Four corners, lots of reps

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WARMUP:
SSHs, IWs, WMs, Plank

THE THANG:

4 corners of pain and some burpees
All corners start with 50 reps each, exercises stay the same each time around
– Corner 1: squats, then run to corner 2
– Corner 2: hand release merkins, then crawl bear to corner 3
– Corner 3: bomb jacks, then nur to corner 4
– Corner 4: LBCs, then bear crawl to center of basketball court and do 5 burpees (sandbags available for extra credit)
– Repeat. Reps go down to 40, then 30, 20, 10. Burpees stay at 5 each time

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AO CURRAHEE — “THE MIDNIGHT RIDE” 30 June 2026 · 0515-0600 · Pre-Independence Edition

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In 1775, a Boston silversmith didn’t wait for ideal conditions — he rode through the dark because the moment demanded it. This morning at Currahee, the air sat on us like a wet wool blanket before sunrise, and the PAX rode anyway.

We opened with the Warm-O-Rama: a ruck mosey lap, then SSH, Imperial Walkers, Hillbilly Walkers, and CASBAH #2s. Standard prep, same as the colonists drilling on the green before the shot heard round the world.

Then came The Midnight Ride: forty yards out, full ruck, full send — squat jumps, burpees as the toll for stopping, and a recovery lap before going again. With the soup we were moving through, we added an extra lap between rounds, and got 3 in before the conditions had their say.

We closed with 5 minutes of Mary. @U5MQ8FHV0 called an audible and got us some ruck on merkins mixed in to finish what the humidity didn’t take out of us first.
Three rounds, soaked through, lungs working overtime against air that didn’t want to cooperate. Nobody showed up for perfect conditions this morning — they showed up anyway, same as 1775. That’s the rep that counts.

COT: Independence Day convergence at CRHS, Bethel Men’s Shelter. Prayers for travel and recovery.
Until next time — ride hard, ruck heavy, and never miss a bell.
Pollo Hermano, out.👊💥🇺🇸

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Dancing shoes!!

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WARMUP:
20 windmill
20 cherry pickers
20 imperial walkers
20 low and slow

THE THANG:
Mosey to the basketball court
20 count downward dawg
20 count high plank
20 LBC
Down and back
3 rounds

Mosey to the wall
Wall sit
Lunges
Burpees
Wall ball

MARY: Big boys, flutter, more LBC
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel
COT: Family and Health

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Compete with yourself DORA

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WARMUP: SSH, cherry pickers, side lunges and a little mosey
THE THANG: DORA but no rep count. The whole point was to compete with yourself and try to do atleast one more rep than the previous set before your partner got done running a lap around the parking lot.

3 sets merkins
3 sets squats
3 sets big boys
2 sets burpees

After that was done we mosey’d to the amphitheater and did wall sits while going down the line farmers carry with heavy cinder blocks. Ran back over to the flag for core work until the clock hit 6.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: July 4 workout convergence, bethel men’s shelter, read your news letter.

COT: payers for people dealing with loss, sickness, and surgeries.

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You Will Struggle!

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WARMUP: A few loops in the parking lot while Bowser shared leadership principles learned from Bible study with his buddy, followed by brief series of exercises

THE THANG:
Mosey to playground and pick a partner for Dora

100 Penguins / transit with bear crawl & crawl bear
200 Shoulder Taps / transit via lunge & backward lunge
300 Flutters / transit via run & nur

Mosey to picnic WEP area and pick new partner

Partner 1 planks while Partner 2 does Step ups
Rinse & repeat with Bulgarian Split squats
10 Burpees

Mosey to FM Town Hall picnic area

Pax chose exercise and a dice roll determines the # of reps, including Merkins, Burpees, Squat Jumps, Squats, Freddys & more

Mosey home

MARY: Included in Dora series

ANNOUNCEMENTS: July 4th convergence at Catawba Ridge 0700 launch time

COT: The theme today was built around Struggle because the Summer Steam has kicked into high gear and the core of the F3 engine for me is Shared Suffering. These pax suffered through a tough workout with grit and encouragement throughout. The Struggle in the Gloom can be hard, but the hardest struggles come once we leave the parking lot after COT. The suffering life deals is real and difficult. And the personal struggles that exist inside the heart and mind can be the toughest of all.

Don't believe the lies in your head that other men aren't struggling. We all struggle, from the sharpest and fittest Nantan to the gimpy pax trying to get off IR. DON'T STRUGGLE ALONE! The reason we post is to build the grit and the brotherhood that will get us through every struggle!

Appreciate the contributions of all throughout the workout and in COT!

Thanks for the invite JWOW! You were missed.

#KeepPosting

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Complicated Math

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Run down to the flag poles at the Elementary School. Divide into teams of 3, pax 1 and 2 at each end of the parking loop doing exercises while third pax ran to one end of the parking loop to switch out with pax 2. Pax 2 ran to Pax 1 and switched out. Three full rounds were completed.
Next, we moseyed to the brick wall, 5 muscle ups, +2 every time we returned to the wall. Ran to the field parking lot 10 squats back to the brick wall, repeat the squats at each light pole
Back to COT.

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Decisions

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Five guys (including FNG “Trash Panda”) put in 45 minutes of work this morning. YHC joined them for the last 34. Here’s what we did.

The Thang

  • 10 Goblet Squats
  • 10 Curls
  • 10 Calf Raises
  • 10 American Hammers
  • 10 Skull Crushers
  • 10 Flutters with a Press
  • 10 Pull Throughs
  • 10 KB Swings
  • 10 Walking Lunges
  • 10 John Deeres
  • 10 Simbas
  • 10 Manmakers
  • Short Mosey
  • Repeat with 15 reps, then 20, then 5

NMM
Every day presents different challenges. Will you rise or fall? What decisions will you make?

I woke up this morning at 5:07. The workout I was supposed to lead started at 5:15. I live 8 minutes from the AO. I had a decision to make: hurry out the door or pass my responsibilities to someone else. But Maximus reminded us this morning that society wants to push us to the sidelines. They say we shouldn’t get involved – let someone else take charge. But that’s not our calling. Our mission is to invigorate male community leadership and I can’t do that from my bed. So I did what I was supposed to do, albeit in was 11 minutes late. Late is better than never.

Thank you Bam Bam for taking charge in my absence. I owe you 11 minutes.

Aye!
Italian Job

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1775 & Captain Thor

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WARMUP: Plank, Best Damn Stretch, Windmill, SSH
THE THANG:
1775

  • 17 burpees
  • 75 squats
  • take a lap

for three rounds

Captain Thor

  • 1:4 Big Boys: American Hammer
  • 1 Pike Plank

add 1 each round
eg round 2- 2:8 Big Boys: Hammer 2 Pike Plank
round 3- 3:12 and 3
so on

AMRAP

MARY: She called; we answered with an around the horn PAX called exercise
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: Prayers for marriage, family, and the pax

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