Finally, Cousin Eddie has attended (and survived) a Q by Doughboy. I didn’t think that this day would ever come. When I saw that he was a HC for Organ Grinder, I thought that I might need to “lollipop” the workout, but after doing backward bear crawls up hills at his last Q, I knew that it didn’t need to be easy. Besides, Phlegm had HC’ed as well and we all know how tough his workouts can be (1.5 mile indian run up/down hills as a race – that sucked). We even had a visitor from Kannapolis – Chicken Strip. Glad that he could join us for the workout. So there we were, 8 strong men ready to brave the 30 degree morning. It went something like this:
Warm up (in cadence – x12)
SSH
Little Arm Circles/Reverse Arm Circles
Squats
It was a quick warm up so we moseyed to the playground for the real fun.
The workout was OYO and consisted of 30 Mountain Climbers (each leg), 15 Burpees, 5 Pull ups, 15 Big Boy Sit ups, and 30 Merkins followed by a run around the edge of the play ground fence. That was 1 set. Rinse and repeat 2 more times. After this, we completed the following:
Asheville Abs x 10 (thanks Phlegm)
Bear Crawl / Crab Walk suicides on the basketball court – Bear Crawl to half court, crab walk back, then bear crawl to the end of the court and crab walk back
Everyone’s favorite tunnel of love 2 times – Has Been lost his pants which brought new meaning to the tunnel of love and happened at an appropriate place – Organ Grinder
Box Cutters x 12
Pretzels x 8
Seeing that there was still time left for us to workout, I led the PAX on a sketchy run back towards the flag. In hindsight, it would have been better to take the normal route, but then we would have missed the fun at the picnic area. We stopped at the picnic area for Dips x 10 with Phlegm providing some laughter for us, Incline Merkins x 10, and Decline Merkins x 10. Finally, mosey to the flag for a round of LBC’s and RBC’s or vice versa, we were confused to bring us to 6:15.
WOD was about worry.
Irresponsible Worry
And which of you by being anxious
can add a single hour to his span of life?—Matthew 6:27
Something’s coming. Doesn’t it always feel like that? Maybe it’s something financial . . . maybe work-related . . . maybe health-related . . . definitely bad. And so, we worry. I mean, it almost feels like that’s just a part of being a man, worrying about what’s coming. We worry about all the bad things that could happen, to us and to our loved ones. We scheme about how to get out in front of all those things. Then we worry some more about whether we’re actually men enough to execute our schemes. All this worrying hangs over our lives. It haunts our thoughts and steals important moments—moments that should be joy-filled.
But, it would be irresponsible not to worry, wouldn’t it? We’ve been trained to worry, all our lives. We’ve been trained that men with responsibilities are supposed to worry. It’s part of manhood.
Or is it? Our King, Jesus Christ, teaches us that it’s actually not. You see, he didn’t come so that we’d live lives haunted by fear. He came and died to set us free from such things (Galatians 5:1). He assures us, our Father God will take care of us, whether we worry or not (Matthew 6:26). We must, therefore, adopt a radical, new mindset: “We don’t know what’s coming . . . but our Father God does. So, we’ll leave it to him.”
It’s always a privilege to workout with my F3 brothers. Thanks for making me better.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
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