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Don’t drink the ‘Mountain Dew’

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7 PAX from Stockade came over to see what I was doing at Slowburn.

Warm up
Accumulator board (up to 6 exercises), run in between
Wall sits and burpees
Back to the board for exercise-run-exercise-run-etc
Finished with a properly executed Mary

Note to self: there are 2 sides to a board, one side for Oldburn PAX, the other side prepare for when the PAX from Stockade show up

Thank you for the nod Peach Stand

Looks like we made it,

Barry Manilow

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Farmers bring in the Thanksgiving holiday

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WARMUP: motivators from 5
THE THANG: 2 minute farmer carry followed by 1 minute workouts. We mixed in multiple rounds of running to the pull up bars and laps around the track to honor Splinter who is DR.
MARY: mixed in throughout the workout as multiple PAX prescribed more pain into the mix.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read the newsletter. Lots of upcoming events.
COT: Thanksgiving takes a lot of work. Be thankful for those that are in your life and that you don’t even know who have helped get food on your Thanksgiving table. It’s easy to complain about circumstances in your life, but practicing gratitude helps keep complaining away.

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New Beginnings

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WARMUP:
Short mosey around the parking lot and then stopped for warm up: 15 SSH, 15 IW, 5 burpees, 15 Windmill, 5 burpees, 10 Potato PickerS
THE THANG:
Started with 4 corners: 15 Merkins, 15 jump squats, 15 LBC, 15 lunges. Rinse and repeat 2 more times with reps of 10 & 5 with some backwards running.

Mosey to get some cinder blocks and head to front of elementary school. Partner up for 100 Shoulder Press, 100 curls, 100 squats and 100 derkins while partner runs the parking lot.

MARY:
Plenty to close out the workout
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: I brought us out. Grateful to be able to lead.

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Practicing Moderation in Moderation

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WARMUP: SSH, CASBAH #2s, IW,HW, Baby Arm Circles fed &back.
THE THANG: Squat Line Meat Grinder
Teams: 2 teams, 5 men per team
Space: Parking lot 40yd length
Gear:
• 2 identical stacks of 8 exercise cards (one per team)
• 1 sandbag per team 40 lb

Objective
First team to burn through their entire stack AND complete the final center-line sandbag pass wins.
Flow
1. Both teams start at their stack on opposite ends.
2. On “GO!” flip top card → whole team completes the written exercise together (same reps, no sandbagging).
3. As soon as the rep is done, the entire team sprints together to the center line.
4. Drop into a tight shoulder-to-shoulder wall squat (asses low, no one stands).
5. End man grabs the sandbag off the ground and the line passes it hand-to-hand all the way down and all the way back while staying in squat.
→ One full down-and-back = complete pass

1. When the pass is done, team sprints back together to their stack, flips next card, repeat.
2. After the last card is completed, team still runs to center ONE MORE TIME and does a final victory pass.
3. First team to finish that final pass wins.

Good move <@UN6PTD007> pulling a seasoned dodgeball move by sneakily leaving my team and switching to the other. Your team won handily.

Game 2: Russian Roulette Beatdown
Setup
• Distance: 30 yd
• 4 face-down cards at start line: 2 MOT, 2 MOVE
• Far end has the list posted:
MOT (Mode of Transportation)
1. Bear crawl
2. Nur
3. Run
4. Lunge walk
MOVE (Exercise at far end)
1. Burpees
2. Merkins
3. LBCs
4. Squats
Rules
1. One PAX at a time steps up and calls: “Number __ MOT and Number __ MOVE.”
2. Q flips the two cards.
3. All PAX immediately:
• Travel the distance using the drawn MOT
• Does the drawn MOVE at the far end (solo)
• Travel the distance back using the drawn MOT
1. Reshuffle and lay them again.
2. Next man picks.

Continue until time is called or every man has drawn at least once.

GAME 3: DORA

MARY: Yeah, we all called her at least once.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: review of F3 for FNG (@SmallCrabs). We got carried away and sorta skipped it.
COT: Prayers.

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Doom Loop

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Started with a mosey run

Warmup: SSH, Windmills, Imp walkers, Moroccan N/C, low slow squats, arm circles, peter parkers, plank stretches.

Doom Loop: start on the line with 5 burpees, run to the wall and climb up/over it, run towards front of the school, bear crawl between the cones, run back to start line. We repeated for three loops.

Mosey run

Wall work: wall sit and pax at both ends run out for 3 burpees. Then did some BTW for five counts.

Mosey run

Push up circle: each pax did one thru the circle, then two…all the way to five.

Mosey run

Playground: partner DORA: P1 stays and does leg lifts (we held the fence), while P2 runs out to the concrete path and back. Count was 100.

Then did 10 pull ups OYO.

Mosey run

Bench work: step ups, ten each leg. Dips.

Run to COT for slam ball toss.

Fini

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Lots of Lightposts

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Five men showed up on a crisp morning right before sunrise. We moseyed out to the main road stopping at each light pole for an exercise. The rep count was low so we focused on good form. We headed back to the school performing exercises at each lightpole back to the main lot.
With five minutes remaining, we repeated multiple rounds of dips, Mike Tyson’s, and wall taps.
Great job guys!

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Wheel of Misfortune and too many reps

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Since I was going to be DR for my birthday, I decided to do my birthday Q a day early. I wanted a good one and didn’t realize how good it was.
WARMUP: SSH, windmills
THE THANG: We picked up Cindy and took her down to the elementary school playground. Around the loop, about 15-20 yards apart were 6 stations.
They included:
10 OH Press
25 Decline Merkins
25 Curls
25 Squats with the block on your back
25 Big Boys with the block
25 Chest Press
25 Bent over rows
Run around the playground.

My intention was to do 420 reps, but we all know what happens when we try to count when we are working out, so we ended up with 3 rounds of 480 reps.

MARY: Everyone called something for the last 5 minutes
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter. Lots of opportunities to give back.
COT: Prayers for a good 43rd trip around the sun.

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You can’t out-Merkin a BigMac.. but you can try

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WARMUP:
– 25 SSH
– 10 Windmills
– 15 Imperial Walkers
– 10 Moroccan Night Club
– Mosey 1 lap around the parking lot

THE THANG:
1. Improvement contest -> Record the results
1. 1 minute Merkins
2. 1 minute Big Boy Situps
3. 1 minute Shoulder taps
4. 1 minute Mountain Climbers

2. Big Mac Burn-off -> takes 2,000 merkins to burn off a Big Mac
– 7 rounds EMOM – 10 merkins then plank

3. Whopper Crunch -> takes 3,300 situps to burn off a Whopper
– 25 big boy situps
– 25 American Hammers
– Mosey 1 lap of the parking lot
– repeat

4,.Chick-fil-a Challenges -> burning off one spicey nugget, one spicy rep at a time.
– 25 Mountain Climbers
– 10 Shoulder taps
– 25 Mountain Climbers
– Mosey 1 lap of the parking lot
– Repeat

5. Sweet Tea-Spring -> 700 jumping for one glass of sweet tea
– 50 jumping jacks
– 25 squats
– Mosey 1 lap
– Repeat 2

MARY:
– 5 Burpees OYO

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Trash pickup Nov 1
– Massey blood drive Nov 1
– Beers for Beetus Nov 1
– Christmas Party Dec 12th
– Ruck and Roll – Dec 13th
– 4B’s – Nov 7th
– Charlotte Half Marathon – 11/15
– Family Care
– Bethel Men’s Shelter – Nov 6th
COT:

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Nice New Pavement at WEP

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WARMUP: Run to the top of Main Street and take a left and head to the WEP amphitheater. Then some windmills and Moroccan nightclubs.
THE THANG: run around the nice new pavement at WEP. When you get back to the amphitheater, 10 merkins, 10 big boys, 10 squats. Increase by 5 after each of the first 3 rounds, then back down the ladder.
MARY: flutters to time (about 1 minute)
ANNOUNCEMENTS: lots of opportunities to get involved, so pick something and get involved
COT: prayers for good reports and prays for those taken too soon.

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Met at the ROF for a little bit of this and a little bit of that

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Normally, I’m the type of PAX that likes to create routines where you complete a lot of reps of a few different exercises when I Q a workout. Decided to switch it up a bit, and as my man JWOW like to say, we did a little bit of this and a little bit of that, but a whole lot of work was put in!

WARMUP: 3 minute mosey followed by all of the usual suspects with a proper call out – NEISPMICE. If you know you know!

THE THANG: After our warm-up we found ourselves next to the bars, shocker!!!

Bar & Cindy Work – 3 Rounds
Partner Up – Partner #1 on the bar dead hangs
Partner #2 10 Thrusters w/ Cindy
After partner #2 completes 10 Thrusters, Partner #1 completes a max of 5 pullups and can come off of the bar while part#2 must complete 10 Diamond Merkins before switching to the bar.

Moseyed to a wall.

Wall Work – 2 Rounds Each
45 second wall sit – right into 10 jump squats

20 second extended arm plank hold w/ feet on the wall – right into 10 merkins w/ feet on the wall.

AB – Tabatta – 2 Rounds
Hold Crucifix Plank position for 30 seconds, right into 30 seconds of American Hammers

Moseyed to the loop around the playground.

Lap Work – 1 Round Each

Partner up for Catch me if you can
Partner #1 runs while Partner #2 performs 3 burpees, when Partner #2 completes the burpees he runs to catch Partner #1, switch! Each partner performed 3 sets of burpees.

Partner up for Catch the Bear
Partner#1 bear crawls while the Partner #2 performs 5 burpees, when Partner #2 completes 5 burpees he runs to catch Partner #1, switch, each team completed 1 lap.

Moseyed back to COT

MARY: We had 4 minutes left to work, so we worked!
AB – EMOM for 4 minutes
25 -LBCs & 15 Reverse Crunches

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter

COT: STK!

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