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Endless streams of Omaha at BlockParty

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The freshness of downtown Fort Mills morning dew and mumble chatter was in the air.

An immediate Omaha was necessary, best way to do that is by running aimlessly while thinking of your next move.

Ran up the hill to the parking lot, quick fake out then continued moseying to WEP parking lot.

(WARMUP)

promised we will warm up muscle groups that we would not be using.

– MMNCs
– Peter Parker and Parker Peters
– @bandcamp like broga moves

Mosey aimlessly back up through the brick ledges where many Irkins, Derkins, Step ups, and dips have occurred in the past.

Made it to parking lot with large wall in front of pharmacy. Being stubborn or optimistic, decided to stick with the Weinke on this one but quickly modified then aborted.

THE THANG(S)

Believe this one is exicon worthy, a muscle up/toe tap Webb like exercise. The idea, 1 muscle up followed by 4 alternating toes on the wall motions increased accordingly.

Decided to break up group in half. One half start on end of parking lot and burpee broad jump to those doing the Webb. Rinse and repeat.

The mumble-chatter was growing, rightfully so, quickly abandoned mission after two rounds.

Off to the roads thinking up the next round with general direction from the weinke in tow.

Next stop, the iron cross

– start at Loom parking lot
– 25 Mike Tyson’s
– Run to 4 way stop, run up hill on Williamson st to lit parking lot
– 25 Appolo Onos (d/c in case wondering)
– Run to Fort Mill Church of God freshly paved parking lot, vandalized with chalk ( let the record show YHC did go and wash off with h2o following)
– 25 jump squats (you’re welcome battle bot)
– Run to FM town hall building (formerly comporium) on Monroe white st
– 25 merkins

Rinse and repeat

Little bit of Mary for the overachievers and COT.

MOLESKIN

The rep count was intended to enable PAX to focus on form but you can only lead a horse to water. The spring chickens gotta run, so let em run.Most got 2 rounds or almost 2 rounds with 3+ miles total.

The many leadership opportunities of Qing are invaluable, along with the ability to share a message. Discussed missionality and finding your HIZ along with helping your kids or others do the same.

It’s always a privilege to Q at The Forts premiere AO, where I have a deep gratitude for what F3 has done for YHC as my 1st AO. Thx @kermit for the nod.

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Park Swings & Broga

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WARMUP: SSH, Windmills, MNC
THE THANG:
Ran around the track at WEP stopping at each hanging swing (9 bench swing stops) performing a set of exercises at each swing
Round 1 – 10 burpees at each swing
Round 2 – 20 Merkins
Round 3 20 Squats
Round 4 – 20 LBCs
Finished with ~ 3 miles of running
Closed out with 10 minutes of Broga
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter
COT: Closed in Prayer

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Less is more

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WARMUP: mosey to the track around the courts.  Windmills, imperial walkers, Moroccan night clubs, merkins, shoulder taps, stretching.  
THE THANG: 5 rounds of 20 & 23’s – 20’s on one end of the track and 23’s on the other – 20’s alternated between LBC’s and Freddy’s.  23 were squats alternating between regular and sumo.  

Next round of 5 – 20 SSH’s and 23 of your choice of merkin (wide arm, regular or Diamond), except the 4th round.  PAX did monkey humpers – just because.  

Next – Tabata – 40 secs on 20 off for 5 minutes

Minute 1 – merkins
Minute 2 – Freddy’s
Minute 3 – SSH
Minute 4 – LBC’s
Minute 5 – Wall sit of gratitude

4 minutes of Broga closed us out at 0715

MARY: no time
ANNOUNCEMENTS:  many
COT: 5th core principle

Thanks for the opportunity, Bitcoin.

Honored,
Cyclops

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Almost 850lbs of weight were moved over and over

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WARMUP: Moroccan night clubs, low slow squats, windmills, merkins, 400 m mosey, more Moroccan night clubs

THE THANG:
Besides our rucks with +-35# each, we had about 600# of combined weight of different sizes and types of sandbags, 4×60# sandbag, 2×40# sandbag, 1×45# Jerry can, 1×60# med ball, 1×80# mes ball… we set them up in a circle and in a rotating way, with rucks on, we performed the following:

3 reps of the sandbag bear complex, complete one cycle for one rep:
power clean to chest,
front squat,
push jerk to back rack,
Back squat,
Push jerk to front rack then ground

If no sandbag available do med ball over the shoulder toss x3

Rotate to next sandbag, med ball, to try different weights and types of sandbags.

After all 7 pax completed one rotation of bags, ruck 400 meters.

In a rotating way, farmer carry sandbags and Jerry can for 50 yards, no SB or JC available near carry a med ball.

After all 7 pax completed one rotation of bags, ruck 400 meters.

We had enough time to do another rotation of the sandbag bear complex with 2 reps each.

After all 7 pax completed one rotation of bags, ruck 200 meters.

It was a though workout but all 7 pax put their best effort.

MARY: 6am
ANNOUNCEMENTS: cannoli run, convergence for Kenya
COT: stays in COT

🎄Tinsel, out

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Looked better on Paper!

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WARMUP: SSH, Imperial Walker, Nightclubs, Windmills, Cherry Pickers, Squats, Merks, Flutters, …etc
THE THANG: Pick a parking spot – let the fun begin – round 1: 3 exercises 10 reps each SSH, PlankJax, seal jack – flutters as the pax rotate down to next parking spot vacated in a rotating fashion ( bear crawl was mode of transportation)
Continue this cadence until you arrive back at original spot.
Round 2 – same cadence – 5 reps each – using parking block – Iron Mikes, Dips, and Bomb Jax – mode of transportation (mosey)
Time was flying so we stopped midway and headed for the “hill” by the football field that has a small minor smidge of an incline – where we began a round of 6s( modified to 4 s) due to time with Squats at bottom and Merks at top of hill.
Headed back to COT at the clock was ticking …
Mainframe helped us knock out 3 mins of Mary. Nice work by all!!!
The weinke looked better on paper. Q had to call a few audibles to make the time and reps bearable ( no pun)
Bear Crawls were welcomed with some mumblechatter:)
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Cannoli run, Triple down Saturday w either the Yard or the Fort boot camps – coffee – then 5k at the Cannoli. Cake Boss celebrates a birthday yesterday 05/17, and read newsletter. Prayers for Luka and family. Sign up for meal train for Vuvu!!!

COT:

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DOAH Sweeps the Q

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YHC was scheduled to Q, but had some 2.0 troubles overnight… so Dark Helmet graciously picked up the pre programmed Q.

World’s Worst Suicide
Mosey over to GHMS rear bus entrance. Start at basketball court.
PAX will travel forward three light posts and perform 5 burpees.
PAX will then travel backward two light posts and perform 5 merkins.
Rinse and Repeat as needed.

Thanks to DOAH for the help. Below is his version of what happened… can verify.

13 of the faithful came to a YHC led
“@Punch List is here in Spirit” Q…
• @Solo gave up his executive suite at
Planet Fitness to rejoin us in the gloom
• @Joe Lyons (F3 Long Duck) may be old, but at least he’s fast
• @Cobra Kai may be old, but at least he’s slow
• @fishstix may be old..
.. уир
• @Ölaf won the Fireball trophy
• @Poppins and @Vuvuzela were the kings today… by a fair margin
• @Badlands can be slowed down by excessive Merkins
• @Cyclops may or may not have done all of the reps while calling out to his estranged pets
• @SouptoNuts got faster as the workout went on… or I got a lot slower… or both… (probably both)
• @trucker is like Craftsman tools.
Reliable and not prone to wearing out.
• @Flounder ventured out as a lone man to discover the new world… still made it back for COT

Punch List out.

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All I heard was run and push-ups

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WARMUP: go
THE THANG: start from COT and run to school, up the hill with light posts, turn around at stop sign, and run back to COT.

Start out at 10k pace for first 1/4 mile, 1k pace for next 1/4 mile, then 25 merkins (so 25 merkins every .5 miles.

Rinse and repeat.

Looking at 3-5 miles for 150-300 merkins.

You’re welcome.

MARY: quick 30 seconds at the end.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter worthy
COT: Luka, family health, Grassy’s wife for some quick recovery!

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Coach says Don’t Quit!

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The inevitable confusion of a new AO meeting in a different parking lot of a familiar place led to YHC almost being late. For those attending in the future, parking for The Coaches Box is next to the actual coaches box at the baseball field. Also known as the band practice field with the painted football field on the parking lot.

WARMUP:
Given that YHC showed up confused, it seemed like a good idea to start with a mosey toward the other two parking lots typically utilized at FMHS. As soon as we reached that lot we saw a black Jeep confusingly creeping along. After parking in a random spot, we picked up Cheddah and continued our mosey to the school entrance.

– SSH x30
– Imperial Walker x15
– Merkin x10
– “what the hell are these called, oh yeah” Moroccan Nightclubs x15
– Dips on the benches x10

THE THANG:
Most back to the band practice field.

Band practice field:
– Bear crawl to the 10 – 1 Burpee
– Crawl bear back
– Bear crawl to the 20 – 2 Burpees
– Crawl bear back
– Continue to the 50 – 5 burpees
– Crawl bear back from the 50
– Run past the 50 to the 40 – 6 burpees
– Nur back
– Continue for the whole field finishing with 10 burpees and a Nur back to the start

This took way longer than expected so the second half of the weinke was cut short.

Mosey to the pull up bars (3 rounds)
– 10 pull ups (decrease by 1 each round)
– 20 merkins (decrease by 2 each round)
– 30 American Hammers (decrease by 3 each round)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Doty Run this weekend
– Cannoli run next weekend

Thank you Cyclops for the opportunity! As he said, we started the day 3-0!!!

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Acceleration, Fellowship and Leadership – all at one AO?!?

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Now that YHC is back in the world of site Q’s and has learned that I don’t need word press for a pre blast 😬, here’s your notification that we have brought back a Thursday AO to Fort Mill High – The Coach’s Box arrived last week albeit under the shadows of AKA.  

Now that the Tour De Fort (AKA) is complete, I expect regular attendance from PAX who seek not just to accelerate their 1st F but to accelerate their leadership as well.  I’ll expound a bit.

Many of you know my enthusiasm for leadership and its study. In moving the AO back here, the Coach’s Box was fitting as every Q, just like a good coach, will bring a leadership message to accompany their workouts (saying weinke would have felt a bit awkward there 😬).  

Last week, Sugar Daddy gave us a great message from his former baseball coach.  Work fast, change speeds, throw strikes.  This week, Spiderman brings something new.  Fogerty the week after.  You get the idea.

This AO also is very proximate to Hanging with Stang – where anyone can (and should) conveniently stack their first and second F together. After all, we’re called to accelerate in all three F’s.  

It was YHC’s intent to establish an AO that brought Acceleration, Leadership & Fellowship all in one experience.  If you like the idea of that – you know where to post on Thursdays.  I look forward to seeing all of you there very soon.  

SYITG!
Cyclops

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Escalator

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WARMUP:
SSH
Windmill
Honeymooner
Downdog

THE THANG:
We did a thing I later learned is called the escalator.

Set up 10 cones spaced 2 parking spaces apart over in the church parking lot. Each time through you would add an exercise on the next cone. Then run a lap.

10 Merkins
20 Monkey Humpers
10 Mike Tyson’s
20 Flutters
10 side lunges
20 LBCs
20 CDD
10 Big Boys
10 Burpees

For demonstration purposes the first lap pax did 10 merkins and ran the lap. Second lap 10 merkins and 20 monkey humpers…all the way up to 10 where all exercises were done.

MARY:
Had a few minutes for the airborne special
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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