Murph Monday — 22JUN2026

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14 on the EASTSIDE got Murph all over them at The Badger of Fire…

QIC: YHC

Pax: @U090MEQJQBW , @U5DKASDQU , @U19FA0Q8Z , @U5DLC6D7X , @U01E9QD5QQK , @U05K5D10AG6 , @UN6PTD007 , @U0106CCEJ6L , @U08N6B7B3EF , @U01JUGK82TY , Eggo , @U014K6EAUFM , @U087NCUTMPT

The Thang: The Murph… cuz it’s Monday…

NMM: If sweat was dollar bills, @U014K6EAUFM could stop stripping. @U090MEQJQBW admitted that the only part he liked was the mile runs, but relented that doing a pull-up or pushup now and again probably wouldn't kill him or his T-Count. Strange how he looked straight at @U5DKASDQU when he said that, but hey… I’m not here to judge. We just about have @U05K5D10AG6 convinced to activate the FSD on his Tesla so he can nap on the way home from these things. @U08N6B7B3EF came back to the gloom with his terrible foot, and he was swinging (a kettlebell) like the Baxter King of Pineapples instead of running. I tried to get the name-o-rama done OYO, but I couldn't get anyone's age right. @U0106CCEJ6L wants me to get a job at Carowinds so he can come win giant stuffed animals due to my inability to guess ages or weights (which will be my trick for next week).

All in all, a fabulous morning. It's good to choose the harder way. It's usually the right answer.

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America 🇺🇸 250

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WARMUP: Wind Mills, Squats, Jumping Jacks, Cherry pickers, Arm circles (25 of each)
THE THANG: 1st half McHale 4 corners of ball field sets of 25 for America 🇺🇸 250
Carolina Drys Docks, Mountain Climbers, Merkins, Flying Squirrels, Big Boys, Shoulder Taps, LBCs 50

2nd 1/2 Decibel Hill repeats, lunges, run up hill backwards, squats. Pull ups as we moseyed to 2nd hill for more repeats.

MARY: Body Destroyers, 2nd F Bagels
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Yes
COT: Yes

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Starfish

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WARMUP: 20 SSH
Mosey down the path to Harris Street Park / Basketball Court
THE THANG:
Starfish: on basketball court
20 Merkins on corner
Run to center and do 2 burpees
20 Mountain Climbers
Run to center and do 2 burpees
20 Big Boys
Run to center and do 2 burpees
20 Squats
Run to center and do 2 burpees
10 round and drop reps by two each time

Rank up Harris to COT
Did EMOM
1 lap & 15 SSH’s for 10 rounds / minutes
MARY: 3 minutes: American Hammers, Flutters,
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Games in the rains

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WARMUP: side straddle hops, cherry pickers, Moroccan night clubs, imperial walkers

THE THANG:
We went to 4 stations with cards of workouts…cards moved forward back and back to start.

Between stations we did bear crawls and merkins

MARY: none

ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter items

COT: circle of trust

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Zombified Q @ ROF

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Coming back from a road trip late at night I managed approx 3 1/2 hours of sleep and found myself contemplating a 'no show' for my Q at ROF @ 4:30 in da morning. I recently had the honor of participating in our Greater Than CSAUP overnight ruck event. That is what pushed me past the selfishness of wanting to choose comfort over commitment, brotherhood. If I could endure that event with no sleep, then I can Q a 45min workout on 3 1/2 hours of sleep! I'm grateful to be surrounded by men who push me to be greater than! Feet hit the floor, water splashed on the face, a little caffeine and it was GO time!

WARMUP: Usual suspects

THE THANG:
Moseyed to the benches on the side entrance of NAFO, Asked PAX to find a spot on a bench.
#1 – 2 exercises: Step Ups & BulgarianSplitSquats
15 reps each leg of both exercises
10 reps each leg of both exercises
5 reps each leg of both exercises

Upon completion asked PAX to partner up for some Time Under Tension
Partner#1 holds Al Gore while Partner#2 completes 10 jump squats. FlapJack until you complete an accumulative rep count of 100 jump squats. Legs were burning by this point.

Moseyed to the pullup bars while picking up a Cindy along the way.
#2 – 2 Exercises: Pullups & ManMakers
Perform both exercises in the following sequence:
1 pull-up, 2 manmakers, 3 pullups, 4 manmakers, etc…
Continue till you reach the count of 10 and then reverse
count back down to 1. Will add up to 50 reps of each
exercise. PAX who finished 1st ended the pain for the
rest of the suffering souls.

Walked over to the hill with Cindy for a little Quadzilla w/ some core work.
#3 – This was done OYO. Run down the hill to the stop sign,
NUR back up to the top of the hill. Grab Cindy and
complete 15 BBSw/Cindy. Rinse&Repeat. We managed
to get in the minimum requirement of 4 rounds to quality
as a Quadzilla routine.

Took Cindy back home and moseyed to COT.

MARY: No Time Left On The Clock

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your NL

COT: STK!!!

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Weinke in a baggie

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WARMUP: the usual stuff plus KB pass throughs in cadence as finale
THE THANG:
Ladder 2X
5 Manmakers – murder bunny to next stop
10 Thrusters – bell bear crawl to next stop
15 squats – pass through lunges to next stop
20 Halos – overhead carry to next stop
Next Thang – 3 rounds of reps
Sets of 10-20 reps -short run
Double the rep count – short run
Burnout set until failure – short run

Exercises were
Swings
Curls
Presses
KB merkins
Tricep press

Back to COT for 1 minute of UHauls (in honor of)
MARY: not invited today
ANNOUNCEMENTS: all of them
COT: core principle, of course.

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Dawn Patrol with Cake 🎂

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WARMUP: mosey with stops for some exercises
THE THANG: 11’s
11 stations 3 levels each level had accumulating exercise moves 10 reps each
Run down hill for 11 merkins and run back
Hard spring g to finish
MARY: gas pumpers
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read newsletter
COT:
Twister was there
Shady and Jekyll ran
Barry complaint it was too hot

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My AO (and region) VQ

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WARMUP: SSH, Cherry Pickers, Imperial Walkers, Willie Mays Hayes, Good mornings
THE THANG: Thang 1) Ran to the theater and rotated Hand Release Merkins, Dirkins, and Irkins in sets of 5, 10, and 15.

Thang 2) moseyed into the parking lot where we did 10 jump squats and lunge walked one set of parking lines. Then did 9 jump squats and lunge walked 2 parking lines. Repeat till 1 jump squat and 9 lines were completed.

Thang 3) same as thang 2 but with burpees and bear crawls.

Thang 4) similar to above but with different increments: SSH in sets of 20, 15, 10, and 5 with side shuffles up and down the parking lot in between.
MARY: Big boys, flutter kicks, scissor kicks
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: Expressed my appreciation to all the pax who have welcomed me to the region. Much appreciated!!

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