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THE SCENE: 70deg, dense fog, beautiful dark gloom
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

5 HIMs on Rush Speed work, 16 HIMs on the beatdown below.

WARM-O-RAMA:
Hill Billy Squats, Reach for the sky, Butt kicks, Cherry Pickers, Newton’s Craddle with Merkin, Bonnie Blair, Mountain Climbers, Freddy Mercury
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the closest guardrail (some not surprised by this).

  • 20 Derkins
  • 20 Tricep dips
  • 20 Small Rock Overhead claps

Cross the street to our favorite little hill: Jucomajaro

Every 100 feet a new Exercise chalked out.  HIMs had to choose one time to crawl bear, bear crawl, crab walk and bernie, rest were mosey between.

20 of each:

  • Newton Cradle with Merkin
  • Burpees
  • Mountain climbers
  • Bonnie Blair
  • BBS
  • V ups
  • LBC
  • Side crunch L
  • Side crunch R
  • Downhill Merkin
  • Uphill Merkin
  • Diamond Merkin

Mosey to the summit and hit the stations again on the way back down.  6 swept with the group finishing in time to mosey to the flag.

MARY:
Dealers choice: Flutter kicks, mountain climbers, American Hammers, planks
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
You all are impressive.  You do the hard things out here really well.
The verse I want to look at today: Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed.  James 5:16
An area of the Christian life we don’t spend much time talking about is confession of our sins. Out here it is deep and hard and uncomfortable. Maybe it’s because of that or maybe it’s the complicated dynamics of southern hell fire and damnation preaching style or a catholic image of telling some sins to a priest in an ornate wooden box.
But we are called to do it. It’s in the Lord’s prayer and all throughout the Psalms

I see 4 types of confession and all are important to all the time:

  1. High School level confession: coming clean on blatant sin; probably having to do with actions – Maybe outbursts of anger, or the way you drive or sexual sin.
    God is faithful to forgive. Jesus conquered sin and death. Rest in that!  Praise God for that!
  2. College level confession: gets to the pride and heart and emotion and ways we have broken His Law privately and in our thoughts and desires
  3. Masters level confession: searching your heart for sins of omission and small ways we have turned our back to God and hurt Him and others
  4. Doctorate level confession:  is seeing that even in our good deeds with less than 100% pure motives are filthily rags to God.   God hates hypocrisy and says in Isaiah 64:6
    We have all become like one who is unclean,
    and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.

Even if I’m doing the right thing for my wife and kids but my heart is doing it so my life is easier or people think higher of me or whatever the reason, that can be sinful and we need to confess that.
Or take leading a Q. I encourage you all to sign up for a Q soon. But if it is so you think more of me or I get to boss you all around for 45 min, That’s sin I need to confess.  This week I checked my motives and confess they were not 100% pure but God rooted much of that out.
Are our motives ever perfectly pure – not this side of heaven, but are they increasingly motivated by the Holy Spirit and from a place of love? Be growing in that.  Do the hard work of examining your heart.  Pray God will show you the truth.
Don’t take this college level analogy too far – it falls way short – we must practice all levels of confession no matter how long we have been walking with Christ.   We must all get double doctorates in rooting out the sin in our hearts
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed.
James 5:16 (ESV)

It is a call to holiness, It isn’t some magic word; but it is a part of the walk of a follower of Jesus
Spend some time with the Lord confessing your sin. If you want to knock the power of sin out – confess your sins to a brother.
As HIMs we need to be willing to humbly confess sin.
MOLESKIN:
Prayer for Wander’s son’s upcoming surgery and pain – praise for Pool Boy’s friend Sam who continues to recover
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
IornPax Challenge Week 0 on Friday.  Sign up here

The Project – IPC Week 0

THE SCENE: 71 and muggy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:

1. Welcome F3 (Fitness, Fellowship, Faith)
2. Not a professional, FREE, here of your own will. Be careful, modify as needed.
3. CV19 Precautions: Maintain distance, no shared equipment or touching partner exercise, gloves recommended – if you are sick and have CV19 symptoms – go home.
4. Cell phone for emergencies.

WARM-O-RAMA:
1. Tempo Squats 5x/Squats 5x (4-ct)
2. Big Boy Sit-up 5x
3. Tempo Merkins 5x/Merks 5x (4-ct)
4. Bonnie Blairs 5x (left leg, 2-ct)
5. Burpees 5x
6. Mosey to ORHS track

THA-THANG:
IronPax Week 0
(4 Rounds for time)
• 50 Air Squats
• 40 Big Boy Sit-ups
• 30 Merkins
• 20 Bonnie Blairs
• 10 Burpees
• 400 Meter Run

MARY:
No Time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11Strong: Erector, Chaco, Kickflip, Slappy, Mailbox, Pi, Nuclear Ninja, Trolley, Pool Boy, Mathlete

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
DONUTS! I wanted to thank, celebrate, and bless the pax, especially after Week 0 of IPC, and specifically commemorating Nuclear Ninja’s VQ several weeks ago. Ninja and Pi are not able to stay afterward for Coffeeteria (school and work), so we brought some Donut Palace to bring Coffeeteria to them.

MOLESKIN:
Several pax shared good news that we had been praying for in the last several weeks and months, which we were sure to thank Sky Q for!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. Iron Pax – register @ F3 Greenwood
2. Hardship Hill Oct 3
3. Tuba moved to OR – F3 helped his family get moved (off NY)

FLEXing at the Crossroads of Pain

THE SCENE: We were prepared for rain in the forecast but it never came so the weather was just about perfect
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER- Administered
WARM-O-RAMA:
10 x Moroccan Night Club IC
7 x Imperial Squat Walker IC
10 x Overhead Clap IC
7 x Power T Merkins IC
5 x Burpees OYO

More brief warmup than what I normally do – but each PAX got to choose his path today… so I think it was still ok
Explained to the PAX that there are 4 paths they would get to choose today
THA-THANG: Choose your own adventure: Picture of Adventure Paths You Can Take
Note that only the “1’s” were done today – the “2’s” were in case it rained and no chalk was available and the PAX would all be together but we’d individually choose which of two exercises to do. All exercises are 10 single count reps unless otherwise noted.

Yellow 1 Yellow 2 Red 1 Red 2
Squat Jumps Squats 10 Pull-ups
10 CMU OHP+Tris ea
Bernie up hill Run up hill 15 Burpees
10 Squat Thrusters
Squat Walker Imperial Walker 15 Diamond Merkins 5 Blockees
Lunges back down High Knees/Butt Kickers Down Plank (30 seconds)
10 Kettle Bell Swings
Back to 4-way stop + 5 Burpees
15 second count off after each round (For rain it will be dealer’s choice for the 6 to finish the path)
Blue 1 Blue 2 Green 1 Green 2
Freddy Mercury LBC Suicides x 3 (lights) Jog + 5 Squats
Heels to Heaven Gas Pump Walk to next part Sprint + Side Plank to next part
Pickle Pounder Pickle Pointer Suicides x 3 (lights) Sprint to end
Flutter Kick Hello Dolly Walk to path Jog + 10 Merkins
(Blue two laps) Back to 4-way stop + 5 Burpees

After approx. 5 rounds, recover at the 4-way intersection and dealer’s choice CORE until all PAX have finished their current round. Fast mosey back to the AO + 1 wagon wheel. Small jail break with Sunrise pushing me hard to the end!

MARY:
Only at the Crossroads of Pain (aka the 4-way stop sign). If we had time or Waxjob had showed up I was going to end with “Row, row, row your boat” (boat / canoe) #easter-egg

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
21 HIMs FLEXing in the GLOOM!

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
This week Kick flip asked if my BOM would be a continuation of “Step Up!” from my Q Tuesday at #the-project
In some ways, this is true – we’ve been talking about FLEXing as you step things up. As you are making choices to Step Up, what is next? It’s FLEXing – but I’ll leave you wondering what this for another minute.

What do you think of when I say “FLEX”? Do you think of F3 workouts? “Bros” posing in a mirror for that IG pic? Do you think of “FLEX”ing on someone to show you’re the one in charge (your kids, your wife, your subordinates at work, or even coworkers who you feel [wrongly] are inferior in some way to you or are not as good as you are at something so you should get more respect) or even someone “FLEX”ing on you (your boss, a government official, etc.)? Jesus had a few words to say about the last kind of FLEXing:

Matthew 20:25-28 – 25 But Jesus called them to him and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. 26 It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant,[a] 27 and whoever would be first among you must be your slave,[b] 28 even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Jesus said to FLEX in the kingdom you have to get low. We don’t fight or live for this world as the place where Christ is making His kingdom come by force (yet- He will return), so here’s an acronym I have for you about FLEXing to help you remember how Christ wants us to flex now while we wait for His return:
Faithfulness – this is a big part of the continuation from “Step Up!” The PAX who get out there day-in and day-out are the ones who are doing the first part of being faithful. Be faithful in your job. Be faithful to your family. Be faithful in your repentance (don’t wait until you have a list of sins a mile long- God is RICH in mercy! and He is waiting for you as He did for The Prodigal Son)

Leadership – Jesus says for us to lead by example with the towel & basin. This means daily denying ourselves, laying down our lives, and obeying the things right in front of us and then AS God gives us roles and ways to lead others we walk humbly with surrender to Him as we know that He is holding us accountable for how we lead, teach, and care for others whom He has set under us for us to love and serve.

Endurance – F3 is such an easy analogy to share this with. The men I see each morning share different struggles and are (as I was reminded this week by a brother) all encouraged in different ways. This is true of your wives, your children, your friends, your pastors, and everyone else you meet. A passage that is constant encouragement for me in this area in particular is Hebrews 12:1-2.

X-factor: The Sovereignty of God – The belief and knowledge that God works ALL things for good (especially the “bad ones” is a way that no matter what has happened, or even especially through what has happened in my life and your life, that God is in control and He will bring to pass what He wills. I’m reminded of a quote from a book I’ve read several times now that quotes one of the Puritans saying “it may be better that one condition is more suitable for another”, meaning that God works in ways we do not (and should not expect to always) understand. He is trustworthy. He will see you through and is drawing you to Himself right now in the trial of adversity or the trial (yes trial) of prosperity. He is using all things to bring Himself glory and that is for your good.

So, how can we FLEX? We can’t do it in our own power but in Christ’s and seeing His example should encourage you and me to FLEX more and more:

Philippians 2:3-8 – 3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,[a] 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,[b] 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant,[c] being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

MOLESKIN:
Made a special trip to Walmart, spent 20 minutes looking for chalk, had a lady help me find the chalk (got groceries too) then forgot the chalk at home… so I had to go back home. I showed up early this morning to see if it was going to rain and had a FLEXible plan if it did but it all worked out. And, as the F3 disclaimer says, I’d have modified as necessary if it hadn’t!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Sign up for the 2020 F3 Iron PAX challenge (Friday’s in September at JUCO as well as at Shamrock if you’re so-inclined too). Judge Judy returns next week (On Q next Friday). There are open Q’s so sign up for one (or ask me to co-q with you)!

Tuba’s family is moving tomorrow as well from Powell to Oak Ridge but he is out of town in the Reserves. Contact Booster to help him move (see Slack / GroupMe)

JUCO – “Be There”!

THE SCENE: Beautiful fall like weather 68F
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Baby Arm Circles forward then backwards (IC) 4 CT x 15 each

Side Straddle hop (IC) 4 CT x 20

On your back Side Straddle hop 25 OYO

5 Burpees OYO

THA-THANG:

Mosey to the CMU pile. Stopped for 25 merkins

Grab a CMU. 

50 Curls

50 American Hammers  

50 Tricep extensions

50 Twists ( Block-a-bye baby? ) 

Mosey to sophomore hill

Line up on the 1st line. 

25 Curls + 25 4-count flutter kick with block then move your CMU forward to the next line

Run 1 lap – Bernie up the hill

25 Squat Thrusters + 25 Big Boys with block then move your CMU to the next line

Run 1 lap – Bernie up the hill

25 Curls + 25 4-count flutter kick with block then move your CMU forward to the next line

Run 1 lap – Bernie up the hill

25 Squat Thrusters + 25 Big Boys with block then move your CMU to the next line

See how far you can go. Stopped at 6:05AM

Return blocks, wall sits, then mosey to AO

MARY:

Dealers choice Mary ( Pickle Pounders, Hello Dolly, Rainbows, Freddie Mercury, Merkins ) 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

21 including FNG “Leno” and the Juco Rush guys
Kick-Flip, Slappy, Snaggletooth, Mailbox, Hound Dog, 5K, Sunrise, Pool Boy, Butter Knife, Dart Gun, Frenchie, Erector, Ralph, Spotter, Wanderer, Booster, Sty, Leno (FNG), SOS, Wheelchair, Anchorman,
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

I shared this with the guys at Shamrock last week. It’s about 2 words that my grandfather said when I was 12. 

He said these 2 words at his 50th wedding anniversary party. My grandfather was an amazing man. He battled throat cancer years before this so his voice was often hard to hear, but he spoke loud and clear that night and we all listened. 

Thankfully someone recorded the speech. 

He had 2 words that he wanted to say us. 

“Be There”!  You could tell he was so thankful that all of us showed up to celebrate his marriage to my amazing grandmother. 

He talked about how important it was to be there for people. 

  He looked around at over 100 family members and friends that came to celebrate with them. He thanked us for being there and said “this may be the last time that we are all together, but it won’t be the last time up there.”

That gathering and that speech makes me think about all the community  gatherings that Jesus organized. The amount of time he invested in his disciples, the woman at the well, the poor, the rich, the blind, the possessed. He ends his ministry by gathering his disciples for the last supper. He painted a very clear picture of how to Be There for people around us on Earth and invited us to Be There with Him one day in Heaven. 

MOLESKIN:

Prayer requests: 

Jeff – Friend of Sty 

Becky – Friend of Booster’s wife

Butterknife – Final job interview 

 

Step Up – Fulfill Your Responsibilities!

THE SCENE: Dry but about to produce some sweat.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER + COVID distancing: Administered + Cell Phone
WARM-O-RAMA:
IC 10 x Moroccan Night Club (Erector almost missed this one but quickly rose to his feet!)
IC 10 x Oompa Loompa IC (everyone in the warmup circle squat alternating with the person next to you)
IC 7 x Overhead Clap
IC 10 x Raise the roof (calf raise + air press)
OYO 10 x El Capitan
IC 7 x “Power T” Merkins (S/O to Mailbox for this one – it’s a hand release merkin but arms go straight out to each side)
OYO 5 x “Projectee” (burpee + donkey kick after the push-up part – it didn’t flow like I wanted but it was hard haha)

THA-THANG:Picture of the Workout path from 1 (Warmup) to 7, stop at 3 on the way back and finish at 1:
Mosey to 2: 7 runs total to the first light pole:
1 warmup
5@100% sprints
1 cool down

Mosey to 3 aka the International Friendship Bell
Do 10 each exercise for the duration of the “Friends” theme song (full length)

Freddy Mercury
Rocky Balboa (high steps)
Incline Merkins
El Capitan
Newton’s Cradle
Derkins
Step Ups

Mosey to 4 Descending Route 66:
11, 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 burpees – 1 set per parking space + 1 Projectee (burpee + donkey kick) per set
Q-called this one with most PAX starting at 5 or 4.

Mosey to 5 Will the Circle Be Unbroken:
During the song:
Verse – Newton’s Cradle
Chorus – Lunge in alternating circular directions starting clockwise
Instrumental Break / Bridge – Q called several PAX to name a core exercise that we did until the next verse / chorus

Run to 6: Wagon Wheel as necessary while pushing the pace from mosey to faster
At 6 we did 10 of each of the following (out and back like a “wagon wheel):
Diamon Merkin (I think we did these – a car came and we had to break for that but then they turned away)
Crab walk
Lunge

Mosey to 7 for Mucho leg-o (okay so no song “directly” goes with this one but Bailamos was the best I could find)
1) Narrow squat (feet together),
2) regular-stance squat,
3) wide squat,
4) Bonnie Blair (jumping lunge) with left foot forward,
5) Bonnie Blair with right foot forward (then back to narrow stance).
Repeato until you look like a baby giraffe stumbling across the Savannah.
Q called it after ~10 sets so 40 squats but doing them slowly, 1 at a time was a new DOMS experience for sure!

Mosey back to 3 with a Wagon Wheel along the way that included an unexpected detour through the grass.
At 3 do 10 Step-Ups OYO (that’s all the time we had left!)

MARY:
No time for that.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 PAX Stepped It Up Today to be HIMs! (picture in link)

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Initial Question: What are you responsible for? F3 (Q, follow, invest), wife/gf (if you have one), children, friends, family, church… Think about it- are you passive or active? Are you idle or do you take initiative?
2 Thessalonians 3:10-15
10 For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let
him not eat. 11 For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies. 12
Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to
earn their own living. 13 As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good. 14 If anyone does not
obey what we say in this letter, take note of that person, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be
ashamed. 15 Do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.

3 Questions we can ask from this passage
1. What are you being idle about?
For me? Very clearly: My PE Exam study. I’m getting my application in this week and will follow my study schedule that I’m going to make.
2. Who do you need to warn as a brother with regard to idleness, passivity?
You reading this is me warning you if you’re being idle. Of course I’m aware of people I need to warn (and am praying about when to say this warning to them), but we are called to go directly to our brother and not gossip (Matthew 18) so I’ll leave you with that thought to consider yourself. Also, I’d love to talk to any of you who wrestle with this (because it’s common to us all)
3. Last, how can you rely more on God to work in you and in others?
If we try to be busy working on our own but not relying on God, we can despair if we “fail” or become prideful if we “succeed.” Philippians 4:6-7 has served me well in many hard times – in the moment, take a moment and pray and rely on God’s strength as you act yourself and as you warn others who are busybodies but not busy working.

MOLESKIN:
Praise and continued prayer for Slappy’s father-in-law as the doctors/tests have found they’re unsure what to make of his health situation as they can’t find anything wrong with him in all the testing and markers.
Prayer for Erector’s pastor who was diagnosed with Stage IV cancer just this past week

Somewhere along the way I lost a glove. I took it off to use my phone to play the mp3s of all of the songs and then I forgot to put it back on. Always wear gloves! I had such a fun time Q’ing. But I’m still learning- and boy do I have a long way to go!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Announcements: Iron PAX Challenge coming up in September Friday’s at JUCO & Shamrock