Beary Bliss

WARMUP: some Broga, quad stretching, overhead claps, side straddle hops
THE THANG: group bear crawl in unison on field, circuit along road with pull ups, Irkins dips, and monkey humps, Ab Dora 200 reps of dollys, LBCs, and flutters, followed by an Indian run
MARY: some burpees
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter
COT: family, travel, work

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Full gear. Go.

WARMUP: Gathered with all the gear we could find in trunks and truck beds. First we did a quick mosey around the parking lot. Then the infamous 33×11 warmup, thanks to Cha-Ching.

YHC messed up at first by doing 33 SSH in cadence then followed by 11 burpees OYO.

The followed by OYO 33 SSH single count and 11 burpees.

Then rinse and repeat. All warmed up.
THE THANG: Partner up, ruck on, each grab a sandbag, each grab a KB and each team grab one more KB or extra sandbag to share. Head over to the soccer field swapping the 4th “item” halfway through the walk.

While on the soccer field with your partner, we dropped all our gear, with exception of ruck, on a line by one of the goals. We then ran to the other goal line. Instructions were to gather 1 piece of gear and drop it at the mid line and then go back to the starting line, drop and do 5 merkins. After you and partner get all the gear to the mid line, then you need to take each piece of gear 1×1 and get it to the starting point. After each gear, always 5 merkins at the start. And shuffling with ruck the whole time.

Now that all the gear is at the starting line, we need to bear crawl 2 pieces of gear each and individually, to the mid line wearing your ruck, then bear crawl back to get your second piece of gear.

Last was sandbags in 1 corner, KB in 1 corner, and the ruck exercises in another corner. At each of the 3 corners, exercises below were performed. After each exercise, come back to center for 5 man makers with ruck.
– 10 sandbag tosses over shoulder wearing ruck
– 20 ruck swings
– 30 KB squats wearing ruck

Gather up all gear and with your partner, back to COT.
MARY: couple exercises around the circle
ANNOUNCEMENTS: check
COT: CSPAN style

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Christmas in October

WARMUP: ssh, windmills, imp walkers, Peter parkers – all in cadence
THE THANG: the old 12 days of Christmas workout. The days were as follows:
1 kraken burpee
2 bomb jacks
3 navy seal merkins
4 shoulder taps
5 crab cakes
6 big boys
7 merkins
8 jump squats
9 flutters
10 LBCs
11 monkey humpers
12 ssh

We broke it up into 4 chunks 1-5, 6-8, 9-10, 11-12 and moseyed to a different part of the school for each chunk

We ended up in the loop in front of the middle school. Then we started an alt version jack webb with 1 burpee to 4 Mike Tysons. After each round of that, we moseyed a quarter of the way around the loop. We only got to 3 before it was time to head back to cot
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Adventure to no man’s land

WARMUP: Didn’t really do one.

THE THANG:
Mostly rucked around and stopped along the way to do exercises.
Merkins, squats

Stopped in a parking lot for bear crawl and merkins every other space and then lunge walk back

Walked to bottom of hill for OH press and bent over rows. Ruck quickly back to the top of the hill. Repeat exercises.

Found another hill, rucked down to pool
5 man makers, 15 curls, 5 man makers
Ruck back up and repeat exercises.

Rucked around a loop, stopped for squats rucked back toward school to the back playground
10 each side pull throughs
20 LBCs

Rucked the rest of the way around the school
Finished with a bear crawl from one cross walk to the other. Roughly 70 yds.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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New Pavement #RuckingWild

WARMUP: Just Go!
THE THANG: Ruck march in new neighborhood called River Chase across the street from Currahee. Stop half way to drop kids off at the pool. <@U5PD6FU3X> led.
MARY: American hammerz, box cutterz. <@U05927TN6V9> led.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Golf Turney, Bourbon Tasting, Terror Trails Ultra in Waxhaw
COT: Prayers for those affected by hurricanes, those seeking new employment.

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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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