Fitness. Fellowship. Faith.
Shoulder blaster
THE THANG:
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
THE THANG: Rucked around the park for 3.27 miles
MARY: No time for them.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Drop our rucks & get in the circle of the AO to start the beatdown.
COT: Deferred to the end of the King Builder Beatdown
THE THANG: Mosey to the rock pile at the gate for a Tabata of curls (8 rounds, 20 seconds on, 10 seconds off). Mosey to the playground to all my benches for a Tabata of box jumps. Fellowship mosey to the pavilion for a Tabata of table rows. Mosey to Crawdad’s yoga studio for a Tabata of LBCs. Mosey to the cloud at the playground for an intermission with special guest Jack Webb (1 merkin, 1 shoulder press, 2 merkins, 2 shoulder presses, 3 merkins, 3 shoulder presses, and so on until 10). Fellowship mosey back to the pavilion for a Tabata of dips. Fellowship mosey back to the rock pile at the gate for a Tabata of squats with a coupon. Mosey to the Coliseum for a photo op with the BSIA. Mosey to the main building and touch the door. Mosey back to the AO, which we diverted to the other parking lot where we park because the baseball crowd was moving in.
MARY: No time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: GTE event at the end of April
COT: Talked about perspective and looking at the positive, not the negative, even when (and especially when) the negative may be obvious and the positive may be hard to find.
THE THANG: Mosey to the parking lot with the nice restrooms. We will Bernie Sanders to other side of parking lot.
Mosey to parking lot by Soccer Field. We will be running counterclockwise around the parking lot, stopping at every crosswalk to do an exercise. When the leading rabbit reaches the last crosswalk and does the exercise, he should sweep everyone back. Then we will do the same thing but run the next exercise. Here are the exercises:
20 Bobby Hurleys
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20 Baby Crunches
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Mosey to the trail that goes by east and south end of the soccer fields. When we reach the area where the trail heads south, we will stop to do 20 Box Cutters.
Next, heading west on the trail, we will to Run Ten Tens. We run ten lights, stop to do ten of an exercise, then run ten more lights. The leading rabbit should sweep all men back to the six. There, all men will do ten more of the exercise. The exercise will be Jump Squats
In the area by the peer, we will split into 3 groups. The groups will go three to different locations, do the listed exercises, and then run clockwise to the next locations. Here are the Locations and exercises:
1. Picnic Tables: 20 Decline Merkins and 20 Bench Dips
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2. Boulders: 30 Step Ups
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3. Rock Pile: 20 Overhead Presses and 20 Curls with Boulder
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Next, we will Run Ten Ten back to where trail is closest to soccer field parking lot. Here are the exercises for the run back:
· Big Boy Sit-ups
Mosey to Soccer Fields Parking Lot. We will do the run and sweep back on the parking lot again but go clockwise. Here are the exercises:
10 Merkins
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10 Diamond Merkins
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Mosey to the main roadway. We will stop to do 20 Rocky Balboas
Mosey to the parking lot with the nice restroom. We will stop to do 20 American Hammers. Then we will Bernie across the parking lot.
Mosey to bottom of Mini Cardiac. We will run up to the crosswalk and back down to the AO.
MARY: No time for it, baby!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Haw Ridge on April 5 and GTE with Convergence at Asylum Daybreak on April 27.
COT: Prayers for Kathy Bailey and her family, for Jan that we sometimes see walking in the park and who has cancer, for Qbert’s father and father-in-law, and for safe travels back to LSU for Jumbo after his spring break.
Message
A Promised Land
On the Tuesday workout at Asylum PM I told a story about one of my patients whom I consider to be an “Every Day Hero”, someone who is not famous and whose deeds have not made it in the news, but who is a hero nonetheless. Today I will tell a story about another Every Day Hero. She is a 66-year-old woman named Kathy Bailey.
Not college educated
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Lived a hard life
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Married a man who turned into an alcoholic.
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Divorced him.
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Raised her one son, Lynn. on her own.
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Blue collar jobs.
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Made sure son grew up going to church and learning proper values.
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Son married and had his own son, Austin His wife turned out to be irresponsible and unfaithful. He divorced her. Because she was gallivanting around town and being with other men, he raised his son with Kathy’s help.
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Her son was an auto mechanic, growing in success until he got into a major auto accident.
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He became and still is quadriplegic because of the accident.
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Kathy and her partner, Jimmy, have cared for Lynn and Austin until Austin became an adult. Kathy still cares for her son, Lynn.
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Difficulties of raising quadriplegic son. Hardships of life. Tired, fatigued and sometimes feels brokenhearted.
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Kathy’s faith in God. She sees blessing despite the hardships. Believes in a hereafter.
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Her story reminds me of the song “A Promised Land” by Bruce Springsteen.
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The song is written from the perspective of a man but the words also spring true for Kathy. It talks about painful events that knock one down to their knees but the belief in something more that keeps one going:
Blow away the dreams that tear you apart
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Blow away the dreams that break your heart
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Blow away the lies that leave you nothing
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But lost and brokenhearted.
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Well, the dogs on Main Street howl cause they understand
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If I could take one moment into my hands
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Mister, I ain’t a boy, no I’m a man
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And I believe in a promised land.
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And I believe in a promised land.
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Kathy Bailey’s belief inspires me. I tell her story hoping it will inspire you. And, like Kathy, I believe in a promised land.
THE THANG:
(Mosey up Picketts to the Coliseum)
1 – BSIA Challenge
– Here at the overlook
– B = 15 BBS
– Take a lap
– S: 15 SSH
– Take a lap
– I: 15 Imperial Walkers
– Take a lap
– A: 15 American Hammers
– Take a lap
(Mosey to the Lit Lot)
2 – Catch Me If You Can
– Catch Me If You Can
– 1 BB does 2 burpees while the other BB takes off in a Bernie
– After the BB doing burpees finishes his 2 – he runs to catch his BB and then the roles are reversed
– Rinse and repeat until you get to the other side + mosey back here to the starting point
3 – BB Slingshot
– HQ is here
– You and your BB will take turns doing further down and around the lit lot until you get to the opposite curb to the left
– Here: always be 10 merkins, 10 squats, 10 SSH
– 1 BB will run to the crosswalk and execute 1 burpee and run back
– When they get back, their BB will run to the next farthest crosswalk, do 1 burpee, and come back
– Rinse and repeat until you or your BB makes it to the last POC on the other side and back
(Mosey back to the Coliseum for BSIA #2)
4 – Broga w/Steam
– 10 dive bomber cobras
– Hold the cobra for 5 seconds
5 – Core 4 (15×4)
– Flutter kicks (Top door and back)
– American Hammers (Top door and back)
– Reach for the stars (Top door and back)
– Cockroaches (Top door and back)
(Mosey to the 🇺🇸)
MARY:
– Cherry Pickers + Willie Mays Hayes
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Convergence at Big Ball on 2/17 @ 7am
– GTE (GrowRuck Training Event) on 4/26-28
COT:
Show and Tell with Steam: New tat: “Temporary sacrifice for the greater good.”
3 components to this:
– Time: You have a specific # of days of life, no more no less. There’s nothing you can do to add to those days or subtract from them. Time is also the only non-renewable resource.
– Sacrifice: There are opportunities everyday to sacrifice things for the ones you love (big and small things). What are you willing to sacrifice for the things you love?
– Greater Good: What sacrifices are you willing to make for the greater good? Who or what is the greater good for you?
Here’s the peak of temporary sacrifice for the greater good: God sending his son to die and take our place on the cross so we could be redeemed and have access to our Heavenly Father. It was a temporary sacrifice for the greater good. The greater good? Us. God’s immense love for us activated this temporary sacrifice.
So here’s a takeaway – think about how you can live out temporary sacrifice in your life today, this week, this month, and this year.