F3 Knoxville

Fun With Pumpkins!

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THE SCENE: Perfect fall day! low 70s, sunny, a bit of a light breeze
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Performed adequately.
WARM-O-RAMA:

-20 Side Straddle Hops (4-ct), in cadence

– Air Squared (Squat chair while forward extended arm claps) 10 Overhead/ 10 sideways (seal claps)

– 10 Windmills (4-ct, in cadence)

– 10 LBACs Forward/backward (half small, half big)  (4-ct, in cadence)

THA-THANG:

Mosey to the north perimeter trail past the small parking lot. Get the Pumpkin that the Pumpkin Fairy left in the culvert.  Indian Run around northern trail loop and then over 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.  If we drop the pumpkin, we all do 10 BURPEES. (thankfully, this didn’t happen in spite of several PAX recklessly throwing the pumpkin around when they were passing it.  Scoundrels!)

  • The Pumpkin Says (Done at three stopping points on the Indian Run)
    • Get in a line. Do the following exercises, doing a special Pumpkin exercise when it gets to you (in parentheses).
      1. Big Boy Situps (10 American Hammers w/ pumpkin) 2-ct
      2. Hold Plank (5 Pumpkin Press Burpees)
      3. Tempo Squats (10 Squat Thrusts with Pumpkin)

BURPEE BROAD JUMP INDIAN RUN up Everest to base of summit.  Get in a vertical line, do BURPEE BROAD JUMPS (1 Burpee, 3 broad jumps) up Everest.  Person in the back with Pumpkin runs to front of line and hands it off. Pass pumpkin to the back, rinse and repeat until we reach the base of the summit.

  • Push the Pumpkin to the Pumpkin Patch!
    • PAX running back and forth between cones, doing 5 Merkins at one end and 5 BBS or 10 LBCs at the other. One at a time, BEAR CRAWL to the pumpkin and do 3 LUNGES with the pumpkin.  BEAR CRAWL to pumpkin patch and run back. Leave it and return to PAX.  Next man up.  Keep doing it until we get the pumpkin where it needs to be.
  • Grinder!
    • Base of Summit: 5 Burpees
    • Top of Summit: 20 Big Boy Situps
    • Bat House: 20 Smurf Jacks
    • Bottom of Stairs: 20 Merkins

We got through 2 rounds of grinders

MARY:
Finished off with some flutter kicks.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
10 HIMs!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

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.

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.

There are always tradeoffs when you “improve”.  Time away from family, money, etc.  Life is not a checklist.  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:
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