Tag: Casey Kasem

Counting Down from 100

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WARMUP:
Spike took the warmup right where we plant the shovel flag. Counts and cadence were perfect, and we even did 6-count burpees. Impressive!!!

THE THANG:
Ran around to do a few more warm ups before heading to a building for the countdown.

2 locations for exercises. Run between each, which included stairs and some bear crawls or lunges:
100 Flutters
90 Squats
80 Shoulder Taps
70 Hello Dollys
60 SSH
55 LBCs
50 Merkins
40 Speed Skaters
30 Lunges
20 Burpees
10 Big Boy Sit-ups

Great work done by all pax!

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Rockin around the Christmas Tree

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WARMUP: couple loops in the AO lot with high knees, buttkickers, and karoake.
THE THANG: Bucket 11 – one bucket at each end of the top lot. Pax pulled random exercises in an 11 format. Mak tar jyes and burpees were everyone’s fave.
Did some partner work on the wall near the upper town hall lot. Bear crawl with wall sit and balls to the wall.
Mosey to Christmas tree. 12 stations surrounding tree. Do two stations and run a loop. We darn near didn’t even come close to finishing all the stations. Great mumblechatter.
Brick by brick, post by post.
MARY: No showed.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: All of them.
COT: Pretty special today.

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We Took the Long Route So No One Could Pretend Everything Was Fine

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The PAX were asked a simple question before the work began:
“What burdens are you carrying?”
No answers required yet—just something to sit with.

Opening Smoke Session
Sprint up the hill, knock out 5 burpees, then run it back down. Consider it the price of admission.

From there, we headed down the path toward Harris Street and rolled straight into a moving warm-up, keeping the group together and the heart rate climbing:
• Windmills
• Run
• Imperial Walkers
• Run
• Monkey Humpers
• Run
• Moroccan Night Clubs
• Run
• Low, slow squats

We pushed up the Harris Street hill, then made our way toward the high school pull-up bars.

Mini Dora (Partner Work)
• Partner 1: Dead hang for a 40-count
• If you drop, you get back up. No shortcuts.
• Partner 2:
• 30 Burpees
• 75 Mike Tysons

An audible was called to keep us moving and on mission, so the 100 Big Boys and 150 Sumo Squats were left behind as we transitioned to the next station.

Mosey to the Band Practice Lot

Tire Work — Team Load
• Teams of 4–5 per tire
• Carry the tire around the parking lot
• One man drops to complete 5 burpees, next man steps in
• Cycle continues until the full loop is complete

Then:
• Tire flips — 2 men flip, rotate out, next 2 step in
• Shared load. Shared effort. No spectators.

COT

After returning the tires, we walked and slow-moseyed back to COT.

This is where the real work happened.

Each man shared the burden he’s carrying with the brother next to him.
Then we answered the follow-up:
“What can you do to help carry that load?”

No fixing. No speeches. Just presence and accountability.

Totals:
• 3.2 miles
• Solid boot camp
• New ground covered—both physically and personally

We stayed together the entire way.
No man left behind. No man left where we found him.

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Brick by brick/Post by post

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WARMUP: Did some moseying around with SSH, Hillbillies, and Squats
THE THANG: A Dip/Derkin 11 at the Ampitheater/ mosey to the Stairs in Textile Way / pax planked and elbow planked while one at a time went up/down.
Mosey to Sunbelt lot.
Quick DORA like run with merkins/lbc’s/squats.
Mosey to Main Event – Starfish type workout with 7 solid stations. Burpees/Merkins/Big Boys/LBC’s/Mak Tar Jyes/Dry Docks/Jump Squats. All stations had high rep counts for max suffering.
Mosey to a station, near crawl back, do 1 burpee on first round, 2 burpees on second, etc…
All pax gave max effort to complete, but fell a little short on time. Moseyed back to COT.
MARY: Not her day.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas Party! Get there!
COT: All shared. Live your best life!

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Piracy and Imposters

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WARMUP:
– Windmills
– Cherry Pickers
– Imperial Walkers
– Hillbilly Walkers
– Calf Raises

THE THANG:
– Travel to playground (pirated from <@U06Q8DSSV5Y>)
– Begin with 5 squats then mosey to 2nd tree on the left-hand side of sidewalk –> 5 squats
– Mosey back to 1st tree –> 3 merkins
– Mosey to 3rd tree –> 5 squats
– Mosey back to 2nd tree –> 3 merkins
– And so on to the playground

– Broga (10 count)
– Standard plank
– Down Dog
– Walk it out
– Up Dog
– Down Dog
– Standard plank

– Continued WEP circuit – 8’s
– First swing: 7 burpees (yes, I included burpees), 1 big boy
– Second swing: 6 burpees, 2 big boys
– …
– Last swing: 1 burpees, 7 big boys

– Extended broga
– Standard plank
– Down Dog – right leg up
– Runners Lunge – right leg forward
– Warrior I
– Warrior II
– Peaceful Warrior
– Runners Lunge
– Standard plank
– Down dog – left leg up
– Runners lunge – left leg forward and repeat

– At Calhoun gazebo:
– Arm DORA!!!
– One partner lunges from the gazebo to the curb while the other works on:
– 50 Curb Alperts (cadence count)
– 100 Dips (benches conveniently provided)
– 150 Shoulder presses

MARY: hammahs, fluttahs, boxcuttahs, LBC, 6-inches (via countdown from each PAX)

ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter material

COT: all about families

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Fall leaves, colorful sunrise, and a tunnel of love

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WARMUP:
Ran toward downtown, stopping here and there for typical warm-up exercises (SSH, Imperial Walkers, Seal Jacks, Windmills, Hillbilly Walkers, Peter Parkers, Parker Peters).

THE THANG:
At a short wall near the old Springs building, we did 15x, 10x, 5x of each of the following:
box jumps
step ups
dips

Moseyed to steps near across from downtown (behind mill stone) and partnered up.
– Everyone bear crawl up the steps, run down the grassy hill
– Partner wheelbarrow up the steps, run down the grassy hill
– Flapjack wheelbarrow
– Everyone on a step for a series of calf raises

Mosey to bottom of Massey. Run up mass to upper lot.

Partner “Catch me if you can”
– merkins and butt kickers
– Buprees and high keens
– Karaoke and mountain climbers

Line up for railroad tracks (to rounds)
End with Tunnel of Love

Mosey back to COT.

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HIM Camp Review

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WARMUP:
Mosey to pond for 10 each of Moroccan Night Clubs, Seal Jacks, Bomb Jacks

Plankorama: Scorpion Dry Docks (5 each leg) into 10 each of Shoulder Taps, Plank Jacks, Mountain Climbers

THE THANG:
Mosey to Lot behind Panera for a Dora
Start w 5 Jumping Lunges (each side) and 1 Burpee
Alternate bear crawling / lunge walking betweeen islands.
At each island, decrease/increase reps by 1 until finishing with of 1 Jumping Lunge (each side) and 5 Burpees

Mosey back to amphitheater

7 exercises, 7 reps with block – 5 rounds
Curls
Tricep curls
Derkins
Squat thrusts
Forward Lunges (both legs for 1)
Backward Lunges (both legs for 1)
LBCs

In between rounds – one PAX runs to first bench along pond while other PAX hold Al Gore

MARY:
Big Boys & Freddy Mercurys

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Christmas party, Bethel every 1st TH, look out for food collection details

COT:
Sickness, work challenges, family relationships healing, parents aging, moving decisions

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One lap is all it takes

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WARMUP: ssh, wind mills, imp walkers, plank, up and down dog, Peter Parker’s
THE THANG: we moseyed one lap around the large loop around the pond and LPL (counter clockwise) starting at cot. We stopped at every other street light and did some exercises

Along the first road ( through the row of restaurants, etc) we did 1 burpee, 2 bomb jacks, 3 big boys, 4 merkins and 5 squats

Along the second road towards the back of Kingsley, we did all the previous things, and added 6 side straddle hops.

We stopped along the way at the rip rap for a quick and painful interlude where we each grabbed a rock and carried it over our heads up to the LPL parking sign and back. We then continued our journey.

Along the next road, across the back of LPL, we did the previous 6 exercises at the designated street lights and added 7 monkey humpers.

Finally, along the road back to cot, we did these same 7 exercises, but doubled the rep count of each

We did one last set when we arrived back at cot and then we caught our breath, wiped the sweat from our brows and enjoyed the sunrise.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Cuomo And Stang Board Games At The Fort

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WARMUP: Run Around WEP stop at every swing and do 10 SSH
THE THANG: Cuomo Had A Board and I Had A Board. Mine Was Better Only Because It Had Mac Tar Dyes Involved
MARY: Some In Cadence Which Pax Thought I Couldn’t Do
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read Your Newsletter
COT:

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It’s about community

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WARMUP: The heartstrings got loosened up out of the gates as Warning Track unloaded some baggage from a tough week, acknowledging the challenges of Living Right through the Flux of life and the importance of showing up this morning to be lifted up by his brothers. He followed up with the Obligatory SSHs and then set off from WEP.

THE THANG:

WT took the pax to the old Pike Elec parking lot stopping for some windmills, burpees and other fun enroute.

Pax broke into groups of 3 for a modified Dora across the parking lot. Midway through WT called audible due to pax incompetence and simplified to Dora in groups of 2. Terrible things like Merkins, squats, lunges, flutters, burpees, etc were unleashed on the pax

WT took pax to Memorial Park for more burpees and more shared pax stories of Why they come out to the Gloom on a wet Sat morning.

DD took the reins and moved the pax to a series of parking lots (pharmacy), Pike front courtyard, Town Hall back wall for pain stops including shoulder taps, wall sits, plank jacks, burpees, mtn climbers, peter parkers, Parker peters, etc.

Pax returned to WEP to appreciate JWOW’s lovely Christmas tree. Two rounds of partner work included bear crawls around tree + flutters followed by crawl bears around tree + HR merkins.

Mosey to grass in front of band shell for more partner work (merkins, shoulder taps, sit ups) interspersed with some burpees and lap around band shell. Finished off with Knee Tar N’dyae and Mahktar N’dyae.

Mosey home

MARY: included throughout

ANNOUNCEMENTS: coffeteria at HC

COT: great morning where we welcomed 3 FNGs + a Kotter while pax from 30s to 50s mixed it up and pushed each other to get 1% better.

“Our youth are our present” I heard my pastor say from the pulpit recently. Note he did NOT say “our future.” It’s as true in The Fort and in our community as it is in NYC with a 34 yr old mayor. Younger pax, you ARE leaders today — embrace your opportunity and duty. Seasoned pax — your leadership focus IS about bringing along the next generation of leaders — embrace your opportunity and duty.
We are blessed men to have these roles at this time.

Thanks to JWOW for the opportunity and Warning Track for the partnership.

Love you brothers!
#KeepPosting

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