A tour of Detention 10/26

QIC:  NordicTrack

Date: 10/26/2020

PAX: Cleaver, White Lightning, Ponce, Heisenberg, U-Turn, Snatch, FNG-Wet Spot, Blue, Dundee, Mr Clean

AO: Detention


Conditions

Cool at 64. Humid.


COP

SSH

LB Arm Circles

Various Stretches

The Thang

Mosey between the stations as a group. Plank until the 6 is in. Then everyone perform 10 merkins.
A tour of Detention
Begin a group mosey around the park. 1/2 around the lap, we will stop for the first set of exercises.

Exercises Set 1

25 Burpees

25 Pickle Pounders

50 BBS

50 Monkey Humpers

Plank until the 6 is in.

Next we will mosey to the picnic tables next to the Baseball fields. Plank once we arrive until the 6, then 10 merkins.

Exercises Set 2

25 Decline merkins

25 Pull ups

50 Dips

50 Freddie Mercuries

Next we will mosey to the hill at the top of the lower parking lot. Plank once we arrive until the 6, then 10 merkins.

Exercises set 3

25 incline merkins

Bernie up to the top of the hill, then bear crawl back down

50 toe merkins on the curb

Bernie up to the top of the hill, then bear crawl back down

50 American Hammers (hard count)

Bernie up to the top of the hill, then bear crawl back down

Next we will mosey back to the flag. Plank once we arrive until the 6, then 10 merkins. If we have time, we will do Exercise Set 4, if not we will do circle merkins until time.

Exercises set 4

50 Shoulder Taps (hard count)

50 Pickle Pounders

50 Leg Lifts

50 squats

COT

Charles W. Colson was an attorney at the age of 38 when we joined President Nixon’s staff in 1969. He was at the height his career at a young age, and was known to “get things done.” The staff employed dirty tricks, planted evidence, and threatened people to help Nixon win by a landslide election in 1972. The Watergate operation and activities surrounding it led to the arrests of Nixon’s closest aids (including Colson), and later the president’s resignation.

Colson’s story does not end here. While in prison, he was “born again” and announced that he would devote the rest of his life to religious work. He founded the Prison Fellowship Ministries in 1976. He established Justice Fellowship in 1983, a criminal justice reform group. And in 1993 he won a $1 million Templeton Price for Progress in Religion, which he donated to his ministries. Among many other accomplishments.

Colson hit rock bottom after Watergate. He lost all credibility, his ability to practice law, and his freedom. While everyone knows about Watergate, the majority of his adult life was devoted to Christianity. He chose not to allow 3 years of his life to define him. Everyone has a choice when faced with a difficult circumstance in life. To borrow an expression, you can either be a “victim,” or a “victor” in these cases. No matter how bad a situation gets, there is always an opportunity to come out the other side stronger.



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