What’s a Kraken Man-Maker?

WARMUP:
Moroccan nightclubs
Windmills
Cherry pickers
Hillbilly walkers
Low slow squats

Head to entrance hill and complete a “7”. Man-makers at the bottom and squats at the top

THE THANG:
Card game:
Numbers 1-10, do the number of reps per card:
Hearts – Goblet squats
Clubs – overhead press
Diamonds – KB swings
Spades – 2-hand upright rows
 
A – 5 Man-Makers
K – 10 Lunge squats w/bell overhead, single count
Q – 15 flutter with press – count on press
J – 20 Plank pull-throughs
 
Joker – 5 Kraken Man-Makers. Pick a partner and do these together
MARY: American hammers and Freddy mercury’s
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Sink Flag Handoff

WARMUP: Is for sissies.
THE THANG: A .75 lap around the campus with full gear (weight vest and sandbag on your back, kettlebell in one hand and cinderblock in the other) each time you had to set down the block and hell it was ten bag tosses mosey back to your bell and block for ten merkins, load back up and carry on.

7s with thrusters and four count mountain climbers with farmer carry each way with the bell and block.

MARY: Circled up, geared up, static hold with everything until you couldn’t. Planked and ten merkins over the span of two minutes to wrap it up.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Flag handoff to the man <@U088CUMTQ05>
COT: Yep

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Loops of Clebourne

Minnow Pond is one of the premier AOs in the Fort. Thanks to NASA for his leadership. YHC was honored to Q the workout and bring some pain to start the day. In addition, I wanted to bring a heartfelt message to the men as I am grateful to be their brother.

WARMUP:

No warmup. Pledge then 5 burpees
THE THANG:

Run Clebourne loops with 5 stops. Remove a stop for each loop the start over again when 5 loops have been completed.

Stop 1 – 5 burpees
Stop 2 – 10 merkins
Stop 3 – 15 Monkey Humpers
Stop 4 – 20 dips
Stop 5 – 25 Big boys

COT:

Strong COT this AM! Prayers and praises all around.

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The Hive Shovel Flag Hand-Off

WARMUP: Happy Hour warmed us up for the impending bear down
THE THANG:
Round 1: 10-min AMRAP
10 x KBS
10 x KB squats
10 x KB deadlifts
10 x KB clean and jerk

Round 2: 25-min of suffering

PAX circle up at bottom of the hill.
Non-stop KB swings, accumulate as many as possible – every time you stop swinging you complete:
5x burpees
10x merkins
15x squats
Resume swinging

Meanwhile…pax take turns carrying heavy objects up the hill to the speed bump. Options included:
100lb sandy nut sack
60lb sandy hog (sand bag)

Everyone worked hard, everyone complained, everyone got better

MARY:
LBCs
American Hammers

ANNOUNCEMENTS: yes there were several

COT: Had to be there

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Up and Down DORA

WARMUP: Intro and disclaimer. Began mosey across the street. Stopped for MNC, windmills and Non-discrpt produce pickers. Mosey to another location, then stopped IW, HBW and SJacks. Continued Mosey back to the main church parking lot. Bear crawled parking spaces and then lunch walked another set. Finally, Mosey back to out KB’s.
THE THANG: Let the DORA begin. Pair up for 50 KB curls, 100 KB upright rows, 150 Goblit squats and 200 AH with KB. Partner ran around the short island. Once finished, back down we go. 150 GS, 100 URR, and 50 curls.
MARY: LBC and HD
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Tourtise and the Hare
COT: Prayers for friends, bloodwork and school.

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21 reps X 10

WARMUP: Missy around Lowe’s W/ SSH, cherry pickers, windmills
THE THANG: 10 stations of 21 reps. 5 coupons jumped out of the back of my truck to get involved
MARY: pax’s count
ANNOUNCEMENTS: lawn care, cannoli run, read your newsletter
COT: long Duck took us out in prayer

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Soggy Armory Pits

WARMUP: Hammy stretches, Down-dog to calf stretches, Moroccan nightclubs, Side straddle hops
THE THANG: Mosey with KB to the other side of the pond

– 50 Calf Raises, Mosey w/ KB 40 yards across Parking Lot, 50 more Calf Raises, KB mosey back to start

– 50 KB Plank Pick and Place 25 L & R, Mosey w/ KB 40 yards across Parking Lot, 50 more KB Plank Pick and Place 25 L & R, KB mosey back to start

– 50 KB Romanian Deadlifts, Mosey w/ KB 40 yards across Parking Lot, 50 more KB Romanian Deadlifts, KB mosey back to start

– 50 KB swings, Mosey w/ KB 40 yards across Parking Lot, 50 more KB swings, KB mosey back to start

– 50 Tricep extensions, Mosey w/ KB 40 yards across Parking Lot, 50 Tricep extensions, KB mosey back to start

– 50 Goblet Squats Sumo style, Mosey w/ KB 40 yards across Parking Lot, 50 more Goblet Squats Sumo style, KB mosey back to start

– 50 Curls, Mosey w/ KB 40 yards across Parking Lot, 50 Curls, KB mosey back to start

– Mosey back across the pond to COT

BTW It rained on us this morning and kept us cool.

P.S. – We really missed our sleeping brothers that decided to leave the rain to us.

MARY: NA
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletters
COT: It is what it is…

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The CLAP – Inspired by Metro

For the month of May, Farmer’s Only has deemed the Kitchen Sink as a next-level kick in the junk. I had the honor of warming everyone up to the idea of what will occur this month. We do a lot of pushing exercises, running, some occasional KB work and your typical stretches. Opportunities exist to stretch yourself and try something you’re not used to and therefore, not strong in. The first F in F3 is Fitness for a reason. Today we focused on functional fitness.
I’ve had the opportunity to head up to CLT Metro a few times lately and work out at Shore Card. It is an absolute suck-fest and it’s glorious. Yes it’s hard but that doesn’t mean we should avoid it. Arguably, we should lean into it. And that is exactly what May is all about, starting today with YHC on Q at The Kitchen Sink.
No warmup, no friendly conversation, no excuses. Just legit work.
Everyone knew what they were in for.
The gear for the morning will be a Ruck (or vest/plate carrier), Sandbag, Kettle Bell (KB) and a Cinder Block. Every man was to have each of these. When I reference “gear”, know that it includes these 4pcs.

WARMUP: We didn’t have one but thankfully a few PAX got the message and showed up early to stretch…or just stand around.
THE THANG: Grab ALL your gear and head out of the school and down Hubert Graham Parkway to the 2nd light pole. This was, what I believe, the eye-opener for many of the PAX. Carrying all this gear for this distance is very abnormal which made it great. It looked good on paper and looked great in person.
With your ruck staying on, carry 1 piece of additional gear to the top of the hill, making your own personal discard pile. Then shuffle back down to your remaining gear and repeat until all gear is on the pile at the top of the hill.

From here, hoist all your gear and meet at the entrance to the school.

With Ruck on, KB swings.
With Ruck on, KB overhead in one hand, farmers carry the cinder block with the other hand to the intersection with the baseball diamond. Another suck-fest.
Ground all gear (ruck, KB, cindy) and shuffle like a gazelle back to your sandbag.
A gear Q of mine wouldn’t be complete without this. Sandbag toss back to your gear pile.

Now, a gear cycle:
Sandbag with Ruck on: 10 Sandbag Thrusters
KB without the Ruck (Slick): 15 Simbas (think, big boy sit up with the KB hoisted overhead)
Cindy with Ruck on: 20 Curls

Grab all gear and move to the flagpoles. It was here where I was reminded we had only 5mins left. So be it….
Cindy with Ruck on: 10 Merkins with left hand up on the block then 10 Merkins with right hand up on the block.
Then, 5 Mike Tysons with Ruck on.
Move all gear back to COT.

MARY: Some dedicated exercises but the core was mostly utilized during all the asymmetrical work.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Yes
COT: 5th CORE Principle

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Macarena Merkinfest

WARMUP:

Warmup skills were a little rusty, but we managed:
SSH x15
Imperial Walker x10
Windmill… in a tornado x10
Hillbilly walkers x10
Broken Seal Jacks x15

THE THANG:

Mosey to back parking lot. All of us big-backs got excited for a pizza box. Some were hoping it was scratch and sniff. Dora instead with partner run:

150 goblet squats
100 LBCs
100 pesa rusa swings (brought out some Spanglish for cinco de mayo!)
100 flutters
100 pesa rusa dead lifts

Rinse and repeat waiting for the six

Mosey for a cinco surprise:

Macarena merkinfest … think Thunderstruck, but with dreams of queso and salsa!

Incline plank with merkins … and the Macarena

Regular plank with merkins … and more Macarena

Mosey to the COT for Jack Webbs, audible to the grass for Jack Webbs

MARY: 5 minutes of Mary – Pax calls it

ANNOUNCEMENTS: See newsletter

COT: Great group of men celebrating each other and pushing me to be 1% better everyday. Thanks for the opportunity to lead.

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