AO: The Ridge
When: 03/26/2024
Number of Pax: 2
DR Names:
Number of FNGS: 0
FNG Names:
QIC: Blue Gill
Introduction
With many PAX off to there Spring Break locations, the Ridge was in need of a Q so it was a no brainer to grab. It was going to be cold, windy, and possibly wet…sounded perfect.
Warm-O-Rama
Warmed up with some SSH, Windmills, Arm Circles, and Bodyweight Squats
The Thang
With two PAX pulling there HC and Crush from FIA inquiring if we planned to use the large pavillion, YHC decided to adjust the planned beatdown. Moseyed over to the small pavillion and did the following:
With resistance bands did 30 secs of each of the following
Curls
Thrusters
Rear Delt Pulls
Chest Flys
Lateral Raises
Rest
Good Mornings
Reverse Curls
Shrugs
Deadlift with Shrug
Rest
Shoulder Crossover – Right
Shoulder Crossover – Left
Tricep Extension – Right
Tricep Extension – Left
Rest
Single Leg Lunge – Right
Single Leg Lunge – Left
Rest
LBC with ban (Alt Arm to Knee)
On 12, Chest Fly
Rest
Calf Raises
Single Arm Curl – Right
Single Arm Curl – Left
Behind Neck Military Press
Rest
On Knees – Rear Delt Pull
On Knees – Shrug
On Knees – Al Cult with Holds
On Knees – Shoulder Lateral Raise
Rest
Tri Extension (Right) – Band at feet
Tri Extension (Left) – Band at feet
Squat Punches
Squat Chest Fly
Chest Fly – Long Holds
Good Mornings
Alternating Curls
Rest
Rear Delt Pulls (band in front)
Upright Rows
Rest
Neck Extensions
OHP and Hold
Crossover Shoulder – Right
Crossover Shoulder – Left
Curls – Half
Rest
Squat and Rear Delt Pull
then continued with more resistance band work by doing each of the following
Squats (60 Secs)
Bicep Curls (60 Secs)
Lat or Front Shoulder Raise (Right) (30 Secs)
Lat or Front Shoulder Raise (Right) (30 Secs)
Merkins (30 Secs)
Rest (30 Secs)
Lunge (Right Leg) (30 Secs)
Lunge (Left Leg) (30 Secs)
Back Flys (30 Secs) – Band in front
Chest Flys (30 Secs) – Band in rear
Rest (30 Secs)
Sumo Deadlifts (60 Secs)
Squats (60 Secs)
Rest (30 Secs)
Tri Extension (Right) (30 Secs)
Tri Extension (Left) (30 Secs)
finshed up with Mary doing gas pumpers, flutterkicks, and high plank
Circle of Trust
Referenced the info channel for announcements and TAPs were sent out
Naked Man Moleskin
Message today was focused on the word Love. This tired old English word gets thrown around a lot. I can say I love my wife and in the same breath say I love my jeep or a pair of pants. I was listening to a podcast that was discussing the word Love and how in the Hebrew language there are three translations of the word love. The first translation is the word rayah (ray-ya). This is a neighborly or a brotherly love. It’s a love you would have for your neighbor or your brother. The word expresses a kind of familiarity. When it’s used in a romantic sense, rayah is the poetic infatuation that a person experiences when they begin a new relationship, where they can’t stop thinking about the other person. A good example of this is when your first dating and a conversation takes place that sounds like this…. “No, you hang up the phone.” “No, you hang up the phone.” “No, you hang up.” “No, I love you more.” It’s that electric, poetic infatuation. That is rayah.
Now, the next word for love is ahava. (Ah-ha-Va) Ahava is not rayah, it’s not poetic infatuation. Ahava is commitment, both romantically and not romantically. Ahava is a kind of love that says, “I’m going to be here for you no matter what happens, no matter what comes around the corner, no matter how I feel.” Rayah is all about my feelings. It’s all about the electricity. Ahava is a love that, it doesn’t matter what my feelings are, it doesn’t matter if the electricity is there, I’m going to be there for you no matter what.
Now, romantically speaking, there’s a third kind of love. We have rayah, which is the infatuation, the, “She’s my best friend.” That kind of love. There’s the ahava, which is hopefully what a marriage commitment would be about, the, “I’m going to be here through thick and thin till death do us part, good times and bad times, rich or poor.” Then there’s a dowd. Now, dowd can mean uncle, but romantically speaking, when it’s used as romantic love, dowd is the sexual erotic love.
As a human being, these loves, when we speak of romantic marital relationships, these loves are designed to work together. You could think of each of them as a flame like from a Bic lighter or a match. So there’s rayah , ahava and it’s a lighter, and you got dowd, and it’s a lighter. All three have individual flames, but the three are designed to work together. When you put them together, you get this huge raging fire, which is the marital relationship. The dysfunction happens in culture when we take one of those loves away. We might know people, we might have parents or we might know others or it might even be us who is in a relationship where there’s dowd and there’s ahava, but rayah left the building a long time ago. Now, rayah—comes and goes. It’s a natural part of our experience. That’s a part of love that rages and dies. It’s a fire that waxes and wanes, has an ebb and flow to it. That’s why ahava is so important, but we all know those relationships that they’re not even trying. There’s not even an attempt at rayah, and so the marriage is dysfunctional, or maybe a marriage that has rayah and there’s ahava, but there’s no dowd and something seems to be off and something seems to be missing, or there might be relationships– Of course, we have the dysfunction of our culture, which is we don’t have the ahava. We have the rayah and we have the dowd, but no ahava. That creates its own dysfunction.
These loves that are put within human sexuality are meant to be experienced together. When we speak of romantic relationships, we have to understand that all three of those loves are designed to work together simultaneously within a relationship. The struggle comes when we find one of those loves missing from the equation. In your relationship, are all three flames working together?