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The cure for loneliness, 4/28/2018

THE SCENE: Sunny and cool but warming.  The dew twinkling on the new green grass.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 50, Tie-Fighters, Some plank streches.  Tempo merks…

3 man Dora with  CMU 150 curls/rows/press with the other two doing 5 burps at the opposite side of lot.
THA-THANG:

Pulling a log together around the Asylum. Volunteers pull the log, others mosey.  Starting an escalator (1; 1&2; 1&2&3 to 5 and then back down.  Pull log a little farther each stop.

  1. 5 burpees,
  2. 10 BBS
  3. Tempo squats
  4. CDD
  5. SSH
  • During the above we stopped at the foot of Everest and did some bear crawl up with reps of mountain climbers, plank jacks, CCDs, Flutter kicks and the back to the log.

MARY:
Hello dolly’s and captian Thors, ATM’s and stop..
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
21 strong with one FNG, Alex (Retreat)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Talked about how endemic loneliness is in middle aged men and how a group like F3 can be the cure.

Quote from media report on health risk of low social relationships.

An analysis of nearly 150 studies has found that people with strong social relationships had about a 50 percent lower mortality risk than those with weaker ties. Julianne Holt-Lunstad and her co-authors concluded that those with weaker social relationships had a greater risk of death than people who were physically inactive or obese. Let me put that another way. Spending time building and nurturing your friendships might be just as important to your health as eating right and exercising.

I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. – John 10:10

 

Beautiful Day

THE SCENE: Perfect weather, upper 60’s and sunny.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 Side Straddle Hops, 10 Burpees, 10 Slow Tempo Squats, 10 Arm Swings, Ten Cherry Pickers
THA-THANG:

Mosey to Playground.  All my benches:  Elevens starting with 10 Bench Jumps and 1 Decline Merkin.

Mosey to Outdoor Pavilion Close to Outdoor Chapel. Partner Up.  While one partner runs to light post in nearby parking lot, the other partner does exercises.  Then partners switch up.  Each team will do 100 Big Boys, 100 Decline Merkins and 100 Squats.

Mosey to Parking Lot by Soccer Fields.  There will be bricks piled by one cone.  Partner up again.  One partner will run with bricks to other cone, stop there and do 10 Mini Man Makers, then return.  The other partner will be exercising.  Then partners switch.  These are the exercises:  100 Bicycle Kicks, 100 Flutter Kicks, 100 Squats.

Mosey to grass across street from living quarters on southern side of park.  20 Hello Dollies in Cadence

Mosey to Stop Sign at Southeast Corner of Admin Bldg.  20 American Hammers in Cadence

Mosey to Boulder Pile.  Each man grabs boulder.  We do the following in cadence:  25 Overhead Presses, 25 Curls, 25 Rows, 25 Squats.  Run up Space Station and back to boulder pile.  Rinse and repeat on the exercises with boulders.

Mosey to Stop Sign at Northeast Corner of Admin Bldg.  20 Box Cutters.

Mosey to AO. 

MARY:
10 Table Saws in Cadence
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
17 with 2 FNG’s:  Hangover (Dhiren Zavere) and Contempt (Jonathan Edwards)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I exist.  That one is easy.  I know I exist when I am hurting after an F3 workout.  I know I exist when I have sexual urges, when I am aware of my feelings of happiness, anger, sadness, or love.  My own experiences feel me each day and I am continually aware of myself in them.  With my own inward focus, in my waking, daily routines and sleeping, I am aware that I exist.

God exists.  When I say that, it changes everything.  Henri Nouwen, a Catholic Priest and former teacher at the Notre Dame University, the Yale Divinity School and the Harvard Divinity School states that “as soon as I say ‘God exists’, my existence no longer can remain in the center, because the essence of the knowledge of God reveals my own existence as deriving its total being from his.  That is the true conversion experience.”

When I say God exists, my own life is not center stage.  God is center stage.  God is my creator.  When I say God exists, it behooves me to think of this Creator.  If I am but one creature in God’s creation, why did God create me?  What led to his desiring to create me?  Am I just some fleck that he makes and then throws aside.  Or does he want me to stay close, to listen to him, to talk to him.  If I say God exists it would behoove me to find out more about him, to read his words, to see what others think about this creator.

Henri Nouwen goes on about the implications of saying God exists:  “I suddenly or slowly find my own existence revealed to me and through the knowledge of God.  Then it becomes real for me that I can love myself and my neighbor only because God has loved me first.  . . . Once I ‘know’ God, that is, once I experience his love as the love in which all my human experiences are anchored, I can only desire one thing:  to be in that love.  “Being” anywhere else, then, is shown to be illusory and eventually lethal.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Coffeeteria at Panera!

11 is the magic number

THE SCENE: 47* – perfect weather
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Arm circles forward x11
Arm circles reverse x11
Calf raises x11
Imperial squat walkers x11
SSH x22
THA-THANG:
Mosey over to amphitheater.  PAX line up along the edge of the stage.  Perform exercises with no rest between.

  • Side step ups left leg x11
  • Side step ups right leg x11
  • Box jumps x11

Once complete Al Gore waiting for everyone to finish.  Once everyone is finished perform next set of exercises no rest in between.

  • Derkins x11
  • Dips x11
  • Ranger merkins x11

Once complete plank and wait for everyone to finish.  Once everyone is finished, perform next set no rest between.

  • Side step ups left leg x11
  • Side step ups right leg x11
  • Box jumps x11
  • Derkins x11
  • Dips x11
  • Ranger merkins x11

Once complete Al Gore and wait for everyone to finish.  Once everyone is finished, repeat last round of 6 exercises and run up center steps and around, back to stage and plank waiting for everyone to finish.  PAX plank, alternating between holding at 6″ and up top.  Recover and 11 count.

Mosey over bridge to the base of the Big Ball.  Next exercise is… 11’s on the stairs.  Start with 10 pull ups on the beams of the Big Ball, run up stairs to the top and perform 1 WWII Sit up. Repeat going through the 11s routine, working down in sit ups and up in WWII sit ups.  Jack rabbits perform flutter kicks, penguins, and LBCs waiting for everyone to finish.

Recover and 10 count.  Mosey back to start point for Mary.

MARY:
Only time for box cutters (22)
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
19 strong – Careless, Rousey, Cowbell, Blazer, Anchorman, G6, Kibbles, Singlet, Hang Tight, Petey, Amazon, Threadcount, Downhill, Soup, Bullseye, Zachias, Couger, Crawdad, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Charles Plumb flew 75 combat missions over Vietnam before being hit with a surface to air missile.  Even though he was flying too low and too fast, he survived but was captured and remained a POW for six years.  Years after returning home, he was sitting in an airport and a man came up to him who knew his name and that he flew missions off the USS Kitty Hawk.  Colonel Plumb, kind of amazed, asked the man how he knew that.  The man had been the one to pack his parachute the day he was shot down.

Always remember who is packing your parachute, those that do things for you that you may not think about that end up being huge in your life.
MOLESKIN:
Continue praying for Sam and Brandt.

Circuit City

THE SCENE: 40s, the sky was dry but the ground was wet. But YOGWW
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
I integrated and demonstrated the less familiar exercises in our warm up for any guys who were unfamiliar / newer to F3. So that when they read the paper at each station they knew what to do…

  • Mountain Climbers x10 (4 ct.)
  • Squat Jumps x10
  • Merkins x10
  • Superman Swims x10
  • Burpees x5 (OYO)

THA-THANG:

Get a battle buddy. Set up 5 circuits with cones around the perimeter of the north half of WFP field. Each station had 2 exercises. You and battle buddy did 20 reps of each exercise together. Rinsed and repeat until time is called at 6:00 AM. We all did about 2.5 times through the 5 cicuit.

  • Circuit 1: Mountain Climbers (4 ct.) and Squat Jumps
  • Circuit 2: Dry Docks and Flutter Kicks (4 ct.)
  • Circuit 3: Merkins and Lunges
  • Circuit 4: Supermans and Hello Dollies (4 ct.)
  • Circuit 5: (benches by fountains): Dips and Derkins

Next excercise…

Line up at northern end of WFP field. Battle buddies lined up along the edge of grass. Then they perform the following sequence.

 

  1. Battle Buddy 1 performs 10 BBS while Battle Buddy 2 holds their feet in a plank position.
  2. Battle Buddy 2 switches to alternating between 10 Merkins and 10 Squats while Battle Buddy 1 sprints to the first cone and performs 2 Burpees, sprints back, sprints to second cone and does 4 Burpees, then sprints to where they started.
  3. Switch, Battle Buddy 2 then performs the progression.

Do as many repetitions as you can in 15 minutes.

MARY:
Box Cutters x25
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

“Where is God at work in your life?” a mentor asked me one day. I didn’t know what to say. Oftentimes God is standing in the middle of ourfear, inviting us to run towards it.

Part of being a High Impact Man is rejecting passivity. Oftentimes as men we avoid conflict, shrink back when we are challenged or feel intimidated, or we just check out when we get stressed or feel discouraged. We must choose to reject that natural tendency of passivity and step towards that fear knowing that God will meet us in the middle of it!

Challenge: Where is God inviting you into your fear today?

MOLESKIN:
An excerpt from the book, “Thoughts That Make Your Heart Sing”.

“What Is sin? Sin is trying to get away from God who loves us- it’s wanting to go our own way without him. But the Bible says it’s not like simply wandering off the path and getting lost by mistake. It’s like a horse charging at full speed away from him. We want to get away from God that badly! We are like horses galloping headlong after the things we want.

But God  can stop runaway horses. And lead them gently back.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

April Showers

THE SCENE Cold Wet Rainy and Beautiful
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Side Straddle hop 25X

Tempo Squats

Switch foot x20

High Knees/50% sprint

High Skips/50% sprint

100% sprint
THA-THANG:
Find a battle buddy

Wheel barrel 15 steps on hands/10 derkins/switch until you reach the other side

10 merkins/10 mountain climbers/50% back

Bear crawl/Broad jump/half way switch with partner to the other side

10 merkins/10 mountain climbers/50% back

Man Carry/Fireman Carry/Lunge to halfway and switch.

10 merkins/10 mountain climbers/50% back

Catch the Fox (no one did)

Mosey to the Pavilion.

15 pull ups/15 dips/15 derkins/ Partner side straddle hop until complete and switch

Mosey to playground

15 box jumps/15 dips/15 derkins/Partner big boy sit ups until complete and switch

Mosey to the hill

Partner does merkins/Partner runs to top and does 10 merkins switch until you hit 100

Mosey to the top of cardiac/Partner big boy/ Partner run to bottom and do 10 merkins and switch

Mosey to bottom of cardiac/Hug partner and tell him Jesus loves you.

10 burbees and run to the top and back to AO

Cash out with American hammers and count it off

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
28 men no FNGs
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
We get the opportunity to wake up everyday to die to self, serve others and put others first and you last.  Get comfortable with being uncomfortable.