No rain, just The Thunder

Chest/shoulders workout:
– Merkins
– Seal jacks
– HR merks
– Moroccan night clubs
– Derkins
– Overhead claps
– Incline merkins
– Donkey kicks
Back: 5 sets of 5 pull-ups
Cardio
– 20 LBCs IC / hill run
– 15 Bomb jacks / hill run
– 10 Merkins / hill run
– 5 Burpees IC / hill run
– 10 CDD’s / hill run
– 15 Bobby Hurley s / hill run
– 20 Big boys IC / hill run
Back: Max count pull up bar hang

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Friday date with Cindy

WARMUP:
SSH
Imperial Walker
Hillbilly Walker
Cherry Picker
Windmill
Peter Parker
Parker Peter

THE THANG:
Mosey to Cafeteria in the back of NAFO
10x
Step ups
Derkins
Incline Merkins with Claps
Dips
Bulgarian Split Squats

MARY:
Grab a Cindy by ROTC
ARAP on 1 minute Tabata timer
– pull-ups
– man makers
– Curls
– OH press
– Bench Press
– Goblet Squats
– BO Rows
– Big Bois
– Swings
– Tricep Ext
– Derkins
– Shoulder Raise
– Lawnmowers
– Clean Press

Farmers Carry to Sugar Creek Elementary and back.

Great mumblechatter with Rumbling Bald.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Fish Tales with Birdcage

We had 9 at varsity (2 for IronPAX, 1 proctor, and 6 for a Cindy beatdown. Here’s what we did:

Warmup
– 10 Low Slow Swuats
– 10 Mountain Climbers
– 10 Windmills
Mosey to get a cinderblock

– 10 Manmakers
– 15 Curls
– 20 OH Press
– 25 Flutters with a Press
– 30 Cindy Swings
– 20 Squats
– 15 Skull Crushers
– 10 Sit-up to Press
– Jog to AO Jones

Repeat 2 more times

NMM
Below is an AI generated backblast about yesterday’s workout. Some of it is true.

The sun had yet risen where the flags would be, and the usual quiet was shattered by the sound of furious guitar riffs echoing across the lot. Rumbling Bald himself had decided that today was the day he would reinvent himself as a heavy metal solo act. His amps were cranked to eleven, his hair (which may or may not have been real) was blowing in the breeze, and every bird within a mile radius had fled in terror.

In a parking spot nearby, Birdcage was already five tall tales deep. “And that’s when Dark Helmet single-handedly wrestled a grizzly bear with a lightsaber and taught it calculus!” he boomed, waving his arms dramatically. Nobody was buying it, but everyone kept listening because Birdcage’s delivery was too good to ignore.

Time Machine, meanwhile, sat cross-legged on the asphalt, looking like he had aged a century overnight. “What am I doing with my life?” he muttered, staring off into the middle distance. “I mean, posting at Varsity? Was that really my legacy? Out of all possible timelines, why did I land there?” He sighed so deeply that Rumbling Bald’s double-bass pedal briefly went out of rhythm.

Finally, Spiderman dropped in from a nearby tree branch, landing with a thud. “Hey, uh, what’s all this?” he asked, eyeing the stack of cinderblocks Italian Job had been planning to incorporate into Bald’s stage show.

“Those,” Rumbling Bald growled, “are for dramatic effect. I need someone to swing them into the pit when the breakdown hits.”

Spiderman looked at the rocks, then back at Rumbling Bald, then immediately raised both hands. “Nope. Nope nope nope. Swinging heavy things is not in the contract.” With a single web-thwip, he was gone before anyone could argue.

Birdcage stood, puffed out his chest, and pointed dramatically toward the horizon. “Did I ever tell you about the time Dark Helmet built an entire stadium out of marshmallows just to host the galaxy’s first interstellar dodgeball championship?”

Time Machine groaned, Rumbling Bald shredded harder, and somewhere in the distance Spiderman was still muttering: “Nope. Not my job.”

And thus, the morning at NaFo ended the way all their gatherings did—half concert, half existential crisis, and entirely ridiculous.

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Calm in the Crazy

WARMUP:
Moroccan nightclubs
Windmills
Cherry pickers
Hillbilly walkers

Mosey to pull up bars, 20 inclined merkins on curb
Every man grab a block and overhead mosey down to back parking lot for 4 corners
Every time you make it to the middle, it’s 5 man makers, and you bring your block to each corner. 20 thrusters, 20 upright rows, 15 goblet squats, 15 Cindy swings. After one time around, finish with man makers, then mosey back up to put your block away
THE THANG:
Official F3 deck of cards. Each card has an exercise and a number on it. Number cards are the number on the card plus 10, face cards are 25 reps, Aces are 100 reps. Circle up and each pax takes a turn pulling a card and everyone completes the exercise on the card
MARY: none needed
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Chance of Rain

WARMUP: IW, HW, Merkins, MC, MNC,
THE THANG:
Thing #1
400M Run
21 Burpees
21 Heels to Heaven
21 Squats

400M Run
15 Burpees
15 Heels to Heaven
15 Squats

400M Run
9 Burpees
9 Heels to Heaven
9 Squats

Thing #2

15 Burpees
15 LBCs
15 Squats
Run 200 meters
15 Burpees
15 LBCs
15 Squats
Run 200 meters

10 Burpees
10 LBCs
10 Squats
Run 200 meters
10 Burpees
10 LBCs
10 Squats
Run 200 meters

5 Burpees
5 LBCs
5 Squats
Run 200 meters
5 Burpees
5 LBCs
5 Squats
Run 200 meters
MARY: No Time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter
COT: Closed in prayer

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Marine 16

WARMUP:
400m Mosey, SSH, Burpees, IW, HW, Windmill
THE THANG:
16 Reps Of The Following with 20m dash in between each exercise:

Burpees
Merkins
Squats
Mt. Climbers
SSH
Jump Lunges
High Knees
Jack Jumps

2 Rounds of 3 Burpee Pull-Ups

MARY: Yes – Jack Web / BBS & AH
ANNOUNCEMENTS: A lot – RYN
COT: Always

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Bald WOD

WARMUP:
SSH -20, Windmill -7, MNC – 10, Broga
THE THANG:
Round 1
40 Merkins
40 LBC’s
40 Squats – Run lap
40 Dips
40 Big Boy Sit-ups
40 Monkey Humpers – Run lap
40 SSH
40 Lunges – 20 E/L
40 Incline Merkins – Run lap

Round 2
Same as above – 30 Reps each
Round 3
Same as above – 20 Reps each

MARY: Broga
ANNOUNCEMENTS: RYN
COT: Always

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Sharpen Your Axe

6 got marginally better but significantly sweatier at Varsity. Here’s what we did:

Warm Up:
– 15 SSHs (IC)
– 10 Low Slow Squats (IC)
– 10 Imperial Walkers (IC)
– 10 Mountain Climbers (IC)
– 10 Windmills (IC)

Mosey to the track
– 10 Burpees
– 20 Merkins
– 30 Squats
– 40 SSHs
– Lap
Repeat 3 times

Mosey to the bars
– Grab a block
– 10 Pull-ups
– 10 Flutters w/ a Press (IC)
– 10 American Hammers (IC)
– 10 Sit-up to Press
– 10 Skull Crushers
– 10 Pull-throughs
– Run to AO Jones
Repeat 3 times
Total mileage: 2.5ish miles

NMM
We each get 24 hours a day. What we choose to do with it is up to us. Do we doom scroll on our phones or study to become better? Is it all work and no play?

There were two lumberjacks—one young and strong, the other older and more experienced.
They both started working at the same time each morning, and the young lumberjack was determined to prove he was the best. So he challenge the older lumberjack to a contest – who could cut the most wood in one day? He chopped trees nonstop, all day long, barely taking any breaks, confident his youth and strength would make him the winner.

The older lumberjack, meanwhile, would take regular breaks—even disappearing for an hour at lunch. The young man was convinced he was winning by a landslide.

At the end of the day, to his surprise, the older lumberjack had cut significantly more wood.
Frustrated and confused, the younger man asked, “How could you have possibly cut more trees than me? I worked the entire time. You took so many breaks!”

The older man replied, “Yes, but every time I sat down, I was sharpening my axe.”

Whether in business, leadership, or life, working nonstop without reflection, renewal, or improvement often leads to burnout and diminished results. But if you “sharpen your axe,” you perform better in the long run.

Aye!
IJ

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4 Muscle groups

Great mumble chatter with Nate this morning. We did all 4 muscle groups for 15 minutes each. I am tired.

Shoulders
Moroccan Night Clubs
Overhead Claps
Arm Circles forward backward
Shoulder Taps
John Travolta’s
Peter Parkers

Legs
Squats
Calve Raises in, out regular
Step ups
Sumo Squats
Lunges forward/backward
Monkey Humpers

Abs
Flutters
Weezy Jeffersons
Rosalita’s
Penguins
Boxcutters
LBC’s
American Hammers

Arms
Dips
Derkins
Merkins
Diamond
WideArm
DryDocks
Mtn. Climbers

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