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Deck of Pain V

✔ THE SCENE: 75 and a little muggy

✔ F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER – check check 1 2 1 2.. is this thing on? Its free, we’re all crazy to be here at 5:30 and you should never let me lead a workout, you might die – but I’ll bring a cell phone just in case.  Iron sharpens iron. I miss and love the JUCO campus and all the HIMs at F3.  Great to be here even if Judge Judy coincidentally has a “work event” that prevents his attendance.. Slack whippings will ensue..

And when I come back for a JUCO visit I love to tour the campus.  What better way to tour the campus than with the “Deck of Pain” beatdown.  So thats what we did today.

Previous executions of the Deck of Pain:

  1. JUNE 19, 2019 https://f3knoxville.com/forgiving-the-deck-of-pain/
  2. JULY 1, 2019 https://f3knoxville.com/juco-deck-of-pain-second-installment/
  3. JULY 19, 2019 https://f3knoxville.com/deck-of-pain-iii/
  4. DECEMBER 13, 2019 https://f3knoxville.com/jailbreak-tour-emmanuel/

✔ WARM-O-RAMA:

  • 10 SSH
  • 5 burpees
  • 10 Cherry Pickers
  • 5 burpees
  • 10 Windmills
  • 5 Burpees
  • 10 Imperial Squat Walkers
  • 5 Burpees

The Thang:  The Fifth installation of the Deck of Pain

Each HIM takes a turn choosing one card from the 16 different exercise location cards.  The card is read outloud and once everyone hears and understands where and what it is then we ALL  Jailbreak sprint to that location and we all do the exercise.  When about the 3rd to the last person gets finished with the exercise then they start a 30 second count down. When 30 seconds is up, the next HIM chooses a card from the deck. And repeat until clock runs out.  Here are the cards:

  1. 2 Rec Center Stair assents with the CMU  (right next to the CMU pile)
  2. 30 Rec Center Pull-ups
  3. 50 CMU Curls (at the CMU Pile )
  4. 30 Lake Lunges (single count lunges at the lake)
  5. 30 Panther (top of Sophmore hill) Pickle Pounders
  6. Burpee Base Run ( 3 burpee per base on baseball diamond)
  7. 5 Stadium Hill Runs (on Success way)
  8. 30 Guard Rail Derkins (behind Maple Street)
  9. 3 Reverse Bear Crawl loop in front of ERC Building.
  10. Alternating Side straddles in Parking Lot 05 (go one full lot length – alternate on each row of stalls)
  11. Bernie two lengths of the Welcome Way Parking Lot (the biggest lot on campus).
  12. 40 CMU Push Presses (by CMU pile)
  13. Art Center Burpee Broad Jumps (2 lengths)
  14. 30 Brick Dips (@ low brick wall)
  15. 1 Inner Sanctum Bear Crawl Loop
  16. 10 Maintenance Hand Stand push ups

Today we drew cards: 12, 16, 8, 7, 13, 15, 9, 2

Total exhaustion was had by all.  🙂

MARY:  Who needs Mary?

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

2 Kings 6:15 is becoming one of my favorite verses.  Read and paraphrased it a little and reminded men to not be afraid – God is on our side…

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+kings+6%3A8-17&version=NIV

Now the king of Aram was at war with Israel. After conferring with his officers, he said, “I will set up my camp in such and such a place.”

9 The man of God sent word to the king of Israel: “Beware of passing that place, because the Arameans are going down there.” 10 So the king of Israel checked on the place indicated by the man of God. Time and again Elisha warned the king, so that he was on his guard in such places.

11 This enraged the king of Aram. He summoned his officers and demanded of them, “Tell me! Which of us is on the side of the king of Israel?”

12 “None of us, my lord the king,” said one of his officers, “but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom.”

13 “Go, find out where he is,” the king ordered, “so I can send men and capture him.” The report came back: “He is in Dothan.” 14 Then he sent horses and chariots and a strong force there. They went by night and surrounded the city.

15 When the servant of the man of God got up and went out early the next morning, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city. “Oh no, my lord! What shall we do?” the servant asked.

16 “Don’t be afraid,” the prophet answered. “Those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”

17 And Elisha prayed, “Open his eyes, Lord, so that he may see.” Then the Lord opened the servant’s eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

GRACE AIN’T CHEAP: BETTER GET TO THE ATM

THE SCENE: Steamy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER ✔
WARM-O-RAMA:
Cherry Pickers IC  x7, Windmills IC x7, Shoulder Taps IC x15, Tempo Merkins IC x10, Merkins OYO x10, Imperial Walkers IC x10, Tempo Squats IC x10, Squats OYO x10
THA-THANG:
MOSEY to “ATM,” Rinse and Repeat for 2 miles.

  • ATM 1 – Shoulder Taps IC x15, Tempo Merkins IC x10, Merkins OYO x10
  • ATM 2 – Imperial Walkers IC x10, Tempo Squats IC x10, Squats OYO x10

We mosied around campus stopping at “ATMs,” rotating between the two ATMs above for 2 miles.

MARY:
No time.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
15 Strong

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Grace is costly.  It cost you your SIN.  Jesus said, “If you love me, you will obey my commands.” John 14:15.  Don’t live with “cheap grace,” the kind that leads to “cultural Christianity” and ultimately separation from God in the next life.  The Cultural Christian is the one who says they believe who Jesus says he is, they go to church, and they maybe even study God’s word – but they live a different life, one full of unrepentant sin and an unwillingness to turn from it.  In other words, from an objective standpoint, if you look a their life, there is zero evidence they have true, saving faith.  They honor God with their lips but their hearts are far from Him.  The Bible warns against leading that type of life.  Grace is expensive in that God calls us to repent and turn from our sin, which in our natural state, we love.  Men, if you are living in unrepentant sin, let TODAY be the day you put that to death!

MOLESKIN:
The last stop was at a real ATM machine at the Regions Bank – can’t plan it better than that.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Clothing collections for Mend House.

Taking the ‘Next Step’

THE SCENE:

Nice and warm
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
– Cherry pickers (4ct IC) x5
– SSH (4ct IC) x20
– some of these/some of those
– bent over back stretch

-Mosey

5 T-merkins
5 Navy seal burpees

-Mosey

THA-THANG:

-field suicides (end line, 18 yard, 50 yard, opposite 18 yard, full field)
-> navy seal burpees (5)
-> bear crawl
-> T merkins (10)
-> run back
-> Navy seal burpees (5)
-> bearcrawl
-> air squats (50)
-> run back
-> Navy seal burpees (5)
-> lunge
-> T merkins (10)
-> run back
-> Navy seal burpees (5)
-> run full field
-> Navy seal burpees (5)
->Run back
-> abs until six gets back

 

60 seconds on 20 seconds off

->Abs

->Tire flips

->Abs
->Rope tire pulls

->Abs
->Weighted jumping jacks with battle rope

->Abs
->Plate ground to overhead

->Abs
->Single arm KB clean

->Abs
->Overhead DB lunges

->Abs

->American hammers

MARY:

3 sets of 30 sec handstand holds

Variations: Handstands, Elevated pike position, CDD

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Today I wanted to get everyone doing something different than what we normally do. One of the key points of F3 is to grow ourselves and help others grow.

We focused on that ‘Next Step’ today, being better than we were yesterday. I bet if I asked you yesterday if you could do the workout you just did that you would say that you couldn’t do it. This was meant to be the “progress, not perfection mentality”.

To often do we find ourselves becoming comfortable with where we are and not taking that next step. Just because we feel like we aren’t getting closer to that next plateau. We are farther than we were.

So an example I saw that really had a profound effect is the distance we have to get to God. So every time we take that step toward God, so does God. So even though we are still some distance away from God, we are much farther away from Sin than we were. And every day we can take this next step and be somewhere that we thought was impossible.

MOLESKIN:
Clothing donation for Mend’s house. Ask Tank or Doubtfire.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Welcome FNG Freshman

What If?

THE SCENE:  A surprisingly dry but humid morning.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Moroccan Night Clubs / Cherry Pickers / Windmills / Tempo Merkins / Squatting Twinkle Humpers
THA-THANG:
Mosey past Maple Street down HV to Pellissippi entrance.  Stopped at the guardrail for a few shoulder taps with feet on the guard rail.  Route 66 at each lightpole around the road.  Starting with 1 burpee and adding a burpee at each light pole.   Until we get to light pole #11 – for 66 total.   Mosey to brick wall in middle of campus.   11s at brick wall with dips and box jumps.   Mosey to sophomore hill.   10 merkins at top and bottom of hill, rinse and repeat 3x.  Mosey to coupon pile.   Start with 50 reps – knock off 5 reps each round.   Curls, Goblet Squats, Rows, Kettlebell Swings, Tricep Extensions, Squat Thrusters, Walk Over Merkins, Heavy Hammers, Single Arm Presses (each arm), Blockees).   Mosey back to AO with a little jail break by home.

MARY:
No Time for Mary
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
15 HIMs including 1 new FNG my son Cohen now… S.O.S.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
My brother wrote a very thought provoking post on Facebook the other day that I thought was worth sharing pieces of this morning. The topic was “What if We’re Wrong.”
What if what we hold dear is wrong, what if the point of view we militantly protect, is actually wrong. Now, I can understand how you can be wrong but me? But me, I’ve done my research. I’m smart. I went to college, wrote papers, traveled the world, have friends that don’t look like me. Therefore, I must be the right one. Obviously, that all is idiotic and sounds as stupid in writing as it does speaking it to you this morning. But seriously, how often do we consider if we are wrong?
How often when discussing something with someone do we come to the conclusion we see things with different lenses and ultimately agree to disagree. Both probably leave the conversation still convinced their lens is a little clearer and the other one still doesn’t see quite right. So what does it feel like to be wrong? Sucks, hate it, embarrassing, wind kicked out from under your feed, eat crow, are all typically answers. But what if I told you that is what it feels like to finally DISCOVER that you are wrong. When you ARE wrong, but don’t know it yet, it feels exactly like when you are right. Stop and think about that…how often do we every consider that we might actually be wrong, that we might not fully understand the complexities of the topic. Even when the evidence is overwhelming, our pride normally wins and doesn’t let us concede.
Remember From Matthew 7. 1 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
I just encourage you to reflect on this as you engage in conversations with your friends with challenging topics in the coming days and weeks ahead.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Stye on Q – Wednesday and 5k on Friday

JUCO – What is love?

THE SCENE: Humid and cool at ground level. Warm and humid on top of Jucomanjaro
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Baby Arm Circles forward then backwards (IC) 4 CT x 10 each

Side Straddle hop (IC) 4 CT x 25

Flutter Kicks 25 – 4 count 

THA-THANG:

Spread Out in AO Parking lot

There are 12 parking space lines

Line 1 – 25 Merkins

Line 2 – 25 Big Boys

Line 3 – 25 Squats

Start over at line 4. 

We will end up at 100 reps per exercise. 

Mosey to rock pile

Pick up 2 small rocks

Baby Arm Circles forward then backwards (IC) 4 CT with rocks X10

Butterfly with rock – 50 reps

American Hammers with rocks – 50 reps

Mosey to Jucomanjaro 

20 Monkey Humpers

Run / Jog / Walk to the top. When you get to the top head back down and pick up the 6. 

At the top we did 40 Monkey Humpers then mosey back down to the AO

Just enough time to do our 12 lines of basic PT again so we did 100 more reps each of:

  • Merkins, Big Boys & Squats

MARY:
None
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Anchorman, Runaway, Gump, Judge Judy, Butter Knife, Rosetta, Spotter, Dart Gun, Erector, 5K, Commission, Sunrise, Kick-Flip, Mailbox, Booster, Ralph, B.O.B.,

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

The fruits of the spirit

Galatians 5

13 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh[a]; rather, serve one another humbly in love. 14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 

In one translation it explains that there should almost be a semicolon or colon after Love: 

I don’t have anything deep to say about this, but I know that I need a daily and hourly reminder to put others before me.

Jesus showed us over and over again how to serve others. To wash our neighbor’s feet. So I just want to encourage you men to ask the Lord for opportunities to serve. 

MOLESKIN:
Prayer for a friend named Caleb that was in a car accident.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: