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O Brother Where Art Tho?

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WARMUP: Imperial Walker, Hill Billy Walker, Over Head Claps, Windmill, and Potato Pickers All 11 Count
THE THANG: Mosey to front of school for start of 4 Corners. 4 Rounds were called with different exercises each round. 25 reps for all exercises except Burpees was 15.

1st Round- Hand Release Merkins, Squats, LBC’s and Carolina Dry Docks

2 Round- Diamond Merkins, Monkey Humpers, Moroccan Night Clubs and Box Cutters

3rd Round- Calf Raise On Curb, Merkins, Mak Tar Dyes, and Flutter Kicks (4 count)

4th Round- Leg Lifts, Hello Dolly, Burpees and Apollo Uno’s

MARY: Mary’s Sister Meghan came out and led us through some Broga for the last 10 minutes. Flexibility Boys it’s very overlooked and some of y’all are wound up tight. We have to get better at stretching and doing active movements.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter
COT: Yep.

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Your MILGA is showing

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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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Raiders from Sweep

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Warmup:
SSH
Windmill
Around the world
Humane Burpee

Thang:
4 Pop clean & squat
4 thrusters
4 swings
4 rows (each arm)
8 merkins on the bell
Bear crawl w/ bell between each set
I think we did 7 sets.
“[Sweep the Leg guys showed up for about 5 seconds. Dark Helmet grabbed my bell, realized how heavy it was, and tried to hurl it in the woods with limited success. T-claps for effort]”
Farmers Carry
Lunge Walk w/ pass through
Deadman to Barbarian
Some mobility
Deadman to Barbarian
Lunge walk back
Farmers carry

one round of 5s
Row
Single arm swing
Clean
Snatch

Halos and SL deadlift

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Sofrito is here!!!

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WARMUP: nope
THE THANG: walk Kingsley loops 3.2ish miles. Finish with some squats, imperial walkers, merkins, burpees
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: jan 31 run/ruck at river walk
COT: prayers for successful medical procedures and recoveries

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Gear WO @ The Colosseum

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Read some backblasts and decided to bring some toys to the Colosseum for all the PAX to enjoy as a means to change it up a bit.
WARMUP: Moseyed to the loop at the front of the school where gear stations were set-up. Performed some SSH and a few burpees and then made sure PAX understood the exercises at each station. Explanation done, moseyed around to the back half of the loop, performed some SSH and a few burpees, explained the format, then we started to work.

THE THANG:
Partner Up. Partner 1 attends a station and performs the exercise until Partner 2 relieves him. Partner 2 runs the half loop, but before re-entering the exercise area must complete 3 burpees.
Exercises below:
Reverse Lunges w/ 20lb weighted vest
AB Wheel (had a pillow for our knees)
KB Swings w/ 40lb KB
Shoulder Swings in a low squat position w/ Hvy Rope
Russian Twists w/ 10lb weighted ball w/ handles
OverHead Squats w/ Cindy
CurltoPress w/ 45lb plate
V-Sits w/ 10lb weighted ball
Tricep Ext w/ 12lb DBs
Squats w/ 30lb Ruck
Alt. Single Arm Snatches w/ 35lb DB
OH Press Toss w/ 60lb SB
Single Arm LawnMower Pulls w/ 45lb DB ( watch your running partner and switch about half way )

MARY: NONE

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Break the Dam

COT: STK

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substi-Q at the pond

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My boy Poppins blew out his hammy doing something in the shower… sounds wild… so I figured PAX could chase me around for 45 minutes instead.

Pledge at 5:14 brief disclaimer and LFG

Out and back route up main street, right at light, turn around at QT.

Stopped a bout every 1/4 to 1/2 mile for in-cadence exercise escalator style.
Instructed PAX to join in on whatever exercise happening when they arrived

20 SSH IC
Add 5 merkins IC
Add 10 Squats IC
Add 15 OH Claps IC
Add 20 wide arm Merkins OYO
Add 25 LBCs IC
Add 15 Lunges IC

3.5 miles total

Feel better Pop

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The While Zipper

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WARMUP:
Mosey to Fort Mill Pharmacy parking lot, Moroccan nightclubs, low slow squats, and 9 burpees
Mosey around Clebourne to next parking lot and 5 diamond merkins in cadence
Mosey to next parking lot and 5 jump squats, mosey to corner of Spring and Elliot
THE THANG:
Zipper route. Every time you cross over Spring, you do burpees. Start with 8 and do one less each time you cross over down to 1 burpees at Summersby and Spring. Right side of the zipper is 15 jump squats, left side is 15 diamond merkins
MARY:
Some did, some made it back right on time
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Donuts are a food group!!

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WARMUP:
Slow mosey
Lunge walk
Mosey
Fruit pickers
Imperial walkers
Low squat
Merkins
Slow mosey
Hillbilly walkers
Moracan night clubs
Slow mosey
3 rounds of Swing crunches and pull ups
THE THANG:
Accumulating ladder with bear crawl or lunge across turf between sets of exercises
1 merkin- 12 total
2 big boys – 22 total
3 SSH – 30 total
4 flutters – 36 total
5 burpees – 40 total
6 leg lifts – 42 total
7 sumo squats – 42 total
8 American hammers – 40 total
9 monkey humpers – 36 total
10 mountain climbers – 30 total
11 donkey kicks – 22 total
12 ski abs – 12 total
MARY: no time
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Barry 7/22 7pm
Trash pick up
Blood drive
Christmas party
COT:
Temptation is real and used often since the beginning
As men we are made to make the tough decisions and hold the line and choose wisely when faced with temptation
Look to Sky Q and Concentrica and don’t do things impulsively :clap: :bacon: :fire: :point_up_2:

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Welcome back to the 90s

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WARMUP: SSH while we gathered everyone to get the party started. Then took off for a short mosey over to the flags. Windmills, cherry pickers, low slow squats, merkins. Then ran to the back of the school.
THE THANG: we setup the DJ station for some 90s jams. Stating point was by the gym where the picnic tables were at and we would do 1 exercise, run to the end of the parking lot where the orange cones are normally at, then back to the music for the following exercise, reading left to right and then progressing down. But 1 exercise, then run every time. I think 2.5 miles were got or close to, and the kings were somewhere down to the jump squats.

10 burpees (30 seconds Al Gore)
15 diamonds (30 monkey humpers)
20 hand release (50 calf raises)
25 wide arm (50 flutters)
30 merkins (40 step ups total)
35 rangers (25 incline merkins)
40 carolina dry docs (30 hammers)
45 plank jacks (30 sec wall sit)
50 mountain climber (50 LBC)
60 shoulder taps (25 jump squat)
90 sec plank (25 decline merkins)

MARY: didn’t happen today
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter and shovel flag handoff to Halfback!! Congrats!
COT: love these guys and the support they give each of us!

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When in doubt, blame Schwartz…

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With no announcement as to the Q for the day as of the afternoon of the night before, which is unusual for <@U02679GQ1AT>, but becoming very usual for The Fort overall, I mentioned casually that I would just take it. So, Barkley dared me to. No, I don’t know exactly why, but here we are. It made me think of this as a Reverse Flick. In what may be the most famous scene from the movie A Christmas Story, Schwartz dares Flick to stick his tongue to the frozen flagpole on the playground. He throws all convention out the door and skips the Triple Dare and does right for the Triple Dog Dare. Which, as we all know, must be completed for fear of ever tarnishing a man’s reputation. In the case of the Colosseum, well, the roles were reversed and the metaphorical Flick (Barkley) dared Schwartz. Look, no one reads these except <@UGU3XR5RP> anyway, and it’s a weird place up in my head… so I’m just documenting all this for evidence when my wife finally has me committed. She’ll need a preponderance of evidence that I am, in fact, not quite right. This will help.

I decided to “play all the hits” of the Colosseum for our workout, explained in slightly more detail below. But again, as we all know that these are written primarily for the stats, I won’t bother with large amounts of detail.

WARMUP:
I’m sure I did some really slow windmills and stuff

THE THANG:
– Light poles to the end (before the right turn to go up the hill)
– Stop at each pole for 5 merkins
– Head up the hill
– Stop at intersections for 15 (double count) flutters
– Down hill
– Stop at intersections again for 15 LBCs
– Run to back to the wall
– Far side of lot – bear crawl to the wall, over the wall 5 burpees, over the wall, crawl bear back
– Bottom of the hill, grab a rock
– Overhead presses and curls
– Up the hill
– Stopping at light posts for 10 jump squats
– Down hill
– Stopping at light posts for 5 lunges each leg
– Grab a rock
– Chest presses, and something else I can’t remember

MARY:
No chicks.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Read your newsletter.

COT:
The 5th Core Principle.

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