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Burpee Hills – Your Own Worst Enemy

THE SCENE
73 and Clear

F3 Welcome and Disclaimer

THE THANG
COP
SSH x30
Cross body arm swings
Duck Walk (4 up/4back)
Lunge Complex
Plank Complex
Merkins x10 regular
Merkins x10 wide
LBSU x20
Superman

Grab CMU and mosey to base of New Hill (which needs a name…maybe The Wall?)

Plank while we wait + x10 merkins OYO

Burpee Hills
Get a BattleBuddy
One person runs up hill while other does burpees
5 minutes. AMRAP

Mosey with CMU to base of Everest

Everest+Deconstructed Burpees
Sprint up Everest
When back at start do the following (Deconstructed Burpees)
– 10 squats
– 10 leg thrusts
– 10 Merkins
– 10 leg thrusts…then up.
Rinse/repeat. AMRAP: 5 minutes

Plank+merkins while we wait for everyone to descend after time was up then x20 LBS IC

Mosey with CMU to the flag.  Burpees while we wait for everyone to return

Sprints + Burpee Jumps
Get with BattleBuddy:
One person sprints the length of parking lot while other does jumps over CMU, doing a burpee on each side
3 minutes AMRAP

ABS
Core: reverse bridge x 20

COT
Count off and Name-o-Rama

BOM
We all carry a burden that keeps us from performing at our full potential.  Identify it, acknowledge it, and then release it to your father so that you may run the race set before you with passion and purpose!

MOLESKIN
The stars were glimmering in all their majesty this morning as I drove through the gates of splendor at the Asylum. The warm fuzzies quickly dissipated with the collision of my face to the famous East Tennessee Humidity. Even at 5am, it’ll knock your teeth out.

Monday Morning Mayhem

THE SCENE
A tender, 75-degree kind of gloom

F3 Welcome and Disclaimer

THE THANG
COP
Side Straddle Hop
High Knees
Michael Phelps
Baby & Big Arm Circles

HIT THE DECK!
Location: Parking Lot
Duration: 25 Minutes

Instructions: Split group in 2, each receives deck of cards
Each suit is an exercise.  One person pulls a card at random, do the Exercise and the Number of them indicated by the number on the card. Do this til deck is done.
Exercises:
Hearts: Burpees
Diamonds: Merkins
Clubs: Squats
Spades: Big Boy Situps
Face Cards = 10
Aces = 15
Totals reps – 99 merkins, 99 burpees, 99 squats, 99 BBS

Get coupons and mosey to baseball field

ROUND THE BASES
Location: Baseball field
Duration: 10 Minutes (6:00-6:13)

Instructions: Start @ Home plate
Lap 1 – Lunge with coupons around the bases
At 2nd base, Drop Coupons in the DIRT and SPRINT to Centerfield Fence
Finish Lunges to Home
Lap 2 – Standing Broad Jumps
At 2nd, Drop Coupons in the DIRT and SPRINT to Centerfield Fence
Finish Broad Jumps to Home

Rinse and Repeat 2x (4 times around the bases)

Wrap up with pull-ups x15

Mosey back to parking lot for COT

COT
Number off and Name-O-Rama

BOM
Proverbs 25:28 “A man without self-control (discipline) is like a city broken into and left without walls.” Remember the importance of self control. Without it we are like a broken down city, our lives are vulnerable to attack and decay. Pursue the Holy Spirit’s help in overcoming temptation and having self control

Hunger Games at The Asylum

THE SCENE
78 and muggy

F3 Welcome and Disclaimer

THE THANG
COP
SSH                      ICx20
Imperial Walker     ICx20
Squats                   ICx20
BAC                       ICx20
Reverse BAC        ICx20

The PAX divided into two groups for a little friendly competition.

The Games
Each group had to run the Lakeshore Park loop (2.1 miles) and complete the 14 work stations set up along the route.  While traversing the trail, each group had to carry a 50lb sandbag and a concrete block (concrete masonry unit- CMU).  The only rule…all PAX had to stay together and finish the exercises before running to the next work station on the trail (plank it out- all you quick youngsters).

Group one began the run on the south entrance of the greenway and Group two started on the north entrance.

Work stations consisted of:  bear crawls, sprints around baseball infield, merkins, burpees, starjacks and a climb up Mt. Everest for a squat sequence.  14 stations in all.  Lots of hill work.

The highlight of the competition was when both groups met in the middle of the greenway (1/2 way through) and Edit led the entire group in a round of IC Starjacks.

Group 2 won the HUNGER GAME battle this time around, but I’m guessing that there will be a rematch in the near future.

Once both groups returned to the start point we gathered up to cash out.

Cash Out
Mountain Climbers                                      ICx20
Offset Merkins (left)                                     ICx10
Squats                                                         ICx20
Offset Merkins (right)                                   ICx10

Abs (Dealer’s Choice)
Box cutters led by Edit                                ICx20
Hello Dolly led by Crawdad                         ICx30
Pac Man led by Land Line                          ICx20 (each leg)
American Hammer led by Slide Rule          ICx20
Pickle Pounders led by Pickle                    ICx15

COT
Count-o-rama, Name-o-rama,

BOM

We will never be satisfied with things of this world (money, cars, health), but with Jesus- we will never want for anything.  John 6:35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whosever believes in me shall never thirst.”

MOLESKIN

I couldn’t believe my eyes.  Vehicle after vehicle rolled in to the AO and it was a legendary line-up.  Many of the original PAX from the Day 1 launch in 2015 were there for a hot and humid beat down.  Mumblechatter was in full swing 15 minutes before the workout began.

Incredible having so many “old timers” out this morning! It was an awesome day at the Asylum.  The best part of the day was when FNG- Snitch- informed the group that Woodshack once posed in his “underwear” for a cover photo for Newsweek magazine. Potential new F3 names for Woodshack are Zoolander and Playboy. Too bad Woodshack was unable to post today…he’ll pay for that information later.

Keep Gus in prayer as he prepares for the BAR exam this month.  Also prayers for Pablo and other memebers of the PAX who are traveling.

Great energy and hype today at the Asylum.

YHC,
P-Nut

It’s Monday!

THE SCENE
75 and muggy

F3 Welcome & Disclaimer

THE THANG
COP
10 Burpees (OYO)
SSH x 30 (IC)
Dive Bombers x15 (IC)
Imperial Walkers x15 (IC)
Arm Circles Forward x17 (IC)
Arm Circles Backward x17 (IC)
Diamond Merkins x20 (IC)

 

Jelly Legs
Assemble along the line and do the following:
R1: 10 sec hold squat, 10 squats, run to cone do 5 Merkins or Dry Docks, run back
R2: 20 sec hold squat, 20 squats, run to cone do 10 Merkins or Dry Docks, run back
R3: 30 sec hold squat, 30 squats, run to cone do 15 Merkins or Dry Docks, run back
R4: 40 sec hold squat, 40 squats, run to cone do 20 Merkins or Dry Docks, run back
R5: 50 sec hold squat, 50 squats, run to cone do 25 Merkins or Dry Docks, run back
R6: 60 sec hold squat, 60 squats, run to cone do 30 Merkins or Dry Docks, run back

Mosey to front area near parking lot at the bottom of the hill

Merkin Hill
Run up and down hill doing the following:
Start at bottom of hill with 10 Merkins, run to top
Top of hill 9 Merkins, run to bottom
Bottom of hill 8 Merkins, runt to top
Top of hill 7 Merkins, run to bottom
Bottom of hill 6 Merkins, runt to top
Top of hill 5 Merkins, run to bottom
Bottom of hill 4 Merkins, runt to top
Top of hill 3 Merkins, run to bottom
Bottom of hill 2 Merkins, runt to top
Top of hill 1 Merkins, run to bottom

Plank until everyone finishes.

Mosey back to COP area

Prisoner Cell Merkin Burpees (PCMBs)
Drop to Plank, do 1 Merkin then bring your right knee in and back, do 1 Merkin then bring your left knee in and back, do 1 Merkin then bring both feet in and jump up = 1 PCMB complete.

x10 OYO

Abs
Flutter Kicks x30 (IC on 4ct)
Captain Thors x6 (IC)

Dealers choice:
Box Cutters x15 (IC) – Toto
Boat Canoe on Quickbooks
Pickle Pounders x10 (IC on 4ct) – Thriller
Big O’s x10 (IC) – Plunger from Winston Salem

COT
Number off and Name-O-Rama

BOM
There has been a lot going on in our nation over the past couple of weeks.  Yesterday another tragedy occurred in Baton Rouge.  All this leaves me unsettled.  I was talking with my M last night about how it seems there is so much anger and hostility in the world, so much chaos and fear.  As a husband and father it feels overwhelming.  I want to protect my wife and kids from what I see, promise them that things will be okay…but I can’t make that promise.  Truth is, there are times when I’m scared, confused, frustrated and unsure.  It is in these moments that my faith becomes a lifeboat providing security in the midst of stormy seas.  Things may seem chaotic, but there is a greater story being written.

The interesting thing was I had a passage echoing in my head and heart all evening, but it wasn’t what I expected.  It was John 15:12-13, “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”  Two things struck me:

1) The “love” I am commanded to express is not merely emotion, but rather a steady, others-focused way of relating.  It is not a feeling, it is an act of the will…it is willfully chosen.  We hear a lot about love these days, I feel most of it falls incredibly short of what Jesus is speaking of here (1 Cor 13).

2) The greatest expression of this “love” is found in the laying down one’s life for his “friends.”  I’ve missed that in the past.  Not a spouse, children or other family member, but friends.

It is that second point that brought to mind F3.  Each morning we gather to work hard and push ourselves and each other to get better, to be the men we long to be.  Each morning is an opportunity to “love” our “friends.”  That’s powerful because practice make permanent.  F3 is like a training ground for the rest of our day.  We each come to give all way have only to find we leave with more than what we came with!  We can then take this and give it away to our family, neighbors, co-workers and anyone else we cross paths with that day.

So here is the charge for all of us today…LOVE WELL!  Everyone you meet for the rest of this day is an opportunity to take what you experienced here today (encouragement, challenge, support, etc.) and give it away.  In doing this we make our worlds better…we have IMPACT.  We can’t control the chaos around us, but we CAN speak life into it.  And as we do we can know that we have a whole PAX of HIMs supporting us and covering our 6!

MOLESKIN
This morning was exactly what YHC needed.  Watching the men of of this PAX give their all for each other was restorative.  Plus we had our first ever visiting PAX dropped off by UBER!  That is what making and keeping an HC is all about.  Great morning, great men…

Red Writer’s Greatest Hits

THE SCENE
70 and Clear

F3 Welcome and Disclaimer

THE THANG
COP
SSH 25x IC
Imperial Walkers 15x IC
Dive Bombers 10x IC
Arm Circles fwd & back x15 IC

“GET UP OFFA THAT THING” (thanks Quickbooks)
Squats then a burpee every time James Brown says “GU Offa TT”

Find battle buddy, line up on curb.

NO PAIN NO GAIN SPRINTERS (thanks Cap’n)
Buddy 1 does 20 BBS while Buddy2 holds their feet
Buddy1 switches to wide Merkins Buddy2 sprints to cones.
—  1st cone – 5 burpees
—  2nd cone – 10 burpees
—  3rd cone – 15 burpees

Buddies switch, rinse and repeat

“BRING SALLY UP” (thanks Woodshack)
Buddy 1: Pull Me Ups on tables
Buddy 2: Wall Sits/ mumblechatter

(Switch places, rinse and repeat)

Mosey back to AO!!

“ATMS” (thanks Cap’n) IC with no rest (without leaving plank position)
15 Alt Shoulder Touches (4-ct IC)
10 Tempo Merkins (4-ct IC)
10 fast Merkins (single ct IC)

“ROXANNE” (thanks Lexicon?)
Alternate Superman to Banana every time the Police sings “Roxanne”
Modified to alternating plank positions (one arm up) and mountain climbers

Abs (Dealer’s Choice)
Flutter Kicks x20 IC
Boat / Canoe on Q
Hello Dolly x20 IC
Ab Circuit – x15 each LBS, Leg Raises, Rocking Chairs

COT
Count-o-Rama & Name-o-Rama

BOM
After Red Writer, our Q, was on all fours “calling the buffalo” during dealers choice abs… he was reminded of a verse that he shared in the BOM:
Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me. That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.