I Don’t Always Dance Salsa, But When I do we Boogie Down !

WARMUP: Welcome & Disclaimer
THE THANG: We jumped into a circuit training of pain stations with 10 Reps each of the following: LSS, Merkins, Flutter Kicks, 60lb Sand Bag Over Head Toss, Ruck Sack Curls, SSH, Monkey Humpers, 40lb Bent Over Rows, Big Boys. Every 5-10 minutes we Mosey a lap around the parking lot x2, and 1 backwards jog.
MARY: Lots of fellowship, and sweet tunes.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: HIM Camp, Men Bethel Shelter, & NEWSLETTER
COT: Praises & Prayer, 5th Core Principles and shared with Halfback about the 3 Fs.

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Keep up…the good work

Disclaimer at 5 AM sharp from YHC, we crossed the street to panera for some in cadence Warm-O-Rama that included,

Side Straddle Hop
Windmills
Moroccan Nightclubs
Imperial Walkers
Hillbilly Walkers

1 mile around Kingsley and then time for some,
Lunges
Merkins
Step up

1 more mile around Kingsley and now this time,
Squats
Merkins
Mountain Climbers

1 more mile and it was time for CoT

CoT:
Announcements: Bethel men’s, convergence and read newsletter
Prayers and Praises (said & unsaid)

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Stuff the Bus Convergence

WARMUP:
Ran over to parking lot behind football fields
SSH – all exercises were to 20 INC
1 burpee
Windmill
2 burpees
Cherry Pickers
3 burpees
Squats
4 burpees
Moroccan Night Club
5 Burpees
Imperial walkers
6 burpees
Merkins
7 burpees
LBC
8 burpees
CDD
9 burpees
Flutter
10 burpees

Throughout the workout we had pax share about different opportunities we have within The Fort to serve our community. We had the following speak (Fogerty – Trash Pickup, Cousin Eddy – Bethel Men’s shelter, Jiffy – FM Care Center, Stuff the Bus)

Partner Up
Round 1 –
Squats
Flying Squirrels
Inch worm merkins

Round 2
Big boy sit-ups
Jump Squats
Wide arm merkins

We have an amazing opportunity in The Fort to impact our community. We have pax impacting our community through service. Challenge was raised, if you aren’t actively impacting the community, why not?

It was an honor to be able to lead the workout this morning. This was diffident from most workouts because of the number of times we stopped to talk. However I felt it important to share with the guys what is happening around them. We also were able to congratulate Double D in his hand off of Nantan to Esso. Double D, thank you for you service to the pax. You have always been someone who ask the tough questions that challenge us and I thank you for that and what you did for our Region during your reign as Nantan. Esso, I look forward where you are going to take us and your energy to lead. We have a bright future ahead.

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A Mountain of Cards

WARMUP: A short jog followed by an equally short nur. Some stretching movements.
THE THANG: Deck of cards:
Diamonds: Merkins
Spades: Bent Over Rows
Hearts: Curls
Clubs: Flutter Kicks w/ Press (in cadence)
4 other cards: 300m run/jog
About 12 cards in, a man (Joe) appeared in the gloom inquiring about a workout groom he read about online. He has friends that do F3 up in the Huntersville area. Joe is now known as Walk-On for obvious reasons.
With the extra time:
Suitcase carry 100yds
5 Man Makers
10 Really good squats
Suitcase carry 100yds
Thrusters
MARY: Mixed throughout
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter
COT: 5th Core Principle and we named Walk-On

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We found a snowman and a new site Q

WARMUP: Put rucks on back. Started moving.
THE THANG: This was an old school fire ant wienke YHC had in storage from Dec 2020 and seemed fitting for a longer distance touring of Tega Cay.

We set off towards Walmart and at the bottom of Hubert Graham (maybe 16-17 min pace), we stopped for a series of exercises we’d repeat 3 other times with increases in rep count of 5 (started with 5 reps).

Exercises were: man makers, lunge walks (both legs is 1), curls, swings, up rows.

On our way up the hill, we crossed paths with a running snowman who was moving and in training for GrowRun NO. Next stop was Walmart parking lot by brewery for 10 reps, same exercises. Discussions with DR Pax Rousey uncovered his past experiences with GrowRuck Myrtle that Mainframe and Divac tried to not relive in their minds. Wegmans and PL May have come up.

Once finished with our counts of 10, we went in the back of Walmart and made a quick decision not to see if we could make it over to Colosseum…that would have been tight getting back to COT.

At the bottom of HG once again, we started or rep counts of 15 and found our frosty snowman yet again, this time with a ruck on his back…running no less. He joined us for our final 15 before heading back to COT.

Before getting to COT, we had just enough time for a quick mosey shuffle around the small parking lot with rucks on.
MARY: nada
ANNOUNCEMENTS: completed
COT: also check

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Know your place

WARMUP: rucked over to old Kingsley
THE THANG: continued rucking around old Kingsley loop and back to bigger parking lot on far west side. We then did a small set of exercises: 10 squats, 10 curls, 10 overhead presses.

Next up was a goal of a 15 min, 1 mile time hack. Instructions were: single file line, we’d rotate the man in front to the back every .2 miles, we had to stay together within a 1-2 arm reach, only the man in front and back could talk in terms of instructions on spacing, speed, etc.

We did pretty well keeping together until the end when our spacing separated a bit to much so while we did make the time back, we didn’t complete it all together.

Quick AAR (after action report) in the parking lot on what went well / didn’t go well. Comments were: difficult to stay silent when not in the front / back, the need to ask for help when trying to keep up, need for more talking from the back.

Another set of the 3 exercises noted above. Then back to COT going the short way as we were running low on time.
MARY: not today
ANNOUNCEMENTS: check
COT: check

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Deck of Cards

WARMUP: Ruck Lap
THE THANG:
Went through the whole deck of cards
Hearts= man makers
Diamonds=LSS
Clubs= big boy situps with ruck overhead
Spades= ruck swings
Jokers = 200 meter ruck overhead walk
workout to 104 reps of each exercise
MARY: none
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter
COT: closed in prayer

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Tailgate Workout

WARMUP: Without ruck, jogged a lap around the parking lot
THE THANG:
Round 1
With ruck on, one PAX did 10 over-the-shoulder 60# sandbag tosses while everyone did LSS with ruck on, High Pulls, OHP, Merkins, Lunges, Swings, Plank Jacks, Ruck Overhead Hold, Deadlifts, Bent over Rows RH , Bent over Rows LH, Ruck Skull Crusher, Mnt Climbers, Plank Hold and run a lap around the parking lot.

Round 2
With ruck on, one PAX did 10 Bobby Hurleys with 35# sandbag while everyone did LSS with ruck on, High Pulls, OHP, Merkins, Lunges, Swings, Plank Jacks, Ruck Overhead Hold, Deadlifts, Bent over Rows RH , Bent over Rows LH, Ruck Skull Crusher, Mnt Climbers, Plank Hold and run a lap around the parking lot.

Round 3
5 Pullupa while everyone did LSS with ruck on, High Pulls, OHP, Merkins, Lunges, Swings, Plank Jacks, Ruck Overhead Hold, Deadlifts, Bent over Rows RH , Bent over Rows LH, Ruck Skull Crusher, Mnt Climbers, Plank Hold and run a lap around the parking lot.

Round 4
5 Reps of each exercise: LSS with ruck on, High Pulls, OHP, Merkins, Lunges, Swings, Plank Jacks, Ruck Overhead Hold, Deadlifts, Bent over Rows RH , Bent over Rows LH, Ruck Skull Crusher, Mnt Climbers, Plank Hold and run a lap around the parking lot.

MARY: 3 minutes of stretching
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter
COT: Closed in prayer

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WEP Ruck

WARMUP: None
THE THANG: Rucked from Kingsley to WEP, looped around the track at WEP and back to Kingsley. 3.3 miles
MARY: None
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter
COT: Closed in prayer

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Elite 8

WARMUP: mosey to Grace presby with various exercises including burpees sprinkled in to honor the site q
THE THANG: 7 rounds of 7 and 23’s – burpees and LBC’s or squats depending on proximity to the dumpster. After comments and chatter about oderiferous emanations we moseyed to the office park for 5 rounds of 10-10-10-5: squats, flutters, hand release merkins and burpees.

Mosey at 0557 to COT for a 0600 arrival

MARY: no time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: YHTBT
COT:5th core principle

Thanks for the callout, Slapshot. Always an honor to lead.

Gratefully,
Cyclops

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