Into the Abyss

OYO shoulders and legs and back stretchy stuff.

@CHiP and @Focker (Q) – we lost an HC due to some crazy road closure signs from the Brunswick water main break. In true @Shugah fashion though he still went OYO and ran 5 miles in the cold.

ThundaBurpee! – Burpees to AC/DC’s Thunderstruck – Run in Circle and complete a burpee every time they sing “Thunder” or “Thunderstruck” – 37 Burpees total.

The 2 PAX partnered up! Exercise#1 counted out loud by @Focker completing the exercise. @CHiP matched the speed of the 1st exercise with his own exercise#2. We Switched exercises and counting. Ran through each Set 4 times.

The Superset
10 Abyss Merkin – 10 Abyss Dip
10 Bizarro Superman(Superman over the edge of picnic table – 10 Crunchy Frogs
10 Derkin – 10 Table leg press from your six position (5 single press each leg)
10 Shoulder Merkin (like a derkin but more vertical) – Bavarian Squats (5 squats per leg)

Mosey around the playground and repeato the superset. All in all – we completed 80 of each exercise by the time we called it and we were sufficiently burnt.

I shared how my eldest son and I had a heart to heart last night about hard work, and what it will do for you in life. Gabriel really wants a virtual reality headset Meta Quest 3. I looked it up, saw the base rate of 300-500$ for the machine, and was definitely thinking “keep dreamin’, buddy.” After I thought about it for a minute I offered him a deal of a chore chart and certain $ reward amounts for different jobs. Needless to say, he was not thrilled – I was met with lots of hemming and hawing about how it’s too much work. He wants it now! He does not want to work for it because that takes too long and he doesn’t earn that much from each job. I said every cliché, Dadism in the book, I think with the exception of ‘money doesn’t grow on trees!’ He went to bed angry, and I went to bed annoyed that my 11yr old can’t seem to appreciate what he has. I’m a bit cooler headed today and going to talk with him again about the reason we work for what we get in life. I’m also going to allow him the opportunity for some autonomy and see if he has a plan we can think up together on how he can earn his VR headset. Prayers for patience and wisdom as I counsel my son. @CHiP and I talked about growing up and the chores we were expected to do just because we were part of the family and lived in the house!  Hard work pays in many ways….lazy work, although easier at first, always comes back to bite you in the ass.