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Feeling Lucky at Shamrock

THE SCENE:   30 and clear
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Nah, nobody new. 
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH
  • Moroccan nightclub
  • phelps
  • RFTS / LIH
  • Cobra / Up dog
  • Tempo merkin
  • Mountain climbers
  • Mosey

THA THANG:

  • Starting at one side of the parking lot, bear crawl to the first light, 30 merkins, mosey to the end
  • Plank.  3…2…1… sprint back to where we started!
  • bear crawl to the second light, 20 merkins, mosey to the end
  • Plank.  3…2…1… sprint back to where we started!
  • bear crawl to the end, 10 merkins

Galway hookers

Mosey to the CMU pile and grab your favorite;

Break into two teams and spread out ~100 ft.  In between the teams are 14 cones – half are standing up and half are laying down.  Two teams race each other.  One team is trying to knock all the cones down, the other team is trying to stand all the cones up.  Individuals pull a card, do the exercise, then sprint to the cone and knock one down or stand one up.  Continue until all cards are used.  Exercises included;

  • 30 CMU Curls
  • 15 Heavy Freddy (4-ct)
  • Single arm row, 10 each
  • 15 Heel taps
  • 16 Lunges
  • 20 heavy LBCs
  • Uneven Merkins 10 each side
  • 10 BBS + Press
  • 30 Calf Raises
  • 15 Heavy American Hammer (4-ct)
  • 20 Alpos
  • 20 Overhead Squats
  • 20 Good mornings
  • 25 Shoulder press
  • 20 CMU Swings
  • 25 Squats
  • 25 Tri extension
  • 10 Burpee Jumpovers
  • Single arm Shoulder press 10 each side
  • 5 Blockees
  • 20 Wide Derkins

 

Feeling lucky?  Circle up.  Perform exercise one, then roll a die.  If we roll a “1” – move on to exercise 2.  If we don’t roll a “1” – do exercise 1 again and roll – repeat until we roll a 1.  Go through the full list – rolling for 1, then 2, then 3…etc.  Exercises were;

  1. 10 Derkins
  2. 10 Squats
  3. 10 Heavy Freddy
  4. 10 Curls
  5. 10 Triceps
  6. 10 Thrusters

 

MARY:

Circle up.  Pax choice.

  • Angel crunches
  • BBS
  • SSH
  • Hello dolly

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Me and 12 fine men of the Shamrock 

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM: 

F3 is more than a workout.  If you are really investing yourself and opening yourself up to your PAX, then you are building deep and meaningful friendships that will sustain you through good times and bad.  It is such a unique and special thing, and I don’t know of a better group of men out there.

How do you invest yourself in deeper, intentional friendships?

  • Consistency – it’s not just about showing up when you need to be shored up.
  • Contributing – You don’t take and take and take.  In fact, you expect and strive to give more than you take from this group.  You expect to invest more than you’ll have returned.
  • Candidness (outward) – Have the courage to speak candidly to a friend who is falling short of a high standard.  Talk straight to the man who is acting foolishly, who is harming himself and others around him, and who is temporarily blind, ignorant, or uncaring of their foolishness.
  • Candidness (inward) – Transparency / vulnerability. In order for you to have any credibility whatsoever to speak candidly to a hurting friend, you must first consistently be opening your own heart to him.  You must be candid about your own struggles, fears, insecurities, shortcomings, dreams.  Only then have you earned to right to speak truth to him about his struggles.

Romans 12:10
“Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.”

 

MOLESKIN:

Man, it was good to be in the gloom with you men – thanks for having me!

Prayers for Eddie, Phil, and Curveball’s BIL

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Camping trip – April 1-3

Hiking Devil’s Racetrack – April 2, 1:00 PM

CSAUP – May 6th (evening)

Thinking what is right

THE SCENE: Insert info about the weather, etc.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Mossy to the bathhouse and back to the AO

 

THA-THANG:
Tabata workout -ish like.

10 second rest and 50 seconds on

  • bulgarian split squats
  • merkins
  • shoulder taps
  • v-ups
  • BBS
  • jump squats
  • flutter kicks
  • step ups
  • 4 sets

MARY:
7’s 6 step ups and one pull up at the bath house and repeat

 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Phillipians 4:8-9 – remember 

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Handing the flag over on Good Friday, be there!

Monday @ The Equalizer: 3-21-22

THE SCENE: Chilly but not freezing
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: indeed
WARM-O-RAMA:
Feet apart – stretch to the middle, then right, then left.  Grady Corn IC x 5.  Imperial Walker IC x 5.  Tempo Merkin IC x 5.  Down Dog 20 count.  Neck Rolls x 5 each way.  Tempo Squat IC x 5.  Mosey to the Smokehouse, grab a CMU, and position yourself on the baseline of the bball court.
THA-THANG:
Ab Circuit – 30 seconds of work; 15 seconds of rest; 4 sets of each exercise; 40 seconds between exercises to run to the opposite end of the court and back before beginning again.

1 – Elbow Plank

2 – Flutter Kick

3 – Freddie Mercury (slow Fred –> foot goes all the way back to the ground between reps for full range of motion through the hip flexor and lower abs)

4 – Dead Bug a.k.a “X-Factors”

CMU Circuit – 20 seconds of work; 10 seconds of rest; 6 sets of each exercise; 40 seconds between exercises to run to the opposite end of the court and back before beginning again.

1 – Curls

2 – Goblet Squat

3 – Overhead Press

4 – Split Squat 3/3 (weighted with back foot on the ground, or un-weighted ‘Bulgarian’ with rear foot on a CMU standing vertical)

5 – Hip to Halo (CMU goes from one hip, across the chest to the opposite shoulder, around the head, and down to the other hip.  Next rep is in reverse of that)

6 – ‘Kettlebell’ swings

MARY:

Held plank for a short time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 present and accounted for
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Don’t take for granted that Christ has called you to follow him.  Think of how powerful of a moment it must have been when Matthew sat down to recount the time that Christ called him, and stood up for him against the haters (Pharisees).
MOLESKIN:
Matthew 9:9-13 and Hosea 6:6
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Equalizer shovel-flag will be handed off on [Good] Friday April 15th.  Brother Ribbed will be taking over as AOQ, so you’ll want to be there!

Control the Controllables

THE SCENE: The fakest fake gloom possible
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER DONE
WARM-O-RAMA:
32 SSH to celebrate the Vols win, cherry pickers, this and that, rockettes, and stretch to get ready to run.
THA-THANG:

  • BB with crouching tiger merkins and inchworm-merkin-squat
  • BB with Apollo Onos and American Hammers / V-sit OH claps
  • Bear Crawl fun!
  • BB with Criss-Cross Squats and Lunges
  • BB with Butterfly Big Boys and Sprints
  • BB up with some Burpee action

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
A dozen HIMs getting better
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Things at work have gotten chippy.  My office works with 100+ units and we’re always the end of the line, so when others upstream don’t do their part, it’s our problem to fix.  When other’s don’t pull their weight, we have to make up the slack.  With that, resentment can build and things that shouldn’t be said get said.  It’s helpful to remember the wisdom to “control the controllables”.  Attitude.  Action.  Effort.  I can choose to let things upset me, or choose to keep a positive outlook.  I can choose to participate in the negativity, or choose more positive actions.  I can choose to lower my quality of work, or I can choose to perform at my highest level.

You can’t control much of anything that goes on around you.  But, you can control your Attitude, Action, and Effort.

Circumspect Circumferences on Pi Day

THE SCENE: It was a snowless and SSH-less morning… (unless you count snow angels, thanks Mermaid!/s)
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER – Administered
WARM-O-RAMA:
10 x Overhead Clap IC
9 x Squat IC
8 x BBS IC
7 x LBACF & LBACR IC
6 x Lunges Fwd/Back OYO
5 x Flutter kicks IC
4 x Tempo Merkins IC
3 x Squat Jumps OYO
2 x V-ups OYO
1 x Burpee OYO

THA-THANG:
Falling Indian run to pull-up bars – squats to the 6.

At the pull-up bars: 5 pull-ups each x 3 rounds. Between pull-up reps:
5 Burpees
10 Merkins
20 Flutter Kicks
30 LBC’s
If you finish these / we have enough PAX to finish, you get to rest!

Mosey to the CMU pile.

CMU workout: 3.1415 not repeating
Round 1
3 Blockees
14 Goblet Squats
15 Presses
Leg Lefts til the 6

Round 2
3 Thrusters
14 Incline Merkins
15 Skull Crushers
V-ups til the 6

Round 3
3 CMU Squat Jumps
14 Swings
15 CMU Pickle Pointers (Glute Bridges)
Box cutters til the 6
Put your blocks away

Route 66
Burpees + lunge between parking spaces
BBS til the six (this didn’t happen but YHC did finish all 66 burpees!)

Mosey to the #shovelflag – Stop at the Rock to do Monkey Humpers then Fellowship Mosey (S/O to Ribbed) the rest of the way there.

MARY: (I’ll fill these in as I remember – but basically lots of core work was done at the end)
Dealer’s Choice (core only).
Mermaid – Snow Angels
Honeydew –
Curveball –
Dumpster Dive – Eye contact alternating pickle pounders & pickle pointers 10 ea
Baby Boomer – Leg Lifts
Pool Boy – Freddie Mercury x 15 IC
Mermaid –
Honeydew – Hello Dolly x 15 IC
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
6 for Dumpster Dive’s birthday! (oh and Pi day too)

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Pie, who doesn’t like it?! Well some people. But today’s more of a pun than anything else.

Pi & Circumferences have to do with circles. I want to talk about another word today:
Circumspect – watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent
Think about what is happening around you. A classic example of this is from “The Bourne Identity” (released almost 20 years ago!)
Jason Bourne: Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports and a gun? Who has a bank account number in their hip? I come in here, and the first thing I’m doing is I’m catching the sightlines and looking for an exit.

Marie: I see the exit sign, too. I’m not worried. I mean, you were shot. People do all kinds of weird and amazing stuff when they are scared.

Jason Bourne: I can tell you the license plate numbers of all six cars outside. I can tell you that our waitress is left-handed and the guy sitting up at the counter weighs two hundred fifteen pounds and knows how to handle himself. I know the best place to look for a gun is the cab or the gray truck outside, and at this altitude, I can run flat out for a half mile before my hands start shaking. Now why would I know that? How can I know that and not know who I am?”

Properly assessing where we are in life can help us move forward. Jason Bourne was completely disoriented in not knowing who he was and yet he was very circumspect about what was happening around him.

We all can be like this too. We don’t acknowledge who we are, where we are, etc. and we end up wanting to go into fantasy land. Me too. I’ve had lots of desires that are now kind of starting to be fulfilled lately- and a new (to me) house is a big one. There are other things, things I have to work for and may receive from God’s good hand, but for me to walk circumspectly, that takes more than just guys at F3 watching my 6. It means putting to death the temptation to do xyz (insert your temptations here).

The Bible gives us a warning to consider today as Pi-day to walk circumspectly- from Ephesians 5:15-20 (KJV):
15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Consider these things- how are you walking circumspectly? Are you just going in circle after circle, or are you casting a vision for what things are to come as you think about the world going on around you? When you walk circumspectly, you’ll enjoy some pie. or pi!

MOLESKIN:
First time ‘bringing it in’ in a looong time today. Good stuff. Prayed for Steve, Grayson, & Bruce.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Convergence at JUCO July 2!