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U.S. Marine Cpl. Albert Gettings – “Bert”

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U.S. Marine Cpl. Albert Gettings, 27, of New Castle, Pennsylvania, died on Jan. 5, 2009, while conducting counter-sniper operations in Fallujah, Iraq. Cpl. Gettings was serving as a team leader with the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, Il Marine Expeditionary Force, of Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, at the time of his death.
Every quarter, Cpl. Gettings’ fellow Marines in Fox Company complete a special CrossFit workout in his honor as part of the Cpl. Albert P. Gettings Award ceremony.
He is survived by his wife, Stephanie Palimino; parents, David and Juliet; and sister, Cori.

WARMUP:
Ran the 400m loop
1st corner: 15 SSH IC
2nd corner: 10 Windmills IC
3rd corner: 15 Imperial Walker IC & 15 Hillbilly Walker IC
4th corner: Plank while honoring “Bert”

THE THANG:
50 burpees
400-m run
100 push-ups
400-m run
150 walking lunges
400-m run
200 squats
400-m run
150 walking lunges
400-m run
100 push-ups
400-m run
50 burpees

MARY:
No need

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Iron Pax Week 1 – ROF 0500 & Varsity 0500
The Fort 12 Year Anniversary 9/28/24 0630 WEP

COT:
Show To Know

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Full Throttle, Wide Open

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WARMUP: SSH, low slow squats, flutters, Cherry pickers

THE THANG: 3 stations, 25 reps at each one,
1st round: Chest press with Cindy, Merkins at the bottom of the hill, Big boys corner of the bottom lot. Bear Crawl last 20 yards back up the hill
2nd Round: Over head press with Cindy, Dry Docks at the bottom of hill, Flutters corner of bottom lot. Bear crawl last 20 yards back up the hill
Rinse and repeat 3 times
30 chest press before heading back to COT

MARY: Airborne hip stretch followed by a few pax chosen wxcercises to finish out

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Dam to dam sign up, golf tourney

COT: PRAYER OR PRAISE FROM ALL 14

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Sparty Start

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Short mosey run

Warmup: SSH (20xI/C); windmills; Imperial Walkers; Moroccan N/C; Low Slow Sqts; big arm circles; peter parkers; plank stretches

Thang 1: Mini-Spartan:
Start at bottom of hill, run up to pull up bars, do 10 pull-ups, then out to the street and crawl under the barbed wire (2 wires), then farmers carry cinder blocks about 100 feet out and back, drop blocks, back to the bars and do 10 toes-to-bar, run back to bottom of the hill and rinse/repeat.

Barbed wire detail:
Two cinder blocks staked horizontally, string a cargo strap across to another stack of two cinder blocks.

Place a second set of barbed wire ten feet further down. Two-block height worked well in my opinion, it’s a real crawl underneath and not a bear crawl. Top view:
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Side view:
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Thang 2: Spear throw
Target was a red bucket. Stand 3 parking spots back and throw.

Run up to shovel flag.

3 burpees just for fun.

Fini
COT

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IronPAX week -1???

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WARMUP: lots of stuff to get everyone loose
THE THANG: Cindies at the bottom of the hill by elementary school.
Called 11s on the hill with Manmakers at the bottom and Leg lifts over your head at the top while holding onto your block behind you for an anchor. 10 Manmakers at bottom to start so the bad stuff only gets less

Had to cut short around 3/8 or 4/7 for most so we could get back to COT and do about 8 min of cooldown and stretching.

We don’t stretch enough after working out. It would be one thing if guys hung out after a workout and stretched but we usually want to rush off or stand around and talk. Instead of trying to fill the last 5 min with random pain or Mary around the circle call some stretches. At most of our ages it probably would benefit more than the 5 min of exercises you squeeze in.

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Folds of Honor

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WARMUP: Honored corporal Brock Buckner and the Folds of Honor Foundation. Got some work in with SSH, windmills, tappy taps, overhead claps, honey mooners, light merkins, etc
THE THANG: pull up work at the bars, then grabbed Cindy and headed to field. Combination of exercises while carrying Cindy to the 20-50-20. Curls, overhead press, merkins, dips, squats, swings. Run a lap after each 100 yard trek. Ended with 100 yard bear crawl and 100 yard rifle carry
MARY: Mary in between laps waiting for 6
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter
COT: don’t get caught up in the fight this election season rather bring the light. Family, 2.0s

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Cha-Ching’s Legacy

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So, https://f3thefort.com/2020/01/17/black-diamond-at-the-one-word-convergence/, because they guy would lay ridiculous beatdowns. And there’s just no need to reinvent the wheel. It’s already round and works really well (that’s also my Naked Man Moleskin). Plus that’s part of why we write the backblasts!
WARMUP: Yes, did that. Cha Ching didn’t, and I needed more warm-up. If you can’t do it, don’t Q it! FTC showed up late; so, he missed it.

THE THANG:
Cha Ching warmup:
EMOM
min 1 – 20 burpees (this was hard, counted them in cadence)
min 2 – 30 jumping lunges
min 3 – 40 penguins
min 4 – 50 carolina dry docks
min 5 – 60 side straddle hops

then we mosey a bit
did some peruvian mountain climbers and bulgarian split squats on a bench
mosey some more
bear crawl a bit

That’s when we hit the Jack Webb:
1 Mack Tar Jai
4 Jump Squats
got to 7/28, then moseyed to pull up bars

Hung on the bars for a while
Did some knee ups
Did some super slow pull ups

Got close to COT and finished the Jack Webb set

Then we had 6 minutes left, so we did the Cha Ching EMOM “warm up” sequence again. It was rough

MARY: Last Call called flutters in cadence for the first time.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: https://mailchi.mp/02213eb80972/lorrorq9g6-13583069

COT: Was held

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Block Party at the Varsity

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Slow mosey until Skate or Die could catch up. Came in hot. Shuffles, karaoke, high knees, heels to butt, SSH, MNC, Windmills. 15 Derkins in cadence, 20 step ups on benches single count. Bear crawl around the benches.

Mosey to hill where Cindy lives
10 – man makers
10 – curls
20 – flutter press
20 – dips
10 – Cindy swings
Run down hill and back
5 pull ups
Rinse and repeat 3 times

7’s LBC’s and hello Dollie’s

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Dude Where’s My Car

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I’ve wanted to do this workout for YEARS! I was always worried we wouldn’t have enough time to do it.
WARMUP: 10 SSH, 5 Windmills
THE THANG: The Dude Where’s My Car workout is to do a rep in every parking space in the lot. There are 242 parking spots on the left side of the NaFo parking lot when facing the school from the field. Each row was an exercise, and you performed a rep in each spot. It went as follows:
Row 1 (25 spots) 1 Mountain Climber, then Bear Crawl to the next spot
Row 2 (25 spots) 1 Bobby Hurley
Row 3 (26 spots) 1 Plank Jack, then Bear Crawl to the next spot
Row 4 (27 spots) 2 Lunges
Row 5 (28 spots) 2 Merkins (this felt much like a burpee when you then got up to move to the next spot)
Row 6 (24 spots) 5 Calf Raises
Row 7 (22 spots) 2 sets of Shoulder Taps and Bear Crawl to the next spot
Row 8 (16 spots) 2 Big Boys
Row 9 (16 spots) 1 Burpee
Row 10 (12 spots) 1 Squat
Row 11 ( 10 spots) 1 Hand Release Merkin
Row 12 (11 spots) 10 single count Flutters
MARY: Since we didn’t find the car, we ran around the school to ensure we got it. Then we found our cars when we got back to COT
ANNOUNCEMENTS: T&H tomorrow. Bethel Serve opportunity 9/5/24.
COT: Prayers for kids going to college, marriages and travel.

Thanks for the push and opportunity to lead a great group of men!

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The Bradley

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0500 Honey Badger

A great group of HIMS descended on NAFO to start their week like a Hero.

Warmup

20 SSH IC
10 Windmill IC
20 Mnc Climbers IC
Stretch

Run to the Pull Up Bars

“ The Bradley”

100 meter sprint
10 Burpees OR (10 HR merkins for ppl preserving their knees)
100 meter sprint
10 Pull-ups

Wash rinse repeat 10 times.

I’m happy to say that we all finished with plenty of time to spare. A lot of great chatter, and great support for everyone along the way.

Got to COT and did 2 sets of 4 rounds of various ab exercises to finish right at 0600.

Always honored and privileged to lead at this AO. The stories and workouts here in remembrance of those who served are great reminders of what has been sacrificed for us and give us the perspective to tackle whatever life throws at us.

Take care and SYITG!

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Band Practice at The Ring of Fire

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Warm-up:
SSH x30
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Merkin x10
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Windmills x10
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Run to the pull-up bars – 10 strict pullups with no step and not kipping. When you get to failure your partner can grab your feet and help you
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Grab a coupon and head to the band practice field
From the goal line:
Curls and Tricep Extensions
Run with your coupon to the 10 yard line and complete 10 of each exercise
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Leave the block and run back the goal line
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Run back to the 10 yard line, grab your coupon and run to the 20 yard line and complete 10 of each exercise
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Leave the block and run back to the goal line
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Run back to the 20, grab your coupon and run to the 30, complete 10 of each exercise.
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Continue this series until you reach the other goal line.
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Run it back in the same manner with different exercises:
Bent over rows
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OH Press
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Partner up:
Catch me if you can the long way around the school back to the pull-up bars to return the blocks. One partner runs with both blocks, the other partner does 2 burpees and runs then down.

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