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Birthday Q + Burpee Trivia = Perspective

THE SCENE: Mid 70s, humid, and no breeze
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
207th day of the year, 158 days left in 2021

43 SSHs (4 ct)

Burpee Trivia – get an answer wrong = 8 burpees, get an answer right = regular warm-up exercise

Ribbed knew that Benjamin Franklin was the first postmaster general, so we did little baby arm circles (forward and backward) instead of burpees

Trunk knew that New York was the 11th state to ratify the Constitution and join the union, so we did tempo squats instead of burpees.

Ribbed knew that President Truman desegregated the military in 1948, so we did tempo merkins instead of burpees.

No one knew that Alice and in Wonderland, Disney’s 13th animated film, premiered in London on this day in 1951, so we did burpees.

The PAX guessed that I was 43 today, so we did burpees.

44 SSHs (4 ct)

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the flag pole

4 exercises at the flag pole

11 derkins (decline merkins)

11 dips

11 box jumps

11 ierkins (incline merkins)

(44 total reps)

Run a lap around the loop

Rinse and repeat for 4 total laps, which is a little over a mile and 44 reps of each exercise and 176 total reps between all of the exercises.

(Some of the PAX started doing the exercises before the Q was done with the instructions, so we did some more burpees and started over and together this time.)

Mosey to the tennis courts

Bear crawl the base lines and broad jump the sidelines, do exercises in the corners

First corner = 44 flutter kicks (4 ct)

Second corner = 44 hello Dollys (4 ct)

Third corner = 44 box cutters (4 ct)

Fourth corner = 44 LBCs (4 ct)

Slow mosey to the AO

MARY:
No time, but the tennis courts gave us plenty of ab work

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 HIMs, including FNG Vanilla, er . . . Vanilla Sprinkles

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
God answers prayers, but sometimes God uses prayer to change us and our perspective, not the situation.  That’s a tough reality, but it’s true and one we have to accept and learn.  For example, if everyone you meet in a day has a bad attitude, then you probably have the bad attitude, and you need to change, not them.

MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Ribbed’s wife, Doubtfire’s family, Trunk’s business opportunities, everyone dealing with addiction/depression, Ribbed’s interview, and Jetlag’s travel home to the Philippines.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP in August

Hardship Hill in October

Show Mercy When Others Would Not Expect You To

THE SCENE: Insert info about the weather, etc.

Nice July mug

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

25 ssh

5 cherry pickers

10 windmills

10 rockettes

THA-THANG:

Battle buddy suicides – one buddy works on the exercise on the sideline while the other completes a suicide on the tennis court

50 burpees

100 squats

150 merkins

200 big boys

 

11s – pull ups, dry docks on the playground

 

Super set – 25 of each – Curls, rows, triceps – at the rock pile

MARY:
Various abdominal exercises – choose your own adventure

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
2 Samuel 9:6-10 – David shows mercy to Saul’s descendants

Bearmuda triangle thankfulness

THE SCENE: 70 and muggy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
stretching legs left over right and right over left

Cherry pickers

some of these some of those

20 SSH

1 Burpee

THA-THANG:
Mosey over to the Bearbuda triangle

  • Going down the ladder bear crawl from one corner to the next 7 Merkins and go all around the triangle.
  • Then doing 6 Merkins at each corner lunge between each corner.
  • all the way down to 1 on the even number lunge and odd bear crawl in between corners
  • Mosey to top parking lot
  • 11’s starting a the top with 1 Burpee and at the bottom 4 count Should taps.
  • Fellowship mosey back to the AO

MARY:
None – no time
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
grateful for you men and how you care for Sarah and I. I’m grateful for the impact you all have on our lives. 

Monday AM @ The Equalizer – 7/19/21

THE SCENE: Gloom!  Low 70’s, High humidity, wet grass, firm ground
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
– Side to side twists back and forth

– Cherry pickers, nice and slow

– SSH

– Imperial Walkers

– Michael Phelps

– This at that / shoulders and arms nice and loose

– Rockettes
THA-THANG:
After warmup we moseyed past the Flagpole and to the Playground for a quick briefing.  Two lines of cones 30 yards apart in the field marked our start and finish lines for 1a of a 2 part circuit.  The playground was the location of 1b.

  • 1a – 30 yards in the field (all moves are “there and back”)
    • sprints
    • lunges
    • imperial walkers / high knees
    • bear crawls
  • 1b – short jog to playground to complete the following
    • 5 pullups
    • 10 dips
    • 15 merkins
    • (back to the field to repeat 1a)

*Complete as many circuits as possible in ~25 minutes*

  • Mosey to the flag pole for old-school 8-minute abs (9 exercises, 25 reps apiece in cadence)
  • Recover and jog from Flagpole, past the Pavilon, around the rock garden, and back to the AO

MARY:
Finished on time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 HIMs
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Word on perseverance as it relates to fitness and faith.  In both cases it’s a decision.

Once upon a time I embraced a limiting belief that some people could run for distance, and others could not.  I placed myself in the latter category without ever actually attempting to train and better myself in that department.  Finally, with some motivation from a friend, I made the decision to train for a 5k.  I committed to seeing it through, and I knew that other people can run 3.1 miles (and many many more), so I was able to DECIDE to keep moving even when my legs, lungs, and the deceiver tried to tell me to stop.  Speed didn’t matter.  All that mattered was reaching the finish line and being able to celebrate the accomplishment of not stopping along the way.

In Hebrews 11, the author outlines the Faith Hall of Fame.  From Creation, to Noah, to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, Rahab, Samson, David, and on and on to illustrate that we are not the first to encounter hardship and/or have a need to draw on faith – that it’s taken great acts of faith by those who have come before us to bring God’s word to where it is today – and then he follows up with an absolute heater of a verse that’s one of my favorites:

Hebrews 12:1-2 – Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.  Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the fight hand of the throne of God.

The word I love the most in that passage is “perseverance” because just like in running, perseverance in our daily lives and our spiritual walks is a decision that doesn’t require any physical ability, and when things get tough, when obstacles arise, when the path isn’t clear, when temptation keeps calling – we can make a decision to stay on course, focus on Christ, and draw inspiration from the community of those around us and those who’ve come before.

MOLESKIN:
Hebrews 11-12

C25K 5K Trainer is a great app for anyone who might have some limiting beliefs about their ability to run for distance.  Just keep moving forward.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Dad Camp Aug 12-14 – Camp Ocoee (sons and daughters welcome)

CSAUP @ Dogpound Aug 21

Hardship Hill coming up this Fall

Choose Your Own Adventure Equalizer Style

THE SCENE: Humid!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Motivators from 5
Cherry Pickers (5)
Baby Arm Circles forward /Backward (10)
Michael Phelps, and arm stretches
THA-THANG:
Today was choose your own adventure, Equalizer Style.  Each PAX chooses a location and an exercise and we each have our own input into the workout.
First we paused to watch the Space Station cruise by Earth at 20,000 MPH.  While watching we did flutter kicks to 30 in cadence, and 20 hip pointers.
15 pull ups on the playground
15 burpee pull ups at the bathroom
25 big boys at the pavilion
25 carolina dry docks on the dock
15 each, rows, curls, & overhead presses
25 rock jumps at the rocks
16 merkins (wide)
50 dips at the flag pole
Mario, side run, bernie around the tennis courts
15 Derkins on the bleachers
Burpee Broad Jumps around the splash pad
Ring of fire, doing merkins starting at 5, naming a type of shrimp dish like in Forest Gump.

MARY:
Each PAX called an ab exercise, and we followed each with 10 merkins
Flutter kicks
Box Cutters
Freddie Mercuries
Hello Dollies
Big Boys
Pickle Pounders
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Today was choose your own adventure day.  We all have choices to make and those choices have good or bad consequences.  The food we eat, the way we spend money, do we seek regular medical care, etc.  Think about the choices you make this week, and the consequences of those.
Galatians 5:13-14
You were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only don’t let this freedom be an opportunity to indulge your selfish impulses, but serve each other through love.  All the law has been fulfilled in a single statement: “Love your neighbor as yourself”.

MOLESKIN:
Pray for the Knox County Administrators as they report back to work this week.  Pray for an unspoken for Schoolzone.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: