Floats and Floaters

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In honor of the Catawba Ridge Marching Band participating in the 99th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, 10 PAX did 99 reps of various exercises in the warm, wet morning. There was plenty of mumblechatter and sweat, along with a MILGA code brown (ask Birdcage). Here’s what we did:

Warm-Up
– 10 Low Slow Squats (IC)
– 10 Imperial Walkers (IC)
– 9 Windmills (IC)

The Thang

Mosey to lower entry road
– 15 Squats, Lap
– 15 Squats, 15 Merkins, Lap
– 15 Squats, 15 Merkins, 15 American Hammers, Lap
– 15 Squats, 15 Merkins, 15 American Hammers, 9 Burpees

Mosey to Gym Wall
– 15 Dirty Hook-ups (feet)
– 15 Wall LBCs
– 15 Dirty Hook-ups (hands)
– 15 Wall Lunges
– 15 Australian Mountain Climbers
– 15 Bomb Jacks
– 15 Ab Mat Sit-ups
– 9 Burpees

Mosey to Benches near cafeteria
– 15 Irkins, Lap
– 15 Irkins, 15 Dips, Lap
– 15 Irkins, 15 Dips, 15 Step-ups, Lap
– 15 Irkins, 15 Dips, 15 Step-ups, 9 Burpees

Mosey to COT
– 15 Alternating Shoulder Taps, Lap
– 15 Alternating Shoulder Taps, 15 Flutters, Lap
– 15 Alternating Shoulder Taps, 15 Flutters, 15 Calf Raises, Lap
– 15 Alternating Shoulder Taps, 15 Flutters, 15 Calf Raises, 9 Burpees

NMM
Most people face challenges every day. Some are easy to overcome while other times it feels like war. The enemy is all your doubts, all your fears, and the lie that you aren’t good enough to complete the mission. But don’t quit. Wake up, brush your teeth, make your bed, workout, shower, and just make it to lunch. Then, make it to dinner. Regardless of how bad the day was, there will be a new one tomorrow.

When you feel like quitting, which you will, do not quit right now, that’s emotion. Instead, say “I’ll quit tomorrow.” If you can keep quitting tomorrow, you can do anything. Don’t let the lies in your head stop you from achieving great things.

Aye!
IJ

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Farmers bring in the Thanksgiving holiday

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WARMUP: motivators from 5
THE THANG: 2 minute farmer carry followed by 1 minute workouts. We mixed in multiple rounds of running to the pull up bars and laps around the track to honor Splinter who is DR.
MARY: mixed in throughout the workout as multiple PAX prescribed more pain into the mix.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read the newsletter. Lots of upcoming events.
COT: Thanksgiving takes a lot of work. Be thankful for those that are in your life and that you don’t even know who have helped get food on your Thanksgiving table. It’s easy to complain about circumstances in your life, but practicing gratitude helps keep complaining away.

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Lion King

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8 men were at The Sink this morning, one ran away after warm-ups.
Partnered up for a run/farmer carry – big loop.
Stopped at the front of school, shuttle run/bag toss.
Lion King, reps stopped when muscles roared
Calf raises, Simba, Squats
Big loop again – run/farmer carry/bag toss
Back to COT for 5 minute push
5 reps rinse and repeat till 06:00
Bag Press, Bag Curl, and Bent Over Row

Great job men!

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Family and service

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WARMUP: mosey around the parking lot, Carioke, toy solders and butt kickers. Windmills, Moroccan Night Clubs and merkins
THE THANG: Mosey to student parking lot. Sprints at 50% then 75%. Rinse and repeat for a total of 6 complete sprints. Mosey to the wall and do 10 muscle ups. Mosey to front of school. 15 dips and 20 back step lunches for total of 3 rounds. Mosey to side of school. At every brick pillar alternate between squats and merkins. Mode of transport is mosey but Band Camp insisted on Bear Crawling. Mosey to bus entrance. Break to hear the story of Naval ROTC instructor, Shawn Studley, and his wife Laura. She passed away at 1:18 pm on the afternoon of this day (11/19). Mosey to the hill outside the cafeteria. 10 back step lunges at the bottom, NUR up the hill and do 10 squats. Repeat for a total of 3 times. Mosey up the hill to COT. At every light pole, stop for a 10 count exercise for the abs. At COT do my hip thingy.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: Pray for Shawn Studley and his family

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Lucky Sevens

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Began with short mosey followed by a warmup: SSH, windmills, imperial walkers, low slow squats, peter parkers and some plank stretches (up/down dogs).

Ran to the benches and did: step ups, derkins, butt touch squats, dips.

Ran to parking lot and did lucky sevens, started with:
7 burpees, run loop
14 merkins, run loop
21 SSH, run loop
28 squats, run loop
35 flutters each leg, run loop
28 squats, run loop
21 SSH, run loop
14 merkins, run loop
7 burpees, run loop

Loop alternated between the 800 feet of the outer loop or the 550 feet of the inner loop.

Mary: round robin; Freddies, flutters, box cutters.
Fini.
COT

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The Grandaddy of all CSAUPs – BRR 2026

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Over the course of 13 years in the Fort there have been many Completely Stupid and Utterly Pointless (CSAUP) activities including the Tortoise and Hare, the Sweati Barry, D2D, Hog and Coyote, Palmetto 200 and the Jaeger just to name a few. All of which serve to challenge your pain threshold while also building trust and teamwork amongst men. As stated in Q Source, “completing it together tells the participants something about themselves and each other–that they are men upon whom others may safely rely.”

But the Grandaddy of all CSAUPs that the Fort has participated in is the Blue Ridge Relay. BRR is a 208 mile relay of 36 legs that begins at Grayson Highlands State, VA and finishes in Asheville, NC. Ask anyone who has participated in the past and they will almost always list this as one of the best and most challenging events that have completed. Below are a few additional details:

* Race starts on a Friday morning, September 11th (starting times are staggered and vary from 7am-11am) and ends on Saturday afternoon, September 12th.
* Race is split into 36 predetermined legs of varying distances (2 to 10 miles) and difficulty levels (Easy to Mountain Goat Hard).
* Teams can be a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 12 people. Price for teams of 7-12 runners is $1498.60 and for teams of 4-6 runners is $757
* For a 12-person team, the average total distance is 16.6 miles spread over 3 legs (it’s like running three 10Ks in a day). You can do the math for the average mileage for the other teams sizes. Average is just average though – some legs are longer and some are shorter.
* Teams travel along the race course in vans, picking up and dropping off runners at the beginning and end of each leg. You get to know, and smell, your van-mates very well.

How I participate?

To enhance the fellowship, bring along some newer guys and bond through the training, this year we will be doing a “blind draw” for teams to participate. You are asked to HC and submit your information using this form BRR the Fort. We will accept submissions through 2/1/26. Below are the additional timelines:

* February – Captains are chosen based on the number of HCs received; Payment will be expected based on # of runners and price
* March – training begins
* March – August – training continues with special events including Trout to Trout, mountain runs and trips to Crowders Mountain (more details to follow)
* July 11th – Blind Draw for teams; location TBD
* July 27th – Estimated pace submitted to BRR
* September 11-12 – race occurs

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me via Slack.

This will be one of the best and most challenging events you will do in 2026 so I challenge to you sign up. Lets go!

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Carrying a Balanced Load

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WARMUP: Windmills x10, Cherry Pickers x10, Plank, Down Dog, HoneyMooner
THE THANG: Grab Rucks and 2 sandbags. Ruck behind school.
2 carry sand bags 50 yards and back (overhead carry, Farmers Carry, Shoulder carry and Farmers carry agin). Rest of Pax does exercises (Curls, Swings, Squat, Upright Row, Lunge).
10 Manmakers.
Ruck to COT and drop bags.
Ruck to Hill:
First 3 sets of Bear Crawl to next platform.
1. 5,10, 15 Squats
2. 5,10, 15 Merkins
3. 5,5,5 Manmakers
Next 2 sets of Bear Crawl with Ruck pull through:
1. 10,20, 30 LBC
2. 5,10,15 Lunges
Ruck around pick up loop, when get to small loop do partner Catch me if you can.
1 partner farmer carries both rucks second does 5 Burpees and runs to catch up then switch. Do this to COT
MARY: 20 Flutters with press
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Yes
COT: It was perfect!

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Piracy and Imposters

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WARMUP:
– Windmills
– Cherry Pickers
– Imperial Walkers
– Hillbilly Walkers
– Calf Raises

THE THANG:
– Travel to playground (pirated from <@U06Q8DSSV5Y>)
– Begin with 5 squats then mosey to 2nd tree on the left-hand side of sidewalk –> 5 squats
– Mosey back to 1st tree –> 3 merkins
– Mosey to 3rd tree –> 5 squats
– Mosey back to 2nd tree –> 3 merkins
– And so on to the playground

– Broga (10 count)
– Standard plank
– Down Dog
– Walk it out
– Up Dog
– Down Dog
– Standard plank

– Continued WEP circuit – 8’s
– First swing: 7 burpees (yes, I included burpees), 1 big boy
– Second swing: 6 burpees, 2 big boys
– …
– Last swing: 1 burpees, 7 big boys

– Extended broga
– Standard plank
– Down Dog – right leg up
– Runners Lunge – right leg forward
– Warrior I
– Warrior II
– Peaceful Warrior
– Runners Lunge
– Standard plank
– Down dog – left leg up
– Runners lunge – left leg forward and repeat

– At Calhoun gazebo:
– Arm DORA!!!
– One partner lunges from the gazebo to the curb while the other works on:
– 50 Curb Alperts (cadence count)
– 100 Dips (benches conveniently provided)
– 150 Shoulder presses

MARY: hammahs, fluttahs, boxcuttahs, LBC, 6-inches (via countdown from each PAX)

ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter material

COT: all about families

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A ladder of pain

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WARMUP: SSH, Imperial Walker, Hillbilly Walker, Moroccan Night Club
THE THANG: Descending ladder from 10 of bent arm rows, kb swings, goblet squats all punctuated by overhead carry
MARY: down dog
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas party, bethels next Thursday
COT:

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