You Don’t Lick Them!

4 runners: NASA, Double D, Sprocket, Cubbie
4 ruckers: BassOMatic, Fogarty, Crab Cakes, and THE Twister
WARMUP: Yes, mother nature warmed things up for us, a very swampy 78 deg start at 0515.
THE THANG:
The ruckers went off holding hands and singing camp songs, while the runners went to the lot between the football field and the school. It was partially under construction but still provided a 400m loop where we did pyramid Fartleks:
5 min easy warmup run, then hit the intervals:
2 min hard, 1 min off
3 min hard, 1 min off
4/1
5/2
Then back down
5/2, 4/1, 3/1, 2/1
Then a 3-4 min cool down run to COT, where the ruckers met us along the way there.
Everyone crushed it, even though it felt like we were running inside a steam sauna. Zero air movement too. We all left some water weight behind.
MARY: none
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read your newsletter and get involved!
COT: mentioned Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month again and had a brief discussion on that. Lifted up P&P.

Speed work is the way to becoming a better runner. It is not just for sprinters, and it does more than just improving your average run pace. Endurance, leg strength, lung capacity, VO2, aerobic capacity, anaerobic capacity, threshold limits, and more all benefit from speed work. Ideally it is done regularly in ones running plan, like monthly or bi monthly. You won’t expand your limits unless you push your limits.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead.
SYITG and Blessings,
NASA

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Welcome to Thrillville

Thrillville is the latest amusement park from the mind of Drop Thrill. Will you survive the day?

Parking Lot – Time to pay up!

Round 1 = 2 Burpees
Round 2 = 4 Burpees
Round 3 = 6 Burpees
Round 4 = 8 Burpees

Ticket Booth – Really time to pay!

Round 1 – Hand Release Merkins x10
Round 2 – Add Clap Merkins x10
Round 3 – Add Toe Touch Merkins x10
Round 4 – Add Mike Tysons x10

Bathrooms – First stop when you enter the park is of course the bathroom.

Round 1 – monkey humpers
Round 2 – squats
Round 3 – calf raises
Round 4 – raise the roof

Now you’re ready to ride the big coaster but you’ve got to beat the crowd there!

Running of the bulls !

Run a lap.

Ride Time

Round 1 – Monkey Humpers x20
Round 2 – Add Bonny Blairs x20
Round 3 – Add Side Lunges x20
Round 4 – Add Jump Squats x20

Lunchtime

Round 1 – LBCs x25
Round 2 – Freddy Mercuries x25
Round 3 – Heels to Heaven x25

Lunch time is over and you see your favorite coaster just reopened so you run to ride the reopened coaster l.

Run a lap.

Oh no! It Broke down again!

Time to run again as you have to run across the park to another coaster.

Finally the day is over. You’re exhausted but you’ve got to make it back to your car.

Time for toy soldiers down and back.

Finally you’re back relaxing at the hotel. Time to cool down with stretching and some Broga.

You survived a day at the virtual park!

Well done! Thanks for coming along for the ride.

Thrill reminds you that you can’t always predict the twists and turns of life, but you can be strong enough to push through when you need to.

With that, The Thrill is gone.

1. Although men are marginally less likely than women to develop a significant mental illness during their lifetimes, about 1 in 2 men will have a diagnosable disorder at some point in their lifetimes.
2. Men are about 2x less likely than women to seek help if problems do occur.
3. Almost 50% of men feel that they are struggling more than they admit to people in their life.
4. Depression looks significantly different in men than in women… Women tend to present as sad and withdrawn, while men tend to present as irritable and angry.
5. Men are 2-3x more likely to abuse substances in an attempt to manage their mental health, which often leads to other health problems.
6. Suicide rates in men have been steadily increasing over the past 20 years, and at present, men are 4x more likely than women to die by suicide, and this risk increases with age.
7. Therapists that specialize in working with men often use different strategies to make therapy feel more approachable… therapy doesn’t have to look like sitting in an office and crying about your feelings!
8. Therapists have historically done a pretty crappy job of helping men, though things are slowly changing. Men often go to therapy at the urging of a loved one, but men tend to drop out of therapy sooner than women because they find it unhelpful. This is a legitimate problem, and you’re not crazy if you’ve tried therapy before and it wasn’t helpful for you! If you’re thinking about reaching out to a therapist, consider finding one that has specific expertise in working with men. (from Giles, who is a therapist and can offer this opinion form a place of experience).

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Waldo where are you?

WARMUP: None ! Got out of the car running to catch up.
THE THANG: Ruck to <#C055Y70G5QE>, show some grit and hall ass back to COT!
MARY: She was creepy, saw some dying <@U02D42U9J21> movements
ANNOUNCEMENTS: The Barry, 4th of July Convergence, Fort Mill Center Lawn Care, Bethel Church
COT: Always stays in COT!

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SIX OLD MEN EXERCISING AT 5:15

WARMUP: Disclaimer, mosey the front of the car line for COP
THE THANG:
COP (all in cadence): SSH x 20, windmill x 10, merkin x 10, Rosalita x 15, squat x 15, potato picker x 10, wide arms x 10, mountain climber x 15, Morracan night club x 30 while walking.

Mosey to the wall outside the school gym for People’s Chair. While in the chair, starting at one end, each pax does 5 merkins and returns to the chair. We did 3 rounds

Balls to the wall. Once in position, we ‘walked’ 3 steps left and went back 3 steps. Rinse and repeat while on the wall.

Mosey to bridge across the driveway and pair up. Four rounds along the bridge with exercises at each light.
Round 1: Lunge walk, 5 merkins at each light
Round 2: Light jog, 10 SSH…
Round 3: Bearcrawl 1/2 way with 5 squats, crabwalk 1/2 way with 5 dips…
Round 4: High knees 1/2 way with 5 jump squats, butt kickers 1/2 way with 5 jump squats…

Mosey back to the front of the school for Modified ST 300: 4 exercises followed by one lap around the parking lot

Round 1: Merkin x 10, LBC x 20, Monkey humper x 15, burpee x 5, take a lap
Round 2: Diamond merkin x 10, Freddie Merc x 15, alternate lunge x 15, burpee x 5, take a lap
Round 3: Stagered merkin x 10, hello Dolly x 15, hill billy walker x 10/imperial walker x 10, 5 burpees, return to COT

MARY: Mixed in throughout the workout

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter

COT:
Praise for health, family, F3. Prayers for family with illness, aging parents, traveling mercies for parents coming to town.

It was another great morning with my F3 brothers. The humidity was high, and so was the effort from the pax (all respectables today!). YHC heard some chatter about whether certain elements were ‘moderate’, but I don’t think anyone present this morning was unhappy about how they felt at the end of the workout. Having 50-plus and 60-year-olds out at 5am each morning, pushing ourselves, should make us all feel proud and extremely blessed. Few would have thought we’d be doing this at our ages! It was a pleasure leading the group today, and I look forward to the next one. Stay young, gentlemen!

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25 burpes?

WARMUP: SSH, Cherry picking, Moroccan club
THE THANG: Dora-ish 8 workouts
with bell 50 ea.( Squats, swings,tri extensions,Curls) run back and forth other end Burpes, SSH, Big Boys and Merkins)
MARY: nope
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read newsletter
COT: Duck prayed us out

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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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