K.I.S.S. Ladder? Pyramid?

WARMUP:
Moseyed behind Harris Teeter and stopped for warmup…

20 – Side Straddle Hops
10 – Windmill
10 – Moroccan Night Club
10 – Cherry Pickers
10 – 8 Count Burpees

Moseyed over to the church parking lot…

THE THANG:

Ladder/Pyramid Style Workout
Complete each exercise, run a lap, add and exercise run a lap through all exercises and back down

10 Diamond Merkins
15 BBS
20 Merkins
25 LBC
30 Squats
35 SSH

Total rep count:
110 Diamond Merkins
135 BBS
140 Merkins
125 LBC
90 Squat
35 SSH
If you competed the full pyramid.

Moseyed back to COT

MARY:
20 – 4-count Flutters
10 – Boat/Canoe
10 – Protractor

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Traveling Site Q starts next week
Name and location change of Snackpit
AKA
Check your newsletter

COT:

Show to know

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climbing the mountain in 2023

WARMUP:
– SSH / WM / IW / CP…short mosey
THE THANG:
– set of exercises with 1 lap around the basketball course after each set. Reps per set: 20+23, Sets: 1: Burpees+squats / 2: shoulder tap+SSH / 3: merkins+big boys / 4: j-lo+dips / 5: carolina honey+a-hammer / 6: russian kicks+superman
– Airborne hip exercise inbetween and rinse and repeat. Got thru it almost twice.
MARY:
– mosey back to COT for on-time finish
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– read your newsletter
COT:
– was held

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Glorious Gloom at the GC

WARMUP: Mosey behind Red Bowl to stink central for a COP: SquatS, IWs, Mtn. Climbers, LBCs, SSHs. All IC and interrupted by a burpee ladder, 5 down to 1.
THE THANG: head to the hill behind Express Oil change. Count adds to 10, started with 1 Big Boyat the bottom & 9 Bombjacks at the top. Omaha after 5 rounds as traffic was getting heavy. Head behind the Oil Change garage for a partner Dora. Derkins, Dips & Step ups. Finish up with a crowd pleaser, “Tote The Rock”. 1 pax runs around O’Reilly’s carrying a Cindy while Pax do the exercise listed on the sheet. Round 1 was Kraken Burpees and it went downhill from there.

MARY: No time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Another Blood Drive (god bless @3D, he’s a marketing genius), D2D fundraiser
COT:Prayers for various family members.

I’m off and amazed how nervous and sleepless I am the night before a Q. Must be because it’s an important role to play. We all wanna do a good job for the Pax that show up. Always an honor to lead.
“The” Shortest of All Sales.

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A gear WO broke out @ The Stockade

WARMUP: Arrived early and set-up the Harris Teeter parking lot as a battleground to deliver pain. Gave the disclaimer and we moseyed from COT to the battleground where I had 5 stations set-up. We moseyed to 4of the stations and completed SSH/IC/x20 and then made sure the PAX understood each exercise to be performed at that station. Last mosey was to the 5th station, where exercises were explained, enough talk, time to get to work!
THE THANG: Broke the PAX into 4 groups. Groups were dispersed to each of the 4 perimeter stations. At each of the 4 perimeter stations there were 4 exercises. Each PAX had to complete the reps for all 4 exercises before their group could mosey to the 5th station located somewhat in the middle of the 4 perimeter stations. The 5th station was a list of ab exercises. Here’s the flow: Group 1 performs the workout at Station #1, once completed the group goes to the middle Ab Station and completes the reps for the 1st exercise listed. Once the group finishes the ab exercise they travel to Station #2. Once the exercises are completed by all PAX at Station #2 the group travels back to the middle Ab Station and completes the reps for the 2nd exercise listed. So forth and so on, you get the idea.
All perimeter stations were set-up utilizing the grocery cart storage areas in the parking lot.

Station #1
10 – Pullups ( use grocery cart storage equipment, there is a place to modify to inverted rows as well )
20 – Overhead Presses w/ Cindy
20 – KB swings with 45lb. KB
30 – Unilateral Waves w/ Heavy Rope ( just count how many times you throw an arm up for reps )

Station #2
10 – Chin-ups
20 – 10ea arm – bent over rows with 45lb DB
20 – Lat Pulls w/Cindy
20 – Curls w/ Cindy

Station #3
10 – Switch Grip Pull-ups
10 – Overhead Sandbag Toss w/ 45lb sandbag
20 – CDDs with feet on the rail of the grocery cart storage equipment
20 – Tricep Extensions w/Cindy

Station #4
10 – Switch Grip Pull-ups
20 – Bent over rows w/Cindy
10 – Slam Ball throws w/ 30lb slam ball
10 – Man Makers w/Cindy

Station #5 ( Abs )
100 – LBCs
90 – Flutters ( single count )
80 – Freddy Mercury’s ( single count )
70 – American Hammers ( single count )
60 – Mountain Climbers ( single count )
50 – Reverse Crunches
40 – Big Boys
30 – Straight Lower Leg Lifts
20 – V-Sits
1 minute Plank
The group who tolerated my presence almost made 2 complete trips around the battleground, so it’s safe to say PAX completed 6-8 perimeter stations and made 5-7 trips to the Ab station. Great work fellas!!!

MARY: No time left for Mary
ANNOUNCEMENTS: D2DB10K, D2D, Rooster, upcoming CSAUPs, Bethel Men’s shelter
COT: Prayers were lifted up! God bless!

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Four Corners of Fun at Golden Corral

WARMUP: 4 Plank Jacks/Merkins/Shoulder Taps/Supermans. Repeat with 8 count. Repeat with 16 count. Repeat with 32 count.
THE THANG: Four corners with four exercises (20 count each) at each corner. After exercises completed at the corner, run one full lap + 1/4 to get to the next station. Exercises grouped as “Upper”, “Lower”, “Abs”, “All”. Once completed all corners we did the warmup all over again.
MARY: Nope
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Dam to Damn Bar
COT: Grassy’s son

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Carrying Each Other’s Burdens

Seven men shunned the fartsack to get better in all three Fs this morning at Soul to Sole. We covered 3.16 miles while alternating the 60lb sandbag amongst us.

The men were encouraged to share what’s on their minds this morning. With men’s mental health being prominent in the news, YHC felt it necessary to remind the men to lean on their brothers to carry their burdens. None of us should walk the road of life alone. Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 reminds us “Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.”

So when you are down, raise your hand for help. When you are up, extend your hand to a brother that might need to be lifted up. Don’t walk alone. We’re in this together.

Aye!
Italian Job

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Playing Cards at The Kitchen Sink

WARMUP: Run the large loop around the field stopping for a few exercises at a few points.
THE THANG: We’re playing cards:
Spades = Diamond Merkins
Diamonds = Mountain Climbers
Clubs = Jump Squats
Hearts = 8ct Burpees
(4) Other Cards = 25 Flutters I/C
Twice during the deck, we took a run around the parking lot.
MARY: See Flutters & Burpees above
ANNOUNCEMENTS: All the things.
COT: You should’ve been there. It was strong.

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Cardio & A Little Failure

WARMUP: Run to the bottom of the first hill on Hubert Graham.
Wind Mills, Low Slow Squats, More Wind Mills
10 Burpees
THE THANG:
NUR 1/2 way back up the hill
Fixed Leg Lunges x 10ea leg
Run back down for 100 Calf Raises
NUR 1/2 way back up
Dips on the guardrail until failure. BTW, Senator took charity on the rest of us and stopped once we failed but he had some left. So, as a group, we did more.
Run around the back of the school to the parking lot on the far right side.
Bear crawl from island to island with 10 Diamond Merkins every other parking space line.
Mike Tysons on the curb until failure.
Crawl bear back to the starting point with 10 Mountain Climbers every other line.
Sprint to the entrance of the playground, 5 Burpees, sprint back. As I mentioned to the PAX, this is where I almost splashed, at my own Q.
LBC’s to failure.
This is where I had a moment of transparency with the PAX. You see, if I were here by myself, I would have absolutely quit on myself and not done what I had written down. I told the PAX what was written and with that spoken, we did it and it wasn’t that bad. We sprinted (or ran) back to the playground entrance.
Sucking wind, we did a long set of heels to Heaven but the legs never came down.
Run to the front lot for a set of suicides with a few Burpees at the end for good measure.

MARY: Performed throughout.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: D2DB…quit delaying and sign up. Tell your friends, too.
COT: It happened.

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Currahee – Sapper Style

YHC’s brother in law (F3 Blanca) recently graduated Sapper school for US Army and is headed to his first post at Fort Bragg as a 2nd LT tomorrow! YHC did my best to build a #weinke worthy of the Sapper level of fitness. Check out more on Sapper here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHuUk7lCNkI

Here’s the workout:
Currahee Weinke
1/16/2023

Warm Up:
• Ruck Shuffle around big loop with breaks to do exercises
o Squat
o Merkin
o Mountain Climber
o Flutter with press

Main Thang:
Partner up. Each partner does the exercise. Ruck OH for SIX (curls at failure)
Round 1 – Partner A has ruck; Partner B has ruck
• A: Ruck pull through with merkin
• B: Ruck to mid-field – 5 burpees slick; Ruck to fence – 5 burpees slick
• A: Ruck thrusters
• B: Dairy carry to fence – 10 burpees slick
• A: Ruck curls
• B: No strap carry to mid-field – 10 burpees slick
Round 2 – Partner A is slick; Partner B has both rucks
• A: Burpees
• B: Ruck on / Ruck OH to mid field – 5 squat with Ruck OH
• A: Lt. Air Dan (2 lunges + jump squat)
• B: Dairy carry both rucks to fence – 5 man makers
• A: BBS
• B: Ruck front/back to fence – 5 squats
Round 3 – Partner A has both rucks; Partner B is slick
• A: Ruck on / Ruck Press
• B: NUR to fence – Run back
• A: Ruck on / Ruck Curl
• B: Bear crawl to mid field – Crawl bear back
• A: One ruck TWO weights – Squat
• B: Run to fence – 10 burpees

Moleskin:
Strong work done by ALL men this morning. Great to see Tsunami back in the gloom! Mainframe did Mainframe things and we all watched in awe. Olaf did Olaf things and we all watched in confusion but also in awe (umm one armed burpees anyone?). Blanca confirmed the #weinke met his expectations. YHC just tried not to spill merlot.

Announcements: D2D Fundraiser – do it!

COT: Praise for seeing joy in our kids eyes. Prayers to make the first things first – ALWAYS!

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