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The Return of the Flight of the Blue Falcon

THE SCENE: High 30s clear and dry
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH
Tempo Merkins
Tempo Squats
THA-THANG:
Mosey to CMU Pile
Grab the two new blocks that are … heavy
Return of the flight of the blue falcon
Two Pax have large blocks, call an exercise and start counting to 10 while the remaining Pax run.  At 10 they yell halt, and the running pax perform the called exercise until the pax carrying blocks arrive.  The blocks are passed to different pax, and this process is rinsed and repeated for the duration of the workout.  One of these blocks is near 50 lbs, and one is greater than 50lbs

MARY:
For the last three minutes, we performed flutter kicks, snow angels, and LBC’s
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I recently cleaned out my closets and donated many items.  It was the inspiration to wear some of the “GEMS” I rediscovered when I was cleaning to the workout this morning.  We talked about the importance of donating some of the things that we are not using to others who could put them to use.  In addition, I asked that we consider to be vulnerable and share our struggles as well as our experiences.  Others in the group may find value in the struggles and experiences we share.  We build a community and bonds when we share these experiences, and as men we sometimes hoard our feelings and emotions, and this is a safe space to share them.
MOLESKIN:
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Nice Pants!

The Scene

Gloomy

F3 Welcome and Disclaimer

Fitness, Fellowship, Faith, Free, Modify, Not Professional, Own Volition, Social Distance, Phone

Warm-O-Rama

BAS Forward and Backwards

SSH

Cherry Pickers

Mountain Climbers

Merkins

Tha-Thang

Mosey to Half Circle Lot in front of side entrance to the school

20-18-16-14-12-10-8-6-4-2

Merkins

Leg Lifts

In between each round mosey around the circle

 

Mosey to the big parking lot of the school

20 Jumping Squats

15 Hand release Merkins

20 lunges

In between each round run around the median (We did 4 rounds)

 

Mosey to Run it Back segment

50-40-30-20-10

Mountain climbers

After each set of mountain climbers run to the yellow parking pole/red water thing and back to starting position

Mary

No Time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

7 High Impact Men

COT/BOM

Hebrews 3:13 ‘But exhort one another every day,as long as it is called today, that none of you may e hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.”

Especially with our M’s but this applies to everyone we come in contact with. If you have something nice to say, go ahead and say it. Give the word of encouragement, give the compliment, and speak the words of praise. It will make a massive impact on people’s lives. 

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Fall Break

THE SCENE:
43 degrees w/clear skies (just right.)

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

The usual

WARM-O-RAMA:
Jog up to field

  • Butt kickers / 25 yds
  • 50 flutter kicks – Single ct
  • Crossovers back           
  • 25 big boys
  • Lunges 15 yds
  • 15 Merkins
  • Crossovers 15 yds
  • Bear  Crawl 15 yds
  • 20 SSH
  • Bear Crawl 15 yds
  • High Toe touches 15 yds
  • Windmills
  • Hip rotations

THA-THANG:

Mosey to CMUs

  • Power pushes 1 CMU
  • 10 merkins
  • 10 overhead presses with a squat X4 

Mosey to pull-up bar

  • 5 pull-ups
  • Hold Plank.     X2

Back to CMUs

  • 10 Burpees
  • 10 rows each arm    
  • Farmer carry 1 CM
  • 15 jungle boy squats
  • 10 Starjumpers
  • 15 BW Squats

Recovery Stretches

 

  • COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
    Voodoo, Tailhook, Mermaid, Commission, Betty, Crawl Space, Base Salary, Caveman

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

The importance family time. Small interactions have big impacts.

Watch your BACK

THE SCENE: low 70’s HUMID, light rain
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Baby Arm Circles forward/backward
Arm Stretching
Windmills
Cherry pickers
THA-THANG:
Slow Mosey to the CMU’s, and everyone takes one.
Take half the blocks to the swings, and half the blocks to the pull up bars.  Divide into two groups, one group has three guys to swing pullups, while the onlookers do rows.  Rotate in an out until the second group arrives to relieve you.  The second group is at the pull up bars.  Perform 10 Pullups or 10 negatives (jumping up and slowly coming down).  The onlookers perform lawn mowers.  After everyone does 10, rotate to the swings.  Rinse and repeat 3 times.  After three rotations, we did some curls and bench press with the CMU’s before putting them away.

MARY:
We went to the dry area near the high school (under cover) and did the following in cadence on a 4 ct.
25 Hello Dolly’s
20 Pickle Pounders
15 LBC’s
10 Flutter kicks
10 Pickle Pointers
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Dream big.  Jesus did more than was expected he saved lives, he performed miracles, he did more than anyone could even imagine.  The challenge for each of us to to step outside our normal thoughts and think bigger.  How can we dream big, what do we need to push out of the way to open our minds?
MOLESKIN:
Pray for Pom Pom as he has impending travel to Bulgaria
Pray for Anchorman’s family that has COVID
Pray for Mermaid’s family as the help make decisions about elderly are with aging grandparents with one who is currently hospitalized due to a stroke.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
F3 Picnic Sunday 9/11

Counting the Cost of Not Fartsacking

THE SCENE: Mid 60’s – nice weather for August
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER – Check
WARM-O-RAMA:
Wrist & neck roll (courtesy of Caveman)
Richard Simmons (inspired by Mermaid’s shorts but also pre-planned)
Ankle rotation
Flamingo (SLRDL)
Seal clap squats
Forward lunges
Backward lunges
Tennessee rocking chair

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the football field end zone (scratch that – mosey to the Cheatsheet parking lot as the football field was locked)

Pool Boy 11’s variation –
Tennessee Rocking Chair – Side Lunge, switch halfway
Drinking Bird / Flamingos
When you’re done run a lap – the 6 will go the opposite way and turn everyone around getting us back to the end zone (or bleachers). Crawl Space completed 1 lap. The rest of us recovered.

Next part totally skipped because the track was locked (we didn’t have enough time anyway haha)

Bleacher Falling Indian Run – every other bleacher someone stops at and does the following exercises
Incline Merkins going up
Squats going down
At the bottom the first pax down announce a core exercise for everyone to single file and do 15 reps of. Complete for all bleachers or until the Q calls recover.

Mosey Falling Indian Run to the CMU pile – do drinking birds aka Flamingos on the way until the back of the line reaches you. Really try to stretch those hamstrings.

2 CMUs – complete reps & then do more of an exercise: 11’s
Deadlifts
4-ct Flutter kicks or a core exercise called by the PAX

First PAX finished calls it or the Q may call it.

MARY:
Fellowship mosey to the Shovel Flag. Dealer’s choice for 2 PAX then finished 15 seconds early.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
7 PAX!

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Completing what you started. God starts what He finishes. Jesus wasn’t plan B. He has a time for everything and a place for you and me to fit in. Today we are here on a Wednesday. Everything is perfect in time. I’m praying about what to do with my time. I have a PE exam to study, friendships to pursue, a church to serve, a job to work, and lots more…

But the real test is do we trust God for what he calls us to do when we feel like He will not complete it for us or that we have to hold on to have him complete that in us? A passage where Jesus challenges us to count the cost and the time for things in order to complete it – Luke 15:25-33:

25 Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. 28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? 29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ 31 Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32 And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. 33 So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.

Jesus challenges us to make sure we know what the cost of something is – a house, a marriage, a new job, staying at your old job, a lawsuit, everything- we must count it! Anybody know what TINSTAAFL means? There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. God counted the cost when He sent Christ in a twofold way:

Romans 8:31-32 – 31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be[i] against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

Philippians 1:6 –6 And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

So today, where are you counting (or not counting) the cost? Are you grateful for the cost the Father gave of Christ’s blood? If not, pause and reflect.

MOLESKIN:
Signing up to Q makes you not fartsack as much. Cost counted. Pride humbled. More workouts attended.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
IPC sign-up in Slack on Tuesdays at Shamrock. Also Yoga on Thursdays by Tailhook – see Slack as well.