Reduce Reuse Recycle

having been put in charge of both of our running with push-up AOs this week, I decided to make them entry level. it does not mean easy, it just means easy to understand what is required to do. to that end, I decided to recycle some of the easier to follow Qs in which I have participated.

the word, recycle and reuse together often. remind me of a program I saw in fourth grade. you may have bag memories of being hurted into your elementary school gymnasium in order to see what amounts to a public service announcement or little skit or play put on by a bunch of kids , maybe a small performance by the 5th graders who got to start orchestra. but the one I remember most vividly is being brought to that sad little gymnasium to watch a dude dressed up as McDonald’s mascot and Ronald McDonald caper about singing about reducing reusing and recycling. somehow they burned half an hour of our day listening to Ronald McDonald it’s founding on the virtues of mineralism in a 1980s world where everything was designed to be thrown away immediately after use.

WARMUP: the pledge of allegiance
THE THANG: run to Hardee’s. pair up. run opposite directions saying the block. On the east side (post post office) do 5, 10 and then 15 partners BBSU. Then 15 every time. continue running until meeting up at or around the Hardee’s lot. where you at 5, 10, 15 partner pushups. after the pushups, run the way you came back. this way each partner gets to run both directions around the block multiple times. sort of like a weird freaking Newton cradle
with about 4 minutes left PAX were gathered and Bandcamp led burpees while YHC perform the exhausting job of keeping an eye out for stragglers
MARY: 30-45s of flutters while YHC grabbed my phone
ANNOUNCEMENTS: duties were assigned to Funhouse
COT: duties were assigned to Funhouse

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Thank God TimeMachine showed up

Thank God @TimeMachine showed up or Jekyll and YHC would have walked in a big circle and quoted Seinfeld episodes for 45 minutes.
WARMUP: Standard YHC warm up.
SSH, IW, Squats, MNC, Lunges, Merkins, HBW, CDD, SSH.
THE THANG: Standard YHC Pearls on a string. Run then work.
10 Merkins, 10 Plank Jax, 10 Mtn Climbers, 20 Squats, 20 Lunges, 20 Calf Raises, 5 diamond merks, 10 Peter Parker, 5 6-count Burpees
MARY: NA
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter
COT: Prayers for kids, healing and marriages

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ALCATRAZ 10 YR ANNIVERSARY PARTY

PRE-WORKOUT: Pullups with Trucker

WARMUP: Run back and forth two times in the Runde parking lot

THE THANG:

After a brief introduction including some history of Alcatraz, Funhouse kicked off COP with 50 SSH, (although I believe 100 were planned in homage to Santini). From there it was imperial walker x 10, hillbilly walker x 10. Before we got to the meat of the workout, YHC called out a classic Alcatraz upper body workout called Green Sally (Decibel/2014). It’s a song by Moby called ‘Flower’ where you plank when he sings ‘Green Sally Up’ and drop to 6″ when he sings ‘Green Sally Down’. It’s pretty tough to complete the whole song and I don’t think anyone did today. But, you have to have monster shoulder strength. Because we had a large group today, we split them in half and started our Q’s:

Funhouse on Q:
The Wheel of Pain (Funhouse/2013)
Each PAX gets a cone with an excercise and reps.
40 yard diameter circle with a cone in the middle.
Do the excercise on the cone, run to the middle and out to the cone to the right.

Freddy Mercury – 25
Lunges – 30
Burpees – 15
Merkins – 15
Rosalita- 30
Squats – 25
LBC – 25
Burpees – 10
SSH – 30
Parker Peter – 25
Plank Punches – 30
Mountain Climbers – 30
Merkins – 15

Senator Tressel on Q
Mosey to the bottom of the hill on Tara Tea Drive for ‘Quadzilla’ (Zima/2018)
Group 1 does squats while Group 2 runs backwards up the hill and does 5 bombjacks at the hilltop. Run back down and flapjack. Rinse and repeat 2 more times.

Mosey to the playground for pullups, step ups, and ab exercises (Senator Tressel/2013) We did 2 rounds today

Mosey to the wall by the concessions stand and split into two groups.
Group 1 does Peoples chair and passes a kettle bell (White Lightning/2018), while Group 2, runs to the fence, hops over it, sprints up the hill, does 3 burpees at the top, and runs back to the wall. Flapjack. (Jekyll/2017) We did 2 rounds today.

Form a line for tunnel of love (stolen from Santini at WEP/2012)

MARY: Hello Dolly x 20, Seal walk (Cornhole/2013), Navy Seal Team Sit Ups (Santini/Trucker 2013)

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter

COT: Today we celebrated 10 years at Runde Park by paying homage to some of the classic beatdowns led by the great Q’s of Alcatraz. Funhouse and I drew an Alcatraz record 32 Pax and that made me very proud (of course, we advertised heavily, offered free coffee, beer, cake, and closed the other two Saturday AO’s so maybe that had something to do with it – LOL). Although, attendance at bootcamps on Saturdays isn’t what is used to be, I will post whenever I am able. Runde Park has been my home on Saturday mornings, and even after all these years, I still look forward to getting up early, meeting the Pax at 6:30, and doing that tough bootcamp workout. Many thanks to all that posted with us this morning and special thanks to our current and former site Q’s: Funhouse, Smuggler, Trucker, Skipper, and Uber for their leadership and help pulling this all together. I appreciate all you guys!

Prayers: ST’S mom with cancer, DD’s friends with a new pregnancy, Long Duck recovering from burns and back injury

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MP – Sep 7 – Your mom would’ve been proud

WARMUP: This is MP. That’s not really a thing.
THE THANG: Running with pushups
MARY: No chicks
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: The 5th Core Principle

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Poor planning? Doubtful

WARMUP: Pledge
THE THANG: Site Q, YHC, forgot that Harry Carrey had rejected the invite to Q due to travel. SO….. Mosey to church intersection. Intersection is pain station 10 hand release merkins, 15 squats, 20 SSH. Run the hills. Pain station. Run the flats. Pain station. Rinse and repeat.
MARY: N/A
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter
COT: Healing, marriages, children

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4 mile Tour de Fort

4 mile Tour de Fort: Run to Coach’s Box AO via Harris Street, 20 merks, 40 mnt clmbs; run to Clydesdales AO via Munn Rd, 20m/40mc; run to The Fort AO via HWY160, 20m/40mc; COT.

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In Honor Of September, 11, 2001

WARMUP: All PAX but Shield dropped in the plank with their ears wide open to listen to our brother Shield share his experience as an NYPD officer on 9/11/2001. This included the names of a few of Shield’s fallen brothers. Some of us have been fortunate enough to hear him talk about that day but every time I hear it, I take away something new. This morning was no different.
Following the plank, we mentioned a few numbers of significance for the PAX to think about:
9 & 11: This was obvious
22: Years since that day 22yrs ago
100: The number of days Ground Zero in NY smoldered
ALL PAX 100 Side Straddle Hops (50 in cadence) & 22 Burpees

THE THANG: Grab your bell and meet over by Clickbait’s trailer where we had more gear. Everyone has a weight of some kind for the following 9 exercises:
11x Kettle Bell Swings
11x Thrusters
11x Goblet Squats
11x Bent Over Rows
11x Overhead Tricep Extensions
11x Big Boy Sit-ups w/ Weight
11x Bicep Curls
11x Standing Lunges
11x Overhead Press

We went through these 9 exercises one more time and occasionally modified the cadence.

In groups of 4, we all got to experience the 200lb sand bags for 4 reps, taking the bag from the hips, to the shoulders, to an overhead position, back to the shoulders and finally, back to the hips. If we weren’t on the 200lb sand bag, we did the same evolution with our own coupon.

Then, back to 22 Side Straddle Hops & 11 Burpees.

MARY: Throughout
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Lots in the newsletter & THE BLOOD DRIVE
COT: Indeed

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Double weasel shakedown

WARMUP: we pledged
THE THANG: ran to hardee’s for instructions.  
Instructions:
1. Partner up
2. Run in opposite directions in a circle
3. First time you meet your partner, 5 merkins (chest hits the ground and slap hands at the top), second time you see partner, 5 big boys with legs locks and slap hands at the top.
4. Next round is 10 of the same at both meet up points.
5. Next round is 5 rinse and repeat, then back to 10.

After round 3 and 4 and 3+ miles later, did some Mary at Hardee’s while we waited for the 6.

Rand back toward COT and stopped at Hobo’s for some legs via 10 sumo squats.  Then back to COT.
MARY: A little round Robin of Mary.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read. Your. Newsletter.
COT: schools and teachers and new jobs for M’s

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Find your Joy/ Shovel Flag Hand off

WARMUP: all Exercises IC: SSH, IW, Squats, LBCs, MNCs- Flying Squirrels between each set
THE THANG: Yog to guardrail on the side of Lowes, 10 Derkins, 15 Dips, 20 step ups. Rinse & Repeat. Then mosey to one corner of Lowe’s & partner up. Partner 1 runs clockwise around the building, Partner 2 run counter clockwise. Meet in the middle for 5 partner Merkins. Run back to startex and do 5 partner Big boys (locking feet together). 3 rounds
MARY: 5 minutes of Broga led by Change Order
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Shovel Flag handoff, Weezer to Peach Stand. Inspired words from both of these High Impact Men.
COT: Find Some Joy in life and share it with others. May it come back to you tenfold.
Short Sale out.

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