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Stairs are fun

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WARMUP: We got our getty up on right out of the gate with a mosey around the big church parking lot and back to COT. SSH we’re up next, cherry pickers, low slow squats, merkins, and finished up with honeymooners and down dogs.
THE THANG: took off from COT over to the church down the street where we paired up for some Dora. Partner one ran around the church but then up and down the big set of steps before tagging partner 2.

Dora 1 was: 100 merkins, 200 squats, 300 shoulder taps.

Moved to spot #2 which was the big parking lot across from the stairs that have all the steps and about 8 sets you can snake. We changed up Dora partners for Dora #2.

Dora 2 was: 100 lunges, 200 American hammers, 300 calf raises.

Changed to last set of partners where we made our way back to COT. On the way back we found the small set of stairs at the church by the ramp and snaked those with our partners, then over to Church of God big set of steps where we snaked all those sets of steps with our partners. Then back to COT.

MARY: Around the circle for Mary call outs. Pretty sure this was Hemingway’s first time calling cadence and he’s potentially got a career here. Unlike his old man, he called something other than gas pumpers.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: D2Dbar big pickups
COT: Prayers for Slash and his family

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Stupid face cards!

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WARMUP: quick mosey around parking lot, SSH, windmills, squats, merkins, up and down dogs, back and hamstring stretches
THE THANG: as we surrounded 4 KBs and 3 sandbags, we looked at the deck of cards along with the wienke that had all the exercises. Face cards are Jack 11, Queen 12, etc. “Breaks” were after 6-8 cards…I’ll explain later. Ruck was worn for most exercises.
• Hearts 2-7 chest press and swings; 8-Ace curls
• Spades 2-7 lunges (double count); 8-Ace merkins
• Diamonds 2-7 man makers; 8-Ace squats
• Clubs 2-7 clean and press; 8-Ace flutter with press
• joker – carry all the from the front of the school down to the softball field…maybe 200 yards there and back
• after 6-8 cards we took a break which consisted of a shuffle with ruck, gear carry swapping after 200 yards, mosey slick
• after we got back from breaks or jokers, we’d rotate positions so we had different gear in front of us given the different items in our arsenal.
MARY: none today
ANNOUNCEMENTS: skate or die has JOC tomorrow for a ruck workout, dam to dam fundraising
COT: praying for illnesses

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Only 6 years?

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WARMUP: Standing around talking. Very little stretching.
THE THANG: Brayden Hills
MARY: Last site Q morning for Boehiem. After 6ish years, he handed the shovel to Assassin. Thanks for your steadfast leadership Boehiem!!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter
COT: Prayers for healing for health and addictions.

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Pink Mangoes and Root Beers Dum Dum Pops

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2 went on a run.
2 brought extra weight to the bootcamp.
Being a moderate, I gave it everything I had to match to intensity of those who showed.

Warm up:
ran to the top of “the” hill and alternated types of exercises: standing, on your 6, standing, plank. Various exercises, 3 times, count about 10-15.
Back down the hill and a few monkey humpers for our friends from Minnow Pond.
The main event:
5
5-10
5-10-15
5-10-15-20
5-10-15-20-25
5-10-15-20-25-30
different exercises with a run in between, utilizing the stairs, all the stairs.
Again, a few monkey humpers for our friends from Minnow Pond.
One round of Assassin suicides (repeat instructions to Bandcamp as needed).
back near COT for the crowd favorite Mahktar N’Diayes
Finish up with Jack Webb, very near a full JW
Various exercises through out included:
imp walker, hillbilly walker, toy soldier, freddie mercury, gas pumpers, LL Squat, side squat, jump squat, travolta, merkins, SSH, flying squirrels, shoulder taps, crunches, O/H claps, BB sits.
Thanks to DOJO for the nod and all of those who participated at 80% or more.

Looks like we made it,
Barry Manilow

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Easy Peasy for Twister

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WARMUP: Twister complaining about all the AO name changes. He’s old.
THE THANG: Run down 160 for 23 minutes, turn around.
MARY: Should recalculate to 22 minutes out and turn around.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Q source, Dam2Damn Bar
COT: Prayers for healing and marriages.

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DORA Ready with an unexpected whistle

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Disclaimer: when you hear a whistle you owe 10 burpees; intermittent whistles throughout (maybe 10 times)

WARMUP: 50 SSH, of course, and a few others warmup type stuff

THE THANG:
– Dora #1
— 200 Merk’s
— 200 Dips
— 100 Derkins
— 100 Wide grip merks
* Partner did a 50’ish yd Bear Crawl [lots of mummblechatter here?!? Some preferring the bear crawl over merks?, guessing the holidays make some of the pax soft?? 🙂 ]

– DORA #2
— 100 squats
— 150 Monkey humpers
— whatever was next nobody got to…
* Partner did a 40ish yd Duck walk

MESSAGE: we do dumb stuff in the gloom to prepare for the unexpected; the whistle, the burpees represents the unexpected in life; continue your preparedness

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Chupacabra farewell with ladders 🪜 sandbags and rucks

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WARMUP: no warm up
THE THANG: Tabata every 2 minutes, drop and do 10 merkins with ruck on… first one was even before we launched… whining coming from everywhere…

We had a ladder 🪜 loaded with sandbags (4×40 plus 2×60) pick up the ladder, put it on shoulders and start moving around the 1/4 mile loop, every time the timer went off we had to do 10 merkins, do Tabata and pick up ladder again and keep moving… stop about 1/3 of the loop right after the buzzer went off, form two lines and start passing the Sandbags sideways to the pax next in line, return Sandbags to starting point, now pass sandbags overhead to pax next to you, rinse and repeat twice… buzzer went off a couple of times during the sandbags exercise so everyone knew what to do…

Load sandbags back on ladder and keep moving, we didn’t get too far went buzzer went off again.. 10 more!! Advanced to starting point just in time for another buzzer, another 10 merkins; form two lines and start tossing the Sandbags to the other end of parking lot… yes, you guessed it, buzzer went off a few times… rinse and repeat… load up the ladder and keep moving… another 1/3 of the loop and buzzer went off again, 10 more, fork two lines and unload ladder, this time it was over the shoulder toss to pax next/behind you.. rinse and repeat twice and yes, buzzer went off a couple times…

Load up the ladder and keep moving.. another buzzer 2/6 of the loop, drop do merkins and grab ladder and keep moving… we had enough time to go back to COT
MARY: 20 squats with ruck on… buzzer went off one last time, 10 merkins… another round of 20 squats… 6 o’clock

It’s been my pleasure to be the site Q for Chupacabra for the past 16-18 months but it was time to put Chupa to sleep… we’ve had some great events and variety of WODs, and some times miles and smiles…

Thanks for everyone’s support…

Tinsel OUT

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8 Block’a

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THE THANG:
– Goal planning best practices: 12 week planning (goals into smaller chunks), S.M.A.R.T. goals, have an Idea-ation process (uninterrupted listing/brainstorming)

Word of Year:
– Think of past words
– Create a list before critiquing each word, categorize and rank

1st F Themes:
– # of posts this year
– Event(s) for year
– Time/count based goals, i.e. 4-min mile

2nd F Themes:
– QSource
– Passion… Church groups, F3 weekly meets, etc
– Event like a long golf weekend or camping
-Engaging pax you don’t know well
Set an EH’ing goal

3rd F Themes:
– 3rdF Thursdays
– Service-based project
– Join a Life Group (church)

Jester:
– What’s driving bad habits? Real Jester? “Onion” concept, keep peeling back layers
– Abstinence, i.e. quitting porn/booze
– Putting in guardrails, i.e. telling Shield Lock, avoiding situations

Mental Preparedness: Consistency, DRP, 3S2T

Improving Relationships: Consider 2nd F goals, Concentrica relationships

Advice to You get Self:
– Get a mentor
– Don’t procrastinate
– Don’t waste time wasted
-Learn to love unconditionally

COT: Prayer by the Boss of Cakes

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