Improvisation Q

WARMUP:
15 Wind mill
15 Hill Billy walkers
15 cherry pickers
20 sumo Squats
20 Merkins
THE THANG:
Cocaine bear crawl
Lunge walk
Burpee bear crawl
Lunge walk
Squat bear crawl

Running a round in front of the school. Doing 5 burpees at one of each round. At the other End stacking exercises:
10 LBCs
20 step ups
30 Flutters
40 Squats
50 merkins
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel Shelter, Tortoise and the hare, lawn mowing
COT:

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Webs, webs, webs

WARMUP: windmills, arm circles, low slow squat
THE THANG: Mossy to big drop off loop
1 merkin 4 shoulder taps, stop at each lamp post and increase the web 2-8 for a full loop circle with ten stops ending with 10 merkins and 40 shoulder taps.
Mossy half loop for another web: 1 squat-4 calf raise, progressive to 10 squats and 40 calf raise, feeling the burn on those calves.
Mossy to start of loop, full loop Indian run, everyone got to do it twice, walk/decompress for half the loop to school entrance find a wall, people’s chair, each pax did 5 Side straddle hops while everyone else is holding position.
Mossy to grassy area, find a comfy spot for next web. We had a visit from Captain Thor for abs web, 1 big boy- 4 American hammers progressive to 10 BB and 40 AH ( lots of grunting here) recover, mossy around small loop, back to grassy area for some broga. Apparently my brain was leaking here after counting so many reps..
MARY: broga
ANNOUNCEMENTS: bethel shelter, tortoise and hare, Manion, May 16th CSAUP
COT: stays in COT

TINSEL 🎄 OUT

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Michigan 69 – UConn 63

WARMUP: ssh, iw, hillbilly walker, Moroccan night clubs, windmills, cherry pickers

THE THANG:

Mosey around the front of campus stopping at random light poles (to keep the group on their toes) for exercises. Route was down to GHES teacher lot at Dave Gibson – through GHES bus loop – through GHMS bus loop

Increasing Rep counts at each pole: 6 – 9 – 15 (6+9) and occasionally 54 (6*9) in honor of NCAA champ Michigan’s 69pts last night. So each exercise took 3-4 poles to complete

Exercises:
merkins
Peter Parker’s
Mountain climbers
Lunges
Big boys
Burpees
Plank jacks

Total distance covered: 2.5 miles

MARY: Round robin – Lbc, flutter, hello dolly, box cutter

ANNOUNCEMENTS: tortoise and hare

COT: prayers for family and loved ones; safe travel on spring break; aging parents

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Pre-Snowmageddon

WARMUP: We did The Fort Standard mosey, SSH, both the walkers, windmills, cherry pickers, Toy Soldiers, Down Dog, Honeymooner, and Plank to toe touches.

THE THANG: Declinator
Starting at 10, working down to 1, Squats, LBC, Dips, Mountain Climbers, and Flying Squirrels.

After each group take a lap around the church parking lot.

MARY: Round the horn calling out your favorites

COT: There was a COT

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Touring

WARMUP:
– 10 Side Straddle Hops
– 10 Windmills
– Down dog (stretch out the calves) to up dog
THE THANG:
– Jog to HT wall by O’Reilly – Balls to the Wall 10 moves L, 10 moves R
– Jog to back parking lot – Bear crawl from the island to the light
– Jog to down to Berkley Hall Way, turn Left onto Reynolds’s Ridge Lane stop at the garages – 50 squats OYO
– Jog to down to Christi Way – 2 sets L/R of side hops up the hill to Palmdale Walk Dr
– Jog up to Grant Farm Dr and down to the rail – 25 incline Merkins
– Jog to Fire Station – 50 lunges (25 each leg)
– Jog to Kids R Kids learning parking lot – 10 double count J-Lo’s
– Jog to Grace – 50 Step-ups OYO
– Jog to parking lot by COT for 3 sets of sprints up the hill
– Jog back to COT – 4 corners ascending Burpees 1,2,3,4 x 2

MARY:
– Various Mary for the last 4 minutes led by the attendees

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter.

COT:
– Prayers for U-haul and his family. Prayers for Karen, DoubleD and their family, Prayers for marriages, Prayers for all of the sick and suffering.

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Following the arrows…

WARMUP: Mozy to the front of GHMS for imperial walkers, mountain climbers, and Moroccan night clubs.
THE THANG: After the warmup proceeded toward Dave Gibson blvd and stopped at the first working street light for the shortest round of sevens. (Daylight savings time limited the number of working street lights). Pax lined up on one side of the street for 1 Mike Tyson, then bear crawled across the road for 6 big boy sit-ups. We then bear crawled back to the start for a rinse and repeat count up/count down until we did 6 Tysons and 1 big boy sit-up.
We then ran down the road to the entrance of the elementary school. On the length of the street are three columns of arrows to direct school traffic to the elementary and middle schools. We ran down the turn lane until the arrows ended and then started our journey back. At each arrow in the column the Pax did five burpees (45 total) before returning to the starting point.
Moving on to the center column of arrows, we ran down and headed back with 10 LBCs (120 total) at each. Rinse and repeat down the final column where we did Merkins (80) on the way back to start. Round two consisted of Dips (90), Squats (120), overhead claps (80).
MARY: Short on time we ran back to COT for < 1 minute of full body destroyers. ANNOUNCEMENTS: Upcoming CSAUPSand volunteer opportunities. COT: Health: Family, friends, Pax, coworkers. Mental health and those around us who are impacted.

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7th year Anniversary… with Burpees

Warmup
 
Mosey to Grace Parking Lot
 
28 SSH IC
5 Windmill IC
20 SJ IC
10 MNC IC
28 Mnt Climbers IC
Stretch
15 Peter Parkers IC
 
Recover on your feet.
 
Flashback for 7 years in F3
DORA
100 HR Merkins
200 Squats
300 LBC’s  (First workout I ever did Fishsticks was the Q)
 
Also Grace Church Parking Lot
Pendulum Workout (Routine I “borrowed” off of Cha Ching)  10 – 5 Reps
Catalina Wine Mixers (an OTG favorite)
(no burpees in the middle this time)
Diamond Merkins
 
Run Back to COT
My personal Favorite with the remaining time left….
EMOM  10 Burpees a minute on the minute….. (only got 9 minutes in)
 
The question of the day is why…why I still am doing this after 7 years when I first thought I’d only give it like 3 months.
 
And it really is because of all of the guys I’ve met and learned from. When I started the saying was if you want to run fast…run with faster people. And There are so many HIMS in our region that run so much faster than me. Not just actual literal running but accelerating at all phases of life. These are role models for us and a big reason why I keep coming out, and I keep pushing. Everyone reading this has in some way pushed me to be 1% better than I was yesterday.  Thank you guys! And see you all in the gloom!
 

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Your MILGA is showing

What a wonderful day in the MILGAhood. This being my first visit and q to Colosseum, I aimed to disappoint. The workout was this

– poles on the back of the school. increase rep count by 1 at each pole then return to start. Burpee Merkin Squat is taking the fort by storm
– found the only set of accessible steps on the entire west side. The count was however many leaps it took to get to the top by each pax. Average was 3 leaps. Some folks (Bandcamp) were jackasses and took 9. First excersice was burpees, then after everyone went we did dips
– then went to the court for broadjumps as our rep count. average was 4. step ups was the excersice until all pax had jumped
– lunge walk and bear crawl back to cot for 5 minutes of mary

Yes, i made pretty much all of this up as we went. I like to live dangerously like that.

Work from the Bird:
We all need prayers. Its not selfish to ask someone to pray for you. Don’t think you always need to pray for someone else. That’s a great thing, but you need to be right also. Work on that vertical relationship. Gotta get you right so you can help others. I’m asking for prayers for me. Send me all the love you got right now and ask Gods help too. I challenge you all to be bold and pick someone in COT to pray for. Even if they don’t ask for it. I GUARANTEE it will make their entire day having that power.

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Bearded Brothers Beatdown

WARMUP: 3/4 mile run to the dance studio with some monkey Humpers, burpees and squats along the way at various spots
THE THANG: Had a conversation with Rebound Monday after Flight Plan and found out he had the Q at Kitchen Sink that same day. So the beards got together and thought it would be a grand idea to combine both of our Q’s together for a great beat down. We launched from Harris Teeter in Tega Cay and made our way down to the little Dance studio which is about 3/4 of a mile. Kitchen sink boys where there standing in a circle not doing much of anything. So when we arrived the real work began. My workout was the timer while Rebound workout was the heavy lifting. Grab a partner from opposite group and get to work. One goes to other end of parking lot while other grinds it out with the sandbags.

Rebound had a board with various exercises which we made it through:
Overhead Press
Squats
Curls
Sandbag Swings (those really sucked)
Deadlifts
All where AMRAP

My part was:
Hand Release Merkins
Carolina Dry Docks
Sumo Squats
Big Boi Sit-ups

Start at 5 reps per then increase each round by 5 reps. Made it to 20 reps then we backed back down 5. It really started to suck big time. Lots of complaining about those merkins.
I’m sore as crap from this. It was a great workout.

MARY: Can we rename her to Meghan? We did Hello Dolly, Flutter Kicks and Dying Cockroach before COT
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Break The Dam on Feb. 28th. Ruck CSAUP middle of May get with Shady if interested
COT: Mental struggles. Kick life back when it kicks you in the nads.

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