Circuit from 2/8

1 min per exercise

Warm up:

High knees (add arms)

High knees to side (wide)

Side lunge into stretch

Mountain Climbers

Standing wide leg stretch

Set 1:

Knee to Tricep hold plank 

Squat  knee up alt

Lunge hold (switch legs after 30 sec)

Sit up (criss cross legs)

pike push up

   Set 2:

Reverse plank (tabletop)

Little jumps arms out to side

Squat kick (alt legs)

Superman ball squeeze

Helicoptor

Repeat set 1 and 2

Cool down:

One Arm across body (pull) then switch after 30 sec
grab foot, point knee (for thigh stretch) switch after 30 sec, 
point one toe up stretch then switch after 30 sec, 
then wrist, twist side side , neck rolls ,deep breathes ,shoulders back (20-30 sec stretch for all the rest)

New Year's Challenge...

Here's to a new year!!
Who's up for a challenge?

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Oh Holy Night

O holy night, the stars are brightly shining;
It is the night of the dear Savior’s birth!
Long lay the world in sin and error pining,
Till He appeared and the soul felt its worth.
A thrill of hope, the weary soul rejoices,
For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn.
Fall on your knees, O hear the angel voices!
O night divine, O night when Christ was born!

O night, O holy night, O night divine!

Led by the light of faith serenely beaming,
With glowing hearts by His cradle we stand.
So led by light of a star sweetly gleaming,
Here came the wise men from Orient land.
The King of kings lay thus in lowly manger,
In all our trials born to be our Friend!
He knows our need—to our weakness is no stranger.
Behold your King; before Him lowly bend!
Behold your King; before Him lowly bend!

Truly He taught us to love one another;
His law is love and His Gospel is peace.
Chains shall He break for the slave is our brother
And in His Name all oppression shall cease.
Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we,
Let all within us praise His holy Name!
Christ is the Lord! O praise His name forever!
His pow’r and glory evermore proclaim!
His pow’r and glory evermore proclaim!

Let's Get Together!!

So we wanted to do something fun this month...and Hunger Games comes out, too!!
Hope you will join us on Thursday, November 19th at the Carmike 12 Theater in Spring Hill for the 7:30 showing of Hunger Games!! We just got our tickets online! Can you join us? It will be fun!!

Accountability group?

We encourage you to talk/text/email with your accountability group once a week this month. If you need a group please let us know!!

• Behavioral accountability is choosing to be honest with another person or group of people about our obvious habits or tendencies.  Do we overspend or blow our budget? Are we lazy at our jobs? Do we gossip or slander someone’s reputation? Do we lose our temper with our spouses or children? Are we addicted to anything? Is technology or work stealing attention from our families? Do we lack spiritual discipline? Do we neglect making opportunities to share our faith? Confessing these sorts of struggles is very important: it stops bad habits from festering into deeper issues. But it is only the beginning of helpful accountability.

• Motivational accountability is choosing to be honest with another person or group of people about the desires and thoughts that truly drive and move us. This is about getting to the “sin beneath the sin.” It may not even be sin of which we are consciously aware, so we need another set of eyes to help us see what we cannot. Motivational accountability requires really knowing one another and asking the hard heart questions. Are we fascinated with Christ and the gospel? Do I find great joy in God? What do we desire more than anything else? What do we find ourselves daydreaming or fantasizing about? Do we covet anything? Do we think more about how we can serve ourselves or how we can boast in Christ and serve others? Are we holding on to bitterness? Where do our thoughts drift to when we enter social settings? Where do our thoughts take us when we are all alone? What lies do we believe that continually drive us to disobey God? Do we love anything more than God?

We would love to hear how your groups are doing!!

Costume Zumba is 29 this month. Start planning what you are going to wear. We will have drawings for prizes for everyone that participates!!

Class starts Monday, August 17th at 6:30!

Please print off the participation form and fill it out (neatly) and bring it with you to your first class. We will see you Monday, August 17th at 6:30!

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The Aroma….

Think of it now… cookies baking fresh flowers clean laundry out of the dryer the beach All of these things bring to mind things that have a definite smell. And not just any smell, but one that we like, one that we experience, one that we can recognize without even seeing it. This, ladies, is how we are to be to the world! We are to radiate Christ through ourselves that everyone can see Him living in us. We are to transform the very air we live in because He lives in us. Please try to remember this as you go about your day. We can help people see Jesus living in us by: giving someone a drink of water on a hot day, sponsoring a child in a destitute land, teaching a Sunday School class, donating our time to help at a food bank, opening a door for someone and smiling at them (and maybe even talking to them). Let's be the fragrance of a merciful God, a loving God, a compassionate God to this lost world! 2 Corinthians 2:14New International Version (NIV) 14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere.