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Take me to C.H.U.R.C.H

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Nine men got dressed and ready for C.H.U.R.C.H this morning. Conditions were perfect for August (68 and breezy). Here’s what we did.

Warmup
* 10 Low Slow Squats (IC)
* 10 Mountain Climbers (IC)
* 10 Plank Jacks (IC)

Mosey to Sisk Memorial Baptist
* Carolina Dry Docks – 10
* Hand Release Merkins – 10
* Up Downs – 10
* Ranger Merkins – 10
* Copperhead Squats (Low Slow Squats) – 10
* Howling Monkeys (10 Monkey Humpers per person) – 80 total

Mosey to Fort Mill Church of God (repeat above)
Mosey to First Baptist (repeat above)
Mosey to Unity Presbyterian (repeat above)
Mosey to St. John’s UMC (repeat above)
Mosey back to COT

Totals:
* 100 Carolina Dry Docks
* 50 Hand Release Merkins
* 50 Up Downs
* 50 Ranger Merkins
* 50 Copperhead Squats
* 400 Howling Monkeys
* 2 miles

NMM
Fort Mill is a land of churches (seems one is on every corner). But just as standing in a garage doesn’t make you a car, going to church doesn’t make you a believer. Whatever you believe, show it in the way you carry yourself. Have convictions. Stand for your beliefs. The world is your pulpit, so let your walk be your message.

Aye!
IJ

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Football!!!! (Or something like it…)

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Nice Cool(ish) morning here at the Stockade.
So typically my Q’s involve a lot of running, merkins, and of course Burpees. Today though, I was looking forward to Week 0 of College Football and wanted to do something a little different. So myself and my fellow pax did a F3 inspired football Combine.

Brief run to the parking lot of Grace church where I had some cones laid out and some plans to push the Pax but have some fun.

Warmup:

SSH: 43 IC (for Troy Polamalu)
Windmills : 7 IC (For Big Ben the QB not the Clock)
Plank Jacks: 14 IC (for the last Super bowl won by the “Super Steelers” )
LBC’s 32 IC ( For PSU and Steeler Star Franco Harris)

Round 1: 2:00 of Jump Squats
Recovery Lap
Round 2: 2:00 of Merkins (first minute was all hand-release second minute was traditional)
Recovery Lap
Round 3 : 20 Yrd Broad Jump
Recovery Lap
Round 4: 20 Yrd Shuttle Run
Recovery Lap
Round 5: “Hands Drill” We partnered up and played catch with a football while the rest of the Pax would run a lap. Switched out until everyone got a turn.

Round 6: The reason we all were here. The 40 yrd Dash!

The times were unofficial but still proud to say we have some burners here in the Fort:

Italian Job : 4.37
Slow Jams 4.57
Half Shell: 4.52
Skipper: 4.50
Grassy Knoll: 4.49
FishTix: 4.44
YHC: 3.2 (world record)   Again….I said it was unofficial.

After the dash we divided up into 2 teams with YHC as the full time QB. Team Fishtix defeated Team Slow Jams 1-0. My QB rating was sub 70 but I had 1 TD with 1 INT.  

Some takeaways:

I should get a brighter ball
Italian Job is as quick as a hiccup.
Half Shell is an offensive genius. (just didn’t have a QB who could execute)
Skipper has really good hands (especially considering that no one could really see the ball)
Being QB is hard.

Fishtix was the MVP with the game sealing INT.  His trophy and the team championship rings are pending.

Today’s workout was not a traditional workout. There were no coupons (well other than the football), no miles and no pearls on a string. That said, the fellowship was outstanding, we did get some exercise in and the best part nobody tore a hamstring.

Thanks to all that came out. Appreciate any opportunity to lead.

All the best!

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No Pancakes

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WARMUP:
– various exercises with “daily count” of 8/22 reps and mosey to Church via fire station
THE THANG:
– modified 4 corners with sandbag timer lap:
– kettle bell swings
– manmakers
– slam balls
– bomb jacks
-> rinse and repeat
MARY:
– mosey back to COT: Airborne Hips and some regular mary
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– read your newsletter
COT:
– was held

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Whipped out a swampy sweaty wienke with a shable

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WARMUP: It was warm and schweaty.

Run around the perimeter of the parking lot with butt kickers, high knees, side shuffles and then circled up. SSH, windmill, cherry picker, low slow squats, merkins, honey nooner, down dog. Back to COT to grab the 40 bag.

THE THANG: Took the bag and pax over to bubbles and bows because they need a trim. This wienke was originally used at the Swamp in June 2019…oldie but goodie.

In a circle we numbered off to determine our order as 2 would follow 1, 3 follow 2 and so forth. Pax 1 would run to the other end of the parking lot to do shoulder presses, min 10 and max 25, and then handoff to 2. While pax 1 was on the bag, the remaining pax were doing exercises and pax 1 would pick up at the beginning or where they left off.

Exercises were: 25 bomb jacks, 50 jump squats, 75 calf raises, 100 SSH, 100 flutter right leg only, 75 CDD, 50 merkins, 25 burpees.

After the shoulder press and all pax completed this, next was 10/25 of curls. Then was 5 squats, then was 3 merkins with bag in your back. So continued to rotate the back as pax completed the 25-100-25.

Ran back to COT for a shable (a story in the tale of a fable authored by shady, shable). False ending so did a full lap around the parking lot, then back to COT.
MARY: went around the circle with stretching exercises called out…it was great.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: heard about how awesome HIM camp was, 9/11 on 9/9 event, newsletter
COT: old school CSPAN prayers and praises

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Spicy Turtlehead

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This morning we were blessed with a beautiful breeze from the south. And we got right to it at 0500.

Ruck/COP:
w/Alternating Shuffle around school
SSHs, LSSs, Ruck Merkins

Weinke: A Blue Light Special, if you will…
Buy In: 200m Suitcase Carry

30 min AMRAP:
20 Ruck Swings
15 Ruck High Pulls
10 Ruck Thrusters

Cash Out: 200m Suitcase Carry

We had a few minutes to spare to I had to reach into my Mexican Junk Pile to see what we could do to close out the WOD…

Finisher:
Partner Up
CMIYC around parking loop x 2
P1 Farmer Carries both Rucks
P2 5 Merkins, Chase & Catch Up

Sprocket – you are a leader that we all look up to in The Fort. Thanks for the tap and including me in the “Spicy Tour”.

Punch List out.

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Stuff the Bus Convergence

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WARMUP:
Ran over to parking lot behind football fields
SSH – all exercises were to 20 INC
1 burpee
Windmill
2 burpees
Cherry Pickers
3 burpees
Squats
4 burpees
Moroccan Night Club
5 Burpees
Imperial walkers
6 burpees
Merkins
7 burpees
LBC
8 burpees
CDD
9 burpees
Flutter
10 burpees

Throughout the workout we had pax share about different opportunities we have within The Fort to serve our community. We had the following speak (Fogerty – Trash Pickup, Cousin Eddy – Bethel Men’s shelter, Jiffy – FM Care Center, Stuff the Bus)

Partner Up
Round 1 –
Squats
Flying Squirrels
Inch worm merkins

Round 2
Big boy sit-ups
Jump Squats
Wide arm merkins

We have an amazing opportunity in The Fort to impact our community. We have pax impacting our community through service. Challenge was raised, if you aren’t actively impacting the community, why not?

It was an honor to be able to lead the workout this morning. This was diffident from most workouts because of the number of times we stopped to talk. However I felt it important to share with the guys what is happening around them. We also were able to congratulate Double D in his hand off of Nantan to Esso. Double D, thank you for you service to the pax. You have always been someone who ask the tough questions that challenge us and I thank you for that and what you did for our Region during your reign as Nantan. Esso, I look forward where you are going to take us and your energy to lead. We have a bright future ahead.

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What do you call a Kitchen sink filled with sand?

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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

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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

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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

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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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