New loop to Unity Church with options for 3.5, 4.5 and 5 miles
WARMUP: Mosey around the restaurants to take in the fresh air followed by 9’s & 2’s of everything.
THE THANG: Small Deck of Cards with #’s 2, 9 & Aces ♠️♣️♥️♦️ followed by a traditional DORA.
MARY: 2 minutes of Mary
ANNOUNCEMENTS: All the events coming up in the Fort-Adopt a HWY, Poker Tournament, Bourbon tasting. RYNL
COT: Prayers for our 4 legged friends health🐶 🐱 & PAX that have returned after IR.
PRE-WORKOUT: Pullups with Trucker
WARMUP: Run back and forth two times in the Runde parking lot
THE THANG:
After a brief introduction including some history of Alcatraz, Funhouse kicked off COP with 50 SSH, (although I believe 100 were planned in homage to Santini). From there it was imperial walker x 10, hillbilly walker x 10. Before we got to the meat of the workout, YHC called out a classic Alcatraz upper body workout called Green Sally (Decibel/2014). It’s a song by Moby called ‘Flower’ where you plank when he sings ‘Green Sally Up’ and drop to 6″ when he sings ‘Green Sally Down’. It’s pretty tough to complete the whole song and I don’t think anyone did today. But, you have to have monster shoulder strength. Because we had a large group today, we split them in half and started our Q’s:
Funhouse on Q:
The Wheel of Pain (Funhouse/2013)
Each PAX gets a cone with an excercise and reps.
40 yard diameter circle with a cone in the middle.
Do the excercise on the cone, run to the middle and out to the cone to the right.
Freddy Mercury – 25
Lunges – 30
Burpees – 15
Merkins – 15
Rosalita- 30
Squats – 25
LBC – 25
Burpees – 10
SSH – 30
Parker Peter – 25
Plank Punches – 30
Mountain Climbers – 30
Merkins – 15
Senator Tressel on Q
Mosey to the bottom of the hill on Tara Tea Drive for ‘Quadzilla’ (Zima/2018)
Group 1 does squats while Group 2 runs backwards up the hill and does 5 bombjacks at the hilltop. Run back down and flapjack. Rinse and repeat 2 more times.
Mosey to the playground for pullups, step ups, and ab exercises (Senator Tressel/2013) We did 2 rounds today
Mosey to the wall by the concessions stand and split into two groups.
Group 1 does Peoples chair and passes a kettle bell (White Lightning/2018), while Group 2, runs to the fence, hops over it, sprints up the hill, does 3 burpees at the top, and runs back to the wall. Flapjack. (Jekyll/2017) We did 2 rounds today.
Form a line for tunnel of love (stolen from Santini at WEP/2012)
MARY: Hello Dolly x 20, Seal walk (Cornhole/2013), Navy Seal Team Sit Ups (Santini/Trucker 2013)
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: Today we celebrated 10 years at Runde Park by paying homage to some of the classic beatdowns led by the great Q’s of Alcatraz. Funhouse and I drew an Alcatraz record 32 Pax and that made me very proud (of course, we advertised heavily, offered free coffee, beer, cake, and closed the other two Saturday AO’s so maybe that had something to do with it – LOL). Although, attendance at bootcamps on Saturdays isn’t what is used to be, I will post whenever I am able. Runde Park has been my home on Saturday mornings, and even after all these years, I still look forward to getting up early, meeting the Pax at 6:30, and doing that tough bootcamp workout. Many thanks to all that posted with us this morning and special thanks to our current and former site Q’s: Funhouse, Smuggler, Trucker, Skipper, and Uber for their leadership and help pulling this all together. I appreciate all you guys!
Prayers: ST’S mom with cancer, DD’s friends with a new pregnancy, Long Duck recovering from burns and back injury
Average age 52+
2 nearing retirement
The smell was not that bad
Mumble-chatter above average
effort 80-20, 80% of the PAX gave 100% of the effort
this:
dynamic warmup across the lot: butt kickers, high knees, soccer knees, toy soldier, karaoke L/R, jog, jog, 100% (or 51% for most)
circle up: OH claps, mor NC, LBC, dying cock roach, slow merkin, shoulder tap, squat, calf rais, imperial walker … not in that order
1/2 run, 1/2 do the exercise:
rotating clock plank, deep squat, BB it-ups, travolta
(effort here was intentionally poor)
hit some parking stalls:
bear crawl and squats every 2 stalls
then, sobriety test and burpees every 1 stall
Mosey to the wall:
pop out burpees
walk across bear crawl back
against the rail x 10
pop out burpees
Maktar N’Diayes
standing merkins
prob something else too
back to COT
Looks like we made it,
Barry Manilow
Great start to the morning with a few Kotters arriving before kick-off. Short disclaimer and a lap around the parking lot. Circle -up for warm-ups (SSHs, Imperial Walkers, Windmills, MNCs, and some burpees mixed in.
Next, we moseyed to the church parking lot.
DORA 1-2-3 merkins (100), Squats (200), and LBCs (300).
Partner 1 – ran around the parking lot
Partner 2- performed exercise
Flapjack
AROD 3-2-1 merkins (300), Squats (200), and LBCs (100).
Partner 1 – ran backwards around the parking lot
Partner 2- performed exercise
Flapjack
Back to COT
WARMUP:
Ran over to lot behind Witts for the following:
SSH
Low slow squats
Down dog / honey mooner
Morrocan night club
Inch worm merkins
Moseyed back over to Vampire Pizza
Karaoke down and back
Butt kickers
THE THANG:
Played a game of football.
– once pass was completed play stopped
– merkins was the penalty for all dropped and completed passes
– each score the opposing team did 15/15 squats and LBCs
JWOW tried to take out Backdraft with his tooth, but he bounced back after visiting the medical tent and tried to mount a comeback, but the better team held them out of the end zone to win the game.
Finished with two rounds of 7s
Merkins / squats
Plank jacks / jump squats
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Get out and vote!
COT:
Three pax decided that Footloose was their thing today so they met at the church parking lot on Confederate St. After a quick disclaimer, we set off for another workout in downtown Fort Mill.
Here is what we did:
THE THANG:
Mosey out of the parking lot towards Tom Hall St, and run down to the Kimbrell’s parking lot for COP:
SSH x 20, merkin x 7, squat x 20, LBC x 20, mountain climber x 15/hold plank/6″/Right and left arm/leg high/6″/5 merkins/recover. Morrocan night club x 20 while walking down main street.
Mosey down Main Street, take a left onto Confederate, and find a spot on the wall across from the Improper Pig. ssume people’s chair along the building across from the Improper Pig (enjoy the smoked meat smell)
People’s chair, with overhead hand claps. Recover and shake ’em out.
BTTW -hold, recover.
People’s chair hold, 10 overhead claps
Modified Mike Tyson (no merkin), hold. YHC noted that this position was in the news recently as a way that an inmate escaped from a Pennsylvania prison.
People’s chair, 10 overhead claps
Modified Mike Tyson hold, recover.
Mosey to the sidewalk across from Veteran’s Memorial for a modified Jacob’s ladder.
Round 1: Do 10 SSH, run up the hill, do 10 merkins, run back down
Round 2: Do 10 squats, run up the hill, do 10 bombjacks, run back down
Round 3: Bear crawl up the hill, do 7 burpees, run back down
Round 4: Bear crawl up the hill, do 7 burpees, run back down
Mosey to the small lot by the police department for ABLAB:
MARY: Freddie Merc x 15, Flutter x 15, Hello Dolly x 15, Superman x 3
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: Prayers for family members and friends afflicted with cancer.
NMM: Mighty Mite joined us today. He recently got married and moved to Fort Mill from Charlotte. YHC and Mighty Mite used to post together on Friday’s in South Charlotte (Centurion). That was about 10 years ago when The Fort had no workouts on Fridays. Welcome to the Fort, brother! It was good to reconnect today you and I look forward to posting with you again in the future.
Six pax at the Yard on a beautiful morning.
Began with a mosey run around the bball courts.
Warmup: SWIMLAPPs: SSH, Windmills, Imperial Walkers, Moroccan N/C, Low slow squats, big arm circles, Peter Parkers (all I/C to 10), followed with some plank stretches.
Mosey run.
Fish Tacks: do movement until told to halt, then do exercise yelled out, we did: Toy soldiers – Bobby Hurleys; bear crawls – merkins; lunge walk – smurf jacks.
Mosey run.
Bench work: step ups, incline merkins, dips, calf raises, butt touch squats (all I/C to 10)
Mosey run.
Munitions work: bear crawl to the factory (30 feet away) and then do:
Burpees (5x); OH claps (10X); Merkins (10x); big boy sit ups (10x); Squats (10x). then bear crawl back home.
Mosey run.
Wall work, with 15lb slam ball: all pax wall sit, then one by one pax hold out slam ball for a ten count. Recover then all pax back on the wall, then wall-toss slam ball; recover then back on the wall, pax to triceps extension of slam ball (10x). recover.
Mosey run to COT area.
Light mary: LBC, pickle pointers, stretches.
Fini.
WARMUP: All PAX but Shield dropped in the plank with their ears wide open to listen to our brother Shield share his experience as an NYPD officer on 9/11/2001. This included the names of a few of Shield’s fallen brothers. Some of us have been fortunate enough to hear him talk about that day but every time I hear it, I take away something new. This morning was no different.
Following the plank, we mentioned a few numbers of significance for the PAX to think about:
9 & 11: This was obvious
22: Years since that day 22yrs ago
100: The number of days Ground Zero in NY smoldered
ALL PAX 100 Side Straddle Hops (50 in cadence) & 22 Burpees
THE THANG: Grab your bell and meet over by Clickbait’s trailer where we had more gear. Everyone has a weight of some kind for the following 9 exercises:
11x Kettle Bell Swings
11x Thrusters
11x Goblet Squats
11x Bent Over Rows
11x Overhead Tricep Extensions
11x Big Boy Sit-ups w/ Weight
11x Bicep Curls
11x Standing Lunges
11x Overhead Press
We went through these 9 exercises one more time and occasionally modified the cadence.
In groups of 4, we all got to experience the 200lb sand bags for 4 reps, taking the bag from the hips, to the shoulders, to an overhead position, back to the shoulders and finally, back to the hips. If we weren’t on the 200lb sand bag, we did the same evolution with our own coupon.
Then, back to 22 Side Straddle Hops & 11 Burpees.
MARY: Throughout
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Lots in the newsletter & THE BLOOD DRIVE
COT: Indeed
Nice group this morn found three sets of buckets with painful suggestions inside and some nice running in between stations. The Shorty’s watch said 1.7 miles and I guess that includes the time I caught him (not mall) walking.
We can feel the cooler air coming and see the leaves staring to fall as we admire God’s creation. Prayers for my friend Amy, our kids and school folks, and thankful for those around us who are patient mentors.