The Journey of Getting Better

Disclaimer Shared ! Routes and Buddy System Encouraged
WARMUP:

10 Min Stroll to Desired Starting Point
THE THANG:
Go get 4-9 miles worth of journey and share with your partners
MARY:
Was never found, Smoke đź’¨ Signals seen
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Bethel Men’s, Trash 🚮 Pickup, CRI Foster Kids help , CSAUPs & Race signups
COT: Deep within our hearts.

The Journey of Getting Better

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Ascending Everest

WARMUP: Returned to Golden Corral COT to pay respects with Hillbilly walkers, imperial walkers, MNCs
THE THANG: 5/29 1953 – Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to summit Mt. Everest 73 years ago. In honor of that, the Pax completed their own tribute climb. There are five camps plus the summit when taking the southern route to the peak:
Base camp 5364 meters (17,598 feet)
Camp one 6065 (19,900)
Camp two 6400 (21,000)
Camp three 7200 (23,600)
Camp four 7920 (26,000)
Peak 8,849 (29,032)
After a brief warmup and mozy to the church parking lot, we completed exercises at each camp as we ascended Everest. To acclimatize for the altitude, at camps one, two, three, and four we completed the exercises, returned to the previous camp (and the exercises there) before moving on to the next camp. (E.G. complete exercises at camp one, returned to base camp and the exercises there before ascending to camp three). Exercises reflected the altitude in meters:
Base camp: 53 flutters/64 shoulder taps
Camp one: 60 SSH/65 dips
Camp two: 64 merkins
Camp three: 72 LBCs
Camp four: 79 CDD, 20 Diamond merkins
Peak: 88 plank jacks, 49 overhead claps
With little time remaining, climbers did 25 squats at each base camp during their descent.
One oversight on YHC’s part is we did exactly ZERO mountain climbers during the ascent. We rectified the situation at COT with 10 mountain climbers just before 6:00.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel, Golf tournament
COT: Family, Jobs, Summer break and prayers for kids, parents, teachers

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Dora Plays Games

WARMUP: SSH, IW, HW, CP, Merkins
THE THANG: Stack of tiles with exercises. Two teams flip a tile and do 10 reps then run a lap. The “#2” team won an extra set of SSH! CONGRATS!

Part II: Dora: 200 Squats, 200 LBCs, 200 Casbah #2s, 300 flutters.
MARY: We took turns. Lemme rephrase, we each chose an exercise.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel Men’s Thursday 6/4 – meatloaf , July 7 Dads and 2.0 at WEP which will end in a water balloon fight (heck yeah!)👍
COT: With Jesus.

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Better late than never

WARMUP: I was late so 11s by a great stand in
THE THANG: 3 sets 10 reps- goblet squats, floor to overhead press, reverse lunge, pull through, swings, deadlift, man climbers
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: bethel men’s shelter needs help, trash pickup
COT: graduations, deep dish grandmother passing.

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Tour all the parking lots

WARMUP: SSH, IW, HBW, MNC, WM, cherry pickers, mosey

THE THANG: mosey through all the parking lots around Kingsley stopping for pain stations along the way:

Pain stations alternated between

  1. Exercise set (10 ea)
  • big boy
  • Plank jacks (plus short broga sequence with and isometric holds eg. down dog/updog/single arm/leg hold, Superman)
  • Calf raises

And

2. Burpees (started with 2 and increased to 10 by the last stop)

MARY: throughout
ANNOUNCEMENTS: bethel, trash pickup
COT: praise for graduating students, prayers for life transitions, medical challenges

Reprise of Coach Box discussion on combatting worry in our lives. – Many men fail because worry convinces them not to act. Leadership often requires moving before certainty arrives.

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Combating worry

WARMUP: SSH, IW, HBW, MNC, WM, mosey around the skillet

THE THANG: 4 corners of the skillet + midpoints

At each corner: 10 ea, shoulder tap, jump squat, box cutter

At the 50: 5 burpees

We completed somewhere between 2 and 4 laps

MARY: in the thang
ANNOUNCEMENTS: bethel, trash pickup
COT: Many men fail because worry convinces them not to act. Leadership often requires moving before certainty arrives.

Your body and brain are telling you something is out of place.

Acknowledge it and then identify an action you can take.

It may not immediately solve the problem, but It will keep you moving forward instead of getting stuck in the worry loop.

Matthew 6:34 – “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.”

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Kettlebell Cindy

Warmup
Calf Raise, Imperial Walker, Moroccan Night Club, Cherry Pickers, Merkins, LBC

Farmer’s carry to Cindy Storage

AMRAP (as many rounds as possible)

40 reps Exercise
30 reps Mountain Climbers
20 reps Exercise
10 reps Merkins
Farmer’s Carry up the hill and back.

List of Exercises:

  1. KB One Arm Row (rep count for each side)
  2. Cindy American Hammer
  3. KB Swings
  4. Cindy Overhead Press
  5. KB Goblet Squat
  6. Cindy Bench Press

The remaining rounds: we ran out of time.

  1. KB Skull Crushers (laying on back)
  2. Cindy Curls
  3. KB Swings
  4. Cindy Bench Press
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Deck of (moderate) pain

WARMUP: Mosey .5 miles around the cinema to the main entrance. 10 SSH / Forward Fold / Runners Lunge / Worlds Greatest Stretch / Hold down plank for a Band Camp 10 (30) seconds.
THE THANG: Deck of pain, quantity matches the card #, Aces are wild (abs)
Heart – Merkin, Ace – Plank
Spade – Squat, Ace – Wall Sit
Diamond – Dip, Ace – Tricep plank on 6
Club – BBS, Ace – V-Ups
Joker #1 – 50 side lunges
Joker #2 – Side plank hip dips
PAX Choose cards going around the circle.

MARY: Tricep Plank on 6
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel, Hog & Coyote, Fathers Day Event
COT: Yes

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Saturday at the yard

WARMUP:

  • Moroccan Nightclub
  • Imperial Walker
  • Cherry pickers

THE THANG:
4 Stations

  • Station 1 – Merkins, Overhead Clap, Mike Tysons, Wide Arm Merkins -> MOT Lunge Walk
  • Station 2 – Side Staddle Hop, Mountain Climbers, Seal JAck, Diamond Merkins
  • Station 3- Low Country Crab, Shoulder taps Penguins, Flutter Kicks
  • Station 4- Dips, Incline Merkins, Step Ups, Calf Raises
  • Reps 5-10-15-10-5
  • Bucket of fun – Mountain Climbers, Imperial Squat Walker, Low Country Crab, Makhtar N'Diayes, You Pick, Plank Jacks, Mike Tyson, American Hammer, Peter Parker

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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