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We Are Sons

THE SCENE:  A little warm but beautiful

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:

25 SSH IC

10 Cherry Pickers IC

15 Tempo Squats IC

10 Merkins IC

THA-THANG:
Mosey down to the Pavalon for a little bench work. 4 rounds of the following 4 exercises. 1st set = 20 reps each, 2nd = 15, 3rd = 10, and 4th = 5

  • Bench rows
  • Box Jumps
  • Derkins
  • Tricep Dips

Mosey to the bottom of Cardiac with some lunges on the way. At the bottom of Cardiac, 20 merkins. 1st turn = 15 merkins, 2nd switchback = 10 merkins, at the top = 5 merkins.

Mosey to the rock pile at the Asylum after a quick stop to take in the beautiful view of the river. Grab a rock and do 3 sets of the following 3 exercises (15 reps each). After the completion of Set 1 and 2, run and touch the Asylum stairs. After set #3, run down to the stop sign and back.

  • Bicep Curls
  • Overhead Press
  • Bent-over rows

Next, 3 sets of the following 3 exercises (we did these IC and ran to the Asylum stairs in between sets 1 and 2).

  • Tempo Squats (with rock)
  • Flutter Kicks 4 ct (rock overhead)
  • Hello Dollies 4 ct (no rock)

Mosey down to the bottom of Everest. 10 Merkins IC. Made our way back around the new path doing some lunges, squats, bear crawl, and American Hammers. Mosey down Little Baby Hill. Sprint back to the top 1 time.

MARY:

Just a little bit of time left for some Flutter Kicks, plank work, and a few more SSH’s.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

12 HIM’s – No FNG’s

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

In the spirit of Father’s Day weekend, I’m reminded of what it means not only to be a father but also what it means to be a son of God. I believe that I’ve been saved and that God loves me unconditionally, but I fail to live that way each day.

When we feel like we’re falling short, failing, or still struggling in various aspects of our lives where we think we should be better, it’s easy to forget that our heavenly Father still loves us just the same as when we’re standing on the mountaintop. Instead, we can quickly revert to a worldly way of thinking – that somehow God doesn’t love us as much when we’re stumbling or that His love and grace couldn’t possibly be vast enough to cover over our multitudes of sin. But that’s simply not the case.

“But when the time had fully come, God sent his son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons. Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, ‘Abba, Father’. So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has also made you also an heir.” Galatians 4:4-7

Sizzlin

THE SCENE: Sunny and warm with high in upper 80’s.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 Side-Straddle hops, 10 Burpees, 10 Plank reaches (to count of four), 10 Windmills, 10 Baby to Wide Arm Circles Forward and 10 Backward.

THA-THANG:

Mosey to stop sign on northeast side of Admin Bldg.  20 American Hammers, 20 Hello Dollies.

Mosey to alley way that dead ends at north of Admin Bldg.  Stop where bricks are lined up near shade tree.  We will do Dora’s with partner running to dead end, doing 10 decline merkins there, and running back.  Meanwhile other partner is doing exercises with bricks.  Partners switch off when running partner gets back.  These are the exercises:

100 Overhead Presses, 100 Curls, 100 Rows with bricks on each side, 100 Neck Drops, 100 Squats with bricks over head, 100 Wings forward, 100 Wing drops, 100 Wing raises.

Mosey to Trail that begins by Northern Parking Lot.  We will lunge to first light, run next four, etc. until we reach road that leads out northern gate of park.

Mosey on perimeter trail until we are at bottom of Mt. Everest.  20 Box Cutters.   Then run to top of Mt. Everest.

Mosey to AO.

MARY:

Hello Dollies.

COUNT-OFF AND NAME-O-RAMA:

Nine men.  No FNG’s.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
The song “No Hard Feelings” by the Avett Brothers is one that we can learn from as humans who are prone to have anger toward those who have hurt us or jealousy toward those who one up us.  In the song, the authors talk about how holding on to the anger and jealousy doesn’t lead to good for anyone – rather the feelings distance us from those we have the opportunity to get to know and love.  They lead to fear and destruction.

There is a beauty and poignancy to the song as the narrator looks toward death:  “When my body won’t hold me anymore and it finally lets me free – will I be ready?”  He looks toward a time of possibility in that death, a time “when the jealousy fades away and it’s ash and dust for cash and lust – and it’s just halleluhah”  He wonders whether he “will join with the ocean blue or run into the savior true – and shake hands laughing.  And walk through the night, straight to the light, holding the love I’ve known in my life – and no hard feelings.”

The narrator glimpses at death from the standpoint of one who has cast judgement and bitterness aside:

“under the curving sky, I’m finally learning why it matters to me and you.  To say it and mean it too.  For life and its loveliness and all of its ugliness.  Good as its been to me, I have no enemies . . . I have no enemies . . . I have no enemies.”

How incredible it could be if we could really say that.  What release and joy it would bring us.  To say, when our “body’s won’t hold us anymore” that “I have no enemies.

So, to be true HIM’s, we need to get rid of our “Hard Feelings.”

 

Hungry Hippo was hot!

THE SCENE: Humid with a bit of humidity in the air
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

yep
WARM-O-RAMA:
Set the standard for what’s to come

SSH x 20

Morracan night clubs x20

Froggie squats x10
Merkins x10
Iron mikesx10
Hillbillies x20
Burpo
Madonna x10
Bodybuilder x10
Iceskators

THA-THANG:

  • Mosey to the pavalon for 11s box jumps and bench pull ups
  • Mosey the FIA pavalon for Rockettes in front of the ladies, bandwagon led us in cadence . Stellar job bruh!
  • Mosey to the new open field for Hungry Hippo!
  • With the game hungry hippo, lots of exercises and lots of hard work done. Hit me up for all the details if you want to do this workout. It’s a lot of fun !
  • Each team has 2 of their pax wheel barrow to grab one ball . Switch partners once you barrow back. Go until each team has 6 balls. Last 2 teams get the orange burpee balls
  • once all teams finish, each team performs said exercise written on their ball,
  • we did 2 rounds of hungry hippo .
  • it was hot!!
  • Mosey towards the Asylum for 7s of LBC at the top of little hill and reverse lbc at the bottom
  • running out of time , we stopped short and moseyed to where we were going to do bearway to heaven
  • no time for that so we beat crawled from the first come to the last cone
  • mosey back to the AO for Mary

MARY:
Dolly x10

boxcutters x10

flutters x10

proton Parker’s x20
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
15 including one FNG from Colorado Springs aka Slash and F3 visitors from Jacksonville (Pom Pom ) and Trace from Bristol . Welcome !!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Memorial Day info and the sacrifices our our men and women made for our freedom !
MOLESKIN:
During Hungry Hippo, one team only had 3 guys, clear disadvantage . They ended up w the burpee ball 2 times . The last time, I saw a bunch of guys willing to take the burpee ball from the loosing team , this sacrificing themselves for the other pax. Really made me proud to be a part of our pax. Little did they know, I knew it would turn out this way and was going to give the loosing pax the option to embrace the suck and do the burpees or give the burpees to another team . What happened ? The loosing team kept the ball and did the burpees! Well done men!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Special convergence , Monday for 21 gun salute . 5:30-630 . Be there!!!! It’s gonna be great!

Hot and Heavy

THE SCENE:  Sunny and hot, temp in upper 80’s.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 Side-straddle hops, 10 Mountain Climbers, 10 Windmills, 20 Calf Raises, Little of This and Little of That
THA-THANG:
Mosey to stop sign at northeast corner of Admin Bldg.  20 Merkins.  20 Box Cutters.

Mosey to little road/driveway that leads to northern side of Admin Bldg.  Partner up.  Doras with partner running to end of driveway and back while other partner does exercises.  Then partners switch.  We will do these exercises:

  • 200 Baby Crunches
  • 150 Squats
  • 100 Diamond Merkins
  • 100 Big Boys

Mosey to bottom of dragon tail.  We will do Route 66 up the dragon tail until we reach area where trail meets other trail.  The first to top sweeps others back to bottom.  These will be the exercises we do:

  •  Carolina Drydocks
  •  Imperial Walkers (4 count)
  •  Plank Reaches (reaching with each hand)
  •  Dive Bombers

Mosey to stop sign at northeast corner of Admin Bldg.  20 Hello Dollies in cadence.

Mosey to AO.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Ten men including an FNG who we brought in as a Flying EH:  Bill Barton whom we named “Ticker.”
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Henry Nouwen in his book, Gracias, states that there is “a ministry that I keep losing, although I am constantly called back to it.  It is the vision that ministry means first of all searching for God where people are lost, confused, broken and poor.  Often I have gone to such people to bring them back to God, to the sacraments, to the church.  But that is acting and living as if God is where I am, and as if my first task is to bring others to my place.  When, however, God is with the poor and marginalized, then I have to dare to go there, live there, and find them there.  I now realize that I can be with people without having to make them think my thoughts and say my words.  I can be free to listen and slowly to discern where God shows his merciful face to me.”

We, as believers in God, in our attempt to “save” others are sometimes guilty of trying to convince people to think our thoughts, to live as we do.  We need to realize that God is already there with these people, already working with them.  We need to see God in them.  By being with them, joining them, finding God in them, they will not only see God in us but God within themselves.  Then they can more fully believe in God as we desire them to do.

 

Gunning it

THE SCENE: Sunny, 70’s
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 Side-straddle Hops, 10 Burpees, 10 Plank Reaches, Squats with increasing times of 10, 20, 30 and 60 seconds, 10 Cherry Pickers, 10 Baby Arm to Wide Arm Circles (front and back)
THA-THANG:

Mosey to Playground.  We will do the following at different stations:

20 Bench Jumps at Benches.  20 seconds of pull-ups at Dugouts.  20 Picnic Table Pull-ups at Pavilion.  20 Diamond Merkins at Flag.  Rinse and Repeat.

Mosey to parking lot that is just of the northern baseball fields.  We will be running to various cones where exercises will be posted.  The following are the exercises:

  • Cone 1:  20 Merkins
  • Cone 2:  Bear Crawl to Cone 3
  • Cone 3:  20 Big Boy Situps
  • Cone 4:  20 Dive Bombers
  • Cone 5:  Bernie Sanders to Cone 6
  • Cone 6:  20 Shoulder Taps (two count)

Rinse and repeat two more times.

Mosey to beginning of Serpentine Sidewalk.  We will lunge to first light, run through next four lights, lunge to sixth light, run through next four, etc. until we reach perimeter trail by river.

At perimeter trail we will do 20 Hello Dollies as a group in cadence.

Mosey halfway to cardiac hill.  Stop to do 20 Box Cutters in cadence.

Mosey to cardiac hill.  We will run up hill doing the following exercises:

  • At first turn:  40 Baby Crunches
  • At second turn:  20 American Hammers
  • At third turn:  20 Decline Merkins
  • At benches:  20 Bench Lifts

Rinse and repeat.

Mosey to AO. 

MARY:
Table Saws, Boat Canoe.  ATM’s.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
17 Men.  No FNG’s. Coxin was visiting us from South Carolina.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

I recently led a group at a Day Treatment Program.  The program is for people with mental health problems.  Some have experienced depression, some extreme anxiety, some Bipolar Disorder, and some even have been diagnosed with Schizophrenia.  These people have faced hard times.  Most can no longer work because of their disorders.  Most were on disability and living what we may call “marginal lives.”

I have led the group many times and we have a topic for each group meeting (e.g., coping with depression, the importance of exercise. budgeting, substance disorders).  The topics are wide and varied.

Because music and lyrics to songs are important to so many of us, I thought it would be fun to have a group where each group member shared lyrics to one of their favorite songs.  I asked the members to have their songs ready in advance.  When the members shared their songs, I was surprised to find that almost every one of them shared a religious song.  When the members talked, they talked about why God is important to them.  I knew that some members might share religious songs but I did not think that such an overwhelming majority would.  Some of these group members attend church but certainly not all of those who shared the religious songs attend very regularly.  Yet, here they were, sharing why these songs were so meaningful and helped them in their lives.  In my work as a therapist I have had quite a few people tell me that, despite coping with incredible depression, they believe in and need God.  They have told me that God is what gives them hope.

The fact is that God is for ALL of US.  He is not just for the happy, the people who “have it together”, or the folks who attend church regularly.  Who did Jesus tend to associate with?  Everyone, not just the elite, the religious, but the poor, the hookers, the bums.  This is a messy world full of people who don’t have everything together.  But we need God.  And it is good to know that God is for us.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
May 19 is Hardship Hill!!