30 min Dora then broga

WARMUP: little mosey then some
SSH
HULA HOOPS
LOW SLOW SQUATS
MERKINS
then YHC took the opportunity to let some of the new faces I’d not recognized lead the PAX in some SSH. Yeah it wasn’t perfect but it got better and the importance of language was discussed. Great job BowWow and Marty Byrd. Thank you PAX for the constructive feedback in helping these men get some playing time in the arena.
THE THANG: Dora 1-2-3 as easy as can be.
Merkins
Squats
Crunches.
Other partner runs loop as timer.

Mosey back and Marty bird showed us he’s been paying attention in class with 10 text book SSH.
Finished in order to get in some much needed Broga.
Don’t know the names of the moves but Shield told stories about pigeons getting chased by rats the size of small wolves.
MARY: we planked for a min of gratitude
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: prayers for family and healing of those sick.

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Jack Webs from Hell

WARMUP:
SSH x 20
Merkins x 10
Peter Parker x 10
All IC

THE THANG:
Part 1
Using the field in 10 yard increments
Starting at the end zone run to the 10 yard line do 1 burpee and at the push-up position do 4 merkins. Run back to the end zone.
Run to 20 yard line, 2 burpees with 4 merkins each time you go down (8 total merkins). Run back to end zone.
30 yd, 3 burpee 12 merkins. Run back.
Continue until the other end zone is reached which would be 10 burpees and 40 merkins.

Part 2
Similar to above,
Instead, nur to 10yd and do 4 squats. Run bank to end zone
Nur to 20yd line, 8 squats, run back to start.
Continue until finished.

MARY:
11’s – Mountain climbers to dying cockroach.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: check the newsletter. 10 year started today. Post as often as you can.

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‘Tis an unfortunate thing…

WARMUP: I’m sure we did something.
THE THANG:
Run to the pull-up bars and grab a cinderblock…
BUY-IN: Bear Crawl down the hill toward the Elem School, then CrawlBear back up.
25 Pull-ups
400M run (up and down the hill twice)
25 4-ct curls
400M
25 burpees (no block)
400M
25 4-ct flutters with press
400M
onto Phase 2…

Mosey to the track with your brick…
1 lap with brick
25 overhead press
1 lap with brick
25 curls
1 lap with brick
25 overhead press
25 curls
No more laps, ran out of time…

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter

COT: So many thoughts about backblasts and about the process I went through on my own to write this one. One day, if you are interested, ask me and I’ll gladly share…
For now, here is the BB.

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Thunderstruck tire flip

WARMUP:
– SSH
– Cherry Picker
– WM
THE THANG:
– mosey to parking lot in back of school. split PAX in 2 groups. task for one PAX (“the traveler”) was to flip large tire from one team to the other. traveler calls exercise which all other PAX will do while traveler is moving to other side. Rinse and repeat until all PAX traveled. Mosey to play ground and back to tire location. switched to lawn area for Jack Webb: 1x Merkin + 4x OH clap … all the way to 10x / 40x. Mosey back to COT
MARY:
– finish strong with some music: Thunderstruck burpees.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– read your newsletter
COT:
– was held accordingly.

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The Dough Muscles

9 men did the hard thing this morning at Colosseum. Conditions were alright, alright, alright as we welcomed our newest FNG (Excite Bike) with a workout designed to smoke even the fittest of men. Here’s what we did:

The Thang

10 Low Slow Squats (IC)
10 Imperial Walkers (IC)
10 SSHs (IC)

Mosey to the Elementary School drop-off loop

Pattern was 10 at the first stop, 15 at the second, 20 at the third, and 25 at the fourth
Exercises were:

Merkins
Calf Raises
Squats
Overhead Claps

Grab a chair for the Mr. McConaughey Workout (11s with Incline Merkins (IC) and Dips).

From the book “Greenlights” by Matthew McConaughey, pages 43-44: As a kid, my favorite TV show was The Incredible Hulk starring Lou Ferrigno. I marveled at his muscles and would pose in front of the TV with my shirt off, arms bent, fists high, doing my best bulging body-builder biceps impersonation. One night Dad saw me. “What are you doin, son?” he asked. “One day I’m gonna have muscles like that, Dad,” I said, motioning to the TV screen. “Big baseball-size biceps!” Dad chuckled, then took off his shirt, matched my pose in front of the tube, and said, “Yeah, big biceps make the girls scream and they sure look good, but that ol’ boy on the TV, he’s so muscle-bound he can’t even reach around to wipe his own ass…the biceps? They’re just for show.” He then slowly lowered both his arms in front of him, straightened them out with his fists to the floor, then he twisted his arms to the inside, and flexed a pair of massive triceps muscles. “Now the tri-cep, son,” he said, this time pointing his nose back and forth toward the bulging muscles on the back of his upper arms, “that’s the work muscle, that’s the muscle that puts food on the table and the roof over your head. The tri-ceps? They’re for dough.” My dad would take the stockroom over the showroom any day.

Mosey to the track

Run a lap and 10 Burpees (x4)

Mosey to Covered Walkway

Peoples Chair
10 Head, Knees, Toes (IC)
BTTW on a long 10-Count
10 Australian Mountain Climbers (IC)

Mosey to COT

NMM
The Mr. McConaughey story resonated with me. How much emphasis do we men put on the “show” muscles? You know, the new car, the house, the vacation…the good stuff we put on social media. How much time do we spend trying to impress others with the highlights we put online? Shouldn’t we instead focus on the “dough” muscles? You know, providing love, comfort, and support for our wife and children. At the end of the day, what really matters is those moments with the ones we love. My kids don’t care what I drive. They just want me to play with them. My wife doesn’t require a Caribbean vacation. She just wants me to listen and be plugged in to my family, and not my phone.

Maybe we are focusing on the wrong muscles. Maybe we should be working our “try”ceps a little more. Maybe Mr. McConaughey was onto something.

Aye!
Italian Job

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The Dough Muscles

9 men did the hard thing this morning at Colosseum. Conditions were alright, alright, alright as we welcomed our newest FNG (Excite Bike) with a workout designed to smoke even the fittest of men. Here’s what we did:

The Thang

10 Low Slow Squats (IC)
10 Imperial Walkers (IC)
10 SSHs (IC)

Mosey to the Elementary School drop-off loop

Pattern was 10 at the first stop, 15 at the second, 20 at the third, and 25 at the fourth
Exercises were:

Merkins
Calf Raises
Squats
Overhead Claps

Grab a chair for the Mr. McConaughey Workout (11s with Incline Merkins (IC) and Dips).

From the book “Greenlights” by Matthew McConaughey, pages 43-44: As a kid, my favorite TV show was The Incredible Hulk starring Lou Ferrigno. I marveled at his muscles and would pose in front of the TV with my shirt off, arms bent, fists high, doing my best bulging body-builder biceps impersonation. One night Dad saw me. “What are you doin, son?” he asked. “One day I’m gonna have muscles like that, Dad,” I said, motioning to the TV screen. “Big baseball-size biceps!” Dad chuckled, then took off his shirt, matched my pose in front of the tube, and said, “Yeah, big biceps make the girls scream and they sure look good, but that ol’ boy on the TV, he’s so muscle-bound he can’t even reach around to wipe his own ass…the biceps? They’re just for show.” He then slowly lowered both his arms in front of him, straightened them out with his fists to the floor, then he twisted his arms to the inside, and flexed a pair of massive triceps muscles. “Now the tri-cep, son,” he said, this time pointing his nose back and forth toward the bulging muscles on the back of his upper arms, “that’s the work muscle, that’s the muscle that puts food on the table and the roof over your head. The tri-ceps? They’re for dough.” My dad would take the stockroom over the showroom any day.

Mosey to the track

Run a lap and 10 Burpees (x4)

Mosey to Covered Walkway

Peoples Chair
10 Head, Knees, Toes (IC)
BTTW on a long 10-Count
10 Australian Mountain Climbers (IC)

Mosey to COT

NMM
The Mr. McConaughey story resonated with me. How much emphasis do we men put on the “show” muscles? You know, the new car, the house, the vacation…the good stuff we put on social media. How much time do we spend trying to impress others with the highlights we put online? Shouldn’t we instead focus on the “dough” muscles? You know, providing love, comfort, and support for our wife and children. At the end of the day, what really matters is those moments with the ones we love. My kids don’t care what I drive. They just want me to play with them. My wife doesn’t require a Caribbean vacation. She just wants me to listen and be plugged in to my family, and not my phone.

Maybe we are focusing on the wrong muscles. Maybe we should be working our “try”ceps a little more. Maybe Mr. McConaughey was onto something.

Aye!
Italian Job

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Co-Q at the Colosseum

It was warm and humid this morning at the Colosseum. I led the first 22.5 and Dark Helmet was set to take the second half. 10 Bootcampers were joined by Maximas, Gears and Vuvuzela who went running OYO.  

I led us off with a quick 10 SSH and then moseyed to my portion of the workout.

I wanted to do something hard but self contained. The first workout that came to mind was Iron Pax 2019 Week 1: The Killer B’s.  

Starting at Cone 1 you broad jump 10 yards to cone 2. Complete 10 burpees, 10 Bonnie Blairs, and 10 Big Boy Situps-
Broad Jump to cone 3 and repeat the exercises and the reps. Broad Jump to Cone 4 repeat the exercises and the reps.

Once through the cones YHC gave everyone the option to either BearCrawl back or Sprint back. (if you were seen not sprinting I blew the whistle and the offending PAX was given 5 burpees OYO) I only blew the whistle once….on myself because I love burpees apparently.

Our goal was to get through 4 times in the 20ish minutes. I’m happy to say everyone worked hard and we got through it.

Once my time was up Dark Helmet took over and we moseyed down towards the school entrance. He handed us all a pen/marker and some paper and asked us to write a message to Decibel and his son Noah who is recovering from an operation. Once we all wrote down our messages we then raced to his office to put the messages on the door. The first one there got to pick the routine for the next portion of the workout.

After a loooong mosey up the hill where YHC HR hit 190 I was able to get to the office first and got the chance to pick the next part of the workout. Starting at the top of the hill we ran back and did 15 merkins and 25 4-CT clutters 4 different cones.

At that point we were getting close to 6 and we all made a jailbreak to COT. We were reunited with the runners who I think did 7ish miles and joined in on some LBC’s and Hello Dolly’s as we hit 6:00.

Announcements included F3 Dads, the Site Change of the Swamp, and a makeup of the Misogi. Prayers for health, mental, physical and spiritual.

Always great to Q and especially grateful for partnering with DOAH today. Thanks to all who showed!

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The Pain Train

The morning was dark and thick in The Fort, and we could see the glimmer of a soft glow in the distance. It was the flickering light of the pain train, and it was headed straight towards us at an incredible rate. All we could do is brace for what was about to pull into the station.

Warmup:

1 Lap Around the school lot
10 Side Straddle Hops
10 Windmills – aka The Trucker
10 Cherry Pickers
10 Merkins
Up Dog/Honeymooner
The Leg Up Hip Thruster (Crowd Pleaser)

We moseyed over to the front of the school for some Wall Bulgarian Split Squats (left then right legs). The timer was an Indian Bear Crawl.

Moseyed over to the back of the school for a little 1st & 10.

The Thang:

There was cones lined up every 10 yards to represent the 10 yard markers on a football field. After each round we would do a lap around the track.

Round 1 – Cone 1 – 10 Burpees

Round 2 – Cone 1 & 2 – 10 Burpees & 20 CDDs

Round 3 – Cone 1, 2, & 3 – 10 Burpees, 20 CDDs, 30 Squats

Round 4 – Cone 1, 2, 3, & 4 – 10 Burpees, 20 CDDs, 30 Squats, 40 Flutters

Round 5 – Cone 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 – 10 Burpees, 20 CDDs, 30 Squats, 40 Flutters, 50 Clave Raises

Round 6 – Cone 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6 – 10 Burpees, 20 CDDs, 30 Squats, 40 Flutters, 50 Clave Raises, 40 Flutters

Round 7 – Cone 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7 – 10 Burpees, 20 CDDs, 30 Squats, 40 Flutters, 50 Clave Raises, 40 Flutters, 30 Squats

Round 8 – Cone 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8 – 10 Burpees, 20 CDDs, 30 Squats, 40 Flutters, 50 Clave Raises, 40 Flutters, 30 Squats, 20 CDD’s

Round 9 – Cone 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, & 9 – 10 Burpees, 20 CDDs, 30 Squats, 40 Flutters, 50 Clave Raises, 40 Flutters, 30 Squats, 20 CDD’s, 10 Burpees

Ran/Bear Crawled to COT for prayers and praises.

Welcome FNG Snooze Button.

JWOW

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