What an awesome day! Although today was brutally hot and humid (about 95 degrees at 9am in the morning) 6 teen athletes from Steve's Club joined 6 teen athletes from The Movement Program, lead by Brian Terpak for an EPIC workout at the Philadelphia Art Museum (yes, the same famous steps that Sylvester Stallone ran to the top of in Rocky!). The workout went as follows:
On the sound of GO, athletes must first carry all the equipment (including a plyo box) to the very top of the steps. Then run down to the bottom of the steps to perform:
50 Hand release pushups at ground level
100 Air squats at second level of steps
50 Push Presses (#95/65) at third level
50 Box Jumps at fourth level
30 Thrusters (#95/65) at fifth level
Then run to the bottom across the finish line. 15 minute CAP (*only one person finished within the CAP).
Check out the pictures below. ALL the kids that showed up today put 100% effort into this workout and really dug deep to reveal the strong heart, mental toughness and perseverance that every teen is capable of exericising when they decide to.
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."
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