THE SCENE: Low 40s, drizzle
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
10 reps each exercise, cadence count
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- Horizontal Gators
- 4 Corners jump around CMU
- Hip Hop shoulders
- Squat Jacks
THA-THANG:
Tabata (20 seconds on, 10 sec rest, repeat) 2 minute duration for each exercise
- Toe taps on CMU
- Plank Hand Walk over CMU
- Jump Squat High Knees
- Crab Hip Thrusts
- Lizard Hops
- Plank walk feet over CMU
- Mosey (jog quarter mile)
- Crab Kicks
- Inch worm
- Plank, elbow to hands
- Down Dog, alternating hand to foot
- Sit, shoulder press CMU
- Mosey (jog quarter mile)
- Frog Burpees
- Plank Jacks
- Supermans
- V-sits left, middle, right, knee to chest
- Run in Place, alternating hands to knees and toes
- CMU Clean & Jerk
- Could have done 2 to 3 more exercises
MARY:
The Falling Man, Esquire article:
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a48031/the-falling-man-tom-junod/
The Falling Man, Documentary: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810746/
The Falling Man is one of the several people who purposefully jumped from the WTC towers on 9/11.
The story of the jumpers vanished from the 9/11 coverage and narrative. There was an aggressive resistance to acknowledging people jumped. When a family was approached about identifying the falling man, a family member’s response was “That piece of shit is not my father.”
The thought that a person was in such despair, suffering, beyond hope that he would, in a sense, give up was buried, dismissed, and denied. Instead the 9/11 coverage and narrative focused on bravery, courage, generosity and bringing enemies to justice.
Understandably, the preferred flavors of Christianity tend to be that of courage, hope, bravery and will power. We gravitate to these flavors so much that we deny, bury, dismiss the reality of despair and hopelessness. When we do this, we unintentionally alienate those who are deeply hurting.
When Jesus was on the cross, he didn’t hear “the Lord has a plan for you” or “this is God’s will.” As a matter of fact, he cried, “My God, my God why have you forsaken me?” Ultimate despair, alienation, hopelessness, just like The Falling Man and all the others who jumped from the towers. Jesus didn’t bury or deny despair, he endured it.
During our times of real despair, hopelessness and alienation, the cross is God crying “I know how bad it hurts and you are not alone, together we will endure this, I AM with you.” We too are the falling man and at the same time living reminders to each other “you are never alone. We will endure the suffering together. I am here with you.”
MOLESKIN:
The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud and challenge ourselves without being crushed. Tim Keller
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