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Remembering

THE SCENE: Slightly cool somewhere in the low 50s
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

I think I covered all the points and no FNGs
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH IC – 20 /3ct
Cherry pickers IC / 10 IC
Baby Arm circles IC  /6 up, 6 down
Windmills IC/10
Grady Corns – IC /34

THA-THANG:

Quick Mosey to Rock Pile up the hill – 3 sets of Curl, Row, Press – IC/25 each set
Mosey to stop sign on north east side of admin bldg.
Lt Dans – one lunge each leg, then 1 squat, one lunge each leg, then 2 squats, keep going until 10 squats
Mosey further up road by light at overlook

Progressive up then back down as follows:
Complete each first exercise  , then run up stairs to cone by tree, return. Then add one exercise , run to cone by tree, return until all 5 are completed. Then work down to 4, then 3, then 2, then 1 ending back up at the first one

  1. Star Jump – 5 x
  2. Merkins – 10 x
  3. BBS – 15x
  4. SSH – 20 x
  5. Freddie Mercury – 25 x

Mosey back down hill to sidewalk by small parking lot, stop at wall.
7’s – dips/jump squats. Start with dips at wall and run up to first light for jump squats

Mosey to sidewalk at top of hill
Nickel dime quarter-  4 ct Hello Dolly – Every other light (per Swimmies’ request) down sidewalk, then mosey to AO.

MARY:
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COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
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CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Dec 13 is the 4th anniversary of my son Grady’s death (F3 Quickrete). I have had the discussion about the grieving process with the F3 brothers during the past anniversaries of his death and his birthday. We all have lost loved ones – that is a part of life. Let’s remember the legacies our loved ones have left us, the good times we had with them and remember the impact they have had on our lives. Last night, on the evening news, they were talking about the Lockerbie Scotland bombing 34 years ago. There was a group of US students on that flight returning home for Christmas. One of the student’s parents commented that his daughter had written in her notebook (recovered from the wreckage in Lockerbie) that “no-one dies unless they are forgotten.” (BTW- Grady was born in Oct 1988.) So, lets take a few minutes and think about the loved ones that we have lost while I play Amazing Grace played by bagpipes (Grady liked bagpipe music so I think he would like this song).

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Inclusive

THE SCENE: rain, rain, go away
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER done
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH, rockettes, cherry pickers, this & that, runner’s stretch, imperial walkers
THA-THANG:

Under the Pav-i-Lon

  • Dora – 250 SSH, 200 Rocky Balboa, 150 calf raise, 100 big boy, 50 burpee
  • 11’s – squat+lunges / merkin+kneel ups
  • 7’s – inclines / step ups

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 + an FNG makes 10!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Tonight we celebrated Cheat-ah Boy’s 1 year anniversary.  A 9 y/o who chooses to post in the heat, rain, snow, and gloom over eating Cheetohs on the couch playing video games.  I’m blessed that he and I are part of such an inclusive organization who’s motto is “Leave no man behind, but leave no man where you find him.”  Young or old, in shape or not, believer in anything, doesn’t matter.  Doesn’t matter who you are, what you do for a living, or where you’re from…everyone is welcome.  SYITG

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THE SCENE: cloudy temp 49 degrees
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Motivator x 5, slow tempo squat x 10, baby arm circle x 10, overhead claps x 10 flutter kicks in cadence 4 count, mosey to pavillion and Piriformis stretch x 10 secs hold, butt touches squats

THA-THANG:
Merkins x 10 and mosey around Pavillion, heel raises x 10, mosey around pavilion, bigboy sit up x 10 and mosey, flutter kicks x 10
Mosey to the bottom of the Cardiac trail

2 turns and on top 1st exercise Merkins, down back to bottom, repeat with 2nd exercise flutter kicks eack turn, 3rd jump squat, 4th bobby hurleys

Mosey to the to the dragon trail and stop every 3 rd light pole bobby hurley, up to the 4 th pole stations

And Pick and charge all the way to Coliseum

All 4 stations  3 exercises Merkins, Dry docks wide merkins, 2nd lap Bigboy, flutter kicks and Hello Dolly 3 rd lap Squat Bobby hurley and Jump squat

Then Mosey back to Haslam rock and back to pavilion and Piriformis stretch and dip And back to AO

MARY
4 stations high knees side straddle and rocky balboa

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MARY

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
16 Hims brave the workout
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Be thankful for health, finance and peace during this Christmas Season.
Christmas is to celebrate peace

The Stubborn Ounces Of My Weight

THE SCENE: REAL gloom in the Fake Gloom.  Misty, steamy, not too cold, not too warm.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

Performed adequately.

WARM-O-RAMA:

-20 Side Straddle Hops (4-ct), in cadence

– 10 Cherry Pickers (4-ct), in cadence

  • 10 Temp Merkins (4-ct IC)

– 10 Tempo Squats (4-ct), in Cadence

– 10 Moroccan Nightclub (4-Ct) in cadence

– 10 Overhead claps (4-Ct) in cadence

THA-THANG:

MOSEY to Caribbean

CANDY CANE ESCALATORS (addressed questions from Swimmies)

  • Run to first cone. Do exercise then run to second cone, do exercise, run back, etc.  Go to 8 Cones. Exercises are:
    • Cone 1: 5 Burpees
    • Cone 2: 10 Bobby Hurleys
    • Cone 3: 15 Carolina Dry Docks
    • Cone 4: 20 BBSs
    • Cone 5: 25 LBCs
    • Cone 6: 30 iron mikes (single count)
    • Cone 7: 35 Hello dollies (single count)
    • Cone 8 : 40 Imperial Walkers (single count).

MOSEY to bottom of Cardiac (addressed more questions from Swimmies), stopping at Intersection to do some maintenance exercises.  Where’s Switchgrass??

Steam goes back to check, he had a ruck so will meet us later… but where? The plot thickens…

  • CARDIAC WORKOUT PYRAMID (addressed more questions from Swimmies):
    • Do the following exercises at the bottom then Bernie up to first turn and back. Do 5x reps the first time, then 10x, then 15x.
      • Star Jumps
      • Mountain Climbers (2-ct)
      • Froggie Jumps
    • Run back up the entire hill, doing 15 merkins at each turn

Where’s Switchgrass??

  • Mosey to Parking Lot  THERE’S Switchgrass!!!!
    • PARTNER UP. Partner 1 does exercise, Partner 2 goes to far end of parking lot by method indicated, does 5 SSH, and returns the same way.  Partners switch. The exercises and traveling method are as follows ((addressed more questions from Swimmies):
      • CURLS / KARAOKE LEFT
      • AROUND THE WORLDS / KARAOKE RIGHT
      • What did we do here??? / SPRINT

MARY:
About 20 seconds of STS (Stretching with Steam) before time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 Studs!!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

The holiday season can be awfully exciting… but there can be a weariness that sets in too.  Weariness of parties, shopping, commercials, food/clothing/toy drives, parades and then you can add to that non-holiday related stuff… election cycles, home repairs, what have you.  And there’s also a more general sense of weariness, that despite all of our efforts to do good, sometimes it seems like we’re not making a difference.

Take a deep breath, the long view, and the celebrate the small wins.  We don’t have to save the world.  Small wins sometimes add up to God’s miracles. St. Augustine lived in N. African town of Hyppa.  (Algeria) “Architect of the church”.  Wrote incredible works and classics that have defined Christian faith for generations in a time when the Roman empire was collapsing around him. At the end of his life he was watching barbarians storming his town, knew it would burn to the ground.  Went up to the battlements, and prayed.  One of his prayers, one of his last, was this one: “Lord, my one hope, hear me that weariness may not lesson my will to seek you.” He passed away never giving up to despair.

Ted Loder was a retired Methodist minister who was known for his artistic political activism and passion for social justice.  He was named at one time One of America’s Outstanding Creative Preachers

He wrote about an older woman in one of his congregations. She was nearly blind, bad arthritis, home bound.  Lived on a small teacher’s pension that she mostly gave away to causes she believed in.  She gave to Loder a poem.  “You say the little efforts that I make will do no good. They will never prevail to tip the hovering scale where justice hangs in the balance.  I never thought they would.  But I am prejudiced beyond debate in favor of my right to choose which side shall feel the stubborn ounces of my weight.”  Even on days when it doesn’t seem to matter, where will you put the stubborn ounces of your weight?  Let us not be weary of doing good.

As Paul wrote in Galations 6:9-10 “And let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we shall reap if we do not grow weary. So then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, and especially to those who are of the household of the faith”.  Don’t give in to weariness this holiday season.  Learn to Rest, Not Quit.

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The 1st of the Last

F3 Q: 12.1.22

The 1st Q of the Last Month of 22 

[ The Scene ] 

  • 40s getting into the 30s
  • Sun goin down 

[ Welcome/Disclaimer ]

  • Welcome to F3: Fitness – Fellowship – Faith 
  • My name is Steam and I’ll be your Q this morning 
  • A few things before we begin: 
    • I’m not a professional 
    • You’re here on your own volition
    • You know your injuries if you have any so if you need to modify anything we do today feel free to do so, but push yourselves and the men around you. They deserve it and so do you. 
  • FNGs? – 0

[ Warm o Rama ] 

  • Rockette: 10×4
  • SSH: 10×4
  • Zombie walk from one end of the parking lot to the other
  • SSH: 10×4
  • Merkin: 10×4
  • SSH: 10×4
  • High Knees down and back 
  • SSH: 10×4

Tour de Lights

[ The Thang ] 

(Mosey to the Coliseum) 

— Stop 1: Top of the Dragon

  • 5s (1:1, 2:2. 3:3, etc)
    • POC: Top + 3rd light down 
    • Xs
      • Top: Mountain Climbers (4ct)
      • Man Makers (8 count)

— Stop 2: Roundabout before the Coliseum

  • Core 4: 25 merkins, 25 squats, 25 BBS, + 25 Carolina dry docks  
    • All on a 1 count
    • In between each X, we’re going to run to the top where the building is, and execute 10 SSH together

— Stop 3: Middle of the Coliseum

  • The Triangle Pyramid
    • 3 POC: Think of the coliseum like a triangle – 2 base points on either side of the bottom + the top point where the admin doors are)
    • Starting on the right, we’re going to run the triangle, but it’s going to be pyramid style, meaning that the Xs are going to build upon each other 
      • C1: 1 cone (SSH)
      • C2: 2 cones (Merkins + Imperial Walkers)
      • C3: 3 cones (LBCs, Flutter Kicks, Dips)
    • Everything is 20 reps, on a 1 count

— Core 4 looking over at the lights 

  • American Hammer: 25×4
  • LLBC: 25×4
  • Penguin: 25×4 
  • Dead Bug: 25×4

(Mosey back to the AO)

[ Mary ] 

  • ATMs
  • SWS

[ COT ]

  • # off – 13
  • Name o Rama: Pele, Lillydipper, Tank, Title9, Pusher, Doubtfire, Dawg Paddle, Rooney, Brick, High-Heels, Abacus, Onstar, Steam
  • FNGs – 0
  • BOM

Where Are You? 

  • Genesis 3:6-12

“When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.” And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?” The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

(https://my.bible.com/bible/111/GEN.3.6-12)

3 things I want to point out as we head into the last month of this year: 

  1. “She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.” — What locations are you allowing yourself or the loved ones around you to be in? Mental, physical, emotional, spiritual, sexual locations that are good and healthy or locations that may not be as conducive to how we’re called to walk as HIM. 
  2. “God called to the man and asked “Where are you?” —  God will always call Adam first. It’s not a sexist thing or misogynist thing, it’s by design. We as men are called to lead. And we will answer for how we’ve led. Why would God ask Adam “Where are you?” when he knew exactly where he was at? Now that’s a powerful question. A question we can all  intentionally ask ourselves and others as we enter into the last month of 22 and into a new year – Where am I? Or where are you? Emotionally, physically, mentally, spiritually, relationally, sexually, etc. 
  3. “The man said “The woman you put here with me-she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.” – This is where I get it wrong so much of the time when I’m convicted – it’s not my fault, it’s her. Or it’s their fault. Or it’s the circumstances’ fault. And some of that may be true. But what would it look like to have a generation of men stand up and say “It’s not my fault, but it’s my duty. My duty as a steward of what’s been entrusted to me, my duty as a gardener, protector, and HIM.” 

Closing — It’s easy to show up to a 45 minute workout (for me at least) and not be real. “How’s it going? Good? Good!” But I want to invite myself and all of us into a very scary and eye opening endeavor over the next 30 days – check your location. Where are you? Really? Take stock on your location mentally, physically, emotionally, sexually, spiritually, relationally, professionally, etc. The greatest thing about sharing your location with someone is that it demands accountability. 

F3 never has been, and never will be a men’s ministry. However, a men’s movement? Absolutely. Why? Because men are called to MOVE.