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A Hidden Present

THE SCENE: 30° calm and clear
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:✓
WARM-O-RAMA:
Cherry Pickers, Miracan Night club,  Mountain climbers, Newton’s Cradle, X Man crunch
THA-THANG:

10 HIM’s (2 2.0’s) +3 early runners, 2 Rushers, 1 Rucker
Drew some Strava/GPS art today: See the map https://photos.app.goo.gl/Z5iz5mzafyMn2om16

 

My Gift to you: 4 corners plus 2: 10 of each Merkin, Wide Merkin, Guardrail hand walk, Ranger Merkins, More Merkins, then Calf raises, then Squats, Ranger Merkin, Sprints.  Bear crawl over a burm, Ski jump around a tree

Indian Run to big lot where we drew “F3” and worked on abs: Flutter kick, Freddy Mercury, BBS, LBC, Hello Dolly and x Man crunch.  Impressive job sticking together.

Run back to Calf raises, long way to the long lot: Shuttle run with bear crawls, crawl bears and crab walks (the stump) Bernie to light pole where we drew a Plank Star with Plank dips, Plank Jacks, Shoulder Taps, Plank ups, Newtons Cradle.  Then close out the tree.

MARY:
Dealers choice of: heels to heaven, Snow Angels, pickle pounders, BBS, Lunges, diamond merkins, SSH
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Today we drew a big picture (see above) but many of us didn’t know how it would turn out or even that we were drawing.  Just like in life we don’t always know what our picture looks like till we zoom out a little.  But we are all painting a picture with how we live our lives.  And people are watching. This time of year as you think about gifts under the tree we probably all know of the disappointment of just getting gifts and have learned the joy of giving them, but even in that we can make it about our selves.  Instead we should look to Christ’s example of living for others.

A Christmas Verse from Philippians 2:3‭-‬7 (NLT, color and emphasis added) is our challenge for today:

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.

Be like Christ in your servant leadership of the home.  Think of others.

One more challenge:  This Christmas speak of Jesus Christ.  The picture we paint with how we live is important but sometimes we need to spell it out so people see the reason for how we live the way we live.  This season is about Him and we can find ways to speak of Him and bring Him Glory!

MOLESKIN:
Merry Christmas!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Visit Big Ball on Thursday Morning; No Q planned for Christmas Day

Priorities and Split Squats

The Scene

29 and cold (Perfect for some CMU work according to Mermaid)

F3 Welcome and Disclaimer

Fitness, Fellowship, Faith, Free, Modify, Not Professional, Own Volition, Social Distance, Phone

Warm-O-Rama

BAC F/B/OH (Thia Fighter Style)

SSH 

Tempo Squat

Curtsey Lunges

Tennessee Rocking Chairs

Tha-Thang

Mosey to the CMU pile

Split into groups of 3

16 minutes for each group to get max rounds of the following exercises starting with 1 rep and adding a rep each cycle. (Goal is to climb as high on the ladder as you can with your group) Each group will work together and pretend to skip rope until everyone in the group has finished the reps. 

Hand Release Merkins

Split Squat Press (These got really spicy really quick)

Underhanded row

Overhand curls

BBS (Focusing on full range of motion. Hands touch ground behind the head, all the way to a toe touch at the top of the BBS)

When we get to the 16-minute mark groups will tally their total

YHC broke a CMU so we had to break form some penalty burpees

Then groups will proceed to work back down from their max rounds accomplished down the ladder all the way to 1 of each. If the group does not get back down the ladder to 1 there is a 10 burpee penalty. We took our total and subtracted 3 and went back down the ladder with a 10-minute time cap. 

Everyone finished before the 10 minutes so we did 5 burpees just because.

Mosey back to AO

Mary

Knee Tucks (2 sets of 30 seconds)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

13 High Impact Men 

COT/BOM

James 4:14 “Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.”

I have been really convicted in my own life about focusing on things that are not high on the eternal priority list. I have been getting so caught up in eternally low priorities that I am letting the truly important things fall to the waste side. Take the time today and every day going forward to look at your wife in the eyes and ask her how she is doing, when your kids ask you to play with them, even if it’s for 20 minutes, DO IT. Everything else (Work, cleaning, tv, your phone) can wait, the people around you will stop trying to fight for your attention if you keep sending them down the priority list. 

I am thankful for all of the men of F3 around me and the man that I have become since I joined you guys in the gloom back in March, Thank you! 

MOLESKIN:

Many needs presented this morning and some guys going through some tough stuff. Remember to reach out to one another and check in on each other. No man left behind, no man left the same.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

 

BARBIE AND BARNEY BACKLASH DAY

THE SCENE:

Rainy Temperature Humidity Feels like Wind Speed Wind Direction
38 ℉ 833% 38 ℉ 2.8 mi/h NNE

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER.
I am not a professional.

WARM-O-RAMA:

Nose Circles 5 each direction.
25 SSHs .
5 Cherry Pickers.
20 Rockettes.

THA-THANG:
Mosey towards the CMUs.  On the way, everyone line up along curb/sidewalk at one end. Karaoke two steps onto sidewalk two feet down.  All the way down sidewalk.  Then reverse and head back.  So, both directions.

Everyone grab a CMU.  Head to the first of 12 cones.  Each cone represents is a station.  Taking cue from 12 days of Christmas, the PAX works through the cones as through the 12 days.  So, day 1 first.  Then day 2 and then back to day one.  Then day 3, then 2, then 1, and so on all the way to day 12.  The number of reps indicated by the day.  Exercises are:

1 – Blockee
2 – Man Makers (Merkin then pull block another Merkin pull
block back = 1)
3 – Overhead Press
4 – Squats
5 – Flutter Kicks Four Count
6 – Bodyweight Merkins
7 – Lion Kings (Vertical CMU squat and press like Simba)
8 – Front Hold Lunges (Both legs = 1)
9 – Big Boy Situps
10 – Curls
11 – Mountain Climbers
12 – Monkey Humpers

Then Mosey back to AO.

MARY:
No time for Mary
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
15 Brothers.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
As many of you know, my wife recently had surgery.  An elective surgery to help with a condition called Interstitial Cystitis.  This is a bladder condition that is considerably annoying but not life threatening.  So, she’s struggled for 10 or more years dealing with this.  After getting the help recently, I wondered why we waited.  Ironically, today is BARBIE AND BARNEY BACKLASH DAY.  On December 16th, Barbie and Barney Backlash Day allows parents to take a vacation from all the repetitive sing-a-longs and storytelling.  The day permits parents to turn off the annoying cartoons and songs. Parents may insist on a different book to read at bedtime. Or put away the noisy toys.  I’ve never heard of this ‘day’ but it describes a bit about what my wife did.  Basically, giving up everything in support of her family.  Mostly our kids.

And as an exercise take these 9 major categories of life and sort them in an order of importance that represents what would be the most ideal for you:  kids, spouse, work, exercise, friendships, hobbies, house-upkeep, travel and experiences, and appearance.  So, 1 through 9 most ideally. 1 being what you’d ideally like to have as the most important thing to you.  Then take the same list and look at what it is realistically.  Compare them.

So, basically an offering of advice to be careful of how you devote your time.  Obviously, we have to work and take care of things around the house.  We also love our kids and want to spend time with them.  But don’t forget about yourself.  As quoted below:  ‘When you take time for yourself, you’re being a GREAT parent: you are teaching your children to grow up and find balance between caring for others and caring for themselves!’

Some professional thoughts:

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, PhD Psychology Specialist

Parents need their own downtime and personal lives. If you are spending all of your free time running your children to their commitments, you’re not taking good care of yourself. Your marriage needs time for you and your spouse to have adult conversation. If you are single, your romantic life needs you to have energy to spend in connecting with other people. Don’t feel guilty for taking time away from your children to focus on your love life. Parents who are happily in love will find it easier to be better parents. Taking care of children, takes an enormous amount of energy, and the energy generated by a fulfilling connection to a romantic partner can be an important resource for you as a parent. If you spend all of your time taking care of your child, you will soon find yourself depleted, and you, your child, and your partner will suffer.

 

Dr. Deborah R. Gilboa, MD Family Practitioner

There are three great reasons why parents need to take some time for their own interests and pleasure!

  1. Lower your stress—be a better parent!
    When adults take time for ourselves we relax. Blood pressure is lowered (unless “time for yourself” means smoking or eating a whole lot of junk food!), we smile more, sleep better and have a more positive outlook. All of these factors combine to help us be more positive in the rest of our lives – at work, at home, and with those we love.
  2. Strengthen your family.
    Many parents avoid their own hobbies or taking time for themselves because they believe that there is no time, or their family needs them too much. Help your family value you more by valuing yourself. Your children will learn to show you respect when you show yourself that same respect, by pursuing an interest, hobby or activity that brings you pleasure.
  3. Raise your kids to be adults who take care of themselves.
    Our children will repeat our patterns. So create a healthy pattern in your home, where adults value their own passions and make a little time for those interests.  Do you want your kids to grow up and value themselves and their abilities? They will learn from you, by example!

When you take time for yourself, you’re being a GREAT parent: you are teaching your children to grow up and find balance between caring for others and caring for themselves!

 

 

MOLESKIN:
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Tour De Catholic

 

 

THE SCENE: A Balmy, clear and cool 29 degrees.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Motivators from 9
Ole Miss Piss 10 each leg
Tempo Squats 10
Cherry Pickers 5
Tempo Merkins 10
THA-THANG:

There were 35 stations and we made it through 24 of them.  The idea was to move around campus, and see some new and old areas, to encourage all of us to be more creative.  Each area was labeled with number, and here are the corresponding exercises.  There were some new exercises that were crowd pleasers.  The El Capitan’s up the frost covered hills were a bit of a challenge.  The elevated plank jacks, merkins, and balls to the wall were a difficult trio.  We introduced some new exercises, the dirty hookup and the flying nun were a fun twist!

1 Twinkle Toes 18 Run the bases repeat x 3
2 El Capitan 19 El Capitan
3 Merkins 20 Calf Raises
4 El Capitan 21 LBC’s
5 Merkins 22 Batwings
6 Jump Squats 23 Run one lap
7 BBS 24 Stadiums
8 Monkey Humpers 25 El Capitan 5X
9 Bear Crawl 26 Step Ups
10 Elevated Plank Jack 27 Batwings
11 Elevated Merkins 28 El Capitan
12 Balls to the Wall 29 Calf Raises
13 Wall Squat 30 Pickle Pounders
14 Dirty Hookup 31 Flutter Kicks
15 Flying Nun 32 Hello Dollies
16 Dips 33 El Capitan
17 Pull ups repeat x3 34 Hello Dollies
35 Flutter Kicks

MARY:
There was no additional time for Mary today
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
One FNG today, Crawl Space.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
How to confront a brother/member.


MOLESKIN:
Pray for racism, covid, Anchorman’s nephew Ian who suspects that he has yet another spinal fluid leak, praise for Curveball’s wife and her successful surgery.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
No Christmas Day workout.

Shamrock – Commitment

THE SCENE: 41F perfect F3 weather
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Side Straddle hop (IC) 4 CT x 25

Monkey Humpers (IC) 4 CT x 10

On your back Side Straddle hop x25 OYO

Merkins 10 – 4ct 

THA-THANG:

Mosey to Racquet Club lot

There are 12 parking space lines

Line 1 – 25 Merkins

Line 2 – 25 Big Boys

Line 3 – 25 Squats

Start over at line 4. 

We will end up at 100 reps per exercise. 

Mosey to Weigels Hill  stopping to bear crawl for 30 seconds. Once at the top we mosey back to racquet club. 

Another round of the basics. 

Line 1 – 25 Merkins

Line 2 – 25 Big Boys

Line 3 – 25 Squats

Start over at line 4. 

We will end up at 100 reps per exercise.

Total of 200 reps for all exercises 

Mosey back to AO.

MARY:
We did 90 seconds of burn without rest ( flutters, scissors, box cutters, repeat )
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Trolley, Flower Pot, Betty, Mermaid, Clickbait, Hurl, Baby Boomer, Music City, Dumpster Dive, Osteen, Jenner, Anchorman,
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Commitment has been on my mind this week. With the cold weather and even some rain you guys showed up ready to encourage and be there for each other. 

We are very lucky to have such a committed group of high impact men. 

“There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when it’s convenient. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses; only results.” Kenneth Blanchard

“Commitment in the face of conflict produces character.” Anonymous

 “Motivation is what gets you started. Commitment is what keeps you going.” Jim Rohn

6 For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time for my departure is near. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. II Timothy 4:6

MOLESKIN:
Trolley’s wife, Curveball’s wife, Brendan friend of several with cancer, Jenner’s meeting, Hurl & Clickbait adoption / foster care.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: