The Encore … again

6 years ago, I Q’ed The Yard the morning after an Iron Maiden show. I pulled that Weinke out, then forgot it at home. Still can close …

WARMUP: mosey to the lot near the football field for some dynamic warm up back and forth across, shuffle, karaoke, butt kickers, toy soldier, soccer knees. Ending in a bear crawl that all executed completely. A couple stops at the side during, calf raises, merkins, BB sit ups, other stuff. 15 minutes worth.

Mosey to the bus loop. Half ran while half did LBCs, and flip flop. Same with squats and plank-o-rama

THE THANG: Mosey to the entrance with the hill, an exercise at the top related to an Iron Maiden song, then run the hill (Run to the Hills) after each exercise
Two Minutes to Midnight: 11 merkins, 58 OH Claps
Aces High: 11 … flying squirrels (I also recommended that everyone give a listen, my fav IM song … we’ll done Assassin)
22 Arcacia Avenue: 22 shoulder taps
Deja Vu: repeat 22 shoulder taps
Bruce Dickinson’s age: 6 of something, 3 of another
The Ides of March: 3 burpees, 15 merkins
There may have been another

MARY: no, Mary was not present

ANNOUNCEMENTS: sign up for lawn mowing, do your backblasts, eat your Wheaties

COT: Bitcoin accepted the site Q opportunity

Looks like we made it,

Barry Manilow

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Sweating on the dance floor

WARMUP:
With 75 degree temps and 80% humidity, a warmup wasn’t entirely necessary. We did it anyway.
– Windmills (IC)
– Overhead claps (IC)
– Low slow squats (IC) – This is the point when YHC started to sweat
– Moroccan Nightclubs (IC)
– Peter Parker (IC)
– Parker Peter (IC)
– Downward dog
– Honeymooner
– SSH (IC)

THE THANG:
Partnered up for a DORA
– 100 CDD
– 200 Step ups
– 300 LBC

Moved over to the parking lot to spend the final 20 minutes running laps with 4 corners of pain. MOT decision left to the individual PAX…run, walk, bear crawl…all chose to run. 10 reps of an exercise at each corner.
– Merkin
– American hammer
– Squat
– Superman

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– The Swamp moving to Golden Corral loc this Friday
– Service and donation needs at FM Care Center
– Read your newsletter

Welcome back to the gloom, Tootie!

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JWow Wins! JWow Wins!

WARMUP: We headed for the light and warmed up with some of the usual suspects
THE THANG: We played Uno with these rules:

Blue – Curls
Green – LBC
Yellow – Goblet Squats
Red – Chest press

Skip – Run
+2 – pick 2 exercises, 2 reps
+4 – 4 reps all 4 exercise
Reverse – Repeat last exercise
Wild – Change color

MARY: Strange how we got a lot of core in but not much chest work so I threw the me in.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Dark Helmet is trying to murder us tomorrow.  Sign up to mow at the Care Center Read your newsletter.
COT: Thanks for playing along with Thrill Uno. Thanks for letting me lead. Thrill is gone!

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Airwolf inspired “ciabatta”

WARMUP: Mosey from flag to second parking lot. 20 count IC: SSH, hillbilly walkers, Cherry pickers, Moroccan nightclubs. 10 count down dog to 10 count honeymooner. Mosey to the band lot.

THE THANG: Tabata Time! 2 exercises, 45 sec intervals with a 10 sec rest between x 3 sets of ea. After 6th set, each PAX ran a loop around the light poles and planked for the 6. Rinse and repeat x5 cycles.
First cycle: hand release merkins & LBC’s
Second cycle: plank jacks & hello dollies
Third cycle: Carolina dry docks & calf raises
Fourth cycle: merkins & Bobby Hurley’s
Fifth cycle: Superman’s & monkey humpers

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter! Shady on Q at hanging with Stang today. F3 Dad’s is coming in June. Get your 2.0’s ready to roll!

COT: Bonsai’s family will be traveling to 3 different places, some separate from each other. Travel mercies and safety. JWOW travel mercies. Pothole clarity and patience. OTG is thankful to be back in the Gloom with his fellow PAX. We are all happy to have him back!

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You should be dancing, yeah

WARMUP:
Mosey to the running tracks
Side Straddle Hop
Produce Pickers
Hillbilly Walkers
Windmills
Moroccan Nightclubs
Imperial Walkers

THE THANG:
Mosey on the Running track
Mosey to Second basketball court, lungewalk back
Mosey to Second basketball court, Toy Soldier walk back
Sprint to the second basketball court, lungewalk back.

Mosey to the parking lot to one of the four pain stations, mosey/brisk walk between them after completing listed exercises. Rinse and Repeat.

Pain station # 1:
25 Mountain Climbers
25 Plank Jacks
25 Squats

Pain station # 2:
25 Merkins
20 Lunges
25 SSH

Pain station # 3:
25 Calf raises
50 Skipping without rope
50 LBCs

Pain station # 4:
15 Freddie Mercury

MARY:
(PAX Choice)

Flutter Kicks
American Hammers
Freddie Mercury
Gas Pumpers
Carolina Dry Dock

ANNOUNCEMENTS
COT

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Gear Mayhem

WARMUP: SSH, Windmills, Low slow squats, Moroccan Night Clubs, Arm Circles, Merkins
THE THANG: 2 min timer, AMRAP
KB Squats
Chest Press
Calf raise
Wall sit
Skull crushers
Freddie Mercuries
KB Lunges
Plank
LBCs
Rinse and repeat until 5:55 am
Airborne’s Hip Thing

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Murph on Monday after all normal AO workouts
COT: Families in Texas, Baby #2 for BattleBot

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Tengo at The Ballroom

It was a thick humid morning in The Fort, but eleven HIM decided to get out of the fart sack and take their daily dose of the red pill and accelerate. FNG Red Card posted so the disclaimer was thorough and so was the pain!
Warmup:
20 Side Strattle Hops
10 Windmills
10 Tappy Taps
10 Merkins
Down/Up Dogs 🐕
LBCs

Mosey/Toy Soliders/Kareoke over to the bridge of pain for a Tengo with Dora.
Partner 1: Run across the bridge to the locker room and back.
Partner 2: 100 Merkins, 200 Squats, 300 Flutters

Next lunge over to the bleachers for some bleacher work. I took a deep dive into the archives of the exicon for this next exercise called the Aiken Legs. Was it named after Clay Aiken or Aiken SC? That is the deep mystery of the exicon (from the exicons lips to God’s year).

Aiken Legs:
20 Squats
20 Step Ups
20 Clave Raises

Aiken Chest:
20 Merkins
20 Derkins
20 Incline Merkins

Aiken Abs:
20 V-Ups
20 Crunches
20 Lowe Back Raises

Moseyed back to COT for prayer ans praises.

– JWow

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Viking Metal forever 🤟🏻

WARMUP: we did some COP and jogging back and forth
THE THANG: AMRAP with partner and chalk it was accountability and inspiring
MARY: N/A
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: perspective!!
Are you attacking the day or dreading the day?
Are you moving forward or looking back?
Abram…aka Abraham settling in bethel was halfway from AI (dump) and God’s eventual permanent place for him
We are halfway from our past and our permanent and eternal destination….are you looking forward?? Are you ready??
Get your mind and spirit right!

8 From there he moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.

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