Category: The Ballroom

Brought to you by the number 14

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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

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Grab hold of an Expensed Footlong and let’s go

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‘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.

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Have you ever seen the rain ? ?

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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

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Good Times

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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:

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Peer Pong

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WARMUP: mosey, windmills, Moroccan nightclubs, mountain climbers, curtesy lunges, low slow squats
THE THANG: 10 merkins, 20 curtesy lunges, 30 LBCs rinse and repeat then take a lap. 10 derkins, 20 squats 30 box cutters rinse and repeat then take a lap. 10 dips, 20 monkey humpers, 30 flutters rinse and repeat then take a lap.

Withdraw ping pong balls from bag to get the exercise. Roll the 2 dice and multiply the two numbers to get the rep count. If doubles are rolled, add the dice together and do burpees. If a red ping pong ball is drawn from the bag, take a lap.

Ended with my hip exercises
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Ice Cream Cones at Ballroom

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WARMUP: SSH/Merks/Squats/LBCs/Imperial Walkers/Stretching/Cherry Pickers/Mosey
THE THANG: 11s w dual exercises at top and bottom (Merks/Squats and BigBoys/Plank Jax)
Cone work – Four Corners with 2 exercises at each corner- completed in Cadence.
Closed out with some Step ups,Dips, and Merkins.

MARY: 4 mins of Mary
ANNOUNCEMENTS: the Barry, Adopt a Highway, Blood Drive, Newsletter
COT: Prayers for Texas, Family transition, Health and Marital prayer.

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Salsa & Merengue Dance Moves

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Warmup:
SSH, Imperial Walkers, Windmills, Moroccan Night Clubs, and Strawberry Pickers then Mosey around the perimeter

The Thang:
1. Ballroom Blitz (AMRAP)
Set up 4 corners:
Corner 1 – 10 Merkins
Corner 2 – 20 Squats
Corner 3 – 30 LBCs
Corner 4 – 40 Step-back Lunges (20 each leg)
Run between corners; rinse and repeat for 2 Rounds.

2. Partner “Dance-Off” (10 mins)
Partner up for Dora-style work:
100 Carolina Dry Docks
200 Big Boy Sit-ups
300 Flutter Kicks (4-count)

MARY: American Hammers
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: Prayers and Praises

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SIX OLD MEN EXERCISING AT 5:15

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WARMUP: Disclaimer, mosey the front of the car line for COP
THE THANG:
COP (all in cadence): SSH x 20, windmill x 10, merkin x 10, Rosalita x 15, squat x 15, potato picker x 10, wide arms x 10, mountain climber x 15, Morracan night club x 30 while walking.

Mosey to the wall outside the school gym for People’s Chair. While in the chair, starting at one end, each pax does 5 merkins and returns to the chair. We did 3 rounds

Balls to the wall. Once in position, we ‘walked’ 3 steps left and went back 3 steps. Rinse and repeat while on the wall.

Mosey to bridge across the driveway and pair up. Four rounds along the bridge with exercises at each light.
Round 1: Lunge walk, 5 merkins at each light
Round 2: Light jog, 10 SSH…
Round 3: Bearcrawl 1/2 way with 5 squats, crabwalk 1/2 way with 5 dips…
Round 4: High knees 1/2 way with 5 jump squats, butt kickers 1/2 way with 5 jump squats…

Mosey back to the front of the school for Modified ST 300: 4 exercises followed by one lap around the parking lot

Round 1: Merkin x 10, LBC x 20, Monkey humper x 15, burpee x 5, take a lap
Round 2: Diamond merkin x 10, Freddie Merc x 15, alternate lunge x 15, burpee x 5, take a lap
Round 3: Stagered merkin x 10, hello Dolly x 15, hill billy walker x 10/imperial walker x 10, 5 burpees, return to COT

MARY: Mixed in throughout the workout

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter

COT:
Praise for health, family, F3. Prayers for family with illness, aging parents, traveling mercies for parents coming to town.

It was another great morning with my F3 brothers. The humidity was high, and so was the effort from the pax (all respectables today!). YHC heard some chatter about whether certain elements were ‘moderate’, but I don’t think anyone present this morning was unhappy about how they felt at the end of the workout. Having 50-plus and 60-year-olds out at 5am each morning, pushing ourselves, should make us all feel proud and extremely blessed. Few would have thought we’d be doing this at our ages! It was a pleasure leading the group today, and I look forward to the next one. Stay young, gentlemen!

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