Carrying Each Other’s Burdens

Seven men shunned the fartsack to get better in all three Fs this morning at Soul to Sole. We covered 3.16 miles while alternating the 60lb sandbag amongst us.

The men were encouraged to share what’s on their minds this morning. With men’s mental health being prominent in the news, YHC felt it necessary to remind the men to lean on their brothers to carry their burdens. None of us should walk the road of life alone. Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 reminds us “Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.”

So when you are down, raise your hand for help. When you are up, extend your hand to a brother that might need to be lifted up. Don’t walk alone. We’re in this together.

Aye!
Italian Job

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There’s Gold at the Ballroom

WARMUP: Warmup in the front parking lot. SSH, Cherry Pickers, MNC’s, High Knees, Butt Kickers, Mosey to back parking lot.

THE THANG: inspired by Olaf’s “Charge” Q. Pax go forward 2 cones (exercises posted at each cone) and back 1 cone. Completed all 16 cones.
Did a series of brotherhood locked-in-arms exercises down at the bottom of the hill by the bridge. Wall sit, squats, calf raises, erkins, and derkins until time was done. Moseyed back to COT.

MARY: Nah
ANNOUNCEMENTS: All of them.
COT: Prayers lifted to all.

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January?!?

WARMUP: 1/4 shuffle
THE THANG: every 1/4 mile – a series of squats or merkins w/Ruck on or both. There was 1 round of manmakers and monkey humpers were done near orange theory but not into the window. Got just over 3 miles total.
MARY: no time for it
ANNOUNCEMENTS: were announced
COT: YHTBT

Thanks, Sprocket. Always an honor

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Are you a Lizard Bullfrog or Leach 🤷🏻‍♂️

WARMUP: Cornerstone prayed us in
THE THANG:
We discussed F3: Groups
Organizations
Communities
Teams

Lizards
Bullfrogs
Leaches

Where are we leading in each of these groups

Most influential is in our HOME TEAM

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
Cyclops prayed us out!

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Destiny And The Random Rock Playlist

THE THANG:

We played a round of Uno with the following guidelines

Blue – Merkins
Green – LBC
Yellow – Squats
Red – lunges

Skip – Run
+2 – pick 2 exercises, 2 reps
+4 – 4 reps all 4 exercise
Reverse – Repeat last exercise
Wild – Change color

We stretched a bit abs called it. Thanks Triple Lindy for letting me lead.

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Where’s Olaf?

WARMUP: Loosen up the shoulders with Moroccan NC, and big arm circles , ham stretches
THE THANG: 20 ruck squats, 20 ruck burpees, 20 merkins with ruck, 20 ruck flutter presses , ruck shuffle stop sign to stop sign and back. 15 ruck squats, 15 ruck burpees, 15 merkins with ruck, 15 ruck flutter presses , ruck shuffle stop sign to stop sign and back. 10 ruck squats, 10 ruck burpees, 10 merkins with ruck, 10 ruck flutter presses , ruck shuffle stop sign to stop sign and back. Ruck cool down. 1.83 total ruck miles
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: Dark Helmet lead us out.

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Buckets of pain

Three buckets full of pain suggestions were spread out over .25 mile to get in some running as well.

Three groups moseyed around agonizing over what they would draw from the buckets, with one bucket containing only burpee counts.

Breaking into groups gives us a great chance for fellowship, perhaps with guys we see all the time, but may not know very well. Thanks @weezer for the opportunity. ASSASSIN 🔫

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Honoring Cardinal

Today we honored a fallen Pax out of F3Knoxville, Cardinal.
Did his VQ, warm up and all minus the last 40 burpees. Headed out for a 25 min ruck around Kingsley

COT: life’s unpredictable, live each day to your best.

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Wait…you want me to Q a ruck workout?

WARMUP: Made our way to the upper parking lot for SSH, Mountain Climbers, Plank work, Windmills, and more SSH without ruck

THE THANG: FYI…this was my VQ (ruck)! I felt WAY outside my comfort zone, which is where we as leaders are meant to be…but like most any challenge we face, the way through it is my taking the next step.

Remaining work with ruck – relocated to the sidewalk just outside the entrance to the BMX track and started at the first light pole with 10 squats, lunge walk to next pole for merkins, reverse lunge walk to the next pole for curls, lunge walk to the next pole for thrusters.  Now at the bottom of the hill, we discussed my #OneWord for 2023 of #Intentionality and proceeded to use the hill for a Jacobs Ladder – starting with 10 burpees at the top and 1 big boy sit-up with the ruck overhead at the bottom.  The group completed this with just enough time to make our way back to COT
MARY: nothing other than the big boys
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Mens shelter, blood drive, d2d fundraising, newsletter
COT: What’s share in COT stays in COT

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Stupid face cards!

WARMUP: quick mosey around parking lot, SSH, windmills, squats, merkins, up and down dogs, back and hamstring stretches
THE THANG: as we surrounded 4 KBs and 3 sandbags, we looked at the deck of cards along with the wienke that had all the exercises. Face cards are Jack 11, Queen 12, etc. “Breaks” were after 6-8 cards…I’ll explain later. Ruck was worn for most exercises.
• Hearts 2-7 chest press and swings; 8-Ace curls
• Spades 2-7 lunges (double count); 8-Ace merkins
• Diamonds 2-7 man makers; 8-Ace squats
• Clubs 2-7 clean and press; 8-Ace flutter with press
• joker – carry all the from the front of the school down to the softball field…maybe 200 yards there and back
• after 6-8 cards we took a break which consisted of a shuffle with ruck, gear carry swapping after 200 yards, mosey slick
• after we got back from breaks or jokers, we’d rotate positions so we had different gear in front of us given the different items in our arsenal.
MARY: none today
ANNOUNCEMENTS: skate or die has JOC tomorrow for a ruck workout, dam to dam fundraising
COT: praying for illnesses

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