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Kitchen Faucet Was Turned Off At The ‘Sink

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Bring your sand bag. Those were the instructions.
WARMUP: Short mosey with a few of the typical warmup exercises.
THE THANG: Grab your bag…sandbag, and meet me by the flag poles.
I reintroduced the GoRuck 60×60 and let them know it would be a regular exercise this morning. For the 1 person reading this, if you’re not sure what the 60×60 is, here you go.
Start with the bag on the ground in front of your feet. Bend over and put your hands on the bag, drop back to a plank, execute a pushup with your chest touching the bag, pop up into the bottom of a squat, rack the sandbag to a front-rack position, stand up then toss the sandbag over your head once you get to the top of the movement. That is 1. Turn around, address the sandbag and do it again. Repeat for 60 seconds.
To ensure we knew how to execute it, we performed our first 60×60.
Rack the bag and make our way behind the school to the back drop-off entrance.
15 of each exercise:
Simbas (because I love them and they’re harder with a sandbag)
Flutters with press. At rep #8, I was called out for not actually pressing my sandbag so I performed 8 correct reps once everyone else completed their 15. I’m thankful IJ called me out as I’m sure others saw this yet didn’t speak up. We need men in our lives who will speak up.
60×60
Rack the sandbag and meet at the other end of the back stretch behind the school.
15 of each exercise:
Squats
Dead Lifts (Hopefully with proper form)
Thrusters
Slow(er) Calf Raises
60×60
Rack the sandbag and meet at the corner of the loop by the lighted sign.
15 of each exercise:
Partner Derkins (no sandbag)
Curls
Overhead Press
Chest Press (15 I/C actually means 30)
60×60
Rack the sandbag and meet over by the rock
Another 60×60
Partner Up
Partner 1: Farmers Carry the two sand bags an untold distance, probably 40yds then back.
Partner 2: Mountain Climbers
Flapjack
Rack the sandbag and go back to COT.

MARY: See above
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Rock Hill Rooster (I think) Partnership with Bethel on Sept 6!
All the others are in the Newsletter, or should be.
COT: Indeed

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Billy Madison Loop

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6 of us dodged puddles and covered over 4 miles this morning. Here was what YHC dubbed the “Billy Madison” route:

– Circle Doby’s Bridge Elementary, up Neff Court
– Take the rocky path up and over Doby’s Bridge to and through Dominion Bridge
– Venture down Whites Rd, left at the Forest Creek Middle basketball courts, around the school, down to the track and back up and over Whites Rd again
– Circle Catawba Ridge High School, back over Whites Rd, through Dominion Bridge (up hill this time) and back to COT
– 4.16 miles total

NMM
When we all arrived this morning, it was pouring – like, you cannot see the road pouring. I think we all thought the worst about what was to come. Funny thing though, at 5:13 the rain stopped and we stepped off. We made the situation much worse in our minds than what was reality. There’s a lesson there. Maybe the thing you are putting off isn’t as bad as you think it is. Maybe you should just step off and get started. Or maybe it was just happenstance. Maybe.

Aye!
Italian Job

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Sandbag Racing

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WARMUP: ssh, burpees, low slow squat, windmill
THE THANG:
PAX divide into 2 teams with a 60lb sandbag each team. Mosey to football field.

Race #1: PAX do 5 merkins every 10 yards. One PAX does sandbag throw for 10 yards, rotate PAX throwing. At endzone, each time run 1 lap with the bag back to endzone. Coming back down the field, 5 squats every 10 yards with reverse overhead bag throws.

Race #2: Bear crawl with one pax dragging the bag. Rotate as needed. Run 1 lap. Crawl bear coming back with bag.

Race #3: walking lunge going down the field. Run a lap with bag. Nur coming back with reverse bag drag.

MARY: briefly
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read newsletter
COT: yes

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Monday blues

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WARMUP: mosey, ssh, merkin
THE THANG: Four rounds of super sets with different MOT between.

station one: four rounds of 5 jump squat, 10 jump lunge, 20 squat mosey and then duck walk

Station 2: 3 rounds of 5 mike Tyson, 10 diamond merkin, 20 merkin. Mosey and then inch worm with merkin between.

Station 3: 3 round of 5 heels to heaven, 10 two count flutters, 20 lbc with a mosey up the hill between

Station four: 2 rounds of 5 wall walk ups, 10 cdds, 20 oh clap with bear crawl between.
MARY: 5 min emom of 10 burpees
ANNOUNCEMENTS: some
COT: yes

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Reminiscing the BLIMPs

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The Pax were enthusiastic about a mid-summer retreat from the hot weather this AM. YHC had researched previous backblasts in an effort to find a BLIMP style workout and found one from 2017 led by Old Bay. I remember this one well and was recognized for my mumblechatter in the backblast. Let’s do that!

WARMUP:

Circle the HT
SSH x 30
Windmill x 10
CDD x 20
MNC x 20

Run to the other side of HT

Time on the Wall
Wall sits with alternating burpees x 2
BTW x 30 count
Wall sits with bear crawls

On to the main thing

THE THANG:

BLIMPS around Walgreens – stopping at each corner

Round 1 – 1 burpee
Round 2 – 1 burpee, 2 lunges
Round 3 – 1 burpee, 2 lunges, 3 IWs
Round 4 – 1 burpee, 2 lunges, 3 IWs, 4 merkins
Round 5 – 1 burpee, 2 lunges, 3 IWs, 4 merkins, 5 Plank Jacks
Round 6 – 1 burpee, 2 lunges, 3 IWs, 4 merkins, 5 Plank Jacks, 6 Jump Squats
Round 7 – Remove the burpee
Round 8 – Remove the burpee and lunges
Round 9 – Remove the burpee, lunges and IWs

3 Minutes of Mary

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Read the newsletter

COT:
– Good reminder from Anchorman on being challenged by those who care about you to get better
– Great wisdom (and funny anecodotes) from IJ today

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Pit and the Pendulum

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THE THANG: Harris St Hills, pendulum from 21 to Audrey. 10 Mike Tyson’s at Audrey, 10 Am Hammers at the park and 10 Jump Squats at 21, repeat until legs are shot or time for COT

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel and Naked Gun
COT: Minimal due to time constraints but done.

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Sharpen Your Axe

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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

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The Grinder, Beast, & Gauntlet

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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.

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Field Work

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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.

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