No Mercy for 2024

Ran past schools toward the lightpoles/hill

mandatory stop for some Bobby hurleys at the bball hoops

starting at first light pole – run to second lightpole do 10 merkins then run back to first pole. run to 3rd lightpole do 10 merkins then run back to first pole. run to 4th pole do 10 merkins….etc. didn’t make it all the way to Walmart but got close.

headed back with about 10 minutes left and got a few more Bobby hurleys as we passed the basketball hoops.

4.25 to 4.75 miles with close to 70 merkins

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Jingle (Kettle) Bells

WARMUP: 12 SSH, 12 Windmills, 12 Imperial Walkers

THE THANG:
Ladder format.
Do the first exercise, run to the bins and back. 2nd then 1st exercise, bin and back. 3rd, 2nd, 1st exercise. Bin and back. Keep going until the ladder is complete. Once the ladder is completed, work it back down.

Ladder as follows:
1 man maker
2 snatches
3 upright rows
4 cleans
5 swings
6 lawnmower pulls (single count. 3 each side)
7 skull crushers
8 lunges (4 each leg)
9 goblet squats
10 single leg deadlifts (5 each leg)
11 bicep curls
12 manmakers

MARY:
Some Q jackers decided to do some Mary after completing the ladder instead of working it back down. lol.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Clave Boss 5k/10k and Christmas convergence. Dam2DamBar

COT:
Patience, travel, family, addictions, loneliness.

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Pre-Convergence Convergence

There were Ruckers and runners.

Barry Manilow led the runners for 5+ miles around The Fort.

The bootcampers were led first by Maximus with a SSH x Merkin combo x2 to warm up.
After a quick warm up, the weinke was
10 merkins, 10 mountain climbers (double count) at each of the 9 swings around the park. When done and waiting on the 6 to fill in, hold an Al Gore. To wrap up, starting at the bottom of the grassy hill from the parking lot, flutter kicks, then burpees at the top of the hill.

Cake Boss took second shift with playtime at the playground.
Partnering up, one partner does squats, while the other runs around the playground. Then flapjack. Next was pull ups/merkins following the same format. To wrap up, keeping the same partner, one bear crawled across the field and run back, while the other did flutters. Flap jack until 3 rounds were done.

Fogerty took us home with some 11’s and hill repeats.
At the bottom of the hill with the statue, started with 10 merkins and bombjacks. Half way up the hill, 5 burpees, then 1 squat and big boy sit-up. No burpee on the way back down the hill. Repeat until 11’s are done cutting out the burpees when you hit 5 & 6.

This was a fun 60 min bootcamp.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Clave Boss & convergence in 12/23. Happy Birthday Walker. Tallawah is officially closed for good.

COT:

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2023.50

Tentatively titled “The Watchmen”.

Partner up for 4 x 4-minute AMRAPs
Burpees: Partners alternate reps
Bear crawl: 1 partner forward, 1 backward (swap at fatigue)
Reverse Burpess: Partners alternate reps
Run: 1 partner forward, 1 backward (swap at fatigue)

Repeat entire circuit.

Moral of the workout? Make sure someone has eyes out when you are in a vulnerable position.

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12 days of Kettlebells

WARMUP:
Quick lap to help get bodies warm
SSH
Windmill
Maraca nightclub

THE THANG:
Grab our bells and went over to the circle in front of the church where we did 12 days of Christmas with a run to the end of the parking lot between each round

Day 1 – man maker
Day 2 – snatch (each side)
Day 3 – single leg deadlift (each leg)
Day 4 – Bulgarian split squat (each leg)
Day 5 – Curls (lower, upper, full – 5 each)
Day 6 – chest press
Day 7 – nut crushers
Day 8 – Tricep extension
Day 9 – squats
Day 10 – OH press
Day 11 – swings
Day 12 flutter with press

MARY: no time left, barely finished in time
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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The Total Body Destroyer

YHC gave the Disclaimer and also Noted last time I Q’ed a KB workout everyone hurt for at least a week.

WARM UP:
We started off with

15 – imperial walkers
15 – wind mills

Slowlesy to the larger parking lot where the board was set up along with some music

Explained this is OYO not a group effort as they looks on the pax did not look amused by the number of reps.

THE THANG:
Also on every minute on the minute 3 KB man makers.

After the first 2 rounds I Omahaed that to every 2 minutes as it took about 30sec to get done and few seconds to gain your composure back.

50 KB Thrusters
75 KB Stright Arm overhead Ground Taps (this is done on your six with the KB straight above your chest. You then proceed to lower the weight over your head till it touches the ground. This works you lats like a lat pull down in the gym)
100 KB Curls
125 KB Swings ( this is definitely a full body exercise)
150 KB Halo’s smoke those shoulders
175 KB Squats

Due to time we Riffle Carried to the opposite end of the parking lot then found our way back to COT.

There was a lot more intended but due to the stupid time constraints we only made it this far.

Planked it up for the 6.

Hope I lived up to the Hives expectations and my KB reputation.

Announcements:

Dam to Damn Bar 10k, Christmas party

Prayers:

Alot of health concerns with families getting sick, elderly parents sick and in well. It’s always hard around the holidays when we find ourselves in a house hold with sickness

rolling around. 🙏

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A Little of This and a Little of That

On a brisk morning in the gloom we began by heading to the soccer fields.

Butt Kickers, HIgh Knees, Karaoke, Other direction, NUR.

Mosey to parking lot by playground:

SSH x15, plank, Peter Parker x15, Honey Mooner, Down Dog, Parker Peter x15, Honey Mooner, Down Dog, IW x20

To the playground

10 Pull ups, 20 Merkins, 20 swing knee ups, One Lap around the parking lot, Rinse and Repeat, Rinse and Repeat.

Mosey to parking lot with big island.  Bear Crawl, Crab Walk, Crawl Bear and Walk Crab.  Stopping  3x for AB LAB.

Mosey to side of school:  Peoples Chair (person on each end does 5 burpees and repeat until all have done them), BTW (10 count each person down the wall), rinse and repeat.

At picnic tables and 10 step ups each leg.

It was great getting out to the Ranch.  Seeing some HIM that I don’t regularly see.

Thanks to Mainframe for the opportunity.

 

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Phone Battery Died

WARMUP: Mosey to the front of CRHS – IW, HW, Merkins
THE THANG:
Jogged the bus loop in front of the school 1 lap = 0.7 miles
As a group did a 4 exercise Tabata, 40s of work with 11 sec rest in between exercises

Mnt Climbers
Bomb Jacks
Shoulder Taps
Flying Squirrel

Ran a lap
Merkins
Squats
Lunges
Peter Parkers

Ran a lap
American Hammers
Flutters

Returned to COT total mileage was 2.75 to 3.0 for all

MARY: No time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter
COT: Closed in Prayer

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Tour de force!

WARMUP: pharmacy parking lot- 50 SSH, plank focus
THE THANG:

Mosey to WEP, 1/2 lap 1 burpee each bench increasing to 7 where we ended up at amphitheater, wall sits, pax take turns lunge walking to edge and run back, for last three pax we did balls to walls with push-ups

Mosey to Pike, bear crawl entire length of back parking lot under the awning, IFKYK

Mosey to half wall in front of PIKE, Derkins and dips

Mosey back towards downtown and sprint up hill towards Valero

Stop for 50 American hammers IC (2 sets of 25)

Mosey to print shop around to pull up bars, Jack Webb with pull ups and merkins up to 5

Mosey around long way to COT, almost got 3 miles

MARY: incorporated
ANNOUNCEMENTS: golf event, bethel, CSAUP
COT: prayers for patience, travels and keeping reason for season, Jesus

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Taking responsibility

YHC clipped the Ms car on the way out of the driveway this morning – initial reaction was to find anything and anyone else to blame…. I was running late because no one moved the elf, and I couldn’t find my running shoes because my son “put them away in the garage”, and my M didnt pull all the way up in the driveway.

The truth is I didn’t do the basic things required for the task like taking a walk/look around the car or adequately use my mirrors. These were all completely under my control and I failed.

Human nature is to deflect blame to others, as HIMs we need to resist this urge. We can’t blame other’s for our own complacency.

THE THANG:
run to Allison park stopping every 1/4 mile for 10 merkins.

once at the park, yhc led IC exercises until the 6 arrived (squats, reverse lunges, sumo squats). Once all PAX arrived, we assumed plank position and performed in cadence shoulder taps (40) and then in cadence squats (30) while each PAX performed one max set of pullups.

ran back to Earthfare stopping every 1/4 mile for 10 merkins.

used remaining time to do 4 corners at Earthfare with10 reps of sumo squats and wide arm merkins at opposite corners.

couple minutes of Mary to finish.

strong work by all today.

-Badlands

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