Around The Fort to Return The Pond to Its Roots

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WARMUP: Skip to the Thang.
THE THANG: In an effort to return Minnow Pond to its roots, we ran, stopped for exercises, ran, stopped for exercises, repeat. I will write the stop then the qty & category of exercises.
Fort Mill Pharmacy-3 Core Exercises
Jackson St/Sidney Johnson-3 Upper
Harris St-3 Lower

First Flat up the Harris St hill-2 Core
Massey St-2 Upper
Bottom of Massey-2 Lower

Up Main St to Leroy St-1 Core
Leroy/Summersby-1 Upper
Back to Leroy-1 Lower

Back to COT for a few more core exercises

All got 3.5+mi. 1 got 4mi.

MARY: See above
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Yes
COT: 5th Core Principle

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GoRuck’s Valentine’s Day Massacre

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Straight from the email inbox, delivered from GoRuck’s Tribe workouts, we performed The Valentine’s Day Massacre-Post Mortem (or most of it, at least)
WARMUP: Carry all sand bags to our starting point for a few of the typical warmup exercises.
THE THANG:
Buy-In: 100 Sandbag Back Squats
Then, 4 Rounds:
200m Sandbag Shuffle
20 Sandbag Clean & Front Toss
20 Bear Crawl Sandbag Drags (each drag=1)
20 Sandbag Shoulder-to-Shoulders (each side=1)
Cash-Out: 100 Sandbag Front Squats (Punchlist did finish, I did not)

2 Things happened this morning that I greatly appreciate:
1. When starting round 4, it appeared that I had enough time to complete so I made a comment about taking my foot off the gas. Band Camp then said he’d murder me if I let up, I’m paraphrasing. I appreciate the reminder that just because I’ve done good work before, it’s not a hall pass to coast into the perceived finish line.
2. While executing the Cash-Out Squats, I was nearing squat #20 and my form was beginning to suffer. I was leaning forward at the waist and compromising form. Seeing this, Punchlist called me out by name stating my error noting this was not the proper way to perform a squat, especially with the added weight of a sandbag. This means a ton to me because that translates to someone caring enough about me to not let me live incorrectly. You may roll your eyes at the connection but I could have easily continued my incorrect squats and have nothing happen. Or, I could’ve easily injured myself. Regardless, I wasn’t realizing the benefit of doing the hard work and PL saw that. I appreciate that.

MARY: Assumed it was included in the above.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Yes
COT: 5th Core Principle

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Time Machine Talks Too Much

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WARMUP: IW, MNC, HW & SSH
THE THANG: Mosey to Baseball field, Urkins, Dips and Derkins, 4 sets start at 20 reps, decreasing by 5 each rep. Mosey to Middles School, J Webb, Burpees:Hammers. Lots of testimony in there as well
MARY: Finished testimony and then HarryC wouldn’t let 30 seconds go to waste so we did LBC’s
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Lots in next three weeks
COT: Lots of changes, both good and bad for every man, there is hard work to get done so go and do it

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Pendulum of pain

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WARMUP: grandpa jacks, hillbilly walkers, dynamic plank stretching, gravediggas
THE THANG: ran towards RedVentures, stopped at Handels to do a quick set of Dark Helmets favorite lifting heavy chairs over head a few times:

OH PRESS 10x
DERKINS 10x
CURLS 10x

Then we moseyed to the road with lightpoles headed down to RV where I explained the thang

Starting at bottom of hill, we ran up back to top of hill by Carolina Butcher, performed 1 Kraken Burpee then ran back to bottom of hill.

From there we bear crawled the other direction up the hill to first tree where we performed what I called a crab dip, from the crab position take hand and touch opposite foot, then flip flop and then do a dip.

We did 10 of those and then crab walked back to bottom of hill.

Then we ran back up hill towards other side and dropped off one light pole and performed 2 kraken burpees, ran back down to bottom of hill and then bear crawled to second tree up other side of hill, then performed 9 “crab dips”
Then instead of crab walking we changed to NUR (good feedback from pax)
Kept doing this until we achieved 5 kraken burpees and we ran short on time so had to mosey back, stopping to bear crawl up hill by Carolina butcher.

MARY:

Flutters until 6
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Bethel, battle bot send off, convergence
COT:
Honor to lead the men today, asked for feedback which we don’t do enough of. I personally felt it was a bit sloppy and not super well adjusted for time but it’s hard to tell sometimes how long a plan will take to execute…so get me on your Q schedules men! Lastly we talked about keeping the Sad clown at bay, he never actually goes away, we just keep beating him into submission every day we take the DRP.

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Elevated 4 Corners

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WARMUP:
Quick warmup on the Kingsley amphitheater stage (SSH, Windmills, Toy Soldiers).

THE THANG:
Run to building near the hotel for 4 corners.

Round 1- 1 burpee at each corner
Round 2 – 1 burpee, 2 Donkey Kicks at each corner
Round 3 – 1 burpee, 2 Donkey Kicks, 3 Run Stance Switch
Round 4 – 1 burpee, 2 Donkey Kicks, 3 Run Stance Switch, 4 merkins
Round 5 – 1 burpee, 2 Donkey Kicks, 3 Run Stance Switch, 4 merkins, 5 plank jacks
Round 6 – 1 Burpee, 2 Do key Kicks, 3 Run Stance Switch, 4 merkins, 5 plank jacks, 6 box cutters
Round 7 – 2 Donkey Kicks, 3 Run Stance Switch, 4 merkins, 5 plank jacks, 6 box cutters
Round 8 – 3 Run Stance Switch, 4 merkins, 5 plank jacks, 6 box cutters
Round 9 – 4 merkins, 5 plank jacks, 6 box cutters
Round 10 – 5 plank jacks, 6 box cutters
Round 11 – 6 box cutters

For rounds 5-8, we ascended the stairs to get corners 2 and 3 on the second floor of the building.

MARY:
Back at the amphitheater stage, we did American hammers, flutters, and 60 seconds of total body destroyers.

Great work men! Thanks for the chance to lead, Jekyll!

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Back last! Rucking VQ with GAME!

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WARMUP: SSH and the Kasbah #2s
THE THANG: 12 was the rep count for all work to honor LEOs including my nephew. Ruck over to railing facing the lake and some hopping merkins until we got to the stairs. Up the stairs and over to the Marriott where we talked about Gratitude and Attitude then did some Russian Tap Dancers and LSS. Rucked to Sunbelt and talked about Maintaining focus and Energy. Rucked the perimeter of the parking lot and up to the roundabout. There, we did some calls raisers and slightly inclined merkins. Rucked back up the hill toward Panera passing around <@U02JMD0EKS8>’s 60 pounder. Rucked through the quiet zone again then back for some Mary. It felt quite contrary but we did some BB Crunches, Protractors and finally some body destroyers. The PAX were very gracious and kind.
MARY: Not Wild Eyed Crazy but yes, she popped on.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: <@U02JMD0EKS8> Bon Voyage March 1st, <#C040E2ZA943> March 8th, Convergence at <#C02P7E6JT55> on March 14th and the <#C03J56KFVAA> #Jaeger March 15th.
COT: Prayers for health and for strength. Prayers for the families of those who lost loved ones. Praises for Gratitude including the PAX and new jobs.

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Sprints, light poles and burpees

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WARMUP: mosey to the far parking lot at the end of the school.

Exercises in cadence included:
SSH
Merkins
Low slow squats
People’s chair with Moroccan night clubs
Hillbilly walkers
Imperial walkers
Windmills
Produce pickers
Peter Parker’s

THE THANG: mosey to the the hill
An exercise was called in cadence at every light pole – at varying numbers of reps – YHC called sprint and pax sprinted to the next light pole. This took place to the top of the hill and then back down – a total of 20 light poles were “visited”. PAX took turns calling exercises on the way down. Leadership is best when shared.

Mosey back to basketball courts with a combo of lunge walks and bear crawls across.

MARY: no time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: you bet – read your newsletter
COT: remains the 5th core principle. Be thankful for all we’ve been given.

Thanks for the call, Barkley. :eye:

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Staying in the box at Coaches Box

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YHC was 1st F Q for 1st 30 minutes so warmup was brief and right into it.

WARMUP: IC: Imperial Walkers, Cherry Pickers, Hillbilly Walkers.

THE THANG:
Used the big large box already in parking lot to my advantage.
4 corners to keep us loose.
Sprint down to 1st corner, 20 Merkins
Side shuffle across to 2nd corner, 20 Diamond Merkins
Nur to 3rd corner 20 Blast Off aka Mike Tyson Merkins
Side shuffle to start/4th corner for 10 right side merkins and 10 left side merkins.

Line up on the line.
Bear crawl 10 yards, 10 burpees, burpee broad jump back.
Bear crawl 20 yards, 8 burpees, BBJ back.
BC 30 yards, 6 burpees, BBJ back.
BC 40 yards, 4 burpees, BBJ back.
BC 50 yards, 2 burpees, BBJ back.

Circle up for my closing minutes with a Circle of Hate. One pax bear crawls to the light post and back while calling and exercise for the pax to complete. Olaf called Burpees, Suplex called ABC ab work & Boomer called Box Cutters and time was called.

Then Olaf led us in a great 3rd F discussion, that’s right!

MARY: Never laid eyes on her.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Rooster this Saturday.
– QvQ.
– Fort Convergence
– Read them newsletters

COT: Prayers & praises and Olaf closed us out.

I appreciate Suplex and the cross regional work he is inspiring. Wish more from both would hop on as we are logistically so close. I really enjoyed the time together and the opportunity to BD Bandcamp, a win win across the board!

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Sweating with the oldies

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WARMUP:
SSH, windmill, but kickers, high knees, inch worm merkins on the field

Bear crawl back across the bridge

THE THANG:
7’s on the hill while nur up merkins at the top and big boy sit-ups at the bottom

Moves over to the basketball courts

2 rounds of
Dips, decline merkins and step ups
20 each

1 round of
American hammers, squats, wheezy jeffersons

Move to the picnic tables
1 round
Bent over rows by grabbing one side of picnic table and picking it up
Dead lift

MARY:
Airborne hip exercises
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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