The Beaver and Eleanor Tea Party

Boston Tea Party inspired workout for Varsity.
Started with a mosey run to parking spot “17” and did:
SH (15x I/C)
Windmills (8x I/C)
Imperial walkers (10x I/C)
Moroccan N/C (10x I/C)
Run to parking spot “73” and did:
Low slow squat (10x I/C)
Big arm circles fwd/bkwd
Peter Parkers
Plank stretches

Run to the pull up bars and deliver the Boston Tea Party story (see end of BB).
342 crates of tea tossed overboard, therefore we did:
3 pullups then remain on the bar and do 4 toes2bar, still hang and do another 2 pullups
Plank rest for the six
Repeat the 3-4-2
Plank rest for the six
Repeat the 3-4-2

Grab a cindy and go to the street. Pax circle up and do exercise called out with the cindy while a pax runs down to the stop sign with the slam ball and then TOSSES THE TEA (slam ball).
Return with ball and next pax cycles in to toss the tea. We did:
Curls, KB Swings, OH presses, goblet squats, bent over rows, Kaiser grips

Cindy blocks down, all pax wall sit. Pass the slam ball up/down the line; PASS THE TEA (as in I’d like to toss it overboard).

Since Varsity usually includes a broga segment, we did some deep stretching. Up dogs, down dogs, pickle pointers, piriformis stretches.

Recover, back to the cindy’s. Pax were to do 15 manmakers, but received/earned a reduction for naming the three ships involved in the Boston Tea Party, and naming the three cities where the British East India ships were forced to turn around and never got to dock. Six deductions possible, pax got five right. Thus did TEN manmakers.

Blocks back. COT.
Four mins of Mary.
Fini.

Boston Tea Party, the Harry Carry abridged version:
Tea Act in May 1773 gave the British East India Tea Company a price advantage in the tea market, and the duty was to paid when cargo was unloaded in the American Colonies. Problem was the British tea was going to be cheaper than the smuggled tea (Dutch stuff) the American colonists were dealing…so the Americans were pissed about the taxation w/o representation and the potential of losing their own side hussle.
New York, Philly, and Charleston each had British East India Tea Co ships inbound, but the Colonists made an offer the consignees in those harbors could not refuse. Those ships never got to these three cities and turned around back to England.
Boston was different: The governor there was a big-time loyalist and his two sons were consignees. When three British East India Tea Co ships (Dartmouth, Eleanor, and the BEAVER) got to Boston, the colonists had to act fast before the cargo could be unloaded. At a big town-hall meeting, things got a little crazy and before the night was over 342 crates of British East India tea was in the drink.
For the manmaker deductions, the pax got New York, Philly and Charleston right, as well as the ships Dartmouth and Beaver (hmm, wonder why), but they forgot the Eleanor!

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T-H-I-N-K

WARMUP: SSHs, Imperial Walkers, Windmills, MNCs, Plank Stretches
THE THANG: 1st Half, simple routine, run around the park, stop at each swinging bench, three exercises (10 merkins, 10 squats, 10 LBCs). two laps were completed by all in attendance.
Hand-0ff to Straight-up
Quick lesson of speaking to others..THINK before you speak
T – Is it True?
H- Is it Helpful?
I – Is it Inspiring?
N- Is it Necessary?
K-Is it Kind?
Typical Straight-Up workout..it was full of bear crawls and abs exercises that were very difficult to do. We covered most of the park, running up and down the parking lot hill, dips at the bottom and top, a visit to the play ground for pull-ups and lunges. Finally, a set of complex American Hammers and LBC swirls.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: X-Mas Convergence 12/24
COT: Prayers for Vuvu’s Mother

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A “Gloomy” Morning

WARMUP: SSH, toy soldiers, quads, Cherry pickers, mosey
THE THANG: lots of running today, got just short of 3 miles. Dora 200 step ups, 200 squats, 200 calf raises. Did some wind sprints in parking lot multiple times, suicides, etc.
MARY: LBCs, hammers, dollys
ANNOUNCEMENTS: F3 golf, Christmas party
COT: Prayers for marriages, prayer for Ruby as he meets with a brother in need, remember to say No to some things this season to say Yes to the more important things.

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Holy $@&! there are trails over there?!?

WARMUP: Straight Up probably got to The Colosseum at 2am to get his warmup in. Gecko did some stretching. I thought about it. River Rat and Sasquatch stretched the tensile strength of their vehicles coming in on two wheels and Beaker materialized out of nowhere.
THE THANG: we ran through the woods in the dark and rain. All in all, not too slippery. 4.5ish miles 11:20 pace 1100ft of elevation gain
MARY: we did 1 random bomb jack in my the middle of the run and a few other exercises when we got back to COT.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Dude Ranch Fun

WARMUP: Quick run/jog around the front parking lot then out to the driveway close to the parkway. Bobber arrived a little late and met up halfway through the run, which I think was his plan. Circle up and 10-15 reps of the following:
* SSH
* Windmills
* Imperial walkers
* Moroccan night clumbs
* Strawberry pickers
Good mumblechatter from the start. Then mosey back to the parking lot near the front of the school for the main event.

THE THANG:
4 corner fun
Cones were set up around the front parking lot and also along the car rider pickup area in front of the school at the main entrance. Do the exercise, then the movement to the next cone.
Area was approx 100yds long x 30yds wide.
1. Burpees, then Lt Dan to next cone (~100yds)
2. Box cutter, then crab walk to next (~30yds)
3. Merkins, then Lt Dan (~100yds)
4. Mountain climbers, 2 ct, then crab walk (~30yds)
Repeat until time out
Reps of each exercise were descending with each round: 25, 20, 15, 10, 5 (75 total reps of each exercise)
Straight Up showed up late when most were finishing their first round of burpees. He quickly caught up and passed most. Beast, Alot of mumblechatter that died down as we got through the first round. Everyone got through 3 rounds of the loop until we ran out of time (60reps of each exercise). GREAT JOB FELLAS!!!
Quick jaunt back to COT which wasn’t very far.
MARY: None. Out of time.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
* READ THE NEWSLETTER. Alot going on. Get involved.
COT:
* Q had to leave at 6 in order to take his 2.0 to JROTC rifle team practice. Sorry.
* Lifting up prayers that were said and unsaid.

It is mornings like this – cold yet clear – where the combination of fellowship, early exercise, and beautiful weather just starts your day off in such a wonderful way that nothing else afterwards can phase you. You already won the day and have been invigorated to take on anything and be thankful and blessed for everything.

Thank you for the opportunity to lead.
– NASA

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Keep it simple

WARMUP: running, stretching, etc
THE THANG: pull ups, merkins, curls, dips, running, swings, overhead press, squats
MARY: ab work
ANNOUNCEMENTS: thanksgiving convergence
COT: keep it simple – Ecclesiastes Chp 7

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SL Challenge Friendly

WARMUP: Mosey to the track. Did 10 bomb jacks while we waited for the gate to open.

Moseyed to the goaline and did a 100yrd bearcrawl. Jogged back to the start.

5 windmills IC

THE THANG:
Simple workout design for miles and merkins.

1 lap
10 Merkins
10 Werkins
10 LBCs
10 HR Merkins

2 Laps

20 Reps of all the exercises

3 Laps

30 Reps of all the exercises

4 Laps

40 Reps of all the Exercises

Back to 1

I also used a whistle that when blown meant 5 bomb jacks.

Solid effort by everyone as we all got plenty of miles and merkins.

Thanks to all who came out!

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Happy 247th Birthday to The United States Marine Corps

WARMUP: multiple dynamic movement to include side huff legs, butt kickers, kareoke, windmills, little baby arm circles, shoulder presses, Peter parkers, Parker peters.
THE THANG: 17- burpees, 75- SSHs
30 merkins, 30 squats, 30 lbcs. Mosey to next spot 30,30,30 upper, lower and core for each. We made a total of 8 stops with 20:pull ups at the half way point. At the 9th stop we did 7 merkins, 7 squats, and 7 burpees. Final total came to 247 upper body reps, 247 lower body reps and 247 core reps. This is to celebrate the 247th birthday of my beloved Marine Corps. I joined when I was 18 and not sure where in life I needed to be. Thankfully my wonderful Heavenly Father did.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: clay shooting for tomorrow has been canceled due to weather, bbq tasting is still on, blood drive and thanksgiving collection link in newsletter.
COT:prayers for beaker traveling, shower curtain shoulder surgery, unspoken prayers we all have.

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