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Coach Me Up!

THE SCENE: Too nice to call it the gloom!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Side Straddle Hops (IC) X 15
  • Cherry Pickers (IC) 4 CT X 10
  • BIG Baby Arm Circles Forward X 10 (IC)
  • BIG Baby Arm Circles Backwards X 10 (IC)
  • Seal Claps (IC) 4 CT X 10
  • Overhead Claps (IC) 4CT X 10
  • Lineup to run the mile

THA-THANG:

The Murph – modify as needed

  •  1 Mile
  • 100 Pull-Ups
  • 200 Push-Ups
  • 300 Squats
  • 1 Mile

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA – 12 men participated
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

On June 28, 2005, Lt. Michael Murphy was the officer-in-charge of a four-man SEAL element in support of Operation Red Wing tasked with finding key anti-coalition militia commander in Afghanistan. Shortly after inserting into the objective area, the SEALs were spotted by three goat herders who were initially detained and then released. It is believed the goat herders immediately reported the SEALs’ presence to Taliban fighters.

A fierce gun battle ensued on the steep face of the mountain between the SEALs and a much larger enemy force. Despite the intensity of the firefight and suffering grave gunshot wounds himself, Murphy is credited with risking his own life to save the lives of his teammates.

By the end of a two-hour gunfight that careened through the hills and over cliffs, Murphy, Gunner’s Mate 2nd Class (SEAL) Danny Dietz and Sonar Technician 2nd Class (SEAL) Matthew Axelson had fallen. An estimated 35 Taliban were also dead.  The fourth SEAL, Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class (SEAL) Marcus Luttrell, was blasted over a ridge by a rocket-propelled grenade and knocked unconscious. Though severely wounded, the fourth SEAL and sole survivor, Luttrell, was able to evade the enemy for nearly a day; after which local nationals came to his aide, carrying him to a nearby village where they kept him for three more days. Luttrell was rescued by U.S. Forces on July 2, 2005.

Lt. Murphy was buried at Calverton National Cemetery less than 20 miles from his childhood home. Lt. Murphy’s other personal awards include the Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Ribbon and National Defense Service Medal.

Philippians 2:3-4 – Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Hebrews 13:16 – Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God

John 13:34 – A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

COACH ME UP Podcast with Jimmy Dikes and Chris Burke podcast focuses on sports and faith; this is an awesome podcast! Lots of coaches and athletes sharing their faith. Jimmy and Chris are accountability partners to each other and encourage each of us to have someone in our lives.

Each of us needs someone to coach us up AND/OR to be accountable to; let’s all prayerfully consider being a part of a shield lock or a small group.

What is a shield lock? Be a part of a small group of 3-6 men, meet 1-2 times a mont to share, listen, pray, etc. It can be before, during or after a regular F3 Q OR on an opposite day OR on a Sunday morning for breakfast, etc.  There’s no set time…whatever works for the 3-6 men you are linked with.

Contact Guardrail if interested in being a part of a Shield Lock.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • Hardship Hill on Monday
  • KARM’s Dragon Boat Race – June 17 – Need Rowers & Donations
  • Sign up to be a part of a Shield Lock

4 Square X 3

THE SCENE: Cool-ish but humid.

WARM-O-RAMA:
Cherry Pickers
Wind Mills
10 LBAC forward/back
10 x Tempo Merkins
10 x Tempo Squats
10 x Supermans/Swimmers

THA-THANG:

Mosey to the courtyard for some 4 square.

First square is:
30 American Hammers
30 4ct LBC
15 Merkins
30 Squats
Second Square:
15 Merkins
15 V-Ups
30 4ct Supermans
30 Squats
Third Square:
15 V-ups
30 Curtsey Lunges
15 Diamond Merkins
30 4ct Supermans

Repeat Circuit 2 Times.

Mosey to coupon pile for part 2.

20 Curls
20 Press
20 Coupon Swings
Active recovery to the road sign (or up the steps to pull up bars)

After a couple rounds head back to the flag and arrive late, much to the disappointment of 5k.

MARY:
No mary, should have left earlier to get in a set or 2.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Little Known Facts About Laziness #7

Let’s review the facts…

Fact #7 – The way of the lazy slowly creep to sudden disaster.

Proverbs 6:9-11

9 How long will you lie there, O sluggard?
When will you arise from your sleep?
10 A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest,
11 and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
and want like an armed man.

Things start small, just little things that are off. Things get a little lax but then disaster is sudden and unavoidable.

The Proverbs talk about poverty coming like a robber. Sudden and unannounced, without warning.

The other illustration is similar but slightly different. The armed man illustrates how poverty is forced on you. It’s unavoidable and when it comes it’s too late.

The encouragement today is to consider areas of your life that could be getting lax and headed in the wrong direction. It starts small but be diligent and keep going and headed in the right direction.

Passing The JUCO Flag

THE SCENE: 60 degrees and dry
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Side straddle hop in cadence 20
5 burpees on your own
Cherry Pickers
Arm rotations thumbs up in cadence
Reverse thumbs down in cadence
Bearcrawl in and hi five a HIM /Crawl bear out
6 Windmills in cadence
Side straddle hop in cadence 20

THA-THANG:
2 lines person in front falls off for 2 burpees to big parking lot

Line up on the curb
Bear crawl, lunge, burpee leapfrogs, lunge w/ twist (Rinse & Repeat)

2 lines person in front falls off for 2 burpees to Sophomore Hill

Partner up
Wheel barrow up switching halfway

Mosey to coupon pile
Dora partner runs stairs and does 5 pull ups
while you do Blockees x2

2 lines person in front falls off for 2 burpees to the duck pond

8ct Merkins
Mosey around the pond to the Information Center

Minkey Humpers

Line up at light post
Run to next post 10 Squats
Bernie to next post 10 Squats (Rinse and Repeat)

Bear Crawl/Mountain Climbers/Bear Crawl/Shoulder Taps

Mosey back to the flag w/ Jailbreak

MARY:
No time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Use the TAGS on right-side to record PAX (BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOURSELF) in attendance. Be sure to select the AO in CATEGORY above TAGS and then delete these notes!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Gentlemen I’ve had a good run 🏃‍♂️ Thank you for the opportunity! It’s been an honor and a pleasure.

I couldn’t think of a better person to pass this flag to. I’ve had a lot of discussions with a lot of you as well as several members of the leadership team.

First off I feel super blessed to have such a great group of leaders to choose from. Obviously I wanted someone that represented all 3 F’s. Beyond that, I was looking for consistency. Who’s always here? Who’s leading by example? Who’s bringing ideas to challenge us? Who’s trying to strengthen the bond we have?

I wrote down Legacy when I was considering this role.

What is an example of a legacy?

For example, some people consider a legacy to be real estate or money. But the most treasured forms of legacy are found in intangible gifts: values, memories, friendship, love, and respect. I like the intangible ones…

The other was Passing the baton.

Where did the phrase passing the baton come from?

The phrase “passing the baton” is thought to have originated in the Olympic relay race around 1967, signifying duty and denoting that a successful outcome requires collective effort. This understanding of collaboration was embodied by passing an emblematic baton from competitor to competitor. I like that as well.

Run the good race my brother!! I’ll be here to support and cheer you on!!

MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

Life of Worship?

THE SCENE: Great weather, 65, a wee bit humid
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Side straddle hops, cherry pickers, little baby arm circles forward/backward, tempo squats, tempo merkins

THA-THANG:

Mosey towards the pond

  • Do 5 merkins, 5 squats, 5 BBS, run to first light
  • Do 5 merkins, 5 squats, 5 BBS, Bernie to start, run to second light
  • Repeat

Mosey to Jucomonjara

  • Run to first line, do 5 merkins, 5 squats, 5 BBS
  • Bernie up a line, run to next line, do 5 merkins, 5 squats, 5 BBS
  • Repeat to the top

Mosey back to the flag, stop at guardrail, do 25 dips, 25 squats, 15 BBS

Finish with Ring of Fire

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Worship is not just something that we do on Sunday mornings or Wednesday nights. We worship something every day, whether it’s sports, exercise, money, jobs or God. So, how do we live our daily lives in worship to God? 

Romans 12: 1 says, “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.” So the first thing is that we need to sacrifice ourselves, give our lives to the Lord and in following Jesus. Then verse 2 says, “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.” So in sacrificing ourselves we shouldn’t conform to the pattern of this world.

And then a few verse down in verse 9 it says some things that highlight a Christian and how we might live out worship in our daily lives. It says, “Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. 10 Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. 11 Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. 12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. 13 Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.” And the list goes on further, but those are just a few things that we can do in our daily lives to worship the Lord. So, what is one thing you can do to worship the Lord? One thing on that list that you might try to improve on as you try to live a lifestyle of worship. 

Thought to your thoughts

THE SCENE: 59°, calm dry and perfect
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH, Windmills, Newtons Cradle, Mountain climbers, Cherry Pickers, Let it hang, not in that order
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the courtyard, Flutter a little, Lunge to the first “island”, half on each side

  • Broad jump to partner across the grass, Bear crawl back 2x
  • Crab walk to partner, walk crab back 2x
  • Frog jump to middle, bernie back
  • Dips and box jumps on the wall
  • 10 OHP, 20 Triceps, 30 curls 2x

At the pull up bars, partner up, collectively do 20 pull ups, 100 merkins and 100 squats, then run around the sports complex.  repeat.

MARY:
At each stop sign on the way back, did a core exercise: Freddy Mercury, Big boys, hello dolly, side crunches, and mountain climbers.  Finished off at the flag with flutters
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Use the TAGS on right-side to record PAX (BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOURSELF) in attendance. Be sure to select the AO in CATEGORY above TAGS and then delete these notes!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

I have 2 personal convictions I’m going to share.  Perhaps some of you need to hear this.
1) I talk too much. Much of what I say I hear at the same time you hear it.
When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.
Proverbs 10:19
Jesus says in Luke 6:
“It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.”
I’m not talking about swearing but maybe that is a part of it, I’m not sure I really care if you swear from time to time.  I am bothered by the use of Jesus Christ as an explitive
But have a filter and make sure that filter is Truth and encouragement. are words building up?

**Give thought to your words.**
2) God wants to work on not just my words spoken but also the thoughts and and my heart

A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart
and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

what are you thinking? Would you verbalize those things?

Are you improving what you are thinking?
Perhaps it is best summed up by paul in Phil 4;8
“Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure,
“
whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

**Give thought to your thoughts**

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
VQ on Friday by Waffles!!

Hardship Hill obstacle building this weekend or next.  Keep an eye out.