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What kind of hero?

July 27, 2021 Mathlete

THE SCENE: Proper TN gloom. 70s and sticky.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSHs
Tempo Squats
Little baby arm circles
Tempo merkins
Mountain climbers
Hairy Rockettes
Moroccan nightclubs
Projectivators

THA-THANG:

The Thang – To Mordor
First, three sets of elevensies

Parallel Bar
- Iron Mikes
- Inverse Rows
Pool wall
- Wall ups
- Deep squats
Peace Bell
- Carolina Dry Docks
- Pistol Squats
Death March toward K-25, the long way around
K-25 Hill – Mucho Hillo
- Mucho Chesto but with a hill sprint between each set of 25
- Merkins
- Wide Merkins
- Diamond Merkins
- Stagger merkins, each side

MARY:
Erector got us one set of freddies before time was up
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

What kind of hero do you aspire to be?

We find a wide array of hero types in our culture. For most of my life, my favorite kind of hero was the highly masculine bad ass. He has the luxury of knowing who the bad guys are and possessing the wherewithal to give em a proper beat down. In terms of personality, they run the gamut from stoic, to clever, to goofy. Basically every super hero falls into this category. And it’s the kind of hero I think we all want to be. Power ranger, He-man, Beowulf, Superman. But these guys rarely show up in history books. The only one that came to my mind was Alvin C. York.

Another type of popular hero is still masculine but faces an enemy or task that is clearly beyond his ability to conquer. These make many appearances in history books. Firefighters climbing the WTC while it collapses, passengers aboard United Airlines Flight 93 who fought back against hi-jackers, military men memorialized with a medal of honor who charged machine gun nests, jumped on grenades, or drove their ship to the brink. We read a story like this each month in the F3 Knoxville newsletter.

These two types of heroes can be found in cultures from all over the earth and throughout history. In Christian tradition there is a third type, which can only be recognized as a hero if you hold a Christian world view. These heroes oppose bad guys by choosing to live differently, openly defying the evil they see in the world, but seeking the good of all people, including, or perhaps especially, their enemies. It is passive and submissive on the exterior, but subversive and compelling to see and experience. This type of hero is forming throughout the old testament, leading up to the single culminating event of all history, Calvary. This type of heroism is also described in Revelation 13:5-10.
5The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months. 6It opened its mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. 7It was given power to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. 8All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world. 9Whoever has ears, let them hear.

10“If anyone is to go into captivity,

into captivity they will go.

If anyone is to be killed with the sword,

with the sword they will be killed.”

This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of God’s people.

MOLESKIN:
Erector was our Frodo today, making it to the top of Mount Doom.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Dad Camp, CSAUP, Hardship Hill

2 Masters

July 26, 2021 Biohack

THE SCENE: Humid
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Side straddle hop
Tempo merkins
Moroccan night club
Tempo squat
Cherry pickers
Run to track + 1 lap
Leg swings

THA-THANG:

The point of the workout is to try to serve 2 masters: abs and sprints. We drew cards and each suit had an ab exercise + sprint distace:

Hearts – 2x card number LBCs + 100m
Diamonds – Big Boys + 200m
Clubs – Hello Dollys + 300m
Spades – Heels to Heaven + 400m

What ended up happening is we spent the 90% of the time running and only served the sprinting master.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I shared Luke 16:1-13 and highlighted verse 13: “No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.” This was illustrated in our lopsided workout. We tried to do 2 things and only did one of them well.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
We announced a family workout for Saturday the 24th of July at 0700.

First Alone, Then Together

July 15, 2021 Biohack

THE SCENE: High 60s. Foggy. As Tuba put it, “Who ordered the extra gloom?”
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Side straddle hop
Tempo merkins
Moroccan night club
Cherry pickers

THA-THANG:

We mosey’d to the recruiting center and carried all of the CMU’s to the movie theatre and to the top of the stairs. This required 2 trips. Each PAX carried 2 the first time and 1 the second.
Leaving the CMU’s at the top of the stairs, we circled the theatre and did lunges up a second set of stairs, and squats and merkins in the parking lot.
Returning to the stairs, we retrieved the CMUs and returned them to the recruiting center. This time, each PAX had an area of responsibility along the route and carried the CMUs to the handoff point. Working as a team in an assembly line, we put them away.
We mosey’d to the Y-12 hill to bear crawl up.
We mosey’d to the amphitheater for box jumps.
We mosey’d to the playground for pull ups.
We mosey’d to the pool wall for walpies (burpee + wall-up).
We mosey’d to the dip bars for inverted rows. (If you can’t tell yet, I was filling time).
We mosey’d to the bell for dips.
We mosey’d to the parking lot to bear crawl up the hill.
We did 3 sprints in the parking lot.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Acts 4:32-37. I shared the passage and we talked about the implications. Does this passage support communism? Do we need to sell our possessions? We concluded it is an issue of the heart and it is about having a generous spirit and your heart (led by the Holy Spirit) will drive your actions.

Known by our fruit

July 13, 2021 Erector

THE SCENE: humid, but not terribly hot
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
10 Projectivator, 10 mountain climbers, 10 tempo merkins, 10 imperial walkers, 10 Moroccan night club, 10 tempo squats
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the playground.

Start with 10 pull-ups
20 merkins
10 wall-ups at the pool wall
Repeat once

Mosey to the K2-5 hill. Perform exercise then run up the hill and mosey back down. Repeat for all exercises.

20 squats
20 lunges (total)
20 jump squats
Repeat once

20 bonus merkins. Mosey to the friendship bell.

Hurricane Hoedown-Flutter kick circuit performed in cadence: 7 IC Seated Flutter Kicks with hands raised in Hallelujahs. Move immediately to hands behind you. 7 IC slightly reclined flutterkicks. Move immediately to 7 IC normal flutter kicks. Move immediately to 7 IC LBC Flutter kicks. Decrease count next round by 1 until you get to 1.

MARY:
Cherry pickers to loosen up after the hoedown. Merkin ring of fire. LBCs
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 PAX today
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. So then, you will know them by their fruits.” Matthew 7:15‭-‬20 NASB1995

Think about the “fruit” we are bearing in our lives. Can someone that doesn’t know us well immediately recognize that we follow Christ by our actions? Or are we ones that profess to be Christians, yet we don’t live our lives like Christ to the best of our ability? Jesus calls the latter ravenous wolves pretending to be sheep.

Keep reading.

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’” Matthew 7:21‭-‬23 NASB1995

Just doing some good things in life is not enough. We have to do His will. Jesus calls these people who were doing great things ones who “practice lawlessness” because they did not do His will.

Study His word to know His will.

MOLESKIN:
I use to always check the Exicon for a new exercise for my Qs. Maybe I will start that up again.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Butterfly 10k, CSAUP at Dogpound, Dad camp all coming up soon.

When is it necessary?

July 8, 2021 Mathlete

THE SCENE: Ideal Gloom. Dim, dank, and sweaty.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
Check
WARM-O-RAMA:
Projectivators, tempo squats, little baby arm circles, overhead claps, tempo merkins, mountain climbers, fence steppers, a little stretching on your own.
THA-THANG:
Hit the pool wall for wall-ups, cause I love ’em. Then off to the recruiting center.

Tabata rounds. Each round has 6 exercises. 45 seconds AMRAP, 15 seconds to breathe. 6 decks of memory cards, each with 2 legs, 2 arms, a core, and a full body. After each round, take a lap. Go until time is up.

MARY:
Just enough time for 15 LBCs.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other “sins” are invented nonsense. -Robert A. Heinlein, science-fiction author (7 Jul 1907-1988)

Apparently contradictory to many religious traditions, but this perhaps falls away upon deeper examination.

Is it physical harm only? Seems obviously to be no. Often people prefer physical pain to emotional pain.

So I can hurt myself if I like? The interconnectedness of people makes it so that self harm is actually harm to others.

When is hurting someone else necessary? The answer to this question represents a probable basis for cultural differences in matters of morality.
MOLESKIN:
We made it through about 3.5 rounds in the time we had.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP Aug 21. Hardship Hill Oct 2.