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Potpourri of Pain

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WARMUP: windmill, arm circles, merkins, mountain climbers
THE THANG: mosey to pull up bars.  5 sets – counts of 5,4,3,2 and 1 with 5 merkins in between each set of pull-ups.  Mosey back to parking lot and pick up coupons.  Form a line.  One person used the sand bag and performed 25 squats and functioned as the timer.  Remaining pax performed the following exercises:
Merkins
Dips
Carolina Dry Docks
Squats
Calf raises
Alternating lunges
Single Leg Deadlifts

After the above exercises were done, we took a lap, came back and changed coupon to the kettlebell. While one PAX performed 20 curls, remaining PAX worked through the exercise set listed above. Took another and came back to the wall for some air chair and balls to wall. Formed back on the line and did 100 yd sprints with 1 min of plank between each sprint.
MARY: 3 min of Ab work and finished with my hip exercises.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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IPC Week 3 without Cindy

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WARMUP: Short Mosey, 5 core principles were recited followed by a burpee for each one, cherry pickers, SSH
THE THANG: Went to the short track to show everyone the board. Liked the IPC week 3 format so much decided to use it. Increased the number of rounds since our run distance was shorter and Cindy didn’t participate. Here’s the run down:

RD1 – 10xMerkins, 16xStep-Ups, 20xMerkins, 26xStep-Ups, 30xMerkins, Run a Lap

RD2- 10xStep-Ups, 16xCDDsw/FeetOnCurb, 20xStep-Ups, 26xCDDswFOC, 30xStep-Ups, Run a Lap

RD3 – 10xCDDswFOC, 16xBulgarianSplitSquats, 20xCDDswFOC, 26xBSSs, 30xCDDswFOC, Run a Lap

RD4 – 10xBSSs, 16xV-Ups, 20xBSSs, 26xV-Ups, 30xBSSs, Run a Lap

RD5 – 10xV-Ups, 16xDerkinswFOCurborBench, 20xV-Ups, 26xDerkinswFOCorB, 30xV-Ups, Run a Lap

RD6 – 10xDerkinswFOCorB, 16xFreddyMs, 20xDerkinswFOCorB, 26xFreddyMs, 30xDerkinswFOCorB, Run a Lap

RD7 – 10xFreddyMs, 16xBurpees, 20xFreddyMs, 26xBurpees, 30xFreddyMs, Run a Lap

Most of us made it into rounds 6 & 7 and I believe we had a couple of finishers. Lots of mumble chatter, great fellowship.

MARY: No time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: What is said in COT stays in COT. This should give freedom to vulnerability. I encourage you to speak up at COT with anything on your mind/heart. This is your opportunity to ask/receive help with your burdens! You do not have to carry them alone!

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IronPax ’23 Week 0

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IT’S IRON PAX SEASON!!!! Week 0 was a great reminder of what’s expected and how hard you will be pushed this month.

Week 0 was in honor of Gary R Wieneke, SP4, who served in the United States Army as an X-ray Spec with the 128th Evac Hospital in Germany from September 1955 to 1958. Mr Wieneke is the father of one of F3Greenwood’s own, Michael Wieneke, F3Brut. Mr. Wieneke passed away at the age of 83 and Brut created this workout in honor of him.
Aside from serving his country, Mr. Wieneke was a renowned track and field coach in the US. He coached the US Junior National Team. He was the head coach at the University of Illinois from 1967 until his retirement after the 2002-2003 season. Wieneke was a nine0time NCAA District IV Coach of the year, was named the NCAA National Indoor Track and Field Coach of the Year in 1987 and garnered three Big Ten Outdoor Coach of the Year. He has been inducted into numerous different Halls of Fame, among them are the US Track and Field and Cross Country and University of Illinois Athletic Halls of Fame.
Behind the numbers
800 meters was his best event. He coached 11 different student-athletes to 27 Big Ten titles in this event
13 reps for the warm-up exercises represents the number of Big Ten Conference Championships his teams won
5 warm-up exercises represent 1 for each Olympic athlete that he coached
7 different exercises and the 8 burpees after each exercise represent the date he passed away – 7/8/2021
Format
Complete the workout for time
Need a 400-meter track or path marked out
Coupon is needed for this workout
Start the timer when the warm-up starts.
The Thang
Warm-up (performed in cadence)
13 reps of each exercise (all 4 count)
SSH
Imperial Walkers
Shoulder Taps
Mountain Climbers
Plank Jacks
800-meter run
85 reps of each of the following exercise. Perform 8 burpees after completing 85 reps of each exercise, including the KB Swings.
Hand Release Merkins
Big Boy Sit-ups
Goblet Squats
Dips
Overhead Press
4 count flutter kicks
KB Swings
800-meter run

The encouragement that happened throughout the workout was top notch. While this was terrible, we all finished. Seeing the list of things that has to get done, is daunting, we all made it to the other side. Don’t let the daunting task stop you in your tracks. You can preserver and overcome.

Great job gents!

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Varsity Locks up Shield

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WARMUP: Windmills SSH Nightclubs, Squats Merks Stretching, Mosey w buttkickers, toy soldiers.
THE THANG: Rebel :Partner up (3s) Merkin pumps with flutters – bottom of hill with Pull ups and Squats top of hill(next to JRROTC) 3rd partner is the timing of switching locations. Bass grabbed Q stick from Rebel and led the pax with rows of light poles (4) – w pain locations at each stop – increasing reps by 2 at each pole. 4 rounds completed w varying exercises for each round
Fogerty took back the Q stick for a quick round of JackWebbs ( squats/seal jax)
MARY: finishing with 3 mins of Mary led by NASA and capped off with Gemini closing out w a round of Russian Twists.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel, Christmas Party, DamtoDam,
COT: prayers and praises added by all pax as we went around the circle for everyone to share something.
Bass closed is out in prayer.

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Ring of Fire – Q 3.6

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– Dynamic warm up, 15 min of movement exercises and motion
– Merkinfest Dora, 15 min
– Up on the bar Dora, 15 min
Close with Q 3.6 Persuasion discussion

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Perseverance requires unwavering determination, resilience in the face of challenges, and a refusal to succumb to setbacks.

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Pulled up discussed what are we struggling with and what holding us back.

WARMUP:
Imperial walkers
Windmills
Standing toy soldiers
The church clap

THE THANG
Mosey over to the pull up bars and grab Cinderblocks

The task: complete the exercise then complete run to the bottom of the hill preform 10 plank tucks for the first 2 exercises the the next two sets Peter Parker’s, shoulder taps. Last but not least 50 monkey humpers after the pull ups

10 Cindy Blocker’s
20 Each Leg Fire Hydrants
25 Burpees
30 Cinderblock Curls – return the Cinderblocks
40 Pull ups

Next mosey to the parking lot on the way we discussed what is it is that is holding us back.
Push ups at every end cap median.
Start at 5 and increase by 5 for every Median. We made it to 30 the fatigue was real and so was getting attacked by fire ant.

Announcements, prayers and praises.

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What are we doing here today?

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WARMUP: SSH, windmills, IW, willie mays hayes, morracan night climbs into overhead claps, Michael Phelps
THE THANG: run a loop around the park stopping at every wood swing for 5 merkins, 10 squats, 15 LBC’s.
Run to the old springs building 10 step ups each side, 10 derkins. Run a lap. Repeat but 10 incline merkins and add 20 dips. Lunge lunge squat the parking lot then head up the big hill.
4 Corners. 3 laps. 30 Flutter kicks. 25 hand release merkins. 20 Bobby Hurleys. 15 Peter pointers (Alabama Prom Night in GA).
People’s chair and balls to the wall. Head to the playground for some fun.
MARY: 1 Pax calls an exercise to do. Other Pax do said exercise while the Pax that called it ran up to the slide and then slid down it. Definitely some humor at the end of a workout.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Baby Shanks coming in March!
COT: prayer to Walker with the death of his sister. To my pregnant M. To all the kids going back to school next week and their teachers.

NMM – Always great to be back in The Fort to see my brothers in the gloom. The slide was a much needed laugh for the PAX.

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Green fruit with fuzz

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Esso:
Merkins
Dips
Overhead Claps
Derkins
Erkins
Multiple reps

Band Camp:
Pacer Test

Shady:
10 knee ups
20 flutters
30 American hammers
40 second plank

10 Peter Parker’s
10 Parker Peters
10 Side things now called the fire hydrant

– @Barry Manilow was not parterning with @Anchorman or @CakeBoss
– @Portal found an orange sky
– @HarryCarry and @Shady want another 20 meter shot
– @SkateOrDie managed to get to the closest AO to his house, and many mornings that is enough
– @Shield and @Ruby Slippers want permission to give me candid feedback. Granted.
– @Saw Dust charges hard
– @Splinter and @Esso had a competition to see who was a bigger Clemson fan. ( @Slash would have loved it )

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