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Body Farm

QIC: Dirk

Date: 11/26/2019

PAX: Backfire, Sunburn, The Count, Jersey Pike, Ascot, Best in Show, Ducktales

AO: Boneyard

Conditions

Crisp

COP

  • Cat/Cow x 10 OYO
  • FWD Fold x 8 IC
  • SSh x 20 IC
  • L over R/ R over L x 6 IC each side
  • Little Arm Circles x 10 IC each direction
  • Shoulder Press x 15 IC
  • Windmill x 10 IC
  • Slow Merkins x 10 IC
  • Slow Squats x 15 IC
  • Imperial Walker x 10 IC

The Thang

  • Doracides @ tennis court (One partner does suicides while other does exercises)
    • Suicides have 1, 2, 3 burpees @ each line thru Lunges, then 1 burpee @ each line thru end
    • 100 Merkins
    • 150 Lunges (75 ea. leg)
    • 200 Shoulder Taps
    • 300 LBC’s
  • AMRAP Pullups/Dead Hangs while partner does American Hammers (~ 10 min)
  • Dips x 15 OYO
  • Jailbreak from dumpsters to road
  • Ring of Fire – Plankjacks x 1 thru 5 reps

COT

Pride vs. Gratitude

“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man…it is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.” – C.S. Lewis

Food for thought: If we are truly grateful for our skills, abilities, and station in life, acknowledging they all come from God and are not earned or deserved, we may begin to pridefully compare ourselves less and extend grace to those around us more.

Moleskin

Nobody was naked on this occasion.

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Thanksgiving workout at Hill City!

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    Kings of the Mountain

    QIC: Dirk

    Date: 10/25/19

    PAX: Backfire, Iron Butt, Hansen, Moneyball, Pebbles, 

    AO: Boneyard

    Conditions

    The calm before the storm…

    COP

    • FWD Fold x 8 IC
    • SSH x 20 IC
    • LoverR/RoverL x 5 IC each side
    • Arm Circles X 10 IC each direction
    • Windmill x 10 IC
    • Slow Merkins x 10
    • Slow Squats x 15 IC
    • Imperial Walker x 10 IC

    The Thang

    First Ascent of 39th St.
    Mosey to base of 39th St. hill, with 3 sets of 4×4’s x 3 along the way, plus 2 Burpee Busses!

    Alternating Jailbreak/Mosey up the hill

    Lunges down Church St., Mosey to Bball Court

    3 sets of the following: LBC x 40, Merkins x 20, Squats x 25 OYO

    Mosey back to AO with an array of 4×4’s, Burpees, Bear Crawling, and Lunging

    COT

    Relationships are hard, and require more work than we would like to admit. Take the time to nurture them when times are good and repair them if you’ve had a falling out with someone. The road to forgiveness and reconciliation can be painful, and it sometimes seems easier to give up and move on. However, the effort is worthwhile, as the resulting relationship will be much stronger and richer, and we will probably discover some of our own faults in the process. Remember: Admission of fault is not a prerequisite for forgiving someone, and sometimes we must forgive someone over and over for the same thing, even the same incident!

    Moleskin

    Pebbles is really fast, even without supplemental oxygen!

    News

    11/16 Convergence at the BX in Brainerd!

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      About Time…

      QIC: Dirk

      Date: 09/13/2019

      PAX: Wallflower, Roadhouse, Sunburn, Iron Butt, Vsquared, Uncle Fester, Skitch, Hanson, FNG-GoCart

      AO: Boneyard

      Conditions

      Hot & Muggy & Dark

      COP

      Fwd Fold x 8 IC

      SSH x 20 IC

      L over R x 5 IC

      R over L x 5 IC

      Arm Circles x 10 IC

      Reverse Arm Circles x 10 IC

      Slow Merkins x 15 IC

      Slow Squats x 15 IC

      The Thang

      Diamond Sevens

      Mosey to baseball field (w/ high steps & butt kickers):

      Round 1: 8-Ct Bodybuilders x 7 at each base (28 total)

      Round 2: Jump Lunges x 14 @ each base

      Round 3: Merkins x 21 @ each base

      Round 4: LBC’s x 28 @ each base

      Mosey to raised garden (w/ Box Jumps, Lunges, Reverse Lunges along the way): Circle of Dips to 4 reps

      Mosey to wall: Wall Sit w/ OHP x 15 IC, Arm Circles x 15 IC, Bus Drivers x 15 IC

      Circle of Mary

      COT

      Identity Crisis…

      Idolatry (about which we are warned in the first commandment) is defined as looking to some created thing to give you what only God can (Martin Luther) or loving/serving/deriving meaning from anything other than God (Tim Keller). Personally, I’ve made idols of experiences/adventures, perfectionism, and comfort (stress-avoidance), among other things. These idols have made me prideful, critical, kept me from taking risks, and tainted my interactions with others.

      Our idols are often rooted in deeper identity issues. We tell ourselves that we are, at our core, something other than simply beloved children of God. Defending something as precious as our identity can be the root of all kinds of bad behavior whenever we feel threatened by our circumstances. We surround ourselves with people like us and marginalize the others, just to make our false identities feel secure. We deceive or exaggerate to keep a certain reputation alive. We let our priorities get way out of balance by putting too much focus on those character traits we perceive to be most important.

      I hope we will continually examine ourselves, praying that God will reveal and begin to diminish our idols, and that a relationship with Him will take their place and begin to reinforce our true identity as his beloved sons. This is an identity in which we can find rest, hope, and incredible freedom.

      Moleskin

      Iron butt and Roadhouse may have completed this workout naked for their upcoming “Sixty and Sexy” calendar.

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      It’s all old news by now!

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