The Sergeant Major

WARMUP:

Mosey to the track
50 SSH IC

So in honor of Veterans Day I created a custom WOD in honor of my father Sgt Major Horace Pysher.

The reps are indicative of the units he’s served in throughout his career.

The Sergeant Major:

28 Burpees
1 mile run
28 Burpees
56 Big Boy Sit-ups
1 mile run
28 Burpees
56 Big Boy Sit-ups
112 HR Merkins
1 mile run
28 Burpees

All told it’s 3 miles + 112 burpees Sit-ups and Merkins.

(As we got to the end I offered a 200yrd bear crawl as a substitute to the 112 HR Merkins. )

Great push by all …Harry Carry was the #king of the day! 👊

Thanks to all who showed this morning and to all veterans for your service!

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Gettin’ Cindy Wit It (nah nah nah nah nah nah)

Disclaimed and started to mosey when more cars were pulling in so stayed close to CoT while everyone got parked…

WARMUP: Jog around CoT lot and circle up near stop sign near ROTC building

Goofballs, broga doggy stuff, merkins, mountain climbers, OH claps, windmills (IC)

THE THANG:
5 pullups, 10 merkins, 15 squats – SSH for the 6. Run down hill to lower stop sign and back to pullup bars

repeat x 5 rounds

Grab a block and circle up in street near ROTC building –
10 swings, 10 curls, 10 OH presses, 10 bent over rows (IC) then bear crawl to stop sign near CoT and jog back. high knees for the 6

repeat x 3 rounds

rifle carry block down hill to stop sign – murder bunny back to ROTC building

MARY: about 6 flutters

ANNOUNCEMENTS: lots of fundraisers. Time of giving – find something important to you and make an impact

COT: job searches and families

Thanks for opportunity Kaiser

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Orange is the new NC State Red

WARMUP: mossy to playground for SSH, IW, HW, merkins
THE THANG: Each PAX completed 10 pull-ups then ran the path. For round 1, 15 merkins at each swing. Complete another 10 pull-ups and repeat path with 20 LBCs at each swing. Complete another 10 pull-ups and repeat path with 15 squats. Wrap it up with 10 pull-ups. Not sure Dark Helmet completed pull-ups or proper merkins since he was in the dark the entire time. Slapshot was leader as he’s trying to encourage PSU football team to whip up on that school to the south (No Pusher that doesn’t mean South Carolina) – Ohio State. Maximus wore the new NC State colors orange for his failed bet on them beating Clemson (but the ACC is a basketball conference not football conference 🤷‍♂️). Band camp never stops pushing PAX and Kermit is still in cloud 9 for Tennessee (the real orange) for beating the other school to the south (again, not South Carolina nor Georgia). Bobber even posted and complained that the monkey bars were wet (isn’t he a fisherman? Aren’t they always wet?)
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: skeet shooting sign ups!! Shower curtain collecting coats
COT: prayers for Shower Curtain continued healing, balance – even better harmony.

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RING OF FIRE – 12OCT2022

WARMUP: Not much in the way of warm up. 15 burpees to get the blood flowing, a short jog for a few Abe Vigodas, Cherry Grabber Tappers (or whatever the heck we call these), and some SSH.

THE THANG: As I have now learned that I make moderate workouts and am only around for the yapping, instead of telling you all that we did, just imagine a nap. It was probably about like that.
Just kidding… here’s what went down…
Mosey to corner of AO Jones and HS driveway (by stadium)
Find your rock
– 30 curls
– 30 OH press
– 30 chest press (on 6)
Run up AO Jones to next entrance
– 20 flutters (4-count)
– 20 LBC
– 20 Dolly
Run up AO Jones to the first light
– 10 Wide-arm Merkins
– 10 Regular Merkins
– 10 Diamond Merkins
Run to the light at Springfield
– 5 burpees
Back down the hill – repeat each station as you go
Turn left at the rock station
Run to the painted crosswalk
– 20 squats
– 20 calf raises
– 20 bombjacks
Run to pull-up bars
– 10 pullups
– 10 knees to chest
– 10 dips on the curb
Bottom of the hill
– 5 burpees
Back to corner – repeat each station – THAT’S 1 mile and one rep.
Go as hard as you can and as far as you can for 45 minutes.

MARY: It’s for dudes only.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter.

COT: The 5th Core Principle.

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RING OF FIRE – 12OCT2022

WARMUP: Not much in the way of warm up. 15 burpees to get the blood flowing, a short jog for a few Abe Vigodas, Cherry Grabber Tappers (or whatever the heck we call these), and some SSH.

THE THANG: As I have now learned that I make moderate workouts and am only around for the yapping, instead of telling you all that we did, just imagine a nap. It was probably about like that.
Just kidding… here’s what went down…
Mosey to corner of AO Jones and HS driveway (by stadium)
Find your rock
30 curls
30 OH press
30 chest press (on 6)
Run up AO Jones to next entrance
20 flutters (4-count)
20 LBC
20 Dolly
Run up AO Jones to the first light
10 Wide-arm Merkins
10 Regular Merkins
10 Diamond Merkins
Run to the light at Springfield
5 burpees
Back down the hill – repeat each station as you go
Turn left at the rock station
Run to the painted crosswalk
20 squats
20 calf raises
20 bombjacks
Run to pull-up bars
10 pullups
10 knees to chest
10 dips on the curb
Bottom of the hill
5 burpees
Back to corner – repeat each station – THAT’S 1 mile and one rep.
Go as hard as you can and as far as you can for 45 minutes.

MARY: It’s for dudes only.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter.

COT: The 5th Core Principle.

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Shih Tzu à la Carte

I surveyed the surroundings and the PAX as the clock approached 0515… a few knee braces… but everyone was wearing running shoes so I figure people dress for the workout they want…. here we go.

WARMUP: Mosey through some stink until we found a spot to circle up on back side of teeter.

Goofballs, mountain climbers, shoulder taps, yoga stuff, Windmills all IC

THE THANG:
3 course buffet –
Course 1 – Chest work
40 wide arm merkins run 1/8 mile 10 step ups each leg run back 1/8 mile
30 missionary merkins run 1/8 mile 10 step ups each leg run back 1/8 mile
20 diamond merkins run 1/8 mile 10 step ups each leg run back 1/8 mile
10 CDDs

Course 2 – Leg work
40 squats run about 150yards 10 four count flutters run back 150 yards
30 monkey humpers run about 150yards 10 four count flutters run back 150 yards
20 lunges (each leg) run about 150yards 10 four count flutters run back 150 yards
10 BombJacks

Course 3 – Core work
80 SSH run about 100yards 10 burpees run back 100 yards
60 LBCs run about 100yards 10 burpees run back 100 yards
40 Hello Dollys run about 100yards 10 burpees run back 100 yards
20 Big Boy Situps

Mosey toward wall on back side of Red Bowl where we sat for dessert…

Dessert extras –
Wall sit with MNC and OH claps (IC)

shake it out then back onto the wall

Wall sit – stay in wall sit while everyone takes a turn doing 5 good form merkins

We couldn’t handle hearing any more of the dog barking that seemed to be coming from red bowl, so we headed back to CoT.

MARY: Freddie’s and flutters

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
F3 launched in Hong Kong

Skeet shoot early November

Bourbon Tasting mid November

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Last Minute Suck Fest

WARMUP: Stretchy things
THE THANG: YHC checked WP the preceding afternoon to find out Punch List was downrange and unable to Q. Luckily GORUCK being the unrelenting marketers that they are had just sent me an email with their latest rucksack rain coat (dumbest idea in the history of ideas) and it so happened to include a WOD. So book – Weinke done!

BUY IN: 73 sandbag + ruck squats

NINE ROUNDS – 18 reps each
– Sandbag cleans
– Sandbag sit-ups
– Sandbag Overhead throws
– Sandbag burpee + deadlift
– Sandbag walking lunges
– Sandbag shoulder to shoulder press

CASH OUT: 1 mile heavy ruck sandbag + ruck

We got 4 rounds…or maybe 3…then the mile.
#SMOKED

MARY: Mainframe lead some BROGA
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Good luck Starcourse teams!
COT: Yup

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WOD-Kerrie Orozco

WARMUP: mosey and the a quick warmup with windmills, low and slow squats and then a plank hold while I read the story of Kerrie Orozco
THE THANG: Kerrie Orozco- WOD (AMRAP 10-15 rounds)

▪️ 100-m sprint (Down the hill)
▪️ 5 burpees
▪️ 20 LBC
▪️ 15 Merkins
▪️ 100-m sprint (Up the hill)
▪️ 1 Min Dead Hang (switched to overhead holds with Cindy after 30 min)
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Honor of Cash

Today, we honored Cash, hospital name Jay Griggs, who passed away in Sept 2020 of cancer. He was given the name “Cash” as in Johnny Cash due to his all black outfit he worn at his first workout along with his hometown of Nashville, TN. The Coop was renamed “Ring of Fire” in honor of Cash. Double D shared stories through the workout. Cash was a genuine person who was always ready to help out a friend.
Jekyll provided me with a backblast from 2015 where Cash was in attendance. I decided to copy it on a piece of paper and unfortunately dropped it in the gloom so it did not match the exact workout.
We first moseyed to the front entrance of the school for COP (SSHs, IWs, Windmills, Cherry Pickers, Plank Stretches, and Mountain Climbers)
Next, we moseyed to the gym wall for People’s Chair with each pax running out to the parking lot for 5 merkins. One round of Balls to the Wall.
The lights came on making it easier to navigate, mosey to the ROTC building.
Dirty McDeuce (3 exercises, 12 reps) Run to the top of the hill, 5 burpees and back down to starting point.
R1: Merkins, LBCs, Lunges
R2: Wide Arm Merkins, Hello Dollies, Squats
R3: CDD, Flutters, Jump Squats
R4: Stagger Merkins, X/Os, Calf Raises

Back to the top of the hill near the school
Three rounds of toe touches, Dips, Derkins (12 reps)

Back to COT
Closed with Cash’s prayer

Search me Lord. Lead me to you. Help me to be a good man, a good father, a good husband and a good employee. Help me to forgive and release from resentment those that I feel have offended me. Let me see the good in others and draw that goodness out of them.

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‘Tis an unfortunate thing…

WARMUP: I’m sure we did something.
THE THANG:
Run to the pull-up bars and grab a cinderblock…
BUY-IN: Bear Crawl down the hill toward the Elem School, then CrawlBear back up.
25 Pull-ups
400M run (up and down the hill twice)
25 4-ct curls
400M
25 burpees (no block)
400M
25 4-ct flutters with press
400M
onto Phase 2…

Mosey to the track with your brick…
1 lap with brick
25 overhead press
1 lap with brick
25 curls
1 lap with brick
25 overhead press
25 curls
No more laps, ran out of time…

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter

COT: So many thoughts about backblasts and about the process I went through on my own to write this one. One day, if you are interested, ask me and I’ll gladly share…
For now, here is the BB.

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