THE SCENE: 70ish and a touch muggy. A pleasant dew on the grass.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
- SSH
- Tempo Squats
- Tempo Merkins
THA-THANG:
Iron Pax Challenge 2022:
2022 IronPAX Challenge Week 0
Simple but effective.
- 20 thrusters, 20 merkins – repeat 5 times
- Bear crawl 100 ft, (3 burpees/5 broad jumps) all the way back – repeat 3 times
- 20 thrusters, 20 merkins – repeat 5 times
MARY:
No time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Use the TAGS on right-side to record PAX (BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOURSELF) in attendance. Be sure to select the AO in CATEGORY above TAGS and then delete these notes!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Hebrews 13:8 – Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
IPC is fun but it comes with risks. One is the temptation to compare ourselves critically against our peers.
Modern psychology likes to talk about two paradigms of “growth” and “fixed” mindset. A fixed mindset is associated with the idea that my abilities are inherent and fixed. A growth mindset is associated with ability development.
A fixed mindset is promoted when we focus on how we compare with our peers.
A growth mindset is promoted when we focus on how we have changed over time.
It isn’t helpful to compare ourselves against peers because it leaves many more things outside our control. The other may be in a period of major growth or worse, we might trick ourselves into self-satisfaction because the man next to us in struggling.
It is better to compare ourselves against a standard and evaluate our growth over time. In fitness, challenges like IPC can be a great benchmark, or perhaps better yet are the benchmark fitness tests we have been repeating across time.
In our person and character, the best standard for comparison is Jesus. He is constant and everlasting, every aspect of his person is admirable and worthy of imitation, and our eyes will always be pointed up at the higher goal.
MOLESKIN:
Great beginning to the IPC season. Definitely need to start earlier for the next four rounds. There were 200 merkins plus your burpees (36 for me) if you are tracking the challenge.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Asylum flag handoff Friday, Family workout Saturday with OCHO on Q! 9/11 memorial stair climb next Saturday, F3 Knoxville picnic Next Sunday, details on Slack.