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Let There Be Light

THE SCENE: Mostly moony, 40 degrees F
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

Welcome to F3: Fitness/Fellowship/Faith

I am Survivor and will be on Q today.

  • This is a free workout.
  • I’m not a professional.
  • You’re here on your own volition.
  • Modify as needed.
  • I have a phone.

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Reach for the Sky
  • Let it Hang
  • Roll Necks
  • Arm Circles Forward/Backward
  • Hip Circles (in cadence)
  • Cherry Pickers
  • Tempo Merkins
  • Side Straddle Hops

THA-THANG:
Let’s Rock – Shopping Mall West End:

  • Small Rocks – Arm Raises Forward, 45, Side, OH Clap x 25 each
  • Medium Rocks – Curls, Tricep Extensions x 25 each
  • Large Rocks – Shrugs/Calf Raises x 50

New Toboggan with LED (unsolicited Christmas present) must be used to Light the way up JUCOmanjaro:

  • Run to first white line, face right shuffle to next white line, burnie to next white line, face left shuffle to next white line, run to next white line and repeat to the top.
  • Stop 1/2 way for 25 LBCs in cadence
  • Resume run, shuffle, burnie, shuffle, run to top.
  • (No recollection of exercise at top of JUCOmanjaro)
  • Mosey back to 1/2 way for 10 Burpees
  • Mosey to bottom of the hill for 25 merkins and 25 mountain climbers (each leg)

Back to Let’s Rock – Shopping Mall West End:

  • Large Rocks – 30 Squats, 20 Shrugs/Calf Raises
  • Medium Rocks – Curls, Tricep Extensions x 25 each
  • Small Rocks – Arm Raises Forward, 45, Side, OH Clap x 15 each

MARY:
Partner up in Parking Lot – Pro-agility Shuttle while partner alternates Plank / Al Gore, then continue to switch for 3 minutes.

  • 25 Big Boys
  • 25 Supermans
  • 20 Heels to Heaven
  • 15 Pickle Pounders
  • 10 sec stargazers
  • 25 merkins

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Salvation spreads by the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony.  I just came out of a spiritual fog last week where I experienced no clarity, nothing going right, and God feeling distant, which had lasted a few weeks.  I am proud (through Christ in me) to proclaim that during that time I made no agreements with the enemy, with those feelings of despair, no agreements about losing God’s favor and no giving in to old sins.  There are things I no longer struggle with through freedom granted by healing, truth, warfare and union with God.  I’ve shared my cancer survival story and about having a baby post cancer, and I decided to share my testimony of salvation today.  (Note that was not said today – I have not shared this story to more than a few friends outside of family.)

I was saved at age 6 when my grandfather took me to the front of a Billy Graham crusade.  I was baptized and believed, trusted and worshipped God, but over time, my sin, hate for my step-dad, and agreeing with the lies of the world choked out any evidence of salvation.  At age 23, I found myself in a one-bedroom apartment in St. Petersburg, Florida with my nearest friend 100 miles away and knew it was time to seek Jesus.  One night, I was given a picture of all the layers of sin, evil and hate that had crusted over my heart all those years, suddenly being pierced by streams of light that kept growing and breaking away chunks until all the layers of my hardened heart were blown away by a light too bright to view.  I opened my eyes, stunned by the image, and to this day wish I could have kept my eyes closed.  I had never experienced anything like it before.  I also knew that the hate was still present for my step-dad, and Jesus was asking me to forgive him, as well as, ask for forgiveness for my part in it.  Years later after on this new path, I read 2 Corinthians 4:6 and I was blown away that I got to experience this firsthand.  “For God, who said, ‘Let there be light out of darkness,’ has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”  (Proceeded to read much of 2 Corinthians 4.  Read 2 Corinthians 3 while you are at it.)

Psalm 91:1 on fridge before I left the house, “Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.”

MOLESKIN:
I have not shared my testimony in the past because of fear of opening up too many unknowns and questions, but I know I need to because of 2 Corinthians 4:13, “Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, ‘I believed, and so I spoke,’ we also believe, and so we speak.”  Therefore, you do not need a vision to know without a doubt that if you believe, trust, worship and seek oneness with God thru Jesus Christ, you will “have this treasure in earthen vessels (body)” 2 Cor 4:7 which is the light in your hearts of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ (2 Cor 4:6)!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Prayers for 5K and Guardrail’s family friend’s marriage.  Guardrail announced needing help to move a friend in need at 1pm today.

Fellowship

THE SCENE: dry and toasty
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
10 Projectivator, 15 Mountain climbers, 15 Moroccan night club, 15 Imperial walkers, 5 cherry picker
THA-THANG:

Mosey to the stairs behind the theater. Perform 3 rounds of the following exercises at the bottom and run to the top of the stairs after each exercise.

  • 25 merkins, 25 diamond merkins, 25 werkins, up and down the stairs after each
  • 25 squats, 25 jump squats, 25(6) lunges total, same as above
  • 25 heels to Heaven, 25 big boy sit-ups, 25 pistol crunch each side, same as above

Mosey to the amphitheater. 2 sets of 10 box jumps at the bottom, 10 dive bombers at the top, and 10 pull-ups at the playground. 15 burpees and bear crawl to the top of hill. Mosey to the shovel flag.

MARY:
15 hello Dolly, 15 Rosaletta
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
6 PAX this morning.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
The influences around us impact our character whether we admit it or not. Fellowship is meant to allow us to surround ourselves with good influence, those of like mind, and those that help to build each other up. Make the effort to take advantage of this. Now more than ever, we are limited with options, but try to get creative. F3 workouts are a great way to build relationships that hopefully will last a lifetime. From our website, “Embracing “the suck” (as we call it) of a physically exhausting workout bonds men together in a way few other things can.” Here is a passage of scripture that comes to mind.

“Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”- 1 Corinthians 15:33.

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

Anchors Aweigh My Boys!

THE SCENE: Haze gray with heavy fog
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
25 SSH, 5 cherry pickers, 10 tempo merkins, 10 tempo squats, 30 sec dying cockroach
THA-THANG:
Mosey from the AO to the coupon pile

  • All reps using coupons
    20 Upright rows

    20 Straight leg dead lift

    20 Squats

    20 Curls

    20 Steering Wheels

  • 2nd Round with 19 reps
  • 11’s on the stairs to the athletic center carrying the coupon up and down
    • Pushpress down, tricep extension up
  • All reps using coupons20 Step over merkins 

    20 American Hammer release 

    20 trap raises

    20 Raisers 

    20 sec hold

  • Mosey back to the AO with a jailbreak
  • With arms extended (no breaks), we did 5 minutes of Gorillas (one arm touches the chest while the other is extended), little bird (9 inch up and down movement with arms extended to the sides), big bird (2 feet up and down movement with arms extended to the sides), wax on (small circles inward with arms extended to the front), wax off (small circles outward with arms extended to the front), overhead claps, seal claps, and a hold with arms extended in the front.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
16 HIMs
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
So I spent 4 years, 1 month, 21 days in the United States Navy. I was the 1st LT, in charge of small boat ops, helicopter takeoffs and landings, RAS, topside preservation, docking/setting sail and anchoring at sea. 

An Arleigh Burke Destroyer is 509 ½ feet long and it has two anchors, a 9,000lbs (12 shots) centerline anchor and a 4,000 lbs. (8 shots) port side anchor. A shot of chain equals 15 fathoms, or 90 feet. The chain is color coded so you have an idea of how much chain has come released or brought up. One of my department’s responsibilities was to keep the chain painted black with a section of white links to mark 1 shot or 90 ft. If you do things right, you shouldn’t ever have to repaint the last two shots of chain which come from the shipyard painted yellow, then red. The saying goes, if you see yellow, start running…if you see red, you’re dead. The chain isn’t attached to the ship because it would rip a huge hole in the ship if the anchor were in a freefall. So when that red shot of chain comes up, it is like a firefighter’s hose or piece of spaghetti snaking all over the deck destroying whatever it touches. 

Dropping anchor is a violent scene…you can’t see that 9,000lbs anchor because it sits over the side but as it goes barreling toward the sea floor, it starts pulling all that chain out of the locker up on to the deck, down through the hole and into the water…rust and paint chips are flying everywhere. Initially, you pay out 3 times the depth of the water in anchor chain. The ship will then start back down to set the anchor into the sea bottom and keep the chain from piling up and kinking . 

What most people don’t know is that with big ships, it isn’t the anchor hooking into the ground that keeps you from drifting, it is the weight of the chain. Not only must it be strong and not break, but it has to be heavy, it has to have substance to it in order to keep the ship from drifting. 

Every 15 minutes, a quartermaster will triangulate the ship’s position based on three landmarks. The shape has a radius that it can swing in based on the amount of chain paid out already. If the ship is outside of the swing circle, you know that you are drifting and in danger of running aground on the land or rocks and eventually shipwrecking. 

We spent our morning getting heavy, working and building those big muscles. I hope it makes you tired throughout the day and sore tomorrow so that it reminds of the need to be heavy. You men are part of my anchor chain and I offer myself to be part of your’s. I rely on you to keep me from drifting because you are men of substance. 

As far as my three landmarks, I’ve got the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit to tell me if I get outside of the swing circle, to tell me if I am drifting. I may not read my Bible every 15 minutes, but I do read it every day to keep from running aground, to keep from shipwrecking. 

Hebrews 6:16-19

16 For people swear an oath by one greater than themselves, and with them an oath serving as confirmation is an end of every dispute. 17]In the same way God, desiring even more to demonstrate to the heirs of the promise the fact that His purpose is unchangeable, confirmed it with an oath, 18 so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to hold firmly to the hope set before us. 19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and reliable and one which enters within the veil, 20 where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

 

Hub

THE SCENE:  35 and clear
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:  Administered
WARM-O-RAMA: 

  • Reach for the sky
  • Let it hang
  • Monkey humpers IC
  • Hand release merkins x 5 OYO
  • Plank jacks IC
  • Carolina dry docks IC
  • 50% run down and back
  • 75% run down and back
  • Bobby hurleys x 5 OYO
  • Iron mikes x 5 OYO
  • Smurf jacks x 10 OYO

THA THANG:

First, The Hub.  Nine cones surrounding a center cone.  Exercises at each cone around the wheel.  Perform the exercise, sprint to the center cone, Bernie to the next cone clockwise.  Repeat until time is called (5 minutes).

Exercises were;

  • 10 hand release merkins
  • 15 bobby hurleys
  • 30 mountain climbers (15 each leg)
  • 10 carolina dry docks
  • 20 iron mikes (10 each leg)
  • 15 plank jacks
  • 10 diamond merkins
  • 15 smurf jacks
  • 20 imperial walkers (10 each leg)

Mary to rest.  Then repeat.  This time go farther! (I believe every man did go farther – nice work!)

 

Next:  Cone War.  Half the PAX are “Team Up” – half are “Team Down”.  Cones set out in a circle with some in the middle.  Run to a cone, perform exercise, then put the cone down/up depending on which team you are on.  Repeat until time or until a Team has all cones up/down.

Round 1: 1 burpee

Mary to rest.  Then repeat.

Round 2: 3 star jacks

Team Up crushed it both rounds.

 

Next:  Sixes at the Corners.  Exercise at each of the four corners then side shuffle/sprint/Bernie to the next corner

Round 1: 6 burpees at each corner

Round 2: 12 merkins at each corner

Round 3: 18 squats at each corner

 

MARY:

PAX choice for 5 minutes

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

12 + 5 Rushing

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Q Source 1.11 is “Study”.  The Daily Exploration into The Foundations of Faith.  I love that description…”exploration into the foundations of faith…”.  The QSource says, “Faith is a practice that requires Study to Accelerate.”

I have found a lot of fulfillment and excitement from studying the context of scripture.  I’ve enjoyed it because understanding the context is an antidote to the two main reasons I don’t want to read my Bible; either 1) I find it confusing, and/or 2) the richness of scripture goes over my head because of the difference in culture, language, location, etc.  Exploring those differences and really seeking to understand who these people were, what they meant when they said that, where they were living – I have found that it can unlock treasures within these ancient writings.

There’s a free app called “Bible Hub” that can help you mine the scriptures for treasure.  You can read the Bible in tens of translations, you can see a dozen different commentaries on every verse, in some cases you can see scans of the original papyrus scrolls.  I enjoy using this app to look at the original words of our Bible (I don’t read those words – I’m not smart enough to read Greek or Hebrew, ha) – one feature of the Bible Hub app (Interlinear Chapters) allows you to see English and Hebrew/Greek scripture side-by-side.  You can click on a Hebrew/Greek word and see the definition…how it might be used symbolically…and links every other place that word is used in the Bible.  That information is so powerful and might even provide a texture to stories that you’ve read a dozen times.

Verses we explored;

  • Numbers 15:38-40
  • Malachi 4:2
  • Mathew 9:20-22

Context and detail can provide richness to your reading.  I encourage you to explore into the foundations of your faith daily.  One way of doing that is by studying the original words, people, and places in order to better understand and appreciate what you are reading.

 

MOLESKIN:

Prayers for Booster’s friend’s family, who has suffered a recent tragedy.

Nice to have Mr. Slate transplant to us from Lexington!

QSource 1.11, Study

Bible Hub in the Play Store

Bible Hub in the Apple Store

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

 

We all have dreams & all are sinners

THE SCENE: 34 and felt too nice for the gloom
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Cherry Pickers (IC) 4 CT X 10
  • Morrocan Night Club X 15 (IC)
  • Tempo Squats (IC) 4 CT X 10
  • Tempo Merkins (IC) X 10
  • Side Straddle Hops (IC) X 20
  • Tennessee Rocking Horse X 10
  • Mosey to the Large Parking Lot by the Pond

THA-THANG:

The Pond

  • 20 Merkins & 20 Squats in 3 locations around the Pond
  • Rinse & Repeat X 2

Large Parking Lot

  • 20 Monkey Humpers & run up & back
  • 20 Diamond Merkins & run up & back
  • 20 Big Boys & run up & back
  • 20 Upside Down Merkins & run up & back
  • 20 Lunges & run up & back
  • 20 Carolina DryDocks & run up & back
  • 20 Flutter Kicks & run up & back
  • 20 Laying Side Straddle Hops & run up & back

MARY:

  • Imperial Walkers X 20
  • Pickle Pounders X 20

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

12 Men in attendance

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

I love quotes and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has so many powerful messages (listed below). After we talked about his belief in peaceful protests, I shared that Dr. King was also known to be a womanizer. I feel that didn’t negate all of his great work but shows that we are human and all sin and have character flaws. None of us want to be judged solely on the worst things we’ve ever done. Fortunately, God loves us and will forgive us if we repent.

  • Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
  • Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
  • The time is always right to do what is right.
  • Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
  • Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?
  • We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
  • Sign Up To Q/VQ
  • Blood Drive at Lakeshore on the 29th – 5 spots left
  • CSAUP on the 30th at the Asylum