4 Cornahs

Twas a bit nipply outside. The idea was to keep moving for 45 minutes
WARMUP: Ran the long way and up the hill to the big parking lot. We did dynamic warmup where we ran back and forth between the exercises: SSH, squat, IW, Hillbilly walkers, merkin, burpees.
THE THANG: 4 corners of the parking lot designated by the light poles. Each corner had 1 exercise: merkin, squat, Carolina Dry dock, big boy sit ups. Reps per round: 10, 15, 20, 15, 10. We moseyed, lunge walked and bear crawled our way in between.

Left parking lot and headed to wall for 3 rounds of wall sits. Then ran back to COT for 5 minutes of Mary.
MARY: yep
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter
COT: Prayers for family

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Piracy and Imposters

WARMUP:
– Windmills
– Cherry Pickers
– Imperial Walkers
– Hillbilly Walkers
– Calf Raises

THE THANG:
– Travel to playground (pirated from <@U06Q8DSSV5Y>)
– Begin with 5 squats then mosey to 2nd tree on the left-hand side of sidewalk –> 5 squats
– Mosey back to 1st tree –> 3 merkins
– Mosey to 3rd tree –> 5 squats
– Mosey back to 2nd tree –> 3 merkins
– And so on to the playground

– Broga (10 count)
– Standard plank
– Down Dog
– Walk it out
– Up Dog
– Down Dog
– Standard plank

– Continued WEP circuit – 8’s
– First swing: 7 burpees (yes, I included burpees), 1 big boy
– Second swing: 6 burpees, 2 big boys
– …
– Last swing: 1 burpees, 7 big boys

– Extended broga
– Standard plank
– Down Dog – right leg up
– Runners Lunge – right leg forward
– Warrior I
– Warrior II
– Peaceful Warrior
– Runners Lunge
– Standard plank
– Down dog – left leg up
– Runners lunge – left leg forward and repeat

– At Calhoun gazebo:
– Arm DORA!!!
– One partner lunges from the gazebo to the curb while the other works on:
– 50 Curb Alperts (cadence count)
– 100 Dips (benches conveniently provided)
– 150 Shoulder presses

MARY: hammahs, fluttahs, boxcuttahs, LBC, 6-inches (via countdown from each PAX)

ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter material

COT: all about families

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Fall leaves, colorful sunrise, and a tunnel of love

WARMUP:
Ran toward downtown, stopping here and there for typical warm-up exercises (SSH, Imperial Walkers, Seal Jacks, Windmills, Hillbilly Walkers, Peter Parkers, Parker Peters).

THE THANG:
At a short wall near the old Springs building, we did 15x, 10x, 5x of each of the following:
box jumps
step ups
dips

Moseyed to steps near across from downtown (behind mill stone) and partnered up.
– Everyone bear crawl up the steps, run down the grassy hill
– Partner wheelbarrow up the steps, run down the grassy hill
– Flapjack wheelbarrow
– Everyone on a step for a series of calf raises

Mosey to bottom of Massey. Run up mass to upper lot.

Partner “Catch me if you can”
– merkins and butt kickers
– Buprees and high keens
– Karaoke and mountain climbers

Line up for railroad tracks (to rounds)
End with Tunnel of Love

Mosey back to COT.

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Frozen tundra mumblechatter

WARMUP: An adventurous warmup of circle runs and

SSH
IW
Tunnel touches
Merkins
Mtn Climbers
Overhead claps

One man ran two circles around us wilst we completed the various exercises.

THE THANG: We moseyed to the center of the park and partnered up. One partner ran half sped across the park whilst the other partner counted to 5 and then chased them down, completing the run to the concrete track. Jogged back. Repeated until everyone was annoyed.

Moseyed to the hill where the partners participated in the now trademarked “Indian Land Butt Sniffers Bear Crawl Uphill” :tm:

Then lunges uphill.

At playground – partners did planks, dips and grave diggers whilst partner ran around the playground.

The Mary was one set of flutter kicks.

Perhaps <@UGU3XR5RP> will have some comments but it was clear this was his favorite workout in months.

Dear Abby joined! We got a Chicago report.

We had the privilege of COT to express prayers for fellow Pax and also for Mrs DD.

Food drive to come!

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One lap is all it takes

WARMUP: ssh, wind mills, imp walkers, plank, up and down dog, Peter Parker’s
THE THANG: we moseyed one lap around the large loop around the pond and LPL (counter clockwise) starting at cot. We stopped at every other street light and did some exercises

Along the first road ( through the row of restaurants, etc) we did 1 burpee, 2 bomb jacks, 3 big boys, 4 merkins and 5 squats

Along the second road towards the back of Kingsley, we did all the previous things, and added 6 side straddle hops.

We stopped along the way at the rip rap for a quick and painful interlude where we each grabbed a rock and carried it over our heads up to the LPL parking sign and back. We then continued our journey.

Along the next road, across the back of LPL, we did the previous 6 exercises at the designated street lights and added 7 monkey humpers.

Finally, along the road back to cot, we did these same 7 exercises, but doubled the rep count of each

We did one last set when we arrived back at cot and then we caught our breath, wiped the sweat from our brows and enjoyed the sunrise.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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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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All around WEP

WARMUP: normal stuff
THE THANG: take a lap followed by another lap stopping at the 9 swings for proper form upper body and lower body alternated and core at all stops
MARY: no time for her today
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter
COT: prayers for family issues. Health

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Board of Pain

It was cool and rainy. Perfect conditions for the #gloom
WARMUP: Ran to top of hill and hit the regulars: SSH, Seal Jacks, squats, arm circles, windmill, broga
THE THANG:
Board of Pain. Finish each exercise and take a lap. See how far you can get down the board.
DD: Started LBC
Spike: Finish squats
Dojo: finish squats
Minute Man: finish squats
Jekyll: finish squats

MARY: no
ANNOUNCEMENTS: HIM Camp was excellent and all 3 Fs- Minute Man. Bethel Men’s shelter
COT: Praises/Prayers for family. Prayers for Green card extension.

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Slow down

WARMUP: stretching and the regulars (10reps each)
THE THANG: mosey to sunbelt parking lot. 3 sets of each at 20 reps at various locations in the parking area.
Merkins, lbcs
Squats, American hammers
Shoulder taps, flutters
Calf raises, bicycles
Dips, leg lifts
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: news letter
COT: prayers and praises around the circle. Jobs, 2.0s aging parents

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Kingsley Apparatus and 2 FNGs

WARMUP: SSH, WM, CP
THE THANG:
Thang 1: 40 Step-ups, 20 Erkins, 10 Derkins
Thang 2: From the front entrance at Kingsley (near RT 160), we made our way around the Kingsley Loop.
At every light post : 3 burpees
At every Fire Hydrant: 25 Squats
At every pathway intersection: 20 Merkins
At every Transformer: 25 Flutter Kicks
MARY: No Time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter
COT: Closed in prayer

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