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Closing out 2025

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Eight men showed up for the final workout at Alcatraz this year. We began with some stretching and a slow jog to the fire station. We traveled up and down the three streets across from the park, at the bottom and top of the streets, 10 merkins and 10 squats. After we took a moment to catch our breath, we made our way back to the parking lot and on to the field.
For the remaining time, we performed the Accumulator. List of exercises, sprint across the field and back, add an exercise.

Exercises:
– CCDs
– Jump Squats
– Flutters
– Shoulder Taps
– Side Lunges
– Box Cutters
– Hand Release Merkins
– SSHs
– Burpees

I ended with an analogy. I asked if anyone heard of Stanley Drukenmiller (nope) , or David Tepper (yes). Both of these men have consistently outperformed the stock market over the past 30 years. Doubling their money in less than 3 year compared to 7.2 if invested in an index fund. Relating it back to fitness, you can continue to be average or you can seek out those men who excel and find out what they do differently.
Start now…It doesn’t get any easier when you get older.

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Here, There and Everywhere

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WARMUP: None until 3/4 of the way through the workout
THE THANG: Mosey to pull up bars. Plank while each Pax does 5 pull ups.
Mosey to pickle ball courts and do 20 monkey humpers.
Mosey to wall and do: 25 dips, 20 step ups and 20 Derkins.
Mosey to Golf Course Hill: Pair up and grab a rock: 1 pax runs while other does exercise with a rock. Exercises: Curls, Overhead Press, Squat, Chest Press and Bent Over Row.
Mosey back to wall: 25 dips, 20 step ups and 20 Derkins.
Mosey past pickle ball courts and do 20 monkey humpers.
Mosey to pull up bars. Plank while each Pax does 5 pull ups.
Mosey past fire station for warm ups: 10 IW and 10 HW
Mosey down hill: 5 burpees, Quadzilla up (NUR up hill and 5 squats)x3
Mosey to parking lot for Broga.
MARY: 1 minute of mary (LBC and Freddy)
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Yes
COT: Yes

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End of the Road

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WARMUP: Yea, this is important.
SSH
IW
HW
Plank sequence
Included some dynamic stretching

THE THANG:
String of Pearls
5 burpees
10 merkins
15 squats
20 lunges
25 ……. something

added an exercises each stop. (e.g., first stop = burpees only, second stop = burpees and merkins, etc.)

the 25 rep count was one of the previous exercises. So, when we found the literal end of the road it was stop 5 and we did:
5-burpees
10-merkins
15-squats
20-lunges
25-burpees in cadence

Next end of the road stop was
5-burpees
10-merkins
15-squats
20-lunges
25-merkins

Ran out of time before finding all the ends of the road.

MARY: did imperial squat walkers at COT for the 6….that’s kinda a core exercise, right?
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Food Drive happening now. Thanksgiving Convergence at the Ranch
COT: was held

NMM:

When you find yourself at the end of the road, your left with the same resources that got you there. Gotta use them to get moving again!

I heard a reference to a “second starting” line in terms of my mammon (teaching music). That is: once we learn the notes and rhythms, there’s a second starting line. We’re finally ready to make art rather than simply craft.

When you hit end of a road, turn around and think of it as the second starting line. Ain’t nothing to it, but to do it.

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Back to Skool

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WARMUP:
Moroccan nightclubs
Windmills
Cherry pickers
Hillbilly walkers

Mosey around park, stopping for merkins, calf raises, then down the big hill in back for some low slow squats and Mime Tyson’s, then back up the hill to a whiteboard.

THE THANG:
Each exercise gets 12 reps. Complete round 1, mosey to fence by the fire department and back and you’ve graduated from first grade. Next do first and second, then run to complete second grade and so on.
1 – Moroccan nightclubs
2 – LBCs
3 – Calf raises
4 – Merkins
5 – Flutters
6 – Squats
7 – Shoulder taps
8 – American Hammers
9 – Lunges
10 – Burpees
11 – Big boy sit-ups
12 – Good mornings
MARY:
4 boards for a star workout to finish. Mike Tyson’s, Bomb Jacks, Squats, American Hammers, each board had a mode of transportation back to the center, where you do 2 burpees
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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4 corners and a Cake

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WARMUP:
Handful of exercises to loosen up
THE THANG:
4 corners of exercises with 20 as rep number
5 exercises at each corner 3 rounds each with lap between rounds
MARY:
Flutters, Hello Dollys, big boys
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Read newsletter
Christmas party
COT:
Praying for Men to lead their families well

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Hill repeats and miles

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WARMUP: SSH, Wind Mills, Squats, merkins, mtn Climber. Run to station 1
THE THANG: 4 stations spread in a pendant style hilly road. Stations 1 and 3 and bonus, Station 2 amd 4 are 21s.
Station 1: 5 pullups
Station 2: 20 Merkins
Station 3: 5 Burpees
Station 4: 1 jump squat

Stations 2 and 4 keep changing the number of reps in a 21s style.

A lot of elevation going both ways.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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3 headed SL

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WARMUP: Skip ran us through his old site Q grounds with a plethara of stretches. Then decided to do a bunch of burpees at every street.
THE THANG: passed baton to Warning Track who ran us to pull up bars for 5 pull ups/5 push ups. The. Ran us to the hill (you know which one). Down hill for LBCs at bottom and squats at top. Rinse and repeat. Passed baton to Soup who ran to parking lot for a Coupon work dora.
MARY: some abb work to get us to 0730
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Golf tournament
COT: Prayers for Stephen Johnson (my brother in law). May you rest in peace my brother.

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Keeping it simple

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WARMUP: SSH, windmills, up/down dog, world’s greatest stretch
THE THANG: Mosey to circle. Partner up, partner runs to bottom of Harbor Ct. Other partner AMRAP. Rd 1 CDD, Rd 2 LBC, Rd3 MT Climbers Rd 4 Merkins Rd 5 Jump Squats Rd 6 Flutters
MARY: Time for box cutters and windshield wipers
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Golf, HIM camp, convergence
COT: always

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Beat the deck #2

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WARMUP: side straddle hop, imperial walker, cherry picker, windmill

THE THANG:

Beat the deck: 9 cards face up and the pax go around guessing higher and lower on any of the cards. You get it right and you do the workout associated. You get it wrong and you do the workout associated and do a lap of different MOT.

Card breakdown:
2 Moroccian night club
3 flutter
4 calf raise
5 hammer
6 shoulder taps
7 big boys
8 Peter Parker
9 burpees
10 Merkin
J cherry picker
Q imperial walker
K LBC
A squat

MOT based on suite
Spade – bear crawl
Club – lunges
Heart – sprint
Diamond – broad jump

Ended up doing two rounds of beat the deck with modifications on the 2nd in the save time
7

MARY: didn’t have the time

ANNOUNCEMENTS: decibel hosted event, bethels, stuff the bus, highway cleanup

COT: prayers and praises

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