Squatch Pond

WARMUP: run to Church of God Worship Center, 5 SSH, 5 Seal jacks, 5 downdog merkins
THE THANG: pick up two 2lb weights, run to stairs at FM COG, calf raises on steps x10, SSH x10, seal jacks x10, run through upper lot of COG to Confederate St, turn right down Forrest St, turn right down Academy St, run up steps to 2nd floor of COG to perform SSH x10, seal jacks x10, derkins on picnic tables x10, run down steps, drop 2lb weights at corner of Academy & Withers, run up Withers towards the Print Shop to complete 5 pull-ups and 5 toes to bar, run out of Print Shop and cut through lot of Craft Axe, down Academy St to go pick up your 2lb weights at corner of Academy & Withers… RINSE AND REPEAT 2 more times
MARY: LBCs, Broga
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Trash pickup, Stuff the bus, Bethel Serve
COT: :pray: back to school

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ROF 7-23

WARMUP: yes, 7 minutes
THE THANG: A cinder block board of pain
OH claps/Imp walkers
squats
shoulder taps
curls
clean and press (maybe not, could have been a dead lift)
LBCs
merkins
swings
man makers
OH press
high reps, running up and down the back hill, sometimes with the block
MARY: yes
ANNOUNCEMENTS: some
COT: yes

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Sweep The Yard

WARMUP: MNC, Windmills, Calf Raise, LSS
THE THANG:
Did 7’s on the hill at the front entrance of the school. (Flying Squirrels & Mountain Climbers)
Ran up Springfield PKWY to the back entrance. At every light pole we did 3 merkins and 3 squats were we ran down to two pole and back one pole until we got to the end. ~ 15 poles

We went to the park benches and did 100 step ups in sets of 25 while the partner held in the plank position.

10 muscle-ups on the loading dock

25 dips on the park bench

Total mileage was 2+ miles
MARY: No Time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Sweaty Barry
COT: Closed in Prayer

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The While Zipper

WARMUP:
Mosey to Fort Mill Pharmacy parking lot, Moroccan nightclubs, low slow squats, and 9 burpees
Mosey around Clebourne to next parking lot and 5 diamond merkins in cadence
Mosey to next parking lot and 5 jump squats, mosey to corner of Spring and Elliot
THE THANG:
Zipper route. Every time you cross over Spring, you do burpees. Start with 8 and do one less each time you cross over down to 1 burpees at Summersby and Spring. Right side of the zipper is 15 jump squats, left side is 15 diamond merkins
MARY:
Some did, some made it back right on time
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Arms & Legs So Bad It Still Hurts

<@UST30T7FF> and <@U01JUGK82TY> were Co-Q’s for the day. We decided to split it up by muscle groups. Ruby started first with arms and then Splinter took over with legs.
WARMUP: Warmup-y things.
THE THANG: Ruby’s 1/2:
Mosey to the playground for a all arms DORA. MOT is bear crawl 20 yards out and crawl bear 20 yards back to the playground, Exercises & Reps: At the swing set put your feet in the swing to get into a position to perform derkins, bring your knees to your chest while in plank position and then extend, then complete 1 derkin, that is 1 rep, partners complete 50reps, then 75 reps of a Merkin/ParkerPeter combo exercise, and then 100 reps of a WideArmMerkin/ShoulderTaps combo exercise. ARMS WERE BE SMOKED!!!
Splinter’s 1/2:
Indian Run 1 lap around WEP. Unfortunatly, becase Ruby killed us in the 1st half, we lost 60% of the PAX on the lap. Then we regrouped for some step-ups on the park benches, some calf raises then ran over to the hill. We lined up and raced up the hill not knowing what was going to be required of the winner and losers. Since there were 10 of us (to start) 1st Place did 1 more run up the hill and 100 squats, 2nd place 2 more runs up the hill and 90 squats, and so on. Second go round was 1st Place, 1 run up the hill and 100 lunges, 2nd place 2 more runs up the hill and 90 lunges and so on.
<@U035XDY7ABC> started talking to a guy at the top of the hill. He ended up EH’ing him on the spot to finish the last set and Mary. Welcome The Apostle.
MARY: 4 minutes of Mary
ANNOUNCEMENTS: The Sweaty Barry, Blood drive, Read Your Newsletter
COT: Welcome The Apostle

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Not All Heroes Wear Capes

YHC brushed off the cobwebs from a weinke from 2017. It was hard then and even worse this time. Here’s what we did:

Warm-up
– 10 Low Slow Squats (IC)
– 10 Mountain Climbers (IC)
– 10 SSHs (IC)
Run the Main Street to Clebourne, to COT loop

Round 1
– 10 Burpees
– 20 Merkins
– 30 LBCs (Little Baby Crunches)
– 40 Squats
– 50 Calf Raises
Run the loop

Round 2
– 10 Wide Arm Merkins
– 20 Lunges
– 30 Flutters
– 40 Overhead Claps
– 50 Side Straddle Hops
Run the loop

Round 3
– 10 Diamond Merkins
– 20 Jump Squats
– 30 Big Boy Sit-Ups
– 40 Alt. Shoulder Taps
– 50 Moroccan Night Clubs
Run the loop

Repeat until time

NMM
When we’re young, our heroes wear capes. As we age, our new heroes wear flaws, scars, and wisdom. They quietly show up, do the work, and expect no applause. Growing up isn’t about losing heroes, it’s about finding real ones.

You men are my heroes. You each have special gifts that I admire. You may not see it, but we do. Spending time in the Gloom with you men makes me better. Thank you.

IJ

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King of the Ring – Round 2 – The Rocket Burner

Ring of Fire – King of the Ring Challenge
Round 2 – Previous Kings are Q
Oh the humidity was cranked up!! Soupy swampy hot. ZERO breeze. Excellent mumblechatter in COT while we all stretched out. Senator Tressel came in hot, but caught up to us on the warmup run. 13 dawgs let loose!!

Warmup:
Slow run loop around the parking lot, approx. 400-500m, then circle up near COT for the following:
– 20 SSH
– 10 WM
– 15 MNC
– 15 IW
– 10 Strawberry pickers

Then mosey over to the USMC JROTC building, roadway near the sidewalk to the pull-up bars for…..

THE THANG:
The Rocket Burner Circuit
Setup: 5 stations, each with an exercise. Some have modes of transportation listed to get to the next station. PAX are to grab 2 cinder blocks from storage and put them on the roadway near the sidewalk to the pull up bars. Then get after it. Cones were used to mark station locations. Station 1 was at the pull-up bars, station 2 was at the roadway, beginning of sidewalk to pull-up bars, station 3 was along the roadway, towards A.O. Jones, approx. 5-60 yds away, station 4 was same location as station 2, station 5 was at bottom of hill at stop sign. That is the circuit.
Do the work. No music, just work. Once all stations are done, scoring of one round is once you return to station 1 to start over. King is the one who does the most rounds.
Stations and MoT are:
1. 5 pull-ups, frolick (walk, skip, whatever) to #2
2. With one cindy, 15 overhead presses, then farmer’s carry BOTH blocks to #3
3. With one cindy, 15 curls, then farmer’s carry BOTH blocks to #4
4. With BOTH cindies, 15 deadlift into calf raise. Full up, full down. Then no more cindies. Run downhill to #5.
5. 5 burpees, 20 lunges (10 ea leg), 25 LBC. Run uphill to #1
6. That is one round
7. Repeat

WINNER IS: BAND CAMP!! He was a machine, cranking out almost 6 full rounds (or was it 6 full, started on 7th?). Harry Carry was hot on his heels. Everyone cranked out at least 3. I got 4 full, started on 5th, but threw in the towel after pull-ups. A lot of excellent mumblechatter and push/pull from each PAX. Guys were REALLY going after it, pushing hard. No cinder blocks were harmed, too. :blush:

Stored the cindies just in time to get back to COT right at 6.

MARY: None

Announcements: The Barry is coming!! Read your newsletter, get involved!!

COT: A lot of P&P lifted. Do not carry it all inside.

Cake Boss came up with a GREAT idea with this King of the Ring challenge. Looking forward to the next rounds!! BRING IT!!!

Thank you for the opportunity to lead. Blessings and SYITG.
-NASA

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Thrillmas In July

Twas the day after the 4th and all through the Yard not a creature was stirring except 7 pax who wanted to work out hard.

Drop Thrill was on Q and had a devious plan. There was too much shoulder work for Ruby to stand.

On Grogu on Ruby on Float Bridge on Harry, on Dojo on Rumbling Bald things are getting quite scary!

The Pax were quite quick and just in time, finished the twelfth day and complained about burpees and boy did they whine.

Thrill being a wise old elf, finally let the pax breathe in spite of himself.

As he rode out of sight, the Pax swore they could hear him shout : Happy Thrillmas in July and to all, a good night!

1-run
2- Wide Arm Merkins
3-Jump squats
4-LBCs
5-Diamond merkins
6-Imperial walkers
7-Rosalitas
8-Slow flutters
9-Low slow squats
10-Lunges (10 each leg)
11-Merkins
12-Burpees

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