Do you burn twice the calories when the humidity makes you sweat twice as much?

WARMUP: Not sure… I missed it! (Got us so early I thought I had too much time so I put some laundry away and then realized I did really bad travel math! Rolled in about 5:18)

THE THANG:
Run (lap around 4 parking rows)
– 40 KB Swing
– 40 Curl
– 40 Goblet Squat
– 40 OH Press
– 10 Man Maker

Run (lap around 3 parking rows)
– 30 KB Swing
– 30 Curl
– 30 Goblet Squat
– 30 OH Press
– 10 Man Maker

Run (lap around 2 parking rows)
– 20 KB Swing
– 20 Curl
– 20 Goblet Squat
– 20 OH Press
– 10 Man Maker

Run (lap around 1 parking row)
– 10 KB Swing
– 10 Curl
– 10 Goblet Squat
– 10 OH Press
– 10 Man Maker

ANNOUNCEMENTS: It’s Hot Outside… and Kind of Humid

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15 pounder

WARMUP: Did some stretching and had a nice Indian run

THE THANG:
Did some time at the small wall/firepit with various sets of muscle exciters. Got in lots of kettlebell swings, lawnmower pulls and laps in between.

KB Swings
Lawnmower pulls
Triceps extensions
Halo circles
Hillbilly walkers w bell

-Lap-

Squats
LBC w bell
Deadlifts
KB Swings

-Lap-

KB Swings
Tricept extensions
Around the World

-Lap-

Lawmower pulls
Clean press
Halo circles
KB swings

-Lap-

Squats
LBC’s
Around the world
Shoulder presses

-Lap-

Lawnmower pulls
Tricept extensions
Deadlifts
Clean press

-Lap-

Then, pass the duitchie, where we all got to feel Tesh mammoth and Destiny’ 15 pounder.

COT: Mentioned a few things in the newsletter including FM Care Center lawn sign up, Pusher bringing back Q Source

Prayers for Destiny’s colleague with health issues, Band Camp’s church for VBS (for seeds to be planted) and for Pusher’s daughter Emma and surgery/recovery for torn ACL.

Good crew this morning. Lots of good mumble chatter. Missed Battle Bot…..Appreciate the opportunity to lead!

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1st and 10 with KB

WARMUP: 20 SSH, 20 HBW, 20 MNC, 1 lap around the parking lot.
THE THANG:

Take bells to starting point in the parking lot.

Exercises.
10 yard mark
20 Tricep extensions
10 Kurpees
Run to the 100y cone and back
Longes
20y mark
18 Tricep extensions
9 Kurpees
Longes to the next cone
30y cone
16Tricep extensions
8 Kurpees
Longes to the next cone
40y mark
14 Tricep extensions
7 Kurpees

50y   12-6
60y   10-5
70y    8-4
80y    6-3
90y    4-2
100y   2-1

On the way back
10 yard mark
20 Curls
20 KB swings
Run to 100y mark and back no KB
Longes to the next cone w/KB
20 yard mark
18 Curls
18 KB swings
Run to 100y mark and back
Longes to the next cone
16 Curls
16 KB swings
Run to 100y mark and back
Longes to the next cone
14 curls
14 KB swings
Ran out of time, omaha to COT

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: 2nd activities, H&C
COT:prayers for patients, for Uhaul’s nephew going through cancer treatment, prayer for Vuvu’s son for quick recovery on his broken leg, prays for Uhaul’s 21st year anniversary.

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JWow Wins! JWow Wins!

WARMUP: We headed for the light and warmed up with some of the usual suspects
THE THANG: We played Uno with these rules:

Blue – Curls
Green – LBC
Yellow – Goblet Squats
Red – Chest press

Skip – Run
+2 – pick 2 exercises, 2 reps
+4 – 4 reps all 4 exercise
Reverse – Repeat last exercise
Wild – Change color

MARY: Strange how we got a lot of core in but not much chest work so I threw the me in.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Dark Helmet is trying to murder us tomorrow.  Sign up to mow at the Care Center Read your newsletter.
COT: Thanks for playing along with Thrill Uno. Thanks for letting me lead. Thrill is gone!

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A Stacked Deck at The Pit

WARMUP: Run the parking lot but only a very little. Some Windmills, Merkins and Imperial Walkers.

THE THANG: We played cards so for the newer guys, every number represents the rep count with face cards ascending in value. In general, the cards were shuffled relatively well.
Aces = 14 and a few wild cards.
In total:
Hearts: 104 Squats with weight overhead
Diamonds: 104 Thrusters
Clubs: 104 Clubs in cadence
Spades: 104 Upright Rows

MARY: Yes, a little at the end including Peter Parkers & American Hammers.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Keep an eye out for the Misogi details later today in Slack.
COT: You should’ve been there.
Until next time…

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Yoga Mat is Gear

Warm Up: SSH, IW, HW, Good Morning, Squats, Around the World

Thang: Groups of two rotating through stations
Deck Squats – Swings
Side Lunge – Lawnmower Pulls
Knee-tar N’Diaye – Half Kneeling Press (on preset yoga mats)
Flip the Tire
Racked Squat R/L
Racked Lunge R/L
Overhead Press R/L

Closed out with Cleans and Burpee Snatches

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The Lights were Out at the Hive

Quick disclaimer and asked if anyone needed to visit the potty before we got started. Seems to be a regular occurrence at the Hive.
WARMUP:
Slow mosey lap around the parking lot. Regular warm up exercises (SSH, Moroccan Night Clubs, Imperial Walkers, Windmills, Plank Stretches, Peter Parkers)

THE THANG:
Next, we picked up the KBs and completed 6 rounds of 29 squats at each light pole. Mode of transportation to each light pole varied (overhead carry, murder bunny, overhead carry, lunge walk, overhead carry). Once complete, we ran another lap around the parking lot.
Next round of exercises, 29 reps of each. Curls, Tricep Extensions, Chest Press, Calf Raises, Swings. The mode of transportation to each light pole: One hand press, bear crawl, overhead press, Crab Walk American Hammer, Two Step Man Maker.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Convergence / Invergence
See Newsletter

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Took Shatner out

WARMUP: alla carte, probably yoga heavy
THE THANG:

Series of exercises with a mode of transportation in between. We moved through the short side of the parking lot.
10ish reps in each

Suitcase row
Over head press
Clean, squat
Side lunge
Bear crawl
Man maker
Waiter carry
Half Turkish getup
Bear craw
Side lunge and clean
Swing
Pull
Snatch
Thrust

It was hard. Finished strong with: Burpee Snatches

COT:

I broke Shatner. Love that guy, hope his back is better now that I’m writing this a solid 4 months later. Always an honor to lead.

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Snake Pit – 3.23

8 PAX split off with Bushwood. I’m 100% certain Tesh’s backblast will be more interesting to read than mine. (I’ll tag him on Twitter and Slack to confirm this fact.) That left 8 PAX with kettlebells for the Snake Pit

The Thang:

Warmup alla cart of the top of my head based on what I felt my body needed. YHC was on Q; so, YHC went with what YHC knew.
Windmill
SSH
Merkins (slow count)
Halo
Around the World (AKA: Kettlebell Sling Shot)
1 Burpee

Flow 1:
5 reps each
Swing
Goblet Squat
Halo
Side Lunge
Deck Squat (click the link…these suck)
then 4 reps
3 reps
2 reps
1 reps as a full flow

Small Lap and some yoga

Flow 2: 5 reps, then 4, 3, 2, 1
Over Head Press
Suitcase Row
Clean and Squat

Small lap and no yoga

Flow 3: 5 reps, 4, 3, 2, 1
Single Leg Deadlift
Swing
High Pull
Snatch

A little bit of yoga (Birdcage does not enjoy pigeon lunge

Workout felt deceptively challenging

Dark Helmet-esque Report:
@WagonWheel has the tough work of being @Slash’s pastor
@Slash believes Encanto is a “foreign” film
@3D_Alex Geyling thinks it’s hilarious when somebody’s “dad” is escorted out of a theater for spoiling the movie and possibly being a “hobo”
@B.O.B. Is appropriately fearful of celebratory gunfire.
This is better than: @Sugarbug and YHC. We are unnecessarily fearful of unsuspecting coming across quicksand in our daily lives. Thanks Atreyu
@birdcage_f3 believes crossbreeding with an octopus is possible
@Drop Thrill doesn’t understand They/Them, but crushed today’s workout

NMM:

I struggle with being a musician in a time of WAR (Ukraine/Russia at the moment). I was a sophomore music major during 9/11/2001 and viscerally remember feeling useless. Leonard Bernstein said: “We musicians, like everyone else, are numb with sorrow… Our music will never again be quite the same. This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” (he was speaking on JFK’s assassination.)

When I read an account from the last journalists in Mauripol, I again felt useless. My students and I spend so much practice and work exerting for something so ephemeral with no lasting product past last night’s performance. There’s a question of the validity of our efforts when so many suffer needlessly.

But this journalist’s account is a story. And many of the most lasting stories in our culture are turned to art (drama–> tv, stage, film). And much of what sticks in our minds and works in our hearts is through stories turned to lyrics and set to music. So, my individual labors may not single-handedly yield a song that awakens a generation, but my students may sing, write, teach, perform in a concert that does. Or at the very least, I’ll make d@mn sure that we work to make music more beautifully and devotedly than every before. And I’ll trust that the world will be a more beautiful place.

Men: stick with what gifts you’ve been given and the talents you worked to develop


Band Camp dismissed

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