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Shamrock F3 vs. FiA Workout

  • THE SCENE: Shamrock. Weather high 30’s clear morning
    F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
    WARM-O-RAMA:
  • 20 X SSH
  • 10 X Merkins
  • 15 X Forward Baby Arm Circles
  • 16 X Reverse Baby Arm Circles (apparently I lost count)
  • 10 X Tempo Squats

THA-THANG:
The workout was a Tabata Timed workout with :40 seconds of workout at :20 seconds of rest 3 sets of each exercise.  The exercises listed below were a mixture of FiA workouts “borrowed” from my wife “Rapking,” and F3 staples. I had a random list of music playing so that when a song mentions men we would do a workout from the F3 side. When the music mentions women in the song we did a FiA workout. The only exception was Aerosmiths “Dude Looks Like a Lady” this song was the wild card and you could pick any exercise to complete. Some of the songs were “Man I feel Like a Woman,” “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun,” and “Watta Man.”

F3 List

  • Merkins
  • Curls
  • Overhead Press
  • Big Boy Sit-up
  • Snow Angels
  • Tricep Press

FiA List

  • Goblet Squats
  • Freddy Mercury
  • Plank
  • Flutter Kicks
  • Calf Raises
  • Lunges

 

MARY:
10 X Little Baby Crunches
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
The message in the workout is to not assume that a female workout is less intense or not as effective as a male workout. This message should be carried over in common life as well, and to never take for granted the importance of your partners role in a relationship. A relationship should not be dominated by one person and instead needs to be a team effort with equal input and contribution. Also today is the start of Lent for most faiths and is practiced by many. Always remember to never take the women in your life for granted and to treat them with the utmost respect just as a HIM should, but also don’t assume that the females are the weaker sex, the workout should be an indication of just how strong most women in our lives can be.

MOLESKIN:
We did say a prayer for Mermaid’s and Anchorman’s friends who are both going through major medical issues in their life. We prayed to keep them and their family strong during this very stressful time in their life.

Lunge until we Plunge

THE SCENE: 28 degrees, with a wind chill in the low 20’s
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Tempo Squats, Tempo Merkins, Cherry Pickers (Slow), laps in the parking lot, and stretch your quads.
THA-THANG:
Run to the church, and hang out at the columns (in the dry).
Perform 20 lunges, followed by a 30 second wall squat
Perform 19 lunges, followed by a 30 second wall squat
Repeat until 1 lunge, and a 30 second wall squat

Total of 210 lunges and 10 minutes of wall squats
Once we wrapped that up, we did three rounds of the following:
20 (10 Each leg) Bulgarian Split Squats, run to the construction fence, find a curb and elevate your heels on the curb and do 20 squats.  Bernie back to the start.

MARY:
We slowly moseyed back to the A/O where we each called out an ab exercise and followed it with 10 Merkins.
T-pain ( I can’t remember what Anchorman calls it) 10 merks
American Hammers and 10 merks
LBC’s and 10 merks
Oblique work (can’t remember the name) and 10 merks
Snow Angels and 10 Merks

More leg stretching
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I told a story about my oldest daughter and her actions.  I counseled her to be a good example, and she (in the moment) did not want to be an example for anyone.  Her little sister was acting out in the same manner, and I asked her to be a good example.  Whether we want to be or not, we are all examples.  It was in that moment that I realized the issues I had with her, were things that I had modeled poorly for her.  You never know who is watching, and how they will choose to follow.

Jesus set a great example of Love, he could have chosen violence, or sarcasm, or really anything, but he chose to model love, and we should follow that lead.

Some relative verses:

Philippians 3:17
Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us.

1 Peter 5:3
Not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock.

1 Corinthian 15:33
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

Titus 2:7
Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity,

MOLESKIN:
Pray for travel to Miami for Anchorman.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
No announcements today.

Jailbreak Tour #9

  • Welcome Scene: 28 degrees – brrrr dog.
  • Warmup: 
    • Windmills
    • 10 Merkins
    • SSH around parking stalls. (and reverse)
    • High Knees
    • 10 Burpees
    • Kereeokee around parking stalls.
  • Workout: Jailbreak Tour (aka the deck of pain) (installment #9)
    • Sprint (Jailbreak) in between each location and do the exercise on the newly drawn card.
    • @ The Valley of Death : Do 3 Hill to Hill Sprints
    • @ Football Field Entrance: Do 20 Wear Wolves
    • @ Pull Up bars: Do 20 pull ups
    • @ AO Home Base: Do 2 Bear Crawl parking log lengths.
    • @ Soccer Field: Do 1 length accross crab walk
    • @ Football Field: Do 2 Lengths of Bernie
    • @ Fox Lonas First Entrance: Do 20 Smurf Jacks
    • @ Church Pillars: Do 10 Handstand pushups
    • @ All Saints Main Sign (corner of Cedar Bluff and Fox Lonas) : Do 20 Monkey Humpers (4 ct) – butt facing traffic
  • Wrap Up with Word
    • No much to say other than a cry of the heart. Lord please bless the work of our hands today. Help us to do something that grows and prospers and is eternally fruitful.  Help us with doing good for you and doing something that lasts.  Ours days are numbered, this we know. So please help us to be fruitful in our hearts and souls.  Please help us to bare eternal fruit!

10:30 Next Level

  • Welcome: Fitness – Fellowship & Faith (Bootcamp)
  • When: 5:30am , 28 degrees, chill dog.
  • Where: Shamrock – Catholic High School
  • Why: To encourage, focus, sharpen each other.
  • Who: 5 High Impact Men plus a Dog
  • What:
    • 10 Burpees
    • 30 Core reps of rotating H.I.M choice.
    • Run 250 yards.
    • Repeat above three things.
    • We did about 2.5 miles of running around the campus’s of Catholic High School and Cedar Bluff Elementary.  We did 11 stations. So 110 burpees plus 30 reps of (Big boy setups, Flutter Kicks (4 ct), Scissor Kicks 4ct, Little Baby Crunches 4ct, Superman’s, Side crunches, Freddie Mercuries, Pickle Pointers, Pickle Pounders)
  • Wrap Up:
    • What’s your next level for 2022? Men called out requests for more fellowship, more f3 attendance, more scripture, being in the word more, more prayer.  I too feel these desires to step it up to the next level.  I’ll be attempting to start a website that will challenge us to another level of fitness.   Lord willing, I’m also going to be starting a simple accountability group combined with some scripture memory.  Hopefully all three of these things will help gently nudge us to the Next level in all three F’s (Fitness Fellowship and Faith).  What’s your next level?  Bring it!!!

Shamrock – Road Rage!

THE SCENE: 28F wind chill of 22F. Numb faces and plenty of snot.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Side Straddle hop (IC) 4 CT x 25

Tie Fighter 4 CT x 10 each

Cherry Pickers x5

Flutter Kicks 25 – 4 count 

Air Drama – Squat with calf rise at the top X20 

Stretch 

Mosey to the big parking lot. Need 16 lines. 

Line 1 – 25 Merkins

Line 2 – 25 Big Boys

Line 3 – 25 Squats

Line 4 – Calf Raises 

Repeat for 4 rounds total

We will end up at 100 reps per exercise. 

Mosey to a tall curb for 1 minute AMRAPs

Curb Alperts – Like the Musician Herb Albert?  – Step ups with hands – 1 minute

Rocky Balboas – 1 minute

Curb Dips – 1 minute 

Mosey to Weigels

Monkey Humpers to warm up the legs

Run / Jog / Walk to the top.

Mosey back to the AO

We knocked out 2 more rounds of 25 Merkins, Big Boys, Squats and Calf raises

We ended up with a total of 150 reps. 

MARY:

Scissor kicks, Snow Angels, Box cutters and pickle pointers.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Anchorman, Waxjob, Pom-Pom, Baby Boomer, Honeydew, Curveball, Mermaid, Osteen, Fabio, Music City, Trolley, Cosmo,
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

A Liturgy For Experiencing Road Rage – From “Every Moment Holy” by Douglas Kaine McKelvey

If my hearth were more content in you, O Lord, 

I would be less inclined to rage at others. 

Let me gauge by the knot in my gut,

The poverty of my own understanding 

Of the grace that I have received

From a God who, loving me

Chose rather to receive wounds

Than to give them. 

Take from me my self-righteousness, 

And my ego-driven demands for respect. 

Overthrow the tyranny of my anger, O Lord,

And in its place establish a better vision

Of your throne, 

Your kingdom, 

And your peace. 

Amen. 

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Although I rarely experience road rage I definitely experience other forms of anger. I love the comparison to the example that Christ led on Earth. He could have raged and kicked so many butts. In the end he chose to accept the wounds over giving them.