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A Thumb on the Scale

THE SCENE: 68, clear, and smelling sweetly of honeysuckles.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
25x SSH IC
10x Hindurkins IC
Outhouse Run
8x Al Gore Tuck Jump
15x 4ct Crab Kicks

THA-THANG:
Mosey up to the upper parking lot at the top of Baby Everest.
A balance is set up there, so fill one side with some number of stones.
Gather at the bottom of the hill, each man does 15 reps of one exercise, then takes one stone up the hill to the balance, then mosey down the long way.
Once the balance tips, all the PAX move on to the next exercise.

Exercises:
Merkins
Star Jacks
Decline Dry Docks
4-ct Mountain climbers
4-ct Hello Dolly
Burpees! (10 instead of 15)

MARY:
10x 4ct LBC
15x 4ct Left/Right LBC
25x 4ct Flutter Kicks.
15x 4ct Monkey Humpers
Just a few seconds of shoulder taps to close it out.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8x HIMs this morning
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
In life, we have a lot of things that we have to try to keep in balance.  Work/home, food/exercise, cost/benefit, etc.  But there’s one area in which, there’s no way to pile enough on one side to balance the other, and that’s the sin/righteousness balance.  No matter how much good we try to do, there’s nothing we can do in our own strength to tip that balance in our favor.  Titus 3:5 says, “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost”.  He put His thumb on the scale when he sent His Son to take the penalty for our sin through His death.
MOLESKIN:
My precision calculation of the number of stones to put in the balance ended up a little high.  But that’s OK, as someone decided to accelerate the filling of the other side by a bit.  Ended up adding burpees at the end, so it all worked for the best!.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill is THIS WEEKEND!  Can’t wait!  .

Tenzies

THE SCENE: Warm about 70 degrees. Pollen is everywhere.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH X20, 10 odd count merkins, 5 Cherry Pickers

THA-THANG:
Do 10 of each exercise at each cone along the big loop.

  • Inch worms
  • Smurf jacks
  • One arm up planks
  • diamond mericans
  • 10 sec one legged stands
  • Run to top of hill at restaurant
  • Burpees
  • Squats
  • Reg mericans
  • squat jumps
  • wide mericans
  • bobby hurleys
  • iron mikes
  • shoulder tap mericans
  • lunges

Flutter kicks x 30 till 6 joins then Mosey to AO
MARY:
Ring of fire-leg lifts x3
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
19 in attendance
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Talked about example of doing a mud race with my wife and being too self centered and wanting to run it and do it fast. My wife is not in the shape I’m in and really struggled. I got irritated and she could sense it and along with the fact we got there late and she hates the shape that she is in, ended up having a small panic attack. It litterly took that for my dumb ass to figure out that the day was not about me running a race but about spending time with my wife and the mother of my children.

so…..when you spend time with your family, BE THERE for them mentally as well.
MOLESKIN:
Good chatter this morning and some new guys are adding some good energy to the PAX
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill, prayers for Tanks wife

Suburban Assault

THE SCENE
63 and Clear

 

WARM UP
Ruck the loop

 

THA THANG
3-6-9
Perform the following exercises for 3 minutes, AMRAP AFAP while maintaining form.  1 minute rest between sets:

  • 3x Ruck Thruster
  • 6x Merkins
  • 9x Squats
  • Rinse and repeat 3x

Ruck to Trade Joe’s and back.

Partner up and head to the hill next to the tennis court.

 

Ruck Crawls
Battle Buddy 1: Bear Crawl Alternating Ruck Pulls (Ruck underneath you. Bear crawl forward and pull ruck forward with right, then left arm, repeat) up the hill.  Then ruck sandbag around to parking lot and back up the trial to Battle Buddy 2.

Battle Buddy 2 perform the following until Battle Buddy 1 returns

  • Ruck Curls x15
  • Front-Loaded Squats x20
  • Upright Rows x20
  • Burpees (ruck off) x10

Each Battle Buddy takes 3 trips up the hill based on time.

 

Coupon Train
Battle Buddies ruck up and carry sandbags for one more trip around the loop.

 

CASH OUT
4ct Flutter Kicks x30
Rinse and Repeat

 

COT / BOM

Anger
We live in a culture that seems to be saturated with anger.  Lately, I’ve found myself falling victim to anger.  I did a quick search on what God has to say about it…it’s pretty convicting:

  • Proverbs 14:29
    He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who is quick-tempered exalts folly.
  • Proverbs 16:32
    He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit, than he who captures a city.
  • Proverbs 17:27
    He who restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.
  • Proverbs 19:19
    A man of great anger will bear the penalty, for if you rescue him, you will only have to do it again.
  • Proverbs 19:11
    A man’s discretion makes him slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook a transgression.
  • Proverbs 22:24
    Do not associate with a man given to anger; Or go with a hot-tempered man,
  • Proverbs 29:11
    A fool always loses his temper, but a wise man holds it back.
  • Proverbs 29:22
    An angry man stirs up strife, and a hot-tempered man abounds in transgression.
  • Ecclesiastes 7:9
    Do not be eager in your heart to be angry, for anger resides in the bosom of fools.
  • James 1:19-20
    This you know, my beloved brethren but everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.

Anger is different from zeal.

  • Zeal is associated with the righting of an injustice or passion for a righteous call.
  • Anger is a secondary emotion usually triggered by hurt, fear, shame or unmet expectation.

Anger can be openly aggressive, or simmer internally and leak out in passive aggressive behaviors.  Both are toxic to relationships, derail our efforts and cloud our mission.  Anger has no place in the life of HIMs.  Anger is disruptive and disconnects us from reason and vision.

I feel like the answer is to see anger for what it is, a symptom of something deeper.  Use your anger like a Check Engine light for your soul.  Ken Sande says, “Anger is most often a sign that one of your idols is being poked!”  That makes anger a helpful tool in personal growth and maturity.  When you find yourself stirred, take a moment and reflect on what it is that is upsetting you.  A question I ask myself is, “Why is ________________ a problem?” inserting whatever is bothering me in the blank.  More often than not my blank is filled with ego, pride and selfishness.  So I’m learning to use anger as tool to root those out and replace them with grace, humility and selflessness.  It’s not easy, but not much in life worth pursuing is.

 

Submitted by Cap’n Crunch

Blimps

THE SCENE: BEAUTIFUL
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH

Cherry Pickers

Rockets

Mosey around outhouse
THA-THANG:
Mosey to track around soccer fields.  Do a BLIMPS then run a lap around the track repeat 4 times

B – Burpees x 5

L – Lunges x 10 each leg

I – Imperial Walkers x 15 each side

M – Merkins x 20

P – Plank Jacks x 25 single count

S – Squats x 30

Mosey to parking lot at skate rink for more BLIMPS.  5 reps for all exercises

B then run to end of parking lot (75 yards?), L then run back

I, run to end, M run back

P, run to end, S run back

Mosey to AO

MARY:
Ratchet – Elbow Dolley

Crossbar – Boat/ Canoe
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Lone Wolfe, Squirter (FNG), Farva (FNG)

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Be enthusiastic in whatever you are doing

MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill May 19th

Mayday

THE SCENE: Beautiful morning. Clear and perfect
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA 
SSH X29,

Mosey Around outhouse

Cherry pickers x5
Tha Thang
Partner up, mosey with 1 CMU per duo up towards boats
Stop at 1/2 way at guardrail
Dora:
100 declines
150 CMU squats
200 presses
While partner runs up to top and back (60+ yards)
Mosey to boat
One partner runs to light pole with CMU
while other does burpees. Partner 1 runs back and tags partner 2 and both run to CMU. Repeat switching partners each time.
 10 burpees OYO
At steps:
Stand beside each other.  15 squats total passing CMU each time. Repeat but switch sides. For total of 30.
Run up to rock at restaurant
Repeat x3
 10 burpees OYO
Return back towards AO stopping at each light pole as before but doing LBCs.
Mosey To guardrail again for mini Dora 100 merkins while partner runs to top again
 20 incline merkins on guardrail
mosey to AO for 35 Flutterkicks
COT 12 Pax
BOM
 Story from Rabbi Abraham Twerski

“‘Young man. Why are you eating that fish?’ The young mans says, ‘Because I love fish.’ He says, ‘Oh. You love the fish. That’s why you took it out of the water and killed it and boiled it.’ He says, ‘Don’t tell me you love the fish. You love yourself, and because the fish tastes good to you; therefore, you took it out of the water and killed it and boiled it.’

“So much of what is love is fish love. Young couple falls in love. Young man and young woman fall in love. What does that mean? That means that he saw in this woman someone who he felt could provide him with all of his physical and emotional needs, and she felt in this man somebody she feels that she can write, that was love, but each one is looking out for their own needs. It’s not love for the other. The other person becomes a vehicle for my gratification.

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“Too much of what is called love is fish love. An external love is not on what I’m going to get but I’m going to give. We had an ethicist rabbi Dessler, who said, ‘People make a serious mistake in thinking that you give to those whom you love, and the real answer is you love those to whom you give.’

His point is if I give something to you, I’ve invested myself in you. Since self-love is a given, everybody loves themselves, now that part of me has become in you, there’s part of me in you that I love. True love is a love of giving, not a love of receiving.’

MOLESKIN:
Not a lot of chatter this morning, I’m assuming that means it was a good workout?…
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Prayers for families struggling, praise for friends marriage issues on right road