Moderate sandbag workout

WARMUP: moroccan night clubs, windmills, hill billi walkers, low slow squats, lap around the parking lot alternating toy soldiers and high knees
THE THANG: find a partner and grab a sandbag, toss the bag to the curb alternating with your partner, back to start, repeat bag tossing to the curb and back, take a lap with the bag on shoulders, pass bag to partner and take another lap.
Rinse and repeat 4 times, last bag tossing we switched to lateral toss.
MARY: broga and stretching, LBC’s for the last 2 minutes.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: hog and coyote
COT: stays in COT

Tinsel OUT…:christmas_tree:

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D-day at the Coaches Box

Today’s workout was about perspective. History provides the best perspective and on 6/6 we were reflecting on D-Day.

Started with a mosey towards the entrance of the high-school.

Stopped and did

20 SSH IC
10 Windmills IC

Mosey to the bottom of the hill right at the entrance.

To celebrate, honor, and remember the 80th anniversary of D-Day we executed the following:

80 seconds work
2:40 minutes recovery

80 HR Merkins
80 Squats
80 4ct Flutters
80Diamond Merkins
80 Calf Raises
80 LBCs

So the idea was all Pax do as many reps as possible in the 80 seconds then the “recovery” run was back to the top of the hill where we each did 6 burpees and then get back to the bottom. Any excess time left of the 2:40 is your “rest”.

The Pax loved this and looking at time we got through 7 rounds of this before breaking back towards COT.

On the way we stopped by the band lot and did a 80 yard bear crawl followed by 44 SSH to close us out.

One last note on perspective…. It’s easy for us to get caught up in the day to day but take a step back, reflect on how we all got here and the opportunities each day brings because of the sacrifices of others.

Thanks to Warning Track for the opportunity!

:punch: :punch: :pray:

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Next stop Brayden

The route

Down Richard crossings
160 to second Brayden entrance at light
Follow to bottom of Brayden hill
Turn left on Afton and follow loop
Run back to Brayden blvd
Up to 160
Back to COT

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Honoring a Hero

This hero workout is in honor of my friend and classmate Capt. Mark “Pitbull” McDowell. Four took on the challenge and were rewarded with a sunrise for the ages. Here’s what we did:

– Run 1 Mile
– 5 Minute Plank
– 200 Calf Raises
– 300 LBCs
– Run 1 Mile
– 100 Muscle-ups
– 200 Merkins
– 300 Squats

Mark was a 4.25 GPA student, captain of the soccer team, and an all-around great young man. He was the guy you wanted to hate because he was good at everything. But once you got to know him, you learned that he was the type of guy you strived to be. When he graduated high school, he attended the Air Force Academy. Upon graduation in 2005, he completed Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, and Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals at Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi. Captain McDowell completed the Basic Qualification Course – F-15E in May of 2008 and was assigned to the 336th Fighter Squadron at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.

Mark’s plane went down in Afghanistan. He left behind a wife, loving family, and many friends. As his grandfather said at his service, “He was born to fly and he died doing what he loved.”

If Mark were here today, he would have been the guy crushing the workout from the front with a smile on his face. He would have been the guy to encourage the whole time.

Remember, we GET TO do this. Some others aren’t as blessed.

-IJ

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13 pillars & 4 levels

WARMUP: yea, we did that. seriously, it’s important.

THE THANG: ran towards the levels, but found some pillars. Stopped for 1 burpee at the first pillar, then 2, then 3, etc. There were 13. That’s 91 burpees (if I’d done the math in my head, I would have called 9 more in cadence. Guess the PAX are glad, I didn’t….)

At the levels near the tennis courts

Bottom level – 10 squats
2nd level – 10 jump squats
3rd level – 10 lunges
3.5 level – turn around 10 bulgarian split squats
4 level – head back to the bottom level

We did 4 rounds

On the way back, we stopped for Bomb Jacks at light poles in an additive fashion as well.

MARY: Some shinbox work. look it up. mobility matters

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Summer of CSAUP

COT: Always

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Run, Plank, Exercise, Repeat: The ‘Are We There Yet?

YHC arrived 10 minutes early. As usual, Badlands was out for a Pre-Run.

Warm-Up
– 5 SSH (IC)

The Thing
– Mosey 0.40 miles to the first Baxter entrance.
– Plank for the 6.
– 10 Low Slow Squats (feet together).
– 10 Merkins.
– 15 WW2 Sit-ups.

– Mosey 0.60 miles to the Sutton Rd 160 Intersection.
– Algore for the 6.
– Monkey humpers for active recovery.

– Mosey 0.50 miles to Flight Plan COT.
– 10 Lt. Dan’s (IC). Counting cadence was tricky, so we were off on the count.
– 10 Lunges each leg to make up for the Lt. Dan count.
– 10 Foxholes (WW2 Sit-up then flip over to a Merkin).

– Mosey 0.45 miles to Sutton Rd and Richards Crossing.
– Algore for the 6.

– Mosey 0.25 miles to the small hill on Richards Crossing.
– Plank for the 6.
– 3 hill repeats up to the sign and back.
– Basketball drill: side shuffle, bounce off the curb to the sign.
– Nur up to the top of the hill.

– Mosey 0.30 miles to the Mushroom Pool parking lot.
– Plank up for the 6.
– 7 Windmills (IC).
– 9 Chain Breakers (IC).

– Mosey to COT.
– With plenty of time left, we did 4 suicides in the parking lot.
– Still some time on the clock, so we did 10 Worst Worst LBCs.
– Attempted Imperial Walker Squats (IC) but messed up the cadence.

Announcements:
– Hog and Coyote next Saturday.
– The Sweaty Barry after that.
– Tortoise and the Hare.
– Jaeger.

Prayers & Praises:
– Suplex: Praise for finding F3 and absolutely getting after it.
– Punchlist: Prayers as he ventures out and builds a home in York, renting for a year.
– YHC: Asking the Pax to be more vulnerable in COT.

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Tap The Taint

WARMUP:

SSH until the stragglers joined us = 30 in cadence.
High Plank
Downward dog
Upward dog
Merkins x 5
Repeat

THE THANG:

KB Swings x 30
Snatch x 30 (15 each side)
Side bends x 15 each side (cadence count)
Lap around parking lot
Repeat x3

Heel elevated squats x30
Reverse lunges x30 (SC)
Good Morning x15
Lap around parking lot
Repeat x3

MARY:
N/A

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Newsletter

COT:
Family, patience, marriages, day to day struggles, and addictions

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An un”fort”unate series of events

Warmup

SSH
Windmills
Imp walkers
Hillbilly walkers
Michael Phelps
Plank- yoga stretches
Merkins
Carolina dry docks

Sandbag carry to big hill, down trail. Hill is off on left side. Mode of transport was lunges and bear crawls alternating, everyone got to do all three..

Reverse bear crawl up hill

11s

burpees at top of hill
Sandbag toss at bottom

A few finished and most got to 9 tosses, Walker was king

Sandbag carry back and to amphitheater

Ab lab

Lazy Dora

Partner planks with sandbag on back for 60sec, after a minute I changed it to 30 seconds and then we ended up back at a minute- would do it differently next time but it was still fun
Other person or two depending on group size do the following exercises for 2 sets each…

American hammers
Flutters
Big boys

Rd 2 wall planks while holding coupons,

Calf raises
Monkey humpers

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Officer Aaron Smith Memorial WOD 2024

As promised we honored a fallen hero at the Honey Badger who was a friend of my brother in law.

Officer Aaron Smith’s life of public service began at the age of 16, when he joined the Mineral Wells Volunteer Fire Department (MWVFD) as a junior firefighter. He began serving the MWVFD “in full capacity” at the age of 18, and also went on to work as an emergency medical technician (EMT) for Roane County Emergency Medical Services, the St. Joseph Ambulance Service, Jackson County Emergency Medical Services, Camden Clark Memorial Hospital, and Med Trust of Myrtle Beach.
Officer Smith later became a South Carolina State trooper before joining the Horry County Police Department as a police officer.
His cousin Caroline Arthur wrote “Anyone who knew Aaron knew his passion for front line service. His many hours of service, lives touched, and lives saved will not go unnoticed.”
Officer Smith died on September 5, 2021 and was laid to rest September 12, 2021.
Officer Smith left behind his wife, Chelsy, as well as his parents, two sisters, and his brother.
Warm-up
– SSH x25
– Merkins x20
– Windmill x10
The WOD
1. 1.Start on the far side of the parking lot and complete the first exercise.
2. 2.Run to the next island and complete that exercise. Run back to the start and complete the first exercise.
3. 3.Run back to the second island complete that exercise. Continue to the next marked exercise and complete. Run back stopping at each island to complete the exercise.
4. 4.Continue until you complete all stations on the 5 rep lane.
5. 5.Run one lap around the parking lot (0.40 miles). This is done after each lane is completed.
6. 6.Graduate to the next lane (10 reps) and do the same thing done on the 5 rep lane.
7. 7.After completing the 10 rep lane and running a lap, grab a block to use for all stops on the 15 and 20 rep lanes.
Lane 1 (5 Reps per exercise) & Lane 2 (10 Reps per exercise)
– Island 1 = HR Merkins
– Island 2 = LBC
– Island 3 = Bear Crawl
– Island 4 = 4ct Plank Jack
– Island 5 = Burpees
Lane 3 (15 Reps per exercise)
– Bent over Rows
– Curls
– OH Press
– Squat Thrusters
Lane 4 (20 Reps per exercise)
– Bent over Rows
– Tricep Extension
– OH Press

The counts:
– Total distance = 3.15 miles
– HR Merkins = 45
– LBC = 60
– 4ct Plank Jack = 30
– 8 Burpees = 15
– BO Rows = 105
– Curls = 60
– Tricep Ext. = 80
– OH Press = 70
– Squat Thrusters = 15

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