THE SCENE: 35 and cloudy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
This much fun can’t be free is it???
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 reps of
- SSH
- LUNGES
- CHERRY PICKERS
- HIGH KNEES
- BUTT KICKERS
- RUNNING WITH BURPEES
THE THANG
The workout had three stages.
1) Tabata warmup
Run to cmu pile, with a few burpees along the way. Get yourself a cmu and run to the brick wall.
Do 20 seconds of work (with 10 seconds of rest) of the following
- CMU Pull Overs
- CMU Push ups (on your back)
- CMU Freddy Murcuries
- CMU Pull Overs
- CMU Push ups (on your back)
- CMU Freddy Murcuries
2) BBB’s Over to the bowl
Take about 15 minutes to get to the bowl hill (perhaps Stadium is a better name, yeah I like that). You only move the block by doing a big boy by grabbing the block which is behind you and moving it to between your feet. Then get up and do a broad jump (hopefully about equal to your fully extended body length), and roll back to grab and move the block by doing a big boy situp. Thus moving the block.
We sucked up some time with this one and made it about 3/4 of the way there and then transitioned to mosey with it, in the interest of what was to come!!!!
3) BEAR MOUNTAIN
Start at the bottom of the stadium and take two lunges up the hill with your cmu. Drop your CMU and backwards bear crawl back to where you started and then forwards bear crawl back up to your CMU. Pick up your CMU and do two lunges.
Repeat this cycle until we get to the top of the hill.
MARY:
Back at the AO, do 20 exercises, in cadence, of your choosing. We ended up with a wicked core workout:
- Merkins
- Flutter Kicks
- Side Crunches
- Freddy Murcuries
- Squats
- Mountain Climbers
- can’t remember??
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Challenged by @FAST-N-EASY several weeks ago I was reflecting on scripture backup for the “God says NO” verses which are:
- I asked God to take away my habit. God Said, No. It is not for me to take away, but for you to give it up.
- I asked God to make my handicapped child whole. God said, No. His spirit is whole, his body is only temporary.
- I asked God to grant me patience. God said, No. Patience is a byproduct of tribulations; it isn’t granted, it is learned.
- I asked God to give me happiness. God said, No. I give you blessings; Happiness is up to you.
- I asked God to spare me pain. God said, No. Suffering draws you apart from worldly cares and brings you closer to me.
- I asked God to make my spirit grow. God said, No. You must grown on your own, but I will prune you to make you fruitful.
- I asked God for all things that I might enjoy life. God said, No. I will give you life that you may enjoy all things.
- I asked God to help me love others as much as he loves me. God said, Ahhhh, finaly you have the idea.
This day is yours, don’t throw it away
This letter really challenges and resonates with me. We know we have a loving God but are still faced with the reality of so much suffering in this world. In reading 2 Kings 23, I was floored by the scripture saying:
https://www.bible.com/bible/100/2KI.23.NASB
25Before him there was no king like him who turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; nor did any like him arise after him.
26However, the Lord did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath with which His anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him. 27The Lord said, “I will remove Judah also from My sight, as I have removed Israel. And I will cast off Jerusalem, this city which I have chosen, and the temple of which I said, ‘My name shall be there.'”
Which sort of, in my mind, backs up the “God says No” writtings. His ways are not our ways, Today is a gift from God, His will, will not be thwarted. We are called out into the deep deep ocean of God’s challenges which do not shy away from challenges and struggles, but push through them. He will not spoil us with forever saying yes to us. Indeed, his challenges are a sign of his love for us. https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/the-painful-discipline-of-our-heavenly-father
For consider him who has endured such hostility by sinners against himself, so that you may not grow weary and lose heart. You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin; and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; for those whom the Lord loves he disciplines, and he scourges every son whom he receives.” It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? . . . All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness. (Hebrews 12:3–11)
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Come on out this Friday for what could possibly be your last chance in 2018 to ascend our beloved JUCO-Manjaro.
