Kettlebells: The Great American Pastime

WARMUP: mountain climbers, overhead claps, merkins, CDDs
THE THANG: Mozy to the adjacent parking lot where bases and cones were setup to form a baseball field. (Happy Hour’s and my son play on the same baseball team). Each base in baseball has a number associated with it. In order from 1-9, those are pitcher, catcher, first, second, third, shortstop, left field, center, and right field.
Starting at pitcher we did one rep then moved to catcher for two reps, first base for three reps and on and on until we got to left field for nine reps. One full round of the bases is 45 reps. Transportation of kettlebells alternated between farmers carry and overhead carry.
We started with goblet squats then moved on to kettlebell swings. We then got a 6/4/3 double play of flutters with a press. After the double play we resumed our base walking with clean & presses, then the next round was upright rows. For thoroughness, these two rounds we did left handed and right handed.
After the clean/press the Pax called for a 7th inning “stretch” so we did a few honeymooners and downward dogs before resuming. A brief rendition of “Take me out to the ballgame” was heard but thankfully didn’t last long.
Next round was curls and with limited time remaining, we did 20 tricep extensions with everyone at a base of their choice. When it was all totaled up, we were just short of 350 reps.
Not sure if everyone had fun, but everyone now knows that right field is #9!
MARY: skipped it
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Fast Five, newsletter
COT: Family and friend’s health

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50, in air quotes, percent better at the #ao-snakepit…

WARMUP: 10 Moroccan nightclubs, 10 Windmills, 10 side straddle hops
THE THANG:

2 times through this stuff!

1. 50 Calf Raises then 50+ yd-ish Mosey w/ KB,
2. 50 Goblet Squats Sumo style then 50+ yd-ish Mosey w/ KB,
3. 50 KB Deadlifts then 50+ yd-ish Mosey w/ KB,
4. 50 LBC’s with KB then 50+ yd-ish Mosey w/ KB,
5. 50 KB Push-ups (25 L & R) then 50+ yd-ish Mosey w/ KB,
6. 50 Curls then 50+ yd-ish Mosey w/ KB,
7. 50 Lat Push then 50+ yd-ish Mosey w/ KB,

“Rattle Snakes” were offered for the overachievers, although not many were actually done. “Rattle Snakes” are basically a plank where you jump your legs side to side. Probably has a different name, but since we were in the ao-snake-pit…

Slight modification on 2nd round, but all reps accounted for plus 50 KB swings.

MARY: Box cutters, American Hammers, Protractor, Hello Dolly’s

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Fastest 5k, represent for VuVu’s son!

COT: It is what it is…

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Moderate My A$$ Kickin April

WARMUP: SSH, Imperial Walkers, Windmill, Moroccan NC, and Strawberry Pickers.
THE THANG:
Phase 1: Cheese shredder 2 Rounds
Phase 2: 4 Corners of Doom:
1st Corner: Peter Parkers and Lunges
2nd Corner: Shoulder Taps and Seal Jacks
3rd Corner: Donkey kicks and Carolina Dry Docks
4th Corner: Mountain Climbers and Tricep Dips
2 Rounds with reps at 10 during Round 1 and Bear Crawl as mode of transportation and 20 reps during Round 2 with mode of transportation being the Crab Walk.
Phase 3: Dora:
100 Merkins
200 Squats
Clock was the other partner not doing exercise would run from one end of parking lot to the other.
Phase 4: Sprint
Everyone sprinted from one end of parking lot to passing the striped crosswalk. Winner chose an exercise. Kodak won and made everyone do 10 burpees.
MARY: She was afraid and didn’t show up
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: Prayers and Praises

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4-Square fun at The Yard

WARMUP: SSH, ImpWalk, Windmills, yoga-Merkins

THE THANG:

Appetizer:  
• Buy-in: 10 Lt. Dan (IC)
◦ OYO after this
• To end of lot: “Cocaine Bear crawl“
◦ Every powder-lines x 1-2 merkin each…
• Cash out: 10 Lt. Dan OYO

First course:

Dribble Sprints Fun
• PAX in a circle.
• 1 PAX dribbles 2 basketballs ? around the circle while everyone else performs the following exercises:
◦ SSH, LBC, WM, IW, HW, etc.

Second course:

Caterpillar-Relay” –  -ball-pass Indian runs: pax lay head-to-foot in long line, using only feet, pass ball over head, then jump up, run to join end of line.

Main course 4-square (Basket-Ballz); sidewalk chalk to seal & # 2 spaces, timer. 1 min. On/20 sec. Off. [alt: “Triangle of Doom” if fewer PAX]
• 4 pax play ES/MS style 4-square.
• Whoever is out moseys a lap before joining end of Queue
• Extra pax in Queue doing pain during 1-min & resting / shifting up during 20 seconds
• Queue stations go easiest to hardest (I.e. #1 in line does MNC)
• 1-MNC, 2-windmills,3-Imp.Walkers, 4-LSSquats….

MARY: one legged LBC complex, Shakira

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Luca 5K, cannoli run in May, other newsletter items

COT: held… Praises for youth sports victories and 2.0 birthdays

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Finding Geometrical Objects at the Yard

Disclaimer Given
WARMUP: x10 = WindMills, Pineapple Pickers, Hillbillies Walker, Imperial Walker
THE THANG: 12 Stations for Geometric Circuit, 12 Reps at each Station, Followed by a lap around the track! Rinse and Repeat
LBC
SQUATS
MERKINS
AMERICAN HAMMERS
DONKEY KICKS
CAROLINA DRY DOCKS
CALF RAISES
OVER HEAD CLAP
BOMB JACK
FLUTTER KICKS
MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS
MOROCCAN NIGHT CLUBS

X4 Circuits and Laps
MARY: she couldn’t be found
ANNOUNCEMENTS: trash pickups, convergence, jeager, read da news letters
COT: Always Stays in COT

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Where’s Stevie?!

THE THANG:

To keep us warm I added a run in between each set. Round one, 15 each. Round two, 20.

Kb swings
Shoulder shrugs

goblet squats
Flutters

Curls
merkins

tricep extensions
Squat

Sumo squat
LBC

skull crusher
Rosa lita

Dead lift
calf raises

Lawnmower
American hammer

COT: prayers for those mentioned. Happy Tuesday.

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12 Days Of Valentines

After warming up we dove into twelve days of Christmas… wait Valentines!

1-run
2- Wide Arm Merkins
3-Jump squats
4-LBCs
5-Diamond merkins
6-Imperial walkers
7-Rosalitas
8-Slow flutters
9-Low slow squats
10-Lunges (10 each leg)
11-Merkins
12-Burpees

Most got their sweat on. Thanks for coming out and letting me lead.

The Thrill is gone.

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DORAs at The Hive

DORA 1: partner run
– Man makers 50
– Goblet Squats 100
– Swings 150

DORA 2: farmers carry
– Burpees 50
– Squats 100
– Overhead clap 150

DORA 3: Bear crawl
– Bent row right 50
– Bent row left 50
– Curls 50

DORA 4: Farmers Carry
– Merkins 50
– Mountain climbers 75
– SSH 100

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God Bless Saturday

WARMUP:
SSH
Imperial Walker
Hillbilly Walker
Low slow squat
Merkins
Honeymooner
Downward dog
THE THANG:
Indian run with 3 merkins then sprint

1776 workout
17 merkins
76 squats
17 CDD
76 LBC
17 Mike Tyson’s
76 Lunges
27 Imperial Walkers
76 Sumo Squats
Lap together burpee in the middle

Basketball shuffle
Group does LBCs
One member does a merkin on one sideline and a Bobby Hurley at the hoop then another merkin on the other sideline shuffling across

MARY:
Stretching

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Bethel men’s
Dam to Damn pickup
Jaeger

COT:
Prayers for brotherhood, health and bountifulness of God

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