The Cheese Grater

It was a beautiful morning in The Fort where 12 men chose to do the AKA moderately difficult thing and accelerate.

Quick disclaimer and warmup and we we’re off.

The Thang:
Jack Webb 4 – 40 V-Ups and 1- 10 supemans 🦸‍♂️.

Mode of transportation between cones was an Partner Indian Bear Craw across the parking lot.

Back to COT for prayers and praises.

-JWow

Back to COT

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Hold the Brook

Ran down Holbrook and back. An honor to Q. L-Train, Funhouse, and Ranger Panties were #kings today.

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AKA with a ruck

WARMUP: none
THE THANG: Maintain 16 min per mile pace. Stop after 1/2 mile to do upper body workout. Stop after another 1/2 mile for lower body. Rinse and repeat until 5 min left.
MARY: 5 min of Airborne’s hip exercises
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read the newsletter
COT:

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AKA#4 Day 9 – Accumulator Day

WARMUP: Mosey with some SSH, Merkins, squats, etc
THE THANG: Accumulator! Parking lot burpee accumulator…Burp bear crawl, burps+1, then lunge walk, burp +2, bear crawl, you get the jist. End up on other side of parking lot, 10 Muscle ups on the brick wall. Mosey to front of school, 15 derkins and 25 dips. Mosey down a bit to the columns. Squat Accumulator. Each column squat and add one. 14 columns = lots of squats. Mosey to hill. Run to cone 2 merkins, back to start 1 burpee, 1st cone 2 merkins, 2nd cone 4 merkins, back down to 1st cone, 2 merkins, to start add a burpee. There were five cones = Lots of Merkins

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: AKA Day 10 is Sole to Sole. 0500 start with Airborne on the Q.
COT: Yes we had one.

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Taking the Conga Line Through Life

WARMUP: Bit of a mosey and short COP with mumblechatter from Bonsai on the Qs Disclaimer. No, it wasn’t perfect. It also wasn’t missed entirely (except you Bonsai).

THE THANG: Two sets of accumulator series 5x / 10x / 15x /20x / 25x with bear crawls or crawl bears in between. one series was all lower body, one all core. along the way we did a conga line mosey weaving through all the posts of the carpool awning at the school.

MESSAGE: Workout and message today were geared around life not moving in a straight line. it hasn’t for me in career, fitness, faith, marriage, finances, etc. there have been ups and downs and twists and turns. too often I fall into the trap of blaming myself or someone else for the downticks when in fact that’s just part of the journey. and in fact it’s those downticks when I have the most to learn and grow. so take the attitude about the #Suck from the Gloom and apply it to the #Suck in the rest of your life — Embrace It!

thanks for the invite Triple Lindy and the AKA spirit Funhouse and pax! always an honor to lead.

COT: It was Day 2 of AKA and we had a great showing and energy level. some new faces (FITS) and some welcome kotters (Naked and Afraid).

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Hills and Heavy things are hurtful

WARMUP:
– Mosey the track loop around Runde Park
– Peter Parker x10 cadence
– Merkin x10 cadence
– Windmill x10 cadence

THE THANG:
Part 1:
– Separate into 2 groups. One group starts at YHC’s truck and the other group starts at the batting cages

– Each station will have two sets of exercises. The first exercise will be done when the count is and odd number and the second exercise will be done on the even number.

Batting cage:
– Wall paver stones native to the AO. The general consensus was that they weighed about 70lbs.
– Odd: Bent-over Rows
– Even: Squats holding the massive paver

Truck:
– “Hell Pavers” as previously labeled by Dark Helmet. Equivalent to a cinder block but more compact.
– Odd: Curls
– Even: Overhead Press

Rd 1: 15 count of the Odd exercise at the station your group started with. Then run to the other station and do a 15 count of the Odd exercise for that station.
Rd 2: 14 count of the Even exercise at the station your group started with. Then run to the other station and do a 14 count of the Even exercise for that station.
– Continue decreasing the count as you complete the exercises.
– We called it after the 7 count to be sure we had sufficient time for Part 2.

Part 2: Half-Pipe
– Ran to the bottom of the big hill. Once there we were nicely positioned at the bottom of 2 hills on either side of us….like a half-pipe.
– The moderate hill had 5 cones positioned moving up the hill. And the steep hill had spots marked with duct tape at various points up the hill with the last one at the top.

How the half-pipe works:
– Run to the first cone on the moderate hill. Complete 2 merkins. It was called out that if you were not matching Funhouse’s form, then you were doing it wrong.
– Run back to the bottom and up to the first marker on the big hill. Complete 2 burpees.
– Run back to the first cone on the moderate hill and complete 2 merkins. Continue to the second cone and complete 4 merkins. Run back to the first cone and complete 2 merkins facing the way you are running. This makes them derkins.
– Run to the first marker on the big hill and complete 2 burpees. Run to the second marker and complete 4 burpees. Run back to the first marker and complete 2 burpees facing downhill. Coming up on those while facing the downhill sucks on the legs!
– Continue the series for the 5 stations on each of the hills.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Read your newsletter
– Prayers and Praises: Parenting, health, job searching

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Handstands, burpees, and bear crawls oh my!

WARMUP:
Mozy to the wall
SSH
Low Slow Squat
CDD and chill

THE THANG:
Balls to the wall
It was at this point Sasquatch joined us
10 handstand pushups OYO
People’s chair
10 wall squats
Balls to the wall
10 handstand pushups OYO
20 burpees

mozy to roundabout
bear crawl around roundabout
20 burpees – to control the amount of chatter. There are people sleeping in those apartments ya know.
A2G (deep squat) for the 6

mozy to second roundabout
bear crawl around roundabout. Turns out this one is bigger. Who knew?
Olaf joined the group
20 more burpees to keep em quiet
Plank for the 6

mozy back to first roundabout
crab walk around
Plank for the 6

Mozy back to Red Bowl
3 corners, 10 reps each:
1) Big Boys and 2count Flutters
2) Burpees!!
3) Jump Squats and Bomb Jacks
The pattern was 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, etc.
Funhouse joined us somewhere in here

MARY:
Flutters, Peter Parkers, and LBCs

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Men’s shelter next week – Battle Bot
Blood Drive – 3D
Cannoli run
New 3rd F on Wednesdays – Kaiser
4/20 Partake – Battle Bot
Download “In Love While Parenting” App. It’s free – Olaf

COT:

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Burpee 420 spring training – AKA in March

WARMUP: SSH, wmills, tappy taps, merkins… ddogs to hmooners to arm raises – both arms, yes BOTH arms.
THE THANG: benchwork- step ups, derkins
A Sweetest 16s – burpee & sumo squat madness.
MARY: 3 minutes of Mary. Some held onto the ball until the buzzer
ANNOUNCEMENTS: AKA apparently started 3 days ago, even though we still have 2 days of March. read your newsletter
COT: yes

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