Counting Down from 100

WARMUP:
Spike took the warmup right where we plant the shovel flag. Counts and cadence were perfect, and we even did 6-count burpees. Impressive!!!

THE THANG:
Ran around to do a few more warm ups before heading to a building for the countdown.

2 locations for exercises. Run between each, which included stairs and some bear crawls or lunges:
100 Flutters
90 Squats
80 Shoulder Taps
70 Hello Dollys
60 SSH
55 LBCs
50 Merkins
40 Speed Skaters
30 Lunges
20 Burpees
10 Big Boy Sit-ups

Great work done by all pax!

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Rockin around the Christmas Tree

WARMUP: couple loops in the AO lot with high knees, buttkickers, and karoake.
THE THANG: Bucket 11 – one bucket at each end of the top lot. Pax pulled random exercises in an 11 format. Mak tar jyes and burpees were everyone’s fave.
Did some partner work on the wall near the upper town hall lot. Bear crawl with wall sit and balls to the wall.
Mosey to Christmas tree. 12 stations surrounding tree. Do two stations and run a loop. We darn near didn’t even come close to finishing all the stations. Great mumblechatter.
Brick by brick, post by post.
MARY: No showed.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: All of them.
COT: Pretty special today.

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4 Cornahs

Twas a bit nipply outside. The idea was to keep moving for 45 minutes
WARMUP: Ran the long way and up the hill to the big parking lot. We did dynamic warmup where we ran back and forth between the exercises: SSH, squat, IW, Hillbilly walkers, merkin, burpees.
THE THANG: 4 corners of the parking lot designated by the light poles. Each corner had 1 exercise: merkin, squat, Carolina Dry dock, big boy sit ups. Reps per round: 10, 15, 20, 15, 10. We moseyed, lunge walked and bear crawled our way in between.

Left parking lot and headed to wall for 3 rounds of wall sits. Then ran back to COT for 5 minutes of Mary.
MARY: yep
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter
COT: Prayers for family

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Brick by brick/Post by post

WARMUP: Did some moseying around with SSH, Hillbillies, and Squats
THE THANG: A Dip/Derkin 11 at the Ampitheater/ mosey to the Stairs in Textile Way / pax planked and elbow planked while one at a time went up/down.
Mosey to Sunbelt lot.
Quick DORA like run with merkins/lbc’s/squats.
Mosey to Main Event – Starfish type workout with 7 solid stations. Burpees/Merkins/Big Boys/LBC’s/Mak Tar Jyes/Dry Docks/Jump Squats. All stations had high rep counts for max suffering.
Mosey to a station, near crawl back, do 1 burpee on first round, 2 burpees on second, etc…
All pax gave max effort to complete, but fell a little short on time. Moseyed back to COT.
MARY: Not her day.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas Party! Get there!
COT: All shared. Live your best life!

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12 Days of Christmas Ladder

Celebrating the 12 days of Christmas as the holiday decorations were recently assembled at WEP with a ladder workout with 2 exercises and 5 flights in depending and ascending counts.

WARMUP:

3 variations side straddle hops followed by 3 variations of merkins followed by 3 variations of squats.

THE THANG:

Flight 1-big boy setups and hip dips,
Flight 2-R/L lunges with squats jumps,
Flight 3-Bear crawl with crawl bear,
Flight 4-R/L side plank crunch with mac tar jai,
Flight 5-Front/back lunges with jump knee tucks.

MARY: n/a

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Christmas party, BRR 2026, Irrevocable Trusts

COT:

Prayers for students, new babies, and aging parents.

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Piracy and Imposters

WARMUP:
– Windmills
– Cherry Pickers
– Imperial Walkers
– Hillbilly Walkers
– Calf Raises

THE THANG:
– Travel to playground (pirated from <@U06Q8DSSV5Y>)
– Begin with 5 squats then mosey to 2nd tree on the left-hand side of sidewalk –> 5 squats
– Mosey back to 1st tree –> 3 merkins
– Mosey to 3rd tree –> 5 squats
– Mosey back to 2nd tree –> 3 merkins
– And so on to the playground

– Broga (10 count)
– Standard plank
– Down Dog
– Walk it out
– Up Dog
– Down Dog
– Standard plank

– Continued WEP circuit – 8’s
– First swing: 7 burpees (yes, I included burpees), 1 big boy
– Second swing: 6 burpees, 2 big boys
– …
– Last swing: 1 burpees, 7 big boys

– Extended broga
– Standard plank
– Down Dog – right leg up
– Runners Lunge – right leg forward
– Warrior I
– Warrior II
– Peaceful Warrior
– Runners Lunge
– Standard plank
– Down dog – left leg up
– Runners lunge – left leg forward and repeat

– At Calhoun gazebo:
– Arm DORA!!!
– One partner lunges from the gazebo to the curb while the other works on:
– 50 Curb Alperts (cadence count)
– 100 Dips (benches conveniently provided)
– 150 Shoulder presses

MARY: hammahs, fluttahs, boxcuttahs, LBC, 6-inches (via countdown from each PAX)

ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter material

COT: all about families

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Finding meaning in the mundane

WARMUP: 5 burpees and 5 exercise moves
THE THANG:
Jacobs ladder with bomb jack’s and inch worm merkins
Native American run
4 corners increasing reps 3 rounds
5, 10, 15
9 different exercise moves
MARY:
Dips Dirkens, step ups
Mosey to COT
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Thanksgiving convergence

COT:
Prayers and Praises

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Fall leaves, colorful sunrise, and a tunnel of love

WARMUP:
Ran toward downtown, stopping here and there for typical warm-up exercises (SSH, Imperial Walkers, Seal Jacks, Windmills, Hillbilly Walkers, Peter Parkers, Parker Peters).

THE THANG:
At a short wall near the old Springs building, we did 15x, 10x, 5x of each of the following:
box jumps
step ups
dips

Moseyed to steps near across from downtown (behind mill stone) and partnered up.
– Everyone bear crawl up the steps, run down the grassy hill
– Partner wheelbarrow up the steps, run down the grassy hill
– Flapjack wheelbarrow
– Everyone on a step for a series of calf raises

Mosey to bottom of Massey. Run up mass to upper lot.

Partner “Catch me if you can”
– merkins and butt kickers
– Buprees and high keens
– Karaoke and mountain climbers

Line up for railroad tracks (to rounds)
End with Tunnel of Love

Mosey back to COT.

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HIM Camp Review

WARMUP:
Mosey to pond for 10 each of Moroccan Night Clubs, Seal Jacks, Bomb Jacks

Plankorama: Scorpion Dry Docks (5 each leg) into 10 each of Shoulder Taps, Plank Jacks, Mountain Climbers

THE THANG:
Mosey to Lot behind Panera for a Dora
Start w 5 Jumping Lunges (each side) and 1 Burpee
Alternate bear crawling / lunge walking betweeen islands.
At each island, decrease/increase reps by 1 until finishing with of 1 Jumping Lunge (each side) and 5 Burpees

Mosey back to amphitheater

7 exercises, 7 reps with block – 5 rounds
Curls
Tricep curls
Derkins
Squat thrusts
Forward Lunges (both legs for 1)
Backward Lunges (both legs for 1)
LBCs

In between rounds – one PAX runs to first bench along pond while other PAX hold Al Gore

MARY:
Big Boys & Freddy Mercurys

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Christmas party, Bethel every 1st TH, look out for food collection details

COT:
Sickness, work challenges, family relationships healing, parents aging, moving decisions

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Frozen tundra mumblechatter

WARMUP: An adventurous warmup of circle runs and

SSH
IW
Tunnel touches
Merkins
Mtn Climbers
Overhead claps

One man ran two circles around us wilst we completed the various exercises.

THE THANG: We moseyed to the center of the park and partnered up. One partner ran half sped across the park whilst the other partner counted to 5 and then chased them down, completing the run to the concrete track. Jogged back. Repeated until everyone was annoyed.

Moseyed to the hill where the partners participated in the now trademarked “Indian Land Butt Sniffers Bear Crawl Uphill” :tm:

Then lunges uphill.

At playground – partners did planks, dips and grave diggers whilst partner ran around the playground.

The Mary was one set of flutter kicks.

Perhaps <@UGU3XR5RP> will have some comments but it was clear this was his favorite workout in months.

Dear Abby joined! We got a Chicago report.

We had the privilege of COT to express prayers for fellow Pax and also for Mrs DD.

Food drive to come!

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