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Two Years

THE SCENE:   60 and calm.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:  Administered
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Moroccan nightclub
  • Seal jacks
  • Abe Vagoda
  • Cherry Pickers
  • Mountain climbers
  • Merkins
  • Projectivator

THA THANG:

Short mosey to the Friendship Bell

  • Raccoon crawl around the perimeter
  • 11s – Chest tap irkins and box jumps

 

Mosey to K-25 Hill.  Pair up.

  • Partner 1:  Up the hill
    • 1st time – Sprint
    • 2nd time – bear crawl
    • 3rd time – Bernie
  • Partner 2 – Exercises
    • 45 burpees
    • 45 BBS
    • 45 lunges (2-ct)
    • 45 squats
    • 45 Merkins

Mosey back.

5 jump squats, 10 wall-ups, 5 jump squats, 15 inverted rows.  Repeato.

MARY:

Sprints – winner leads core exercise.  Repeato until we are all whipped.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

8 of the best men I know

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Two years…  Two years ago, I was the FNG when Snaggletooth led the incredible workout that we repeated this morning.  I am so thankful for this group and grateful to the men who come out day after day to challenge each other physically, spiritually, relationally – I’m a better father, husband, and friend because of F-3 Project.

The reflection that I had for us this morning is from 1 Corinthians 13 – The Love Chapter…

“Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful, it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”

We zoomed in on those last few words, “…endures all things”.  In the original Greek, the word rendered in English as “endures” is hypomenei.  The word literally means, “remaining under the load” – but suggests something more like a military force that is being besieged and ordered to dig in! Defend the stronghold! Repel the enemy!  What are the enemies of love that we need to repel?  One is complacency.

Complacency is the subtle and silent enemy of your marriage.

There are outliers on either side – but experts say that, on average, it takes about 2 years for the “Honeymoon Phase” of a marriage to taper off.  In the beginning of our relationship, we are smitten with our spouse, wanting to always be around her, wanting to always please her and impress her.  Over time – around 2 years – that feeling tends to wane and a sense of complacency about our marriage can take hold.  What was once fascinating can become familiar.  Where we were once passionate, we can become passive.

Dr. Skip Moen, Academic Dean of Master’s International Divinity School, suggests that the word hypomenei could be understood as, “to stand firm…or to stay alive…”  So, the challenge issued this morning was to do something intentional today to keep alive (or breathe fresh life into) the spark in your marriage.  Don’t overcomplicate it.  It can be simple, like…

  • Ask her more questions
  • Be playful
  • Be spontaneous
  • Make room for quality time together
  • Play a game together
  • Schedule more sex
  • Put a flower on her pillow
  • Share a fantasy with her
  • Greet her with a bear hug after work today
  • Send her a text
  • Pray with her about her struggles
  • Laugh and make her laugh
  • Write her a note
  • Change your pattern of initiating sex
  • Express gratitude and show appreciation for her

Pick one…or a few…. Do it today!

“Love….endures…”

MOLESKIN:

Today was a repeat of the incredible workout Snaggletooth led two years ago.  Here’s his bb; https://f3knoxville.com/45-2/

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Collecting donated items for Safe Haven through the end of the month

Good to be back

THE SCENE: 28 and dry.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Check, check, and check.
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Lap around the parking lot and straight to Recruiting Center.
  • SSH
  • tempo Squats
  • LBAC (fwd/back)
  • Cherry Pickers X5
  • Whatever other warmup/stretch you need while I set up the workout.

THA-THANG:

  1. 20-15-10 (Reps with CMU)
  • Curls
  • Thrusters
  • Tricep Extensions
  • Squats
  • LAP around parking lot w/CMU

2. FLORA 1-2-3

  • 100 Merkins while partner holds plank
  • switch every 10
  • LAP around parking lot w/CMU
  • 200 LBC while partner holds 6″ leg lift w/CMU (directly overhead or extended back)
  • switch every 20
  • LAP around parking lot w/CMU
  • 300 Squats w/CMU while partner holds CMU Gore
  • switch every 25
  • LAP around parking lot w/CMU

3. 10’s
• 10 Single arm rows (each side) – Mosey CMU to curb and back
• 10 Lunges (each leg) – Mosey CMU to curb and back
• 10 Good Mornings + 10 BBS– Mosey CMU to curb and back
• 10 Uneven Merks (each side) – Mosey CMU to curb and back
• 10 Kettle swings + 10 Overhead Calf Raises – Mosey CMU to curb and back
RECOVER FOR TIME – MOSEY BACK TO SHOVEL FLAG

MARY:
We had some time for a few: Freddy Mercury, Dolly, Basilisk.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CRAZY 8 – special shoutout to Wanderer and Miss Fire – welcome back to The Project – way to crush it!

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
What lessons are you still learning from the events of 2020-2021? With the world overturned by the pandemic, politics, social upheaval and violence, I have felt the deep need for more inner silence and stillness. However, being cooped up last year with continuing implications to the present day are no guarantee that we have achieved stillness or silence in our hearts and minds. We know this to be true. Out of the lessons that God is teaching me, I have felt pressed to keep leaning into these lessons which have become promises and blessings of God’s presence and peace. I have to keep rehearsing them, speaking them, reaffirming my faith in God’s strength, wisdom, and grace. In keeping with this practice of speaking blessing and promise over my life, my wife and I pray this blessing adapted from Deuteronomy over our children: “God, we ask that you would cause him [her/us] to flourish; cause him to be above and not below, the head and not the tail, a leader and not a follower, a giver and not a borrower; may he be blessed in order to be a blessing to others.” What do you need to speak out loud over your life? Over your marriage, children, and home? Over your work and your ministry? Learn your lessons. Speak blessing over all whom God has given you.

MOLESKIN:
Just turned 47 – respect is just a few years away! Can’t say how much it means to work out with these guys.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Coffeeteria @ Dunkins!

The April Fool

THE SCENE: Awesome for HEAVY PT
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Yep, yep, and yep.
WARM-O-RAMA:
(1) SSH – 10 x 4 IC
(2) Tempo Squats – x10 IC
(3) Baby Arm Circles – 10 x 4 each side IC
(4) Imperial Walker – 10 x 4 IC
(5) Tempo Merkin – 10 x 4 IC
(6) Mountain Climbers – x10 IC
(7) Cherry Pickers – x5 IC

Mosey to Pool Wall – 5 wall-ups

Mosey to Recruiting Center – 5 burpees before crossing road

The Thang – Brickwork (1 CMU/PAX)

1. GOOD MORNING
10 GOOD MORNINGS
10 SINGLE-LEG SQUAT (BOTH SIDES)
10 GOOD MORNINGS
10 PLIO-MERKS (EACH SIDE)
10 GOOD MORNINGS
10 SINGLE-ARM ROWS (EACH SIDE)
10 GOOD MORNINGS

2. CMU 4 Corners (Move through corners clockwise)
Corner 1: 25 CURLS (5 blockees — CMU LUNGE to next corner)
Corner 2: 25 SQUATS (5 blockees — MURDER BUNNY to next corner)
Corner 3: 25 OHP+TRI EXT (5 blockees — CMU BEAR CRAWL to next corner)
Corner 4: 25 CMU SWINGS (5 blockees — RIFLE CARRY to next corner)

(10 count)

3. 4 STATIONS:
1. 20 Pull-ups (TIME KEEPER)
2. TIRE FLIP
3. CMU THRUSTERS
4. CMU LUNGES
ROTATE UNTIL ALL PAX HAVE BEEN TO EVERY STATION.

MARY:

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
6STRONG

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

MOLESKIN:

Prayed for Biohack’s surgery and family

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Borg’s VQ, Colonel’s last day, Coffeeteria @Chick-Fil-A next Thursday

This Ain’t A Picnic

THE SCENE: Clear and 45 degrees
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Slow jog with cadence change up and high knees

Circle up:  SSH, Front Arm Circles, MorrocanNightClub

Dynamic stretches: 

  1. Twist flexors
  2. Scoop da rice

Indian Run to CMUs:

  1. Side shuffle til line passes
  2. Burpees til line passes
  3. Calf jumps til line passes

No recovery,  Grab 1 CMU – curl CMU up to chest and lower gradually to full extension, as PAXes jog back to the picnic tables

THA-THANG:  Circuit training using 4 Picnic tables, no recovery pauses.

Run timer – (target =approximately 1 minute run)  Modify = carry block

  1. Burnees out, recover jog back 
  2. Butt kicks out, recover jog back 
  3. High Skips out, recover jog back

“Merder-kin” table – Modify = Use different levels of table

  1. Merkins or Derkins
  2. Dips (Mods = lift one leg, use one arm)
  3. Plank with Oblique crunches

 Legs Table – Modify = Use different levels of table, carry block

  1. Box jumps
  2. Bulgarian split squats
  3. Squat/thrust with jump

Table of Abs-olution

  1. Jack Knives
  2. Windshield wiper
  3. V-up

Noodlegs Table – Modify = carry block

  1. Side step /knee up /thrust
  2. Forward step /knee up/ thrust
  3. Repeat Side step

COOL-O-RAMA:

Jog CMUs back to stack, Jog to CoT.

MARY:

PAXes crushed the Table of Abs-olution, so no Mary today.  Sweet!

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Word – Jesus is Lord.  John 6:29  “This is the work of God – that you believe in the One He has sent.”

MOLESKIN:
Thanks for your amazing encouragement and participation on this my VQ.

Be Peculiar

THE SCENE: low 30s on this fine April morning.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 SSH, 15 Moroccan night club, 10 tempo Merkins, 10 tempo squats, 15 Imperial walkers, 5 cherry pickers
THA-THANG:
Indian run to the coupon pile. Circuit workout prepared by YHC.

  • 20 overhead presses and run up the stairs
  • 10 pull-ups or as many as you can with bar hang or modification as needed
  • Mosey around the corner to the Sophomore
  • 20 merkins and run to the corner diagonal from present location
  • 20 squats
  • Mosey back toward the coupon pile but stop at the intersection
  • 10 burpees and mosey to the corner of the maintenance building
  • 20, 2-ct flutter kicks
  • AMRAP

MARY:
15 Hello Dolly, 20 side crunches (total), 10 pistol crunches (total), protractor
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 took on this “pain and simple workout” (See what I did there?)😜
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I Pet. 2:9-10 NASB

“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a hold nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of the darkness into His marvelous light; for you once were not a people, but now you are the people of God; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.”

The King James renders “a people of God’s own possession” as “a peculiar people”. We are set apart and different because we belong to God. Therefore, what should be look like? Should we act differently than those who are not God’s possession? The Bible teaches that we should be different. Think about how you behave around people who are not believers. Can they tell that you act differently? That you have a higher moral standard? If there is nothing about how we present ourselves to the world that looks different, then we have some work to do. We should stand out in a crowd in the way that we act. This is my challenge. Ask yourself this, “Do the people around me know that I am a follower of Christ by the way I act? If the answer is “no”, then work on making changes to make yourself “peculiar”.