THE SCENE: Mid 50s and calm.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Administered
WARM-O-RAMA:
- Projectivator
- LIH/RFTS
- Cherry Pickers
- LBAC F&B
- Grady Corns
- Squats
THA THANG:
Mosey to the tennis courts. At the benches do 20 dips + 20 squats. Bear crawl to the road, crawl bear back. (Repeat)
Get inside the tennis courts for a couple games of Battleship. Separate into two teams. On the court are 12 cones for each team, grouped into a set of 2, two sets of 3, and a set of 4. Each team has six battle stations – each of which has an exercise associated with it. At “go” PAX run and grab a ball then run to one of six battle stations. Perform the exercise, then throw the ball at the enemy’s ships. Do each battle station before you repeat one. Continue until one team’s ships are sunk.
Exercises were;
- 30 Merkins
- Lunges 15 each leg
- 40 Mountain Climbers
- 20 diamond merkins
- 25 Bobby Hurlies
- 40 flutter kicks
30 second rest. Rehabilitate your fleet (i.e., stand up your cones). Play another round of Battleship, this time exercises were;
- 20 carolina dry docks
- 40 plank jacks
- 10 burpees
- 10 catalina wine mixers
- 40 hello dolly
- 10 burpees
MARY:
- 5 squats + 5 seconds Al Gore
- 10 squats + 10 seconds AG
- 15 squats + 15 seconds AG
- 20 squats + 20 seconds AG
- 25 squats + 25 seconds AG
20 merkins + 1 minute plank
(Repeat)
Play the song “Turn it up” by Oh The Larceny. SSH to the cadence of the song. Burpee each time they sing the phrase “Turn it up”. 28 Burpees + what felt like about a thousand SSH…
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Me and 9 of the best men I know.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Last Tuesday, Biohack’s Word about leaving a legacy made me think of something that a colleague told me years ago. On a Monday morning, she gave an account of an event that had happened over the weekend in her neighborhood. She told of a young dad who was mowing his yard. He rode his mower onto a steep hill, and it tipped over and crushed him underneath. The man’s wife heard the commotion and came running out to him. Knowing that he was hurt badly, he asked her to get their children and bring them out so he could speak to them. He saw his kids for a minute or two and died before the ambulance arrived.
That short story has haunted me for years. I wonder to myself, “if he sensed that this was the last time he would speak to his children…what did he say to them?” And then I ask myself, “what would I say?”. Would I spend my last breaths to tell them how much I love them? Or would I try to say one last time the most important thing I want them to remember? If so, what would those words be?
Imagine yourself in a similar scenario… If you had just 1 more minute on earth with your children, what would you say to them? Some of our answers included;
- “It’s all about Jesus”
- “I love you so much, more than you’ll ever know”
- “Despite my faults, you turned out great”
- “I’m so proud of you”
- “Don’t let this loss ruin you, thrive in life”
(What about you, BB reader?)
Deuteronomy Chapter 6 says (paraphrasing), The Lord our God, the Lord is One. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. Teach these things diligently to your children. Repeat them. Talk about them when you’re at home…and away…when you lie down…and get up… Write them down and tie them around your wrist… Write them on the doorframes of your house… In short, do everything you can to ensure your children understand these things and remember them.
It is likely that you will, mercifully, have much more than a few minutes remaining with your loved ones. Maybe you’ll heed the advice of poet Robert Frost, and “live life like it’s the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for.”
What is the big thing that you want your kids to know?
Teach it to them diligently.
Repeat it often in big and little moments.
Find an opportunity to say that thing to them today.
Make the time and have the courage to say the things that mean the most.
MOLESKIN:
- Three-peat is deadly accurate with a tennis ball!
- Glad to have Kraut with us from downrange!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
- Family Workout planned for Saturday 9:00 AM – might pull the plug if there is rain
- May 25 – AOQ Change at Shamrock
- May 30 – Rampart AO Launch, 7:00 AM Fort Southwest Point
- July 2 – Convergence at JUCO