Shoulders and Shuffling

WARMUP: Disclaimer and light jog to the space between Walgreens and Jersey Mikes for COP
THE THANG:
COP (all in cadence): SSH x 25, Squat x 25, Mountain climber x 25, Freddie Merc x 20, LBC x 25, Windmill x 10, Diamond merkin x 15, back and shoulder stretch LH/RH, Jump squats x 20
Make a loose formation and mosey to the HT lot near the brick landscaping wall on the left side of the lot. The Pax stopped 4 times and did 5 burpees at each stop on the way to the wall.

At the wall, we did 11’s. Decline merkins and dips OYO (crowd pleaser).

Mosey about 20 yards from the wall and plank it up facing the wall. Hold plank/6″/elbow plank while the Pax, one by one, ran to the wall, did 3 box jumps or step-ups, and ran back.

Mosey to a section of striped lot across two rows and side shuffle along the striped rows in a zipper fashion for 6-7 rows. At the end of each row, do a burpee. Al Gore for the 6. Rinse and repeat back to the start, substituting bomb jacks.

Mosey to the small grassy area next to the landscaping wall for a traditional Jack Webb (1:4, merkins and overhead claps to 10)

Mosey to COT for Mary.

MARY: Box cutter x 20, American hammer x 20, Hello Dolly x 20, Superman hold x 2

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Murph Workout on Memorial Day after regular F3 workouts, Hog and Coyote, Tortoise and Hair CSAUP’s coming up. Read your newsletter!

COT: Prayers for ST’s friend Becky and JWOW’s neighbor with cancer. Also, Half Shell’s father-in-law (grand-father-in-law?)

Whew – summer’s coming. There’s much more sweat today than in the past few weeks. We hit the shoulders hard today with the 11’s and Jack Webb’s. I think those will be felt tonight. Great to see <@U07TVBVVC3X> today and looking forward to his V-Q next week at GC. Everyone put out a great effort today, and it’s always a pleasure to lead the Pax at <#C02PFBMMZL6> – one of my favorite AO’s of The Fort! Thanks again for the Q-spot <@U01CGBKBQ64>

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This Shirt Stinks

11 men toured the Ranch this morning to get a full body beatdown. The workout received the shirtless Change Order seal of approval, so pretty good start to the day. Here’s what we did.

Warm Up
– 10 Low Slow Squats (IC)
– 10 Imperial Walkers (IC)
– 10 SSHs (IC)

The Thang
Mosey to the front of SMS
– 20 Squats, Lap
– 20 Squats, 20 Merkins, Lap
– 20 Squats, 20 Merkins, 20 American Hammers

Mosey to the back of SMS
– 20 Forward Arm Circles (IC)
– 20 Backward Arm Circles (IC)
– 20 Seal Claps (IC)
– 20 Overhead Claps (IC)

Mosey to the back of SES
– 20 Flutter Kicks, Lap
– 20 Flutter Kicks, 20 Alternating Shoulder Taps, Lap
– 20 Flutter Kicks, 20 Alternating Shoulder Taps, 20 Burpees

Mosey to car loop
– 20 Wall Lunges
– 20 Wall LBCs (IC)
– 10 Australian Mountain Climbers (IC)

Mosey to picnic tables
– 20 Calf Raises (IC)
– 10 Derkins (IC)
– 20 Dips (IC)

Mosey to bus loop
– 20 Bombjacks, Lap
– 20 Bombjacks, 20 Wide Arm Merkins, Lap
– 20 Bombjacks, 20 Wide Arm Merkins, 20 Butterfly Sit-ups

Mosey to alley
– Wall Sits and 10 Merkins each
– 10 Dirty Hook-ups (hands) IC
– 10 Dirty Hook-ups (feet) IC

Mosey to COT
– 10 Boxcutters (IC)
– 10 Reverse Boxcutters (10)
– 10 Pretzel Crunches

NMM
How many of us have said something we wish we could take back? I know I’ve burned bridges and hurt feelings because I didn’t control my words. It happens, but we should strive to reduce the frequency by being slow to anger and biting our tongues. Words have the power to build or break. You can’t take back toxic talk and bitter babble. “Those who guard their mouths and their tongues keep themselves from calamity” – Proverbs 21:33.

Let’s keep that in mind when frustrated at work or when arguing with loved ones. What has been said cannot be unsaid. Sometimes silence is best.

Aye!
IJ

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Moist Men of Mystery

WARMUP:
– Imperial Walkers
– Pumpkin Pickers
– Moroccan night-clubs
– Merkins
– Hold position for down dog
– Honeymooners
– Right side plank
– Left side plank

THE THANG:
Indian Run around parking lot

Mosey to the wall:
– Wall plank hold for 1 min
– Wall sit – each man runs out and does 3 of their finest burpees

Mosey to road.
DORA:
– 100 Big bois
– 200 Squats
– 300 SSH
– 400 calf raises/imp walkers (single count)

Mosey back to COT:
– Each man does 10 Sandbag tosses over back while others do:
– Merkins
– Squats
– Flutters
– Burpees

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Cannoli Run
COT: Prayers for mothers and families going into summer.

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Webb-O-Rama at The Burn

WARMUP: Mosey to “mulch” side of Loews for Seal Jacks, Windmills, Merkins, MCs, MMCs
THE THANG: mosey behind Lowes for 15 Irkins, Dips & Derkins. Rinse & Repeat, Mosey to Portico for Captain Thor (4 Am. Hammers for each Weezy). Head to the wall for some wall sits & Burpees. Then to the patch of grass for Jack Webb and finish with Mak Tar N’Djiayes for my man Barry M. Head to COT.
MARY: she couldn’t make it
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Marriages, Peach’s FIL, Moms
COT: Don’t let the threat of rain keep you away

Short Sale out

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Boot camp or prison break!?

WARMUP: Toe touches, plank to down dog calf stretch, side straddle hop, the windmill
THE THANG:
– 50 walkin’ Merkins,
– 2 miles ish of Tega Cay ups and downs,
– move to fields
– 50 calf raises then 50 yard bear crawl, 50 more calf raises then return 50 yard bear crawl to start,
– 50 Romanian toe touches then 50 yard bear crawl, 50 more Romanian toe touches then return 50 yard bear crawl to start,
– 50 Sumo squats then 50 yard bear crawl, 50 more Sumo squats then return 50 yard bear crawl to start,
– Return to parking lot
– 10 or so up-down cycles
– 25 burpee’s

MARY: Dying cockroaches, heel touches, LBCs, X’s and O’s, Hello Dollys, something else.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your news letters
COT: It is what it is

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Winging it at the Corral

WARMUP: Quick mozy then mountain climbers, Moroccan Night Clubs, CDD and for the crowd pleaser….SSH
THE THANG: Due to technology issues, the scheduled Q wasn’t there so we winged it and the backblast is unlikely to be fully accurate. I probably should have completed this backblast right after the workout but, oh well.
After warmup we jogged to the side of the Harris Teeter for wall sits. The Pax took turns bear crawling out and doing five merkins while the others stayed “seated”. Burpees then followed the merkins.
Mozy to just in front of the Dollar Store for 11s. We took requests and Senator suggested Diamond merkins and Kermit chose bomb jacks. Laps went from the Dollar Store to the Indian restaurant at the other side of the parking lot.
Once completed, we returned to the side of HT for BTW countdowns, overhead claps and likely other stuff I don’t immediately remember.
With time remaining, we did mini 7s running from the side of HT to the other side of the street. (Again, I’m not recalling what exercises we did but we took requests for inclusivity)
With a few minutes remaining we returned to COT for boxcuttahs, hello Dollys and flutters.
Despite no actual plan, it turned out to be a good beatdown and everyone got something out of it.
MARY: Yep
ANNOUNCEMENTS: All the usual stuff
COT: Kermit’s friend and her health, quality time with kids.

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Hills and Thrills

WARMUP: Jog a lap with some butt kickers. SSH, MC, merkins, Willie mays Hayes, Moroccan night clubs.
THE THANG: mosey to the pull-up bars. 3 pull-ups each. Everyone else doing squats while waiting.
2 rounds of 10 incline merkins/derkins, 10 step ups each side, 20 dips.
Hill work with big boys and flutters.
Loop back to the main lot for Standard Dora – 100 merkins, 200 squats, 300 LBC’s.
More hill work with bear crawls, lunge walk, and burpees.

MARY: 7 minutes or Mary to finish.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read your newsletter.
COT: welcomed FNG Teen Spirit.

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Big 5-0

Move everyone and everything to back corner of panera lot. Warm-up was run one lap slick, ruck one lap, ruck one lap with sandbags. Then 5 rounds of 10 merkins w/ruck, 10 overhead presses, and 10 swings. Ruck a lap with sandbag, ruck a lap, then run a lap slick. Next we partnered up and did some heavy movements. Then I guess we did the stupid shit according to Sofrito. But it was some team based moving of sandbags used at a couple ruck events. It was definitely new to some guys but based on the complaints it was fun. I probably missed a few guys in the tags but i sincerely appreciate everyone who came out to wish me a happy birthday today. Im truly blessed to be apart of this group.

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AMRAP 4 AUTISM 2025

14 Bootcampers showed up (3 more for 6 @ 6) for the 4th annual AMRAP 4 AUTISM. YHC was humbled to lead this event again and thankful to all who’ve donated and those who showed up for the workout!

WARMUP: A lap around the park with a few stops along the way for the following services.
– 131 SSH – 1 in 31 children in the US are diagnosed with autism
– 60 squats – CDC estimates $60K per year of extra cost to raise a child with autism.
– 36 LBC – Two years ago the diagnosis rate was 1 in 36
THE THANG: YHC had a trailer full of Cindy’s and was ready for whoever showed! After the warmup I explained the following rules of engagement:
1. 36 min AMRAP
2. Partner count
3. 1 round = all 5 exercises
4. All exercises complete before moving to next round
5. Hands never leave the block. Autistic people never get to remove autism from their lives. For this 36 min we will not move our hands from the block.
Enough rules. Time to work!
1. 54 man makers
2. 54 frog squats
3. 54 yard fair carry with both blocks
4. 54 bent over rows
5. 54 BBBS

Finished with a last man standing sprint race with Stone Cold beating out Slapshot by a hair!
MARY: Nah
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Canoli Run
COT: BIG thanks to all who participated. If you have not had a chance to donate but would like to please use the link below.

https://secure.givelively.org/donate/autism-strong-foundation/f3-x-amrap-4-autism-2025

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