Grab ‘em by the ears

WARMUP: ran around big parking lot. Max was right that when you say “he won’t run far, he has boots on”, that’s a bit of a lightning bolt to make you want to run further and faster.

We stopped for round 1 of 11×33 paying tribute to our boy Cha-Ching. 11 burpees, 33 SSH OYO. Kept running back to COT for round 2 of 11×33. Rucks on, sandbags on, 10 squats OYO.
THE THANG: Picked up our kb and headed towards the stop light. Dropped the gear for 20 in / erkins (incline merkins). Grabbed the rucks for 20 shoulder presses.

Headed down the hill with all our gear and stopped half way for 20 tricep extensions (dropped sandbag, kept ruck on). Left kb and put the sandbag on for the bottom of the hill. Bottom of hill with ruck on, AMRAP the sandbag for shoulder presses. Back up the hill to the kb spot.

Drop the sandbag, grab the kb (by the ears I guess) for front shoulder lifts – AMRAP. Reason for the AMRAPs is because we wanted to max out and guys had different weights…and different stopping points.

Gear up and back up the hill to our incline merkin spot at the light. After 20, gear up to the school entrance for the last stop. Drop all the gear, ruck overhead for another 20 shoulder presses. Back to COT to drop the gear, then a lap around the small lot…with round 3 of 11×33. (We did have at least 4 former 1stF Qs present so why not…and then 9 other beasts, all with 1stF leadership qualities and/or current or previous site Q roles.)
MARY: Mixed it up and replaced core work with stretching let in a rotating fashion (core principle #4).
ANNOUNCEMENTS: thanksgiving convergence is on…thanksgiving. Upcoming December CSAUP- be there and get a team.

Do difficult and uncomfortable things! Life is going to throw these at you – why not prepare yourself!
COT: CSPAN style because we all need this.

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Tour da Ranch

WARMUP: dynamic stretching along with ssh, Cherry pickers, mtn climbers.

THE THANG: 3 sets dips and step up. Wall sits with rounds of burpees. Pull up 5,4,3,2,1- merkins, squats, lbcs 15,14,13 etc. more pull up then Indian run to cot for some Mary
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: bourbon and bbq, golf, blood drive
COT: prayers and praises.

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Walk like your favorite Bear or Crab!

WARMUP:
Ran up that big ole hill
SSH
Imperial Walkers
Hillbilly walkers
Cherry Pickers
Moroccan Night Clubs
Run back down big ole hill

THE THANG:
Part I: First Baptist Parking lot, stop at each island
Do this set 3x
5 reps burpees
10 reps merkins
15 reps jump squats
20 reps WWII sit-ups

Mode of Transport between islands:
1st time – Cubbie Crawl
2nd time – Crab Walk
3rd time – Lunge Walk

Part II: relay races
Team planks until your turn

Part III: Print Shop
Dora, 1 set
5 x pull-ups
5 x dips
1 trip down the monkey bars
LBCs until your partner returns

MARY:
Plank out to Ram Jam with Merkins on “Bam-a-Lam”

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Bourbon and BBQ this Friday
Convergence on Thanksgiving, 6:30 at the Ranch

COT:
Named Cobbler!
We recited the 5 rules of F3 for Cobbler’s (and some of our own) benefit 😀
I brought up how I’ve had a Whetstone for 3 months and it has really helped me find more consistency with posting. Can’t wait to dig deeper and keep accelerating!
Had a moment of silence so men could pray on their own.

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Sweet Sixteen at Sweep the Leg

Big crowd on a Monday morning..clown car arrived early from the far reaches of Catawba Ridge. Simple 1+ mile route around the connecting parking lots with four stations. First lap was done backwards so the greyhounds could get out front.
Stop #1 – End of street near Velux, exercises Lunges and jump squats (10 each)
Stop #2 – End of street half way down big hill to school, exercises, CDDs, Plank jumps (10 each)
Stop #3 – Bank parking lot, exercises, Heals to heaven, flutters (10 each)
Stop #4 – Near Pet Supply Plus, exercises, Mike Tysons, Squat Thrusters (10 each)
Most got in 3 laps
Great job this morning.

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178 Year Anniversary of The Naval Academy

It was a cool crisp morning in the Fort but fear not, the mumble chatter kept us warm.

Quick warm up and we mosey 10 feet over to the field behind the AO.

Gave a quick history of the founding of the US Naval Academy by historian, educator, and secretary of The Navy George Bancroft. It was founded on 10/10/1845 in Annapolis Maryland to improve unsatisfactory methods of instructing midshipmen.

Thang:
10 Burpees (October)/10 Flutter (10th Day)/18 Squats & 45 Monkey Humpers (year of pain). Mode of transportation was a Yog (Soft J).

We did:

– 80 Burpees
– 60 Flutters
– 72 Squats
– 90 Monkey Humpers

Moseyed across the street to the hill of pain for some 7’s with a bear crawl as the mode of transportation.

– 6 Kraken Burpees
– 1 V-Up

Back to COT for announcements, prayers, and praises.

-JWOW

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MP – Sep 7 – Your mom would’ve been proud

WARMUP: This is MP. That’s not really a thing.
THE THANG: Running with pushups
MARY: No chicks
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: The 5th Core Principle

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Sandbags and logs

WARMUP: Windmills, 4 count squats, imperial Walker’s, merkins, then light ruck shuffle to loosen everything up.
THE THANG: Buy in: every 2:30 complete the following w/ruck on entire time: 10 squat cleans w/sandbag, 10 merkins, 10 OH sandbag press and 10 bentover sandbag rows. 4 rounds for 10 mins total. Honestly this was a terrible idea. It takes almost the entire 2:30 to complete so very little rest between rounds.
Quick break to recover them grab a couple of sandbags and move to back of school. Grab the logs, 3 PAX per log and move them back to front of school. Each team front rack carried their log the length of the parking lot. On other end perform 10 team overhead log presses then 10 team log squats. Front rack carry log back to start point. Set log down then complete the following: 3 rounds of 3 exercises. 1st round is 21 reps of each, 2nd round is 15, and last round is 9. 3 exercises were front ruck squats, overhead ruck presses, and swings.
Pick up the logs and take them back to spot behind school. Grab sandbags and move back to cars. Couple of minutes left so another 3 round, 3 exercise routine. This time reps are 15, 10, then 5. Exercises were overhead lunges, ruck curls, and flutters. Times up. Work was done and no one was injured. Successful morning!
Thx Sprocket for the opportunity.

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Remembering Cash

Took a few moments to remind the Pax about the AO. The Coop was renamed “Ring of Fire” in honor of Cash (Hospital name Jay Griggs) . 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. Cash passed away in September 2020. I did not know him personally, but he had a significant impact to several Pax. This impact is continues to shine bright in The Fort.

Warm-up lap around the parking lot. Circle up for exercises ( SSHs, Imperial Walkers, Wind Mills, Moroccan Night Clubs, Arm Stretches).
Next, we each grabbed a cinder block.
Round 1 – Catch me if you can
Partner 1 – farmer carry both blocks
Partner 2 – Merkins and Squats, 5 each
Flip flop
Round 2
Partner 1 – Carry block up to school and back
Partner 2 – Squat Thruster
Flip flop
Round 2
Partner 1 – Carry block up to school and back
Partner 2 – Bent over row
Flip flop
Round 3
Partner 1 – Run to school and back
Partner 2 – Pull-up + Man Maker starting at 1 rep +1 rep until partner returns.
2 sets

We finished 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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3 Evolutions of Hurt

PAX were encouraged to add an extra 10-15 pounds to their rucks for this week’s version of intense ruck training. Right after a quick disclaimer it was explained that the reason for the added weight was to prepare for the reality of GORUCK event. Rucks never weigh 20 or 30 pounds at an event. They start there and go up with the weight of gear, food, and water. So why train with less than you are going to shoulder when it comes time to face the challenge?

Unfortunately only 3 PAX carried the added weight this week, so hopefully the message sank in. And the added heckling from Cheddah for those not increasing weight probably didn’t hurt either.

WARMUP:
SSH X25
Merkins (slick) X10
That’s all…..

THE THANG:
Evolution 1:
Ruck to the top of the parking lot, drop the sandbags and ruck to the other end of the lot. We had the full length of the soccer field fence on our left side.

– Bear crawl 3 parking spots, complete 1 merkin
– Bear crawl 3 parking spots, complete 2 merkins
– Continue the series until the end of the spaces and 10 merkins was reached.

Collect the sandbags and complete a ruck around the big loop.

Evolution 2:
Drop the sandbags at the end of the parking lot on the same section we bear crawled. Walk down to the half way point and drop our rucks.

Ladder with 10 on one end and 1 on the other.
– Curls with the ruck
– Bent over rows with the sandbag
– Run between ~50yds

Collect all the gear and complete another big loop.

Evolution 3:
Pretty simple and terrible. Starting at one end of the stretch we were working on and moving the full length of the fence.

Toss the sandbag and complete a Man Maker until you reach the end.

MARY:
Went around the group calling exercises. From memory, we had LBCs, Big Boys, Box Cutters, Freddy Mercuries, and at least one more I can’t remember.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
9/11 WOD at NAFO this Saturday at 0630. Bring a ruck and sandbag

COT:
Spocket is doing some great things with this AO!! I appreciate the opportunity to be a part of it.

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