THE SCENE: Perfect. Near 70 and sunny, with the leaves just starting to change
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER Check.
WARM-O-RAMA:
-20 Side Straddle Hops (4-ct), in cadence
– Air Squared w/10 Overhead/ 10 sideways (seal claps)
– 10 Cherry Pickers (4-ct, in cadence)
– 10 BAC Forward, Backward
-5 Body builders
THA-THANG:
Mosey to corner of circle drive South of the Admin Building at the stop sign.
Mucho Chesto: 10 x Merkin / 10 x Wide Merkin / 10 x Diamonds / 10 Stagger Merkin Left / 10 Stagger Merkin Right
Hey! What’s That??? A pumpkin is just sitting there. Now THAT’S weird. Let’s do F3 things with it!
Indian Run to bottom of Everest. Pass the Pumpkin to the back of the line. When it gets there, that person runs to front, carrying it over his head, then passes it backwards.
- The Pumpkin Says
- Get in a line. Each member of the PAX does the following exercises, passing the pumpkin along the row, doing a special Pumpkin exercise when it gets to them (in parentheses).
- Big Boy Situps (10 American Hammers w/ pumpkin)
- Hold Plank (10 Pumpkin Press Burpees)
- Tempo Squats (10 Squat Thrusts with Pumpkin)
- Get in a line. Each member of the PAX does the following exercises, passing the pumpkin along the row, doing a special Pumpkin exercise when it gets to them (in parentheses).
Indian Run up Everest to base of summit.
- Push the Pumpkin to the Pumpkin Patch!
- Bear Crawl to the pumpkin and do 3 standing broad jumps (or three lunges) with the pumpkin. Leave it and bear crawl back to PAX. Next man up. Keep doing it until we get the pumpkin where it needs to be. PAX is doing:
- 10 LBCs/10 American Hammers/10 Hello Dollies, until it gets to one side
- 10 Bobby Hurleys/10 mountain climbers/10 Iron Mikes until it returns.
- Pumpkin Roll! Each member runs to the summit, then rolls it back down for the next member to carry up. Other PAX are doing burpees until all have completed the final summit. (This is where the Q almost got decapitated by the pumpkin, which was traveling WAY faster than he expected).
- Bear Crawl to the pumpkin and do 3 standing broad jumps (or three lunges) with the pumpkin. Leave it and bear crawl back to PAX. Next man up. Keep doing it until we get the pumpkin where it needs to be. PAX is doing:
MARY:
Captain Thors. X’s and O’s
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Three amigos.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
THE DISEASE OF MORE
I recently read an article about the drive to improve for the sake of improvement. Success is often the first step toward disaster.
The Disease of More is a phrase coined by Pat Riley to describe why championship teams often get dethroned due to internal strife. The players want more… and when they have the championship, it turns to other things. Money, endorsements, accolades, attention, etc. They stop paying attention to the details that got them where they are and it becomes more about egos.
Psychologists didn’t used to focus on happiness. Usually the opposite, they focus on why you are depressed, angry, etc. But in the 1980s there was a bit of a shift in this pattern. There was a study where they gave everyone buzzers, and they were to write down how happy they were and what they were doing when the buzzer went off randomly, on a scale of 1 to 10. Everyone always wrote down a 7, no matter what they were doing. At the grocery store, at a child’s sporting event, making a big sale, etc. During really bad times, it would dip to 2-5, but quickly go back to 7. And during GREAT times (marriages, dream vacation, lottery winner!) would shoot up for a bit, then dip back to 7 again. Things always pretty much seem to be fine… but they could always be better. People thought they could always be “more” happy. Hence, the 7. The trick is the brain always telling you, if I could just have X, Y, or Z, then I’d be happier and finally reach a 9 or 10.
Hedonic Treadmill: We are always striving for a better life and end up expending a ton of effort just to wind up in the same place. Just because something can be improved doesn’t mean it should be improved. But it’s not the improvement that’s the problem. It’s the WHY that’s motivating the improvement that’s the problem. Becomes compulsive and narcissistic, always focusing on yourself.
The idea of progress can become the enemy of actual progress.
What if there is no “next level” to achieve? By constantly trying to reach that “next level”, maybe it’s keeping you from appreciating where you are now. Feeling like you always need to improve yourself may actually be a problem.
There are always tradeoffs when you “improve”. Time away from family, money, etc. Life is not a checklist, it’s more like an economy. There are tradeoffs. If you sacrifice too much on your way to seeking your perfect 10, you might end up sacrificing the happiness equity you already own.
So what’s the solution? The solution is to be motivated in life by something other than our own happiness, something greater than ourselves.
Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart
Luke 9:25 For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?
MOLESKIN:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
New Hardship Hill Date set for May 2!!!