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Circuits by the Cleaners

THE SCENE: Nice morning for a stroll in the nearby shopping center.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH x 20
Tempo Squat x10
Catalina Wine Mixer x 10
Imperial Walker x 20
Burpees (OYO) x 10

THA-THANG:

Mosey to Stairs behind Shopping Center (Monkey Humpers & Freddie Mercuries along the way)
Setup 4 stations; divide into 4 groups; run to each station
1) Dips x 50
2) Pickle Pounders x 50
3) Merkins x 50
4) Squats x 50
Complete all 4 stations for the Round
decrease 5 reps per round, tried to get in 4 rounds
Mosey back to the AO (Monkey Humpers along the way)

MARY:
Flutter Kicks x 25

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Psalm 83:1-3
1 O God, do not remain silent;
do not turn a deaf ear,
do not stand aloof, O God.
2 See how your enemies growl,
how your foes rear their heads.
3 With cunning they conspire against your people;
they plot against those you cherish.

Discussed the need to trust in the Lord and bring our cares to him, rather than trying to argue with those around them thinking we’ll change their mind – God is in control and we need to have Him change hearts

 

What If?

THE SCENE:  A surprisingly dry but humid morning.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Moroccan Night Clubs / Cherry Pickers / Windmills / Tempo Merkins / Squatting Twinkle Humpers
THA-THANG:
Mosey past Maple Street down HV to Pellissippi entrance.  Stopped at the guardrail for a few shoulder taps with feet on the guard rail.  Route 66 at each lightpole around the road.  Starting with 1 burpee and adding a burpee at each light pole.   Until we get to light pole #11 – for 66 total.   Mosey to brick wall in middle of campus.   11s at brick wall with dips and box jumps.   Mosey to sophomore hill.   10 merkins at top and bottom of hill, rinse and repeat 3x.  Mosey to coupon pile.   Start with 50 reps – knock off 5 reps each round.   Curls, Goblet Squats, Rows, Kettlebell Swings, Tricep Extensions, Squat Thrusters, Walk Over Merkins, Heavy Hammers, Single Arm Presses (each arm), Blockees).   Mosey back to AO with a little jail break by home.

MARY:
No Time for Mary
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
15 HIMs including 1 new FNG my son Cohen now… S.O.S.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
My brother wrote a very thought provoking post on Facebook the other day that I thought was worth sharing pieces of this morning. The topic was “What if We’re Wrong.”
What if what we hold dear is wrong, what if the point of view we militantly protect, is actually wrong. Now, I can understand how you can be wrong but me? But me, I’ve done my research. I’m smart. I went to college, wrote papers, traveled the world, have friends that don’t look like me. Therefore, I must be the right one. Obviously, that all is idiotic and sounds as stupid in writing as it does speaking it to you this morning. But seriously, how often do we consider if we are wrong?
How often when discussing something with someone do we come to the conclusion we see things with different lenses and ultimately agree to disagree. Both probably leave the conversation still convinced their lens is a little clearer and the other one still doesn’t see quite right. So what does it feel like to be wrong? Sucks, hate it, embarrassing, wind kicked out from under your feed, eat crow, are all typically answers. But what if I told you that is what it feels like to finally DISCOVER that you are wrong. When you ARE wrong, but don’t know it yet, it feels exactly like when you are right. Stop and think about that…how often do we every consider that we might actually be wrong, that we might not fully understand the complexities of the topic. Even when the evidence is overwhelming, our pride normally wins and doesn’t let us concede.
Remember From Matthew 7. 1 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
I just encourage you to reflect on this as you engage in conversations with your friends with challenging topics in the coming days and weeks ahead.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Stye on Q – Wednesday and 5k on Friday

JUCO – What is love?

THE SCENE: Humid and cool at ground level. Warm and humid on top of Jucomanjaro
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Baby Arm Circles forward then backwards (IC) 4 CT x 10 each

Side Straddle hop (IC) 4 CT x 25

Flutter Kicks 25 – 4 count 

THA-THANG:

Spread Out in AO Parking 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 rock pile

Pick up 2 small rocks

Baby Arm Circles forward then backwards (IC) 4 CT with rocks X10

Butterfly with rock – 50 reps

American Hammers with rocks – 50 reps

Mosey to Jucomanjaro 

20 Monkey Humpers

Run / Jog / Walk to the top. When you get to the top head back down and pick up the 6. 

At the top we did 40 Monkey Humpers then mosey back down to the AO

Just enough time to do our 12 lines of basic PT again so we did 100 more reps each of:

  • Merkins, Big Boys & Squats

MARY:
None
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Anchorman, Runaway, Gump, Judge Judy, Butter Knife, Rosetta, Spotter, Dart Gun, Erector, 5K, Commission, Sunrise, Kick-Flip, Mailbox, Booster, Ralph, B.O.B.,

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

The fruits of the spirit

Galatians 5

13 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh[a]; rather, serve one another humbly in love. 14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 

In one translation it explains that there should almost be a semicolon or colon after Love: 

I don’t have anything deep to say about this, but I know that I need a daily and hourly reminder to put others before me.

Jesus showed us over and over again how to serve others. To wash our neighbor’s feet. So I just want to encourage you men to ask the Lord for opportunities to serve. 

MOLESKIN:
Prayer for a friend named Caleb that was in a car accident.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Doing Squat

THE SCENE: Neutral
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Yep
WARM-O-RAMA:
Cherry Pickers, SSH, Tennessee Rocking Chair, Tempo Merkins, Tempo Squats

THA-THANG:
Mosey to large west side parking lot.

Perform 3/4 quarter pounder with exercises performed at three different light poles across the parking lot. Sprint to first light pole and perform 25 merkins, bernie back. Sprint to second light pole and perform 50 squats, bernie back. Sprint to third light pole and perform 75 SSH, bernie back.

Mosey back to the coupon pile while performing 3 burpees at every sign along the way. (45ish burpees total)

Grab a coupon and mosey over to stadium hill.

Perform 25 reps of CMU exercises at the bottom and 25 squats at the top of the hill for three rounds:

  • Curls
  • OHP
  • Tricep Extensions

Put the coupons back and mosey over to the courtyard.

Perform 20 box jumps/step ups, 20 squats, & 20 lunges before sprinting around the sidewalk in the grass courtyard. After each round, increase the distance of your sprint by running down to the next cut through in the courtyard. Performed three full rounds.

Mosey back to the AO.

MARY:
No time.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
21 HIMs
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Discussed the story of Job. He had everything taken away from him due to nothing he himself did. However, Job refused to give up on God. Job’s three friends come to him three different times with some not so great advice. 

It’s easy for us to think we know what the answer to other’s problems is and to inadvertenly offer some not so great advice ourselves. Job’s friends had no idea why Job was in the predicament he was in, but made their own assumptions and gave advice based on those. Let’s strive to understand that we do not always see the full picture when others are struggling and we may have a different perspective than they do.

The one piece of advice that we can always give with 100% certainty is to look to God for strength and support.

MOLESKIN:
None
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

The Cracked Pot

THE SCENE: 69 Degrees and Humid
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

Fitness, Fellowship, Faith, Free, Modify, Not Professional, Own Volition, Social Distance, Phone
WARM-O-RAMA:

10 Windmills

10 4-Count SSH

5 Kick throughs (one each side)

10 merkins

10 tempo squats

10 Imperial Walkers

THA-THANG:

Mosey to Sophomore Hill switching between Bernie and Mosey at each tree

4 Corners 

Split into 2 teams. The team who completes the most corners in 13 minutes Wins!

Each corner will have a different exercise for 25 reps. Each team will repeat the loop until time is up. 

1st Corner-25 Merkins – Butt kicks to next corner

2nd Corner-25 Pickle Pounders – Bernie up the hill

3rd Corner-25 SSH- Skip to next spot

4th Corner- 25 Bobby Hurleys- run down Sophmore Hill

(We got 2 1/2 rounds in 13 minutes)

The team’s tied so 5K chose 10 burpees for the group

Mosey to Coupon Pile and then to the O2 parking lot

Coupon drags 

Start in the parking lot close to the hill and work our way to the other end

1st group starts in plank position and drag their coupon through with leading hand for 3 reps and switch sides working their way across the parking lot, Group 2 runs to the top of the hill and perform 2 hydraulic squats then back down to their coupon, then Group 1 will head up the hill. 

(We got 2 rounds)

Recover and take coupons back to the pile. 

Mosey to O6 Parking Lot stopping for some calf raised along the way. 

11’s 

10 Sissy Squats run to the other end of the parking lot

1 Leg Kick Through (1 each side)  run back to start

9 Sissy Squats run to the other end of the parking lot

2 Leg Kick Through’s (1 each Side) run back to start

…

…

Group got to roughly 5 Sissy Squats and 6 kick throughs before we recovered.  

Mosey back to Shovel Flag

MARY:

10 BBS (OYO)

10 Infinity Loops (4-count)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
15 no FNG’s
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

https://bible.org/illustration/cracked-pot 

A Water Bearer in India had two large pots, each hung on each end of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, and while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water at the end of the long walk from the stream to the master’s house, the cracked pot arrived only half full. For a full two years, this went on daily, with the bearer delivering only one and one-half pots of water in his master’s house.

The perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments, perfect to the end for which it was made. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection and miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do. After two years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the Water Bearer one day by the stream. “I am ashamed of myself, and I want to apologize to you.” “Why?” asked the bearer. “What are you ashamed of?” “I have been able, for these past two years, to deliver only half my load because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your master’s house. Because of my flaws, you have to do all of this work, and you don’t get full value from your efforts,” the pot said.

The Water Bearer felt sorry for the old cracked pot, and in his compassion, he said, “As we return to the master’s house, I want you to notice the beautiful flowers along the path.” Indeed, as they went up the hill, the old cracked pot took notice of the sun warming the beautiful wildflowers on the side of the path, and this cheered it some. But at the end of the trail, it still felt bad because it had leaked out half its load, and so again it apologized to the bearer for its failure. The bearer said to the pot, “Did you notice that there were flowers only on your side of your path, but not on the other pot’s side? That’s because I have always known about your flaw, and I took advantage of it. I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back from the stream, you’ve watered them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate my master’s table. Without you being just the way you are, he would not have this beauty to grace his house.”

Takeaways:

We all have unique things about us that from our perception are “flaws”.

God’s economy operates differently than ours, He takes our perceived “flaws” and uses them to His advantage and to advance his Kingdom. 

As HIM’s we can go boldly forward knowing that in our weakness we find strength in Him.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Pool Boy on Q Wednesday, Anchorman on Q Friday