AKA Birthday

WARMUP: Quick disclaimer as we watched the guest of honor roll up at exactly 5:15. Started with 15IW, 5 Slow Windmills and 53 SSH
THE THANG: Mosey to the top of the hill, did a long set of 7’s with Iron Mike’s at the top and Flutter Press at the storage building. Second set of 7’s was curls at the storage building and dips at the bottom of the hill. Finished up with some Murph prep, sets of 10CDD (No pull up bars), 20 Merkins and 30 squats, followed by a run behind the football locker room. Got almost 3 rounds in before it was time to head to COT
MARY: A round of flutters while the 6 rolled back
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Cannoli Run, Sweaty Barry(?)
COT: 5th core principle

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SlowBurn with a Kick in the A….

WARMUP: Dynamic warm up around Lowe’s stopping along way to circle up and exercise
Crowd pleaser was the duck walks in honor of Retiree

THE THANG:
The accumulator
10 exercises starting with one rep
Moving to next parking space line 2 reps, next line 3 reps and continuing to 10 spaces 10 reps
Modes of transportation were
Bear Crawl
Lunge walk
Crawl Bear
Reverse Lunge walk

Shoulders were toast but Twister kept us motivated :cold_sweat:
MARY:
Back at COT some dying cockroaches
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Fast5k Saturday 3pm do it for Luka!!
COT:
Prayers for all dealing with life and it’s disappointments but also recognizing the blessings :fire: :point_up_2: :raised_hands:

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Run to the River 4 miles

WARMUP: nope
THE THANG: Ran to the river through Baxter
MARY: a few afterwards did some additional work
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: prayers for Families and our thoughts

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Get The Work Done – KB Style

WARMUP: Run the loop then more of the typical hits: Windmill, SSH, Merkins, Low Slow Squats.

THE THANG: Hoist your bell overhead and move to the far parking lot.
For this round, the exercises would be performed with the bell and the burpee is without the bell:
10 Man-Makers: 2 Burpees
20 Simbas: 4 Burpees
30 Kettle Bell Swings: 6 Burpees
40 Overhead Press (20ea side): 8 Burpees
50 Lunge Walk Paces (25ea side): 10 Burpees

Partner Rounds
Round 1
Grab a partner and choose the left or right side of the loop to launch from.
Partner 1: Farmers Carry both Kettle Bells around the big loop.
Partner 2: Flutter Kicks
Flapjack
Round 2
Partner 1: Farmers Carry again
Partner 2: Box Cutters
Flapjack

Next, line up on one side of the parking lot. Bear Crawl with your Bell 40 paces, 20 each arm.

Next, come back together in a group.
Hold your Bell overhead until 1 man lowers his Bell then all PAX perform 10 Merkins.
Repeat 3 more times for a total of 4 rounds.

Farmers Carry the bell back to COT.

MARY: Sprinkled throughout plus a little at the end.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter details.
COT: You bet.

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Zipper games (not what you think)

WARMUP: Load up with weight vest, 3 40lb sandbags and one 60lb
THE THANG: The Whiteville park zipper game.
Split into two groups starting at Spring and Leroy. Group one with sandbags went left for a .3 mile loop to hill street. Groups two went right with just vests for a .45 mile loop to hill street. Last group back to spring owed five burpees. Rinse and repeat all the way to lockman. Loaded up and headed to cot switching sandbags every two blocks.
MARY: everyone did ten burpees.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: see ya Christmas party.
COT: Be grateful. It’s a beautiful masters Sunday and a beautiful day to be alive.

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AKA hills and running

WARMUP: nah
THE THANG: trail runners hit the trail. Path for runner was down Munn, into the school, ran all the way out the back by the pull up bars. Then down Harris and up Jackson. Then either to Massey or through WEP and back down Harris. Some got a little extra in old and new Kingsley.
MARY: nah
ANNOUNCEMENTS: fast 5 today!
COT: completed at the beginning so kind of

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AKA – Board of Pain 2025

The [vintage] Challenge:
– Burpees – 100 (Ruby Slippers 0, Slash 7)
– Calf Raises – 150 (50 regular, 50 toes pointed in, 50 toes pointed out)
– Ski Abs – 100 (Barry Manilow started)
– Merkins – 100
– Deep Squats – 100 (Anchorman started, Cake Boss 10, Short Sale 50, JWOW 51)
– LBCs – 200 (Cohiba – completed)
– Carolina Dry Docks – 100 (Time Machine 10)
– American Hammer – 100 (Harry Carry? Vuvuzela & Band Camp completed)
– Mac Tar Jai – 100
– Jump Squats – 100
– Mountain Climbers – 100
– Shoulder Raises – 200
– Mary Catherines – 100
– Hello Dolly – 200
– Wide Arm Merkins – 100
– Squat Jacks – 100
– Nippler– 100
– Burpees – 100

The Board of Pain isn’t that hard. It isn’t completable in 45 minutes. But it ain’t about finishing, it’s about seeing how far you can go!

You:
– Show up
– Put forth the effort
– Share suffering amongst the PAX
– Build camaraderie
– Teach yourself that
– You can take on challenging tasks
– You will improve
– You accelerate when other men are striving alongside you

There are plenty of harder workouts. But the Board is doable by ALL MEN. Be present and try; that’s all it takes! You don’t have to get far; you just have to go.

How is it in our lives that we have a problem and the solution is the same? Be present and try

We ain’t getting it all done today, but today’s effort still matters!

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Pyramid of Pain

Quick disclaimer
And warmup
5 windmills, 10 IW/10MNC

Mosey to behind school on bball courts where the pyramid of pain was set up

5 stations, 4 corners and 1 in middle
Partner up ( work is completed together)
Each of the corners had a cone with an exercise listed
LBCs, CDDs, Squats Monkey Humpers and then Hand release merkins in the middle
The corners increase by 10 each round but the HR merkins stay at 10- changed to this after realizing that having to do 4 sets per round, and increasing would be impossible. So at the corners 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 ( didn’t make it to round 5)
Mode of transport changed every round:
Bear crawls
Crawl bears
Partner carrys
Wheel barrows
Leap frogs (we didn’t make it to this round)
Two teams got through the full 4 rounds without bat flipping- lots of modifications happened so ppl took my disclaimer to heart ?

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Complex Math

16 at Minnow Pond for a test of speed and math skilz.
Simple loop around town, four stops
Stop 1 – COT – Merkins
Stop 2 – Pharmacy – LBCs
Stop 3 – Parking lot – SSHs
Stop 4 – Gazebo – Squats
Back to COT for lap 2
Rep count Lap 1 was 2 for everyone
Rep count Lap 2 was 4 for everyone
Rep count Lap 3 was 6 for everyone except the lead pax, 8 reps
additional laps: Lead Pax rep counts = 2 x prior lap reps
everyone else rep count = lap # x 2
Guys out front reach the 64 rep count based on the compounding.
Short lesson, compounding can be excellent when you are looking at saving money, over time it accumulates to a nice sum of money. On the other hand, when you have issues that go unchecked, they can result in a bigger problem down the road. Make sure you keep coming out, share what’s on your mind with your shield lock.

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AKA ‘25 at Block Party

WARMUP: Mosey to vet clinic parking lot. SSH, LSS, MNC, Merkin, Down Dog, Up Dog
THE THANG:
Mosey to large parking lot at the corner of Confederate and Monroe White for a DORA.
– 100 Mike Tyson (MOT – Run to far side of parking lot and NUR back)
– 200 Lunges (MOT – bear crawl to second landscape island and run back)
– 300 American Hammers (MOT – Run to far side of parking lot and NUR back)

Run to bottom of Massey St hill for a round of 7s.
– Burpees at the top of the hill
– Jump Squats at the bottom of the hill

MARY: PAX took turns calling Mary to run out the final 3 minutes.

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