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!

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The Artie and the Collin

WARMUP: SSH, MORROCAN NIGHTCLUBS, WINDMILLS AND IMPERIAL WALKERS
THE THANG: ARTIE
5 ROUNDS
10 PULLUPS
15 MERKINS
20 SQUATS
10 PULLUPS
10 THRUSTERS W/CINDY
RUN DOWN THE HILL

COLLIN
6 ROUNDS
CINDY CARRY 200M
24 OVERHEAD PRESS
24 MAN GRIP CURLS
24 HIGH PULLS

MARY: FLUTTERS
ANNOUNCEMENTS: READ YOUR NEWSLETTER
COT: PRAYERS AND PRAISES

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Kettle Bell Dora pain

WARMUP: SSH’s,
THE THANG: 17 man cheese grater. A kettlebell lung walk stopping at stations to do man makers. A 100 A. Hammers, 125 Halo’s, 150 Curls and 200 lawnmower pull Dora while parter ran the PL.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your NL.
Jaeger rescheduled. Canola Run
COT: Prayers and appraises. Praise for Children. P and P for new careers and endeavors!

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Traveling Suitcase

WARMUP: yes, we did some

THE THANG: travel the big parking lot suitcase carry stoping at the corners

Swings 10 sets of 10
Split Squats 3 sets of 12
Goblet Squats 3 sets of 12
Hand switch snatches 12
Lateral Lunge w/ Row 8

MARY: yea, core work is helpful

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Bars, blocks and Street Walkers

Bars, Blocks and Streetwalkers at Varsity
Started with a short mosey then circle up for a warm up of: SSHs, windmills, imperial walkers, Moroccan n/c, Low slow squats, big arm circles, peterparkers, plank stretches. All in a variation of 10-15 reps I/C.

Thang 1: Four-corners Street walker style
Four corners/cones: 1st= 10 merkins, 2nd=20 LBCs, 3rd=30 monkey hmprs, 4th=40 SSH. Routine is: cone 1, then back to start line, then cone 1, cone 2, then reverse to cone 1 again and back to start line; then cone 1, cone 2, cone 3, then reverse: cone 2, cone 1, start line; then cone 1, cone 2, cone 3, cone 4, then reverse: cone 3, cone 2, cone 1 then start line. Results in: 70 merkins, 100 LBCs, 90 Monkeys, 40 SSH.
Short mosey run

Thang 2: Bars and Blocks
Alternated between doing 10 reps on the bar and 20 reps with a cindy. Bars were: pull ups, chin ups, switch grip, switch grip, toes to bar. Blocks were squats, KB swings, curls, OH press, bent over rows.
Short mosey run

Thang 3: pass the ammunition
Pax curb plank. Cindy gets passed down the line of pax, then 3 curb merkins, cindy gets passed back to starting pax, 3 merkins, pass cindy rinse/repeat for a about four cycles.
Short mosey run

Thang 4: wall sit while each pax runs out and does two manmakers with cindy.
Mary, COT, Fini.
Total of 5 pax.

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There was a Frog

Disclaimer Disclaimed
Mosey to Theatre for Warm Up

Socratic – Are some men born to be lone wolves?
Spur – Man hunts best in a pack.
We see best from 9 through 12 to 3 o’clock, but we cannot see our 6. We are blind to our 6. We need others to help cover our 6. This horizontal relationship helps all the members of the pack.
WARMUP:
25 SSH IC
10 Windmills IC
10 LSS IC
10 MNC IC
10 Hill Billy Walkers IC
Yoga

THE THANG:
Socratic – Do communities benefit when men combine?
Spur – Men recognize the Advantage of mutual defense.
Men recognize the benefit of community. A HIM locks his shield with other HIMs to protect the people behind the wall.

The Thang – Ladder Work across parking lot with Bear Crawls in between. Eliminated the last exercise each round. All Reps were completed.
5 Burpees
10 Bomb Jax
20 Merkins
30 Squats
40 LBCs
50 Monkey Humpers

Socratic – Can a man begin the fight against adversity before he encounters it?
Spur – Acceleration of the Shield Lock requires Preparedness

7s of Carolina Dry Docks and Big Boys

Mosey to back of Theatre – Wall Sits and Burpee Waterfall
MARY: American hammers til 0600
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Waxhaw CSAUP and The Jaeger coming up!
COT: Stays in COT.

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Hero WO Honoring Master Sgt. Michael Maltz

WARMUP: Held plank position while reading the bio of Master Sgt Michael Maltz
THE THANG: Modified Maltz
Complete all reps of each exercise before moving on to the next one.
Close to a 800 meter run – starting at the JOC pullup bars run around the perimeter of the COT parking and head back towards the JOC building continuing down the hill taking a right at the stop sign at the bottom, going around the playground and come back up the hill and stop at the pullup bars
50 Pull-Ups
Close to a 200 meter Farmer’s Carry with 2 Cindys – starting at pullup bars head down the hill, take a right at the stop sign, go around the playground loop and head back up the hill to the pullup bars
50 dips on Cindy on the curb
100 Diamond Merkins
50 Knees-to-Elbows on the bar
100 Big Boys with Cindy
Run the same route described at the start
DONE & SMOKED!

MARY: Had an AB BOP for those that finished early. No one finished the 1st exercise on the list which was 100 LBCs.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:Jaegar, Trash Pick Up, Amrap for Autism, Mike Doty Memorial Run

COT: ShowtoKnow!

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Angel is a Centerfold

WARMUP: mosey for a bit throughout the vast parking lot, then we did a warmup in front of the theatre. All the usuals plus some plank/core work
THE THANG: a Dora with 100 dirkins, 100 LBC, 150 step ups, partner 2 runs to farthest light pole and back, we then did a parking lot routine involving 2 alternating exercises at light poles as we traverse the lot, finally we did a nasty Jack Webb with big boys, American hammers and always 2 merkins. Almost finished then ran back to COT to finish up
MARY: finished up Jack Webb, got to 10 big boys and 40 hammers
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Waxhaw Trail Fest, Goose Qing in Mint Hill
COT:

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Ringer won’t write the BB

Ringer was the Q but he is Slackless. Don’t know all of the weinke but went to the big parking lot. One end was KB exercises. Did 10 reps of the first, run to the other end of lot do
10 Merkins
20 squats
30LBC
run back to start, do 1st and 2nd exercise continue adding KB exercise each round.

KB exercises
Swings
Goblet squats
Lawnmowers
Curls
Triceps
Lunges
Cling and press

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