Quick To Hear, Slow To Speak

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strength. When you go through hardship and decide not to surrender, that is strength."
-Arnold Schwarzenegger

Warm Up

Strength/Skill
Back Squat 5x5 @ 75% of 1RM

WOD
"Gizmo"
3 rounds for time:
Run 800 meters
10 Burpee - Pull Ups
20 Walking Lunges (20 each leg)
30 Push Ups
40 Box Jumps @ 24" box
50 Double Unders

Endurance
Rest



Lesson of The Fence

-- Author Unknown
(Taken from the South Florida Avenue Messenger)

There was a little boy with a bad temper.
His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper to hammer a nail in the back fence. The first day the boy had driven thirty-seven nails into the fence. Then it gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence Finally the day came when the boy didn’t lose his temper at all.

He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out a nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence.

“You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When we say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won’t matter how many times you say ‘I’m sorry,’ the wound is still there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one.”

“Know this, my beloved brethren. Let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger.” -- James 1:19