Looking behind curtain number 3

WARMUP: Brief mosey around the fake track by the gym followed by COP with various classics

THE THANG: The Main Event started with a brief stop at the only real grass at The Yard for some Knee Tar N’Diayes and Mahktar N’Diayes. Then we moseyed to the gym wall for three rounds of the following:

Donkey Kicks x10
Monkey Humpers x20
Merkins x30
Squats x40
Flutters x50

After each round we recovered with either Lunge Walks, Bear Crawls or Backward Lunge Walks

Mosey back to main parking lot for tunes by UHaul plus some more exercises

MARY: Bitcoin took the baton and led the pax through some Mary, capped by a plankorama triggered by UHaul.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Many good things going on in The Fort. Read your newsletter and join in along the way.

COT: Welcome to FNG Stinger! he posted after hearing the Order of Man podcast with DOAH. Thankfully he chose to post despite what he heard. He will be back and will fit right in like he’s been here forever.

Bitcoin took the Shovel Flag today! Great to have this Accelerating pax step into a leadership role. Put The Yard on your Sat itinerary — he’ll keep this AO soaring!

The pax pushed through the Main Event with perseverance. Some mumblechatter from Crab Cakes and UHaul plus some Form Police from Peabody kept spirits light enough. Apparently Fogertys guidance that The Yard is a 45 min boot camp (and not a Moderate boot camp) hasnt made its way to all the pax. It’s clear everyone can handle it from today’s work, including our FNG Stinger who wasn’t far behind our King, Runy Slippers. Also near the front was Old Bay, who is clearly accelerating following his return to the Gloom.

Thanks to Fogerty for resurrecting The Yard. We have a trio of good options on Sat now — nice work!

Always an honor to lead the pax. SYITG!

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IronPax Pep- The Wheel of Misfortune

WARMUP: Instructions and pick up Cindy
THE THANG: The Wheel of Misfortune
In a throwback IronPax workout from 2020, we did the Wheel of Misfortune. 43 minutes of AMRAP.
Start with a 400 meter run
Pick up your block, do 10 Thrusters
Rifle carry the block 25 yds. to the 1st of 6 stations. They included: Decline Merkins, Blockees/Man Makers, Squats with the block on your back, Kettle Bell Swings, Chest Press and Cross Arm Block Raises.
In between each station, Rifle carry back to the light pole and do 10 Thrusters.
Each round consisted of 210 reps.
Most completed 2 rounds. Some more, some less.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Sign-up for IronPax, Ft. Mill Care Center still needs items. Get ready for Tour de Fort for the 10 year.
COT: Prayers for kids/teachers/parents as school starts back. Prayers for @Slapshot as he visits PA and his 102 yr old grandmother.

We ended with a discussion of community and building your brothers. IronPax is a great way to make new brothers by doing something hard together. Get signed up at https://f3greenwood.wordpress.com Workouts start will be Tuesdays and Fridays at NaFo. 5am start times as some of the beatdowns are timed to completion, though designed to be done in 45 minutes.

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Pick that up and let’s go

WARMUP: SSH, merkins, cherry pickers, on the ground for hamstring and back stretching
THE THANG: We brought some extra weight where each Pax of course had their ruck, and then 2 Pax for .25 miles would also carry the 40 pound sand bag and either a 30 or 35 lb kettle bell.

At the 1/4 mile mark, we rotated the extra weight to 2 new Pax and kept rotating every 1/4 mile.

At our first 1/4 mile we did 5 merkins with our ruck. Next 1/4 we did 5 merkins + 10 squat thrusters with ruck; next 1/4 was same as above plus 15 ruck swings; next quarter same stuff + 20 ruck chest press; another quarter plus everything + 25 shrugs.

Added up quickly but old school pearls on a string plus the extra weight was a nice way to end the work week.
MARY: no time today
ANNOUNCEMENTS: lots going on in the fort! Dam 2 dam signups begin Sept 1
COT: keep praying for DiVinchi’s step dad

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Happy Independence Day India

WARMUP:
SSH
Windmills
Merkins
Peter Parkers

THE THANG:
Farmer’s carry to big parking lot

In celebration of India’s Independence 75 years ago today, we started things off with 75 kettlebell swings

Split into 2 groups:
Lighter bells – 30lb and under
heavier bells – over 30 lbs

1 minute each exercise
Heavy bells:
Squats
Deadlifts
Chest Presses
Lawnmower pulls
Swings

Light bells:
Curls
Tricep Extensions
Shoulder presses
Clave Raises
High Pulls

Farmer’s carry around the parking lot. Drop your bell, and switch groups.

2 full rounds of this, then between rounds 2 and 3, we added 1 minute of LBCs and 5 man makers to each lineup.

MARY:
Bonsai called for Merkins, then we held the bottom until time was up

COT:
Prayers for the first day of school today in the Fort. Prayers for teachers, parents, students.
Praise for DaVinci’s step father

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Meeting of the Minds

WARMUP:
Mosey to the Kingsley traffic circle. Circle up – SSHs, Imperial Walkers, Windmills.
THE THANG:
Bear crawl around the traffic circle, then mosey to the end of the street. Next, run up to the top of the hill to the amphitheater, stop at each light pole, alternating exercises Merkins and Squats x10. Band Camp was checking form at each light post. Glad he did not have a whistle.
We finished with a plank painstation (Merkins, Peter Parkers, Wide-Arm Merkins, Parker Peters, and Diamond Merkins
Back to COT.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Heavy metal, heavy things

WARMUP:

Line up the bells heaviest to lightest

Mosey to grab cinderblocks

THE THANG:

Originally, the intention was to have a group working with 2 kettlebells and another group working with cinderblocks. Since there were 12 kettlebells and 6 PAX, we were all able to work together.

PAX were encouraged to grab 2 heavy bells and rucks or sandbags to get some serious strength training in.

EMOM

Team Iron:
Bigger muscle groups – with 2 bells
3 sets each. 10 reps
Squats
Deadlifts
Chest Presses
Rows
Swings (one bell)

Team Concrete:
Smaller muscle groups – with a cinder block
3 sets each. 20 reps
Curls
Tricep extensions
Shoulder presses
Clave raises
High pulls

We returned the cinderblocks and made it back to COT right at 0600

MARY:
none

COT:

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pick it up, put it down, drag it all around

Warmup – SSH, Windmills, plank, merkins

Rucks on – grab sandbags/loose weights and take with for lap around campus- squats/merkins

Move to field – for spoke/wheel style workout using half field (50 yards between corners):

Corner 1 – swings
Corner 2 – OH press
Corner 3 – curls
Corner 4 – bent over rows

Center- man makers (always 5 reps)

Round 1 – suit case carry (5 reps each corner)
Round 2 – Bear Crawl ruck drag (10 reps each corner)
Round 3 – suitcase carry (15 reps each corner)

Another lap around campus with weights- merkins/squats

Announcements: lots of ruck opportunities coming this fall. 10 yr anniversary details to come

CoT: prayers/praises

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Merkin extravaganza

WARMUP: mosey to the asphalt football field, Moroccan night clubs, cherry pickers, low slow squats, low slow merkins
THE THANG: start with 2 squats, 2 merkins, 2 big boy sit-ups at the end line,
mosey 10 yards, increase to 4 count of each,
mosey to 20 yard line, do 6 reps of each…
30 YL-8 reps,
40YL-10 reps,
50YL-12 reps, start decreasing by 2 reps…
40 YL-10 reps,
30 YL-8 reps,
20YL-6reps,
10YL-4 reps, end line -2 reps; take a lap…
rinse and repeat, with different exercises this time, side straddle hops, wide arm merkins, LBC’s… these two evolutions where meant to follow natural movements, stand up, down on your chest, roll back on your 6… it kept the flow going.
Take another lap.
One more evolution just like before but only with merkins… a few of us where done with upper body after this… 30 second body destroyer and mosey back to COT
MARY: flutters, box cutters, LBC’s, American hammers.
8 minutes of broga to stretch most of our abused muscles…

Humidity was 1000% I believe.. everyone gave their best effort

Tinsel out!!

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Show up if you want pullups. Show up if you don’t

WARMUP:
Polish Mating Dance – in honor of Kielbasa’s return
Scapular merkins
regular Merkins
Squats
Cherry pickers

Today’s message: Whatever you’re dealing with, just hang in there. Cat posters to follow.

THE THANG:

Mosey to pullup bars
Split into 2 groups due to size
1 minute dead hang
1 minute plank
1 minute dead hang
1 minute Al Gore
1 minute dead hang
1 minute people’s chair

Yog to the track
Tabata sprints
20 seconds all out sprint
20 seconds rest
3 out (only tell them about the 3)
3 back
Make it back to where you started
Bear crawl to cover missed distance

Yog to the pullup bars

5-10-15-20-
Pullups
Merkins
Toes 2 bar/knees to elbows
Run down the hill
Burpees
Run back up the hill

MARY:
Flutters
Pecker pointers
Hello Dollys
Dying cockroaches

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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