Golden Spike 3.31.22
AO: Golden Spike 5:30 am
April 1, 2022
Weather: Clear, Cool and Invigorating (29 F)
PAX: (11) Q-Tip (Respect Respect), Zebo, Splinter, Romeo (Hate), Black Flag, Folsom, Mother Goose, Golden Pike, FDIC,
Q: Dirty Bird
Dirty Bird gathered the PAX at 5:30. Dirty Bird welcomed all to F3 Omaha. He recited the five core principles and laid out the F3 Mission Statement which is “to plant, grow and serve small workouts to invigorate male community leadership.” Recognizing all HIM and confirming no FNGs, the PAX got to it.
Warm-O-Rama
3/4 lap meet at midfiled
SSH 20 IC
Big Ones 10
Little Ones 10
Windmills 10 IC
Pre-Thang
The PAX lined up at the 50 and did a series of workouts for a length of 10 yards.
Butt kickers 10 yds
10 Air Squats
High knees
10 Merkins
Bear Crawl
10 Jump tucks
Mosey
10 Werkins
Alternating lunge walk
Alternation reverse lunch walk
10 Werkins
Bernie Sanders
10 Jump Tucks
Crawl Bear
10 Merkins
High knees
10 Air squats
Turnaround Butt kickers
10 Air squats
Main Thang
PAX divided into two groups
Walls of Jericho
7 sets
7 exercises
7 laps around the track
Merkins – 7
Sumo Squats- 7 IC
Carolina Dry Docks- 7
Flutter Kicks- 7 IC
Diamond Merkins- 7
Alternating Lunges- 7 IC
Burpees- 7
Mary
30 seconds Big Boys
30 seconds of ETK R
30 seconds ETK L
Announcements/ Prayer requests
Mother Goose requested prayers for Truly who is out of town to attend a funeral of a family member. Dirty Bird requested prayers for his neighbor’s daughter who is in the hospital. Announcements were made about upcoming Brick Builder and F3 Omaha anniversary events.
Circle of Trust
Dirty Bird went into the Circle of Trust:
In preparation for the COT on April Fools’ Day, Dirty Bird thoroughly researched the google and found numerous theories of how April Fools’ Day started. One such theory relates to the changing of the calendar year and piqued Dirty’s interest which is as follows:
Origins of April Fools’ Day
Some historians speculate that April Fools’ Day dates back to 1582, when France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, as called for by the Council of Trent in 1563. In the Julian Calendar, as in the Hindu calendar, the new year began with the spring equinox around April 1.
People who were slow to get the news or failed to recognize that the start of the new year had moved to January 1 and continued to celebrate it during the last week of March through April 1 became the butt of jokes and hoaxes and were called “April fools.” These pranks included having paper fish placed on their backs and being referred to as “poisson d’avril” (April fish), said to symbolize a young, easily caught fish and a gullible person.
Upon reflection, Dirty concluded that April Fool’s Day is kind of messed up. The holiday is based upon pranking people to make the look dumb or silly. It seems the opposite of what makes F3 great, which is the support of fellow HIMS. Dirty encouraged the PAX to build people up on April Fool’s Day rather than make them feel small.
The COT ended in a prayer of thanks for the opportunity to meet, exercise and improve.