Fitness. Fellowship. Faith.The mission of F3 is to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for the invigoration of male community leadership.
Introduction:
YHC got humbled with sit-ups and push-ups during the previous week’s Q’s during a end of BC AFPT and Jacobs Ladder workout and YHC has made it his mission to correct that lapse. That means a strict regimen of sit-ups and push-ups on a daily basis. A last minute Q change gave YHC an opportunity to bring that regimen to the Magnitude PAX. It was a bit lighter on the rep count than the regimen called for, but adding the rucks made it just as difficult.
It was cold. The PAX was purely IR. We channeled our inner Chuck Norris. And we all got after it.
Conditions: 32F and Clear
FNGs: None, but disclaimer given
COP:
- Worlds Greatest Stretch – OYO
- Forward Little Baby Arm Circles x 10- On Q
- Backward Little Baby Arm Circles x 10 – On Q
- Forward Big Arm Circles x5 – On Q
The Thang:
- Speed ruck 1/4 mile
- Ruck Merkins x 20 – On Q
- Ruck WWI Sit-ups x 20 – On Q
- Speed Ruck 1/4 mile
- Ruck Incline Merkins x 20 – On Q
- Ruck WWII Sit-ups x 20 – On Q
- Speed Ruck 1/4 mile
- Ruck Decline Merkins x 20 – On Q
- Speed Ruck 1/4 mile
- Ruck Carolina Dry Docks x 20 – On Q
- Ruck Indian sit-ups x 20 – On Q
- Speed Ruck 1/4 mile
- Merkins x 20 – on Q
- PAX Choice: Ruck WWI situps x 20 on Q
- Shuffle step to accumulate 2 miles, approx. .65 miles
Mary: none
Numberama: 3
Namerama: KY, City Slicker, Tinker
Pledge and COT
Announcements: A ton of events coming: Peytons Wacky & Wild, P200, Dragon Boat Race, Marine Mud Run, The Oak, GORUCK D-Day HTL
Devo:
Play the Man Devotional by Mark Batterson
Luke 9:23 – Then He said to all of them, “If anyone wants to follow Me, he must say no to himself. He must pick up his cross every day and follow Me.”
“Tough Love”
Take up your cross.
We say it so effortlessly, so flippantly. But that’s because we read it figuratively. It’s estimated that a Roman cross weighed three hundred pounds, and even if Jesus carried only the crossbar, it was still placed on raw flesh that had just been flogged! And He carried it no less than 650 yards down the Via Dolorosa.
In my book “Play the Man,” I introduce seven virtues of manhood. The first virtue is tough love. Here’s what I mean by that: Being a tough guy doesn’t mean sticking up for yourself when you get offended. A true tough guy sacrifices himself for the sake of others.
Jesus didn’t just carry a three-hundred-pound cross; He carried the weight of the world. Every offense ever committed was placed on His shoulders, and He carried it all the way to Calvary.
Tough love like this is far more difficult to attain than physical toughness, and far more important. It sets the men apart from the boys! A tough guy isn’t someone who can blacken an eye or bloody a nose; it’s someone who is willing to be nailed to a cross for someone he loves.
So let’s get it straight in our minds. Tough love is sacrificial love—a love that is willing to be nailed to a cross for someone else’s sin. Tough love is unconditional love—a love that is not dictated by someone else’s performance. Tough love is covenantal love—for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health.
If you’re married, it’s easy loving your wife when everything is going great, right? When it’s not going great, it’s not so easy. Why? Because our love tends to be reactive. Tough love is proactive. It’s not a need-seeking love; it’s a need-meeting love. It doesn’t seek validation, because it doesn’t need any! It adds value to the beloved.
That’s what it means to carry your cross. That’s what you’re called to.
So toughen up.
Play the man!
How can you show sacrificial love to another today, regardless of how tough it is for you?