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9 PAX showed up at The Storm and were introduced to the partner with whom they would spend most of the upcoming 45 min. As far as I know, there were no complaints about the assigned partners.

A Kotter, “Spork”, made an appearance after about a 2-year hiatus. (He’s obviously been staying fit since his last F3 post, though, including a 4-month-long hike of the entire Appalachian Trail. He recently got back from that hike, and still kept up with the PAX just fine.)

Some PAX got in some EC ahead of time, which included some running and also NUOS training in prep for the August 6th-7th GrowRuck.

No FNGs, brief disclaimer.

WARM UP———————–

Alarm Clocks; SSH (IC), Morroccan Night Clubs (IC)

THE THANG——————–

Mosey to the school entrance

Partner Stations
Station 1 – Burpees / Squats
Station 2 – CrunchyFrogs / SSHs
Station 3 – StepUps / MtnClimbers
Station 4 – Dips / Merkins
At each station:
Partner 1 does 10 Reps of Exercise 1, while Partner 2 does 20 reps of Exercise 2, then switch exercises. Repeat with 9/18 reps, 8/16 reps, down to 1/2 reps.
After each station, partners Run together up the hill to the Roundabout on Lakewood Road and back to the school.
Proceed to the next Station until all Stations have been completed.

Rugby Sprints
From Lightpole to Lightpole in the parking lot. Sprint, Walk back. We got about 4 reps in.

The PAX circled up for Mary, and knocked out one exercise, while YHC got his phone from the car.

COT———————–

Pledge

Announcements
Rocky Branch Park in Belmont is (re)opening on August 7th after major construction and improvements. Check it out! Go yourself, with family, on a bike, for a run, or for a walk.

Prayer Requests
Turtleman Recovery
Jobseekers
Safety for those who are travelling

Link to Name-O-Rama on Twitter

Dirt took us out.

—Bubba Sparxxx

Cycle  Cycling

In honor of the Tour de France, which ended Sunday in Paris, 21 stages, covering over 2100 miles of bicycling through France, and a little bit of Spain.

21 exercises in cycles.

Flutters, LBC, leg raises, plank jacks, american hammer, mountain climbers, sit up twists, turtle crunchs, Freddie Mercury (bicycles), all without toys, then tabata work, 50 seconds work, 10 swap, chest press, overhead pulls, dying cockroach, dips, step up, squat thrust, moroccan night club, upright rows, nutcracker, squat, all weighted, then lunge or bear crawl around Aspiration to Flight.  Repeat cycle X2

Great work by PAX, Whoopee and Watts Up inspired.

6 PAX posted at Old School on a humid July 17th…EC was done by most like every week starting at 6:15am.  Come join the 3.5-4 mile fellowship mosey route before the beatdown.  The beatdown went like this:

Warm-Up:

SSH X 17 IC

Don Q’s X 17 IC

The Thang:

“The Payne Train” (modified) https://wodwell.com/wod/the-payne-train/

Since no pull-up bar is available we did burpees instead

Strong work by all!!  Let’s mosey….

We ran around town sight seeing and stopping every 400m for some exercises.  They were:

Museum – 10 Mike Tysons, 20 Big Boys, 30 Lunges

Pickle – 10 Merkins, 20 Calf Raises, 30 Flutters

Humphrey’s – 10 Shoulder Taps, 20 Hammers, 30 Squats

(On the way back we couldn’t pass up the opportunity for dips on the wall…17 IC were done)

Back to the AO – 10 CDD’s, 20 Bobby Hurley’s, 30 V-Ups

With time left, we did Triple Nickle plus a penny…Monkey Humpers and Moroccan Nightclubs

We finished with 22 for the VETS!!

Announcements:

Service Project : Hair brush/combs and mints/gum/cough drops

SFN Christmastown: Looking for some riders…get with me if you know someone that might be interested.

JJ5k

Prayers:

PAX going through struggles

MW’s dad

Our children

Uranus and family

Pappy’s family

Once again, strong work by all PAX that posted.  Thanks for the opportunity to lead!!  Until next time Pizza Man is OOOOUUUUUTTTTTTTT!!

Three of us out to get a few miles in this morning and to talk about the word of God.

I had the opportunity to share my experience I had at camp a few weeks ago and let me tell you it was great!

Our verse was 1 Samuel 16:7

But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

The lord sees our heart and wether it’s pure or not, wether it is for him or against him, wether it is full of love or full of sin. No matter what man sees or says the lord knows the true YOU! What I experienced at camp was an eye opener as a youth pastor, father and as a leader. These kids have been misled in many ways spiritually because of us leaders walking around covering up bondage. The kids need to see us in our weakness and in our trials of life, they need to see our reaction to the things that battle us daily. When we are weak he is strong! They need to see Christ working in you.

I talked to my youth group all week about different things but I was able to speak to the guys about being a man. Society has put a label on what a man is suppose to look like and these guys are using that label in forming their lives. Some of them think they’re not worthy or they’re not good enough at life so they’re not good enough for the lord which is FALSE! Some of them think they have to degrade women, drink alcohol and cuss to be more of a man which is also FALSE! What we need to do is love the lord with all our heart all of our soul and all of our minds! Nothing will makes us more of a man than loving Jesus Christ. Being a Godly man in every situation.

I told them that is a hard thing to do in the flesh but through Jesus Christ our savior we can have a pure heart, we can love deeply, we can allow him to move when we are weak!I told them Doing good isn’t good enough that doesn’t make you a Christian and it will not get you in to heaven. The only way is through acceptance of the blood of Jesus Christ!  Accepting Christ as our savior will start it all and it’ll be hard but it will be worth it all!

I ended up having two come to know Christ as their savior that week and I baptized them last week at service and it was awesome! No matter what the world says and no matter the label they put on you, know this… God knows your heart and He will always put you where you need to be as long as you believe in Him and stay available for his works!!

Where is your heart? God knows..

Prayer Request

Berea Baptist VBS Invite any kids that you know.

Announcements

Pizza man looking for volunteers on the Christmas town 5k
50 miler September 3rd and 4th taking up toys for the Dallas Christian ministry and money donations going to Not Alone foundation in fort Bragg
Sparky sign ups for snowbird

It was another great morning at Folsom. There was lots of work put in with a fellowship also being strong.

The story of YHC leading a crew that worked a wrestling charter was told.  It was good time with a great group of HIMS. Folsom knows their wrestling history that is for sure.

The Thang

• Starting at the corner and finishing at the same corner  at the tennis courts, mosey on the length of the tennis courts, lunge walk on the width. That is five reps Sarlacc
  • 3 Burpees 20 Squats
  • 3 Burpees 20 Merkins
  • 3 Burpees 20 Hillbillies
  • 3 Burpees 20 Mountain Climbers
  • 3 Burpees 20 Squats
• We are getting close to time,  so on the last rep we do half the length of the courts.
  • 3 Burpees 20 Merkins

Total:

• 90 Burpees
• 200 Squats
• 200 Merkins
• 100 Mountain Climbers
• 100 Hillbillies

Prayer Request

• Volt and Family
• Coworker of Sparky’s M
• Westside Family
• Sister Act and Family
• Uranus and Family
• Medicine Woman and Family

Some ran and others rucked and then we a  great 3rd F discussion.

(Un) Fortunately Bubba Sparks, Gavel, and Rebar took me up on the old “starting at 0600 but I’ll show up earlier if anyone wants” plan.  They suggested 0530 so I couldn’t fartsack and leave them hanging. We took off towards Martha’s then circled back to make sure no one showed up at 0600. We saw JJ a couple times getting an early run in before church. Buckeye and Sargento were also getting a few extra miles in. As my kids would say, Buckeye’s fit was bussin.  In other words, his outfit was sharp. He claimed to be “colorblind” but that was clearly not the issue. Sargento was sporting a cup of Joe when he arrived.  I don’t think I get runners. Between the pre-run coffee and “bussin fits” I just don’t get it. Maybe that is the point though…..Sometimes I think I could be a runner or that I am a “runner” but then stuff like this happens and it makes me reconsider. At least for now, I am a rucker. Initially this was out of necessity due to injuries, but I really think these are my people. Between the NUOS workouts and Coconut Horse and other rucking AOs , it just feels right………where was I? Back to the BB…..We had 4 ruckers, a bunch of runners, did a variety of routes, then ended with COT.

Q Source starts next week with Cowboy Ethics. Today we had a great discussion that lasted longer than expected. We have quoted Jocko so many times over the last few years. I found a list of “Powerful Jocko Willink Quotes to Motivate Leaders.” We ran through a few of these and pretty much everyone chimed in with something. If you search the above quote on the interwebs and take a look.

Thanks for another great morning-Whoopee

BTW…..has anyone seen Gastone?