Month: November 2019 (Page 7 of 10)

8 PAX posted for a frigid November night at Midoriyama.  With Veterans Day on Monday YHC wanted to honor a couple vets that lost their lives serving.  The Hero WODs that were completed were the “Burgess” & “Bondy”.  Please take time to read about these two Heroes below.  It went like this:

Warm-Up:

SSH x 20 IC

Don Q’s x 20 IC

Let’s mosey to the playground…

1st Hero WOD – “Burgess” :

30 Pull-Ups

30 Burpees

20 Pull-Ups

20 Burpees

10 Pull-Ups

10 Burpees

With that complete let’s mosey around the soccer field and back to the playground…

2nd Hero WOD – “Bondy” :

20 minute AMRAP

6 Pull-Ups

11 Burpees

24 Sit-Ups

Mosey to the flag and finish with 22 for our VETS….TIME!!

https://wodwell.com/wod/bondy/

https://wodwell.com/wod/burgess/

Thanks again to all the Veteran’s that served and the ones still serving today.  Please take time to remember the ones that lost their lives serving for our freedom.  It’s ALWAYS a honor to lead!!  Strong work by all PAX…until next time Pizza Man is OOOOOUUUUUUUTTTTTT!!!

Opportunities:

Christmastown 5k w/ SpeedForNeed – Nov. 30th

Santa Hustle 1/2 Marathon – Dec. 14th

Be on the lookout to serve and ruck with Freight

Life can be hard. But what we usually mean is that our life can be hard. We’re the first to feel it when we’re the ones being mistreated or inconvenienced. We’re quick to sulk when we’re the ones who feel deprived or unappreciated. When life is difficult for us, we notice.

But too often the only way we notice that life is hard for our mate is when they start complaining about it. Then instead of genuinely caring or rushing in to help, we might think they just have a bad attitude. The pain and pressure they’re under don’t register with us the way it does when it’s our pain and pressure. When we want to complain, we expect everyone to understand and feel sorry for us.

This doesn’t happen when love is at work. Love doesn’t have to be jarred awake by your mate’s obvious signs of distress. Before worries and troubles have begun to bury them, love has already gone into action mode. It sees the weight beginning to pile up and it steps in to help. That’s because love wants you to be sensitive to your spouse.

Love makes sacrifices. It keeps you so tuned in to what your spouse needs that you often respond without being asked. And when you don’t notice ahead of time and must be told what’s happening, love responds to the heart of the problem.

Even when your mate’s stress comes out in words of personal accusation, love shows compassion rather than becoming defensive. Love inspires you to say “no” to what you want, in order to say “yes” to what your spouse needs.

That’s what Jesus did. “He laid down His life for us” to show us that “we should also lay down our lives” for others. He taught us that the evidence of love is found in seeing a need in others, then doing all we can to satisfy it. “For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in; naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me” (Matthew 23:35-36).

These are the types of needs you should be looking for in your wife or husband. Instead of sitting around upset that they’re not treating you the way you think they should, let love pick you up out of your self-pity and turn your attention to their needs.

Is he “hungry” – needing you sexually, even when you don’t feel like it?

Is she “thirsty” – craving the time and attention you seem to be able to give everyone else?

Does he feel like a “stranger” – insecure in his work, needing home to be a refuge and sanctuary?

Is she “naked” – frightened or ashamed, desperate for the warm covering of your loving affirmation?

Is he feeling “sick” – physically tired and needing you to help guard him from interruptions?

Does she feel in “prison” – fearful and depressed, needing some safety and intervention?

Love is willing to make sacrifices to see that the needs of your spouse are given your very best effort and focus. When your mate is overwhelmed and under the gun, love calls you to set aside what seems so essential in your own life to help, even if it’s merely the gift of a listening ear.

Often all they really need is just to talk this situation out. They need to see in your two attentive eyes that you truly care about what this is costing them, and you’re serious about helping them seek answers. They need you to pray with them about what to do, and then keep following up to see how it’s going.

The words “How can I help you?” need to stay fresh on your lips.

The solutions may be simple and easy for you to do, or they may be complex and expensive, requiring time, energy and great effort. Either way, you should do whatever you can to meet the real needs of the one who is a part of who you are. After all, when you help them, you are also helping yourself. That’s the beautiful part of sacrificing for your spouse. Jesus did it for us. And He extends the grace to do it for others.

When the New Testament believers began to walk in love, their lives together were marked by sharing and sacrifice. Their heartbeat was to worship the Lord and to serve His people. “All those who had believed were together and had all things in common; and they began selling their property and possessions and were sharing them with all, as anyone might have “need” (Acts 2:44-45). As Paul said to one of these churches in a later decade, “I will most gladly spend and be expended for your souls” (2 Corinthians 12:15). Lives that have been raised from death by Jesus sacrifice should be ready and willing to make daily sacrifices to meet the needs of others.

He laid down His life for us.  We should also lay down our lives for our brothers. – 1 John 3:16 HCSB

Today’s Dare

What is one of the greatest needs in your spouse’s life right now? Is there a need you could lift from their shoulders today by a daring act of sacrifice on your part?  Whether the need is big or small, purpose to do what you can to meet the need.

Once again I find myself enjoying multiple ironies …. early this morn, after an 8-9 year struggle it would appear my mother in law is ready to finish the race ….. of life. She has battled Alzheimer’s to the point where her body is little better than a shell.. withering away to my estimation is 65 pounds or less. My father in law and I have battled like Matterhorns over hospice and when my M texted/ called early this morn I was unfortunately cynical about his willingness and acceptance of what needs to happen. I was most encouraged though after rearranging thoughts for the day , making my 2.0 understand that life changes like these MUST be accepted and embraced. God has a bigger plan! Upon my arrival, dad embraced me and spoke not only of hospice coming, but also talking openly for the first time about what we need to do next….. and he was not sure what to do next.
So while she is in her eleventh hour … today we celebrate veterans everywhere past present and even the future as this day was chosen many years ago to firstly commemorate the end of the Great War in the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
I began today’s workout with 11 SSH, 11 imp walkers and 11 merkins all in cadence to honor this Veterans Day finalizing it with a rare pledge said after a warm up as I preferred to do it in this fashion today!
The music choice is from the concert I recently took the fam to ,,,,,Crowder …. their latest release American Prodigal, I had tweeted that we were going to church and we did as David Crowder told the crowd much of the show. Incidentally they put on an amazing show, Mercy Me was great and we also enjoyed Micah Tyler who we were not familiar with.
So the workout was simple in form
Using two bricks ( I used 5 pound weights )
MNC/ curls/ tricep ext/ press
The intermission was done without weight/ bricks …. lbc/ flutters and American hammers
The timing was 10 first round then increase to 20, 30, decrease to 20 and 10 ….. and we completed this cycle twice and even had time for 5 burpees, 10 corkscrews each side ( thanks to Broke … never done these and I’m stealing them!!) obliques 10(?) each side and 10 big boys.
Plenty of running races coming p200 there’s almost enough for 3 teams!!
Remember to post at Starkville and San Quentin to keep these going
Shirts up for sale
Remember to wAtch those calories and keep track of efforts / success
Prayers for Oompa and Clavins M s
Rockabilly
Veterans past present and future
High school friend of Hipaa who was murdered

Lastly I wish to especially thank Oompa Loompa for offering to cover for me if I needed help and even more so for joining us in the workout …. I know that his shoulder troubles him much, but it was great to see him join us … great work!

Lambskin and I came in hot at 0659.  I woke him up when I called him from his driveway at 0645.  He threw on a t-shirt and shorts and headed out to the gloom.  T-shirt may not have been the best choice since the temp was around freezing.  Meeting us there was a group of pax including an FNG I had been EHing for a while.  Also, Tiny Tank was back from the beach for a beatdown!

Full disclaimer was given for the FNG.  But he already knew I was an idiot.

Mosey over to the parking lot on Glenway for some corewood.  I had all of the activities written on my weinke, but my M threw it away before I was able to write this backlast so I don’t remember all of them.  I’m sure crunchy frogs was one of the activities during corewood.

Like I usually do I sprinkled some trivia questions in throughout the workout.  The pax would have some time to deliberate on an answer.  If they got the question right, we would move on to the next activity.  If they got it wrong, we all had to do five burpees.  They got the first few questions right, so I tried to dial up the level of difficulty.  But to no avail, these guys were on their trivia game.

Mosey to the Field of Dreams for an accumulator.  From what I can recall the activities during the accumulator were SSHs, squats, merkins, shoulder taps, LBCs and one or two others.  The way it worked was we did one activity for 60 seconds, took a lap.  Did a new activity for 60 seconds then the first activity for 60 seconds, took a lap…  I think we did about 6 rounds.

Mosey to the fountain for some Mary.  Since I couldn’t trip this group of geniuses up on any of my trivia, which meant no burpees, the first thing Boudin called for in Mary was 10 burpees.

Fellowship mosey to the Yank where we explained to the FNG the five core principles.

Announcements

Prayer Requests
Tiny Tank – two friends recently commit suicide including an F3 brother from Cape Fear
Boudin – Son and family are going through struggles
Tiger – Ms

COT

Thanks fellas!