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The Talking Donkey

THE SCENE: warm, clear, and muggy.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
15 SSH, 15 Mountain climbers, 10 tempo merkins, 15 Moroccan night club, 15 imperial walkers, 10 tempo squats
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the recruiting center and grab a block. Line up in the parking lot along the short side. Perform first exercise and then carry the block to the other side (mode per PAX choice). Perform first and second exercise and then bear crawl with the block back to the opposite side. Continue adding an exercise each round and alternate carrying and bear crawls to transport the block across. When you get to round 8, drop the first exercise and then at round 7, drop the second exercise. Repeat.

  • 20 Merkins
  • 20 Curls
  • 20 2-ct, Heavy Freddie’s
  • 20 Burpee block jump overs
  • 20 Bent over rows
  • 20 Thrusters
  • 20 Heavy Big boy sit-ups

Well, that was the plan anyway. We almost got to the Big boys. Oh well.

MARY:
No time.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
6 plus our flag-bearer, Kick-flip
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Reference Numbers 22:22-33

“forsaking the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; but he received a rebuke for his own transgression, for a mute donkey, speaking with a voice of a man, restrained the madness of the prophet.” 2 Peter 2:15‭-‬16 NASB1995

Notice what God used to initiate rebuking Balaam. He could have chosen the Angel to do so, but instead He allowed the Donkey to speak. What seemingly insignificant things in our life could possibly be used to rebuke us? God may choose to use these in our lives to help us to see the error of our ways. Pay attention!

MOLESKIN:
Always optimistic in my workouts. There was a lot of hard work put in, but we were not even close to getting through the whole thing.

Suffering is not the end

THE SCENE: Humid and 70, but we can see the stars.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Projectivators
  • Moroccan Nightclubs
  • Tempo squats – demo “in the basement”
  • Tempo Merkins
  • Mountain climbers
  • Hairy Rocketts
  • Lap with run warm-ups – skips, karaoke, slides

THA-THANG:

  • Grab 2 blocks each and farmer carry down to the square
  • 40 curls, murder bunny to NW corner
  • 40 OHP, sprint back to get block
  • 10 squats, 10 4c basement squats, rifle carry to NW corner
  • 20 bent over rows – both arms together, farmer carry to SW corner
  • 10 split irkins, 10 4c basement split irkins, block bear crawl to bell
  • 10 step-up w/ press, 10 dips, 10 4c basement dips, farmer carry to parallel bars
  • 20 curls, 20 inverse rows, farmer carry to pool wall
  • 10 wall-ups, farmer carry one block to senior center pavillion
  • 10 squats, 10 4c basement squats, hustle to parallel bars
  • 20 inverse rows, 20 merkins, sprint to pool wall
  • 10 wall-ups, rifle carry remaining block to senior center
  • Heavy core set – 20 freddies, 20 LBCs, 20 flutters – all 4c

MARY:
Kind just did the thang
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Faith is the art of holding onto things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
-Clive Staples Lewis

From “No man is an island” by Thomas Merton, Ch.5 Item 2

The Christian must not only accept suffering: he must make it holy. Nothing so easily becomes unholy as suffering.

Merely accepted, suffering does nothing for our souls except, perhaps, to harden them. Endurance alone is no consecration. True asceticism is not a mere cult of fortitude. We can deny ourselves rigorously for the wrong reason and end up by pleasing ourselves mightily with our self-denial.

Suffering is consecrated to God by faith – not by faith in suffering, but by faith in God. To accept suffering stoically, to receive the burden of fatal, unavoidable, and incomprehensible necessity and to bear it strongly, is no consecration.

Some men believe in the power and the value of suffering. But their belief is an illusion. Suffering has no power and no value of its own.

It is valuable only as a test of faith. What if our faith fails in the test? Is it good to suffer, then? What if we enter into suffering with a strong faith in suffering, and then discover that suffering destroys us?

To believe in suffering is pride: but to suffer, believing in God, is humility. For pride may tell us that we are strong enough to suffer, that suffering is good for us because we are good. Humility tells us that suffering is an evil which we must always expect to find in our lives because of the evil that is in ourselves. But faith also knows that the mercy of God is given to those who seek Him in suffering, and that by His grace we can overcome evil with good. Suffering, then, becomes good by accident, by the good that it enables us to receive more abundantly from the mercy of God. It does not make us good by itself, but it enables us to make ourselves better than we are. Thus, what we consecrate to God in suffering is not our suffering but our selves.

Does this mean that seeking out suffering (like here) is inherently prideful?

Suffering is unavoidable
Suffering well requires practice
To practice suffering well, it is better to pick a good environment (Merton was ascetic)
MOLESKIN:
I had planned to make it back to the recruiting center, but it was clear by the time we got to the bell we wouldn’t make it. That first leg of murder bunnies was longer than I thought…
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP in two days, 2nd F – concert at Bissel 6:30 pm Saturday, IRON PAX is coming up in September

Up the Stairs

THE SCENE:   72 and calm
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:  Administered
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH
  • Abe Vigoda
  • Chattanooga cherry pickers
  • Third-graders
  • LBACs
  • Overhead claps
  • Hairy rockettes

Mosey to the recruitment center – grab a CMU and mosey to the cinema parking lot.

THA THANG:

Partner up

HIM 1 starts with both CMUs

  • While carrying both blocks, lunge to Cone 1 and set down one block.
  • Lunge to Cone 2 and set down the other block
  • Lunge to Cone 3 and stop.

HIM 2 follows his partner

  • Bear crawl to Cone 1 – collect the block that was set down
  • Bear crawl CMU push to Cone 2 – collect the other block
  • Heavy bear to Cone 3 and stop.

Reverse partner roles and go back.

Next….

10 stations – perform exercises on the card, then move the next station

Every two minutes run to the top of the stairs and back

  • 40 Curls + 20 Thrusters
  • 30 Squats – CMU overhead + 40 Triceps
  • 25 Alpos + 10 Burpee jumpovers
  • 40 Shoulder Presses + 25 CMU Swings
  • 30 Heavy LBC + 20 Pull-overs
  • 10 Plyo Merkins (10 each side) + 15 BBS with press
  • 20 Blockees
  • Single-Arm Row – 25 each arm + 20 Good mornings
  • 20 Heavy Freddy (4-ct) + 20 Derkins + 20 Irkins
  • 30 Heel tap wipers + 20 Goblet squats

MARY:

No time!

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

7 men

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

“You are what you do repeatedly every day.”

“What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while”

MOLESKIN:

This week was history lesson week at the Project 🙂

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Service project opportunity tonight

CSAUP next week

Let’s get to work on some HH obstacle ideas

Trail of Tears

THE SCENE: Humid and gloomy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  1. Projectivator
  2. Cherry picker
  3. Moroccan night club
  4. Run to track
  5. Overhead clap

THA-THANG:

During the course of this workout, we did exercises relating to events from President Andrew Jackson’s public life.

  1. Death march (Indian run w/ burpee before sprinting to the front of the line) 2 laps
  2. Battle of New Orleans
    1. Fought after the War of 1812 was over (Americans won)
    2. Despite a large British advantage in numbers, training, and experience, the American forces defeated a poorly executed assault in slightly more than 30 minutes. The Americans suffered roughly 60 casualties, while the British suffered roughly 2,000,
    3. 20 Big Boys, 40 LBCs (for the 60 American causalities)
  3. Death march 2 laps
  4. Dismantle 2nd Bank of the United States
    1. Chartered by James Madison in 1816
    2. 18 Hello Dollys
    3. 16 Heels to Heaven
    4. Liquidated in 1841
    5. 18 Big Boys
    6. 41 LBCs
  5. Death march 2 laps
  6. In 1835, Jackson became the only president to completely pay off the national debt
    1. 18 Basilisks
    2. 35 Big Boys
  7. Death march 2 lap
  8. Return To Base
  9. 1824 Presidential election
    1. Jackson won the plurality of the popular and electoral vote, but not a majority of the electoral vote.  He lost the contingent election in the House of Representatives.
    2. 99 squats (3 sets of 33 w/ 5 merkins in between each set) for his electoral votes.

MARY:
Bobbit led a set of 10 big boys.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Andrew Jackson was a very effective leader.  He was able to accomplish lots of initiatives and often in the face of huge opposition.  However, many of them seem to be made with a lack of human empathy.  It is important to remember as we seek our goals that everyone we encounter are also children of God and deserve our respect and love.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Service opportunity at Girls Inc on Thursday, August 12th.  CSOP on Saturday August 21st.

HEAVY PT

THE SCENE: Perfect gloom
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Yup.
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH
  • LBAC – fwd/bwd
    • Tempo Squats
    • Tempo Merkins
    • Mountain Climbers
    • Cherry picker x5
    • MOSEY TO POOL WALL
    • @Pool Wall – 5x Wall-up
    • @Playground – 5x pull-up
    • @Amphitheater – 5x boxjumps
    MOSEY TO RECRUITING CENTER

THA-THANG:
Heavy Stations – 2 ROUNDS
Round 1
1. CMU Thrusters
2. CMU Lunges
3. CMU Tricep Extension
4. Tire Flips
5. Ball Throw Down
6. Inverted Rows (on pull-up bar or handrailing)
7. CMU Squats
8. Bear Crawl – TIMER
Round 2
1. CMU Kettleswing
2. CMU Curls
3. CMU Curls
4. CMU Single-leg Squat
5. CMU Single-arm Row
6. Sledge Hammer Swings on Tire
7. Pull-up
8. Bernies down to end and back – TIMER

MERKIN CIRCLE-Pyramid Thing
In a circle, Pax holds plank while 1 at a time does 1 merkin. When everyone does 1, add 1 merkin each round up to 3 and back down.
Mosey back to Shovel Flag.

MARY:
PAX Choice

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Crazy 8

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM: We focused on verse 5 – waiting. What do we do while we wait? We shared 3 things: Be in the Word to hear His specific word for your situation, PRAY, and worship while you wait.

Psalm 130 (The Passion Translation)

Lord, I cry out to you out of the depths of my despair!
2 Hear my voice, O God!
Answer this prayer and hear my plea for mercy.
3 Lord, if you measured us and marked us with our sins,
who would ever have their prayers answered?
4 But your forgiving love is what makes you so wonderful.
No wonder you are loved and worshiped!
5 This is why I wait upon you, expecting your breakthrough,
for your Word brings me hope.
6 I long for you more than any watchman
would long for the morning light.
I will watch and wait for you, O God,
throughout the night.
7 O Israel, keep hoping, keep trusting,
and keep waiting on the Lord,
for he is tenderhearted, kind, and forgiving.
He has a thousand ways to set you free!
8 He himself will redeem you;
he will ransom you from the cruel slavery of your sins!

MOLESKIN:
SO. MUCH. FUN. Love these guys – Praying for school starting up

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP – Kick’s got a team going – SIGN UP; Oak Ridge Outdoor Concert coming up – good food trucks, music, etc