Mosey to the church parking lot for Dora with 100 merkins, 200 squats, 300 LBCs.
Bear crawl length of lot with 3 merkins at every other parking line.
Mosey around to the large wall of the grocery for Wall sits and donkey kicks for 3 rounds followed by balls to wall and jump squats for 3 rounds.
Fin
WARMUP: 29 squats
THE THANG: Manion WOD:
29 squats with ruck and sandbag,
400 meter run/ruck/shuffle
X 7 rounds
(modify as needed)
MARY: 5 minutes of AB lab, 10 minute broga
ANNOUNCEMENTS: “greater than” event, bethel
COT: stays in COT
Missing 4 names.. sorry guys, I was smocked…
🎄Tinsel🎄 out…
It was supposed to be a straightforward sandbag game. It turned into a full-on comedy roast with heavy objects and bad ideas involving bear crawls. The sandbag passing was clunky as advertised, but the teamwork, mumblechatter, and nonstop laughter more than made up for it.
We got after it, we picked up the six, and we had a ridiculous amount of fun doing it. That’s F3 in a nutshell — leave no man behind, but make sure he’s suffering and smiling while he gets better.
Thanks for showing up and playing along, men. Great effort across the board.
Aye!
Pollo Hermano
SYITG
WARMUP: SSH, IW, Merkins
THE THANG: Sandbag Sack Race
Two teams lined up shoulder-to-shoulder like we were auditioning for the world’s sweatiest relay. One sandbag per team. The rule was simple on paper: pass that heavy bastard down the line and back, then the whole team sprints together to your home side, knocks out a pile of reps as a unit, and hauls ass back for round two.
No man left behind. Lots of grunting, questionable passing technique, and colorful suggestions about where the sandbag could go next. It was equal parts teamwork drill and comedy show. Clunky? A little. Effective smoke session? Hell yes.
After we’d had enough of playing hot potato with the sandbag, we moseyed back toward COT… for the
Card Game Beatdown – “Move & MOT”
We broke out four mystery cards in the small parking lot: two “Move” and two “MOT” (Mode of Transport). Each card had a 1 on top and a 2 on the bottom, hiding two exercises or two ways to crawl/run/crab your way across the islands.
PAX picked a number for MOT and a number for Move. Then it was:
• Knock out the exercise
• Traverse the parking lot island-to-island using the chosen mode of transport
• Repeat the exercise on the way back
Examples included merkins + bear crawls, burpees + lunges, squats + karaoke, and plenty of other combinations that made grown men question their life choices while giggling like idiots. Foul language flowed freely. Laughs were abundant. Someone definitely called the bear crawl “the worst decision since my last marriage.”
We capped it off with a victory lap around the lot, then headed back to COT.
MARY:
A solid bit of core work to finish (Flutter Kicks, Freddy Mercurys) while still trading jokes about the morning’s chaos.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: >
COT: si
WARMUP: SSH, Moroccan night clubs, arm circles, low slow squat, downward dog, hip openers
THE THANG: we had 40’s, 60’s and on 80#… shoulder the sandbags and go for a walk around the soccer field, stop halfway, circle up and go around the circle for over the shoulder toss until you go back to your bag, rinse and repeat… shoulder sandbags again and complete the loop around the soccer field to the main entrance. Around the clock over the shoulder toss x 2.
Go inside the field, partner up for bear crawl sandbag drag to other end, 2 pax per 1 bag, pick your poison style, reach the other side and toss the sandbag forward.
Line up facing the goal at arms length, we chose 4 sandbags for this, go on a plank and side pull to pax on left, once out of bags run to the end of the line “Indian run style” all the way to the other side of the field, go back to start point but now pull to the right, trying to work both arms and lats; rinse and repeat. Everyone was smocked by the end of this one.
Shoulder sandbags and take a lap around the drop off line.
MARY: 3 minutes of broga
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Manion, may16th ruck, bethelshelters
COT: stays in COT
🎄Tinsel🎄…. OUT
WARMUP: There was none
THE THANG:
MARY: She was not available today, but we left a message for next time.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter and sign up for Greater Than
COT: There was COT
WARMUP: put rucks on, grab one sandbag to share while exploring a route to the spring trails trying to find the million dollar bridge
THE THANG: leave NAFO parking lot, go up the the traffic light and cross the street to hit the service road in front of the small strawberry field, the idea was to get into archer loop and go towards the barn but couldn’t find a clear path, walked next to road until we got to adventure rd.
Left on mill pond, all the way down to the new “half a million bridge” crossed the bridge and took a right on blue star until we hit the other “half a million bridge”, went across and went up the gravel service road all the way to the barn, left on parking lot and into archer loop, followed until we were close enough to the small strawberry field and went across the woods to hit a service rd, and then back to NAFO. This is what I wanted to do to begin whit at the beginning to avoid walking almost a mile next to Springfield pkwy.
Not happy with 4.5 miles, pax suggested to keep going and looped around the elementary school and back to COT.
MARY: take rucks off
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Manion, Bethel
COT: stays in COT
Tinsel OUT
WARMUP: Mosey, SSH, Plank, Imperial Walkers, Hillbilly Walkers, Best Damn Stretch, and maybe 1-2 others I am forgetting
THE THANG:
First
4 corners – Corners were the corners of the HT parking lot
MOT: Run
5 rounds of that
Second
EMOM 10
MARY: She was not answering today
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: Prayers, More Dad-vice, Praises, etc.
WARMUP: Mosey around for some awesome smells – while enjoying the smells on the backside of teeter – butt kicks, high knees, karaoke * 2, and then SSH, low slow squat, and windmill. Mosey to front of teeter.
THE THANG: Start with 11s in the front parking lot – merkins and jump squats. Once completed, grab a rock (next to pilates place) and complete the following – 25 curls, 25 chest presses w/ flutters, 20 curls, 20 chest presses w/ flutters, 15 curls, 15 tricep extensions, 15 chest presses, 10 curls, 10 tricep ext., 10 chest presses, 5 squat thrusters, 5 curls, 5 tricep ext., 5 chest presses. Return rock and mosey to side of teeter for wall work. Hold seated position while the ends of the line bear crawl to the concrete, 2 merkins, and crawl bear back. Reset to seated position and do the same thing but broad jump, merkins, and broad jump back. Mosey to back of teeter – wind sprints in groups of 4. We completed these 3 times with a round of nur at the end. Mosey back to COT, hold plank until 6 am.
2 ruckers as well
MARY: no time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter
COT: prayers and praises around the horn
Arrived on the scene early so I could mosey around the grounds and firm up my plans for the workout. Good thing to because during the pre-mosey had to alter my route and hit the gas station to make a deposit. Left feeling a little lighter and made it back to COT with a couple minutes to spare. Go time baby ( for the 2nd time )!
WARMUP: Recently posted at a Slapshot Q so borrowed this one from him. If you read this @UQ50TPDLH just know I had to 1 up you my friend by adding a rep, because 6 is not good enough man, we needed 7 reps ( SomethingAboutMary reference-hahaha ). Below was done at COT:
5 min EMOM
7 HR Merkins
7 Squats
7 Burpees
THE THANG: After the warm-up was complete we moseyed around Harris Teeter parking lot and traveled to the back of the store making it all the way around to the backside of Red Bowl where we found a strip of parking spaces to perform our Paula Abdul routine.
Bear Crawl 2 parking space lines forward, complete 2 merkins
Crawl Bear 1 parking space line backward, complete 1 merkin
Started from an island and the finish line was the next island. Mainframe finished first and ended the misery for the rest of us.
Upon completion asked the PAX to perform 1 set of Merkins to failure. Everyone shared their number, again, Mainframe was the King, that dude is a beast.
From the backside of Red Bowl we traveled across the street to the church where there is a nice, covered area with plenty of benches. Time to trash the legs.
PAX were asked to complete 15-10-5 reps – each leg – of the following exercises: Step-ups & BSSs
Upon completion we partnered up to spend some time under tension.
1 partner holds Al Gore while the other partner completes 10 jump squats. Keep trading places until you complete an accumulative rep count of 100 jump squats.
From there we moseyed back to the main grounds area and found a smooth surface near a set dumpsters ( can't remember the store next to the dumpsters ). Perfect for a Jack Webb core routine.
1 count exercise was BBSs
4 count exercise was Flutter Kicks ( count 1 leg )
1 count completes at 10 and 4 count completes at 40.
Upon completion asked the PAX to hold a 2 minute high plank.
From there needed to kill 2 minutes so we moseyed around the Harris Teeter parking lot and back to COT right on time. Theme of this workout was to give a little more when you already completed a difficult task. The little more you have to give is not for yourself, but for those who count on you, who need you. You always have a little bit left in the tank to give gents!
MARY: No time for her!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your NL!
COT: STK!
Intro, Warning Label and Welcome Given
WARMUP: Mosey to the back lot for warm up shenanigans:
In Cadence of 10:
Hillbilly and Imeprial Walkers
Cherry 🍒 Pickers and lap around
Teams of 4 Assembled
THE THANG:
I crew member rucks a lap around the lot with a sandbag while the crew performs the following movements:
Switched Rucker after every lap.
Some laps had two Ruckers, other laps had whole crew Ruckers, a few had 3 Ruckers
To Reach finish line all crew came together to finish collaboratively the following goals:
MARY:
Different pax got opportunity to call a movement so we could finish together
ANNOUNCEMENTS: upcoming CSAUPS, bethel church service, and reminder that together we can overcome anything. We are not intended to do it alone
COT: Always there, always honest, always needed!
