If you don’t know the song google Boomtown Rats, Monday, or call your parents

Conditions were 75 and sticky humid

Disclaimer in DETAIL as my Legal Counsel is on vacation again (or is he avoiding my Q’s?)

COP Warm Up in cadence with all my favorites to ten repetitions

Mosey to Steele Creek’s “Just Fresh” Lot and/or to CSPAN’s Sidewalk Chalk Board of Pain

Each parking space had an exercise and the loop of running was around the Just Fresh Delivery Van and the opposite grass parking lot island. Freet to choose clockwise or counter clockwise

Board of Pain (run was about 1/8 mile per lap)
5 Flying Squirrels
10 Merkins
20 Squats
30 Carolina Dry Docks
40 Side Straddle Hops
50 LBC
5 Flying Squirrels
10 Diamond Merkins
20 Squats
30 Carolina Dry Docks
40 Seal Jacks
50 Calf Raises

Fish Sticks wore the “Championship Belt” and got in about a board and a half, all men got in a full rotation on The Board, and it was sweaty and terrible, all men seemed to enjoy the “fun”

Quick session of ABLAB and American Idol to finish out 1st F.

2 very quick sermons during the workout, the first was on our broken world, and we really need more of two things-Jesus and Leadership. Leadership starts wherever you are at today and in your home, be a better man, and understand we need to make a difference. The second sermon was on #UvsU, as we need to give our best because we never know who we are “pulling along” because they see our efforts, I used the example of the board today and as in life we all have to do our best to make those around us better.

COT/Prayer or Praise/BOM

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AYE!
CSPAN

WARM O RAMA (slow jog – b/h Wine Shop)

• SSH – 15
• Windmills – 15
• Legover L&R Stretch (10 count)
• SSH – 20
• Burpees – 10 oyo
• SSH – 25
• Monkey Humpers – 15
• SSH – 30 (Fire Marshall Bill – VQ – count to getting ready for his first Q)
• Merkins 15
• SSH – 35 (125ish SSH warmed-up now!)

The Thang: Magic 8 Ball

Mosey to Big Red Balls – BRB @ TARZSHAY
Partner up and OGGF (old guy go first – age before beauty)
Partner relays to the BRB and back other partner flying squirrels. (heart rates up now!)

Plank as teams finished up and Pusher continued Pushing right arm high Left arm high, you know the drill.   How many BRB’s are there!… (10 or so)

Mosey to back of Home Depot for some nice relaxing Wall Chairs, each PAX Lunge walk to front, as legs start to burn.

Mosey over to Musical Fountain The “Heart of Quagmire”

More Partner Relays (Oldy go First)
Run, crawl, walk, whatever it takes to get around the Loop as your partner screams for more:

• Step-up
• DIP
• Cafe Raises
• LBC
• Slow Squats
• Decline Merkins

That was the plan – Then Freebird throws AUDIBLE – “Change in the offensive play at the line of Scrimmage” (happens in life all the time)

Meet up with RUCKERS for “Kayak Coupon Indian Relay.” (see twitter PIC to relate) TCAPs to CobraKai!

Moleskin: 

Discussion from Matthew 6:25-37

The summer is the best time for a Family vacations, but have you ever needed a vacation from the Vacation.  Was it because things didn’t go as planned or you were thinking about work, or you spend more than expected.  These things can cause stress, apprehension, frustrated, anger.

All the Life’s Audibles... Just plain feeling the heavy weight of Anxiety from Life happening!

Anxiety in Greek means to distract or to be divided… to distract from the “Main Thing.. our 3^rd F.

“before I go further I just want to state I am by no means a model of this, but continue to strive towards it.”

If you’ve ever felt like this what do you do, where do you turn, how do you handle it.  A suggestion checkout Matthew 6:25-37.  In these versus Jesus has just finished, ironically, talking to his followers about how it’s impossible to pursue both God and wealth.  Now he’s talking about why one should not be Anxious about material things or distracted from the main thing (our 3^rd F).  Simply said let the “Main Thing be the Main Thing.”

Just image your stressing about something and a young child walks up to you and simply says, “Why are you stressing Daddy, don’t you know God has it all under control.”

We all deal with Stress and Anxiety in different ways but if you turn to the right chapter your response to it will be much different than if you handle it on your own. (AYE)

Your Humble Correspondent (YHC)
FREEBIRD!

Announcements 

Perfect #gloom morning at the shopping mecca known at Quagmire.  5 hearty souls posted for circle of fire beatdown.  3 were coming out of the haze of a post Hog and Coyote #manmaker.

Here is what they did:

Pearls on a string- left VSF and moseyed around front of major corp big box home builder only to come out in front of major corp big box M- approved fancy everything you need place.  dunno- it had big balls.  10 of ’em.  Pearls were squats, merkins and some hatefull combination of Carolina Dry Docks and Jumping Lunges.  Arrival in front of major corp big box clothier of fashionable kids and parents trying to stay fashionable.  Think the name was New Army.

The Thang:

Circle of fire- 8 cones 20 yards from center.  start at cone- bearcrawl to center. 5 burpees, run to next cone.  rinse/repeat until 0555.  E’reyone finished two rounds.  Lunges, Merkins, LBC, MNT Climber, Dolly, IW, Peter Parker.

Sneaky toe lunge series

derkins

squat walk series

AYG to VSF

COT

NMM

Great morning,  good sweat (thanks first day of summer).  I enjoyed seeing new faces and faces I havent seen in a while.  Credit: #spitzarmy. Davinci- always smiling, Bones- enjoyed walking me down on the AYG, Tater- ran to AO and home- ’nuff said, The Riddler- bringing full on RH chatter

Prayers for family members ailing and the ability to offer help with out trying to “fix”

Jekyll

We gathered bright an early at the Quagmire on this Monday morning ready to put in some work. By 5:15am we had 10 PAX ready to role with YHC and 5 ruckers taking off with Trucker. Disclaimer and a quick piece on humility, pride and ego…and we were off!

Mosey to the parking lot by the main fountain.

Circle up for COP
25 SSHs, 20 Imperial Walkers, 10 Merkins, 20 Plank Jacks, 20 Mountain Climbers, 25 MNCs…and a little yoga

Mosey to my favorite part of the AO, the Big Red Balls by Target.

10x Ranger Merkins then Lt Dan’s between the balls next 10x Crucible Merkins. R & R until the final red ball.

Finished and gathered the PAX, my 10 count was around a bible verse I found at church Sunday.

Proverbs 11:2 – “When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.”

Mosey over to Gander Mountain for the real work!

Four Corners marked with a cone: I broke group into 3 teams.

1st corner 100 LBCs

2nd corner 50 Paver Curls

3rd corner 100 Freddy Mercury’s

4th corner 50 Raised Curb Merkins

We all met back at 1st corner and finished LBCs until the final group arrived.

Mosey back towards COT…like a mile away!

Stopped short and completed a little ab work
20 Hello Dolly’s
20 American Hammers

Back to COT

Announcements:

Hog & Coyote this Saturday! Bike, Run, Relay, Ruck…just do it!
F3 Dads

Prayers for those who are sick or injured. Praises for Cornhole and his new career opportunity

Quick Moleskin:
This month’s theme is humility. I shared in my opening that the opposite of humility is pride…but what is pride? We say we take pride in our work, in our children’s accomplishments, etc. Pride itself doesn’t seem so bad, but break down the darker side of pride…that’s ego. Ego is what gets you in trouble. Ego is the “I’m better than everyone else at (X)”. That is the opposite of humility, and we all need to focus on staying humble in all we do!

Your Humble Correspondent (YHC)

Royale

16 PAX came to Quagmire on this gorgeous Monday morning for their DRP. YHC has a busy week with 3 1st F Q’s and couple 3rd F Q’s but its all in joy as I love being with my F3 brothers.

Encourage one another daily. – Hebrews 3.13

The Thang:

Mosey to Home Depot Drive thru for COP just after shuffling past the mattress store and wishing we were still in bed.

22 Merkins for the 22 day challenge  – Look it up and get the awareness out!!

20 Squats, 15 Imperial Walkers, 15 Mtn climbers, Plank, 10 CDDs, Plank, Parker Peters

Count off in 1’s and 2’s

• 1’s – Run to HD front door, 2’s do Freddy Mercurys—flapjack
• 1’s – Run to HD front door, 2’s do Flutter Kicks—-flapjack

YHC told PAX about a guy who was talking about his ex-wife and how she was moving far away with her new husband and that back during the mortgage meltdown his business got bad and even though he was working 100 hour weeks, she found someone else to support her. This story has 3 sides to it just like every story…..His , Hers and The Truth. Bottom Line is that a marriage that is self centered and not Christ Centered will go down bumpy roads and may not survive. Its sad to think if we “provide” and “work hard” our expectation is that our marriage should be happlily ever after. Marriage calls for presence and time and effort…..not just expectation that it will be perfect. Be present and engaged daily in your marriage and with your 2.0. Love is spelled T-I-M-E for both of those areas.

 Mosey to Target back lot:

Pair Up and hit a Station in the “Cell Block” (area behind target like a prison yard). Do the exercises for 3mins, rotating back and forth with them until time is up. Once time is up, wall sit for 30sec and then go to next station.

#1

10-SSHs

10-Merkins

#2

15-Squat

10-Burpees

#3

10-Dips

20-moracan night club

#4

20-squat jabs

10-inch worm push-up

#5

10-leg raises

10-ski hops

#6

10-CDDs

15-Apollo Ono

#7

5 each leg Curtsy lunge

5 grave diggers each side

#8

10 dying cock roaches

10 peter Parkersburg

Good Time was had by All!!

COT:

Prayers for Olive who lost his sweet angel, 8yr old girl. Prayers for Wild Thing and his Cousin recovering from motorcycle accident, and prayers for Smokey and his daughter and health diagnoses.

Bring snacks and drinks for Childrens Home with goal of 1000 units!! Bring to AOs and Q’s get them to Chicken Hawk

Thanks Corn Hole for the Q……so honored!!

Cake Boss Out!!!