[ The Scene ]
HOT – 60s and feeling good, PAX met up top (top of Asylum) because apparently people like to frequent public parks when the weather is nice outside.
[ Welcome/Disclaimer ]
- Welcome to F3! Fitness-Fellowship-Faith
- Name is Steam and I’ll be your Q tonight
- Few things before we begin:
- I’m not a professional
- You’re here on your own volition
- If you need to modify anything feel free to do so but push yourself and the men around you – they deserve it and so do you!
- FNGs? — 1 (with Snag – well done!)
[ Warm o Rama ]
- Baby Arm Circles: 20×4 (10 F and 10 B)
[ The Thang ]
(Mosey over to the right of the asylum building)
(1) The Hill and Back — 10s
- The Tree on top of the hill (Imperial Walkers)
- Curb on the other side of the street (Rocky Balboas)
- Everything on a 4 count
- 9 and 1
- 8 and 2
Recover with flutter kicks in the grass
(Mosey to log pile – lower parking lot)
(2) Core 4 + Push
- 4 corners of the lower parking lot (10 – 1 ct)
- C1: LBCs
- C2: BBS
- C3: Cockroaches
- C4: Boat/Canoes
- Run to the top of the drive (Street)
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*Q Teaching Moment*
Pick up the 6 and Wagon Wheel mean Pick up the 6 and wagon wheel. Gridiron, who’s 12, led the charge on this. So I called all PAX back up to the street where the merkins were being done and specifically called out Gridiron for doing this — leading from the front. i put Gridiron in a place of leadership – instructing him to lead all PAX in 30 down/up merkins, which he did exceptionally.
QTip: You’re never too young/old/seasoned to never leave a man behind, and never leave a man the same.
We could all learn a lot from Gridiron and the way he consistently picks up the 6, wagon wheels, and lives out “No Man Left Behind, No Man Left The Same.”
This goes into my BOM a little bit too – but on the mosey to Everest pre-Mary, I had told Gridiron I was proud of him for leading from the front and setting the example and standard. His response was the following:
”Well I have 2 of the best role models that teach me that, my dad and mom. Basically Mr F3 and Mrs FIA”
Doubtfire (and your M) — well done. That’s HIM stuff right there.
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(PAX mosey to the base of Everest and form battle buddy teams)
PAX take Everest by force, going all the way to the top and over the highest point back to the AO
[ Mary ]
Core 4
- Flutter Kicks: 25×4
- American Hammers: 25×4
- Little LBCs: 25×4
- Penguins: 25×4
[ COT ]
From the movie “Courageous”
“As a law enforcement officer, I’ve seen firsthand the deep hurt and devastation that fatherless brings in a child’s life. Our prisons are full of men and women who have lived recklessly after being abandoned by their fathers, wounded by the men who should have loved them the most. Many of these children now follow the same pattern of irresponsibility that their fathers did. While so many mothers have sacrificed much so that their children could survive, they were never intended to carry the weight alone. We thank God for them.
But research is proving that a child also desperately needs a daddy. There’s no way around this fact. I now believe that God desires for every father to courageously step up and do whatever it takes to be involved in the lives of his children. But more than just being there and providing for them, he’s to walk with them through their lives and be a visual representation of the character of God, their father in Heaven. A father should love his children and seek to win their hearts. He should protect them, discipline them, and teach the, about God. He should model how to walk with integrity and how to treat others with respect. He should call out his children to become responsible men and women, who live their lives for what matters in eternity.
Some men will hear this and mock it, or ignore it. But I tell you that as a father you are accountable to God for the position of influence He has given you. You can’t fall asleep at the wheel only to wake up one day and realize that your job or your hobbies have no eternal value. But the should of your children do.
Some men will hear this and agree with it, but have no resolve to live it out. Instead they will live for themselves and waste an opportunity to lease a Godly legacy for the next generation.
But there are some men, who, regardless of the mistakes we’ve made in the past, regardless of what our fathers did not do for us, will give the strength of our arms and the rest of our days to loving God with all that we are, and to teach our children to do the same, and whenever possible, to love and mentor others who have no fathers in their lives, but who desperately need help and direction.
We are inviting any man who’s heart is willing and courageous to join us in this revolution. In my home the decision has already been made: you don’t have to ask who will guide my family, because by God’s grace, I will. You don’t have to ask who will teach my son to follow Christ, because I will. Who will accept the responsibility for providing and protecting my family? I will. Who will ask God to break the chain of dysfunctional patterns in my family’s history? I will. Who will pray for, and bless my children to boldly pursue whatever God calls them to do? I am their farther. I will. I accept this responsibility and it is my privilege to embrace it. I want the favor of God and His blessing on my home. Any good man does.
So where are you men’s of courage? Where are you fathers who fear the Lord? It’s time to rise up and answer the call that God has given you. And to say I will, I will, I will.”
