Carrying the burdens

WARMUP: Disclaimer announced and off to Grace Presbyterian lot

Plank until all pax arrived and moved into exercises
Windmills x 10 I/C
Cherry pickers x 10 I/C
Imperial walkers x 10 I/C
Hillbilly Walkers x 10 I/C
Merkins x 11 I/C
Honeymooners and Down Dogs
Shoulder Taps x 10 I/C
Down Dog, hands to feet
Rise and recover

THE THANG:

At the picnic tables, the following:
20 squats – ass to bench
20 incline merkins

15 squats – ass to bench
15 incline merkins

10 step ups each leg
10 incline merkins

Stand on the bench – reflect on whose shoulders we stand. Who loved us enough to get us out here and/or help you get to where you are in life? Go and thank them out loud.

YHC realized it had been exactly one year since my last Q at this site. A recycled weinke made a partial appearance, ladder style

Perform the first exercise in the sequence, the run to the church turnaround and back, add an exercise each time until completing 6 rounds, drop the exercise with the fewest reps each round thereafter.

5 burpees
10 diamond merkins
15 wide arm merkins
20 lunges – 10 each leg
25 squats
30 seal jacks

At 0555 PAX stopped where they were and proceeded back toward COT

The question pondered was to come up with one thing you’re carrying that, if shared, would make it feel lighter.

MARY: Time for dying cockroaches I/C

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Always – read your newsletter too.

COT: The challenges were shared and shoulders hopefully a bit lighter as a result.

NMM: The F3 community is one that has blessed YHC and many others. We walk along side one another so that we each know life is most meaningful when shared with others, the good, the bad and everything in between. YHC learned a few things today in COT and am grateful to those who posted and shared what they did.

May the sharing of our challenges help us realize we aren’t alone and that we can navigate life best with others rather than in isolation.

Thanks for the call, Sweet Baby Ray.

Gratefully,
Cyclops

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1775

WARMUP:
Moroccan nightclubs
Windmills
Cherry pickers
Hillbilly walkers
Low slow squats
Irkins

Team Bermuda Triangle
2 teams, each with 3 cones marked about 30 yards apart
1 burpee at cone 1, bear crawl to cone 2, then do 2 burpees, bear crawl to cone 3 and do 3 burpees. Bear crawl back to cone 1 and repeat for a total of 3 rounds. Team 1 smoked team 2
THE THANG:
1775
Three rounds of:
17 burpees
75 prayer squats (thighs at or below 90)
Lap around Harris teeter
MARY:
Flutters
Box cutters
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Spicy Meatball

It was a cold balmy morning in the fort, but the heat from the bell sparks :firecracker: kept us warm.

Warmup and then The Thang:

Murder Bunny to every parking spot line followed by 5 LB Swings.

Lunge to every parking spot line followed by 10 snatches.

Other core exercises were thrown in as an active rest.

Jwow

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Baker Mayfield is not Pence

WARMUP:
SSH, merkins, squats, Broga

THE THANG:
Untraditional 11s. At first I wanted to go all the way through from 10 to 1, but YHC quickly realized I wouldn’t be able to make it so I modified as needed. We worked through the first two exercises from 10 down to 8, then flipped to the next two exercises. Then flip back down for 7-5, then flipped back. Last set was 4 to 1.

We got through two sets of exercises before time ran out.

Merkins alternating hand on bell
Chest press

Second set
Squats
Set ups (each leg as 1)

Next round
Curls
Single arm row (each side)

Swings
Nut cracker

Solid workout and 0 running. According to my watch I burned 600 calories.

MARY:
No time left
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Read newsletter
COT:
You had to be there.

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Together we accelerate

YHC was asked by Halfback to join the Pax at Coliseum to discuss Shieldlock and the importance of locking up with another man or men to grow together towards acceleration.

Weather was warm but less humid than normal in August.

WARMUP:

Circle around the school
SSH x 20
Abe Vigodas x 10
IW x 15
Mtn x 15
Merkins x 10

Wind sprints alone
Wind sprints arm and arm with a partner

Mosey to the back lot
THE THANG:

Partner Up for Dora
Flying Squirrels x 50
Big boys x 100
Monkey Humpers x 150

Seal Team sit ups x 10

Partner Derkins x 10
Partner Dips x 10
Rinse and Repeat 3 times

Seal Team sit ups x 10

Hold plank while each runner sprints 50 yards

Mosey back to COT
MARY:

LBCs x 10
Wheezy Jefferson x 10
Freddy Mercury x 10

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Read the newsletter

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Slow and Intentional

WARMUP: stretch, mobility
THE THANG: 3 sets 20 reps- goblet squats,deadlift, reverse lunge, overhead press, skull crushers, merkins, upright rows, lawnmowers, alternating curls.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: golf tournament, bethel men’s shelter
COT: prayers for medical conditions, stress on kids with active violence

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Sore in all the Wrong Places

WARMUP: IWx15, WMx15, HW x15
THE THANG:
All number 25 unless otherwise noted
10 Burpees, Chest to Back Pullover, Back Lunge with Pass through, curl (15 each), Goblet Squat
Right handed overhead carry to next station
KB Merkin, Figure 8, 90/45, Toe Taps, 10 Manmakers
Left Handed Overhead Carry
Halo, Upright Row, Dead Lift, Hip Circles
Farmers Carry
Chest Presses (50), Skull Crushers, Upright Row
Farmers Carry other hand to wall
Squat Curl, Peoples Chair with KB pass x2, peoples Chair with arms straight out, Balls to the wall.

MARY:
Russian Twists, LBC with KB, Corkscrew Plank, Xand O
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read slack
COT: successful

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Always a crowd pleaser…

WARMUP: Mosey’d around the parking lots and picked up Sugar Bug so he got a chance to run. Back at COT we did: windmills, cherry pickers, low slow squats, merkins, Peter Parker’s, Parker Peter’s.
THE THANG: Everyone’s favorite- the deck of cards.

Do what the cards say based on suit and #.

– Diamonds: 2-7 was merkin with a bell lat pull; 8-ace was man makers (everyone loved these!)
– Clubs: 2-7 was flutter with a press; 8-ace was American hammers
– Spades: 2-7 was lunge with bell pass through leg; 8-ace was squat with should press
– Hearts: 2-7 was single arm curl; 8-ace was kb swings
– Joker was 50 SSH and 10 bomb jacks
– After every 6 cards, we did a farmers carry in 1 arm about 100 yards, then switched hands for the walk back

MARY: did about 4 rounds
ANNOUNCEMENTS: hog and coyote
COT: complete!

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