The Tour de Fort Mill: Where Burpees Meet Churches and Açaí Dreams

I rolled up this morning and was surprised to see so many pax already there with five minutes to spare. Hopped out of the vehicle to find we had an FNG in attendance. At 6:30am, I gave the disclaimer and we started the workout:

Warm-up:
– 10 Chain breakers
– 10 Italian night clubs
– 5 Side Straddle Hops

The Thang:
1. Run to Harris Street Park
– 5 Kraken Burpees

2. Run to Fort Mill Church of the Nazarene
– Halfway plank for the six
– 5 Kraken Burpees
– 10 Imperial Walker Squats

3. Run to the old Springs building across from The Print Shop
– Stop for the six at the Valero
– 5 Kraken Burpees
– 10 Imperial Walker Squats
– 15 WW2 Sit-ups (Omaha this round to 15 Seal team sit-ups)

4. Run to the Fort Mill Church of God
– 5 Kraken Burpees
– 10 Imperial Walker Squats
– 15 WW2 Sit-ups
– 10 Mike Tysons

5. First Baptist Church Fort Mill back parking lot
– 5 Kraken Burpees
– 10 Imperial Walker Squats
– 15 WW2 Sit-ups
– 10 Mike Tysons
– 20 Apollo Ohno’s

6. Run to Unity Presbyterian Church side parking lot
– 5 Kraken Burpees
– 10 Imperial Walker Squats
– 15 WW2 Sit-ups
– 10 Mike Tysons
– 20 Apollo Ohno’s
– 20 Worst Worst LBC’s (this seemed to be a crowd pleaser)

7. Run to Maui Açai Food Truck
– Wait for the six, then 15 monkey humpers in cadence

8. Run to the bottom of Massey St
– Nured up the hill to the entrance to the parking lot

Once at the entrance, we lunge-walked across the parking lot, headed for the transmission line, but I called an audible due to the time and we ran to COT.

Overall, we achieved 3 miles.

Announcements:
– HIM’s Camp
– Hog & Coyote on 6/15

Prayers and Praises:
– Loss of Dark Helmet’s father, Frank
– Kids graduating
– A friend going through a nasty divorce
– Mental health, especially when we are in a funk or injured
– Health of our kids

Great job to everyone who participated today! Let’s keep pushing and supporting each other. Aye!

TClap |
0

The Murph 2024

1 mile run
100 pull-ups
200 Merkins
300 squats
1 mile run

It’s more than a workout

We get to because they did.

God bless you all. Keep pushing and never forget.

:facepunch: :facepunch: :facepunch:

TClap |
0

Abs, Abs and more abs

WARMUP: Windmills, Cherry pickers, SSH then mosey

THE THANG: 20 reps, 5 exercises: leg lifts, LBC’s, Big Boys, Flutters, heals to heaven, 1 lap after completion, 3 rounds total

Message on Q source topic of Missionality: getting out of the comfort zone and taking risk! Work in progress on the word familiarity! Mosey after message

20 Dips, lunge walk, 20 Merkins, bear crawl, 20 SSH’s, high knees, repeat 3 rounds. Same mode of transportation but last round was 20 Derkins, 20 squats, 20 mountain climbers

MARY: 5 burpees, box cutters, Freddy mercuries

ANNOUNCEMENTS: blood drive today

COT: prayer or praise from everyone

TClap |
0

80th Anniversary of D-Day

WARMUP: Jogged a lap around the parking lot, butt-kickers, high-knees, karaoke. Then we circled up for Imperial Walkers, SSH, MNC
THE THANG:
PARTNER SANDBAG TOSS – 1 LAP (Vest/Ruck on or Slick)
80 RUCK SQUATS (Vest/Ruck, Sandbag, or Both)
80 MERKINS (Slick)
80 DEADLIFTS (Ruck, Sandbag, or Both)
80 OVERHEAD PRESS (Ruck on or Slick)
PARTNER SANDBAG TOSS – 1 LAP (Vest/Ruck on or Slick)
MARY: No Time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: HIM Camp end of June, Blood Drive 5/30 still spots available, 3 CSAUPs this summer
COT: Closed in prayer

TClap |
0

Aloha Covid

Wasn’t sure how this was gonna go since YHC has been sick last few days coming back from Hawaii. Asking Fogerty to have my back if I dropped over. With som solid HIMS showing up I knew I had no choice but to bring it.

And so it began with a nice mosey to our first stop for the warmup SSH, IWs and Mtn climbers. Then to the next stop where we had a wall. Wall sits while each PAX took turns doing 5 merkins went up and down the line for extra credit. Mosey tot the next wall for three rounds (thx Maximus for the suggestion) of dips, derkins and step ups 10 each. Mosey to the next spot for a round of 7s with burpees and squats with a run length of parking lot between. At this point we just gettin warmed up to do a partner DORA 100 merkins, 200 squats and 300 LBCs. Mosey back to COT where Fogerty closed us out with a ladder starting with 5 bombjax, 6 donkey kicks, 7 diamond merkins, 8 big boys, 9 Bobby Hurley and 10 LBCs. Finished right on time

We took a moment to watch the sun rise and do the pledge of allegiance earlier. Remembering those who gave it all for our freedoms that we have every day.

TClap |
0

More Than A Few Miles

We had 5 PAX, 5 Rucks and 4 Sandbags (allowed for 1 man to rotate in/out).
WARMUP: Not really.
THE THANG: Transport all the gear to the circle in the NE corner of Kingsley. Rucks only – lunge walk around the circle.
Transport all gear to the traffic light to our east for 10 lifts with either Ruck & Sandbag or Ruck-Only.
Shuffle with all gear back to the circle and regroup.
Ruck with all gear to the SE corner of the big parking on the other end of Kingsley.
Rucks only, 5 Man Makers and 10 LBC’s in each corner while shuffling between corners.
This is where the modification entered as I was losing track of time so we had to fast-forward through some of the Weinke.
All gear to the “stage” next to Carolina Ale House.
With all the gear in a pile, each man lined up 2′ apart, facing opposite directions. Starting at one end, we’d pass each coupon from one man to another, utilizing core muscles until all gear was at the other end. We did this several times so every man got to experience the outer and inner posts.
Slick, bear crawl up the 10 steps then jog back to the start and repeat.
Move all gear back to the flag for some rowing.
5 Bent-Over Rows & 5 Upright Rows
Repeat 3 more times.
MARY: Mixed throughout
ANNOUNCEMENTS: MEMORIAL MURPH and other things.
COT: 5th Core Principle

TClap |
0

Jason Richards “Falcon”

13 PAX + Falcon = 14. The same number of PAX that showed up in the gloom on 4/29/2024 when Falcon collapsed after his first workout. We are here to honor this man

WARMUP:
9 motivators – a crowd favorite
Low slow squats with coupon
Low slow merkins

THE THANG:
“Falcon Heavy”
14 SSH in cadence buy-in
———————————-
4 rounds of 26 each with coupons. Only progress to the next movement once everyone except Cohiba is done
Flutters with press (the hard way)
American Hammers (the hard way)
Lunges (the easy way)
Curls
Overhead press
No rest Thrusters – if the coupon drops below your chest, 5 manmaker penalty for everyone. This was abused
Shuffle a lap with the coupon
———————————-
14 SSH in cadence (called correctly)

We made 3 full rounds. Some would say we could have finished if we didn’t mess around with motivators during warmup. Scientists are now referring to these claims as “wrong”.

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: loads of stuff this summer
COT: Lifting up Falcon’s family

TClap |
0

Why do you F3?

WARMUP: 25 SSH IC
THE THANG:
– Playset at WEP: Partner AMRAP, 3 sets of swing crunches and laps
– Pike Eng circle entrance: Partner AMRAP Decline merks, partner runs lap, 4 sets
– Grass hill: Partner AMRAP, 5 hill sprints, partner does Low Slow Squats
– Top Lot: Partner AMRAP, heals to heaven, run the hill

TClap |
0

Attacking all angles

WARMUP: not necessary
THE THANG: loops at Brayden
10x merkins and squats at stop light
10x diamond merkins and monkey humpers at pool
10x wide arm merkins and sumo squats at top fo hill

MARY: ab lab for a few minutes led my Tesh

ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter

COT: yes

TClap |
0