WARMUP: 7’s on the hill next to church of God (merkins and bomb jacks)
THE THANG: 2-laps around town with 4 pain stations
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: check your newsletter
COT: Had to be there
WARMUP:
Windmills (sloooow)
Imperial walkers
Hillbilly walkers
Plank
Upward dog
Downward dog
Merkins
Peter Parker’s
Upward dog
Downward dog
Wide arm merkins
THE THANG:
Mosey to pull up bars, had board set up with 12 days of Christmas…
Start with first day of Christmas, run to bottom of hill come back and do first and second day, so on and so forth
Exercises
Kraken burpee
Knee tar jai
Sumo squats
Cindy press
Toes to bar
Diamond merkins
Calf raises
Man makers
Flutters
Hello dollys
Freddy mercurys
Monkey humpers
MARY:
No need
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Christmas party, dam to dam
COT:
Discussion about patience and God’s timing, other prayers, had to be there
WARMUP:
Mosey to sidewalk by Little Caesars
11s: Burpees at bottom, Dips at top wall
THE THANG:
3 stations on .70 loop
At each station perform 3 exercises then move to next round
Round 1: x3
5 burpees
10 Merkins
15 squats
Round 2: x3
5 Bombjacks
10 wide Arm Merkins
15 monkey humpers
Round 3: x3
5 Flying Squirrels
10 Diamond Merkins
15 one Leg squat
MARY: backdraft led quick exercise
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Airborne Christmas Friday 12/16
Christmas Eve convergence
Read Newsletter
COT:
F3 and brotherhood is gift not to be take for granted
The busyness of Christmas we lose the reason of the season and that is that Sky Q sent Jesus on a rescue mission to save us from ourselves and own demise. Be grateful for his mission and love for us
WARMUP: 10 each – SSH, cherry pickers, Moroccan night clubs
THE THANG: Hand release merkins and burpees, Jack Webb style up and down each row of the parking lot up to an 18 count (instead of 20) . Then switched it on the way back. The intention was to incorporate other exercises but there was a lot of aisles in the parking lot😬. So basically it was a lot of burpee’s and HR merkins
MARY: 1 round 18 reps each
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
WARMUP: Merks, Derks, Windmills, Squats LBCs and a mosey.
THE THANG: Circuit of 5/10 reps w 5 Bobby Hurley and a lap mixed in between reps. Closed out with 7’s Bombjack/Merks and mixed in some Wallsits and each Pax shared one thing their were Thankful for over the Thanksgiving weekend.
MARY: none
ANNOUNCEMENTS: litter pick up, Christmas party, and Mental health over the Holidays
COT:Cousin Eddie closed us out.
WARMUP: 10 each SSH, cherry pickers merkins too
THE THANG: Start at FMCOG 15 merkins, run to parking lot on confederate and do 10 merkins and 20 flutters, up to First Baptist for 15 squats and 15 big boys, then to police station for dips and step ups, then to academy and Forrest for 15 monkey humpers and 15 bomb jacks. Ran through it twice
MARY: 2 rounds
ANNOUNCEMENTS: skeet shoot postponed
COT:Gratitude
WARMUP: SSH, IW, squats, Rebel merkin, MNC
THE THANG: 3 stations were established with 3 exercises at each station all 15 reps.
1st station – Lot next to Loom at the short wall
Exercise Dips, Derkins, Step-ups
2nd Station – Church of God parking lot
Exercise – WAM, Squats, Monkey Humpers
3rd Station – Top of Hill parking Lot
Exercise – CDD, Flutters, Merkins
Circle back to the first station and repeat. The loop was .5 miles. We all got 3 laps in and ended back at station 1 for a shoulder burn. Exercises in cadence.
25 MNC
25 OH Claps
15 CDD
10 Diamond Merkins.
Back to COT for Mary
MARY: Flutters, LBC with Feet at 6”, American Hammer.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: several announcements with events coming up. Make sure to look at the newsletter.
COT: lifted up prayers for healing, illness, family and marriages.
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.
WARMUP: The first lap behind the pacer (YHC) served as the warmup with three stops for exercises along the way.
THE THANG: The route today was a figure eight on the map — out the lot up to Skipper for a right turn at the Pharmacy (fka bank) down 160 to a right turn on Main street, down hill to a left turn on Railroad Ave left turn at Print Shop across the connector to Munroe White down the hill to Academy back to Main Street and Memorial Park.
Each time pax get to Print Shop it’s 10x Perfect Merkins (= Hand release Merkin with Shoulder tap at the top)
Each time pax get to Pharmacy lot it’s 20x Squats + 30x Plank jacks.
All pax got at least 3 laps for 3.3+ miles each.
MARY: Rebel led some Mary as the pax reconvened at the lot.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Whetstone revival at Hanging with Stang today (if you’re reading this you either made it or didn’t), Beers for Beetus, read your newsletter
COT: Pax pushed hard today, esp after lap 1 during which there was much mumblechatter. It’s cold out but not too cold for these HIMs!
Tesla and Shady were kings — crushed it, nowhere in sight!
16 pax owned Main St Fort Mill during first lap…should’ve had a camera recording the scene for a hype vid
Themes of Grace, Disgrace, Expectations and Shame running across my radar in recent days/weeks. Stirring interview with Marcus Mumford included his living for a long time “under layers and layers of shame.” Reflections on that article and his recent songs continue to draw me deeper. Check it out and reflect on your own experience — https://www.gq.com/story/gq-hype-marcus-mumford
Thanks for the invite Jekyll! Missed you!
Always an honor, pax! Thanks for pushing yourself and me today!
WARMUP: 10 SSH, 10 Cherry Pickers, 10 imperial walkers
THE THANG: Started with a mosey to WEP where we did a light post workout on the hill behind the amphitheater. The totals from the work out were 50 burpee’s, 80 Lunges, 90 HR Merkins, 80, Squats 50 LBC’s
After this we moseyed over to the playground for a Dora workout with a partner with 50 pull ups, 100 Merkins, 200 big boys. Total run distance was 1.6 miles
MARY: 3 minutes
ANNOUNCEMENTS: news letters
COT:Corporate