Category: Alcatraz

Words that Hurt but why??‍♂️

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YHC brought up local story of Cam Newton calling teammates losers because were a losing team when he got drafted.
Is he wrong? What really drives people getting upset with those comments.
Come back to COT to see
WARMUP:
Mosey
THE THANG:
Along mosey we did
5 burpees
10 CDDs
15 sumo squats

Stopped for some 7’s on long steep hill
1 merkin 6 sumo squats

Continue mosey with 5,10,15
At tennis courts

10 merkins
10 big boys
10 lunges
10 plank jacks
Bear crawl to each corner of tennis court
2 rounds

Continue mosey back to basketball court at COT

Another round of tennis court routine

Done
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Yeager——sign up
COT:
Being called a Loser is not nice and rude but when in a race or working we have goals and we either attain them or not
Are we all losers??
I think not but we get wrapped up in the identity of loser versus knowing we are Children of God loved valued and chosen
He proved this to us over and over again but we focus on earthly things not Godly things.
Change the focus
Who cares what the horizontal says and know the ONE who calls you by your name

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cold morning but 1-0 for the day

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WARMUP: mosey, windmill, Moroccan night club, peter Parker, imperial walker, merkins
THE THANG: Dora 50 merks, 100 lbc, 150 squats, 200 flutters then wall squats somd pull ups, step ups and dips. Then bear crawl, lunges and crab walk around the bases. Indian run up a hill. 15 mins of broga
MARY: none
ANNOUNCEMENTS: d2d bar, Valentine’s day wins dinner
COT: thankful for everyday

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Little bit of rain and jacked up jack webbs

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WARMUP: collected in the parking lot, very quick disclaimer and off we went. Ran a nice big lap around the baseball fields, settled in for some SSH, windmills, low slow squats, and then we went into a Jack Webb. Senator wanted to go faster in the Jack Webbs but Uber started to get air.
THE THANG: Ran over to hole #2 where we did 3 exercises.
1. 10 diamonds at the tee box
2. 10 jump squats at the valley
3. 10 4-count flutters at the green

Then rinse and repeat in reverse starting at the green with the diamonds and back to the tee box. We did this 3 times and running back to the tee box was horrible and very hilly and it’s as terrible as I remember it.

We ran back to the Runde parking lot for some 4 corners.
1. 20 CDD
2. 10 hammer sprinter combos (hammer left/right, into left/right crunch)
3. 20 merkins with (Parker Peter into Peter Parker – so 4 merkins for each Peter movement)
4. See #2 again

Rinse and repeat 2x more times but cut the numbers in 1/2 because some of this looked better on paper.
MARY: Airborne special along with some Superman.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: D2D awareness
COT: of course!

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One Word for the Win

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WARMUP: Killed some time with usual fare in pkg lot while Mainframe and Pusher fixed the wrinkle in their panties
THE THANG: Ran past the golf course (with some exercises along the way) to the lower part of the trail that goes up the hill from Tega Cay Drive to the tennis courts. We did hill repeats with squats at the bottom and burpees at the top. We did so many that Dark Helmet cried and our Q (YHC) lost count. Then we did some more. And then more. When Fishstix proved to be unbreakable, we ran past tennis courts, out the golf course entrance and down the road back to Runde with some exercises along the way.
MARY: Flutters in parking lot for last 2 mins
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Pusher is leading 8 Blocker exercise 1st Sat of Jan at Panera after workouts.
COT: Falconcrest brought our FNG Slurve who showed up in a golf cart but somehow we have him baseball name. Thanks for the EH! Let’s get him back out this week!

We addressed the One Word topic throughout, including examples of random words that don’t motivate and thoughtful words that do. Pusher added some best practices, Senator gave his solid plug for Why F3 still matters to him in his 13th year. Finally DOAH stuck the landing with a heartfelt example of how F3 and One Word can come together in mysterious ways to make Impact.

A great morning for all present. You were missed Uber!

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Bing was in town. It was a real good time.

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Bing probably has a much more interesting version of all this, but suffice it to say, it was a good time. I went first half and Bing ended the hour. It’s not going to be a great backblast, but it will capture the fact that there were men there and what their names were. That’s gotta count for something…

WARMUP:
We did.

THE THANG:
We lifted some stuff. Then Bing made us do a lot of Bear Crawling and something called a “Pit of Misery”. Hateful stuff…

MARY:
No chicks.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Read your newsletter.

COT:
The 5th Core Principle.

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No more burpees….sort of.

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WARMUP: mosey to fire station lot
Windmills, low slow squats, imperial and hillbilly walkers and seal jacks all in cadence with a few burpees in between exercises – but just a few. YHC said no more burpees – but YHC should have said no more burpees…..for now.

THE THANG: part 1 – Mary to pull up bar for 30 seconds of pull ups or bar hangs while pax held plank. Upon completion of 6 rounds – pax moseyed on bottom of Tega cay drive hill.

Part 2 – Dora 1-2-3
100 burpees
200 squats
300 flutters

Change Order thought the idea of doing burpees and running hills was questionable. He wasn’t wrong. Pax persisted nonetheless.

Running to different points on the hill
Burpees – partner 1 run to yellow sign and back down to relieve partner 2 and flapjack.

Squats – partner 1 starts run from yellow sign to top of hill and back to yellow sign to relieve partner 2 and flapjack.

Flutters – partner 1 runs from top of hill to cluster of crepe myrtles and back to relieve partner 2

Mosey to ball field for part 3

Part 3 – left, right & center

Partner 1 planks at edge of infield behind 2nd base. Partner 2 runs to come in left field does exercise and returns to flapjack with partner 1. PAX did 3 rounds per partner

Left field cone – 10 lunges
Center field one – 20 bomb jacks
Right field cone – 30 flutters

PAX moseyed to COT for a stretch at 0728 where many of us were reminded of our lost flexibility and time was called at 0730.

MARY: she wasn’t there

ANNOUNCEMENTS: were announced

COT: 5th core principle

Thanks for the men who posted and chose the tougher thing on a chilly but glorious morning. And Uber – thanks for the call.

Honored,
Cyclops :eye:

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Murder Bunnies pre-season

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WARMUP: a short mosey followed by The usuals with some Apollo Ohnos thrown in.
THE THANG: mosey to the Pull Up bars, 5 PUs, 15 dips 10 Squats, run around to COT, 10 Merkins, 25 LBCs, 15 Apollo Ohon, back to PU bars. 3 rounds of this. Grab a rock and head to the field for some Murder Bunnies, overhead press, curls & rows. Put the rocks back head to a nice steep hill. 30 second plank at the bottom Burpees at the top, 5 trips. Native American run, guy in the back does 5 merkins runs to the front. Do this around the park head to COT.
MARY: 5 minutes rotating lead. Special shot out for the Big Boy Flutters, not fun.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read the newsletter
COT: Pryaers for friends of Senator with serious health issues. Prayers for safe travels home for Training wheels visiting from Spartanburg.

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Towards the Sunrise

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Mosey all the way to Windjammer park

Stop along the way for COP (circle of pain)

Did some exercises and yoga on the dock

Great fellowship this morning. Beautiful weather. Not gloomy at all in spirit or in atmosphere.

Got back to COT and had my 60lb bag there. We planked and went down the line performing one man maker each

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