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As the great philosopher Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta once said:

“I wanna hold ’em like they do in Texas, please
Fold ’em, let ’em hit me, raise it, baby, stay with me”

So the journey began. A good ole round of cards at the Brave.

The Thang

Mosey to parking lot next to AAA: butt kicks, high knees and karaoke on the way. Circle up for 20 SSH’s, 20 Mtn. Climbers, 20 LBC’s and 20 Squats

Ready to deal! Utilize F3 Deck of playing cards. Each ramp in a parking deck, pull a card, perform the exercise and reps on the card. Ace = 100 reps, Royal = 25 reps, Cards = # + 10 reps, Joker = 50 reps of PAX’s choice

Mosey to parking deck #1 for Spades (Legs): 12 bulgarian squats, 15 standing lunges, 25 squats and 50 rosalitas (Wild Turkey’s choice)

Mosey to parking deck #2 for Diamonds (Upper body): 100 arm circles, 19 ranger merkins, 13 church norris merkins, 14 carolina dry docks, 18 merkins, 17 derkins. This parking deck (by Cabo Fish Taco) is a beast

Mosey to parking deck #3 for Hearts (Cardio): 18 squat thrusts, backwards run up each ramp (Kirby’s favorite), 25 plank jacks, 25 mtn. climbers

Mosey to parking deck #4 for Clubs (Core): 18 luges, 25 freddie mercury’s, 17 LBC’s, 50 Rosalita’s (Frehley’s choice). Mix in additional cardio on way back down: 100 meter karaoke, 100 meter bear crawl

Mosey to launch: finish with 2 100-meter AYG sprints, 6-inches on your six for 30 seconds until time.

Moleskin

• This was a fun one. Lots of chatter, wheeling and dealing in between exercises. Easy for YHC to execute, apart from trying to not mix up all the cards and drop them in between decks
• There were four exercises that we were not familiar with, enjoyed learning new exercises and variations
• Taco Stand has really stepped up his tights game, the whole group was raving about Taco’s high fashion for the first 10 minutes. He led the pack for much of the workout and has been putting in solid miles recently. Agree with you entirely about MJ being the greatest. LBJ isn’t even close
• Frehley’s dropped some bombs in the parking deck, without proper notification for safe distancing. Fortunately YHC was not caught in his wake, but others suffered. T claps to this long-time Braver for posting 6 times this week! I hope to be in such good shape when I’m your age
• Jazz Hands continues to quietly crush these Brave workouts. Good to see you again in the gloom
• Wild Turkey didn’t even work up a sweat with this one. Consistently leading the pack and the first one down and the first one up. YHC has never seen this man out of breath. The Turkey is swift, sly and always ready to strike.
• Sweet Water will soon be releasing his patented away-from-home hotel workout regiment. Despite being on the road for work travel, he logs over 12,000 steps a day basically doing burpees and sprinting every minute that he’s not in a meeting. PAX didn’t stand a chance when we ran sprints at the end.
• Kirby, you brought the chatter and humor this morning. Much appreciated as it kept us engaged through the repetition. Grateful for your leadership in the area of 3rd F.
• A conversation Wild Turkey and I had a few weeks ago has really stuck with me. We were processing recent political events and trying to make sense of our varied emotions.Why is our country so divided? Why is this moment so painful? A friend shared an article with me that really resonated with me. At COT I shared a few truth nuggets with the group:
• “The lockdowns are merely the apex of a mountain of isolation that too many Americans are perched upon. Too many have no church, no lodge, no bowling league, no ice cream social. Their eyes do not even land upon their neighborhood or neighbors.
• Instead, atomized Americans long forced home and tuned in on screens can only watch the fury spilling on the streets of their nation. They lack the social and community means to soothe their country and calm its extreme elements.
• They stare at their own hand as the entire world pours into their consciousness. They choose sides. Once chosen, a tribe is inscribed upon them. There is no greater shame in our modern world than changing one’s mind.
• It doesn’t matter which side is right, because both are suffering. What Americans lack has nothing to do with politics. We lack meaning. The conservative may love liberty, but in and of itself liberty does not give meaning to our lives. The same is true for progressives and their search for perfect equity.
• The irony of the digital age is that never has everyone known as many people and never have they felt so alone. Perhaps the problem isn’t racism, crime, climate change, or religious liberty. Perhaps the problem is civic life itself.
• What if the problem is not that we are so divided? When have we not been? What if the problem is that we have never been so isolated?
• Look up. Look up to see your neighbors. Look up to see the miracle of breezes fanned by swaying branches, to the shifting snow falling faintly. Look up to God. Know that you have meaning.” 

*end of soapbox*

Thanks brothers for the deep conversation after the workout this am. I needed it. And I needed to hear the struggles and joys from Frehleys and Kirby who are pressing into hard conversations. Always grateful to lead. It’s a gift.

Announcements

• Escobar clothes collection: Kirby and War Eagle can take goods
• Roof Above Home Warming Boxes: chat with Kirby for information
• Blood Drive!
• Reminder to reach out to a friend for help. We each need someone to lock shields with. Kirby and Paper Jam are ready and willing to chat

midriff out