Tactical Athlete

KB Linda

10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 reps for time:

1.5 x BW Deadlift

Double KB Floor Press (40 kg or 32 kg)

.75 x BW Clean

Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official — not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate, but simply one of the many “czars” appointed by the President — could arbitrarily cut the pay of executives in private businesses by 50 percent or 90 percent?

Did you think that another “czar” would be talking about restricting talk radio? That there would be plans afloat to subsidize newspapers — that is, to create a situation where some newspapers’ survival would depend on the government liking what they publish?
 
Did you imagine that anyone would even be talking about having a panel of so-called “experts” deciding who could and could not get life-saving medical treatments?
 
Scary as that is from a medical standpoint, it is also chilling from the standpoint of freedom. If you have a mother who needs a heart operation or a child with some dire medical condition, how free would you feel to speak out against an administration that has the power to make life and death decisions about your loved ones?
 
Does any of this sound like America?
 
How about a federal agency giving school children material to enlist them on the side of the president? Merely being assigned to sing his praises in class is apparently not enough.
 
How much of America would be left if the federal government continued on this path? President Obama has already floated the idea of a national police force, something we have done without for more than two centuries.
 
We already have local police forces all across the country and military forces for national defense, as well as the FBI for federal crimes and the National Guard for local emergencies. What would be the role of a national police force created by Barack Obama, with all its leaders appointed by him? It would seem more like the brown shirts of dictators than like anything American.
 
How far the President will go depends of course on how much resistance he meets. But the direction in which he is trying to go tells us more than all his rhetoric or media spin.
 
Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to “change the United States of America,” the people he has been associated with for years have expressed in words and deeds their hostility to the values, the principles, and the people of this country.
 
Jeremiah Wright said it with words: “God d— America!” Bill Ayers said it with bombs that he planted. Community activist goons have said it with their contempt for the rights of other people.
 
Among the people appointed as czars by President Obama have been people who have praised enemy dictators like Mao, who have seen the public schools as places to promote sexual practices contrary to the values of most Americans, to a captive audience of children.
 
Those who say that the Obama administration should have investigated those people more thoroughly before appointing them are missing the point completely. Why should we assume that Barack Obama didn’t know what such people were like, when he has been associating with precisely these kinds of people for decades before he reached the White House?
 
Nothing is more consistent with his lifelong patterns than putting such people in government — people who reject American values, resent Americans in general and successful Americans in particular, as well as resenting America’s influence in the world.
 
Any miscalculation on his part would be in not thinking that others would discover what these stealth appointees were like. Had it not been for the Fox News Channel, these stealth appointees might have remained unexposed for what they are. Fox News is now high on the administration’s enemies list.
 
Nothing so epitomizes President Obama’s own contempt for American values and traditions like trying to ram two bills through Congress in his first year — each bill more than a thousand pages long — too fast for either of them to be read, much less discussed. That he succeeded only the first time says that some people are starting to wake up. Whether enough people will wake up in time to keep America from being dismantled, piece by piece, is another question — and the biggest question for this generation.

For Time:

50 Burpee / KB Dead Clean and Press R/L (16 kg)

Note: Place KB between your feet, centered with the instep perform Burpee (w/o pushup!).  Feet must go back to the starting position before performing the dead clean and press.  Keep strict Form!  Never pull with a round back or if the KB is in front of your toes!!!

Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817), a French-born American economist and politician, along with his son Eleuthere Irenee founded the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company in 1802 near Wilmington, Delaware.  They began to produce a higher quality gun powder which caused their company, especially aft the War of 1812, to grow rapidly, eventually becoming the industrial giant of du Pont Industries.

Thomas Jefferson had commissioned du Pont de Nemours to survey and report on the status of American education in the early 1800’s  He reported:

“Most young Americans…can read, write and cipher.  Not more four in a thousand are unable to write legibly…

In America, a great number of people read the Bible, and all the people read a newspaper.  The fathers read aloud to their children while breakfast is being prepared – a task which occupies the mothers for three-quarters of an hour every morning…

It is because of this kind of education that Americans of the United States…have the advantage of having a larger proportion of moderately well-informed men.”

Wake Forrest University

5 sets of 3-5 reps

Deadlift (85-90% 1 rep max)

Pull-ups (85-90% 1 rep max) 

Handstand Push-up (scale accordingly)

Finish with 1 set of:

100 Half-Rotation Switches

Timothy Dwight (1752-1817), president of Yale, was an influential author and educator.  He was grandson of Jonathan Edwards, the famous New England minister and president of Princeton.  It was during his president at Yale that a powerful revival ensued at the New Haven campus with a large percentage of the class, not only professing Christ, but entering the ministry.  On July 4th, 1798, President Dwight declared:

“Religion and liberty are the meat and drink of the body politic. Withdraw one of them and it languishes, consumes, and dies… Without religion we may possibly retain the freedom of savages, bears, and wolves, but not he freedom of New England.  If our religion were gone, our state of society would perish with it, and nothing would be left.”

Timothy Dwight stated:

“Where there is no religion, there is no morality… With the loss of religion…the ulitmate foundation of confidence is blown up; and the security of life, liberty and property are buried in ruins.”

“The Bible is a window in this prison of hope, through which we look into eternity.”

10 Reps Towards KB Perfection 

For Time:

Prescribed weight – whatever you need to perform perfect reps.  Perform 10 reps each arm for all one-arm exercises.

10 One-arm Floor Presses R/L

10 Arm-Bar Stretches R/L 

10 Double Floor Presses

10 Turkish Get Ups R/L

10 Military Press R/L

10 Push-Presses R/L

10 Russian Swings

10 Power Swings

10 American Swings

10 Swing Releases

10 One-Arm Swings R/L

10 Half Rotations Switches

10 H2H Switches

10 KB Dead Cleans R/L

10 KB (Swing) Cleans R/L

10 Bottoms-up Cleans R/L

10 Double KB Cleans

10 Thrusters

10 Snatches R/L

Happy Birthday Moe!!!

“Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice in the wife of your youth.”  - Proverbs 5:8

For Time:

30 Turkish Get-ups (each side) 24 kg KB

30 Muscle ups

Note:  Keep strict form, be smooth do not rush your TGUs.  It’s a timed event but not a race.  Quality reps are essential – smooth is fast.  Do not sacrifice form for time!

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

88 Pound Pull-Up Challenge... Congratulations Billy & Aaron!