5 men, no Ark…

It wasn’t so much the heat, as the humidity that was out in force… due to that we drove over to the front of the middle school instead of the typical mosey.

WARMUP: SSH, Cherry Pickers, Imperial Walkers, Hillbilly Walkers, Moroccan Nightclubs

THE THANG: deck of cards
Ace: 1 Burpee and a lap (we went down and back in front of the school twice… mostly under cover)
2-5: Burpees
:diamonds:: Leg Lifts
:heart:: Jump Squats
:spades:: Mountain Climber (4 count)
:clubs:: LBC (4 count)

Made it through most of the deck

COT: Stay safe on first day of school travel

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Zero Running

WARMUP: Windmills, Torso-twist, Hillbilly Walkers
THE THANG:
1. 200 Kettlebell swings with 2 burpees every 90 seconds
2. 21- Burpee Jump Overs and 21 two-handed clean and press, 15- Burpee Jump Overs and 15 two-handed clean and press, 9 Burpee Jump Overs and 9 two-handed clean and press
3. 4 Rounds of 17 reps of each of the following: kettlebell swings, deep knee-to-elbow squats, and deadlifts
4. 10 reps of Burpees, KB Thrusters, High Pulls, KB Swings followed by 3 reps of Burpees, KB Thrusters, High Pulls, KB Swings. We ran out of time to do the full 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1

MARY: Flutters
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Tortoise and Hair, Golf Event
COT: Closed in prayer

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Going for the Gold!!!!

8/9/24 Slow Burn Q

Warm-Up

Start with the Mission statement, 5 Core Principles, the injury disclaimer.

Today’s beatdown theme will be Summer Olympics trivia.

Various Quad/Leg/Glute stretches

15 SSH IC, 15 Tappy Taps, 10 Peter Parker’s, 10 Imperial and Hillbilly Walkers

Thang 1: I started out by stating that knowing the answers to the trivia questions will determine whether the PAX will enjoy the rest of the beatdown or not.

This first progression was a pyramid shuttle run with exercises in between.

Trivia Question 1: When was the name of the 1992 USA Men’s Basketball team? Dream Team – Penalty: 5 burpees.

20 yd broad jump – 2 burpees – 20 yd broad jump back – 20 Dry Docks

Trivia Question 3: When was the average margin of victory for the Dream Team – 24, 34, 44, or 54 pts? 44 pts – Penalty: 5 burpees.

30 yd lunge walk – 3 burpees – 30 yd lunge walk back – 30 Air Squats

Trivia Question 3: How many gold medals did Michael Phelps win in 2008? 8 golds

40 yd sprint – 4 burpees – 40 yd sprint back to goal line – 40 Flutter Kicks

Trivia Question 4: The 1996 USA women’s gymnastics team was dubbed the “Magnificent Seven”. Their victory marked the first gold in women’s team gymnastics. Name 1 of the 7 gymnasts. Shannon Miller, Dominque Dawes, Dominque Mocineau, Kerri Shrug, Amanda Borden, Jaycie Phelps, Amy Chow

50 yd sprint – 5 burpees – 50 yd sprint back – 50 mountain climbers

Trivia Question 5: Who is the most decorated female Olympic swimmer?– Katie Ledecky – 20 merkins

40 yd sprint – 4 burpees – 40 yd sprint back to goal line – 40 Flutter Kicks

Trivia Question 6: Who is the only sprinter to win the 200m and 400m gold at the same Olympics? Michael Johnson

30 yd lunge walk – 3 burpees – 30 yd lunge walk back – 30 – Air Squats

Trivia Question 7: Which Olympics drew the largest TV audience in history? 2008 Beijing

20 yd broad jump – 2 burpees – 20 yd broad jump back to goal line – 20 Dry Docks

Thang 2 – On the Track as a group. Jogs. Correct answers allowed for Merkins/seal jacks/squats, wrong answers were met with burpees.

100m – Which events have been featured at every Olympics since 1896? Track, Fencing, Cycling, Gymnastics, Swimming. – 10 plank jacks

100m – In what year did Jesse Owens win all the sprinting events in Berlin? 1936 10 plank jacks

100m – At the 1912 Stockholm Summer Games, this incredibly versatile athlete won gold in the decathlon and pentathlon. This Native American went on to become a highly decorated NFL, MLB, and professional basketball player and is one of the top 3 athletes of all time. Who is he? Jim Thorpe 10 plank jacks

100m – The first modern marathon was ran at the first modern Olympics in Athens in what year? 1896 – 10 plank jacks

100m – Considered the GOAT in men’s tennis, this great has won 20 grand slam tournament titles and competed in 4 Olympics, but never won men’s singles gold. Who is he? Roger Federer – 10 plank jacks

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5 men, no Ark…

It wasn’t so much the heat, as the humidity that was out in force… due to that we drove over to the front of the middle school instead of the typical mosey.

WARMUP: SSH, Cherry Pickers, Imperial Walkers, Hillbilly Walkers, Moroccan Nightclubs

THE THANG: deck of cards
Ace: 1 Burpee and a lap (we went down and back in front of the school twice… mostly under cover)
2-5: Burpees
:diamonds:: Leg Lifts
:heart:: Jump Squats
:spades:: Mountain Climber (4 count)
:clubs:: LBC (4 count)

Made it through most of the deck

COT: Stay safe on first day of school travel

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Webb-o-Rama Around Downtown

Mosey to a nearby parking lot:
WARMUP:
– SSH
– Windmills
– Imperial Walkers
– Squats
– Mountain Climbers

Mosey to the park across from Little Caesars .
THE THANG:
4 cones set up along path heading from Millstone Park toward Main Street. On each cone were 2 exercises to be done in Jack Webb style (1:4 ratio)
Cone 1- 1 Burpee : 4 SSH
– >> Bear crawl to next station
Cone 2 – 1 Big boy sit up : 4 American Hammers
– partner wheelbarrow to next station
Cone 3 – 1 Knee tar N’Diaye : 4 Squats
– partner wheelbarrow to next station
Cone 4 – Traditional Jack Webb –
– >> Run down to Main Street then around to first station
Instead of doing all 10 reps at once, we broke it up into 3 rounds.
Round 1: 1-5
Round 2: 6-8
Round 3: 10 (skipped 9 since we ran out of time).

Excellent work by all!

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Do the Shuffle

WARMUP: Gave the usual intro and then we got after it.

THE THANG: We toured the longer Kingsley loop and the rucks stayed on the whole time. Starting from COT we had our first 10min ruck interval, 5min rucking followed by 5min of ruckshuffling.
Stopped by a group of benches for our first pain station.
25 – Step-Ups
25 – Alt. Lunges
25 – Incline Merkin w/ 2 shoulder touches at the top = 1 rep

Onto the next 10min ruck interval. This time we rucked for 4min. and then ruckshuffled for 6 min.
Stopped at the round-a-bout towards the back entrance for our next pain station.
150 total reps – Squats and Calf Raises (PAX chose how they wanted to split up the reps )
Then completed 1 lap via BearCrawl around the round-a-bout

Marched right into our next ruck interval – 3min ruck followed by 7min of ruckshuffling.

Ended up at the amphitheater area for our next pain station where there were plenty of more benches to utilize.
20 – ButttouchSquat followed by 2 alt lunges = 1 rep
15 – Incline Merkin followed by 2 Grave Diggers = 1 rep

From that pain station we moved into our final ruck interval – 2min ruck followed by 8min ruckshuffle which we completed in the parking lot behind Panera. Last call was at 1min as PAX were asked to ruckshuffle back to COT.

MARY: No time

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel Serve, Blood drive, Trash pick-up, T&H, read your newsletter

COT: SHOWTOKNOW!

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7/25 at The Ranch

WARMUP: Mosey to the back lot…SSH, LSS, cherry picker, merkin, Peter Parker, Parker Peter
THE THANG: Mosey to parking lot near the track for a DORA…100 burpees, 200 squats and 300 LBC. MOT for burpees and LBC was bear crawl out and lunge walk back. MOT for squats was run out/back. Mosey to drop off oval at the front of the middle school. We had a board of exercises. Lap around the oval consisted of 4 stops/cones where we did 10 reps of the first exercise. At that point, we ran out of time to work our way down the board on subsequent laps. Mosey back to COT for 5 minutes of Mary.

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Snake pit rises like a Phoenix

WARMUP: The usual suspects of Side Stradle Hops, Windmills, Moroccan Nightclubs, Imperial Walkers and Hillbilly Walkers

THE THANG: Mosey with bells to the loop in front of the stadium and completed the below AMRAP

20 KB Swings
20 Goblet Squats
20 Curls
20 Overhead Press

Lap around the entry loop up the where the gate is and back alternating laps of suitcase carry and overhead carry. Switch hands at the gate.

Goal is to never set the bell down

MARY: 1 minute of LBC. Seemed much longer!

COT: Occurred…

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Sweating to the (90’s) oldies

WARMUP: Some Side Straddle Hops, Imperial Walkers, Hillbilly Walkers, Windmills & Cherry Pickers… all in cadence… we then moseyed over to the church lot
THE THANG: HIIT 50 seconds on 10 off for 4 exercises then had 2 minutes to lap the lot (which took about 1). Remaining time was rest. We did this until we ran out of time.

– Merkins
– Squats
– Flutter
– Donkey Kicks
– Run
– Box Cutters
– Plank Jack
– Lunges
– Dry Docks
– Run
– Calf Raises
– Mountain Climbers
– Side Straddle Hops
– Al Gore
– Run
– Seal Jacks
– High Knees
– Monkey Humpers
– Freddie Mercury
– Run

Rinse and Repeat

MARY: Some was done until 0600
COT: indeed occurred.

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4 Corners of Pain

WARMUP: Yes

THE THANG:

4 Corners Circuit/4 Stations/5 Exercises Each Station
Run a Lap After Finishing Each Station (after carry)
Transport KB Between Each Station With Carry/Exercise

Station 1:
Goblet Squat x 20
OH Press x 20 (L/R)
Merkin x 20
American Hammer x 20 (L/R)
OH Carry to Next Station

Station 2:
KB Swing x 20
Bent Row x 20 (L/R)
Mountain Climber x 20 (L/R)
KB Side Bend x 20 (L/R)
Suitcase Carry to Next Station

Station 3:
Lunges x 20 (L/R)
Curls x 20
Burpees x 20
KB Around the World x 20
Murder Bunny to Next Station

Station 4:
Deadlift x 20
Skull Crusher x 20
Plank Jacks x 20
KB Sit Up x 20
Goblet Shuffle to Next Station

Repeat until time

MARY: Yes
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter
COT: Yes

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