9 HIM posted on a brisk tuesday morning for a nice little workout launching from.the CHOP
Warm up- 20 SSH, 20 Smurfjacks, 20 Windmills, 20 MNC, 20 Merkins all IC
The Thang– Mosey over to the sign shop upon arrival to the sign shop started of with a toy soldier set 35 lbc, 25 e2ks, 15 big boys we then followed that up with walls of Jericho 7 exercises, 7 reps, 7 laps.
7 merkins, 7 diamonds,7 rangers ,7 wide arm,7 derkins, 7 hand release, 7 burgers each followed by a lap around the shop.
Finished up walls of Jericho and a little 3rd F time to hit the Abs. 20 flutter kicks, 15 Hello dollies, 10 Rosalitas all IC with no rest in between after that it was time to mosey back to the AO here we finished up with a round of Mary to old and been to long to remember who done what . After the beatdown time to pay the bank of Chappie with owed burpees from Febng and the crayon drive some HIM still owe.
3rd F A pastor once said in church if you can trust a puzzle company to make sure every piece is in the box to complete the puzzle then why cant you trust that every piece of your life is there for a reason.
Trust in the lord with all your heart and on your own understanding.
Black Snake run ½ mile to “Oh Hill No”. PAX split into teams of two. One PAX dragon crawls up the hill and crab walks down while the PAX at the base of the hill performs crab cakes OYO AMRAP. One PAX crawl bears up the hill and bear crawls down while the PAX at the bottom performs the Dancing Bear OYO AMRAP. One PAX boo-boo Bear crawls up the hill and duck walk down while the PAX at the bottom performs Gorilla Humpers OYO AMRAP.
F3 Message: See Below
Mosey back Black Snake style 1/2 mile
to the AO.
Count-O-Rama, Name-O-Rama, and the Circle of Trust. Prayers were offered for multiple needs within the attending PAX, but please keep all our HIM in your thoughts and prayers.
F3 Message 02/25/19 – Excerpts from the Ashes to Beauty Blog By Lily from California. June 13, 2014
To keep in theme of the beat-down using the animals or critters found in the exicon, Q found a teaching from a blog site from a young lady just identified as Lily that calls her blog “Ashes to Beauty”. She identified 10 different animals that we can learn spiritual lessons from….
“Deer – sure footed, graceful and beautiful. Sure-footedness comes from the firm foundation of God in our lives, and the simplicity of God’s way. Gracefulness and beauty comes when we walk in the Spirit. Our ‘spiritual’ feet like become like the feet of a deer; confident, able to gracefully make it through the obstacles of life. 32 It is God who arms me with strength and keeps my way secure. 33 He makes my feet like the feet of a deer; he causes me to stand on the heights. Psalms 18:32-33 (NIV)”
“Eagle – Soaring, faithful and unafraid of storms. 31 but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:31 (NIV)”
“Ants – Hardworking, purposeful, cooperative, foresightful. 6 Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! Proverb 6:6 (NIV)”
“Lamb and Sheep – Innocent, relational, knows the Shepherd’s voice. 27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. John 10:27 (NIV)”
“Camel – Persevering, steady pace, sojourner. 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:14 (NIV)”
“Locusts – Powerful when unified, initiative. 27 locusts have no king, yet they advance together in ranks; Proverbs 30:27 (NIV)”
“Dove – Innocent, Harmless, symbolic of peace. 16 “I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves. Matthew 10:16 (NIV)”
“Sparrow – Trusting, Joyful. 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]? Matthew 6:25-27 (NIV)”
“Ox – Patient, servant’as heart, knows his Master. 3 The ox knows its master, the donkey its owner’s manger, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Isaiah 1:3 (NIV)”
“Lion – Strong. bold, fearless, confident. One of Jesus’ titles is the Lion of Judah. The lion denotes great strength, power, majesty, the King of all! Lions are strong, powerful, fearless, bold and confident – qualities that are universally admired, and worthy of emulating. Jesus, is both the Lion and the Lamb. It is an interesting paradox, but it shows the perfect balance between Jesus’ power and authority, as the conquering King – yet at the same time His sacrificial love, goodness, kindness and compassion. 5 Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.” Revelation 5:5 (NIV)”
Ten HIM won that first battle this morning to post in the Gloom, only to wait for the 11th man—our missing Q. Semi? Semi, hello? You there? Guess not. And after all that sandbag chatter? Well, hang tough brother. Sometimes things happen that side-track us, keep us up all night, or whatever. We had your back and Bo Derek (10 of us) went right to work and put together what turned out to be a seriously great baton-pass beatdown. Keep the Weinke you had prepared, sounds like you had a good one planned! (BTW…we bust your chops because we love ya bro!)
YHC is not going to even going to come close to remembering all the pieces of the puzzle, but here’s most of the skinny:
Warm-O-Rama:
PAX circled up and took turns bringing some heat to get us limbered up and going. No, Chairman, you DID NOT forget your Q (though we should’ve just run with that and had some fun at your expense). Let’s see, we did… SSH, Windmill, Cherry Picker, Merkins, and Moroccan Night Clubs—all IC (log in and enter missed warm-up exercises here: _______________________)
The Thang:
PAX went to the wall and suffered some beatdown there at the hands of Waterfall, Leatherman, Chattahoochee, & who else?
Vanilla took it from there and mosey’d us short way around the block with a complement of Lt. Dan to first power pole and Bearcrawl from second power pole to Union St. Fireplex threw in the beloved Dragoncrawl to Chiropractor’s Sign then a semi-inverted Toy Soldier set on Chappie’s front lawn before bringing us back around. (YHC will have to invest in some no trespassing signs!) No recollection of what we did from there to the Grace Church sign? But from there Wildwing put a good pace on the mosey to continue around the block to the corners of Tobin & Mulberry Streets where PAX circled up again.
At Tobin & Mulberry we had a short 3rd Word from Doubtfire, sharing how God has been meeting him in some life circumstances through Psalm 46:10: “Be still and know that I am God.” (NASB) “Step out of the traffic! Take a long, loving look at Me, your High God.” (The Message). Supremely great counsel from the Word of God! “Sit down and shut up.” (The Doubtfire Paraphrase Version)
Wildwing added to the discussion by asking PAX to name what it is they do as soon as they get out of bed in the morning. Responses were—as any could imagine in a circle of men—interesting! But our brother brought us back around to the advice shared by Admiral William McRaven: “If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. If you make you bed every morning, you will have accomplished the first task of the day.” Check out the full video here:
https://youtu.be/U6OoCaGsz94
Fireplex, again, jumped into action to get us swigging from his legendary bottle of Bolt 45 before we realized we were down to 5 mike mikes. Get back Jack! Mosey return to the AO, traffic stops and all.
COT/BOM:
Announcements: Last day for FebNG (Thanks for the reminder, fellas!); 12th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade & 5k – Milton on 3/1
Prayers: Chairman’s 2.0
YHC is sure to have missed someone or something (he can’t even remember what he added to the beatdown), but it was an awesome exhibition of Sua sponte leadership at work in the absence of today’s Q (Cf. Lexicon). Every PAX took ownership of the situation and it turned out to be a pretty doggone good burner!
What’s missing? Look closely, you might come up with a Semi-good idea? Ha, ha! Q’sacking iss vaddy, vaddy bahd!
20 ssh. 15 windmills. 15 cherry pickers. butt kicks. high knees. L & R shuffle.
mosey to alley to do 11’s (almost) of Mike Tyson’s w/ a bear crawl in-between sets.
Mosey to Pine st. and do patriot run with last pax doing a burp before he sprints to front of line, all the way to the middle school.
3rd F. on scheduling/planning/calendar. Luke 14:28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
99’s- in front of middle school with sets of sidewalks, run to 1st side walk do 33 pike press, nur to start. run to second sidewalk do 33 bicep curls(each arm), nur to start. run to 3rd do 33 merkins, nur to start. new round, same format but do 33 leg raises, 33 reverse crunches and 33 big boys.
Overhead carried concrete blocks to the wall of burpees. Each PAX took the seat on the wall while holding his block. Starting on one side we took turns doing 3 burpees till each PAX did 3. Then we each did 2 burpees and then 1. We finished up with some windmills to stretch ourselves out.
The Thang #2
We overhead carried our blocks to the dentist parking lot for some more suck. Teamed up and did 75 curls, 75 irkins, and 75 squats, each with the blocks as a team. One PAX ran the length of the parking lot while the other did the exercise. Overhead carried our blocks back to the wall.
Next we did Mike Tysons and Overhead presses with the blocks. We started with 10 of each and descended to 6 of each. Overhead carried our blocks back to where they belong. Finished up with a few minutes of Mary. COR, NAR, COT
