Category: Backblast (Page 420 of 904)

7 of us men met for the word at The sword. Ball joint rolled in and said he really didn’t want to be there. He wanted to be at the sandlot! What the heck man!! He wanted to run but not with me or Hacksaw so he ran with me anyways and I pushed him for 3.1 miles! Ball joint crushed it and is looking like he’s in for a half marathon along with sparky, Wichita, Seuss, Hacksaw, Westside and more!

Once all the hammers returned from hammering we went straight into the word! The best part!! We talked about contentment in Christ Jesus. See the world and the flesh find contentment only in temporary things, things that are corruptible. It’s something we as believers in Christ have to battle DAILY! We have to renew our minds daily from being content in worldly pleasures. The true peace of God only comes when we are fully content in Him. When nothing else is priority over His ways.

Read Philippians 4:4-7 and hear how it says not to be anxious about anything but let EVERYTHING be known to God through prayer and supplication! The good, the bad has to be brought to the lord with THANKSGIVING it says! Wow! How hard is that? The great thing is when we do take those things to the lord it says the His peace that surpasses ALL understanding will guard our hearts and our minds! Amen!

Through doing this and making our situations known to God through prayer and supplication  we are able to stand on the greatest thing. His truth and His promises!! Which is told to us in verses 8-9 and it ends with The peace of God will be with YOU! Amen!

No matter what the world says be content in Jesus Christ and His promises! And know this Jesus loves you 100%

Thank you men for allowing me to lead and share Gods word with you!

Round Up

About a million PAX gathered at the entrance to Stowe Park today for the three different workouts that were taking place in Belmont today. This is what happened…

Once we went our different directions, those doing the Yank and Bunker ended up at the Pit to do our warmup. Dirt led the portion and after about 100 SSHs we wondered out loud if it was his birthday or something. That’s when ole mild mannered Dirt started disrobing, only to reveal the F3 Honor shirt that was offered earlier in the year. This is when Dirt started singing Happy Birthday to himself. It was so hilarious we let him keep going with only minor participation. He explained that he’d been saving wearing the shirt until he actually turned 60, which is today. Happy Birthday Dirt!!!

We split up and the 5 HIM who stayed for the Bunker moseyed over to YHC’s luxury sedan. Inside the trunk was a plethora of tools that would help us achieve swolification. Bricks, kettle bells and plate abounded and of course there was the trusty JBL in the luxurious cabin, just waiting to be unleashed! UHC explained that his neon blue shorts and shirt could only mean one thing, 80s day! The playlist was awesome and not even one complaint was said the whole time. Mission accomplished.

Head over to the big concrete barricades for The Thang

22s – Do 22 reps each time, starting with 20 Derkins and 2 brick curls. Go back and forth by 2s until the numbers are flip flopped.

Mosey to the wall for some more rock pushing.

22s – Do 22 reps each time, except this time only change by 1 each time. Do 21 calf raises and 1 LBC. Alternate until they’re switched.

Fellowship mosey with bricks around the block to the street beside the railroad tracks. Lunge walk and at each parking line do 5 straight arm shoulder raises.  Head back to the Pit for the encore.

Dora 1,2,3

Partner up and do 100 CDDs, 200 Squats and 300 Shoulder Presses with bricks. Partner 1 exercises and partner 2 walks to the other side with the kettle bells and weights. Good stuff!

Mosey to the Yank statue to meet for announcements and prayer requests. See Dirt’s backblast for those things.

Thanks to HIPAA for extending the offer to lead today. Aye!

On Father’s Day Weekend, we welcomed the PAX and their 2.0s to “F3 Dads” at the Yank. There were 19 F3 dads, a whole bunch of veteran 2.0s, and even more 2.0 FNGs. The total was 56 for today!

Bubba Sparxxx kicked us off with the usual disclaimer, then we mosey’d up the hill to circle up at the Middle School field for a brief explanation from Nutria about what the 3 F’s are (kudos to the PAX whose kids knew them!). Next we jumped right in:

WARM-UP————————————————————-
SSH (IC), Merkins, Goofballs (IC)

THE THANG———————————————————–

“Kid Carry”
Carry your kids up the hill (as many hill reps as needed to get your kids to the top)
Kids do 5 Merkins at the top
Mosey Down, Repeato

Dads vs. Kids Races – from one side of the field to the other (the short way, which didn’t seem very short especially for the first race)
Loser of each race does 10 merkins counted by the kids, Lots of form critiquing:
– Race 1: Kids run, Dads bear crawl.
– Race 2: Kids run, Dads Nur (run backwards).
– Race 3: Kids bear crawl, Dads lunge walk.
– Race 4: Kids Nur (run backwards), Dads run….Finally!

“Family Indian Run”
Indian Run, but with kid/dad partners running together as a side-by-side unit. We made it at least one full lap around the track.

Circle up to hand out Nicknames to the 2.0 FNGs.

“Family Merkins”
Kids pile on Dad’s back. Dads then attempt Merkins, 10 reps

“Rock, Paper, Scissors” Run around and find a PAX or 2.0 and play!
Loser does 1 burpee each. Find another PAX or 2.0 and play! Repeato!

“Sharks and Minnows”
Line up on opposite sides of field. “Minnows” try to reach the other side of the field before being tagged by a “Shark.” Minnows that are tagged become Sharks in the next round.
Game 1: Dads are sharks, Kids are minnows. But, it only “counts” if Dads tag their own kids. After 3 rounds, there were a handful of kids who still hadn’t been tagged!
Game 2: Kids are sharks, Dads are minnows.

“Family Races”
Link up arms with your kids, and race the other families across the field.

“Kid Tricks”
Kids that volunteer to show-off (a cool trick, dance, cool move, or joke), get to send their dad running across the field and up the hill! Several Dads got sent up the hill as the kids were full of comedy gold:

Why does a cow shave? If it doesn’t, it’ll grow a Moo-stache!
What’s brown and sticky? A stick! Orange Man knew that one shouted the answer before Goofball had a chance to deliver the punch line. Nutria ran up the hill anyway.
Where do fish keep their money? At a riverbank!
Why do seagulls fly over the sea? If they flew over the bay, they’d be bagels!

There were more jokes than time, and Dads were getting tired of running up the hill. Good thing we saved this one ’til the end!

COT————————————————————-
Name-O-Rama
BOM (w/kids)

Drink and Snack distribution courtesy of Mayor. Thanks, Mayor!

—Bubba Sparxxx, Nutria, & Gavel

The GasHouse has a special flavor to it. Particularly the Belmontian side of the Region. It’s like artificial turf, where it looks classy from a little ways off, but when you get down to it we installed that because of the practicality. Waste not, want not. Pretty sure that’s the Town Slogan… something like that…
So, do guys in GasHouse warm up? I dunno… We’ll fake a few SSHs or Squats or something and maybe they won’t notice.
When I Q DR, I like to see if the culture has spread appropriately and if the men have the #Mission in their minds and on their lips. Can’t get it to your heart if it doesn’t first start there… It’s kind of like Nellie’s Southern Kitchen’s Chicken & Gravy. It’ll get to your heart past your lips… Promise… #arteriosclerosis
So, we mosey quickly over the corner of a parking lot, do a few exercises, and start to see who knows the 5 Core Principles by heart. There is a 5 burpee penalty for having the wording egregiously wrong or for incorrect order. The men of Belmont love burpees. Or they hate them and want to get better at them, so they initiated their own forced practice mechanism by failing to be able to properly recite.
We ran from corner to corner of this parking lot, doing exercises in cadence and attempting to correctly get the wording and order of the 5 Core Principles, then moving on to the Credo and Mission as well.
One man seemed to know the answers quite well. Turns out he was the Nant’an… Nant’an… don’t you know your job is to make sure your men are prepared? We don’t care if you know the answers… unless they do too…
So, we hopped over behind the school and partnered up for a Dora.
Then back to COT…

Final thought:
Failure and struggle are good for you. If you are getting rescued (*ahem – Nantan) constantly, you can’t grow. You can’t learn. This is true of the men you serve, for your employees/teams at work, and for your kids.

Do Better,
Helmet, out.

15 strong for the sunrise, good crowd.  Short disclaimer, difference in quitting and modifying, and reminder of mission of F3.  Warm up: SSH, IW, grass pickers 15X IC and some stretching.  Mosey to Davis Park tennis courts.

Line up for bear crawl a cide and lunge a cide.  Round 1, bear crawl to each side line of each of four courts and do hand release merkins.  Two at first line and run back to start.  Bear crawl to next line and add two merkins.  continue until bear crawl to far side line of far court for 14 hand release.

Another round but lunge walk and start with five Bobby Hurley’s, add five at each subsequent side line.  Continue until lunge walk to far side line for 35 Bobby Hurley’s.

Circle up for a round of iron hulk, stopping at 10 merkins and 40 air presses.  These are always way more difficult than seems like they should be.

Mosey back to start for short round of Mary.  Pledge.

YHC spoke briefly on why we do what we do, those closest to us deserve nothing less than for us to be the best we can be.  It is important to give all we have at every work out, not because the work out is hard, but because sometimes life can be hard.  This is one way to prepare.  Learn from the past, but don’t dwell on what can’t be changed.  Cut the negativity from life, lead through example, criticism to build rarely produces results.

Announcements:  F3 Dads at the Yank 6/19, other workout options as normal.  0515 EC ruck from the Yank, Man Up conference in Charlotte also 6/19, Grow Ruck weekend o Aug 6 with grow school only as an option.

Prayer requests:  Turtleman, Uranus and family, Big Pappy and family (wedding upcoming and new foster child), family friend of Buckeye that has experienced a death, Roscoe father in law experiencing new phase of life, Breaker Breaker daughter in law job search, YHC 2.0 (Tiger Cub) who had a fall and head contusion, Pax going on vacation

YHC took us out

Always an honor

Tiger

Forty exercises, 50 seconds on, 10 seconds rest, that’s how we opened up Tuesday. Hooked yet, of course you are, so let me give some details.

Warmup:
SSH 20
LBC 15
Squats 10 IC
Merkins 10 IC

PLEDGE

THANG
50 seconds work, 10 seconds rest then move on!

merkin
kettle bell swing
curl w/ kettle bell
freddy mercury
derkin

3 burpies

mountain climber
high knee
squat press
bent row w/ kettle bell
peter parker

burpies
flutterkicks
shoulder tap
lunge
monkey humpers

shoulder press w/ kettle bell
tricep extension w/ kettle bell
crab crunch
calf raises
side plank leg raises

bobby hurleys
sumo squats
curl hammers w/ kettle bell
dying cockroaches
broad jumps

zombie walk
werkins
plank
cruchy frog
american hammers

squat curl press w/ kettle bell
merkin kettle bell pull
squat
side straddle hops
bear crawl

Stretching & core for 3 minutes.

13 got in some work on a fine summer morning.  Here’s what I remember:

The Thang:

• 10 x SSH (IC)
• Stretches (seated toe touch, R foot over L knee and twist, flapjack)
• 10 x Dying Cockroach (IC)
• 10 x Mike Tysons (IC)
• 20 x Penguins (IC)
• 30 x Toe Touches (IC)
• 20 x Crab Marches (IC)
• 30 x Flutter Kicks (IC)
• 20 x Freddie Mercuries (IC)

Mosey to the parking lot by the neighborhood pool.  Partner up for

• 2 minutes of Plank/Merkins – one partner starts merkins, goes til he can’t, then tags in the other partner and holds plank, alternating til 2 minutes is up

Mosey down the path to the park and find a new partner for

• 2 minutes of Double Crunches/Six Inches

Mosey to the picnic tables by the Turd Shack and get another new partner for DORA

• 100 Dips
• 200 Bulgarian Split Squats
• 300 Superman Pullups

Mosey back to the flag for

• 15 x Freddie Mercuries (IC)
• 15 x Penguins (IC)
• 25 x Toe Touches (IC)
• 15 x Crab Marches (IC)
• 40 x Flutter Kicks (IC)

Announcements:

• F3 Dads – 6/19 @ The Yank
• Blood Drive – 6/16 @ Techworks in Belmont
• Service Project – Chap Stick & Nail Clippers
• Keep EHing Kotters and FNGs

Prayer Requests:

• JK2’s oldest daughter
• Turtleman
• Roscoe’s Father in Law
• Joey Denton
• Stinky Bird’s wife

Always a good way to start the week.  Strong work by a good group of men.  Keep pushing the rock.

Thankful for the opportunity to lead.

Yabba Dabba Doo