Partner Work
– wheelbarrows
– Partner push
– Partner carry
Dora/Run a lap
– merkins
– Incline merkins
– Dips
– Step ups
6 got marginally better but significantly sweatier at Varsity. Here’s what we did:
Warm Up:
– 15 SSHs (IC)
– 10 Low Slow Squats (IC)
– 10 Imperial Walkers (IC)
– 10 Mountain Climbers (IC)
– 10 Windmills (IC)
Mosey to the track
– 10 Burpees
– 20 Merkins
– 30 Squats
– 40 SSHs
– Lap
Repeat 3 times
Mosey to the bars
– Grab a block
– 10 Pull-ups
– 10 Flutters w/ a Press (IC)
– 10 American Hammers (IC)
– 10 Sit-up to Press
– 10 Skull Crushers
– 10 Pull-throughs
– Run to AO Jones
Repeat 3 times
Total mileage: 2.5ish miles
NMM
We each get 24 hours a day. What we choose to do with it is up to us. Do we doom scroll on our phones or study to become better? Is it all work and no play?
There were two lumberjacks—one young and strong, the other older and more experienced.
They both started working at the same time each morning, and the young lumberjack was determined to prove he was the best. So he challenge the older lumberjack to a contest – who could cut the most wood in one day? He chopped trees nonstop, all day long, barely taking any breaks, confident his youth and strength would make him the winner.
The older lumberjack, meanwhile, would take regular breaks—even disappearing for an hour at lunch. The young man was convinced he was winning by a landslide.
At the end of the day, to his surprise, the older lumberjack had cut significantly more wood.
Frustrated and confused, the younger man asked, “How could you have possibly cut more trees than me? I worked the entire time. You took so many breaks!”
The older man replied, “Yes, but every time I sat down, I was sharpening my axe.”
Whether in business, leadership, or life, working nonstop without reflection, renewal, or improvement often leads to burnout and diminished results. But if you “sharpen your axe,” you perform better in the long run.
Aye!
IJ
Warm-O-Rama
SSH
Windmills
Arm circles
Moseyed to the pharmacy parking lot where the party began.
Each Circuit was done for 5 minutes for as many rounds as possible, with a 1 minute rest in between. After the 3rd circuit we repeated circuits 1 through 3.
? CIRCUIT 1: “The Grinder”
5-Minute AMRAP
– 10 Squats
– 10 Merkins
– 10 Jump Squats
– 10 Wide Arm Merkins
– 10 Bonnie Blairs (5 each leg)
– Run across the lot and back then start circuit over.
? CIRCUIT 2: “The Beast”
5-Minute AMRAP
– 5 Burpees
– 10 Mountain Climbers (each leg)
– 10 Lunges (5 each leg)
– 10 Diamond Merkins
– 20 SSH
– Run across the lot and back then start circuit over.
? CIRCUIT 3: “The Gauntlet”
5-Minute AMRAP
– 10 Carolina Dry Docks
– 20 Flutter Kicks (4-count = 1)
– 10 Plank Jacks
– 10 Shoulder Taps (R+L=1)
– Bear Crawl ~10 yards
– Crawl Bear ~10 yards
– Run across the lot and back then
We moseyed back to COT in time for Piston Crunches & a 1 minute plank.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Stuff the Bus, coffeteria convergence Friday at Panera Bread- State of the Nation from <@U5CVD8D7V>, Bethel Men’s Shelter 1st Thursday in August 7th.
COT: I brought up the subject of “What’s your Why?” Why F3? What keeps you coming back? Prayers were made.
WARMUP:
– SSH
– Windmills
– Merkins
THE THANG:
– Mosey down the road to the field gate entrance while triggering every motion sensor light on the way
Round 1:
– Bear crawl the 10 – 1 burpee
– Crawl bear back to the endzone
– Bear crawl to the 20 – 2 burpees
– Crawl bear back to the endzone
– Continue the series until reaching the 50 yard line with 5 burpees and back
Round 2:
– Run to 50 – 5 burpees
– Nur back to the endzone
– Run to the 40 on the opposite side (60 yards) – 4 burpees
– Nur back to the endzone
– Continue the series until reaching the endzone on the opposite side
Round 3: Line up on the track in teams of 3 for Catch Me If You Can
– 1 partner completes 5 Diamond Merkins and then runs to catch up with the other two partners
– Partner 2 carries Partner 3 until Partner 1 catches them
– Partner 2 completes 5 Diamond Merkins and runs to catch the other two partners
– Partner 3 carries Partner 1 until Partner 2 catches them
– Continue for a full lap around the track
Round 4:
Back to the endzone in groups of 2 for a modified Dora due to limited time
– 75 Merkins
– 150 LBCs
MARY:
– Take turns going around the circle calling exercises until time runs out.
WARMUP: windmills, cherry pickers, hillbilly walkers
THE THANG: 100 yard sprints 6x, bar work, toe lifts, knee lifts, side crunches to failure 3x,
Wall work: crunches, penguins, toe touches till failure 3x
Block work: overhead press, curl, triceps. Till failure 3x
Bar work: pull ups, chin ups, sides till failure 3x.
MARY: none
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read news letter
COT:
WARMUP: Old School 15 minute warm up: IWx15, HW x15, WM x15, CP x15, Plank: Peter Parkers x15, Parker Peters x15 and Mountain Climbers x15 then 6 inches, Plank each side with legs, then regular and repeat.
THE THANG: Mosey to wall: Peoples chair until each person does 5 burpees and then BTW with 5 count each, rinse and repeat and rinse and repeat.
Mosey to short wall: 11s starting with 10 Durkins and 1 Dips then 20 step ups each leg.
Move to grass for Jack Webbs
Mosey to Napa parking lot: 2 parking spot Bear Crawl then 10 squats and 2 parking spot crab walk and 10 lunges each leg. Alternate until we are at the end of the lot.
Mosey to COT for abs.
MARY: Ab Webs
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Forged Fathers for those with children with disabilities.
Trash Pick up.
Care Center.
COT: Done and Done
WARMUP:
Mosey
SSH
The Windmill
Squats
Shoulder Taps
THE THANG:
3 Total Rounds of
Suicide – 1
Carolina Dry Docks – 20
Air Squats – 20
Mountain Climbers – 20
Merkins – 20
Four Corners
3 Rounds Of Each
Merkins and LBC
Squats and Flutters
MARY: Round Robin
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
Like the “Jelly of the Month Club,” the humidity just keeps giving. That didn’t stop 8 of us from putting in the work. Here’s what we did.
No warmup, just mosey to the crosswalk in the drop-off line under ruck
– 30 yard Bear Crawl
– Lunge Walk Back
– 15 OH Press (IC)
– 10 Curls (IC)
– 10 American Hammers (IC)
– 10 Ruck Presses (IC)
Ruck the big loop
– 40 Squats
– 40 Calf Raises
– 40 Flutters with a Press
Ruck the big loop
– 30 Squats
– 30 Calf Raises
– 30 Flutters with a Press
– 1 Minute Plank
Ruck the big loop
– 20 Squats
– 20 Calf Raises
– 20 Flutters with a Press
– 1.5 Minute Plank
Ruck the big loop
– 10 Squats
– 10 Calf Raises
– 10 Flutters with a Press
– 2 Minute Plank
– 30 yard Bear Crawl
– Lunge Walk Back
– 15 OH Press (IC)
– 10 Curls (IC)
– 10 American Hammers (IC)
– 10 Ruck Presses (IC)
NMM
Training in less than optimal conditions builds resiliency and prepares you for sub-optimal situations in the future. Sure this workout would have been more palatable in the Spring, but we did what had to be done in the conditions that we had, and we’re all better because of it. I’m sure there’s a life lesson in there.
Thanks for the opportunity this morning. I hope this is the hardest thing you do all day.
-IJ
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
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