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Dark Muddy Hills

THE SCENE: Cold, dark, muddy.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

i am not, but I know I AM.

WARM-O-RAMA:
No cadence, no transition, silent, continuous as called out.

  • SSH
  • merkins
  • LBC
  • Burpees
  • High Knees
  • merkins
  • ssh
  • Windmills
  • Leg lifts

Mosey to Stadium (via parking lot sprints)

Dark Muddy Hills:
Four rounds of

  • 50 Merkins on cement before tree
  • Do this to the tree up the muddy hill. (Round 1 -Lunge | Round 2, Broad Jump | 3 – Bear Crawl | 4 -Frog Jump )
  • Do this at the tree ( Round 1 – 50 LBC | Round 2 – 50 Hello Dolly | Round 3 – 50 Leg Extension Crunches | Round 4 – 50 Freddy Mercury
  • Run back down to cement and advance to in between the tree (lane, slot, place, location)
  • 10 second break, then sprint up the hill to the tree line (beyond the first row of trees) (sprinting two hills basically)

MARY:

  • 10 LBC
  • 10 Hello Dolly
  • 10 Leg Extension Crunches
  • 10 Freddy Mercurys’
  • 10 Burpees

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 Hims braved the cold dark muddy hills today.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Life is often filled with cold dark muddy hills that we don’t understand. Luckily we know the Creator who does understand it all. The most brutal of these cold dark hills can be our marriages – the closest most vulnerable and possibly most damaging relationships we have. Luckily again, our Good God is in control. I don’t know how it all works but when I invite him into the cold dark mud, he shines a warm light. I don’t know if I’ve ever “escaped” a cold muddy hill by calling on the Lord, but I do know that when I have called on him he has somehow leveled the hill, or allowed me to walk when I had nothing left to give. The mud this morning was 32 degrees and dark and very wet and slippery. We ran up it, in it, and down it. We did merkins in the valleys, we touched the trees at the top. I pray the Good Lord Jesus gives you strength to frog jump, bear crawl, lunge, or however possible, get up the cold slippery hill that you are climbing today. Whether it’s a tough boss, job, cousin, kid, wife, or struggle with the enemy against temptation. Fight the good fight, call upon Jesus, I believe you’ll find that he’ll jump right into the neck high mud with you. He’ll warm it up a little, he’ll lift your head, he’ll light the way, and get you going!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship hill comin.

99 Problems but the rain ain’t one

THE SCENE: 50 and pouring rain
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
DORA warmup – partner farmer carries CMU’s to the bathrooms and back

  • SSH x100
  • Arm circles x150
  • BBS x200

THA-THANG:
99 Problems (99 reps of each exercise) – Run down to the troll bridge and back between each exercise. Exercises:

  • Merkins
  • Monkey Humpers
  • Curls
  • Mountain Climbers (4 count)
  • Flutter Kicks (4 count)
  • CMU OH Press
  • Step Ups
  • CMU Dead Lift
  • Shoulder Taps

MARY:
Dr. W x10 IC
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 Men
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Short version – Don’t spend your life chasing the small, incremental moments of happiness. Find the joy in what you naturally do every day in life.

“Happiness is an emotional response to an outcome. If I win, I will be happy, if I don’t I won’t. It’s an if-then, cause and effect, quid pro quo standard that we cannot sustain because we immediately raise it every time we attain it. See, happiness demands a certain outcome, it is result reliant and I say if happiness is what you’re after then you’re gonna be let down frequently and you’re gonna be unhappy much of your time. Joy though… Joy is a different thing, its something else. Joy is not a choice, it’s not a response to some result. It’s a constant. Joy is the feeling that we have from doing what we are fashioned to do no matter the outcome. See, joy is always in process it’s under construction. It is in constant approach alive and well in the doing of what we’re fashioned to do and enjoying. The easiest way to dissect success is through gratitude. Give thanks for that which we do have, for what is working. Appreciating the simple things we sometimes take for granted. We give thanks for these things and that gratitude reciprocates. Creating more to be thankful for.It’s really simple, and it works. I’m not saying be in denial of your failures. No, we can learn from them too. But only if we look at them constructively as a means to reveal what we are good at. What we can get better at, what we do succeed at. We don’t always do our best, and since we are the architects of our own lives, let’s study the habits, the practices, the routines that we have that lead to and feed our success, our joy, our honest pain, our laughter, our earned tears. Lets dissect that and give thanks for those things. No matter what you choose, do not let it jeopardize your soul.”
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Habitat for Humanity project on 3/9.

JUCO Speedway

THE SCENE: 40ish and no rain, but plenty of water on the ground
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 mountain climber, 20 SSH, 15 Imperial Walker, 10 windmill, 15 Moroccan night club
THA-THANG:
Begin a mosey toward the bond with a few warmup drills:  high kneels, butt kickers, and b-skips.  The first part of the workout had three stops around the pond.  At each stop, perform 20 merkins, squats, and 4 count flutter kicks.  The next round had two stops (half the track between each).  At each stop perform 20 diamond merkins, lunges (10 each leg), and 4 count Freddie Mercury.  The final round was one full, hard lap around the pond, wagonwheel to the 6 and then do 10 tempo Carolina Dry Docks, 10 tempo sumo squats, and 15 hello Dolly IC.

Form a line and Indian run back to the shovel flag.

MARY:
Just enough time for Mucho Chesto:  10 merkins, 10 diamond merkins, 10 stagger left merkins, 10 stagger right merkins, and 10 wide-arm merkins.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 PAX this morning
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Consider what Cain’s response to God when He asked him “where is your brother”.  Cain responded with “Am I my brother’s keeper”.  God does call us to be our brother’s keeper.  The Word today is to pay attention to those around you and take note of changes in behavior.  Be an encouragement to others in their time of struggle.
MOLESKIN:
A lot of mubblechatter today about the “lazy Q”.  I started the workout by stating that I did put much time into the Q.  All in good fun.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Wesley house workout coming up.  Keep an eye out on GroupMe for 2nd F lunches.

Why do my legs hurt? Thank Judge Judy

THE SCENE: 40 and damp, but no rain
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Cherry Pickers, SSH, Imperial Walkers, Moroccan Nightclubs

THA-THANG:
Exercises with shuttle run to parking lines and “Bernies” back.

  • 10 Burpees
  • 20 Carolina Dry Docks
  • 30 Merkins
  • 40 Iron Mikes
  • 50 Leg Raises
  • 60 Sumo Squats
  • 70 LBC
  • 80 SSH
  • 90 Mountain Climbers
  • 100 Calf Raises
  • Jog a loop around the Parking lot

MARY:
Side Crunches, Flutter kicks, Bartman’s Pelvic thrust things(these hurt)
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:
Don’t spread yourself too thin.  Focus on the things that are most important to you, faith and family.  Remember, don’t half ass 2 things, whole ass 1 thing.

Stairway to Heaven (If Heaven Is Monkey Humpers)

THE SCENE: Low 30’s. Distinct lack of rain.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
25x SSH IC
15x TN Rocking Chair IC
5x Cherry Pickers IC
10x Hindurkins IC
Calfkiller (5 sets of 20 calf raises, punctuated with 25%, 50%, 75%, and AYG runs across the parking lot)

THA-THANG:

Mosey through the parking lots toward Success Drive entrance.
Stop at steep hill for 7’s: Burpees and Squat Jumps.
Audible after the first trip up the hill… There’s seeding and landscap netting up there!
Mosey on around to a clear hill and continue with 7s

Continue mosey to the Success Drive entrance, Al Gore for the 6 and then 10 Merkins OYO

Head across the street to the alley and stairway behind the strip mall.
Partner up, one PAX at the top, one at the bottom.
Partner at top starts exercise, partner at bottom runs up the stairs and immediately back down.
At the bottom, call for battle buddy by name and do reps of exercise until battle buddy completes stair run and calls.
Stick with same exercise until Q calls out next exercise, at which time upper and lower PAX swap places.
Exercises:
Merkins
Monkey Humpers
LBCs
8-count Body Builders

Head back toward the AO…

Stop in front of the Zaxby’s in a well-lit area
Line up on the sidewalk facing the restaurant – 15x 4ct Monkey Humpers IC!

Back across the street… Hey, there’s a pile of bricks! Everyone grab 2 for some impromptu shoulder work!

Finally back to the AO

MARY:
Just enough time to row our boats gently down the stream a few times…
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
12 PAX killed it today!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
So yesterday had quite a few instances of suck. Nothing awful, but kinda one of those days. Late leaving the house because we had to prep for a last-minute showing. Got a call from Doggy Camp that the dog has diarrhea and needs to go to the vet. Leave work and go sit at the vet for a couple hours. Turns out she’s contagious and can’t go back for a week, so there goes my lunch for the next week. Take her home, back to work, stay late, come home, clean up diarrhea…

I say all that not to have a pity party for me, but to point out kind of how minor all that stuff is in the big picture… However, the biggest suck turned out to be my attitude. I was convicted by something I saw on Facebook of all places. Just a little platitude on a cloud background, but it was appropriate, and it rang true: You can’t always choose your circumstances, but you CAN always choose how you react to them. I had reacted poorly. Selfishly. I didn’t come out and blow up in some way I would regret later, but I just seethed away inside. It’s pride. It’s sin. And it just eats away at your soul, taking your eyes off the mark.

So don’t let things control you. Take control. Choose how you react when the crap hits the fan (or splatters on the wall, as the case may be).

MOLESKIN:
Bittersweet Q this morning… It’s great to lead a great group of HIMs, but hate that the opportunity came at Bagger’s expense. Speedy recovery to you, Sir!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Town of Farragut Shamrock Ball (father/daughter).
Official launch coming up for the Quacken (Fountain City) coming March 1