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It’s Football Time at JUCO, Tennessee!

THE SCENE: 

Clear, 68, humid

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:
1. Tempo Cherry Pickers (x5), 2. Hairy Rockettes (x10) 3. Tempo Merkins (x10), 4. Tempo Squats (x10), 5. SSH (x20), 6. Toe Merkins (x30)

THA-THANG:
Count off and remember your number (*will need later). Partner up. Line up single file, in partnership and mosey around the outer loop to the coupon pile. With a football, 1 partner will throw a pass out front to 2nd partner. After completed catch, ball goes to the next two in line and partners fall to the back of the line. Continue on to the next 2. If you drop or incomplete a pass, both partners will drop and each do 2 burpees and fall to the back. Continue until we reach the coupon pile.

Each duo will grab one coupon. One partner to start the following exercises and total rep countdown while the second partner runs to top of the stairs and does 2 burpees. When partner returns, they switch roles and continue countdown to 100. When all 300 are complete, they are finished:

  • 100 Curls
  • 100 Tricep Press
  • 100 Overhead Press

Mosey to the far eastside parking lot with football passes. Again, if you decide to pass and drop, 2 burpees.

At the parking lot, everyone will start the following exercises while 3 (*Numbers 1-3, 4-6, etc.) will take turns running single pass routes as QB, WR, DB (just for fun).

  • 20 Single Count Lunges
  • 20 Squats
  • 20 SSH
  • 25 Freddie Mercury’s
  • REPEAT until everyone has had a turn at passing or time expires.

MARY:
Mosey back to COT with football passes. 1. Flutter Kicks – Two count (x20) 2. Hello Dolly (x25)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

22 HIMs including 9 RUSH. 1 FNG: @Fab Five (Mark Tichon)

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

I was reading a devotional by Paul David Tripp. On one day he says “If God intended for all the days of your life to be easy, they would be. No, in grace, he intends for your days to be his tools of refinement.”

If it was up to me and MY agenda, everyday would bring peace, comfort, pleasure, predictability. I’d have all the money I needed. I’d never be sick. My relationships would be flawless. Suffering would not be part of that. Waking up at 4:50 to exercise would not be part of that. Losing a job, marriage, a friend or a family member would not be in that equation. We like to define God’s goodness, faithfulness, love by how he meets our agenda.

But…

‘Consider it a great joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you experience various trials, because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing. ‘
James 1:2-4

‘You rejoice in this, even though now for a short time, if necessary, you suffer grief in various trials so that the proven character of your faith — more valuable than gold which, though perishable, is refined by fire — may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. ‘
1 Peter 1:6-7

‘Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. We have also obtained access through him by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we boast in the hope of the glory of God. And not only that, but we also boast in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces endurance, endurance produces proven character, and proven character produces hope. This hope will not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. ‘
Romans 5:1-5

There are many passages like this…God is not working to meet our personal definition of happiness. And when we are expecting that, we are going to be disappointed. We’re going to wonder where he is and if he really loves us. But if we understand that just maybe God is after something better, which is our becoming holy (sanctified). We don’t get stronger when we “fart-sack”, right? We don’t learn how to win until we’ve been beaten a few times and we see the better plan. So just remember that his love and his plan is much greater than ours. He offers true hope and redemption and I hope you’ll take that with you today. Trust in that and have courage.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

F3 family picnic on September 11 from 4 pm to 8 pm at Victor Ashe Park.

Registration is still OPEN for the 2022 Iron PAX Challenge.

4th Annual Road Less Traveled

THE SCENE: Not bad, decent breeze and 65 degrees
WARM-O-RAMA:

Warm Up Jog including High Knees and Kick Backs
SSH
Tempo Squat
Merkins
Freddy Mercury

THA-THANG:

Mosey to the Greenway Path, doing 1 set of the following every 3-4 min
30 Merkins
40 Freddy Merkins
40 Squats
Leaders will wagon wheel after every set to get back to the 6, and start each new leg together
Continue to do 1 set of each of the above until we complete the nearly 3 miles course
Mosey back to the AO

MARY:
Various types of Core exercises (Flutter Kicks, Box Cutters, etc)

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
Is this more than a workout for you?  Are you reaching out? I hope you use this group to encourage, to seek wisdom, to strengthen, to uplift — I have seen this group become the Body of Christ

Speak up

THE SCENE: 68, expectedly humid but not oppressive
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Cherry Pickers, Mountain Climbers, Plank Jax, Moroccan night club, baby arm circles, dive bombers and stuff.
THA-THANG:

Gave the CMU’s by the flag a tour of campus.  2 Teams.  Team 1 had to carry the cmu while the other did an exercise and then caught up.  Team 1 would then do that exercise and catch up.  The carry rotated through Rifle, Curl, Triceps and [farmer] carry.

The stationary exercises were:

30 Plank Jacks
30 Merkins
15 Burpees
25 Freddie Mercury
30 LBC
30 Flutter (Count 1 leg)
30 Mountain Climbers; count 1 leg
20 Core Exercise chosen by team 1: American Hammer
20 Core Exercise chosen by team 2: Shoulder Taps

 

We then hung out on the loading dock doing leg raises while your partner did 3 thrusters, then wall hops onto the loading dock while your partner did another 3 thrusters.
Returned the CMU home and had some time for a foot race.  I was not able

MARY:
Shoulder taps, Heels to heaven, Hello Dolly and American Hammers
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Speak up for what God is doing in your life.  When we go through trials or experience blessings, we are not meant to keep these things to ourselves.  God receives glory when we talk about His nearness in a trial or His joy in seeing Him at work in us and those around us.

But why don’t we?

Maybe it is embarrassment – not wanting to be seen as overly spiritual.  Don’t want it to be seen as bragging.  Too often we don’t have a polished, TV ready story of how God has been at work in our life. Or maybe it isn’t dramatic enough or we too private about things.  Consider those things but also consider how to appropriately share what God is up to.
Find an audience: your kids, your wife, the guys out here, a friend at church
Share what God has been doing.
Luke 19 Says the stones will cry out if we don’t give God glory.  “I tell you, if these [disciples] were silent, the very stones would cry out”.
1 Peter 3:15 calls us to be ready to explain the hope that resides in us.

“but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect.”

Yes that’s about witnessing, but God’s faithfulness in our life is a huge part of that hope.
MOLESKIN:
To practice this I’ll share 1 big thing and 1 “little”: God has been so good to show Himself working through my oldest daughter.  She recently returned from a month in Nicaragua.  It’s been so clear that God was working through her.  It’s been evident in her love for the people there and the doors that God opened logistically for her to be there and spiritually to connect with students, now great friends, on deep and important truths.

Sunday, my family had a chance to hike Frozen Head between 2 storms.  On the way there it was torrential downpour, but just a light rain as we started hiking.  Miracle #1 is that my M allowed the hike to continue, but it cleared up, the fog was cool, the sun came out again, then it rained lightly some but the tree cover was thick enough to stay mostly dry.  We had the trail to ourselves, saw tons of frogs (that I thought were snakes every time I saw them move), turtles and a full rainbow of mushrooms.  The breeze kicked up where we turned around ant it actually felt comfortable.  For me, and my family, it’s easy to see God at work when we are in the elements, enjoying nature and blessed with the chance to be together.

To God be the glory for the big and little things.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Service Project Saturday 7am.  See Slack for details!

 

100 Down at the DogPound

THE SCENE: The rain held off until almost the end

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER Done and done well… sort of 

WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH IC x20 | LBAC IC x10 each way | Cherry Pickers IC x5 | Tempo Squat IC x10

THA-THANG:

  • Grab a CMU and head across the street. Leave CMU at the Parking Lot entrance, don’t worry, we will see them soon…
  • Mosey to Skatepark. Complete the exercises & reps. After each round, run up and over the wall (or around and do 1 Burpee), run along the wall and do 1 Squat Thruster where you dropped your CMU, and return to Skatepark for the next round. Once down the ladder, go back up! Add 1 Squat Thruster each round
    • 100 SSH single count
    • 90 LBCs
    • 80 Mountain Climbers
    • 70 Squats
    • 60 Flutters 2 ct. 
    • 50 Merkins
    • 40 American Hammers 2 ct. 
    • 30 Shoulder taps 2 ct. 
    • 20 BBS
    • 10 Imperial Squat Walkers 
    • 5 Body Builder+’s 

MARY:

Waiting on cars while crossing the road, there just wasn’t time for Mary

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

12 HIMs; 1 FNG (Peffercorn)

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Decide. Commit. Succeed.

Disobedience

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THE SCENE: Dark, above freezing & perfect for a gloomy workout
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH IC x 25
  • Windmill IC x 10
  • Little bit of this and a little bit of that
  • Cherry Pickers IC x 5 (Dogg Pound Style)
  • Warm-ups, Butt-kickers, High Knees, Karaoke & Prime Time’s

THA-THANG:
Grab a CMU & mosey to the track

  • 10 CMU Shoulderings (2 ct)
  • Run 3 laps
  • 10 CMU Shoulderings
  • 20 Over the Top Merkins
  • Run 2 laps
  • 10 CMU Shoulderings
  • 20 Over the Top Merkins
  • 30 Thrusters (Elbows to Knee, head through the Window)
  • Run 1 lap – This is where we ran out of time, but had we finished…
  • 10 CMU Shoulderings
  • 20 Over the Top Merkins
  • 30 Thrusters
  • 40 2 Feet Mountain Climbers

MARY:
Bro-ga

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
7 PAX
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Have you ever asked your kids to complete a chore? Maybe on this occasion they didn’t really want to. They eventually end up doing it, but not before dragging their feet, walking super slow, staring at the task and then begrudgingly start. How did that you make you feel? If you’re like me you anxiety kicks into overdrive and you start offering some verbal motivation.

Have you ever felt a calling in your life, or felt that God wanted you to move in one direction over another? Maybe on this occasion you said, “I’ll pray about it…” “Let me think about it…” Maybe you drug your feet a little…

What we know as Parents or as Leaders, is that delayed obedience is really disobedience. Next time you feel God pulling you in one direction or another, just do it! Don’t delay.

Do you think when Noah was asked to the build the Ark that he was hemming and hawing before he got to work? Or do you think he just got started? He didn’t even know what an Ark was…

If you feel God calling you into something, just step into it. Immediately.

MOLESKIN:

We’re missing Men from our consistent Tuesday crowd. A lot of people are sick right now. Please make sure to pray this week especially for Excitebike and the loss of his Grandfather, Junk & Family as they are answering a call into being foster parents and our community as sickness is spreading fast.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: