Category: Ring of Fire

King of the Ring – Round 2 – The Rocket Burner

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Ring of Fire – King of the Ring Challenge
Round 2 – Previous Kings are Q
Oh the humidity was cranked up!! Soupy swampy hot. ZERO breeze. Excellent mumblechatter in COT while we all stretched out. Senator Tressel came in hot, but caught up to us on the warmup run. 13 dawgs let loose!!

Warmup:
Slow run loop around the parking lot, approx. 400-500m, then circle up near COT for the following:
– 20 SSH
– 10 WM
– 15 MNC
– 15 IW
– 10 Strawberry pickers

Then mosey over to the USMC JROTC building, roadway near the sidewalk to the pull-up bars for…..

THE THANG:
The Rocket Burner Circuit
Setup: 5 stations, each with an exercise. Some have modes of transportation listed to get to the next station. PAX are to grab 2 cinder blocks from storage and put them on the roadway near the sidewalk to the pull up bars. Then get after it. Cones were used to mark station locations. Station 1 was at the pull-up bars, station 2 was at the roadway, beginning of sidewalk to pull-up bars, station 3 was along the roadway, towards A.O. Jones, approx. 5-60 yds away, station 4 was same location as station 2, station 5 was at bottom of hill at stop sign. That is the circuit.
Do the work. No music, just work. Once all stations are done, scoring of one round is once you return to station 1 to start over. King is the one who does the most rounds.
Stations and MoT are:
1. 5 pull-ups, frolick (walk, skip, whatever) to #2
2. With one cindy, 15 overhead presses, then farmer’s carry BOTH blocks to #3
3. With one cindy, 15 curls, then farmer’s carry BOTH blocks to #4
4. With BOTH cindies, 15 deadlift into calf raise. Full up, full down. Then no more cindies. Run downhill to #5.
5. 5 burpees, 20 lunges (10 ea leg), 25 LBC. Run uphill to #1
6. That is one round
7. Repeat

WINNER IS: BAND CAMP!! He was a machine, cranking out almost 6 full rounds (or was it 6 full, started on 7th?). Harry Carry was hot on his heels. Everyone cranked out at least 3. I got 4 full, started on 5th, but threw in the towel after pull-ups. A lot of excellent mumblechatter and push/pull from each PAX. Guys were REALLY going after it, pushing hard. No cinder blocks were harmed, too. :blush:

Stored the cindies just in time to get back to COT right at 6.

MARY: None

Announcements: The Barry is coming!! Read your newsletter, get involved!!

COT: A lot of P&P lifted. Do not carry it all inside.

Cake Boss came up with a GREAT idea with this King of the Ring challenge. Looking forward to the next rounds!! BRING IT!!!

Thank you for the opportunity to lead. Blessings and SYITG.
-NASA

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Grad Q School

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WARMUP: 5 Burpees, 20 SSH, 8 WM some stretching, covered our mission
THE THANG:
Mosey to benches, 10 of each Urkins, Dips, Dirkins x2 covered 5 core principles
Found some wall and had a seat, started going through Pax on why they first started coming out and why now. Started a run out the lines and back, 5 Burpees at each progressive parking row
Went to the circle, mini Dora, 50 Merkins, 75 BBS, 100 Squats, covered the Credo.
Over to the band lot, Suicides out to the 50, run out nur back, Hello Dolly’s at the 10’s yard line Last 50 yards called on Bald, he said cocaine bear crawls to the 30. Barry called broad jumps and merkins the last 30 yards.
Mosey back to COT and finish up the last of the PAX stories
MARY: Nope
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel, 4th and Barry
COT: Remember the why.

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1 is the loneliest number but 3 makes a party

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WARMUP: slow mosey through parking lot stops at speed bumps for some exercise moves
THE THANG:
Band lot endzone line
Bear crawl 10 yards so 10 LBCs
Continue bear crawl ever 10 yards and do LBCs for yard marker 20,30,40,50

Mosey to end of lot and over to lacrosse practice field for Jacobs ladder
1 bombjack
6 big boy sit ups

Mosey to front of school for
3 rounds of
10 dips
10 step ups
10 bicycles (Freddy’s)

Mosey to driveway
Run to light pole 10 dying cockroaches
Repeat two more time for 3/30 total in cadence

Few dynamic exercises as we moseyed around school

At back of school hit some Derkins and Dips in honor of CSPAN :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
MARY: all along the way
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Bethel serve 3rd of July
4th of July convergence
The Barry July 22

COT: right on time

“A cord of three strands is not easily broken.” Ecclesiastes 4:12

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Ring of Fire around the rosie

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WARMUP: SSH, Imperial walkers in sync, cherry pickers, windmill, moroccan nightclubs
THE THANG: 10 Hill sprints with exercises in between. We covered pull-ups, planks, Cindy presses, swings, merkins, man makers and more
MARY: Plank to the finish
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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The Lane

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Warm up: SWIMLAPPs
SSH, windmills, Imperial Walkers, Moroccan N/Cs, low slow squats, arm circles, Peter Parkers, plank stretches.

Thang: The Lane. Do as many rounds as possible.
Pax get two cinder blocks and just need to follow the signage.
Start with 15 OH presses (w/ one block) at road, adjacent to the pull up bars.
Farmers carry about 300 feet (to the paint)
Ground the blocks, run to AO Jones (about 450 feet)
Do 15 burpees, run back to the blocks
Farmers carry back to start/finish line
Ground the blocks, do 15 OH presses with one block.
Run down to the stop sign,
Do 30 LBCs.
Run back to start/finish line.
Make a tick mark
Repeat. Starting with 15 PH presses.

Did this for about 30 mins. Got about 4 rounds in.

Cindys go back, run to shovel flag, some light mary.
Fini
COT

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Q school June 2025

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WARMUP:
SSH, windmill, low slow squat, butt kickers, side shuffle, high knees
THE THANG:

Bear crawl to 10
Lunge walk to 20
Rinse and repeat until other end zone

Move to stairs
Run two laps then 10 merkins, 10 squats, 10 Bulgarian split squats
Go all the way down and back on stadium

Bear crawl to 10, 10 merkins
Lunge walk to 20, 10 LBCs
Rinse and repeat

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Beat the deck #1

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WARMUP:
Quick warmup as we had a lot to cover. Cherry pickers and side straddle hops

THE THANG:
We had 9 cards face up and needed to guess higher or lower of any pile. Each card had a workout associated with it. You get the pick correct, we did 10 reps of the workout. You get the pick incorrect, you do 10 reps of the workout and a little jog to the sign and back.
2: Moroccan Nightclubs
3: Flutters
4: calf raises
5: American hammers
6: shoulder taps
7: big boy sit ups
8: Peter Parkers
9: Burpess
10: Merkins
J: cherry pickers
Q: imperial walkers
K: LBCs
A: Squats

430 reps total
10 jogs total

MARY:
Box cutters
Flutters
Freddie mercury
Body destroyers
Lbc

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Tort and hare
Bethel men shelter
Fort mill care center
Varsity moving to an hour

COT:
Prayers and praises for getting up and coming out, new baby on the way, job interviews, Vuvu and his family.

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Bald WOD

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WARMUP: SSH-20, WM-10, CP-10
THE THANG:
Round 1 – 20 Reps of Merkins, LBC’s, Squats – Run Lap
20 Reps of Dips, Big Boys, M. Humpers – Run Lap
20 Reps of SSH, Lunge (S/C), Incline M. – Run Lap
Round 2 – All of the above, increasing to 30 reps of all exercises
Round 3 – All of the above, increasing to 40 reps of all exercises
MARY: No
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Yes, RYN
COT: Always

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IPAX inspired workout

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WARMUP: SSH, Merkins, Run, Wind Mill, Squats, Run, Grave Cinder Blocks.
THE THANG: 35 yard Merry, one end do 50 reps of and exercise the use the corresponding MOT, then do 5 Burpees and return to the beginning using the same MOT and continue with the next exercise.
1. 50 Merkins, MOT Murder Bunnies
2. 50squats, MOT Broad Jumps
3. 50 Big Boys, MOT Bear Crawls
4. 50 CDD, MOT Lunges
5. 50 Mike Tysons, MOT Crawl Bear
6. 50 Chess Press W/CB, MOT OH Cinder Block
7. 50 American Hammer, MOT Lieutenant Dan
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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But what about the blocks?

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WARMUP:

4 minute warning and then a 2 minute warning

Started with mission of F3

Plant, Grow and Serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of make community leadership

DISCLAIMER

Warmup

SSH/WINDMILLS/MERKINS

THE THANG:

Mosey to pull up bars

Went over 5 core principles

3s
(or 4s as I was informed)

Pull ups
Kraken burpees at bottom of hill

10 min

Webb

Chin ups x 1
Mike Tyson’s x 4

4 rounds increasing every round

10 min

Take cindies to benches

Overhead carry

Tabata

Derkins
Blockee step ups each leg
SSH
Irkins
BSS- Bulgarian split squats
Each leg
Derkins again

10 min

Leave blocks

Indian run around parking lot
Ending at ROTC
Lazy Dora

Wall sits while 1/2 the group runs to retrieve 1/2 the blocks
On wall Cindy stays in motion (in hindsight I could’ve split the groups more effectively to leave them closer together to pass block more easily)

10 min

Bear crawl back to COT
MARY:

Bandcamp took the newer pax through MARY counting exercises
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Trash pickup, Tortoise & Hare, Murph

COT: yes

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