THE THANG:
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Warm up
SSH
Windmills
Up/down dog, with J Lo’s
Mosey to wall – wall sits while each Pax does 3 burpees
Mosey behind Jiffy Lube
Step ups 20
Erkins 25
In/out abs 25
One leg squats standing on wall 15
Derkins 25
Go to HT parking lot
Pair up – one pax does pull ups on cart
corrals while other does merkins 50/200
Mosey to church
25 Squats OYO – run to circle, bear crawl around, head back to benches
15 Step ups (each leg)
20 more Derkins
15 hello dollies
This morning 11 studs went back to school with Billy Madison. Here’s what we did:
Warmup
10 Low Slow Squats (IC)
10 Imperial Walkers (IC)
10 SSHs (IC)
Take a lap
The Thang
12 rounds of 12 exercises (adding new exercises each round) to simulate 12 years of school Billy had to complete.
12 American Hammers
Take a lap
12 American Hammers, 12 Merkins
Take a lap
12 American Hammers, 12 Merkins, 12 Calf Raises
Take a lap
12 American Hammers, 12 Merkins, 12 Calf Raises, 12 LBCs
Take a lap
12 American Hammers, 12 Merkins, 12 Calf Raises, 12 LBCs, 12 Wide Arm Merkins
Take a lap
12 American Hammers, 12 Merkins, 12 Calf Raises, 12 LBCs, 12 Wide Arm Merkins, 12 Squats
Take a lap
12 American Hammers, 12 Merkins, 12 Calf Raises, 12 LBCs, 12 Wide Arm Merkins, 12 Squats, 12 Boxcutters
Take a lap
12 American Hammers, 12 Merkins, 12 Calf Raises, 12 LBCs, 12 Wide Arm Merkins, 12 Squats, 12 Boxcutters, 12 Ranger Merkins
Take a lap
12 American Hammers, 12 Merkins, 12 Calf Raises, 12 LBCs, 12 Wide Arm Merkins, 12 Squats, 12 Boxcutters, 12 Ranger Merkins, 12 Lunges
Take a lap
12 American Hammers, 12 Merkins, 12 Calf Raises, 12 LBCs, 12 Wide Arm Merkins, 12 Squats, 12 Boxcutters, 12 Ranger Merkins, 12 Lunges, 12 Freddie Mercurys
Take a lap
12 American Hammers, 12 Merkins, 12 Calf Raises, 12 LBCs, 12 Wide Arm Merkins, 12 Squats, 12 Boxcutters, 12 Ranger Merkins, 12 Lunges, 12 Freddie Mercurys, 12 Diamond Merkins
Take a lap
12 American Hammers, 12 Merkins, 12 Calf Raises, 12 LBCs, 12 Wide Arm Merkins, 12 Squats, 12 Boxcutters, 12 Ranger Merkins, 12 Lunges, 12 Freddie Mercurys, 12 Diamond Merkins, 12 Burpees
Some guys got to the Diamond Merkins. Most guys hit two miles. All guys got smoked.
NMM
“Billy Madison” taught us to make the best of your second chances. Call the friend or family member you lost connection with. With the knowledge you have now, give that business venture a try. You’re never too old to complete the goals you had when you were younger.
Today was fun. The exercises weren’t, but the conversation was. Great energy today. I hope this was the hardest and stupidest thing you do today. If not, there’s always tomorrow. Thanks for the opportunity, Slow Jams.
WARMUP: Mosey around the parking lot, approx 3/4 mile, then circle up for the following
15-20 of each
* SSH
* Windmill
* Imperial walker
* Moroccan night clubs
* Strawberry pickers
THE THANG:
Starting at where the warmup was, perform the following exercises OYO
* 5 burpees
* 10 box cutters
* 15 hand-release merkins
* 20 LS squats
* 25 mountain climber (2 ct)
* Run same lap we did for warmup
* Repeat
Did this for approx 35-40mins. Everyone got in at least 6-7 rounds. Great work! We stayed out front of the Teeter and avoided the skank stank out back! YAY!!
MARY:
Spent the last 2-3 minutes doing bird dogs – on hands and knees, then reach out the left arm and right leg, hold for a 60-sec count. Swap arms/legs for another 60-sec count. Then on to COT.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter! Get involved!
COT:
* Prayers and praises for the end of school year! Kids and teachers/staff have worked hard this year.
* Prayers continuing for Kevin Eby, missing for over a week. He frequented western NC and the mountains, so if you are out that way please keep a lookout.
* Praises for the return of Chicken Hawk as well as good luck with him creating his own job.
THE THANG:
We did a thing I later learned is called the escalator.
Set up 10 cones spaced 2 parking spaces apart over in the church parking lot. Each time through you would add an exercise on the next cone. Then run a lap.
10 Merkins
20 Monkey Humpers
10 Mike Tyson’s
20 Flutters
10 side lunges
20 LBCs
20 CDD
10 Big Boys
10 Burpees
For demonstration purposes the first lap pax did 10 merkins and ran the lap. Second lap 10 merkins and 20 monkey humpers…all the way up to 10 where all exercises were done.
MARY:
Had a few minutes for the airborne special
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
WARMUP:
– SSH, WM, IW
– mosey to fountain
THE THANG:
– Swing:
– run to left stop-sign: 20x shoulder taps + 10x Big Boys
– run to fire station: 20x x&o + 10x Jlo
– rinse and repeat 3x
– mosey to Church
– Tire flip: split PAX in 2 teams and space them apart. 1 PAX travels with tire (flipping) from one side to other. Traveling PAX calls exercise which everyone else does while he is traveling. Cycle thru all PAX.
– Mosey to COT
MARY:
– Airborne Hip Exercise
– 13 burpees to 0600
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– see newsletter
COT:
– was held
WARMUP: SSH, windmills, hillbilly walkers, produce pickers. Honeymooner, down dog stretches. PLUS curb to curb 7’s starting with 1 dip, bear crawl to curb, 6 incline merkins, crab walk back to dips
THE THANG: Mosey across Gold Hill road. 4 corners starting at Crossroads corner, to McDonald’s corner, up to storage corner, to mavis corner with dealers choice 25x exercises at each stop.
MARY: stretches
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read your newsletter
COT: prayers and praises
WARMUP: SSH, Low Slow Squat, Windmills
THE THANG: A tour de stank around the Golden Corral
Map:
https://goo.gl/maps/XwYByFosKXsYZ7vp6
Stops involving transport were mostly in the wrong direction to make the course 1/2 mile.
Cholanadu: 25′ wheelbarrow, 50′ lunge walk
Front of Red Bowl: 15′ burpee broad jump up the little hill
North parking spaces: 20 BBSU (not reverse direction)
West dumpster territory: 70′ bear crawl
South HT wall: BTTW for 10 handstand pushups
Most got 5 laps, some got 6
MARY: Those who had time at CoT did some
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read your newsletter
COT:
WARMUP: Some SSH, Windmills, Moroccan Night Clubs, Imperial Walkers & Hillbilly Walkers
THE THANG:
Mosey over to the side of Harris Teeter and use there giant wall for a little work. Everyone grabbed a seat against it and had a 10 count waterfall kick us off down the line. We followed this up by a plank series with our feet on the wall (parallel, 45 degrees & B2W) 10 count at each. It was all so much fun we did it again.
Mosey back to the parking lot and completed a round of solo DORA style work. 100 merkins, 200 squats, 300 LBC. Run to the end of the lot and back whenever you were unable to continue or at least ever 1/4 of the set.
Once this was completed we continued to a board of pain for the final 10 minutes. Exercises were completed by all with a PAX in the center of the circle being the timer completing 10 man makers with a toss of the 30lb sandbag over the shoulder each time. We got through:
WARMUP: SSH, IW, HW, Shoulder Tap, MC, Peter Parker’s, yoga
THE THANG: Mosey around and hit some BLIMPS
5 burpees
10 lunges
15 Imperial Walkers
20 Merkins
25 Plank Jacks
30 Squats (sometimes Bulgarian Split Squats when we found picnic tables)
MARY: a bit of core interspersed, but not much. Quack Attack would not have approved
NMM: every PAX shared their biggest work failures. Grateful to hear how successful men have messed up. Even the “goo” culture shares our successes, but sharing our failures keeps us from feeling so alone when we screw up. Thanks to everyone for their vulnerability. As IJ said in COT, a failure is just a waypoint to someplace better. Let’s stay after it.