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3 exercises on repeat…for 4 miles

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WARMUP: Non existent
THE THANG: Super simple…running with push-ups, V-ups and American Hammers.
At every stop, the PAX would perform:
5 V-Ups, 10 Merkins, 15 American Hammers
Here's the route we took:
Up Massey and R/T Harris St.
Stop at Church of the Nazarene for the prescribed exercises (PE).
Continue down Harris St to the entrance of Harris St park for PE.
Head up Jackson St and stop at the intersection with Sidney Johnson St for PE.
Continue up Jackson St to the intersection with N. White St. for PE.
L/T onto Clebourne St into FMRX for PE.
Continue on Clebourne to the intersection with Springs in the public parking lot for PE.
Continue down Springs to the end for PE.
R/T Summersby St to Unity for PE.
Run up Unity to the intersection with Hill St for PE.
Run up to the Post Office parking lot for PE.
R/T Tom Hall back to the public parking lot for PE as time permits.
Back to COT.

MARY: See above.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Lots.
COT: Like they do.

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Colosseum…The Return

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WARMUP: You should've done that & stretched prior to launch.
THE THANG: Run to the bottom of the hill at the entrance of the school compound for 5 of each of the following Merkin series:
Wide-Arm, Diamond, Regular, Wide-Arm, Diamond, Regular
NUR back up the hill to the small parking lot
20 Oblique Crunches each side
Run to the front of GHES
10 Mike Tysons
Bear Crawl to the opposite curb, Crawl Bear back
20 V-Ups
Bear Crawl to the opposite curb, Crawl Bear back
Run to the back wall behind GHES (so glorious)
Run to the wall, go over, touch the school, 2 Burpees
Run to the wall, go over, back to the start, 2 Burpees
That's 1 Round. Complete 5 Total Rounds
Slow Flutter Kicks
American Hammers while touching both hands on each side.
Run about 100 yards to a random light pole
20 Carolina Dry Docks & 20 Flutter's I/C
Run to the basketball court for a 3-tier suicide set with 5 lunges each leg after the full set.
Complete 2 full sets.
Run to the benches at GHMS
10 step-ups each leg followed by 20 Derkins
10 Bulgarian split squats each leg followed by 20 slow dips

Back to COT for a little more Mary
MARY: See above
ANNOUNCEMENTS: 8/28 Excavation, Bethel, Trash Pick Up, Cut Da Grass
COT: 100%

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A VQ and Lessons in Teamwork

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Eagle Claw's VQ!!!
WARMUP:
Eagle Claw led. Start right at COT, no mosey, circle up for:

  • 20 SSH
  • 10 WM
  • 10 IW
  • 10 MNC
  • 10 cherry pickers

Everything 4 count as usual. Then mosey over to the nearby Grace Presbyterian Church for the following:

THE THANG:
Part 1 – Ring of Fire:
Designed by Eagle Claw, led by both him and NASA
In the half of the parking lot closest to the church, we had 8 cones set up in a loop/ring, each about 15 yards apart, each with an exercise, in this order:

  • 15 burpees
  • 20 merkins
  • 20 big boy sit-ups
  • 25 LSS
  • 25 mtn climbers 2 ct
  • 20 lunge 2 ct
  • 25 LBC
  • 20 CDD

These are minimum rep counts. Each person picked a cone (with 6 PAX, 2 were left open). Do the exercise, then alternate duck walk or bear crawl to next cone.
The catch – NOBODY could move forward until the last person is done their minimum rep count they were on. Until the last person shouted "done!", everyone kept doing the exercise at hand, exceeding minimum rep counts. We all did 2 complete rounds as a group. The burpees and 2ct lunges were our 6s that kept the team together as a unit, but we all pushed together. Solid work.

Part 2 – DORA:
Eagle Claw designed, mainly NASA led. Mosey over to the parking lot behind Red Bowl, starting point was the corner of the back lot closest to Stockbridge Dr. Partner up. Run was from the start out past the RB dumpster to the end of that building and back. Exercise reps were cut due to time:

  • 50 merkins (was 100)
  • 100 LBC (was 200)
  • 150 LSS (was 300)

Dumpster did not stank no where near as bad as we expected it would! Great efforts by everyone!
We finished with a couple minutes to spare. Back to COT.
MARY:
Eagle Claw led – 1 minute of hello dollys
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Read your newsletter, get involved. If you see something that is your D2X, get behind it, EH some guys. and make it happen. Freed to lead! This is exactly how ALL of the things we see in the newsletter as well as F3 organized CSAUPs came about.
COT:
A LOT lifted up by everyone! A great COT session.

NMM:
This was designed to be lessons in teamwork:

  • RING OF FIRE: The team, large or small, is only as strong and fast as the last person in line. The team doesn't move forward as a collective group until everyone is done doing their work. You can choose to get out way ahead, focusing on personal gain, but then you leave the rest of your team behind.
  • DORA: When you are paired with someone to complete a set of tasks, you both should be putting in the same level of effort. Slacking on your part will only put more load on your partner, which over time could drive you two apart. Equal efforts keeps the partnership strong.

Eagle Claw is off to spread his wings and follow his passions at The Citadel. Thank you to all the PAX who have poured the 3 Fs, wisdom, motivations, and encouragements into him. You all have made him a better person because of it. I cannot thank you all enough. Love you all. Blessings and SYITG.
-NASA

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Run The Block !!!

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WARMUP:
10 Wind Mills
10 Moroccan night clubs
10 Imperial Walkers
10 Hillbilly Walkers
THE THANG:
Round
Run
Station
First Round
400m
10 reverse lunges each leg
2nd Round
400m
10 burpees
3rd Round
400m
20 merkins
4th Round
400m
25 squats
5th Round
400m
30 mountain climbers
6th Round
400m
20 dips
7th Round
400m
15 step-back lunges + 15 calf raises
8th Round
400m
45-sec plank
9th Round
400m
20 alternating Bonnie Blairs or 20 step-ups
10th Round
400m
30-sec burpee AMRAP

MARY:
Glute Bridges
V-Ups
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Newsletter, La Grama, etc
COT:
Always stay in COT.

Run The Block !!!

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Physical Readiness Teast

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WARMUP: dynamic
10 Wind mill
5 bend & Reach
THE THANG:
1 mile
1 stop (20 low slow squats, 10 hand release merkins, 30 American hammers)

Competition test
1 minute ARAP Merkins
1 Minute ARAP curlups
1.5 mile run
MARY:
ARAP
10 Merkins
20 Squats
30 Crunches

Flutters
Merkins
Big boys
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: prayers for new beginnings for people.
Eagle Claw going to The Citadel

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Old school hard work

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WARMUP: SSH, Cherry Pickers, nightclubs, down dog, honey mooners mosey to apartments and did flutters and gas pumpers. Mosey down to the day care.

THE THANG: DORA

100 merkins

200 big boys

300 SSH

Run up hil to fire station and back.

Moseyed back near COT and grabbed a rock. Then completed

100 broad jumps
75 thrusters
50 over head squats
25 burpees

Partner 1 worked while partner two rested and picked up where ever partner 1 stoped. Point was to do the movements with good form and intensity. Do as many as you can then rest while your partner does the same.

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: stuff the bus tomorrow, read your letters of news

COT: Pray for kids starting school and moving to college, family sickness, Miyagi going to police academy, and for the Pirate and his wife.

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Old school hard work

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WARMUP: SSH, Cherry Pickers, nightclubs, down dog, honey mooners mosey to apartments and did flutters and gas pumpers. Mosey down to the day care.

THE THANG: DORA

100 merkins

200 big boys

300 SSH

Run up hil to fire station and back.

Moseyed back near COT and grabbed a rock. Then completed

100 broad jumps
75 thrusters
50 over head squats
25 burpees

Partner 1 worked while partner two rested and picked up where ever partner 1 stoped. Point was to do the movements with good form and intensity. Do as many as you can then rest while your partner does the same.

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: stuff the bus tomorrow, read your letters of news

COT: Pray for kids starting school and moving to college, family sickness, Miyagi going to police academy, and for the Pirate and his wife.

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Link street on my heart

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Written by DOAH in slack: [commentary by Band Camp]

Heart Breakers: @U01NGHPR2HW and almost @U05TY21AC2X, but he uncommitted sometime last night…

The Thang: Route attached [was attached in slack, you could look up today's date on a PAX's Strava. Suffice it to say: we hit 3 miles. FMPD slow rolled our start this morning which kept YHC from running directly where I planned to go, but we made it over there another way. No complaints]. We stopped a lot and did a lot [5 each stop] of 6-Count burpees (a BC staple), [10] merkins, [15] squats, [20] flutters, with a few LBCs thrown in for bad measure. [We did an undetermined amount of these based on keeping the group together enough so nobody got lost. Kept things in cadence because that seems to help keep men accountable to actually doing the exercises. Something about pushing through pain and discomfort together. Started with just burpees. Next stop: burpees & merkins, etc.]

Moleskine: Sweat. Plenty of sweat. And some ramblings that implied some very limited understanding of the functional success of certain systems. Regardless, we went fast and didn't lose anyone along the way… except Slash… but he was lost by choice. Uptown Girl is still greatly disturbed by my presence and refused even so much as a fist bump this morning, but like a lot of folks who hate me when they first meet me (that list is long, right Crystal Lake?), I'll wear him down eventually.

COT: The Fort’tan gave a good thought about acting on those things that we feel called to do and not delaying. Prayers for EC as he heads off to get his head shaved and his spine straightened, and prayers for NASA as he sends his little bird out of the nest.

[Here's the deal. God doesn't put things on your heart for someone else to do it. Go get after it.]

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It’s not ‘negative’, its ‘eccentric’

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WARMUP:
windmills, produce pickers then mosey to Kingsley Springs corner
monsters, knee grabs, arm stretches to lakeside benches

THE THANG:
C.H.I.P.S. and Dips
Complete 20 reps each of exercises, in cadence, followed by 20 dips off a park bench, and a lap around the landscaping
C – Calf Raises, Dips
H – Hello Dollies, Dips
I – Imperial Walkers, Dips
P – Parker Peters, Dips
S – Squats, Dips

Identify 'finish line' for future use

Mosey to bottom of hill
Rock routine (5/7/10)
Deadlifts
One-legged or two-legged
Bicep curls
Up on 1; down slowly on 2, 3, 4
Overhead presses
Up on 1; down slowly on 2, 3, 4
Coupon Crucible (curl + press)
a block curl straight into an overhead press and then slowly (3-5) count to lower the block into starting position. That's one rep.
OYO; encourage slow count to starting curl position
Tricep curls
OYO

Mosey to roundabout circle
Cocaine bear crawls (each sidewall partition) – 1 circuit

On Kingsley Springs sidewalk (back to the lake):
Squat-walk to rockpile facing alternating directions every 10 strides
Best effort up the hill to the previously announced 'finish line'

MARY:
dollies during CHIPS, @U78QN5XU5-led mary while the rest of us were struggling up the hill

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Read your newsletter, Bethel, Stuff the Bus

COT:
Prayers for families, marriages. Encouragement to do something not in your wheelhouse that will be within reach if you work at it.

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Chance, Choice, and Scrotum Tunnels: The Memoirs a MILGA Man

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It was a moist, humid morning. The message covered a fairly simple topic, Life.

We delved into the topic of chance with the use of a coin flip. Winner named the activity and rep count. Things are at times (Most) out of our hands. We are but passengers on this life river as we flow along. We did a few rounds of this. Lots of curveballs were thrown out of the most unexpected PAX. Life doesn't go as we planned and usually we don't get what we expect out of someone.

Life is about Choices. The choice was to get across the park from the bathroom to the playground. The options were bear crawl or burpee broad jump. The catch, every time you changed your mind there was a 5 merkin penalty.

We then teamed up to chose who would go first. The only way your partner could move is if you did 1 merkin per step. The object, get 1 partner over the line and then BOTH were done. For reference there was about 70-90 steps to get across. Some teams did equal amounts and crossed together. Others, Mine and Dark Helmets, relied on 1 person to basically do all the work so the other could advance. Then we both chilled at the end waiting on the other, less able teams.

But wait, there's more….The next set of partner work was the same concept but the exercise was burpees. The catch, whoever crossed first on the original trek could NOT be the one to cross first this time. The lesson, sometimes finishing first isn't all it turned out to be. Sometimes the person out from will the next day need to carry someone else. Needless to say I did more burpees this morning than in my entire time at f3 combined.

We then had a lesson on encouragement but I'm tired of typing.

We also did the scrotum tunnel just so everyone could get a rash in the grass.

Lastly we concluded with an unfair amount of burpees selected for random PAX. some did 1, some 3, some 5…..guess what, LIFE isn't fair. Deal with that shit and move on.

At the end of it all the message is this, it is ALL life. the good, bad, fair, unfair, choices, encouragement, discouragement, chance, highs, lows. There is no BIG thing to discover. If your waiting for that your wasting your life. Appreciate it all. Find joy in a birds chirp, contentment in mashing that dam keyboard for 8 hours a day, reach to the heaven and give thanks for it all. The argument with the wife, the aggravation with the kids, the person who cut you off in traffic.

Your PERSPECTIVE will drive your life. Stop waiting

MILGA bitches

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