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“Shop Vacs- Cinderblock of pain”

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WARMUP: Mosey and Circle up, exercises for starters
THE THANG: Cinder block work- 15 shoulder Presses- a lap(with cider Block) x2, 20 curls- a lap (with block)x2, 15 uprights-a lap (with Block) x2, 20 Bench press-a lap(block) x2, 20 merkins on block- a lap (with block) x2, 10 manmakers- a lap(with block) x2. Then transitioned to pull up bars and did elevens, 10 pull ups and to bottom of hill 1 merkin, 9 & 2, 8&3 and so on! some finished!
MARY: ran out of time- Read a Sean Kelley prayer
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: Prayers for Marriages , I forget the specifics

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10 Year Convergence

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Ten year celebration came to a close this morning with a convergence at WEP. 12 men came earlier for a run to support Operation Sweet Tooth. 84 men attended the main event with three great HIM leading the workout: CSPAN, Maximum, and WWL. No warm-ups this morning. CSPAN took his group around the block with various stops along the way. Seven reps of Flying Squirrels, Merkins, and Sit-ups. WWL had playtime at the playground. Burpees and Pull-ups along with running fast around the playground. Did I mention Power Skips? Maximum had a simple plan. Run backwards up the hill many times and destroy your abs with American Hammers.
We closed the chapter on the first 10 years.
Monday begin the next.
The future is bright.
How will you contribute to the next 10 years?
Make an impact.

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Honor of Cash

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Today, we honored Cash, hospital name Jay Griggs, who passed away in Sept 2020 of cancer. He was given the name “Cash” as in Johnny Cash due to his all black outfit he worn at his first workout along with his hometown of Nashville, TN. The Coop was renamed “Ring of Fire” in honor of Cash. Double D shared stories through the workout. Cash was a genuine person who was always ready to help out a friend.
Jekyll provided me with a backblast from 2015 where Cash was in attendance. I decided to copy it on a piece of paper and unfortunately dropped it in the gloom so it did not match the exact workout.
We first moseyed to the front entrance of the school for COP (SSHs, IWs, Windmills, Cherry Pickers, Plank Stretches, and Mountain Climbers)
Next, we moseyed to the gym wall for People’s Chair with each pax running out to the parking lot for 5 merkins. One round of Balls to the Wall.
The lights came on making it easier to navigate, mosey to the ROTC building.
Dirty McDeuce (3 exercises, 12 reps) Run to the top of the hill, 5 burpees and back down to starting point.
R1: Merkins, LBCs, Lunges
R2: Wide Arm Merkins, Hello Dollies, Squats
R3: CDD, Flutters, Jump Squats
R4: Stagger Merkins, X/Os, Calf Raises

Back to the top of the hill near the school
Three rounds of toe touches, Dips, Derkins (12 reps)

Back to COT
Closed with Cash’s prayer

Search me Lord. Lead me to you. Help me to be a good man, a good father, a good husband and a good employee. Help me to forgive and release from resentment those that I feel have offended me. Let me see the good in others and draw that goodness out of them.

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APFT for the Forts 10 year!

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WARMUP: We Moseyed to the parking lot of the Lutheran Church.

Once there I described the route for our 2 mile run. We then had a moment of silence for the runner who was abducted and killed in Memphis.

I blew the whistle and the 3 pax were off running into the dark.

Fish sticks killed it as he usually does with a time of 14:52.

Jwow put down a solid 20:13 with Incoming with a 22:06.

We then proceeded to the 2:00 of Merkins followed by 2:00 of sit-ups.

All 3 put up some impressive numbers.

Fish: 65 Merkins and 56 sit-ups
Jwow: 75 Merkins and 46 sit-ups
Incoming: 90 Merkins and 38 sit-ups

We moseyed back to COT just in time for the Chupacabra guys.

All in all it was a great time. I enjoyed being a clipboard Q for a day and the fellowship and effort was strong.

Until next time!

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The Final Countdown

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The day finally arrived for our CSAUP, The FInal Countdown. The rainy weather was not ideal, but it helped keep the temperature and humidity down for ideal running conditions. 67 men participated in the event. Most groups participated in the relay. Ruckers and trail runners fought the elements and got their work done to.
Relay details:   The first Pax will run 3 miles and return to the starting point.  The 1st and 2nd Pax will run 3 miles and return to the starting point. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd runner will run the final 3 miles.  Each route will be unique.  If you get lost, just run 3 miles and return back to the park.

Total miles:  3+3+3 = 10 F3 math   (Runner 1 – 9 miles, Runner 2 – 6 miles, Runner 3 – 3 miles)

Inspiring stuff this morning. River Rat’s 2.0s ran the course like it was a lap around the track. Lots of guys ran distances they have never run before.
We’ve got a good pool of runners for the upcoming Dam to Dam Relay.

Great job by everyone this morning!

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PAINtheon Games – The Fort is 10

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WARMUP: 0500 Warmup with SSH, Merkins, Mtn Climbers, Peter Parkers and SSH (Cadence? Sometimes?)

THE THANG: Really just a large amount of stupid. AMRAP 2 Minutes of Merkins, Big Boy Situps and Burpees each. 100 Yard Bear Crawl Dash, Timed 1 Mile, Timed BTTW, Time 6 inch Hold (not that six inches) and Burpee Chase (0.33 mile with 4 stations requiring 5 burpees each). Here is how things shook out (hope this works):

PAX Name Merkins Sit-Ups Burpees 100 Yd BC Dash 1 Mile BTTW Time 6 Inch Time Burpee Chase
Zima 48 30 10 Clipboard Q Some 0:21 Meh Nope!
Spud 128 40 23 Modify 8:38 1:20 1:06 4:30
38 Special 37 45 16 2:07 11:17 No Thanks 0:02 5:09
Trucker 89 80 15 2:23 10:32 0:16 0:47 4:58
Bonsai 68 71 21 1:12 8:28 1:00 1:10 3:52
Minuteman 41 37 25 2:06 7:45 0:30 1:00 4:11
Fishstix 75 62 25 1:38 7:30 0:39 0:40 3:40
Juliet 44 55 31 0:32 7:16 1:11 0:39 3:34
Flounder 135 79 33 2:32 10:00 1:15 0:30 7:00+
Shady 60 66 24 1:34 Not Legible 1:04 0:48 4:20
Band Camp 86 52 27 0:30 8:07 1:04 1:16 4:09

MARY: Nope
ANNOUNCEMENTS: 10 Year Kickoff, Final Countdown CSAUP, Read Your Newsletter
COT: Prayers for Shower Curtain, Cable Guy and 2.0s starting school

Honored to lead and glad y’all still remember me. Ha!

-Zima Out

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Uphill NURing and lots of webs

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We had 11 Bootcampers and 2 runners, quick disclaimer before getting into the warm up.

Mosey to fire station
20 SSH IC
10 Windmills IC
15 LSS IC
15 MNC IC

Mosey to pull-up bars and plank. Waterfall of 5 pull-ups, and then back down the waterfall.

Mosey to bottom of Tara Tea and partner up.
DORA
NUR uphill and run back while partner completes
50 – merkins
100- overhead claps
150 – LBCs
200 – flutters

Back to the baseball field for some core, legs and upper body webs:

CORE
Captain Thor, 1 big boy sit-up – 4 American hammers, run 10 yards; 2 BBSU – 8 AH, run 10 yards; 3 BBSU – 12 AH, run 10 yards… repeat until completion of 10 BBSU – 40 AH
Total: 55 BBSU and 220 AH

Take a lap around the field.

LEGS
1 squat – 4 calf raises, run 20 yards; 2 squats – 8 calf raises, run 20 yards; 3 squats – 12 calf raises, run 20 yards… repeat until completion of 10 squats – 40 calf raises.
Total: 55 squats – 220 calf raises

Take a lap around the field.

UPPER BODY
Lots of mumble chatter while explaining this one, no running in between series this time
1 merkin – 4 shoulder taps; 2 merkins – 8 shoulder taps; 3 merkins – 12 ST; took a brake after 5-20, then another brake after 7-28 and YHC had already lost count and whining came into the game so as a crowd pleaser we repeated 7-28… finished up with 10 merkins – 40 shoulder taps.
Total: 62 merkins – 248 shoulder taps

We had a couple of minutes to go back to COT with smoked shoulders and Badlands thought it was a good idea to keep doing merkins, add 10 IC to the count. 9 for YHC, apparently my watch was out of whack and alerted me it was 0730.

Great work by everyone.

Announcements:
9/11 WOD at NaFo on 9/5 starting at 0600, bring sandbags and rucks.

10 year anniversary festivities start officially on Wednesday with someone named Zima at the PAINtheon games.

Final countdown happening on 9/10

Prayers and praises were lifted.

Tinsel and Kermit out…

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KB Mashup

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7 showed up this morning at the Hive to the sound of Garth Brooks. Uhaul knows how much I dislike it so he made sure it was playing loud. We debated on what music to play for a bit and settled on 90’s Alternative.
Warm-ups consisted of several dynamic arm and leg stretches along with a plank routine to stretch out the back and hips.
The Mash-Up:
Each routine consisted of three exercises in each set with the fourth combining all three exercises. Here are the five routines:
• HALO
• ROUND THE WORLD
• SMURF ROTATION
• COMBO

• RACKED SQUAT
• RACKED LUNGE
• CALF RAISE
• COMBO

• PLANK PULL THROUGH
• ROW
• CURL
• COMBO

• SWING
• WINDMILL
• SHOULDER PRESS
• COMBO

• GOBLET SQUAT
• SKULL CRUSHER
• LBC
• COMBO (Most difficult, from squat transition to ground and back up to your feet after LBC)

First round 10 reps, second round 5 reps with some running in between rounds. Lots of discussion about Ben and JLO and their movie careers.
Great job everyone!

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S.H.O.W.E.R. C.U.R.T.A.I.N.

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WARMUP: 2 line running, high knees, butt kickers, side straddles, that kind of thing, . . .
THE THANG:
S
Sleep Walkers 123 – Squat, windmill, reverse lunges, 1,2,3, then 2,4,6, . . . keep going . . . !

H
Hurricane Hoedown – Flutters 7 X 4 exercises X 6X

O
One-legged Burpee -13 on leg of choice

W
Wave of Merkins – We got to 5 around the circle

E
El Capitan – deep walking lunge going up a small hill. The lunge has the back leg straight out behind you, your front leg at 90 degrees or less – both hands go fully on the ground in merkin position on the inside of your front leg. Return to a standing position and repeat the lunge until you reach the top of the hill.

R
Rampage – 13 finger tip dips, bear crawl down the hill, 13 sumo squats, crawl bear back up the hill, 13 regular dips, bear crawl down the hill, 13 sumo squats, crab walk back up the hill

C
Catch Me If You Can – Two partners. Partner 1 performs 10 Diamond Merkins and then sprints to catch the Partner 2, who has been running sprinting to the goal post and running back to start

U
Up downs
A mix between chopping your feet or high knees. On my signal chest hits the dirt and bounce back up and we resumed chopping or high knees.

R
Red Bull Smurf Jack
Exceptionally high-tempo cadence at 3 times the speed of a normal cadence. Did in cadence, no less than 20. 20 is challenging, 30 will take your breath away, and 40 would be a very high level of achievement.

T
Triple Check
Teams of three. First man in a peoples chair, second man in front of him in plank, third man sprints 100 yards and back, rinse and repeat times three.

A
Alarm Clock
Lie on ground- back of head and heels touching ground. Get up (as quickly as possible). Hop up. Rinse, repeat. Did 15.

I
Inch-Worm N’Diayes
Proceed with a standard inch-worm but when you get completely stretch out in plank, perform a Makhtar N’Diayes before completing the remainder of the inch-worm. Did 8.

N
Nolan Ryan
Start in a side plank position with your ungrounded arm extended. Complete a punching motion as if someone, namely Robin Ventura, were under your other arm. Did 6.

MARY: n/a
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter. Labor Day 2 hour morning event at 6 am. Be there is you dare!
COT: Prayers for the injured, PAX to be leaders
MESSAGE: Focus on kindness by way of your nonverbals and your verbal talk. Especially between 3-8 pm each day when you are tired!

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