Varsity stuff

WARMUP:
– 10 Moroccan Nightclubs
– 10 Grass pickers
– 10 Down dog to up dog (do what feels right)

THE THANG:
– 50 pickle pushers OYO

– Run 1 mile – Up hill to wall, out and around the outside loop, around the back of the school down to the football field turn L and go back to the middle school around the front circle back up to the chin-up bars

– 2 min dead hang on the chin-up bars

– Run up to the wall at the top of the hill – Balls to the wall and do a handstand walk for 10 move left, 10 moves right, hold and repeat.

– Run down the hill bear crawls back up to sidewalk

– Walk down the hill, jog over to the benches and do 50 dips

– Run back over to the bottom of the hill do 50 merkins

– Run over to the chin-up bars and do 1 minute dead hang

– Run back to parking lot do lunge walks up the hill past last island, walk back down and lunge walk up again.

– Walk back down and ner up the hill back down the hill and ner up the hill again

– Head to COT.

MARY:
– 20 Mountain Climbers,
– 20 Heels to heaven,
– 10 Jo-Lo’s

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: It is what it is… Know we are all dealing with it and here for each other.

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13 YR Anniversary Convergence

WARMUP:
THE THANG:
Here is my weinke – Assassin

We had about 12 runners and 6 ruckers tackle the tundra of the paved loop around the schools.

Starting at the front door we headed around the back, past the shop, past the ROTC HQ, down to the elementary playground, back by the stadium, out to Jones Road and back to the front.

All enjoyed. Thanks to Sasquatch and Spectre for the preview lap and suggestions.

Convergence bootcamp Q- Backdraft

Warmup- SSH, windmills, cherry pickers, mtn. Climbers, Moroccan night clubs

The thang-
Count off for groups of 3s
Mosey to pull up bars
Group 1 wall sits
Group 2 merkins

Group 3 13 pull ups 13 burpees

Stay in groups Dora on the hill
Bottom 300 CDDs top 300 squat jumps mosey from top to bottom

Line up in parking lot for 43 seconds of following exercises followed by bear crawls in-between
Exercises were as follows
Merkins, air squats, flutters, alt. Shoulder taps, jump squats, lbc’s, Carolina’s dry docks, alt lunges, burpees,

Mosey back to COT in original 3 man groups

KB workout- Boogie Nights

Ladder of pain- it sucked

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Have you ever seen a live alligator in the wild?

WARMUP: yes, it was spectacular
THE THANG: 4 corners, same exercise all 4 corners round 1, round 2 add an exercise, up to 4 rounds, 4 exercises at each corner. Merkins, BBs, Squats, Burpees(ish). Then over to cinderblocks for 10 minutes of picking things up and putting them down.
MARY: no time bro
ANNOUNCEMENTS: yes
COT: crushed it

Great AO folks, lots of options, stop by Varsity next week, you’ll be glad you did.

Looks like we made it,

Barry Manilow

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No rain, just The Thunder

Chest/shoulders workout:
– Merkins
– Seal jacks
– HR merks
– Moroccan night clubs
– Derkins
– Overhead claps
– Incline merkins
– Donkey kicks
Back: 5 sets of 5 pull-ups
Cardio
– 20 LBCs IC / hill run
– 15 Bomb jacks / hill run
– 10 Merkins / hill run
– 5 Burpees IC / hill run
– 10 CDD’s / hill run
– 15 Bobby Hurley s / hill run
– 20 Big boys IC / hill run
Back: Max count pull up bar hang

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Armless Endeavors

WARMUP: SSH, IW, HW, Cherry Pickers, Broga
THE THANG:
4 corners – 25 reps each – Mot: Mosey
Squats, LBC’s, Monkey Humpers, PYO – 3 Rnds
SSH, PlankJacks, BB – 3 Rnds
MARY: Yes – Each called out
ANNOUNCEMENTS: RYN
COT: Always

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Friday date with Cindy

WARMUP:
SSH
Imperial Walker
Hillbilly Walker
Cherry Picker
Windmill
Peter Parker
Parker Peter

THE THANG:
Mosey to Cafeteria in the back of NAFO
10x
Step ups
Derkins
Incline Merkins with Claps
Dips
Bulgarian Split Squats

MARY:
Grab a Cindy by ROTC
ARAP on 1 minute Tabata timer
– pull-ups
– man makers
– Curls
– OH press
– Bench Press
– Goblet Squats
– BO Rows
– Big Bois
– Swings
– Tricep Ext
– Derkins
– Shoulder Raise
– Lawnmowers
– Clean Press

Farmers Carry to Sugar Creek Elementary and back.

Great mumblechatter with Rumbling Bald.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Fish Tales with Birdcage

We had 9 at varsity (2 for IronPAX, 1 proctor, and 6 for a Cindy beatdown. Here’s what we did:

Warmup
– 10 Low Slow Swuats
– 10 Mountain Climbers
– 10 Windmills
Mosey to get a cinderblock

– 10 Manmakers
– 15 Curls
– 20 OH Press
– 25 Flutters with a Press
– 30 Cindy Swings
– 20 Squats
– 15 Skull Crushers
– 10 Sit-up to Press
– Jog to AO Jones

Repeat 2 more times

NMM
Below is an AI generated backblast about yesterday’s workout. Some of it is true.

The sun had yet risen where the flags would be, and the usual quiet was shattered by the sound of furious guitar riffs echoing across the lot. Rumbling Bald himself had decided that today was the day he would reinvent himself as a heavy metal solo act. His amps were cranked to eleven, his hair (which may or may not have been real) was blowing in the breeze, and every bird within a mile radius had fled in terror.

In a parking spot nearby, Birdcage was already five tall tales deep. “And that’s when Dark Helmet single-handedly wrestled a grizzly bear with a lightsaber and taught it calculus!” he boomed, waving his arms dramatically. Nobody was buying it, but everyone kept listening because Birdcage’s delivery was too good to ignore.

Time Machine, meanwhile, sat cross-legged on the asphalt, looking like he had aged a century overnight. “What am I doing with my life?” he muttered, staring off into the middle distance. “I mean, posting at Varsity? Was that really my legacy? Out of all possible timelines, why did I land there?” He sighed so deeply that Rumbling Bald’s double-bass pedal briefly went out of rhythm.

Finally, Spiderman dropped in from a nearby tree branch, landing with a thud. “Hey, uh, what’s all this?” he asked, eyeing the stack of cinderblocks Italian Job had been planning to incorporate into Bald’s stage show.

“Those,” Rumbling Bald growled, “are for dramatic effect. I need someone to swing them into the pit when the breakdown hits.”

Spiderman looked at the rocks, then back at Rumbling Bald, then immediately raised both hands. “Nope. Nope nope nope. Swinging heavy things is not in the contract.” With a single web-thwip, he was gone before anyone could argue.

Birdcage stood, puffed out his chest, and pointed dramatically toward the horizon. “Did I ever tell you about the time Dark Helmet built an entire stadium out of marshmallows just to host the galaxy’s first interstellar dodgeball championship?”

Time Machine groaned, Rumbling Bald shredded harder, and somewhere in the distance Spiderman was still muttering: “Nope. Not my job.”

And thus, the morning at NaFo ended the way all their gatherings did—half concert, half existential crisis, and entirely ridiculous.

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Mark “Pitbull” McDowell WOD

We had 4 PAX at Honey Badger for a hero WOD in honor of my friend and classmate Capt. Mark “Pitbull” McDowell. Here’s what we did:

The Thang

– Run 1 Mile
– 5 Minute Plank to honor the 5 service branches of the US Armed Forces
– 200 Calf Raises
– 300 LBCs
– Run 1 Mile
– 100 Muscle-ups on the wall at the school
– 200 Merkins
– 300 Squats
Return to COT

NMM

Monday we honored my friend Mark. Mark was a 4.25 GPA student, captain of the soccer team, and an all-around great young man. He was the guy you wanted to hate because he was good at everything. But once you got to know him, you learned that he was the type of guy you strived to be. When he graduated high school, he attended the Air Force Academy. Upon graduation in 2005, he completed Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, and Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals at Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi. Captain McDowell completed the Basic Qualification Course – F-15E in May of 2008 and was assigned to the 336th Fighter Squadron at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.

Mark’s plane went down in Afghanistan. He left behind a wife, loving family, and many friends. As his grandfather said at his service, “He was born to fly and he died doing what he loved.”

If Mark were here today, he would have been the guy crushing the workout from the front with a smile on his face. He would have been the guy to encourage the whole time. Remember, we GET TO do this. Some others aren’t as blessed.

Aye!

Italian Job

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Calm in the Crazy

WARMUP:
Moroccan nightclubs
Windmills
Cherry pickers
Hillbilly walkers

Mosey to pull up bars, 20 inclined merkins on curb
Every man grab a block and overhead mosey down to back parking lot for 4 corners
Every time you make it to the middle, it’s 5 man makers, and you bring your block to each corner. 20 thrusters, 20 upright rows, 15 goblet squats, 15 Cindy swings. After one time around, finish with man makers, then mosey back up to put your block away
THE THANG:
Official F3 deck of cards. Each card has an exercise and a number on it. Number cards are the number on the card plus 10, face cards are 25 reps, Aces are 100 reps. Circle up and each pax takes a turn pulling a card and everyone completes the exercise on the card
MARY: none needed
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Chance of Rain

WARMUP: IW, HW, Merkins, MC, MNC,
THE THANG:
Thing #1
400M Run
21 Burpees
21 Heels to Heaven
21 Squats

400M Run
15 Burpees
15 Heels to Heaven
15 Squats

400M Run
9 Burpees
9 Heels to Heaven
9 Squats

Thing #2

15 Burpees
15 LBCs
15 Squats
Run 200 meters
15 Burpees
15 LBCs
15 Squats
Run 200 meters

10 Burpees
10 LBCs
10 Squats
Run 200 meters
10 Burpees
10 LBCs
10 Squats
Run 200 meters

5 Burpees
5 LBCs
5 Squats
Run 200 meters
5 Burpees
5 LBCs
5 Squats
Run 200 meters
MARY: No Time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter
COT: Closed in prayer

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