Author: Ghost

AO: Oakery

QIC: Ghost

PAX: Output, Coinage

Conditions

45 degrees, dry

Warm up

• SSH x20IC
• daisy pickers x8IC
• reachers x8IC
• Leg swings x8OYO forward and sideways
• calf raises 20 second each
• imperial walkers x12IC
• mosey 1/8 mile

The Thang

• Workout to EDM music 128 BPM – rotate thru exercises and perform to the beat.
• Coupon needed
• Squats 
• Jumps
• High knees
• Shrugs
• Curls
• Rows
• Press
• Side bends
• Frozen freddiez
• Side plank
• Jane fondas
• Reverse snow angels
• Swim
• Merkins
• Wall sit w/ cherry pickers, MNCs, arm circles, shoulder press

6MoM

• Frozen fredz x 20IC
• More squats x10IC

COT

Stumbling blocks

The church puts stumbling blocks in people’s way to faith and binds heavy burdens on people that makes coming to faith difficult and often, like pharisees, we don’t lift a finger to help them. I believe an example is young earth creationism which is laughably untenable for many in academia, but the church often treats it as a foundational to Biblical truth. This makes it virtually impossible for many educated people to take the Bible seriously. It is a heavy burden that they cannot bear. We should be willing to “lift a finger” to reassess our assumptions to make sure our truth claims are valid.

This is of course true outside the church and in the divisive atmosphere of the broader culture. Listening, empathizing, and reassessing our truth claims would go a long way toward easing the political tension.

Ghost out

AO: Oakery

QIC: Ghost

PAX: Fishman, Output, Goon

Conditions

45 degrees, dry

Warm up

• mosey around building once
• daisy pickers x8IC
• halos x8IC
• Leg swings x8OYO forward and sideways
• calf raises 20 second each
• hillbillies x12IC

The Thang

• Murph workout divided up into sets of 10 rows, 20 merkins, 30 squats
• Run 1/2 mile
• sets of 10 rows, 20 merkins, 30 squats
• Run 1/2 mile
• sets of 10 rows, 20 merkins, 30 squats
• run 1/2 mile

6MoM

• WW1s – x10IC
• side plank – 30s each side
• Frozen fredz – x20IC
• Hello Dollys – x20IC

COT

Tim Keller died this week.

He was the most important voice in my denomination. I didn’t read him much, but enough to know that I respected him and valued his approach to ministry. He was able to preach the gospel with conviction, but in a way that was relevant to and respectful of secular culture.

According to one obit he had two foundational principals. One was that Christianity should not be aligned with a political party. The other was that liberal secularism should be critiqued as a religion just like any other. He did so without dogmatism or divisiveness.

May his tribe increase,

Ghost out

AO: Oakery

QIC: Ghost

PAX: Fishman, Coinage, Output

Conditions

45 degrees, dry

Warm up

• mosey through forest trail.
• World’s Greatest Stretch
• daisy pickers x12IC
• halos x12IC
• Merkins x6IC
• calf raises 20 second each

The Thang

• Add five workout around three barkchip play areas – Burpee broad jump between areas
  • (rows – add 5 each time), bear crawl around perimeter,
  • (frozen freddiez -add 5 each time), lunge walk around perimeter
  • (merkins – add 5 each time) high knees around perimeter

6MoM

hand to opposite leg ups x15IC

COT

Caring about each other.

Thinking about the second and third f I have felt convicted about how little I have prayed for my F3 brothers.

We shared prayer requests and prayed together.

Ghost out

AO: Oakery

QIC: Ghost

PAX: Revolution

Conditions

45 degrees, dry, dewy

Warm up

• 1 mile mosey
• World’s Greatest Stretch

The Thang

• Add five workout around three barkchip play areas
  • (rows – add 5 each time), dead bug shuffle, high knees, bear crawl around slide, (frozen freddiez -add 5 each time), skater squat shuffle, broad jump around jungle gym, (merkins – add 5 each time)
• Run through forest trail

6MoM

wall sit 1 minute

COT

thinking about business and leaving your first (or foremost) loves

Devoting time to the things that matter can seem tedious, especially after years of doing them. It is also easy to get off the mark, thinking you are devoting time to things that matter, but actually moving off into related but less vital things.

Like reading the Word for knowledge or for the sake of task completion but losing the relational aspect of it. Or spending “time” with your M or 2.0s, but having that time be more about pursuing hobbies than actually deepening your relationship.

Revolution emphasized the importance of spiritual growth in relationship with other people. All other spiritual growth may be illusory.

Ghost out

AO: Oakery

QIC: Ghost

PAX: Fishman, Goon

Conditions

45 degrees, dry

Warm up

• 30xIC SS
• 10xIC Harry Rockettes
• 10xIC halos
• 10xIC Imperial Squat Walkers
• 10xIC Daisy pickers
• 10xIC Toy Soldiers

The Thang

• Grab one coupon and bring back to flag pole
• PAX to walk while curling coupon around the school one time.
  • one PAX starts with coupon sets down after 50 steps.
  • Next PAX picks it up when they get to it.
  • when you don’t have the coupon you rotate through exercises until you get back to it
  • run, bear crawl, dead bug shuffle – no more than 50 reps each.
• Next round – walk while doing coupon press
  • PAX rotates though high knees, side shuffle, plank shuffle, broad jump

6MoM

Return coupons

COT

It’s about the process

It is easy to get frustrated when you are doing the “right things” and aren’t getting the results you want.

My M has been feeling that way about home school lately.

It is hard for us to work hard toward our goals or toward particular outcomes and not see the results we want. But often with the most important things the results aren’t really up to us. All we can do is do our best at any given time and place and leave the rest up to God.

Ghost out

AO: Oakery

QIC: Output

PAX: Fishman, Ghost

Conditions

50 degrees, occasional thunder and lighning

Warm up

• 50xIC Jane Fondas each side
• superman 30s
• elbow plank 30s
• Mosey
• Grab coupon and head to back awning

The Thang

• rotate 1 minute each – 6 minute sessions
• 1 person does band resistant jumps
• 1 person holds band
• 1 person rolls goodwill workout dice (burpees, merkins, crunches, glutet bridge, etc.)
• alternate above with wall sit coupon pass around the school building perimeter.

6MoM

Return coupons

20s plank

COT

Focus discussion on 2 Corinthians 4:16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we aee being renewed day by day.

F3 helps us stay strong and healthy as well as provides a means of encouragement that God uses in our lives to spur us on.

Group discussed prayers and praises.

Output out.

AO: Oakery

QIC: Ghost

PAX: Fishman, Coinage

Conditions

36 degrees, dry

Warm up

• 20xIC SS
• 4 lap mosey (1/2 mile)
• 10xIC halos
• 10xIC Imperial Walkers
• 10xIC Daisy pickers
• leg swings front back and sideways each leg8x OYO
• Calf raises OYO 20x each leg

The Thang

• Grab coupons and head to back
• Each exercise to be followed by sprint to corner of school, job back and plank, boat, or squat until 6 is ikn
  • month of your birthday x 2 – bonnie blairs HC
  • day of the month of birthday – big boys
  • pick a number between 1 and 20 – manmakers
  • 50 – (number between 1 and 30) – rows
  • Pick number between 1 and 60 – distance from 30 merkins
  • Pick number between 200 and 400 – *10% – shrugs
• repeat

6MoM

Return coupons

COT

The oldest song with musical notation is more than 2000 years old. Here are the lyrics.

“While you live, shine

have no grief at all

life exists only for a short while

and Time demands his due.”

As men roughly in the “middle” of life we are generally building things in a long term way. We spend most of our time, energy, and thought toward that end. Building our business, career, family, toward retirement, etc.

But does our “building” become obsessive and cause us to forget the brevity of life and lose sight of even more important things 

Your life is a vapor…

Do not worry about tomorrow…

How would you live your life differently if you knew exactly how much time you had left?

Life is short. Death is coming. While you live, shine!

Ghost out

AO: Oakery

QIC: Ghost

PAX: Goon, Fishman

Conditions

36 degrees, dry

Warm up

• 20xIC SSH
• 10xIC Imperial Walkers
• 10xIC halos
• leg swings front back and sideways each leg8x OYO
• Calf raises OYO 20x each leg
• 10xIC Daisy Pickers
• Motivators – countdown from 5

The Thang

• Partner up complete the number of reps combined
  • 200 dips, partner runs to annex door and back
  • 200 lbcs, partner does parking lot line shuffle halfway down
  • 120 rows, partner does bear crawl across barkdust and back
  • 100 burpees, partner runs up and down landscaping hills
  • 150 shrugs, partner does dead bug shuffle
  • 100 over and backs over coupon, partner does handstand or plank for 30 seconds

6MoM

Merkins 10x IC

COT

Considered ways that our “love” falls short. We often elevate a mother’s love to the status of being the ideal or highest form of human love. I was reading Agatha Christie recently and she played with the idea that it perhaps isn’t as perfect as we might wish. At one point Poirot says “mothers are particularly ruthless when their children are in danger.”

Reminded me of a biblical perspective on love and how we can/should try to love our 2.0s and M in that way.

Romans 15:2 Each of us should please his neighbor for his good.

1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

True love on earth is rare. The things we call love are usually pale imitations of true selfless love.

Ghost out

AO: Oakery

QIC: Ghost

PAX: Goon, Output, Revolution

Conditions

22 degrees, windy, dry

Warm up

• 20xIC SSH
• 10xIC Hillbillies squats
• 10xIC monkeyhumpers
• 10xIC Scissor arms
• 10xIC Windmills
• Mosey around parking lot four times

The Thang

• Interval workout 4 pax, 1 minute on each exercise rotating through twice
  • Coupon Press
  • Squats
  • Breakdancers
  • Frozen Freddyz

Take break and run parking lot line shuffle

• Interval 2nd round
  • Coupon Rows
  • Curb jumps five reps each direction
  • Perfect merkins
  • Boxcutters

Take break and run two laps

• Interval 3rd round
  • Coupon shrug
  • Dips
  • Wall sit
  • Peter Parkers

6MoM

N/A

COT

Considered two points my pastor made last Sunday related to Christmas. One is that salvation is found in a person, not in a worldview, political system, ideology, etc. We should be careful not to put our hope in utopian “solutions.” Second is that the Messiah really did set the Jewish people free from the Romans, just not in the ways they expected. They were delivered from their fear of death (first century martyrs embraced death with little concern for Roman abuse) and the salvation was transcultural meaning that it puts the Jewish people and the Romans in the same boat, which would eventually lead Rome to embrace Christianity.

Secondly just expressed gratitude for our AO continuing through the harsh winter. Often is my only form of exercise and has kept me in shape. Had to make a quick three mile run when my other mode of transportation broke down this week and still was barely late to my next appointment, thanks to y’all. Thanks Oakery PAX and thanks F3!

Ghost out

AO: Oakery

QIC: Ghost

PAX: Goon, Output

Conditions

upper thirties and dry

Warm up

• 20xIC SSH
• 10xIC Hillbillies
• 8xIC Halos
• 8xIC Reachers
• hip circles, hip thrusts
• 8xOYO front leg swings each leg
• 8xOYO side leg swings each leg
• calf raises x20 OYO each side
• Mosey around parking lot twice

The Thang

• Interval workout 37 seconds on 23 seconds rest
  • Swim
  • Bonnie Blairs
  • Penguins
  • T Merkins
  • Jane Fondas
  • Breakdancers
  • curb jumps
  • burpees
  • Leg out bridge lifts
  • Wall sit

6MoM

N/A

COT

We had a discussion of the joys and challenges of the holiday season.

Ghost out