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More Than Halfway

THE SCENE: 70-something and pretty muggy.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
The good ol’ Zero Burpee warmup.
Zero Burpees
25x SSH IC
2 Burpees OYO
20x Cossack Squats IC
4 Burpees OYO
20x Crab Kicks IC
6 Burpees OYO
10x Travoltas IC (each side)
8 Burpees OYO
15x LBAC each way
10 Burpees OYO

THA-THANG:

Start with a Calf Killer – Calf Raises on the curb, then mosey across the parking lot: 20-25%-20-50%-20-75%-20-AYG-20

Mosey to the base of Mount Crumpet, partner up for Dora 1-2-3
Running partner runs up the hill and around the tree.
100 Merkins
200 BBS
300 Squats

After each exercise reps complete, both partners mosey to the Fountain of Youth.
Plank-walk sideways with feet up on the curb of the fountain – one clockwise, one CCW.
When you meet on the other side, head back to Mt Crumpet and start the next exercise.

Everyone made it at least halfway through the squats before time was up!

Indian Run back to the AO

MARY:
We crammed in 10x side crunches each side, 15x flutter kicks, and 5x slutter kicks before the clock hit 6:15.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 PAX killed it today.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Plank-walk around the outside of the fountain sucked by an appropriate amount for a good beatdown. But as difficult as it was, I didn’t see anyone look up when they were halfway around, stop, and say, “I did my half!” Each individual kept pushing until the two completed the circle together.

That’s similar to the way it should work at home. Every household has a pile of hard stuff to do. Don’t “meet your partner halfway”. Take it together as a team. Try to do more than “your half.” As Paul said, we should love our wives as Christ loved the Church, and He didn’t “meet us halfway”. He came all the way around for us. Romans 5:8 says that “God demonstrates His own love for us in this: while we were still sinners Christ died for us.”

MOLESKIN:
Congrats to Pup on HS graduation! He’s off to the Citadel in July.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Everyone is super sore from Hardship Hill and super stoked for the next CSAUP!

Can you hear me?

THE SCENE:  Mid 60’s, Clear Skies
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH x15 IC
  • Cherry Picker x10 IC
  • Little Baby Arm Circles (Forward) x10 IC
  • Little Baby Arm Circles (Backward) x10 IC
  • Jog Curb-To-Curb and Back
  • High Knees Curb-To-Curb and Back

THA-THANG:

PAX split into two groups.

Group 1 Started at Station 1 with the following:

  • Burpess x5
  • Dips x10
  • Flutter Kicks x15 Each Leg
  • Squats x20

Group 2 Started at Station 2 with the following:

  • Pull-ups x5
  • Herkins x10
  • Step Ups x15 Each Leg
  • Big Boy Sit-ups x20

After finishing at their respective stations, each PAX transitioned to the other station using transitional exercises between the cones. Rinse and Repeat Until Time

Transition Exercises Included:

  1. Bear Crawl
  2. Crawl Bear
  3. Sprint
  4. Sprint
  5. Lt. Dan’s (1 Squat)
  6. Lt. Dan’s (1 Squat)
  7. Berny
  8. Berny
  9. Crab Walk
  10. Crab Walk (Reverse)
  11. Broad Jump
  12. Broad Jump
  13. Rinse and Repeat

MARY:
With a little time left the PAX circled up for a some Mary

  • Box Cutter –  x10
  • Row Your Boat x2 (Lead by Waxjob)
  • LBC’s (Until Time)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
17 HIMS!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Worry and Stress

It’s part of human nature to worry and stress. I for one, worry about everything. Lately, I’ve been more worried about this VQ than anything else. I’m sure there have been times in everyone’s lives were you have been worried or stressed about something. Whether it is getting the promotion at work, or getting laid off and wondering how you will provide for your family. For me I have to constantly remind myself of what God said about worrying in Matthew 6:25-34.

Matthew 6:25-34

25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?[a]

28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,

29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’

32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.

33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

34 “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

There will be days were we will feel overwhelmed and worried about that day or the coming months, but as believers in something greater than ourselves we must continue to purse God. We must be patient for His plan to unfold and allow Him to work in our lives. Focus on His message and He will help you through your endeavors.

MOLESKIN:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill this Saturday.  Meet at the Bomb Shelter at 8:00am to carpool to the event.

A Thumb on the Scale

THE SCENE: 68, clear, and smelling sweetly of honeysuckles.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
25x SSH IC
10x Hindurkins IC
Outhouse Run
8x Al Gore Tuck Jump
15x 4ct Crab Kicks

THA-THANG:
Mosey up to the upper parking lot at the top of Baby Everest.
A balance is set up there, so fill one side with some number of stones.
Gather at the bottom of the hill, each man does 15 reps of one exercise, then takes one stone up the hill to the balance, then mosey down the long way.
Once the balance tips, all the PAX move on to the next exercise.

Exercises:
Merkins
Star Jacks
Decline Dry Docks
4-ct Mountain climbers
4-ct Hello Dolly
Burpees! (10 instead of 15)

MARY:
10x 4ct LBC
15x 4ct Left/Right LBC
25x 4ct Flutter Kicks.
15x 4ct Monkey Humpers
Just a few seconds of shoulder taps to close it out.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8x HIMs this morning
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
In life, we have a lot of things that we have to try to keep in balance.  Work/home, food/exercise, cost/benefit, etc.  But there’s one area in which, there’s no way to pile enough on one side to balance the other, and that’s the sin/righteousness balance.  No matter how much good we try to do, there’s nothing we can do in our own strength to tip that balance in our favor.  Titus 3:5 says, “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost”.  He put His thumb on the scale when he sent His Son to take the penalty for our sin through His death.
MOLESKIN:
My precision calculation of the number of stones to put in the balance ended up a little high.  But that’s OK, as someone decided to accelerate the filling of the other side by a bit.  Ended up adding burpees at the end, so it all worked for the best!.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill is THIS WEEKEND!  Can’t wait!  .

Perspective

THE SCENE:
An F3 haiku:
Breezy mid 60s
Crescent moon floating in ink
Impending beatdown
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

25x SSH IC
15X TN Rocking Chairs IC
10x Travoltas IC each side
15x LBAC IC (fwd and back)
15x Tempo Squats

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the long parking lot for a game of Memory
It’s been a lazy Q month for me.
4th time this month with this same Q at different AOs, and nobody’s repeated it but me! About time to burn the cardboard…
PAX take turns flipping 2 cards. If the cards don’t match, all PAX do BOTH exercises.
If the cards match they’re removed, and PAX just do that exercise followed by running to the far end of the parking lot and back.

The cards:
15 Merkins
15 Dry Docks
10 Iron Mikes (each leg)
10 Squat jump
10 Burpees
15 Monkey Hump 4ct
20 Mtn Climber 4ct
Bear Crawl to light pole, Crawl Bear back
20 Flutter Kicks 4ct
20 Big Boys

Managed to run out of time without ever seeing the burpees! Hit every other card at least once.

MARY:
Just barely made it back to the AO in time, so no Mary today.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
7 PAX today
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Today’s word is “Perspective”.
During the beatdown, we bear-crawled along the same path that we ran to get to the end of the parking lot. When you’re just standing around, that light pole doesn’t look too far away. When you’re looking back between your feet, bear-crawling backwards, it looks like a lot farther. Conversely, that same distance looks like pretty much nothing at all when you’re finishing up running the full length of the parking lot.

Sometimes in your life you may feel like you’re in that reverse bear-crawl… Where you’re headed seems so far away and you’re moving backward to boot. In those times, remember that God has things under control, and his perspective is so much better. Just stay obedient, keep your eyes on Him, and He will take care of your journey.
MOLESKIN:
The good thing about Monkey Humpers is that the posture required basically prevents eye contact.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill! Sign up! Volunteer!

Fear the Lord

THE SCENE:

68 and clear

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Quick mosie around the outhouse

SSH x20 IC
Cherry Pickers x10 IC
Some o’ this, Some o’ that
THA-THANG:

Tre UP! Get a CMU and a pair of rocks

FEAR THE LORD (Dora Exercise)

Partner 1: rock/CMU exercise

Partner 2: run to the hill

Partner 3: Hill exercise

Rock exercises: 200 total each

Flys (2 rocks)
External rotation curls (2 rocks)
ABCs (Alphabet x6)
Rows (big rock)

Tricep extensions
Hello Dolly
Elf on the shelf (lift, reach across overhead)

Lazy Boy Curls (palm up grip)
Overhead Press
Reverse crunches
Dry docks

Hill exercises: 20 each
Wide Merkins
Imperial Walkers
Squats
Derkins
OPP (one armed pickle pounder)
Mountie Squats (toes out)

MARY:
Didn’t we do enough during the beatdown?
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Tank,  shooter, Tweety, Bowflex, Butters, Frosty, Bartman, Farva, Fluteloop, I-beam, Respect, Snitch, Wagon Wheel, Booger, Laettner,  Abacus, Detention, Woodshack, Deadhead, Ribbed, Podium, LA-Z-Boy, Waxjob, Smoker
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

I have a colleague w/ wisdom and maturity issues. Started praying about him, and then for him to develop more maturity and wisdom. God chuckled at me. “It takes one to know one, my boy! Don’t you remember when this was you?”

Immediately I had the words of Proverbs 9 in my head. The fear of the Lord is the BEGINNING of wisdom.

I do remember, because it wasn’t too long ago and I consistently fail in these same things. The fear of the Lord is the BEGINNING of wisdom.

I don’t know where the end is, but the beginning of wisdom is fearing the Lord. This isn’t about being terrified or feeling guilt and shame for our wrong doing. This is about recognizing the natural order of things and in whose world we are living. Recognizing whose children we interact with every day and just how much He loves us…AND them! We are loved as sons, but we bear the responsibility to carry that name!

We all think we’re football experts. We’ll talk for hours about what needs to change. We’ll tweet endlessly, and even call into radio shows to second guess decisions. But none of us would walk into Jeremy Pruitt’s office and presume to tell him what he needs to do or how he could do it better. Why? ‘cuz that’s his world and we KNOW we don’t belong in charge of it.

Apply the same to God. You are not in control of half of what you think you are, and you mismanage most of what you are in control when you do it under your own steam. Recognize whose you are and in whose land you live…change that perspective and you’ll see some new wisdom come your way.

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight. For by me your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life. If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone will bear it.”
‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭9:10-12‬ ‭ESV‬‬
http://bible.com/59/pro.9.10-12.esv MOLESKIN:
This was a tough workout, but a pretty fun one. Lots of mumble chatter and sore muscles. I was proud of the men.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill registration is full!