Another “Yinzer” Q @ Stockade

WARMUP: Mosey to Walgreens
20 ea. SSH (in cadence)
10 Windmill (in cadence)
THE THANG:
Thang #1 (aka warmup)
Dora:
100 ea. – Merkins
200 ea. – Squats
300 ea. – LBC’s
– lap around Walgreens

Thang #2
Round #1
2:00 Minutes total to complete run + AMRAP
1. (.17 mi lap around parking lot) – Burpies AMRAP
2. (.17 mi lap around parking lot) – Lunges AMRAP
3. (.17 mi lap around parking lot) – Monkey Humpers AMRAP
4. (.17 mi lap around parking lot) – Mountain Climbers AMRAP
Round #2
Rinse and Repeat………….goal is to beat your reps from round #1
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your news letter
COT:

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Convergence For Our Brother Shower Curtain

WARMUP:
Four Lines: Toy Soldiers, Butt Kickers, High Knees, mosey with Q to first of four rotations
THE THANG:

Slapshot’s Pain Station:

Each Pax performs

50 Merkins
100 LBCS
50 HR Merkins
100 4-CT Flutters

Every minute a timer would go off and we’d run from one side of the “track” to the other. We would then do two burpees and resume the exercises.
Group 4 only had 3-4 minutes left so we did 10 Burpees OYO then Captain Thor until 5:55.

Badland’s Pain Station:

10 rounds Tabata – 45sec work 15sec rest –
SSHs, Freddy Mercuries, high knees taps, American Hammers, mtn climbers, laying Leg Raises, In and Out Plank Jacks, J-Los, star crunches, high knee goofballs

Punchlist’s Pain Station:

Light Pole Speed Drills –

5/10/15 Merkins
5/10/15 CDD’s
5/10/15 Bonnie Blairs

Bear-pees to finish

Shady’s Pain Station:

Sheet 1: 10 diamond Merkins, 20 Merkins, 30 Mountain Climbers, 40 Seal Jacks, 50 American Hammers, 50 Shoulder Presses, 40 Crab Cakes, 30 Flutters, 20 Big Boy Situps, 10 Flying Squirrels

Sheet 2: 10 Burpees, 20 Knee to Chest jumps, 30 Carolina Dry Docks, 40 Plank Jacks, 50 LBCs, 50 Squats, 40 Dips, 30 Calf Raises, 20 Wide Arm Merkins, 10 Dive Bombers

Each sheet ~50 yards apart. Do the top exercise on sheet 1, run to sheet 2 for first exercise, then run back to sheet 1 and do 2nd exercise…and so on. Furthest we got was 50 shoulder presses and 50 squats. And we had awesome music courtesy of Detroit.

Great job Qs

COT:

Today we came to support our brother, Shower Curtain. He is recovering from his injuries and will need our help and support for several months to come. More than a workout!

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Wake Up, ISI DORA!

WARMUP:

20 SSH IC
14 LSS IC
10 Windmills IC
15 MNC IC

Farmers carry to center parking lot

THE THANG:
PAX partnered up, ideally based on ability or kettle bell weight to help promote a ISI DORA. PAX would complete exercises while the their partners performed a movement across the parking lot. After each completed the exercises, they would share their rep count and the delta would determine the number of reps the winner/loser would perform of an easier/harder exercise.

Round 1: NUR
– [ ] Goblet Squat
– [ ] Skull crusher
– [ ] Lunges
Winner – Plank
Loser – American Hammers

Round 2: Sprints
– [ ] KB Swings
– [ ] Curls
– [ ] Halos
Winner – LBCs
Loser – Flutter with press

Round 3: Bear Crawl
– [ ] Snatch
– [ ] Merkins
– [ ] Upright Row
Winner – Al Gore
Loser – Man Makers
**this round was tough**

Round 4: Power Skips
– [ ] Bent over row
– [ ] OH Press
– [ ] Tricep Extension
Winner – Hello Dolly
Loser – Hello Dolly w/ press

MARY:
10 Flutters IC
10 Windshield Wipers IC
10 American Hammers IC

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The JOC is hosting Rock Hills version of AKA Wednesday, great way to support and get to know our regional neighbors to the south.

Convergence coming up at NaFo I n Labor Day.

COT:
As we start the week, be mindful of all we have to be thankful for. Everything else stays in COT.

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Yep…that is a lot of merkins

WARMUP: 10 SSH

THE THANG: In preparation for IronPax 2022, we completed an IPC throwback WO from week 3 of 2020.

– Run 400m (which is conveniently 1 loop around the Harris Teater parking lot)
– 100 Merkins
– Run 400m
– 90 Squats
– Run 400m
– 80 Merkins
– Run 400m
– 70 Squats
– Run 400m
– 60 Merkins
– Run 400m
– 50 Squats
– Run 400m
– 40 Merkins
– Run 400m
– 30 Squats
– Run 400m
– 20 Merkins
– Run 400m
– 10 Squats
– Run 800m

Total work is 3 miles of running, 300 merkins and 250 squats

MARY: Nope

ANNOUNCEMENTS: A terribly off key version of happy birthday was sung for Long Duck (60) and White Hot (41), followed by 8 minutes of discussion around items that are in the newsletter.

COT: If you were there, you know.

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What is this way?

WARMUP: started with the classic SSH, cherry pickers, merkins, low slow squats, finished with some hamstring and back stretching (which was amazing)
THE THANG: Pearls on a string theme where we ran all over “campus” to different waypoints to do the exercises below…adding a new exercise per stop…start with 10 merkins, next stop 10 merkins + 15 squats…and so on. Once we got to 30, we did 30 again and back down dropping the highest rep exercise at each stop.
– 10 merkins
– 15 squats
– 20 CDD
– 25 flutters
– 30 calf raises

Finished with a starfish / 4 corner. Paired up and went to each 4 corner coming back to the center for 3 burpees. Corners were: 10 wide arm, 10 bomb jacks, 10 jump squats, 10 American hammers.

MARY: circled up and each pax called an exercise.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: lots in the newsletter coming up in September!
COT: prayers for Caroline (Shady’s 2.1 teammate) surgery

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what’s a kettlebell

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

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

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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All Over the Place

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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