Category: The Ballroom

Dance Naked Reboot

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Eight boot campers met at Pleasant Knoll Middle for a great start to Tuesday morning. Here is what they did:

THE THANG:
Mosey out of the COT and circle up at the cement pad by the teacher’s smoking lounge for COP: All in cadence:
SSX x 20, merkin x 10, windmill x 10, cherry picker x 10, little/big arm circles x 20ea and both directions, IW x 15, mountain climber x 15 hold/6″ hold/honeymooner/downward dog/6″/L/R arm/leg high/6″ hold, Freddie Merc x 15

Mosey to the parking lot and line up facing the cement island.

1. Bearcrawl to the island, 10 merkins, return to the start
2. Lungewalk to the island, 10 squats, return.
3. Powerskip to the island, 10 bombjacks, return.
4. Inchworm to the island, 10 merkins
5. Pick partner (someone you don’t know well), walk to the island and get to know them better. At the island, do 10 partner merkins (hand slap), walk back to the start.

Mosey to the walking bridge for Jacob’s ladder. Run to the end of the bridge and do 1-5 burpees, run back. (5 reps total)

Walk to the school building for 2 rounds of People’s Chair (60 sec hold). The pax were encouraged to sit at a 90 degree angle.

MARY: Flutter x 10, Box cutter x 10, Pretzel crunch x 10, Superman x 3

NAKED MAN MOLESKIN:
Good mumble chatter today by the Pax. Twister started it during the opening SSH’s when he noticed a small fenced-in area with a chair placed in it. What purpose did it serve? (time out chair?, teacher’s smoking lounge?)
Today’s workout was one I pulled from the archives (08/01/2019) and executed almost identically. Noteworthy of that workout was when I asked the pax to take a few minutes and get to know someone new in the group. I took that cue from C-Span who did something similar years before at WEP. It’s a neat way to make a connection with the guys you see in the gloom, but may not know very well.

COT: Barry Manilow joined us at COT following his 6 mile run.
Good to have you with us, brother! We prayed for ST’s mom and longtime friend John with terminal cancer. Prayers also for Dixie’s 5 yr old niece whose body started rejecting a donated kidney

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Boogie’s Birthday Bash Beatdown

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WARMUP: Abe Vigoda, Deep stretches, Side straddle Hops,
THE THANG: Mosey to Bridge near Gym entrance. Wall sit, bear crawls, burpees. Mosey to football field. Dora on the Football Field, Pax paired up in end zone. One runs to the 30, 40 or 50 yard line while fellow Pax completes 100 Merlins, 200 American Hammers, 300 Sumo Squats. Indian Rin back to COT.
MARY: Freddy Mercury, LBCs, Leg lifts for last 30 seconds.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Damn 2 Damn
COT:Prayers & praises for those returning to school.

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Pearls of Wisdom and Anchorman as War Baby

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WARMUP: stretchin & Flying Squirrels
THE THANG: Mosey to PKES, partner up for a Dora with laps around the drop off lane. Next, work a ladder up/down the hill between the campuses. Then over to the wall in back for some wall site of pain. Finish up with a nice Jack Webb
MARY: none
ANNOUNCEMENTS: The Yuse
COT: prayers for community, churches & our schools. Thanks @Boogie. Keep The Ballroom humming

Sincerely,
Shortest Of All Sales

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I Don’t Always Dance Salsa, But When I do we Boogie Down !

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WARMUP: Welcome & Disclaimer
THE THANG: We jumped into a circuit training of pain stations with 10 Reps each of the following: LSS, Merkins, Flutter Kicks, 60lb Sand Bag Over Head Toss, Ruck Sack Curls, SSH, Monkey Humpers, 40lb Bent Over Rows, Big Boys. Every 5-10 minutes we Mosey a lap around the parking lot x2, and 1 backwards jog.
MARY: Lots of fellowship, and sweet tunes.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: HIM Camp, Men Bethel Shelter, & NEWSLETTER
COT: Praises & Prayer, 5th Core Principles and shared with Halfback about the 3 Fs.

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History of the Ballroom

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WARMUP: some stretching for a few of us New Balance wearers and then a wide variety of standard warm up fun

THE THANG: we reminisced about moderate pax and the beginning of the ballroom – started by Cakeboss and Change Order.

Wide Left, Culture Club, Dungaree, Manzel, Curious George and other names from the past were invoked…

We started at top of hill but stop sign w one Merkin. Ran down hill to bridge for one LBC. Then over bridge to the track to do one squat. Back to the top of hill for two merkins, then two lbc, two squats…etc to 7.

Back around other side of school for some dips and sermons (by request). A little Mary to finish.

Over two miles. Good mumble chatter.

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Yards of fun

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WARMUP: slight mosey. SSH, wind mills, produce pickers, mtn climbers, imperial walkers, hillbilly walkers, moroccan nightclubs
THE THANG: a little stretching with toy soldiers, knees to chest. Lined up to do 7s. Round 1 squats and merkins. Walk to top of hill then most to football field. 10 yard line exercises. Increment based on yardline up to 50(5 reps) then run back. Merkins, plank jacks, squats, SSH, shoulder taps. Last round did whole field with CDDs. Mosey to wall wait for six. Mosey to COT
MARY: PAX choice. Flutterjax, box cutters, hello dolly and Freddy Mercury.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: him camp, convergence, stuff the bus, journey discussion Wed at hangin with Stang.
COT: prayers for health issues lost friends and family.

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Four Corners & a Burpee!!

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WARMUP: Abe Vigoda, Cherry Pickers, Flying Squirrels, Imperial Squat Walkers, The Drill Instructor,
THE THANG: Four Corners on the Football field, 50yd line and end zone, pick a card, do the Thang, run, nur, karaoke, side shuffle to each corner. The 400m run around the track was a crowd pleaser. One burpee in the middle of the field in between sets thanks to @Twister who was pumped up to an ‘80s rockin’ soundtrack of Boston, Christopher Cross’ Ride Like the Wind, The Cars, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen. Indian run back to COT.
MARY: Box Cutters, Flutters, LBCs
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Black Flag workout, 08/04 Convergence @ PKMS, Shovel Handoff
COT: Prayers for @Cornerstone’s neighbors

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Your turn to lead

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WARMUP: The scheduled Q was DR. The Pax sprang into action.
THE THANG: The 4 pax took turns leading small sets around the front and side of the AO.
MARY: Broga “The Pigeon” made an appearance.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: All of them.
COT: The good stuff.

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