you.
Judge Judy– you have showed me what it means to follow, lead, & lead well. Your challenges get me in a way that checks my ego just enough to make me want to get better for the right reason. Soli Deo Gloria.
Baby Boomer– we met at F3 even though we are members of the same church. What nonsense is that & yet what divine Providence to have a friend & brother in Christ like you.
And for the rest of you- your story is still unfolding.
Be the man you want as a friend.
Seek wisdom & counsel from those who you see laying down their lives for others.
Gladly assume sacrificial responsibility & when you do the authority will fall squarely on your shoulders to use it for the good of others and God’s glory alone.
“Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.”
‭‭Colossians‬ ‭4:6‬ ‭ESV‬‬
Grace be with you, my F3 brothers.
MOLESKIN:
Prayed for the teachers going back to school already/soon.
Hard to believe 3 years has passed! Missed Mermaid a good bit this morning as he’s been a part of the journey and a huge influence at Shamrock. Next time, sir!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Sign up to Q – I’m glad to help or get someone else to co-Q with you!