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In Honor Of September, 11, 2001

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WARMUP: All PAX but Shield dropped in the plank with their ears wide open to listen to our brother Shield share his experience as an NYPD officer on 9/11/2001. This included the names of a few of Shield’s fallen brothers. Some of us have been fortunate enough to hear him talk about that day but every time I hear it, I take away something new. This morning was no different.
Following the plank, we mentioned a few numbers of significance for the PAX to think about:
9 & 11: This was obvious
22: Years since that day 22yrs ago
100: The number of days Ground Zero in NY smoldered
ALL PAX 100 Side Straddle Hops (50 in cadence) & 22 Burpees

THE THANG: Grab your bell and meet over by Clickbait’s trailer where we had more gear. Everyone has a weight of some kind for the following 9 exercises:
11x Kettle Bell Swings
11x Thrusters
11x Goblet Squats
11x Bent Over Rows
11x Overhead Tricep Extensions
11x Big Boy Sit-ups w/ Weight
11x Bicep Curls
11x Standing Lunges
11x Overhead Press

We went through these 9 exercises one more time and occasionally modified the cadence.

In groups of 4, we all got to experience the 200lb sand bags for 4 reps, taking the bag from the hips, to the shoulders, to an overhead position, back to the shoulders and finally, back to the hips. If we weren’t on the 200lb sand bag, we did the same evolution with our own coupon.

Then, back to 22 Side Straddle Hops & 11 Burpees.

MARY: Throughout
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Lots in the newsletter & THE BLOOD DRIVE
COT: Indeed

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Zone 2 and The Slowest Burn

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Warmup:
9 Motivators
Windmill
Moroccan night clubs
Baby arm circles
Overhead claps
Seal jacks
Low slow squat
Tempo merkin
Tempo CDD

Practice balancing:
Stand on right leg
Stand on left leg

Walk down the 5 stairs slowly and without the handrail. It’s harder than it sounds.

The Thang:
Yog to Armory

2 teams Pick a co-Q
Team A
Tempo step downs/ups on the wall

Team B – Board of pain (switch after each movement)
In SLOW cadence
5 six count burpees
10 tempo merkins
20 low slow squats
15 slow flutters
20 slow monkey humpers
10 tempo diamond merkins

MARY:
There was some

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
There were some

COT:

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Buckets… again.

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Nice group this morn found three sets of buckets with painful suggestions inside and some nice running in between stations. The Shorty’s watch said 1.7 miles and I guess that includes the time I caught him (not mall) walking.

We can feel the cooler air coming and see the leaves staring to fall as we admire God’s creation. Prayers for my friend Amy, our kids and school folks, and thankful for those around us who are patient mentors.

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Dance Naked Reboot

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Eight boot campers met at Pleasant Knoll Middle for a great start to Tuesday morning. Here is what they did:

THE THANG:
Mosey out of the COT and circle up at the cement pad by the teacher’s smoking lounge for COP: All in cadence:
SSX x 20, merkin x 10, windmill x 10, cherry picker x 10, little/big arm circles x 20ea and both directions, IW x 15, mountain climber x 15 hold/6″ hold/honeymooner/downward dog/6″/L/R arm/leg high/6″ hold, Freddie Merc x 15

Mosey to the parking lot and line up facing the cement island.

1. Bearcrawl to the island, 10 merkins, return to the start
2. Lungewalk to the island, 10 squats, return.
3. Powerskip to the island, 10 bombjacks, return.
4. Inchworm to the island, 10 merkins
5. Pick partner (someone you don’t know well), walk to the island and get to know them better. At the island, do 10 partner merkins (hand slap), walk back to the start.

Mosey to the walking bridge for Jacob’s ladder. Run to the end of the bridge and do 1-5 burpees, run back. (5 reps total)

Walk to the school building for 2 rounds of People’s Chair (60 sec hold). The pax were encouraged to sit at a 90 degree angle.

MARY: Flutter x 10, Box cutter x 10, Pretzel crunch x 10, Superman x 3

NAKED MAN MOLESKIN:
Good mumble chatter today by the Pax. Twister started it during the opening SSH’s when he noticed a small fenced-in area with a chair placed in it. What purpose did it serve? (time out chair?, teacher’s smoking lounge?)
Today’s workout was one I pulled from the archives (08/01/2019) and executed almost identically. Noteworthy of that workout was when I asked the pax to take a few minutes and get to know someone new in the group. I took that cue from C-Span who did something similar years before at WEP. It’s a neat way to make a connection with the guys you see in the gloom, but may not know very well.

COT: Barry Manilow joined us at COT following his 6 mile run.
Good to have you with us, brother! We prayed for ST’s mom and longtime friend John with terminal cancer. Prayers also for Dixie’s 5 yr old niece whose body started rejecting a donated kidney

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Downhill then back uphill

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WARMUP: not today
THE THANG: 4 or more miles for today
MARY: also not today
ANNOUNCEMENTS: join midweek grinds every wed at baxter Starbucks
COT: praises for family and prayers for the start of the school year

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Never Ending Mile Version 2

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WARMUP:
Ran over to middle school drop off loop
SSH
Windmill
Stretching
Moroccan night club
Little baby arm circles

THE THANG:
About 3 years ago I Q’d this workout and it was terrible. So I decided to bring it back since this was the same AO. Spider-Man was already predicting this was going to happen and he showed anyway. I believe he enjoyed it, but still complained. Senator was King, but the longest mile is still undefeated.

Do one lap each exercise (1/4 mile)
Bear crawl
Crab walk
Lunge walk
Run

Everyone finished bear crawl and lunge walk. Some finished the run, but no one was able to complete the crab walk lap.

MARY:
Few minutes of stretching once we got back to COT

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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I Don’t Always Dance Salsa, But When I do we Boogie Down !

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WARMUP: Welcome & Disclaimer
THE THANG: We jumped into a circuit training of pain stations with 10 Reps each of the following: LSS, Merkins, Flutter Kicks, 60lb Sand Bag Over Head Toss, Ruck Sack Curls, SSH, Monkey Humpers, 40lb Bent Over Rows, Big Boys. Every 5-10 minutes we Mosey a lap around the parking lot x2, and 1 backwards jog.
MARY: Lots of fellowship, and sweet tunes.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: HIM Camp, Men Bethel Shelter, & NEWSLETTER
COT: Praises & Prayer, 5th Core Principles and shared with Halfback about the 3 Fs.

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Lights

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WARMUP: I forgot to write backblast so this is not the whole truth….
THE THANG: run to bank and do SSH until 6, run to bottom of hill and do IW till 6, run to basketball nets and do something (forget) till 6. This I know is true: Mossy to first light pole. 15 LBCs then run up the hill to the 9th light pole and do 15 LBCs and come back. Then run to 8th pole and 15 LBCs and come back. Continue this by reducing a light pole. The cheetahs got to about 4 light poles the turtles I think 6. All in all about 4 miles total. It SUCKED
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: Olaf, flounder and Sasquatch rucked, Beaker was late and tried to find us

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Whetstone not Wet Stone

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WARMUP:
Cohiba led warmup where we ran to front of Elementary School and commenced with COP

THE THANG:
Hand off to Kaiser where we ran bball courts behind middle school and performed a modified Dora
-dips, irkins, big boys

Hand off to CakeBoss
Mosey to side of elementary school

Partner one big boys
Partner two bear crawl

Partner one leg raises
Partner two bear crawl

Partner one LBCs
Partner two bear crawl

Partner one hellos dollys
Partner two suicide sprint

Partner one something
Partner two suicide sprint

Mosey to driveway for gasers between light poles
Last one all the way to COT

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
8/4: Convergence
8/5: Stuff the bus

COT:
Prayers and Praises recognized

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Hot in the City…

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WARMUP: Mosey to Print Shop
THE THANG:
5 Burpees at Print Shop
Run
10 Merkins at The Crossings
Run
15 Dips at The Church of God
Run
20 Squats
Run
Rinse and repeat
3-4 miles between front and back of PAX
MARY:
2 rounds of exercise moves
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Convergence next Friday
Stuff the Bus next Saturday
COT:
Prayers for all the new drivers on the road and over all of our relationships with our 2.0s

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