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Blowin’

THE SCENE: 47 degrees F, 97% humidity, beautiful skies
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH, Bulldogs, Imperial Squat Walkers
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the Fountain with a CMU.  Split into two groups to take one of the two paths up the trail.

Route 66 Comin’ and Goin’

1 to 11 Merkins after running up

1  to 11 thrusters after running down

Use light posts in the following sequence: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 to use as the 11 markers.

Mt Crumpit Dora

Pair up and complete the following at the trail while partners alternate running up Mt. Crumpit and doing two burpees on the back side of  the tree.  (Too much prescribed to do.  Better suited for an hour long Saturday.)

50 Blockees

100 Decline Dry Docks

150 CMU Swings

200 Bench Presses

150 Bent Rows

100 Curls

50 Blockees

Mosey back to the Grinder with CMU in tow.

MARY:
Box cutters, flutter kicks, Chest presses
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
15 HIMs and 2.0 Webelo
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Bob Dylan is one of my favorite song writers and he is one of the most prolific.  He wrote “Blowin” In The Wind” in 1962 and while most of his questions are unanswerable, there are a few that literally hit me between the eyes.  Here are the lyrics.

“Blowin’ In The Wind”
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, and how many times must the cannonballs fly
Before they’re forever banned?

The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind

Yes, and how many years can a mountain exist
Before it’s washed to the sea?
Yes, and how many years can some people exist
Before they’re allowed to be free?
Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn’t see?

The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind

Yes, and how many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
Yes, and how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, and how many deaths will it take ’til he knows
That too many people have died?

The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind

Lyrics by Bob Dylan 1962/1963

My prayer is that God gives me the eyes to see, the ears to hear, and the heart to respond.

MOLESKIN:
Hammy is having meniscus cleanup surgery on the left knee tomorrow morning.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

Track Star

THE SCENE: 66 but the rain held off so always a good day.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Mosey to the Oval Office, took a little detor to the right of the Oval Office along side Montvale Station, Bernie up the sidewalk to the track.

Hamstring scoops and walking quad stretch to get the legs ready.
THA-THANG:

  • Totem poll – kind of
  • Ppax starts at the first cone, 6 cones around the track, each has a different exercises and increasing reps
  • 10- Smurpee- half burpee ( Thruster to stand, no merkin or jump)
  • 20 V Ups
  • 30- Apollo Ono’s- 2ct
  • 40- T Merkins- 1ct
  • 50- Hello Dolly’s
  • 60- Split Squat Jumps

After you finish with the first cone ( 10) run around track back to first cone. Then complete exercises at first cone, lunge to the second cone, complete exercises and run around track back to first cone. Continue around the track lunging in-between each cone, always running back to the first cone after you finish reps at the last cone for that round. .

Q decided to pull an switch with 5 min left and changed the lunges to Bernie’s in-between cones.

If you make it all the way around and finish the 6th cone, reverse the totem poll. Start at 60 complete reps, than Bernie around the track back to 60. complete reps and rev lung to 5th cone, complete same as above but using Bernie and rev lunge

MARY:
Plank hold for time, dropped down into yoga hold for a 20 seconds.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“It’s not whether you got knocked down; it’s whether you get back up.”

F3 is about growling male leadership. Successful leaders live by the quote above. The road to success is often paved in failure. How will you respond to failure in life? will you quit or rise up and keep pushing?

MOLESKIN:
Super proud to see the pax growing. We have a great chance to be one of the best AO’s around.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Kickball, if your interested please let Tank know.

Getting to 100 the Hard Way

THE SCENE: Mid 60’s, breezy, occasional sprinkles from the Almighty, in other words, perfect.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH x 20.
  • Tempo Squats x 20.
  • SSH x 20.
  • Overhead claps x 20.
  • SSH x 10ish.

 

THA-THANG:
The line is our starting point with 5 stations at each cone.  Between each cone, lunge with CMU. After station 5, run to the bridge and back, and begin at the 5th station and go backwards.  Rinse and repeat.

  • Cone 1 – Blockees x 20.
  • Cone 2 – CMU curls x 20.
  • Cone 3 – CMU thrusters x 20.
  • Cone 4 – CMU Big Boys x 20.
  • Cone 5 – CMU swing x 20.

MARY:

  • CMU tempo Big boys x 10.
  • Gas pumps x 10.
  • Hello Dollys x 10
  • Pinnochio’s kneeling/peeing dog movement (I have no idea what exercise that was) X 10 (each leg).
    COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
    10 Hims and one 2.0.
    CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
  • For my 100th post, I wanted to tell you about what F3 has meant to me.  Before I started working on myself, I was 334lbs. of a sad clown.  I believe that is why the F3 phrase, “Leave no man behind and no man where you found him.”  I realized I needed to change, and I needed good men around me to do it.  This reminded me of a story about Moses in Exodus 17:8-13.  Israel was fighting against the Amalekites, and verse 12 says, “But when Moses’ hands grew weary, they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands…so his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.”  As long as Moses’ hands were held up, Israel had victory. That is what F3 is to me.  You men have held me up, held me accountable, motivated, and kicked my tail all across the 2 AO’s where I post.  Why is this important?  It’s important because F3 is a brotherhood, and today many men are trapped in a cycle of helplessness and loneliness.  I know.  I was there.  Our culture seems to breed situations where men become isolated, sad, and disengaged from their God, their families, and each other.  I don’t want that for anyone.  So, just a reminder, F3 is a brotherhood of men that holds each other up.  Don’t live your lives thinking you have to fight alone.  My final thought on brotherhood and holding each other up comes from a man that fought in WWII.  His name was Carwood Lipton.  When he was being interviewed for the HBO special Band of Brothers, at one point he quoted from Shakespeare’s Henry the V to talk about what it mean to be in Easy company.  He said, “From this day to the ending of the world, but we in it shall be remembered, we few, we happy few, we band of brothers, For he today that sheds his blood with me, shall be my brother.”  We all come to F3 for different reasons.  We stay because we are brothers, and no one leave a brother behind.
    MOLESKIN:

    ANNOUNCEMENTS:
    Pinnochio has shirts!

Ring of Fire

THE SCENE: Nice and cool
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH, Tempo Squats, Tempo Merkins and a nice warmup lap around the AO

THA-THANG:
6 stations were setup at the grinder, AMRAP the movement until the PAX at the last station sprints to the over-sized CMU’s and does 5 of the following Merkin pull throughs, American hammer on a 2ct and squat thrusters. Bernie back then rotate stations.

7’s on waxjob hill after that.

MARY:
Forward leaning rest position for time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
drifter, hundo, waxjob, rep sleepy, waterfall, postpone, taco, hammy, knapsack, swerve, moses, t-bone, neighbor, toad, radioshack, clothesline, espy
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Consistency is key. Do we feel like doing it every day? No. Do we do it anyways? YES.
MOLESKIN:
Prayed for Taco’s daughter and her health care plan meeting at school.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Welcome to @Knapsack (Chris Redding)

The Perfect Game

THE SCENE: 55 degrees and the ground was wet after some rain last night

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER


WARM-O-RAMA:
Cherry Pickers x5; Little Baby Arm Circles (F&B) x10; Line up on baseline and lunge to next line then inchworm back

THA-THANG:
PAX grab their CMUs and mosey to the baseball field to find cones set up at all 9 positions and both benches

Explained that a perfect game in baseball is getting all 27 outs without allowing a base runner so we would do 27 reps of each exercise at each location except right field. Only other rule is to keep your CMU with you at all times.

  • Pitcher – CMU Swings
  • Catcher – CMU Thrusters
  • 1st Base – CMU Curls
  • 2nd Base – CMU Overhead Press
  • 3rd Base – Iron Mikes (2-ct)
  • Shortstop – Blockees
  • Left Field – Big Boy Situps
  • Center Field – Hand Release Merkins
  • Right Field – Run Lap Around Field
  • Bench 1 – Step Ups
  • Bench 2 – Dips

PAX did 7s on the hill next to the field after completing the perfect game. Bodybuilders at the bottom of the hill and WW2 Situps at the top.

Mosey back to the Grinder

MARY:
Rotated between doing Flutter Kicks and Little Baby Ab Crunches until time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
12 HIMS and 1 2.0 this morning

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.” 1 Corinthians 9:24

What are we doing to make sure we win the race? Just like it takes discipline and training to win a race, we need to be disciplined and be training to lead in the race of life. We win that race by being the leaders that God intends us to be. We must first lead our families, then lead in our churches, workplaces, and any where else God places us. We can lead by example even if we don’t have a title that would indicate that we are in charge. We can do everything to the best of our abilities no matter whether someone is watching or not.

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