Gods Promise

WARMUP: Mosey to bottom of hill for exercise
SSH, Cherry Pickers, Hillbilly Walkers
THE THANG: Mosey to lighted entrance to school. 35 merkins, 35 big boys, 35 squats.
Mosey back to bottom of hill. 35 Carolina Dry Docks, 35 Bobby Hurleys, 35 merkins. Mosey back up hill and individually grab Cindy’s. 11’s man makers at top of hill, LBC’s at bottom.
MARY: Abb work out led by El Presidente.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel Men’s Shelter, Him Camp
COT: Family health, travel

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Pickett’s Charge

Twelve pax posted on this 3rd of July. Warm and humid with a thunderstorm having cleared out about 30 mins beforehand.

Warmup
Mosey run (toy soldiers, high knees, and butt kickers)
Circle up and do: SSH (15x I/C), windmills (8x I/C), imperial walkers (15x I/C), Moroccan n/c (15x I/C), low slow squats (10x I/C), big arm circles (15x I/C), peter parkers (10x I/C), plank stretches (downward dogs, honeymooners).

Thang 1: Cindy-Runs
Each pax got a cinder block and did the routine noted below.
Run 400m
KB Swings
Run 400m
Goblet squats
Run 400m
Manmakers
Run 400m
curls
Run 400m
Thrusters
Run 400m
Chest press
Run 400m
Early pax restarted the block exercises, but ran a shorter loop until the six came in.

Thang 2: Wall stuff
Ran to the brick wall of the school. Pax plank. Read a few paragraphs about Pickett’s Charge that happened 7/3/63 at Gettysburg.
Pax wall sit. From both ends of the line, pax bear crawls out about 30 feet, 3 burpees, and crawl bears back.
Then we did some wall-tar-jais…followed by some balls-to-the-wall for a ten count.

Thang 3: bar work
Ran over to the pull up bars and seven each of: pull ups, chin ups, switch grip, toes4bar, negative pullups.

Mary:
Ran to COT area and did Sally routine with leg lifts (Moby’s Flower, legs up on “bring Sally up” and 6 inches on “bring Sally down”.
A little monkey humpers, an 10 seconds of body destroyers.

Fini.
COT

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Bags and blocks (my daughter built this workout…just saying.

WARMUP: Not much, we got right to it.

THE THANG:
15 Flutter Presses
20 Single Leg Lunges
Max Man Makers
Weighted Walk
15 Thrusters
20 Curls
Max Merican Hammers
Weighted walk
15 Chair Crunches
20 Rows
Max Lateral Diamond Burpees

3 Rounds – All movements w/a variety of sandbags, Jerry cans, medicine balls, blocks.

MARY: No time for Miss Mary, eh I guess we can count the 200lb sandbag overhead presses.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: HIM CAMP / Aug 11-13
COT:

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Smelly Stockade

WARMUP: Lap around the parking lot. SSHs, Imperial Walkers, Windmills, Plank Stretches
THE THANG:
The Accumulator:

Do the exercise and take a lap around the parking lot. Rinse and Repeat, accumulating each exercise.

10 Merkins – 20 Flutter Kicks – 20 Squats – 30 Plank Punches – 20 LBC’s – 20 Carolina Dry Docks – 10 Burpees
We had addition time to do two more rounds, dropped the burpees and Carolina Dry Docks.

Great Job Everyone!

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Chugging $1 beers downtown

WARMUP: mossy to parking lot across from Little Caesars. 10 windmills, 15 SSH, 15 LSS, 10 merkins. Since Bobber missed half of the warm up, we rinsed and repeated for him.

THE THANG: mossy to the first bar – Pint Shop – for some bar chugging pain. 5 rounds to complete a 1/4 of the Murph (5 pull-ups 10 merkins 15 squats). Run to Emmits, 1 round of 3 exercises (these 3 were repeated at all stops but with different number of rounds – 10 merkins, 15 squats, 20 LBCs). Missy to Armor artis for 2 rounds, mossy to Illumination for 1 round (3 rounds were called but due to high volume of mumble chatter reduced to 1 to avoid cops), mossy to Flower Bar for 2 rounds, lunge walk to FM eatery for 1 round, lunge walk to Hobos for 1 round. Run to intersection with 160 and do 5 burpees then run back to Emmits for 5 burpees. Rinse and repeat one more time then mossy to COT

We all enjoyed the beer chugging pain at each of the drinking holes in downtown. We even discussed opening up a college bar servig $1 beers in plastic cups as this would be a real $$$$ maker.

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: prayers for patience and healing for those sick

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13 Light Polls

WARMUP: Minimal as per usual at Sweep The Leg. Mosey to Legacy Health. SSH, Peach Pickers, Hillbillies, and toy soldiers.
THE THANG: Mosey to back of Good Hill Middle / 25 Merkins, 25 LBC’s 25 Monkey Humpers. Mosey to hill behind schools bball court. 13 light polls. Run to 3rd so 7 big boys, run back 2 and do 7 merkins. Rinse and repeat until u hit the top. Run back to COT right at 6am.
MARY: no time.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: bethel men’s shelter, July 4th convergence.
COT: prayers for patience, 2.0’s, M’s, Lyla.

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A Little Bit of Everything

WARMUP: 25 SSH, 25 Peach Pickers, 15 windmills, 15 Moroccan Night Clubs, Hillbillies, Toy Soldiers
THE THANG:
Indian run around WEP while alternating mode of transport every trash can (run and bear crawl). Realized this was stupid and changed to running and bearcrawls where 6 runs to front.

Mosey to Monroe White road pendulum and conducted 11’s merkins and flutters at top of hills and 10 squats at bottom. Ended at 6 and 5 to complete other fun stuff.

Mosey to Print Shop and did 7’s with pull ups and big boys.

Mosey back to WEP stage. Did wall sits while passing Cindy back and forth.

MARY:
Blares
Chumbawumba (I get Knocked down) doing burpee every time I get knock down is said. It’s said a lot especially at the end.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: HIM Camp, read newsletter

COT: prayers for Clickbates friend John. Prayers for Layla, travel for cohiba and naked. And Lyla in Greenville. Praises for testimony by click bates FNG. God is good

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11’s… or 22’s? on the 23rd

WARMUP: Mosey to the front(ish) of Lowes. Merkins, Squats and stretching happened and were glorious. Mosey to the North side of the strip parking lot to get to the thang.
THE THANG: 11’s – one side Merkins and Squats, the AO parking lot had Big Boys and Flutters.
MARY: Freddie Mercurys, Box Cutters, LBC’s and Flutters
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Blood Drive, July 4 convergence, Read your news letter.
COT: Prayers for health.

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Let’s not bicker and argue over who killed who

WARMUP: Begin run to Pull Up Bar Driveway, stopping periodically for
10 Windmills IC
10 Hillbilly Walkers IC
10 LSS IC
10 MNC IC
10 Shoulder Taps IC
10 Merkins IC

THE THANG: Coach Pat Summit’s Definite Dozen
12 Stations. First round as a group, then OYO.
First Round: 10 reps each
Second Round: 20 reps each
Third Round: 30 reps each
1. Merkins – Respect yourself and others – There is no such thing as self-respect without respect for others.
2. Sumo Squats – Take Full Responsibility – There are no shortcuts to success.
3. LBC’s – Develop and Demonstrate Loyalty – Loyalty is unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
4. Bomb Jax – Learn to be a great Communicator. – Communication eliminates mistakes.
5. Calf Raises – Discipline yourself so one else has to – Self-discipline helps you believe in yourself.
6. Pull Ups – Make hard work your passion. – Do the things that aren’t fun first and do them well.
7. Lunges – Don’t just work hard, work smart. – Success is about having the right person in the right place at the right time. Know your strengths, weaknesses and needs.
8. Wide Arm Merkins – Put the Team before yourself. – Teamwork doesn’t come naturally; it must be taught.
9. Big Boy Sit Ups – Make winning an attitude. – Combine practice with belief. Attitude is a choice. Maintain a positive outlook.
10. Seal Jax – Be a Competitor. – Competition isn’t social. It separates achievers from the average. You can’t always be the most talented person in the room, but you can be the most competitive.
11. Squats – Change is a Must – Change equals self-improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.
12. Carolina Dry Docks – Handle Success like you handle failure – You can’t always control what happens, but you can control how you handle it.

We successfully finished the round of 30 reps, before collecting cones and moseyed back to COT.
Olaf was timing us, but we made it back at 0600 on the dot!

MARY: n/a
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Hanging with Stang, July 4th Convergence, Take a new PAX out for coffee.
COT: Stays in CoT

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Great Job Kermit

Kermit led
Disclaimer
Mosey to Pharmacy parking lot
10 Windmills IC
10 Hillbilly Walkers IC
10 LSS IC
Al Gore with 10 MNC IC
10 Shoulder Taps IC
10 Merkins IC
Toy Soldier across parking lot

THE THANG:
Mosey to business parking lot.
Lunge Walk hang way to Hobos (dumpster)
Burpee Broad Jump to Hobos back yard.

Hand off to the New Site Q!

Mosey to St John’s UMC
25 merkins
25 Big Boys
25 Sumo Squats

Mosey to Print Shop / Break into teams of 3 except my group of 4 which was a sizable advantage.

As a team
100 pull ups
200 LBC’s
300 Monkey Humpers

Mosey to Springs Global back lot.
Wall Sits while passing coupon from one end to the other. Last Him bear crawls to front of line. Rinse and repeated several times.

Mosey to COT.

MARY: 4 minutes of PAX led ABB work in the rain.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: 4th of July Convergence. Berthel Men’s Shelter
COT: prayers for Kermits former partner Officer Grier and family. Poppins 2.0

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