Category: Dawn Patrol

Every Second Counts

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WARMUP: Blue took the reins and rocked his first leadership effort as a pax of The Fort! SSH, Windmill, Merkin, etc

THE THANG: Pax moseyed to the parking garage at Sunbelt Rentals (The Forbidden Zone according to OldBay) and split into two teams

Cindies were available for some weighted exercises at the top level
Bottom level was used for Core exercises

Teams took turns completing one exercise with 10 reps at the top while other team did a continuous core exercise at the bottom. Then the teams swapped. Then swapped again and continued to the next exercise.

Pair 1 = Squats (top) & Balls to wall (bottom)
Pair 2 = Swings & People's chair
Pair 3 = OH press & plank
Pair 4 = Bent over rows & Flutters

After the first round, pax paused to hear about Every Second Counts from "The Bear" on Hulu. Then teams tackled a second round of the same series at a faster pace.

Teams gathered for one final pair that included Man Makers at the top and American Hammer at the bottom.

Mosey back home

MARY: Completed throughout the workout

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Trash pickup 0745 at Harris St Park on Sat 8/22, VQ by Blue at Dawn Patrol on Tue 9/8

COT: Yes!

Pax offered many compliments to Blue on this solid cadence count and terminology during the warm up. He was completely unflustered by Twister's heckling immediately to his right. While he's not a professional today, Blue clearly tapped into his prior professional status as a US Marine many years back. Well done!

Thanks to Site Q OldBay for indulging a little extra risk in exploring the Sunbelt parking garage. The Flock cameras were in full view, so perhaps he's not completely out of the woods yet. Show up next Thur to find out!

The pax pushed through a steamy morning with Cindy offering few complaints. Not sure if that's a good thing (the lack of complaints), but I know everyone was drenched at COT and we covered the major fitness elements.

"Every Second Counts" was the mantra for the staff in the TV series "The Bear". For the most part, it drove a mindset of performance on a consistently high pace, so it seemed an appropriate theme for an F3 workout. At the same time, it can also be heard as a theme for Presence (ie, living in the moment) and can thus be a theme across all elements of life. Where could this apply in your life?

Thanks to all for their Presence today and to Old Bay for the invite!

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Blast Coupon

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WARMUP: buttkick, high knees, karaone

THE THANG:
Run up to parking lot and did following exercises 10 counts
1) side str hops
2)imperial walker
3) Hillbilly walkers
4) moraka night club or sun god

Again run up to big parking

Lunch walk, bar crawl .

Once done Mary, clock burpees (1..6). Run back to COT and abs(American hammer, flatters, box cutter and bicycle)

MARY:
Partner up ( one run down road and come up and other follow exercise and then switch)
1)Over head coupon
2)Bent over coupon
3)Curl coupon
4)Squd coupon
5)Upright coupon
6!Skull crushes

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethal, care center lawn move

COT: Pray for healing, family protection and kids safety.
Thank you all for opportunity

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10×10 – and again

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WARMUP:
Ran around and did a few of the standards.

THE THANG: 10×10
At the board with the following exercises, we gather and did 10 of the first exercise, then ran a loop (with a burpee at the mid-way point). Then we did 10 of 1, and 10 of 2, (in accumulating fashion) and then the loop (still with a single burpee).

And so on…

  1. Shoulder Taps
  2. Squats
  3. Mountain Climbers
  4. Seal Jacks
  5. Hello Dollys
  6. Plank Jacks
  7. Bomb Jacks
  8. Merkins
  9. LBCs
  10. Burpees

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Warning Lights

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WARMUP: a series of exercises with 1 rep (yes, DOAH, ONE rep!) plus some moseys and other movements around the loop to the playground

THE THANG: The main event theme was Blue Ridge Relay training in the form of hill repeats up Stairway to Heaven, followed by exercises at the statue down the right side of the Stairway, then a mosey back to start. The winner of each heat picked the exercise and then started the next heat with a 5 count delay for the others to run ahead. The last couple heats involved some partner exercises. We wrapped up with a collection of Burpees.

MARY: Done throughout the Main Event

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter

COT: yes, as required by the 5th Core Principle (in proper order, DOAH)

This group can sprint! Jekyll, Spike, Ruby, Davinci, Dojo, Minuteman and Super G kicked into the highest gear they've probably seen in a while. Well done! Keep up the sprinting! Fishstix says we need it to stay young.

Along the way, the pax shared experiences and suggestions on ways to monitor our life gauges (ie, overheating mentally, running out of gas physically, etc), including watching each other's dashboards and calling out when a brother may be in a potential red zone. Am I watching my dashboard before the crash? Am I truly listening to feedback from others who care about me?

Thanks to everyone for pushing me through another BRR training session! Thanks to Minuteman for the invite!

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It’s not ‘negative’, its ‘eccentric’

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WARMUP:
windmills, produce pickers then mosey to Kingsley Springs corner
monsters, knee grabs, arm stretches to lakeside benches

THE THANG:
C.H.I.P.S. and Dips
Complete 20 reps each of exercises, in cadence, followed by 20 dips off a park bench, and a lap around the landscaping
C – Calf Raises, Dips
H – Hello Dollies, Dips
I – Imperial Walkers, Dips
P – Parker Peters, Dips
S – Squats, Dips

Identify 'finish line' for future use

Mosey to bottom of hill
Rock routine (5/7/10)
Deadlifts
One-legged or two-legged
Bicep curls
Up on 1; down slowly on 2, 3, 4
Overhead presses
Up on 1; down slowly on 2, 3, 4
Coupon Crucible (curl + press)
a block curl straight into an overhead press and then slowly (3-5) count to lower the block into starting position. That's one rep.
OYO; encourage slow count to starting curl position
Tricep curls
OYO

Mosey to roundabout circle
Cocaine bear crawls (each sidewall partition) – 1 circuit

On Kingsley Springs sidewalk (back to the lake):
Squat-walk to rockpile facing alternating directions every 10 strides
Best effort up the hill to the previously announced 'finish line'

MARY:
dollies during CHIPS, @U78QN5XU5-led mary while the rest of us were struggling up the hill

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Read your newsletter, Bethel, Stuff the Bus

COT:
Prayers for families, marriages. Encouragement to do something not in your wheelhouse that will be within reach if you work at it.

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Rome if you want to

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Rome is the city of 7 hills. In Roman fashion, the Pax did 7 hill repeats on White St.

WARMUP:
Mosey out of WEP to first parking lot for SSH, Windmills, Cherry Pickahs.

Mosey to upper parking lot near White St. doing butt kickers, high knees, karaoke, Toy Soldier, Lunge, Burpee Broad Jumps, Bear crawl.

THE THANG:
2 rounds of 4 stations w 3 exercises each.

Every time a station is completed, run down and back up the hill on White St.

Station 1 – 25 reps

  • Merkins
  • Scorpion Dry Docks
  • Shoulder Taps

Station 2 – 30 reps

  • LBCs
  • Fluttahs
  • Box Cuttahs

Station 3

  • Mtn Climbers
  • Peter Parkers
  • Plank Jacks

Station 4

  • Squats
  • Calf Raises
  • Bomb Jacks

MARY: Throughout

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel on Th, stuff the bus on Sat, CRI serving widows on 9/5 and response training later in Sept

COT:
Prayers for aging parent w new diagnosis, recent accident, CRI responders continuing to serve in hard situations, 2.0 traveling abroad, 2.0 recovering from wisdom teeth being pulled, smooth return to school for all.

Praise for Assassin’s new grandson!

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Rock n Roll

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6 Pax showed up to take on the morning gloom. Cooler weather for a SC July was welcomed.


WARMUP: COP usuals: SSH, IW, HW, squats, windmills, cherry pickers, arm circles
THE THANG:

Thang 1: bear crawl down, 10 merkins. Crawl bear back, 10 merkins. Squat walk down, 10 squats. Reverse squat walk back. 10 squats. Repeat but swapped out lunge walks.

Thang 2: mosey to the rock pile. Dora with rocks. Partner up. 100 rock curls 100 overhead press. 200 flutter kicks with rock above. Runner goes down to traffic circle and back.

Run back to COT
MARY: WAS done in Dora
ANNOUNCEMENTS: bethel men’s shelter dinner sign ups 8/6. Need men. Grass cutting at Fort Mill care center.

COT: prayers for families, schools(kids/teachers/nurses), health and tough conversations.

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Playground Fun

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WARMUP:
Snooker lead us through a series of in-place warm-ups, including great hits like "Buttkickers", "High-Knees", and "Good Mornings".

THE THANG:
Moseyed on the trail about 1/4 around the park, stopping at the swinging benches for some burpees.

At the playground, we partnered up. Partner 1 did a stationary exercise, while partner 2 ran around the playground. Flap-jack. Stationary exercises were as follows;

1. Merkins
2. Heels to heaven
3. Swing crunches
4. Box Cutters
5. Pull ups
6. Shoulder Taps
7. Freddie Mercury s
8. CDDs
9. CDDs ( feet elevated above head)
10. LBCs
11. Seal jacks
12. Flutters
13. Burpees

Lined up for railroad tracks across the field.
Moseyed down to the new turf for Jack Webbs.
Sat on the wall for some Jack Reachers
2 minutes of Mary.

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Impossible Island Hopping

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WARMUP: moseyed with some stops along the way. No feedback on the cadence calling. The PIP I was on was in full effect. Finished with Bonnie Blairs X 10.
THE THANG: In honor of The Pirate, a 4 corners, 20 reps at each corner. Merkins, Derkins, Heels to Heaven, and Big Boys.

Mosey and Sprints 2X to length of the parking lot changing pace at every island. Another idea taken from Pirate.

Picked two islands to do an Impossible Mile:
First Lap: Burpee Broad Jumps
Second Lap: Lunge Walk
Third Lap: Bear Crawl
Fourth Lap: Mosey.

Everyone LOVED the Impossible Mile.

Truly an honor to GET TO share doing difficult things with these men.

MARY: some did, some not so much.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Stuff the Bus, LaGrama, Bethel, Bourbon, Cannoli Run!
COT: Lifting up all those going through life’s beatdowns and enjoying the time when the storms pass.

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McHale’s Dawn Patrol 5, 10, 20, 10, 5

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WARMUP: 5 minutes:
Side straddle, hops, hillbilly walkers, windmills, cherry pickers, Moroccan nightclubs, squats, high knees
THE THANG: sets 5, 10, 20, 10 and 5: Carolina dry docs, mountain climbers, Merkins, big boys set ups, flying squirrels, LBC’s, jump squats, American hammers. Also shard my banana, Superman and swimmers.
MARY: cherry, pickers, arm, circles, and stretches
ANNOUNCEMENTS: new psych trailhead coming soon Bethelman shelter, Fort mill Care Center loan care
COT: prayers for patience, love the Colorado wildfires and Tarzan

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