07/26/2024, 5:15 AM | The Bell Tower| 73 degrees, 90% humidity
Q: Black Tuesday
10 PAX: Chernobyl, Longboard, Black Tuesday, Bunson, Tweety, Precious, Lady bug, Korver, Icy Hot, iMac
QIC: Black Tuesday
4:30 AM
Pre-Smurphers – Korver, Tweety, Icy Hot
4:45 AM
No Pre-Runners
5:15 AM:
Black Tuesday welcomed the Pax to F3 – reminding them of the F3 Mission: Plant, Grow and Serve small workout groups of men for the invigoration of male community leadership.
Black Tuesday then recited the 5 core principles of F3. 1) Free of charge 2) Open to all men. 3) Held outdoors, 4) Peer led in a rotating fashion and 5) Ends with a Circle of Trust (COT).
Black Tuesday then informed the group that he is not a professional and to modify as necessary. He recited the creedo – “Leave no man behind, but leave no man where you found him.”
The PAX then moseyed around the parking lot, just over 1 lap, to the base of the parking lot hill for the Warm-O-Rama.
Warm-O-Rama
The PAX circled up and performed the following:
- Sun gods x 10 forward and back
- Cherry pickers x 10
- Moroccan Night Clubs x 10
- Tappy taps x 10
- Big Ones x 10
- Quad stretch x 10
Thang:
The Thang consisted of the PAX performing a tibata circuit (30 seconds on, 10 seconds between), with a mosey up to the top hill and back between circuits. The circuit consisted of the following:
- Circuit 1 (loop through twice, 30 sec x 10 sec = 5.33 mins ):
- Squats
- Lunges
- Merkins
- Big Boys
- Mosey to top of hill ( 2 mins)
- Circuit 2
- Burpees
- Dry Docks
- Monkey Humpers
- Imperial Walkers
- Mosey hill
- Circuit 3
- T merkins
- WWIs
- Squat Jumps
- Ranger Merkins
- Mosey Hill
Black Tuesday called Omaha at approximately 0547AM
The PAX then moseyed up to the flag and completed Broga and Mary.
- Sarpy Slammers, 14 to be exact
- Broga consisted of the following:
- 2 deep breathes
- Downward dog
- Runner Stretch x 30 seconds
- Pigeon Pose x 30 seconds
- Back to DD rinse and repeat, ending at DD again.
- Walk up to standing from DD, stretch to the toes
- Slow breath inhale
Name-o-rama occurred at the completion of Mary/Broga.
Prayers/Announcements
- Announcements
- Next blood drive 8-30, NCB
- Flag pass at the Pit, Busser to OGK
- Chernobyl post site Q, Q at the Pit.
- Prayers
- Plug for the prayer channel on WhatsApp to see what other prayers come up at AOs
- Levy’s mom
- Squeakys dad.
COT:
Spend a lot of time thinking about “why” or “how”.
Why things happen
Why me.
How do I fix this problem.
All three of our kids have allergies to milk/dairy. One is allergic to 4 things. Perfect example – why me, why them, why us.
Read “Man’s Search for Meaning” Viktor Frankyl
Holocaust Survivor. Half book on his experience half on his philosophy.
It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.
Life is a series of problems, or “challenges”. You can choose to commiserate in them or accept them and find meaning in them.
Book example: Man surviving his wife, depressed for 2 years after her death. Goes to frankyl for help. Asked how he’s doing. Horrible. Asked how his wife would have handled it. Would have been harder for her. His meaning in this, man’s suffering prevented his wife’s greater suffering.
As HIMs, challenge you all to look for the meaning in all of your challenges – no matter the size, so that you can lead your best life and positively impact those around you.
In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
Thank you!! BT