Not Fun…Ladder of Pain

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WARMUP: @BattleBots started with 9 count Motivators, which set the tone for what was about to follow.
THE THANG: YHC used @Kodak’s “Anchorbar’s Ladder of Pain”. This was introduced at The Yard by @kodak, and YHC wanted to give it another go today, this was the perfect morning.

Run to the basketball court and back, add the next exercise. Rinse and Repeat by adding the next one on the list.
Some of the frontrunners got all the way to Moroccan Nightclubs.

Exercises:
1) 1 Burpee
2) 3 Big Boys
3) 6 Shoulder Taps
4) 10 Flutters
5) 15 Merkins
6) 21 Freddies
7) 28 Dry Docks
8) 36 LBC’s
9) 45 Overhead Claps
10) 55 Squats
11) 66 Baby Arm Circles
12) 78 Monkey Humpers
13) 91 Moroccan Nightclubs
14) 105 Calf Raises
15) 120 Overhead Presses

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter, etc.
COT: Lifted up prayers and praises

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Stole Badlands Winkie

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WARMUP: 25 SSH to warm up quickly. Mosey to Middle School Entrance: 10 Windmills, 10 Hill Billy Walkers
THE THANG: #1
10 Step Ups, 10 Durkins, 10 Monkey Humpers, 10, Dips: Lunge Walk 20 Yards (5 rounds)
*mosey to back of school*
Wall sit: each person did 2 burpees (2 rounds)
THE THANG #2
Bear Crawl Ladder:
Bear Crawl to each cone to do exercise and run back to start.
10 Heels to Heaven
20 Flutters
30 LBC’s
40 Shoulder Taps
50 American Hammer
Partner Up:
1 partner plank wile the other runs lap around parking lot: (6 laps total)
MARY: 20 Squats at the end, 10 Grave Diggers, 10 Box Cutters
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: Patience during the holidays. Keep in mind there are some things very important to others that may drive us nuts but patiently deal with it.

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Pre-Convergence Convergence

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There were Ruckers and runners.

Barry Manilow led the runners for 5+ miles around The Fort.

The bootcampers were led first by Maximus with a SSH x Merkin combo x2 to warm up.
After a quick warm up, the weinke was
10 merkins, 10 mountain climbers (double count) at each of the 9 swings around the park. When done and waiting on the 6 to fill in, hold an Al Gore. To wrap up, starting at the bottom of the grassy hill from the parking lot, flutter kicks, then burpees at the top of the hill.

Cake Boss took second shift with playtime at the playground.
Partnering up, one partner does squats, while the other runs around the playground. Then flapjack. Next was pull ups/merkins following the same format. To wrap up, keeping the same partner, one bear crawled across the field and run back, while the other did flutters. Flap jack until 3 rounds were done.

Fogerty took us home with some 11’s and hill repeats.
At the bottom of the hill with the statue, started with 10 merkins and bombjacks. Half way up the hill, 5 burpees, then 1 squat and big boy sit-up. No burpee on the way back down the hill. Repeat until 11’s are done cutting out the burpees when you hit 5 & 6.

This was a fun 60 min bootcamp.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Clave Boss & convergence in 12/23. Happy Birthday Walker. Tallawah is officially closed for good.

COT:

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DORA at Sonic

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WARMUP: It was cold so we got right to it.
SSH, WindMills, Produce Pickers. Then we mosey to the smaller circle at the apartments for some clock work. Then ran to Sonic.
THE THANG: DORA was there with 100 wide arm merkins, 200 V-ups and 300 sumo squats. For those who were fast, combination of LBC and or Merkins. Ran back towards COT. Needed more milage so on to Harris Teeter for a wall sit with burpees. Change Order requested happy jumps, it was entertaining!! 40-love ended with a Karate Kick!
MARY: Went around with AH, Hello Dolly and Gas Pumpers
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Readctge news letter, D2D, Wednesday mini Convergence, and more,
COT: Prayers for patience, trust in tge lord and mental health during the season.

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2023.50

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Tentatively titled “The Watchmen”.

Partner up for 4 x 4-minute AMRAPs
Burpees: Partners alternate reps
Bear crawl: 1 partner forward, 1 backward (swap at fatigue)
Reverse Burpess: Partners alternate reps
Run: 1 partner forward, 1 backward (swap at fatigue)

Repeat entire circuit.

Moral of the workout? Make sure someone has eyes out when you are in a vulnerable position.

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Lots of Stairs In Downtown

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WARMUP:
Run to Loom parking lot for COP Warmup:
– SSH
– Awkward SSH
– Merkins
– IW
– Sumo Squats (Bonsai’s version)
– Windmills

THE THANG:
Run to FM COG parking lot to find a cone with 4 rounds of exercises. Pax partner up. Partner 1 runs across parking lot and up/down stairs (newest building), then back, while partner does exercises listed on cone. Flapjack, then rinse and repeat for all 4 rounds.
10 reps each exercise, rinse and repeat.
– Round 1 – Flutters <-> Freddie Mercuries
– Round 2 – LBCs <-> Heals to Heaven
– Round 3 – Dying Cockroach <-> American Hammers
– Round 4 – Chopsticks <-> Plank Jacks

Pax moseyed to 2nd cone for another 4 rounds (different exercises, different running route, different stairs).
Cone 2
– Round 1 – Side-step lunges <-> Imperial Walkers
– Round 2 – Bomb Jacks <-> Lunges
– Round 3 – Monkey Humpers <-> Squats
– Round 4 – High Jumps <-> SSH

Pax moseyed to 3rd cone for another 4 rounds (different exercises, different running route, different stairs).
Cone 3
– Round 1 – Plank Punches <-> Rosalitas
– Round 2 – Merkins <-> 10 second Elbow Plank
– Round 3 – CDD <-> Moroccan Nightclubs
– Round 4 – Alternating shoulder taps <-> Parkers Peters

Pax moseyed to 4th/last cone for another 4 rounds (different exercises, different running route, different stairs), but we ran out of time.

Back to COT.

Thanks SoupToNuts for the opportunity to lead. Thanks to all pax for posting. Great job!

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Buckets of sprints

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4 attended today’s Ballroom. We headed to the football field at Pleasant Knoll. At end end zone was a bucket o HIIT-ish instructions for running such as:

Run to 30 (yard line) and sprint back
Run to 50 and walk to 100
Run to 100 (yards)

Etc

Each pax pulled a slip of pain from the bucket and we all did as instructed.

We ended up with 2.2 miles.

Back at the flag we did a few @airborne hip pain stretches.

All enjoyed and look forward to my next Q at ballroom.

Prayers for Christmas traveling: Boogie to Manhattan 🗽, Tater to Flo-rida 🐊 Harry C to Wisconsin 🧀 , me to Chuck-town.

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Leg Day

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This morning we honored PFC Estopinal
Read about PFC (below), then Disclaimer was given and we got to work.

Warm up with SSH, imperial walkers, some moseying around the parking lot then over to the field.

2 laps around the track (OYO)
15 hello Dollie’s IC
20 low slow squats IC
10 Freddie Mercury’s IC
Rinse & repeat

Moseyed over toward baseball fields
2 burpees
15 Bulgarian split squats (each leg)
20 flutters (4 count)
10 reverse lunges (each leg)
Rinse & repeat

Still had some time so headed over to the hill by the JROTC to do some 11s
Top of the hill did LBCs and one legged squats (each leg).
Got about halfway through then jail break to COT.

The theme was remembering the day PFC gave his life serving his country 2-15-2010

Announcements, then Prayers and praises.

Private First Class(PFC) Jason “JJ” Hill Estopinal
Raised in Dallas Georgia, Graduated HS in 2007.  Joined the Marine Corps in Jan 2009.   Was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines Golf Company as an infantry rifleman and was deployed to Afghanistan by October 2009.   In Afghanistan he served in Golf Co 3rd platoon, 4th squad and was the squads radio operator. Carrying the radio meant more weight, more work,  and more knowledge of how the system operated.   It wasn’t an easy job, and he did every bit of it with pride and dedication.   Constantly trying to improve and learn as much as he could.   We called him “Ears” because of his obvious massive ears but also because he was the squads “Ears”.   He was a quiet, shy guy but humble and very hard working and always had an ear to ear smile.  
February 15th 2010 we started a large scale house clearing mission that was going to take a few days, but half way through the first day, he would step on and IED and was killed.   He served for just over a year before he was killed.  (he was 21).

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12 days of Kettlebells

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WARMUP:
Quick lap to help get bodies warm
SSH
Windmill
Maraca nightclub

THE THANG:
Grab our bells and went over to the circle in front of the church where we did 12 days of Christmas with a run to the end of the parking lot between each round

Day 1 – man maker
Day 2 – snatch (each side)
Day 3 – single leg deadlift (each leg)
Day 4 – Bulgarian split squat (each leg)
Day 5 – Curls (lower, upper, full – 5 each)
Day 6 – chest press
Day 7 – nut crushers
Day 8 – Tricep extension
Day 9 – squats
Day 10 – OH press
Day 11 – swings
Day 12 flutter with press

MARY: no time left, barely finished in time
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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