Hold it like if your kid

WARMUP: SSH, Merkins, shoulder taps, wind mills,
THE THANG: series of mostly upper body exercises with the KB on reps of 60s (see picture). After every exercise PAX has to walk to the top of the hill with the KB and back. Bonus: during the whole routine never let the bell touch the floor, hold like if was your kid.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Kettlebells: The Great American Pastime

WARMUP: mountain climbers, overhead claps, merkins, CDDs
THE THANG: Mozy to the adjacent parking lot where bases and cones were setup to form a baseball field. (Happy Hour’s and my son play on the same baseball team). Each base in baseball has a number associated with it. In order from 1-9, those are pitcher, catcher, first, second, third, shortstop, left field, center, and right field.
Starting at pitcher we did one rep then moved to catcher for two reps, first base for three reps and on and on until we got to left field for nine reps. One full round of the bases is 45 reps. Transportation of kettlebells alternated between farmers carry and overhead carry.
We started with goblet squats then moved on to kettlebell swings. We then got a 6/4/3 double play of flutters with a press. After the double play we resumed our base walking with clean & presses, then the next round was upright rows. For thoroughness, these two rounds we did left handed and right handed.
After the clean/press the Pax called for a 7th inning “stretch” so we did a few honeymooners and downward dogs before resuming. A brief rendition of “Take me out to the ballgame” was heard but thankfully didn’t last long.
Next round was curls and with limited time remaining, we did 20 tricep extensions with everyone at a base of their choice. When it was all totaled up, we were just short of 350 reps.
Not sure if everyone had fun, but everyone now knows that right field is #9!
MARY: skipped it
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Fast Five, newsletter
COT: Family and friend’s health

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April fools

WARMUP: mosey.. The Windmill, Moroccan Night Club, Imperial Walker, Merkins, downward dog, the honeymooner
THE THANG: brick wall, 1×20 step ups each leg, 20 erkins, 20 dips. 5 sets of 3 x10 Merkins, LBC, box cutters run up hill 3×10 shoulder taps, American Hammers, flutters.. repeat. Brick wall 1 x 20 dips, 1 x 20 erkins. Wall seat, pax on end bear crawl. Repeat across side of Harris Tetter. Partner Dora 100 squats, 100 carolina dry docs and 100 flutters
MARY: yes
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read the news letter, fastest 5k
COT: reminder to be thankful

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Halfpipe Hell

WARMUP:
– Mosey around the park
– SSH
– Windmill
– Imperial Walker

THE THANG:
Everyone pulled a block from my truck. These are pavers that weigh slightly more than a cindy.

One end of the parking lot
– 26 curls
– 26 leg raises with block held overhead

Run to the other end of the parking lot
– 25 Bentover Rows
– 25 Bigboy situps with the block on your chest

Run back and do the same exercises as before while continuing to decrease the count. We did 4 rounds.

Run to big hill and go to the bottom for the “Half-pipe”
5 cones on each side
– Run to the first cone on the moderate hill and do 2 merkins
– Run back past the start (bottom of the hill) and up to the first cone on the big hill. Complete 2 burpees.
– Run back to the first cone on the moderate hill, complete 2 merkins, continue to the second cone, complete 4 merkins.
– Run back to the big hill. First cone = 2 burpees, Second cone = 4 burpees.
– Continue until both sides of the hill are done (5 cones each)

Run back to COT. Some Mary and done.

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1 Minute Closer to Death

WARMUP: windmill x10, cherry picker x 10
THE THANG:
This may or may not be accurate.
Overhead carry KB
1st Station
10 burpees
25 90/45
25 chest to back pullover
25 Curls
25 lunge with pass through

Overhead Carry
2nd Station
25 KB Merkin
25 Figure 8
50 Toe taps
10 Manmakers

Suitcase Carry
Peoples Chair
Overhead hold for 10 count x3
BTW
Peoples Chair with concentration curl
15 each side

Overhead Carry

4th Station
KB Dips

5th Station
25 Halo
25 Upright Row
25 Dead Lift

KB carry to 6th Station
50 Chest Press
25 Skull Crushers
25 Rows each side

Overhead carry to flag

10 Man Makers

15 Grave Diggers each side
25 LBC w/ KB
15 X/Os

MARY: yes
ANNOUNCEMENTS: yes
COT: yes

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Counting Down from 100

WARMUP:
Quick COP warm-up with Imperial Walkers, Seal Jacks, and Hill Billy Walkers.

THE THANG:
Mosey down to oval loop in front of Springfield Middle. Near school entrance we started with a 100 reps of an exercise. We then ran (together) down to the lower part of the loop. For a portion of the run, pax had to do a moving exercise, determined by one pax drawing from a bucket ‘o pain. At the lower part of the loop, we then did 90 reps of a different exercise. Once all pax were done, we ran back to the top part in front of the school entrance (scaling a small wall that was part of the loop).
We repeated, counting down to 10 exercises. Here was the list.

100 Flutters
90 Squats
80 Shoulder Taps
70 Hello Dollys
60 SSH
55 LBCs
50 Merkins
40 Speed Skaters
30 Lunges
20 Burpees
10 Big Boy Sit-ups

We ended up skipping the lunges due to time, but we added some Bombjacks at the end, thanks to some nudging from BandCamp.

YHC had the opportunity to share my testimony and try to encourage all pax that each person’s testimony is their own uniquely, God-created, story…including the testimonies being lived out by our kids.

The mumble chatter was fantastic, as we learned perhaps a bit too much about CakeBoss’ impending first “official” colonoscopy. Thanks RainMaker for the opportunity to lead.

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Tour de odor AKA style

WARMUP:
SSH
Windmills
Imperial walkers
Hillbilly walkers
Plank
Stretches
Merkins

THE THANG:

After warmups we moseyed to back of HT,
Performed wall sit burpee waterfall with everyone doing 1 burpee, then 2

Mosey around back towards church

Toy solders
Karaoke
NUR

In back parking lot, break up in groups of 3,- took a couple tries
Partner work – groups of 3
Partner 1
Cocaine bear Crawls to light pole and back
Partner 2 SSH
Partner 3 Mtn climbers

Mosey to church

Bench work
Webbs
Bulgarian split squats and cactus jacks

Got all the way up to 10/40

Dora
100 Derkins
Sprint
200 dips

Back towards Flag

MARY:

50 4 count flutters IC, Box cutters, dying cockroach and American hammers
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Fast 5K, Joc, Bethel
COT: make every day count and be sure the ones you love most know it!
It was an honor to serve today, Thank you men!

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