what’s a kettlebell

2022-08-17Leave a comment

QIC: Badlands
When: 2022-08-17
Pax: 3D, Badlands, Band Camp, birdcage_f3, Drop Thrill, JWOW, Tesh, Uhaul
Posted In: snake pit

WARMUP: dynamic warmup including toy soldiers, high knees, butt kickers, SSH (IC), Merkins (IC)

THE THANG:
perform 20 reps of exercise then run 100yds before performing next set

5 sets – deadlifts
4 sets – bent over rows
3 sets – sumo squat/high pulls
2 sets – thrusters
1 sets – curls

MARY:
Death by Kettlebell

set 1 minute recurring timer:
perform increasing reps of exercise until you fail to complete number of reps before timer expires

Kettle bell swings: 5, 10, 15, etc
most failed at 35 reps

chest press: 15, 20, 25, 30, max

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 10 yr anniversary stuff – check newsletter

COT: gotta be there

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A Deep Flush

2022-08-16Leave a comment

QIC: JWOW
When: 2022-08-12
Pax: Airborne, Dojo, Drop Thrill, Happy Hour, JWOW, Kermit, NakedAndAfraid, Quack Attack, SugarBug
Posted In: The Hive

It was a beautiful morning in The Fort for 9 HIM to get decked by the cards of pain!

Quick warmup and off to the cards. The weinke was as follows:

A = Run a lap
K = Murder Bunny with Bell
Q = Bear Crawl with Bell
J = 10 Man Makers
♦️ = Curls
❤️ = V-Ups
♠️ = Snatch
♣️ = Squats

We got through 75% of the deck, but there was 100% of pain.

– JWow

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The Bubble Reboot

2022-08-04Leave a comment

QIC: JWOW
When: 2022-08-04
Pax: Charles Thompson, JWOW, Short Sale, Twister
Posted In: The Bubble

In a post/not post Covid world, it felt good to kick the tires and fire The Bubble up again. Four HIM accelerated in some 1st & heavy 2nd F this morning.

Warmup Round 1
20 Side Straddle Hops
10 Windmills
10 Cherry Pickers

Moseyed up a giant hill for round 2 of warmups.
20 Dying Cockroach
20 LBC’s
20 Gas Pumpers

Moseyed down to the pocket park down the hill.

The Thang: We worked our way down the list running a lap around the park and adding an exercise after each lap.

Burpees – 3
Ultra Carolina Dry Doc – 6
Big Boy Sit-ups – 9
Bomb Jacks – 12
Lunge – 15
Elevated Merkins – 18

Moseyed back to Twisters house for some pancakes, breakfast sausage and 2nd F. 🥞🌭🥓

– JWOW

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Waiter Suicides

2022-08-03Leave a comment

QIC: Tesh
When: 2022-07-29
Pax: Airborne, Assassin, JWOW, Peabody, Quack Attack, Tesh, Uhaul
Posted In: The Hive

Snatch to waiter carry suicides with exercises at the baseline and at the turn.
Baseline – Merkins
20 yds – squats
30 yds – tricep extensions
40 yds – burpees
50 yds – American Hammers

Break up rounds with deadlift sets.

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All Over the Place

2022-08-02Leave a comment

QIC: Harry Carry
When: 08/02/2022
Pax: Harry Carry, JWOW, Kaiser, Long Duck, Naked and Afraid, Shower Curtain, spark
Posted In: colosseum

Seven men posted at Colosseum. Began with disclaimer and a run up to the bank (1/2 mile distance).
Warmup:
SSH (15x I/C)
Windmills (10x I/C)
Imperial Walkers (15x I/C)
Moroccan N/C (15x I/C)
Low slow squats (10x I/C)
Big Arm Circles (7 forward, 7 backwards)
Peter Parkers (10x I/C)
Plank Stretches (Downward dog, upward dog)

Run back to school.
Thang 1 (at the bus loop on backside of school):
Prison Yard Burpees: using the four-square ball outlines, start at one corner and do 8 burpees. Bear crawl to next corner and do 7 burpees, progress down to 1 burpee and use bear crawl as mode of transportation between the four corners. Total is 36 burpees.
Run a loop.
Thang 2 (at the benches):
Bench work:
Derkins
Butt touch squats
Step ups
Incline Merks
Dips
Calf raises

Short run.
Thang 3 (at the short wall):
Starting line is about 50’from the wall, run to wall, climb over it, turn around, climb it again, run back to start line. Repeat for a total of 3 iterations.

Short run.
Thang 4: Wall sits; pax do ten counts, then did 1 inch lower and pax all did 5 counts.
Mary.
COT/Fini

Nice work by all!

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Dust in the Wind? No!

2022-08-01Leave a comment

QIC: Double D
When: 2022-08-01
Pax: Beaker, Cakeboss, Cheddah, Double D, f3anchorman, F3DaVinci, Gekko, Happy Hour, JWOW, Shatner, Spinner (Derrick Dominey), Sugar Daddy, Uhaul, Uncle Sam
Posted In: The Armory

WARMUP: SSH, Mtn climber, Peter Parker, Parker peter

THE THANG:
Triple Bs day — bells, bricks and blocks

Bells:
10 Swings (round 1)
10 Goblet squat (round 1)
10 Lawn mower pull each side (round 2)
20 Tricep extension (round 2)

Bricks (1 pair per pax):
20 Moroccan night clubs
20 Punches
20 Overhead claps
20 Bent over flies

Blocks (1 per pax):
20 Derkins
20 Irkins
20 Overhead press
10 Man makers (blockees)

Half of group runs to each pile, completes first exercise, runs back to bells and completes 2 exercises, runs to opposite pile, returns to bells to complete sa.e 2 exercises.

Group made it through almost two full rounds.

MARY: American Hammer, Flutter

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Final Countdown coming 9/10, 10 yr convergence 9/17 am, 10 yr party 9/17 pm, The Bubble 8/4, Pints & Padres Tue pm at Amor Artis.

COT: Battle Bot was missed today. Hopefully we moved enough heavy stuff and listened to enough UHaul ear candy and mumblechatter to meet our Site Q’s standards. Get well!

Reports of Barry Manilow posting proved to be false unfortunately.

Special guest visitor posted today — Uncle Sam, fresh back from Colombia on his way to Virginia for 12+ most of education and inspiration before returning back to Colombia to continue his life’s work in his home country. great to have you in the Gloom with us and to hear your stories of Picking up the Six. Keep up your HIM efforts and example! Praise and prayers for you!

Prior Site Q Shatner was back in the Gloom today after many weeks DR. welcome back!

DaVinci proved he can throw shade with the best of the pax, dropping some darkness with a smile on Cake Boss. Watch out DOAH, he’s coming for you next!

Thanks to Battle Bot for the Q invite, my first at a gear AO. Sometimes we all need the push toward something new and different. As I persevere through a long, hot, sometimes mundane summer that at times feels like Ecclesiastes and Kansas “Dust in the Wind” this morning’s experience with the pax including dialog before, during and after gave me a real jump start to the week. Thank you!

This thing we call The Fort is special. It’s impact is actually global, as we heard this am from Uncel Sam. And it only continues if you post tomorrow. #keep posting #noOYO

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Over when we say it is!

2022-07-28Leave a comment

QIC: Band Camp
When: 2022-07-28
Pax: Band Camp, Clickbait, Deadbolt, Esso, HarryCarry, JWOW, Kielbasa, Mainframe, Poppins, Scissor Hands, Shady, skipper, Slash
Posted In: The Ranch

Warmup-yes

Moseying around stopping to build the following sequence. Added an exercise at each stop:

1 burpee
2 bomb jacks
3 jump squats
4 jump lunges
5 Bobby Hurley
6 split squats
7 CDD
8 squats
9 monkey humpers
10 Bulgarian split squats

Paused for Dick Webbs got to 5
15 total pull-ups
60 total merkins

Bearpees also to 4.5

Flutters and flexibility to 0600

It ain’t over till we say it’s over!

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Flash WOD

2022-07-23Leave a comment

QIC: Tinsel
When: 2022-07-22
Pax: Bojangles, Bonsai, Cobra Kai, Cornerstone, darkhelmet, F3DaVinci, fishstix, Gekko, Incoming, JWOW, Pusher, Shield, slapshot, Sprocket_F3, Tinsel
Posted In: Chupacabra

WARMUP: no warm up
THE THANG:

With ruck on, 5 rounds:
20 high knees
10 Squats
10 Lunges
20 calf raises
10 Merkins
10 Mtn climbers

We had 15 minutes to spare so we did 2 more laps around and 5 minutes of broga led by @cobrakai.

Run/shuffle/ruck one lap after each circuit. Everyone except @slapshot rucked the miles, he run them and completed 8 rounds I think.

Great turn out for Chupacabra and Stockade.
Tinsel out…

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Murder Bunnies are Wild

2022-07-20Leave a comment

QIC: JWOW
When: 2022-07-20
Pax: 3D, Beaker, birdcage_f3, Drop Thrill, JWOW
Posted In: snake pit

It was a steamy morning in The Fort so the warmup was light and sweating was not optional.
– 15 Side Straddle Hops
– 10 Windmills
– 10 Cherry Pickers
– 10 Merkins
– Down Dog/Honeymooner followed by a stretch

The Thang:
There was conveniently a deck of cards and the exercises were as follows…
Aces = Murder Bunnies
King = Bear Crawl
Queen = Bunny Hop with Bell
Jack = Run a Lap
Diamond 💎 = Snatch
Heart ❤️ = Big Boy Situp with a Thrust
Club ♣️ = Curl
Spade ♠️ = Squat

Although the deck was non-face card heavy, we did do our fair share of murder bunnies 🐰 (always a crowd pleaser).

Back to COT for prayers and praises.

– JWow

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The Smokin 90s

2022-07-18Leave a comment

QIC: Cohiba
When: 2022-07-18
Pax: B.O.B., Cheddah, Cohiba, F3DaVinci, Happy Hour, JWOW, Punch List, Spinner (Derrick Dominey), Tesh, Uhaul
Posted In: The Armory

WARMUP: Mosey, SSH, Windmills, Morrocon NC, Merkins, Hillbilly Walkers, Overhead Claps, Calf Raises, Cherry Pickers
THE THANG: While hearing to 90s Hip-hop; Each exercise was for 1 minute and 30 second rest, Round 1: Swing, Single-Arm Overhead Press, Sumo Squat, Single-Arm Row, Chest Press, Round 2: Deadlift, Clean & Press, Halo, Reverse Lunge, Thruster, Round 3: Goblet Squats, Snatch, Tricep Extension, Burpees, Mountain Climbers; Ran a short mosey between rounds
MARY: Flutters, American Hammers, Bicep Curls, and SSH
ANNOUNCEMENTS: 2nd F Lunch Sites, T-Shirt Deadlines, 9-6-3 Relay Race
COT: Punchlist’s M, Uhaul’s nephew and sister in law, and Happy Hour’s friend Joe

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F3 The Fort

Tag: JWOW

what’s a kettlebell

A Deep Flush

The Bubble Reboot

Waiter Suicides

All Over the Place

Dust in the Wind? No!

Over when we say it is!

Flash WOD

Murder Bunnies are Wild

The Smokin 90s