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WARMUP: Parking Lot Mosey/ SSH/ Hillbillies/Around the Worlds/Halos/DeadLifts/High Pulls
THE THANG:
Partner Double Bell carry while other does Round 1: Mike Tysons Round 2: Derkins.

Loop of Pain Stations. Do exercises at station, bear crawl with Bell to next station. Run the loop and back to where you left off. Do exercises at that station, bear crawl to next one, etc..
8 Stations:
30 Swings
30 Curls
30 Tricep Press
10 Manmakers (crowd fave!)
24 Bell Merkins (8R, 8L, 8 with both hands on bell-crowd fave!)
24 Pull Throughs
24 Thrusters
30 Am. Hammers

Finished at COT with half minute of AYG Uhauls. (Miss you bro)

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: KB Convergence in Matthews. Trash Pickup. Cannoli Run.
COT: Live Third.

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Ring Around the Rosie

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WARMUP:
## 1. DYNAMIC WARMUP (10-12 min)
– Imperial Walkers x10 IC
– Bend & Reach x10 IC
-Windmill x10 IC
– Short warmup jog
**20 yards, non-stop, down and back:**
– High knees
– Butt kickers
– Walking world's greatest stretch
– Elephant walks
– Dinosaur walks
– Soldier walks
– Side shuffle (each way)
– Karaoke (each way)
-A-Skips
-B-Skips
– C-skips
– Power skips
-Jog
-Run
– Sprints

THE THANG:
##Ring around the Rosie (30 mins)
SPRINT → EXERCISE → RUN → EXERCISE → SPRINT → EXERCISE
Wait for a partner to race before sprinting
15x Squats > Sprint
10x E Fwd Lunge
10x E Rear Lunge > Sprint
15x Billy Cannon
15x Squat Jumps > Sprint
10x E Speed Skaters
15x Plank Jacks > Sprint
25x E Mountain Climbers
15x Merkins > Sprint
15x Carolina Dry Docks
20x Overhead Arm Claps > Sprint
20x Overhead Arm Claps
Jog back to COT

##Love Triangle (15 mins)
3 to a group minimum
Watch for perfect Form or punishment
If watcher doesn’t call them out for bad form, they they get punished

Exercises

  1. 15x Squats
  2. 10x E Forward Lunges
  3. 10x E Rear Lunges
  4. 15x Squats
  5. 15x Merkins
  6. 10x Hand Release Merkin
  7. 20x American Hammers
  8. 20x Flutter Kicks

Punishment
Sprint 25 Yards & Broad Jump Back
(Step Squat if unable to broad Jump)

MARY:
X’s & O’s
Gas Pumps
Superman’s
Box cutters
Flutter kicks

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Big Red Bus
Trash Pickup

COT:
Sobriety
Family

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Adopt A Highway litter pick up

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Get ready for a morning of fellowship and community service at Harris St Park! Join us for a fun and rewarding event that’s perfect for friends and family to come together and make a difference in our community.

We’ll provide all the necessary supplies, so all you need to bring is yourself and a willingness to lend a hand. Here’s the schedule:

  • Arrive at Harris St Park by 7:30 am to get settled and receive your supplies
  • Depart at 8 am and head out to complete our community service project
  • Wrap up at 9:30 am and head back to the park for a final wrap-up

This is a wonderful opportunity to connect with your neighbors and make new friends while giving back to our community. We hope to see you there!

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Egypt > Desert > Promised Land

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WARMUP: in cadence/out of cadence exercises including some windmills, some toy soldiers, some SSH, and an Elf movie reference from @U02DKM63B7B
THE THANG: We were taken out of Egypt into the Desert and into the Promised Land. Fleeing Egypt, we moved down the lot with repeated stops for 20 merkins and 10 squats, a reminder that freedom takes effort. In the Desert, we focused on endurance over speed, hitting 4 corners at a steady pace with some big boy sit-ups and low/slow squats (at a quantity I cannot currently recall because of the complaints being thrown my way.) We repeated the other 4 corners with some diamond merkins. After a perimeter run, Joshua 1:8 was shared to encourage us as we entered the Promised Land where we reversed direction around the (working) lights with 3 “easy” jump squats. Closing out we embraced a few more merkins and a mosey back to COT.
MARY: big boy sit-ups and squats countdown from 5
ANNOUNCEMENTS: @U0603USPHAS invited some feedback on the Q with mostly positive feedback which is unfortunate, but still appreciated. If I wanted to have my ego stroked I’d go to Orange Theory. @U0A739SGTL3 mentioned garbage pickup next Saturday somewhere. I was interested because it reminded me of the 210 hours of community service the judge hit me with years ago. @U0603USPHAS also shared a discussion event happening on August 28th at Forest Hill in Fort Mill at 6:30am called The Excavation.
COT: Prayers for @U06Q8DSSV5Y to get back out here and lean on brothers during this difficult time. Prayers for Mint Hill’s Windex to get back out and to be the one receiving encouragement. Prayers for all of us to understand the power of our words and the gift of being able to speak them.

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It’s Currahee

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WARMUP:
10 Mountain Climbers
10 Windmills
10 Cherry pickers
Mosey around the parking lot loop
THE THANG:
With Rucksacks and Sandbags
20 sandbags curls, reverse drag sandbag across the field, 20 sandbag curls, reverse drag sandbag back across the field, 20 sandbag curls, sandbag toss across the field, 20 sandbag curls, sandbag toss back across the field, 20 sandbag curls.

Shoulder the sandbag walk around to the zipper sign on the outer loop sprint to the next light pole, walk to the next light pole, sprint to the next.

Walk over to the corner on Dave Gibson
3 rounds of 10 Romanian deadlifts
Walk down to the next light pole 3 rounds of 10 bent over rows, walk down to the next light pole 3 rounds of 10 overhead presses.

Sprint back up to the corner, 3 rounds of 10 guardrail merkins

Return to COT. Various stretches for a full stretch.

MARY: N/A
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletters.
COT: It is what it is…

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A VQ and Lessons in Teamwork

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Eagle Claw's VQ!!!
WARMUP:
Eagle Claw led. Start right at COT, no mosey, circle up for:

  • 20 SSH
  • 10 WM
  • 10 IW
  • 10 MNC
  • 10 cherry pickers

Everything 4 count as usual. Then mosey over to the nearby Grace Presbyterian Church for the following:

THE THANG:
Part 1 – Ring of Fire:
Designed by Eagle Claw, led by both him and NASA
In the half of the parking lot closest to the church, we had 8 cones set up in a loop/ring, each about 15 yards apart, each with an exercise, in this order:

  • 15 burpees
  • 20 merkins
  • 20 big boy sit-ups
  • 25 LSS
  • 25 mtn climbers 2 ct
  • 20 lunge 2 ct
  • 25 LBC
  • 20 CDD

These are minimum rep counts. Each person picked a cone (with 6 PAX, 2 were left open). Do the exercise, then alternate duck walk or bear crawl to next cone.
The catch – NOBODY could move forward until the last person is done their minimum rep count they were on. Until the last person shouted "done!", everyone kept doing the exercise at hand, exceeding minimum rep counts. We all did 2 complete rounds as a group. The burpees and 2ct lunges were our 6s that kept the team together as a unit, but we all pushed together. Solid work.

Part 2 – DORA:
Eagle Claw designed, mainly NASA led. Mosey over to the parking lot behind Red Bowl, starting point was the corner of the back lot closest to Stockbridge Dr. Partner up. Run was from the start out past the RB dumpster to the end of that building and back. Exercise reps were cut due to time:

  • 50 merkins (was 100)
  • 100 LBC (was 200)
  • 150 LSS (was 300)

Dumpster did not stank no where near as bad as we expected it would! Great efforts by everyone!
We finished with a couple minutes to spare. Back to COT.
MARY:
Eagle Claw led – 1 minute of hello dollys
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Read your newsletter, get involved. If you see something that is your D2X, get behind it, EH some guys. and make it happen. Freed to lead! This is exactly how ALL of the things we see in the newsletter as well as F3 organized CSAUPs came about.
COT:
A LOT lifted up by everyone! A great COT session.

NMM:
This was designed to be lessons in teamwork:

  • RING OF FIRE: The team, large or small, is only as strong and fast as the last person in line. The team doesn't move forward as a collective group until everyone is done doing their work. You can choose to get out way ahead, focusing on personal gain, but then you leave the rest of your team behind.
  • DORA: When you are paired with someone to complete a set of tasks, you both should be putting in the same level of effort. Slacking on your part will only put more load on your partner, which over time could drive you two apart. Equal efforts keeps the partnership strong.

Eagle Claw is off to spread his wings and follow his passions at The Citadel. Thank you to all the PAX who have poured the 3 Fs, wisdom, motivations, and encouragements into him. You all have made him a better person because of it. I cannot thank you all enough. Love you all. Blessings and SYITG.
-NASA

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Smokin Cindy Beatdown

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Warm-Up:
SSH – 25 IC
Imperial Walkers – 15 IC
Moroccan NC – 15 IC
Windmills – 10 IC
Strawberry Pickers – 10 IC
Cheese Shredder

The Thang:
1. Dora: Partner up. One works, one runs 50 yards and back. Switch.

Exercises (with cinder):
100 Block Curls
200 Block Overhead Presses
300 Block Chest Presses

2. Perform a Ladder: (Start with 5 reps; Add +5 each round except Blockees; 5-10-15-20-15-10-5)
After each round, run 1 lap around track

Exercises (with cinder):
1 Blockees (burpee w/ cinder)
2 Block Squats
3 Block Swings
4 Block Thrusters
MARY: No show; She doesn't like Cindy
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: Prayers and Praises

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