WARMUP: hill work
THE THANG: hill work
MARY: hill work
ANNOUNCEMENTS: hill work
COT:hill work
WARMUP: Mosey to the GHES Teacher Lot for:
25 Mountain Climbers
20 LBC
15 Carolina Dry Docks
10 Hand-Release Merkins
5 6ct Burpees
THE THANG: Mosey to the Keller Williams parking lot:
PAX in a straight line and lock arms. Lunge walk to the other side of the parking lot. Reverse lung back.
Keeping the arms locked, squat walk out.
Unlock the arms and bear crawl back.
Mosey back to the bottom of the hill.
AYG back to the GHES teacher lot.
Inch Worm Merkins to the other side of the lot.
Crawl bear back.
Wide-Arm Hand-Release Merkins
Carolina Dry Docks
Mosey to the 1/2wall around back:
Over & Back x 5
V-Ups
Protractor
Flutters
American Hammers
MARY: See above
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Indeed there were.
COT: Principle #5
WARMUP: SSH, Cherry pickers, IW, HW
THE THANG: In light of the Q Source topic of DRP, the weinke reflected the Spurs.
1. “A man needs help to get right.”
The first portion of the workout was a team effort. Teams of 2 had to complete 50 merkins, 50 big boys, and 50 squats total reps.
During the next portion of the workout we discussed the second spur
2. “A man must turn pro to get right.”
Second workout 25 minutes of 100yd sprints EMOM.
Turning pro means that you’re making the decision every day to work towards your goals, being a true HIM. Often times with the help of a Disrupter.
Third spur is “Discretion is a cage with velvet bars”
This means that when you give yourself too many options, giving up is easy. Before every workout the disclaimer is made “modify if necessary” and too often we modify our goals to make it easier to quit.
Wrapped up the workout with 50 merkins, 50 big boys, and 50 squats. If you finished before someone else, take a portion of their reps to help them finish up as well. A man needs help to get right.
Final buy out was a 200yd sprint.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
WARMUP: Tiller warmed up PAX and then kettlebellera split with YHC
THE THANG: the deck of cards – spades = squats, diamonds = merkins on the bell, hearts = hammer curls, clubs = swings burpees when a 5 gets drawn and a lap was run every 10 cards.
Upon completing each lap, pax planked for one thought from Meditations book 8 by Marcus Aurelius.
MARY: Time for a few flutters with the bell held high.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Yes
COT: 5th core principle
WARMUP: run, shuffle, toy soldier, high knee, butt kicker, bear crawls, low slow squats, merkins, mountain climbers
THE THANG: run to the back parking lot and go to the middle by the basketball hoops.
I tell the guys this workout is from a moderate workout back in June 2020…which I don’t think I treated it as moderate back then.
Point out 4 corners about 40 yards from the center. At each corner, start with 5, then come to middle for 1 burpee, then to the next corner for 5, back to center for 1, until you hit all corners and center. Then go up to 10 at each corner and back to center for 2 burpees…and so on. Do this increase of 5 at corners and then keep adding burpees until 25 at the corners and 5 burpees in the center.
4 corners were: ranger merkins, knee jumps, American hammers, CDD.
It was a crowd pleaser and took pretty much the full time. We picked up the 6 so some guys got some bonus which was nice and we did the last round of 25s and 5 burpees as a group.
MARY: Did some round robin Mary
ANNOUNCEMENTS: check
COT: of course
WARMUP:
Mosey to church parking lot
SSH, moroccan nightclub, arm circles, low slow squat, down dog, honeymooner
THE THANG:
Mosey over to Sonic for 5 trips through the drive through. Each round you performed the exercises starting with the first number. After running a lap you would decrease each exercise by the second number listed in the row below. Example round 1 – 10 burpees, round 2 8 burpees….
Burpees – 10 – 2s
Merkins – 25 – 5s
Squats – 50 – 10s
LBCs – 75. – 15s
Calf Raises – 100 – 20s
MARY:
Finished with some speed work exercises
One leg lung jump
Bunny hops
Scissor over line
Low slow jump squat
WARMUP: mosey to the top of the hill. Low slow squats, imperial and hillbilly walkers, Moroccan night clubs, planks, merkins, salutations
THE THANG:
Spur 1 – A man must get right before he can do anything else: 7’s on the hill – burpees at the bottom and squats at the top
Mosey to pull up bars
Spur 2 – An unfit man is a slave to his lack of self-control.
7’s at the pull up bars and at end of the driveway. Pull ups and Diamond merkins
Spur 3 – To help others, a man must first help himself. Mosey to school wing for wall sits of gratitude x 2 then back to COT.
MARY: no time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: yes
COT: 5th core principle
WARMUP: Valentine’s Day themed warmup
Diamond Merkins x 10 – for all the diamond rings being given away today
Lunges x 10 – in preparation for getting down on one knee
Pickle Pounder x 10 – if you know you know, you know?
Monkey Humpers x 10 – reference above
THE THANG:
1) Lunges for Lovers
Partner Up
Down and back in front of school
Partner #1 carries sandbag rotating between sang bag toss and overhead carry. Partner #2 stays at home base working on series of exercises. Rotate until exercises are complete.
50 lunges
50 squat and jumps
50 over the shoulder toss
2) Life is Like a Box of Chocolates
PAX take turns pulling cards with exercises from “box of chocolates”, never knowing (but having a general idea) of what they’re going to get.
Front Squats x 10
Front Squats x 10
Back Squats x 10
Back Squats x 10
Overhead Press x 10
Overhead Press x 10
Bent Row x 10
Bent Row x 10
Curls x 15
Curls x 10
Curls x 5
Deadlift x 10
Deadlift x 10
Bench Press x 10
Bench Press x 10
Manmaker x 10
Manmaker x 5
Firemans Carry
Overhead Carry
Bearhug Carry
Merkins with sandbag pull thru x 10
Merkins with sand bag pull thru x 10
20 LBC’s
20 Big Boys
MARY: Negative. Finished with a bit of Broga.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Q versus Q in March. 3/1 Q School and Stockade. 3/2 Print Shop to present Bethel check @ 1pm. 3/9 Springtime Invergence. Get on a Rooster Team with @StraightUp. Maximus is hosting a Christmas Party.
COT: Don’t carry your weight alone. Prayers for healing of cancer/illness. Prayers for the men at Bethel and those that support. Travel.
Disclaimer disclaimed
Valentine’s Day Eve – Accelerating the M requires both Skill and Love. Just like our fitness, relationships are either Accelerating or Decelerating, Aye?
If you think you are “Maintaining” your relationship, you are actually Decelerating.
Mosey to WEP Stage
The Culture is a Jester
• Our culture likes to present marriage as easy, but a HIM knows virtue takes work, and thus marriage will take work.
Warm Up
20 SSH IC
10 Windmills IC
10 LSS IC
Al Gore w/ 10 MNC IC
11 Hill Billy Walkers IC
Yoga?
There is NO 50 Yard Line
• Halfway is not good enough when it comes to the M. An Accelerating HIM will go the length of the field for his M.
The Thang – Pearls on a String became chase Maximus (and Clickbait and Poppins, with Band Camp on form patrol) around the WEP loop, at each swing, do the following:
10 Merkins
10 Squats
10 Flying Squirrels
Your Wife is NOT Your Best Friend
• She is made for a much higher purpose, put her on the pedestal alone.
Mosey to Pike Entrance
7s of Derkins and Bomb Jax
7s of Step Ups and Dips
Mosey to Pike Wall
Wall Sits and Burpee Waterfall
Joy Trumps Happiness
• Happiness is a transitory positive feeling
• Joy is a permanent state of hopeful satisfaction
• A healthy and vital M is a lifetime pursuit
Mary – Flutters until 0600
Marriage requires Proximity and Purpose. It transforms a man from a selfish Happiness-junkie into a selfless Joy-seeker. The HIM knows if he fails at his M, nothing else he does will matter.
Announcements: Q-Source after this. D2D celebration on 3/2
COT: stays in COT
Weather was 32 degrees and chilly but the lights were on and YHC was prepped for a Q to discuss Jester and Preparedness
Simply defined, the Jester is temptation of the flesh that hinders Acceleration. It is a stumbling block that a man continuously trips over in his effort to become a Pro.
The Jester tells a man several lies including:
1. You are the boss of me
2. You are what you do
3. You are not a bad guy
4. Jester and Virtue can coexist
5. You can’t live, if living is without me
But the antidote to the Jester is preparedness, preparing for what is expected and what is unexpected. The addition of love to this preparation leads to diminishing the Jester. But it is a battle that a Man must fight throughout his life.
THE THANG:
Mosey to the front of FMHS
COP
SSH
Merkins
Windmills
CDD
MNC
Plank Jacks
Mosey to the band lot
Deconstructed Burpee – STAR model
Burpees in the middle x 5
Bobby Hurley x 25
Squats x 25
Merkins IC 12
Mtn Climbers x 25
Mosey to pull up bars
Grip Strength work
Partner 1 – hang
Partner 2 – Mary
Rinse and Repeat x 3
Mosey home for COT