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Shamrock – Just 10 more merkins

June 10, 2021 Anchorman

THE SCENE: Muggy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Tie Fighters x10 both directions

Side Straddle hop (IC) 4 CT x 20

Cherry Pickers 5

10 Merkins

Richard Simmons butt blasters

10 Merkins

THA-THANG:

Mosey to parking lot

Battle buddy

1 man runs to pull up bars to complete up to 10 then run back to partner who is doing BBS (If rain wall squats / 10 BBS)

Go until each person completes 3 rounds

To the CMU pile

1 man does flutter kicks while the other does 25 bench press – switch / 4 rounds for a total of 100 reps per person

Then…

1 man does calf raises while the other does 25 curls – switch / 4 rounds for a total of 100 reps per person

After this we ran all around campus stopping for 10 merkins about 8-10 times.

MARY:

Merkins, Monkey Humpers and Snow Angels

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
13 including 1 FNG Chicken Hawk

Finger Food, Nature Boy, Osteen, Dumpster Dive, Tailhook, Jitters, Mermaid, Curveball, Waxjob, Chicken Hawk, Betty, Pickle Lock, Anchorman
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Continuing what CheatSheet talked about last week…

Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. Live like today is the 1st day and the last day of your life. – Chase the Lion

Why is it so tempting to control our own lives? We are told to worry about money, our status, success, our retirement. I think about when I’m on my death bed, will I be pleased with how comfortable I made myself and my family in life. Or will I regret not taking more chances? Will I regret not giving up more of my time and resources for others. Jesus demonstrated pouring out his life for us. I think he is the ultimate example of chasing the lion.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Learning more about Dolphins & Daffodils

June 9, 2021 5K

THE SCENE: Very nice
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH

Crunchy Frog

Tempo Squat

Tempo Merkin

Freddy Mercuries

Windmill

THA-THANG:

Mosey to the Courtyard, picking up a CMU baby along the way – making sure it didn’t touch the ground the entire workout and passed around to everybody to love on it.

4 Corners to some Tunes

First Round 10, 20, 30, and 40 Merkins

Second Round 10, 20, 30, and 40 4-count Mountain Climbers

Third Round 10, 20, 30, and 40 Monkey Humpers

Fourth Round 10, 20, 30, and 40 LBCs

Fifth Round 10, 20, 30 flutter kicks (time)

Periodically taking a break and doing squats during “Thunder” by Imagine Dragon

MARY:

Hello Dolly

Big Boys

MOLESKIN:

Part 2 of Missionality in the life of the High Impact Man

Missionality is Service in the High Impact Zone. To Live Right, a HIM must exert the majority of his efforts to Serve within his personal HIZ, the boundaries of which are defined by his Mission.

Mission is the course of action taken to achieve an articulated Purpose. The course of action is comprised of the individual Tasks the HIM undertakes to bring his Purpose into fruition. These Tasks are not random, but are the outgrowth of the Skills for which he is most suited, the things that he does with the most ease and familiarity and constantly improves through Practice.

Building on Kickflip’s message about the Dolphin, The Daffodil represents the people-category that a man is born to Serve with his Dolphin. Like the Dolphin, a man’s Daffodil is a matter of hard-wiring. There are men who continue to coach soccer even after their kids have stopped playing. It took me awhile, but my Daffodil is engaging, collaborating, and helping veterans in their post-military career. Each one of us has both a Dolphin ability and Daffodil passion. The HIM loves all of mankind equally, except for his Daffodil. He loves his Daffodil more, because that is who he was born to Serve.

Part 3 on Friday!

Endeavor Exicon

May 26, 2021 Hoopty

THE SCENE: High 50’s/Low 60″s, comfortable
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH, Rockette’s, Deep squats, Mountain climbers, Alternating mountain climbers, Plank jax, Baby arm circles, Reverse baby arm circles, Slow neck rolls
THA-THANG:
Diving into the rolodex of the F3 Exicon. Q named off a “deep cut” exercise found in the F3 exicon and called out a PAX to demonstrate the exercise. If the PAX performed it correctly, they took the Q for that exercise and called out the number of reps. If performed incorrectly, the original Q led the correct iteration of said exercise for a certain number of reps. Fun was had by most!

The following exercises were attempted w/ a side of laughter (in no particular order, see Exicon for descriptions):

Air Drama
Apple Turnover (YUM!)
Alphabet (or ABCs)
Australian Snow Angels
Bobby Hurley
Booyah! Merkin (air fist pound, instead of shoulder tap)
Captain Morgan
Escalator (did not perform, time constraint)
Goofball
Hatching Butterfly
Howling Monkeys (a favorite)
Little Mermaid
Merkin Jax
Jumping Bean Squats
Pretzel Stick
Prime Time Merkin
Protractor
Rockette Hillbillies
Vacuum Cleaners (DNP, time constraint)
Welsh Dragons (DNP, time constraint)
Zebra Butt-Kicks

MARY:
DNP
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
16 PAX + 1 FNG (name TBD, previously Captain Obvious but need to re-name due to duplicate in F3 Knoxville)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Please check out WiRE Strength in Numbers: Men Are Waiting Devotional series through the Bible app.

With Whom Do You Gather? If we are followers of Jesus, we must take the time to gather with other brothers in Christ. God designed the Church this way for the Holy Spirit to flow from one to another in these instances. Isolation is not the answer. “For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up.” Ecclesiastes 4:10 “You see, God the Holy Spirit dwells within each follower of Jesus.” John 14:17

Take the time to connect with a FNG. The brotherhood of Christ is a powerful force. We never know how a kind word, working out with someone for the first time in a long time, battling through sweat in the gloom etc. can inspire and affect a fellow brother in Christ!

MOLESKIN:
Prayers for F3 Nation, Cheatsheet’s family, racism/division, Jinxy’s family, Pom-pom’s marriage/honeymoon, all our F3 brother’s!

Thanks F3 Dortmund

May 20, 2021 Curveball

THE SCENE:

Clear	Temperature	Humidity	Feels like	Wind Speed	Wind Direction
Clear	60 ℉	93%	60 ℉	3.1 mi/h	ENE

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER.
I am not a professional. The following workout created using a sampling of Thangs recently done at F3 Dortmund.

WARM-O-RAMA:

20 – SSH
10 – Tie Fighters 10 forward 10 backward.
10 – Tempo Merkins
3 – Cherry Pickers

THA-THANG:
Mosey to football field.
11’s. Start at goal line. To the 30 yard line. Burpees at both stations. So, 110 burpees. (Murphy’s Law @F3Dortmund offered this up.)

I felt like many of the BB from Dortmund included Ring of Fire.
7 points. 1 minute at each. 15 seconds rest in between.
#1 – Shuttle run.
#2 – LBCs
#3 – Merkins
#4 – Bleachers/Stair Loops
#5 – Dips
#6 – Jump Squats
#7 – Plank

Two circuits.

MARY:
6 Minutes of Ab work. Including BBS, Heal Taps, LBCs, and Flutter Kicks.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
14 men.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

God has given us the Holy Spirit to help us along our paths. So long as what we are doing, or the path we are trying to explore is not in violation of the small still interior voice, we are probably alright. If the action or considered action causes us any sort of distress, it is most likely not in accordance with God’s plans for us.

MOLESKIN:
For the sick and elderly. For our brothers battling illness and their wives.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Son of a Preacher Man

April 24, 2021 Waffle House

THE SCENE: Y’all knew it was going to be cold and wet, and you dragged yourselves out there anyway. Q’s got to up his game on a day like that.
WARM-O-RAMA:
I don’t know anything at all about working out except what I learned from the pax, so SSH (thanks every single Q ever), Cherry Pickers (no thanks to whoever mis-named them), Rockettes, The Junk Science (my humble contribution; you’re welcome), and in honor of the high desert’s very own Preacher, we did The Preacher. Bumped from 10 to 15 after a fittingly profane text from Tucson.
THA-THANG:
A little Route 66 inspired by Lily. The Cloud gave us some Box Baby Boxes, and because there is apparently some unresolved conflict in my life, we visited with my old buddy Jack Webb.

Light rain and a light mosey towards Cardiac but not quite to Cardiac. Picked up some babies by the side of the road and shared them with our buddies. Shout out to Honeydew for carrying the two of us through the Doras.

There comes a time in a man’s life when whatever’s inside has to come out, and Cardiac is built for just such a purpose.

What happens during the Crawdad Comeback is both private and communal; a man experiences his limitations and his freedom; there is running forward and in reverse. It is a time of paradox and, potentially, vomit.

The great Mickey won the final sprint to the AO, and by an embarrassingly wide margin. *Author’s note, he donated the winner’s proceeds to Jumbo, who had wisely saved his energies for his forthcoming 100m breaststroke domination in Kingsport today.

It being the weekend, we cashed out like men, and then we limped away.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering in order that they may have existence.” Leon Bloy, with thanks to John Stone.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
AE soccer game at Regal stadium Thursday. There was a Jinx sighting at Thursday’s board meeting! Word on the street is that High Heels prefers his lake house to sweating with us on Saturdays from now until like October.