F3 Knoxville

[the-pulpit] February Metric

AO: the-pulpit
Q: Betty
PAX: Leland Robbins (Geiger), Ike, Smoked Pickle, Betty, Snitch (Cory Beilharz ), Chuck
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARMUP:

THE THANG:
Here is the February/August challenge:
Metric Workout #2

(1) 1.5 mile (2,400 meter) run for time
Distance does NOT have to be precise. Should be approximately 1.5 miles – and the same AO-specific route should be run each time this workout is performed (February / Augu Th st).
(2) Max BBS in 1 minute
Partner up. Partner can hold your feet, if desired. Arms crossed at your chest or hands behind your head. Elbows touch your knees on “up.” Shoulders touch the ground on “down”.
(3) Max merkins in 1 minute
Partner up. Partner puts his fist on the ground while other does merkins. Chest must touch his fist to count as a rep.
(4) Max pull-ups
Max that can be performed before letting go of the bar. No time limit. Modify as necessary if AO lacks a good bar.
(5) Max burpees in 5 minutes
Standard “full” burpee with a merkin and a jump. Clap or don’t clap….your choice.

Record reps and time here

MARY:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT: Don’t be complacent even when you are winning. If you want to 3-peat you have to keep showing up and working hard everyday.

3 rounds of 3 rounds

AO: asylum-am
Q: Gibbler
PAX: Matlock (Bill Maddox), Tropicana, P3, Bunny, Cat Gut (Mike Davis), Hands, Hot Tub (John Muller), Cinco (Scott McGuire), Double Wide, Gibbler, TRC/Crab legs, @Newton
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
WARMUP: tie fighters and squat and merkins

THE THANG: mosey to oval for a variety of merkins, squats and abs with running to a fantastic destination for up downs and dealers choice at muscle beach and finish with squat suicides.

MARY: mixed in with everything else

ANNOUNCEMENTS: haw ridge and brolunch with Matlock (Bill Maddox)buying become loves us so much. Prayers for Hands family.

COT: God is working in and around us even though we lack the big picture. Come back tomorrow

[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.

[clinton-otb] Heavy Tabata Stations

AO: clinton-otb
Q: Bail Bonds
PAX: Natty, Biohazard (Jay Shepherd), Biohack, Mathlete, flyball, Colonel (Alex Wallace), Ryan S, Bail Bonds, Ryan S. was our FNG who is now Mud Bug.
FNGs: 1 Ryan S. was our FNG who is now Mud Bug.
COUNT: 9
WARMUP:
Cherry Pickers, Lateral Lunges, OH Claps, Seal Claps, Tie Fighters, SSH, TN Rocking Chairs, Peter Parkers, Supermans, monkey humpers, LBCs

THE THANG:
Mosey the Greenway
3x through:
40 srcond tabata, 10 second transition, bear crawl between stations.
Wall ball
60# sandbag front squat
CMU OH Press
Mtn. Climbers
Alternating Lunges
Merkins
Curls
BBs with 15# KB press at the top
35# KB Swings
40# dumbell tricep extensions

MARY:
No time

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Escape Haw Ridge 3/28

COT:
We are commanded to love one another. Bearing a brother’s burden with him is a way to do that. F3 is a place where we can lean on each other, praying for and with our brothers as they go through trials and temptations. Below is commentary based on a sermon I heard recently.

The following is an excerpt from The MacArthur New Testament Commentary on Galatians 6.

Bear one another’s burdens, and thus fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have reason for boasting in regard to himself alone, and not in regard to another. For each one shall bear his own load. (Galatians 6:2–5)

Christians are continually (present tense) to bear one another’s burdens. Bear has the thought of carrying with endurance, and burdens is from baros, which refers to heavy loads that are difficult to lift and carry. Used metaphorically, as here, it represents any difficulty or problem a person has trouble coping with. In this context the reference suggests burdens that tempt a sinning believer to fall back into the trespass from which he has just been delivered. A persistent, oppressing temptation is one of the heaviest burdens a Christian can have.
To be freed from a sin is not always to be freed from its temptation. The spiritual believer who truly loves his brother and sincerely wants to restore him to a walk by the Spirit will continue to spend time with him and make himself available for counsel and encouragement. Prayer is the most powerful weapon believers have in conquering sin and opposing Satan, and nothing helps a brother carry his burdens as much as prayer for him and with him.

The brother who has been delivered from a trespass has an obligation to let his spiritual friends help him carry his burdens, It is not spirituality but pride that makes a person want to “go it alone.” James tells believers to “confess [their] sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that [they] may be healed” (James 5:16). God Himself is the believer’s ultimate source of strength, and on Him we are called to cast our burdens (Ps. 5:22) and our cares (1 Pet. 5:7). But He often uses fellow believers as His agents to help carry the burdens of His children.