No excuses!!!

WARMUP: mosey around the carpool loop + brief COP with usual appetizers
THE THANG: mosey down to parking lot near baseball field for some side lunges, sideways bear crawls, bear crawls, crawl bears, sprints, Mary session with each pax calling/leading an exercise, mosey past football field to hill between football field and upper parking lot, Jacobs ladder on the hill, mosey up the hill to lot on side of school, suicides 3x to burn out all the remaining fuel. Return home
MARY: Done inside the Thang
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Clave Boss tmrw!!!
COT: of course, 5th core principle

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needed recovery

Landed in Charlotte night before around 10pm – super exhausted from Miami work trip but can’t pass up opportunity to lead the PAX!

We stayed on kingsley campus, winding through the sidewalks and parking lots to get 3ish miles. Every 5 minutes we would stop and do about 10 merkins and 10 low slow squats both with the rucks on.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter

COT: yes

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Christmas Eve Convergence at The Yard

WARMUP: (cake boss): 5 Burpees, SSH, 4 B., Imp.Walk, 3B., HillWalk, 2B, something else, 1B…

Count off 1 & 2; Group 1 w/ Farmers Only, Group 2 w/ Suplex
Switch Q’s at 1/2 mark

THE THANG:
Group 1 (Farmers only):

Group 2 (Suplex):
Cocaine Bear Crawls to the 50 (2 merkins at each 5yrd). Al Gore till the 6
Mary #1: 12 Hello Ladies (IC), 24 Plank Jacks (IC), 12 BBSU & 24 Heel-taps (OYO)
Go right into….
Burpee Broad Jumps (3 & 3) to end zone
Plank till the 6

R.2
Crane Carries to 50: back to back, 1 runs while other flutter kicks (swap @ 25… mod. to piggyback if needed)
Mary #2: 12 AmHamms (IC), 24 Gas Pumpers (IC), 12 Dying CockRoaches & 24 LBCs (OYO)
Go right into…
Other man in Sparrow Run.
@ end zone: 12 Imp-Squat-walkers (IC) 24 or something else (improv.)

MARY: done w/in Thang
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletters… Merry Christmas!
COT: held (5th core principle)

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Burpees for Breakfast

WARMUP: The walk from car to AO
THE THANG: Rucked 2.3mi with stops for burpees and core exercises along the way. Lovely holiday light tour of FM plus fellowship followed by coffeeteria.
MARY: include in Thang
COT: Of course, as always!

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Massey Street x 6

WARMUP: SSH’s waiting for a few late comers

THE THANG: Run Massey street, 35 Merkins, run back, 25 bomb jacks / repeat, Wide arms, Bobby Hurleys / repeat, hand release, jumping lunges

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Joy to the Eastside, the Lord has Come

WARMUP: light mosey under cover
3 exercises to get blood flowing
Imperial Walkers
Pee Can pickers
Merkins
Mosey to side of school and find curb
Plank on curb while one PAX at time run to end of line and replank 3X
THE THANG:
Hit the stairs
Two at time PAX run stairs while other pax perform exercises
LBCs
Flutters
Calf Raises

Mosey to Bus drop for 7’s
1 Merkin
Run buss drop distance
6 jump squats

Mosey back to stairs
1 PAX run stairs while rest of PAX hold wall chair
1 burpee each hand off for all PAX
Shoulder presses while wall sitting

Mosey back to curb plank
Distance extended and inclusion of Parker Peters, Peter Parker’s and Mtn Climbers
MARY:
90 seconds of Dying Cockroaches
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Acceleration Project 12/20
Christmas Party 12/21
Clave Boss 5/10k convergence 12/24

COT:
Lots of prayers and praises and acknowledgement of something bigger than ourselves :clap: :fire: :pray: :christmas_tree:

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Dedicated to Bass

WARMUP: We gathered with a lot of F3 years under our belt. It was cold so we needed to warm up our old bones. Bass wore every particle of clothing he owed, Eddie started a new fashion trend wearing a winter hat and a ball cap on top. Old Bay was in awe with this new look, he’s been wearing 2 hats since.

We ran over to the basketball court for some warmups: SSH, windmills, cherry pickers, low slow squats, merkins, Parker Peters and I think that was it.
THE THANG: We ran back to our cars, to drop off Pusher’s hat because he was drawing too much attention from FiA, and stayed in the main parking lot.

3 sets of exercises, 20 reps:
1. Merkins
2. Squats
3. Shoulder taps (in cadence)

Lap around the parking lot, rinse and repeat, and another lap.

Ran to the back of the school by the little foot bridge for another set of 3.
1. Lunges
2. American hammers (double count)
3. Calf raises (20 in, reg, out)

Ran back up the hill and back, rinse and repeat, the ran back up the hill with a sprint.

Ran over the bridge and behind the track because I’d never been there before. Another set of 3.
1. CDD
2. Plank jacks (in cadence)
3. Seal jacks (in cadence)

Kept running behind track to the other parking lot for a rinse and repeat. Bass decided to do a lot of CDD so the shoulders got toasty.

For all the above exercises, we all rotated calling cadence…because it’s good practice and YHC didn’t have to count the entire time.

Ran back to COT.
MARY: Airborne special, which was horrible, and then some stretching.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: yep
COT: did it while sitting on the ground

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Commitment to the DRP

YHC was excited to be asked to Q at the Yard to restart my DRP after a post Thanksgiving smartsack. It is because of the accountability and commitment to the Pax that I find myself leaving the cozy confines of my bed in the morning. While my will is stronger than before, it is this opportunity to get 1% better with my fellow Pax that drives me in the AM.

Weather 28 degrees and dark but sunny by 7:15

WARMUP:

Mosey to parking lot with a moving COP including:
SSH x 10 completed 6 times
Windmills/IW x 10 completed 5 times
Mtn Climbers x 10 completed 4 times
Plank Jacks x 10 completed 3 times
Monkey Humpers x 10 completed 2 times
Seal Jacks x 10 completed once

After each round, we added an exercise and moved to a new location.

Mosey to the back of the school for light poles
At each pole:

10 merkins
10 LBCs
10 Squat jumps

Mosey to benches
10 Durkins
10 Dips
bear crawl to other side and lunge walk back

Rinse and repeat 3 times

Finish with “Death by” burpees up to 9 and some Mary
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Read your newsletter

COT:

Plenty of gratitude and prayers shared during COT. I am inspired by the courage of the Pax to share in COT. Thank you!

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Ladder Day

WARMUP: mosey round parking lot. Indian run to Hampton Inn w 6 completing 1 burpee. All your regular warmup exercises.
THE THANG: ladder loops with pain stations. Merkens, Big Boys, LBCs, CDD, lunges, dips.
DORA
75 Big Boys
75 Squats
Mosey around restaurant circle
MARY: none
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas Party, Thanksgivingweek convergences.
COT:

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