Category: Slow Burn

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WARMUP:
SSH – 20 IC
• Imperial Walkers – 15 IC
• Windmills – 10 IC
• Arm Circles – 10 fwd / 10 rev
• Hillbillies – 15 IC
• Mosey (~1/4 mile loop or parking lot lap)
THE THANG:
Part 1:
Partner Dora (10 minutes)

Pairs of 2. One partner does the exercise, the other runs ~50 yards and back.

Cumulative Reps per team:
• 100 Carolina Dry Docks
• 200 Step Lunges (single count)
• 300 Flutter Kicks (4-count)

Part 2:
3 Rounds – AMRAP style (~15 mins)
(As Many Rounds As Possible – move at your pace for 5 minutes per round)

Round 1:
• 10 Merkins
• 15 Squats
• 20 Flutter Kicks (4-count)
• Broad Jump 40 yards and back
Round 2:
• 10 Incline Merkins (on curb or bench)
• 15 Lunges (each leg)
• 20 LBCs
• Skip ~20 yards, jog back
Round 3:
• 10 Carolina Dry Docks
• 15 Standing calf raises
• 20 American Hammers (4-count)
• Mosey ~10 yards, jog back

Rest 1 minute between rounds.

MARY:
No time
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Tortoise and Hare
Busy Summer
COT:
Show to know

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SlowBurn with a Kick in the A….

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WARMUP: Dynamic warm up around Lowe’s stopping along way to circle up and exercise
Crowd pleaser was the duck walks in honor of Retiree

THE THANG:
The accumulator
10 exercises starting with one rep
Moving to next parking space line 2 reps, next line 3 reps and continuing to 10 spaces 10 reps
Modes of transportation were
Bear Crawl
Lunge walk
Crawl Bear
Reverse Lunge walk

Shoulders were toast but Twister kept us motivated :cold_sweat:
MARY:
Back at COT some dying cockroaches
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Fast5k Saturday 3pm do it for Luka!!
COT:
Prayers for all dealing with life and it’s disappointments but also recognizing the blessings :fire: :point_up_2: :raised_hands:

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Make Arms Great Again

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10 at Slow Burn this morning. We began with a lap around Lowe’s parking lot and stopped in front of Persis for the typical warm up exercises.
Next, we did 7s between the sidewalks, dips and merkins on each end, bear crawls in between the sides.
Another lap around Lowes
Dora – 150 merkins, 250 squats, 350 LBCs
Burpee ladder with partner – alternate running and burpees. 1 burpee at each painted line add 1 at each line, total of 12 lines or 78 burpees.
Back to COT for Ab work. Twister got in some Gas Pumpers.

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21s on the 21st

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WARMUP: Kinda chilly out so we needed it. Quick loop to the north side of the strip mall right in front of F45 to show them outside is better
10-20 of the following
– SSH
– Windmills
– Hillbilly walkers
– Moroccan night club
– STRAWBERRY pickers
THE THANG:
Back to the parking lot near COT. Borrowed an old workout from The Swamp / Quagmire days: The ladder. 14-15 parking spots, an exercise written on each one. Do the exercise, then take a loop around the lot. Move to the next spot, next exercise. Exercises are (21 reps of everything unless otherwise noted):
1. 5 burpess
2. Merkins
3. LBCs
4. Squats
5. Calf raise
6. Mtn climbers, 2ct
7. CDD
8. Hammer time! (American Hammers, 2 ct)
9. Lunges, 2ct
10. Imperial walker, 2ct
11. Plank jacks
12. Flutters, 2ct
13. Dips
14. Monkey humpers
15. 5 burpees
Repeat until COT
Each PAX got through one complete set and at least halfway through a second. A few completed two sets.
GREAT mumblechatter! Rocket launches, Cuban food, Irish pubs, pollen, Swamp/Quagmire days, Kotters, retirement communities, STD breakouts in them (see Villages in FL), and on. We covered a LOT!!
MARY: My late Mom’s name. Miss you mom!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: We did a LOT of good in the D2D fundraising!! Alot going on. Read your newsletter and get involved!!
COT:
I mentioned how my mom recently passing has put me in a big funk, like I am in PTSD mode, but just posting and being out with the PAX has helped my mental state immensely, and even more the PAX who have reached out to me. As Slapshot said at Minnow Pond, it can be a huge uplift to others. Twister mentioned about the effects that F3 can have. We do alot of good out in the community, but being out and about with the PAX is like a cure-all tonic. He EH’s guys as often as he can because this F3 tonic is what alot of us guys need, whether we know it, or want to admit it, or not. I really loved that analogy! F3 means alot of different things to each of us, but it is still a great thing for all of us, helps lift us up in various ways, but we need to be out there with the PAX regularly to get our regular dose of that tonic to make our lives a little better. Cobra Kai mentioned he recently had coffee with a Kotter, someone who was a hard charger, did alot when he was posting, not afraid of the hard workouts. He is carrying some burdens and is suffering, the mental side of things. Goes to show that even the toughest facade can be a cover up for what is really inside. The coffee meeting seemed to be a good thing for him. Cobra Kai gave him some of that tonic, whether he knew it or not. So I implore you to keep EHing, keep giving it away. Don’t ever stop. You just may be the one person that helps someone through their rough patches or worse. Be the tonic!

Thanks for the opportunity to lead.
Blessings and SYITG,
-NASA

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All elbows

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WARMUP: ssh, imp walkers, hillbilly walkers – all in cadence. Then we moseyed to nice grassy area to plank while instructions for the workout were given
THE THANG: 2 stations, one on each end of the building and one home base. Each station has a list of 6 assignments consisting of various exercises and rep counts. Pax alternate running to one station, then the other, doing one assignment at each stop. In between each is a stop at the home base for 5 makhtar n’daiyes – I think we ended up with 65 of those. We had a few mins left at the end, so did a wall sit until 6 and continued our conversation on various nighttime entertainment alternatives in Charlotte
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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You’re Living in a Relay

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WARMUP: SSH (of course/, seal jacks, mtn climber, Peter Parker, Parker Peter, Windmill, mosey to Lowes

THE THANG: After a wandering mosey through Lowe’s Mulch Maze (think corn maze) without getting lost, we took advantage of a long tunnel of mulch for most of the rest of the way, relaying in two teams while mixing in all sorts of exercises and modes of transport. We transitioned to the end of strip center where Cindy was waiting our arrival for some People’s chair while passing Cindy along and back.

The relay theme was relevant to D2D on Saturday as well as the generational relay we all live within — things we picked up from prior generations of family and things we pass on to future generations. Pax swapped perspectives on their experiences. What have you inherited? What are you passing on?

MARY: only time for Plank Jacks
ANNOUNCEMENTS: March 1 farewell for Battle Bot at Alcatraz, March 14 convergence, March 15 Jaeger
COT: prayers for Battle Bot’s move, struggling kids/parents

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Love Boat Cruise

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WARMUP:
SSH
Abe Vigoda
Imperial Walker
Hillbilly Walker
Michael Phelps
Merkins
Broga

THE THANG:
Indian Run with 3 Big Boys as the fallback

Love Boat Cruise (2 loops)
(40 reps per man of either exercise)

Carolina:
CDD
2 Leg Lunge

Key West
Merkins
Squats

San Juan
Big Boys
Mountain Climbers

Day at Sea – Lap around the lot

Aruba
Monkey Humpers
Superman’s

Day at Sea

Havana
High Knees
Plank

3 minutes total for both

AVI
American Hammers
SSH

Hamilton
Bomb Jacks
LBCs

MARY:
Peter Pointer

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Convergence
Jaeger
Bethel Men’s
Pizza

COT:
Health
Work
Fellowship

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1% better at Slow Burn

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YHC was honored to be given the Q stick at Slow Burn and challenged the Pax to get 1% better this AM. You see, status quo is comfortable and safe because it is known. Showing up to an AO offers disruption because you do not know what you will encounter from the Q. As a Fort Redwood I dont have tons of new ideas but I do challenge those in attendance to get better as I am confident that this momentum will carry you through the day as it has for me over the years.

WARMUP:
Mosey to Persis parking lot and circle up
Windmills x 10
SSH x 20
Mtn x 20
MNC x 10
IW x 10
Lets go!
THE THANG:
Mosey to Lowes with (3) stations. At each station, we completed max number of reps for each exercise within a minute. Pax were instructed to use sidewalk chalk to note their number

Station 1
Burpees
Flutters
WAM

Station 2
Lunges
Hammers
Diamond merkins

Station 3
CDD
Big Boy

Rinse and repeat but with a caveat to do 1 more rep of each exercise with a partner

MARY:
Twister on Gas Pumpers
Boogie Nights on LBCs
Barry Manilow on Dying Cockroaches
Assassin on Peter Pointers

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Read your newsletter

COT:
Prayers for safe travels, new jobs and for grace

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Caught in my zipper

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WARMUP: Gas pumpers just for Twister, then various stretches ending with Windmills
THE THANG: Yogged to the Lowe’s Parking Lot, called a MOT down the aisle and work out at the end, reversed the MOT next aisle over back to the Lowe’s side of the lot, zippered down the lot MOT was Run/Nur, Karaoke, Walking/reverse Lunge. 5/10/15 Merkins, Crunches Squats, SSH
MARY: Round and round we went to 6:02
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Double Down w D2DB
COT: Twister had some profound insights on being better men, STK

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