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Lack of Creativity, Excess of Difficulty

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One Mile Warm Up to Dave Gibson, across 160 to Emory and around to Brayden Pkwy. Sun 6 pace for the front men.

Hill Suicides
Start at base of Brayden hill, run up, run down.
At Median Break
10, 20, 30 Merkins/Flutters
10, 20, 30 Curb Dips/American Hammers
10, 20, 30 CDD’s/Hello Dollies

Do your ten at the first median, back to the bottom. Then twenty at the second median, and back to the bottom. Hit the top at 160, 30 reps, back to bottom.

After three laps, head back to Earth Fare for COT. Looped the building to make it an even four miles before calling it. Five 8 Count Bodybuilder’s to end.

Strong work by all. The Brayden hill is unforgiving.

Announcements
THERE WILL BE MEAT at the bourbon tasting on 11/18
This week we’ve also got Change Order’s Veteran’s Day clay shoot – 11/11. Hit up CO for more details.
Chad 1000x is on Thursday at S2S.

Prayers/Praises
Prayers for Band Camp traveling for work. Safe travels, brother.
Praise for Poppins’ leadership at the Bethel men’s shelter
Prayers/praise for our attentiveness as fathers and husbands.
Praise for the new faces today.

NMM
Olaf’s prayer hit me right between the eyes. He dropped a timely prayer request after a weekend of distracted parenting. How much presence would my kids perceive that I give, if I asked them? Am I giving them all of me, or only some of me?

Thanks for the tap today, Badlands.

Punch List out.

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4 corner sandbag mile

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WARMUP:
The usual
Deadlifts

Focus on doing Cleans correctly… because there will be a LOT of them. If done properly, lower back shouldn’t hurt, but your traps will be sore.

THE THANG:
With 40lb and 60lb sand bags

4 corners – 10 reps, increasing by 5 each lap
Mode of transport: Sandbag mile (clean the bag up, and throw it)

Corner 1: Chest Press
Corner 2: Overhead Press
Corner 3: Flutters
Corner 4: Curls

Made 3 laps, which got us to right about a mile. Bloody knuckles and all

MARY: Ain’t nobody got time for dat
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter
COT:

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Spooky pumpkin of pain and suffering

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WARMUP:
The usual

THE THANG:
Spooky pumpkin of pain. To the tunes of Halloween
DORA style – man in the middle does 10 manmakers as the timer
1. Squats
2. Deadlifts
3. Lawnmower pulls
4. Chest press
5. Overhead press
6. Clave raises
7. LBC
8. Flutters
9. Swings
10. Snatch
11. Clean
12. Push-ups with bell
13. Pull overs
14. Reverse Lunges

Last round, we switched it up for 20 american style KB swings (that’s the ones where it goes over your head). Finished right at 6

MARY: no time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter
COT:

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Funky shorts day

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WARMUP: Mosey around teeter, deep breathes at the dumpsters, circle up on far end. SSHs, windmills, low slow squats. MNCs. Finish up warm ups with mucho chesto. 10 merkins, 10 diamonds, 10 wide arm, 10 stagger right, and 10 stagger left.
THE THANG: Mosey up to church parking lot for accumulating BOMBS. Perform first letter, run to front of church for 10 merkins, run back to start. Do first and second letter, run,…repeat…you know the drill.
B=5 burpees, O=10 Os (abs), M=15 mountain climbers, B=20 big boys, S=25 surf Jack’s.
Partner up for jump overs. P1 holds plank, P2 jumps over and does flying squirrel, repeat up to 10, then switch. We did 10, 8, 6, 4, 2. At 6 we switched to burpees instead of squirrels and added hand release merkins to plank.
Mosey back to lot and grab some curb. 20 toe taps, 20 dips, 15 toe taps, 15 dips. Finish up with 2 slaughter sets. 10 box cutters, 9 dying cockroaches, 8 BC, 7 DC….after 1 Finish with 10 box cutters. Keep legs off ground for entire series. Second set, 10 hand release merkins, 9 mountain climbers….Finish w/10 hand release…crowd pleaser after a lot of chest work. Mosey back to COT.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Apparently I missed the memo on funky shorts day. Grassy Knoll tried but it was Spectre for the win w/a fancy pair & matching headwrap. So next week the PAX will need to rise to the challenge.
COT: Thx for the opportunity Slapshot!

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Spartan prep work

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WARMUP: mosey
THE THANG: 30 burpees every half mile or so
MARY: keep that core tight on them burpees or you will hurt your lower back. Message brought to you by @BONES
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read the newsletter
COT: prayers for marriages, those that are traveling, and patience with our kids. Make today intentional with how you want to leave your legacy.

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The Nethers

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WARMUP: No. This is Minnow Pond, bro…

THE THANG:
– Run to top of main street – rally at Hardee’s
– 15 burpees to kick it off

– Run to Town Hall
– 15/15/30 – Merkins/Squats/Flutters

– Run to Domino’s
– 15/15/30 – Merkins/Squats/Flutters

– Run to Wing King
– 15/15/30 – Merkins/Squats/Flutters

– Run to corner of Doby Ct. on RIGHT
– 15/15/30 – Merkins/Squats/Flutters

– Run Doby Ct to other end (loop)
– 15/15/30 – Merkins/Squats/Flutters

– Run down Doby’s Bridge and turn LEFT on Kimbrell – run to corner of Kanawha/Pine Trails
– 15/15/30 – Merkins/Squats/Flutters

– Run Kanawha Ct – then turn LEFT
– 15/15/30 – Merkins/Squats/Flutters

– Run to 160/Tom Hall – then turn LEFT
– 15/15/30 – Merkins/Squats/Flutters

– Run back to COT – if time make a stop at Domino’s
– 15/15/30 – Merkins/Squats/Flutters

– Total mileage should have been in the 3.3-ish range…

MARY: Only for the fast guys that didn’t go pick up the 6

ANNOUNCEMENTS: No one reads these. I’m not typing it. Read your newsletter or whatever…

MOLESKIN: Need to add this as a section to the Slack/Back… it’s a fun recap of the odd and funny happenings during the workout… like Bobber being at the very back, or Jekyll railing on and on about investments or whatever it was, or YHC pulling a Zima and tripping on the sidewalk… stuff like that.

COT: 5th Core Principle

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Tour De Campus

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WARMUP: mosey to main entrance circled up for
wind mill, IW, Hillbilly Walkers, merkins, Mountain Climbers and MNC

THE THANG: 5 light pole work at the main entrance. Treat it like a suicide drill with exercises at each light
1) 10 Merkins
2) 15 Squats
3) 20 CDD
4) 25 Monkey Humpers
5) 30 LBC

Mosey to front of school for 10 Slow Merkins 3 count down, 3 count hold, 3 count up = 1 then mosey to pull up bars. Partnered up since only 2 pull up bars. 1 partner 10 pull-ups other partner in a plank. Rinse and repeat.
Mosey to benches. 3 exercises going 1 and up to 10 of each exercises. 2 rounds
1st round
Dips, Derkins, Big Boys

2nd round
Step ups, sumo squats, heels to Heaven

With 5 minutes left mosey up the hill and stopped halfway for 10 Wide arm merkins and 10 feet at 6inches LBC

Mosey to COT back at 6:00

ANNOUNCEMENTS: charity Shoot and Blood drive
COT:prayers and praise for healing, prayers for Bass and M traveling today.

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Orange is the new NC State Red

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WARMUP: mossy to playground for SSH, IW, HW, merkins
THE THANG: Each PAX completed 10 pull-ups then ran the path. For round 1, 15 merkins at each swing. Complete another 10 pull-ups and repeat path with 20 LBCs at each swing. Complete another 10 pull-ups and repeat path with 15 squats. Wrap it up with 10 pull-ups. Not sure Dark Helmet completed pull-ups or proper merkins since he was in the dark the entire time. Slapshot was leader as he’s trying to encourage PSU football team to whip up on that school to the south (No Pusher that doesn’t mean South Carolina) – Ohio State. Maximus wore the new NC State colors orange for his failed bet on them beating Clemson (but the ACC is a basketball conference not football conference 🤷‍♂️). Band camp never stops pushing PAX and Kermit is still in cloud 9 for Tennessee (the real orange) for beating the other school to the south (again, not South Carolina nor Georgia). Bobber even posted and complained that the monkey bars were wet (isn’t he a fisherman? Aren’t they always wet?)
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: skeet shooting sign ups!! Shower curtain collecting coats
COT: prayers for Shower Curtain continued healing, balance – even better harmony.

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Speed Zone Board of Pain

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WARMUP: 1/4 mile
THE THANG: 1 rounds of 10/21/22 reps with a 1/4 mile run in between and a speed zone with 5 alternating modes of transportation
MARY: no
ANNOUNCEMENTS: join us for a spartan in November
COT:

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Spooky Halloween Dance Party

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Today at the Ballroom, we took the AO name seriously and had a Halloween dance party. All movements were done in cadence with the music. The list of movements were as follows, and the order was totally arbitrary.

Step touch
SSH
Thrillers
Overhead claps with step touch
Hillbilly walkers
Side straddle hops
Jumping lunges
Grave diggers
Imperial walkers
Merkins
LBCs
Squats
Zombie walks
Mountain climbers
Bomb jacks
Shoulder taps
Plank jacks
Speed skaters

As always, I disclaim “anything you say can and will be used against you”. I exercised this statement to throw in some burpees by popular request.

at the call of “aaaand that’s 6 O’clock”, some PAX were surprised that we were already finished.

Playlist available upon request

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