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Maximum Route 66

THE SCENE: Weather = good
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH’s and the classic Cherry Picker
THA-THANG:
Started off with a round of 7’s to get the juices flowing. Ran back and forth across basketball courts.

  • Should Tap Merkins
  • BBS

4 rounds of Route 66 along the light poles on the greenway. Exercises for each round were as follows:

  • Merkins
  • Iron Mikes (2 ct)
  • V-ups
  • Burpees

MARY:
Insert information about any additional post-THANG work (if applicable).
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 Total!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Find something in your life that brings you real happiness and joy. Money can bring you happiness when you get that new car or go on that new vacation, but eventually that will diminish. For me, having my son has brought me that happiness. No amount of money can take that away from me, and I would spend every dollar I had to keep it. Find that thing in your life and embrace it.
MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Arsenal shirt order going on!

The two-headed monster

THE SCENE: Warm mid 50s
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
10 SSH (IC), 8 Imperial Squat Walkers (IC), did a quick mosey through circuit 2 with 5 reps of each exercise, but only two body builders.
THA-THANG:
This was a battle-buddy style beatdown from start to finish. Two circuits were in place, one with CMUs, while the other was running + PT. After AO loop was completed, PAX switched and picked up where left off.

Circuit 1: each Pax had 2 CMU, PT was completed with 1 CMU, farmer carry both CMU 10m to next station:

  • Blockees x10
  • Thrusters x20
  • Curls x30
  • CMU swings x15
  • Tricep extensions x20
  • CMU flutter kicks x50

Circuit 2: Run from AO to Apex, complete AO lab with the following PT nested within:

  • 15 Mountain Man Poopers
  • 15 Diamond Merkins
  • 40 1x Iron Mikes
  • 20 Merkins
  • 20 Jump Squats
  • 10 Body Builders

Modified MARY:
We kept up with the BB theme. One PAX completed the following core work while the other participated in a CMU wall sit. We did this for 10 minutes.

  • 15 Box Cutters
  • 20 1x Peter Parker
  • 15 WWII

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Scoutmaster, Drifter, Taco, Smoky, Postpone, Veep, Rep Sleepy, Radioshack, Clothesline, Toad, Avocado, Limbo, Swerve, Webelo (2.0), Hellbender
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some one saying that at this rate a man might as well go into a gravel-pit and count the pebbles and describe the colours. How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service!” — Charles Darwin

I was asked to interpret this quote last Friday. While it’s intended for science, the applicability of this quote has relevance to this time. Every day we make observations, but many times we let them stay as observations. Sometimes this is okay.. but if we extend this quote to our lives today, I think what Darwin is linking is the connection between observation and action. Observations of rocks are useless without taking action into how and why the observations matter. In the same way, F3 nation seeks to inspire HIM who not only can make observations, but transform those observations into actions to make our communities a better place. Let’s not be passive, but instead take a stand for justice and truth in our communities, and inspire others to do the same.

MOLESKIN:

The mumblechatter was high today! Good work everyone.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Drifter moving party next week.

Spring Training

  • THE SCENE: Cool and Clear
    F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
    WARM-O-RAMA:
  • SSH
  • LBAC
  • Over Block Merkins
  • Imperial Squat Walkers

THA-THANG:

  • Mosey to the baseball field with a CMU
  • Practice “running the bases” to find out the workout at each base (sprint to each base, read the workout, mosey home)
  • 4 Rounds of exercises
    • Start at the pitcher’s mound every time, jog to home, sprint to first base and do exercise. Work your way around the bases before returning to the pitcher’s mound to begin the next round
    • Pitcher Mound: 5 reps, 3 Cheers Blockees
  • 1st base: 10 reps
    • 1.Clap Merkins
    • 2. Drunken Mt. Climber (4ct)
    • 3. Gorilla Humpers (4ct)
    • 4.V-ups
  • 2nd Base: 20 reps
    • 1.Gas Pumps
    • 2.Hand Release Merkins
    • 3.Starburst
    • 4.Frog Squat
  • 3rd Base: 30 reps
    • Jump Squats
    • WW2 Situps
    • Stagger Merkins 15/15
    • Tuck Jumps

Homeplate: 40 reps

  • 1. Peter Parker, 2ct
  • 2. Air Squats
  • 3. Big Boy Sit Ups
  • 4. Merkins

After finishing these round go to the dugout for 11’s

  • Dugout: 11’s
  • Orphan Annie: Clean the floor (arm circle each arm for the number)
  • Iron Mikes

MARY:

  • Planks with leg lifts
  • Flutter Kicks
  • Pickle Pointers
  • Side/Middle/Side Reaches

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Spring signs (blooming flowers,  greening trees, growing grass) are beautiful examples of a living creatures accepting a power (the Sun) that is outside themselves. They don’t work for it.
    In the same way, because of Christ’s death and rising to life again (what we celebrate this weekend at Easter!) God offers us power/salvation over SIN and DEATH, a darkness much worse than winter. All we must do is trust him for it and receive it through faith

MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

Via Dolorosa Uno

THE SCENE: Cold, in the 30’s, and a brisk wind.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: 

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH X 20

Cherry pickers x 8

Tempo Squats X 10

Mosey to the short apex and back to the grinder.
THA-THANG:
Grab a battle buddy!  While on partner runs the apex loop, the other plays Uno.  The number of exercises is the number on the card times 10.  When the buddy gets back, he takes over where the other left off.  If you finish and exercise, go ahead and flip a card to start another.  The exercises were as follows:

  • Red = HR merkins.
  • Blue = BBS.
  • Green = Overhead CMU press.
  • Yellow = CMU thruster.
  • Draw 2 = repeat previous exercise.
  • Draw 4 wild = 15 body builder burpees.
  • Wild = 15 pax choice.
  • Skip = 15 Iron mikes (single count)
  • Reverse = 15 inchworms.

MARY:
We planked in a circle while some pax completed a Via Dolorosa bear crawl around the perimeter.  While waiting, we knocked out 10 tempo merkins and 10 Hello Dolly’s and time ran out.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
10 men and 2 2.0’s put in work. Much respect to Weebelo and Lumberjack!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Reflected on Easter weekend and this quote: “To you I say, do you know what Jesus does with those who squander his mercy? He pours out more mercy. God is rich in mercy.  That’s the whole point.  Whether we have been sinned against or have sinned ourselves into misery, the Bible says God is not tightfisted with mercy but openhanded, not frugal but lavish, not poor but rich.  That God is rich in mercy means that your regions of deepest shame and regret are not hotels through which divine mercy passes but homes in which divine mercy abides.  It means the things about you that make you cringe the most, make him hug hardest.  It means his mercy is not calculated and cautious, like ours.  It is unrestrained, flood-like, sweeping, magnanimous.  It means our haunting shame is not a problem for him, but the very thing he loves most to work with.  It means our sins do not cause his love to take a hit.  Our sins cause his love to surge forward all the more.  It means that on the day when we stand before him, quietly, unhurriedly, we will weep with relief, shocked at how impoverished a view of his mercy-rich heart we had.” ~ from Dane Ortlund’s “Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers”, pg. 179-180.
MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

Arsenal stroll through the park

THE SCENE: Cold and wet
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Mosey to Pearson Springs and did some SSH, cherry pickers, and side lunges along the way.
THA-THANG:
Under the pavilion do:

  • Squats x 5
  • Step ups x 5
  • Dips x 5
  • Go to parking lot and the first space line do a merkin
  • Run loop
  • do x 10 everything in the pavilion
  • go to parking lot and do a merkin at the first line and side bear crawl (if that’s a thing) to the next parking spot line and do x 2 merkins
  • run loop
  • do everything under the pavilion x 5 until you max out at 20.
  • increase your line by one each time doing the Merkins at each line along the way.

MARY:
Mosey back to AO stopping to do BB, LBCs, tempo decline BB along the way. Once at the AO do WW2s and instead of ABCs we did 123s up to 20.  Finished with LBC until time is called.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

9 came out this morning

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Today is a good day to try.
MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.