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Better Late Than Never Egg Hunt + Prey-Predator Game

THE SCENE: Mid 50’s and cloudy.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Overhead Claps x 11.
  • Seal Claps x 10.
  • SSH x 11.
  • Plan Position (30 sec).
  • Shoulder taps x 10.
  • Merkins on your own x 10.

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the new building.

We did some laps around the new building stopping at each entrance. The exercises at each entrance were:

  • 15 Lunges.
  • 10 Burpees.
  • 10 Heels to Heaven.
  • 15 Derkins / 30 Toe Merkins.
  • 20 Box Jumps / 20 Dips.
  • 20 BBS.
  • 20 Squats.

Egg Hunt.

We divided ourselves in 2 teams, we collected as many eggs as we could and we gave the eggs that we collected to the other team as a present :)…then the teams had to run around a loop (800 feet), crack open the eggs and do the exercise prescribed by the egg :). Team number 2 did a great job finishing all of the eggs in less than 10 mins…great work gents!!!

Prey-Predator Game.

Two Stop signs. Three predators and many preys. The objective was to carry as many eggs as possible from one stop sign to the other douching for the predators. If you get caught by a predator, you do 10 burpees, you become a predator and the predator becomes a prey. It was a really fun game, but there was not much time to do many rounds :'(.

MARY:
No time.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
16 Strong HIMs showed up this morning.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Reflected about happiness and how easily we can take things for granted. Let’s try to see love and beauty in the small things.

Proverbs 20:27

“The Spirit of man is the lamp of the LORD, searching all the innermost parts of his being”.

MOLESKIN:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
No time.

JUCOtop Stargazers

THE SCENE: 66°, Dry and wonderful

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Delivered
WARM-O-RAMA:
Side Straddle hops, Mountain Climbers, Reach for the stars, let it hang, Cherry Pickers, some other stuff.  Booster mentioned doing stargazers, so we headed to the top of Juco to try it out.  Campus is too bright.
THA-THANG:
Grabbed some rocks after doing 25 dips.  Carried them to the base of Jucomajaro.  Did a min of exercise followed by a sprint up 2 lines, carrying our rock.

  • 1 min of burpees
  • 1 min of Imperial Walkers (It is May the Fourth)
  • 1 min of BBS
  • 1 min of Squats
  • 1 min of plank
  • 1 min of Flutter kicks
  • 1 min of Superman

Made the summit where we had a ring of fire, starting at 4 merkins.

Then we got 3.5 seconds of stargazers before we did some Hello Dolly.  Too many clouds to see stars anyway.

Stone Jenga was played.  We held Al Gore while building a pile of rocks.  We got to 7 rocks before it fell so 10-7=3… 3 burpees.  Well done.  Mosey back to return our rocks, do more dips, bear crawl across the street and back, 10 Dirkens, Duck walk to curb and 20 calf raises.

MARY:
Hello Dolly, Freddie Murcury, Superman and 10 Regular, 10 Wide and 10 Diamond merkins
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Psalm 18:  I love you, Oh Lord, My Strength

Looked at making sure the Lord is our strength, our deliverer and our Rock.   David, leading the victorious army didn’t find his strength in his self but from the Lord.  Make sure Jesus is the foundation of your strength.

Be praying for our F3 brothers we miss due to injury.  Especially Survivor, Spotter, 5k, Gump and others.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP at Haw Ridge Friday night 9-Midnight.  Last chance to sign up today.  Family workout moved to May 14.

The Whole Story

THE SCENE: Cool and clear
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Projectivator
  • Easy lap w/ high knees, butt kicks, strides
  • Tempo merkins
  • Cherry pickers
  • Tempo squat

THA-THANG:

  • Death march to ORAU Hill the long way
  • After each exercise sprint up hill; mosey down
  • 1 minute merkins
  • 1 minute big boys
  • 1 minute squats
  • 1 minute plank
  • 1 minute merkins
  • 1 minute LBCs
  • 1 minute imperial squalkers
  • 1 minute plank

Mosey back to the flag. We stopped at the playground for some pull ups.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
May the 4th is tomorrow.  When watching the Original Trilogy, you think the story is about Luke, but after watching the Prequel Trilogy, you realize that the story is about Anakin.  A story of redemption.

Also, God laid on my heart this week to be aware of the legacy I’m leaving.  I shared the tale of Steve Jobs.  He built a huge company that changed the world, but within months of his death, Apple launched a product he said they’d never sell:  the iPad Mini.

Our legacy is much more affected by the people we influence throughout our lives.  Our children, wives, friends, coworkers, and others.  The values we invest in them and the fruit of the Spirit we bear around them will make a bigger impact than the work of our hands.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP this Friday!  Family workout postponed to May 14th.

Bear One Another’s Burdens

THE SCENE: a crisp 50 degrees at JUCO
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 SSH, 10 MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS, 10 TEMPO MERKINS, 15 MOROCCAN NIGHT CLUB, 10 HARRY ROCKETTES, 10 WINDMILL
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the Sophomore. Starting at the first corner:

  • 25 LBCs
  • Run up the hill to the pull-up bars
  • 5 toes to bars, leg lifts, or knee lifts
  • Run back around the corner and continue to the next corner of the building
  • 15 heels to Heaven
  • Continue to the next corner
  • 10 side crunches each side
  • Back to start and repeat 1 more time

Mosey to the coupon pile and grab your favorite:

  • 20 OHP
  • 20 tricep extensions
  • Run up the steps
  • 5 or more pull-ups
  • 20 merkins
  • Run back down and repeat once more

Mosey to the grassy hill:

  • 20 squats at the bottom
  • Up the hill and do 10 burpees
  • Repeat twice more

MARY:
15 flutter kicks IC, Protractor
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
7 got better!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Bear one another’s burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ. – Galatians 6:2 NASB1995

Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing. – 1 Thessalonians 5:11 NASB1995

Trying to shoulder our burdens all by ourselves is really difficult. We are called to bear one another’s burdens and build each other. That means that when we have burdens too heavy to bear, we have to be willing to share them with our trusted brothers. I know this can be very difficult for us men who want to generally hold in our emotions and our challenges. We typically think that it shows weakness to ask for help. Fact is…we need it.

“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” – Matthew 11:28‭-‬30 NASB1995

We can find our ultimate (eternal) rest in Jesus.

MOLESKIN:
YHC always over plans workouts but was pleasantly surprised how much we got done. Well done gents!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
One week until CSAUP!

Traveling by BLIMPS

THE SCENE: Chilly; in the 40s. Great weather for a blimp ride.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Warmed up with some:
    • Abe Vigoda
    • Arm Circles forward/back
    • tempo squat
    • plank jacks

THA-THANG:

Travel to new campus building. Partner up and complete the following in pairs. One person does 10 of the main exercise while the other does the waiting exercise. Then they swap until 100 reps of the main exercise have been completed.

100 Merkin – Plank
100 LBC – Low Plank
100 Squat – Al Gore

Travel to Far end of Pond. Travel by BLIMP around the smaller pond loop.

  • Burpee x5
  • Lunge x10
  • Imperial Walker x15
  • Merkin x20
  • Plank Jack x25
  • Squat x30

Traveling by BLIMPS is slow as you can imagine. The Lunges, Imp Walker and squat with side step kept us slowly moving forward. Needless to say we didn’t make it around the loop.

Headed back toward the flag, stopping to do a modified Beast.

Completed 6 reps of LBC, squats, Werkin, American Hammer and Burpee. Started heading back toward the flag as time wound down.

MARY:
Finished it out with some Hello Dollies and Flutter Kicks.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Previously, I had talked about  the humility of Christ from Phil 2:5-7. His coming to earth to serve others and sacrifice of himself. (On so many levels)
That same passage continues and connects that humbleness of Jesus with God exalting him and giving him the name that is above every name. Lets look at the next few verses.

Phil 2:9-11

Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name. So that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

God has declared Jesus as synonymous with himself and given him his own name. One day there will be no choice but everyone will recognize the glory of God and bow.