CAT3

The BackBlast:

Intro:

7  hearty souls threw off their spiritual fat suit and stepped up to the ShoreCard

The Thang:

The thang was a mashup of strength, core, legs, and burpee exercises. Each of the 4 Q’s took their time and delivered a beatdown as best they could. Dredd started with a mix of cadence count COP with some OYO knee-ups. Eventually, Ice9 took the Q and ran us directly to the wall. No weights were needed, toughness was all that was required to pass this 15 minutes test of life. He yelled, cajoled, and gave us little love before passing to TML. The Mighty Lance then proceeded to have us grab all the weight we could and run out to the stop sign with an escalating amount of burpees. Mean. WHO WOULD HE PASS THE Q TOO WITH NO STINGER? Low and behold he picked the shortest and nicest guy remaining, WhatDid. Except that WD decided to do his best AngryBee impersonation and freakin ran us around the set! Nice work, brother!

Naked Man Moleskin:

• Hilary decided that hanging on the water pipes was what he was going to do despite every other PAX informing him that was a bad idea. The guy has a mind of his own. Now he just needs to ruck up so that he can bulk up. He is #rifty, but he is not #countrystrong.
• Snoop came in with the jeans as usual. No shame in his game.
• Ice9 actually wanted a timecheck towards the end of this workout. This should give you an idea of the level of stupidity out there.

It was great to be out there with the brothers this morning. I understand that on the books workouts have been postponed, but I plan to post every day. #SadClown, #Goo, your #Jester etc…they are tricky things. They prowl around at night looking to kill, steal, and destroy you and your family.   Remember that when you are home with your family for extended amounts of time this week. Remember that when that box of cookies is calling your name. Remember that when you find an excuse to sleep in for multiple days. Remember that when you keep hearing the term Self-isolate or keep your distance. Remember that while we are overwhelmingly cautious during this time, that we are still to hold fast to the principles that pull us out of being the sad clown our flesh wants us to be. We can’t cancel or postpone that for long.

Guys handle these situations in many different ways and the amount of opinions are vast so no need to get on my soapbox about it other than to say I will not live in a spirit of fear. Something doesn’t jive for me when seeing the headlines on some of this. Cautious? Yes. Fearful? No. I love my family and my community and will do what it takes to protect them. Cancelling a bible study does not seem like it’s solving a problem. Studying the word of God helps us address the problem. I’m pretty sure we can safely workout (no convergences) and commune without contributing to this problem. With that said, I definitely respect the call as well as each my brothers out there and hope that you all are adjusting during this time.