Dung Beetle – Page 13

Revealing Our Brokenness

January 9, 2021 Lillydipper

THE SCENE: Cloudy, temp about 32 degrees
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 Side Straddle Hops, 10 Mountain Climbers, 10 Windmills, 15 Second Squat, 10 Rockettes, 30 Second Squat, 10 Baby Arm Circles Forward and Backward, 60 Second Squat

THA-THANG:
Mosey to CMU parking lot. Instead of CMUs, each man grabs a pair of bricks which will be along east curb of parking lot. We will Dora. While partner one does exercises listed below with the bricks, the other man runs to other curb, does 10 Rocky Balboa, and runs back to replace partner with the exercises. Here are the exercises with the bricks:

100 Overhead Presses
100 Curls
100 Rows (brick at each side)
100 Triceps (brick on either side of head)
100 Punches (both hands = 1)
100 Wings Up
100 Wings Down
100 Wings Out

Put bricks down. Mosey to Mini Cardiac. We will Bernie to Park Sign then sprint to crosswalk.

Mosey to Stop Sign at Northeast Corner of Admin Bldg. We will stop to do 20 American Hammers.

Mosey to small parking lot below the Coliseum. We will do Doras again. This time, while one partner does exercises, the other runs up stairs, left on Coliseum sidewalk, and down to the driveway to small parking lot to reunite with partner who will then make the same run. These are the exercises the partners will work on:

100 Hello Dollies (4 ct)
100 Squat Jumps
100 Merkins (4 ct)
100 Iron Mikes (both feet = 1)
100 Flutter Kicks (4 ct)

Mosey to parking drive by apartments and soccer fields. We will do 20 Bicycle Kicks.

Mosey to parking lot that is south of playground. 20 Squats.

Mosey to Mini Cardiac. We will, once again Bernie to Park Sign then sprint to AO.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
26 men, no FNGs.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
The Lord is close to all who call on Him, yes, to all who call on Him in truth. Psalm 145:18

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. Psalm 34:18

And it’s no, nay, never
No, nay never no more
Will I play the wild rover
No never no more. — Old Irish Folk Song

I used to belong to a Sunday School class in a church that I formerly went to that had nice, intelligent, and friendly people in it. I found myself missing something in the class, however. What it took me some time to realize was that people weren’t opening up in the class. They freely talked about worshipping God, about helping others, about walking the right kind of life – but they weren’t revealing themselves in the process. They talked about how “people” needed to apply the Bible’s lessons to their lives but not about how those lessons should be applied to their own lives. They weren’t talking about the true challenges they faced in their Christian journey. They weren’t talking about their BROKENNESS. I remember wishing people would talk from their hearts. I remember one woman in the class being more likely to do so. I followed her example one time but no one else in the class did. And, after a time, I figured, “heck, I’m not going to talk about my problems if no one else does.” And so, I withdrew and finally just left the class. Maybe I should have confronted the class. Instead, I found a church where people do freely reveal themselves.

Men, it is important to REVEAL ourselves to God and to others we can trust. We are broken creatures in so many ways. As humans, we mess up! We find ourselves making the same mistakes, sinning in the same ways, despite our promises to ourselves that we will not do the same thing again. I certainly find myself making the same mistakes over and over. It as if sin is inherent in my nature. And, if we believe the Bible, SIN TRULY IS IN OUR INHERENT NATURE. In the Old Irish Folk Song above, the singer proclaims “never no more will I play the wild rover” (i.e. drinking so much that one gets snockered). Yet, the song is one that is sung with the comic knowledge that one absolutely will play the wild rover again, when the hangover is gone and the temptation arises. Despite our best claims to stop the sin within us, we sin again and again. This could be in regards to many different things: pornography, greed, animosity, overuse of power, coveting, prejudice, infidelity, or just plain worrying too much. If we truly look at ourselves, consider every sinful part of ourselves – we are likely to feel great shame and may want to give up on ourselves.

But, we have a great and glorious God. We have a God that actually wants us to reveal that sinful part of ourselves to Him. He wants to know us fully. And what happens to us when we truly reveal ourselves to Him? LOVE happens. Think about what happens here in F3 when a brother reveals his brokenness to the group. Do his brothers turn their backs on Him and run away? Do they smite him? Do they ignore him? I think not. They embrace him. They let him know that they understand. And, as his brother, they see themselves in him. They know that they too have messed up, have been broken. When God sees us revealing ourselves to one another, He Smiles from Above. He celebrates. He say, “Now that is what I want my children to do!” Because through that revealing, we heal. We get the feedback of love from our fellow man and from God. And, it when we are strengthened by love, that is when we can experience True Change.

MOLESKIN:
Prayers to end racism and for our country to be more united. Prayers for wife of Ribbed, praise for healing of Choir Boy’s wife, praise for Cap’n Crunch’s 25 wedding anniversary, prayers for Cheatsheet in the care of his mother and daughter, prayers for Veggie’s safe return back to college in the state of Michigan.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP from 6:30 am to 9 am at Asylum on Saturday, January 30.

Hardship

December 12, 2020 Lillydipper

THE SCENE: Insert info about the weather, etc.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 Side-Straddle-Hops. 5 Burpees. 10 Windmills. 4 Burpees. 10 Rockettes. 3 Burpees. 10 Little Baby Arm Circles Forward. 2 Burpees. 10 Little Baby Arm Circles Backwards. 1 Burpee. Little of This and That.
THA-THANG:
Mosey to Caribbean. We will run around Caribbean stopping at cones to do the exercises listed. We will then Bernie around and do the same exercises. Next we will Butt Kick around with the exercises. Next, we will High Knees around with the exercises. Finally we will run around again with the exercises. Here are the exercises:

20 Merkins
20 Jump Squats
20 Big Boy Sit-ups
20 Star Jumps
20 Hello Dollies (4 ct).

Pickets Charge to Coliseum.

We will stop to do 20 American Hammers and 20 Flutter Kicks. Next, we will do two loops around sidewalk that goes by admin bldg. At Coliseum area we do 20 Bench Dips. At steps of Admin Bldg we do 20 Calve Raises.

Gander from the Coliseum at Beautiful Water and Mountains in the distance.

Mosey to parking lot with CMUs. Each man grabs a CMU. We will do the following exercises:

30 Overhead Presses
30 Curls
30 Rows

Next we will split into two teams. There will be two CMUs set up at western end of parking lot. Team members line up. The first member of Team One and Team Two throw frisbees at their particular CMU on the other side of the parking lot. Whoever has the frisbee farthest from their CMU must run with their team to end of parking lot and back, grabbing both frisbees. Then the next team members do the same thing. If Team One always wins they will always be watching while Team 2 is running and vice versa. Hopefully, it will be a fairly even split.

Replace CMUs. Sprint back to AO.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
19 men, no FNGs.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Seeing the Opportunity in Hardship

James 1:2-4

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

We read in Self-Help Books, learn from experts, and hear from the wise among us that hardships help us to grow. And, if we look back on difficulties we have faced in our own lives when we were younger, we can see how life challenges have helped us to grow stronger. If we can remember this principle, “that hardship helps us grow”, we may be able to face our current challenges in a more optimistic way and forego much of the anxiety and angst that can sometimes bewilder us.

So often in the midst of challenges, anxiety can get the best of us. We face fear and may think things like: Why is this happening to me? I don’t have what it takes to do this. I am not strong enough. I wish this would just go away.

I have a patient who is a female in her senior year of high school. She copes with social anxiety, a condition where she gets very anxious in public situations. Yet, she got a job as a hostess at an Aubrey Restaurant. She has liked the job and has found that she has been able to interact well with the customers who come in to eat at the restaurant. I have been so proud of her. Here is a young person who has social anxiety, yet is working in a very public setting where she is seeing new people constantly.

Although she likes the job, she is facing hardships there. The job can be very stressful when the restaurant gets crowded and busy. The waiters and waitresses, who are friendly to my client, can still get harried when too many customers are seated in their area. Also, my patient must face the ire and wrath of customers who have been waiting for a table and get impatient. Who is the frontline person that these impatient customers see? The hostess. So it is my patient who receives their angry comments and complaints. That is difficult for a young teenager to take, especially when she has an anxiety disorder.

But think about what my patient is learning in the face of these challenges. If she can handle these hardships now, think about how much better she will be prepared for challenges she will face in college and as an adult in a profession. Life isn’t always going to be cozy. If she can handle these early challenges then she will be better able to handle the disappointment of customers she serves at future jobs whatever jobs those might be. She will be able to tolerate negative comments of bosses or supervisors and handle the mistakes she will inevitably make as an employee or young professional in the future. The hardship she is facing now, with the corresponding discomfort in the pit of her stomach, is actually building strength in her, making her a higher impact woman. It certainly helped my patient to be able to see this – to think that what is leading to anxiety within her is also helping her to grow.

In the face of hardship, the lesson that the hardship is helping us to grow can be difficult to remember. But, if we can remember that principal, it will help us to face the challenge better. The next time you experience anxiety, think about that. Maybe anxiety isn’t a totally bad thing. Maybe it is a natural response to a challenge that we can learn from. And maybe that anxiety in hardship that we are feeling now will be replaced by the growth we experience from it. As our brother, Tank, would say: Hardship Hill is a mighty fine thing!!

MOLESKIN:
Prayers for those coping with coronavirus; for those dealing with solitude or illness where they don’t have the opportunity to gather with friends like we do in F3; for our country do end racism; praise for Curveball’s wife doing well with her surgery; prayers for Ribbed and his wife as she has surgery this Monday to remove a tumor by her spine – we pray the surgery goes well and that the tumor is benign.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Birthday Triple Q on Saturday, December 26 where the three Q leaders will provide Hot Toddy drinks after the workout!

The Hills Are Alive With The Sounds of F3

November 29, 2020 Pluto

THE SCENE: Nice Day! Chilly at 7:00 am start mid 40s. Clear sky
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

Follow the Covid recommendation’s …. I am worse than any amateur, modify as necessary. We are going to do some hills today.

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH X 15 , Butterfly Stretch ( Coach Dunn’s advice always appreciated), IT Band/Hip band stretch, quad stretch, arm circles, 5 Burpees. ( Pluto has no rhythm so the counting is always off a little )

THA-THANG:

The goal for this workout was to hit each of the primary hills in the Asylum AO. While planning the workout Pluto realized that an appropriate theme was the movie the Sound of Music. At multiple points in the workout the Pax sang the “The Hills are alive with the sound of F3” The singing was high spirited, but not in tune.

Run from AO start to base of Everest. At Everest Base: 20 Beachball Merkins & 20 LBCs
Run up Everest – Al Gore till 6 up then Mosey to Stop sign. At Stop Sign 15 Squats with 5 second hold at bottom. Mosey to bathroom building at base of Picketts Hill.
Run up Pickets Hill with 5 Burpees at each plateau ( 5 Plateaus & 25 burpees if the hard side was chosen) Mosey down to Picnic Tables
Picnic Tables – 15 Picnic Table Pull Ups, 15 Dips, 20 Merkins in parking lot. Rinse & Repeat 2x. Did a few yoga stretches and core at flagpole then mosey between ballfields to base of Cardiac Hill.
Run up Cardiac Hill with 10 Imperial walkers at every second light ( We sang the Hills Are alive at Base and put a headlock on a passing walker )
Mosey to CMUs… 20 Curls, 20 Overheads, 20 rows with CMUs Rinse & Repeat x 2 then mosey to base of Baby Cardiac Hill.
Up & Down Baby Cardiac Hill 3 x with LBCs or Ankle touch core work at base x 20.
Finished together running up final hill to AO start point while singing “Climb Every Mountain”

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
24 Pax got better this fine morning! Pele, Drum Major, Waffle House, Lillydipper, Hot Tub, Hooker, Jumbo, Mickey, G String, Convoy, Choir Boy, Matlock, Dung Beatle, Gilligan, Abacus, Gobbler, Swimmies, High Heels, Crawldad,
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Pluto shared how one of his favorite movies to watch during the Christmas season was the Sound of Music. As we hit the four hills of the Asylum AO this morning the song the Hills are alive with the sound of F3 was an appropriate theme. It is a rare that we do all four of these hills in a workout. Only have time to do so on a 1 hour Saturday. As we finished the workout the song ” Climb Every Mountain” was a closing song and finished the Sound of Music workout theme nicely. Pluto then shared 10 points of Trivia related to the Sound of Music and a tie in to leadership lessons from the Sounds of Music that were in a Forbes Magazine article a few years ago.

Sound of Music Trivia:

The Von Trapps did escape Austria as the Nazis came to power, but they didn’t flee over the Alps, they got on a train to Italy and then traveled to America, where they had a concert tour scheduled. The day after they left, Hitler ordered the Austrian borders shut.

When they left Austria, Baron von Trapp and Maria had already been married for years and had two children of their own, with another on the way.

When the von Trapps came to America they settled in Stowe, Vermont. They opened the Trapp Family Lodge, which is operational to this day.

The Sound of Music was the eighth and final musical written by Rodgers and Hammerstein, but Hammerstein never saw the movie. He died of stomach cancer nine months after the Broadway premiere.

“Edelweiss” was the last song Oscar Hammerstein ever wrote, the production of the movie had to stop for two hours to teach all of the extras the words to the song for that scene.

When it came to the movie, Julie Andrews wasn’t the first choice for Maria! Producers wanted Grace Kelly or Doris Day to replace her.

Sean Connery, Richard Burton and Bing Crosby were in the running to play Captain von Trapp, before the role went to relative newcomer Christopher Plummer.

Kurt Russell and Richard Dreyfuss also auditioned to be von Trapp children.

While filming the iconic opening scene, twirling in the hills of Austria, Andrews kept getting knocked down in the mud by the gusts from the helicopter carrying the camera.

Adjusted for inflation, it’s one of the highest grossing films ever made, right behind Gone With the Wind and Star Wars.

It had the longest first run in U.S. cinemas ever at four and a half years.

Forbes Magazine: Four Leadership Lessons from Maria Von Trapp

https://www.forbes.com/sites/geoffloftus/2016/05/28/four-leadership-lessons-from-maria-von-trapp-julie-andrews/?sh=3c7d0e4210c6

MOLESKIN:

As we prayed together we as HIMS so often pray for our significant others and others in the Pax undergoing spoken challenges. Please remember that each of us has our own challenges each day & that all of us are going through something. Remember to pray for all the unspoken needs of our Pax and fellow f3’ers
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The workout was followed by a well attended and enjoyed coffee time at Panera.

Thanksgiving Buffet – And Pie

November 26, 2020 Charmin

THE SCENE: Surprisingly warm, post rain
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Appetizer: SSH (4ct) x 25; CP x 5; Tie Fighters x 13 each way
THA-THANG:
We all jump in the family station wagon for a trip to grandma’s house for dinner (Mosey up the hill to the lower trail. The buffet has been set out and we work our way around, filling the plate:

Mashed potatoes and gravy = Tempo squats x 25
Dressing (and more gravy) = American Hammers x 25
Turkey and Cranberry Sauce = Tempo Merkins x 25
Sweet Potato Casserole = Smurf Jacks (4 ct) x 25
Brussel Sprouts roasted with bacon = Hello Dollies (4 ct) x 25
Yeast Rolls = Carolina Dry Docks x 25

We know we’re gonna have seconds, so we head back around to earn those extra portions. At each station, we take turns giving thanks to something in particular.

Next is dessert: Mosey to the overlook to earn some pie with 10 8 count man-makers.
Finally, it’s time to do the dishes. Run the loop at the overlook (it is shaped like a platter, after all). Then mosey back to the AO
MARY:
Just enough time for Waffle House to lead us in some ATMs and a couple BBQ squats and we’re done.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
1863 was one of the worst years in our country’s history. And yet, President Lincoln saw fit to proclaim the last Thursday of November a National Day of Thanksgiving, the first time it was a national holiday. We should all read that proclamation from time to time to remind us of the bounty that God’s grace has bestowed upon us, even if it is not immediately apparent. You can read it here: http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/thanks.htm
As Paul said: “for I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.” Rom 8:18
MOLESKIN:
Prayer requests: Ribbed and his family; Cheatsheet’s mom and for national healing; Assfault’s family; Full House’s wife and family; safe travels for those on the road.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Happy Thanksgiving. Let’s spend a moment of quiet contemplation on what we should be truly thankful for and recognize that those things flow from God’s grace and mercy.

Fear the Cardboard

November 17, 2020 Waxjob

THE SCENE: Mid 30s, clear and calm. Not too many more days until all the leaves are gone and the AO is clean again…
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH x20 IC
Tempo Merkins x10 IC
Crabettes x10 IC
LBAC x10 IC each way
Tempo Squats x10

THA-THANG:
Grab a CMU and circle up.
Bunch of dudes today, so a few (including YHC) were resigned to Murder Blocks. I gotta get a weight on those things.

Working independently today. Not a race, concentrate on form!

Cardboard wienkie as follows:

15 Up & Over Merkins (L+R=1)
30 Upright Row
20 Squat Thrust
30 Curls
30 Tri Ext
30 CMU LBC
30 CMU Swing
20 Hand-Release Derkin
20 Lawn Mowers (each side)
15 Twist Lunge (each leg)
20 OHP each arm (or 50 with both arms)
20 ALPOs
20 V-ups
Total reps add to 500… But start over at the top when you finish.
No running on the schedule today, but take a lap any time you need one.

MARY:
10x LBC IC. Felt super easy without the blocks.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Lucky 13 for today’s 500 o’ fun!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Short. Doesn’t mean it’s easy:
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake has forgiven you.
MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Coat drive still ongoing! Check out the new Service Opportunities channel on Slack