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BDE MILE – IPC 2023 WEEK 2

AO: the-project
Q: Papa Lock
PAX: 3-Peat (Carlos Rodriguez), Biohack, Mathlete, Papa Lock, Ocho, Tom Tom, Rocket (dave weston)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WARMUP: Projectivators, LBAC, Imperial Walkers, Butt Kicks
THE THANG:
The workout begins when the 45 min timer starts
400-meter lap
5 BDE burpees
400-meter lap
5 BDE merkins (AKA – hand-release prisoner merkins)
Hand release merkin to Peter Parker to the right elbow to hand release merkin to Peter Parker to the left elbow to hand release merkin
Repeat until time is called.
MARY: n/a
ANNOUNCEMENTS: n/a
COT:
Jesus said, “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged…”
(Matthew 7:1-2, NIV)

Speak No Evil. Someone said: “There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, it doesn’t behoove any of us to speak evil of the rest of us.” Each of us is a mixture of good and evil. We each have a dark side and we each have a bright side. Certain situations can bring out the good or the bad in each of us. I have often said, “Where did that come from?” I don’t usually say that when I have done something heroically beautiful. Because of this mixture of the good and bad within us, we should be very careful about judging others. Martin Luther, the Protestant reformer, had a sign on the wall of his dining room which read, “He who has an unkind word to say about another is not welcome at this table.” We all need a sign like that posted somewhere in our home or office.

True CMUesday

AO: the-project
Q: Mathlete
PAX: Biohack, Tom Tom, Ocho, slappy, 3-Peat (Carlos Rodriguez), Comfort Zone, Fire inthe Hole (Dave Duhamel), Mathlete, Munge (Nathaniel Bond)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
Warm-up: Running drills
Pool wall: 1 BDE burpee, 5 wall-ups, 1 BDE Merkin
Recruiting Center: 2 BDE burpees, 5 pull-ups, 2 BDE Merkins
Grab CMUs and head to theater steps
Travel by farmer carry (left, right) and rifle carry
Run stairs between sets
• 3 BDE Burpees
• 20 Rows L
• 20 Rows R
• 30 Curls
• 3 BDE Merkins
Travel to next set of stairs, same thing
• 4 BDE burpees
• 30 OHP
• 20 Good mornings
• 50 Heavy Freddies
• 4 BDE Merkins
Back to the Recruiting Center: 2 BDE burpees, 5 pull-ups, 2 BDE
Mary: Dealer’s choice – Box cutters, awkward turtles, basilisk, merkins, pickle pointers
Word

Acts 5:1-11
This story isn’t about generosity, it is about lying.
As a young man, I was an avid liar. Never to particularly malicious ends, but always self serving. In spite of warnings about tangled webs, I found myself to be a pretty handy spider. I was lucky enough to have a watershed moment when I was young where I was discovered in a relatively serious lie with nowhere to retreat. This didn’t come close to curing me, but it did strike the first light of awareness. Since, I have given special attention to trying to work on this flaw.
The lie sits deep in the heart of sin itself. Lying, in its essence, is the act of twisting my view of reality to serve my own purposes, functionally placing myself in the seat of God. Every lie, whether of commission or omission, begins with a lie to yourself. A lie is always in conflict with relationship because it intentionally creates a discontinuity between my understanding of reality and yours. How can I possibly remain in relationship with someone with whom I do not share the same reality?
However, I don’t think that abhorring a lie means that I should speak all truth to all people. Most of us have probably witnessed first-hand a vicious personal attack levied from the perceived moral high ground of “I’m just being honest.” Truth, like all goods, must be constantly tempered by that highest good, love. We must also be cautious about the burden of truth that we lay upon others. God, in his wisdom, does not reveal to us the fullness of His Truth because He knows that we are too weak to bear it. Likewise, it is sometimes better for us to moderate, but this is very tricky business. Certainly there are truths that are not helpful for a child. But I must be very cautious of my motives. Am I really protecting them, or am I really protecting me?
What we can be certain of is that if I intend to conform myself to a man who calls himself the way, the truth and the light, every lie is a nonconformity.

Concentrica

THE SCENE: Humid and gloomy. Storms threatened, but were ultimately scared of us.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Side straddle hops
  • Run around the parking lot
    • High knees
    • Bernie
    • Butt kicks
  • Tempo merkins
  • Tempo squats
  • Cherry pickers

THA-THANG:

Concentrica:

  • M – Relationship with your wife – your center
    • 100 merkins
    • Hold Al Gore for the 6
  • Shorties – Relationship with your kids – your legacy
    • 50 LBCs
    • 50 flutter kicks
    • 50 Freddy Mercuries
    • Hold plank for the 6
  • Shieldlock – Your team for mutual defense
    • 100 step ups
    • Dips for the 6
  • Whetstone – Mentor/mentee
    • 20 burpees – it’s hard, but it makes you better
    • Hold Al Gore for the 6
  • Mammon – Your work, love it or hate it
    • Run 2 laps
    • Wagon wheel for the 6

MARY:
Pappa Lock destroyed our arms, then Snaggletooth our abs, and Oh Brother led some Basilisks

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

  • How do you measure success in your life? Money? Things? Friends? Church attendance? Fitness?
  • Wrong scoreboards!
  • The Concentrica should be our scoreboard as seen from a Biblical worldview.
  • We should measure our success by the quality of the relationships we have on the Concentrica.
  • Which of these 5 rings are you missing in your life?
  • Which of them do you need to invest more in?

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Family workout on Saturday.  Next weekend is F3 in the Nude. GTE Baseline ruck is August 5. F3 Dad camp is August 11-13.

Quality Time With Sandy – Forg3 Tour

The Scene 

  • The Project
  • 5:30am – 6:15am
  • Weather, etc

F3 Welcome + Disclaimer

  • Welcome to F3: Fitness – Fellowship – Faith 
  • My name is Steam and I’ll be your Q this morning 
  • A few things before we begin: 
    • I’m not a professional 
    • You’re here on your own volition
    • You know your injuries if you have any so if you need to modify anything we do today feel free to do so, but push yourselves and the men around you. They deserve it and so do you. 
  • FNGs? – 0

Warm-o-Rama

  • SSH: 10×4
  • Squat: 10×4
  • Merkin: 10×4
  • Cherry Pickers: 10×4
  • Chattanooga Cherry Pickers: 51×4
  • Cherry Pickers: 2×4
  • 5 burpees

The Thang 

Heavy Day @ The Project

(1) Intro to Sandy Warm Up

  • Battle buddy up
  • Sandy – 1 120lb, 2 40lb
  • 1 BB stays here and executes the following: 
    • 5 deadlifts 
    • 5 rows 
    • 5 one-hand on merkins 
    • 5 Chest presses 
  • BB2 takes a lap around the parking lot 
  • Rinse and repeat for a total of 2x – each BB does this twice 

(Take sandbags on the move to the bench and B post to the right)

(2) Sandy Strength 

  • 3 points of contact 
    • Bench 
    • Light 1 on the left 
    • Light 2 on the left
  • Get with your BB again 
  • Do this as a team 
    • Here:
      • 5 Sandy squats 
      • 5 merkins (Sandy or not)
      • 5 presses (back or standing up depending on your weight)
      • 5 Sandy drop offs (deadlift – drop – use your core) 
    • Figure out a way to take your weight to Light 1
    • Light 1
      • 10 of each X
    • Figure out a way to take your weight to light 2
      • 15 of each X
  • When you finish at light 3 — flutter kicks until the 6 is up 

(3) Around Town With Sandy

  • You and your BB are going to carry your weight around the loop back to the AO
    • Stopping at each light:
      • 10 merkins (no Sandy)
      • 10 squats (no Sandy)
      • Switch weights at every light
  • Last light is the one straight across from the 🇺🇸

(4) American Indian Run with The Twins

  • American Indian run around the AO parking lot
  • 1 man executes 5 sandbag suitcase pickups and then yells “Done” – alerting the man in front to circle back to the sandbags and execute 5 sandbag suitcase pickups
  • Rise and repeat until every man has complete the sandbag X
  • BTTW to the flag on the last lap

Mary 

ATMs

SWS

COT (Circle of Trust)

Count Off

  • 10

Name o Rama

  • Papa Lock, Mathlete, Snaggletooth, Biohack, Borg, Skewer, Kick-Flip, Ocho, Slappy, Comfort Zone, Steam

Word — Forg3 2023

https://f3knoxville.com/forg3-2023-registration-is-live/

We are rolling out our first F3 Knoxville men’s retreat this fall – Forg3! Forg3 was created with F3 men in mind – to strengthen the bonds we have with each other and our Creator, over the course of a weekend retreat.

Forge (v.) – to shape and mold into a new condition, by heating in a fire / to move forward gradually and steadily.

Forg3 (n.) – an invigorating 40-hour weekend retreat to challenge and encourage F3 men in their pursuit of high impact manhood. You can expect to engage with other men in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd F sessions, to better understand who you are, whose you are, and the High Impact Man God has called you to be. You’ll have opportunities throughout the weekend to seek adventure, to rest, and to sharpen iron with other F3 men physically, mentally, emotionally, relationally, and spiritually.

If you love adventure of the heart, mind, body, and soul – Forg3 is for you. Forg3 was created for F3 men, by F3 men, as a way to engage together for a purposeful and relationally-driven weekend to step further into the men God has called us to be.

Here are the fast facts about Forg3 2023:

  • Dates: Friday, September 22nd (7pm) – Sunday, September 24th (11am)
  • Location: Doe River Gorge (Hampton, TN)
    • Situated in the F3 Northeast TN region up near Johnson City and Elizabethton, Doe River Gorge’s campus is tucked into the side of a mountain and offers incredible beauty, very clean and comfortable cabins by the river, and miles and miles of adventures to be had.
    • From Knoxville: only around 1.5 – 2 hour drive
  • Cost: $110 (Covers all of your lodging, meals, and retreat materials for the weekend)
    • Via Venmo or cash to Waxjob

1000 Merkins for Merica

THE SCENE: Very humid
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  1. Side straddle hops
  2. Tempo merkins
  3. Cherry pickers
  4. Seal squats

THA-THANG:

We did 1,000 cumulative merkins for ‘Merica.  10 PAX were present, so each had to do 100.  We ran to the K25 hill and started our reps.  When you need a break, you run to the top of the hill and do LBCs.  The goal is 100 LBCs as well.

Next, we did 1,000 cumulative squats on the Y12 hill.  At each lamp post (12 total) we did 10 squats, running to the next lamp post.  The last 2 lamp posts we did walking lunges.

A quick stop at the playground for 10 pull ups, the pool wall for 5 wallpies, the back porch for 20 dips, and back to the flag.

MARY:
Heels to Heaven, 80% max run, Basilisk, 70% max run.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
The Declaration of Independence review.  How does it start? What are its principles? Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness.

It lists the grievances of the Colonies against the King. The founders signed the document and pledged their Lives, Fortunes, and sacred Honor to this cause.

What are we so convicted by and dedicated to in our lives that we would pledge such a high price and commit to pay it?