AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: Pele (Jon Lindberg)
PAX: Brick, Mia (Max), Lilydipper, Tropicana, Pele (Jon Lindberg), Mr Jinxy, Kentucky, Drum Major, Veggie (Rylen Huddy), Lulu (Greg Huddy), Crash Dummy
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WARMUP: 20 SSH (4-ct), in Cadence, 10 Horizontal SSH (aka Plank Jacks) (4-ct), in Cadence, Downward Dog stretch and reach/twists, 10 Tennessee Rocking chairs, 10 Cherry Pickers (4-ct), in cadence, 10 Tempo Seal Claps (4-ct), in Cadence, 5 Tempo Overhead Claps (4-ct), in Cadence
THE THANG:
MOSEY to RUSTIC PAVALON. Goal is to do each group of exercises, going up TO CONES after each group is completed. Can be done in any order. Exercise groups are:
AB BLASTER:
20x: Dead Bugs (2-ct), BBSs, American Hammers (2-ct), Bicycle Kicks (2-ct)
ARM BLASTER:
20x: Merkins, Spider mans, CDDs, Plank Jacks
LEG BLASTER:
20x: Bobby Hurleys, Iron Mikes (2-ct), Froggie Jumps, Squats.
CARDIO BLASTER:
20x: SSH (2-ct), High Knees (2-ct), Butt Kickers (2-ct), Mountain Climbers (2-ct), Smurf Jacks
STRETCH BLASTER:
10 x: Cherry Pickers (4-ct), Windmills (4-ct), Grady Corns (4-ct)
MOSEY to Nice Bathrooms. Choice of routes, PAX chose to HIT PICKETTS CHARGE! Each Flat area do 10x Grady Corns/10x Squats/10x Imperial Walkers
MOSEY to Parking lot below Colosseum
Pyramid laps! Partner up with like speed. Run opposite directions, every time you meet, do the following exercises in Reps of 10
LAP 1 Merkins
LAP 2 Merkins, LBCs
LAP 3 Merkins, LBCs, Mtn Climbers (2-ct)
LAP 4 Merkins, LBCs, Mtn Climbers (2-ct), Bobby Hurleys
MANDATORY 60 SECOND STARGAZER!
LAP 5 LBCs, Mtn Climbers (2-ct), Bobby Hurleys
LAP 6 Mtn Climbers (2-ct), Bobby Hurley s
LAP 7 Bobby Hurleys
Return to AO
MARY: Light stretching
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Hardship Hill!
COT:
The naming of a new pope has been in the news a lot recently. A few months ago I watched the movie Conclave, and there’s a quote from RALPH FIENNES as the Cardinal Lawrence in the movie that stuck with me. When he was addressing the other Cardinals before the voting for the new pope began, he said:
“Let me speak from the heart for a moment. St. Paul said be subject (or SUBMIT) to one another out of reverence to Christ. To work together, to grow together we must be tolerant, no one person or faction seeking to dominate another.”
Where do Paul’s words that he’s referring to come from? EPHESIANS 5: VERSE 21 is where Paul says to be subject or SUBMIT to one another.
“Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.”
The Greek word for “submit” indicates a voluntary yielding in love and respect, reflecting Christ’s humility.
How hard is that to do? How often do you do it? I know I struggle with that, because I can have pretty strong opinions, but I usually feel sort of righteous in them because I feel I’ve:
1. Put in the effort to evaluate alternative viewpoints
2. Weighed their strengths and weaknesses (hey, I’m a Libra… the scales of balance and justice!), and
3. Put them through my internal moral filter (which is NEVER wrong!) and come to my conclusion.
But a lot of this is based on PRIDE… pride in my ability to dissect an issue, pride in my self-described open mindedness, pride in my moral values. This can blind me, and it has. Recently I was in an “animated” discussion with a friend, and things were getting a little bit heated. In my need to prove that I was right, I was forgetting to “reflect Christ’s humility”. I think that I myself personally, and all of us as a society would be much better off if we didn’t rise in anger against those who disagree with us, but channeled the humility of Christ, and yielded to them in love and respect.
