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Persevere through frustrations

THE SCENE: A cool 40 something degrees.  Large crowd present due to the Race for the Cure.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Warmed up with a little SSH’s, Cherry Pickers, Over Head Claps, and Tempo Squats
THA-THANG:

Mosey to Sunsphere steps:

  • Bear crawl all the way up stopping at mid point for 10 Merkins and 10 more Merkins at the top.
  • Mosey to Amplitheater: DORA: partner 1 runs up and around seats then switch with other partner.  As a pair, complete 100 Big Boy sit-ups, 100 lunges, 100 Merkins, and 100 smurf jacks.
  • Mosey to field:   Long side, Bernie sanders – Short side, bear crawl.  Mid point on long side do 20 Carolina dry docks and mid point on short side to 20 mt. climbers.  Do at least one round then repeat with 20 squats and 20 flutter kicks.
  • Mosey back to AO for ring of fire: Merkins, American Hammers, squats

MARY:

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
With my son working on his vehicle trying to keep it going as long as possible it gets frustrating when you think you’ve fixed one problem then you notice another problem.  He’s persevering and learning.  In life if we aren’t seeing progress, answered prayers, etc.  Don’t give up, keep pushing, working hard doing the right things.  Eventually we will see progress and we learn a lot on the journey.
MOLESKIN:
Prayed for the guys at the Goliath at the Gorge.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Remember

THE SCENE: Cloudy, 60-ish
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 20 (4 count)

Baby Arm Circles x 15 (4 count) forward and backward

Shoulder Taps x 15 (4 count)

Cherry Pickers x 10 (4 count)

Little of this, little of that
THA-THANG:

  • Mosey to amphitheater for 11’s – Box jumps onto stage, inverted rows at top of seats
  • Ring of Fire on stage – American hammers adding a rep each revolution from 1 to 5
  • Mosey to lower parking lot at edge of park for Doras – 150 merkins and 150 big boys total per duo
  • Mosey back to amphitheater for Ring of Fire – Same as earlier but with squats instead of hammers
  • 11’s again with choice of exercises – Any ab exercise on stage, any chest exercise at top of seats
  • Easy Mosey back to fountains – 10 more merkins + 10 flutterkicks (led and picked by Duggar and Midas)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
7 Total
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Spoke about the use of the term “remember” in Genesis. As a verb the Hebrew word “Zakar” means “to remember”, but as a noun it means “male”. We were made to bear the image of God and to remember Him, but the Old Testament gives a detailed record of Israel’s failure to do so. So just as we remember to set alarms and set out clothes, we should be men who remember God and who we were designed to be
MOLESKIN:
Pray for Drive Thru and his wife as they are trying to conceive and have just begun therapy, Midas for exam grades, and myself and my wife as we try to buy our first home.

Crawl bear up the ladder

THE SCENE: Low 60s again, just having perfect gloom weather
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
3-point squats
BAC Forward
OH Claps
BAC Reverse
SSH
THA-THANG:
Grab keys and mosey out of the pavilion, out of the park and across the street to the parking lot of Fountain City United Methodist Church.  Routine is going down Jacob’s ladder.  Start in the lower parking lot, where you always do 5 BBSUs.  Run up the parking lot until you reach the split, and crawl bear up the storm drain to the upper parking lot.  Once you reach the upper lot, you have 10 eight count bodybuilders, then run out to the sidewalk and back down the hill to the lower lot.
The five BBSUs at the bottom remains the same for every iteration, but you decrease your reps of eight counts at the top.  Rounds 10-6 are eight counts, rounds 5-1 switch to diamond merkins at the top (this felt generous).

Everyone finished mostly at the same time, after which I thought we needed some lower body work.  Has been a while since I’d thrown in leg blasters, so we knocked out a round of that.  All exercises done together in cadence with no rest in between:

  • 20 squats
  • 20 lunges
  • 10 jump squats

I forgot how fun it is to run after doing those.  The plan was to reverse the ladder and do 10-6 with diamond merkins and 5-1 with eight counts, but time was a little short and I wanted to hit the escalator.  So we moseyed around to the parking lot adjacent to the duck pond.  I stole Swanson’s idea for the escalator without running from Tuesday.  Exercises as follows:

  • Imperial walkers (left right one)
  • Hello Dolly (4 count)
  • Alternating shoulder taps (left right one)
  • Crab cakes (left right one)
  • Dips on curb
  • Hand release merkins

Start at 1 rep of each, work down the list and return to the top.  Increase reps each time on the way to 10.  I think we finished 8 before time ran out.

MARY:
Crunches with feet elevated 6″
Flutter kicks
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5 Strong: Filter, Duggar, Manilow, Toucan, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Cap’n had sent a text with the following passage from The Daily Stoic: “When the standards have been set, things are tested and weighed.  And the work of philosophy is just this, to examine and uphold the standards, but the work of a truly good person is in using the standards when they know them.” – Epictetus
To me, one of the standards I need to both set and make sure that I am upholding is making my actions and decisions come from a place of love.  That doesn’t mean to always be nice, because as we’ve learned from the Q source you have to be able to tell people the difficult truths in life.  However, sugarcoating a problem or ignoring it also is not upholding the standard.  I need to make sure my actions are always based in love and to leave no doubt that that is the case.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Can drive for Second Harvest and Brolympics on November 9.

Super 21

THE SCENE: Don’t remember, Forgot to Post, too long ago. It was dark, I know that.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH, BAC, Tempo Squats, Tempo Merkins, Smurf Jacks
THA-THANG:
Super 21 – Look it up, its the site – we did it with Merkins and BBS. We did 21 Squats at #1-10, 21 Man Climbers at #11-16, and American Hammers at #17-21.

AND THEN…

We did partner sets of 100 of Merkins, LBC, and Squats

MARY:
Flutter Kicks

Pax in a Box

THE SCENE: Perfect! Clear and 62*
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH X 20, Tempo Squats x 10, Tempo Merkins x10
THA-THANG:

  • Mosey to Church w weight- 20 overhead presses
  • Mark out imaginary 4ft Box for 11’s w Burpees/BBS, 7’s w Curls/Lunges, 7’s w Triceps/Squats,
  • Run two Laps around parking lot
  • Mosey to Street- using stripes on street Lunge to stripe do 3 Merkins at every stripe, bear crawl up hill w 3 Merkins at every stripe to top, bear crawl back down hill
  • Mosey w weight to trailer and drop weight
  • Mosey to Church parking lot Circle up for Ring of Fire on your six. Pass jagged pills and do American Hammer while holding Boat position. Pass jagged pills while holding leg lifted position and doing over head Arm extensions w pills.

MARY:
American Hammer, Tempo Hello dollys X 10 Tempo Box Cutter’s x 15 Tempo BBS x 10
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
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CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Never under estimate the EH-Emotional/Eternal Headlock. It takes persistence to get some guys out. If it wasn’t for High Heels staying on me I wouldn’t be here. Keep up the EHing it’s how we grow!
MOLESKIN:
Extra prayer goes out to Half Caff and Veggie with Jobs, Life, and family.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Keep up the good work with Iron Pax Challenge, get ready for Brolympics