Bodily functions are real

WARMUP: started with a mosey around the parking lot. Stopped for some SSH, merkins, squats, mountain climbers, and a little back and hip stretching. Made our way over to grab some cindy’s.
THE THANG: Once we had our new toys, we went to the hill for 11s. Shoulder presses at the top with cindy and bottom of the hill hand release merkins. Pax that finished early did chest presses or picked up Pax and finished with them.

Next we took our cindy friend to the pull up bars for work. 7s was the game with 1 pull-up and 6 man makers…down to 6 pull ups and 1 man maker.
MARY: made our way to COT for Mary on steroids…1 hammer, 4 flutters; 2 hammers, 8 flutters…made our way to 5 hammers and 20 flutters before the crying started. Then it was 3 burpees and round the horn ab callouts.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: lots in the newsletter
COT: patience, schools, families in general.

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Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you

WARMUP: A Jog, SSH, WM, CP, MNC, Merkins
THE THANG:
Eight exercises stations with a KB and non-KB exercise at each one. Mode of transportation to each station varies from bear crawl, crawl bear, power skip, broad jump. Once through all the stations, we ran a lap around the parking lot as started the process over again.
MARY: no time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter
COT: closed in prayer

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Reduce Reuse Recycle

having been put in charge of both of our running with push-up AOs this week, I decided to make them entry level. it does not mean easy, it just means easy to understand what is required to do. to that end, I decided to recycle some of the easier to follow Qs in which I have participated.

the word, recycle and reuse together often. remind me of a program I saw in fourth grade. you may have bag memories of being hurted into your elementary school gymnasium in order to see what amounts to a public service announcement or little skit or play put on by a bunch of kids , maybe a small performance by the 5th graders who got to start orchestra. but the one I remember most vividly is being brought to that sad little gymnasium to watch a dude dressed up as McDonald’s mascot and Ronald McDonald caper about singing about reducing reusing and recycling. somehow they burned half an hour of our day listening to Ronald McDonald it’s founding on the virtues of mineralism in a 1980s world where everything was designed to be thrown away immediately after use.

WARMUP: the pledge of allegiance
THE THANG: run to Hardee’s. pair up. run opposite directions saying the block. On the east side (post post office) do 5, 10 and then 15 partners BBSU. Then 15 every time. continue running until meeting up at or around the Hardee’s lot. where you at 5, 10, 15 partner pushups. after the pushups, run the way you came back. this way each partner gets to run both directions around the block multiple times. sort of like a weird freaking Newton cradle
with about 4 minutes left PAX were gathered and Bandcamp led burpees while YHC perform the exhausting job of keeping an eye out for stragglers
MARY: 30-45s of flutters while YHC grabbed my phone
ANNOUNCEMENTS: duties were assigned to Funhouse
COT: duties were assigned to Funhouse

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Trick or Treat at the Hive

WARMUP: Extremely brief and nearly devoid of cadence calling due to the Q having a mostly lost voice.
THE THANG:
The AO was set up with different exercises posted on lampposts lableled as either Tricks or Treats. Workout consisted of 8 rounds. Each round began with a 1 minute AMRAP of a specified exercise. Based on the reps achieved by the group approximately half of the HIM were directed to receive a treat for a high effort number of reps, the other half were directed to select the Trick. The Tricks were consistently worse than the treats but all were KB exercises. In some cases high rep counts would not be conducive to good form and a more random tool was used to split the group such as age (odd/even) or Birth Month (odd even).

Tricks
Manmakers
15 Snatches
15 Clean & Press
Turkish Get ups
Thrusters
Murder Bunnies to next “house”
2 minute plank
Uhauls

Treats
Halos
Goblet Squats
Calf Raises
LBC
Lawnmowers
OH Press
Side Leans
Tri Press

1min AMRAP exercises
Kettle Bell Swings (reps)
Man Makers (random)
Chest Press (reps)
Good Mornings (random)
Pullovers (random)
Deadlifts (random)
Hay-Balers (random)
Curls (reps)

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Brush fire at bushwood

WARMUP: mosey down the hill, windmills, imperial walkers, hill Billy walkers, merkins
THE THANG: run down to end of bus lane. Sets of 5,10,15 between light poles. Exercises: burpees, squats, merkins, seal jacks. Did Dora with merkins squats and LBCs. Mosey back to COT
MARY: 5 minutes worth
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read newsletter
COT: show to know.

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14 STL Runners and 2 VA Ruckers for minimum plus miles and merkins

WARMUP: SSH x30, Windmills x10, M. Nightclubs x10, Plank, Parker Peters x10, Plank, Peter Parkers x10, broga poses to stretch legs. Mosey around the Long Loop.
THE THANG: Short Loop in the Earth Fare parking lot, each corner complete exercise. 1st corner = 10 Merkins. 2nd corner = 10 Mountain Climbers. 3rd corner = 10 CDDs, 4th = 10 Flying Squirrels. Next complete a hot lap on the long loop, up to 160 take the sidewalk to the east entrance of Earth Fare, proceed at a fast pace around the back of Earth Fare. I believe the short lap + long lap was about a half a mile.
MARY: 10 American Hammers
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Litter pickup on Hwy 21 this Saturday. 2.0 friendly. Gloves, bags and litter picker sticks will be provided. Please read your newsletter for the details.
COT: Praise for those participating in SoberOctober and Battlebot for leading. Prayers for our Wives. Thank you Badlands for your leadership at this awesome AO and for leting me lead today. Video evidence may follow.

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12 Bottles of Suck

Mosey to Gold Hill Middle flag
Warm up
SSH
Low Slow Squat
Windmill
Mountain Climbers

12 Bottles of Suck
12 8-counts
12 Squat Jacks (Little Man in the Woods)
12 Diamond Merkins
12 Box Cutters
Run Gold Hill front parking loop

Stop at 6:05 to mosey back to flag for Mary…

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The Star Gazers

WARMUP: SSH, Squats, MNC, Stretching
THE THANG: Warm up with 11’s with merkins and squats. Followed by Star Fish routine with merkins, squats, pike presses, IC flutter kicks, with burpees in the center after every rotation (40 burpees). Finished with merkin gauntlet with 3 merkins at every Pax (who were in plank position). During the rest periods, we admired God’s creation by viewing some of the planets and the Cassiopeia constellation.
MARY: 61 IC flutter kicks
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read the Newsletter
COT: Prayers for various concerns.

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Quesadillas, Fajitas, and Taquitos really Puertorican food?

WARMUP: All x10: Windmills, MNC, Imperial Walkers, Hillbilly Walkers, Cherry Pickers
THE THANG: 9 Prep Stations w/10 Rep Each
Chest Pulls, Merkins, Flutter kicks, Triceps, Kettle Bell Squats, Kettle Bell Swings, Over the shoulder Sand Bag Throw, Lunges, Calf Raises
After two Rounds of Prep Stations it was time to stir the pot with two jog/walk laps around the lot.
Rinse and Repeat for two more rounds. Lots of good mumble even a few duck calls.

Thanks to @Band Camp for reminding me to work on my transitions and not getting confused between Imperial and Hillbilly Walkers.
MARY: Stretch
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter READ IT!, Bourbon&BBQ, Poker Tourney
COT: Stays in COT

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