Three Card Monte

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WARMUP: Abe Vigoda, Cherry Pickers, Downward Dog, Flying Squirrel,, Hillbilly Walker, Honeymooner, Imperial Squat
Walker, MNC, SSH
THE THANG: Four decks of cards at every other light pole, pick 3 from deck in rotating fashion, karaoke mosey, nur to each light pole, rinse & repeat.
MARY: None
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Blood Drive, Damn2Damn sign ups
COT: Students returning to school, Dojo’s Mother-May she rest in heavenly peace.

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Deep Thoughts at Alcatraz

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Four tackled deep thoughts and deep squats at Alcatraz this morning. Here’s what we did.

– 15 SSHs (IC)
– 15 Imperial Walkers (IC)
– 15 Low Slow Squats (IC)
– 15 Seal Jacks (IC)

Mosey to pull up bars
– 25 Pull-ups – Run to Crosswalk – 25 Dips – Run Back x4
– Repeat with Merkins/Squats
– Repeat with Calf Raises/American Hammers
Total Mileage: 2.7

NMM
Today was more about the mumblechatter than the work, and that chatter was EPIC!

YHC posed the following: what is the largest animal could you beat in a fight and win 75% of the time? Surprisingly difficult premise.
Uber and Change Order: wallaby. Good choice. They’re like small kangaroos without the kick power. I think a few solid punches to the face and some kicks to the ribs would do it.
Smuggler: alpaca. Like a shorter llama, but more docile.
IJ: 85 pound penguin. Not fast and slow reflexes. I think a kick to the back and a few body blows would end it pretty quickly.

Change Order asked our spirit animals and why.
Uber: Arctic Fox – small, but aggressive. Cold weather climate. Fuzzy, not furry.
Change Order: Dolphin – loves the water, very social and likeable.
Smuggler: Panda – friendly, cuddly, but could separate your head from your torso if he needed to.
IJ: Golden Retriever – loyal, friendly, and very protective of my family. Takes a lot to bear my teeth but once I reach that point, I will bite.

Finally, courtesy of Smuggler’s higher ed patrons at a recent theatre show uptown: would you rather have a dragon or be one? We all chose have one. But what size? Dog sized, cow sized, or Game of Thrones sized? We all chose huge, like “The Neverending Story.”

Who is responsible if your pet dragon burns down the neighbors house? How would they prove it was your dragon? There’s no registration. There’s no legal precedent, so maybe it would be best if you moved to the country with your dragon where you could let him roam in peace.

And that friends is why you post at Alcatraz on a cold, windy Saturday morning. Proving once again that though we grow bigger, we never grow up. Enjoy your day, men.

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Cut your Losses

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WARMUP: Yea, did that. Mostly in cadence.
SSH
IW
HW
Soulder Taps
Merkins
Peter Parker

THE THANG:
A little smorgasbord. Initial bulk was laps around the front of the middle school with:
5 buprees at each speed bump
next lap
5 burpees and 10 bombjacks
Then we went backwards so the speed bumps were closer and reverse bear crawled up the hill from the lowest point.

Stopped for some People’s Chair
While we were at the wall we did BTTW with upside down shoulder taps and merkins in cadence

Went to the teacher parking lot in the back and did a long bear crawl. Then some Lt. Dan’s

Hit the elementary playground for some pull-ups and burpees. Tried to work in a partner balance and one handed hanging on the bar, but
it was a smashing failure. So, we ran back towards COT and stopped for Bulgarian Split Squats along the way.

MARY: Yea, we did this leg raise thing YHC saw on Instagram one time.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
D2DBar10k

COT: It’s a core principle, so…yes

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Alabama for retired Saben

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WARMUP: Alabama route (or root)
THE THANG: run the route / root which was 5 or 6 or 7 or more because guys are still running as of you reading this BB
MARY: not here
ANNOUNCEMENTS: all of them…for cyclops
COT: we did it

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Y’all ever met Tinker Toy?

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WARMUP:
20x SSH IC
10x Windmills IC

THE THANG:
Didn’t know what to do this morning but DID know I didn’t want to stay cold, so I busted out a routine from one of Rock Region’s finest.

Moseyed to breezeway around the corner with benches on both sides.
Between each of the following rounds, run down and around the roundabout and back.

Round 1:
10 Merkin Jacks
20 Jump Squats
20 Derkins
20 Jump Squats

Round 2:
10 Merkin Jacks
20 Jump Squats
20 Derkins
20 Jump Squats
20 Diamond Merkins
20 Jump Squats

Round 3:
10 Merkin Jacks
20 Jump Squats
20 Derkins
20 Jump Squats
20 Diamond Merkins
20 Jump Squats
20 Mike Tysons
20 Jump Squats

Round 4:
10 Merkin Jacks
20 Jump Squats
20 Derkins
20 Jump Squats
20 Diamond Merkins
20 Jump Squats
20 Mike Tysons
20 Jump Squats
20 Clap Merkins
20 Jump Squats

Simple and highly effective

MARY:
Abs were feeling left behind.
30x Flutters IC
1m Plank
5x J-Lo’s IC
15x Big Boys OYO
20x Explosive somethin-or-others IC… Dying cockroaches, but with form and energy
20x LBC’s

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP Tomorrow
Rock Region 10-Year Anniversary Extravaganza coming up

COT:
Prayers for healing and jobs and marriages lifted

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Triple-checks and ladders

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Warm up: Run to field
Stretches:
Reach for toes
Runners stretches
Exercises:
15 SSH
10 Windmills
15 Imperial walkers
12 Merkins
Plank (right/left arm high)
10 Marakin night clubs

Triple-check
One person does wall sit
One person does lbc, merkins, squats
One person does suicides and back to second and third crosswalks
Rotate

Jacob’s stepstool
Go to light poles?
7 military merkins
1 big boy
Go until flipped

COT:

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Tribute to Cardinal

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WARMUP:

Brief description of workout today and shared a bit about Cardinal.

THE THANG:

15 Side Straddle Hops
10 Tempo Merkins
10 Flutter Kicks
10 Little Baby Arm Circles Forward
10 Little Baby Arm Circles Backward
10 Hallelujahs *
10 Knoxville Cherry Pickers
20  Sec. Samson Hold**
10 Willie Mays Hayes
The Thang:

Set 1
5 Burpees
5 Big Boys
5 Heels to Heaven
Set 2
10 Burpees                                                
10 Little Baby Crunches
10 Mt. Climbers Double Count
Set 3
15 Burpees                                                
15 Air Squats
15 Freddy Mercury’s
Set 4
20 Burpees
* Hallelujahs = a shoulder burn exercise. Hands up at ear level. Raise up to full extension I cadence. 1 up, 2 down, 3 up, 4 down.
** Samson Hold = Arms extended straight out like your pushing against two pillars.

We had time left so we did some trips up the stairs at the movie theater and did some “pull ups” with the railing. “Reverse merkins”

MARY: lots
ANNOUNCEMENTS: prayers for marriages and families suffering loss
COT: yes

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Feeding the Soul

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WARMUP: Intro, disclaimer and we started walking!
THE THANG: The idea was to get in some milage with stopping oiunt of exercises of 10’s. Went over to the new medical center. 1st stop- all 10 count- MNC, OHC, Seal Clap, Plank, and 6in plank. Kept moving to the far lot for ruck work with OHpress, rows and tricep extensions. Then back to the Panera lot for more wor, up the hill with ruck over head and on to the last two stops. We went to the bottom of the hill near Sunbelt where there was a change with 20 calf raises and leg work. Up the hill to the roundabout for some ab work!
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: D2D Bar, CASUP this weekend
COT: Prayers for health, family health, travel, friend health and coworkers health. Praise for family togetherness.

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Modify as necessary

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Pax showed up on a cold windy day. YHC was prepared for the Q, but left the winkie at home. Luckily I had it stored on my phone.

WARMUP:
Grab sand bags and make our way around bag trying to get out of the hurricane force winds at TCES. Unfortunately the gate was locked for the back playground so we kept moving toward the back lot. Once there we did the following to get warmed up

SSH
5 burpees
Windmill
4 burpees
SSH
3 burpees
Stretching
2 burpees
1 man maker
THE THANG:
Moved back toward the stairs at the e back of the school for 4 rounds of the following:
Sandbag toss to end of school
Bent over rows – 8
Deadlift – 8
Squat / jump one foot on top of sandbag and squat / jump other foot on top of sandbag and squat (that’s 1) – 5
Clean and press – 8
Hit the stairs with sandbag
– needed to modify turnaround point due to mud, but still got a few sets of stairs.
Overhead toss – 8

Repeat 3 more times

MARY:
10 – 4 count LBC till 6.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
There is a CSAUP this weekend
Read the newsletter

COT:

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