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JUCOtop Stargazers

THE SCENE: 66°, Dry and wonderful

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Delivered
WARM-O-RAMA:
Side Straddle hops, Mountain Climbers, Reach for the stars, let it hang, Cherry Pickers, some other stuff.  Booster mentioned doing stargazers, so we headed to the top of Juco to try it out.  Campus is too bright.
THA-THANG:
Grabbed some rocks after doing 25 dips.  Carried them to the base of Jucomajaro.  Did a min of exercise followed by a sprint up 2 lines, carrying our rock.

  • 1 min of burpees
  • 1 min of Imperial Walkers (It is May the Fourth)
  • 1 min of BBS
  • 1 min of Squats
  • 1 min of plank
  • 1 min of Flutter kicks
  • 1 min of Superman

Made the summit where we had a ring of fire, starting at 4 merkins.

Then we got 3.5 seconds of stargazers before we did some Hello Dolly.  Too many clouds to see stars anyway.

Stone Jenga was played.  We held Al Gore while building a pile of rocks.  We got to 7 rocks before it fell so 10-7=3… 3 burpees.  Well done.  Mosey back to return our rocks, do more dips, bear crawl across the street and back, 10 Dirkens, Duck walk to curb and 20 calf raises.

MARY:
Hello Dolly, Freddie Murcury, Superman and 10 Regular, 10 Wide and 10 Diamond merkins
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Psalm 18:  I love you, Oh Lord, My Strength

Looked at making sure the Lord is our strength, our deliverer and our Rock.   David, leading the victorious army didn’t find his strength in his self but from the Lord.  Make sure Jesus is the foundation of your strength.

Be praying for our F3 brothers we miss due to injury.  Especially Survivor, Spotter, 5k, Gump and others.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP at Haw Ridge Friday night 9-Midnight.  Last chance to sign up today.  Family workout moved to May 14.

Blockee Totem Pole

THE SCENE: 55 degrees and dry. Fantastic.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Side straddle hop in cadence 20
Cherry Pickers
10 merkins OYO
Arm rotations thumbs up in cadence
Overhead Clap and Seal Claps x10
Reverse thumbs down in cadence
Tempo squats

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the coupon pile.

  • Rifle Carry to Sophomore Hill
  • Blockies Totem Pole
    Starting with 10 counting down to 1.
    20x SC flutter kicks and run a lap between each set
  • Rifle Carry to coupon pile
  • Mosey back to the flag

MARY:
No Time…
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Use the TAGS on right-side to record PAX (BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOURSELF) in attendance. Be sure to select the AO in CATEGORY above TAGS and then delete these notes!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Ephesians 5:20 NIV

If you’re in the Bible study we’re on a 21 day gratitude journey. I love these. Not only is it a positive experience while you’re doing it, but when you go back and read through everything you’ve journaled, it’s pretty cool too.
Thank you gentlemen for challenging me! I have nothing but respect for you guys.
MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP thei Friday 9p-Midnight
Family Friendly Workout at the Project Saturday May 7

Merkin Madness

THE SCENE: Cool and clear, perfect sunrise beatdown weather
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 25 (4ct)
10 Burpees
Windmills x 10 (4ct)
10 Burpees
Little Baby Arm Circles x 10 forward/10 back (4ct)
10 Burpees
Tempo Squats x 10 (4ct), x 5 (8ct)
5 Burpees
Tempo Merkins x 10 (4ct), x 5 (8ct)
5 Burpees
A little of this and that
Cherry Pickers x 5 (4ct)
Bring Sally Up

THA-THANG:
Mosey to upper field.  Doing half field laps with 8 exercise stations.  2 rounds with whole field lap after each round.

  • Clerkins x 1
  • CDD x 10
  • Swerkins x 5 (per side)
  • Sphinx Merks x 5
  • Reverse Grip Merks x5
  • Derkins x5
  • Dive bombers x 5
  • Spiderman Merks x 5 (per side)

Line up on baseline by goal.  Movement exercise to penalty box line.  Same movement, but reverse direction back to base line.  2 rounds with whole field lap after each round.

  • Bernie (to midfield)/Sprint (back to penalty box)/Mosey (to baseline) – only set to go to midfield
  • Broad jump/Reverse (more of a bunny hop backward)
  • Bear Crawl/Crawl Bear
  • Lunge/Reverse Lunge
  • Bunny hop/Reverse
  • Inchworm/Reverse

MARY:
10 Burpees
Dead bugs x 20 (4ct)
Side Crunches x 20 per side (4ct)
LBCs x 20 (4ct)
American Hammer x 20 (4ct)
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Use the TAGS on right-side to record PAX (BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOURSELF) in attendance. Be sure to select the AO in CATEGORY above TAGS and then delete these notes!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
We spent a great deal of our time thinking about the What we are doing/going to do and also about the How we are going to do it.  We spend very little time thinking about the Why.  Why is what we are doing important?  Why does is matter and what purpose does it serve?  Simon Sinek posed this idea as a business tool and sales model, but it’s directly applicable to our lives.  For instance, why are you part of F3?  What are you hoping to get from it?  What are you planning to give back or give to it?  Why do you parent the way you do?  Why do you treat your wife the way you do?  For those of us of Faith, why do you believe the way you do?  Why do you follow Christ?  It’s ok if you don’t have an answer today to these questions.  I’m still exploring some of them myself.  But simply saying, “Because I’m supposed to,” or, “Because that’s how I was raised,” isn’t going to cut it.  Explore that Why.  Understand that and you may find that it’s easier to adjust your What and your How.
MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Cosmo’s mom dealing with cancer, Praise for Tailpipe’s wife’s successful surgery and praying for recovery, prayers for fellow PAX (particularly at JUCO) dealing with injuries and illnesses
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP @ Haw Ridge 5/6
Convergence @ JUCO 7/2

Bear One Another’s Burdens

THE SCENE: a crisp 50 degrees at JUCO
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 SSH, 10 MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS, 10 TEMPO MERKINS, 15 MOROCCAN NIGHT CLUB, 10 HARRY ROCKETTES, 10 WINDMILL
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the Sophomore. Starting at the first corner:

  • 25 LBCs
  • Run up the hill to the pull-up bars
  • 5 toes to bars, leg lifts, or knee lifts
  • Run back around the corner and continue to the next corner of the building
  • 15 heels to Heaven
  • Continue to the next corner
  • 10 side crunches each side
  • Back to start and repeat 1 more time

Mosey to the coupon pile and grab your favorite:

  • 20 OHP
  • 20 tricep extensions
  • Run up the steps
  • 5 or more pull-ups
  • 20 merkins
  • Run back down and repeat once more

Mosey to the grassy hill:

  • 20 squats at the bottom
  • Up the hill and do 10 burpees
  • Repeat twice more

MARY:
15 flutter kicks IC, Protractor
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
7 got better!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Bear one another’s burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ. – Galatians 6:2 NASB1995

Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing. – 1 Thessalonians 5:11 NASB1995

Trying to shoulder our burdens all by ourselves is really difficult. We are called to bear one another’s burdens and build each other. That means that when we have burdens too heavy to bear, we have to be willing to share them with our trusted brothers. I know this can be very difficult for us men who want to generally hold in our emotions and our challenges. We typically think that it shows weakness to ask for help. Fact is…we need it.

“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” – Matthew 11:28‭-‬30 NASB1995

We can find our ultimate (eternal) rest in Jesus.

MOLESKIN:
YHC always over plans workouts but was pleasantly surprised how much we got done. Well done gents!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
One week until CSAUP!

Traveling by BLIMPS

THE SCENE: Chilly; in the 40s. Great weather for a blimp ride.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Warmed up with some:
    • Abe Vigoda
    • Arm Circles forward/back
    • tempo squat
    • plank jacks

THA-THANG:

Travel to new campus building. Partner up and complete the following in pairs. One person does 10 of the main exercise while the other does the waiting exercise. Then they swap until 100 reps of the main exercise have been completed.

100 Merkin – Plank
100 LBC – Low Plank
100 Squat – Al Gore

Travel to Far end of Pond. Travel by BLIMP around the smaller pond loop.

  • Burpee x5
  • Lunge x10
  • Imperial Walker x15
  • Merkin x20
  • Plank Jack x25
  • Squat x30

Traveling by BLIMPS is slow as you can imagine. The Lunges, Imp Walker and squat with side step kept us slowly moving forward. Needless to say we didn’t make it around the loop.

Headed back toward the flag, stopping to do a modified Beast.

Completed 6 reps of LBC, squats, Werkin, American Hammer and Burpee. Started heading back toward the flag as time wound down.

MARY:
Finished it out with some Hello Dollies and Flutter Kicks.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Previously, I had talked about  the humility of Christ from Phil 2:5-7. His coming to earth to serve others and sacrifice of himself. (On so many levels)
That same passage continues and connects that humbleness of Jesus with God exalting him and giving him the name that is above every name. Lets look at the next few verses.

Phil 2:9-11

Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name. So that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

God has declared Jesus as synonymous with himself and given him his own name. One day there will be no choice but everyone will recognize the glory of God and bow.