Date: 05/20/22
AO: #ao_fieldofdreams
Pax: @Socrates @Pebbles @Rico Suave @Guns N’ Roses (Christian Griffith) @Checkers @Wham-o @Houdini @Big Gulp (Chip Williams) @Patches @Grillz @Crayola @Oregon Trail @Armchair @Bambi @Crab Legs
Q: @Angus
Total: 16
Conditions: Real Muggy
FNG’s: 0
Warm up: SSH x 25, TGE x 15, SSH x 20, IW x 15, SSH x 15, Quixote x 15, SSH x 10
Special shout out to @Bambi for doing the EC this morning. It was a gasser.
The Thang: YHC set up stations around a familiar loop as @Grillz noticed. The idea was easy enough — stack exercises at each station. All done relatively reasonably thanks to @Pebbles (stacking is adding an exercises and doing each one in the stack. Ex: Station one: 5 burpees so you do 5 burpees. Station two: 5 Merkins, so you do 5 merkins AND 5 Burpees. yada yada yada.
Pax grabbed their coupons and we carried them through the duration of the workout. Using them for most of the exercises.
- 5 x Burpee
- 5 x Merkin Combo (Left / Right over the block)
- 5 x Copperhead Squats (holding block — follow the call)
- 5 x Curls to Overhead Press
- 5 x Flutter kicks (block overhead)
- 5 x Jump Lunges (block down)
- 5 x Box Cutters (block overhead)
Make it around the loop as many times as possible. The second time increase the reps to 10 and unstack the exercises. we made it through 1.2 rounds
We took two turns gettin’ good and sugar cookied doing Flutters and Box Cutters on the dirt road. And I don’t know about yall but I might not ever get the sand out of my skivvies.
Moleskin:
I want to tell you about a guy named Antoine de Saint-Exupery He’s known as a pioneering French Aviator but he’s also an author and a poet.
He’s know for quotes like:
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
And
“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
But the one that has stuck out to me most I discovered in Yvonne Chiounards, the founder of Patagonia, book Let My People Go Surfing. They hold this as their design philosophy.
The quote in it’s entirety goes as follows:
“Have you ever thought, not only about the airplane but whatever man builds, that all of man’s industrial efforts, all his computations and calculations, all the nights spent working over drafts and blueprints, invariably culminate in the production of a thing whose sole and guiding principle is the ultimate principle of simplicity?
It is as if there were a natural law which ordained that to achieve this end, to refine the curve of a piece of furniture, or a ships keel, or the fuselage of an airplane, until gradually it partakes of the elementary purity of the curve… there must be experimentation of several generations of craftsmen.
In anything at all perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away…”
Take note on the last part.
“…Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there’s no longer anything to take away…”
Out here. In the gloom. We are in the business of aiming for perfection. Like Vince Lombardi says if you aim for perfection — you achieve excellence.
This is a philosophy of simplicity and it emphasizes we don’t need more to make us complete or better.
There’s also a quote by the great William Joel:
The joy of life is made up of obscure and seem ingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.
Prayer
Pledge
Angus Out 🤘🏼