Decomplexification

WARMUP: mosey to basketball court behind the school with a stop along the way to  complete some basic broga/stretching.  Also completed karaoke, toy soldiers, as knees to chest stretches.
THE THANG: (1) line up along the baseline of the basketball court. (2) provide instructions (3) follow instructions – kind of like a pirate map

Using a 60 second timer, perform the following every minute on the minute for 30 minutes:
– 1 burpee
– 2 alternating lunges (each leg)
– 3 merkins
– 4 low slow squats
– 5 side straddle hops
Run to opposite baseline and wait for the bell

MARY: one the mosey back to COT, stopped and performed planks: 60 seconds low plank, 30 seconds side plank (each side), 30 seconds low plank, 20 seconds (each side)
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Come to Alcatraz on Saturday for 10-year; read your newsletter

COT:Prayers for men of Bethel Men’s Shelter; everyone is dealing with “stuff”, so keep in mind that people you interact with may be dealing with things you don’t know about which may be coming out in the wrong way in their interaction with you!

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IPC Week 3 without Cindy

WARMUP: Short Mosey, 5 core principles were recited followed by a burpee for each one, cherry pickers, SSH
THE THANG: Went to the short track to show everyone the board. Liked the IPC week 3 format so much decided to use it. Increased the number of rounds since our run distance was shorter and Cindy didn’t participate. Here’s the run down:

RD1 – 10xMerkins, 16xStep-Ups, 20xMerkins, 26xStep-Ups, 30xMerkins, Run a Lap

RD2- 10xStep-Ups, 16xCDDsw/FeetOnCurb, 20xStep-Ups, 26xCDDswFOC, 30xStep-Ups, Run a Lap

RD3 – 10xCDDswFOC, 16xBulgarianSplitSquats, 20xCDDswFOC, 26xBSSs, 30xCDDswFOC, Run a Lap

RD4 – 10xBSSs, 16xV-Ups, 20xBSSs, 26xV-Ups, 30xBSSs, Run a Lap

RD5 – 10xV-Ups, 16xDerkinswFOCurborBench, 20xV-Ups, 26xDerkinswFOCorB, 30xV-Ups, Run a Lap

RD6 – 10xDerkinswFOCorB, 16xFreddyMs, 20xDerkinswFOCorB, 26xFreddyMs, 30xDerkinswFOCorB, Run a Lap

RD7 – 10xFreddyMs, 16xBurpees, 20xFreddyMs, 26xBurpees, 30xFreddyMs, Run a Lap

Most of us made it into rounds 6 & 7 and I believe we had a couple of finishers. Lots of mumble chatter, great fellowship.

MARY: No time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: What is said in COT stays in COT. This should give freedom to vulnerability. I encourage you to speak up at COT with anything on your mind/heart. This is your opportunity to ask/receive help with your burdens! You do not have to carry them alone!

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FORE!

WARMUP: Run to the golf course
THE THANG:
Start on #1
Tee boxes – 10 merkins
Greens – 15 squats, 20 LBCs

Most got through 6, some got 9 holes. All ran 3 miles.

MARY:
Run back to COT
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Read your newsletter
COT:
Remember we aren’t promised another day. Love on your family even when it’s hard. Give grace even to those that show you no grace.

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Green fruit with fuzz

Esso:
Merkins
Dips
Overhead Claps
Derkins
Erkins
Multiple reps

Band Camp:
Pacer Test

Shady:
10 knee ups
20 flutters
30 American hammers
40 second plank

10 Peter Parker’s
10 Parker Peters
10 Side things now called the fire hydrant

– @Barry Manilow was not parterning with @Anchorman or @CakeBoss
– @Portal found an orange sky
– @HarryCarry and @Shady want another 20 meter shot
– @SkateOrDie managed to get to the closest AO to his house, and many mornings that is enough
– @Shield and @Ruby Slippers want permission to give me candid feedback. Granted.
– @Saw Dust charges hard
– @Splinter and @Esso had a competition to see who was a bigger Clemson fan. ( @Slash would have loved it )

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Elite 8

WARMUP: Mosey to the light poles in front of the school.  One in cadence exercise was called with 5 burpees OYO after each exercise.  

Bear crawl between the last two light poles before moseying to the basketball court behind the school for act 1

THE THANG
Act 1 – On the line
Each PAX shot a free throw.  A make meant a lesser penalty.  A miss, a greater one. 8 sets of 2 liners, 4 liners, and a few burpees mixed in.  
We took our ball and moved on to act 2 on the south end of the school.

Act 2 – 4 corners (5-10-15)
At each corner – 5 hand release merkins, 10 squats and 15 lunges per leg.  

Mode of transport – bear crawl between station 1 and 2, nur between station 2 and 3, Bear crawl between station 3 and 4 and side shuffle between station 4 and 1.

Mosey to the front of school stopping at a light for monkey humpers in cadence and then made is back for 3 minutes of…..

MARY: PAX called out exercises and all were done in cadence until 0600 brought us to name-o-rama and……

ANNOUNCEMENTS: August has opportunities. Get involved.

COT: 5th core principle (YHTBT).

Closing thought – if life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond. Is your 90% consistent enough to lead right?

Maximus – Thanks for the opportunity to lead.
Cyclops.

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Group Q

WARMUP:  Group Mary X 2 exercises each

THE THANG: Dora on the move around the Lowe’s Building. 100 dips, 200 merkins on guardrails & 300 claveboss raises.

MARY: 10 min Broga compliments of Change Order

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 7/22 Adopt a HWY, August Convergence, early plug for Dam to Dam 2024!

COT: Ended w the Lords Prayer- Dilbert

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Get the BB out before I can’t type later

WARMUP: A quick broga-y stretch and mosey through the parking lot w/ some high knees and karaoke.
THE THANG: Picked up cinderblocks and started at the top of the hill adjacent to the JROTC building… 10 reps of each exercise w/ block:
– swings,
– overhead press,
– overhead tricep extension,
– curls,
– upright row,
– merkins,
– lunge w/ core twist,
– squats,
– calf raises

Mosey to bottom of hill and repeat with 1 less rep before heading to next location. 10-9-8…1

The PAX made it to the bottom of the hill near SCES bus loop playground and back to the top of the hill near NFHS bus loop entrance before returning to the starting location adjacent to the JROTC building and returning the blocks.

Mosey back to COT for some additional broga-y stretching.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Cannoli Run tomorrow, read your newsletter
COT: Show to know!

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Shield Lock Talk

WARMUP: Introduction and disclaimer. Began a mosey down the road that included toy soldiers, butt kickers and both sides of Karaoke. Stopped at the far parking lot for a warm-up. Included MNC, Wind Mills, Produce Pickers. plank with discussion, up/down dog, Mtn Climbers and ended with Merkins.
THE THANG: Part 1 of 3. We did the Motivator. After we completed it, transitioned to Kaiser. He lead us to the track to do some bench work. Part 2 of 3 included Step ups, Incline Merkins, Dips, then an Indian Run around the track. Repeated bench work and then abs before handing it off to Body Wash. He took us on a mosey back to COT. Part 3 of 3 was all Broga and Ab work. At each part we talked about the reason we joined our SL. We were missing OTG, Divac and Slapshot. All had prior obligations or Q’s.
MARY: The final sets of abs was tine to conclude our SL discussion.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: A couple different runs coming up and blood drive.
COT: Prayers for marriage and healing

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