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The Artie

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Today we honored Police Officer Arthur “Artie” Lopez of the Nassau County Police Department. Artie was part of the Emergency Services Unit and was killed in the line of duty in October of 2012
WARMUP: SSH, Morrocan Nightclubs, Imperial Walkers and some stretching
THE THANG: 10 Pullups, 20 SQUATS ,15 Merkins ,10 Curls and 10 Cindy Thrusters. 5 Rounds with a run down to the elementary school after each round.
Called an audible:
Then we had 3 rounds of Cindy exercises. CURLS,PRESSES, OH PRESSES,SQUATS, DIPS, BENT OVER ROWS and some I can’t remember.
Then we proceeded to the benches at the school for someone shenanigans. STEP UPS, BULGARIAN SPLITSQUATS, ERKINS,DERKINS, CALF RAISES and finished with Mary.

MARY: Was boxcutters, mountain Climbers, hello dolly and I think crunches
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas party and Thanksgiving convergence
COT: Prayers and praises

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Weinki on the fly

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WARMUP: series of ssh and merkins
THE THANG: I ran around and made up the workout on the fly and don’t remember the specifics. Lots of lunges. Lots of merkins of different varieties. Burpees. Wall muscle ups. Lots of core work.
MARY: she showed up throughout.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter.
COT: Shared my journey to F3. Gratitude is the word.

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A shield sighting

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WARMUP: Childs pose, SSH, cherry pickers
THE THANG: ran approximately 4 miles with merkins and squats occurring occasionally
MARY: lbcs, flutters, dollys, Rosalitas
ANNOUNCEMENTS: bethel, 2nd F event at cyclops house
COT: families and travel

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Nice New Pavement at WEP

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WARMUP: Run to the top of Main Street and take a left and head to the WEP amphitheater. Then some windmills and Moroccan nightclubs.
THE THANG: run around the nice new pavement at WEP. When you get back to the amphitheater, 10 merkins, 10 big boys, 10 squats. Increase by 5 after each of the first 3 rounds, then back down the ladder.
MARY: flutters to time (about 1 minute)
ANNOUNCEMENTS: lots of opportunities to get involved, so pick something and get involved
COT: prayers for good reports and prays for those taken too soon.

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Hidden Valley Ranch

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WARMUP: SSH, WM, CP, IW, Broga
THE THANG: Mosey to SMS car loop
30 Reps of the following:
Merkins
Squats
LBC’s
Monkey Humpers – Run car loop
Repeat above / 20 reps – Run car loop
Repeat above / 10 reps – Run car loop
Recovery Walk to bus Loop at rear of school
3 minute conversation about life
20 Plank Jacks / 20 Manmakers
Mosey to blue tables at front of school
Step-ups / 15 E/L
30 Calf Raises
30 Dips
Head to COT
MARY: YES
ANNOUNCEMENTS: RYN
COT: Always

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Don’t Carry Your Burdens Alone

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Theme: How are you carrying your burdens?

Think about these things:

How the weight of your burdens feels as you physically move around.

How hard would it be to carry multiple burdens at a time?

How hard would it be to carry these burdens alone?

How does it feel to lay your burdens down?

Carry the Burden

Brick never leaves you. Hold it in one hand, carry to chest, overhead, do push ups on it, etc.

Thang

4 stations around Veterans Park/Main Street. 2 exercises at each station. 10 reps each.

Station 1 – Veterans Park
American Hammer and LBCs

Station 2 – Hobos
Merkins and Curls

Station 3 – Top of Main
Thrusters and Reverse Lunges

Station 4 – FM Pharmacy
OH Press and Shoulder Raises

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. – Matthew 11:28

Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you. – 1 Peter 5:7

A burden shared is a burden halved.

The weight you carry today builds the strength you’ll need tomorrow.

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No rain, just The Thunder

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Chest/shoulders workout:
– Merkins
– Seal jacks
– HR merks
– Moroccan night clubs
– Derkins
– Overhead claps
– Incline merkins
– Donkey kicks
Back: 5 sets of 5 pull-ups
Cardio
– 20 LBCs IC / hill run
– 15 Bomb jacks / hill run
– 10 Merkins / hill run
– 5 Burpees IC / hill run
– 10 CDD’s / hill run
– 15 Bobby Hurley s / hill run
– 20 Big boys IC / hill run
Back: Max count pull up bar hang

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Inaugural The Fort 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb

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When: Saturday 9/13/2025, 06:00 – completion
Where: Nation Ford High School, Football Stadium
Why:
9/11 is a day nobody will ever forget. Nobody should ever forget. Many lives were lost and America as we knew it was forever changed after that day.
What:
In honor of the 24th anniversary of that fateful, horrible day, we will be doing a 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb.
Each of the NYC Twin Towers had 110 stories and 2,070 steps. The football stadium bleachers at Nation Ford High School (aka Honey Badger, Ring of Fire, and Varsity), there are 6 rows (the larger two-way rows) of steps, each row with 34 steps. Going up then down each of the 6 rows gets you 204 steps, which is one round. Repeat that 10 times, or 10 rounds, +1 more row, you have 2074 steps. We would run all 6 rows 10 rounds, then add one row to make it 66 rows total. Granted we’d be going up 66 times, down 66 times, but we’d get the total step count in. To keep things easy, we decided to do 11 total rounds.

After some encouraging words and lifting up some words in respect and honor of those lost, we set off. Some ran, some speed walked, others rucked. A few replicated the 60-70 lbs average load a fireman carries when prepped to fight. Coupons were added to the mix too. Work was done, excellent fellowship was shared, and the patches were well earned. Everyone did a GREAT job. It was quite a morning.

One thing – the stairs in twin towers, all 110 stories, would yield an elevation gain of 1,100 ft. Unfortunately, after 12 rounds or so, I only got 900 ft elevation gain. SO…..doing the math, next year we will be going for the elevation gain, which means we will have to do 15 rounds total of all those steps.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead.
NASA

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Cones and Reps at The Ranch

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WARMUP: Quick mosey with a stop for mountain climbers, MNC, low slow squats
THE THANG: Mozy over to Springfield Middle School where we placed four evenly-ish spaced cones the length of the drop off before you get to the hill. From the start we ran to the first cone for 20 reps each of shoulder tap merkins, monkey humpers, box cuttahs, and plank jacks then ran back to the start. From there we ran to the second cone for dips, squats, flutters and Mike Tyson’s. Back to start then to cone three for CDD, bomb jacks, American hammers, SSH. Ran to start then on to cone four for merkins, calf raises, BBS, and burpees. (20 reps for each exercise at each cone)
Quick mozy back to start then we ran to the top of the hill and partnered up. At the top of the hill, each partner did three burpees then ran to opposite sides of the hill for 50 reps each of the selected exercise. After each exercise they ran back to the top for three burpees with their partner. Rinse and repeat with SSH, LBCs, Merkins, Squats, Overhead claps, CDD.
Mozy back to COT with a stop to pickup all the cones.
MARY: No dedicated Mary time but we got it in.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Q source, convergence, newsletter
COT: Prayers for family, local teacher who passed

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11s and miles

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WARMUP: pledge
THE THANG: run to church corner down academy do 1 merkins. Then run all the way up hill to print shop then to pull up bars. Do 11s with pull ups and toes to bar. Run back past ABC store turn right on academy and go back down to church corner.
MARY: toes to bar count.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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