QIC: NordicTrack
Date: 10/26/2020
PAX: Cleaver, White Lightning, Ponce, Heisenberg, U-Turn, Snatch, FNG-Wet Spot, Blue, Dundee, Mr Clean
AO: Detention
Conditions
Cool at 64. Humid.
COP
SSH
LB Arm Circles
Various Stretches
The Thang
Mosey between the stations as a group. Plank until the 6 is in. Then everyone perform 10 merkins.
A tour of Detention
Begin a group mosey around the park. 1/2 around the lap, we will stop for the first set of exercises.
Exercises Set 1
25 Burpees
25 Pickle Pounders
50 BBS
50 Monkey Humpers
Plank until the 6 is in.
Next we will mosey to the picnic tables next to the Baseball fields. Plank once we arrive until the 6, then 10 merkins.
Exercises Set 2
25 Decline merkins
25 Pull ups
50 Dips
50 Freddie Mercuries
Next we will mosey to the hill at the top of the lower parking lot. Plank once we arrive until the 6, then 10 merkins.
Exercises set 3
25 incline merkins
Bernie up to the top of the hill, then bear crawl back down
50 toe merkins on the curb
Bernie up to the top of the hill, then bear crawl back down
50 American Hammers (hard count)
Bernie up to the top of the hill, then bear crawl back down
Next we will mosey back to the flag. Plank once we arrive until the 6, then 10 merkins. If we have time, we will do Exercise Set 4, if not we will do circle merkins until time.
Exercises set 4
50 Shoulder Taps (hard count)
50 Pickle Pounders
50 Leg Lifts
50 squats
COT
Charles W. Colson was an attorney at the age of 38 when we joined President Nixon’s staff in 1969. He was at the height his career at a young age, and was known to “get things done.” The staff employed dirty tricks, planted evidence, and threatened people to help Nixon win by a landslide election in 1972. The Watergate operation and activities surrounding it led to the arrests of Nixon’s closest aids (including Colson), and later the president’s resignation.
Colson’s story does not end here. While in prison, he was “born again” and announced that he would devote the rest of his life to religious work. He founded the Prison Fellowship Ministries in 1976. He established Justice Fellowship in 1983, a criminal justice reform group. And in 1993 he won a $1 million Templeton Price for Progress in Religion, which he donated to his ministries. Among many other accomplishments.
Colson hit rock bottom after Watergate. He lost all credibility, his ability to practice law, and his freedom. While everyone knows about Watergate, the majority of his adult life was devoted to Christianity. He chose not to allow 3 years of his life to define him. Everyone has a choice when faced with a difficult circumstance in life. To borrow an expression, you can either be a “victim,” or a “victor” in these cases. No matter how bad a situation gets, there is always an opportunity to come out the other side stronger.
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