A “Gloomy” Morning

WARMUP: SSH, toy soldiers, quads, Cherry pickers, mosey
THE THANG: lots of running today, got just short of 3 miles. Dora 200 step ups, 200 squats, 200 calf raises. Did some wind sprints in parking lot multiple times, suicides, etc.
MARY: LBCs, hammers, dollys
ANNOUNCEMENTS: F3 golf, Christmas party
COT: Prayers for marriages, prayer for Ruby as he meets with a brother in need, remember to say No to some things this season to say Yes to the more important things.

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Birthday Beakdown

WARMUP:
31 SSH in Cadence
14 KB Halos (7 each direction)
12 KB swings OYO

THE THANG:
6 Snatches each arm
Run a lap around the parking lot (~0.25mi)
12 Sandbag squat presses
Repeat for 7 rounds

To wrap up
31 overhead tricep extensions
31 bicep curls
31 shoulder press
16 lawn mower pulls each side
31 merkins

MARY:
Some Mary’s were sprinkled in there

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Year 31 for YHC
Christmas party at Airborne’s
D2D10K
Multiple AOs in need of site Q’s
81 years since Pearl Harbor was attacked. Thank you to all who served and sacrificed their lives in WW2

COT: Family, mental and physical health, marriages, etc.

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Holy $@&! there are trails over there?!?

WARMUP: Straight Up probably got to The Colosseum at 2am to get his warmup in. Gecko did some stretching. I thought about it. River Rat and Sasquatch stretched the tensile strength of their vehicles coming in on two wheels and Beaker materialized out of nowhere.
THE THANG: we ran through the woods in the dark and rain. All in all, not too slippery. 4.5ish miles 11:20 pace 1100ft of elevation gain
MARY: we did 1 random bomb jack in my the middle of the run and a few other exercises when we got back to COT.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Keep it simple

WARMUP: running, stretching, etc
THE THANG: pull ups, merkins, curls, dips, running, swings, overhead press, squats
MARY: ab work
ANNOUNCEMENTS: thanksgiving convergence
COT: keep it simple – Ecclesiastes Chp 7

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2022 Thanksgiving Day Convergence

Welcome/disclaimer
Warmup: SSH (I/C 15x), Windmills (I/C 10x). Imperial walkers (I/C 15x), Moroccan Nightclubs (I/C 10x), Mountain Climbers (I/C 15x), right arm high, left arm high
Ruckers dismissed with Olaf. Pax count off by threes; pax split up and will rotate between
JWOW Q:
Partner up for a Jack Webb. Mode of transportation is a partner push across the field (crowd pleaser).
1 Big Boy Sit-Up – Partner 1 pushes partner 2 across the field
4 Merkins – Partner 2 pushed partner 1 across the field
The goal was to get to 10 Big Boy Sit-Ups and 40 Merkins.

Grout Q:
1. 5 EA Burpee
2. 10 EA LBC
3. 15 EA CDD
4. 20 EA Lunges
5. 25 EA American Hammers
6. 30 EA Shoulder Taps
7. 35 EA Flutters
8. 40 EA Mountain Climbers
9. 45 EA Squats
Run to top of hill and back.
Complete # 1 thru # 8 and run to top of hill Ann’s back.
Continue dropping the last exercise.

HarryCarry Q:
At the middle school’s loop, start at the bottom of the loop and do exercise noted (listed below). Run to the short brick wall at other end of loop, jump the wall, continue running up the loop. Stop at flag poles and do Bobby Hurleys (15 oyo). The proceed to run back to bottom of the loop; do the noted exercise there and repeat with the run/wall jump/run/bobby’s etc.
Smurf jacks (20 OYO)
Squats (20 OYO)
Monkey Humpers (20 OYO)
Lunges (20 OYO)
Lunges (10 each leg OYO)
Sumo Squats (20 OYO)
At 07:25 Pax reconvened at field.
Six-count burpees (I/C 6x)
End. COT

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Broga, Merkins, Pyramids, & More Merkins

WARMUP: plank, upward dog<>downward dog, variety of merkins, plank jacks, shoulder taps with variety of updog<>downdog mixed in; run to parking lot near WEP: dynamic warmup including buttkicks high knees to soldiers Carioca lunges- 10 merkins after each
THE THANG: pyramid at the playground 1 pull-up-2 merkins-3 big boys (up to multiple of 7 so finished with 7 pull-ups to 14 merkins to 21 big boys)… down the pyramid- 7 chin-ups:14wide arm merkins: 21 flutters down pyramid to 1:2:3 of those
On curb on playground area: 10 burpees, 9 situp-getups, 8 burpees, 7 sit-up-getups… down to one
MARY: mosey back to Veterans park, repeat the plank, merkin, updog<>downdog thing from warmup with a little extra stretching mixed in
ANNOUNCEMENTS: thanksgiving convergence at Ranch!
COT: overarching theme of thankfulness = family and health!
*also important to note- Block Party is located at Veterans Park, not WEP, like it was 2-3 years ago! Been awhile since I’ve posted at BP! Thanks for the opportunity Kermit!

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Coupons special toys

WARMUP: Mosey to parking lot next to AO and circle up for:
Merkins
SSH
Mosey behind the elementary school and cicle up for:
Imperial Walker
HB walker
Mosey behind the middle school and circle up for:
Mt Climber
Plank Jacks
Mosey to the other side of the middle school and circle up for:
10 Burpees OYO
Mosey to the front door of the middle school.

THE THANG: 10 stations with different types of toys. Each PAX choose a station. Do exercise for 2 minutes until the timer is done. Then run a lap around the parking lot in front of the school. Then when PAX come back choose a different toy to play for the next 2 minutes, rinse a repeat.
ST1: triceps extension with bar bell
ST2: squats with cinder block
ST3: KB swings
ST4: core roller
ST5: Curls using elastic straps attached to balance ball
ST6: Jump Rope
ST7: Chest press with 25lb disk
ST8: Butterflies with 2 small barbells
ST9: Overhead press with 40lb elastic strap
ST10: Ball Weight slams
All the PAX were able to complete at least 8 exercises and 8 laps around the parking lot.
Used background classic rock music while we completed the whole routine.

MARY: Grab all the toys and fast walk it to COT.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: All the different D2D found raisers coming up in he next few weeks. Thanksgiving convergence. FIFA WC bracket fantasy futbol.

COT: prayers for traveling, prayers for families.

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