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LMU Circuit and Coupons

AO: bigball
Q: Drive-thru (Mikel Towe)
PAX: vanilla, G-6 (Rick Kuhlman), Swanson, Drive-thru (Mikel Towe), Cowabunga, Escobar
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARMUP:
THE THANG:
Run up to LMU for circuit
5/10/15/20
Decline
Apollo Ohnos
Dips
Left center right centers

Mosey back to coupon pile
1.5 minutes of:
Curls
Skull crushers
Chest press
Front raise

MARY:
Ab Circle
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: Be kind and reach out to those struggling.

IPC Week 2

AO: bigball
Q: Magic Mic (Jarrett Woodall)
PAX: Swanson, Drive-thru (Mikel Towe), Huffy (Ken Hill), Postman (Scott Colby), Passport (Ryan Matthews), vanilla, Graham Cracker, Jenner (Matt Pfeiffer), FixerUpper, Cornhole (Stephen Puplampu), John Deere
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
IPC Week 2: BDE Mile
f3greenwood.wordpress.com/2023/09/10/bde-mile-ipc-2023-week-2/

Format
45min AMRAP
400-meter track with 100-meter increments clearly visible

The Thang
The workout begins when the timer starts
400-meter lap
5 BDE burpees
400-meter lap
5 BDE merkins
Repeat until time is called.

Scoring
Total number of meters rounded down to the closest 100 when time is called.
For example, if time is called and you are running between 4800 and 4900 meters, your score is 4800 meters.

BDE Burpee. Burpee – bonnie blair – squat. That’s 1.
BDE Merkins: Hand release merkin – touch right knee to right elbow – hand release merkin – touch left knee to left elbow – hand release merkin. That’s 1. Question? See the video.

SPC James Ames Workout

THE SCENE: Perfect weather for a beatdown. Not too cool, not too warm.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSHs, Lil’ Baby Arm Circle, ‘Round Towns, ‘Round the Worlds, Temp Merkins, Tempo Squats
THA-THANG:
Mosey over to Amphitheater for some fun.
10s- Derkins and Rows

Mosey to the bridge for 7s- Burpees and Lunges

Bear Crawls across the bridge and Slowsey over to the Big Ball to knock out 17 Big Ball Pull-ups.

Hit some Route 66 Merkins back to the Fountains.

MARY:
6 Minutes of Mary at the East Tennessee Veterans Memorial in honor of fallen East Tennessee service members

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
17!
Swanson, Huffy, Cyclops (FNG), Typo (FNG), Cry Baby, G-6, Mickey, Kermit, Stacks, Jumbo, Magic Mic, Singlet, Grapefruit, Postman, Wedding Singer, Soot
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Proverbs 18:14; 2 Corinthians 4:7-10

MOLESKIN:
Veteran’s are twice as likely to end their own lives compared to their civilian counterparts. Roughly 17 veterans take their life every day. As HIMs, we are called to reach out to those who are suffering. As Christians, we have a hope that surpasses all understanding.
If you are a veteran struggling with how to cope, reach out to a trusted HIM and seek help immediately https://www.veteranscrisisline.net/

Serpentine

THE SCENE:  Gorgeous weather.  High 60s, cool, not humid.  Great workout conditions.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x10, Windmills x10, Hillbillies x10, Cherry Pickers x5, Little This, Little That, Michael Phelps, Mosey around the loop starting at the playground, heading towards Chapman Hwy, back down the main church entrance to the grinder
THA-THANG:

Stations set up in a S like pattern
1st station – Shoulder Tap 2-ct
Bear Crawl to next station – approximately 45 feet
2nd station – Squats
Lunge to next station – approximately 45 feet
3rd station – Crunchy Frog
Bernie to next station – approximately 45 feet
4th station – Merkins
Bear Crawl to next station – approximately 45 feet
5th station – Iron Mike 2-ct
Lunge to next station – approximately 45 feet
6th station – Plank Jacks
run back to 1st station in a loop; start over

Start with reps of 5, increase by 5 every round

When you get to 20, single count Iron Mike. When you get to 30, single count Shoulder Tap

Last 15 minutes: Dodgeball! If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.

HANDS UP WHEN YOU ARE HIT TO INDICATE YOU ARE OUT
Hit a person clean, the hitee does 5 dips
If the person catches it, the thrower does 5 dips
If you are out and someone hits you, the thrower does 10 dips (the hitee only does the 5 dips)
If you hit someone in the head, the thrower does 15 dips
If you duck into the throw to get hit in the head, the hitee does 20 dips (stop dumb people)

MARY:
Nada!
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
PDA, Swanson, Pennies, Outhouse, Cow Patty, Grouch
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Going to the Dad Camp the previous weekend reminded me of many things: 1) Time with your kids is precious and having fun with them is important even if there are meltdowns, 2) Time with other men is refreshing to the soul, 3) We were not meant to do this thing called life alone.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10: Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!

Take time to fellowship with other men, take time to BE with your families, take time to BE with your spouse.  I too often let other things in life occupy my time and while they are not bad, they do not refresh my spirit as much as these.

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