It rained, only 5 hammers showed up…you hate to see it.

Prayers:
Huck
EZ Rider Family
Mally
Jackson Hall
Norwood
Turtle Man
Anna Ramsey

SYITG
BJ

Pretty sure we did some wall marching, dips/derkins/step ups, and pullups/bigboys/jump squats…typical Ball Joint BS it sucked. Pick up a Friday Q at downtown! always a good crowd and a good time!

Prayers:
Huck
EZ Rider Family
Mally
Jackson Hall
Norwood
Turtle Man
Anna Ramsey

SYITG
BJ

Ruckers took off at 0615, Orangeman coming in hot at 0616.  Double time to catch up.

Runners start at 0630, Goose shows up to Ruck, didn’t get the memo of Ruck start time.

Route this morning was Central to Main take a right to Catawba, come back via Parkdale.  Humid morning with some hills made it tough day.  All were better for it.

Announcements:  2nd F lunch the 19th, F3 Dads at Gashouse 7/15, annihilation at Yank 7/15

Prayer requests:  continue prayers for Norwood, Anchorman uncle passed away Saturday, Jane Fonda travel

YHC took us out

Pledge

Tesla led Q Source on Correction

Always an honor

Tiger

A whopping 16 PAX for some running and rucking on the eve of Independence Day.

Today’s message spawned from YHC stumbling across an old Spanish proverb, “Take what you want and pay for it, said God”.  As citizens in a country that values its freedoms, we have many choices of how we can act, and the autonomy to make those choices as we see fit.

The cost of choices manifest either in discipline and preparation or consequences and repercussions.  We can choose to fartsack, but the loss of some degree of physical fitness and connection to the PAX will result.  We can choose to train, but with training comes some discomfort and a loss of sleep and sweat.  For every choice, there’s a cost.

Galatians 6:7-9 says

“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.  Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”

As citizens of our great country, it is imperative that we live right.  Do the right things for the right reasons.  Be honest.  Be fair.  Treat others the way you want to be treated.  Listen to others, even when their opinions are different.  It’s ok to disagree.  In fact, it’s in the fabric of our nation.  It is our responsibility to carry ourselves honorably, doing the best that we can to pass America on to future generations.

We reap what we sow.  If we do not give up, the harvest will be plenty.

Take what you want, and pay for it.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead this morning.

Yabba Dabba Doo

Warm up: SSH, Stretches’, and Flutters

Mosey to Martha River

We ran

We racked and sacked some Burpee’s, Merkins, LBC, Squats, Morocccan night clubs over five rounds.

We did suicides back up a portion of the parking lot

We nurred

We lunged

We completed a round of merry before time was up

Announcements

Prayer request – many to pray for

EZ out!!

2 runners and 2 ruckers set out from the Coconut Horse, and spent time discussing the beginnings of McRaven’s “The Wisdom of the Bullfrog”.

Bottom line to leadership is there’s no secrets and no shortcuts.  Lots of time will be wasted trying to find the easy way out.  While leadership is not easy, it is simple.

Just do the right thing.  Act courageously and with honor, as often as you can if not always.  Our honor is the anchor that stabilizes us when we go adrift.

Be honest.  Be fair.  Treat others like you would want to be treated.  These are classic and fundamental traits and mantras for a reason.

Our aim as High Impact Men is “to live above the common level of life”.

“Before we can master any other axioms of wisdom, we must first strive to be men of honor and integrity.”

Discussion rolled today on the topic of honor.  We talked about the origins of honor and how it could be nurtured or developed.  We talked about the relationship between faith and honor.  We talked about the subjective nature of assessing honor in others, and the need to constantly cultivate honor in ourselves to strengthen our anchor for those times we get off the path.

And we talked about how knowing the importance and priority of honor as a gateway to wisdom impacts our responsibilities as fathers.  Raise ’em right.  It’s simple, but it sure ain’t easy.

Thankful for the opportunity to lead

Yabba Dabba Doo

8 PAX, 3 (Short Sale, Tesla, Orangeman) completing the second half of a Friday double header, got out at F3 Gastonia’s newest AO for the first block workout in Snooze history.  It was both awful and could’ve been worse at the same time.  Here’s what I remember:

At Midoriyama convergence, Slaw called a round of exercises and said “if you put your block down, do burpees” or blockees or something like that.  Anyways, the idea is not to put your block down.  Well that must’ve sat inside brewing ever since and was just waiting to get out, so on this fine morning at Snooze, we weren’t going to put them down (well, except that one time).

Full disclaimer today, because YHC had no idea how this would go

The Thang:

• 10 x Goofballs (IC)
• 10 x Arrows (IC)
• Wacky Waving Inflatable Tube Mans (AMRAP)

Short Sale called something like that at Sandlot, so embrace the utter silliness and also know that that was about all the fun we were going to have today.

To the Grocery Getter, where the blocks were waiting.

Instructions were given.  Once each PAX picked up their block, every time it hit the ground, that PAX had to do 5 Blockees.  No rest for the grip or the arms today.  Time to grind.

First up, partner work.  There was a loop in the parking lot.  One partner would hold both blocks, the other partner held none.  And no block hit the ground in the process

Round 1:

• Partner 1: Shoulder Carry both blocks around the loop
• Partner 2: Lunges (AMRAP)
• Switch

Round 2:

• Partner 1: Shoulder Shrugs with both blocks (AMRAP)
• Partner 2: Run the loop
• Switch

Fast partners were key on the Shrugs.  Simple, yet tough.

Time to get to know our blocks, as we were going to be holding them indefinitely.  We had to haul them to the next location – the long way.  We carried them up the finish hill at Christmastown, up the side street, and all the way in to McDonald Field, the home of the McAdenville Dolphins.  We stopped at the end of the parking lot, and turned around and faced back up the hill of the parking area while we talked about the famed history of the Dolphins.  Not too long, though.  More work to do.

Still carrying the blocks, we went through 2 rounds of:

• Top of the Hill
  • 10 x Thrusters (OYO)
• Bottom of the Hill
  • 10 x Bent Over Rows (OYO)

About halfway in, time for a short burst of mercy by the benevolent Q.

“Set down your blocks.”

We put em down and headed down to the field bleachers for some quick work without our new friends, heading up and down the bleachers a few times.

• Run to the top of the stairs
• 10 x Dips (OYO)
• Run to the bottom
• Run to the top of the stairs
• 20 x Monkey Humpers (OYO)
• Run to the bottom
• Run to the top of the stairs
• 30 x American Hammers (OYO, count both sides)
• Run to the bottom and down to the field goal post and back
• Repeato, but switch field goal posts (as there are 2, well unless you’re Breaker Breaker)

The stadium at McDonald field is just like 5 or 6 rows of concrete and massive steps, so they were awkward to get up and down, but not hard.  It’s kind of like the one at The Goat.  One of these days YHC will figure out what to do with a stadium like that.

Anyways, we wrapped up and went back to the parking lot where our blocks were waiting.  We picked them up and did the required

• 5 x Blockees (OYO)

And then we just unrolled the things that we rolled up, starting with thrusters and bent over rows:

• Top of the Hill
  • 10 x Thrusters (OYO)
• Bottom of the Hill
  • 10 x Bent Over Rows (OYO)

Short route back this time, as we seemed pressed for time, but as we walked, YHC realized that the short route was much shorter.  We went by another round of stadium seats, so we did some more work, this time with the blocks:

• Carry to the top of the stairs
  • 3 x Goblet Squats (OYO)
• Carry to the bottom of the stairs
  • 3 x OH Presses (OYO)
• Repeato 4-5 times (for every section between the beams)

And back to the parking lot for

Round 3:

• Partner 1: Shoulder Carry both blocks around the loop
• Partner 2: Lunges (AMRAP)
• Switch

Round 4:

• Partner 1: Shoulder Shrugs with both blocks (AMRAP)
• Partner 2: Run the loop
• Switch

And somehow, time got away from YHC.  We put the blocks up and headed back to the circle 1 minute late.  It was the extended disclaimer that did it.  No matter, YHC followed through with his self-enforced rule of a 10 Burpee penalty per minute late that the Q returns to the COT.  It was only 10 burpees.

And that was that.  Between the extended time carrying the blocks and having to load/unload them to my storage building, my grip was shot.  Those missing gloves got the worst of it, as we may have drawn a little blood.

It’s always a good feeling to get the nasty crawling around the inside of you out, regardless of what that nasty might look, feel or smell like.  Grateful to these PAX today for sticking with it and grinding it out.

Yabba Dabba Doo

Disclaimer

Pledge

Warmup

10 SSH IC

RoL LoR

Merkins

R L leg up (quads)

Leg stretch

Mosey down the street

Round 1

All workouts 1x

Mike Tyson’s x 10

PPM x 2

2 burpees

LBC’s x 15

PPM x 2

Superman pull-up x 10

PPM x 2

Hillbillies x 20

PPM x 2

Mosey back to start and over to a wall for wall work.

Hip Slappers x 10 IC

Wall sit 30 seconds

Dirty Hookups x 10 IC

Wall sit 30 seconds

R&R 2x

Round 2

Flutter kicks x 20 count RH

PPM x 2

Diamond merkins x 10 count both

PPM x 2

Imperial walkers x 20 count both

PPM x 2

Obliques x 10,RH and LH

PPM x 2

Plank for the 6

Mosey over to parking lot

Round 3- 11’s

Squats x 10

Merkins x 1

Mosey back to start

CoT

Announcements

July 4th bootcamp rescheduled to 6-7:00 and the reading is moved to 7:20

Prayers

Norwood

Tesla’s sister

Gators M – fathers passing

Tiger’s mom

Jackson Hall

Charlie Ward- at children’s hospital of Philadelphia for treatment.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead!

Maybelline💋

Disclaimer

Pledge

Warmup

10 SSH IC

RoL LoR

Merkins

R L leg up (quads)

Mosey down the street to a parking lot 

Round 1

All workouts 1x

Mike Tyson’s x 10

PPM x 2

2 burpees

LBC’s x 15

PPM x 2

Superman pull-up x 10

PPM x 2

Hillbillies x 20

PPM x 2

Mosey back to start and over to a wall for wall work.

Hip Slappers x 10 IC

Wall sit 30 seconds

Dirty Hookups x 10 IC

Wall sit 30 seconds

R&R 2x, stopping at a parking lot on the way back 

Round 2

Flutter kicks x 20 count RH

PPM x 2

Diamond merkins x 10 count both

PPM x 2

Imperial walkers x 20 count both

PPM x 2

Obliques x 10,RH and LH

PPM x 2

Plank for the 6

Mosey over to parking lot

11’s

Round 3

Squats x 10

Merkins x 1

Mosey back to start

CoT

Announcements

Happy belated Father’s Day

Choo Choo

Freon

Tardy gras

Blueprint

Prayers

Radars sister

Anchorman’s sister in law

All of the unspoken prayer requests

Thanks for the opportunity to lead!

Maybelline💋

5 PAX joined YHC for the thunder pt test. This is what happened:

Thunder” is meant to be done with a cinder block.  Modify as needed to the kettlebell of your choice.  For the sake of growth, if you choose a kettlebell, please choose a kettlebell weight that will push you.

25 minutes – AMRAP

• 12 x Thrusters
• 12 x Curls
• 12 x American Hammers (with block, count right side only)
• 12 x Block Swings
• 12 x Bent Over Rows
• 12 x Big Boys
• 12 x Heels to Heaven
• 12 x Burpees

We will count the number of rounds we complete, and note where we stopped in the round we didn’t finish.  Each round is 96 reps, so we should be able to count up our total number of reps for the workout.

Maybelline – 5 curls
Shortsale – 6

Roscoe – 5
Spider-Man- 5
Capt Stubing – 4 American hammer
Orangeman – 4 swings

Hunchback did the standard PT test

Prayers

Hunchback

Radars sister

Norwood for his upcoming surgery

Praise for Anchorman’s sister

Thanks for the opportunity to lead!

Maybelline💋