What do you call a Kitchen sink filled with sand?

WARMUP:
Worked our way around the school drop off lane stopping along the way with the following:
SSH, low slow squats, tempo merkins, toy soldiers, butt kickers, high knees and windmills
THE THANG:
Carried sandbags down to amphitheater where we did the following:

From the bottom each pax had a sandbag or rock.
Man makers with sandbag toss up to the third level
20 squats with coupons
Man makers with toss
20 squats with coupons
Clean and press then toss sandbag up to third level
15 deadlifts
Clean and press with toss
15 deadlifts
MARY:
Airborne hip specials
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Stuff the bus on Saturday
Convergence on Friday, bring school supplies
Dam to Dam fundraisers start in Sept
COT:

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Being Present

It was an honor to spend this morning with so many leaders in our community. 16 was the count for 4.65 miles. The route was as follows: R on 160 towards downtown, L on Main, Cross over Clebourne to Springs, R on Summersby where Springs ends, R on Unity, R on Tom Hall, Cross over Main to Clebourne, R on 160, L into parking lot.

Today’s COT was a reminder of the value in posting each morning. We have the opportunity to live life with High Impact Men that make us better. We discussed fatherhood, health challenges, stress, and being the leaders our community needs. Keep a lookout for upcoming challenges from The Fort’s SLT. We are needed now more than ever.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead, Anchorman. And thanks to the PAX for helping me start my day off on the right foot!

Aye!
Italian Job

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4th of July Convergence

1776 Workout
50 Burpees
100 SSHs
100 Merkins
Run Lap
100 Squats
100 LBCs
100 Mountain Climbers
Run Lap
100 Carolina Dry Docks
100 Lunges
100 Flutters
Run Lap
100 Seal Jacks
100 Squat Jumps
100 America Hammers
Run Lap
100 Plank Jacks
100 Monkey Humpers
100 Dips
Run Lap
100 Hello Dollies
100 Overhead Claps
100 yard Bear Crawl
Run Lap
26 Burpees
Run Lap

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Failure is not an option

WARMUP:

Light stretching exercises, windmills, , MNC, plank, yoga stretches, merkins.
THE THANG: 64 burpees, 8 at a time and run across field each time, crosswise not lengthwise

Death by,

Merkins….

Start with 3, add 3 every 30 secs for 3 rounds, then add 3 per minute until failure… FNG got to 30!

I started my testimonial… beginning of life to my rock bottom.

Then we moseyed behind ROTC, did a dead hang to failure

Then we did a Dora with 50 pull-ups, 100 overhead presses with Cindy then 200 curls with Cindy, we almost finished…

MARY:
No time but I shared the rest of my testimony. God had a plan for me and He has one for you too!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter
COT: yes

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KABOOM at Colosseum

WARMUP: Disclaimer only
THE THANG: 1776 reps of pain plus some running
COT: On this birthday of our country we added FNG Tang to our pax, EH’d by Mark Twain. Welcome brother! We sweat like crazy in the Gloom and let the familiar soreness settle in as the fireworks lit up the sky to honor our forefathers and our fellow Americans. Grateful to have been born in the USA and to share this life with my F3 brothers. May we stay United and foster Unity with those we meet each time we leave COT and enter the world around us. God Bless America!

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Pickett’s Charge

Twelve pax posted on this 3rd of July. Warm and humid with a thunderstorm having cleared out about 30 mins beforehand.

Warmup
Mosey run (toy soldiers, high knees, and butt kickers)
Circle up and do: SSH (15x I/C), windmills (8x I/C), imperial walkers (15x I/C), Moroccan n/c (15x I/C), low slow squats (10x I/C), big arm circles (15x I/C), peter parkers (10x I/C), plank stretches (downward dogs, honeymooners).

Thang 1: Cindy-Runs
Each pax got a cinder block and did the routine noted below.
Run 400m
KB Swings
Run 400m
Goblet squats
Run 400m
Manmakers
Run 400m
curls
Run 400m
Thrusters
Run 400m
Chest press
Run 400m
Early pax restarted the block exercises, but ran a shorter loop until the six came in.

Thang 2: Wall stuff
Ran to the brick wall of the school. Pax plank. Read a few paragraphs about Pickett’s Charge that happened 7/3/63 at Gettysburg.
Pax wall sit. From both ends of the line, pax bear crawls out about 30 feet, 3 burpees, and crawl bears back.
Then we did some wall-tar-jais…followed by some balls-to-the-wall for a ten count.

Thang 3: bar work
Ran over to the pull up bars and seven each of: pull ups, chin ups, switch grip, toes4bar, negative pullups.

Mary:
Ran to COT area and did Sally routine with leg lifts (Moby’s Flower, legs up on “bring Sally up” and 6 inches on “bring Sally down”.
A little monkey humpers, an 10 seconds of body destroyers.

Fini.
COT

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God often hides opportunities to be faithful. Don’t miss them

WARMUP:

Mosey around the parking lot admiring the new smooth pavement. Then some SSH, Windmill, Moroccan Nightclubs, Imperial Walkers & Hillbilly Walkers. Finishing with a mosey over to the band lot. Which it should be noted is not nicely newly repaved…

THE THANG:

Kind of a modified shuttle run design

From the end zone line, run to the other end zone and do one squat and run back.

Once back, run to the other end zone again, do one squat, bear crawl 10 yards, do 2 squats, then run back.

Once back, run to the other end zone again, do one squat, bear crawl 10 yards, do 2 squats, bear crawl 10 yards and do 3 squats, then run back.

Continue doing this until you are doing 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 squats, each with a 10 yard bear crawl on the return (so the return run gets shorter each revolution).

I interspersed some of this with a brief discussion of the impact of walking in faith in my life. God often presents opportunities that appear as struggles or obstacles/setbacks in our life. He never promised life would be easy, but did promise it is for a purpose. Life life with a purpose and faith in a bigger picture, and often you will see in hindsight, those obstacles were the refiners fire preparing you for opportunities you never even imagined.

Hebrews 12.1 says “Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.”

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read the newsletter

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Honey Badger Millenia Beatdown

WARMUP:
SSH
Imperial Walker
Moroccan Night Clubs

Cubbie really wanted to lead the chorus on Medium Pace but decided to keep leading the workout.

THE THANG:
Millenial
100 reps, run 1 football field lap x 10 times.
First person to 100, everyone runs together
1. Burpees
2. Lunges (2x)
3. Merkins
4. LBC
5. Mtn Climbers
6. Flutters (2x)
7. Calf raises
8. Squats
9. SSH
10. Box Cutters

Great chatter on:
– 4 colleges who start with a color
– Office Space and how we miss the PC Load Letter error on printers
– many many (and yet not enough) Adam Sandler quotes

MARY: Marty Bird was our Ray from Ghostbusters. The destructor he choose for our last 100 count was Carolina Dry Docks

COT:

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Show Tune Tuesday

WARMUP:
Mosey around parking lot. Stop for a few quick warm-up exercises:
– SSH
– Mountain Climbers
– Imperial Walkers

THE THANG:
Run to Rite-Aid
4-Corner Accumulator
Round 1- 1 burpee at each corner – run in between corners
Round 2 – 1 burpee, 2 Donkey Kicks at each corner
Round 3 – 1 burpee, 2 Donkey Kicks, 3 Run Stance Switch
Round 4 – 1 burpee, 2 Donkey Kicks, 3 Run Stance Switch, 4 merkins (4 count)
Round 5 – 1 burpee, 2 Donkey Kicks, 3 Run Stance Switch, 4 merkins, 5 plank jacks (4 count)
Round 6 – 1 Burpee, 2 Dokey Kicks, 3 Run Stance Switch, 4 merkins, 5 plank jacks, 6 box cutters
Round 7 – 2 Donkey Kicks, 3 Run Stance Switch, 4 merkins, 5 plank jacks, 6 box cutters
Round 8 – 3 Run Stance Switch, 4 merkins, 5 plank jacks, 6 box cutters
Round 9 – 4 merkins, 5 plank jacks, 6 box cutters
Round 10 – 5 plank jacks, 6 box cutters
Round 11 – 6 box cutters

Made it half way through round 11. Totals:

Burpees: 24
Donkey Kicks: 48
Run Stance Switch: 72
Merkins: 192
Plank Jacks: 240
Box Cutters: 72
Mileage: 2.1

Great work by all men! Thanks again, SlowJams!

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No Burpee’s

WARMUP: Mosey behind apartments.
25 ea. – SSH
15 ea. – Windmills
15 ea. – Goofballs
15 ea. – Imperial Walkers
THE THANG:
The Pendulum: 25/20/15/10/5
10 Bombjacks in the middle:
Run to stop sign at the top of the hill.
25 Merkins
Run to middle (10 Bombjacks)
Run to firestation
25 Plankjacks
repeat and count down by 5…….20/15/10/5
Mosey to tire Express Oil wall
25 step ups
25 dips
25 erkins
25 squats
MARY: some
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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