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Reindeer Games

THE SCENE: A very warm December morning, right before the storm. Thankfully the rain held off

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH, Baby Arm Circles, This and That, Michael Phelps, Tempo Squats, Tempo Merkins, Hill Billies
THA-THANG:
Today we played reindeer games. Each workout was either a solo or team competition. Losers of each workout owed the winner 10 Burpees. The games were:

  • Bring Sally Up Pushup Challenge: Up and down in cadence with the song, last man “standing” wins
  • Murder Bunny Relay Race: Divided into 2 teams. Each team lined up at the edge of the lawn. From end to end were 5 cones. First person in line Murder Bunnied to the first cone, sprinted back, and led their team in 5 merkins. Next man up ran to the block, murder bunnied to the next cone, ran back, led push ups, and so on until the first team got their block across the field and back (total of 12 segments). Everyone held a plank while waiting to run
  • Hammer Relay: We worked together on this one. In a big circle everyone held an American Hammer position while a 8lb medicine ball was tossed from person to person, making its way around the circle. When you had the ball you owed 5 American Hammers then tossed it to your neighbor. If any feet or the ball hit the ground everyone owed 10 Big Boy Situps
  • Bear Crawl Relay: Divided into 2 teams again. Lined up again on one end of the fountain pavilion, with a cone on the other. Everyone held a plank while one person from each team bear crawled to the cone. Once there, that man called out the next person from their team by name to crawl to the cone. Once an entire team had crossed, together as a team they crawled back to the start point. First team out and back won
  • Beep Test: Just like middle school gym class, run to the cone before the beep, run back before the beep. 2 failures in a row = elimination. Last man standing wins
  • Ultimate Frisbee: Ran a quick game of Box Ultimate to run out the clock. Any dropped disc meant 5 squats for everyone

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Continued to share from my routine of developing the habit championed by Jerry Bridges of preaching the Gospel to yourself daily. I’ve also been doing a Biblical Worldview training program called the Colson Fellows that has a ton of assigned readings and daily devotionals. A devotional from a few days ago said “God loved us enough to die for us. But since God can’t die He became a man in order to do so”. I felt like this quote did a good job of stating the Gospel as well as the reason for Advent and Christmas. Part of the Gospel is that we know celebrate the incarnation of God through Christ, and in this season of Advent we wait in hopeful expectation of this, knowing that it also means Christ’s death on our behalf

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Welcome to Man in the Mirror

Winter Wonderland

THE SCENE: Warmest day this week but still plenty of gloom

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER


WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x25; Tempo Squat x10; Tempo Merkin x10; Australian Snow Angel x10

THA-THANG:
Pax rolled 12 sided dice to determine what exercise they would be doing

  • 1 – Polar Bear Crawl to cone and Crawl Polar Bear back
  • 2 – Elf on a Shelf x10
  • 3 – Santa’s Workshop Stairs x3
  • 4 – Australian Snow Angel x10
  • 5 – Polar Bear Crawl to cone and Crawl Polar Bear back
  • 6 – Elf on a Shelf x20
  • 7 – Santa’s Workshop Stairs x7
  • 8 – Australian Snow Angel x20
  • 9 – Polar Bear Crawl to cone and Crawl Polar Bear back
  • 10 – Elf on a Shelf x30
  • 11 – Santa’s Workshop Stairs x11
  • 12 – Australian Snow Angel x30

MARY:
LBCs for time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 had fun in a Winter Wonderland

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Be as committed to sharing Jesus with others as you are about sharing F3 or your hobbies with others

MOLESKIN:
Pray for Toad and his family

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

Hangman Trivium Edition

THE SCENE: 30 and very little wind. Cold enough for pants, but you could get by without once you got moving.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 SSH, 10 IC Merkins, 10 Imp Squat Walkers, 10 Peter Parkers, and a warmup lap (butt kicks, high knees, side shuffle, lunge stretch, jog, sprint)

THA-THANG:
We played Hangman. A correct guessed letter gave us 4 Mary Katherines. An incorrect guess gave us 10 Merkins, 10 box jumps, and 10 LBCs. If we hung the man, we got 20 burpees.

The words were:

Logic – the art of reasoning well in the search after truth and the communication of it to others

Syllogism – an argument stated at full length and in its regular form

Sophism – a fallacious argument, especially one used deliberately to deceive

MARY:
Bearway to Heaven. 7 cones and a base line. Bear crawl to the first cone, one beast merkin. Bear crawl to the first and second cones, 1 then 2 beast merkings. 1st, 2nd, and then 3rd cones, 1, 2, and 3 merkins. And so on to 7. 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5 PAX
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Assigning a false consequence or “Slippery Slope” Sophism.

The “slippery slope” argument … says that, given the danger of going down the regulatory road, it is safer never to begin. But the slippery slope argument is another one of those exercises in abstract reasoning that imagines a worse-case scenario every time because nothing fills up its landscape but its own assumptions. That is, the slippery slope argument assumes that there is nothing in place, no underbrush, to stop the slide; but in any complexly organized society there will always be countervalues to invoke and invested person to invoke them. Slippery slope trajectories are inevitable only in the head, where you can slide from A to B to Z with nothing to retard the acceleration of the logic. In the real world, however, the step even from A to B will always [or may very likely] meet with resistance of all kinds from person differently positioned, and, as a matter of fact, the chances of ever getting to Z are [or may be] next to nothing. Somewhere along the route some asserted interest will stop the slide, and a line will be drawn beyond which regulators will be prevented from going, at least for a time, until new pressures and new resistances provoke a new round of debates, at the end of which still another line will be provisionally drawn.

Stanly Fish, There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It’s a Good Thing, Too (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), 130

MOLESKIN:
I think it is important of us to be such men as we can spot fallacious arguments and put a stop to them sooner rather than later. To be well rooted “underbrush” and so be anchor points for our society. We do that by sharpening our minds, but more importantly by deepening our reliance on God and his promises.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Dec 11 – Breakfast at Drifter’s
Dec 18 – Ugly Christmas Sweater Brew Ruck

Memory Lane

THE SCENE:  26 degrees F, 97% humidity, mostly sunny
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH and Imperial Squat Walkers
THA-THANG:
For about 5 years starting in 1979, I spent my lunch “hour” (more like 1 hour, 5 minutes) at Springbrook Park (aka the Bomb Shelter).  Several guys from Alcoa Inc. did the same.  Most played basketball but myself and two others would run the perimeter roads around the Park.  Two laps plus the run from the gym to the road and back up at the end equaled about 3.6 miles.  At least that’s what the car odometer indicated.  A quick shower and lunch while driving back to the plant ended a quick workout.  I probably ran 400 laps each year but none in the past 38+ years.  Who knows, today may have been Lap 2001.

So today is something of a 40 year Average Anniversary workout.  The beatdown consisted of running one of the Springbrook laps and stopping 15 times at various corners and street intersections to do 40 reps of the following exercises.

  1. Bobby Hurleys
  2. Merkins
  3. WWIIs
  4. Tempo Squats
  5. Box Cutters
  6. Iron Mikes
  7. Plank Jacks
  8. Imperial Squat Walkers
  9. Dry Docks
  10. Lunges
  11. LBCs
  12. SSH
  13. Flutter Kicks
  14. Dips
  15. Bear Crawl (40 paces)

MARY:
LBCs, BBS, Protractors, 1 minute plank.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5 HIMs and 1 2.0 (Webelo)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Romans 5:3-5, NIV

3 Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

I have to admit that there is not much suffering in my life – certainly not compared to that endured by the early Christians or those that don’t live in freedom like that which exists in the United States. So how are we to have perseverance produced with a lack of suffering. We can help ourselves by manufacturing some pressure and training ourselves.  Push limits – physically, mentally, and spiritually.  Make a tough climb on your bike, hike for many miles, fast for a period of days, turn devices off and embrace quiet and solitude and prayer for an uncomfortable period of time.  God designed us for perseverance. Start training and learn about ourselves.

MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

37 Thanks

THE SCENE: Perfect gloom for Thanksgiving. Not too cold but just enough to make you keep going.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH- 10 4ct
  • Good Mornings- 5- 3ct down and up
  • CHerry Pickers- 5
  • Shoulder Taps- 10 4ct

THA-THANG:

Mosey to the base of ButterBilly hill with your CMu for some 37 Thanks

Complete 37 reps of each exercise. Than Rifle Carry CMU to cone up ButterBilly, about 37 feet away from start. Leave CMU and run the rest of the way to the top of the hill. At the top do 38 reps of corresponding core exercise before running back down the hill to your CMU, rifle carry back to start. Move to next exercise and repeat.

  • Thrusters  —> V Up
  • Hand Release Merkins —> LBC’s
  • mAn Makers—> Gas Pumps
  • Never cross dollys—-> V Up’s
  • Kranken Burpees—> LBC’s
  • Starfish Crunch —-> Gas Pumps

MARY:
Some LBC’s for time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Today is my birthday. At 37 I see where I can be a more effective leader in my community. It starts with me realizing where i have failed. I need to be better at leading by example when it comes to giving back and being a servant leader to my community. With this being Thanksgiving, I’m am grateful that i have the opportunity to give back and i want to be better at following through with that.

MOLESKIN:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Dec 18th Ugly Sweater Beer Ruck/Walk. M’s invited, don’t have to Ruck or drink beer, just come for the 2nd F!