F3 Knoxville

Make Every Effort to Fight Again

Bomb Shelter

THE SCENE: 48 and heavy rain that tapered off as we began.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH x 20.

Cherry pickers x 6.

Windmills x 10.
THA-THANG:
This is the exact same workout from the first time I came to F3 at the Bombshelter two years ago, and Fins was on Q. There are six stations on cones. Bear crawl and drag your CMU between the cones ( which was the length of the Grinder), and after the 6th station, we ran the hill. It was glorious. The stations and reps are below.

  • Station 1 – Blockees x 5.
  • Station 2 – Thrusters x 10.
  • Station 3 – BBS with an American Hammer x 15.
  • Station 4 – Tricep extensions x 20.
  • Station 5 – Goblet squats x 25.
  • Station 6 – Curls x 30.

MARY:
Tempo CMU Big Boys and a little overhead claps for time.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5 HIMs put in work.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
2nd Peter 1:5-8 – “For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith iwith virtue,5 and virtue jwith knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control kwith steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness lwith brotherly affection, and brotherly affection mwith love. For if these qualities6 are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or nunfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
MOLESKIN:
The phrase that I focused on here is “make every effort.” It is an imperative or command in Greek, and I have meditated on it for a while. It doesn’t matter if it is your physical fitness with F3, your mental health, your marriage, or your parenting, men are called to “make every effort.” There is a strain that all men should be under because anything worth doing in this life requires work and sacrifice. Yes brothers, there will be days where you feel ineffective in all of those areas, where you look at your efforts and see no perceivable progress…but that doesn’t matter. We know not to trust our feelings. Feelings come and go. What makes the difference in the long haul is that day in and day out, when life is good and when its bad, we make the effort because we are committed to what matters. I am probably the guy that is in the worst shape at our AO, and sometimes that is discouraging, but the truth is I have to push that aside. What matters is that we get out of the fartsack, get in the gloom, and put in the work. So, let this be a final encouragement to you, whatever it is in your life that is difficult, commit to endure the suffering, commit to put in the work, and make every effort. Our God is worth the struggle. Our families are worth the struggle. Our communities need that effort men, and so for all the times you have shown up when you didn’t want to, when the easier choice was to just stay home, thank you. God bless you.
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