This week I have had the pleasure of Qing twice.  It was a pleasure both Monday at Guns & Moses and again today at Himship.  Himship has a lot of area to cover so We went to work.

The Thang:

• Warm Up started with:
  • 20 Hill Billys IC
  • 20 Wind Mills IC
  • 20 Moroccan Night Clubs IC
  • 10 Head, Shoulder, Knees & Toes in the plank position – (Thanks to Honey Pot for showing me this one.  I understand Italian Job is to blame for the pain these gave the men this morning.  I have found my new favorite exercise)
  • Held the plank position
    • Right leg off the ground 10 count
    • Left leg off the ground 10 count
  • Down on our bellys for some superman fun
  • Then a new one (or maybe not) called the Michael Phelps – one you belly all limbs 6″ off the ground and kick your feet and wave your arms like you are swimming.  Really makes the mumble chatter increase…..or that could have been grones I was hearing.
• Round of Suicides
  • Karaoke to the left two parking stalls
    • 5 burpees
    • Karaoke right side back
  • High Knees 2 stalls
    • 5 ranger merkins
    • High knees back
  • Butt Kickers
    • 5 burpees
    • Butt Kickers back
  • 10 count to catch our breath
• Mosie around the backside of Walmart all the way around to the service entrance on the other side.
  • to catch our breath I talked about mind control again.  I explained the experiment we did at Guns & Moses on Monday (check out the back blast for that).  A little testimony about me.  My grandfather was a WWII fighter pilot and was a tough guy.  But he was hard on my dad.  Now a lot of that reflected right through to my childhood and my dad was hard on me.  He was always pushing me.  One reason was because I have a brother that suffers from some mental disabilities (severe learning disabilities).  You would hardly notice it if you talked to him today.  Anyway, my dad was hard on me because I was capable where my brother was not.  But I now know why.  Being in the construction business, especially working with concrete, you have to remove your emotions and put your mind to the task.  Concrete when you are pouring it, is on a time limit.  You do not have time to make excuses as to why you can’t finish it before it hardens.  It is a win or loss situation.  Running your own business is the same.  You have to make your mind up that you will push yourself no matter how tired you are, no matter how bad you want to quit.  It takes heart and determination to do that.  One thing I mentioned about my brother is you would find it hard to see his disabilities now.  When he was young boy, my parents took him to a school in Charlotte that specialized in cases like him.  They told my parents that Chris was a lost cause and they should pull him from school.  They said he would never drive and basically he would never live a normal life.  Today my brother drives our lowboy hauling our heavy equipment around.  Today he is married and lives as normal of a life as he can.  This is all because my parents refused to allow him to be anything but his best.  That goes for me too.  Men we have heart for what we are doing in the gloom.  If we didn’t, we wouldn’t show up.  Because we have heart, we do not allow our minds to take control.
• Now back to it with a little Escalators – but first the burpee (bud light) truck came by triggering 5 burpees beofre we started
  • corner 1 – 10 burpees
  • corner 2 – 20 squats
  • corner 3 – 30 merkins
  • corner 4 – air squared (over head claps)
  • What goes up must come back down – Repeat backward back to the start
• 20 count to get a little rest
• Lt Dans 100 Yards back toward the front of the store.
• Mosie to the front wall of the store.
  • Wall sits
    • Arms out – 10 count
    • arms up – 10 count
    • One leg up, holding off the ground
    • other leg up
  • Bear crawl / wall sit line – 2 rounds
• Mosie to the COT
  • Talked a little more about heart.  Last Saturday my 2.0 asked why the men were their.  The answers were all the same…to get better.  He then asked, what are you doing to get better spiritually?  I asked the men the same thing this morning.  Men, are you exercising your hearts?  We get up in the gloom to exercise but are we going home in the evening and opening the Word of God?  I am guilty of not doing all I need to do to grow spiritually.  F3 is awesome but do not allow that to be the only interaction we have with other Christians and don’t let the 3rd F be the only time you learn or hear about God. AYE???
• Doc told me to tighten my core so lets do a little ab lab!
  • Hello Dollys
  • Rosalitta Whips
  • Hill Billy on your 6
  • Hands of time

Gentle Men it was a pleasure as always.  The men of York always put in 100%.  It is an honor to know you gents.

God Bless, Joe Dirt