Tag: Mark Twain

Importance of Running Backwards

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WARMUP: Plank-updog-downdog-merkins; Plank-updog-downdog-shoulder taps; Plank-updog-downdog-peter parker; Plank-updog-downdog-plank jacks; Plank-updog-downdog-diamond merkins; Plank-updog-downdog-other variety of dynamic plank work and so on and so on
THE THANG: Partner merkins x20, flutter kicks x20, partner leg throws x15; Windmill merkins x10, flutter kicks x20, partner leg throws x15; Partner merkins x20, flutter kicks x20, partner leg throws x15; Windmill merkins x10, flutter kicks x20, partner leg throws x10 — a little extra Mary mixed in.
Mosey to the apartments- complete dynamic warmup including hamstring sweeps, walking RDLs, deep lunge walks, toy soldiers, high knees, butt kicks; BACKWARDS sprints up the hill towards the fire station x4; Last sprint was a challenge- each pax had to surpass their previous stopping point before tagged by YHC, otherwise the group was subject to an unknown penalty (probably burpees)… no one will ever know because the threat of penalty motivated everyone to sprint backwards that much faster!
We discussed THE IMPORTANCE OF RUNNING BACKWARDS at COT. If you’re getting some miles in with your fellow pax and they’re dogging it for whatever reason, it’s important to be able to run backwards faster than they’re progressing forwards, look them in the eyes, and say whatever motivating (or demeaning) statement to give them a kind gut check! SkateOrDie knows this too well from YHC.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Pints & Padres tonight!
COT: Beaker’s son turns 4 today. Prayers for physical and mental illness among the pax. Prayers/praise for Halfshell’s boys heading to camp.

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Pelican Brief Q

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WARMUP: Grassy Knoll led warm up
THE THANG:
Grassy Knoll – traffic circle bear crawls
Slapshot – burpees and LBCs
BW – modified murph
Kaiser – Block work
MARY: shield lock discussion – each Q shared testimony on what shieldlock has done for each man
ANNOUNCEMENTS: HIM Camp – sign up
COT: 🙏 all around

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4th of July Convergence

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1776 Workout
50 Burpees
100 SSHs
100 Merkins
Run Lap
100 Squats
100 LBCs
100 Mountain Climbers
Run Lap
100 Carolina Dry Docks
100 Lunges
100 Flutters
Run Lap
100 Seal Jacks
100 Squat Jumps
100 America Hammers
Run Lap
100 Plank Jacks
100 Monkey Humpers
100 Dips
Run Lap
100 Hello Dollies
100 Overhead Claps
100 yard Bear Crawl
Run Lap
26 Burpees
Run Lap

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The Badger DGAF…

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WARMUP: Limited

THE THANG:
Bradley WOD:
– 10 pullups
– Run 100M
– 10 burpees
– Run back 100M
This is one round. Do 10 rounds.

Coffland WOD:
– Cumulative 6-minute dead hang
– Each time you drop, you run 800M and do 30 merkins
Continue until you hit 6 minutes of cumulative hang.
We only got to about 3 minutes of cumulative hanging for the strong until we ran out of time.

MARY: No chicks

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter

COT: The 5th Core Principle

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KABOOM at Colosseum

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WARMUP: Disclaimer only
THE THANG: 1776 reps of pain plus some running
COT: On this birthday of our country we added FNG Tang to our pax, EH’d by Mark Twain. Welcome brother! We sweat like crazy in the Gloom and let the familiar soreness settle in as the fireworks lit up the sky to honor our forefathers and our fellow Americans. Grateful to have been born in the USA and to share this life with my F3 brothers. May we stay United and foster Unity with those we meet each time we leave COT and enter the world around us. God Bless America!

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Man Bags & Dragging Asses

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WARMUP:
10 windmills, 10 Moroccan Night Club, 10 Cherry Pickers, Plank, Stretch, Dirty Dogs & Honey Humpers
THE THANG:

All Movements With Sand Bags (weight of users choice)
Maintain Zone 2 H.R.

15 Flutter Press
20 Single Leg Lunges
Max Man Makers
Lap Around Amphitheater w/weight.

15 Thrusters
20 Curls
Max American Hammers
Lap Around Amphitheater w/weight.

15 Chair Press
20 Rows
Max Lateral Burpees
Lap Around Amphitheater w/weight.

Completed Circuit 2X

MARY:
Pax Split 4/4
200LB Sandbag P.T.
Row, Curl, Press

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Bethel Men’s Shelter Needs Volunteers, HIM CAMP Aug. 11-13. Sign-up.

COT:
Prayers for Sasquatch’s Family

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Team LiverEaters

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WARMUP: Stretchy things, lap around the lot
THE THANG:
4 parts for each member of the SL, all done in teams of 4 (or 5 if needed)

Gears: Two partners run up the hill to Pull Up bars, 10 2 pullup Burpees between the two PAX while the other two are doing 10 Big Boys each and squatting till swap. Two rounds.

Maximus: 50 yard out and back for 2 partners, when they return 10 burpees. Waiting pair is doing American Hammers. Swap. Next a set of perfect merkins to failure for each group. Losing SL does 5 burpees each.

Dark Helmet. Mosey to the rock lot on AO Jones. Partners bear crawl between light posts. If you stop, you do burpees till all the pax are done.

Spider Man: Partner Carry loop around the lot. Finish with one partner flutter while second partner runs to top of lot turnaround and back. Flapjack.

MARY: None
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Many (read your news letter)
COT: Prayers for M’s, parents, jobs, travel, and kids.

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Pickett’s Charge

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Twelve pax posted on this 3rd of July. Warm and humid with a thunderstorm having cleared out about 30 mins beforehand.

Warmup
Mosey run (toy soldiers, high knees, and butt kickers)
Circle up and do: SSH (15x I/C), windmills (8x I/C), imperial walkers (15x I/C), Moroccan n/c (15x I/C), low slow squats (10x I/C), big arm circles (15x I/C), peter parkers (10x I/C), plank stretches (downward dogs, honeymooners).

Thang 1: Cindy-Runs
Each pax got a cinder block and did the routine noted below.
Run 400m
KB Swings
Run 400m
Goblet squats
Run 400m
Manmakers
Run 400m
curls
Run 400m
Thrusters
Run 400m
Chest press
Run 400m
Early pax restarted the block exercises, but ran a shorter loop until the six came in.

Thang 2: Wall stuff
Ran to the brick wall of the school. Pax plank. Read a few paragraphs about Pickett’s Charge that happened 7/3/63 at Gettysburg.
Pax wall sit. From both ends of the line, pax bear crawls out about 30 feet, 3 burpees, and crawl bears back.
Then we did some wall-tar-jais…followed by some balls-to-the-wall for a ten count.

Thang 3: bar work
Ran over to the pull up bars and seven each of: pull ups, chin ups, switch grip, toes4bar, negative pullups.

Mary:
Ran to COT area and did Sally routine with leg lifts (Moby’s Flower, legs up on “bring Sally up” and 6 inches on “bring Sally down”.
A little monkey humpers, an 10 seconds of body destroyers.

Fini.
COT

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Everything BUT The Kitchen Sink

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WARMUP: Mosey through the parking lot with intermittent stopping for bear crawl, burpees, SSH, Merkins and crab walks
THE THANG: Every PAX grab 1 coupon to be your partner for the workout. Now, load up all the additional gear (Kettle Bells, Sand Bags, Rucks, Jerry Cans, Medicine Balls, Plate Carrier) and move it to the lot on the right side of the school. There is a penalty applied. Every time you set a weight down or hand it to someone else, everyone does 3 squats.
With your personal coupon:
10 Man Makers
20 Overhead Presses
30 Squats
Now, load up all the gear again and move it to the parking lot on the other side of the school. Same penalty applies, every time you set a weight down or hand it to someone else, everyone does 3 squats.
With your personal coupon:
40 4ct Flutter Kicks w/ Press
50 Curls
Now, grab all the gear and move it around the big loop on the outside of the field with the same penalty.
MARY: Throughout and a bit at the finish.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Happy Hour always looking for Hive Q’s. Full scale Shieldlock throw-down at Varsity this Friday…be prepared. Bethel Men’s Shelter assistance, Independence Day Convergence, Stuff The Bus, HIM Camp.
COT: Indeed. 5th Core Principle.

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God often hides opportunities to be faithful. Don’t miss them

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WARMUP:

Mosey around the parking lot admiring the new smooth pavement. Then some SSH, Windmill, Moroccan Nightclubs, Imperial Walkers & Hillbilly Walkers. Finishing with a mosey over to the band lot. Which it should be noted is not nicely newly repaved…

THE THANG:

Kind of a modified shuttle run design

From the end zone line, run to the other end zone and do one squat and run back.

Once back, run to the other end zone again, do one squat, bear crawl 10 yards, do 2 squats, then run back.

Once back, run to the other end zone again, do one squat, bear crawl 10 yards, do 2 squats, bear crawl 10 yards and do 3 squats, then run back.

Continue doing this until you are doing 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 squats, each with a 10 yard bear crawl on the return (so the return run gets shorter each revolution).

I interspersed some of this with a brief discussion of the impact of walking in faith in my life. God often presents opportunities that appear as struggles or obstacles/setbacks in our life. He never promised life would be easy, but did promise it is for a purpose. Life life with a purpose and faith in a bigger picture, and often you will see in hindsight, those obstacles were the refiners fire preparing you for opportunities you never even imagined.

Hebrews 12.1 says “Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.”

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read the newsletter

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