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Frisbee golf
On this nice foggy morning green disc flew through the air. Following behind were 11 HIM completing exercises to the ‘hole’ or at the ‘hole’ depending on what the Q called out. 9 holes were played with a bonus hole to finish the morning. Exercise completed were: Dan Lt. Merkins Nur Side shuffle both directions Burpees Toy soldier set 25,15,10 Lbcs Lt. Dan Bonus – bear crawl
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Intimacy As men we usually think of sex when we hear that word. But there are other forms of intimacy: Intellectual Recreational Spiritual Financial Emotional Physical I have been listening to a podcast called One Extraordinary Marriage. Toni and Alisia wrote a book, Stripped Down, 13 keys to unlocking intimacy in your marriage. It has opened my eyes that I need to work on other areas of intimacy with my wife. These intimacies don’t just apply to marriage, they can be used in your everyday interactions. Take F3 for an example, we come together as a band of brothers for Spiritual, Emotional, Recreational, Intellectual, and Physical intimacy. Especially in the times we are in we need this group of brothers!
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11 HIM showed today: Semi, Fireplex, Chattahoochee, Quarto, Ruxpin, Woodstock, Struedel, Whirlybird, and welcome back Toad, Summit, and Toy Soldier
6 strong 💪 this morning went for a run to the aquarium. Weather was beautiful – 40’s but was not cold at all. A lot of people out running on the trail and we joined them. Warm-up was quick, and Grappler came in hot at the end of the warmup to join us for the run. Pace to the aquarium was faster than the last time we did this. We got to the aquarium at 618am did some squats and took off back for the AO. It was great.
Warmup: Sun Gods Tea Pots Cherry Pickers
The thang: Run to aquarium Stop a few times for some SSH Stop to check out the inspiration for the F3 Monterey logo At aquarium check out where the RV rammed the wall (it’s boarded up now.) Squats IC with some Al Gores Run back to beach Wall sits and planks Mosey back to AO start, LBCs to finish it up
Bolt 45’s – IC (4 Count) – 15 squats to halfway down. 15 squats halfway to full down. 15 full squats.
Windmills – 20 IC
Mosey .5 miles to Oh Hill No
The Thang
The Super Sheldon Cooper on old “Sam Hill” with a few of my friendly animals – Complete 10 Burpees, 10 Squats, 10 Merkins & 10 Big Boys. Nur up the hill and mosey down and complete 9 Burpees, 9 Squats, 9 Merkins, & 9 Big Boys. Dragon Crawl up & mosey down and complete 8 Burpees, 8 Squats, 8 Merkins, & 8 Big Boys. Nur up the hill and mosey down and complete 7 Burpees, 7 Squats, 7 Merkins, & 7 Big Boys. Crawl Bear up & Bear Crawl down and complete 6 Burpees, 6 Squats, 6 Merkins & 6 Big Boys.
Time did not allow us to finish, but below are the remaining evolutions as planned if you want to make your own trip back to Oh Hill No.
Nur up the hill and mosey down and complete 5 Burpees, 5 Squats, 5 Merkins, & 5 Big Boys. Inch Worm up the hill and mosey down and complete 4 Burpees, 4 Squats, 4 Merkins, & 4 Big Boys. Nur up the hill and mosey down and complete 3 Burpees, 3 Squats, 3 Merkins, & 3 Big Boys. Boo Boo Bear Crawl up the hill and mosey down and complete 2 Burpees, 2 Squats, 2 Merkins, & 2 Big Boys. Nur up the hill and mosey down and complete 1 Burpee, 1 Squat, 1 Merkin, & 1 Big Boy.
Mosey .5 miles back to CHOP
F3 Message
Count-O-Rama, Name-O-Rama, and the Circle of Trust. Please keep all our HIM in your thoughts and prayers
I’ve lost my shamrock tie, and I’m bummed. Of course, everyone else is thrilled. I loved wearing it for St. Patrick’s Day every year to celebrate the part of me that’s Irish. In spite of the fact that people insensitively described the color as “barf green.” It doesn’t seem that anyone’s missing it but me.
I’m not sure what old St. Pat would make of the holiday named for him – pouring green dye into the Chicago River and parades full of green-dressed celebrants. I do know that Patrick – who’s pretty much obscured by the festivities – was quite a guy with quite a story.
His first trip to Ireland wasn’t his choice. He was 14 and got kidnapped and carried off to Ireland where he became a sheep-tendin’, pig-sloppin’ slave. But while he was there, he realized that Jesus died to forgive his sins, and he put his trust in Him to do just that. Patrick finally escaped and got back home to Britain where he, presumably, swore he’d never wear anything green!
But his second trip was his choice. A choice that should give a lot of us something to think about.
As Patrick told it, he was asleep one night when he saw Victor, his former Irish captor, in a vision. He “appeared to have come from Ireland with an unlimited number of letters.” Patrick said that the letters seemed to shout with one voice: “We ask you, holy boy, come and walk once more among us.” He “was cut to heart and could read no more.”
And Patrick did walk among them. Spreading the Good News about Jesus that had changed his life. He introduced thousands of Irishmen to Jesus. Patrick reflected on the legacy of his life this way: “I am greatly a debtor to God who hath vouchsafed me such great grace that many people by my means should be born again to God.”
People in heaven. That’s St. Patrick’s ultimate legacy. It’s like the Apostle Paul said about some folks he’d introduced to Jesus: “What is our hope, our joy, or the crown in which we will glory in the presence of the Lord Jesus when He comes? Is it not you? Indeed, you are our glory and joy” (1 Thessalonians 2:19-20).
Which raises the question all of us Jesus-followers should be asking: “Who will be in heaven, because of me?”
God let Patrick know He was counting on him to bring Jesus to people he had “walked among.” Which raises another question: “Who are my ‘walk among them’ people?” They’re the folks who are part of the daily network and experiences of my life. We’ve all got them – the ones who God is counting on us to rescue. He says if “you do not speak out…I will hold you accountable for his blood” (Ezekiel 33:8). Why? Because I knew what that person needed to know to get to heaven – and never told them.
We don’t need a vision. We’ve got orders. “You will be my witnesses, telling people about Me” (Acts 1:8).
Patrick was biographically credentialed to tell the Irish about Jesus. His life had apparently been crafted by God to make him a man who understood them, who they would listen to because of what he had experienced. But that’s not just true of the “shamrock saint.” Every Jesus-follower has been biographically credentialed to share Jesus with folks. Because of what you’ve experienced. Your personal story is your point of entry to ultimately tell them how His story changed your story forever.
So you may be able to celebrate “that many people by my means” were “born again to God.”
Patrick was in a very hard place when he made the greatest discovery of his life – a personal relationship with Jesus. By giving his life to Jesus, he stepped into a greatness he could have never otherwise imagined. It may be that the hard place you’re in right now is where you’ll finally find what you’ve spent your whole life looking for – that love relationship with Jesus Christ. If you want to know how to get started with Him, I encourage you to go to our website, YoursForLife.net, and step into God’s great plan for your life.
43 degrees but it felt much warmer. Pax of 5 for much of the same workout from Monday. But today was different. Today we had Detective along to crush all the ab workouts and call the exercises every time.
Disclaimer given
Warm up: Tea Pots Cherry Pickers Hill Billies
The Thang: Run to parking garage and up the stairs to the top First one calls it (or rather Detective calls it:) 100 LBC 100 flutter kicks 100 leg lifts 50 double tap Freddie’s / then switch legs 100 reverse crunch 100 e2k 50 each leg 50 rowers
Run to beach. Wall sits and low plank. Run home, plank to finish it out.
Much of this beatdown came from a prior backblast on this Mustard Seeds site.
4 strong 💪 this morning. Weather was clear and a little chilly – temperatures in the 40’s. We are back to dark skies in the morning due to the time change over the weekend. YHC was almost late to Q the workout pulling in with about 1 minute to spare.
Warm up: Tea Pots & Cherry Pickers… that’s it… time to mosey.
The Thang: Run to the municipal parking garage. Run to the top up all the ramps. Pair up. One pax does hello dollies, the other does feel the Bern up the ramp, does 10 squats, runs back. Switch places. First team to 200 hello dollies calls it. Repeat for 300 LBCs. Repeat for 400 Mtn. Climbers Run down the stairs of parking garage, then back up. Run down the other stairs, back up, and down again. Run to beach, some all sits & planks. Great to look at the horizon as the sun begins to rise.
Pax: Beach, Sharkbait, Cleveland Rocks, DPR, Potato Chip, Grappler
Q: Beach
Disclaimer Given
Warm up: (all in cadence) Side Straddle Hops, Hillbillies, Imperial Walkers, Windmills, Cherry Pickers, Copperhead Squats
The Thang:
1. Bat Wings IC = Forward arm circles, Reverse arm circles, Seal claps, Overhead claps (with hold after each, until Q notices grimacing on Pax’s faces)
2. Pair off into partners for BOMBS=Each pair completes 50 burpees, 100 overhead claps, 150 merkins, 200 big boy situps, 250 squats– one partner lunge walks to the curb while the other exercises – First pair to complete triggers recovery.
An amazing day out. No gloom here. Mid fifties and sunny.
We borrowed F3 Hampton Roads idea of a special log to commemorate a members 50th post. They call their’s Lady Glitter Sparkels. The premise is that if the post hits the ground during the beat down everyone does 5 burpees.
Ceremony to introduce Lady Glitter Sparkles to the Pax and D.P.R. Pax immediately renamed her “Big Johnson.”
1 tip: You are the Q (or the leader) of the post and it’s never truly “On your Own” with F3.
The Thang: Run to top of hill – SSH until LGS arrives Run to corner – Al Gore until LGS arrives Run to curbs – Plank until LGS arrives At Curbs: 10 Hello Dollies / 10 Mike Tysons (Bench press LGS?) then 9,8,7…. At Curb: 10 rowers (leg raises with LGS?) / 10 Arm Presses while wall sitting (Curls for the Girls with LGS?) At Curb: 10 LBCs (LBCs with LGS) / 10 Squats…. (partner up – squats with LGS – one holds each end?) Run to mid school – SSH while wait for LGS Run to hill by football field – do a few Bernie Sanders back up the hill. Run to field
Goal line – partner up 1 pax Kareokes to 30 does 10 shoulder taps (runs back) while other pax does 1000 dying cock roaches – first team calls it.
Credit goes to D.P.R. who did not let BJ hit the ground once during the beatdown.
PAX complete 100 of an exercise first one done hollers DONE PAX bear crawl to other side of parking lot complete 100 of another exercise and crawl bear back. Rinse and repeat.
100 LBC
100 flutterkicks
100 leg lifts
100 double tap Freddie’s
100 reverse crunch
100 e2k 50 each leg
100 lower case outlaws
100 over head press
F3 MESSAGE
Shadrach meesach and abenda nego were thrown into a fire for not bowing down and praying to the king and they lived and didn’t even smell like smoke. David as a little Shepard boy defeated a Giant with a sling and a rock! Daniel was alive in the morning when he was thrown into the lions den, Moses split the red sea when the Israelites were facing rough seas ahead and certain death from behind, Noah built an ark and lived thru a flood that killed every living thing on the earth. Elijah challenged and defeated 450 baal profits on Mt Carmel. What do all of these have in common FAITH! We will certainly face challenges in our time here on earth. Every single one of us will face difficulty, marriage difficulty, work problems,, money problems. It may seem like you are at the end of your rope but in His own words Jesus taught us that if we believe and have faith as small as a mustard seed we could move mountains! Then there is the greatest miracle in the Bible, Jesus, for all of humanity, willingly stretched out his hands and was killed on a Cross, thrown into a cave and rose from the dead 3 days later. he promised us if we believe in him he has prepared a place for us and we will be with him in heaven. Have faith!, So gentlemen think of it like this, what is 100 years of suffering compared to an eternity in Heaven? Stand strong in faith, act like men, Believe in Jesus.
7 strong 💪 this morning. Great weather. 50 degrees or so. Sun is coming up quick these days so most of the beatdown is done in daylight. Fishing boats were out well before us – lights blasting the bay as they gathered their take.
All that in 10 minutes. YHC yelled out that’s 155 pushups in 10 minutes to which Sharkbait corrected me that is was actually 110. As Dredd said in the hit documentary “300” produced by YHC and edited in part by Burgundy, Sharkbait is a merkin master so no pulling the wool over his eyes on the merkin count!
Mosey to lot:
Bear Crawl, 20 groiners, bear crawl back, plank /Pick up Six
Crab Walk, 30 groiners, bear crawl back, plank /Pick up Six
Crawl Bear, 40 groiners, bear crawl back, plank /Pick up Six
YHC didn’t have anything else planned except 6 minutes of mary but there was now 20 minutes left! What to do!?!?!?!
