THE SCENE: A crisp, but beautiful gloom set the backdrop for what was destined to be a great day!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Every HIM was welcomed and disclaimed.
WARM-O-RAMA:
- 20 SSH
- 20 LBAC
- 15 Tempo Squats
- 15 Merkins
- 15 Mt Climbers
- a few Up & Down Dogs
- 3 perfectly executed Knoxville Cherry Pickers (because ground cherries are the only cherries)
- A warm-up lap around the lot
THA-THANG:
HIMs were welcomed to the “table” on the porch to play OCHO UNO.
The OCHO UNO Q
One Uno Deck (1-3 cards thoughtfully removed)
Green – CORE
Red – LOWER
Yellow – UPPER
Blue – BURPEES
Process: Draw a card, identify the exercise, place card in discard pile, flip the exercise card over, announce your exercise. Number on card = number of reps (0=10). Pick one of the exercises that hasn’t been done yet. When all are picked, all are available again. ALL 8’s are OCHOs (ANY COLOR) = Yell Ocho and take a lap
Multipliers:
+2 means double the next card. Pick one more card, use color of second card, pick an exercise, and x2 the reps
+4 means quadruple the next card. Pick one more card, use color of second card, pick an exercise, and x4 the reps
All special cards are all 8’s. Color doesn’t matter:
Skip = 8 Single-leg squat (4 each leg)
Reverse = 8 Groiners (2 count = 1)
Wild = 8 Mt Climber (4 count = 1)
Announce your number and exercise loud enough for everyone to hear the call. After the HIM to your right announces the number and the exercise, you don’t do that exercise. You sit out one round and draw yours and get ready to announce so that we have constant work.
CORE (Green)
Basilisks
Prone Rows
LBCs
Freddy Mercurys (4 count)
Big Boys
LOWER (Red)
Squats
Monkey Humpers
Jump Squats
Lunges (2 count)
UPPER (Yellow)
Merkins
Hand-Release Merkins
Carolina Dry Dock (pike push-up)
Shoulder Taps
Triceps Dips (in reverse plank or on wall/bench)
MARY:
We had time to lay down and pull off some Hello Dollys and Side Crunches.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
We made it!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I want to tell you about the Ocho Unos of the Bible.
You know that left to ourselves, we’re a wreck. Genesis draws a bleak picture of humanity. The hearts of humanity are always evil everywhere. So, God brought judgment on that evil through the flood. But in His great mercy, He didn’t wipe out everyone, God graciously rescued a family to continue His plan. God remembered us.
Genesis Ocho:Uno (ESV) — 1 But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided.
And yet human beings still continued to do what was right in our own eyes instead of living by God’s good ways. So instead of just telling us about the way, God Himself became the way. That’s what we celebrate at Advent and Christmas.
Matthew, Mark, and Luke 8:1 all show us Jesus teaching about how to be made right with God and many people turned from their sins and followed him.
Matthew Ocho:Uno (ESV) — 1 When he came down from the mountain, great crowds followed him.
Mark Ocho:Uno (ESV) — 1 In those days, when again a great crowd had gathered, and they had nothing to eat, he called his disciples to him and said to them,
Luke Ocho:Uno (ESV) — 1 Soon afterward he went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him,
God came to us. The baby in the manger made a way for us by coming as God and as man to live the life we should have lived and then by paying our price for the sinful lives we have actually lived. He made the way. So that the best Ocho Uno in Scripture is…
Romans Ocho:Uno (ESV) — 1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
And then one day soon, the one who came as a baby to live life for us is coming again as the Lamb of God who is also the Judge and King.
Revelation Ocho:Uno (ESV) — 1 When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.
So, men, my simple encouragement to you today is if you want your marriage to change, if you want your parenting to change, if you want your life to change it starts with this. Are you still living under the right condemnation for the wrong you’ve done, like a slave chained to your sin? Put your hope in Christ, because he has paid the price, there’s no more condemnation for a man in Christ. And then, live like men who God has remembered and pronounced free of condemnation. Live for Christ in your marriage, with your kids, and at your work today. If you’re in Christ, you’re a free man. So step up and stop living like a slave to sin.
MOLESKIN:
Prayed for Cosmo’s mom, for healing and endurance. Prayed for Mathlete’s M, who’s getting close to bambino siete arriving. Prayed for all the brothers who are travelling this time of year.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Project Christmas fellowship upcoming.
2.0 workout on Christmas Eve. 12 pains for the chilluns.
And Kick & Mathlete mentioned something about a billion burpee challenge in January. Sounds just crazy enough to make men of all of us.