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Christmas Eve at the Project

THE SCENE: 40’s and dry, a little foggy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
15 SSH, 15 Mountain climbers, 5 tempo merkins, 15 Moroccan night club, 10 temp squats, 10 windmill
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the K2-5 hill for 12 days of Christmas.  Perform 1st exercise and run up the hill. Then the 1st and 2nd exercise followed by running up the hill…and so on.

  • 1-Dive Bomber
  • 2-Heels to Heaven
  • 3-SSH (4-ct)
  • 4-4x4s
  • 5-Freddie Mercury (4-ct)
  • 6-Lunges each leg
  • 7-Diamond Merkins
  • 8-Flutter Kicks (4-ct)
  • 9-Squats
  • 10-Merkins
  • 11-Big-Boys
  • 12-Iron Mikes

MARY:
No time!
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 at the Project with some help from the JUCOnians.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
This time of year many people around the world increase their focus on Jesus and His birth.  I was actually raised not celebrating Christmas as a religious holiday, because the Bible doesn’t provide instruction to do so.  I am sure this sounds odd to many, but we instead focused on the things the Bible does teach us throughout the year.  What if the people who increase their focus on Jesus during this time of year did the same all through the year?  What could the world be like?  I definitely appreciate all the good words that are shared during our F3 COTs.  So, how exactly can we shift our focus throughout the year?  In Galatians 5:16-23, Paul mentions the ways of the flesh (worldly) that we need to steer clear of and the fruits of the Spirit that we need to cling to.  He mentions jealousy and outbursts of anger as sins that will cause us to “not inherit the kingdom of God”. Those aren’t things I typically think of when I think of “sin”, but there it is in God’s word…plain as day.  Increasing our focus on Jesus and His sacrifice for us throughout the year will help us to live by the fruits of the Spirit and not the deeds of the flesh.
MOLESKIN:
Thanks to all the JUCO PAX for coming out to celebrate 12 days of Christmas with us.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Merry Christmas!

McDonald’s on the Fly

THE SCENE: 20’s and no Q in sight….
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
LBAC-F/B, Overhead Claps, Tempo Merkins, Mountain-Climbers, Tempo Squats, TN Rock’n Chair
THA-THANG:
Mosey to big student parking lot, stopping for a short Bear Crawl. Perform the Double Quarter-Pounder (without cheese) – look up in Exicon.  So Fun!!

Mosey to small parking lot. 4 corners – rotate between 10 jump squats and increasing 8ct Body Builders at each corner. I think the lead group made it to a corner of 8 BB’s.  Great work!

MARY:
Dead Bug, Flutter Kicks
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
25 strong
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Talked about inner peace and 5 steps that have helped the Q obtain inner peace: 1) Trust totally in Christ. This settles where you are headed when you die. 2) Trust in God’s sovereignty and control over all things, even the small details of your life. This eliminates fear. 3)  Trust the Lord to meet all of your needs. Takes care of the constant desire for more. 4) Maintain a clear conscience. Helps protect your inner peace. 5) Accept the way God made you.  You can’t change things that are outside of your control. Trust Him with those things.

MOLESKIN:
Ribbed was on Q but slept thru his alarm. Trolley (JUCO’s newly appointed Executioner) will decide his fate upon his next appearance at JUCO.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
No official workout Christmas Day at JUCO.

A Snow Day @ JUCO

THE SCENE: High 20’s and snow on the ground
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
The Motivator starting from 7
The Ole Miss Piss in honor of Lane Kiffin rejoining the SEC

THA-THANG:

Mosey to wall
Indian run Squats on Wall
Take CMU to Freshman hill
21’s Merkins @ top, squats at the bottom
Repeat until I  call time around 6:05-6:07
25 Calf Raises with CMU
20 Curls with CMU
15 Tri Ext with CMU
10 BBS with CMU
5 American Hammers with CMU
BTW @ wall hold for 1:00 min
Mosey to AO

We made it down to 7 on the 21’s, the snowy steep hill slowed us down and really made us pay attention to our footing.  Altar boy, however, was the human snowboard and flew down the hill repeatedly.
MARY:

Doomsday Clock (til we finish)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Matthew 12:9-16
If Jesus can go to Church when the Pharisees set him up to break laws, we can follow his example in the face of issues we may have with doctrine.
MOLESKIN:
Trolley’s work stress.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
no announcements

The Juco Jailbreak Tour – Emmanuel

THE SCENE:

drizzly & about 40 degrees.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

Done while doing Thunder toes.

WARM-O-RAMA:

30 Seconds of each of the following

  • Thunder Feet
  • High Knees
  • Merkins
  • Iron Mikes
  • Imperial Squat Walkers to the right
  • Clap Jacks
  • Mtn Parkers

JUCO Jailbreak Tour

We renamed “The Juco Deck of pain” to the JUCO Jailbreak Tour because I like it better and it’s more of just the campus tour when we take out the two big hills (Mount Jucante and Jucomanjaro).  The full Jailbreak tour card set is here:

  1. 5 Rec Center Stair assents with the CMU  (right next to the CMU pile)
  2. 30 Railing Pull-ups (at the pull up stations )
  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 ( 1 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. 2 Career Path – Bear Crawl Loops (modified to be by front neon sign)
  16. 10 Maintenance Hand Stand push ups

We start out by randomly selecting a HIM to draw a card from the deck.  On the back of the card is written a location and an exercise.  We immediately do an all out sprint (Jailbreak) to that location and do the exercise.  Somebody then calls out a 30second count before the next person draws another card from the deck and we take off running.

Today our lucky winners chose #10, #8, #9, #11, #15, #16, and #1.

MARY:

Did Freddy Mercuries to the ACDC song Jailbreak. Each time they sang Jailbreak we did a Big Boy Situp.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM: 

Emmanuel is His name.  He is with you! God is with us.  Live it, know it, believe it, and act on it.  In these hard times: ask Him questions. Talk to Him. Wait for Him. Trust Him. Have a close relationship with Him. He invites us to. He takes pleasure in helping, listening, challenging, teaching you.  You are his beloved child.  Every step, every second.  Remember that now and always.

Tree biscuit – The Project

THE SCENE: 56 degrees and drizzling wet.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER : Ya’ll are crazy.. but very welcome here.

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH (20 normal , 10 Double time)
  • 15 Windmills
  • 15 Mtn Climbers
  • High Knees  + Double time

THA-THANG: The Tree Biscuit

As a group, Run to an un-slapped tree, slap it, everyone call out the running burpee total,  do A single burpee, repeat.

Minutiae:

  • Scaling:
    • We travel as a pack, if you find yourself falling behind, skip a tree and burpee and keep moseying to catch up.  It’s more fun and less confusing to have the group stay together, especially when we alternate taggers.
    • Scaling is NOT cheating, it’s just scaling, no judgment here. You made it here and that’s enough.
    • We’re going to be zig-zagging all over the park so the better we can stay together the more we’ll be able to keep an accurate count and not leave people behind.  Plus it feels bad to tag a tree without everyone there doing it together.
  • Taggers + Number cadence
    • The tagger is the person closest to the nearest tree. They slap the tree and call out what the burpee running total is about to be. Similar to our cadence exercise routines, the whole group calls out the number and does a burpee.
    • The tagger is typically in the front of the pack, however since we are traveling in a mob fashion that’s not always true.
    • Similar to an indian run, each person should take turns being in front and tagging a tree. This makes the workout much more fun.  If you have already tagged several trees then just slowly fade back and let someone else tag the next one.
  • What’s a Tree:
    • We don’t do burpees for any old shrub. They have to be worthy. Trees should be about 6 inches around and 10 feet tall.
  • No Poison Ivy:
    • In an attempt to not to get too dirty and get poison ivy, we’ll pass trees that are surrounded by shrubs and tall grass. Luckily we are in a very well manicured park where most of the trees have nicely mowed grass leading up to them.
  • Terrain
    • We are going off road for sure.  The ground is very un-even around many of the trees. Be careful when running not to twist and ankle.  And don’t hit your face on a rock or root when doing a burpee in the dirt.
  • Volume
      • The louder you call out the number, the more you inspire your fellow brothers!
  • Milestones
    • At 50, 100, 150, 200 make sure the group catches up and circles around the tree, wait a few seconds. Do the burpee.  Celebrating these milestones adds to the encouragement factor.

It’s not about the numbers but in the spirit of healthy competition here they are:

Previous Tree biscuits from other AO’s

And Todays total

  • The Project 210 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes that’s right Two hundred and ten burpees.. And we ran a couple miles!

MARY:

We burped until the clock ran out.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Dueteronomy 17:7 “You must purge the evil from among you.”   Take this to heart men.  Purge the evil that lurks in you.  Bad habbits gotta go..  Swearing has to go.  Don’t be drunk.   Be kind not harsh.  Serve & support – don’t drain, dominate or trample.  Love – don’t fight, or fear. Surrender your ego and pride.  Lean on Jesus who is with us.