Day: September 18, 2023

Good turnout this am-disclaimer, warmup then head to the short wall for some step ups then on to the thang at the bank-today it was gonna be Walls of Jericho. I went to the Snowbird Wilderness Outfitter BE STRONG men’s retreat this past weekend. I had heard about it before but finally was able to make it work-highly recommend you try to go. Look it up or as Sparky, Freight, Medicine Woman, and probably a few other Folsom regulars who may have gone or heard about it. We learned about Joshua and part of the discussion covered the story about the walls of Jericho so that was our thang today.

7 exercises with 7 reps each then mosey around the bank X 7 rounds. I tried to help teach the “how to count” thing to Fountainhead but he wasn’t having any of it. He came up with his own method and did just fine. At some point he will likely Q a workout and will survive I am sure.

Here are our 7 exercises: Merkins, Squats, Big Boys, Imperial Walkers, Mountain Climbers, LBCs, then…….(drumroll please)…….Jillian Michaels. The JM’s were a definite crowd pleaser. We got thru it, hit some more step ups, then finished with the COT. Along the way Roscoe entertained us with random info on Jillian Michaels and various appropriate and inappropriate jokes. I tried to give some background on what I learned this weekend about Joshua and suggest you read about Joshua when you have some time. Key words to focus on are obey and courage.

**HONORABLE MENTION: Watt’s Up posted with a bum knee, stayed the whole time and did his own thing in the parking lot at Pelican’s. What a great example-don’t let what you CANNOT do interfere what you CAN do.

thanks for the opportunity to lead-Whoopee

It was a good morning at Folsom with the avoidance of a skunk we started out with a basic warm up losing up the shoulders. After the warmup it was time for the best middle school game created. Dodgeball.

We had 10 balls of 5 different colors. If you got “out” you had to perform the exercises to get back into the game.

• Red Ball – 10 Merkins
• Blue Ball – 50 LBC’s
• Purple Ball – 50 Calve Raisers
• Yellow ball – 10 Hand Release Merkins
• Green Ball – 5 Burpees

Gearwrench was out of the gate with clever throws and insane acrobats. The HIM sacrificed his body out there. The clear MVP.

Stogie had his moment getting Gearwrench with the Burpee ball when he wasn’t looking. Gearwrench looked like Tommy from the Karate Kid when that ball from Stogie hit him.

The wise Oompa Loompa stood close to the net hiding in plain sight and getting people out left and right. We learned the Westside had no clue of the rules of dodgeball. He would slap the ball away with his hand not realizing he was out. He got the hang of it has time went on.

At halftime, we did a round Iron hulks counting up to 10 merkins. There was a nice burn in the shoulders now.

Back to the second half, Pony Boy was getting frustrated as although YHC is fat and slow, YHC does have hands.  The second half was much slower than the first. The quantity of exercises began to set in.  The burpee ball was the devil.

Once time was up, we fellowshipped back to the flag for COT and pledge.

Prayer Request

• Hall Family
• Huck
• Turtleman
• Norwood
• Unspoken Request

Big Pappy

9 HIM’s either ran, ran/ruck, walked this morning.

Shared a short message on Fearless Faith

COT:

2nd F lunch at Pita Wheel Gastonia on Wed 9/20

Prayer request:

Jackson Hall

Norwood

Turtle man

Huck

Brillo

3 of us did work which was a lot of picking cherries