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The Talking Donkey

THE SCENE: warm, clear, and muggy.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
15 SSH, 15 Mountain climbers, 10 tempo merkins, 15 Moroccan night club, 15 imperial walkers, 10 tempo squats
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the recruiting center and grab a block. Line up in the parking lot along the short side. Perform first exercise and then carry the block to the other side (mode per PAX choice). Perform first and second exercise and then bear crawl with the block back to the opposite side. Continue adding an exercise each round and alternate carrying and bear crawls to transport the block across. When you get to round 8, drop the first exercise and then at round 7, drop the second exercise. Repeat.

  • 20 Merkins
  • 20 Curls
  • 20 2-ct, Heavy Freddie’s
  • 20 Burpee block jump overs
  • 20 Bent over rows
  • 20 Thrusters
  • 20 Heavy Big boy sit-ups

Well, that was the plan anyway. We almost got to the Big boys. Oh well.

MARY:
No time.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
6 plus our flag-bearer, Kick-flip
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Reference Numbers 22:22-33

“forsaking the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; but he received a rebuke for his own transgression, for a mute donkey, speaking with a voice of a man, restrained the madness of the prophet.” 2 Peter 2:15‭-‬16 NASB1995

Notice what God used to initiate rebuking Balaam. He could have chosen the Angel to do so, but instead He allowed the Donkey to speak. What seemingly insignificant things in our life could possibly be used to rebuke us? God may choose to use these in our lives to help us to see the error of our ways. Pay attention!

MOLESKIN:
Always optimistic in my workouts. There was a lot of hard work put in, but we were not even close to getting through the whole thing.

tripple 11s

THE SCENE: beautiful morning. 60s
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: followed the standard disclaimer

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • seal claps (IC)
  • Moroccan nightclub (IC)
  • merkins (IC)
  • plank – upward dog back stretch
  • Stretch on your own

THA-THANG:

  • mosey to track, bear crawl 25 count right arm.
  • mosey to High School Stairs (there are three levels)
  • tripple 11s. squats, dry docks then freddie mercury. for the count, did 1:10:10; 2:9:9, etc.
  • mosey to track indian run around the track
  • exercises at 0 and 200m marks. mosey between marks and include 50 yard sprint.
  •  for the exercises, 10 burpees, 20 lunges each leg, 30 merkins, 40 LBCs. repeat that twice.

MARY:
no time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
gratitude
MOLESKIN:
none
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Suffering is not the end

THE SCENE: Humid and 70, but we can see the stars.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Projectivators
  • Moroccan Nightclubs
  • Tempo squats – demo “in the basement”
  • Tempo Merkins
  • Mountain climbers
  • Hairy Rocketts
  • Lap with run warm-ups – skips, karaoke, slides

THA-THANG:

  • Grab 2 blocks each and farmer carry down to the square
  • 40 curls, murder bunny to NW corner
  • 40 OHP, sprint back to get block
  • 10 squats, 10 4c basement squats, rifle carry to NW corner
  • 20 bent over rows – both arms together, farmer carry to SW corner
  • 10 split irkins, 10 4c basement split irkins, block bear crawl to bell
  • 10 step-up w/ press, 10 dips, 10 4c basement dips, farmer carry to parallel bars
  • 20 curls, 20 inverse rows, farmer carry to pool wall
  • 10 wall-ups, farmer carry one block to senior center pavillion
  • 10 squats, 10 4c basement squats, hustle to parallel bars
  • 20 inverse rows, 20 merkins, sprint to pool wall
  • 10 wall-ups, rifle carry remaining block to senior center
  • Heavy core set – 20 freddies, 20 LBCs, 20 flutters – all 4c

MARY:
Kind just did the thang
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Faith is the art of holding onto things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
-Clive Staples Lewis

From “No man is an island” by Thomas Merton, Ch.5 Item 2

The Christian must not only accept suffering: he must make it holy. Nothing so easily becomes unholy as suffering.

Merely accepted, suffering does nothing for our souls except, perhaps, to harden them. Endurance alone is no consecration. True asceticism is not a mere cult of fortitude. We can deny ourselves rigorously for the wrong reason and end up by pleasing ourselves mightily with our self-denial.

Suffering is consecrated to God by faith – not by faith in suffering, but by faith in God. To accept suffering stoically, to receive the burden of fatal, unavoidable, and incomprehensible necessity and to bear it strongly, is no consecration.

Some men believe in the power and the value of suffering. But their belief is an illusion. Suffering has no power and no value of its own.

It is valuable only as a test of faith. What if our faith fails in the test? Is it good to suffer, then? What if we enter into suffering with a strong faith in suffering, and then discover that suffering destroys us?

To believe in suffering is pride: but to suffer, believing in God, is humility. For pride may tell us that we are strong enough to suffer, that suffering is good for us because we are good. Humility tells us that suffering is an evil which we must always expect to find in our lives because of the evil that is in ourselves. But faith also knows that the mercy of God is given to those who seek Him in suffering, and that by His grace we can overcome evil with good. Suffering, then, becomes good by accident, by the good that it enables us to receive more abundantly from the mercy of God. It does not make us good by itself, but it enables us to make ourselves better than we are. Thus, what we consecrate to God in suffering is not our suffering but our selves.

Does this mean that seeking out suffering (like here) is inherently prideful?

Suffering is unavoidable
Suffering well requires practice
To practice suffering well, it is better to pick a good environment (Merton was ascetic)
MOLESKIN:
I had planned to make it back to the recruiting center, but it was clear by the time we got to the bell we wouldn’t make it. That first leg of murder bunnies was longer than I thought…
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP in two days, 2nd F – concert at Bissel 6:30 pm Saturday, IRON PAX is coming up in September

Ab-O-Rama

THE SCENE: Low 70s, light rain
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  1. Projectivator
  2. Overhead clap
  3. Cherry picker
  4. Overhead arm pull
  5. Recumbent abdominal point

THA-THANG:

  1. Mosey to parallel bars
  2. 20 inverted rows
  3. 10 wallpees
  4. Death march to K25 hill
  5. Ab-O-Rama (sprint up the hill after each exercise + 1 burpee at the top)
    1. 30 Big Boys
    2. 60 LBCs
    3. 30 Hello Dolly’s
    4. 60 Flutter Kicks
    5. 30 Heels to Heaven
    6. 15 Basilisks
  6. Mosey to bell
  7. 10 single leg squats (each leg)
  8. Mosey to parallel bars
  9. 15 inverted rows
  10. 5 wallpees
  11. RTB

 

MARY:
One PAX would pick a category of exercise (arms, abs, or legs), another the exercise to do, and a third PAX would pick the number of reps.  We would then sprint the length of the parking lot.

After several sprints, we skipped and did side shuffles.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

1 Timothy 4:1-5 – Now the Spirit expressly says that in the later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, though the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.  For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSOP on Saturday and snack donations for the Wesley House

Up the Stairs

THE SCENE:   72 and calm
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:  Administered
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH
  • Abe Vigoda
  • Chattanooga cherry pickers
  • Third-graders
  • LBACs
  • Overhead claps
  • Hairy rockettes

Mosey to the recruitment center – grab a CMU and mosey to the cinema parking lot.

THA THANG:

Partner up

HIM 1 starts with both CMUs

  • While carrying both blocks, lunge to Cone 1 and set down one block.
  • Lunge to Cone 2 and set down the other block
  • Lunge to Cone 3 and stop.

HIM 2 follows his partner

  • Bear crawl to Cone 1 – collect the block that was set down
  • Bear crawl CMU push to Cone 2 – collect the other block
  • Heavy bear to Cone 3 and stop.

Reverse partner roles and go back.

Next….

10 stations – perform exercises on the card, then move the next station

Every two minutes run to the top of the stairs and back

  • 40 Curls + 20 Thrusters
  • 30 Squats – CMU overhead + 40 Triceps
  • 25 Alpos + 10 Burpee jumpovers
  • 40 Shoulder Presses + 25 CMU Swings
  • 30 Heavy LBC + 20 Pull-overs
  • 10 Plyo Merkins (10 each side) + 15 BBS with press
  • 20 Blockees
  • Single-Arm Row – 25 each arm + 20 Good mornings
  • 20 Heavy Freddy (4-ct) + 20 Derkins + 20 Irkins
  • 30 Heel tap wipers + 20 Goblet squats

MARY:

No time!

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

7 men

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

“You are what you do repeatedly every day.”

“What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while”

MOLESKIN:

This week was history lesson week at the Project 🙂

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Service project opportunity tonight

CSAUP next week

Let’s get to work on some HH obstacle ideas