Contralateral. Unilateral. Many twists.

by backblasts, posted in Uncategorized

Date: 02/15/24
AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @Archive @Sparrow @Jailbreak @Frank @Da Vinci @Spit Valve @Tortuga @Samsonite @TBTF @Stock boy @Linc @Mad Cow @DQ
FNGs: 0
Q: @DQ
Total: 13

WOR

Thang 1
We did some tabata work (20s work / 10s rest) focused on contralateral / unilateral work. PAX performed as many reps, with good form, as they could of each exercise in the “work” time. Balance and form > rep count and speed.

Our first tabata work was 2 rounds of the following exercises:

  • Pistol squats (R)
  • Pistol squats (L)
  • Side plank w/ leg raise (R)
  • Side plank w/ leg raise (L)

Our second tabata work was 2 rounds of the following exercises:

  • Contralateral single leg dead lifts (R)
  • Contralateral single leg dead lifts (L)
  • Side plank reach throughs (R)
  • Side plank reach throughs (L)

Thang 2
3 exercises, in a 5 Alive progression, around the short loop part of the path. All these exercises performed as 2-is-1 reps. In between each lightpost, sticking with the unilateral theme, PAX one arm farmer carried their coupons. The exercises were:

  1. Bear twists
  2. Uneven merkins
  3. Coupon plank pull throughs

Moleskin
It’s Lent. When I first started participating in Lent, I would give up something. In later years, I would add something to engage more with God’s Word. This year, I enter Lent having been totally out of any sort of personal devotion routine for quite some time. Since early mornings are the best time of day for me to regularly do something for myself, and since I never have time after beatdowns for devotional time, my plan for Lent this year is to wake up 15 minutes earlier and engage in a devotion before going to F3. If I can make it a consistent priority to show up at F3 in the mornings, I can make it a consistent priority to spend time with God just as well.

My challenge to any PAX who find themselves in a similar scenario as myself is to use Lent to develop a new regular time for devotion. For me, one minor roadblock to starting a devotion is not having a plan for devotion content. These are three resources I think would be great:

  • https://bibleproject.com/playlists/ – Bible Project has a new devotion this year going through the Sermon on the Mount. What I like about this is each week has bite size pieces of content you can take in throughout the day whenever you have 5 minutes.
  • https://ccca.biola.edu/lent/2024/ – This is what I’ll be going through. @SAGA recently shared an Advent devotional Biola University created. A song, poem, and a piece of artwork are included in each day, and while not every piece of artistic content resonated, some did help me experience God more deeply.
  • https://www.first15.org/ – This was shared by a member of my young family group at church. I haven’t checked it out too deeply yet, but the 15 minute timing of it lines up with my goal

COT

  • Prayers for @Spit Valve as he works to transition into a new career path
  • Prayers for @Stock boy’s friend Tyler (pretty sure I’m remembering correctly) as he goes through chemotherapy
  • Prays for @DQ’s aunt as she also goes through chemotherapy