WARMUP: marshmallows around a campfire
THE THANG: running
MARY: brought hot chocolate after the run
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Santa Claus is coming to town
COT: aye
WARMUP:
Spike took the warmup right where we plant the shovel flag. Counts and cadence were perfect, and we even did 6-count burpees. Impressive!!!
THE THANG:
Ran around to do a few more warm ups before heading to a building for the countdown.
2 locations for exercises. Run between each, which included stairs and some bear crawls or lunges:
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
Great work done by all pax!
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
WARMUP: couple loops in the AO lot with high knees, buttkickers, and karoake.
THE THANG: Bucket 11 – one bucket at each end of the top lot. Pax pulled random exercises in an 11 format. Mak tar jyes and burpees were everyone’s fave.
Did some partner work on the wall near the upper town hall lot. Bear crawl with wall sit and balls to the wall.
Mosey to Christmas tree. 12 stations surrounding tree. Do two stations and run a loop. We darn near didn’t even come close to finishing all the stations. Great mumblechatter.
Brick by brick, post by post.
MARY: No showed.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: All of them.
COT: Pretty special today.
Twas a bit nipply outside. The idea was to keep moving for 45 minutes
WARMUP: Ran the long way and up the hill to the big parking lot. We did dynamic warmup where we ran back and forth between the exercises: SSH, squat, IW, Hillbilly walkers, merkin, burpees.
THE THANG: 4 corners of the parking lot designated by the light poles. Each corner had 1 exercise: merkin, squat, Carolina Dry dock, big boy sit ups. Reps per round: 10, 15, 20, 15, 10. We moseyed, lunge walked and bear crawled our way in between.
Left parking lot and headed to wall for 3 rounds of wall sits. Then ran back to COT for 5 minutes of Mary.
MARY: yep
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter
COT: Prayers for family
WARMUP: Did some moseying around with SSH, Hillbillies, and Squats
THE THANG: A Dip/Derkin 11 at the Ampitheater/ mosey to the Stairs in Textile Way / pax planked and elbow planked while one at a time went up/down.
Mosey to Sunbelt lot.
Quick DORA like run with merkins/lbc’s/squats.
Mosey to Main Event – Starfish type workout with 7 solid stations. Burpees/Merkins/Big Boys/LBC’s/Mak Tar Jyes/Dry Docks/Jump Squats. All stations had high rep counts for max suffering.
Mosey to a station, near crawl back, do 1 burpee on first round, 2 burpees on second, etc…
All pax gave max effort to complete, but fell a little short on time. Moseyed back to COT.
MARY: Not her day.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas Party! Get there!
COT: All shared. Live your best life!
Celebrating the 12 days of Christmas as the holiday decorations were recently assembled at WEP with a ladder workout with 2 exercises and 5 flights in depending and ascending counts.
WARMUP:
3 variations side straddle hops followed by 3 variations of merkins followed by 3 variations of squats.
THE THANG:
Flight 1-big boy setups and hip dips,
Flight 2-R/L lunges with squats jumps,
Flight 3-Bear crawl with crawl bear,
Flight 4-R/L side plank crunch with mac tar jai,
Flight 5-Front/back lunges with jump knee tucks.
MARY: n/a
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Christmas party, BRR 2026, Irrevocable Trusts
COT:
Prayers for students, new babies, and aging parents.
WARMUP: not needed
THE THANG: lotta runnin’
MARY: not present
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter
COT: personal
WARMUP:
– Windmills
– Cherry Pickers
– Imperial Walkers
– Hillbilly Walkers
– Calf Raises
THE THANG:
– Travel to playground (pirated from <@U06Q8DSSV5Y>)
– Begin with 5 squats then mosey to 2nd tree on the left-hand side of sidewalk –> 5 squats
– Mosey back to 1st tree –> 3 merkins
– Mosey to 3rd tree –> 5 squats
– Mosey back to 2nd tree –> 3 merkins
– And so on to the playground
– Broga (10 count)
– Standard plank
– Down Dog
– Walk it out
– Up Dog
– Down Dog
– Standard plank
– Continued WEP circuit – 8’s
– First swing: 7 burpees (yes, I included burpees), 1 big boy
– Second swing: 6 burpees, 2 big boys
– …
– Last swing: 1 burpees, 7 big boys
– Extended broga
– Standard plank
– Down Dog – right leg up
– Runners Lunge – right leg forward
– Warrior I
– Warrior II
– Peaceful Warrior
– Runners Lunge
– Standard plank
– Down dog – left leg up
– Runners lunge – left leg forward and repeat
– At Calhoun gazebo:
– Arm DORA!!!
– One partner lunges from the gazebo to the curb while the other works on:
– 50 Curb Alperts (cadence count)
– 100 Dips (benches conveniently provided)
– 150 Shoulder presses
MARY: hammahs, fluttahs, boxcuttahs, LBC, 6-inches (via countdown from each PAX)
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter material
COT: all about families
WARMUP: Chatter
THE THANG: Out and Back – Munn Harris under 77 up Sam Smith to Sutton down 6th Baxter and back.
MARY: Nah
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Yup
COT: Fantastic
WARMUP: 5 burpees and 5 exercise moves
THE THANG:
Jacobs ladder with bomb jack’s and inch worm merkins
Native American run
4 corners increasing reps 3 rounds
5, 10, 15
9 different exercise moves
MARY:
Dips Dirkens, step ups
Mosey to COT
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Thanksgiving convergence
COT:
Prayers and Praises