Ring Around the Rosie

WARMUP:
## 1. DYNAMIC WARMUP (10-12 min)
– Imperial Walkers x10 IC
– Bend & Reach x10 IC
-Windmill x10 IC
– Short warmup jog
**20 yards, non-stop, down and back:**
– High knees
– Butt kickers
– Walking world's greatest stretch
– Elephant walks
– Dinosaur walks
– Soldier walks
– Side shuffle (each way)
– Karaoke (each way)
-A-Skips
-B-Skips
– C-skips
– Power skips
-Jog
-Run
– Sprints

THE THANG:
##Ring around the Rosie (30 mins)
SPRINT → EXERCISE → RUN → EXERCISE → SPRINT → EXERCISE
Wait for a partner to race before sprinting
15x Squats > Sprint
10x E Fwd Lunge
10x E Rear Lunge > Sprint
15x Billy Cannon
15x Squat Jumps > Sprint
10x E Speed Skaters
15x Plank Jacks > Sprint
25x E Mountain Climbers
15x Merkins > Sprint
15x Carolina Dry Docks
20x Overhead Arm Claps > Sprint
20x Overhead Arm Claps
Jog back to COT

##Love Triangle (15 mins)
3 to a group minimum
Watch for perfect Form or punishment
If watcher doesn’t call them out for bad form, they they get punished

Exercises

  1. 15x Squats
  2. 10x E Forward Lunges
  3. 10x E Rear Lunges
  4. 15x Squats
  5. 15x Merkins
  6. 10x Hand Release Merkin
  7. 20x American Hammers
  8. 20x Flutter Kicks

Punishment
Sprint 25 Yards & Broad Jump Back
(Step Squat if unable to broad Jump)

MARY:
X’s & O’s
Gas Pumps
Superman’s
Box cutters
Flutter kicks

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Big Red Bus
Trash Pickup

COT:
Sobriety
Family

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A VQ and Lessons in Teamwork

Eagle Claw's VQ!!!
WARMUP:
Eagle Claw led. Start right at COT, no mosey, circle up for:

  • 20 SSH
  • 10 WM
  • 10 IW
  • 10 MNC
  • 10 cherry pickers

Everything 4 count as usual. Then mosey over to the nearby Grace Presbyterian Church for the following:

THE THANG:
Part 1 – Ring of Fire:
Designed by Eagle Claw, led by both him and NASA
In the half of the parking lot closest to the church, we had 8 cones set up in a loop/ring, each about 15 yards apart, each with an exercise, in this order:

  • 15 burpees
  • 20 merkins
  • 20 big boy sit-ups
  • 25 LSS
  • 25 mtn climbers 2 ct
  • 20 lunge 2 ct
  • 25 LBC
  • 20 CDD

These are minimum rep counts. Each person picked a cone (with 6 PAX, 2 were left open). Do the exercise, then alternate duck walk or bear crawl to next cone.
The catch – NOBODY could move forward until the last person is done their minimum rep count they were on. Until the last person shouted "done!", everyone kept doing the exercise at hand, exceeding minimum rep counts. We all did 2 complete rounds as a group. The burpees and 2ct lunges were our 6s that kept the team together as a unit, but we all pushed together. Solid work.

Part 2 – DORA:
Eagle Claw designed, mainly NASA led. Mosey over to the parking lot behind Red Bowl, starting point was the corner of the back lot closest to Stockbridge Dr. Partner up. Run was from the start out past the RB dumpster to the end of that building and back. Exercise reps were cut due to time:

  • 50 merkins (was 100)
  • 100 LBC (was 200)
  • 150 LSS (was 300)

Dumpster did not stank no where near as bad as we expected it would! Great efforts by everyone!
We finished with a couple minutes to spare. Back to COT.
MARY:
Eagle Claw led – 1 minute of hello dollys
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Read your newsletter, get involved. If you see something that is your D2X, get behind it, EH some guys. and make it happen. Freed to lead! This is exactly how ALL of the things we see in the newsletter as well as F3 organized CSAUPs came about.
COT:
A LOT lifted up by everyone! A great COT session.

NMM:
This was designed to be lessons in teamwork:

  • RING OF FIRE: The team, large or small, is only as strong and fast as the last person in line. The team doesn't move forward as a collective group until everyone is done doing their work. You can choose to get out way ahead, focusing on personal gain, but then you leave the rest of your team behind.
  • DORA: When you are paired with someone to complete a set of tasks, you both should be putting in the same level of effort. Slacking on your part will only put more load on your partner, which over time could drive you two apart. Equal efforts keeps the partnership strong.

Eagle Claw is off to spread his wings and follow his passions at The Citadel. Thank you to all the PAX who have poured the 3 Fs, wisdom, motivations, and encouragements into him. You all have made him a better person because of it. I cannot thank you all enough. Love you all. Blessings and SYITG.
-NASA

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Moving up

WARMUP: ssh, iw, hbw, windmill, cherry pickers

THE THANG:
Mosey around TCES drop off line and back to beginning of GHMS loop.

4 corners in GHMS car line loop
Station 1: 40 mtn climbers
Station 2: 40 reverse lunges
Station 3: 40 glute bridges
Station 4: 40 Superman pulls

We did 2.5 rounds, then a short round of bench work under the breezeway:

10 Step-ups each leg
20 Dips
10 Lateral step ups (each leg)

MARY: no time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read newsletter
COT: yes

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Old school hard work

WARMUP: SSH, Cherry Pickers, nightclubs, down dog, honey mooners mosey to apartments and did flutters and gas pumpers. Mosey down to the day care.

THE THANG: DORA

100 merkins

200 big boys

300 SSH

Run up hil to fire station and back.

Moseyed back near COT and grabbed a rock. Then completed

100 broad jumps
75 thrusters
50 over head squats
25 burpees

Partner 1 worked while partner two rested and picked up where ever partner 1 stoped. Point was to do the movements with good form and intensity. Do as many as you can then rest while your partner does the same.

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: stuff the bus tomorrow, read your letters of news

COT: Pray for kids starting school and moving to college, family sickness, Miyagi going to police academy, and for the Pirate and his wife.

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Old school hard work

WARMUP: SSH, Cherry Pickers, nightclubs, down dog, honey mooners mosey to apartments and did flutters and gas pumpers. Mosey down to the day care.

THE THANG: DORA

100 merkins

200 big boys

300 SSH

Run up hil to fire station and back.

Moseyed back near COT and grabbed a rock. Then completed

100 broad jumps
75 thrusters
50 over head squats
25 burpees

Partner 1 worked while partner two rested and picked up where ever partner 1 stoped. Point was to do the movements with good form and intensity. Do as many as you can then rest while your partner does the same.

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: stuff the bus tomorrow, read your letters of news

COT: Pray for kids starting school and moving to college, family sickness, Miyagi going to police academy, and for the Pirate and his wife.

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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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Four corners, lots of reps

WARMUP:
SSHs, IWs, WMs, Plank

THE THANG:

4 corners of pain and some burpees
All corners start with 50 reps each, exercises stay the same each time around
– Corner 1: squats, then run to corner 2
– Corner 2: hand release merkins, then crawl bear to corner 3
– Corner 3: bomb jacks, then nur to corner 4
– Corner 4: LBCs, then bear crawl to center of basketball court and do 5 burpees (sandbags available for extra credit)
– Repeat. Reps go down to 40, then 30, 20, 10. Burpees stay at 5 each time

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Wing it

WARMUP: SSH, Cherry picker, imperial walkers, windmill

THE THANG: cocaine bear crawl, Jack Webb, 4 corner workouts, 11s

MARY: no time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Fort mill care center, bethels, read newsletter

COT: Circle of trust

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Cindyrella

WARMUP: mosey around HT stopped for SSH, windmills, moroccan nightclubs, high knees, butt kickers, shuffle and karaoke.

THE THANG:
3 rounds 12 reps with a cinder block
Curls
OH press
Twisting deadlift – stand to the side of your block. Bend over, pick it up, stand up straight, then put it on the other side. Then go back, that’s one rep.
Lunge with lead foot on block

Run a loop while other pax used paver stones for shoulder flys. Flip flop and repeat

3 rounds 12 reps
Chest press – 2 count up, back down on 4
Bent over row, single arm
Leg raises over Cindy
Squat till but touches block

Half pax farmer carry while others did more flys with pavers

1 round of 12 because we ran out of time
Tricep extension
Lat raises – slow control on the way down
Flutter with block held up
Sumo squat with block

Finished with 12 more OH press

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
4th of July convergence
Bethel Men’s shelter
COT:
What is said in the circle stays there.

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