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Battle Buddies Reunited

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Partner Q is the theme at Alcatraz. Enjoyed the opportunity collaborating with my battle buddy from the Greater Than CSAUP on this one. I took the first half of the workout and concentrated on upper body while Shady took the 2nd half and ran us into some hills!

WARMUP: Short mosey around the COT parking lot, burpees OYO while YHC explained the exercises at each station located in several parking spaces in the lot.

THE THANG:
#1 – Set-up 12 stations with various equipment and exercises. All exercises targeted upper body and core. Asked the PAX to partner up. Partner1 performs exercise at the station while Parnter2 bear crawls to the middle row of parking spaces in the lot – performs 3 Kraken Burpees – then bear crawls back to Partner1. FlapJack and then move to the next station. Most teams completed 11 out of the 12 stations.

#2 – 30 minutes up, time for the 2nd half. Shady took us on a short mosey out of the COT parking lot, took a left and stopped at the 1st hill on the right. 7s were called with a combo exercise of 1 CDD + 1 Merkin at the top and jump squats at the bottom of the hill. Upon completion we moseyed to the spigot to cool off and then headed to the pullup bars. PAX were asked to hold plank while 1 PAX completed AMRAP of pullups. Once all PAX completed 1 round of pullups we moseyed to the hill on the backside of the ballfields. Ran down as a group and performed 10 walking lunges back and forth accross the street. We than ran to the top and repeated the walking lunge routine. Thank God it was time to head back to COT!

MARY: Shady led us in stretching

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter

COT: STK!

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Ding Dong Done

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WARMUP: usual stuff
THE THANG: 1-min on/30-sec rest… AMRAP
Set #1 and 2 had 100 swing buy-in.
We had to shorten times on set # 3

Set 1: 
Cleans R
Squats
LBC
Clean L
Step FORWARD alt. Lunge
Simba (BBSU w/ press)
Swings (alt. 1-arm)
MOSEY
Set 2
Snatch R
Bulgarians R
Bulgarians L
Metro Crunches L
Snatch L
Metro R
Swings- w/ Squat
MOSEY
Set 3
Devil’s Halo
American Hammers
Apollo-Ohnos
Curls / Triceps (alt. Every 5-10)
Step BACK alt. Lunge
Tonya Harding (combo of Apollo-Ohno & Devils-Halo)
Swing- 1-arm Gunslinger
MOSEY

MARY: built in
ANNOUNCEMENTS: 7/4 convergence, Bethel
Further out… Civitas (RH)
COT: held

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Gam Guillotine Redux

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This BB is going to be easy, at least for the workout part. In honor of the 10th anniversary of my first F3 workout – 6/29/2016 at Pantheon with Jekyll on Q – I decided to recreate his Q nearly verbatim. I was able to find his original back blast. This is yet ANOTHER reason to do these things!!
WARMUP:
Mosey around the lower parking lot, then circle up near COT for the following:

  • 20 SSH
  • 10 WM
  • 15 IW
  • 20 MNC
  • 10 strawberry pickers

Then mosey over to the top of the hill on the roadway next to the USMC JROTC building.
THE THANG:
Gam Guillotine
Start at the top of the hill.
Round 1
5 squats, run to stop sign at bottom, then do 5 jump squats. 1 round is up and back. Do 5 rounds total. Ended up back up at the top.
Lungewalked 1/2 way down, crabwalk 1/2 way down. NUR back up the hill to start.
Round 2
5 lunges each leg, then run down to bottom, then 5 Mary Catherines each leg (or 5 jump squats each leg). Do 5 rounds total. Ended up back at the top of the hill.
Round 3
Jack webbs. 1 Merkin, then 4 overhead claps. 10 rounds total, to where we did 10 merkins, 40 OH claps last round.
Back to COT.
>> It was just as horrible today as it was 10 years ago, and it hurt ALOT back then. Back then we ran 'the camelback' portion of the path to heart attack hill in Tega Cay, a short section less than 1/10th a mile but had 12-15% grade. I remember almost passing out on round 8 of the hill. This time we had only 5-7% grade and it was still nasty.
MARY:
We got back to COT with enough time to knock out 20 flutters (2 ct), that's it. Time's up.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Alot going on. Read the newsletter, get involved. If you do not see something in the newsletter or hear in the COTs that you want to push, then push it, lead it. Invigorate your male community leadership.
COT:
Alot lifted up. Welcome back Tang!

Thanks for the opportunity to lead.
Blessings and SYITG,
-NASA

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Zombified Q @ ROF

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Coming back from a road trip late at night I managed approx 3 1/2 hours of sleep and found myself contemplating a 'no show' for my Q at ROF @ 4:30 in da morning. I recently had the honor of participating in our Greater Than CSAUP overnight ruck event. That is what pushed me past the selfishness of wanting to choose comfort over commitment, brotherhood. If I could endure that event with no sleep, then I can Q a 45min workout on 3 1/2 hours of sleep! I'm grateful to be surrounded by men who push me to be greater than! Feet hit the floor, water splashed on the face, a little caffeine and it was GO time!

WARMUP: Usual suspects

THE THANG:
Moseyed to the benches on the side entrance of NAFO, Asked PAX to find a spot on a bench.
#1 – 2 exercises: Step Ups & BulgarianSplitSquats
15 reps each leg of both exercises
10 reps each leg of both exercises
5 reps each leg of both exercises

Upon completion asked PAX to partner up for some Time Under Tension
Partner#1 holds Al Gore while Partner#2 completes 10 jump squats. FlapJack until you complete an accumulative rep count of 100 jump squats. Legs were burning by this point.

Moseyed to the pullup bars while picking up a Cindy along the way.
#2 – 2 Exercises: Pullups & ManMakers
Perform both exercises in the following sequence:
1 pull-up, 2 manmakers, 3 pullups, 4 manmakers, etc…
Continue till you reach the count of 10 and then reverse
count back down to 1. Will add up to 50 reps of each
exercise. PAX who finished 1st ended the pain for the
rest of the suffering souls.

Walked over to the hill with Cindy for a little Quadzilla w/ some core work.
#3 – This was done OYO. Run down the hill to the stop sign,
NUR back up to the top of the hill. Grab Cindy and
complete 15 BBSw/Cindy. Rinse&Repeat. We managed
to get in the minimum requirement of 4 rounds to quality
as a Quadzilla routine.

Took Cindy back home and moseyed to COT.

MARY: No Time Left On The Clock

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your NL

COT: STK!!!

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Birthday Beatdown at BAOPS

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YCH and Cohiba had the pleasure of leading 18 men for a Last Call and Cyclops birthday beatdown at Alcatraz. Here’s what we did:

Warm-Up:

  • SSH – 57 IC
  • Imperial Walkers – 34 IC
  • Hillbilly Walkers – 33 IC
  • Moroccan Night Clubs – 7 IC
  • Windmills – 7 IC
  • Strawberry Pickers- 7 IC 

 
The Thang:

  • Dora: 57 Burpees, 57 Shoulder Taps, 57 Merkins, 57 Carolina Dry Docks 
  • During Burpees partner works, the other bear crawl 25 yds and crawl bear back.
  • During STs partner works, the other lunge walk 25 yds and back.
  • During Merkins partner works, the other Run 25 yds and Nur back.
  • During CCD partner works, the other Crab Walk 25 yds and back.

 
Mosey around the field
 
Handoff to Italian Job

  • Four Corners
  • Round 1 – 13 Squats, 13 Merkins, 13 American Hammers, 13 SSHs, 5 Burpees
  • Round 2 – 13 Calf Raises, 13 Diamond Merkins, 13 Flutters, 13 Mtn Climbers, 5 Burpees
  • Round 3 – 13 Jump Squats, 13 Wide Arm Merkins, 13 Freddies, 13 MNCs, 5 Burpees
  • Round 4 – 13 Lunges, 13 Ranger Merkins, 13 Dollies, 13 Turkish Get-ups, 5 Burpees
  • Round 5 – 13 Bomb Jacks, 13 Dry Docks, 13 Ab Mat Sit-ups, 13 Alternating Shoulder Taps, 5 Burpees
  • Mosey to Pull-up Bars
  • AMRAP Pull-up
  • 57 Squats
  • 57 Calf Raises
  • Mosey to wall near baseball backstop
  • 52 Irkins
  • 52 Dips
  • Mosey to COT
  • 5 Minutes of Mary

NMM
It’s always a pleasure to start the weekend with some friends in the park. Though we could have done without the heat and humidity, it nonetheless set us on the right path for the day. Happy birthday, boys. Hope it was a good one!

-IJ

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I am glad I had a lighter kettlebell

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WARMUP:

  • MC
  • windmill
  • side straddle hop
  • imperial walker
  • cherry picker

THE THANG:
• 15 Overhead Press
o Bear crawl – 10 yds
o 15 Merkins
o Crawl Bear – 10 yds
o 15 Merkins
• 15 Curls
o Lunge walk – 10 yds
o 15 situps with kettlebell
o Lunge walk – 10 yds
o 15 situps with kettlebell
• 15 Goblet Squats
o Bear crawl – 10 yds
o 15 Situp with Press
o Crawl Bear– 10 yds
o 15 Situp with Press
• 15 Bent Over Rows – both sides
o Lunge walk – 10 yds
o 15 Kettlebell swings
o Lunge walk – 10 yds
o 15 Kettlebell swings
• 15 Hallo
o Bear crawl – 10 yds
o 15 situps with kettlebell
o Crawl bear – 10 yds
o 15 situps with kettlebell
• 15 Wood chop both sides
o Lunge walk – 10 yds
o 15 Seated overhead press
o Lunge walk – 10 yds
o 15 Seated overhead press
• 15 Tricep Extensions
o Overhead carry – 10 yards
o 15 side lunges left side
o Overhead carry – 10 yards
o 15 side lunges right side
 
• 15 tactical transfers
o Farmers carry right hand – 10 yards
o 15 Deadlift
o Farmers carry left hand – 10 yards
o 15 deadlift
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Dora Plays Games

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WARMUP: SSH, IW, HW, CP, Merkins
THE THANG: Stack of tiles with exercises. Two teams flip a tile and do 10 reps then run a lap. The “#2” team won an extra set of SSH! CONGRATS!

Part II: Dora: 200 Squats, 200 LBCs, 200 Casbah #2s, 300 flutters.
MARY: We took turns. Lemme rephrase, we each chose an exercise.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel Men’s Thursday 6/4 – meatloaf , July 7 Dads and 2.0 at WEP which will end in a water balloon fight (heck yeah!)👍
COT: With Jesus.

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Field of Pain

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It was a dark, dank, steamy morning and then Stud Muffin walked in and we were able to officially start. Quick warmup and then we made like a tree and moseyed.

Over to the benches for dips, dirkins, and step-ups.

For the main event:

100 yard sprint, 100 squats, 100 yard sprint, 3 kraken burpees
90 yard sprint, 90 flutters, 90 yard sprint, 3 kraken burpees
80 yard sprint, 80 clave raises, 80 yard sprint, 3 kraken burpees
70 yard sprint, 70 CDDs, 70 yard sprint, 3 kraken burpees
60 yard sprint, 60 american hammers, 60 yard sprint, 3 kraken burpees
50 yard sprint, 50 lunges, 50 yard sprint, 3 kraken burpees
40 yard sprint, 40 merkins, 40 yard sprint, 3 kraken burpees
30 yard sprint, 30 big boys sit-ups, 30 yard sprint, 3 kraken burpees
20 yard sprint, 20 superman’s, 20 yard sprint, 3 kraken burpees
10 yard sprint, 10 lbc’s, 10 yard sprint, 3 kraken burpees

Back to the bench for dips, irkins, and step-ups.

Back to COT for prayers and praises.

JWow
 

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