THE SCENE: 66 and “Cloudy with a Chance…”
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Yes sir.
WARM-O-RAMA:
Projectivator x5, Tempo Squat x5, Cherry Picker x5, Tempo Merkins x5, individual stretch, mosey to Pool Wall.
THA-THANG: “The Steeplechase”
- Pool Wall: 5 Wurpees (burpee+wall-up)
- Playground: 5 pull-ups + 5 chin-ups (forward/backward grip)
- Amphitheater: 5 boxjump+5 Bonnie Blair; Bernie up hill; 5 BBS+5 Heels-to-Heaven (2-ct); Bear Crawl down hill; Mucho Chesto (1 round): 10merks+10 diamond merks+10 werkins+10 stagger right+10 stagger left merkins; mosey up sidewalk to road
- Karaoke (right/left), Side shuffle (right/left), Mosey to Lake
- Lake: Lazy Dora (partner up): 100 shoulder taps + plank (switch every 10 reps till 100)+lap; 200 LBC + 6-in Leg Lift (switch every 20 reps till 200)+lap; [CALLED RECOVERY FOR TIME] 300 Squats + Al Gore (switch every 25 till 300)+lap.
- [DID NOT GET TO K-2(5) FOR 5 HILLS – too bad, so sad]
- Here what we missed – 5 Hills:
1. 5 Burpees – sprint hill – 5 burpees at top
2. 5 Bobby Hurley (2-ct) – hill – 5 BH at top
3. 5 starfish (2-ct) – hill – 5 starfish at top
4. 5 lunges (each leg) – hill – 5 lunges at top
5. 5 diamond pushups – hill – 5 diamond pushups at top - Mosey to Friendship Bell – Mosey to Shovel Flag
MARY:
NO TIME FOR MARY – BORG led us in some Cool Down Yoga/isometric stretches and good wisdom. Good stuff – DM Borg for more info.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
6 Knuckleheads recovered from Iron Pax Madness! Welcome FNG Jacob AKA Mr Burns (of The Simpsons fame)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Romans 12:1-2 in 2 translations for meditation
A Living Sacrifice
12 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. (ESV)
Place Your Life Before God
12 1-2 So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. (The Message)
Like most men, I have spent a lot of time trying to get better, trying to BE BETTER – a good example is F3. Unfortunately, a lot of our self-improvement efforts amount to sin management, behavior modification, improving from the OUTSIDE-IN. The Bible clearly teaches the opposite: we can’t do it. Our hope lies in trusting what God has done, IS DOING, for us. As we give our “everyday, ordinary life” to God, as we believe/trust/relax in God and what He’s doing, He transforms us from the INSIDE-OUT. He’s playing the Long Game for us – developing “well-formed maturity” in us. Let Him do it.
MOLESKIN:
Thursdays at The Project are typically Heavy PT (CMU work, tire flips, cut telephone poles, battle rope, etc) but after Tuesday’s Iron Pax we thought a recovery workout was in order. (Sorry Tuba! Heavy PT is our jam!)
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Welcome FNG Jacob/Mr Burns; Iron Pax; Hardship Hill; Project Pax to Pray for this week: Bobbit; Coffeeteria @ Dunkin