Deliverance Beatdown
QIC
DeliveranceAO
GraphitePAX
- Deliverance
- Eliot Ness
- Fixed Gear
- Harry T. Stone
- Munger
- Trigger
Workout
Warm-o-rama
Ness warmed up while I got Trigger a coupon
Thang
Round 120 Thrusters
20 Single-Arm Rows (10 each arm)
20 Goblet Squats
Coupon guardian carry
Round 2
20 Overhead Press
20 Reverse Lunges (10 each leg)
20 Kettlebell/Coupon Swings
Rifle Carry up the steps and back
Round 3
20 Clean to Press
20 Curls
20 Burpees
Rifle carry up the steps and back
Round 4
20 Archer Merkins
20 big boys
20 heavy flutter kicks
20 gargoyles
Mary
Heavy freddiesAmerican hammers on the block
COT
Tonight I’m taking my daughter to see Tyler Childers, and I’ve been thinking about why his music resonates with so many people. On the surface it’s songs about coal mines, addiction, loss, and hard work. But underneath, it’s about something else. He doesn’t turn away from life’s hard parts—he pays attention to them. He tells the truth about them, and somehow that truth becomes beautiful.
That’s what we do out here. Yesterday I did the World’s Toughest Mile, and there were plenty of moments when my body wanted me to stop. The lesson wasn’t that I’m tough. The lesson was that I stayed present. I noticed the discomfort without running from it.
F3 isn’t about pretending things are easy. It’s about building the habit of facing what’s hard instead of avoiding it. Keep your nose to the grindstone, not because life should be all struggle, but because when you stop running from the hard parts, they stop owning you.