Tag: Grinder

Who is looking back?

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WARMUP:
– SSH / WM / CP / IW
THE THANG:
– mosey down towards the school, enter trail head on lefthand side and follow it thru the woods.
– try not to scare too many deer
– rotate sandbag along the way
– check if we can move Olaf’s fallen tree
– head up the hill to the Colosseum parking lot
– head back to COT
MARY:
– plenty of deer in the woods
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– read your newsletter
COT:
– was held

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Rucking with Man-Makers

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WARMUP:
– mosey to parking lot behind Panera, some warm-up
– cross 160
THE THANG:
– follow the loop around the lake, various PT in the parking lots in form of 2 sets, 1x without ruck and 1x with ruck
– once back at 160, cross over into Kingsley and loop around Kingsley with various PT along the way
MARY:
– stop at intersection and do some step-up
– finished with a few man-makers at the end
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– read newsletter
COT:
– was held

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Inaugural Jaeger

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Beautiful March weather (seriously it was a perfect day) for the 0800 launch of the Eröffnung Jäger. PAX were assured by Grinder that the routes were well marked and there were no Zima-miles. This proved to be 99.9% true (you could still get lost if you wanted to…)

The premise was solid. 4 man team (2 Ruckers, 2 Runners). Runners had longer routes and teams met at checkpoints for team exercises before they could head to the next station. The pain stations were tough. Lutefisk about killed the PAX at the first one. (Oh, that was just me?) Triple Lindy had us loading munitions. Cake Boss brought candy, but it was not a sweet treat. (Could have also been that the leg leading to Alison Park was soul crushing….) Tinsel forgot it was a CSAUP and thought he was prepping for a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs wresting match.



The finishing team results:
1.) Vuvu/Beaker (for the record you were suggested to have a 4 man team…)
2.) Cobra Kai’s crew (that included the mythical Gekko)
3.) Camp 3D’s Sugar Shady Band Bug
4.) Cornerstone’s posse
5.) Poppins’ Chimney Sweeps (seriously impressive that Badlands ran back from the final pain station to connect with his teams’ Ruckers)
6.) The Entourage around Shield
7.) Slow Jams and the Lake Ridge Wanders
8.) Lake Wylie’s Wild Thing drinking Whiskey and enjoying a Big Mac (great to see these guys from across the bridge here for the CSAUP)

Afterwards at the Print Shop, we celebrated the Dam 2 Dam fundraising effort where The Fort is sending $7,500 to Defend the Fatherless, $7,500 to Autism Strong, $7,500 to the Fort Mill Care Center, and $10,000 to the F3 the Fort endowed scholarship.

It is an honor to be part of The Fort alongside some amazing high impact men. On behalf of Grinder and the entire planning crew, this backblast is respectfully submitted by the smallest cog in the Jaeger machine—Band Camp.

For reference:
The Preblast: https://f3thefort.com/2023/01/31/preblast-jaeger/
YHC’s Strava tracker: https://www.strava.com/activities/8697393033

The Jaeger will hunt again next year. Send any feedback to: jaeger.csaup@gmail.com

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9 Dropped By The Fort

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We warmed up and then dove into this year’s Mental Battle WOD which can be viewed here.

Mental Battle WOD 2023

Men don’t fight alone. Don’t live alone (no friends, family, community) and don’t forget about your brother.

With that The Thrill is gone.

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The Slog at JWEP

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It was a wet/sloppy day in The Fort, but fear not, the firey mumble chatter warmed our souls.

Warmup:
Side Straddle Hops
Cherry Pickers
Windmills (Trucker Approved)
The Polish Mating Dance🕺
Merkins
Dying Cockroaches

The Thang:
Grab you backpack and mosey down yonder to the Church for some Dora.
Partner 1: Figure 8 running pattern on the stairs.
Partner 2: 100 Merkins, 200 Squats, 300 Flutters

Head back towards JWEP for some more pain. Mode of transportation was a Jack Webb – 4 Bearcrawls and 1 Carolina Dry Doc until you get to 40-10.

At the top of the Hill next to JWEP we did crazy 8’s. The top of the hill 7 burpees, the bottom of the hill 1 Merkin. You know the drill…Finish at 1 Burpee and 7 Merkins.

We Moseyed over to the JWEP pavilion for two rounds of Webb Jacks.
1. 4 Overhead Claps and 1 Merkins until you get to 40-10.
2. 4 Squats and 1 Monkey Humper until you get to 40-10.

COT commenced at the JWEP Pavilion for announcements/prayers/praises.

-JWOW

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Friday Push

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WARMUP: Into and Disclaimer. Started mosey to the back lot and it was ripe this morning! Did a warm up at the back of the parking lot near the apartments.
MNC, Hillbilly Walkers, Produce pickers, Windmills, Plank, down and up dog.
THE THANG: Mosey to the hill to begin Tge Pendulum Work. Run up to the neighborhood and do 1 rep Wide Arm Merkin. Then back down the hil and up to tge Fire Station for 1 rep Plank Jack. Back down the hill and repeat to complete 7 rounds. End back down by the foundation for 7 Burpees OYO.
Mosey yo the apartments to the middle for 15 Monkey Humpers and continued up to the round about. Bear Crawl the curb stopping in middle for 5 Diamond merkins then finish the crawl. More of a side to side hand shuffle.
Finally, Mosey back to COT for some Ab work.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Jagger and Rooster coming up. Bethel Shelter and blood drive.
COT: Prayers for a neighbors son and praise for a family helping out. Praise and pray for travel mercies for BW and prayers for Grassy’s M.

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45 min miles

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WARMUP:
Yes, we did that. Solid mosey for a while. Plank/yoga for the 6. Then the “Cha Ching” warmup, 5 minutes with 35 SSH and 8 burpees each minute. Followed by, IW, HW, Squats

THE THANG 1:
mosey to picnic tables
11 merkins, 10 diamond merkins, 9 merkins, 8 diamond merkins, 7 merkins, 6 diamond merkins, 5 merkins (then YHC had to tap out….if you can’t do it, don’t Q it. Attempting the remaining 10 merkins could have resulted in a face plant)
Bulgarian Split Squats 10
Low Slow Squats 10
Bulgarian Split Squats 10
Jump Squats 10
Bulgarian Split Squats 10
Alternating Lunges 10 (each leg)
Pistol Squats (just 2)

THE THANG 2:
Bearpees:
Jack Webb w/ 4 count bear crawl and 1 burpee, 8/2, etc.
When we got to 7 burpees we did them in cadence.
When we got to 10 burpees we modified to an 8-count burpee with a plank jack before the merkin.

MARY:
Flutters in cadence to 35
QL stretch
Seated forward bend
Pigeon Lunge
Wide angle forward bend

ANNOUNCEMENTS: the Jaeger is coming 3/11

All told we only covered a mile in distance today. YHC hopes the PAX still got their money’s worth of out this free workout, open to all men, held outdoors, peer led with no assumption of expertise, that ended in a COT.

COT:
Shot for the Prayer of St. Francis, but didn’t quite have the thing memorized. Memorize is my word of the year, I’m working on it.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace;
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master,
Grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console;
To be understood, as to understand;
To be loved, as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
And it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Amen.

An honor to lead such a solid crew.

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Could’ve Been Worse

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WARMUP:
SSH, Merkins, stretching

THE THANG:
Moseyed over to the basketball hoops

Template goes as follows
Activity
Run to the end of the court and back (~150m)
x2

Activities in order
20 burpees
50 squats
50 merkins
50 lunges (SC)
25 merkins
25 squats
10 burpees

Total of 60 burpees, 150 squats, 150 merkins, 100 lunges.

MARY:
Ended with some flutters and LBCs

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Rooster and Jaeger
COT:

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T.H.I.N.K.

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WARMUP: Extended favorite warm-up with leg and hamstring focus
THE THANG:
Broad jump retreats – 3 sets of 6
10 yard sprint with a backpedal after touching ground – 5
Peter Pointers – 2 sets of 15
20 side to side hops, then 10 really exaggerated high knees, then 20 yard sprint – 4
Apollo Ohnos – 25 each side
Box drills – 5 sets of 3
From on the ground looking opposite direction get up into a 20 yd sprint -3
Lying on back into a 20 yard sprint – 4
90 degree max jump turns 3 sets of 10 (5 turns each)
5-10-5s – 3 rounds
Ali Shuffles – 2 sets

Frisbee golf: 2 teams; after each throw, the team has to do the following:
Bombjacks
Wide-arm merkins
Back raises
Russian V-up twists

For every throw that occurs from the team, the amount of reps per exercise increases by 2, starting at 2 reps per exercise after the first throw.
Both teams won one round each.
MESSAGE:
T.H.I.N.K.
Before you speak in anger toward your family or a friend, ask yourself:
Is it TRUE?
Is it Helpful?
Is it Inspiring?
Is it Necessary?
Is it Kind?
ANNOUNCEMENTS: D2D coming!
COT: People seem to be working through lots of illnesses and sicknesses generally outside of the PAX. Prayers for those struggling through these challenges.
Thank you, @Poppins, for the opportunity!

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