What could be more yin & yang than a tag Q of a guy named Stray with the most disciplined pax in the ‘Tope (Jedi).  Some may say chaos and order.  Some may say ADHD (attention deficit has discipline). Let’s use some coach speak and call it “freedom within a framework”.

0530 we mosey longways to the Chipotle (RIP Total Wine) parking lot.

Warmoramaish

• SSH x about 15 ic
• Windmill x whatevs howevs
• IST x 10 ic
• Pigeon stuff with Crocs

Thangish stuff

• Partner up for no reason other than the Q wanted to see how the pax would react
• Use the parking spaces to do alternate ascending exercises:  1 x squat, 2 x merkin, 3 x squat etc
• Core frog things with Gambini
• Repeato back up the parking lot
• Core Ws with Gambini
• Mobility lap around the parking lot
• Arm circles neglected in warmorama (forward and backward)
• Rock Balboa style curb kickers x 20 ic
• Incline merkin x 10 ic
• Dips x 15 ic
• Mobility lap back to the Birkdale version of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
• Good 4 minute mobility moment from Jedi

COT closed it out

Midi chlorian moleskin:

• 12 pax for a good time.  Thank you Jedi for your leadership over Emmaus and for letting me stray the course today.
• Still not totally sure if Crocs knows Pillager or if he was joking.  But hey guys.  Swipe right to meet up next Friday at 0500.
• 11+ years in and YHC is still looking for that perfect game pitching the cadence.  Knowing it wasn’t going to happen, YHC devised a plan that would have the pax doing my will while thinking they had control.  To do that YHC implemented a Jedi mind trick.  Throw in a windmill after some side straddle hop and you don’t need to say “starting position move” or “in cadence” or “exercise.”  Pax are creatures of habit.  Which is a nice way of saying “go lemmings go.”
  • But here’s the point.  Jedi tells us it takes 10,000 hours or 10,000 attempts to master something.  At some point along the way muscle memory joins in and relieves a portion of focus and concentration.  And that isn’t a bad thing.  It doesn’t mean reckless abandon.  Muscle memory from repetition joins in with habit building and augments your full arsenal of capability.  It is as if to say “hey I am going to go 75% here so that I can give 25% there as well” and your behavior built upon repetition says “I got you bro and I’ll come with 35% so you can give the proverbial 110%.”   So be like the Emmaus pax that comes true every week, putting in the work, applying discipline, and leveraging good habits and experience to achieve 110% out of 1st F, 2nd F, 3rd F, and LIFE.
• BONUS CONTENT:  What I learned today:   men don’t get vulnerable often, but when they do, you will see them at their strongest.  Thank you to Nair for offering yourself in discussion.  Thank you for Gambini and others who are devoted to personal growth within the pax and made sure shields are locked and we are in this life for all as one.