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Embrace the Struggle

THE SCENE: Dry, 30ish but felt colder for some reason
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Little Baby Arm Circles Forward (4 ct) x 10

Little Baby Arm Circles Backward (4 ct) x 10

Michael Phelps

A little bit of this and a little bit of that for the arms and the legs

Windmills (4 ct) x 10

Some quick stretching while in the windmill position

14th day of the year

14 burpees

351 days to go

SSH (4 ct) x 50 (251 left)

THA-THANG:

Mosey to the rock pile

SSH (4 ct) x 50 (151 left)

Pick a rock

Rifle carry the rock to the flagpole

SSH (4 ct) x 50 (51 left)

Using the loop as a baseball diamond, we have four rep stations – 1st base (corner near the playground), 2nd base (the top near the tennis courts), 3rd base (stinky corner), and Home (the flagpole).

Mosey to 1st base and do 10 reps of the exercise

Mosey from 1st base to 2nd base and do 20 reps

Mosey from 2nd base to 3rd base and do 30 reps

Mosey from 3rd base to Home and do 40 reps

First lap – Curls (running with rock)

SSH (4 ct) x 25 (1 left)

SSH (single count) x 1

Second lap – Squats (without the rock to let our arms rest)

Third lap – Shoulder presses (with the rock again)

Fourth lap – LBCs (without the rock)

Fellowship mosey to the rock pile to return the rocks

Mosey to the AO

MARY:

Mary is usually all about the abs, but the Q is nursing an ab injury (hopefully that’s all that it is).

My dad’s birthday was this week.  He would have been 84 this year.  In honor of him and his 84th birthday, each of the PAX did 84 merkins.

In 45 minutes, the PAX did:

14 burpees

351 SSHs

100 curls

100 squats

100 shoulder presses

100 LBCs

84 merkins

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 HIMs struggled together.  Tonka had to leave before the pic.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

The saying “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” does not come from the Bible, even though a lot of Christians cite it.  It comes from German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who, ironically, did not believe in God.

The saying “God won’t give you more than you can handle” is drawn from 1 Corinthians 10:13, but that verse really deals with temptation, not suffering/struggling.

God does not promise anyone that they won’t suffer/struggle, just ask Job.

So, what’s the point of suffering/struggling?

President Richard Nixon once said that rich people who have it all, who do not work, and who do not struggle “don’t know life because what makes life mean something is purpose, a goal, the battle, the struggle, even if you don’t win it.”

Here is what the Bible does say about suffering/struggling:

“More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.” – Romans 5:3-5.

MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Ribbed’s wife, Submarine and Trunk’s grandmother, and all of our struggles

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

None mentioned

Before a Break

THE SCENE: The weather couldn’t have been better.  Beautiful brisk morning.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Some Motivators and Merkins to start the morning.
THA-THANG:
Simple yet effective workout. Some running with Merkins, Squats, Lunges, Pull Ups, Dry Docks and Mountain Climbers mixed in.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
We had a little talk about Chris Norton and the ability of humans to overcome great obstacles with a little help from the Man himself.

Dogpound 1-11-22

THE SCENE: 25 degrees “a dry cold”
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Touch Toes – 20 count; Cherry Pickers IC x 5; Sumo Squat and Hold – 20 count; Tempo Squat IC x 5; Rockettes IC x 5; Tempo Merkins IC x 5; Motivators beginning at 4; CMU farmer carries, alternating hands, all the way to base of Matterhorn

THA-THANG:
Partner Up.  One partner completes the prescribed number of reps for the “A” exercise while the other partner goes AMRAP on the “B” exercise, then they switch.  Once each partner has completed 3 sets of each exercise they head up Matterhorn together (detail below).

Round 1 – [A] Squirrel Press x 10 (detail below) / [B] Side Straddle Hops

Round 2 – [A] Over The Top Merkin x 15 / [B] Reverse Lunge

Round 3 – [A] CMU Deadlift x 15 / [B] Switch Climbers

* “Squirrel Press” – holding your CMU a with bicep curl grip – perform perfect squat form to the low position, curl, stand up, curl, overhead press = 1 rep

** Matterhorn – run uphill to the first set of cones (bottom of pull-up area); turn around and Bernie to the second set of cones (top of pull-up area); turn around again and run to the third set of cones at the summit.  Each partner completes 5 burpees at the summit, then heads back down in the same manner.  Q recommends a walking Bernie on the downhill section.

*** Early finishers head back up Matterhorn to meet the Six before beginning the next round

MARY:
Cleaned up debris from a fallen tree limb that was blocking the road near the marina entrance and challenged ourselves with a variety of CMU carries on the way back to the AO
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 men accounted for.  Thank you to Mayberry for helping the Q remember to do the Name-O-Rama
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

2 Chronicles 7:14 – If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
MOLESKIN:

One of my favorite verses.  Stop trying to fix things on your own.  You can’t.  And stop being deceived by the thought that other people need to change their ways so that the world can get back on it’s axis.  Seek God, pray, and repent.  He will meet you right where you are, and he will heal your land.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Gator Rasalin and Latin

THE SCENE: 32 and windy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
30 SSH

5 merkins

right over left strech

left over right strech

LBAS Forwards

LBAS Backwards

 

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the tennis cort with some tunes and a smartphone. Using the SeatDeck app we will play 54 card pickup. Every suite has a excersie and the number of reps are based on the number 10,Jack,Queen, King, and Ace are all 10.

To keep us warm every 10* cards we ran a lap around the feild.

Spades = Sholder taps 4X

Clubs = V-Up

Dimonds = Merkins

Hearts = BBS

Jokers 10 Burpees

 

MARY:
No time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Provervs 6:20-29 – Had to be there.

MOLESKIN:
* AKA at the Q’s discretion. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Stay warm my friends

21’s and 7’s in 2021

THE SCENE: 70 and warm
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
21 SSH

7 Cherry pickers

21 little baby arm circles forward, backwards

10 OH Claps

11 seal Claps

THA-THANG:

  • mosey to top of park
  • 21 Merkins
  • Run down to lower parking lot
  • 21 Squats
  • Run up to the Bearmuda Triangle
  • bearcrawl up the first angle
  • Run to Top of the world
  • 21 V-Ups
  • Run back to Bearmuda Triangle
  • bearcrawl the 2nd angle torwards the Dock
  • Run to Dock
  • 21 CDD
  • Run Back to Bearmuda Triangle
  • Bearcrawl last angle
  • Run back to the Top of the park
  • Rinse and repeat

Getting close to time  for Mary, so we Mosey to the flag pole

Moment of silence for all those men and women service members who lost their lives this year. We get the freedom to workout in a park because of those members.

Ring of fire to 6:15

MARY:

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

FNG – Toretto

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Romans 8:28 – The Lord this year was faithful in ways I could never have thought. The Lord works all things for the good. That “the good” it’s not inside our view or our thoughts of Good. It’s God! It’s God’s good and his doing is better than we could think.
MOLESKIN:
Grateful for you men.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Happy New Years.