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Kettle Bell Rounds

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Mission/5 CORE Principles/Credo
WARMUP: Jog then a few exercises then grab your bell
THE THANG: Move to our starting position. Each PAX would perform the exercise with their kettle bell then when it was their turn, they left the bell for a sand bag. Choose between the 60 & the 40. Shuffle with the sand back about 20yds out then toss it the 20yds back.
The other PAX would perform their KB exercise until you returned; you were the timer.
After each round, you would farmer carry your KB about 25 yds out and back.
The exercises were:
Round 1
2-Hand Ground-to-Overhead
Man Makers
Curls
Upright Rows

Farmer Carry

Round 2
1-arm Overhead Squat (KB in the air with one arm and perform a deep squat)
Next arm.
Lawn Mowers – Left
Lawn Mowers – Right

Farmer Carry

Round 3
Kneeling Halos (Perform the halo exercise with the KB going around your head while kneeling)
Big Boy Sit Ups with KB up in the air
V-Ups (On the up, bring the KB to knee height)
Leg Raises (Holding the KB in the air)

Farmer Carry

Round 4
Side Lunges – Left
Side Lunges – Right
Side Bends – Left
Side Bends – Right

Farmer Carry

Round 5
Single Arm Overhead Press – Left
Single Arm Overhead Press – Right
Reverse Lunge – Left
Reverse Lunge – Right

Farmer Carry
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Coming in Hot at 30 degrees ?

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WARMUP: Happy Hour started the warm up because YHC was coming in Hot from North Fort Mill and got stopped by the border patrol at Captain Steve’s. Seems anyone coming for outside the bubble of Baxter or Eastside is questionable :man-shrugging: :face_with_one_eyebrow_raised:

Did some exercise moves and some shuffles, high knees, karaoke and then back to bells
THE THANG:
Did following 3 times for 1minute each with run up hill and back between sets

KB Swings
Curls
Squats
American Hammers
Tri Extensions
Lunge Passthru
Bent Rows
MARY:
5 burpees for CSPAN
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CriOut run and party at Riverwalk 12/14 9am
COT:
Prayers for many medical and difficult health conditions for PAX and families

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Bearded Wonder Takes On The Pond

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NASA asked me to Q Minnow Pond about a month ago and I accepted forgetting that I had Lake Haigler 12 hour 2 days afterwards. The plan was to take the Minnows to the trails and get some miles there but that will have to wait for another time to do that. It had rained the night before and there were a lot of leaves on the trails. Didn’t want someone to do a Superman like Dark Helmet did last time I Q’d here.

Took the fellas to Harris Street Park and as Strava describes it Harris Street Hell Hills. It’s almost a mile to the park from Veterans Park so keep that in mind for future Q’s.

We did hill repeats each way with 10 hand release merkins at the middle, 10 monkey Humpers at top of one side Harris Street and 10 Sumo Squats at Harris/21 Hill. Most got close to 4 miles total.

Had a group of guys carrying around fancy book bags filled with styrofoam peanuts and a few had actual weights in them. Maximus,Rebound,Dark Helmet,Farmers Only,Spider-Man, Crystal Lake, Wooden Leg and Anchorman all rucked I’ll let you decide who had peanuts and who had weight.

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Pecks and Quads Cornucopia

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WARMUP: mosey to lower parking lot. Tout soldiers, buttkickers and caraoke. Merkins, Mountain Climbers, Low slow squats and windmills
THE THANG: mosey to stadium parking lot and do wind sprints at 50%, 75% and 100%. Merkins and Curtsey Lunges in between each sprint. Repeat 3 times. Mosey to top parking lot again and go to the grassy area. Walk down, 10 merkins, NUR up the hill 10 curtsey lunges at the top. Do 5 sets. Mosey down the pathway to the bottom of the hill. At first light pole do 10 merkins, at second light pole 20 squats, at 3rd light pole 30 flutters. Repeat sequence all the way to the top. Mosey to COT for my hip exercises
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Ladders, lunges and bear crawls, oh my

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WARMUP: Yes
THE THANG: Push/Kb swing ladder 2, 4, 6,…to 20 of each. 10 man makers.

To the hill for a Dora with one lunging while farmer carrying both the other with body weight lunge. Switch as needed with 5 goblet squats each switch til the top. Back down the hill with one partner overhead carry while the other bear crawl switching as needed with 5 press each switch.

Mary for 5 minutes at bottom.

Circle up for a few rounds of kettlebell work
MARY: yes
ANNOUNCEMENTS: yes
COT: yes

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#Powered By BBQ & Bourbon

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WARMUP: premature Name O Rama
THE THANG: Pick your distance
MARY: F3 is for Men Only
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT:
12 Runners, 1 Rucker (YHC). Hey Kids: Stay In School and, next year, don’t volunteer to Q the morning after the BBQ & Bourbon fundraiser

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Guys don’t curtsy

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Kept it simple, a little mosey warmup then did some crazy curtsy lunges. A lot of them. Butt was sore for days. Lots of leg exercises to help with running for later in week. We also did a good bit of an work. Finished with the usual hip exercises and all of them. Good message about getting focus off yourself and on others to make an impact.

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Laughing Gorilla

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WARMUP: SSH, MNC, Imp.SquatWalkers, Cherry Pickers, ONE Kracken Burpee (to drive home the Laughing Penalty for the day)

THE THANG:
Appetizer: KB swing complex/pyramid. One–2–3–4–5-4-3–2-1.
Russian swing (to shoulder), American swinging (all the way overhead), and then toss to catch for a goblet squat, toss up again to catch to squat down to put KB down on ground.

Amuse Bouche: Partner Lat Raises (using Rope through Bell handle) – 15 IC. Ideal = 2… we did have a triangle w/ 3 that worked fine.

Main Course – Partner WORK (stations by weight). Partner Nur’s up hill, Crawl-bear/lunge-walk back down….. PLANK UNTIL 6 is up before Rotating.
Round 1a (light): Windmills w/ 2 KB
1b (medium): 2KB Renegade Rows
1c (heavy): Gorilla :gorilla: Rows, (noises encouraged)
MOT for Partner (up hill to speedbump): Partner Nur’s UP hill, Crawl-bear/lunge-walk back DOWN

Round 2a (Light): 2KB Clean & press
2b (medium): Squat & 2x OH Thrust
2c (heavy): lt. Lawnmower pulls
MOT: Lunge Walk UP / Crab-walk DOWN

There was a Round 3 planned (along with Dessert)… but the clock precluded this sadly…. At least there were leftovers for another meal.

MARY: Flutter Presses, Am. Hammers

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Convergence 9/28 among others

COT: Held… raised those Said & Unsaid

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The Quad Burner

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Mozy around parking lot. Windmills. Merkins. Mountain climbers. More merkins.

Mozy with bell down the hill towards the bus drop off. At every light stop and a chest and leg exercise. I chose 10 chest press and 10 curtsy lunges at odd number poles. 10 squats and 10 merkins at even number poles. At bus drop off gather at bottom of hill and do 11s. 1 curtsy lunge at bottom and 10 chest press at test. Keep doing 11s up and down the hill until you reach 10 lunges and 1 chest press. Head back up hill and do arm exercises at every light. Back at COT finish with hip exercises.

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Leading the Way

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Weather was fantastic at 59 degrees and YHC was excited for my VQ at Soul to Sole.

Based on a recommendation from Maximus, YHC read the Comfort Crisis and became a follower of Michael Easter who is big believer in the power of rucking. Since that time, I was gifted a ruck and have included this in my workouts more frequently yet my only Q to date was a solo workout at Dawn Patrol.

I have been thinking about the 5 Cs of leadership from Q Source recently. Q Source resonates with me on so many levels at home, work and in our community and the 5 Cs serve as the standard for Leading Right. I decided to standardize the definitions of these with the Pax as part of the workout.

The Thang

3ish miles of rucking and shuffling

5 stops along with the way with these 6 exercises:

Bent over rows x 10
Merkins x 10
Overhead Press x 10
Curls x 10
Squats x 10
Lunges x 10

At each stop, we discussed one of the 5 Cs:

Candor
Commitment
Consistency
Contentment
Courage

The fellowship, weather and beat down serve to standardize the day. My prayer is that we can begin to optimize the day.

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