Is eight enough for a party… it was today at Block Party

8 at Block Party for some time in all three Fs… The humidity was @ 100% and even though water wasn’t falling from the sky there were plenty of sweat puddles!

Mosey to the top of the hill for Warmup

  • SSH (25)
  • Imperial Walkers (15)
  • Windmills (10)

Mosey to the bottom of the hill for suicides x2 (even though Dark Helmet wanted to do another round)

  • Start with 10 burpees
  • 1/3 up hill running backwards
  • 2/3 up the hill running with side-shuffle
  • 3/3 (all the way) up the hill sprinting

Mosey back up the hill to the wall pair up

  • Wall up/ muscle ups with a 50 LBC as the timer x3 rounds
  • Wall Sit with 20 merkins down the line

Mosey to step wall in the court yard

  • Round 1 – 20 step ups, 20 dips, 20 derkins
  • Round 2 – 30 step ups, Max (or 60) dips, Max (or 30) derkins
  • Round 3 – 10 step ups, 10 dips, 10 derkins

Back to COT for 4 minutes of Mary.  It was a pleasure to lead, thank you for the opportunity.

CH out.

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Yes, we can play with those toys. But first, we must play with ourselves

WARMUP:
9 motivators
Low slow squats
Merkins
Peter Parkers

Hill sprints x2

THE THANG:
Mosey to Print Shop
Obstacle course x2
Monkey bars. 1 Burpee for each bar you miss.
1 pullup at each pullup bar
10 dips on parallel bars

Station 1 – the timer
Run to flower shop and back. If you get back early pick up the 6. Scratch that. You WILL come back together. Today’s lesson is on checking your ego and serving your fellow man.

Station 2- pull-ups and dips
5-10-15-20

Station 3 – squats and lunges
5-10-15-20

Station 4 – Curls and Overhead press with the assortment of available gear
5-10-15-20

MARY:
Flutters and American Hammers

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Bobber read the newsletter to us

COT:
A lousy excuse for a bed at the hospital while your wife is in labor

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Ring of Fire – Q 3.6

– Dynamic warm up, 15 min of movement exercises and motion
– Merkinfest Dora, 15 min
– Up on the bar Dora, 15 min
Close with Q 3.6 Persuasion discussion

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The Shirtless Wonders

WARMUP: Change Order with stretching and other fun stuff
THE THANG:
Trucker started off with some wind sprints between the light poles in the back parking lot. Merkins completed at the end of each round. Four rounds finished before next hand-off. Fishstix had next. Partner up, One partner bear crawled to the wall and completed 5 muscle ups and back to other partner. The other partner did the following exercises: HR Merkins (Rd1), CCD (Rd2), and Flutters (Rd3).
Hand-off to Mainframe. Partner burpees, each partner alternated doing burpees starting at 1, when the team reached 20, they ran a lap. Four rounds, lots of burpees.
Finished with Change Order broga

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Stuff the Bus Convergence

WARMUP:
Ran over to parking lot behind football fields
SSH – all exercises were to 20 INC
1 burpee
Windmill
2 burpees
Cherry Pickers
3 burpees
Squats
4 burpees
Moroccan Night Club
5 Burpees
Imperial walkers
6 burpees
Merkins
7 burpees
LBC
8 burpees
CDD
9 burpees
Flutter
10 burpees

Throughout the workout we had pax share about different opportunities we have within The Fort to serve our community. We had the following speak (Fogerty – Trash Pickup, Cousin Eddy – Bethel Men’s shelter, Jiffy – FM Care Center, Stuff the Bus)

Partner Up
Round 1 –
Squats
Flying Squirrels
Inch worm merkins

Round 2
Big boy sit-ups
Jump Squats
Wide arm merkins

We have an amazing opportunity in The Fort to impact our community. We have pax impacting our community through service. Challenge was raised, if you aren’t actively impacting the community, why not?

It was an honor to be able to lead the workout this morning. This was diffident from most workouts because of the number of times we stopped to talk. However I felt it important to share with the guys what is happening around them. We also were able to congratulate Double D in his hand off of Nantan to Esso. Double D, thank you for you service to the pax. You have always been someone who ask the tough questions that challenge us and I thank you for that and what you did for our Region during your reign as Nantan. Esso, I look forward where you are going to take us and your energy to lead. We have a bright future ahead.

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What do you call a Kitchen sink filled with sand?

WARMUP:
Worked our way around the school drop off lane stopping along the way with the following:
SSH, low slow squats, tempo merkins, toy soldiers, butt kickers, high knees and windmills
THE THANG:
Carried sandbags down to amphitheater where we did the following:

From the bottom each pax had a sandbag or rock.
Man makers with sandbag toss up to the third level
20 squats with coupons
Man makers with toss
20 squats with coupons
Clean and press then toss sandbag up to third level
15 deadlifts
Clean and press with toss
15 deadlifts
MARY:
Airborne hip specials
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Stuff the bus on Saturday
Convergence on Friday, bring school supplies
Dam to Dam fundraisers start in Sept
COT:

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We are the Knights who say Nee – Leave Right

COACHES BOX – Leave Right – 07-27-2023
Intro – Always leave something better than the way you found it. King, Queen, Jester, Ms, Shorties, Mammons, Faith,
Mosey to HS Student lot:
WARMUP:
SSH, Mountain Climbers, Low slow squats, Imperial Walkers, Hillbilly Walkers, Moroccans
PLANK – Legacy is created by the HIM’s development of Virtuous Leaders
1. Sua Sponte Leader (Latin: “of his, her, its or their own accord”) or suo motu (“on its own motion”) describes an act of authority taken without formal prompting from another party
a. Make the Mission Clear – Completing experiences that are not commonly found else where while also maintain our laid Back Pack attitude.
b. Teach All that you know –Become unnecessary. Work your way out of a job so the group can thrive without you. – Copying my assistants on emails – They can see the examples.
c. Incentivize Individual Initiative while gracefully managing failure – Let someone else lead and guide them along the way. If they fail, accept responsibility in front of the group. Then review the failure, in private, with the leader.
Mosey to Football Field area: Shuffle L / R, Karaoke L / R, Nur,

The THANG
Part I: 4 trips around the square:
2. Schooling: Leadership Training provided – Lead by example
Cone 1: 10 Burpees, 8 Burpees, 6 Burpees, 4 Burpees
3. Apprenticeship: Positive Habit Transfer – Sitting down with a leader on a new process, piece of software, any new skill this person has not done and walk them through it. I have reviewed how to plan a camping outing with a person who has never done it before, step-by-step. I documented my lessons learned and shared this with a timeline.
Cone 2: 40 LBCs, 30 Big Boy Situps, 20 flutter kicks, 20 American Hammers
4. Opportunity: To practice what leader has learned. Means as the leader you will need to give up control
Cone 3: 25 Merkins, 20 Diamond Merkins, 15 Wide Arm Merkins, 10 Hand Release Merkins
5. Failure – An undesirable outcome that builds Leadership Foundation – This is where you will learn the most.
Cone 4: 40 Squats, 30 Bobby Hurleys, 20 Mountain Climbers each leg, 20 Donkey Kicks
Part II: Grab a 1 stone for 2 people – take it to the bottom of the hill
6. Accountability – Setting and Maintaining High Standards in the Team. A Team and Individual needs standards to strive towards. Don’t give up on the person who can’t – Move on from the person who won’t.
DORA – With stone
​100 squats, 50 curls, 50 tricep extensions, 200 chest presses on your back,
​Runs up the hill – Bear crawls around circle at bottom, then switches
1. Lizard Building – Next generation of leaders
a. Be on the lookout for the next leader
b. Once you identify, tell that person why they would be a good leader.
Indian Run back to COT

Closing thoughts:
Have I done all of these? No.
Don’t try to do everything yourself. You are a leader. Act like one and delegate. Too many times in my earliest weeks I took everything on. I soon realized I could not do it all, and started asking for help, nervously at first, confidently soon after (ie Equipping)
Hire the right person the first time. Hiring the wrong person sets the team back and makes everyone wait. Hire based on what the position needs and the person can provide. Person meet the position needs but told they would be limited in providing time. I hired this person when I should have moved onto the next. I was about to confront this person about it not working when that person reached out to me. I wasted 9 months of time and the team spun their wheels until the right person was hired (who is now excelling at the role). (Accountability)

PRAYERS:
Hotcakes has Stage 2 lymphoma and started treatment on Tuesday. All things considered, the treatment went well.
Cohiba’s wife is going back to work
Soup to Nuts wife needs extra prayers as she isn’t feeling well.
38’s in-laws are in town. He needs prayers for patience.
Sugar Daddy prays for patience for our country, sons and Daughters. It is tough growing up with outside social media trying to tell your child how to behave.
Cyclops will be transitioning to his new company within 30-45 days.

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Being Present

It was an honor to spend this morning with so many leaders in our community. 16 was the count for 4.65 miles. The route was as follows: R on 160 towards downtown, L on Main, Cross over Clebourne to Springs, R on Summersby where Springs ends, R on Unity, R on Tom Hall, Cross over Main to Clebourne, R on 160, L into parking lot.

Today’s COT was a reminder of the value in posting each morning. We have the opportunity to live life with High Impact Men that make us better. We discussed fatherhood, health challenges, stress, and being the leaders our community needs. Keep a lookout for upcoming challenges from The Fort’s SLT. We are needed now more than ever.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead, Anchorman. And thanks to the PAX for helping me start my day off on the right foot!

Aye!
Italian Job

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Kettlebell Tabata

WARMUP:

SSH
Imperial Walker
Hillbilly Walker
Low slow Squat
Moroccan Night Clubs
Shoulder Taps

THE THANG: go to 3 different areas (repeat twice-ish) for Tabata Kettlebell workout. Do as a group.

Mumblechatter was strong with drawing penne’s during financial review mtgs, 14th amendment, number of Sugarbug’s kids, and YHC not knowing the difference between the imperial and hillbilly walker

Area 1:
Swings
Curls
Flutter w/ Bell high
Single arm Deadlift
Shoulder Press

Area 2:
Turkish Get-Ups
Goblet Squats
Triceps
American Hammers
KB merkins

Area 3:
Deck Squats
Rows
Calf Raises
Side Lunges
Chest press on your 6

COT: prayers for Cohiba’s family travel, patience, wisdom, trusting God

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Team LiverEaters

WARMUP: Stretchy things, lap around the lot
THE THANG:
4 parts for each member of the SL, all done in teams of 4 (or 5 if needed)

Gears: Two partners run up the hill to Pull Up bars, 10 2 pullup Burpees between the two PAX while the other two are doing 10 Big Boys each and squatting till swap. Two rounds.

Maximus: 50 yard out and back for 2 partners, when they return 10 burpees. Waiting pair is doing American Hammers. Swap. Next a set of perfect merkins to failure for each group. Losing SL does 5 burpees each.

Dark Helmet. Mosey to the rock lot on AO Jones. Partners bear crawl between light posts. If you stop, you do burpees till all the pax are done.

Spider Man: Partner Carry loop around the lot. Finish with one partner flutter while second partner runs to top of lot turnaround and back. Flapjack.

MARY: None
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Many (read your news letter)
COT: Prayers for M’s, parents, jobs, travel, and kids.

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