Golden Spike-Respect Pop Up|June 27, 2024|AO – Burke High School |70° and cloudy
PAX: Laser Jet, Q-Tip, Skipper, Ozark, Macanudo, Canadian Bacon, Vlasic, Minnow, TC, Wait Time, Chiclets, Lincoln Log, Slow Clap, Cutting Edge, Doll Face, Cherry Garcia
Q: Mulligan
Mulligan introduced himself and explained this is F3 – Fitness, Fellowship and Faith.
Mission statement – Plant, grow, and serve small workout groups for the reinvigoration of male community leadership
Core principles:
Free of charge
Open to all men
Always held outside
Led in a rotating fashion
End with a Circle of Trust
Credo – Leave no man behind, but leave no man where you found them.
Disclaimer: I’m not a professional – modify as necessary.
Warm-A-Rama – In Parking lot at high school
- Big Ones
- Tappy Taps
- Imperial Walkers
- Michael Phelps
- Cherry Pickers
Pre-Thang – “Mully” – Mosey west and then through the parking lot and north side of school.
- .5 mile run
- 25 burpees
- 50 merkins
- 100 air squats
- .5 mile run
The Thang – Four corner beatdown
- First cone – Push group (Do all exercises then push)
- 1 burpee
- 25 Carolina Dry Docks
- 1 burpee
- Second cone – Rotate through 25 of each exercise until pushed
- LBCs
- Side Straddle Hops
- Werkins
- Third cone – Rotate through 25 of each exercise until pushed
- Flutter kicks
- Mountain Climbers IC
- Ranger Merkins
- Fourth cone – Rotate through 25 of each exercise until pushed
- Rosalitas
- Plank Jacks IC
- Alternating shoulder taps IC
OMAHA
Mary
- American Hammers rancid style
Announcements:
- Cutting edge and laser jet 1776 beatdown at Oracle in 7/6 at 6am.
- Futurama 7/7 – 1776
- The Quarry in Gretna
- Tuesday at Helix – Santiago
Prayers:
- CBs mom, Thelma, fell broke wrist and hip
- Lincoln Log’s mother in law, Barb, is in her last days. Pray for her and LL’s wife who is struggling with it.
- Wait Times parents to Uganda for missions trip
Circle of Trust: Difficult experience
There are a lot of difficult experiences all of us have been through. Relationship struggles. Losing loved ones. Dealing with addiction issues for ourselves or people we love. Those are big ones, but there are plenty of smaller ones. Tough work situations such as toxic environments or challenging coworkers. Struggling to get through a tough run or overcome an injury.
I think about these difficulties not because I enjoy thinking about bad times, but I bring them up to give myself strength for future struggles. There are plenty yet to come. When I reflect on these past struggles and how I’ve gotten through them or moved forward as they continue to linger, it gives me the confidence to know that I will get past the next challenge and the next and the next.
Everyone has challenges and difficulties and there are different ways of dealing. At the end of the day though, you push yourself past them or you don’t. You rise above and overcome or you lie down and give up. People that do the latter don’t make it very far in life and often are the ones that want to blame everyone else or situations on why they aren’t getting ahead. I don’t want to be that guy. I want to understand that I have it within me to overcome.
To conclude, use these challenges or difficulties to become a better man. That’s truly what it is all about…God putting these “opportunities” in front of you to become the man that He wants you to be and that you were meant to be. As the elders in F3, it is up to us to help remind the younger pax of this too…that challenging situations happen for a reason and that reason is to make them a better man so embrace them.