Show up if you want pullups. Show up if you don’t

WARMUP:
Polish Mating Dance – in honor of Kielbasa’s return
Scapular merkins
regular Merkins
Squats
Cherry pickers

Today’s message: Whatever you’re dealing with, just hang in there. Cat posters to follow.

THE THANG:

Mosey to pullup bars
Split into 2 groups due to size
1 minute dead hang
1 minute plank
1 minute dead hang
1 minute Al Gore
1 minute dead hang
1 minute people’s chair

Yog to the track
Tabata sprints
20 seconds all out sprint
20 seconds rest
3 out (only tell them about the 3)
3 back
Make it back to where you started
Bear crawl to cover missed distance

Yog to the pullup bars

5-10-15-20-
Pullups
Merkins
Toes 2 bar/knees to elbows
Run down the hill
Burpees
Run back up the hill

MARY:
Flutters
Pecker pointers
Hello Dollys
Dying cockroaches

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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The Spirit of the AO

WARMUP:
Merkins x 10
Donkey Kicks x 10 OYO
SSH x 34

THE THANG: Treehugger WOD – “Crossett Fit Games” honoring our fallen brother from F3 Lehigh Valley.

5 Rounds
10 Pull-ups
20 V-sits (ups)
30 Merkins
40 yd Broad Jump Burpees
50 yd Heart Chargers
1/2 Mile Run

MARY:
Finished out with a few flutters at the end

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Q Source Tuesdays – hit up Backdraft
Straight Up is tired of male apathy – and he’s doing something about it. Hit him up about raising strong sons and forming a strong male community around those sons.

COT:
Praise for Straight Up’s 2.0, Yoshi, going on his first mission trip
Praise for El Spaniard taking his family to visit extended family in Portugal for a month
Prayers for YHC (and all of us dads) for our abilities to connect with 2.0’s and lead right.

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Hardest 24 minutes in all of The Fort…

WARMUP: Sasquatch ran the PAX to a lit area and instructed them to form 3 lines facing him (2 lines of 4 and 1 line of 3).  After some initial gloom-fogged math and logistics, he got to limbering up the PAX for the first 15 minutes.  Queue *SPONGEBOB VOICE* “21 minutes later” the handoff was completed to YHC (SkateOrDie)
THE THANG: Given that YHC was shorted 6 minutes, we had to forego the body destroyers and get after it… the PAX moseyed (alright, just short of dead sprint) around to the back of the school (NAFO) and found some picnic tables and benches.  The group performed step ups while 1 PAX ran around the outer sidewalk, serving as the timer.  Upon completion, the next PAX ran while the group did box jumps. Rinse and repeat 2 more times. The PAX then repositioned (again, just short of dead sprint) to the pull-up bars behind the JROTC building. Next up, the group completed 1 pull-up, 2 chin-ups, and 3 merkins, rinsing and repeating, while 1 PAX ran to the stop sign at the top of the hill as a timer. Repeato until the remaining PAX ran. The PAX again repositioned (yeah yeah dead sprint…blah blah) to the hill behind Sugar Creek Elementary School. After hearing some mumblechatter about the stupid things we do, YHC implored the PAX to realize that the “stupid things” we choose to do are preparing us for the “tough stuff” that we have to do at other points in our lives. Next up, Jacobs Ladder (1 big boy sit-up at the bottom, 10 burpees at the top). We made it through 4-5 rounds for each of the PAX before repositioning (“quickly”) 1 last time to the bottom of the hill back to NAFO. Once a 10-count was counted, jail break sprint back to the stop sign at the top of the hill and then back to COT for MARY!
MARY: Flutters and Hammers were on the menu, followed by… wait for it… THE BODY DESTROYER!!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter!
COT: 🙏🏻s for both spoken and unspoken items on our ♥️s. Thanks for the opportunity to lead gentlemen!!!

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Empty Deck

WARMUP: trotted around the parking lot to wait on a late site Q. Got a good 5 minute trot in and picked up Cornerstone and Divac. Passed by this strange looking group in the parking lot that were doing dumb things with sand bags. Wegmans, WWL and this dude who looked dirty…
THE THANG: 3.25 miles of rucking. We got in some irkins, squats, and dips. Cruised through an abandoned parking deck that didn’t have a single scratch on it or look like it has ever been used.
MARY: no Mary – just enjoyed a nice sunrise over the Kingsley lake
ANNOUNCEMENTS: 4th of July workout at Nafo – 1776 workout, bethel mens shelter 7/7. Last weekend for F3 dads
COT: prayers spoken and unspoken – discussion on stillness. Enjoyed the skyQ sky painting.

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Hot Potato at Ring of Fire 🔥

WARMUP:  Imagineer took on some impromptu VQ action and led our warmup.  
THE THANG: hot potato Q that involved the pax, lots of running, bench work, pull ups, quadzilla, dora, and other fun things
MARY: Kaiser finished with Mary.  Lots of abdominal pain filled fun
ANNOUNCEMENTS: bethel mens shelter 7/7
COT: congrats to Shield on 19 years of marriage and Harry Careys 100 post of the year

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Hot Potato at Ring of Fire 🔥

WARMUP:  Imagineer took on some impromptu VQ action and led our warmup.  
THE THANG: hot potato Q that involved the pax, lots of running, bench work, pull ups, quadzilla, dora, and other fun things
MARY: Kaiser finished with Mary. Lots of abdominal pain filled fun
ANNOUNCEMENTS: bethel mens shelter 7/7
COT: prayers spoken and unspoken – be a light in the darkness

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Hot Potato at Ring of Fire 🔥

WARMUP:  Imagineer took on some impromptu VQ action and led our warmup.  
THE THANG: hot potato Q that involved the pax, lots of running, bench work, pull ups, quadzilla, dora, and other fun things
MARY: Kaiser finished with Mary. Lots of abdominal pain filled fun
ANNOUNCEMENTS: bethel mens shelter 7/7
COT: prayers spoken and unspoken – be a light in the darkness

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Omaha, Omaha! These streets have no name.

WARMUP:

Got the WOD inspiration from Florida Georgia line day before while working the BoFlex. Board of Pain w/ acrostic SIMPLE.

Decided rk take 1 of 2 routes, hit WEP, run laps starting from playground OR run to QT and instruct the 12 to use discretion to stop, wait for 6 and execute BOP.

Rolling in and catching an earful of healthy mumblechatter, decided neither. We will run randomly to dimmly lit parking lots and execute BOP.

Ran up to the old Kimbrells for a little warmup.

– Low slow squat with a jump at the end. @darkhelmet informed me that it was called a squat jump

– imperial walkers

– shoulder taps

– stretches

THE THANG:

An arbitrary count if 15 for each exercise.

Board of pain:

S Shoulder taps
I Irkins
M Monkey Humpers
P Plank Jax
L Lunges
E Burpees (burpee has an E in it)

Run to 1887 Brewery, BOP

Run to the government building on the left on way back, BOP.  After much debate, no one knew what building it was and we found ourselves back at Kimbrells.

By then we started to spread out, causing more chaos.

Run down, take left at Amor and hit parking lot on left, BOP.

Per Jihnny Utahs request, hit Litte Caesars, BOP.

Run past COT, on left side of street, hit parking lot with kong brick wall, BOP.

Head back to COT for some Mary.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Newsletter

COT:

Quoting ZBB “ I have everything I need, nothing that I dont” was a pleasant reminder on being content and thankful for your blessings. Happiness is fleeting but joy is eternal.

Rather quiet, everyone’s life must be perfect.

NMS

I explained this was a clear demonstration how not to Q a workout.

You need to be flexible and know your PAX but you must be able to articulate clearly amidst the chaos of the gloom especially with the strong mumbkechatter hell bent on throwing you off and distracting you.

I personally wouldn’t have it any other way and am thankful for the PAX that showed and their relentlessness. Blessed to have this brotherhood in my life and always am appreciative to serve at BP.

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Beach Bod > Dad Bod

WARMUP: decided to push broga until the end of the workout which was a really good idea
THE THANG: all upper body…..pull ups, merkins, dips, chest press with Cindy, curls with Cindy, run down hill and bear crawl back, flutters with Cindy
MARY: finished with Broga – thanks to Bodywash and Straight up
ANNOUNCEMENTS: check newsletter
COT: James 5 discussion – make your Yes be Yes and your No be No.

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Add 4, carry the 2, divide by 1.21 gigawatz

WARMUP: quick mosey, low slow squats, cherry pickers, merkins (stayed here for a minute), mountain climbers, plank jack, honeymooner, downward dog, bomb jacks for DH…more mosey, ran to the thang
THE THANG: A pile of goodies awaited us. Partnered up and found 1 item to share. Partner 1 did the exercise and called out the number they thought they could hit, partner 2 ran to the corner of the parking lot. Switch when partner 2 returned who also shared their guess on reps while partner 1 ran. Penalties were given for over/under and hitting numbers (this was all made up on the spot and math came into play). We rotated after each partner did the one exercise and the penalty after each round.

Exercises included:
-45 lb plate: round 1 shrugs, round 2 calf raises
-sandbag: round 1 man maker, round 2 shoulder press
-35 lb KB: R1 swings, R2 curls
-30 lb KB: R1 squats, R2 pass through lunges
-25 lb KB: R1 triceps extension, R2 plank row
-Ruck: R1 merkins, R2 chest press

We made it to round 2 for about 2-3 rotations. Penalties included merkins, bomb jacks, flutters, burpees, diamond merkins, etc. How much you went over or under drove the number of exercises and some of these had a multiplier…there was zero rhyme or reason to this.
MARY: No Mary today.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: lots in the newsletter, check that out
COT: lift up Sawdust’s mom who recently fell and lost a friend this past week

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