March 20th, 2018 By kilowatt

YHC saw the forecast and decided that we would spend most of our time under the canopy in planning today’s fun – even though it didn’t rain: the plan’s the plan.

Arrive at 0525 to a few PAX waiting in their cars, shovel flag is in the ground and we start promptly at 0530.

DISCLAIMER then WARMARAMA

All IC

• SSH 25X
• Windmill 10X
• Cotton Picker 10X

Then – 1 mile Indian Run

THE THANG

5 Tabatas (6 Cycles – 30 seconds of work, 10 seconds rest, 30 seconds between exercises) – All OYO

1. Merkins
2. Air Squats
3. Burpees
4. Monkey Humpers
5. People’s Chair With Air Press

MARY

All IC

• W (x10)
• Low Flutter (x10)
• LBC (x25)

CoT

Announcements

• If you’ve got good 2nd F ideas – reach out to Bos (it’s in the weekly e-mail) – if you’re not getting the weekly e-mail, let us know in the comments.
• Sugar reported that 36 men have joined up for Whetstone. Sign-up is still active: Pre-Blast
• SAVE THE DATE: April 14th – Harrisburg 5K & 10K – Speed for Need will be present. Come out and show support. Even our “non-runners” are posting solid 5K times these day. Pre-Blast.
• Next Red Friday is April 6th at Skywalker
• “Hapday Humpyhour” – Thursday 8PM – Johnny Bruscos
• Pox has the Q tomorrow. For runners, YHC will be getting in some ruck miles and smiles. Maybe even a pre-ruck.
• I have the shovel flag

Prayer Requests:

• MC’s Mom
• Heatstroke’s Dad
• Sparknut’s Brother

I know those get posted all of the time – but feedback is that it’s making a difference.

MOLESKIN

On a couple of those exercises – I was on the sketchy end of “Don’t Q it if you can’t do it”. Heatstroke made sure that squats were to the correct depth and Project gave encouragement to work on form for merkins.  And that brings me to the subject of accountability.

I robbed you guys of 5 min of beatdown totally unintentionally. I’m sorry. I’ll be better about timing next time. While 5 mins doesn’t seem like a big deal – spread it out over 262 weekdays and that’s 1,310 minutes which is the equivalent of 30 beatdowns. If everyone goofed off on the Q like I did – over 1 year: that’s a month’s worth of gains lost.

I should bring what others do – even down to the little things. It’s the “little things” – the extra slice of pizza, the extra day in the fartsack, one more drink, the “innocent” conversation…that’s where things start going sideways into more serious issues.

I wouldn’t be doing this without you guys. Which is why I’m excited about Whetstone – because if the same level of accountability and discipline is brought to bear on our emotional and spiritual well-being – that’d be incredible.

At church this past Sunday, the pastor brought up this verse (for your convenience – the link fast forwards to the part where he talks about this):

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. – James 5:16

He said, we hear the 2nd part of that verse, but we don’t often hear the first part. The context of the verse is that prayer’s effectiveness is related to the righteousness of the petitioner. You won’t get that way on your own and – like Man Down said during the Whetstone launch – your nature and the culture won’t take you in that direction: it’s gotta be intentional. Let’s all continue to keep it that way and welcome the form police – in love – in all areas of our life.

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