Tag: Boneyard

QIC: VSquared

Date: 06/04/2019

PAX: Candu, She Shed, Iron Butt, Whoopi, Count Down

AO: The Boneyard

Conditions

Cool and Inviting

COP

1. Side Straddle Hop x30 (last x10 Double time)
2. Willie Mays Hayes x10
3. Rise & Shine Yoga Sequence (via Vila)
   1. Forward fold x10
   2. Upward dog x10
   3. Downward dog x10
4. Imperial Walkers x20 
5. Merican’ x40
6. Mosey around baseball diamond then to little tennis courts while doing some high knees and butt kickers. 

The Thang

I have been needing to get back to my basics over the last several years and try to regain some long overlooked footing, so that’s what we are going to be doing this morning!

Back to the Basics:

!!Can be run by individuals or in pairs who keep cadence with one another.

!! HOLD GOOD FORM.

!! Start with high number reps and work backwards.

1. Round 1:
   1. Legs (Tennis Court):
      1. Bipolar Burnie-sides: sprint to line, burnie back, sprint to next line, burnie back … 4 lines.
      2. Lunge back to opposite side when complete.
      3. Imperial Hoppers x20
      4. Squats x20
   2. Arms (Mini Workout Station):
      1. Pull Ups x20 (get a friend if you need assistance)
      2. ‘Mercan’s x20
      3. Straight Dips x20
      4. Sitting Butterfly Machine x20
   3. Mosey to 1.5 laps to next place and hold plank if its for arms or Al Gore if its for legs.
2. Round 2: 3 lines and 15 each exercise.
3. (Did not get to) Round 3: 2 lines and 10 each exercise.
4. (Did not get to) Round 4: 1 line and 5 each exercise.
5. Mary: mosey back to Circle and call out other men to lead. We got in ____ different sets of core exercises this morning!

COT

Getting back to the basics is something I have never wanted to do; I just want to keep advancing and seeing and showing how adept and in control of my surroundings I am. But the older I get the more I’m learning that Jesus comments about childlike faith were serious, and the more I’m coming to enjoy getting back to the basics.

The process we go through day in and day out, year in and year out is really rather simple isn’t it; crash/discipline, repent, remember, rise. Its what is sometimes referred to as sanctification, and what we know here at F3 as getting better. It’s why we are out here every morning.

That said, we are each unique, and to some extent have our own basics that we must get back to – in some case without ever really coming from those places to start. I know that in my case despite being very much like my Dad who defined the culture of our family and much of its structured operation there are ways that I’m different and am having to learn a path that was never laid out or displayed for me. 

So too will you have to do this in various areas of your life. Where do you really thrive; not just succeed but find joy in your investment? Where do you rest? How do you love and enjoy being loved on? Digging at the answers to these questions and many more provide us with a healthy life balance based on greater knowledge of ourselves that allows for deepened intimacy with our Greater Power those around us and even ourselves.

But there are also general means of getting better, or means of grace as my church calls them – since we and I believe that our deepest issues are ones that only our Greater Power can address and provide ways to grow through. 

These means as outlines by my faith and Greater Power are: the book He left us, the Bible; the sacraments of baptism and the Lord’s supper, or the public declaration of our faith and the regular confession of sin and acceptance of grace; and prayer, or simply intentionally talking with Him.

So what are you means of getting better both in general and personally. What cadence to life have you found that leaves you learning and loving well? I want to challenge you think about that today and keep getting better.

Moleskin

I did enjoy this smaller group of HIM, and its exactly what I needed to shake off a shitty Monday.

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QIC: VSquared

Date: 05/14/2019

PAX: Iron Butt, Sunburn, Durk, Vila, Ducktales, She Shed

AO: Boneyard

Conditions

Nipply

COP

Warm Up:

1. Imperial walker x30
2. Willie Mays Hayes x12
3. Rise & Shine Yoga Sequence (via Vila)
   1. Forward fold x12
   2. Downward dog x12
   3. Upward dog x12
4. Side startle hop x50 (last x10 double time)
5. Mosey around baseball diamond then to little workout place.

The Thang

The Murph Scares Me; So Let’s Get Prepared
The Simple(r) Mini Murph
(A Dora based exercise between a group of 3 Pax)

1. One Pax will run around the playground area.
2. A second Pax will be doing as many LBCs as possible in during that lap
3. The final Pax will be pumping out as many of the following exercises as possible to reach the allotted number of each. The Pax will tally their numbers to get there.
   1. Pull Ups (x100)
   2. Merican’s (Push Ups)(x200)
   3. Squats (x300)(modify up by doing them on the wobbly base)
4. Mary: mosey back to Circle and call out other men to lead. We got in six different sets of core excercises this morning!

COT

Because some things are worth preparing for God gave us fear.

It’s really quite simple. We wouldn’t do shit unless we saw something in it for us. This helps us survive in many cases, but can also prove to be a barrier to addressing areas of our lives that are unhealthy. Fear is produced by various things that trigger us emotionally and we have a fight, flight, or hide choice at that moment. There are undoubtedly times to all of those responses, but fear is particularly notorious for giving us reason to run when we should fight, or try to engage something when we really need to just sit there in it and let it pass.

Identify it, examine it and the effect it has on you (repeat if necessary), seek the best way you can respond to that situation that is triggering you and what would actually motivate you to action, and then do it. This sentence long process can and will take a lifetime of slowly learning one thing then another about our fearful hearts and unlearning and learning various aspects of truth and how it applies to our lives. This is the process we must fall in love with, though until heaven will always find our selfish finite selves in tension with.

The ultimate place we see this need for becoming connected to the process is in our sanctification from a sinful heart and flesh, and the motivation that drives it is found in the gospel that both makes it possible by propitiation and imputation (look those words up!). That one man had enough empathy and fear for another to whom He owed nothing that He gave his life for that other men – for all other men. We are called to fear that which we had to be made holy before and that our sinful bodies are not capable of not sinning and disappointing our great and merciful God.

So what we do out here is small, but we come together to fight fears of guilt, shame, loneliness, sadness, bad health – all of these and more have driven us to prepare by attendance; by doing the hardest part of getting out of the bed each morning we work out. And that sets the precedence for the rest of our day(s). May we not operate without fear, for where would any motivation be found!? Get to know yourself, and let us interact with fear well as we come away with a motivation that won’t as easily falter.

Cheers to a fear-filled day – HIM!

Moleskin

Don’t challenge the old guys to a pull-up contest. Damn.

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