Decision Day at The Yank

Started with mission of F3, to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership.  Warm up of SSH, IW, gravel Pickers, arm circles and some stretches.  Pledge.

Time to make some major decisions.  Pax had a choice of easy or hard.  Easy and hard qualified by saying the easy doesn’t necessarily mean easy, it means more opportunity to adjust to own level of difficulty, but hard means hard.

Being the HIM’s they are, all but one dissenter (won’t mention Cheesesteak) chose hard.  Let’s go.  Head up Nichols Hill but take a left on Poplar.  All the way to the end. 20 squats once all arrive.  Cross Keaner.  Orangeman casually mentions “hope we aren’t headed to North Street”.  Me too, but we are.

First time this a workout has come to this spot.  The reason hard is hard is because this is a steep hill.  Starts steep and continues.  Fortunately it’s only about 200 yards.  Triple nickel is the call – hand release merkins at bottom and perfect form merkins at top.

After all had completed, took moment to talk about the fact that a decision is the first step.  If your life has something that it shouldn’t, or doesn’t have something it should then the first step to change is to make the decision.  We then talked for a moment about the 8 block.  This is a tool that can be utilized in forming a plan to better yourself.  But it helps, when you have someone to help with accountability.  Shield lock and Whetstone are great for this.

One last thing. 2023 for some has been a hard year.  Many look forward to brighter days to come.  We went up the hill one more time with all the gas in the tank.  Hill was symbolic of 2023, but everyone made it to the top.

Head back downtown, stopping periodically for jungle boy squats, 20 per stop, 5 stops.  Got back to park with time left so stopped at the corner for some dips and derkins.  Start at 20.  Orangeman M comes by, we ask her to call the round of 15.  Big mistake.  Women from! Ecuador are firey!  She thankfully moves along,  10 more and head to the Yank.

Time for a little Mary.

Good work for the last bootcamp of the year.   We discussed the 8 block just a bit more.  YHC printed several copies to hand out.  Use it men!  Don’t just complete it and stash it somewhere.  Re-visit and adjust frequently.

Announcements:  beer mile,  convergence  New Year’s morning. ruck and run at 0600, bring coupon.  Virus collecting adult clothing.

Prayer requests:  Pax traveling, Jackson Hall, Jackson Curti did not get good result from recent testing, Turtleman, Huck, Jane Fonda, Montana, safety and prospertiy in new year

YHC took us out

Always an honor.

Happy new year

Tiger