12 days of kettle bell

WARMUP: morrocan night club, windmill, imperial walkers, hill billy walkers, plank, downward dog, honey mooner.
THE THANG: latter adding a new exercise for 12 rounds.
10 x curls
10 x goblet squats
10 x calf raises
10 x over head press
10 x american hammers
10 x pass thrush
10 x flutters with press
10 x lunges pass through
10 x simba
10 x push ups on bell
10 x man makers

MARY: america hammer, x and o’s, freddy merkins
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel men’s shelter, convergence.
COT: thankful for another day and patience around the holidays

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Eve of the Lord’s birth – convergence

WARMUP: The usual
THE THANG: DH-type-stuff
MARY: worked into Thang
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter & upcoming changes
COT: Lauren Hope Styles (sp?) – 21 RIP, Prayers for Geronimo & family. Reading from Ezekiel centered around helping others find their purpose

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Compound Kettle Bell

WARMUP:
Tick-tock torso twist, right in 3cadence,
Walkout merkins in 5cadence,
Tick-tock torso twist, left in 3cadence,
Moroccan nightclub in 3cadence,
Monkey humpers in 3cadence,
Inchworm to squats in 7 cadence.

THE THANG:

Speedwalk to lighted area by stadium entrance and form a single line. Then while holding the bell in various positions perform 5 reps of the below compound movements 2 times in various cadence:

1 – bell at front waist and then squat to KB swing to side raise to front raise in 8cadence on right then left.
2 – bell at lower back to a front lunge to side lunge, then back lunge to a calf raise in 8cadence on right then left.
3 – bell at side to standing oblique crunch to upright row to jerk press in 7cadence on right then left,
4 – body destroyer pose with bell on ground behind head to chest pullover to chest press to side chest fly to big boy situp to incline press to front raise in 9 cadence,
5 – bell at side to opposite leg lunge to row to bent over triceps kickback in 5cadence on right then left,
6 – sumo squat hold with bell at chest to front press to incline press to military press to overhead triceps press in 10cadence.

Few extra minutes left and did some miscellaneous exercises like chair pose with bell in the incline press hold to single leg good morning pose with bell to plank on bell.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
New A/O configuration.

COT:
Prayers for recovery for <@U050B5M1DGR>, driving safety by <@U08NJ8FF1PF>.

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Fa la la la….laughing all the way! ?

WARMUP:
Mosey around the JWow Exercise Pavilion stopping along the way finding our secret Santa gifts :gift:
THE THANG:
Mosey to trail behind parking lot
Partner up
2 rounds of Burpees while partner runs up hill and back
2 rounds of Flying squirrels while partner runs hill and back
1 round of Shoulder Taps
1 round of something

Next up was 22 days of Christmas
Day 1: Burpees with overhead clap
Day 2: Side lunges
Day 3: Broad Jump
Day 4: Leg Lifts
Day 5: merkins
Day 6: Freddy’s
Day7: Sumo Squats
Day 8: reverse lunges
Day9: sumo squats
Day 10: jumping jacks
Day 11: forward lunges
Day 12: jump squats
MARY:
Partner does swing crunch while other runs around playground
2x
Sprint to COT
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
12/24 convergence at NAFO
COT:
Prayers for all dealing with tough times and our man Sofrito to heal up:muscle:

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Rockin Around the Kingsley Christmas Tree

‘around’ should be interpreted here as ‘in the vicinity of’

WARMUP: windmills, imperials, calf raises, moseyed for a bit and added some monsters

THE THANG:
In celebration of the most popular Christmas hit singles, we do sets of 45’s in the Kingsley Amphitheatre
Each round separated by a recovery jog to the fire pit and back

All I Want for Christmas is You To Do Big Boys
It’s the Most Wonderful Time For Shoulder Taps (count one shoulder)
It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Jump Squats
Last Christmas I Wasn’t In F3, So I Didn’t Know Merkins Means Pushups
But Do You Recall, the Most Famous Exercise of All? SSH

Intermission: Walkin’ In A Winter Wonderland
(Not considered a popular Christmas hit single but I’m adding it because I’m the Q and I say so)

I’m Dreaming of a Tricep Dip
Santa Baby Crunches
Simply Having a Wonderful Makhtar N’Diaye (45 collectively – favorite plank if not exercising)
Please Lunge Home for Christmas (22.5 each leg)
You’re A Mean One, Mr. Bandcamp (45 collectively – Al Gore if not exercising)

MARY: What would Christmas be without Mother Mary?

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas Convergence, Break the Dam, Bethel

COT: family, health, relationships, new life

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What is Active Recovery ❤️‍?

Half Way Mentioned. We are all Veterans today.
WARMUP: Slow Mosey to the back of Panera
THE THANG:
1st 3/4 of the Workout :weight_lifter:
10 Pain Stations with 10 Reps Each followed by 1 Lap Around the Lot; Rinsed and Repeated for 4 full circuits!
Reverse Lunges
Merkins some hand released
Reverse Lunges
Bent Over Ruck Rows
Tricep Pulls
Calf raises
Mountain Climbers
Moroccan Night Club
Flutter kicks
Planks with Shoulder Taps or Knee to Elbow

MARY: 1 Full traditional Kingsley Loop Lap

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas Eve Convergence, bethel church, Dam to Bar alternative fun raising event!

COT: A burden shared is half the burden and a joy shared is twice the joy.

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Rockin around the Christmas Tree

WARMUP: couple loops in the AO lot with high knees, buttkickers, and karoake.
THE THANG: Bucket 11 – one bucket at each end of the top lot. Pax pulled random exercises in an 11 format. Mak tar jyes and burpees were everyone’s fave.
Did some partner work on the wall near the upper town hall lot. Bear crawl with wall sit and balls to the wall.
Mosey to Christmas tree. 12 stations surrounding tree. Do two stations and run a loop. We darn near didn’t even come close to finishing all the stations. Great mumblechatter.
Brick by brick, post by post.
MARY: No showed.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: All of them.
COT: Pretty special today.

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Hominy’s First Q at The Fort

Warmup. Call in cadence. (On Stage)
– Side Straddle Hop
– Calf Raises
– Imperial Walker
– Moroccan Night Clubs
– Low Slow Squat

Tour the Park. OYO. Do a lap on the circle. Stop at every swinging bench (9 of them) to do the following exercises:
– 10 Merkins
– 15 LBC

Stage Work: Dora. One partner does a lap around the outside of the stage while the other completes exercises on stage.
– 150 Stage Dips
– 200 LBC
– 250 Squat

Playground work: Stations. Complete one station. Run around the Christmas tree and back. Then complete another station.
1. Swing for 20 cycles on one of the regular swings (4 swings for this)
2. Merkins with legs on swing. (1 of the swings) 15 reps
3. Swing for 20 cycles on one of the regular swings (4 swings for this)
4. Merkins with hands on swing. (1 of the swings) 15 reps
5. Calf raises on the side wall (20 reps)
6. Bench incline merkins 15 reps
7. Rock climb/Over the bridge/Down the Stairs 10 reps. (This was scratched and changed to choose your own adventure. The equipment was too slippery with the frost.)
8. Bench dips 20 reps
9. Spin the merry-go-round 10 revolutions.
10. Bench decline merkins 15 reps
11. Swing for 20 cycles on one of the regular swings (4 swings for this)
12. Bench incline merkins 15 reps
13. Swing for 20 cycles on one of the regular swings (4 swings for this)
14. 20 climb and reach beside the spider web
15. (if necessary) 15 merkins
16. (if necessary) 15 Big Boys
17. (if necessary) 20 Side Straddle Hops
18. (if necessary) 20 LBC
19. (if necessary) 15 Squats
20. (if necessary) 15 Imperial Walkers

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Blimps, SSoP, & Dora at the Jackal

WARMUP: Motivator, Imp-Sqt-Walkers, Rolling Kickstand Irrkins, chPickers

#1:Fire water burn  ~4:50 by Bloodhound Gang
Chorus = Low-(super…6 ct.) slow-squats, in time (come up on”fire”)… hold for “we don’t need no water..BURN MF” Instrumental breaks = Monkey Humpers
Versus = Imperial Squat Walkers

#2: BLIMPS: add 2 reps each bench (to 10, then down)

high/Low/Buffalo as a “10-count”

#3: Mama Said Knock You Out – – FFDP & Tech N9ne 2:48 → Plank Jacks in between
CPOP: “Mama said knock you out” (16 x)  – do a Mike Tyson Pushup

#4: Dora
1 pax Nur up/ mosey down to switch
• 50 Fisherman’s Calf Raises each
• 100 big boiz
• 200 Flutters
Jailbreak sprint to COT
MARY: embedded in the above, no need for a separation
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas party, newsletter type stuff
COT: prayers lifted for marriages, 2.0 communications, coping with grief.

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