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
Fitness, Fellowship, Faith
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:
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:
Round 2:
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:
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.
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
And then we just unrolled the things that we rolled up, starting with thrusters and bent over rows:
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:
And back to the parking lot for
Round 3:
Round 4:
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
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💋
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