Swole city, bro! Fist pumpin’ through the burn, lookin’ fresh for the boardwalk. GTL all day, don’t sleep!

WARMUP:
• 20 SSH IC
• 10 Windmill Cherry Pickers IC
• World’s Greatest Stretch (both sides)

THE THANG:
AMRAP Circuit – 40s on / 20s off (4 rounds)
1. KB Swings
2. KB Goblet March
3. Suitcase Deadlifts
4. Cross Body Curls
5. Alternating Bent Over Rows
6. Lunge w/ KB Pass Through
7. Lunge w/ Waiter Press
Active Recovery Between (most) Sets:
• Planks
• Goblet Squats
• KB Carries
Core Finisher – AMRAP (40s on / 20s off):
1. Around the World
2. American Hammers
3. Overhead KB Dying Cockroaches
4. Bear Plank w/ KB Pull Through
5. LBCs w/ Overhead KB
6. Flutter Kicks
7. KB Halos
8. KB Lateral Swings
9. Plank to close it out

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: bethel men’s shelter, HIM camp.
COT: Prayers for all.

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Lazarus – 8/21/2025

WARMUP:
– 10 Side Straddle Hops
– 10 Windmills
– Plank to Down Dog, Calf stretch’s to Sunrise

THE THANG:
Mosey to hill on Red Stone behind Biergarten
25 Inchworm/Walkin Merkins
Bear crawl to top of hill
25 Tip-Toe Squats – Mosey down to bottom

Mosey to corner of Red Stone & Opportunity Dr.

Ladder with 5 stops, scale exercises with each stop. WO spots – Corner, First Drive(on R), First Crosswalk, Crimson Ct., End of Circle Exit.

Stop 1 – 5 Burpees

Stop 2 – 5 Burpees + 10 Calf Raises

Stop 3 – 5 Burpees + 10 Calf Raises + 15 Squats

Stop 4 – 5 Burpees + 10 Calf Raises + 15 Squats + 20 Merkins

Stop 5 – 5 Burpees + 10 Calf Raises + 15 Squats + 20 Merkins + 25 Monkey-Humpers

Mosey to Parking Deck, Conquer the PD (Run to top)

REPEAT – Return to End of Circle and descend ladder (I.e. do it all again in reverse order)

Mosey to COT

MARY: Heel’s to Heaven with a lift
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: It is what it is…

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Rain Was Right On Time

WARMUP: Run To Business 21
THE THANG: Thought we would have a dry morning but Mother Nature had heavy rain in store for us. It started pouring exactly at 0515 and lasted to about COT. Some pole dancing was on tap for my Q at Minnow Pond so I had pax mosey over to business 21 where there are 5 telephone poles about 1/8 mile apart. Pax started at pole 1 did an exercise and ran about 1/4 mile to road sign and ran back up hill to first pole do exercise then move to second pole and do that exercise. This pattern continued to all 5 poles where completed. Exercises were 10 reps at each pole of Hand Release Merkins, Big Boys, Monkey Humpers, Carolina Dry Docks and Hand Release Diamond Merkins. 3.5-4.25 miles where ran.
MARY: nope
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Golf Tournament October 20th Waterford Golf Course.
COT:

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Runners Don’t Smoke

WARMUP: No warmup just start running
THE THANG: Option 1: Deadly 3 mile run; Option 2: A safer 4.5 mile run
MARY: She doesn’t visit running AOs
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: Prayers and Praises

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Pendulum 8s

WARMUP: mosey through the stopping points
THE THANG: Starting at top of Dave Gibson hill on middle school side and running to 160 we did 8s with 7 burpees at the top, 1 navy seal burpee at the bottom, 7 burpees at the top at 160 and 1 navy seal burpee back at the bottom. We reduced distance up Dave Gibson each round and went down to 6-2-6-2 on burpee- navy seal burpee.
MARY: she didn’t show up
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter
COT: yep

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Stand Up’s VQ

WARMUP: side straddle hops, arm circles, windmills, imperial walkers, cherry pickers

THE THANG:

Station 1: 100m-ish partner run – 100 monkey humpers, 200 Carolina dry docks, 300 American Hammers

Mosey

Station 2: 10 Merkins, 15 air squats, 20 big boys, 10 burpees

Mosey to the wall

Station 3: PAX stayed in wall squat, while we snaked down the line bear crawling out 10 yards and performed 5 wide arm merkins, then crab walked back. Then walking lunges out to 5 squats and walking lunges back.

Mosey

MARY: 30 LBC, 15 Box cutters, 15 Freddie Mercuries, 15 Flutters, CELEBRITY @slapshot 30 hello dolly’s, and a much needed 15 second body destroyer

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 9/11 stair climb, HIM Camp, and the jam-packed newsletter

COT: praises for new family members for @grassy knoll and a healthy baby for @the pirates friend Netflix. Prayers for Pollo Hermano’s father, DD and family fighting the fight against cancer, college of mine in the throws of rock bottom, and a member of my personal network getting a heart stent in place today. Apologies for any prayers spoken that I’ve forgotten.

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King of the Ring VIII

WARMUP:
yea. Nothing fancy:
SSH, IW, HW, Windmill, yoga

THE THANG:
10 pull-ups
20 merkins
30 squats
Farmers carry 2 cinder blocks 440ft downhill
Run around Sugar Creek Elementary
Farmers carry 2 cinder blocks 440ft uphill
Bear crawl 50ft out and 50ft back

As many rounds as possible

Harry Carey was King of the Ring with 3 full rounds completed. He almost got done with the first Farmers Carry on round 4. :first_place_medal:

2nd place didn’t even start the bear crawls on round 3. :grimacing:

MARY: a few flutters in the wet for the 6

ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter (accessible from the homepage)

COT: was held

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The CKVQ

WARMUP: Short mosey to WEP stage
Oblique stretch (Keep your feet on the ground…)
Elbows to opposite high knees
Frankensteins
Scoops
Tiptoe walk
Heel walk
Leg kicks
Toe pointers

THE THANG: mosey to 123 White St lot (Long Distance Dedication)

HIIT (CK plays the HIITs)
15 merkins
20 shoulder taps
25 jump squats

Side squat shuffle across the lot and run to next levels

Side lot
Pick your favorite mode of transport down and back. We had lunges, burpee broads, and bear crawls represented.

America’s Top 40 shoulder presses (extra points if you counted down)

Rinse and repeat the HIIT, the shuffles, the side lot and the shoulder presses

Mosey to small lot between McKimmon and Audrey, and play the HIIT one last time

Mosey to WEP stage for core

MARY:
All exercises executed Casey Kasem style:

Freddie Mercuries
American Hammers
LBC
Hello Dollies
SSH

ANNOUNCEMENTS: HIM Camp

COT: Prayers for healthy families and kids to college.

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Billy Madison Loop

6 of us dodged puddles and covered over 4 miles this morning. Here was what YHC dubbed the “Billy Madison” route:

– Circle Doby’s Bridge Elementary, up Neff Court
– Take the rocky path up and over Doby’s Bridge to and through Dominion Bridge
– Venture down Whites Rd, left at the Forest Creek Middle basketball courts, around the school, down to the track and back up and over Whites Rd again
– Circle Catawba Ridge High School, back over Whites Rd, through Dominion Bridge (up hill this time) and back to COT
– 4.16 miles total

NMM
When we all arrived this morning, it was pouring – like, you cannot see the road pouring. I think we all thought the worst about what was to come. Funny thing though, at 5:13 the rain stopped and we stepped off. We made the situation much worse in our minds than what was reality. There’s a lesson there. Maybe the thing you are putting off isn’t as bad as you think it is. Maybe you should just step off and get started. Or maybe it was just happenstance. Maybe.

Aye!
Italian Job

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WorldsBestMerkin

WARMUP: plank
THE THANG:
World’s greatest push-up, bear crawls, power skips, fire hydrants, sprinting up the hill
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: welcome to the new guy Rocco who carried a water bottle around the whole workout so we named him after a Waterboy reference Boucher
COT:

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