Tactical Athlete

5 Rounds for time:

25 Alternating KB Swings (24 kg)

15 Handstand kick ups (against wall, pause for 2 seconds on top)

5 Weighted pull-ups w/24 kg KB

“… although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.  Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools… Who exchanged the truth of God for the lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.”  Romans 1:21-22, 25.

The Brainy Bunch by Thomas Sowell

For Time:

30 TGUs R/L (24 kg)

30 Muscle ups

Note: Keep good form, feel free to scale, if necessary.

Abigal Adams (1744-1818), wife of john Adams, 2nd President of the USA, and mother of the 6th President, John Quincy Adams.  On November 15, 1775 she wrote:

“A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.  Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?  Can he be a patriot who, by an openly vicious conduct, is undermining the very bonds of Society?…The Scriptures tell us “righteousness exalteth a Nation.”

21-15-9

KB Snatches R/L (24 kg)

Pull-ups

Ring Push ups

“Give us help from trouble,, for the help of man is useless.  Through God we will do valiantly, for it is He who shall tread down our enemies.” – Psalms 60:11-12

“Here my cry, O God; attend to my prayer.  From the end of the earth I will cry to You, when my heart is overwhelmed; lead me to the rock that is higher than I.  For You have been a shelter for me, a strong tower from the enemy.  I will abide in Your tabernacle forever; I will trust in the shelter of Your wings.  Psalms 61:1-4

“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing” – Edmund Burke

Who will stand up for me against evildoers? Who will take his stand for me against those who do wickedness? – Psalms 94:16

Warm-up

Row 1000 meters  

or

5 minutes of H2H Kettlebell or SHOT Drills

Work out – 4 rounds of 4 reps, 80% of 1 rep max

Squat (low-bar back squat)

Dips (weighted)

Chin-ups (weighted)

Hernando Cortez (1485-1547), was the Spanish explorer who conquered Mexico.  On February 10, 1519, before embarking for Mexico, Cortez addressed his force of approximately 500 men, supplied with sixteen horses and ten cannons saying:

   Soldiers of Spain, we are standing upon the verge of the greatest adventure ever undertaken by so small a body of men. We now leave the known world behind us: from this time forth we plunge into a region never before trodden by men of our race or religion.  The hazards of this adventure I shall not dwell upon; they are well estimated by the bravest among you.

   But I speak now of the immortal glory you will bring to Spanish arms, and to yourselves,, the successful accomplishment of the mission before us. The shores we shall storm are lined with teeming millions of savages, unfriendly if not openly hostile.

   We have only our swords and our good right arms to protect us against their overwhelming numbers.  Therefore let not childish strife or inner dissension weaken the front we must present to the enemy.  If we go as united as we go courageously,, we have nothing to fear, nothing to lose…

   We are on a crusade.  We are marching as Christians into a land of infidels.  We seek not only to subdue boundless territory in the name of our Emperor Don Carlos, bu to win millions of unsalvaged souls to the True Faith…

   Let us therefore enter upon our labors, so auspiciously begun, and in the name of our God and our Emperor carry them joyously, confidently to a triumphant conclusion.