Ring-O-Fire and Ice

WARMUP: 10 SSH then mosey to field for 100 yard sprint and 100 yards of bear crawl
THE THANG: up and down the bleachers with a set of 15 dips at the end of each row, then to the hill for suicides, 5 burpees, 10 Merkins, 15 Big boys, 20 lunges (each leg) 25 squats, 20 Pull ups
MARY: Rebel merkins, upright flutters
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter
COT: Shovel-flag hand off from Kaiser to Cousin Eddie

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Kaisers last Hoo-rah

WARMUP:
Mosey to football field, to 50 and back to end zone
10 Windmills IC
20 SSH IC
10 LSS IC
10 MNC IC
10 HW IC

THE THANG:
20x everything IC – start on goal line
Squats IC -> toy soldier to 20
Monkey Humpers IC -> lunges to 40
Jump Squats IC -> broad jumps to 40
Calf Raises IC -> butt kickers to 20
LSS IC -> duck walk to end zone
Jog to 50, sprint back to end zone

Rinse and repeat with 15x, 10x, 5x IC

Moseyed to pull up bars
3 rounds of 5 pull ups, 10 merkins, 20 Big Boys

MARY:
Flutters, v-ups, Freddie mercury’s, box cutters and stretching

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas Eve convergence

COT:

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The Beaver and Eleanor Tea Party

Boston Tea Party inspired workout for Varsity.
Started with a mosey run to parking spot “17” and did:
SH (15x I/C)
Windmills (8x I/C)
Imperial walkers (10x I/C)
Moroccan N/C (10x I/C)
Run to parking spot “73” and did:
Low slow squat (10x I/C)
Big arm circles fwd/bkwd
Peter Parkers
Plank stretches

Run to the pull up bars and deliver the Boston Tea Party story (see end of BB).
342 crates of tea tossed overboard, therefore we did:
3 pullups then remain on the bar and do 4 toes2bar, still hang and do another 2 pullups
Plank rest for the six
Repeat the 3-4-2
Plank rest for the six
Repeat the 3-4-2

Grab a cindy and go to the street. Pax circle up and do exercise called out with the cindy while a pax runs down to the stop sign with the slam ball and then TOSSES THE TEA (slam ball).
Return with ball and next pax cycles in to toss the tea. We did:
Curls, KB Swings, OH presses, goblet squats, bent over rows, Kaiser grips

Cindy blocks down, all pax wall sit. Pass the slam ball up/down the line; PASS THE TEA (as in I’d like to toss it overboard).

Since Varsity usually includes a broga segment, we did some deep stretching. Up dogs, down dogs, pickle pointers, piriformis stretches.

Recover, back to the cindy’s. Pax were to do 15 manmakers, but received/earned a reduction for naming the three ships involved in the Boston Tea Party, and naming the three cities where the British East India ships were forced to turn around and never got to dock. Six deductions possible, pax got five right. Thus did TEN manmakers.

Blocks back. COT.
Four mins of Mary.
Fini.

Boston Tea Party, the Harry Carry abridged version:
Tea Act in May 1773 gave the British East India Tea Company a price advantage in the tea market, and the duty was to paid when cargo was unloaded in the American Colonies. Problem was the British tea was going to be cheaper than the smuggled tea (Dutch stuff) the American colonists were dealing…so the Americans were pissed about the taxation w/o representation and the potential of losing their own side hussle.
New York, Philly, and Charleston each had British East India Tea Co ships inbound, but the Colonists made an offer the consignees in those harbors could not refuse. Those ships never got to these three cities and turned around back to England.
Boston was different: The governor there was a big-time loyalist and his two sons were consignees. When three British East India Tea Co ships (Dartmouth, Eleanor, and the BEAVER) got to Boston, the colonists had to act fast before the cargo could be unloaded. At a big town-hall meeting, things got a little crazy and before the night was over 342 crates of British East India tea was in the drink.
For the manmaker deductions, the pax got New York, Philly and Charleston right, as well as the ships Dartmouth and Beaver (hmm, wonder why), but they forgot the Eleanor!

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WW1 Hero & 21s

WARMUP: Asked the PAX to hold plank while I read the story of the hero we were about to honor, read below:

Today we have the privilege to honor U.S. Army Sergeant Richmond Hilton. Richmond Hobson Hilton was born in Westville, SC on Oct 8, 1898. He joined the army in Westville, SC. and was assigned to Company M, 118th Infantry, 30th Division during WW1. On October 11, 1918, a couple of days past his 20th birthday, while fighting near Brancourt, France, Hilton’s unit was held up by intense machine gun and small arms fire. Sgt. Hilton recognized that the machine gun fire was coming from a shell crater just ahead of them. Accompanied by several other soldiers, but moving out well ahead of them, Sgt. Hilton engaged the enemy machine gun nest, advancing using his rifle until his ammunition ran out, and then continued advancing alone using his pistol. Sgt. Hilton took the enemy machine gun nest using only his pistol killing 6 German soldiers and capturing 10 others. During the course of his actions on that day, Hilton was wounded by an exploding shell, which resulted in the loss of his arm. For his acts of bravery Sgt. Hilton was awarded several medals from many different countries, including the Medal of Honor. After his discharge from the army he returned home to Kershaw County a hero. He joined the Civitan Club of Columbia, of which he as a proud member. Richard Hobson Hilton died on August 13, 1933 and was buried in the Old Quaker Cemetery in Camden, SC.

After reading was completed, PAX joined me on an approx. 1/2 mile Mosey with karaoke both sides for 15 yards, high knees for 20 yards and butt kickers for 20 yards. We ended where the tough part was to begin.

THE THANG: I did not find any WODs for WW1 heroes, but during my search I found a workout dedicated to the Unknown Soldiers. The number 21 symbolizes the highest symbolic military honor that can be bestowed: the 21-gun salute. So, the format was simple, 21 exercises – 21 reps of each exercise. Split the 21 exercises into 2 groups. 1st group was at the top of the hill by the pull up bars and the 2nd group of exercises was to be performed at the bottom of the hill. Simple -complete the 1st exercise at the top of the hill and then run down to the bottom and complete the next exercise at that location, when done run up the hill and continue down the list. Here are the exercises:
Top of the Hill:
Burpees
Pullups
Diamond Merkins
Chinups
Mike Tyson Merkins
Knees to Chest while hanging from the ba
Derkins ( feet on the curb )
Switch Grip Pullups
Peter Parkers ( count 1 leg only )
Straight lower leg raises into L position while hanging from the bar
Parker Peters ( count 1 leg only )

Bottom of the hill ( all of these exercises were completed with Cindy! )
Overhead Squats
CurltoCleantoPress
Goblet Squats
Swings w/ Cindy
Man Makers
Thrusters
1-arm bent over rows ( 21 reps each arm )
Dead Lifts
Big Boy Situps
American Hammers
MARY: Made it back to COT with enough time to complete 21 side-straddle-hops in cadence!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas Party, Christmas Eve Convergance, D2DB10K
COT: Lifted up the prayers of the PAX, asked for help to always be prepared to help and serve others.

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Surprise!!! CakeBoss likes Burpees too🎂

WARMUP:
Mosey to sidewalk by Little Caesars
11s: Burpees at bottom, Dips at top wall
THE THANG:
3 stations on .70 loop
At each station perform 3 exercises then move to next round
Round 1: x3
5 burpees
10 Merkins
15 squats
Round 2: x3
5 Bombjacks
10 wide Arm Merkins
15 monkey humpers
Round 3: x3
5 Flying Squirrels
10 Diamond Merkins
15 one Leg squat

MARY: backdraft led quick exercise
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Airborne Christmas Friday 12/16
Christmas Eve convergence
Read Newsletter
COT:

F3 and brotherhood is gift not to be take for granted
The busyness of Christmas we lose the reason of the season and that is that Sky Q sent Jesus on a rescue mission to save us from ourselves and own demise. Be grateful for his mission and love for us

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A “Gloomy” Morning

WARMUP: SSH, toy soldiers, quads, Cherry pickers, mosey
THE THANG: lots of running today, got just short of 3 miles. Dora 200 step ups, 200 squats, 200 calf raises. Did some wind sprints in parking lot multiple times, suicides, etc.
MARY: LBCs, hammers, dollys
ANNOUNCEMENTS: F3 golf, Christmas party
COT: Prayers for marriages, prayer for Ruby as he meets with a brother in need, remember to say No to some things this season to say Yes to the more important things.

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Birthday blast

Stretch- warm up
SSH
LSS
Merkins

Run to pull up bars
5 Pull ups
10 Merkins
15 Squats
5 sets

Down to school
Burpees with feet onto wall on jump

Dora
100 CDD
200 LBCs
300 shoulder taps

ANNOUNCEMENTS: read newsletter
COT: prayers

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Pearl Harbor day

WARMUP: 10 of each: windmills, LSS, IW, Moroccan Nightclubs, SSH
THE THANG:

Round 1 for the actual day of Pearl Harbor – 12 rounds of 7 toe touches, 1 pull up, 9merkins, 4 squats, 1 pull up (12 7, 1941 – see what I did there?)

23 CCD run to bottom and complete 35 flutters and run back to top of hill for 2,335 servicemen who died

24 LBCs run to bottom and complete 3 burpees and run back to top of hill for 2,403 total people killed

20 wide arm merkins run to bottom hill and complete 26 WW2 sit ups and run back to top of hill for 2,026 sailors/marines killed

16 diamond merkins run to bottom hill and compete 6 burpees and run back to top of hill for 1,606 sailors who died aboard the ships

11 ranger merkins run to bottom hill and complete 78 hello dollys and run back to top of hill for 1,178 wounded Americans

6 burpees run to bottom of hill and complete 8 burpees and run back to top of hill for 68 ships destroyed

3 pull ups, 5 squats and 3 LBCs at the pull up bars for 353 aircraft destroyed

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read newsletter!!
COT: prayers for marriages and Truckers cousins new born in hospital

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Coyote Ugly

WARMUP: side straddle hops, toy soldiers, planks, Michael Phelps, etc
THE THANG: wall work, dips, irkins, derkins, bear crawls, pull ups on a brick wall, mosey to WEP, did series of exercises which included merkins, monkey humpers, bomb jacks, overhead claps, got some more pull ups in at the playground, did some Mary at the amphitheater, ran back and did more wall work, finished with monkey humpers facing main street.

Esso claimed to have seen a COYOTE and the weather was UGLY
MARY: lots of it, it hurt
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas party
COT: prayers all around, accountability

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Slippery When Wet

WARMUP: mosey to School Gym e trance
SSHs, Squats, Merkins, Imperial Walkers, windmills,
Mosey to main entrance of school
15 Dips, 10 Derkins, 10 step ups each leg
Mosey to front of school
10merkins, 10hillbilly walkers
Mosey to back of school
10merkins, 10imperial walkers
Mosey to back entrance of school
10merkins, 10hillbilly walkers
Mosey to Gym entrance
10merkins, 10Imperialwalkers
Mosey to main entrance
THE THANG:
Perform 9 exercises while 1 pax acts as timer going around the iseloles triangle
Dips
Squats
Merkins
Step ups
Flutters
SumoSquats
Shoulder Taps (plank)
Calf raises
Irkins

3 rounds of each
Timer PAX did 1 mosey, 1 bear crawl, 1 backwards run
MARY:
LBCS, Dying Cockroaches, Diamond Merkins, Freddy Mercury’s
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Christmas party 12/16 at Airbornes
Happy Hour 5k for St Jude’s

COT:
YHC talked about topic on slack around disappointment and how it’s part of everyday because of the brokenness we live in. If we lived in Sky Qs intended paradise disappointment would not exist but because of The Fall, we live in disappointment. Question and challenge for each of us is how will we lead through it and rise above it and shine light into that disappointment. Be a leader and don’t swim in the missed opportunities but rejoice in moving forward.
Thank you Kaiser for the Q stick! Humbled and Grateful

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