A muggy but fairly cool morning for 4 brave souls to gather and sweat. Might as well work heavy since that's what we do at SVU.
Warm-up
21 IC SSH
11 IC Windmills
15 IC Copperhead Squats
19 IC Tony Hawks
13 IC Merkins
17 IC Cotton Pickers
I had an uneven start to the day…..kinda just felt odd….idk
The Thang
Mosey to back play ground for a 5 round Tabata – 2 minutes on/1 minute rest. Get's spicey on these exercises. The first circuit has 5 exercises – 2 upper body, 2 lower body, 1 core. PAX can order and work any way they want. I was going to bring everyone a "scorecard" and see who could get the most total reps (which would be a fun way to add a little competition) but I forgot. We "shot" numbers to see if we would do E-knee or Me-knee first. E-knee won!
E-knee Exercises
Merkins
Banded Triceps Extensions
KB Swings (62# KB)
Sandbag deadlifts (102# sandbag)
Slalom Skier Abs
Me-knee Exercises
Landmine presses
Sandbag pulls (using a LONG rope, drag the sandbag across the playground and back)
Block Squats
Kickstand Deadlifts with Block
Indo Board Squats (Indo Board is a teeter totter on a cylinder….very tricky)
We went through each Tabata then gathered all the equipment and went back up to the AO. Mosey to top of LBH for 25 WWi's and back. At AO we then challenged ourselves to max hand-release Merkins. Closed with another set of 25 WWi's.
Moleskin
Glad that Strudel used the bars on the Indo Board….that could have been trouble.
Tonka broke out the guns…..getting bigger!
Cheetah needs a much better role model!!!!!! Set your sights a little higher, bro!
Reflection
Two things came together this week and have weighed on my mind. First, in a recent Sunday School class we were talking about Christ after His resurrection. He went to gather His "friends" was the comment. I got totally hung up on that idea. Does Christ see me as His "friend"? Not that I am against Him, but I always see my relationship with Him more as a Superior/inferior thing. I am so far from Him in my "level" that I just can't imagine that He would think of me as His "friend".
The second thing shed some light on that for me as I pondered it. The song Rescue Me from Lauren Daigle is Christ's words to us. He says (in her song – the video must be shot in Iceland or something and it is AMAZING) –
There's never been a moment
You were forgotten
You are not hopeless
Though you have been broken
Your innocence stolen
I hear your SOS, your SOS
In the middle of the darkest night
It's true, I will rescue you
As I pondered these words I realized that I DO NOT want to be rescued. Not that I don't want Christ or the benefits of His Atonement, but I don't want to be that moron that gets lost in the woods and NEEDS to be rescued. Toss me in the "army" and I will endure anything to go find someone else, but make me the object of the rescue and I am overcome with embarrassment and shame. I've never thought of myself as a partcularly prideful person, but this is as example of pride. Somehow I need to find a way to be ok with being rescued.
If you are like me, well, sorry….lol. I don't have the answer, but better understanding the problem is a step in the right direction.
Maybe next Q will be the My-knee and Mo'…..who knows.
Anvil