A Beatdown of Chance

DATE: 2022-10-22
AO: Sandlot
Q: Traveler
PAX: citrus, spartan, Boomer
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WARMUP: SSH, LBAC, Michael Phelps
THE THANG:

Dice Games!
Rules:
PAX took turns rolling 3 dice. Sum of the dice were the quantity of an exercise that all PAX completed together. Triples = no reps.
Straight = 30 yard bear crawl, then crawl bear back.

Take a lap after every 3 rounds.

Set 1: Merkins, BWS, Flutter kicks, SSH (3x)
Set 2: Box jumps, derkins, Freddie mercuries IC, calf raises (3x)
Set 3. BATTLE ROUND: 1v1 die role. Winner gets to choose between burpees (sum of dice) or sprint 50 yard out and back. Tie goes to both doing burpees.

Then ran through the neighborhood and finished with a big hill sprint.

MARY: Heels to Heaven
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Grunt coming up! Cornhole!
COT: Quote from St. Pope John Paul II: “The person doing the work matters more than the work the person is doing.” Let’s strive to seek God in the people that we encounter rather than thinking about what value we can extra f from them.

Inch Worm it is

DATE: 2022-10-21
AO: Sparta
Q: Lightyear
PAX: Doodles, Zeus, Monk, Peanuts
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP: a little Micheal Phelps, hairy rockets, cherry pickers, Willy Maze Haze, and 1 lap mosey
THE THANG: coupons! Partner workout, partner 1 Rifle Carries coup across the football field then regular carry back while partner 2 does a workout. 2 rounds of each workout for each partner (I.e., partner 1 and 2 get to do merkins twice). Workouts were: Merkins, Big Boys, goblet squats, American Hammers. NEXT, PAX competed three rounds of a the inchworm…. Think Ricky Bobby but in a plank with the last person doing a bear crawl to the front.
MARY: PAX round Robbin – Penguin taps, LBCs, sit ups, Pickle Pointers, in and outs. ANNOUNCEMENTS: road clean up on the 29th
COT: Iron Sharpen Iron … there’s more to the proverb. The process of iron sharpening iron difficult. This process creates sparks and at times can be brutal. Just like we make each other better, it’s not always an easy of comfortable process. Sometimes making one another better will create friction and sparks might fly…get out there, make your fellow man better, and if needed get uncomfortable.

A Beatdown for the Ages

DATE: 2022-10-21
AO: Horizon-Ao
Q: Maj. Payne
PAX: Mr Haand, Fish Fry, 3 mile, Lazlo, Kodiak, Median, Magoo, Undertow, sticks, Gherkin, Yardbird FNGs: Attache, DRPAX Willis (F3 South Charlotte)
COUNT: 14
14 PAX stumbled into the shivvery gloom this morning to be warmed up by the Q. It wasn’t easy, but YHC pushed and prodded and kept all PAX sufficiently warm to get them safely to post beatdown coffeeteria. Always an honor to lead this group!

WARMUP:
400 yd run around Horizon AO
20 x SSH
1 x Burpee
15 x Body weight squats
2 x Burpees
10 x Cherry Pickers
3 x Burpees
15 x IW
4 x Burpees
10 x Merkins
5 x Burpees

THE THANG:
Set 1: Three (3) rounds of the following:

5 x Burpees, 10 x Coupon Curls, 15 x Coupon Squats, 20 x Overhead Coupon Press

Set 2:

Then four (4) total rounds of the following (2 sets of 2 rounds):

200 Yd Run – down and back on the soccer field
20 x Squat Jumps, 15 x Merkins, 10 x No Push Up Burpees

Set 3: mosey to playground for two (2) rounds of the following: 20 Yds Broad Jump, 20 Yds Backwards run
15 x Aussie Push-ups, 15 x Bottom Half Burpees / Groiners
10 x Hand Release Merkins, 10 x Mountain Climbers (hard count)

MARY:
10 x Coupon Flutter kicks
10 x American Twists
20 x Coupon LBCs

ANNOUNCEMENTS: The Grunt (Nov 12 – see #thegrunt) and CornHole Tournament (Oct 30 – see #2ndf)

COT:
YHC was thinking about the meaning of life recently. Viktor Frankls’s Man’s Search for Meaning is a 200-page book detailing his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and it serves as a good place to start. In it, he describes identifying a purpose in life to feel positive about, and then immersively imagining that outcome.

During his experience in the camp, he found that the way a prisoner imagined the future affected his longevity. He concludes in the book that the meaning of life is found in every moment of living. Life never ceases to have meaning, even in suffering and death.

A story he relates in the book involves a group therapy session during a mass fast inflicted on the camp’s inmates trying to protect an anonymous fellow inmate from death by the authorities. Frankl offers the thought that for everyone in a dire condition there is someone looking down, a friend, family member, or even God, who would expect not to be disappointed. He concludes from his experience that a person’s psychological reactions are not solely the result of the conditions of his life, but also from the freedom of choice he always has even in severe suffering. The inner hold a person has on his spiritual self relies on having a hope in the future, and that once a person loses that hope, he is doomed.

So The meaning of life is not our question to ask. Instead it is we who are being asked the question. It is our lives that are the answer. No amount of travel or reading or clever sayings can tell you what you want to know. Instead it is you who must find the answer in your actions – by embodying the principles of justice, self control, courage, freedom, and abstaining from evil.

Aye!

Yin/Yang Friday w @Patchouli

DATE: 2022-10-21
AO: Patriot
Q: CableGuy
PAX: Old Bay, Maguire, Shake ‘N’ Bake, Lucius, My Space, citrus, Legacy, Patchouli, Popup, Flipper, Einar Olsen, Wallace, Ice Tea, Big Short, Elvis FNGs: None
COUNT: 16
WARMUP: SSH, Imperial Walker, Arm Circles, Cherry Picker, WM Hayes, Down Dog, Cobra Kai, Fellowship Lap THE THANG:
Murder Bunny round: 10m
MB to the 10 – run back
Run to your coupon, MB to the 30 – run back
Run to your coupon, MB to the 50 – run back
Run to your coupon, MB to the far goal line and hold
–> Then: 12 minute EMOM 20 Merkins
–> Rifle carry back to the East goal line for a Broga sesh with @Patchouli MARY: Broga-delivered
ANNOUNCEMENTS: The Grunt, Cornhole
COT: Continuing somewhat on Booking’s theme from Wednesday: Lean on this group. We’ve all got problems – this is a space where you can let your guard and posturing down and have honest conversations with your brothers. Support others and allow yourself to be supported. Personally, I lost my mom last month and the acknowledgement of those in this group and just being seen was tremendously helpful for me. Before that we had a terrible winter in our house full of illnesses and injuries and just being able to be here helped me. One of the hardest things to do is to admit a problem or a struggle and be vulnerable and allow yourself to be supported. Flip the script and allow yourself to be supported.

Tabata

DATE: 2022-10-21
AO: Farm
Q: Matthew – Running Man
PAX: Chile
FNGs: None
COUNT: 2
WARMUP:
Itty bitty arm circles
Beet pickers
Don quixotes
Willy Mays Hayes

THE THANG:
Tabata:
Burpees
Dips
LBCs
Squats
Lunges
Glute bridges

MARY:
Penguin crunches
Leg lifts
Flutter kicks

ANNOUNCEMENTS: none

COT:
God answers prayers! I’ve been praying for an answer on how to react to a certain situation, and 2 talks in church as well as the Sunday school lesson all answered my question. God is good.