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What’s the count Dora?

  1. THE SCENE: Cold after the rain
    F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
  • Welcome to F3: Fitness/Fellowship/Faith
  • My name is Skeletor
  • Couple of things before we begin:
    • Not a professional
    • This is a free workout
    • You’re here on your own volition
    • I don’t know the injuries you may or may not have – so modify as you need. Push yourselves don’t hurt yourselves and push the men around you when they need it.

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH
  • Tempo squats
  • Tempo merks
  • Knox Cherry Pickers
  • Willy Mays Hayes
  • LBAC -F
  • LBAC – B
  • Moroccan Night Clubs
  • Hallelujahs

THA-THANG:
PAX are separated into two teams to compete

One PAX will Dora to the fort and back while carrying a 40lb sandbag

The other members of the team will perform a single motion until Dora returns keeping count of total individual and team count. The sandbag will be handed off to the next member of the team for fort exploration until all members of the team have explored. Once all have explored the total score will be tallied and the winning team will get to stack one CMU by the flag, and the PAX with the highest count will also stack one CMU at the flag  most CMU’S at the end wins

Compete until 6:00

Exercises

  • CMU curls
  • CMU Squats
  • Big Boys
  • Burpees
  • Toe merkins

MARY:
None
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Ephesians 4:1-7
“Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love, being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all. But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift.”

Emphasis today on ‭‭verses 2-3, “with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love, being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”

Lend a hand, a hug, or an ear for a brother in need. Be gentle with them, be patient with them, and bring peace to their situation.

MOLESKIN:
Big giant T-claps to Feeny as he was able to complete 24 days in December of 100 Merkins a day earning the GO30 patch, well done!

Awesome to hear that Rampart represented well at F3 Smokies Convergence. With 10 or 11 HIM’S in attendance, well done!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Can’t think of any…..

Motown Beatdown and Tabata Burpees

THE SCENE: A Bill Withers kinda morning. Rain and “Ain’t No Sunshine”. We met under the pavillion.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH – 15
  • Projectivator – 10
  • Abe Vagoda – 6 or 8
  • Knox Picker – No one knows. Tuba, this is your fault! 🙂
  • Tempo Merk – 10
  • Apollo Ono – 7
  • LBAC – 10
  • RLBAC – 10
  • Grady Corn – 10
  • Moroccan Night Clubs – 10
  • Hallelujahs – 10
  • Chattanooga Cherry Pickers © – 10
  • SSH – 15
  • 5 Burpees OYO

THA-THANG:

PAX performed a Burpee Tabata. 30 seconds of burpees with 20 seconds rest for 11 rounds.

  • Round 1: 1 burpee (hold plank)
  • Round 2: 2 burpees (hold plank)
  • Round 3: 3 burpees (hold plank)
  • etc.

11 rounds = 66

The “rests” became a cruel joke as we got into the higher numbers. Something about doing burpees while the timer clearly says to rest.

PAX then rolled dice for the following routine. Roll a 1, do 10 reps of exercise #1. Roll a 2,  do 10 reps of exercises 1 through 2. Roll a 6, you guessed it. Do 10 reps of exercises 1 through 6. Many 6’s were rolled to where PAX accused YHC of loading the dice. YHC had no comment.

    1. SSH
    2. shoulder taps
    3. hr merkins
    4. big boys
    5. basilisk
    6. bobby hurley

MARY:
Rejected! PAX had the choice of Mary or flipping the cards for more dice games. They chose to continue rolling the dice for the following exercises.

    1. climbers
    2. toe merkins
    3. monkey humpers
    4. undertakers
    5. dry docks
    6. heels to heaven

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

YHC might have misinformed the dear PAX of Rampart at a previous COT. The popular notion is that willpower functions much like a muscle and is prone to get tired. This might not be true. New research (see article here) says that your mindset matters more, when it comes to willpower. In other words, your attitude towards willpower affects willpower. The reasoning is as follows: If you believe that your willpower is limited, willpower is limited. If you believe willpower is unlimited, meaning you get strength from the victories of using your willpower, then you might still be able to use your willpower at full strength.

What does this mean for us? Celebration Matters. When you pass on the cookies don’t mope. Don’t act like you’re deprived. You just defeated that sucka! Celebrate! You might just find a deeper well for more willpower!

It also means that mumblechatter matters in the gloom. Ever notice when someone calls you out you seem to get grittier? We find more energy somewhere when other people talk us up. Mumblechatter and encouragement changes the atmosphere.

YHC would like to introduce the idea of zeal. That’s not a word we use a lot today. The thesaurus gives words such as devotion, determination, diligence, eagerness, fervor, gusto, intensity.

Romans 12:9-12
9 Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. 10 Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. 11 Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. 12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.

We should do faith with our heart! With zeal! Zeal for the Lord! W should do discipline with our heart! Zeal!
determination, diligence, eagerness, fervor, gusto, intensity. We should do marriage, fatherhood, work, leadership with our heart!

Attitude Matters!
Mindset Matters!
Outlook Matters!

Talk to yourself the right way… you may have a deeper well than you think.

MOLESKIN:

  • Welcome FNG-Wilbur!
  • T-Claps to the Project boys, Mathlete and Tuba for coming down.
  • Surprise visit from Airborne was nice. We thought you were DR.
  • Total Burpees for today was 76. The rest are on you.
  • Prayers for Cardinal and Feeny.

Playlist:

  1. Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell
  2. Express Yourself – Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
  3. Ain’t Too Proud to Beg – The Temptations
  4. I Want You Back – The Jackson 5
  5. The Tears of A Clown – Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (You’re better than this, Pam)
  6. Mr. Big Stuff – Jean Knight
  7. It’s Your Thing – The Isley Brothers
  8. Your Love Keeps Lifting Me – Jackie Wilson
  9. Get Ready – The Temptations
  10. Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours) – Stevie Wonder
  11. It’s The Same Old Song – Four Tops

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
MABA continues. Stay on it, men!
Convergence Saturday. Meet at Rampart at 0545.
QCal
Skeletor: Monday.
Cardinal VQ (!): Wednesday.
Wingman: Next Saturday.

Heavy reflection

THE SCENE:

Moist, gloomy, and warmish.  Ahhhh perfect.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

Yep

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH
  • Tempo squats
  • Tempo merks
  • Knox Cherry Pickers
  • Willy Mays Hayes
  • LBAC -F
  • LBAC – B
  • Moroccan Night Clubs
  • Hallelujahs
  • Chattanooga cherry picker

THA-THANG:

Plan A Heavy Reflection

One man per station rotate every 60 seconds 2 rounds

  1. CMU goblet squat
  2. Blockie
  3. CMU tricep extension
  4. CMU swings
  5. CMU curl
  6. Good mornings
  7. Derkin
  8. CMU stack squat
  9. CMU clean and press
  10. CMU lunges
  11. CMU overhead press
  12. Elf on the shelf
  13. CMU snatch
  14. CMU rows
  15. Plank pull through

Sandbag work

Pax pair up, work as a pair for each station 2 rounds

  1. 60# dead lift, one man lift, next man lift
  2. 40# bag hay bale partner throw
  3. 40# overhead throw
  4. 20# center snap
  5. 53# bowling
  6. 35# shot put
  7. 5# frisbee toss

MARY:

Mary’s older uglier sister Terry

Tractor pull

  • Strap into the shoulder harness and bear crawl dragging the body bag as far as possible. All men go with encouraging pax, 4 men carry the bag back. Next volunteer straps in.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

MOLESKIN:
I sure am proud of these guys at Rampart. We all discussed
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

 

1. Get signed up for the MABA here: https://f3maba.com/signup/2023. Make a plan now how you’re going to do this. Without forethought, 100 burpees in a day is likely not going to happen. Be a strategic man of action starting TODAY!
2. Don’t forget! Hardship Hill gets more expensive tomorrow. Get signed up today! https://www.adventuresignup.com/Race/TN/Kingston/HardshipHillOCR

Go30 starting afresh and anew tomorrow.

New Year, New Opportunity

THE SCENE: Insert info about the weather, etc.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Side straddle hop in cadence 20
Cherry Pickers
5 Burpees OYO
Arm rotations thumbs up in cadence
Reverse thumbs down in cadence
Tempo squats
Merkins to “Sally Up” song
Side straddle hop in cadence 20

THA-THANG:
Snake run to coupon pile.

  • 20 curls, run steps, 5 pull ups, 20 curls, 10 thrusters
  • Mosey through campus with the person in the back sprinting to the front.
  • Stopping for 20 BBS, 20 Merkins, 20 guard rail dips
  • Mosey to JUCOManjaro
  • Run to hash mark, 20 2-count flutter kicks
  • Run to next hash mark, 20 squats
  • Rinse and Repeat until we run out of hill or time… Today we ran out of time.
  • Mosey back to the flag.

MARY:
Side cruches (I think… Erector was leading while I grabbed my notes for the BOM).
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Use the TAGS on right-side to record PAX (BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOURSELF) in attendance. Be sure to select the AO in CATEGORY above TAGS and then delete these notes!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
We typically use this time between Christmas and New Year’s as a time of reflection.
As we wrap up 2022, did you accomplish what you set out to do?
Why or why not? Does it even matter, now that you’re looking back at it, or have priorities shifted?

21 Tips for a Positive New Year
Updated for 2023
1. Stay Positive. You can listen to the cynics and doubters and believe that success is impossible or you can trust that with faith and an optimistic attitude all things are possible.
2. Take a daily “Thank You Walk.” You can’t be stressed and thankful at the same time. Feel blessed and you won’t be stressed.
3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and less foods manufactured in plants.
4. Talk to yourself instead of listen to yourself. Instead of listening to your complaints, fears and doubts, talk to yourself with words of truth and encouragement.
5. Post a sign that says “No Energy Vampires Allowed.” Gandhi said, “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet,” and neither should you! Watch This.
6. Be a Positive Team Member. Being positive doesn’t just make you better, it makes everyone around you better.
7. Don’t chase success. Decide to make a difference and success will find you. [ Tweet This ]
8. Get more sleep. You can’t replace sleep with a double latte.
9. Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip, energy vampires, issues of the past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control.
10. Look for opportunities to Love, Serve and Care. You don’t have to be great to serve but you have to serve to be great.
11. Live your purpose. Remember why you do what you do. We don’t get burned out because of what we do. We get burned out because we forget why we do it.
12. Remember, there’s no such thing as an overnight success. Love the process and you’ll love what the process produces.
13. Trust that everything happens for a reason and expect good things to come out of challenging experiences.
14. Implement the No Complaining Rule. If you are complaining, you’re not leading. Download a free No Complaining Kit here.
15. Read more books than you did in 2022. I happen to know of a few good ones. : )
16. Don’t seek happiness. Instead live with love, passion and purpose and happiness will find you.
21 Tips for 2023
17. Focus on “Get to” vs “Have to.” Each day focus on what you get to do, not what you have to do. Life is a gift not an obligation.
18. The next time you “fail” remember that it’s not meant to define you. It’s meant to refine you.
19. Smile and laugh more. They are natural anti-depressants.
20. Make time for relationships. We are better together and the more we connect with great friends the more enjoyable life becomes.
21. Enjoy the ride. You only have one ride through life so make the most of it and enjoy it.

“He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.”
Deuteronomy 8:3 NIV

MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Convergence 7a 1/7 at Bomb Shelter

Racing Snails

THE SCENE:  32 and clear.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:  Muttered somewhat incoherently…but you all know the drill!
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Projectivator
  • KCP
  • Moroccan nightclub
  • Seal squats
  • Down/up dog
  • Merkins
  • Stretch OYO

THA THANG:

Mosey to the Rock Pile.  Toys are set out in a circuit.  Divide into two teams to play Snail Races.

There are two ways to win.  The first way is to move your team’s baby snail to the finish line (baby snail is two touching cones – you move it by placing one cone in front of the other, always touching).  Perform a set, move your baby snail, move to another station of your choice and begin your next set.  The second way to win is to move the big snail into your team’s slime and do 25 SSH before the other team moves him out (big snail is a large tire on a pallet, pulled by a rope).  Any number of team members can move the big snail (1 by himself, or 2 men or 3…)

Stations were;

  1. 10 Pull ups
  2. 30 goblet squats
  3. 15 ball slams
  4. 40 jump rope
  5. 30 derkins
  6. 20 thrusters
  7. 25 stack squat
  8. 20 cmu swings
  9. 10 blockees
  10. 40 curls

 

Mary Recovery

 

Round 2:  Flip the cards.  Repeat the game.  New exercises were;

  1. 10 cmu lunges
  2. 10 hanging leg raises
  3. 40 jump rope
  4. 15 slam ball launches
  5. 30 OHP
  6. 10 plyo merkins
  7. 20 good mornings
  8. 15 farmer step-ups
  9. 40 triceps
  10. 10 burpee jumpovers

MARY:

Omaha’s version of American Hammers

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Me and 11 of the best men I know – plus Honkytonk visiting from downrange and two 2.0s!

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Haggai 2:3-9, “Who of you is left who saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to you now? Does it not seem to you like nothing? But now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ declares the Lord. ‘Be strong, Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,’ declares the Lord, ‘and work. For I am with you,’ declares the Lord Almighty. ‘This is what I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt. And my Spirit remains among you. Do not fear.’  “This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘In a little while I will once more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land. I will shake all nations, and what is desired by all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,’ says the Lord Almighty. ‘The silver is mine and the gold is mine,’ declares the Lord Almighty. ‘The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house,’ says the Lord Almighty. ‘And in this place I will grant peace,’ declares the Lord Almighty.”

“How does it look to you now?”  The reflection this morning was about…reflection.  It was an encouragement to do some reflective thinking in the next few days as we close out the year and make plans to accelerate in 2023.

John Maxwell said, “Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.”.

Peter Drucker said something similar, “Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”

So, reflecting back on your year as a father, husband, friend…  Use those insights to help ponder your acceleration in the New Year and be even more effective in those roles.

Some questions to ponder

  • What was the most enjoyable part of my work (both professionally and at home)?
  • In what area do I feel I’ve made my biggest improvements?
  • What was the most challenging part of this year for me?
  • Who is someone I got to know better this year?
  • Who do I wish I had gotten to know better in the past year?
  • What was the best way I used your time this past year?
  • What was my single biggest time waster in life this past year?
  • What’s the biggest mistake of the year, and the lesson learned as a result?
  • What was the most fun I had this year?
  • What was my best memory of the year?
  • If I could travel back to the beginning of the year, what advice would I give myself?

 

 

As an AO, at the beginning of 2022, we set these goals.  We did pretty well!!!  Soon into 2023, let’s set some new goals for the group…

  • We now have a few metric workouts to measure performance (military fitness PT, and today’s heavy PT baseline).  Let’s re-do those occasionally to see how our performance is trending.  Weekly Push/Pull/Plank challenge on Slack.
  • Consistency in the gloom and chatter on Slack.  Outside of the gloom – Hiking daytrips…  Dinners…  Bonfires…  Spring camping trip…
  • More deliberate discipleship.  Developing smaller shield lock groups within the larger Project group.  Meditating on and committing scripture to memory.  Leading our families in study, prayer, and faith.
  • More men in attendance. More Sad Clowns who need something like F3.  Specifically, more newly married men and new fathers – those are critical points in a man’s life and full of anxiety.  We have a wealth of experiences to share with those men – let’s find ‘em!
  • Family Workout! It’ll be great to get the families together monthly. It’s also a service to the community to we are uniquely gifted to provide.  I think this will largely define The Project’s evolution in 2022.

 

MOLESKIN:

The workout teetered on the verge of being too complicated – but was still kind of fun!