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Rolling Stones

THE SCENE: 72 and fairly overcast.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Cherry Pickers x10 IC
SSH x20 IC
Outhouse Run
Cossack Squats x8 IC each leg
LBAC x20 each way IC
Outhouse Run – Bernie back
Inchworm-Superman x5 OYO
Outhouse Run – Carioca back
1 burpee, just for fun! Then mosey to the pee rocks.

THA-THANG:
Pick out a nice, round pee rock and head to the grass. 4 cones, each with an exercise.
First lap around the cones: bear crawl and roll your stone (alternate fwd/back)
-10 HR Pufnstuf (Hand Release Merkins)
-15 Catalina Wine Mixer (15 each arm)
-20 Carolina Dry Docks
-30 Pickle Pounders

Next lap: Alternate fwd/back crab walk, carrying pee rock on your stomach.
-10 Knee Up/Down (10 each knee: standing, go to one knee, both knees, other knee, back to standing)
-15 Squat Jumps
-20 Donkey Kicks
-30 Monkey Humpers

Weighted hip thrusts until six arrives

20 curls, 20 OHP, 20 Tri
Return the pee rocks to the pile.

Next is 7s. One burpee beside the pee rocks, up and over the guardrail for 6 Hand Release Derkins on the guardrail. Etc.

Mosey to the tennis court for some sprints – About 5x back and forth.

MARY:
Flutter kicks x15 IC, switch to Slutter Kicks without breaking cadence for 15 more.
Left-Right-Center LBCs x15 IC
Side Crunches x10 each side
Cash out with AMRAP merkins until time. (Well, it was a good thought anyway… only time for 1 or 2)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 PAX came out for the Rolling Stones!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Sometimes you’re in the middle of a crap storm.  That’s us this week.  Nothing terrible or life-threatening, just a bunch of stuff piling on top of each other. I don’t have much today beyond an admonition to myself that may hopefully resonate with you.  Just keep trusting God with everything.  That means all of it, not “do what you can do and leave the rest to Him”.  He has it all, not just the stuff that you think is beyond you.
MOLESKIN:
Never did Hand Release Derkins before.  I believe I actually preferred the burpees…
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Nothing Fancy

THE SCENE: Perfect weather 67 degrees
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

10x side straddle hops

10x cherry pickers

10x oyo merkins

Michael Phelps

A little of this and that

THA-THANG:

Burpeecides – Start at 1st cone do 5 burpees, go to 1st cone do 5 burpees then run back to 1st cone and proceed to 2nd cone and do 5 burpees back to first cone then to 3 cone and do 5 burpees.  Rinse and repeat until you get to the 6th cone for a total of 30 burpees.

Continue to the little hill by the docks (not sure the name of hill)   7’s-merkins and BBS (2 bear crawls 2 Bernie sanders 2 run up the hill)

Head to the stairs by the docks start at bottom of steps with 10 Carolina dry docks, then proceed to up the 1st set of steps  and do 20 prisoner squats and then all the way up to the restaurant  and do 30 shoulder taps.  Rinse and repeat

Head back to pee rock pile by the AO.

20-20-20 biceps triceps overhead press run to the end and do the following

20-20-20 hello Dolly’s, baby Crunches, American hammer Rinse and repeat.

Headed back by lunging and stretching out to the AO.

MARY:
Pusher led us in doing 10x flutter kicks then ran out of time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

I took some statistics from https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-suicide and read this to the group

  1. Nearly 30,000 Americans commit suicide every year.
  2. In the U.S., suicide rates are highest during the spring.
  3. Suicide is the 3rd leading cause of death for 15 to 24-year-olds and 2nd for 24 to 35-year-olds.
  4. On average, 1 person commits suicide every 16.2 minutes.
  5. Each suicide intimately affects at least 6 other people.
  1. About 2/3 of people who complete suicide are depressed at the time of their deaths. Depression that is untreated, undiagnosed, or ineffectively treated is the number 1 cause of suicide.
  2. There is 1 suicide for every 25 attempted suicides.
  3. Males make up 79% of all suicides, while women are more prone to having suicidal thoughts.
  4. 1 in 65,000 children ages 10 to 14 commit suicide each year.
  5. There are 2 times as many deaths due to suicide than HIV/AIDS.
  6. Over 50% of all suicides are completed with a firearm.

It is also the 10th leading cause of Death in the United States.

MOLESKIN:
There are a lot of Men and women who struggle daily with Depression and suicidal thoughts.  Nobody should have to struggle with this alone.  If you are going thru this please contact me or any of the F3 Men.  My contact number is 865-567-6652.  Also, as men of F3 reach out to those who may be struggling or you  have not heard from a while.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Pray for Boulder’s Friend Jassone and that God will guide him to those who can help him.  Pray for Pusher’s Friends family who just recently lost a son to suicide.

KISS Part II

THE SCENE: 58 degrees
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: 💯
WARM-O-RAMA:
21 SSH IC

Michael Phelps OYO

10 Merkins IC

Michael Phelps OYO

THA-THANG:
5 Stations (10-20-30-40-50-40-30-20-10=Rep Cycle)

  • LBCs
  • Squat Jumps
  • Merkins
  • Fence Jumps
  • Run to “pee rocks” and complete 10 Curls, 10 Overheads, and 10 Rows

MARY:
Hello Dolly’s with a Sprint to the finish.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
The theme again for today was to “Keep it Simple”. The workout wasn’t super complex but it was simple and effective and simple does mean something is easy. Keep things simple at work, at home, with friends. How? By loving, forgiving easily, and being easy to forgive.
MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

Suicide Squad (with pee rocks)

THE SCENE: Quite Nice. 60 degrees. No precipitation; ample perspiration.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Properly welcomed; sufficiently disclaimed. 
WARM-O-RAMA*:

  • Cherry Pickers x5 IC
  • Imperial Walkers x10 IC
  • Rockettes x10 IC
  • SSH x10 IC
  • Tempo Merkins x7 IC
  • Tempo Squats x8 IC
  • Mosey around the outhouse
  • *The above numbers are approximations. I may or may not have fumbled through my cadence calls.

THA-THANG:

  • Colt 45’s (with a “medium” sized pee rock, that “we will spend some time with”)
  • Indian Run (with rock) to base of Everest
  • 4 Station Hill Climb Suicide (with rock)
    • Lunges to first cone; 20 squats; run back to start
    • Lunges to first cone; Bernie Sanders to second cone; 20 squats run back to start
    • Lunges to first cone; Bernie Sanders to second cone; karaoke’s to third cone; 20 squats; run back to start
    • Lunges to first cone; Bernie Sanders to second cone; karaoke’s to third cone; run to fourth cone; 20 squats; STOP
  • Colt 45’s (with rock) followed by Shotput Championships
    • @Frosty is the champion of “tee tiny pee stone pebble” class
    • @Lay-z-boy is the champion of the “medium man-sized rock” class
  • Pavilion
    • Pull Ups x10
    • Dips x10
    • Box Jump Burpees x10
    • Rinse and Repeat
  • Rock run back to the AO.  Nice work men; this sucked!

MARY:  Sally Bring ’em Up; Sally Bring ’em Down Merkins – 100% flame out rate, which lead to Sally Bring ’em Up; Sally Bring ’em Down Squats.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA: 19 PAX
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Priorities:  My 5-F’s (in order): Faith, Family, Friends (i.e. Fellowship), Fitness (e.g. exercise and nutrition), Finances (i.e. career/work).  The question is not really, “do we have priorities?;” rather the question is, “do we have our priorities in the right order?”  I am not referring here to priorities for the sake of improved time management, but for improved decision/life management, in both the hundreds of little decisions we make daily about the seemingly trivial and in the infrequent, life-altering decisions. The consequence of the order of our priorities, is that our lives, our relationships, our impact near and far, will mirror our priorities.  For me, when I look in the mirror, I want to see …. in addition to six pack abs, of course … a faith in Jesus steering my relationships with family, friends, myself, and my career, not the other way around.  What do you want to see in that mirror?  Re-order; reflect; recommit.
MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

Do…don’t offer

THE SCENE: Not raining but soggy like a cheap wet towel on the floor of hotel hot tub area
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH X15, SSIM x15 (side straddle- Iron Mikes), cherry pickers x5, 10 merkins

11s to warm up- merkins and CMU Curl-press-tris. 25yd run between

THA-THANG:
8 stations inside the tennis courts

  • CMU American Swings x20
  • Bear crawl to center and back
  • CMU Curls x20
  • CMU SQUATS X20
  • CMU overhead presses x20
  • CMU Tippy Toe walks to center & back
  • CMU Curls x20
  • CMU Tricep presses x20

After completing each exercise, run around perimeter of courts then grab CMU and move to next station. Repeat x3

Clean up with some balance planks and one lap with CMU above head, two laps without. As well as CMU LBCs x20, CMU Am Hammers x20, CMU Am Swings x25

MARY:
High and low flutter kicks x40
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 attending plus 3 Ruckers (Frosty, Moses and Littlefoot) gettin it done in the Park
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
A lot of times we tell ourselves that we don’t want to do something. Sometimes we just have to do it and not think about it. I did not want to get up this morning and work out, because my legs were so sore from the last few days. I force myself to take the Q so I would get up. I’m much happier because I did.

More importantly than that, there are several times in life when we feel like we should do something but we stop ourselves from doing it. When someone needs help we think to ourselves, I’m not qualified to do that, or I don’t know them that well to help them, that’s not my skill set etc. When people need help they don’t need people saying to them…call me if you need anything, or I’m here if you need me. Step in. Tell them, I’m coming by to help you on Tuesday….is that a good day? Or I’m bringing you a meal, what day is best. Or, let’s go have coffe and talk, how is Mon morning? No one wants to ask for help.

MOLESKIN:
Hard work was achieved by the PAX this morning. Not much chatter but we got it done
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Prayers for scooters mother-in-law, Detention’s friend who suffered a stroke and a coworker who passed away. Prayers for those struggling with addiction and for Tweet-E to be a light for them. Praise for Tank’s coworker Trina, seeing some recovery from life threatening illness.