Greetings. Disclaimer. Typical Warm Up.

Decided to try something different today. Consulted to Exicon and found two interesting routines: the Dark Webb and the Hightower. Told the men we'd practice democracy and vote. Hightower is all burpee variations, so the majority voted against it. So we conducted our inaugural iteration of the Dark Webb.

Four pairs of exercises. Performed in an increasing 1:2 ratio. First round, 1:2. Second round, 2:4. So on and so forth up to 10:20.

Merkins / Overhead Press
Jump Squats / Lunges
Sit-Ups / Hammers (IC)
Burpees / SSH (IC)

Mary
Boxcutters
LBCs
Freddie Mercury

Announcements
HGB – GoFundMe link on Slack. Obviously, anything you can do for support, whether financially, emotionally or otherwise is needed.
Q Sheets need your name .
Bright Idea hosting a shindig at the VFW in Pittsboro (near Havoc Brewery) at the end of August

COT
Read an interesting article about the concept of free will. To summarize, the article reflected on the mind/soul (operator) vs the brain (the computer). Does the mind operate the computer, or is the computer so advanced that it already puts things into motion before the operator makes a decision. Article had an interesting conclusion, though. Rather than go back and forth on mind vs. brain, it recounted a study in which participants who believed in free will were statistically happier, more productive, and more satisfied than those who did not believe. We've all heard sayings like "choose happiness" or "choose kindness". Maybe just choose to believe. And burpees. Choose burpees. Food for thought.

Thanks as always for the opportunity and for the support. Hope everyone enjoyed it.