THE SCENE: Dry, 30ish but felt colder for some reason
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Little Baby Arm Circles Forward (4 ct) x 10
Little Baby Arm Circles Backward (4 ct) x 10
Michael Phelps
A little bit of this and a little bit of that for the arms and the legs
Windmills (4 ct) x 10
Some quick stretching while in the windmill position
14th day of the year
14 burpees
351 days to go
SSH (4 ct) x 50 (251 left)
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the rock pile
SSH (4 ct) x 50 (151 left)
Pick a rock
Rifle carry the rock to the flagpole
SSH (4 ct) x 50 (51 left)
Using the loop as a baseball diamond, we have four rep stations – 1st base (corner near the playground), 2nd base (the top near the tennis courts), 3rd base (stinky corner), and Home (the flagpole).
Mosey to 1st base and do 10 reps of the exercise
Mosey from 1st base to 2nd base and do 20 reps
Mosey from 2nd base to 3rd base and do 30 reps
Mosey from 3rd base to Home and do 40 reps
First lap – Curls (running with rock)
SSH (4 ct) x 25 (1 left)
SSH (single count) x 1
Second lap – Squats (without the rock to let our arms rest)
Third lap – Shoulder presses (with the rock again)
Fourth lap – LBCs (without the rock)
Fellowship mosey to the rock pile to return the rocks
Mosey to the AO
MARY:
Mary is usually all about the abs, but the Q is nursing an ab injury (hopefully that’s all that it is).
My dad’s birthday was this week. He would have been 84 this year. In honor of him and his 84th birthday, each of the PAX did 84 merkins.
In 45 minutes, the PAX did:
14 burpees
351 SSHs
100 curls
100 squats
100 shoulder presses
100 LBCs
84 merkins
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 HIMs struggled together. Tonka had to leave before the pic.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
The saying “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” does not come from the Bible, even though a lot of Christians cite it. It comes from German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who, ironically, did not believe in God.
The saying “God won’t give you more than you can handle” is drawn from 1 Corinthians 10:13, but that verse really deals with temptation, not suffering/struggling.
God does not promise anyone that they won’t suffer/struggle, just ask Job.
So, what’s the point of suffering/struggling?
President Richard Nixon once said that rich people who have it all, who do not work, and who do not struggle “don’t know life because what makes life mean something is purpose, a goal, the battle, the struggle, even if you don’t win it.”
Here is what the Bible does say about suffering/struggling:
“More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.” – Romans 5:3-5.
MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Ribbed’s wife, Submarine and Trunk’s grandmother, and all of our struggles
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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