Tag: Senator Tressel

Better Late Than Very Late

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PAX arrived via vehicle. Parked car. Chattered and mumbled. Weird warmup. Mosey. Ran up and down big hill. Skipper left. Did some exercisin on and around pull up bar. Masterpiece left. Hung out in parking lot and played by the basketball hoops. Closed in mumbling and chattering. Praised and prayed. PAX got in cars. Left.

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Neese’s was almost the death of us

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WARMUP: Yes, IW; HW; some yoga.
Introduced the reverse burpee (you go down on your 6, lay on your back, and then return to standing for a jump). Stagecoach busted his wrist and YHC was tired of seeing him modify.
THE THANG:
Found a wall
10 stepups (each leg)
10 derkins
10 bulgarian split squats (each leg)
10 irkins
Found another wall (it was stupid high)
10 stepups (single leg) this was dumb
10 derkins this was also dumb but not as much

found a moderatle parking lot
10 mike tysons
bear crawl
10 curb alberts
crawl bear
10 mike tysons
lunge walk
10 curb alberts
reverse lunge walk
10 mike tysons
burpee broad jump
(the sprinklers came on and YHC didn’t want a complete mutiny)
mosey back to the dry side for
10 curb alberts

Mosey back by the wall and hit it again

A 60lb sandball was at COT
One man did an over the shoulder lift
Everyone else held a squat down and raised up when the ball hit the ground. Return to the held squat for the next guy to do a lift. 15 guys….
Rinse and Repeat with Split Squats and a reverse burpee

NMM:It’s nice to be motivated to workout, but falling in love with the process of acceleration is even better. That can survive a waning motivation. Or maybe it just is motivation itself?

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Pfc Shawn Falter

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WARMUP: 20IW, watch Senator show up in shorts in awe, 10 Cherry Pickers, 15 HW, Down/Up Dog, stretching and then plank for Shawn’s story.
THE THANG: Shawn loved and played Varsity Basketball and Football.
Brought some Cindy’s out to the parking lot To the baseline for some Suicides.
10 “Blocky” Hurley’s bear crawl to next row, 15 SSH, Seal Jacks and Plank Jacks, crawl bear back to baseline and repeat Blocky Hurley. Side shuffle to second line, 20 jump squats, shuffle back for another round of Blocky, run to third line 25 Merkins and Nur back.
Mosey to band lot for 1st and 10, doing 11’s with Merkins and Burpees, after each round, run to end zone and back 10 yards closer, all the way until end zone.
MARY: Return Cindy’s then time for Airborne’s and 25 (Shawn’s age) Hammers
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel and Meatloaf, Break the dam, garbage pickup and Jager sprint/Celebrate fundraising.
COT: Can’t always be there, but when you are be there.

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Circuit City

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WARMUP: Cherry pickers / windmills / SSH
THE THANG: Circuit
20 merkins
Run a lap
20 BBS
Run a lap
20 dips
Run a lap
20 pickle pointers
Run a lap
20 squats
Run a lap

Repeat X 4

Abs
Found a wall for wall 30 sit ups (on your 6)
30 single leg V-ups
50 LBC’s

MARY: kinda
ANNOUNCEMENTS: many
COT: employment opportunities

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Good Morning Respectables!

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WARMUP
Disclaimer and some static stretches at the flag.

THE THANG:
Take a lap around the parking lot and stop at the front of school for COP. All in Cadence:
SSH x 20, windmill x 10, Mountain climber x 15, Low slow squat x 15, cherry picker x 10
Form two lines about 5 yards and face each other. Bear crawl in cadence (4 steps four steps forward/four steps back) x 5
Freddie Mercury x 15, LBC x 15
Back into formation, 5 yards apart. Crabwalk in cadence (4 steps forward/four steps back) x 5
Finish with 10 flying squirrels in cadence

Form a straight line and lunge walk the parking lot spaces, do 5 squats at every other line. Return to start with a bearcrawl and 3 merkins at every other line.

Indian Run 2 laps around the parking lot.

Circle up for <@UJGS2BBQD> modifed (7 reps) killer hip routine

MARY:
Rosalita x 15, Pretzel crunch x 15, Hello Dolly x 15, American Hammer x 15, Box cutter x 10, Superman hold x 3

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Dam to Dam race this weekend

COT:
Prayers for <@U790WHUKC>’s wife with health issues/job change, traveling mercies for students traveling, and those traveling to and running the Dam to Dam race in the rain.
After a week of illness, it was great to be back with my F3 brothers this morning – all respectables! Well done, gentlemen!

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Change is the Game

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WARMUP: Cold morning required a warm up session for the Q so the rest of the pax got the same
THE THANG: Mosey to basketball court on far side of school. Stopped on way at picnic tables for some step-ups and dips (3 rounds). The routine at the court involved 2 laps of yogging followed by a round of 3 core exercises followed by one set of suicides. We rinsed and repeated for a total of 3 full cycles of this routine. Then moseyed back to launch.
MARY: She joined throughout
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Break the Dam, trash pickup
COT: Some quick departures shrunk the COT crowd. We identified Honky Tonk and Sugar Bug as Ballroom regulars we hadn’t seen recently. One pax committed to reach out to each for a check in.

Throughout the Thang, pax traded experience regarding how change has impacted their life and whether they felt the rate of life changes was accelerating as they age or slowing. General agreement was that the volume and rate of change GROWS as we age. A comment was made about the rate of change vs EXPECTATIONS. Q Source says we prepare for what’s expected so that we’re in the best position possible to respond for the inevitable times when unexpected change will come our way.

My experience and study on life change indicates we go through many cycles and each one reflects three stages: an ending to the current reality, an uncomfortable in between period, then a new beginning. Moving past the “ending” that is really the start of change often requires a “letting go”….maybe even a grieving period. What do you need to let go of so you can move forward?

Grateful to Bass for the Q invite and the very timely reminder at Flight Plan Mon morning. Also grateful for the covey of Respectable HIM who posted to help sharpen me. May God continue to bless The Fort!

#KeepPosting

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Old fashion

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WARMUP: Disclaimer and off to mosey to the church parking lot. Did some arm circles, MNC, and Wind Mill. Off to mosey to the back of HarriscTeeter for more warm ups. SSH, mount. climbers, hill Billy walkers, and down/up dog.
THE THANG: Ran to the wall for some Balls to the wall with some running and burpees. Times 2. Then over to the hill for the apartments. 11’s was on the menu with 10 CDD at the top and and big boys at the bottom. Finished with a message about keeping in touch with those men we do not see anymore but remember there F3 name. Then off to Walgreens for a short 100 and 200 DORA.
MARY: Back to COT for a cool down
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your letter, D2D make up and mens shelter
COT: Prayers for travel mercies and healing.

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899 Reps with Virtual Deck of Cards

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Since snowmageddon partly melted yesterday and refreezed on the roads overnight, I offered up a virtual beatdown again. Last time was the spinning wheel, so I figured the next iteration should be a deck of cards. For all of our <#C08ST83CF1T> friends, I used Manus to build a customized deck of cards that we used for the workout. Bureeps, Shoulder Taps (increments of 4) Merkins (increments of 2) and Big Boys (increments of 2) and 2 jokers of 30 and 50 squats. In case anyone wants to play with it at a future date: https://exercisedeck-zacxsa5x.manus.space/

THE THANG: I hit deal and we did whatever the card showed. It feel like a lot of shoulder taps to start. A lot of merkins in the middle and finished with burpees and big boys. All told, we did 91 Burpees, 364 shoulder taps, 182 Merkins, 182 big boys, and 80 squats. That’s 899 reps. We then added some Mary, which got us over 900 reps for the 45-minute session.

MARY: Hello Dollys, LBC, American Hammers

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Break the Dam moved to 2/28/26. Bethel Shelters 2/5. Lots of guys are there because of the cold right now. Yetti Challenge. Read your newsletter for a leaderboard update.

COT: Prayers for healing. Lots of people who have some serious medical issues they are dealing with right now in each person’s circle.

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