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Just Another Merkin Monday…

THE SCENE: AB Morning with a slight wind

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Done and Done 

WARM-O-RAMA:

SHH IC x20 | LBAC each way IC x10 | A little bit of This. A little bit of That | Michael Phelps | Tempo Squats IC x10 

THA-THANG:

Ghostman Baseball at the Flagpole. Partner up and one partner runs to first, completes the exercise, returns home while their partner does the Home exercise. Switch when running partner returns. Second round: Run to 1st, do the exercise, run to second, do the exercise, return home. Continue the pattern until you reach home. You do not need to run back from home. 

  • First Base 
    • 15 Merkins 
    • CDD at Home 
  • Second Base 
    • 15 Diamond Merkins 
    • Dips at Home 
  • Third Base 
    • 15 Wide Merkins 
    • Incline Merkins at Home 
  • Home Plate 
    • 5 Body Builder +’s 
    • Pick up the SIX 

Fellowship Mosey through Hans Memorial Field to RockPile for a “Reacher Curl Circut” 

  • 25 Curls, OHPress, Tri Ext. → Mosey to BathHouse
  • 10 Pullups → Mosey back to RockPile
  • 20 Curls, OHPress, Tri Ext. → Mosey to BathHouse
  • 8 Pullups → Mosey back to RockPile
  • 15 Curls, OHPress, Tri Ext. → Mosey to BathHouse
  • 6 Pullups → Mosey back to RockPile
  • 10 Curls, OHPress, Tri Ext. → Mosey to BathHouse
  • 4 Pullups → Mosey back to RockPile
  • 5 Curls, OHPress, Tri Ext. → Mosey to BathHouse
  • 2 Pullups → Mosey back to RockPile

 

MARY:

There just wasn’t enough time.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

13 HIMs; 3 Pre-Ruckers; 0 FNGs 

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

The hardest day to read your Bible, work out, or do anything is the day AFTER you don’t do it. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

2.0 Friendly Beatdown at the Equalizer on Friday 2/18 at the normal time (5:30), no Pre-Ruck. Breakfast afterward. 

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Convergence 7/2 at JUCO 

Bro-lympics are coming back in November

Holiness is Not a Trait. It is a Result

THE SCENE: The weather outside is the weather. 

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Did this very well.

WARM-O-RAMA:

Blindside warm-upy things (I do the same warm-up every time I Q, pay attention). 

THA-THANG:

Tennis Courts: Each court has a different routine. Both are explained and PAX chooses where to begin. When one is finished, complete the other one. Repeat each routine 5 times. 

  • Routine 1: 
    • 5 Burpees to start 
    • Shuffle along baseline right to left
    • Sprint diagonally to net shuffle along net right to left sprint diagonally to far baseline
    • 5 Burpees 
    • Retrace steps, shuffling left to right this time
    • 5 Burpees at the start
  • Routine 2: 
    • 10 Merkins at the first corner
    • Lunge down baseline
    • Sprint to the opposite baseline along the sideline 
    • 20 LBCs at baseline
    • Lunge to net
    • Bear Crawl to the middle of the net
    • 10 Squats
    • Bear Crawl back to the sideline
    • Walk back to start

Tennis Court Kraken: Grab a CMU. Kraken consists of completing an exercise, taking a lap around the outside of the fence, passing your previous station, and going to the next. All exercises are 20 reps. 

Stations:

  • Merkins
  • 4 ct. Flutter Kicks 
  • OH Press
  • 4 ct. Hello Dolly
  • Squats 
  • Calf Raises
  • LBCs
  • Imperial Walkers 

MARY:

Back and forth between Squat and Merkin Ring of Fire 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

20 HIMs; 1 FNG (Squeakers); 5 PreRuckers; 1 PreRunner; Several Kotters

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Holiness isn’t a trait. It is a result.

The Equalizer Shuffle

THE SCENE: 50°. Feels like: 38°

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Windmills | SSH IC | Rockettes

THA-THANG:

Partner up. Shuffle a playlist. Partner A runs down the splash pad ramp, around Stonehenge, and back while Partner B performs the first exercise; then they switch. Continue performing the first exercise in this manner until the song changes.

  • Dips
  • Step Ups
  • Imperial Walkers
  • Inch Worms
  • Squats
  • Flutter Kicks
  • CDD
  • Lunges
  • Alt Ab Curls
  • Merks
  • UGA Cheerleaders

 

STRETCHES:

  • Sit squat

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM: “You will not heal without people in your life.” -Jennie Allen

ANNOUNCEMENTS: CSAUP

PRAYER

President’s Day Trivia at the Equalizer

THE SCENE: Above freezing, clear morning… how long until coffee?!?

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Done and Done

WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH IC x23 | LBAC IC each way x10 | Little bit of This/Little bit of That | Tempo Squats IC x10 | Rockettes IC x10 

THA-THANG:

Mosey to the Flagpole for 23 Derkins 

Mosey to Playground for 23 Rocky Balboas IC 

Mosey to Splash Pad for Presidential Trivia! 

Correct Answer = Do the exercise and reps on the cardboard

Incorrect Answer = Do double the exercise and reps 

  • 5 Burpees
  • 20 LBCs 
  • 10 Diamond Merkins
  • 30 Flutter Kicks
  • 20 Squats
  • 30 Mountain Climbers (2ct.)

3 Rounds; After each round Mosey to Dock for 25 CDD and Mosey to Rockpile for 21s Curls and 21s OHPress; Tricep Ext.; Rows 

Questions: ((Bolded questions were answered correctly))

Q: What does the “S” in Harry S. Truman’s name stand for?

A: Nothing 

Q: Which president made Christmas a national holiday?

A: Ulysses Grant 

Q: Who was the first and only U.S. president to serve non-consecutive terms?

A: Grover Cleveland

Q: Which president had turned down offers to play professional football?

A: Gerald Ford

Q: Which president was often mocked in the press for his unkempt appearance?

A: Abraham Lincoln

Q: Though three presidents (Adams, Jefferson, and Monroe) died on the 4th of July, which president was the only president to have been born on that date?

A: Calvin Coolidge

Q: Which president hated his painted portrait so much that he eventually burned it?

A: Theodore Roosevelt

Q: Which president and his wife hold the record for the longest-married first couple?

A: Jimmy Carter

Q: Who were the four presidents that were assassinated?

A: Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and Kennedy

Q: What state produced the most U.S. presidents?

A: Virginia (8)

Q: Who was the first American-born president?

A: Martin Van Buren 

Q: Which president and his wife attended Napoleon‘s coronation at Notre Dame Cathedral?

A: James Monroe

Q: Who was the first president to have written a biography of another president?

A: After he left office, Herbert Hoover wrote a biography on Woodrow Wilson

Q: Which president donated all of his presidential salary (and his congressional salary before that) to charity?

A: John F. Kennedy

Q: Which president put up the first Christmas tree in the White House?

A: Benjamin Harrison

Q: Which presidents also served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court? 

A: William Howard Taft 

Q: Which president served as both President and Vice President without being elected to either office? 

A: Gerald Ford 

Q: Who was the youngest person to become president? 

A: Theodore Roosevelt; 42 at the time of inauguration. JFK was the youngest *elected* at 44. TR assumed office after the assassination of William McKinley in 1901 

Of the questions answered correctly (and it wasn’t many), High Heels was the HIM who answered the questions; Choir Boy answered 1 right. 

MARY:

Fellowship Mosey part of the way back 

Ring of Fire (Down from 3)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

12 HIMs; 0 FNGs; 1 DownRange (Shoota from F3Franklin)

Stripped, Ribbed, Choir Boy, High-Heels, Trunk, Aladdin, Snitch, Head Gear, Mouthwash, Inspector Gadget, Shoota, Blindside

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

As I am coming up on my 1 year F3 anniversary, I have been reading through Freed to Lead for the first time and am really gaining a lot of knowledge about the initial creation of F3 and what it has done for men across the country. I am so completely thankful for this group and what it has done in my life this past year. If you are iffy about this whole F3 thing, please read Freed to Lead! 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

CSAUP this Saturday 2/26 at the Asylum at 6:30 am start HARD OUT at 9:00 am

Bring donations for the food and for The Wesley House

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THE TRUCK STOP FUNERAL

THE SCENE: Cool but Nice!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER✔
WARM-O-RAMA:
LBACF, LBACB, Tempo Squats, Tempo Merkins, Mountain Climbers, Cherry Pickers
THA-THANG:
Divide up into 4 teams, one team at each corner of the main parking lot.  At each corner is a cone with 5 exercises and reps written in chalk.  Round 1: Perform all exercises and reps at each corner of the parking lot, recovery mosey in between each corner.  Round 2: Perform just the bottom 4 exercises and reps at each corner, recovery mosey in between each corner. Round 3: the bottom 3.  Round 4: the bottom 2. Round 5: just the last exercise and reps.  Exercises were as follows:

Corner 1: 10 Merkins, 9 Jump Squats, 8 Burpees, 7 Mountain Climbers, 6 Monkey Humpers

Corner 2: 10 SSH (4ct), 9 Windmills (4ct), 8 Body Builders (8ct), 7 Seal Claps, 6 Plank Jacks

Corner 3: 10 Squats, 9 BBS, 8 Diamond Merkins, 7 Werkins, 6 Calve Raises

Corner 4: 10 Flutters (4ct), 9 Hello Dolly (4ct), 8 Box Cutters, 7 Heals to Heaven, 6 4x4s

Mosey to Concrete Stadium Bleachers for EMOM.  We did about 10 rounds of x10 Box Jumps/ x10 Squats and another 5 rounds of x15 Dips/ x15 Calve Raises.

Long Recovery Mosey back to Flag

MARY:
No time but had planned something with a frozen ham that Tail Pipe had brought for Cosmo.  Too bad, so sad.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 Strong
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Luke 12:16-20

16 And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. 17 He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’

18 “Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. 19 And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’

20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

I had the honor of attending Sgt. Chris Jenkins’ funeral this week.  He was tragically killed on the highway while trying to remove a ladder from the roadway.  The funeral was extremely sad and unfortunately I’ve been to one too many law enforcement funerals.  Not only was his life taken too soon but his son (also an officer), gave a heart-felt eulogy that I will never forget.

Funerals can give one alot of wisdom.  They make you contemplate your own funeral.  I wanted the men at truck stop to pause today and think about their own funeral – who would be there? what would be said about them? would they have any regrets?

After thinking that through, I encouraged them to contemplate their own funeral today and whatever you would regret – whether that’s where your treasure is (like the rich fool in Jesus’ parable), or someone you need to forgive, or telling your children you love them more often, or telling your wife how appreciative you are of her friendship and love – DO IT TODAY.  Life can be taken from us at any moment.

MOLESKIN:
Mayberry was a few minutes late rescuing and cuddling with his new cat.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP – February 26. REGISTER NOW.