FYF: The Red Rocket Chronicles

9 (or maybe 10 and I can’t remember who the 10th was) found a safe space while <@U012K8DDK7V>‘s dog microaggressed a bunch of them with his red Rocket at Currahee…
– Ruby Slippers flew in 10 minutes early to be 5 minutes late
– Falcon Crest was hoodwinked early in his rucking career by Mainframe into buying a 45# plate, which is something he is sure he’ll eventually be grateful for
– 3D’s GTE prep continues, but he doesn’t mind if it doesn’t include any more Crawl Bears
– Italian Job only sang 3 90’s hits, which is indicative of how tired he must be from his weekend in Wichita
– For a hearing doctor, Decibel claimed a lot of “unable to hear” for his lack of compliance with instructions
– fishstix taught us his award winning atomic wedgie techniques to be employed at a later time. Probably when you aren’t looking.

WARMUP: OMS (old man stretches)

THE THANG:
Evolution 1 = 1-mile time hack – 14 minutes to complete
– Starting at corner of school, around big loop clockwise, turn left to go behind the school. Take the outside lane in the small lot, then take a left around the big loop and continue to the flags at entrance of school

Evolution 2 = Furman University (FU): founded in 1826 (14 minutes)
– 18 man-makers – buy in
– 26 curls
– 26 merkins
– 26 OHP
– 26 bent over rows
REPEAT if time (minus the man-makers — we forgot the deadlifts)

Evolution 3 = Abdomination
– Buy-in = bear crawl from crosswalk to crosswalk
– 40 2-count flutter with press
– 20 Simbas
– 10 double leg lifts

Evolution 4 = Hate loop time hack – 8 minutes
– Buy-in = crawl bear back to crosswalk 1
– ½ mile loop
– Big loop to small loop

MARY: No chicks
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: The 5th Core Principle

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Cones and Reps at The Ranch

WARMUP: Quick mosey with a stop for mountain climbers, MNC, low slow squats
THE THANG: Mozy over to Springfield Middle School where we placed four evenly-ish spaced cones the length of the drop off before you get to the hill. From the start we ran to the first cone for 20 reps each of shoulder tap merkins, monkey humpers, box cuttahs, and plank jacks then ran back to the start. From there we ran to the second cone for dips, squats, flutters and Mike Tyson’s. Back to start then to cone three for CDD, bomb jacks, American hammers, SSH. Ran to start then on to cone four for merkins, calf raises, BBS, and burpees. (20 reps for each exercise at each cone)
Quick mozy back to start then we ran to the top of the hill and partnered up. At the top of the hill, each partner did three burpees then ran to opposite sides of the hill for 50 reps each of the selected exercise. After each exercise they ran back to the top for three burpees with their partner. Rinse and repeat with SSH, LBCs, Merkins, Squats, Overhead claps, CDD.
Mozy back to COT with a stop to pickup all the cones.
MARY: No dedicated Mary time but we got it in.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Q source, convergence, newsletter
COT: Prayers for family, local teacher who passed

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Beat Dahn n’Nat

WARMUP: IW, HBW, WM, MERKINS, MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS
THE THANG:
WHEELBARROW CRAWL WITH PARTNER 75 YARDS EACH
PARTNER CARRY 75 YARDS EACH
PUSH RESISTANCE WITH PARTNER 75 YARDS EACH

SESSION 1 – PARTNER WORKOUT
50 Burpees
100 Merkins
150 Squats
150 LBCs
100 Mnt. Climbers
50 Burpees
TIMER: 300 YARD RUN WHILE PARTNER WORK THROUGH THE WORKOUT LIST.

SESSION 2
50 Merkins
10 Burpees
20 Gas Pumpers
20 Jump Squats
Run Lap

30 Merkins
10 Burpees
20 Gas Pumpers
15 Jump Squats
Run Lap

10 Merkins
10 Burpees
20 Gas Pumpers
10 Jump Squats
Run Lap
MARY: NO TIME
ANNOUNCEMENTS: NEWSLETTER
COT: CLOSED IN PRAYER

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The Holy Barbarians are un-CHAINed through Spiritual Warfare

WARMUP: Rucks off. Miscellaneous back-stretches in cadence.
THE THANG: Rucks on. pulled golf cart with chains while following partners carrying 20# slamball toss, 80# Spartan Bucket, 40# sand kettle murder bunnies, and two 30# ruck farmers carry in alternating partner fashion. Stopped at 4 stations to execute isometric weight hold. 3 exercises for 30 seconds each. Station 1: rucks off and holding in front- boat ruck hold/superman hold right, then left. Station 2: plank hold/carolina dry dock left leg hold, then right. Station 3: rucks off and holding in front-squat ruck front hold/left lunge front hold, then right. Station 4: balls to the walls/cox to the blocks/parallel wall plank.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Golf tourney, bourbon tasting.
COT: prayers for health and school transitions.

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Steel City— by the numbers

Steel City Beatdown – By the numbers

5 burpees OYO – 5 Pirates World Series Championships
13 SSH IC – 26 total reps for Steeler HOF Rod Woodson
5 burpees OYO – 5 Penguins Stanley Cups
6 Windmills – 6 Steelers Super Bowl Championships

1 Burpee OYO – 1 Olympic Gold Medal for Kurt Angle (he did it with a broken neck)

Mosey to the hill by the fire station

Inclined PAIN workout. You would do 3 burpees at the bottom of the hill and then do an exercise, go back to the bottom of the hill 3 more burpees, and then move up the ladder completing all exercises. Everyone loved this. All the reps represented the numbers of different Pittsburgh sports legends.

Steel City by the numbers Cont.

87 Mountain Climbers – Sidney Crosby
75 LBC’s – Mean Joe Greene
66 Flutters – Mario Lemieux
43 – Calf Raises – Troy Polamalu
32 – SSH – Franco Harris
24 – Freddy Mercury’s – Barry Bonds
21 Merkins – Roberto Clemente
10 Squats – Ron Francis
8 BBS – Willie Stargell
7 HR Merkins- Ben Roethlisberger

Mosey back to COT. If you got through it…446 reps…the exact number of Bridges within the Steel City.

Thanks to all who posted and embraced the legacy of PGH Sports.

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No Distance, Just Work

WARMUP:
Ruck over to Trailhead Park playground.
Slick: Windmills, Squats, Merkins

THE THANG:
25 Step-Ups (ea leg), 5 Man Makers, 10 Curls
Repeat
25 Step-Ups (ea leg), 5 Man Makers, 10 Simbas
Repeat

Ruck back to the rock at TCES
Bear Crawl ~1/2 way down the back stretch & lunge walk to the corner.
15’s: Carolina Dry Docks, Tricep Extension, Flutter Kicks w/ Press, Simbas

Hold ruck at the top of a curl and walk back to the rock.
15’s: Ground-to-Overhead, Dead Lifts, Curl into a Press

Overhead carry to the flags
15 Overhead Press, Flutter Kicks w/ Press
Lie on your back, hold your feet 6″ off the ground and ruck off the ground behind you. Go around and everyone gives a 10-count.

Overhead carry back to COT.
American Hammers, X&O’s

MARY: See above
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter
COT: 5th Core Principle

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Up yours!

WARMUP:

Yes. Usual suspects and some dynamic stretching followed by some plank work (side note: Fishstix is a badass and did a pre-workout with sandbags)

THE THANG:

Starfish Routine or as Change Order called it, “Spread Eagle”

Center complete three man makers with sandbag every time you were back in center, 17 times total

complete x amount of reps at each of the 4 corners

Increase reps each round, 20, 25, 30 and 35

Exercises

CDD
Hand Release Merkins
LBCs
Monkey Humpers

MOD changed per round

Lunge walk
Bear crawl
Crawl bear
Walk :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing: (After 501 reps we were a bit fatigued)

From there we moseyed to the pull-up bars because BAOPS.

Took turns calling out ab exercises while one PAX did pull-ups to failure
:two: rounds of this was sufficient

Mosey back for Mary

MARY: 3 minute more of her
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Golf tournament
Invergence
Convergence
Fundraising for clean water for Kenya will be starting up!

COT: lifted up DDs M, Badlands, and praises for Pax supporting one another!

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Partners, Light poles and Blimps

WARMUP: Mosey to the side of the school for exercises in cadence:
Windmills
Cherry pickers
Imperial walkers
Hillbilly walkers
Seal jacks
Side straddle hops

THE THANG: part 1 – partner up and either people’s chair or BTTW while partner 2 runs to the end of the lot and back. 3 rounds

Part 2 – Blimps at the light poles

At each pole pax added an exercise on the way up and dropped one on the way down. Burpees were never dropped – just because

5 – Burpees
10 – Lunges
15 – Incline Merkins
20 – Merkins (Modified to CDD’s on the downhill portion)
25 – Pulse squats AKA Monkey jumpers
30 – Squats

Two lessons from Seneca shared at the top of the hill

1 – we suffer more in our imagination than in reality

2 – he who suffers before it is necessary suffers more than is necessary.

How often in our lives do we let our perception of events influence us poorly? Our response is all we control – the event doesn’t care how we feel about it.

After 11 light poles worth of “fun”……back to COT

MARY: Just enough time for protractors and rosalitas with just a few hello dolly’s. That took pax to 0715
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Many – read your newsletter
COT: 5th core principle

Thanks for the call, Float Bridge. Honored to lead. :eye:

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Benevolence in the darkness

WARMUP:

• Side Straddle Hops (SSH):
• Imperial Walkers:
• Moroccan Nightclubs:
• Low Slow Squats
• Merkins
• Broga

THE THANG:
DORA

• 100 Merkins
• 200 Squats:
• 300 LBCs (Little Baby Crunches)

Perform each exercise for 45 seconds, 15 seconds rest/transition. Complete 2 rounds.
Exercises:
• Burpees
• Mountain Climbers:
• Plank Jacks
• Lunges:
• Flutter Kicks

Indian Run: caboose does 3 American Hammers then runs to the front

MARY:

Freddy mercuries
Gas pumper
Stretch and high knees

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Bethel
Lunch
Golf outing
Bourbon and BBQ
Christmas Party
HIM Camp

COT: Vegas style

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No Rep Count

Simple 4 Corner workout, 3 exercises at each cone, rep count started at 5. Original plan was to add 5 reps each lap, but a read a quote from Ali. “I don’t count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they’re the only ones that count.”

1st cone
– Squats
– Lunges
– Calf raises
– Farmer Carry/Bear Crawl to next cone
2nd cone
– Bent over row
– Upright row
– Curl
– Overhead carry to next cone
3rd cone
– Flutter with press
– American Hammer
– Simba
– Sandbag toss with Man Maker
4th cone
– Dead Lift
– Clean
– Clean w/press
– Rifle Carry

We made it through about 3 rounds.

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