When You Have No Q – Everyone Can Q

DATE: 2022-01-25
AO: Delphi
Q: YNAB
PAX: Ashe, Lightyear, Bluegrass, Rambler, Pop Fly, Sheldon
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WARMUP: YNAB led the warm up with comprised of gale force wind windmills

THE THANG:
(1) Rambler led us through 3 rounds of Partnered Exercises – partner 1 gets to 30 yard line by some means of transportation, Partner 2 does an exercise. Then, we switched
(2) Ashe led us on a tour of little know field 2. Then we ran up a rather steep hill (twice) and finished off with some Ricky Bobby with the 6 doing a burpee, sprinting to the front, and calling an AB exercise. Rinse and Repeat
(3) Pop Fly made us wall sit and bear crawl from back of the wall sit line to the front. A wall sit / bear crawl Ricky Bobby

MARY: Lightyear finished us off with a Ring of Fire of 6 inches and leg tosses.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: ARC, Burden Run, Sleep is important

COT: A man on top of the mountain didn’t just fall there.” –Vince Lombardi

Split the Circle – Arms & Legs for the price of one Beatdown!

DATE: 2022-01-25
AO: Freestate
Q: Horshack
PAX: Winston, Deagle, Butter, CashOnly, ShowMe
FNGs: DungeonMaster, Cartel (FNG)
COUNT: 8
WARMUP:
SSH x 25 IC
Mountain Climbers x 15 IC
Swing Billies x 14 IC
Windmills x 12 IC
Two laps with karaoke (1) and jailbreak (2) sprints on the sides Learning to Fly x 10 (arm circles with slow squats – five each direction) Plank Jack Merkins x 11 IC
Harry Rockettes x 16 IC
Cherry Pickers x 13 IC

THE THANG:
Split the Circle x 3 Rounds – Grab the Coupons (45 sec on / 15 off) Legs: Squats & Alternating Lunges
Arms: Curls & Cross Grip Upward Rows
TRANSITION: Yoke Walk between Arms & Legs (x 4)

MARY:
Freddie Mercuries x 16 IC
Box Cutters x 10 Each Way IC (hold Coupon Up)
Leg Lift Rosalitas x 18 IC
American Hammers x 14 IC
Flutters x 21 IC

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
* Switching over to What’s App. If you’re not on Slack, let Deagle know
* Thirsty 4th Thursday – Irish Inn at Glen Echo at 6:30p (others from Capital Region might join us)
* First Saturday is Feb 5th – Adopt a Road Clean up after our beatdown. I will have the Service Learning forms with me to sign.
* Saturday March 12 – Old Bay & Magoo looking to enlist our support and participation in a tri-state Ruck / Hike across Chain Bridge Road (it would replace our 2nd Saturday run)

COT:
* Count-o-rama; Name-o-rama
* Named our newest FNG Cartel (David Antonioli)

Q Source 2.6 “Correction”

Being willing to correct others for the good of the group, toward a shared standard. Correction demonstrates advocacy, courage and love – especially in the face of resistance and when delivered to a group’s leadership.

Groups who are committed to a shared standard create and reinforce guardrails to protect the standard from compromise. In other words, members with a shared standard must advocate for it and preach what they practice. It takes courage.

Group members who care about their standards seek accountability knowing we suffer from the inevitable slippage and shortcomings. Like all humans, we know each of us have personal blind spots and occasionally succumb to hypocrisy.

Being a corrector is a culturally thankless job–but one that is necessary for the ultimate Advantage of the Group. But correction takes more than courage – it also takes love.

Telling a hard truth, that is, a truth that most would like to avoid, carries a bit of shame for the group if even for just a moment. As long as the intent of correction is not to shame, but to build up the group. If so, the intent comes from love. Without the intent of love, but rather with the intent to diminish others, correction can easily become bullying.

11s w/coupons Low Impact

DATE: 2022-01-25
AO: Atlantis
Q: Infinity
PAX: Rogue, Riot, Hammerhead, True North, Deflator
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WarmUp: Rockettes, IWs, Beet Pickers, Don Quixotes, LBACs, and Mountain Climbers

The Thang: 11’s:
Merkins and Step Ups with coupon
Shoulder Presses and Reverse Lunges (both w/coupon)
Bear Crawls IC and CDDs
Thrusters and Calf Raises IC (both w/coupon)

10-1 Jack Webb’s: 10, 9, 8,… to 1 Merkins and Air Presses in sequence

Mary:
10 Captain Thor’s: 1:4 Big Boi Sit-ups to AHs (single count)
Start at 10 BBSU and 40 AHs, the decrease by 2 BBSU and 8 AHs for 5 rounds down to 2

CoT: QIC related the following tale of “Nightbirde” Jane Marczewski
She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2017, and declared cancer-free in July 2018. Her cancer recurred in 2019, and she was given 3 to 6 months to live, but she was again declared cancer-free in 2020. Prior to the America’s Got Talent audition, she was told that the cancer had metastasized to her lungs, spine, and liver and her chance of survival was 2%.

In June 2021, she performed as Nightbirde during the 16th season auditions on America’s Got Talent. She received a Golden Buzzer from Simon Cowell for her performance of her original song “It’s OK”. The song became No. 1 on iTunes and No. 2 trending on YouTube.

In August 2021, before she could compete in the show’s quarterfinal round, Marczewski withdrew from the competition because of worsening health.

“You cannot wait until life stops being hard until you decide to be happy.” – “Nightbirde” Jane Marczewski

So, what would you do if you had a 2% chance to live? Nightbirde chose to appear on America’s Got Talent, but you may have some other dream to pursue. How would you treat those in your life? What would you do differently?

Monotonous Monday Morning

DATE: 2022-01-24
AO: Patriot
Q: Maguire
PAX: 2 percent, Faceplant, Big Short, Bone, Ice Tea, My Space, Roadkill, Shake and Bake, Spokes, Wedding Singer FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WARMUP: SSH. Hillbillies. WMH. Cherry Pickers. LBAC. A few burpees.
THE THANG: 400m and then 20 merkins. 20 climbers. 20 Squats. 20 air claps. Repeat. Repeat. (Lost count. We did it 6 or 7x). MARY: LBCs and Stretching
ANNOUNCEMENTS: see @bone
COT: Monotony Morning. Life often is monotonous (personal and professional). Persevere. Everything is not forever. Work hard to get through it. Light at the end of the tunnel.