F3 Knoxville

Author: BackBlasts

Make war

AO: the-farm
Q: Bartman
PAX: Aladdin, Einstein, Choir Boy
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WARMUP:
Yes

THE THANG:

11’s on the hill. Burpees at top, coupon curl/press at bottom.

Take coupon to grass beside soccer field.

Squat/press/throw coupon & then inchworm merkin to the coupon. Rinse & repeat about half the length of the soccer field.

Mosey to causeway. Sets of tel:20-15-10-5 of coupon side lunges, easy ups.

Mosey back to AO.

MARY:
No time

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Haw ridge event

COT:

Excerpt from a 2002 John Piper in which he is talking about making war against areas of sin in your life.

Romans 8:13: “If by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.” Do you want to enter into life? Do you want to live? Get violent. Get a wartime mindset. Stop making peace with ears and eyes and tongues and hands and feet that betray you like Judas, and go over to the side of the enemy and become instruments of sin and make war on your soul. Put to death the deeds of your body……..
……It’s a violence against all lust in ourselves, and enslaving desires for food or caffeine or sugar or chocolate or alcohol or pornography or money or the praise of men and the approval of others or power or fame. It’s violence against the impulses in our own soul toward racism and sluggish indifference to injustice and poverty and abortion.
Christianity is not a settle-in-and-live-at-peace-with-this-world-the-way-it-is kind of religion. If by the Spirit you kill the deeds of your own body, you will live. Christianity is war — on our own sinful impulses…….
….. I hear so many Christians murmuring about their imperfections and their failures and their addictions and their shortcomings — and I see so little war. Murmur, murmur, murmur. “Why am I this way?” Make war! If you wonder how to make war, go to the manual. Don’t just bellyache about your failures. Make war!

[juco-rush] Sabbath rest

AO: juco-rush
Q: Trash Panda (JUCO)
PAX: Wanderer, Trash Panda (JUCO), Butterknife, Double Coat, Erector, Tooth Fairy, Data, Cheap Ride
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WARMUP: mosey to track

THE THANG:
6 min on, 1 min recovery
3 min on, recovery to time

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:
I wanted to talk to you today about rest, particularly sabbath rest. I’m sure you’re familiar with the creation story, so I wanted to share from Genesis 2:2-3

“By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.”

Sabbath was a pretty unfamiliar word or practice to me until last year when our small group did a couple studies that went into more detail.

What is it?
Modeled after creation, God rested on the 7th day.
Time to set aside everything to stop, rest, delight, and worship.
Designed by God as a day to give yourself fully to delight in God’s world, in your life in it, and ultimately in God himself.

Historically, having free time used to be looked at as being for the wealthy. Now if you look at not only the wealthy, but most of culture, our lives are defined by busyness and how much can we do.

When you think about what does it look like, it won’t be the same for everyone and varies by stage of life and preferences. One quote I like is:

If you work with your hands, you Sabbath with your mind. If you work with your mind, you may prefer to Sabbath with your hands.

I sit at a desk for most of my work so getting out in nature or doing something active can be “restful” for me.

For my family, we just started making Sabbath a part of our routine over the last few weeks and try to start around 3pm on Saturday to 3pm on Sunday. We start with a family devotional. Then we have a family activity of some sort, meal together, and bedtime, Sunday is typically church, lunch, then individual rest time. We plan to incorporate gatherings with family or friends into our routine as well as it’s not just for individual families.

So I would challenge all of us to evaluate our lives, our busyness, and try to make Sabbath a weekly routine we lead our families through to realize everything we have and need comes from God.

Heavy Day. Shoulders and Such.

AO: the-equalizer
Q: Blindside
PAX: Stripped, Bookman, Blindside, Snowbird, Madoff, Mouthwash, Cheney, Ribbed (Joshua Sagraves), Smithers
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
THE THANG:
1. AMRAP 5 mins (5 reps each)
Pull-ups
Merkins
Goblet squat
BBS
2. AMRAP 5 mins (5 reps each)
Partner up
Farmer Carry two CMUs down and around ramp
Partner holds plank
Switch
3. AMRAP 5 mins (5 reps each)
Pull-ups
Squat and press w/ CMU
BBS
4. AMRAP 5 mins (5 reps each)
Partner up again
Rifle Carry down and around ramp
Partner holds plank

MARY:
7 mins of fun

My Wife’s Birthday

AO: dogpound
Q: Madoff
PAX: Mayberry, Lightweight, Aladdin, Bartman, Einstein
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARMUP:
20 SSH
20 Rockettes
20 TN Rocking Chairs
10 Tie Fighters Forward
10 Tie Fighters Backward
Mozy to Rockpile

THE THANG:
4x10reps (wait for 6 each round with a Plank)
Inch Worm Out – 2 Merkins – Inch Worm In – Imperial Walker
Together Run up hill 15 wide rail merkins and run down hill

4×10 reps each
L Sit Passover
L Sit Seesaw Press
Together Run up hill 15 wide rail merkins and run down hill

4×10 reps each
Kneeling Passover
Kneeling Seesaw Press
Together Run up hill 15 wide rail merkins and run down hill

11s
Step Ups with Rocks – Alt curls with static hold

MARY:
25 flutter kicks
10 suitcase crunches
Something Mayberry did
15 GA Cheerleaders

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT: read Jeremiah 29:11 and shared that birthdays are a good time to reflect on what’s been accomplished and what you want to still do. Also discussed that we tend to overestimate what we can accomplish is a short time and greatly underestimate what can be accomplished longer. So please look at any hardship through the lens of the last several years vs minutes, hours, or days. It will help you recognize that there’s a process happening and right now you might just be at a hard point.

Blackout Game

AO: the-farm
Q: Einstein
PAX: Lightweight, Bartman, Choir Boy, Aladdin, Einstein
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP:
SSH, Arm Circles, Cherry Pickers, Tempo squats and merkins, downward dog and cobra

THE THANG:
Divided into two teams
Roll a dice labeled with 0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3
Whatever you roll, run that many light posts and do 20 ct of the exercises
Yes, if you roll the same number you keep doing it.
Win by completing each number.

Exercises
Rd 1 Suitcase, bench dips, squats, merkins
Rd 2 American Hammer, Box Jumps, Twinkle Toes, CDDs
Rd 3 Pickle Pounders, incline merkins, monkey Humpers, Georgia Cheerleaders

MARY:
No time

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Escape Haw ridge

COT:
In a world full of randomness people overestimate their ability to predict events. Just when we think we have it figured out, something unexpected happens. How we handle ourselves in these moments is critical. You can either let it defeat you, or embrace that it’s God’s plan for you. Choosing God’s path will positively shape your character.

Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.