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The Traz – 080925

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WARMUP: Probably some.
THE THANG: We ran to the Golf Club and back and did a lot of dumb stuff on the way… there were bear crawls around the circle in front of the clubhouse, carrying rocks up and down the cart path hill, and other silliness.
MARY: No chicks.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter.
COT: The 5th Core Principle.

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Grab hold of an Expensed Footlong and let’s go

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‘Twas a damp, but not raining, morning and a group of elder statesman of The Fort came together to discuss rising prices and the good old days.

A trip past a few light poles with merkins and squats got the blood flowing. I missed the spot I had designated as the end, but no one said anything, so we just did them all… We pulled up on the field house and did a few dips on the seats there at the lunch tables, and that’s when the nostalgia dam broke.

Fogerty noted that this may be one of the only, if not the only, AOs in The Fort that has a soda machine. It’s $2 for a can of soda now, and this machine only takes good old American cash money… $2… then the “back in my days” started flying… it was a $1, it was .50¢, it was a quarter… blah, blah, blah… we probably all walked uphill both ways to the soda machines, too… I got it…

We crossed Bear Crawl Bridge (without doing any Bear Crawls) and did a little stair climb/dip/step up deal before we rounded the corner and kept on. The trip back was shorter than I thought, so I started to take us on round two before Fogerty had a much better suggestion. We headed back around the car pick-up line and did a little more work before an epic session of Mary where we learned things about each other we didn’t know before. For example:

– Fogerty’s first gallon of gas cost him 99¢
– Barry’s first date meal with his wife was a Subway sandwich that he’s fairly sure he expensed
– Fishstix’s first penny stock he purchased was for a company called Toypop that was billed as “the next Amazon”. We weren’t sure if it was an adult “toy” situation or not, but clearly it didn’t take off like he’d hoped since he was working out with us in the rain and not sipping Mai Tai’s on a beach in Cancun…
– Old Bay’s first car he purchased with his own money was a 1982 Toyota Supra. He no longer has it, but his cool factor is still almost as high…
– Cherry Pie blew us all away with his paper route prowess as he told us the cost of his first toy he bought for himself (a remote control car). $100 was a lot of money back then… :shocked_face_with_exploding_head:
– Cohiba’s first cigar was, non-ironically, was a cohiba that apparently was traded to him for 2 goats and a chicken’s leg

Then we wound it up and closed out.

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Kitchen Faucet Was Turned Off At The ‘Sink

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Bring your sand bag. Those were the instructions.
WARMUP: Short mosey with a few of the typical warmup exercises.
THE THANG: Grab your bag…sandbag, and meet me by the flag poles.
I reintroduced the GoRuck 60×60 and let them know it would be a regular exercise this morning. For the 1 person reading this, if you’re not sure what the 60×60 is, here you go.
Start with the bag on the ground in front of your feet. Bend over and put your hands on the bag, drop back to a plank, execute a pushup with your chest touching the bag, pop up into the bottom of a squat, rack the sandbag to a front-rack position, stand up then toss the sandbag over your head once you get to the top of the movement. That is 1. Turn around, address the sandbag and do it again. Repeat for 60 seconds.
To ensure we knew how to execute it, we performed our first 60×60.
Rack the bag and make our way behind the school to the back drop-off entrance.
15 of each exercise:
Simbas (because I love them and they’re harder with a sandbag)
Flutters with press. At rep #8, I was called out for not actually pressing my sandbag so I performed 8 correct reps once everyone else completed their 15. I’m thankful IJ called me out as I’m sure others saw this yet didn’t speak up. We need men in our lives who will speak up.
60×60
Rack the sandbag and meet at the other end of the back stretch behind the school.
15 of each exercise:
Squats
Dead Lifts (Hopefully with proper form)
Thrusters
Slow(er) Calf Raises
60×60
Rack the sandbag and meet at the corner of the loop by the lighted sign.
15 of each exercise:
Partner Derkins (no sandbag)
Curls
Overhead Press
Chest Press (15 I/C actually means 30)
60×60
Rack the sandbag and meet over by the rock
Another 60×60
Partner Up
Partner 1: Farmers Carry the two sand bags an untold distance, probably 40yds then back.
Partner 2: Mountain Climbers
Flapjack
Rack the sandbag and go back to COT.

MARY: See above
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Rock Hill Rooster (I think) Partnership with Bethel on Sept 6!
All the others are in the Newsletter, or should be.
COT: Indeed

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Fat Amy

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WARMUP:
20 SSH IC
10 Windmills IC
10 Cherry Picker IC
10 Imperial Walkers IC
10 Hillbilly Walkers IC
5 Burpees OYO

THE THANG:
50 Air Squats
10 Burpees
40 Sit-Ups
10 Burpees
30 Lunges (alternating legs)
10 Burpees
20 Kettlebell Swings
10 Burpees
10 meter Bear Crawl
10 Burpees
20 Kettlebell Swings
10 Burpees
30 Lunges (alternating legs)
10 Burpees
40 Sit-Ups
10 Burpees
50 Air Squats

Used the pickup loop as a pseudo four square…
Made it to 30/10 on the way back up

MARY:
10 Hammers
10 JLo’s

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Newsletter

COT:
Show To Know

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WorldsBestMerkin

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WARMUP: plank
THE THANG:
World’s greatest push-up, bear crawls, power skips, fire hydrants, sprinting up the hill
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: welcome to the new guy Rocco who carried a water bottle around the whole workout so we named him after a Waterboy reference Boucher
COT:

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Deconstructed Burpee Ladder

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WARMUP: Quick lap around the main parking lot (not going behind the stores), then circle up for the following, 10 of each:
– SSH
– WM
– IW
– MNC
– Strawberry pickers
Then mosey not too far from COT for….
THE THANG:
Ladder of Deconstructed Burpees
A loop of .25 mile was set up, the same one we used as a warmup.
Do the exercises, then run the loop. The idea was in each round, you do an exercise that is part of the standard burpee.

Ascending ladder (run a lap between each round)
Round 1: 1 burpee + 10 hand-touch squats
Round 2: 2 burpees + 10 hand-touch squats + 10 plank w leg crunch/extensions
Round 3: 3 burpees + 10 hand-touch squats + 10 plank w leg crunch/extensions + 10 merkins
Round 4: 4 burpees + 10 hand-touch squats + 10 plank w leg crunch/extensions + 10 merkins + 10 jump squats w OH clap
Descending the ladder (run a lap between each round)
>> Take off 1 burpee and 1 exercise
Round 5: 3 burpees + 10 hand-touch squats + 10 plank w leg crunch/extensions + 10 merkins
Round 6: 2 burpees + 10 hand-touch squats + 10 plank w leg crunch/extensions
Round 7: 1 burpee + 10 hand-touch squats
>> Rinse and repeat

Everyone got 2 full completions of this, and completed another full ascension. Some started on another descension and completed that too. Overall everyone, except me, got at least 3 miles. Good push by everyone.
MARY: No time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Mentioned some of the things in the newsletter. Read it. Get involved.
COT: Alot lifted up.
Thanks for the opportunity to lead. SYITG.
-NASA

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Reminiscing the BLIMPs

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The Pax were enthusiastic about a mid-summer retreat from the hot weather this AM. YHC had researched previous backblasts in an effort to find a BLIMP style workout and found one from 2017 led by Old Bay. I remember this one well and was recognized for my mumblechatter in the backblast. Let’s do that!

WARMUP:

Circle the HT
SSH x 30
Windmill x 10
CDD x 20
MNC x 20

Run to the other side of HT

Time on the Wall
Wall sits with alternating burpees x 2
BTW x 30 count
Wall sits with bear crawls

On to the main thing

THE THANG:

BLIMPS around Walgreens – stopping at each corner

Round 1 – 1 burpee
Round 2 – 1 burpee, 2 lunges
Round 3 – 1 burpee, 2 lunges, 3 IWs
Round 4 – 1 burpee, 2 lunges, 3 IWs, 4 merkins
Round 5 – 1 burpee, 2 lunges, 3 IWs, 4 merkins, 5 Plank Jacks
Round 6 – 1 burpee, 2 lunges, 3 IWs, 4 merkins, 5 Plank Jacks, 6 Jump Squats
Round 7 – Remove the burpee
Round 8 – Remove the burpee and lunges
Round 9 – Remove the burpee, lunges and IWs

3 Minutes of Mary

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Read the newsletter

COT:
– Good reminder from Anchorman on being challenged by those who care about you to get better
– Great wisdom (and funny anecodotes) from IJ today

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Kettlebells in the rain

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WARMUP: SSH,
THE THANG: 3 different sets of crossbody pulls, lunges, chest press, goblet squats, overhead press, 3 types of calf raises
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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30 7s on 7/30

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WARMUP: pick up all your things and carry them to the workout location
THE THANG: Wearing weight vest or ruck we attempted to complete as many rounds of 7s with different exercises and gear each round.
MARY: take all your gear back to cot
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter
COT: lean on others in times of need

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7/29 GC

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WARMUP: Normal routine of SSHs, windmills, imp Walker’s, etc.
THE THANG: Mosey over to front of pet store and partner up. P1 does a burpee while p2 waits. Then p2 does burpee while p1 waits. 20 as a team then yog over to Indian restaurant and back. 4 rounds of partner burpees.
Mosey over to church lot for the 300. 30 reps of 10 exercises. Merkins, squats, flutters, shoulder taps, plank jacks, seal jacks, am hammers, CDDs, lunges, and LBCs.
Moseyback to main lot and circle up. Group does lunges while one PAX does 2 burpees. Go around the horn twice. Next round is shoulder taps while one PAX does 5 merkins. 2 rounds. Final set, one PAX calls out 10, 45, 90 degrees hold while one PAX does 5 LBCs. 2 rounds of that and times up. Recover.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: Thx for the opportunity <@U01CGBKBQ64>

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