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Dallas Sunrise

Great Weather this morning,

2nd F coming up next Wednesday at Bubbas 33

Prayers for the Hall family, Gumby’s Mom and my Friend Jason AKA (my little pony) he posted one time) he is currently in the hospital.

The Bedpan is full

 

Round 11’s

WARMUP: Imperial Walkers, SSH, Mountain Climbers, Windmills, Hillbilly Walkers, Moroccan Nigh Clubs, Overhead Claps
THE THANG: Mosey to the horse track stopping at each light pole for escalating burpees, then we did a Triple Nickle on the concrete seats with 5 Derkins at the bottom, Box Jumps up to the top, and Big Boys at the top.
Then we went out to the track to do 11’s around the track with  Squats on this side and Mike Tyson’s on the far side the run continued around the track instead of back and forth in a straight line so this round of 11’s made for about 1.5 miles!
We had time to run back the Triple Nickle this time with Inclined Merkins at the bottom and Big Boys at the top.
We headed back to COT with some time for Mary.
MARY: LBCs, Flutters, Box Cutters, Freddies, and American Hammers
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: BP’s friend Jason, Westsides family, Family of a man shot and killed yesterday (Kapowski knows them)

FRC

We pledged We ran.  While running, the following questions were entertained:

  1. Why did God allow Ohio to happen? Was it really part of his original plan?
  2. Why doesn’t FRC have a shovel flag?  And if you don’t have a shovel flag at a workout, does the workout still count?
  3. Is Sargento’s hamstring the new Medicine Woman’s leg?

Announcements

  1. 2 event sometime during lunch when today’s FRC members can’t go
  2. F2 tonight south of I-85 and north of I-85
  3. Convergence coming up soon somewhere

Prayer Requests

  1. Turtleman’s Family

We prayed

We left

 

 

Taking it to the streets

Saturday was a wonderful day,

7am time for work,

Warm up then mosey to several stop signs and at each one we did

5merkins, 10 Nolan Rhynes, 15 seal jacks. After about 1 1/2 miles of that we made it back to do some 11s

Hill Billy Squats, and Imperial Walker squats.

The Beast

While the music was set to some good Rock and a volume of if its to loud your to old we tried something new.

The Beast

3 exercises each exercise 6x.  1. Lunges, Peter Parkers, Parker Peters.

3 sets each containing 3 exercises 6 times each. Thus The Beast 666.

Finishing with some Tabata, 10 exercises 45 on 15 rest do all 10 then take a lap.

We finished strong and got in a few miles with some hard werk.

Prayer Request:

Gumbys Mom.

 

The Bed Pan is full!

 

“The Fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live”

The Coconut had a nice group of two runners (Winehouse and Captain Steubing) one early bird runner/rucker (Whoopee), four ruckers (Stagecoach, Betamax, Short Sale, Hunchback (and Scrat)), and one runner/walker (YHC).

We talked about Betamax’s trip out west where his rental van had 4 miles on it when he picked it up and over 2500 (or was it 3500?) miles when he turned it in.

As we were discussing Bison and beavers, we saw an actual bird of prey attack another bird in the front yard of a home and it was awesome.  #whenanimalsattack

We returned for Q-Source and were joined by Maybelline.  Hunchback’s ask for the Zamboni driver to not clean the floors of the Teeter on Sundays at 0730 lasted about two weeks.  Last week the dude cranked it up at 0745 and this week he was full on no mufflers at 0730.  Brutal.

The current Q-Source book is John Maxwell’s “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership” and we covered chapter 9.  (Thanks to Whoopee for letting me borrow the leader’s copy) The lesson was on the Law of Magnetism.  “Birds of a feather flock together”.  Who you are is who you attract.  People tend to attract others of the same age, attitude, background, values, energy, giftedness, and leadership ability.  If you are a scoundrel, you will likely attract other scoundrels.  Don’t be a scoundrel.  People who are 7’s in leadership will likely attract 5 and 6’s instead of 2’s and 3’s.

We also talked about the Scorpions album “Animal Magnetism” and Hunchback shared a podcast on whether the CIA wrote the lyrics to the Scorpion’s song, “Wind of Change” to help take down the Soviet Union.  (I am on episode 3 currently)

Also, I reminded the former WWF fans that Lord Alfred Hayes used to advertise for Coty Wild Musk cologne.  “Let the essence of animal attraction work for you”.

Prayers for Turtleman’s family and John Angell.

Praise for Maybelline’s mom’s test coming back “good to go!”

 

Reminder Hunchback will receive clown car folks from First Presbyterian tonight at 6PM to clown car to McLean for Turtleman’s visitation.  Great work this morning at the convergence led by Gastone and great words by Gastone, Short Sale, and Whoopee reminding us of the kind of man Turtleman was and where he is now (Heaven).  Turtleman’s son William joined us for the workout.  He is now known as Doogie (aka Doogie Howser, MD).

Make every day count.  You don’t know when or what your future holds so live every day like it matters.

“Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.

– Seneca. On The Shortness of Life

 

Roscoe

Annihilation

Nice little group of Pax this morning at Gashouse. 10 of us joined up and got annihilated together 😮‍💨 After a quick warmup with the pain lab gang we split off to do a real man’s workout. We partnered up and did a little “catch me if you can” to the church down the street. One Pax did 5 jungle boy squats while the other moseyed to the destination. Pax would catch their partner and switch until we got to the back of the church parking lot. Once we arrived Pax found a nice set of stairs waiting for them. We partnered up and did some B.O.M.B.S. (50 Burpees, 100 overhand claps, 150 merkins, 200 big boys, & 250 squats). One partner ran up the stairs while the other began the reps. We ran and exercised Dora style until all reps were complete.  Next we moseyed back down to the library where agility ladders were waiting. We ran through a handful of drills (2sets each).

single step, double step, In&Out, In&Out squats, scissors, plank walk, knee tucks, & plank walks w/diamond merkins.

After the introduction to the ladder drills we partnered back up and did a Dora style workout with one Pax hitting more ladder drills and the other jogging down to the handrails for some inverted pull ups. We did a set of 20, 15, & 10 before our time ran out. We were all sucking air at this point so we decided to fellowship mosey back to the Museum. Everyone but Flintstone who ran because he only has one mode. “Beast Mode” 💪🏽

 

Concluded COT & Name O Rama w/the pain lab crew.

The 12 Disciples

There was only 6 of us this beautiful morning, but we definitely out in that work 💪🏽

Here’s the Winki 😉

“The 12 Disciples”

(This circuit work out is meant to make you look for Jesus and beg for mercy)

12 kettlebell exercises. 3 per round. Start with 10 reps. Increase reps by 5 each round. In between rounds we jog to the playground max out on pull ups and jog back. (Option to walk small lap around parking lot)

Curls
Upright rows
Single Arm rows

Skull Crushers
Chest press
OH Tricep Ex

Curb Squats
Calve Raises
Lunge Squats

Double crunches
LBC’s

Big Boys

The greatest movie songs of all time

Just 30 minutes before the workout, I asked Hunchback to create a playlist to facilitate discussion about essential movies for our kids to see.  The plan worked well as mumblechatter ranged from “What movie is this one from?” to the value of real estate agents and do they really earn their commissions?

After the pledge and Hei Hei’s warmup, we did 3 circuits of exercises, 45 seconds each followed by 15 seconds rest to mix in with the mumblechatter:
Set 1 (repeat 3x) = Deadlifts, Overhead presses, Pullovers, Star crunches, Flutter kicks
Set 2 (repeat 3x) = Swings, Hand-release merkins, Rows, Big boys, Reverse crunches
Set 3 (repeat 3x) = Step-ups (or squats), Curls, Babymakers, American hammers, Scissor kicks

With 3 minutes to go, we put away coupons and planked til the end.

I’ve been away a lot over the past 3 weeks, so this was a great way to start a Saturday with a lively group of HIM’s.  Thanks for the privilege to lead!

Announcements:  Convergence to honor Turtleman Monday 0530 at “Neverland”/Sandlot; F3 dads at Martha Rivers next Saturday 6/15 at 0700; check Slack for other stuff going on.

Several prayer requests I can’t recall; Hei Hei took us out.

Ruck, Run and Work to Improve Every Day

Eight men met this morning at Member’s Only to ruck and run and then use Q Source to discuss with intentionality how to become better men and better members of our family and community. We discussed how to focus our efforts on our strengths, but admit the need to press ourselves to exceed our comfort zone, for example in my case emerging from the middle of the pack to act as Q. Thanks to all the men of F3 who encourage me to step out there to contribute and to Lead.

Announcements:

Don’t forget Monday 10 June is Convergence for Turtleman at Sandlot/Martha Rivers, all other AOs are closed, details elsewhere in Slack. Prayers for the Barnes family as they deal with Turtleman’s passing.

F3 Dad’s June 15 at Martha Rivers.

Prayers Eh Y’all’s MIL serious surgery Thursday.

Travels for safe travel for Alma Mater’s family , additionally same for Anchorman and Gavel and their families.

Sargento injury recovery

Praises for multiple high school graduations

 

Crossroads 6/9/24

A diverse crowd posted at Crossroads this morning. We had runners. We had ruckers. We had riders. It was a beautiful day for any activity outside this morning.

YHC led the Q Source discussion on Positive Habit Transfer. YHC had to compete with Valerie Bertinelli cooking on food network for the attention of the PAX. Ingles has installed new TVs in the “lounge area”, so it’s like moths drawn to a front porch light bulb in the evening. Anyway, the discussion varied from Def Leppard’s “Little Debbie snack drawer” at his house to Blart not being able to smoke a Marlboro red left-handed. If you usually post at Crossroads for Q Source, you need to. It’s akin to a redneck version of Rowan and Martin’s laugh-in, but with a topic for discussion.

Announcements:

  • 6/10 – Convergence at Neverland (Martha Rivers Park) to remember our Brother, Turtleman
  • 6/19 – 2nd F lunch at Bubbas in Gastonia
  • F3 Dads workout coming up soon

Prayer Requests:

  • Turtleman’s Family
  • Gumby’s mother
  • The Families of the two 7 year old girls who passed away

YHC took us out in prayer

L8R SK8RS,

Slaw

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