Disclaimer
Warm up:
15 SSH in cadence
15 LBAC front , back and overhead in cadence
15 cut the grass
The Main Thang:
starting at one sideline:
50 merkins run to other sideline 15 burpies and run back to other sideline
50 big boi sit up run to other sideline 14 burpies and run back
50 monkey humpers -run-13 burpies-run
50 curls- run-12 burpies-run
50 triceps extensions-run-11 burpies-run
50 flutter kicks-run-10 burpies-run
50 overhead presses- run -9 burpies-run
50 jungle boy squats-run-8 burpies -run
50 kettlebell swings-run-7 burpies-run
50 whirlyboys-run-6 burpies-run
50 alpos-run-5 burpies-run
times up
Announcements
Prayers for family–exit out door
Naked Moleskin- With todays tragedy, wanted to talk a little bit about what F3 signifies to me and why I think it is so beneficial to many, many guys out there- a lot we haven’t got to come out. First of all, a little about me before I joined F3 now 2 years ago. I do not think I was a “sad clown”. I had many contacts-whether through Rotary, Supper clubs, church, kid’s travel teams, poker group, golfing groups, etc. But I am not sure I had or have a forum of being authentic and able to share my feelings like we have with F3. I have seen many things over past two years with our group. I saw a guy who had an addiction and who shared with us. Now, I think this guy did not have a lot of close friends in F3 and I don’t think he really wanted guys to help him through it. What I think he wanted was just to say it. And I would like to think it helped him. He wanted a place to say something that troubled him and he knew that he would not be ridiculed, that he would be prayed for , and that men would be real enough to say ” yes, I have struggles to “. I would find that hard to do on the #4 tee box with my golfing buddies, dealing out a hand with my poker guys, or sitting around talking with my Supper club boys (I do have guys in all these groups who also do F3, but it is a different setting). F3 just gives guys the forum to says their issues, their struggles without condemnation.
I remember another guy who lost a nephew. In Ohio. He didn’t have much money. Wanted us to pray for him and family. We did more than that . Within 24 hrs, 50 guys had collected $600 and were putting him on plane to Ohio to be at funeral with family. He didn’t ask for that and I doubt he would have got it in a workplace with 5 other guys. But for 50, throwing in $10 a piece, done within hours. Many other F3 stories of friendship and giving over past 2 years. I might be wrong here, but I believe I have seen guys faith being restored, guys getting healthy with a purpose, even marriages saved. I think I have seen God’s spirit at work. Yes, I have in other places too, but I think this is a great forum for it.
For me personally, this brings up something that happened one year ago when I had been in a year with F3. A little background for you new guys. Grew up in Royston GA, best friend since 5 years old was Dee Dowis. Dee was my QB in high school , I was wide receiver. After High school, Dee went to Air Force and became a College Hall of Famer. Look him up. 6th in Heisman trophy voting in 1989. One of best option quarterbacks in history . At 160 pounds. Anyway, after Air Force, he moved back East to Greenville and we reconnected. In 1996 , we went in together and got UGA season tickets and spent next 20 years going to games together alone and with family. Also golfed together as well. So, as I said , a lifetime best friend, a brother. Last year, on this week, the Sunday before we played North Carolina, he called me. Said he had just got off phone with Larry Fedora , head coach of North Carolina, and that he was giving him a lot of smack talk about game and looked forward to meeting me in Anderson to head to Georgia dome the following week. Dee and Fedora were offense coaches for Air Force under Fisher Deberry after Dee graduated. So, we were looking forward to a good game and time. That next morning as Dee was headed to work , he was killed in a car crash. I let Blu know who had also played for Deberry and he shared with group. Lot of prayers and thoughts from a lot of guys. I didn’t sleep that night and so I said what the heck , I would go to Shipyard in morning . This was before Fury and 25+ guys were regularly at Shipyard. As I drove up, I just didn’t want to get out of car, knowing that I would break down if guys starting offering condolences to me. So, I sat and waited til they headed out. I had window down, and I heard Sugar say ” I don’t think he is coming” and they mosied off. So, then I got out and joined them. Couple of fist bumps from guys, but we were already starting warm ups , so we went on. At end of work out, when they got to prayer requests, before a second could go by, someone, maybe Metermaid, but could have been any of them immediately said ” Let’s remember Pusher, his friend, and their family”. I just remember being asked to get in center of all the guys to pray for me and I just broke down, sobbing uncontrollably. And after that prayer, I was OK. I needed to break down with friends, and that was the group I needed. It was Ok for me to be like that and I knew it. I did not need to hold that in. My point is that I think a lot of guys benefit from a forum like we offer at F3. A place where you can push yourself and also be pushed physically, but also a place to feel safe in expressing your true needs and feelings. I needed it that day. And I appreciate the guys who comforted me when I felt awful. And I would just encourage you all to always feel that way too. Go to group or go to guys like Meatloaf, Baby Blu, Boy George, Duggar, and I could go on and on with the core group I have spent 2 years with and I believe and count on them all. It is interesting to see guys come and go, and I think it is about the time of day and about the time all of us struggle to find. But even guys who I haven’t seen in a while, I would like to think if they have serious issues pop up in their life, they would remember their time in F3 and realize if they needed another man’s help, F3 Greenwood would definitely be a place they could find it.
Pusher out.