WARMUP: stretching and mobility
THE THANG: 800meter run 50 dips 100 merkins 150 squats 800meter run
MARY: core
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: prayers for old bay co worker who suddenly passed away yesterday. For his wife and children
It was a beautiful morning in The Fort and the PAX were moderately fired up for a moderate beatdown.
We did a quick warmup and we were off.
We moseyed over to the bridge for a thing I like to call the bridge of moderate pain.
11’s: 10 squats, run across the bridge, 1 merkin…and so on and so forth.
Circled up for some Mary
Dora: Partner 1 – 100 CDDs, 200 calf raises, 300 LBCs. Partner 2 – run over to the bleachers and run two flights.
Run back over the bridge for some bench work.
10 Step Ups
10 Dips
10 Incline Merkins
Back to COT for Mary, announcements, prayers, & praises.
JWow
WARMUP:
-windmill
-ssh
-imperial walkers
-hillbilly walkers
-yoga flow: fwd fold – down dog- plank-6” – updog
Mosey around back
Wall sit and take turns running stairs
Lunge walk across bridge to flagpoles
THE THANG:
Lamp pole ladder – stop at every pole out and back
1st light- 3 burpee
2nd light – 5 merkins
3rd light – 10 squat
4th light – 20 mountain climbers
5th light – 20 side straddle hop
Last round: mosey all the way to end of road and back (no stops)
Lunge walk 2nd half of bridge on way back to Mary
MARY:
– Lbc
– Box cutter
ANNOUNCEMENTS: golf tournament, F3 Chester launch this sat
COT: prayers for healing: Dr appts for Bonsai’s daughter, Cherry Pie’s son, DD’s wife starting treatment, Nick Zervos’ recovery (USC student from FtMill shot over weekend breaking up a fight)
YHC provided the disclaimer and we got after it.
Warm-Up:
– Stretching (hams & calves)
– Imperial Walkers
– Mosey to the back wall → peoples chair with escalating 10-counts.
The Thang:
– Bear crawl halfway, lunge walk the rest.
– Mosey to back lot → pick up a heavy coupon (no slacking).
– Bicep curls IC: 20 → run to concession stand → Irkins IC → run back.
– Rinse/repeat 18, then 15.
– Mosey to side lot.
– Tricep extensions IC: 20 → run to curb/back.
– Repeat 18, then 15.
– Overhead coupon holds & bicep holds until failure.
– First to drop = 2 burpees, rest = 1.
– Final burnout: OH hold → bicep hold → 5 burpees.
Return to COT:
Through the bleachers (luckily gate unlocked).
COT:
– Announcements: Invergence, Golf Tournament.
– Prayers & Praises shared.
WARMUP: SSH, Merks, Mosey, Squats, Imperial Walkers, WAM, Plank Jax, Light Stretch.
THE THANG: 6 exercises with increasing reps each round (5,10,15) with a mosey across the bridge walkway towards the turf football field. Worked our way up the pyramid and then back down (reps of 5,10,15 – 15, 10, 5)
Finished up with a quick round of bench work ( step ups, incline Merks, dips)
MARY: 3 mins of Mary ( flutters, Amer Hammers, Freddie Mercs, Gas Pumpers)
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Invergence, Convergence, Bethel Men’s Shelter, and Golf Tournament.
COT: All 6 Pax shared prayers and praises
The four Horsemen took to the parking lot at the ballroom. We contemplated rocking but opted not to go that route. We took a little mosey over to the back parking lot did a little warm up with some size straddle hops, Merkins, Moroccan nightclubs and a few other things we proceeded down to the lower parking lot ended up doing a few sets of exercises, Merkins mountain, climbers and shoulder taps the count was 15 did a lap around the playground then squats, monkey Humpers, and calf raises another lap big boy set up American hammers and flutters another lap and finish up with size straddle hops overhead collapse in Moroccan night clubs we headed back up For some bench work. Ended up with some derkins, dips and Irkens mosey over to the wall and sits up the steps down the steps, checked out the track. It was open. Headed back to COT that’s Mary close things out. All was good.
Shared a quick message that we are not at the center of our universe. I’ve had lots of changes come my way in 2025 (some expected & some unexpected) and my decision making was made easier when I realize that I needed to put my faith and family first.
WARMUP: Merkins, squats, HWs, LBCs. All IC & reps of 14. Why 14 asked Bass? Because I wanted to honor the most recent win streak by the best team in MLB, my MILWAUKEE BREWERS!
THE THANG: jog to the track to find the gate locked. Guess we’ll have to pivot to some Lightpole fun. Run to first lightpole, do 10 merkins. Run back to startex. Run to 1st, do merkins, then 2nd light pole for 10 Bombjacks. Back and forth including squats at 3rd, LBCs at 4th, run to 5th. Then reverse the order and do the ladder again.
MARY: no time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Invergence coming up, Bethel men’s shelter
COT: prayers for healing for families including Double D’s M.
Short Sale out
‘Twas a damp, but not raining, morning and a group of elder statesman of The Fort came together to discuss rising prices and the good old days.
A trip past a few light poles with merkins and squats got the blood flowing. I missed the spot I had designated as the end, but no one said anything, so we just did them all… We pulled up on the field house and did a few dips on the seats there at the lunch tables, and that’s when the nostalgia dam broke.
Fogerty noted that this may be one of the only, if not the only, AOs in The Fort that has a soda machine. It’s $2 for a can of soda now, and this machine only takes good old American cash money… $2… then the “back in my days” started flying… it was a $1, it was .50¢, it was a quarter… blah, blah, blah… we probably all walked uphill both ways to the soda machines, too… I got it…
We crossed Bear Crawl Bridge (without doing any Bear Crawls) and did a little stair climb/dip/step up deal before we rounded the corner and kept on. The trip back was shorter than I thought, so I started to take us on round two before Fogerty had a much better suggestion. We headed back around the car pick-up line and did a little more work before an epic session of Mary where we learned things about each other we didn’t know before. For example:
– Fogerty’s first gallon of gas cost him 99¢
– Barry’s first date meal with his wife was a Subway sandwich that he’s fairly sure he expensed
– Fishstix’s first penny stock he purchased was for a company called Toypop that was billed as “the next Amazon”. We weren’t sure if it was an adult “toy” situation or not, but clearly it didn’t take off like he’d hoped since he was working out with us in the rain and not sipping Mai Tai’s on a beach in Cancun…
– Old Bay’s first car he purchased with his own money was a 1982 Toyota Supra. He no longer has it, but his cool factor is still almost as high…
– Cherry Pie blew us all away with his paper route prowess as he told us the cost of his first toy he bought for himself (a remote control car). $100 was a lot of money back then… :shocked_face_with_exploding_head:
– Cohiba’s first cigar was, non-ironically, was a cohiba that apparently was traded to him for 2 goats and a chicken’s leg
Then we wound it up and closed out.
WARMUP:
Classic COP with 5-8 exercises with a mosey
THE THANG:
Tabada with 25 sec move 12 sec rest
4 rounds of 2 sets
1 merkin
2 big boys
3 SSH
4 flutters
5 burpees
6 leg lifts
7 sumo squats
8 American hammers
9 monkey humpers
10 mountain climbers
11 donkey kicks
12 ski abs
13 Freddy’s
14 shoulder taps
15 squat jumps
16 MAK tar jas
MARY:
5 big boys x3
5 leg lifts x 3
LBCs
Dying Cockroaches
Protractor
5 big boys
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Bethel Thur
Care Center lawn cutting sign up
COT:
Having the hard conversations is playing the long game!! Trust you are going to be ok on the other side
WARMUP: IW, HW, LSS, SSH, Merkins, MNC
THE THANG:
5 rounds of 3 broad jumps and 4 lunge walks
Miserable Mile – run 1/4 lap 10 flying squirels, run a 1/4 lap, 10 squats, run 1/4 lap 10 merkins, run 1/4 lap 10 LBC ( 4 full laps for a mile total of 40 reps each exercise)
Ran back over to the school for wall sits , jogged up and down the stairs and 1 burpee each
21 squats and merkins – run to the end of the school and back
15 squats and merkins – run to the end of the school and back
9 squats and merkins – run to COT
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Stuff a Bus with school supplies, Tegay Cay Walmart this Sat. , Pigskin Pick’ems , Blood Drive
COT: