Fitness, Fellowship, Faith

Author: Pastor Clever

Stairway to Heaven

Disclaimer then Warmups

  • 20 Moroccan Night Clubs, IC
  • 15 Imperial Walkers, IC
  • 15 SSH, IC
  • 5 Burpees, OYO

The Thang

No flag brought in the rain so a mosey up to the flag

oh wait surprise 3 stops on the way with…

  • Plank for six
  • 20 Merkins each stop
  • 20 Peter Parkers on 1st stop
  • 20 Mountain Climbers on 2nd Stop
  • 20 Plank Jacks on 3rd stop
  • 5 Burpees each stop

Pledge then Mosey down to Picnic Shelter as rain picks up with 3 stops on the way

  • Squats for six
  • 20 Squats each stop
  • 20 hillbillies on 1st stop
  • 20 Imperial Walkers on 2nd stop
  • 20 Toy Soldiers on 3rd stop
  • 5 Burpees each stop

Out of the rain and ready to climb some stairs!

  • 20 step ups each leg
  • 20 dips
  • 20 decline merkins
  • 20 Rocky Balboa’s (using picnic table benches)

Mosey up to the top of parking lot and back 2x Rinse and repeat, but replace decline merkins with Mike Tysons (thought I’d keep with the boxer theme)

Another Mosey in the parking lot start a Rinse and Repeat but time came after dips so 5 burpees before we finish!

COT – Prayer Requests

  • Montross’ Aunt
  • Gumby Unspoken

Priority #1 Stay Warm

7 HIMs showed up with the return of Pastor Clever in the sub freezing temps.  On the drive to Folsom I had one main thought I want to stay warm and I’m going to make sure no one is cold once we get going.

Warm Ups

  • 50 Side Straddle Hops IC (with comments of I’m not that cold)
  • 19 Imperial Walkers IC (I got asked if I’d been exercising in my absence and got off)
  • 20 Hillbilies IC
  • After comments about how we had a flag right here I decided we’d Mosey on up to the the park entrance so we’d make sure everyone was warm when we stopped to do the pledge, oh and 5 burpees before and after the pledge just to make sure we were all warm

Workout

  • Mosied over to the parking lot for some dirty 11’s
    • Mike Tysons & Bobbie Hurleys
    • It didn’t take long into the dirty 11’s for just about everyone to start shedding layers. Goal accomplished already!
  • Mosied back toward tennis courts and headed down to the lower lot stopped where the road creates a triangle for Dora 1-2-3 in partners up the hill with a burpee at the top
    • 100 Merkins
    • 200 LBC
    • 300 Squats
  • followed up the Dora 1-2-3 with some ab work
    • 25 Flutter Kicks IC
    • 20 Peter Parker IC
  • Mosied back toward start but took a stop under the street light for more core work
    • 20 more Flutter Kicks IC
    • 15 Peter Parker’s IC
    • Planks
    • 20 American Hammers IC
    • 15 Merkins IC
  • Mosied back to start and got back just in time to finish off with 10 Burpies OYO
    • Everyone was one layer less then they started and dripping sweat with temps still below freezing.  Priorty #1 met!

Prayer Requests

  • Montross’s Aunt facing breast cancer
  • Bedpan’s Wife
  • Sparky’s 2.0, Silas is sick
  • Prayer for wives and marriages

Carry Each Others Burdens, or just each other

Technically my first Q was a CoQ with Montross.  So I’ll call this my first Solo Q.

Warmups

10 – Moroccan Night Clubs IC

15 – Windmills IC

10 – Imperial walkers IC

10 Burpees OYO (this is where Sparky shows up and comments, “I should have waited another minute”)

 

Pledge

Mosey down the the lower lot for 4 corners.  We partnered up for this and each pair started in a different corner.  Purpose of the partners was simply to push each other and create healthy Mumble Chatter with you partner, which was intentional for the spiritual tie in to the workout.

C1 – 40 LBC, nur to C2

C2 – 30 Bobby Hurleys, karaoke to C3

C3 – 20 Freddie Mercurys, lunge walk to c4

C4 – 10 Burpees, karakoe to C1

We did a few rounds of this before regrouping for a Mosey up to the tennis courts.

At the tennis we stayed with our partners for a variation on an exercise Medicine Woman called last week.  P1 carried P2 piggie back to the 1st light pole then they switched for way back, meanwhile all other HIM’s did an exercise of that pairs choosing.  We almost completed three rounds of this before 6:15.

Exercises called included:

Side Straddle Hops, LBC’s, Hip Slappers, Burpees, Squats, Balls to the Wall, Alternating Shoulder Taps, Big Boys, and more Burpees

 

Back to the Parking Lot for CoT where I challenged the PAX with Galatians 6:2 which tells us to carry each others burdens, just like we carried each other.  All HIM’s present were encourage to specifically contact their partner for the workout sometime in the week to do just that in praying for each other.

Prayer Requests – Students and Teachers with school around the corner, each other, Gumby’s Father-in-Law

Closed out in Prayer.

In closing, I’m really enjoying F3 both for the workout and the brotherhood it helps create.  I’m honored to be a part of it and to get to Q this morning

Pastor Clever

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