Category: The Fort

Roller Coaster

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WARMUP:
SSH, Cherry Picker, IW
THE THANG:
The Roller Coaster: modified suicide: baseline and 5 stations up the hill. Each station has a number of increase repetitions: 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 which PAX need to accomplish. At the same time there is a 5 min timer running. When timer hits, PAX stop where they are and have a “break” of 1 min where they need to complete at least 10x Burpees. After the 1 min break has elapsed, PAX continue with the suicides. After reaching the last cone (50x reps), PAX start over with a new exercise. There were 4 exercises in total: 1. Low Squats 2. MC (count 1:1) 3. Plank Jacks 4. LBC.
After Roller Coaster was done, mosey over to playground for a Jack Webb: start with 1x Merkin & 4x overhead claps all the way up to 10x Merkin and 40x OH claps. Mosey to COT
MARY:
there was enough time for a 5 min mary at the end with focus on core.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CHANGE is coming to The Fort…look out for and participate in the upcoming poll here on slack this weekend!
COT:
COT was held and properly closed.

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Seven Years Later

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Seven years ago, Jekyll invited me to The Fort for my first workout. WWL and Rooney did a great job keeping the 40 Pax busy with difficult exercises and ended with a strong message – Pay attention to detail, It is the little things that make a big difference. Here’s the link to the Backblast : https://f3thefort.com/2015/07/11/40-at-the-fort-q-school-extra-credit-attention-to-detail/

WARMUP:
SSHx20
Imperial Walkersx15
Windmillsx15
Plank Stretches
Mountain Climbersx10

THE THANG:
Next, we did a modified Jack Webb. We ran around the park and stop for each round of merkins and arm raises. I should have read the message from my first post about attention to detail a bit closer. Several times, I lost count and the Pax reminded me . We finished at the far end of the field, a quick rest with some Goggins motivation. Next, we partnered up for a long wheelbarrow to the playground. One catch, if you stop and switch partners, 5 burpees. Once we got to the playground, we continued with partners exercises.
Partner one – run around playground while partner two does dips (swap)
Partner one – run around playground while partner two does derkins (swap)
rinse and repeat
Next, we made our way back to the amphitheater for a few minutes of recovery abs exercises (LBCs, Flutters, and Box Cutters). We took the path to the power line hill where the XC runners typically do hill repeats. Partner one runs up the hill and returns to the bottom using the paved path while partner two performs an exercises. Three rounds: Squats, Calf Raises, and Lunges. One last run up the hill, backwards. Back to the front of the amphitheater. Plank line up, each Pax performed two merkins in front of the other pax, rinse and repeat.
We had time for some Mary and a 30 second body destroyer.

Great job everyone!

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Partner Murph and Hills

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WARMUP: SSH, arm circles, Imp Walker, HB Walker, lap around park
THE THANG: Rebel led Partner Murph, 100 pull-ups, 200 merkins, 300 squats, while one is doing exercise the other partner ran to statue and back.

Hand off to Fogerty did 6’s up the hill with BB sit-ups and SSH. Went to adjacent parking lot for 4 corners. Pax named an exercise and led. Got in 3 laps around lot.
MARY: continuous Mary without feet touching ground led by Pusher.

COT: prayers and praises lifted up. Fogerty took us out.

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All kinds of Grinding

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WARMUP:
– mix of SSH, Cherry pickers, Windmills, etc.
THE THANG:
– mosey around WEP, stop at each bench and do a set of 3 exercises: 5x Burpee + 10x BigBoy + 20x MonkeyHumpers. At the end do some Mary until 6 is in.
– mosey to playground, Jack Webb: 1x Merkin + 4x Overhead Clap…all the way to 10/40
– mosey to Pikes parking lot: split PAX in 2 teams. 1 PAX is doing big tire flip to the other team while all remaining PAX do an exercise chosen by the traveler. Repeat until all PAX flipped the tire.
MARY:
– mosey to COT, bring the music and do some pole grinding: Sally with squats, Big Balls with Big Boys and Thunderstruck with Burpees. Runners joined for the last part, mostly topless and sweaty, after they witnessed the Big Balls exercise.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– read your newsletter
COT:
– We all learned that grinding has multiple meanings.

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Bear Sightings At The Fort

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WARMUP: Started off with a loop around WEP stopping at every other swing set for Moraccan Night Clubs, Mountain Climbers, 5 Burpees OYO, Cherry Pickers, and 5 more burpees OYO
THE THANG: Ran pax over to the playground area where I had some American Flags set up in different yardages. This exercise is called Charles Bronson. Start off doing an exercise at first set of flags, then sprint for about 200 feet to next flag where you then bear crawl 100 feet to the final flag. Then mosey back to first set of flags. Here’s exercises.
1.) 50 SSH
2.) 50 Hand Release Merkins
3.) 50 LBC’
4.) 50 CDD
5.) Sumo Squat
Pax made it through this with too much ease should have made higher reps next time

Round 2
Stairway To Heaven
Start at bottom of parking lot and work your way up the grass hill stopping at every light pole. There where 6 total light poles. Do first exercise then run back to start and proceed to second light pole. You had to stop at every light pole to proceed to next one. Exercise where:
1.) Heel Touches x20
2.) Burpees x 5
3.) Wide Arm Merkins x 15
4.) Feet Close Together Squats x15
5.) Overhead Claps x 20
6.) Hello Dolly x 20
Finished with some Global Warming which sucked. Which is everyone is in circle Pax stay in Al Gore while in rotating fashion each pax does 20 Monkey Humpers.
MARY: Finished up with 10 minutes of stretching.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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PAX on a String

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We had 9 Him (3 Runners and 7 Bootcampers) at The Fort this morning for PAX on a string! What is PAX on a string you may ask? 🤔🤯 Let’s find out.

Warmup

20 Side Straddle Hops
10 Cherry Pickers
10 Windmills 
10 Little Arm Circles
10 Merkins 
Down Dog/Honeymooners 
10 Dying Cockroaches 

The Thang

PAX on a String – I happen to have a battle rope in my car like I am sure most people do 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️, so the idea was to keep the PAX together and engaged. Everywhere we moseyed we all had to carry the battle rope together. First stop was the Church about a half mile down the road.

Once we got to the church we setup the battle rope where each PAX got a chance to use the rope. The timer was the rest of the group running stairs. Every 3 sets of the stairs, one the PAX would rotate to the rope. After everyone got a shot at the ropes we switched to dragon walking up the stairs same rotating fashion with the rope. 

We moseyed about another half mile down the road to the next church, PAX on a String style, for a little Dora action.

Partner 1
100 Merkins 
200 Squats 
300 V-Ups

Partner 2 
Run around the playground 

Each time you finished an exercise we did a battle rope partner pull across the parking lot hill.

Half way through the V-Ups we moseyed another half mile towards one of the Pike parking lots, PAX on a String style of course, to finish up the V-Ups.

We headed back to COT for some Mary and announcements/prayer/praises. 

-JWow

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We got free wifi

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WARMUP:
– brief mosey, some SSH, IW and WM
THE THANG:
– Dora: 100 pushup / 200 squats / 300 MonkeyHumpers (crowd pleaser) while partner runs around playground
– Jack Webb: Push-up and overhead claps, starting with 1-4 finish with 10-40
– 4-corners with mosey in-between
– corner 1: cindy’s: 10x overhead press + 10x swing
– corner 2: 60# sandbag squats + throw + low slow regular squats
– corner 3: 10x diamond merkin + 10x donkey kicks
– corner 4: 5x burpee + bearcrawl up the hill + 1 min horse riders hold (crowd pleaser as well)
MARY:
– finish up with a good 10 min of core workout of various styles
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– read your newsletter
COT:

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“No Misogi Today”

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WARMUP: Short Mosey / Butt Kickers / Toy Soldiers (15) Side Straddle Hop, (10) Windmill, (10) Imperial Walkers, (10) Cherry Pickers, (10) Moroccan Night Clubs
Finished the warmups with a wall sit while the PAX did 2 burpees each. (3 sets)
THE THANG:
Round #1:
1. Burpees: AMRAP (1:00 Min EA) then 1/4 Mile Run
2. Merkins: AMRAP (1:00 Min EA) then 1/4 Mile Run
3. Dips: AMRAP (1:00 Min EA) then 1/4 Mile Run
4. Squats: AMRAP (1:00 Min EA) then 1/4 Mile Run
5. Lunges: AMRAP (1:00 Min EA) then 1/4 Mile Run
6. Flutters: AMRAP (1:00 Min EA) then 1/4 Mile Run

Round #2: *Beat Your Reps from Round #1 shortened run and pushed harder*
1. Burpees: AMRAP (1:00 Min EA) then 1/8 Mile Run
2. Merkins: AMRAP (1:00 Min EA) then 1/8 Mile Run
3. Dips: AMRAP (1:00 Min EA) then 1/8 Mile Run
4. Squats: AMRAP (1:00 Min EA) then 1/8 Mile Run
5. Lunges: AMRAP (1:00 Min EA) then 1/8 Mile Run
6. Flutters: AMRAP (1:00 Min EA) then 1/8 Mile Run

MARY: N/A
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Prayers for Vuvu’s son and thankful for JWOW & Gears Anniversary’s
Message: Push hard but take the time to slow down and enjoy what you have! Great book from Gears!
COT:

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Snarky Title

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WARMUP:
Old man warmup of windmills and strawberry pickers, or produce pickers, or cherry pickers, or whatever… some SSH, a couple of Merkins… you get the idea

THE THANG:
We tested our fitness this morning.
2 min max push-ups
2 min max butterfly sit-ups
1 lap around the park in sub-5 minutes

Then we moved to the modified Spartan 300
Run 100 yards
5 burpees
Run back 100 yards
That’s one round. We did 5 rounds.

Finally, we farmer carried heavy things in a relay race style. It was a little dumb. Peabody cheated, which I didn’t mind since he was on my team.
The things were: Cindy, a 45lb ruck plate, a 60lb sandbag, and an 80lb sandbag.

MARY:
She wasn’t there.

SEE ALSO MY REPORT IN THE #1stF channel on Slack…

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