Only 11 on Black Friday?

WARMUP: Intro and then mosey to the Lowes parking lot for warm ups. MNC, Produce Pickers, Windmills. Mosey to another corner of Lowes for Up and Down Dog, plank stretches and Mountain climbers. Continued to the Thang.
THE THANG: Four Corners. Round 1- 12 Big Boys then bear crawl, 12 Big Boys then nur, 12 Big Boys then crawl Bear, ended with 12 Big Boys then run.
Round 2- 12 flying Squirrels then Karaoke, 12 flying Squirrels then nur, 12 flying Squirrels then Karaoke, finally 12 flying Squirrels then run.
Message: asked everyone to say what they were thankful for on Thanksgiving.
Ran to the back of the building where Empire is located for some wall sits, balls to the wall and more wall sits. Ran back in front of F45 for some monkey humpers then back to COT for Mary.
MARY: Flutters, hammers, Burpees, MT with Wine Makers and lbc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Golf, D2D, Party and team competition
COT: Prayers for family, marriages and those traveling.

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Rain, no shine

WARMUP: Grinder stretch
THE THANG: 100 big boys, Bobby Hurley’s, flutters, LBC‘s, squats, monkey humpers, Freddie Mercury’s,
MARY: wind mills, rosalitas, 6 in 10 count to plank to shoulder taps, Morrocan night clubs all in the pouring rain
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Minimal Complaining.

WARMUP: 50 SSH mosey, 50 combined IW/HW mosey, 31 Moroccans, mosey, 31 windmills, mosey to thang and Grace Church
THE THANG:
DORA – 100 – merkins, 100 – Big Boys – Squats – 100- Dips – 100 – LBC’s, – 100 – Derkins – 100 – Lunges. Mosey around the loop was mode of transport.

7’s @ flag sight wide hand merkins and big boys mode of transport was bear crawls (yuck)
MARY: No Time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter
COT: prayers for Slapshot travel to Germany, jobs, family health, thanksgiving

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Get Motivated

WARMUP: Mosey and Windmill
THE THANG:
The Motivator

Dora
100 Mercans-Bear Crawl
200 Flutters- Burpie Broad Jumps
300 Box Cutters- Power Skips

Fire Hydrants, Military press
Overhead and Forward claps 30 in cadence

Standing shoulder taps and 2 minutes of planks

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Sergeant Major

Started off the Pre-Veterans day workout with some standard warmup exercises:

11 SSH IC
11 Windmills (steady pace)
11 SJ IC
11 MNC (IC)
11 Merkins (IC)
Stretch
11 Mnt Climbers (IC)

Mosey to Mavis Brakes (this was a nice long mosey across Gold Hill)

Planked up and waited for the 6.

In Plank I talked about the next portion of the workout. Something I like to call the “Sergeant Major”

In short, the rep counts reflect the different units my Dad (a Sgt. Major) served in during his lifetime.

The workout for today laid out like this…

28 Burpees
3 Laps around the parking lot of the school nearby

28 Burpees
56 LBC’s
3 Laps around the parking lot of the school nearby

28 Burpees
56 LBC’s
112 HR Merkins
3 more laps around the parking lot of the school nearby

Whenever you finished you went and picked up the 6.

After this we mosey’d back to COT with a few minutes to spare

Led a round of Mary..

22 Flutters IC
22 HD IC
22 FM IC

Pusher quickly picked up on why the rep count for this last portion of the exercise. The point was made that our gratitude for our veterans should be equaled by our concern for their mental health and a desire to help them in any way we can.

COT was another great example of why we all joined F3 and still come back. What was said, stays there but it was a lot of what I needed to hear that day.

Men I’m extremely thankful for the service and sacrifices of our veterans (my Father and Brother in law among others…)

Hope the example of service and sacrifice continues to inspire and push us all to be better leaders in our communities and lives.

Take care,

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A Halloween Nightmare

COP

Take a lap around HT

SSH x 30
Windmills x 15
Mtn Climbers x 15
IW x 15

The Thang:

Mosey to new spot

H-and Release Merkins x 100
A-ir Squats x 100
Take a lap
L-unges x 100 each legs
L-ow Dolly x 150
O-ut and Back – take a lap
W-orld War II Sit Ups x 100
E-scalator (10 Jump Squats, 20 Burpees, 30 Merkins, 40 Squats, 50 Lunges)
Take a lap
E-mpty Wheelbarrow
N-olan Ryans x 50 (each side)

Mosey home. Only Slapshot made it to the end.

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Benjamin’s for my GIL

WARMUP: 60/100 SSH’s, merkins, produce pickers, imperial walkers, p Parker’s, etc.
THE THANG: 100 stepups & dirkins 20/100 SSH’s
A pendulum- 100 of something to 100 of something to 100 of something else.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read your newsletter
COT:celebrated my grandma-in-laws 100th birthday

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Friday the 20th at the Stockade – clever title absent

WARMUP: Short “mozyroo” from the AO to the front of Harris Teeter.  YHC has been nursing a bum calf so no SSH were to be had.  We proceeded with  Carolina Dry Docks, Low Slow Squats, American Hammers, Mountain Climbers and Moroccan Night Clubs.
THE THANG:  Another short mozy to the side of HT.  At HT we did a group wall sit with the first Pax giving us a 10 count.  We then crossed the alley and did 5 merkins as a group.  When back to the HT wall we swapped out wall sits for planks.  Rinse and repeat with ongoing 10 counts and merkins (regular, hand release, Diamond, wide arm) alternating wall sits and planks.  After finishing these we did a lap around the oil change place with a brief stop for dips using the wall.  
 Back to HT for the same series but we swapped out merkins for 3 burpees.  Burpees included regular, Superman, Kraken and 8 count.  Repeat the lap (with dips) and back to HT.  Last series we swapped out burpees for 5 big boy sit-ups.
 Mozy to the fountain at the bottom of the hill by the fire dept.  There we did a plank clock with Carolina Dry Docks.  We started at 1:00 and did one CDD.  Plank walk to 2:00 for two CDDs.  Kept going until we did a full fountain lap and 78 total CDDs.
 Briefest mozy ever to the start of the row of arborvitae trees at the entrance to the apartment complex.  Starting with the first arborvitae we did two burpees and lunge walked the row, where at alternating trees, we did two burpees.  48 burpees later we were done.  Running a bit short on time we jogged our way back down the row and did two burpees at every third one.
  Mozy back to COT with one minute to spare.  One minute of full body destroyers ensued and we were all happy.
MARY:  she stayed home
ANNOUNCEMENTS:  D2D fund raisers
COT: Family health, marriages, 2.0s

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Tabatas

Back Blast
Tabata workout
DATE: 17 Oct 2023
AO: #ao-colleseum
Q: @Airwolf
PAX: @Rebound @Tesh @Backdraft @Barkley @Wooden leg @Grassy Knowl
FNGs: 0
COUNT: 7
WARMUP: Windmill

TABATA: 4 rounds of each
40 sec. Rowers. 10 sec. Rest
40 sec. Flutters 10 sec. Rest
2 min. Bear crawl
40 sec. Rear Lounge 10 sec. Rest
40 sec. Shoulder taps 10 sec. Rest
2 min Karaoke’s
40 sec. High knees 10 sec. Rest
40 sec. Side hops 10 sec. Rest
2 min Nur and mosey
40 sec. Hillbilly Walkers 10 sec. Rest
40sec. Skier 10sec. Rest
2 min planks

Last 10 minutes we did some side struggle hops 😂, standing shoulder taps, military presses, forward, and overhead claps.

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Wheel of Gloom

Had a last minute cancellation so today seemed like a great day to bring back the Wheel of Gloom!

It’s a competition where each pax spins the wheel… which lands on an exercise. The spinner counts each Rep as his points.

At the end… the top two point getters square off in a 1:00 minute AMRAP to see who gets the W.

So we all got a good workout in. Minimal running but over 200 Merkins and dozens of other reps of BBS, Squats, lunges, and Freddy Mercury’s. 1F was satisfied but 2nd accelerated!

Congrats to Half She’ll for getting the championship today.

Until next time…

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