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Four Corners of Fun at Golden Corral

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WARMUP: 4 Plank Jacks/Merkins/Shoulder Taps/Supermans. Repeat with 8 count. Repeat with 16 count. Repeat with 32 count.
THE THANG: Four corners with four exercises (20 count each) at each corner. After exercises completed at the corner, run one full lap + 1/4 to get to the next station. Exercises grouped as “Upper”, “Lower”, “Abs”, “All”. Once completed all corners we did the warmup all over again.
MARY: Nope
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Dam to Damn Bar
COT: Grassy’s son

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All of them

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PAX we’re disclaimed and the five core principles were voiced.

WARMUP: Mosey to Grace Presby – Various exercises with burpees mixed in for fun.

THE THANG: Partner DORA behind Harris Teeter so PAX could experience the “Golden Corral fresh air” 100-200-300: Burpees, Squats & Flutter Kicks. Mosey off campus to office park and former Gold Hill Y property.

1-17-23 at each stop sign/corner – time for 3 rounds:
Stop 1 – 1 kraken burpee, 17 hand release merkins & 23 big boy sit ups

Stop 2 – 1 kraken burpee, 17 wide arm merkins, 23 sumo squats

Stop 3 – 1 kraken burpee, 17 diamond merkins, 23 flutter kicks

Mosey to gold hill Y driveway for 5 more burpees OYO then a jog to COT.

MARY: no time for it
ANNOUNCEMENTS: were announced
COT: YHTBT

Thanks to Slow Jams for the opportunity. It’s always an honor to lead.

Gratefully,
Cyclops 👁

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Long Drive

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WARMUP: The warmup was a slow mousey around the parking area….we did Windmills, Hillbilly Walkers, Imperial Walkers and Morrocan Nighclubs.
THE THANG: We did 8 exercises 5 SQUATS,10 LUNGES,15 MERKIN W/PLANKJACKS,20 BIG BOYS, 25. SHOULDER TAPS, 30 AMERICAN HAMMERS, 35 MTN CLIMBERS AND 40 SSH
We did the first exercise the count was 5 then ran a lap around the parking lot, then repeat the exercise before and continue down the list in increments of 5 until you completed the list and rinse and repeat. Thank you to Slapshot for giving me the opportunity to lead and for giving great directions to the AO in the best hype video out there.
MARY: no Mary
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Dam to Dam Bar 10k
COT: We prayed for safe travels and family

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CVS Loop

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It was a frigid morning in The Fort, but the high intensity of the PAX kept us warm. We warmed up the engines and we were off.

The Thang – 4 Corners Jack Webb with running as the mode of transportation.
Cone 1 Merkins 1 – 10
Cone 2 Overhead Claps 4 – 40
Cone 3 Flutters 4 – 40
Cone 4 Squats 1 – 10

We had some time for wall work with bear crawls and some Mary.

JWow

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So Funhouse can stop crying…

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WARMUP: Very little
THE THANG:
– To the pull up bars where we performed an idiot sequence of pullups one by one and some other exercises. Note for later, that didn’t really work.
– To the hill we all use entirely too much, but it’s a great hill, so why stop?
– Partner carries, wheelbarrows, running, bear crawling, all kinds of dumb stuff while we also ran around the back end through the neighborhood streets.
– One fake 10-count was involved
– Back to the parking lot for a fake Dora and then it was over…

MARY: No chicks.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter.

COT: The 5th Core Principle

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Tabata kettlebell jam fest

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WARMUP: Done in cadence. SSH x15, windmills x10, Cherry pickers x15, Moroccan nc x15, Hillbilly walkers x15, Big arm circles x8(forward and back), Down dog/honeymooner
THE THANG:  Tabata with 25 secs on/15 secs rest x 6 sets – 45 sec abs+kb done in cadence
Swings
Reverse lunges
Bent over rows
Squats
Upright rows
Mtn climbers
Triceps extension
American hammers
MARY: one minute lbc with kb press
ANNOUNCEMENTS: D2D bar Jan 28, D2D next month, blood drive Jan 12, bethel men’s shelter Jan 12 (sign ups needed)
COT: back to school, job search, damar Hamlin and what his story has shown us

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Four Freedoms

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Stockade Four Freedoms January 6th 2023 (1941)

Started with a run behind Harris Teeter and up to Grace Presb Church.
Warmup:
SSH (20x I/C)
Windmills (8x I/C)
Imperial Walkers (10x I/C)
Moroccan Nightclubs (10x I/C)
Low slow squats (10x I/C)
Big Arm Circles (6 forward, 6 backwards)
Peter Parkers (10x I/C)
Plank Stretches (Downward dog, upward dog)

Short mosey run

Fish tracks routine:
Pax do the transportation and stop when instructed and do the exercise called.
Toy soldiers…stop and do Bobby Hurleys,
Lunge walk…stop and do squats,
Bear crawl…stop and do merkins,

Short mosey run back over to the shopping plaza.
Bench work: Incline Merkins, step ups, dips, squats, derkins, calf raises

Short run over to the wall nearby Dollar Tree:
Wall sits, BTW, and wall-tar-jai’s
Four Freedoms background/info delivered during wall sits. See summary at end of BB.

Short run to adjacent parking lot: found the cinder block and did:
Pass the ammunition: Pax do a curb plank, drag/pass the cinder block to the guy next to you, and so until the last guy then sends the block back to starting guy. Then all pax do curb merkins (3 I/C). repeat.

Run back to Grace church: Find the four cones in the parking lot.
Cone 1 “Freedom of Speech”: did 4 burpees,
run to Cone 2 “Freedom of Worship”: did 4 burpees,
run to Cone 3 “Freedom from Want”: did 4 burpees,
run to cone 4 “Freedom from Fear”: did 4 burpees.

Run back to shopping plaza.
Global running routine: Pax circle up, wrestling stance, side shuffle, stop and do: Smurf jacks, squats, monkey humpers.

Run to COT.
BURPEE-QUIZ time: Pax were asked, and correctly answered, what the Four Freedoms were, which President delivered the speech, and when was it delivered. Therefore, pax had to do only 8 burpees.
Mary: Freddies, flutters, box cutters.

Fini
COT

Four Freedoms:
Context/background: by December 1940, Nazi Germany had taken over most of Europe and Britain/London was getting pummeled with the nightly blitz bombings. Japan was also making conquests in China and Korea. The US was separated from all of this, and many folks thought the isolationist stance should continue (people were still remembering the pain of WW One).
But FDR (newly elected to his third term as President) knew the US was basically the only nation capable of saving the democracies of the world.
In his State of the Union address on January 6th 1941, FDR laid out why the US should get more involved…the four basic freedoms of democracy was under attack:
Freedom of Speech
Freedom to Worship God in the manner that a man wants to.
Freedom from Want…economic security
Freedom from Fear…aggression of one nation to another

Eighty-two years later, we have Ukraine being attacked and their basic Freedoms under attack. Prayers for ClickBait, MarkTwian, and their crews in the work they are doing over there in Ukraine.

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Rollercoaster and Shoulders

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WARMUP:
– SSH / WM / IW / mosey
THE THANG:
– Rollercoaster: 10/20/30/40/50 with 10x Burpees every 5 min
– squats / MC / Plank Jacks / LBC
MARY:
– shoulder workout: merkin+OH claps: 1:4 all the way to 10:40
– some core exercise at the end
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– read your newsletter and sign up for D2Dbar
COT:
– was held

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KICKING OFF GOLDEN CORRAL IN 2023

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WARMUP:
Circle up for windmill x 15 and SSH x 20. Form a line and do toy soldiers and arm circles on the way to an area in front of HT. Circle up again.

THE THANG:
After the disclaimer and a short warm up, we were greeted by two additional pax who joined the circle for a Tabata workout.

8 exercises, 8 reps each, 20 sec work, 10 sec rest.
The exercises we did today were:
1. CCD
2. Box cutters (tough)
3. Mountain climbers
4. Squats
5. Merkins (crowd pleaser)
6. Superman hold
7. Alternating lunges
8. Burpees
Finish with 90 sec body destroyer

COT

NAKED MAN MOLESKIN
I’ve done this workout several times and it’s very easy to plan, but a little tricky to execute. Keeping track of the exercises and the number of sets requires some concentration. With no cadence counting, it encourages a lot of mumble chatter and we had plenty of that today. Noteworthy was Slapshot, who welcomed our FNG with steady conversation for the entire workout. I tip my hat to him because while the rest of us were groaning on sets 7 and 8 of merkins, he kept the chatter going with little sign of fatigue or O2 deprivation. Well done!

Welcome Pongo who comes to us from North Charlotte (I believe). He brought along an FNG who we dubbed Gremlin. Welcome, gentlemen! Love getting FNG’s on the weekday workouts. It was a great morning with the fine gentlemen of the Fort and a pleasure to lead the group as always. Thanks for the Q nod, Slow Jams!

ANNOUNCEMENTS/PRAYERS
Dam2Dam race/fundraiser for Ft. Mill Schools in Feb. Read your newsletter.
Prayers: Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin, Pongo’s grandfather Warren, kids returning to school.

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