Category: backblasts

QIC: VSquared

Date: 08/31/2019

PAX: Uncle Fester, Candu, She Shed, Money Ball, Peanuts, Song Bird, Head Gasket, Whittler, Free Candy, Prosciutto, Sunburn, Back Pew, Pink Panther, Peach

AO: Landfill

Conditions

Cool and Muggy.

COP

1. Warm-Up (@Circle of Sacrifice):
   1. Side Straddle Hop x50 (in cadence)
   2. ‘Mericans x40, hold 6 above ground until ALL finish.
   3. Slide into Updog, hold, slide into Downdog, hold, walk it back.
   4. Imperial Jumpers x30.
   5. Mosey to middle parking lot.

The Thang

Sometimes we end up where we think we started, thats how today will start. … One More Time:

1. Big hill first:
   1. Circuit 1:
      1. Bear Crawl Up, join last Pax on the way up;
      2. Indian Run around field;
      3. Mosey to 1/3 way down, do left side abyss ‘mericans;
      4. Mosey to 2/3 way down, do right side abyss ‘mericans;
   2. Circuit 2: Lunge Up, etc.
   3. Circuit 3: Burney Sanders Up, etc.
   4. Circuit 4: Prison Break Up, etc.
2. Pavilion Second:
   1. Dips x20;
   2. Squats x20;
   3. Decline Pushups x20;
   4. Jump Lunges x20 (each leg);
3. Little hill third:
   1. Circuit 1:
      1. Bear Crawl Up, join last Pax on the way up;
      2. No run;
      3. Mosey to 1/3 way down, do left side abyss ‘mericans;
      4. Mosey to 2/3 way down, do right side abyss ‘mericans;
   2. Circuit 2: Lunge Up, etc.
   3. Circuit 3: Burney Sanders Up, etc.
   4. Circuit 4: Prison Break Up, etc.
4. (!!Important!! Modify to reach for COT) Mosey back to upper parking lot where we started.
5. Circle of Mary, in which ## different HIM called out core based exercises, including mostly good Ol’ core burners.

COT

Here is the thing, sometimes when we get into life it can feel like we are just going back and forth. Sometimes you even end up right back where you started. The same car problem, the same job, the same argument with your manager, or kids, or spouse, the same struggle, the same fall, the same guilt and shame and loneliness. Seemingly we are back to where, if we are honest with ourselves, we feared to come back to ever again. Maybe its not the worst loop you have ever experienced, but the same nagging doubt returns of if we’ll ever move or if we’re stuck and doomed to repeat this same story of rise and falling, back and forth.

See, heres the thing though, your more complex then that, and just because your physical location there are so many more aspects of you to take into consideration. Holistically speaking your not only physical, your emotional, social, intellectual, social, and spiritual – to name a few aspects of the areas in which you have a significance presence and influence.

I just want to encourage you to take a larger view of yourself, to realize that there is more to the process then what is most tangible. For me that understanding has come through my faith and my study of what the Bible says. Its says I’m more then those tings around me in which I can feel so stuck and fearful, and thats because someone else, Jesus, broke the cycle of back and forth, life to death.

We are in the same place we started this morning, but your a little better for the trip we took in-between. Both the big trip we took and every little micro repetition you did, up and down, back and forth, that strained you and in the long run gave you a little more confidence, a little more faith that you’d make it up again. Not only that, but those with whom you have been with are a little better, too, and your both better then if you had taken that trip alone.

What I mean by that is not that you might have been able to workout like this on your own – but even that’s debatable – rather it’s that the other parts of you gained today, too, and we’re most surely assisted in their growth by the men around you.

So keep engaging. Keep showing up. Keep getting a little better. On top of helping yourself you also helping those around you; true to F3 focus your being built into and building leaders that will impact your community.

Mission of F3: Plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership.

Run off 5 main principles:

• Are free of charge
• Are open to all men
• Are held outdoors, rain or shine, heat or cold
• Are led by men who participate in the workout in a rotating fashion, with no training or certification necessary
• End with a Circle of Trust

BALL OF MAN: Congregation of two or more men in physical contact, usually (but not exclusively) in the prayer that terminates the COT. Abbr: BOM]

Moleskin

Some of my best conversations come after being stuck on never ending hills with you guys. Lets keep that up, ‘casue in the end they all do end and I’m at least a little better for it!

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