Q: Pool Boy
PAX: Mermaid, Baby Boomer, Anchorman, Crawlspace, slappy, Honeydew, None
FNGs: 1 None
COUNT: Seven!
WARMUP:
Tha thang without a CMU:
1 Blockee (aka Burpee)
2 Merkins
3 Jump Squats
4 BBS
5 Thruster or Goblet (aka Squat Air Press or Squat)
6 Shoulder Taps
7 Squats
8 Box Cutters
9 Overhead Press (aka Raise the Roof)
10 Overhead Claps
11 Toe Merkins
12 4-count flutter kicks
THE THANG:
Mosey to the Pavilion for 7’s
-7’s (no running in between exercises) – Squats & BBS
-Partner 7’s (also no running in between exercises)- 1 partner does the Squat reps and the other does the BBS reps.
Mosey to the CMU Pile for an attempted 12 Days of Christmas Goal: 3x through (we only got through 1 full round):
Totem Pole where each round you add one exercise and go every one you’ve done before. Reps are the “days” of the exercise you’re on so on the first day you do 1 rep, second day you do 2 reps, etc.:
1 Blockee
2 Merkins
3 Jump Squats
4 BBS
5 Thruster or Goblet
6 Shoulder Taps
7 Squats
8 Box Cutters
9 Overhead Press
10 Overhead Claps
11 Toe Merkins
12 4-count flutter kicks
After every completed round PAX were given the option for how far they wanted to run / recover all the way down the hill and back. Most ran but some tired to be more stationary.
It was 6:08 after the first round so the Q called Recover but we were also supposed to attempt to repeat the above except as follows:
Round 2 – With a partner or a group of 3 so half as many reps and hopefully twice as fast.
Round 3 – All PAX split up and 1 person does only an exercise so everyone can go as fast as they can with each exercise.
Fellowship mosey (S/O to Ribbed for this term) to the second corner then Mosey back to the spot the flag normally is.
MARY:
Cumulative MARY where each PAX leads a MARY exercise but then the previous MARY exercises are also done:
Pool Boy – Hello Dolly’s (10 + 10 + 10 + 10)
Honey Dew- LBC’s (0 + 10+ 10 + 10)
Slappy – American Hammers (0 + 0+ 10 + 10)
Boomer – Pickle Pointers (0 + 0+ 0 + 10)
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
None
COT:
The purpose of the workout was supposed to demonstrate how we need each other and how when we do help and work with each other it tremendously lightens our load but also helps us accomplish things better together.
Right now is the season known as Advent – the season of waiting. We wait for many things – I’m waiting for major ones. Not for 400 years – but it is an unknown amount of time I’m waiting. What are you waiting for? Now consider this – God doesn’t want you to or me to waste our waiting. We can sow to reap even while we’re waiting. One of the temptations we all face is to isolate and get away from it all – especially with secret sin. I’ve done that more times than I can count even while being “known” by those around me. But as the verse says, “do not be deceived, God is not mocked.”
This isn’t a merely hard warning for those who do want to please God, but His discipline will correct you and me just as a loving father to his children. Today God offers us all a choice – to share or not. To sow in the waiting or not. To be known by others or not.
Sin hides in the dark – it doesn’t want to be seen. But while it will be one day the Lord Jesus came as a baby after 400 years of waiting so that you and I can bring it to the light and be healed:
James 5:16 says. “Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.”
So today, I tell you I’m sowing in the waiting and I invite you to join me. Confessing our sins of lust, self-righteousness, anger, pride, laziness, fartsacking, and so much more – so that you may be healed.
Boomer and I will be meeting and inviting any other men who are willing and able to join us on Tuesdays at Dunkin (401 N Cedar Bluff Rd, 37923) from 630am-730am after shamruck to study Finally Free, a book on sexual purity, for the next 10 or so weeks. Come join us to know and be known while walking out this most critical of all Achilles Heels for any man so you can become a HIM.
