Warm up: Mtn. man poopers Moroccan Night Clubs Heal Raises Seal Jacks Burpees
The Thang: Run.. find good place with two walls 10 Mike Tysons, crab walk to other wall, 10 rowers., walk back. Reduce by 1 each time. First person done calls it. DPR crushed this one. Run to wharf 8 squats + 8 monkey humpers in front of the fishing boats filled with tourists going fishing Reduce by 1 each time. First person done calls it. Beach crushed this one. Run… to wall for 10 cycles of 1 wall jump and 1 burpee, first person calls it. Run to sea wall Wall sits & plank Find a rock, test out our rock skipping skills…. room to improve there Climb over sea wall for some heal raises Run back to AO start LBCs, 6 inches, side planks, plank
Little introduction for a FNG this morning followed by a short warm up consisting of:
Cherry Pickers –
Imperial Walkers
Moroccan Night Clubs
The Thang
Short mosey (.5 miles or so) at a fast pace to our local school for a parking lot beatdown.
Dice Numbers as follows:
1 – Reverse lunges
2 -B wheel barrow (partner grabs one foot and you walk to next pole)
3 – Jail Break
4 – Lt Dans
5 – Partner bear crawl – hands tied
6 – Nur
Grab a partner and you must hit every light pole. At each light pole, you must do 10 merkins to continue on… Poles are approximately 50 yards apart from each other. Once done the merkins, dice were rolled to see how we traversed to the next pole.
Pole 1 – 10 merkins each person oyo
Curl coupon while walking to next pole
Pole 2 – 10 merkins
Hold coupon out in front for shoulders and jog to next pole
Pole 3 – 10 merkins
Overhead lunge with coupon in air or near body to next pole
Put down coupon and leave on sides of road
Pole 4 – 10 merkins
Roll em
Pole 5 – 10 merkins
Roll em – Lt Dans
Pole 6 – 10 merkins
Roll em – Lt Dans
Pole 7 – 10 merkins
Roll em – Wheel Barrows
Pole 8 – 10 merkins
Roll em – Partner Bear Crawls
Pole 9 – 10 merkins
Roll em – Lt Dans
Pole 10 – 10 merkins
Roll em – Jail Break
Pole 11 – 10 merkins
Roll em – Partner Bear Crawl
Pole 12 – 10 merkins
Roll em – Jailbreak
Pole 13 – 10 merkins
Roll em – Nur
Pole 14 – 10 merkins
Roll em – Lt Dans
Pole 15 – 10 merkins
Roll em – Nur
Coupon redemption – Pickup
Pole 16 – 10 merkins
Curl coupon and walk to next pole
Pole 17 – 10 merkins
Overhead lunge with coupon in air
Pole 18 – 10 merkins
Mosey back to the CHOP and complete the Name-O-Rama, Circle of Trust, Prayer.
12 strong đź’Ş today. Weather was perfect. DPR even commented on the run how awesome it was to be running in the mist. We are truly fortunate to have our AO where we do. We also welcomed FNGs Puck and Noble.
Disclaimer given
Warm Up Hill Billies IC Mt. Man Poopers IC Jump Rope
The Thang Run Track 1 lap Bear Crawl 456 yards: 456 yards = 1368ft which was the height of tower 1 of the World Trade Center. Run Track 1 lap Circle up: Last man IC activities: Gas Pumps, LBC, Freddy Mercury, Planks, etc.
Name and Count-o-rama
Moment of silence for the victims of 9/11 and the service personal who past in the line of duty.
YHC wanted to do something to mark the 20th anniversary of the attacks. The 456 yards bear crawl did just that. I think it will be repeated going forward.
YHC should have told stories of the people he knew lost on 9/11 but YHC feels like he honors them by remembering them in his memories.
3 strong đź’Ş this morning. It was warm out this morning.
Disclaimer given
Warmup: 50 Grady Corn IC 50 IW IC 10 t pots each leg IC 20 Heal Raises IC 50 SSH IC
Then Thang: Mosey to lot, do 10 burpees OYO Mosey to custom house plaza, do 10 merkins, bear crawl to other end, 10 merkins Mosey to beach area off rec trail, 10 merkins at bottom Mosey to wharf, side planks Mosey to sea wall, wall sits and planks Climb up the seawall (that was new!) Mosey to AO start for gas pumps, 6 inches, plank
5 PAX won THAT FIRST BATTLE to post for a Chappie recovery workout +1. Meaning that it was a post Labor Day Beachday Beatdown +1 day, designed to get us moving but not to crush the soul. There’s something about working out in a group of 30, and there’s something about working out with a group of 5…bene’s on both ends of the scale. So here’s how things went down today:
QIC: Chappie
DATE: 9/8/21
WARM-O-RAMA
SSH – 18 IC
Mt. Man Pooper – 10 IC
Swartzjack – 15 IC
Moroccan Nightclubs – 30 IC
Imperial Walkers – 18 IC
Low Slow Squats – 18 IC
THE THANG
Mosey to wall at East end of Gigante parking lot (while sharing 20lb sandbags)
On the wall:
Round #1:
10 Chest Bump Irkins/Bearcrawl 70’/15 MJB’s OYO, back to the wall
Round #2:
10 Derkins/Crawlbear 70’/20 Bombjacks OYO, back to the wall
People’s Chair with OHC’s, 1 round of 10 Counts per each PAX/Dragon Crawl 70’/35 Flutter Kicks IC
YHC shared the following apropos 3rdF, directly from Q Source:
(Excerpt taken from QSOURCE by David “DREDD” Redding, Q1.5, 50-52)
Accelerating the M requires both skill and love
Marriage is not easy–it is not supposed to be. But because he never quits working at it, the HIM ultimately develops the skills he needs to enjoy life with his wife. To avoid committing relationship malpractice with his wife, the HIM focuses on five points of marital Preparedness:
1. Maintenance = Deceleration
The M will not prosper if the HIM thinks in terms of maintaining its vitality rather than Accelerating it.
For the HIM:
Movement is action taken in furtherance of purpose.
Momentum is the sustained Movement that results from Acceleration
To Decelerate is to decrease the pace of Movement
With this in mind, the HIM knows that he is either Accelerating or Decelerating in all his endeavors and relationships, particularly with his wife. There is no in-between state of nature such as “maintenance.” If you think you are maintaining, you are actually Decelerating because there is no Status quo. That is the myth of the plateau. Thus, the HIM never thinks of maintaining his marriage. He always focuses on Accelerating it.
2. The Culture is a Jester
While the culture purports to embrace marriage, it is actually a hinderance to Acceleration. It breathes truthy-sounding lies like “my wife is my best friend,” and “we try every day to meet each other halfway,” and “we’re pregnant!” Why does our culture resort to Oprah Bombs like these when it comes to marriage? Probably because it doesn’t believe that anything so difficult can possibly be so good. The HIM knows the inverse to be true. Virtue takes work—it is the un-Virtuous act that comes easily and “naturally.”
3. There is no Fifty Yard Line
Halfway is not good enough when it comes to the M. It is not a football game where husband and wife meet at the fifty-yard line for the coin flip. The HIM must drive the ball the full length of the field and stay in his wife’s red zone, regardless of whether she even breaks the huddle. To the Sad Clown focused on balance and fairness, this seems unfair and out-of-balance. Perhaps, but that’s what Acceleration requires when it comes to the M.
4. Your Wife is not Your Best Friend
She is made for a much higher purpose. There is a pedestal in the life of the HIM that is set out for his wife and there is no room on it for his best buddy (that relationship is actually two more rings out on the HIM’s Concentrica). Nor is marriage a joint-venture within which man and wife have equal and identical roles. Husband and wife may both become parents, but it is only the mother who is pregnant. The lives of both husband and wife are changed by parenthood, but it is only the mother whose body is rearranged form the inside out, and only she who spends nine months in a state of complete vulnerability—during which the HIM is to be her stalwart and constant protector. The HIM does not let the culture confuse him. He knows his role, and it is nowhere nearly as important as hers.
5. Joy Trumps Happiness
The culture often confuses joy and happiness interchangeably, but they are actually very different things. Happiness is a transitory positive feeling governed by mere external circumstances. Happiness is a full belly—it goes away when you get hungry again. In contrast, Joy is not so ephemeral. It is a permanent state of hopeful satisfaction that is unaffected by external happenstance. Joy cares not whether a man’s belly is full or empty. It requires a long view, well past the toils and triumphs of any given day. The HIM is a joyful man under any and all circumstances because his vision is cast at a point well beyond the day before him. His focus is on the end and beyond. What do joy and happiness have to do with marriage? Simple. A healthy and vital M is a lifetime pursuit. Anything designed to last a lifetime needs the pure fuel of Joy to grow and prosper. The short term warm and fuzzies of Happiness won’t do the trick. Happy-focused men give up on their marriages when the going is rocky because they are un-Happy. But the Joy-focused HIM views those same rough spots as the precise time to double-down on his Commitment to his bride. Anybody can stay married on a full belly. But it is within the crucible of hunger where the true bond between man and wife is formed.
Marriage is a Team, not a Community. It requires Proximity and purpose to succeed. It transforms a man from a selfish Happiness-junkie into a selfless Joy-seeker. The HIM knows if he fails at his M, nothing else he does will matter.
THE WHOLE CHAPTER IS WORTH A READ, check it out men!
Scripture Reference: (Ephesians 5:25-33)
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himselfup for her, 26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 that He might present to Himself the church [q]in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. 28 So husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, 30 because we are parts of His body. 31 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. 32 This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless, as for you individually, each husband is to love his own wife the same as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband. (YHC’s emphasis added)
Mosey back to the AO
As our pool of Q’s grow here at @f3firststate it’s amazing to see newer PAX get into the rotation, first with a Warm-up VQ, then with a full VQ. The Q list grows long so it’s even more a privilege to Q when the opportunities come. Grateful to lead these 5 HIM at the Grit Mill. Glad to be in the rotation.
COT:
Number-Rama
Name-O-Rama
Announcements: Looks like our Hero’s Journey Gauntlet Ruck will be stepping off on Fri 9/10 at 2200 hrs. Plan: Ruck from the Grit Mill to CHOP and ending at the Aegis (hitting all our AO’s, i.e. The Gauntlet) for a 20 mile ruck, before partaking of the Saturday morning beatdown Q’d by the one and only Quattro. 20 miles = 20 years since 9/11. Looking forward to the challenge. Also: Fallen Angel: Call Sign – Extortion 17 showing tonight at 7 at Chauffer’s, all PAX welcome.
Prayers: Praise for YHC’s buddy Jeff being able to get up on his feet and walk across his hospital room yesterday; prayers for marriages of the PAX of @f3firststate; prayers for YHC’s oldest son, Zeke (a.k.a. Nature Boy)
Bolt 45’s IC (4 Count) – 15 squats to halfway down. 15 squats halfway to full down. 15 full squats.
Four Count Freddie’s – 30 IC
Mosey @.5 miles to the Goshen Church Hill
The Thang
PAX split up into teams of two to complete the Whirlybird 21 evolution from Saturday, August 28, 2021. One Pax Nurs up the hill and moseys down while the other works on the descending Burpee and Big Boy evolutions. Since we left off on Saturday completing the round of 15 Burpees and 6 Big Boys, we will pick up from there in a cumulative team effort beginning with 14 Burpees & 7 Big Boys while your Brother Nurs up the hill & moseys down. Switch out each time your Brother returns from the hill. Teams completed the Whirlybird 21 in descending order down to 1 Burpee and 20 Big Boy Sit Ups. Any over-achievers were instructed to return to the round of 15 burpees and 6 Big Boys and work their way back up to the 20 Burpees and 1 Big Boy Sit Up.
Mosey @.5 miles back to CHOP
F3 Message – Go M.A.D. (Go Make A Difference)
Count-O-Rama, Name-O-Rama, and the Circle of Trust. Please keep all our HIM in your thoughts and prayers. Â
When it was 7:00 a.m. in the Hutchcraft house, the word “chaos” took on new meaning – a typical school day morning. It was very exciting to get two teenage sons up, get them around, and get them dressed and out to school. Of course, both of them were a little crazy like their Mother, and that contributed to the chaos as well. Finally we were able to get them off to school.
But in-between all kinds of things happen. I mean, pairs of pants mysteriously disappeared and reappeared on the other brother. What? Socks and underwear took on enormous value as we tried to find one pair. Phones rang, papers needed signing, books needed covering. And after it was all over and the boys were headed out, on a typical morning you might hear me step outside the front door and call my final instructions to them for that day.
“Go M.A.D.!” Can’t you imagine our next door neighbor sticking his head out and saying, “Say what? Go M.A.D.? Have you? You want your two teenage boys to go mad? What’s the matter with you?” Well, that’s exactly what I wanted them to do every day. Actually, it’s what I hope you’ll do.
I’m Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about “Why It’s Good to Go M.A.D.”
Now, our word for today from the Word of God comes from Matthew 5, and verses 13 and 14, and Jesus is using two figures of speech here to describe His followers. As you listen to these, maybe you’ll ask the question I’ve asked, “What do they have in common?” Jesus says, “You are the salt of the earth.” And then in verse 14 He says, “You are the light of the world.”
Now in these verses, and you probably don’t realize this, Jesus is telling us to “go M.A.D.” You say, “Come on Ron, that’s not even in the original Greek. Where are you getting that?” Well, if you understand what M.A.D. stands for, it’s an acrostic. When I told my boys to “Go M.A.D.,” I was saying, “Guys, go make a difference.” That’s what a day in the life of a Jesus-follower is all about, and that’s what Jesus is saying here, “Go make a difference.” What does salt and light have in common? Not much. But they have one thing in common.
Take, for example, popcorn without salt. Blaaa! Or meat…usually meat requires some salt. It doesn’t take a lot. A little salt will change the environment you put it in. It will change the taste of the popcorn; it will change the taste of the meat. What about light? Well, once again, you take a little light into a big, dark room, and it will change the environment. And in both cases it doesn’t take much.
Now, Jesus is saying, “You’re my salt; you’re my light.” If you’re a Jesus-follower, you should be changing the people around you; changing the atmosphere around you. You should go M.A.D. You should make a difference. Now, most believers have a smaller purpose in life. Not necessarily to make a difference, maybe to make money, or make friends, or make an impression, or just make it through and survive as a Christian.
Jesus said, “You’re not here for any of those. You’re here to make a difference.” Well, are you? Do you change the flat flavor of the world around you, do you bring a smile, do you bring a positive spirit, do you bring some real love into your circle? Do you bring light to a dark office, a locker room, a classroom, a home?
Let Christ make a difference in you, then you can go make a difference in others. And the ultimate difference you can make in anyone’s life is to change their eternal address from hell to heaven. And that can only happen if you will let them know what you know about Jesus; if you’ll tell them how Jesus changed your life by what He did on the cross, and by being a living Savior who walked into your life. That’s making a difference that will last a hundred billion years.
There’s a lot more reasons for getting up in the morning, believe me, when you say, “Lord, help me make a difference for You today.” So, as you head out each morning, imagine Jesus at the front door calling out to you, “Go M.A.D. for Me today! Go make a difference!”
5 strong đź’Ş to honor Lazarus from F3 Memphis. We never met him and yet what happened towards the end of the beatdown was like he was with us.
Warm Up Michael Phelps IC Arm Circles IC
The Thang We did this in a parking lot exactly how it was described by Gus from F3 Memphis. A parking lot with lines between two grass islands. Called Point A and Point B.
At Point A 1 burpee. Bear Crawl to Point B. 2 burpees. Return via Bear Crawl to Point A and add a burpee. Escalate to 15 then deescalate to 1.
A great beatdown and one that we will do again.
We had Smiley stop by at the end of our beat down. He was a maintenance worker for the City of Monterey who used to wave or briefly chat with us as he was checking out the parking lot and beach area in the early mornings. 76 years old and he just retired. A Vietnam war veteran with 3 tours. He shared words of wisdom with us. “Tomorrow is never guaranteed.”
A bunch of HIM post on a beautiful Saturday morning at the circle to cash in a few burpees out of their account including an FNG and a long lost kotter
10 strong đź’Ş at Carmel High this morning. I swear someone has turned up the humidity in the area to a level I have not ever felt here in these parts. Great to see GRS back to join us after his IronMan training but it will be short lived as he’s off again in a little to train for more. Stone Colds M was on the track exercising. We picked up on of her exercises and I think it will become a regulars exercise in YHC’s routine.
Disclaimer given
Warm Up: Good Mornings Grady Corn IW Jump Rope – keep jumping rope until Stone Cold arrives. Who would have guessed that he decided to stop and take off both his shoes and put them back on… slowly… as if he knew we were waiting for him.
The Thang
Goal line – team up Person 1 – Rosalitas / Rowers Person 2 – bunny hop to 15, 3 merkins, run back First team to 100 Ros/Row calls itRepeat – Plank Jacks 4 count / Bunny hop & 3 squats First to 100 calls it
Run Lap
Repeat – SSH (4 count) / Bunny hop & Mike Tysons First to 200 calls it
Run Lap
Repeat – Absolutions / Run to 15 & 5 LBCs 4 count First to 100 calls it
Run Lap
Repeat – Burpees / Run to 15 & 5 hill billies 4 count First to 100 calls it
To bleachers: 10 dips, run to goal line, do the Stone Cold M move, run to bars – 10 aussie merkins
20 i/c Plank jacks Seal jacks Cherry picker Seal wave Windmill
The Thang
Mosey to tequila real
Decline Bolt 45 – feet 6 inches apart
Ranger merkin 15 Wide merkin 15 Merkin 15
Decline Bolt 45 – feet wide, toes pointing out
Diamond merkins 15 Wide merkins, hands out 15 Merkin 15
Mosey back to CHOP
3rd F Referenced the lame man being lowered down through the roof in front of Jesus by his friends so he could be healed. F3 is the friends lowering their friend down in front of Jesus. Remember to open up in the COT and on group me about struggles you are going through.
Soldier Toy 20 big boys 20 e2ks 60 lbcs
Number-A-Rama NAME-A-RAMA COT
17 HIM showed today: Semi, Ying Ying, Gump, Chattahoochee, Chappie, Quarto, Toy Soldier, Fireplex, Cabana, Whirlybird, Flatbottom, Looney Toons, Chauffer, Drago, MacDaddy, Drop Kick, FNG(Clipt)
