THE SCENE: Crisp and clear, 45, perfect day for heavy lifting
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
- Projectivators
- Tempo squats
- Tempo Merkins
- Mountain climbers
- Cherry Pickers
- Grady Corns
THA-THANG:
Two of our number were executing IPC 2022 Week 5. The rest did as follows.
- Grab a CMU and head to the field
- Line up on 0 yd line
- Rolling Reverse Doras using IPC EMOM
- Start with Thrusters, trying to accumulate AMRAP between EMOM horns.
- On the EMOM horn, return to the top
- Pair with the most reps gets to pick the next exercise from the category (what we actually did)
- Sequence and Motion
- Whole body – Dash/Bernie 30 yds (Thrusters, Blockees)
- Legs – Cusack 30 yds (Lunges, CMU Swings)
- Arms – Farmer Carry 30 yds (Rows, Plyomerkins)
- Core – Karioke 30 yds (Heavy BBS, Heavy LBCs)
MARY:
No Time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
October marks the beginning of the fiscal year, which for me means that this week a one-year timer started for me to complete a task that is a “notable outcome” on the lab’s Performance Evaluation of Measurement Plan. In simple terms, if I fail to deliver, the Lab Director’s end of year bonus will be impacted. As such, I have broken the task down into parts, identified the parts that are necessary and optional, and laid them on a timeline to ensure that I can accomplish the task inside the time allotted. Because when I know I have a deadline, it makes sense to make a plan to use the time wisely.
Deadlines motivate action because they force us to clearly see what little time we have. And we are all under a literal deadline. Everyone here today, regardless of all factors, is one day going to die. Birth is a death sentence, and none of us knows when that sentence will be executed.
As our brother Rocket has spoken on before, the ancients coined the phrase “Memento Mori”, Remember Death. This idea permeates many cultures: Stoics, Samurai, Buddhists, Islam, Norse mythology, and Judaism. They say when a victorious Roman general processed through the city, a slave stood behind him saying “Look after you [to the time after your death] and remember you’re [only] a man.”
Then the question becomes, what does my plan look like for my ultimate deadline? What parts are necessary and what parts are optional? What can I do in parallel, and what must be done in series? Fittingly, in my daily reading, I just got to this part in Luke Chapter 12:
13Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
14Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?”15Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”
16And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest.17He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’
18 “Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain.19And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.” ’
20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’
21 “This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”
Do Not Worry
22Then Jesus said to his disciples: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear.23For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes.24Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!25Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life?26Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?
MOLESKIN:
Excellent work by our two IPC challengers.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
2.0 workout on Saturday. Brolympics signup coming soon – Event on Nov. 5. Halloween Event for City of Oak Ridge Oct. 27th.