All elbows

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WARMUP: ssh, imp walkers, hillbilly walkers – all in cadence. Then we moseyed to nice grassy area to plank while instructions for the workout were given
THE THANG: 2 stations, one on each end of the building and one home base. Each station has a list of 6 assignments consisting of various exercises and rep counts. Pax alternate running to one station, then the other, doing one assignment at each stop. In between each is a stop at the home base for 5 makhtar n’daiyes – I think we ended up with 65 of those. We had a few mins left at the end, so did a wall sit until 6 and continued our conversation on various nighttime entertainment alternatives in Charlotte
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Circle of Pain

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WARMUP: Probably
THE THANG: Stood in a circle and played with two small bells. Periodically ran a lap
MARY: More bell work
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Battle Bot, Bethel, Garbage, Convergence, Jager
COT: Lots of family in out hearts today

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Cindy’s EMOM

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Disclaimer and began with a run around the NaFo high school campus.
Warmup: SSH, Windmills, Imp Walkers, Low Slow Squats, cherry pickers, Peter Parkers, plank stretches

Run to bars; pax grab a cindy.
Thang 1: EMOM with cindy: do 20 KB swings, then rest until minute bell; then do 20 bent over rows, then rest until minute bell; then do 20 goblet squats, then rest until minute bell. Did three cycles for a total of nine minutes.

Mosey run down to Sugar creek Elementary School and back.
Thang 2: EMOM with cindy: do 30 SSH (no cindy), then rest until minute bell; then do 30 curls, then rest until minute bell; then do 30 LBCs w/ cindy, then rest until minute bell. Did three cycles for a total of nine minutes.

Thang 3: Bars: did pull ups, knees to chest, and toes to bar.
Run to shovel flag; flutters until 0600.
Fini
COT

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Return of the Mack -Bubba don’t slack so liberty did

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WARMUP:
SSH
Arm circles
Squats
SSH

THE THANG:
15 minute oyo 10 rep intervals
Bicep curl
Tricep extension
Upright row

Lawnmowers
Upright row
Arm extensions

Merkins on bell
LBC w bell
Flutters w bell

MARY:
Absent

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Alcatraz convergence
Garbage pickup
Hive convergence
Jaeger

COT:
Health
Parents

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4 Corners of Arms & Abs

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WARMUP: Obligitory SSH, Windmills and Imperial Walkers
THE THANG: 3 rounds of 4 corners. Mode of transport between each was decided on the fly. After a round, run a lap around the parking lot. 90 of AMRAP at each corner. Lots of Arms and Abs work this morning.
MARY: Not much time, so just a light A-frame stretch.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Lot’s of things going on in March.
COT: Prayers for <@U686LEPLH> and his mom. Kids, travel & Bethel.

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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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