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Alcatraz Runs of pain

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Six pax posted at Alcatraz.

Started with a mosey run down to the circle and back.

Warmup:
SSH (20x I/C)
Windmills (8x I/C)
Imperial Walkers (10x I/C)
Moroccan Nightclubs (10x I/C)
Low slow squats (10x I/C)
Big Arm Circles (6 forward, 7 backwards)
Peter Parkers (10x I/C)
Plank Stretches (Downward dog, upward dog)

Short mosey run

BB court relays
10 Bobby Hurleys at the baseline, run to ½ court and do 20 Bobbys, run to far court and do 30 Bobbys, run/return to baseline.

Run to pull up bars
Pax do five pull ups and five toes to bar, waiting pax plank

Run again
“Bench” work: at short retaining wall we did: step ups, Dips, Incline Merkins, butt touch squats, calf raises, and then decline merkins.

Run some more.

Fish tracks routine:
Pax do the transportation and stop when instructed and do the exercise called.
Toy soldiers…stop and do jump squats, repeat
Bear crawl…stop and do merkins, repeat
Lunge walk…stop and do smurf jacks, repeat

Short mosey run
Back at the BB court: Prison yard burpees; from 7. Pax start in one corner and do 7 burpees, then bear crawl to next corner, do 6 burpees, bear crawl to next corner, do 5 burpees, and so on until 1.

Run. Some. More.
Wall work: Wall sits (rotate pax doing three burpees), BTW.

Back to parking lot:
Airbornes
Mary
Fini
COT

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Football field with Yds to go!

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WARMUP: SSH, Windmills, Cherry Pickers, Imperial Walkers, Merks, Squats, Slow mosey, Rebel Merks, LBCs…
THE THANG: 6s and 11s on the Foorball field using the Yard Markers as pain points to traverse the 100yds. 6s Big boys and burpees greeted the pax followed by BombJax and Merks followed by a round of 11s with Squats and Plankjax. Pax fluttered waiting for Six. Circled up midfield for a quick Starfish set up using each corner of field for an in-cadence random Pax grabbing the reigns.
MARY: 4 mins round of Mary that Senator Tressel upgraded w some Xs and Ohhhs – that was a crowd pleaser!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Cannoli run, Newsletter, and You
COT: Prayers and Praises for Drop thrill, recent surgery for Pax members, Luka and parents, and health and patience in general.

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Sandbag galore, ABS lab and broga

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WARMUP:
Moroccan night clubs
Arm circles forward
Arm circles backwards
Mosey around baseball field
Windmills
Low slow squats
Mosey to bating cages, NUR back
More Moroccan night clubs, had to get those shoulders warmed up

THE THANG:
Move to the baseball field with 2×60# sandbags and 2×40# sandbags
Partner up and grab a sandbag, smart choices for those who picked the 40#
Bear crawl drag forward to other side of field, partner one drags, partner two bear crawls next to him, alternate after one pull
Backwards pull to starting point: squat, grab bag and pull behind you
Forward toss: squat, grab sandbag, clean to chest and toss forward, alternate after one toss with partner to other side of field and back to starting point
Facing the fence, lateral toss left to other side of field, keep facing the fence, lateral those right
Divide into two groups, one 60# and one 40# per group
Pax 1, Forward toss both bags, take turns with all pax to other side of field and back

Pax 1, bear crawl pulls both bags, take turns with all pax to other side of field, backward pulls back

200# drag: tied all bags with rope, 10 yard pull all bags to you using rope while rest of pax do LBC’s, it looked better on paper so downgraded to 140# drag, each pax was able to do this once

Click 60# back to the bunch, everyone grabs a piece of rope, drag the bunch to other side of field and back, Uber called this the reindeer run

45 minutes of hard pain…

MARY:

5 minutes of ABS lab:
20 Big boy sit ups
20 Heel taps
20 Flutters
10 Box cutters
50 LBC burn

10 minutes of broga… best way to end a hard workout

ANNOUNCEMENTS: trash pickup, cannoli run, Mike doty race
COT: prayers for all that need healing, praises to kids and teachers about to finish another school year

Tinsel, OUT

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Are you “tired” yet?

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WARMUP:

SSH
Windmill
MNC
Cyclops
Imperial squats
Plank exercises
Merkins

THE THANG:

Mosey to circle
bear crawl around then do 10 burpees
Mosey to bigger circle
bear crawl around then do 9 burpees
Mosey back to small circle
Crab walk around then do 8 burpees

Mosey to do some
Benchwork at church
On the way use curb to curb walk up towards pavilion

Exercises in cadence

Step ups x40
Irkins x 20
Derkins x 20

Complete 7 burpees

Mosey back towards HT,
Found wall
Wall sits
Take turns lunge walking to curb and back
Alternate with balls to walls during rotation

Complete 6 burpees

Mosey to tire store

More step ups or box jumps x20

Grab a tire- Tire tabata (AMRAP)

Man makers
Tire press
Tire merkins
Tire derkins
Carolina Dry docs
Ab crunches x2
Sled to line 20 ft or so
Sled back

Mosey back to COT
complete 5 burpees

MARY:

American hammers x 20
Flutters to time

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Trash pickup, cannoli run, Doty, Konvergence 6/10
COT:

Had to be there

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Escalator

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WARMUP:
SSH
Windmill
Honeymooner
Downdog

THE THANG:
We did a thing I later learned is called the escalator.

Set up 10 cones spaced 2 parking spaces apart over in the church parking lot. Each time through you would add an exercise on the next cone. Then run a lap.

10 Merkins
20 Monkey Humpers
10 Mike Tyson’s
20 Flutters
10 side lunges
20 LBCs
20 CDD
10 Big Boys
10 Burpees

For demonstration purposes the first lap pax did 10 merkins and ran the lap. Second lap 10 merkins and 20 monkey humpers…all the way up to 10 where all exercises were done.

MARY:
Had a few minutes for the airborne special
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Wrapping up AKA#4

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WARMUP: SSH X 30, Imperial Walker X 15, Squat X 15, Merkin X 10, Lunge X 15, Mountain Climer X 15, Dry Docks X 10, Burpees X 10, Monkey Humpers X 15, SSH X 30
THE THANG: Mosey to band lot, HIIT workout. 45 seconds work, 15 seconds rest. 4 rounds of each. Merkins, Squats, Burpees, Mountain Climbers. Mosey to Pull up bars. Try to get 4 sets of: Pull Ups – 5, Dry Docks – 20, Big Boys – 20, Diamonds – 10. Mosey to front parking lot for Mary.
MARY: All X25 – Flutters, Hello Dolly, Freddy Mercury, Rosalittas, Box Cutter. Mosey back to COT for cool down stretch.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Cannoli run, blood drive
COT: Prayers for FNG StageLeft for his upcoming move, Luka and Vuvazella. Thanks to all the PAX that supported AKA#4.

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Swinging tire flipping hip flexing WOD

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WARMUP:
– SSH, WM, IW
– mosey to fountain
THE THANG:
– Swing:
– run to left stop-sign: 20x shoulder taps + 10x Big Boys
– run to fire station: 20x x&o + 10x Jlo
– rinse and repeat 3x
– mosey to Church
– Tire flip: split PAX in 2 teams and space them apart. 1 PAX travels with tire (flipping) from one side to other. Traveling PAX calls exercise which everyone else does while he is traveling. Cycle thru all PAX.
– Mosey to COT
MARY:
– Airborne Hip Exercise
– 13 burpees to 0600
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– see newsletter
COT:
– was held

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Soggy Balls and the Pyramid of Pain

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Raining since Wednesday but looked like forecast might improve by 0515. Weatherman wrong again. only intermittent showers but no way to stay dry this morning – everyone got soaked but wouldn’t have wanted it any other way on this morning. I failed and should have got contact info for lighthouse to get him on our slack (lives near Waxhaw).

WARMUP: Mosey around HT parking lot and circle up for IC exercises – goofballs, IWs, WMs, Cherry Pickers, low slow squats, plank/broga, Mtn Climbers

THE THANG:
Pyramid of Pain – increasing reps/reduce exercises as you go up the pyramid

25 reps each – (soggy) ball slams, upright rows, diamonds, imperial squat walkers, CDDs

run 5 laps around one row of parking spots

SSH for the 6

30 reps each – bent over rows (each arm), lunges (each leg), burpees, merkins

run 4 laps around one row of parking spots

SSH for the 6

35 reps each – curls, wide arm merkins, bomb jacks

run 3 laps around one row of parking spots

SSH for the 6

40 reps each – jump squats, overhead claps

run 2 laps around one row of parking spots

SSH for the 6

50 reps calf raises

run back to CoT

total of about 1.75 miles running

MARY: no time

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
colloseum- whetstone/blade led workouts first tuesday of each month, shieldlock led workouts second Tuesday of each month

read newsletter

COT: yup

missed you today slapshot- you would have crushed this workout. Thanks for the opportunity.

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4/25 beatdown

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WARMUP: SSH, windmills, hillbilly walkers, produce pickers. Honeymooner, down dog stretches. PLUS curb to curb 7’s starting with 1 dip, bear crawl to curb, 6 incline merkins, crab walk back to dips
THE THANG: Mosey across Gold Hill road. 4 corners starting at Crossroads corner, to McDonald’s corner, up to storage corner, to mavis corner with dealers choice 25x exercises at each stop.
MARY: stretches
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read your newsletter
COT: prayers and praises

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