No Miles Today

WARMUP: A quick mosey around the parking lot
THE THANG:
Every Minute On the Minute (EMOM) for 15 minutes.
Started out with 5 Merkins and 5 Squats
After 5 minutes, upped it to 10 merkins and 10 squats

Next was
33 Mountain Climbers
19 Flying Squirrels
33 SSH
19 Flying Squirrels
33 Freddie Mercury’s
X 3.
Flying squirrels were modified to 10 after first round.
28 tricep dips to buy out.

Wrapped up the last 5 minutes with a plank hold. Every time you dropped the plank, 5 merkins and 5 mountain climbers.

MARY: all throughout

ANNOUNCEMENTS: F3 Dad’s, July 4 1776 workout at NaFo and check your newsletter

COT: focused on gratitude. It helps us reprioritize our focus in life.

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Unlucky 7s

WARMUP: Started with a light mosey around parking lot and then started the following exercises: SSH, Windmills, Morrocon NC, Merkins, Hillbilly Walkers, Big Arm Circles, Cherry Pickers, and Calf Raises.
THE THANG: Started with Lucky 7s between Burpees and Squats. Then did (3) rounds of Pain which included (10) Burpees, (20) Shoulder Taps, (30) Peter Parkers, and (40) LBCs all at each light pole and landscape island with a mode of transportation between them as Round 1 was Bear Crawl, Round 2 was Lunges, and Round 3 was Crab Walks. Then we did (30) Bomb Jacks and went for another light mosey around the parking lot. Between all this great work, we talked about Q-Source Topic Q2.4 Positive Habit Transfer
MARY: Box Cutters, American Hammers, and Flutters
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter and (2) PSAs from Twister about Life Insurance.
COT: Safe Travels for Slow Jams Dad and someone’s friend recovering from surgery.

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Examining Parking Lots

WARMUP:
7 PAX did the hard thing on this humid Friday morning and arrived at the Swamp ready to work. 1 new face pulled in with a huge smile on his face.

Disclaimer was given for new PAX and we moseyed to Home Depot. Fairly standard warm up of:
25 SSH IC
10 Tappy Taps IC
15 LSS IC
15 MNC IC

Moseyed back behind Home Depot toward Target. Slowed for some Toy Soldiers, butt kickers and high knees, then moseyed to Target parking lot.

THE THANG:
Started with Apple Turnovers all the way across the Target parking lot. Bear Crawl to parking spot center line, complete 3 merkins, and continue with crab walk. 3 merkins and flip back over. Finished the last lane with 10 merkins.

This up close and personal time spent with the parking lot had some pondering why people clean out their cars in parking lots and leave the trash.

Quick discussion on the G3L and specifically the Get Right.

Moseyed to the Fountains. PAX partnered up and completed a DORA with one PAX running around the round-a-bout and back while the other PAX completed:
100 box jumps
200 dips
300 step ups

MARY:
Made it back in time for flutters IC and American Hammers IC.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
A lot of announcements this morning: MISOGI, Pints & Padres, Tec Dowling golf tourney.

COT:
Prayers for PAX in attendance, praise for leaders in our community. Welcome Hemorrhage!

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Airwolf inspired “ciabatta”

WARMUP: Mosey from flag to second parking lot. 20 count IC: SSH, hillbilly walkers, Cherry pickers, Moroccan nightclubs. 10 count down dog to 10 count honeymooner. Mosey to the band lot.

THE THANG: Tabata Time! 2 exercises, 45 sec intervals with a 10 sec rest between x 3 sets of ea. After 6th set, each PAX ran a loop around the light poles and planked for the 6. Rinse and repeat x5 cycles.
First cycle: hand release merkins & LBC’s
Second cycle: plank jacks & hello dollies
Third cycle: Carolina dry docks & calf raises
Fourth cycle: merkins & Bobby Hurley’s
Fifth cycle: Superman’s & monkey humpers

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter! Shady on Q at hanging with Stang today. F3 Dad’s is coming in June. Get your 2.0’s ready to roll!

COT: Bonsai’s family will be traveling to 3 different places, some separate from each other. Travel mercies and safety. JWOW travel mercies. Pothole clarity and patience. OTG is thankful to be back in the Gloom with his fellow PAX. We are all happy to have him back!

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Swampy At The Swamp

WARMUP:  We did a typical Circle Of Pain.
THE THANG: 10 of each run a lap after each set

Cat 1 – Merkins
Cat 2 – Merkins, Squats
Cat 3 – Merkins, Squats, LBCs
Cat 4 – Merkins, Squats, LBCs, Lunges
Cat 5 – Merkins, Squats, LBCs, Lunges, Diamond Merkins

Two rounds with a stretching break in between rounds.

MARY: Each pax led an exercise then we stretched some and called it a day.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bourbon, BBQ and trash pickup
COT: Prayers for Spectre’s M and Airewolf and my brother.

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Danger Zone, B.O.M.B.S, ABC’s

WARMUP:
10 – Side Straddle Hops
10 – Windmill
10 – Moroccan Night Club
10 – Cherry Pickers
10 – Merkins

While moseying to The Circle Fountain…

Danger Zone
PAX runs while Danger Zone by Kenny Loggins plays in the background. Every time the words “Danger Zone” are heard PAX does single squat then resumes running. End result is 3 and a half minutes of run with sporadic squats.

THE THANG:
B.O.M.B.S.
Similar to Dora 1-2-3 but more exercises. Partner up. Pax 1 does exercise while Pax 2 runs to the other end of the end of the sidewalk and back. Swap out and continue the exercise until each amount of reps are complete. The exercises and reps are: 50- Burpees / 100- Overhead Claps / 150- Merkins / 200- Big Boy Sit-ups / 250- Squats.

Short message about pushing through the trials in your life. It’s only making you stronger to get through those tough times.

“Your life will be enlarged in proportion to the amount of iron you have endured, for it is in the shadows of your life that you will find the actual fulfillment of your dreams of glory. So do not complain about the shadows of darkness —in reality, they are better than your dreams could ever be. Do not say that the darkness of the prison has shackled you, for your shackles are wings —wings of flight into the heart and soul of humanity. And the gate of your prison is the gate into the heart of the universe. God has enlarged you through the suffering of sorrow’s chain.”
~GEORGE MATHESON

Mosey back to Parking lot

3 minute EMOM
10 Burpees
20 Merkins
30 Squats

MARY:
Alphabet (or ABCs)
On your 6 – feet elevated like 6-inch hold – spell out the alphabet with your feet. All capital letters preferred.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Royale last Q at The Abyss – 5/18/22
DaVinci Art Raffle
New AO – The Yard starts tomorrow, Grassy Knoll on Q
COT:
Anxiety and Prayers for Families

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90’s Pirates and the Killer B’s

WARMUP: Mosey around the parking lot until we circled up by the Petsmart

3 Burpees
10 HR Merkins
18 SSH IC
24 Seal Jacks IC
25 Mountain Climbers IC
Mosey back to Best Buy

THE THANG:
This was a derivation of the Killer B’s workout from the Iron Pax Challenge.

Starting at the stop sign the workout consisted of the following:
10 yard broad jump
10 Burpees
10 yard broad jump
20 Bobby Hurleys
10 yard broad jump
30 Big Boy Sit-ups
Bearcrawl back to the stop sign
4 rounds.

Tesla killed it and we all picked up
The 6 together. With a few minutes left we moseyed across the parking lot for a 6 minute EMOM
10 HR Merkins
15 LBCS
15 2ct Flutters
(Last minute we did 10 BBS and 30 Hello Dolly’s)

Ran to flag for 21 Tempo Merkins and 10 LBCS which got us to 6:00.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Invergence tomorrow.
COT:Prayers for anxiety and families.

Just for context the Pirates of the early 90’s featured Barry Bonds and Bobby Bonilla… otherwise known as the Killer B’s. Reminiscing about this on Wednesday with Anchorman made me nostalgic…So of course it inspired me to incorporate it into a workout. 😁

Thanks to all who came out this morning!

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Not AKA

Warm up: SSH, Merkin, Windmill
Airwolf Tabata w/ hand-selected playlist

45 seconds Merkins
15 second rest
45 second shoulder tap
15 second rest
1 min plank

45 seconds seal jacks
15 second rest
45 second knee hop
15 second rest
1 min plank

45 seconds flutters
15 second rest
45 second rower
15 second rest
1 min plank

45 seconds penguin
15 second rest
45 second burpee
15 second rest
1 min plank

Transfer over to Band Camp who lead us through some leg exercises, most in cadence and bear crawls that were uphill and unfortunately long.

COT with a total of 35 from AKA at Milkshake and a few shield lockers that joined for the prayer.

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All Good at The Swamp

WARMUP:
Mosey to Fuji
SSH, Imperial Walker, Hillbilly, Mtn Climbers
Mosey to Near Death Island
One pax runs around the island while other pax exercise — Squats, Merkins, Parker Peters, Moroccan Night Clubs, Arm circles forward & backward

THE THANG:
Mosey to the fountain
20 Step Ups
20 Dips
10 Box Jumps
20 Derkins
Mosey to side of Best Buy
Balls to the Wall followed by People’s Chair (rinse & repeat)
Mosey to back end of Best Buy lot
10 Monkey Humpers
20 Parker Peters
30 Lunges
40 Shoulder Taps
50 Squats
Pax completed 3 rounds of the above with one lap in between
Mary — Flutters, Dollies, Backscratchers, Box cutters, Superman
Mosey home
10 Burpees OYO

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Spectre VQ next week!
AKA convergence at WEP 4/30
Invergence on Shield Locks at WEP 4/30
Q School coming in May

COT:
After several days of intense upper body beatdowns at AKA this week, on this Good Friday YHC concentrated on legs & core along with a message about the GOOD that is all around us and inside of us at all times. It’s easy to get sucked into the negative in our media, our workplace, our schools, our families and friends. Even when I block out media, change jobs and reel in my interactions with others, the negative INSIDE ME can still take charge and become my focus. It takes strong and intentional commitment to focus on the GOOD. The GOOD is just as much around us as the negative, and the GOOD even surpasses everything else! Let’s make it our mission to focus on the abundance of GOOD all around us.

Among the GOOD this morning was FNG/Hot Wheels, EH’d by Tesla and rising out of bed at his home in Mooresville! Not only did HW drive an hour to post at The Swamp, he engaged like a veteran pax taking his turn counting exercises, sharing about his priorities (Faith, Family, Friends) and his how he surrounds himself with people focused on values and character. In talking about the GOOD in his life experience he highly recommended Love’s as the best truck stop food on the interstate!! Sorry Cake Boss, no Bucee’s mention.

Airwolf’s cadence count melody suggest some real talent hiding in those vocal chords. Hey, Band Camp, we might have a Barbershop quartet or Acapella group Q here!?!?!

Slapshot continues to Make The Swamp Great Again! Thanks for your leadership and the invite to lead in the Gloom!

Last, among the NOT SO GOOD things today was YHC’s poor safety skills. I made the decision to wear the florescent vest even though the parking lots are lit to ensure we could be seen. But that’s not even half the battle — strong safety also requires SEEING and good judgment. Near Death Island got it’s name because of my call to mosey to the traffic island across from Fuji then my lead of the pax into the street without looking left. Yes, I missed an incoming car with high speed destined to take out the back of the pack. Fortunately, they looked and had the presence of mind to stop. The driver stopped too and waved them across. A teaching moment for sure. Stay safe men!

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Crossing the Line

WARMUP: Mosey, SSH, IW, HW, yoga
THE THANG:
Run
5 burpees
10 jump squats
15 merkins
20 split squats

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NMM:
Sometimes it’s hard to know when you’ve crossed the line. We ran to NC
COT:
Prayers for Cable Guy

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