Pecks and Quads Cornucopia

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WARMUP: mosey to lower parking lot. Tout soldiers, buttkickers and caraoke. Merkins, Mountain Climbers, Low slow squats and windmills
THE THANG: mosey to stadium parking lot and do wind sprints at 50%, 75% and 100%. Merkins and Curtsey Lunges in between each sprint. Repeat 3 times. Mosey to top parking lot again and go to the grassy area. Walk down, 10 merkins, NUR up the hill 10 curtsey lunges at the top. Do 5 sets. Mosey down the pathway to the bottom of the hill. At first light pole do 10 merkins, at second light pole 20 squats, at 3rd light pole 30 flutters. Repeat sequence all the way to the top. Mosey to COT for my hip exercises
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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A Hilly Situation

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WARMUP: None
THE THANG: walk around WEP to Harris St, take a right down the hill, at the bottom the man with the bag starts walking backwards up the hill. Switched halfway, then back around WEP, around the loop back towards COT, finish with another round of klaw up Massey St. hill.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Murder Bunnies pre-season

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WARMUP: a short mosey followed by The usuals with some Apollo Ohnos thrown in.
THE THANG: mosey to the Pull Up bars, 5 PUs, 15 dips 10 Squats, run around to COT, 10 Merkins, 25 LBCs, 15 Apollo Ohon, back to PU bars. 3 rounds of this. Grab a rock and head to the field for some Murder Bunnies, overhead press, curls & rows. Put the rocks back head to a nice steep hill. 30 second plank at the bottom Burpees at the top, 5 trips. Native American run, guy in the back does 5 merkins runs to the front. Do this around the park head to COT.
MARY: 5 minutes rotating lead. Special shot out for the Big Boy Flutters, not fun.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read the newsletter
COT: Pryaers for friends of Senator with serious health issues. Prayers for safe travels home for Training wheels visiting from Spartanburg.

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Introducing 3F AO – Practicing The Way

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Have you ever wondered if it’s actually possible to live the life that God has called us to in the Bible?  Pray without ceasing.  Show mercy as Jesus showed mercy.  Don’t be anxious about anything.  Love God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.

These are very lofty goals that can seem out of reach or even unrealistic in our day-to-day life in this modern world.  Most of us settle for church attendance, scripture reading, an occasional bible study or small group and trying our best to be a moral person.  These things are good, but often we find ourselves still struggling to find the level of character change we are hoping for.  What if it was actually possible to pray without ceasing and still function in our day-to-day life?  What if it were totally within our grasp to be merciful instead of angry to those who have wronged us or better yet, to those we love most.

AO Practicing The Way is an 8-week temporary 3rdF AO intended to be a primer in spiritual formation in the ways of Jesus.  We will follow the teachings and do the exercises laid out in Practicing The Way – The Course (check out this LINK).

 

Who are you following?  Who, or what, are you being formed by?

The question is not are you following someone or something.  The question is not rather or not you are being formed by someone or something.  The question is who.  The question is what is forming you.

Each of us are being formed every day, every moment.  Our decisions, our environments, our habits, our relationships – they are all continuously forming us into the persons we are and the persons we are becoming.  This is an invitation into a lifelong journey of spiritual formation by following the way of Jesus Christ.  To be with Jesus. To be like Jesus.  To do what Jesus did.

The Course from Practicing The Way will consist of video teachings, discussion prompts and practices for each individual to try and report back to the group for everyone to learn and be sharpened.

Come join us and together let’s learn to be apprentices of Jesus and to go against the grain of our world in order to be who God has always meant for us to be.

Additional Details:

  • Divac and Gekko will be your co-q’s
  • Sessions will be each Tuesday at Gekko’s house from 0515-0615 starting Jan 14
  • Registration is required in order to have an accurate headcount for our host and to join the group on practicingtheway.org  where resources can be accessed for free.
  • DM or text Divac to register (847-544-8997)
  • The book is highly encouraged, as it tracks along with each session, but not required. Find it on Amazon here.

Disclaimer:  Your Q’s have no special training, nor have we figured out how to live perfectly this life we are seeking.  We are humble and hungry seekers of living life in the ways of Jesus and we know that we can’t do it alone.

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Turn rain on 0515, turn rain off 0600’ish

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WARMUP: Gathered before 0515 and no rain. 0515 hits and the rain begins. Why create an environment that makes things a little easier?

Disclaimer given and we took off on a little mosey to the corner of the parking lot.

Circled up for SSH, windmills, cherry pickers, low slow squats, merkins, Peter Parker.
THE THANG: Ran to the oil change place that has the little wall in the back. Once we got to the wall, direction was given. 10-20-30 was the idea.
– 10 step ups, run around building
– 10 diamond derkins, run around building
– 20 step ups, run
– 20 regular derkins, run
– 30 step ups, run
– 30 wide arm derkins, run

Run through the smell gauntlet and all the way through to the apartments with the round about at the bottom of the hill. 10-20-30 again but no running.

Alternating between CDD and lunges, do 10 of each, then 20, then 30.

Last we did 7s at the bottom of the hill to the fire station entrance. NUR up the hill, regular run to the bottom. Bottom of hill was bomb jacks, at the Fire station was 4 count flutters.
MARY: Plank hold with some plank stretches
ANNOUNCEMENTS: yes, newsletter
COT: of course

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Failure is fine

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WARMUP: Gathered with our sandbags and left those for a quick mosey after a quick disclaimer. Came back for SSH, windmills, low slow squats, merkins, cherry pickers.
THE THANG: Came back to our sandbags and took our carabiners and clipped the ends to each other. Put them on our shoulders and then walked VERY close to each other. Alternating shoulders as needed but honestly, this lasted about 200 yards before the Q realized this wasn’t shaping up as it was in his head. Along the way we did curls and then curls and overhead presses.

We then unclipped and did 10 manmakers. We then took our bags to the tiered area and partnered up at the bottom. 1 partner with a 40 and 1 with a 60.

Partner 1 took both sandbags to the top and partner 2 stayed at the bottom doing pushups. Once partner 1 got back, there was a flip flop. Rinsed and repeated this.

Did this again with dips (just 1 round) and finished with flutters but for flutters it was a farmer carry.

Headed back towards COT but stopped at the curb for another idea…that didn’t pan out. With 2 sandbags removed, each pax laid down with a sandbag held in a press and then passed it down the line (last 2 guys had no bag yet) and then the first 1 guy that passed the bag ran to the other end in an Indian run style plan. Again, idea was ok but execution wasn’t great.

Moral of the story today – have a plan, execute plan, adjust plan, move forward.
MARY: we spared a few min
ANNOUNCEMENTS: complete
COT: complete

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Towards the Sunrise

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Mosey all the way to Windjammer park

Stop along the way for COP (circle of pain)

Did some exercises and yoga on the dock

Great fellowship this morning. Beautiful weather. Not gloomy at all in spirit or in atmosphere.

Got back to COT and had my 60lb bag there. We planked and went down the line performing one man maker each

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