Snaggletooth – Page 29

HEAVY PT

August 5, 2021 Snaggletooth

THE SCENE: Perfect gloom
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Yup.
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH
LBAC – fwd/bwd
• Tempo Squats
• Tempo Merkins
• Mountain Climbers
• Cherry picker x5
• MOSEY TO POOL WALL
• @Pool Wall – 5x Wall-up
• @Playground – 5x pull-up
• @Amphitheater – 5x boxjumps
MOSEY TO RECRUITING CENTER

THA-THANG:
Heavy Stations – 2 ROUNDS
Round 1
1. CMU Thrusters
2. CMU Lunges
3. CMU Tricep Extension
4. Tire Flips
5. Ball Throw Down
6. Inverted Rows (on pull-up bar or handrailing)
7. CMU Squats
8. Bear Crawl – TIMER
Round 2
1. CMU Kettleswing
2. CMU Curls
3. CMU Curls
4. CMU Single-leg Squat
5. CMU Single-arm Row
6. Sledge Hammer Swings on Tire
7. Pull-up
8. Bernies down to end and back – TIMER

MERKIN CIRCLE-Pyramid Thing
In a circle, Pax holds plank while 1 at a time does 1 merkin. When everyone does 1, add 1 merkin each round up to 3 and back down.
Mosey back to Shovel Flag.

MARY:
PAX Choice

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Crazy 8

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM: We focused on verse 5 – waiting. What do we do while we wait? We shared 3 things: Be in the Word to hear His specific word for your situation, PRAY, and worship while you wait.

Psalm 130 (The Passion Translation)

Lord, I cry out to you out of the depths of my despair!
2 Hear my voice, O God!
Answer this prayer and hear my plea for mercy.
3 Lord, if you measured us and marked us with our sins,
who would ever have their prayers answered?
4 But your forgiving love is what makes you so wonderful.
No wonder you are loved and worshiped!
5 This is why I wait upon you, expecting your breakthrough,
for your Word brings me hope.
6 I long for you more than any watchman
would long for the morning light.
I will watch and wait for you, O God,
throughout the night.
7 O Israel, keep hoping, keep trusting,
and keep waiting on the Lord,
for he is tenderhearted, kind, and forgiving.
He has a thousand ways to set you free!
8 He himself will redeem you;
he will ransom you from the cruel slavery of your sins!

MOLESKIN:
SO. MUCH. FUN. Love these guys – Praying for school starting up

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP – Kick’s got a team going – SIGN UP; Oak Ridge Outdoor Concert coming up – good food trucks, music, etc

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

Building Relationships

July 23, 2021 Erector

THE SCENE: warm and muggy…typical
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
15 SSH, 15 Mountain climbers, 10 tempo merkins, 15 Moroccan night club, 15 imperial walkers, 10 tempo squats, 5 cherry pickers
THA-THANG:
Mosey toward the coupon pile. As the PAX begin to separate, do burpees until the 6 gets in and then to 5 burpees together. Repeat until arrival at the couple pile.

20 OHPs run to top of stairs for 5 pull-ups
Back down the stairs for 20, 2 ct flutter kicks… repeat as follows
20 merkins, 5 pull-ups, 20, 2 ct Freddie Mercury
20 curls, 5 pull-ups, 20 big boys sit-ups

Mosey to Middle court yard.

Aiken legs – Done in succession with no rest — 20 Squats, 20 Box Jumps, 20 Lunges (10 each leg), 20 Split Jacks (10 each leg forward).

Mosey back to the big parking lot for Blackjack. 1 LBC, run to the opposite side (short length) and do 20 merkins. Repeat with 2 LBCs and 19 merkins. Repeat all the way to 20 LBCs and 1 Merkin. Blackjack! We didn’t get all the way through, but got close to halfway.

MARY:
10 side crunches each side
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
12 including one runner.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
What does it take to build a better, closer relationship? Time spent together. This works for our families (wife, kids, etc.), as well as with God. So, how do we spend time building that relationship? Same answer…spend time together. God has given us His word to study and learn and spend time in. God gave us the avenue of prayer to develop that relationship too. If we spend time reading God’s word and praying, we spend time with God. Reading the Bible gives us a close look at God’s relationship with mankind. We can’t know God’s will without spending time in His word. Prayer gives us the opportunity to open our heart to God even though He already knows what is on our heart. Prayer draws us closer to Him.

Think about the time and effort spent to grow closer to your spouse while you were dating. That is the level of effort we should apply to developing our relationship with God.
MOLESKIN:
Blackjack had YHC burned out quick! We’ll get through the whole thing next time.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

X-Ray

July 1, 2021 Kick-Flip

THE SCENE: 72 and calm.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Administered
WARM-O-RAMA:

Stretchy stretchy…

Mosey to the recruitment center

THA THANG:

One PAX at a time pulls a pair of logs a lap around the parking lot. That person is the timer for all others.

10 cones set out – each station has an exercise. Visit a cone and do the exercise until time is called.

Log pull (timer)
10 thrusters + 15 curls
Ball Slams
Heavy lunges
Battle rope alternating waves
Stack squat
Jump rope
Pull-ups
Tire hit
“I” Merkins

Mosey around the parking lot

Now…repeat it all again! This time, exercises are;

Log pull (timer)
Slam ball throw
Goblet squat
Battle rope slams
Good mornings
Jump rope
Pull-ups
Tire flip
“H” Merkins

MARY:

No time!

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

5 men

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

My right hand has been hurting since I injured it on May 20^th. There is hardly any gripping strength in my thumb, so I’ve been useless at doing things like opening jars. On Tuesday, I finally went to see an ortho doc. To support his diagnosis, the nurse staff took an x-ray of my hand and the doc pulled it up on a screen… Man, x-rays are awesome! With them, we can view a vivid image of the innermost parts of our bodies. Just 150 years ago, the thought of doing that sounded like magic – a fantasy beyond possibility. But there I sat on Tuesday, looking at this picture of all the intricate the bones of my hand. I was reminded of Psalm 139… (verse 13-14), “You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.”

The Word this morning also came from Psalm 139… Picking up in verse 23…

“Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting.”

That is a dangerous prayer, is it not? Search through even my deepest thoughts… Show me my fears, because those reveal where I am not fully trusting in you… Uncover the sins that I am blind to or that I have rationalized… Woooooo! Will you have the courage to offer these words up in prayer today?

In the field of medical radiography, a historical moment occurred 87 years ago today. On July 1, 1934, in Rochester, NY, a medical team completed the first ever x-ray photo of an entire body. Prior to that, x-rays were of a hand, a foot, a skull… On that day in 1934, a whole body was x-rayed and the innermost parts made known. So…I invite you to make your prayer today; “God, search me…evaluate my whole self. Search who I am with my family, who I am at work, who I am with my friends, who I am when I’m alone… Search my thoughts, my attitudes, my actions, my motives… See if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting.”

“Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting.” Psalm 139:23-24

MOLESKIN:

Good to have Pi out with us!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Dog Pound CSAUP – July 24

F3 Dad’s Camp – Aug 13-15

Friendship and Servant Leadership

June 29, 2021 Snaggletooth

The Scene: 70 and humid

Welcome/Disclaimer – YES

Warmup: SSH, Tempo Merkins, Mountain Climbers, Overhead Clap, LBAC-fwd/bckwd, Projectivator, Cherry Pickers

The Thang
• Follow the Leader to Library Parking Lot: mosey, side step, karaoke, bear crawl, skip, high knees to library parking lot: burpee broad jump toward Amphitheater
• Mucho Chesto @ Amphitheater: 10 – merks, 10 – werkins, 10 – diamond merks, 10 – stagger right, 10 – stagger left (hold plank – someone lead until 6)(rinse/repeat)
• 10 Box Jump/Step Up and Bernie up hill, 10 jump squats at top. (rinse/repeat)
• @ Playground: Baby Murph – 5 pull-ups, 10 merks, 15 squats (5 rounds) = 25 pull-ups, 50 merks, 75 quats
• Bear Crawl to Pool: 10 Wallups
• Follow the Leader to Friendship Bell: mosey to Parallel Bars – hold Al Gore till each pax has a chance to hand walk across bars, BBS till 6, mosey to Friendship Bell for Mary

MARY:
Kick-Flip to lead, other AOQs and guests, and Judge Judy

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
16 STRONG

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
2 years and 2 months ago, David Greer became Kick-Flip. (He pointed out that I was on Q that day!) Today we know him as a man of character, a leader among men. When he leads, he’s creative, he’s personal, he pushes us. He serves us by leading. So many of his Qs are memorable, the workout, the word, his leadership and drive, his friendship and encouragement. We are all better men because of him and we are glad to give him the Shovel Flag as our AOQ at the Project.
Maybe one of you will be AOQ after him. I hope you will all step up to Q soon. Just as we need Kick-Flip to show up, we all need you/each other to show up. It’s not only how we get better as men and leaders, it’s how we see and experience the diversity and creativity of God in fitting us together, in both our leading and our following. Your strengths pushes us in our weakness and vice versa. We are all disciples, followers/fellow travelers, friends, of Jesus. In Christian friendship, we disciple each other. We encourage each other. We call each other higher up and further in. Friendship is discipleship when Christ is in you. When you Q, you both lead and serve the men around you as friends. It is both friendship and servant leadership.

MOLESKIN:
Much appreciation to Judge and guys from other AOs who came to support and celebrate the passing of the The Project Shovel Flag to Kick-Flip. Shout out to Trolley who began the tradition of taking the picture at the Friendship Bell.

PRAYER:

Ribbed’s wife, men at Equalizer and other AOs whose marriages are struggling, Kick-Flip’s wife and new baby on the way

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
July 24 CSAUP “Off the Chain”