King of the Ring VIII

WARMUP:
yea. Nothing fancy:
SSH, IW, HW, Windmill, yoga

THE THANG:
10 pull-ups
20 merkins
30 squats
Farmers carry 2 cinder blocks 440ft downhill
Run around Sugar Creek Elementary
Farmers carry 2 cinder blocks 440ft uphill
Bear crawl 50ft out and 50ft back

As many rounds as possible

Harry Carey was King of the Ring with 3 full rounds completed. He almost got done with the first Farmers Carry on round 4. :first_place_medal:

2nd place didn’t even start the bear crawls on round 3. :grimacing:

MARY: a few flutters in the wet for the 6

ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter (accessible from the homepage)

COT: was held

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Thunderstruck VC Volleyball Season Opening Celebration

Musical Soundtrack: AC/DC Live Album (1991) Released Oct 27, 1992, edited for brevity.
See Amazon Playlist: “AC/DC Live F3 Workout 45 minutes”

Warmup:
– Mosey a lap
– Mountain Climbers
– Big Boy Sit-ups
– Imperial Walkers
– Hillbilly Walkers
– Windmills
– LBC

THE THANG:
WANNABE A BALLER?
80-160-240 Dora. Run down and take a shot on the hoop. If you make the shot, then you get to take 10 off of your required number of reps for the current exercise.
– 80 Merkin
– 160 Squat
– 240 LBC

ALTERNATING CURRENT: Do an exercise, and then bear crawl to the line, and then nur back.
– 30 Big Boys
– 15 Merkins
– 30 Low Slow Squats
– 30 Bicycles
DIRECT CURRENT: Do two exercises, then run a lap.
– 20 Carolina Dry Docks 30 second plank
– 30 Calf Raise 20 Flutters (count on the left leg)
– 10 Mike Tysons 30 LBC
– 30 Squats 20 American Hammer

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Multiples of 5

WARMUP: Mosey to Print Shop

THE THANG:
5 pull-ups at the Print Shop.
Run to parking lot at the corner of Williamson St and Watson St. for 10 merkins
Down Williamson St hill to Fort Mill COG for 15 LBCs
Up Academy St for 20 step ups (10 each leg) nearby Craft Axe.
Back to Print Shop
~0.5 mile loop

MARY: Eh

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Stuff The Bus, new scheduling platform, Bethel, etc.

COT: stays at COT

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Sweep The Yard

WARMUP: MNC, Windmills, Calf Raise, LSS
THE THANG:
Did 7’s on the hill at the front entrance of the school. (Flying Squirrels & Mountain Climbers)
Ran up Springfield PKWY to the back entrance. At every light pole we did 3 merkins and 3 squats were we ran down to two pole and back one pole until we got to the end. ~ 15 poles

We went to the park benches and did 100 step ups in sets of 25 while the partner held in the plank position.

10 muscle-ups on the loading dock

25 dips on the park bench

Total mileage was 2+ miles
MARY: No Time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Sweaty Barry
COT: Closed in Prayer

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The While Zipper

WARMUP:
Mosey to Fort Mill Pharmacy parking lot, Moroccan nightclubs, low slow squats, and 9 burpees
Mosey around Clebourne to next parking lot and 5 diamond merkins in cadence
Mosey to next parking lot and 5 jump squats, mosey to corner of Spring and Elliot
THE THANG:
Zipper route. Every time you cross over Spring, you do burpees. Start with 8 and do one less each time you cross over down to 1 burpees at Summersby and Spring. Right side of the zipper is 15 jump squats, left side is 15 diamond merkins
MARY:
Some did, some made it back right on time
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Arms & Legs So Bad It Still Hurts

<@UST30T7FF> and <@U01JUGK82TY> were Co-Q’s for the day. We decided to split it up by muscle groups. Ruby started first with arms and then Splinter took over with legs.
WARMUP: Warmup-y things.
THE THANG: Ruby’s 1/2:
Mosey to the playground for a all arms DORA. MOT is bear crawl 20 yards out and crawl bear 20 yards back to the playground, Exercises & Reps: At the swing set put your feet in the swing to get into a position to perform derkins, bring your knees to your chest while in plank position and then extend, then complete 1 derkin, that is 1 rep, partners complete 50reps, then 75 reps of a Merkin/ParkerPeter combo exercise, and then 100 reps of a WideArmMerkin/ShoulderTaps combo exercise. ARMS WERE BE SMOKED!!!
Splinter’s 1/2:
Indian Run 1 lap around WEP. Unfortunatly, becase Ruby killed us in the 1st half, we lost 60% of the PAX on the lap. Then we regrouped for some step-ups on the park benches, some calf raises then ran over to the hill. We lined up and raced up the hill not knowing what was going to be required of the winner and losers. Since there were 10 of us (to start) 1st Place did 1 more run up the hill and 100 squats, 2nd place 2 more runs up the hill and 90 squats, and so on. Second go round was 1st Place, 1 run up the hill and 100 lunges, 2nd place 2 more runs up the hill and 90 lunges and so on.
<@U035XDY7ABC> started talking to a guy at the top of the hill. He ended up EH’ing him on the spot to finish the last set and Mary. Welcome The Apostle.
MARY: 4 minutes of Mary
ANNOUNCEMENTS: The Sweaty Barry, Blood drive, Read Your Newsletter
COT: Welcome The Apostle

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Not All Heroes Wear Capes

YHC brushed off the cobwebs from a weinke from 2017. It was hard then and even worse this time. Here’s what we did:

Warm-up
– 10 Low Slow Squats (IC)
– 10 Mountain Climbers (IC)
– 10 SSHs (IC)
Run the Main Street to Clebourne, to COT loop

Round 1
– 10 Burpees
– 20 Merkins
– 30 LBCs (Little Baby Crunches)
– 40 Squats
– 50 Calf Raises
Run the loop

Round 2
– 10 Wide Arm Merkins
– 20 Lunges
– 30 Flutters
– 40 Overhead Claps
– 50 Side Straddle Hops
Run the loop

Round 3
– 10 Diamond Merkins
– 20 Jump Squats
– 30 Big Boy Sit-Ups
– 40 Alt. Shoulder Taps
– 50 Moroccan Night Clubs
Run the loop

Repeat until time

NMM
When we’re young, our heroes wear capes. As we age, our new heroes wear flaws, scars, and wisdom. They quietly show up, do the work, and expect no applause. Growing up isn’t about losing heroes, it’s about finding real ones.

You men are my heroes. You each have special gifts that I admire. You may not see it, but we do. Spending time in the Gloom with you men makes me better. Thank you.

IJ

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King of the Ring – Round 2 – The Rocket Burner

Ring of Fire – King of the Ring Challenge
Round 2 – Previous Kings are Q
Oh the humidity was cranked up!! Soupy swampy hot. ZERO breeze. Excellent mumblechatter in COT while we all stretched out. Senator Tressel came in hot, but caught up to us on the warmup run. 13 dawgs let loose!!

Warmup:
Slow run loop around the parking lot, approx. 400-500m, then circle up near COT for the following:
– 20 SSH
– 10 WM
– 15 MNC
– 15 IW
– 10 Strawberry pickers

Then mosey over to the USMC JROTC building, roadway near the sidewalk to the pull-up bars for…..

THE THANG:
The Rocket Burner Circuit
Setup: 5 stations, each with an exercise. Some have modes of transportation listed to get to the next station. PAX are to grab 2 cinder blocks from storage and put them on the roadway near the sidewalk to the pull up bars. Then get after it. Cones were used to mark station locations. Station 1 was at the pull-up bars, station 2 was at the roadway, beginning of sidewalk to pull-up bars, station 3 was along the roadway, towards A.O. Jones, approx. 5-60 yds away, station 4 was same location as station 2, station 5 was at bottom of hill at stop sign. That is the circuit.
Do the work. No music, just work. Once all stations are done, scoring of one round is once you return to station 1 to start over. King is the one who does the most rounds.
Stations and MoT are:
1. 5 pull-ups, frolick (walk, skip, whatever) to #2
2. With one cindy, 15 overhead presses, then farmer’s carry BOTH blocks to #3
3. With one cindy, 15 curls, then farmer’s carry BOTH blocks to #4
4. With BOTH cindies, 15 deadlift into calf raise. Full up, full down. Then no more cindies. Run downhill to #5.
5. 5 burpees, 20 lunges (10 ea leg), 25 LBC. Run uphill to #1
6. That is one round
7. Repeat

WINNER IS: BAND CAMP!! He was a machine, cranking out almost 6 full rounds (or was it 6 full, started on 7th?). Harry Carry was hot on his heels. Everyone cranked out at least 3. I got 4 full, started on 5th, but threw in the towel after pull-ups. A lot of excellent mumblechatter and push/pull from each PAX. Guys were REALLY going after it, pushing hard. No cinder blocks were harmed, too. :blush:

Stored the cindies just in time to get back to COT right at 6.

MARY: None

Announcements: The Barry is coming!! Read your newsletter, get involved!!

COT: A lot of P&P lifted. Do not carry it all inside.

Cake Boss came up with a GREAT idea with this King of the Ring challenge. Looking forward to the next rounds!! BRING IT!!!

Thank you for the opportunity to lead. Blessings and SYITG.
-NASA

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Off Road Racing

Per the hype graphic/msg, felt like we needed to workout on the field instead of pavement. Was excited about the rain last night and the additional nastiness it would bring to the workout. Arrived to the site only to be disappointed as I stepped onto the field, mildly soggy, no puddles. Oh well, the 95% humidity made up for the lack of water obstacles! Mapped out a rectangle – approx. 15yards wide and 30 yards long. Strategically placed 6 pain stations along the perimeter of the rectangle. Each pain station had instructions for the exercise to be completed before traveling to the next pain station. Also gave the PAX a MOT so they knew how to proceed to the next pain station. Asked the PAX to compete with one another, race, push themselves.

WARMUP: From COT had the PAX carry the bags onto the field and to the starting point of our rectangular track. Started with SSHx20IC at station #1 and then explained the exercise and MOT. Once all PAX confirmed they understood we moseyed to the next pain station, asked the PAX to perform 5 burpees OYO and then explained the exercise and MOT. Followed this process and decreased the burpee count to 1 as we reached the final pain station. Moseyed to the starting point and ready to go.

THE THANG: Complete as many laps as possible. FishStix was king of the 40lb bag carriers and I believe either DeepDish or Maximus was king of the 60lb bag carriers.

Pain Station #1: 10 – Man Makers
MOT – Backward OH Toss

Pain Station #2: 20 – Bear Hug Squats
MOT – Bear Crawl w/ Pull Through

Pain Station #3: 15 – DeadLifttoCleantoPress
MOT – Alt Side Toss

Pain Station #4: 20 – Sand Bag Swings
MOT – Rifle Carry

Pain Station #5: 20 – Wide Sumo Squats w/ Front Lateral Raise
MOT – Front Press Toss

Pain Station #6: 20 – Derkins ( Feet on the SB )
MOT – Rack SB on shoulders and shuffle

MARY: NONE

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel Men’s Shelter, 4th of July Convergence, read your newsletter

COT: STK!

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Still Ragin

WARMUP:
SSH
Imp Walkers
Hillbilly Walkers
Moroccan Nightclubs
Michael Phelps
Low slow squat
Merkins
Broga

THE THANG:

Bear crawl and side shuffle around square for 5 minutes

Tamara:
45 seconds on
15 seconds off

Merkins
Low slow squats
Shoulder taps
Step ups
Lateral lunge

3 rounds with 2 minute break in between each set

Slowsey around track
Burpees
Toy soldiers
Lunges

MARY:
Ham string stretch 2 rounds
One leg out
Two legs out

Butterfly stretch

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Bethel Thursday
July 4th convergence

COT:
Healing
F3 Fellowship

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