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Difficultship Hill

THE SCENE: Clear and crisp. Dang, look at that moon!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x20 IC
Cherry Pickers x5 IC
LBAC/OHC x15 IC
Failure to Launch x7
Asphalt Kissers x10 IC

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the sign at the base of the Matterhorn. 16 cones are set up starting at 40yd and each 10yd thereafter for a total of 200yd to the furthest cone.
Start at the sign with 16 burpees, run to the 16th cone, and do the exercise written on the cardboard beside it.
Return to the sign for 15 burpees, run to the 15th cone, and do the exercise written on the cardboard beside it.
Continue after this fashion. There are 2 sets of 8 cardboards, in the same order. Upon reaching the 8th cone, the pattern begins to repeat, but double the reps.

  • 15 Monkey Humpers (4ct)
  • 15 Merkins
  • 10 Squat Jumps
  • 20 Mountain Climbers (4ct)
  • 10 Iron Mikes (each leg)
  • 20 Flutter Kicks (4ct)
  • 15 Carolina Dry Docks
  • 20 Big Boy Situps

MARY:
Made it back for <1min of Row your Boat COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
16 including 3 FNGs. Welcome to Gummy, Bedpan, and Eeyore
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Lyrics from Faithful Now:
I am holding on to faith
‘Cause I know You’ll make a way
And I don’t always understand,
And I don’t always get to see.
But I will believe it, yes I will believe it.

You make mountains move, You make giants fall
You use songs of praise to shake prison walls
So I will speak to my fear,
I will preach to my doubt
That You were faithful then, You’ll be faithful now

MOLESKIN:
I think the rep counts were a little low on this one. Should have started out doubled!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill is this Saturday! Sign up if you haven’t yet!

RAW SAW

[ The Scene ]

  • 50s – cool

[ Welcome/Disclaimer ]

RAW – SAW

  • Welcome to F3: Fitness – Fellowship – Faith
  • My name is Steam and I’m honored to be in your company and be your Q this morning
  • FNGs?
  • Couple of things before we begin:
    • (1)  I am not a professional
    • (2) You’re here on your own volition
    • (3) If you need to modify anything we do this morning – feel free to do so as you need but push yourself and those around you.
      • No man left behind – no man left the same

This WILL be a character building workout and you will leave better than when you came in. Sore, perhaps, but better.

[ Warm o Rama ]

(1) SSH: 7 x 4 IC

(2) Merkin: 7 x 1 (up/down)

(3) Tempo Squat: 10 x 4

(4) Man-Makers: 15 x 8

[ The Thang ]

(1) There and Back Again

  • Run to the tennis court
    • 25 Squats (1 count)
  • Run back to AO circle
    • 25 LBCs (4 count)
  • Run to the bathroom building
    • 25 LBCs (4 count)
  • Run back to AO Circle
    • 25 flutter kicks (4 count)

(10 count)

(Mosey to pull-up bars)

  • Road signs and lights on either side of the road = 10 squats
    • There are a lot of signs

(2) 30s

  • 5 pull-ups/chin-ups here
  • Run up the hill to the top where the pavilion is on the right
    • 5 merkins (1 count)
  • Rinse and Repeat 6x

(Mosey back to AO for Mary)

[ Mary ]

  • AO Lot: 50 x 4 Flutter Kicks
  • 50 x 4 Hello Dollys
  • 50 x 4 LBCs

25 x 8 Man Makers (8-count body builders)

Stretching to finish it out

[ COT ]

  • # off
  • Name o Rama
  • FNGs
  • BOM

Waiting on the Lord In the Midst of Loudness

  • The loudness of the world that we live in – there is such a deafening loudness.
  • An example of this is the Presidential Debate last night
    • Political leanings, opinions, views – that’s not what this is about.
    • One of the great things about F3 is that when you arrive at the AO – all that stuff gets checked at the door.
    • However that’s not what this BOM is about – I only use this example because watching it last night – I was just thinking – this is loud. So loud. The theme I took away as a 26 year old, as an American, and most importantly as a follower of Christ – was a deafening loudness.
  • No luckily there’s not a debate every night but what do we do as High Impact Men when we’re constantly surrounded by a loudness from the world?
  • Andrew Murray’s book “Waiting on God” has some great points towards this
    • So there are two ways that touch on the how and why of waiting on God through the loudness
  • (1) Waiting on God for Instruction
    • Psalm 25:4-5 — Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths. Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long
    • Murray writes: The psalm has always been a very special one because of its reiterated expression of the felt need of the divine teaching and of the childlike confidence that that teaching would be given. Study the psalm until your heart is filled with 2 thoughts: the absolute need and the absolute certainty of divine guidance.
  • (2) Waiting on God With the Heart
    • Psalm 31:24 — Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord!
    • Murray writes: Let the heart wait at times in perfect silence and quiet; in its hidden depths God will work. Be sure of this, and just wait on Him.

If that’s not a hard thing to do I don’t know what is. 

To Pav or not to PAV, that is the question

THE SCENE: It wasn’t raining, it rained, it wasn’t raining
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH, Merkins, cherry-picking and shoulder burners
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the steps. At the steps there is a deck of cards, each suit is a different exercise. They are

  • Clubs = Merkins
  • Diamonds= squats
  • Hearts= dry docks
  • Spades= lunges

if you get a face card you have to do the following before you do 10 of the exercise.

King, run up and around the rock and back. Queen, run around the island. Jack run down to the intersection and back. Ace, Do 10 of every exercise.
Draw a card and do the exercise and quantity. Everyone works together at the beginning and then as we start separating, draw your own personal card. Come together and start doing exercises as a group again.

mosey back to the Ayo in an Indian run. Stop for 30 incline Merkins on the rail

MARY:
40 flutter kicks, 20 V ups, yes 20 fire hydrants
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
18 pax
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
The word for today was about leaning on each other. Trusting each other and helping each other through difficult times. Not being timid about reaching out to someone when you are struggling. F3 is made for that. The work out this morning was based on a group and then separating out to yourself and coming back together as a group. Everyone worked a little bit harder when they were with the group than on their own. #isi
MOLESKIN:
It was great being back out at the dog pound. Great mumble chatter and we were able to avoid the rain for most of the work out.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
HHOCR

Around and Around

THE SCENE: mid-60’s and actually feeling pretty good
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x20, Windmills x10, Tempo Squats x10, Grady Corns x15, Cherry pickers x5, a little bit of this and a little bit of that.

THA-THANG:
Mosey to splash pad for Around and Around

  • Round 1 — 10 burpees, lap around parking lot
  • Round 2 — 10 burpees, 10 iron mikes, lap around parking lot
  • Round 3 — 10 burpees, 10 iron mikes, 10 jump-knee-tucks, lap
  • Round 4 — 10 burpees, 10 iron mikes, 10 jump-knee-tucks, 10 squat jumps, lap
  • Round 5 — 10 burpees, 10 iron mikes, 10 jump-knee-tucks, 10 squat jumps, 10 plyo-merkins, lap
  • Round 6 — 10 burpees, 10 iron mikes, 10 jump-knee-tucks, 10 squat jumps, 10 plyo-merkins, 10 v-ups, lap.

5 minute complex:

  • minute 1 — reverse lunges
  • minute 2 — reverse lunges + squat
  • minute 3 — reverse lunges + squat + inch-worm
  • minute 4 — reverse lunges + squat + inch-worm + merkin
  • minute 5 — reverse lunges + squat + inch-worm + merkin + shoulder tap

Lap around tack

Ring of Fire — merkin style.

MARY:
LBC (4-ct) x20, Side crunches (4-ct) x10 each side, Peter Parkers.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 PAX + 1 unicorn

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Matthew 8:23–27

Jesus Calms a Storm

[23] And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him. [24] And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep. [25] And they went and woke him, saying, “Save us, Lord; we are perishing.” [26] And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?” Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. [27] And the men marveled, saying, “What sort of man is this, that even winds and sea obey him?” (ESV)

Jesus was asleep in the boat for us. Everything he did was for us. Many people know he died for us — as a punishment for our sins so that we could be forgiven. He rose again for us that we might rise again. He also lived for us. When the storm was breaking out with chaos and confusion, He was asleep because he perfectly trusted God. When I get anxious or fearful or fail to respond like this, I remember that He was asleep in the boat for me — that God now views me as if I responded like that.  

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill coming up soon.  Equalizer work day on our obstacle tomorrow. Be on the look-out for plywood.

Rain activates the urine on pee rocks

THE SCENE: Light rain, the faint smell of skunk and dog urine hovering in the misty morning air
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH, Shoulder burners, Merkins, cherry pickers
THA-THANG:
List of stuff you have to do In qty of 20-15-10-5. First round 20 second round 15 etc. After completing all exercises, run a lap around the big parking lot at AO and back to the outhouse For round 2. Exercises are:

  • Merkins
  • Squats w/CMU
  • Imperial Walkers 4ct
  • Dry Docks
  • Rockettes
  • shoulder tap merks
  • CMU overhead presses

Mosey to the line of cones in lot. Spaced 30 yds apart. Do 7’s. Over and back CMU merks and squat jumps.

then lunge 10 steps with CMU, drop it and run to end line, back to start and back to CMU to go forward 10 more lunges. Repeat until you reach the fence.
MARY:
One leg bridges x20
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
13 (12 with an FNG who had to leave early so we didn’t name him)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Be the person you say you are. Let your actions be what people see not your words.
MOLESKIN:
Driftwood loves the smell of dog urine in the morning……it reminds him of Victory!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
HHOCR. Build day get teams together already!!!