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A Cold Day in Uno

THE SCENE: 28 degrees of F3 bliss.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 20

Cherry Pickers x 10

LBAC x 10 (forwards and backwards)

Iron inchworm of Death – Pax lined up head to toe with CMUs and bearcrawled the prescribed distance while dragging their blocks.
THA-THANG:
Your workout destination was determined by the lovely color of the Uno card of your choice.

  • Blue – mosey to the bottom of the troll bridge and perform the number of blockees on the card.
  • Yellow – mosey to the short apex and do the number of thrusters on the card.
  • Red – mosey to the stairwell with your CMU and do however many rounds indicated by the card.
  • Green – stay on the grinder and murder bunny to the other set of cones. When you reach the cones, do the number of Big Boys on the card.
  • Penalty cards were as follows:
    • Draw 2 – go to the color prescribed and to 20 of the exercise.
    • Skip – go to the color location and do 10 of the exercise. Skip with your CMU back.
    • Reverse – go to the location from the color of the card, and do 10 plank jacks on your block.
    • Wild – go to the short apex, do 10 curls, then murder bunny the path back to the stairs.
    • Draw 4 wild – go to the troll bridge and do 40 grave diggers.

MARY:
Flutterkicks and Hello Dollys for time.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Philippians 1:27-30 – ”

  • 27 Only vlet your manner of life be wworthy8 of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you xthat you are standing firm in one spirit, with yone mind zstriving side by side for the faith of the gospel, 28 and not frightened in anything by your opponents. This is aa clear sign to them of their destruction, but bof your salvation, and that from God. 29 For cit has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also bsuffer for his sake, 30 engaged in the same dconflict that eyou saw I had and now hear that I still have.”
  • It seems like whenever I give the devo, I am always talking about suffering, and so I did again. The point of reading the above verses is that not all suffering is bad. When we approach some of the best things in life, we find that they are difficult. It doesn’t matter if it is F3, marriage, parenting, or just trying to live out your faith. In one of my favorite shows called Yellowstone (I know, I’m terrible), a class A screwup is trying to learn how to be a cowboy on the Dutton Ranch. He makes a comment to an older cowboy that was something like this, “I’m not sure I’m cut out for this.” He said this because of the difficulty he was facing. He was learning how to suffer well. The older cowboy responded, “It’s not something people are cut out for. This is something that is cut into you.” Sure we might face difficult moments, but the greatest things life are not easy. It is a privilege to suffer sometimes, indeed most of the time if we do it in such a way that honors Christ. God bless you men.

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

The Very Nice List

THE SCENE: Spring in December. Mid 60s. Very windy.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 SSH, 10 tempo merkins, 10 tempo squats, 5 arm circles both ways, warm up lap.
THA-THANG:
We were going to go to church parking lot when, lo and behold, there was a Christmas note slipped into my CMU and it said that Santa 🎅  had left us a gift under the tree! So we ran to Crumpit to see what might be there.

We found the gift, opened it, and there was a brand new deck of cards and another note! How exciting! The note had the following details.

Nice List

  • ♦️ burpees
  • ❤ original burpees with a tuck jump
  • ♣️ Mr spectaculars
  • ♠️ blockees
  • 1-4 = Trips up the hill
  • Face = 10
  • Ace = 20

So we drew cards for around 50 min and had so much fun!
MARY:
20 box cutters, 20 scissors, merkin block pull through for time (rearrange the presents under the tree, took a lot of tries because no Ms were there for guidance lol)
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 HIMs and 1 2.0 for a total of 9 PAX! Good job guys!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Got a lot of flack recently for not doing the Santa thing with my kids. I’m not against other folks doing it and teach my kids to be respectful of this big, fun “game” everyone plays with their kids each year. However, like many other aspects of Christmas, these things really lose their meaning and significance when pulled apart from the crazy, reality bending truth of the fact that we are celebrating the incarnation of the most powerful diety we’ve ever known! This separation of the spiritual from our everyday stuff is not true! God made Himself man. The significance of this is astounding when you really meditate on it. For me, this significance was highlighted when a friend and I examined my recent moral failing using Jeff Vanderstelt’s fruit to root exercise. At the end of it, I realized at the root of my sin was a false belief and denial of the incarnation. I had tried to pull out the spiritual significance of giving into my fleshly desires. At least, that is how my false belief had manifested itself in that moment of weakness. So, I’m not saying to get rid of Santa. If anything, I’m trying to enhance that fun “game” by getting it back into the larger and more significant context of Christ truly coming to be with us.
MOLESKIN:
N/A
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Dec 18 ugly Christmas sweater walk about.

Look Forward

THE SCENE: 30 degree F, partly cloudy skies.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH, Windmills, Overhead claps, Skip the length of the Grinder, Bernie back.
THA-THANG:

4 – 8 – 12 – 16

Mosey (a real short one) to the start of the trail with a CMU.  Count off (one through nine) to determine starting order.  Perform suicide run involving the next four light poles.  4 reps at Pole 1, 8 reps at Pole 2, 12 reps at Pole 3, and 16 reps at Pole 4.  Runner 1 starts and the rest of the PAX begin the CMU exercise at the starting point.  When runner 1 gets to Pole 1 he yells “go” and runner 2 starts.  The remaining PAX continue the CMU exercise until their time to start the suicide run.  Runners completing the suicide run continue to perform the CMU exercise until all runners return to the start.  Continue until all 9 circuits are completed or recover is called.

Exercise at Start        Exercise at Poles

                                        1 to 4

  1. Bent Rows                Bobby Hurleys
  2. Curls                        WWII’s
  3. Swings                     Merkins
  4. Lawn Mowers            Iron Mikes
  5. Thrusters                  Flutter Kicks
  6. Upright Rows            Dry Docks
  7. Triceps Ext                Squats
  8. On the Shelf              Box Cutters
  9. Floor Press                 Burpees

Recover was called during circuit 7.

MARY:
Ab work included in the 9 circuits.  No time for a special session.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 HIM’s
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
January 6th is a special day in the life of Christ and is known as Epiphany.  It is a special day in my life as it is the day I met my future wife on a blind date – in a month, it will be 49 years ago.  It is very special day even though we didn’t see each other for almost 6 months after that epiphany. This got me to thinking about how things have a way of working out.  I don’t believe in coincidence – to me it is divine, pre-destined.  Thinking about the past, I sometimes catch myself wanting a previous outcome to be different.  If only this or that; if only I would have done or not done this or that.  But I don’t do that much anymore.  It is because of the past that I am where I am now.  It is because of my past (with all of my experiences and actions) and the past of those I cherish (with all of their experiences and actions) that I am here and now, and able to enjoy the many blessings of being surrounded with a spouse, family, and friends that bring so much joy.  The future is built upon the past and there is so much to look forward to.

MOLESKIN:
Prayers for healing of Genevieve (Drifter’s daughter) from her fever.  Prayers for Hotsquat’s Uncle Freddie as he battles Stage 3 prostate cancer.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Breakfast at Drifter’s December 11th following beatdown.

All I Want for Christmas Walkabout on December 18th.  Sign up on Slack.

Cardi-O-Quads

THE SCENE: Low 50s
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Warm up Lap
  • Windmills IC x7
  • Cherry Pickers IC x7
  • Side Straddle Hops IC Like 13ish or something…Q got sidetracked
  • The Rockettes IC Until the Group Got Uncomfortable … Woodshack gone missing again 🙁
  • Practice Round Tha-Thang Togheter

THA-THANG:

  • Start with Froggie Hopps and work your way through exercises ending with stair runs. Each round will increase the rep count by (2) at each exercise with the stair runs decreasing by 1 each round.

Round 1:

  • (2) Froggie Hopps
  • (2) Crucible Merkins
  • (2) Big Boys
    • Suicide Run
  • (2) Burpees
    • Suicide Run
  • (2) Jump Squats
  • (2) Peter Parkers
    • Run back to top
  • (10) Stair Runs

Round 2:

  • (4) Froggie Hopps
  • (4) Crucible Merkins
  • (4) Big Boys
    • Suicide Run
  • (4) Burpees
    • Suicide Run
  • (4) Jump Squats
  • (4) Peter Parkers
    • Run back to top
  • (9) Stair Runs

Continue With Goal of 10 Rounds
Lead Pax Completed 6 Rounds
Click Here for Beatdown Image

MARY:
1 Minute 30 Seconds of Variation Planks

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
7 Pax Found Themselves in the Middle of a Mouth Breather…or at least I did!

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Encourage the young men to be self-controlled. In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.
Titus 2:6-8
MOLESKIN:
Encourage the men to be and or remain consistent. It’s not easy, and its going to get hard; cold. But life is hard, and people are cold…put yourself at a higher standard, expect more from yourself and be an example to younger men and youth of the next generations to come.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Breakfast at Drifters is back and on track! 12/11/2021. Rated Best Breakfast in Blount County 2019
All I Want for Christmas Ugly Sweater Beer Tour 12/18/2021. Find those babysitters and bring the M for some good ol 2nd F!

Hangman Trivium Edition

THE SCENE: 30 and very little wind. Cold enough for pants, but you could get by without once you got moving.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 SSH, 10 IC Merkins, 10 Imp Squat Walkers, 10 Peter Parkers, and a warmup lap (butt kicks, high knees, side shuffle, lunge stretch, jog, sprint)

THA-THANG:
We played Hangman. A correct guessed letter gave us 4 Mary Katherines. An incorrect guess gave us 10 Merkins, 10 box jumps, and 10 LBCs. If we hung the man, we got 20 burpees.

The words were:

Logic – the art of reasoning well in the search after truth and the communication of it to others

Syllogism – an argument stated at full length and in its regular form

Sophism – a fallacious argument, especially one used deliberately to deceive

MARY:
Bearway to Heaven. 7 cones and a base line. Bear crawl to the first cone, one beast merkin. Bear crawl to the first and second cones, 1 then 2 beast merkings. 1st, 2nd, and then 3rd cones, 1, 2, and 3 merkins. And so on to 7. 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5 PAX
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Assigning a false consequence or “Slippery Slope” Sophism.

The “slippery slope” argument … says that, given the danger of going down the regulatory road, it is safer never to begin. But the slippery slope argument is another one of those exercises in abstract reasoning that imagines a worse-case scenario every time because nothing fills up its landscape but its own assumptions. That is, the slippery slope argument assumes that there is nothing in place, no underbrush, to stop the slide; but in any complexly organized society there will always be countervalues to invoke and invested person to invoke them. Slippery slope trajectories are inevitable only in the head, where you can slide from A to B to Z with nothing to retard the acceleration of the logic. In the real world, however, the step even from A to B will always [or may very likely] meet with resistance of all kinds from person differently positioned, and, as a matter of fact, the chances of ever getting to Z are [or may be] next to nothing. Somewhere along the route some asserted interest will stop the slide, and a line will be drawn beyond which regulators will be prevented from going, at least for a time, until new pressures and new resistances provoke a new round of debates, at the end of which still another line will be provisionally drawn.

Stanly Fish, There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It’s a Good Thing, Too (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), 130

MOLESKIN:
I think it is important of us to be such men as we can spot fallacious arguments and put a stop to them sooner rather than later. To be well rooted “underbrush” and so be anchor points for our society. We do that by sharpening our minds, but more importantly by deepening our reliance on God and his promises.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Dec 11 – Breakfast at Drifter’s
Dec 18 – Ugly Christmas Sweater Brew Ruck