Strength:
Power Cleans 1-1-1
Conditioning
50-40-30 rep
rounds of:
Tuck Jumps
Thigh Touches
Tim instructs Ralph and the rest of the group how to catch the bar in the rack position.
It
is such an honor to work with the kids we have here and I am thankful every day
for the opportunity. Of course, as with anything, some days are better
than others and today I got a special reminder of why we do what we do at
Steve’s Club. During some down time I was talking to a group of the guys
about their history in athletics. Jose was telling me about his
experience running distance events on his high school track team and Charlie
and the rest were getting into a lively conversation about basketball, both in
high school and pick up games played in the neighborhood. Then Jose said
something that really hit me hard. He started reminiscing about how much fun it
was to play touch football with the kids in the neighborhood before high school
and how those days ended when most of the kids his age started dealing drugs. I
asked him how those guys were doing now and he told me that most of them ended
up in jail and two were killed. While I am aware of the type of environment
these guys grow up in, being confronted with it is still jarring from time to
time. It filled me with a deep sense of gratitude for my own childhood and
overwhelming joy that we can create a place for them to get away from all of
that. It wasn’t just that he knew a couple of guys who went down the wrong
path; it was the majority of the boys his age. It made the workout today extra
special because we had a few new faces and I couldn’t help but consider what
they might be doing with their time if they weren’t with us getting crushed by
Annie. Then during the warm-up, Keith got his first muscle-up. He has
been working on it for weeks now and was proud to right his name on the board
in the muscle-up club. It could seem like a small thing but it was just a
concrete example of how what we do teaches these kids that hard work and
perseverance do pay off. Delayed gratification has fallen out of style in our
day and age and Steve’s Club is a place where its merit is showcased on a daily
basis. I walked out of Steve’s Club to today with an extra big smile on my face
and I will walk in tomorrow thinking about how lucky I am to be a part of it.
-Timothy Rourke
The greatest discovery any outsider could make about Camden is it's overriding response to failure: If it didn’t work last year, do it AGAIN this year (and if possible do it MORE).
Every year they pass more laws, hire more police, build more prisons, and sentence more offenders for longer periods-all without moving one inch closer to “ending” crime. If it didn’t work last year or the year before that or the year before that or the year before that, but you can be sure we’ll try it again this year, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that it won’t work this year either.
Every year they spend more money on schools, hoping to “fix” whatever’s wrong with them, and every year the schools remain stubbornly unfixed. Spending money didn’t work last year or the year before that or the year before that, but you can be sure we’ll try it again this year, knowing beyond shadow of a doubt that it won’t work this year either.
Every year they try to make the criminals go away, and every year they remain with us. We couldn’t shoehorn these criminals back into the “the mainstream” last year or the year before that or the year before that or the year before that, but you can be sure we’ll try it again this year, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that it won’t work this year either.
Maybe its time to TRY something DIFFERENT.
Afterall, IF Camden is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.
Much of my inspiration comes from Daniel Quinn in "Ishmael."
I'm going also visit a gym ner my office :)
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