Park to Calhoun

WARMUP: it was cold. we’ll warm up on the run
THE THANG: cover distance stop for:
5 burpees
10 merkins
15 squats
added some lunges once
did some leg lifts after a muscle up twice
bear crawled the length of Calhoun St. Parking lot twice too
covered 3.11 miles–except for Beaker (his strava only said 2.98, which feels like a failure on my part. see NMM below)
MARY: flutters in cadence for 1:30 to hit 0600
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Xmas Party 12/12, Bethel service tonight

NMM:

You ever just 3000% took care of everything and crushed it by all outward metrics, but you didn’t do it with JOY in your heart? So your wife, kids, or close friend noticed and it wasn’t the reaction you expected…even though the mission was fully accomplished

It isn’t enough to just do a good job

Handle the mess your kids created with success, but did it in a way that made them feel scared rather than safe? Failure

Take care of business for your family, but made your wife feel like it was a burden rather than a mission? Failure

Maybe it’s just me… 😉 Good thing failure is a way point and not an end point. Let’s stay after it!

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Family and service

WARMUP: mosey around the parking lot, Carioke, toy solders and butt kickers. Windmills, Moroccan Night Clubs and merkins
THE THANG: Mosey to student parking lot. Sprints at 50% then 75%. Rinse and repeat for a total of 6 complete sprints. Mosey to the wall and do 10 muscle ups. Mosey to front of school. 15 dips and 20 back step lunches for total of 3 rounds. Mosey to side of school. At every brick pillar alternate between squats and merkins. Mode of transport is mosey but Band Camp insisted on Bear Crawling. Mosey to bus entrance. Break to hear the story of Naval ROTC instructor, Shawn Studley, and his wife Laura. She passed away at 1:18 pm on the afternoon of this day (11/19). Mosey to the hill outside the cafeteria. 10 back step lunges at the bottom, NUR up the hill and do 10 squats. Repeat for a total of 3 times. Mosey up the hill to COT. At every light pole, stop for a 10 count exercise for the abs. At COT do my hip thingy.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: Pray for Shawn Studley and his family

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Rosie’s magical bean ride

WARMUP: SSH, Low slow squat, windmills, imperial walkers, merkins
THE THANG: Line it up!
40 Yards of MOT, 60 yards sprint
1. Bear Crawls
2. Lunge walks
3. high knees
4. broad jumps
5. bear crawls

In between rounds, 15 Hand release merkins, 20 squats, 25 CDDs, 30 shoulder taps, 35sec plank

Pauly D – 50 yards + sprint of 50
1. NUR
2. Jog

Jack Webb from 1 to 10
1 Merkin, 4 hand claps
all the way to 10 merkins, 40 handclaps, baby!

Sevens – Apollo Onos, Leg raises.

The flag was passed, another man grows!
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Congrats Pauly D
COT:

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It’s about community

WARMUP: The heartstrings got loosened up out of the gates as Warning Track unloaded some baggage from a tough week, acknowledging the challenges of Living Right through the Flux of life and the importance of showing up this morning to be lifted up by his brothers. He followed up with the Obligatory SSHs and then set off from WEP.

THE THANG:

WT took the pax to the old Pike Elec parking lot stopping for some windmills, burpees and other fun enroute.

Pax broke into groups of 3 for a modified Dora across the parking lot. Midway through WT called audible due to pax incompetence and simplified to Dora in groups of 2. Terrible things like Merkins, squats, lunges, flutters, burpees, etc were unleashed on the pax

WT took pax to Memorial Park for more burpees and more shared pax stories of Why they come out to the Gloom on a wet Sat morning.

DD took the reins and moved the pax to a series of parking lots (pharmacy), Pike front courtyard, Town Hall back wall for pain stops including shoulder taps, wall sits, plank jacks, burpees, mtn climbers, peter parkers, Parker peters, etc.

Pax returned to WEP to appreciate JWOW’s lovely Christmas tree. Two rounds of partner work included bear crawls around tree + flutters followed by crawl bears around tree + HR merkins.

Mosey to grass in front of band shell for more partner work (merkins, shoulder taps, sit ups) interspersed with some burpees and lap around band shell. Finished off with Knee Tar N’dyae and Mahktar N’dyae.

Mosey home

MARY: included throughout

ANNOUNCEMENTS: coffeteria at HC

COT: great morning where we welcomed 3 FNGs + a Kotter while pax from 30s to 50s mixed it up and pushed each other to get 1% better.

“Our youth are our present” I heard my pastor say from the pulpit recently. Note he did NOT say “our future.” It’s as true in The Fort and in our community as it is in NYC with a 34 yr old mayor. Younger pax, you ARE leaders today — embrace your opportunity and duty. Seasoned pax — your leadership focus IS about bringing along the next generation of leaders — embrace your opportunity and duty.
We are blessed men to have these roles at this time.

Thanks to JWOW for the opportunity and Warning Track for the partnership.

Love you brothers!
#KeepPosting

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Bushpit Dual Q (or Q Duel?)

Rock, Scissors, Paper for who took the warmup: Birdcage won

WARMUP:
– Indian run

THE THANG:
OldBay Part 1:
Run to first of 4 cones set up to cover a large area for “Catch me if you can”. Pax partner up, size doesn’t matter. Partner 1 does stationary exercise while partner 2 does moving exercise (working their way around all 4 cones). Once P1 finishes stationary exercise, they run to catch P2 then flapjack. Continue until they’ve made it around all 4 cones.

Exercises:
10 merkins and butt kickers
3 burpees and high knees
10 mountain climbers and karaoke

Birdcage Part 1
All pax grab some curb for merkin and shimmy: one merkin, then use arms and legs to sideways step to the right. Repeat until complaints were high enough.

Shake it out and then flip to other side of curb for dip and shimmy.

Pax then had to get in 5 lines for sprints back and forth in front of the stadium entrance.

OldBay Part 2
Pax line up on curb facing open side of parking lot for broad jumps and merkins. Pax instructed to take 2 broad jumps and then do 2 merkins. Repeat until the other side of the parking lot was reached, keeping count of how many broad jumps it took them.
14 jumps was the fewest, so all pax had to do 14 burpees.

Pax then lined up arms-distance apart, then dropped to a plan for railroad tracks. The pax at the end of the plank line had to make their way to the from the line by jumping over each planked pax. They then planked at the front of the line. Done after 2 complete cycles. We had a few minutes left, so we did 5 6-count burpees to satisfy the brass at the workout.

Birdcage part 2
Worked our way back to the front of the stadium where we did suicides, stopping at every tree for 5 bombjacks…until we run out of time (or tree, in the case of a few pax)

MARY:
Just a few moments for a few exercises. Bandcamp managed to get 2 6-count burpees in, because only dozens before wasn’t enough.

Great work by all. Thanks for the opportunity to co-lead, Birdcage.

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Week 1 F2F October – Atlas & Sasquatch

WARMUP: 5 min dynamic plank warm up with upward and downward dogs; then dynamic moving warm up with butt kick, high knees, toy soldiers, lunges, skips, side shuffles, cariocas, heel walk, toe walk, bunny hips, mosey
THE THANG: 10 mins with Atlas – mosey to long straigh away with 3 light poles – suicide run to light pole 1 5 merkins, NUR to start 10 squats,, run to light pole 2 then 5 merkins, NUR to start 10 squats, run to light pole 3 then 5 merkins, NUR to start 10 squats, MARY x90″

10 mins with Sasquatch – mosey to front of school, circle up – everyone plank and complete 5 reps of a plank or merkin exerxercise called by Q (exercises includedshoulder taps, parker peter, peter parker, plank jacks, merkins, diamond merkins, wide arm merkins) upward and downward dog variations were also completed as we awaited the return of the pax (see next line)- 1 pax exits the cirlce and runs approximaley 30 yrds to light pole and completes 3 burpees and return sto cicrle, tehn everyone does one burpee toegether, then next pax runs to aforemetnioned lightpole to complete burpees while the circled up planking pax are doing the aforementioned plank exercises followed by upwards and downward dog until that pax returns to the cirlce

10 mins with Atlas – INdian run to the somehwat grasssy fireld – last person in line does 5 swauts and then rusn to the front; from goal line of field, lunge 10 ards, complete 5 merkins, bear crawl 10 yds, complete 5 merkins and repeat that cycle until you get to the end of the other endzone, mary to finish that last 2 mins;

10 mins with Sasquatch – line up 2 by 2 with a similarly sized pax, mosey togther, stop and complete 5 partner merkins in cadence, continue to mosey 2 by 2 and then stop to perform partner resisted pushes about 20 yrdsand switch with your partner to return- 2 cycles of that completed; mosey back towards COT and stop on the grass to complete 10 sit up get ups on curb with partner helping to pull to stand and switch for other partner to complete 10 reps; return to COT
Per several pax, 2 miles wereecovered during the duration of the workout!
MARY: some was interspersed
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newletters weekly on Sunday
COT: Great start to week 1 of F2F at Bushwood

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No rain, just The Thunder

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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5 for 5 at The Hive

WARMUP: Yea, a good one. Humane Burpee

THE THANG:
Right Side:
5 Snatches
5 Overhead Lunges
5 Cleans
5 Swings
5 Rows
5 Merkins w/ hand on the bell
Repeat on the left
did 5 round
in between had guys explain their name origin story

After 5 rounds we did 1 reps of each exercise in the circuit as a complex. Got tough.

MARY: Flutter w/ Press & American Hammer
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Invergence Tomorrow
COT: was held

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Celebrating Tay Tay and Travy

Celebrating the engagement the night before of Ms Swift and Mr Kelsey by running rings.

Pick your poison – munn>harris>trail to wep and run around that or hit old Kingsley for the familiar vibe of long term marriage.

I was just on a podcast last week. Host asked me to do a shout out for things I’m grateful for. My M and the men of F3 are the two top ones. Thankful to be able to lead.

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