New Beginnings

WARMUP:
Short mosey around the parking lot and then stopped for warm up: 15 SSH, 15 IW, 5 burpees, 15 Windmill, 5 burpees, 10 Potato PickerS
THE THANG:
Started with 4 corners: 15 Merkins, 15 jump squats, 15 LBC, 15 lunges. Rinse and repeat 2 more times with reps of 10 & 5 with some backwards running.

Mosey to get some cinder blocks and head to front of elementary school. Partner up for 100 Shoulder Press, 100 curls, 100 squats and 100 derkins while partner runs the parking lot.

MARY:
Plenty to close out the workout
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: I brought us out. Grateful to be able to lead.

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Mariachi Band Tryouts

WARMUP:
SSH
Windmill
Cherry Pickers
Imperial Walkers
Hillbilly Walkers
Peter Parker’s
Broga
THE THANG:
Motivators
Mucho Chesto – 10X run around WEP, repeat
Standard Merkins, Wide arm, diamond, Left offset, Right offset
Relay race – as teams race, other members hold plank position. Loser does 3 Kraken burpees, winner 3 standard burpees. We did this 3X, last time MOT was bear crawl.
Rock carry DORA – partner up. Partner 1 starts walking around WEP with heavy rock. Partner 2 does 10x curls, OH press, goblet squats. 2 runs to 1, switch rocks and switch exercises. Go back to Amphitheater.
Hardest 1/8 mile – burpee board jumps, bear crawl, lunge walk, run

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It’s about community

WARMUP: The heartstrings got loosened up out of the gates as Warning Track unloaded some baggage from a tough week, acknowledging the challenges of Living Right through the Flux of life and the importance of showing up this morning to be lifted up by his brothers. He followed up with the Obligatory SSHs and then set off from WEP.

THE THANG:

WT took the pax to the old Pike Elec parking lot stopping for some windmills, burpees and other fun enroute.

Pax broke into groups of 3 for a modified Dora across the parking lot. Midway through WT called audible due to pax incompetence and simplified to Dora in groups of 2. Terrible things like Merkins, squats, lunges, flutters, burpees, etc were unleashed on the pax

WT took pax to Memorial Park for more burpees and more shared pax stories of Why they come out to the Gloom on a wet Sat morning.

DD took the reins and moved the pax to a series of parking lots (pharmacy), Pike front courtyard, Town Hall back wall for pain stops including shoulder taps, wall sits, plank jacks, burpees, mtn climbers, peter parkers, Parker peters, etc.

Pax returned to WEP to appreciate JWOW’s lovely Christmas tree. Two rounds of partner work included bear crawls around tree + flutters followed by crawl bears around tree + HR merkins.

Mosey to grass in front of band shell for more partner work (merkins, shoulder taps, sit ups) interspersed with some burpees and lap around band shell. Finished off with Knee Tar N’dyae and Mahktar N’dyae.

Mosey home

MARY: included throughout

ANNOUNCEMENTS: coffeteria at HC

COT: great morning where we welcomed 3 FNGs + a Kotter while pax from 30s to 50s mixed it up and pushed each other to get 1% better.

“Our youth are our present” I heard my pastor say from the pulpit recently. Note he did NOT say “our future.” It’s as true in The Fort and in our community as it is in NYC with a 34 yr old mayor. Younger pax, you ARE leaders today — embrace your opportunity and duty. Seasoned pax — your leadership focus IS about bringing along the next generation of leaders — embrace your opportunity and duty.
We are blessed men to have these roles at this time.

Thanks to JWOW for the opportunity and Warning Track for the partnership.

Love you brothers!
#KeepPosting

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Full moon

WARMUP:

We had to wait for Stang to go to Starbucks

THE THANG: Moseyed through Kingsley and a brief trail visit with some great fellowship and encouragement.

MARY: Stang did not get the bear from Starbucks.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: lots of great momentum for 2ndF events.
COT: Pollo Hermano’s dad is not doing well… prayers for Don. Also his mother who is 100. Prayers for peace.

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Springs street spine

15 total with six runners at Minnow Pond. Remainder did rucking.
Pledge and then run to former Hardee’s lot where the thang is explained as follows:
Parking lot is base camp. Do 10 burpees here.
Run up Springs st to its end (Summersby/Cone #1) and do 25 pushups
Run all the way back to base camp, 10 burpees
Run up Springs st to Close st (Cone #2) and do 25 pushups
Run all the way back to base camp, 10 burpees
Run up Springs st to Oak st (Cone #3) and do 25 pushups
Run all the way back to base camp, 10 burpees
Run up Springs st to Leroy st (Cone #4) and do 25 pushups
Run all the way back to base camp, 10 burpees
–>Jackrabbit pax restart to Leroy st and so on (reverse order).

We all ran back to Veteran’s park, did some stretches and then COT.

Stats: 3.3+ miles, 100+ push ups, 40 burpees.

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Wheel of Misfortune and too many reps

Since I was going to be DR for my birthday, I decided to do my birthday Q a day early. I wanted a good one and didn’t realize how good it was.
WARMUP: SSH, windmills
THE THANG: We picked up Cindy and took her down to the elementary school playground. Around the loop, about 15-20 yards apart were 6 stations.
They included:
10 OH Press
25 Decline Merkins
25 Curls
25 Squats with the block on your back
25 Big Boys with the block
25 Chest Press
25 Bent over rows
Run around the playground.

My intention was to do 420 reps, but we all know what happens when we try to count when we are working out, so we ended up with 3 rounds of 480 reps.

MARY: Everyone called something for the last 5 minutes
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter. Lots of opportunities to give back.
COT: Prayers for a good 43rd trip around the sun.

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The Bert

WARMUP: Walking lap around the band parking lot
THE THANG:
50 Burpees
5 yards Murder Bunnies, 95 yard Run
95 yard Run, 5 yard Redrum Bunnies
100 Push-Ups
10 yards Murder Bunnies, 90 yard Run
90 yard Run, 10 yard Redrum Bunnies
150 Walking Lunges
15 yards Murder Bunnies, 85 yard Run
85 yard Run, 15 yard Redrum Bunnies
200 Air Squats
20 yards Murder Bunnies, 80 yard Run
80 yard Run, 20 yard Redrum Bunnies
150 Walking Lunges
15 yards Murder Bunnies, 85 yard Run
85 yard Run, 15 yard Redrum Bunnies
100 Push-Ups
10 yards Murder Bunnies, 90 yard Run
90 yard Run, 10 yard Redrum Bunnies
50 Burpees
MARY: Who’s she?
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel Men’s Shelter Serve
COT: Prayers for jobs, family, and Splinter’s back.

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Honoring the OGs-13 years of The Dort

WARMUP: mosey to front of FMMS. All exercises done IC, 13 reps. SSH, squats, Mtn. Climbers, MCs
THE THANG: head to the bottom of the entry hill & grab a coupon. 20 curls, run up and back, 20 tri extensions, up & back, 20 squats, up & back. Rinse & Repeat. Head to the wall for wall sits & Flying Squirrels. To the court for an old school Dora with Merkins, Squats, LBCs. Last stop: grassy area for some Jack Webb. Solid group that included all 3 of Headspin’s sons. Enjoyed leading these men in the Gloom
MARY: no time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: FM Care Ctr., upcoming Convergence, read newsletter
COT: prayers for Badland’s biopsy & Double D’s family.
Signed,
Short Sale

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11s and miles

WARMUP: pledge
THE THANG: run to church corner down academy do 1 merkins. Then run all the way up hill to print shop then to pull up bars. Do 11s with pull ups and toes to bar. Run back past ABC store turn right on academy and go back down to church corner.
MARY: toes to bar count.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Fish Tales with Birdcage

We had 9 at varsity (2 for IronPAX, 1 proctor, and 6 for a Cindy beatdown. Here’s what we did:

Warmup
– 10 Low Slow Swuats
– 10 Mountain Climbers
– 10 Windmills
Mosey to get a cinderblock

– 10 Manmakers
– 15 Curls
– 20 OH Press
– 25 Flutters with a Press
– 30 Cindy Swings
– 20 Squats
– 15 Skull Crushers
– 10 Sit-up to Press
– Jog to AO Jones

Repeat 2 more times

NMM
Below is an AI generated backblast about yesterday’s workout. Some of it is true.

The sun had yet risen where the flags would be, and the usual quiet was shattered by the sound of furious guitar riffs echoing across the lot. Rumbling Bald himself had decided that today was the day he would reinvent himself as a heavy metal solo act. His amps were cranked to eleven, his hair (which may or may not have been real) was blowing in the breeze, and every bird within a mile radius had fled in terror.

In a parking spot nearby, Birdcage was already five tall tales deep. “And that’s when Dark Helmet single-handedly wrestled a grizzly bear with a lightsaber and taught it calculus!” he boomed, waving his arms dramatically. Nobody was buying it, but everyone kept listening because Birdcage’s delivery was too good to ignore.

Time Machine, meanwhile, sat cross-legged on the asphalt, looking like he had aged a century overnight. “What am I doing with my life?” he muttered, staring off into the middle distance. “I mean, posting at Varsity? Was that really my legacy? Out of all possible timelines, why did I land there?” He sighed so deeply that Rumbling Bald’s double-bass pedal briefly went out of rhythm.

Finally, Spiderman dropped in from a nearby tree branch, landing with a thud. “Hey, uh, what’s all this?” he asked, eyeing the stack of cinderblocks Italian Job had been planning to incorporate into Bald’s stage show.

“Those,” Rumbling Bald growled, “are for dramatic effect. I need someone to swing them into the pit when the breakdown hits.”

Spiderman looked at the rocks, then back at Rumbling Bald, then immediately raised both hands. “Nope. Nope nope nope. Swinging heavy things is not in the contract.” With a single web-thwip, he was gone before anyone could argue.

Birdcage stood, puffed out his chest, and pointed dramatically toward the horizon. “Did I ever tell you about the time Dark Helmet built an entire stadium out of marshmallows just to host the galaxy’s first interstellar dodgeball championship?”

Time Machine groaned, Rumbling Bald shredded harder, and somewhere in the distance Spiderman was still muttering: “Nope. Not my job.”

And thus, the morning at NaFo ended the way all their gatherings did—half concert, half existential crisis, and entirely ridiculous.

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