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Keep Moving

THE SCENE:

Perfect low 50’s and clear

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSHs in cadence; Merkins OYO; Tai Fighters in cadence; Cherry Pickers

THA-THANG:

Mosey to “Boomer Alley” and grab a CMU along the way; Starting at launch pad move 2 at a time into pain stations; 1) 10 x Hand Release Merkins; 2) 20 x SSHs; 3) 10 x Snow Angels; 4) 20 x Squat Jumps; 5) 10 x Big Boy Situps; 6) 20 x Plank Jacks; 7) 10 x Blockees; Remain at launch pad doing CMU Squat Thrusters until station 1 opens up… rinse and repeat for a while.

Group therapy – 10 x CMU Squat Thrusters; Mosey to CMU pile; Mosey to “Circle of Gab”; Jump or Dive around the circle (great mumble chatter about the various nation flags); 10 x SSHs; Mosey for a bit toward AO; Tempo Squats in cadence; Mosey a bit more; Monkey Humpers in cadence; Mosey to AO; Box Cutters in cadence.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 HIMs and no FNGs

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Shared some Boomer (even though I am a Gen-Xer) insights on discipline around Health, Faith, Marriage, Singleness, Fatherhood, Career, Friendships, and Finances.  Read “Choose your hard” poem (stolen from Coolio).  Hebrews 12:11 “No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening – it’s painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way.” NLT

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP coming up May 6; Shamrock 2 year maniversary coming up on May 11; Passing of the flag coming later in May; Coffeteria right after Q

Ouch my BACK

THE SCENE: Perfect weather, low 60’s and low humidity
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH X 20
Tempo Merkins X 10
Tempo Squats X 10
Baby arm circles forwards & backwards X 10
Cherry Pickers X 4
Quad Stretching
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the CMU pile and everybody gets one block.  Take half the blocks to the swings and half to the pull up bars.  Divide into two groups (6 people each) at the swings (using the swing as a pull up bar) do pull ups with your feet on the ground and your back parallel to the ground.  3 can go at a time, the other three do rows with the CMU until 20 are complete.  Rotate in and out until the second group tags you out.  The second group is at the pull up bars.  They are jumping into a pull up position and slowly lowering them selves down, then repeating X 10.  After you do 10, rotate to the CMU’s and perform lawn mowers with the CMU.  Once all 6 have had their turn on the pull up bars, mosey over to the other group.  Repeat entire sequence three times.

MARY:
Anchor Man handled the Mary.
Slow Dead Bugs
Snow Angels
LBC’s
Flutter Kicks
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I lost a dear friend over the weekend.  He was a longtime employee and coworker.  We talked about the impact of culture.  He embodied our work culture and he will be missed.  F3 has a strong culture as well, and it allows us to hold each other accountable and make each other better.  Culture eats strategy for breakfast, embrace it, make it your own, and use it as the great tool that it is to impact lives.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP coming up 5/6 at Haw Ridge 9-12 PM.

Monday Funday

The Scene

Beautiful

F3 Welcome and Disclaimer

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

Warm-O-Rama

Side Straddle Hops

Seal Claps 4 count

Inch Worms w/ merkin

Tempo Squats

Imperial Walkers

Tha-Thang

Mosey to the church courtyard

ATM’s 

15 Alternating Shoulder Taps (4 count)

10 Tempo Merkins (4 Count)

10 Fast Merkins

Mosey to Cedar Bluff Rd entrance of Shamrock stopping for 10 4ct Monkey Humpers before crossing and heading to the Cedar Bluff Elementary Stairs.

Dora 1 2 3

Partner 1 performs exercises while Partner 2 goes up and down the stairs twice. 

100 Inch Worms

200 Heel Elevated Squats 

300 Little Mermaids (Did not get to these)

 

Mosey to the parking lot by Cedar Bluff and get 20 Little Mermaids in so we got a taste of the 300

 

Mosey to Cedar Bluff Rd stopping for 10 more 4ct Monkey Humpers and a 10 count pickle pounders before crossing and heading to the AO. (We did not get any honks)

 

BLIMPS in the FIA parking lot

5 Burpees

10 Lunges (5 each leg)

15 Imperial Walkers (we did single count)

20 Merkins

25 Plank Jacks

30 Squats

Mary

No Time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

15 HIM’s

COT/BOM

Matthew 27:22-44

 

If we downplay the sin in our lives then we are cheapening the grace God has given to us. 

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Feeling Lucky at Shamrock

THE SCENE:   30 and clear
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Nah, nobody new. 
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH
  • Moroccan nightclub
  • phelps
  • RFTS / LIH
  • Cobra / Up dog
  • Tempo merkin
  • Mountain climbers
  • Mosey

THA THANG:

  • Starting at one side of the parking lot, bear crawl to the first light, 30 merkins, mosey to the end
  • Plank.  3…2…1… sprint back to where we started!
  • bear crawl to the second light, 20 merkins, mosey to the end
  • Plank.  3…2…1… sprint back to where we started!
  • bear crawl to the end, 10 merkins

Galway hookers

Mosey to the CMU pile and grab your favorite;

Break into two teams and spread out ~100 ft.  In between the teams are 14 cones – half are standing up and half are laying down.  Two teams race each other.  One team is trying to knock all the cones down, the other team is trying to stand all the cones up.  Individuals pull a card, do the exercise, then sprint to the cone and knock one down or stand one up.  Continue until all cards are used.  Exercises included;

  • 30 CMU Curls
  • 15 Heavy Freddy (4-ct)
  • Single arm row, 10 each
  • 15 Heel taps
  • 16 Lunges
  • 20 heavy LBCs
  • Uneven Merkins 10 each side
  • 10 BBS + Press
  • 30 Calf Raises
  • 15 Heavy American Hammer (4-ct)
  • 20 Alpos
  • 20 Overhead Squats
  • 20 Good mornings
  • 25 Shoulder press
  • 20 CMU Swings
  • 25 Squats
  • 25 Tri extension
  • 10 Burpee Jumpovers
  • Single arm Shoulder press 10 each side
  • 5 Blockees
  • 20 Wide Derkins

 

Feeling lucky?  Circle up.  Perform exercise one, then roll a die.  If we roll a “1” – move on to exercise 2.  If we don’t roll a “1” – do exercise 1 again and roll – repeat until we roll a 1.  Go through the full list – rolling for 1, then 2, then 3…etc.  Exercises were;

  1. 10 Derkins
  2. 10 Squats
  3. 10 Heavy Freddy
  4. 10 Curls
  5. 10 Triceps
  6. 10 Thrusters

 

MARY:

Circle up.  Pax choice.

  • Angel crunches
  • BBS
  • SSH
  • Hello dolly

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Me and 12 fine men of the Shamrock 

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM: 

F3 is more than a workout.  If you are really investing yourself and opening yourself up to your PAX, then you are building deep and meaningful friendships that will sustain you through good times and bad.  It is such a unique and special thing, and I don’t know of a better group of men out there.

How do you invest yourself in deeper, intentional friendships?

  • Consistency – it’s not just about showing up when you need to be shored up.
  • Contributing – You don’t take and take and take.  In fact, you expect and strive to give more than you take from this group.  You expect to invest more than you’ll have returned.
  • Candidness (outward) – Have the courage to speak candidly to a friend who is falling short of a high standard.  Talk straight to the man who is acting foolishly, who is harming himself and others around him, and who is temporarily blind, ignorant, or uncaring of their foolishness.
  • Candidness (inward) – Transparency / vulnerability. In order for you to have any credibility whatsoever to speak candidly to a hurting friend, you must first consistently be opening your own heart to him.  You must be candid about your own struggles, fears, insecurities, shortcomings, dreams.  Only then have you earned to right to speak truth to him about his struggles.

Romans 12:10
“Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.”

 

MOLESKIN:

Man, it was good to be in the gloom with you men – thanks for having me!

Prayers for Eddie, Phil, and Curveball’s BIL

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Camping trip – April 1-3

Hiking Devil’s Racetrack – April 2, 1:00 PM

CSAUP – May 6th (evening)

Shamrock – 10 minute Pebble Challenge

THE SCENE: 37F
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Run in circles

Side shuffle then reverse 

High knees

Butt kicks

Tie Fighters X10 

Merkins – IC – 4 ct x10 

Quad Stretch

Side Straddle hop (IC) 4 CT x 10

Buns of steel balance (lean forward balancing on 1 foot with other leg balancing you behind, then do 4-count little up and down moves with rear leg while trying to maintain balance. We did 2 sets of 10 per side.

THA-THANG:

Mosey to rock pile 

Grab 2 rocks to use for every exercise  

Shoulder rotate to warmup 

Big Os – 60 seconds 

Butterflies – 60 seconds

Hold Left arm out / Right arm serve the tray – 60 seconds

Hold Right arm out / Left arm serve the tray – 60 seconds

Behind your back tricep flutters – 60 seconds

American Hammers – 60 seconds

Calf raises while holding rocks in the air with arms wide – 60 seconds

Make a fist no rock Left / Curls with both rocks in Right – 60 seconds

Make a fist no rock Right / Curls with both rocks in Left  – 60 seconds

Behind your back tricep flutters – 60 seconds

Swingset – AMRAP pullups then squats while you wait for everyone else to go – 2 rounds 

CMU pile: 50 Bench press – 25 Block alternating merkins – 10 Blockies 

Return CMUs

Mosey to grassy field to ice our shoulders while we do some abs 

10 Big Boys / 25 single count hammers / 50 single Flutter kicks / 75 cockroaches 

We did 2 rounds. 

MARY:
15 – 4-count Monkey Humpers

15 – 4-count Pickle Pointers

1 minute of Cobra back stretching
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 – Waxjob, Interpol, Steam, Pool Boy, Skid Mark, Mermaid, Baby Boomer, Voo Doo, Dumpster Dive, Jitters, Anchorman,
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Psalms 39:1-9

A buddy shared this passage with me this weekend and challenged me to meditate on it. Very powerful wisdom. David is frustrated with people around him. He tries to keep it cool the Christian way, but anger boils up inside him. He meditates and turns to God. God gives him words of wisdom to ponder about this very short life we live on Earth. The tiny things that really matter to us in the moment will not matter in eternity. Our hope is in the Lord! I need to say that daily. I need the Lord’s wisdom and love.