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Slick Bernie

THE SCENE: Mid-30s and clear.  Perfect beatdown weather.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Tha zero burpee warmup:
-Zero Burpees OYO
-25x SSH IC
-2x Burpees OYO
-15x TN Rocking Chairs IC
-4x Burpees OYO
-30x Mountain Climbers IC (10x standard, 10x hands as far fwd as possible, 10x hands as far back as possible)
-6x Burpees OYO
-8x Cossack Squats each leg
-8x Burpees OYO
-20x 4-ct Monkey Humpers IC
-10x Burpees OYO
THA-THANG:
Mosey over behind the maintenance building
-10x on-the-wall pullups
-Circle up with CMU for Pass-The-CMU BBS
-30x curls

Put back CMUs. Then look at Weinke.
Pick up 2 CMUs each for Rock the Block Merkins:
-Plank up on 2 landscaping CMUs.
-Do 1 Merkin.
-While holding plank, Q calls direction to rock the CMUs by 90° (Fwd, Back, In, Out), then another Merkin.
-R&R until groans from PAX reach sufficient volume

Put back CMUs for realz this time.

Mosey down the road a little ways to the hill
Partner up for Dora 1-2-3 (Merkins, Squats, SSH)
Bernie up the hill, Bear Crawl down.
Except the hill is really slick from frost! Nix the Bear Crawl after the first attempt. Too hazardous.

Mosey back to AO

MARY:
Just enough time for a couple rounds of Row Your Boat, then cash out with AMRAP merkins for 30s or so
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
15 PAX today, including FNG Cubby!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Do the hard thing.  Hard things come up frequently in life.  Sometimes we look for an easy way around it.  Sometimes we avoid it or put it off.  Don’t do that.  Just like you tackle those 30 burpees in a beatdown, take on the hard thing head-on, and do it with all your might!
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Sign up for Hardship Hill OCR Relay!  If you need a team, just post on GroupMe.  You’ll get recruited quick!

https://www.active.com/kingston-tn/running/distance-running-races/hardship-hill-2018

Hydro Plow

THE SCENE: A bit damp with 100% chance of downpoor
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH 4c 25  Dancing bear merkins 4c 10 Cherry Pickers 10 Tempo Squats 10 Hill Billy Squat Walkers 15
THA-THANG:

  • Mosey to stairs, @ bottom of stairs 20 merkins 20 dips 30 squats. Crawl Bear up steps. @ top of steps, 5 Burpees over the rope. Rinse & Repeat.
  • Mosey to the wall.  Wall squat while passing a coupon. Once coupon gets to the end of the line that HIM sprints up steps returns to the end of the line.  Took up to much time so we cut it short.
  • Mosey/ Jail Break?.. To the parking lot. With groups of 3, @ one end SSH @ the other end Leg lifts. In the middle slide 45lbs or 35lbs plate from one end to the other alternating end workouts.
  • are
  • handy.

MARY:
Metronome and Ring -O- Fire
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Know the difference in an “Excuse and a Reason”.  The PAX is the what makes F3 what it is.  Without the HIMS F3 does not exist.  We make a decision to get out and live in the gloom.  If we don’t make it to a work out, ask yourself if you have a reason or an excuse.  A reason would be work or an injury or sick etc.  An excuse is sleeping,  “Man I just don’t have time”etc.  This holds true with life decisions as well.  If you decide you want to make a change or want to get a new job that you know is better or what ever the case may be and you convince yourself you can’t…… Think for a moment.  Do I have a reason or am I making an excuse?

Quotes:

” Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.”   – Marry Anne Radmacher

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go,instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

” I want to be used up when I die.”  – George Bernard Shaw

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill   May 19th

A stroll with my CMU

THE SCENE: A HOT and dry 62 degree morning (it’s all relative)
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x25 IC
Tempo Squats x10 IC
Cherry Pickers x8 IC

THA-THANG:
Everyone grab a CMU and mosey across the street to the first light pole. We lunged holding the CMU overhead and stopped at each light pole to do the following exercises:

  • 10 merkins on your CMU
  • 15 overhead presses
  • 20 CMU rows
  • 25 Decline Merkins (feet on CMU)

Mosey on over to the fountain and holding the CMU straight out, get in an Al Gore position and move to the right around the fountain. When the Q calls halt, we do 5 CMU burpees. We only did this once due to a little Q modification.

Mosey over to Mt. Crumpet and do 11s. At the bottom, we did CMU merkin rows and at the top we did squat jumps. On the trips up the hill we did the following:

  • 1st and 2nd trips – Bernie
  • 3rd and 4th trips – Bear Crawl
  • 5th and 6th trips – Bunny Hop
  • 7th and 8th trips – Sprint
  • 9th and 10th trips – Bears and Blocks (only Snorkel and Woodshack made it to this point!)

Mosey back to AO with a little bernie thrown in. Did a round of Blocktanamo as soon as we got back to make sure the shoulders were thoroughly burned.

MARY:
Guantanamo – 1 round
Boxcutters – 15 IC
20 BBS OYO
Woodshack special – Captain Thor to cash out (Got to 6 and 24)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
14 men strong including one FNG!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Fear. We all know it. But when we think of the way that early Christians were persecuted and gruesomely martyred because they were spreading the Gospel, how do our fears compare? In this day and age, many people are scared to share the Gospel because they’re afraid of what someone might think of them or that they might “unfriend” them. Why do we give in to these fears when we know how the early Christians were persecuted?

This does not only apply to spreading the Gospel, we all have fear in every day life. Fear holds us back. Some people want to start businesses, but they don’t because they’re afraid the business will fail. Even many people who do start businesses fail, and they think that their fears were justified because of that failure. They don’t realize that it’s the other way around, they failed because they focused on their fear. Some fears are rational while some are irrational. For those rational fears, we must be courageous and overcome them. For those irrational fears, we need to think logically and get rid of them. Everybody’s fears are different, but nobody should let fear hold them back in life.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill on May 19th. Need more teams and volunteers to sign up.

1K…. And Then Some

THE SCENE: 30’s, a little windy, dry and clear.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH -IC x 15

Tempo Merkins-IC  x 10

Tempo Squats -IC x 10

Cherry Pickers-IC  x 10
THA-THANG:
Partner up. Partner 1 does the first exercise while partner 2 does the second then the partners switched when partner two got back.

  • 50 Burpees/CMU Lunge to first cone.
  • 200 Overhead tricep extensions/Bear-crawl to second cone then crawl-bear back
  • 200 Merkins/Farmer walk to third cone.
  • 200 LBC’s/Plank Walk to first cone.
  • 150 Bench Pres/ Overhead CMU lunge to first cone.
  • 150 Reverse Curls/ Suicide to third cone and back then fourth cone and back.
  • 100 CMU Squats/Wrestler Walks to first cone.

MARY:
25 BBS on your own.

Slutter Kicks-IC x 20

Flutter Kicks-IC x 20

One Minute hold with feet six to twelve inches off ground.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
There are 2 different mindsets, fixed and growth. Someone with a fixed mindset for example would fail a test and say “I’m stupid” or “I’m not good enough” or something of that nature because it’s very very easy to make excuses for failure.  A person with a growth mindset for example would fail a test and ask their self what they have to do to make sure it does not happen again or why they failed the test.  A growth mindset is almost mandatory to succeed.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Sound the ALARM

THE SCENE: 54 Perfect degrees, partly cloudy and still a little moisture from the overnight storms
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Little of this/Little of that, Michael Phelps, Big Arm circles, Cherry Pickers x 9, Easy jog to middle of parking lot, then high knees to the other side, Butt-kickers to middle, easy jog to the curb.

THA-THANG:
Started with a bear crawl CMU drag from one end of the grinder to the other.  The CMU was then used in the following circuit:

Round 1 – 20 curls, 20 dips

Round 2 – 20 goblet squats, 20 lunges (10 per leg)

Round 3 – 20 BBS, 20 2-count flutter kicks

Round 4 – 20 Rows, 10 pull-ups

Round 5 – 10 Merkins, 20 CMU bench presses

Between each round, PAX ran an approximately 1/4 mile loop.  At the end of Round 5, start over again with Round 1

MARY:
We cashed out today to the Cupid Shuffle.  During the verse, PAX would perform Mtn. Climbers, during the “down” part of the song, Pax would perform Merkins, during the “to the left” and “to the right” parts PAX would kick their feet in that direction from a plank position.  Continue through the song (4:39 in length).
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
One year for Christmas a kid in my neighborhood got a 10-speed bike.  We all had BMX bikes with the old school coaster brakes and Mike Benson was the first in our neighborhood to get a 10 speed.  There was a large hill we called Denton’s Hill that ended into a cross street.  You had to go left or right at the bottom, straight was a field with a picket fence.  We were riding down the hill and got near the bottom and Mike went flying past us, eventually crashing through the fence and into the field.  Turns out he didn’t fully understand how the brakes work on a 10-speed bicycle.  He got away from the fundamentals.  Often as men, we over-complicate things.  In our jobs, with our wives, with our kids and our friends. I have found that if I keep 2 simple, basic fundamentals in mind, everything else just kind of falls into place.  Those are:  love God and love my neighbor.  That is it.  If I am doing those things correctly, I treat my co-workers, my wife, my parents, my kids and my friends the way that God has called me to treat them.  My challenge to myself and the PAX is simple, get back to the basics; love your wives the way you did when you first started dating, be present in your kid’s lives, be the kind of friend that God wants you to be.  Get back to the fundamentals.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS: