It’s about community

WARMUP: The heartstrings got loosened up out of the gates as Warning Track unloaded some baggage from a tough week, acknowledging the challenges of Living Right through the Flux of life and the importance of showing up this morning to be lifted up by his brothers. He followed up with the Obligatory SSHs and then set off from WEP.

THE THANG:

WT took the pax to the old Pike Elec parking lot stopping for some windmills, burpees and other fun enroute.

Pax broke into groups of 3 for a modified Dora across the parking lot. Midway through WT called audible due to pax incompetence and simplified to Dora in groups of 2. Terrible things like Merkins, squats, lunges, flutters, burpees, etc were unleashed on the pax

WT took pax to Memorial Park for more burpees and more shared pax stories of Why they come out to the Gloom on a wet Sat morning.

DD took the reins and moved the pax to a series of parking lots (pharmacy), Pike front courtyard, Town Hall back wall for pain stops including shoulder taps, wall sits, plank jacks, burpees, mtn climbers, peter parkers, Parker peters, etc.

Pax returned to WEP to appreciate JWOW’s lovely Christmas tree. Two rounds of partner work included bear crawls around tree + flutters followed by crawl bears around tree + HR merkins.

Mosey to grass in front of band shell for more partner work (merkins, shoulder taps, sit ups) interspersed with some burpees and lap around band shell. Finished off with Knee Tar N’dyae and Mahktar N’dyae.

Mosey home

MARY: included throughout

ANNOUNCEMENTS: coffeteria at HC

COT: great morning where we welcomed 3 FNGs + a Kotter while pax from 30s to 50s mixed it up and pushed each other to get 1% better.

“Our youth are our present” I heard my pastor say from the pulpit recently. Note he did NOT say “our future.” It’s as true in The Fort and in our community as it is in NYC with a 34 yr old mayor. Younger pax, you ARE leaders today — embrace your opportunity and duty. Seasoned pax — your leadership focus IS about bringing along the next generation of leaders — embrace your opportunity and duty.
We are blessed men to have these roles at this time.

Thanks to JWOW for the opportunity and Warning Track for the partnership.

Love you brothers!
#KeepPosting

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All around WEP

WARMUP: normal stuff
THE THANG: take a lap followed by another lap stopping at the 9 swings for proper form upper body and lower body alternated and core at all stops
MARY: no time for her today
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter
COT: prayers for family issues. Health

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Keep em coming, 10 at a time

WARMUP: Obligatory SSHs, a mosey with carioca, butt kickers, high knees, nur, parker peter, hillbillies, stretching, then back to amphitheatre
THE THANG:
Station 1 (amphitheatre) = burpees x10, shoulder taps x20, Freddy x30

Run to station 2

Station 2 (Pacos plaza) = burpees x10, squats x20, flutters x30

Run back to station 1

Rinse and repeat for 5 total stops at each station

MARY: yes, box cuttah, Am hammer, flutter, dollies, rosalita

A new twist — some of the above was done in reverse (huh?)

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bourbon and BBQ event coming

COT: yessir, Mr Sir

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Board of Pain

It was cool and rainy. Perfect conditions for the #gloom
WARMUP: Ran to top of hill and hit the regulars: SSH, Seal Jacks, squats, arm circles, windmill, broga
THE THANG:
Board of Pain. Finish each exercise and take a lap. See how far you can get down the board.
DD: Started LBC
Spike: Finish squats
Dojo: finish squats
Minute Man: finish squats
Jekyll: finish squats

MARY: no
ANNOUNCEMENTS: HIM Camp was excellent and all 3 Fs- Minute Man. Bethel Men’s shelter
COT: Praises/Prayers for family. Prayers for Green card extension.

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Bald is beautiful

WARMUP: Did a little stretching and then a mosey that almost killed me. Yeah I was Qin.
THE THANG: moseyed from COT to the wall down on 160. Did a few things like wall sits as we watched someone do an exercise. Got bored with that so we ran up that freakin hill to the Parkin lot. Did a few rounds of 4 corners. Abs, arms, legs, and shoulders. Time flew by so Fogerty took over. He kept walking around with this cardboard thing folded up. That’s when it all really started. He had five exercises on the list SSH, squats, lunges, merkins, and LBCs. Then we ran down the freakin hill again. We did this until we almost died. Headed back to COT for abs

Did have a little story time about the story of Daniel and king Darius. Spoiler alert the lions didn’t eat Daniel. The satraps weren’t so lucky.

All done.

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Patrolling at Dawn

WARMUP: Yog to upper WEP lot for a little of this/little of that. Included a sliding scale of Burpees OYO
THE THANG: Head down dark path to hill running up to Ardrey St. Ladder of 7s with Merkins at top of path, Big Boys at bottom. Mosey to Amphitheater stage for 4 corners. 10 reps each corner, bearcrawl on the sides, lunge walk across the stage. Little bit of wall sits and ended with 1/2 of Jack Webb.
MARY: minimal
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bourbon & BBQ event, Xmas party, etc.
COT: prayers for Double D’s fam, Dojo’s household and praises for our Fort brotherhood.
So with my 10 year “manniversary” coming up, I had each of the Pax share memories of their first workouts. It was a fun group. Honored to lead.
Shortest of all Sales out.

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Slow down

WARMUP: stretching and the regulars (10reps each)
THE THANG: mosey to sunbelt parking lot. 3 sets of each at 20 reps at various locations in the parking area.
Merkins, lbcs
Squats, American hammers
Shoulder taps, flutters
Calf raises, bicycles
Dips, leg lifts
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: news letter
COT: prayers and praises around the circle. Jobs, 2.0s aging parents

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Kingsley Apparatus and 2 FNGs

WARMUP: SSH, WM, CP
THE THANG:
Thang 1: 40 Step-ups, 20 Erkins, 10 Derkins
Thang 2: From the front entrance at Kingsley (near RT 160), we made our way around the Kingsley Loop.
At every light post : 3 burpees
At every Fire Hydrant: 25 Squats
At every pathway intersection: 20 Merkins
At every Transformer: 25 Flutter Kicks
MARY: No Time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter
COT: Closed in prayer

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Build your team before the Storm arrives

WARMUP: A little extra on the stretchy warm up thing to wake up the Qs bones
THE THANG: Partner work throughout as we rotated partners repeatedly. We did fun things like partner Merkins, partner squats, partner derkins, partner leg throws, etc. We also did partner burpees with all pax logging 50 across the workout. We ran, we mumbled, we chattered, as we moseyed around various spots proximate to WEP.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: HIM Camp etc
COT: yes of course

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Buckets (again)

WARMUP: We warmed up

Went to the now famous buckets workout.

Three buckets were placed around Kingsley. Upon arrival the packs found various exercises on paper slips that were pulled from the buckets at random. The goal was to spread the buckets around so that we got at least a mile if not a mile and a half of running for the workout.

Included in bucket 1:
Box cutters and burpees
Mtn climbers and grave diggers
Donkey kicks and merkins
LBCs and dying cockroaches

Bucket 2:
Donkey kicks and squats
Calf raises and Weezy Jeffersons
Butt kickers and Peter pointers

Bucket 3:
Burpees of various counts
Shoulder taps
Lbc’s

All thoroughly enjoyed. Good news…I believe they will all continue to post at the Fort.

Many thanks to the President and CEO of gloomschedule, <@U08G28Z7E> for the opportunity.

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