Always a crowd pleaser…

WARMUP: Mosey’d around the parking lots and picked up Sugar Bug so he got a chance to run. Back at COT we did: windmills, cherry pickers, low slow squats, merkins, Peter Parker’s, Parker Peter’s.
THE THANG: Everyone’s favorite- the deck of cards.

Do what the cards say based on suit and #.

– Diamonds: 2-7 was merkin with a bell lat pull; 8-ace was man makers (everyone loved these!)
– Clubs: 2-7 was flutter with a press; 8-ace was American hammers
– Spades: 2-7 was lunge with bell pass through leg; 8-ace was squat with should press
– Hearts: 2-7 was single arm curl; 8-ace was kb swings
– Joker was 50 SSH and 10 bomb jacks
– After every 6 cards, we did a farmers carry in 1 arm about 100 yards, then switched hands for the walk back

MARY: did about 4 rounds
ANNOUNCEMENTS: hog and coyote
COT: complete!

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Don’t need a lot of ground to cover

Form matters and our space is limited. Let’s get to work.
WARMUP: A short jog with some butt-kickers & side shuffles.
THE THANG: Grab the (2) 60lb sand bags and introduce them to our kettle bells.
One PAX would farmer carry the two sand bags (leaving his bell behind) and travers roughly 40yds total while the other PAX completed an exercise. Everyone got 2rds on the bags while the following exercises were completed.
Thrusters, OH Press (L), OH Press (R), Simbas, Curls, OH Tricep Extensions, Flutters w/ Press, Bent Over Rows, Dead Lifts, Standing Lunge (Left leg in front), Standing Lunge (Right leg in front).
Ditch the bags and overhead carry the bells to the front of the stadium. Form 2 lines facing each other.
Focus on form and identify the man across from you. He was your competition and your accountability.
Perform real squats until one of you take a break then we do 5 Man Makers
Repeat this evolution but doing overhead presses then 5 thrusters when failure occurs.
Very interesting to realize when these are the parameters, you’re apt to work much harder. Nobody wants to quit on someone else.
Shuffle with your bell over to the circle and form 2 columns (formation) facing me. Very reminiscent of the way Santini used to line us up.
20 KB Swings then a 20 second hold with the KB out front.
20 Low Squat pulses (yes, you Redwoods remember these) then a 20 second low squat hold (keep your chest up)
20 Flutters w/ Press and a 20 second Canoe hold
Shuffle up the hill to the maintenance entrance, do some more work.
Down to the gate for more work. Back to COT for more work.

MARY: See above
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter
COT: Indeed. Stays in COT.

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1 mile and no smiles

WARMUP: WINDMILLS/IW/HW/PICKERS/PLANK STRETCHING
THE THANG:
The Thang – Stairway Grinder:
6 Rounds – Ruck on for this half

Ruck to top of Amphitheater and then back down
At the bottom of each round, perform cumulative exercises:

Step-Ups – 20 total
Ruck Upright Rows – 15
Sandbag Front Squats – 15
Ruck Curls – 15
Overhead Ruck Press – 15
Sandbag toss – 5 per side

Round 2 Slick

HR Merkins – 5
Big Boys – 10
LBCS- 15
Humpers- 20
Flutters – 25

MARY: 2 rounds of a bench Webb with step ups and Bulgarian SS, then we took a lap to get to 1mi.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: yes
COT: mental health

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5 alive not at the hive

Thought the title was catchy since it rhymed with hive. Nothing crazy, started with a little broga and a slight mosey to back lot. Did a few high knees, toy soldiers, butt kickers and mosey up and down the BB court. Did one round at benches of derkins dips and step ups 20 each.

Moseyed back to the front of school for the bulk of the work. Supposedly 4 exercises per minute but timing was a little skewed due to the Qs ADD. 10 reps each of WAM, merkins, mtn climbers, shoulder taps. Big loop mosey. Next squats, sumos, clave raises, and monkeys. Little loop. Abs big boys, weezy Js, amer Hammers, Flutters Big loop. SSH, jump squats, OH claps, Moroccan Nights. Little loop.

Had a brief Q/a on what’s big thing for summer. Good family focused responses.

Ab lab and wrap up.

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What’s a Kraken Man-Maker?

WARMUP:
Moroccan nightclubs
Windmills
Cherry pickers
Hillbilly walkers
Low slow squats

Head to entrance hill and complete a “7”. Man-makers at the bottom and squats at the top

THE THANG:
Card game:
Numbers 1-10, do the number of reps per card:
Hearts – Goblet squats
Clubs – overhead press
Diamonds – KB swings
Spades – 2-hand upright rows
 
A – 5 Man-Makers
K – 10 Lunge squats w/bell overhead, single count
Q – 15 flutter with press – count on press
J – 20 Plank pull-throughs
 
Joker – 5 Kraken Man-Makers. Pick a partner and do these together
MARY: American hammers and Freddy mercury’s
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Harold and Kumar go to coaches box

WARMUP: helping one another pull our rain coats over our rucksacks.

THE THANG: Headed out towards the coaches box, logged around 3 miles total.

– Went one way to find a locked gate.
– Second shot was through the construction site but decided against.
– Third idea was the baseball field but with the rain we didn’t want to ruin the field.
– Finally we found a quick sneak through and made it to coaches box…just in time for some merkins and to turn around a high tail it back.

Along the journey we stopped for merkins; calf raises, and squats few times.

MARY: None

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Brawnys new site Q announced, tort and hare, Hog and Coyete; Bethels Men shelter.

COT: Prayers and praises for the guys being out there and supporting one another, stress of things not going according to plan, and hope for a none stressful environment with extended family.

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Metallica leading us through Abs

WARMUP: Some SSH, windmill, Moroccan nightclubs, imperial walker, hillbilly walker, cherry picker

THE THANG:
Accumulating ladder with 20 reps of ab exercises, 10 reps of others. Lap in between. (ie. 20 LBC, lap, 20 LBC + 10 merkin, lap, etc)

-LBC
-Merkins
-Flutter
-Squats
-Heels to Heaven
-Dry Docks
-Freddie Mercury
-Step Ups
-Hello Dolly
-Burpees

MARY: a little bit to finish up

ANNOUNCEMENTS: there were some

COT: this happened

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The Time is Always Now

WARMUP: methodical
SSH
1 burpee
Windmill
2 burps
IW
3 burps
HW
4 burps
J-Lo
5 burps

Farmers carry

https://medium.com/@danjohn84123/humane-burpee-342d0054a13f
Finished with swing sequence to hit 100 total
5 swings
5 America swings
5 swings
5 swing squats
5 swings

Farmers carry

12 halos
10 split squats
Bear crawl the hill with the bell
12 halos
10 split squats

Waiter’s carry

3 https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHj1DVQSau2/?igsh=MXZhMjY4MGZlcHltbA== each side
(Couple of rounds)

3 dead lift
3 goblet squats
3 swings
SPRINT the hill
(Couple of rounds)

Farmers carry

4 clean to squat
4 thrusters
4 swings
4 rows right
4 rows left
8 merkins
(Couple of rounds)

5 burpee snatches each side to close out

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Bethel service next week
Tortoise and Hare
Suplex has a long term EH coming to the Yard tomorrow

COT:
https://f3nation.com/get-right is never over because “The Time is Always Now.”

If something isn’t solid in your world, what are you gonna do about it? The time is now.
Put aside your ego, doubts, fears, worry, hesitations, past, limiting beliefs, and get started. The time is now.
You know what needs to be done. Gentlemen, the time is now.

“There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge
is in the moment, the time is always now.”
—James Baldwin

Grateful to share the gloom with you this morning

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