What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
-Vincent Van Gough
Fear, largely based on the unknown, keeps us from even attempting things sometimes. Courage is the power to conquer the fear despite the unknown. Fear can pervade every area of our lives, as we can all attest, and for YHC, fear inundated me on several levels as I put together today’s beatdown – and even more so as I pulled up to the Marsh in the gloom! You see, I can’t shake the words of our illustrious brother Turbo Tax following the 2 year convergence when he told us, in essence, to stop phoning it in and be the F3 that we want by, among other things, putting thought and preparation into our beatdowns. With that in mind, I fearfully sprinkled just a little bit of Bushwacker Orgininality Spice on a piece of paper, worried that, as good as it sounded now, it may end up a flop. YHC may end up pushed past his breaking point. The PAX may snicker and scoff at the ridiculous commands presented to them and secretly ridicule the Wacker (as the southshore did with the ISI week of 100s). But courage overcame the baseless fears, and the trusty Men of the Marsh met to Master another Monday ass whoopin!
Pre-Thang
Slow dynamic stretching seemed in order so…
All IC:
Toe Touches x30
Imperial Walkers x30
Abe Vigodas x20
Thang
Off to the playground equipment for…
(all OYO)
5 pull ups, 10squats, 25 merkins, 50 LBCs
5 chin ups, 10 lunges (5each leg),25 freak nasties, 50 heal pulses
5Australian pull ups, 10 1 leg squats (5 each leg), 25 derkins, 50 putins
Back to the B Ball court and partnered up for my own take on B.O.M.B.S. called B.I.T.E. M.E.
50 Burpees
100Iron Hulks (1:4 ratio of merkins to air presses)
The Two Amigos (wall squat back to back and walk from one end of the court and back)
200 E2K (ankle over knee oblique crunch, 100 each side)
Empty Wheelbarrow (crab walk with partner holding your legs)
Wrap Up
Pushing the limits of temporal respect, we finished sweaty sore and exhausted with COT and a prayer from the Sharp Dressed Pik himself.
LAGNIAPPE (or Post Thang)
As has proudly become somewhat of an F3 northshore tradition, we scoured the Marsh like kids on an easter egg hunt for all the litter we could find, so as to leave the place better than it was when we arrived.
Thank you gentlemen for your friendship, comaraderie, and following my lead, despite my fears
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a post script for those of you still reading, I just read an article that says a meta study comprised of 2 Harvard studies that followed over 700 men for 75 years testing all aspects of health and happiness found “The clearest message that we get from this 75-year study is this: Good relationships keep us happier and healthier. Period.” — Robert Waldinger, director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development. We, gentlemen, will live forever!
