Author: Dave

DATE: 2023-08-11
AO: #ao_lightningrod
Q: @Rip
PAX: @Red Curry
FNGs: None
COUNT: 2

WARMUP:
Side Straddle Hop
Halo’s
Don Quixotes
Toy Soldiers

THE THANG:
Start with five Mirkens to buy in each round
With coupon on the side of the 50 yard line start with 5 reps each:
Squirrels – go to first marker across the field
Bent over row – go to second marker
OH Press – go to far side of field
Press
Proceed to jog around the goal post back to your coupon and start with 5 Mirkens to buy in and repeat by adding 5 reps as you cross the field

MARY:
NA
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
NA
COT:
You come home from a hard day at work feeling like you could use a stiff drink.

You contemplate sleeping in and skipping your morning workout because you stayed up a little later than usual last night.

Your kid is throwing a tantrum in a store because he wants you to buy him a toy.

When deciding what to do next in these kinds of situations, we often think only of factors salient in the short term: What am I in the mood for? Can I afford it? How much patience do I currently have for dealing with discomfort?

But no decision is ever entirely singular. Each decision reverberates. Each generates a bit of momentum in a certain direction. Each etches a shallow groove that makes it easier to travel the same path the next time around.

Every enduring habit began with a momentary choice.

This is true whether a behavior is desirable or not. The first time you open your Kindle app instead of TikTok when waiting in line or turn to porn when feeling lonely makes it more likely you’ll do it again the next.

It’s true for establishing general norms in your life. Splurge for the upgraded airplane seat once, and it becomes harder to tolerate the economy version on subsequent flights.

And it’s true for determining interpersonal standards. How you allow a boss or significant other to treat you at the start of a relationship will establish a trajectory for how they treat you ever after.

Of course, there’s plenty of room in life for occasional indulgences and one-off decisions.

But in circumstances that will repeatedly arise, when you sense there are greater stakes at play, don’t just ask yourself, “What do I want to do right now?” but “What pattern do I want to set for the future?”

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DATE: 2023-08-09
AO: #ao_lightningrod
Q: @Rip
PAX: @Red Curry @CK @Sketch
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4

WARMUP:
Side Straddle Hop
Daisy Pickers
Imperial Squat Walkers
Arm Circles
Halo’s

THE THANG:
Draw from a deck of cards:
Diamonds: Mike Tysons’
Hearts: Big Boys
Clubs: Squats
Spades: Inverted Rows

A, 2, 3, 4= bear crawl up bank
5-10= reps
Jack=15
Queen=20
King=25
Joker= 1 lap around track

MARY:
LBC’s
Leg Lift

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
AO Clean up date 8/12 from 9-12

COT:
The world can be divided into agents and objects.

Things that make stuff happen, and things that have stuff happen to them.

The shaper, and the shaped. The mover, and the moved. The driver, and the screw.

No one is ever entirely one or the other, and you should be open to allowing positive influences to work upon you.

But an individual, who wishes to be an individual, should aim to live a life in which he is primarily an agent rather than an object.

Becoming an agentic being requires the adoption of three key principles.

The first is to strengthen the borders of the self. He who is unsure of his values, who is pliable and porous, will absorb whatever the countervailing currents of the time happen to be and get molded into whatever tools institutions, corporations, and legions of schemers find most suitable.

He who lacks a clear end, can be used for anyone else’s means.

The second principle for gaining agency centers on acquiring skills — of every kind: the ability to express your mind, and change another’s; fix an appliance, and your eye on an aim; lift a physical weight, and carry an emotional burden.

The more skills you amass, the more power you gain to be a cause rather than an effect — to control circumstances rather than be the product of them.

Finally, agency rests on the principle of action itself — the recognition that unless you’re at least treading water, you’re going to be swept downstream.

If you don’t decide what to fill your head with, where you want to go, and who you want to be, those decisions will be made for you by the entities and individuals who are exercising their agency.

Such is an inviolable law of this world: you either act, or are acted upon.

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Backblast! 7 of Diamonds
DATE: 2023-08-07
AO: #ao_lightningrod
Q: @Rip
PAX: @Goon @Red Curry , Sketch, Winger
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5

WARMUP:
Side Straddle Hop
Don Quixote’s
Hillbillies
Arm circles
Arm stretches

THE THANG:
7 of diamonds

Performed on a large diamond (i.e. a square); we use the football field at the goal line; 40 yard line; cross to the other side; back to goal and back across . For the first round, do 7 reps of an exercise. First exercise are 7 Mirkens with a mosey (or sprint) in between corners. Second corner-air swats; third corner Mountain Climbers; fourth corner Lunges. Each round, increase by 7 reps each round. Round 2, 14 count. Round 3, 21. Round 4, 28. Then go back down.

MARY:
LBCs
Flutter kicks
Bridges

COT:
Leadership can be lonely-from LOTR: when the elf queen tells Frodo that a ring bearer is alone. We are fortunate to be together as F3 men – let’s not lose the fellowship of what has brought us together, but don’t forget as leaders we are alone by taking responsibility for our lives, families, and community.

 Coupons + Tire
DATE: 2023-07-22
AO: #ao_lavafield
Q: @Rip
PAX: @Goon @Unicorn @Blue Steel @Kikiwaka (Portland, OR) , Moguli
FNGs: 1 Moguli
COUNT: 6

WARMUP:
Side Straddle Hops
Don Quixote’s
Imperial Squat Walkers
Arm Circles – Forward & Backwards
Halo’s

THE THANG:
Buy in: One lap over bleachers

Line up at goal line with coupons:

Coupon Curls 5 ea- lunge walk to Tire (10 yard line) Mike Tyson’s against tire 5 ea – bear crawl back

Coupon Squats 5 ea – lunge walk to Tire – box jump to tire 5 ea – bear crawl back

Coupon Swings 5 ea – lunge walk to Tire – Derkins with feet on tire – bear crawl back

Coupon Overhead press 5 ea – lunge walk to tire – Step up to tire 5 ea – bear crawl back

Coupon press 5 ea – lunge walk to tire – Elevated plank on tire + shoulder touch 5 ea – bear crawl back

Once you complete one full rotation start again with your buy in (run over bleachers) and then start the rotation by adding 5 to each exercise (second round 10; third round 15; and so on)

MARY:
Alabama Prom Dates with feet on tire
LBC’s with feet on tire
With feet on tire – 6 inch leg lifts
Alabama Prom Dates

COT:
Recently, there’s been increased interest in extending the human lifespan — not only making it to the century mark (and beyond), but spending those last decades healthy and strong.

In one way, this interest in living longer isn’t very surprising; no one welcomes death.

Yet in another, it is a strange thing, given that so many people struggle to make much of the years they currently have at their disposal.

As the writer Susan Ertz put it:

“Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”

Growing up, no one tells you that one of the greatest challenges of existence is figuring out how to sustain a sense of meaning over multiple decades of life.

Given that the resources that can be drawn upon to create meaning — family, friends, career, hobbies, spirituality — can never be added to, how do we mine new satisfactions from them year after year?

What do we do when a marriage feels stale, planning your dozenth trip doesn’t offer the same thrill, and listening to yet another sermon on the same topic puts your soul to sleep?

What good is it to add a tenth decade to life, if one’s fourth already feels worn out?

It’s great that there are so many scientists, researchers, and gurus who can tell us how to optimize our sleep, exercise, and diet. But we need just as many prophets, poets, and philosophers who can tell us how to vitalize a sense of purpose.

It’s great to spend time figuring out how to add years to your life, but you need to put an equal amount of energy into figuring out how to add life to your years.

It’s great to keep your heart beating strong, but you must also find what your heart will beat for.

AO: Lightning Rod

QIC: @Rip

PAX: @Goon@Unicorn@Lumburgh@Output@RedCurry

Conditions: 59deg, w/ a beautiful sunrise

PRINCIPLES | DISCLAIMER | MISSION

Warm-O-Rama

SSH – IC – 20

Hill Billiys– IC – 10

Don Quixotes – IC – 10

Fire Hydrants – IC – 10

Alabama Prom Dates – IC 10

MOSEY around the track for a lap

THANG: Pain Poker – using a deck of cards

Diamond: Mike Tyson’s

Hearts: Inverted rows

Spade: Jump squats

Clubs: Star jumps 

Number: #

Jack: 15

Queen: 20

King: 25

Ace: 30

Joker: Across the football field and back

MoM:

LBC’s – IC – 20

Flutter kicks – IC – 20

Jane Fondas – IC – 15 (each leg)

COT:

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

—George MacDonald