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Saturday Clffhanger

THE SCENE: Wet but tolerable 57 Degrees
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER Yuuuuuuuuuuuup
WARM-O-RAMA:
15 SSH

10 Tempo Merkins

10 Mountain Climbers

10 Tempo Squats

10 Windmills

10 LBAC foreward 10 Backward

10 Grady Corn

10 Chattanooga Cherry Pickers

5 Knoxville Cherry  Pickers

THA-THANG:
Begin with Mosey to the playground. PAX Split in teams of 3. 1 PAX hold pull up position or bat hang, while PAX 2 runs a lap around the parking lot while PAX 3 screams words of encouragement and recovers. Rinse and Repeat until everyone gets a chance. Mosey to stadium seats.

A.L.A.R.M. Workout

Round 1

  • 50-Incline Merkins
  • 50 Box Jumps or step ups
  • 150 Starfish Crunches
  • Bear Crawl to the pavillion
  • 200 Mtn. Climbers

ROUND 2

  • 50 Dips
  • 100 Squats
  • 75 Pickle Pointers-75 Pickle Pounders

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
6 HIM’s in the early morning light!!!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Thinking back to Paul in the book of Philippians. Being imprisoned facing possible death, he was so thankful for his brethren in Phillipi that he writes a letter of joy to them. So as we get closer to the hectic holidays, remember to take inventory of all the people in your life and let them know how thankful you are for them.
MOLESKIN:
Wingmans Daughter with unknown illness, Spielberg’s parents traveling, Route 44, his M and upcoming birth of 2.0!! DL and DR members.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
GO30 still going strong, don’t hesitate to join!!!!! Messsage wingman to get involved.

Need candy for Christmas parade. Parade is on Nov. 28th at 7:00 P.M. theme is HO HO Hoedown Christmas so be thinking of ideas.

Hardship Hill Signups are open so get your team and get ready!! Details to come on building obstacles and such.

 

Wet and Wild 100yd Sandbag Smash

THE SCENE: what started off as humid and 65, quickly turned to a downpour. It was perfect.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

Chiggedy check✅

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH
  • Tempo squats
  • Tempo merks
  • LBAC -F
  • LBAC – B
  • Hallelujah’s
  • Knox Cherry picker
  • Meet up at Skeletor’s land shark for sandbag pickup

THA-THANG:

Pair up, pick a toy from the trunk and head to the soccer field to find cones setup 100 yards apart

Line toys up 10 yards apart on the goal line

Round 1

Station 1 60# sandbag throw

Take turns throwing the sandbag until we make 100 yards

Station 2 40# sandbag burpee toss

Take turns doing burpees and throwing the sandbag over your head until we make 100 yards

Station 3 40# sandbag snaps

Take turns at the center position snapping the sandbag to the next man until we make 100 yards

When all men make the 100 yards, mosey back to the start  line (100 yards away) and then Bernie back (another 100 yards) to your sandbag.

Since we had an odd number we had one man working through station number 3 alone.

Rinse and repeat until each man was able to complete the solo snap run on station 3  


All total, in the 35ish minutes we had we moved the sandbags up the field 5x, we  moseyed 5x and Bernied 5x for a grand total of 1500 yards gained  

Never made it to Round 2, which converted to a  relay style smash  

MARY:

Mosey back for COT

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Pulled this from the F3 Bible devotion of the day.

Living Your Now With The Next World in Mind

If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world. — C.S. Lewis

Believers in Jesus live on two planes of existence simultaneously. The truth is that we live in Christ… and we also live in Kingston, Rockwood, Harriman, Midway, or wherever. We are in Christ spiritually, and yet we are in our physical location, living our lives with work, family, and other commitments.

Consider Paul’s salutation in Colossians 1:1-2:

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to God’s  holy people in Colossae, the faithful brothers in Christ.

Notice the words near the end of this verse. IN Christ IN Colosse. He is saying that they are in Christ, but that they are also in Colossae. How can someone be in both places?

Think about what Paul wrote in another letter, 2 Corinthians 4:18:

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

The words “temporary” and “eternal” are key here. The world we live in can be seen; it’s physical and visible, and we interact with it continuously. It’s also temporary. It’s here for a while, but then it will go.

Then there is the invisible world. It is Christ and all that comes with Him. He is our purpose for being, the reason we go about things in the physical world.

We like to compartmentalize and sort things. That’s why label makers and organizing software sell well. (Unfortunately, it’s also why Christians tend to think they can do church on Sundays, head to lunch, and that was their Jesus fix for the week!)

We can’t compartmentalize the eternal and the temporary. The two are interchangeable for believers. We live in both right now!  And if we’re paying attention to the eternal, our temporary life will show it.

MOLESKIN:
Proud of these men for not bucking when it began to rain and I said push through, not a single complaint. We got wet and worked hard, it was worth every minute.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Clothes drive for patients leaving hospital. Abscess is our go to for donations.

Kingston parade, collect candy

Bro-lympics plug – Ot was a great experience, and we all need to be at the next CSAUP

Separation Saturday

THE SCENE: Slightly gloomy, sun on the rise
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

✅ & ✅
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH
  • LBAC -F
  • LBAC – B
  • Grady corn
  • Knox Cherry pickers
  • Mosey to the soccer field

THA-THANG:

Buy in:

4 sets

  • 10 air squats
  • 10 coupon clean & press
  • 10 bent over rows coupon 5 each arm
  • 10 hand release merkins
  • 10 American hammers
  • Hold Al gore until 6 is in

Rinse & Repeat

Workout

4 sets

  • 12 coupon overhead flutter kicks
  • 10 yard bear crawl coupon drag 15 yards
  • 12 single arm overhead press 6 each arm
  • 10 yard crawl bear coupon drag 15 yards

Rinse & Repeat

Cash out:

1 shared rifle mile bring 1/2 the coupons

Line up on track, two groups, men with coupons in front, men without behind. Men in front will  set the pace. Rifle carry coupon until you can’t, next man picks up.

We got 2 laps for .5 mile

 

MARY:
Mosey back for COT

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.”

‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭16‬:‭13‬-‭14‬ ‭ Part 4

Let all that you do be done in Love

I want to call today’s beatdown, Separate Saturday.

For two reasons, one, there are only a handful of us here. We have separated from the general population of men in Roane county and have committed to be here.

Two, for we as followers of Christ are called to be separate. But what kind of separate? I can come and be among you but keep separate, not engaging, but being separate. We aren’t called to exclude and keep private the things of Christ but to share them. We are in the world,  but not of the world.

‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭6‬:‭14‬-‭18

“Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”

Again I say how shall we be separate, how will we be known?

Joh 13:34  “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

Joh 13:35  “By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Jesus in appearing to his disciples from the shore after the crucifixion found them fishing. They had just been with Jesus days earlier and they knew that God was with them. They had went back to their day job of fishing. What was their world before Jesus, fishing. They had returned to the world. Sitting down after breakfast Jesus begins to inquire. Jesus says to Simon Peter,

“Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.” He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.”

‭‭John‬ ‭21‬:‭15‬-‭17‬

Why was Jesus so adamant that if Peter loved Him he should feed, tend, and shepherd his sheep, not go fishing.

Do you love him? Feed His sheep.

Do you love him? Shepherd his sheep.

Do you love him? Feed his sheep.

Be in the world, but not of the world, and everything you do, do it in Love, for Christ.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Clothes drive

Parade chat

Welcome Back to the Track

THE SCENE: A balmy 60 degrees with a patchy fog creating the gloomiest of glooms.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Dundy!

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH – 15
Knox Cherries – 6
Willie Mays Hayes – 8
Tempo Squats – 10
Tennessee Rocking Chairs (for those that had such a GREAT weekend…commence eye-roll) 🙂 – 10
Tempo Merks – 10
FLBAC – 10
RLBAC – 10
Grady Corn – 10
Hallelujahs – 10
Chatty Pickers – 10

Mosey to the newly (but not completely) renovated track.

THA-THANG:
Merkin Mile – 4 laps; 25 merkins after each lap

Commence Dora
Travel: Bernie 40 yards, 3 Burpees, Mosey back

  • 100 Monkey Humpers
  • 200 Flutter Kicks
  • 300 SSH
  • 400 LBC
  • 500 Squats (DNF)

RTB

MARY:
No time.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
We are continuing our series on our Rampart moto verse “Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong, do everything in love.” 1 Cor 16:13-14

Looking at Acts 14, Paul had gone into Lystra and healed a man who’d never walked. Some people misunderstood (they thought he and Barnabas were gods). Other people had followed them from other cities in order to sabotage their efforts.

Acts 14:19-22

But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead. But when the disciples gathered about him, he rose up and entered the city, and on the next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe. When they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch, strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.

It’s amazing how quickly and easily the crowd turned. What’s most significant to YHC is that after being stoned nearly to death, Paul went back in! TWICE! Also interesting to note that the word used for “rose up” is the same word for Jesus’ resurrection in the Gospels.

Any time you stand for something, there will be rocks.

  • There will be those that try to talk you out of it. (This may even come from “friends”)
  • There will be those that misunderstand.
  • There will be those that criticize.
  • There will be those that sabotage.

HIMs aren’t out to be popular. They’re out to make an impact for good. Standing firm is never popular…if it were, it’d be easy, wouldn’t it?

There is a quote that is apparently misattributed to Winston Churchill that is still good nonetheless.

“You’ve got enemies? Good. That means you stood for something at some point in your life.” – (Not) Winston Churchill

Churchill’s life an career certainly exemplified this saying whether it came form him or not. He was never popular until the moment he was needed. Then he was even voted out of office directly after the war.

The Apostle Paul is not only a great example of “standing firm in the faith,” he also says it all over the place in his letters. The following is just after speaking about the Resurrection of Jesus. Because a victory is already handed to him, “standing firm” is a given. It’s almost like a positive nihilism. What happens to Paul doesn’t really matter, since he already has a “win” handed to him by Jesus.

1 Cor 15

55 “Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?”
56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

58 Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

Christians already have victory in Christ Jesus. That’s all the reason and assurance we need to stand firm.

MOLESKIN:
Everyone seemed twice as fast as the last time we were on the track. I’m crediting hard work and not the new surface.
Prayers for Foghorn, Olive Oil, and a friend of Skeletor’s.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Binks on Q Wednesday.
Skeletor on Q Saturday.
Today was last day for clothing. If you missed it, send it to Karm.
Sign Up for Brolympics at Asylum AO, Nov 5!

Mini Care Bear Squares

THE SCENE: A fantastic 58 degrees
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER-Yeperdoo
WARM-O-RAMA:
10-SSH

9-Windmills

5-Tempo Merkins

10-Tempo Squats

10-LBAC Foreward, 10-Backwards

10-Morrocan Nightclubs

20-Chattanooga Cherry Pickers
THA-THANG:

Gave the Men of the Fort a taste of IPC so we can do it together Next Year!!

Made a Square with cones set 50 ft. apart

25 squats, Bear crawl to next cone; 25 Merkins Left bear crawl. 25 Big Boys, Crawl Bear to 25 Burpees on the first round, then reduced to 10 on next 2 rounds; right bear crawl back to start.

Mosey to sign and back for a quick breather

WHEELBARROW RACES; Pax partnered up and wheelbarrowed to first set of cones. Pax 1 did 10 derkins while still being held up. Wheelbarrow to the next set of cones and Pax 2 did 10 heavy squats, while still holding up Pax 1; flapjack on the way back. (We had an uneven number so 1 PAX bearcrawled, did 10 Merkins, then 10 Monkey Humpers.

MARY:
Traded Mary in for her buff cousin Sherry. 7 Minutes of shoulder burn exercises Dealers choice for a minute each.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
7 Grizzly Men of the Fort!!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Matthew 11:28-30 “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and i will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

We torment ourselves so much with worrying, worrying about yesterday, today and tomorrow. Things that may never happen, and a lot of times don’t. Times when we ignore God the most when we should be trusting him the most. His son has already died on the cross for our burdens. He has already carried the weight of yesterday and tomorrow. So pray and have faith in the lord and lay it all at his feet and take the weight off. Why worry about tomorrow when you can stop and enjoy today!

MOLESKIN:
TAPS for Olive Oyl travelling today, Foghorn Leghorn with his knee, Curious George who will be leaving us in a month. The church as they go through this difficult season. And all our other guys on the DL and DR, WE MISS YALL!!!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Still collecting men’s clothing through the end of the year so go through those closets boys!!

BROLYMPICS!! Nov. 5th @ Asylum. Love to see a great Rampart representation there so hit that sign up sheet!!

Check Mail for Shirts!

Piston is on Q for Saturday SYITG!!