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IPC Week 3 – “B” the EMOM

THE SCENE: Rain, then rain, then more rain and 70 degrees. Another Beautiful morning.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER – Done

WARM-O-RAMA:
20 SSH

11 Imperial Squawkers

15 Tempo Squats

Stretch at own pace, quads and achilles

THA-THANG:

  • IPC Week 3 orientation with demonstration of Kraken Burpees and BDE Burpees
  • Mosey to the track and sync/start EMOMs at both cones of the 50 yard section
  • Start timer
  • Perform 50 Kraken Burpees, but run to other cone every time the EMOM sounds and resume Krakens.
  • When 50 are completed, run 400m, stop at same cone you started at.
  • Perform 50 BDE Burpees, but run to other cone every time the EMOM sounds and resume BDEs.
  • When 50 are completed, run 800m, stop at same cone you started at.
  • Perform 50 2-count Bonnie Blairs/Jumping Lunges, but run to other cone every time the EMOM sounds and resume Bonnie Blairs.
  • When 50 are completed, run 1200m, stop at same cone you started at.
  • Record time from group timer.
  • No one modified.
  • All PAX regrouped as they completed their respective cycles and finished as a group.

MARY:
No time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Word on the way back from track with lots of good talk, but I being of sound mind did forget the Count-Off & Name-O-Rama
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
2 Peter 3:14  Strengthen yourselves, so that in the end god finds you at peace with him.

Then we discusses how life is tough, because faithfulness only is proven through the tough times.  An example was Noah and being alone after God killed every other living being who Noah had lived with or known for hundreds of years, except for his family.  Now the ensuing loneliness might be a chance to not be at peace with God.  The discussion turned to the fact that being blessed, like Noah was, can be a burden.  Lots of good talk.

MOLESKIN:
The response to the Word was an encouragement to me.  Thanks.

Iron Pax Recovery Workout: Steeplechase

THE SCENE: 66 and “Cloudy with a Chance…”
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Yes sir.
WARM-O-RAMA:
Projectivator x5, Tempo Squat x5, Cherry Picker x5, Tempo Merkins x5, individual stretch, mosey to Pool Wall.

THA-THANG: “The Steeplechase”

  • Pool Wall: 5 Wurpees (burpee+wall-up)
  • Playground: 5 pull-ups + 5 chin-ups (forward/backward grip)
  • Amphitheater: 5 boxjump+5 Bonnie Blair; Bernie up hill; 5 BBS+5 Heels-to-Heaven (2-ct); Bear Crawl down hill; Mucho Chesto (1 round): 10merks+10 diamond merks+10 werkins+10 stagger right+10 stagger left merkins; mosey up sidewalk to road
  • Karaoke (right/left), Side shuffle (right/left), Mosey to Lake
  • Lake: Lazy Dora (partner up): 100 shoulder taps + plank (switch every 10 reps till 100)+lap; 200 LBC + 6-in Leg Lift (switch every 20 reps till 200)+lap; [CALLED RECOVERY FOR TIME] 300 Squats + Al Gore (switch every 25 till 300)+lap.
  • [DID NOT GET TO K-2(5) FOR 5 HILLS – too bad, so sad]
  • Here what we missed – 5 Hills:
    1. 5 Burpees – sprint hill – 5 burpees at top
    2. 5 Bobby Hurley (2-ct) – hill – 5 BH at top
    3. 5 starfish (2-ct) – hill – 5 starfish at top
    4. 5 lunges (each leg) – hill – 5 lunges at top
    5. 5 diamond pushups – hill – 5 diamond pushups at top
  • Mosey to Friendship Bell – Mosey to Shovel Flag

MARY:
NO TIME FOR MARY – BORG led us in some Cool Down Yoga/isometric stretches and good wisdom. Good stuff – DM Borg for more info.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
6 Knuckleheads recovered from Iron Pax Madness! Welcome FNG Jacob AKA Mr Burns (of The Simpsons fame)

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Romans 12:1-2 in 2 translations for meditation

A Living Sacrifice
12 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. (ESV)

Place Your Life Before God
12 1-2 So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. (The Message)

Like most men, I have spent a lot of time trying to get better, trying to BE BETTER – a good example is F3. Unfortunately, a lot of our self-improvement efforts amount to sin management, behavior modification, improving from the OUTSIDE-IN. The Bible clearly teaches the opposite: we can’t do it. Our hope lies in trusting what God has done, IS DOING, for us. As we give our “everyday, ordinary life” to God, as we believe/trust/relax in God and what He’s doing, He transforms us from the INSIDE-OUT. He’s playing the Long Game for us – developing “well-formed maturity” in us. Let Him do it.

MOLESKIN:
Thursdays at The Project are typically Heavy PT (CMU work, tire flips, cut telephone poles, battle rope, etc) but after Tuesday’s Iron Pax we thought a recovery workout was in order. (Sorry Tuba! Heavy PT is our jam!)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Welcome FNG Jacob/Mr Burns; Iron Pax; Hardship Hill; Project Pax to Pray for this week: Bobbit; Coffeeteria @ Dunkin

Simple…but not easy

THE SCENE:  63 and clear
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:  Administered
WARM-O-RAMA:

Stretch OYO

Grab a block and head to the track…

THA THANG:

Iron PAX Challenge, Week 1.  Three rounds for time…  Simple…but not easy.

Round 1

 Round 2 Round 3

800-meter run

25-yard murder bunny

10 shoulder tap merkins

25-yard reverse murder bunny

20 blockees with thruster

 20 burpee jumpovers, horizontal

20 burpee jumpovers, vertical

25-yard murder bunny

10 shoulder tap merkins

25-yard reverse murder bunny

MARY:

No time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

5

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Philippians 4:6-7, “Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.  Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.”

“Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything…”  Simple…but not easy.

MOLESKIN:

Each Tuesday, we’ll select a different member of the PAX to focus our prayers on for the next week.  Praying for that man, his family, his challenges, for his victory.  This week, it’s Snaggletooth and his family.

PRAYERS / ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Erector – get well, brother

Snaggletooth – for clear direction about the next chapter of life, for courage, for faith.  Thanksgiving for his wonderful family, and his brother-in-law, who is stepping into an adventure.

IPC Week 0

THE SCENE:  70 and rainy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:  Administered
WARM-O-RAMA:

Stretch OYO

To the track…

THA THANG:

Iron PAX Challenge, Week 0

  • 100 merkins
  • Run 2 laps (800m)
  • 75 merkins
  • Run 3 laps (1200m)
  • 50 merkins
  • Run 4 laps (1600m)
  • 25 merkins
  • Run 5 laps (2000m) 

MARY:

No time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Me and 7 of the best men I know

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Psalm 143:4

“Remember what God has done for you. Let His grace and mercy comfort you, and remind you of His unfailing love.”

Psalm 103:2

“Let all that I am praise the Lord; may I never forget the good things he does for me.”

MOLESKIN:

PRAYERS / ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The Talking Donkey

THE SCENE: warm, clear, and muggy.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
15 SSH, 15 Mountain climbers, 10 tempo merkins, 15 Moroccan night club, 15 imperial walkers, 10 tempo squats
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the recruiting center and grab a block. Line up in the parking lot along the short side. Perform first exercise and then carry the block to the other side (mode per PAX choice). Perform first and second exercise and then bear crawl with the block back to the opposite side. Continue adding an exercise each round and alternate carrying and bear crawls to transport the block across. When you get to round 8, drop the first exercise and then at round 7, drop the second exercise. Repeat.

  • 20 Merkins
  • 20 Curls
  • 20 2-ct, Heavy Freddie’s
  • 20 Burpee block jump overs
  • 20 Bent over rows
  • 20 Thrusters
  • 20 Heavy Big boy sit-ups

Well, that was the plan anyway. We almost got to the Big boys. Oh well.

MARY:
No time.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
6 plus our flag-bearer, Kick-flip
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Reference Numbers 22:22-33

“forsaking the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; but he received a rebuke for his own transgression, for a mute donkey, speaking with a voice of a man, restrained the madness of the prophet.” 2 Peter 2:15‭-‬16 NASB1995

Notice what God used to initiate rebuking Balaam. He could have chosen the Angel to do so, but instead He allowed the Donkey to speak. What seemingly insignificant things in our life could possibly be used to rebuke us? God may choose to use these in our lives to help us to see the error of our ways. Pay attention!

MOLESKIN:
Always optimistic in my workouts. There was a lot of hard work put in, but we were not even close to getting through the whole thing.