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Disco Dan Does Da Thang

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WARMUP: COP warmup to get Cake Boss loose for his walk before the rest of dashed for the Main Event
THE THANG: Run down to SIM parking lot for a series of carioca, high knees, butt kickers, Nur and sprints with burpees intermingled throughout.

Pax each grabbed two bricks for a series of brick work including Seal Jacks, Moroccan nightclubs, overhead claps, burpees and other fun.

Run back to Walgreens for series along the wall round 1 solo and round 2 with partner

Balls to the wall
Bear crawl across lot
Crawl bear back
10 burpees
People’s chair

Mosey to side of Indian restaurant for 11s on the picnic tables (derkins & dips)

Mary– pass the baton among the pax

Mosey home

COT: Great to lead the pax in place of Cake Boss whose on IR (but still posting in the Gloom for some light work and 2nd F — way to go brother)!

My first workout with Hayden Fry who smartly waited to make his first post at The Fort instead of Chicago before he moved south. Great to have you on board!

Vuvu can’t decide whether to run or bootcamp so he got a little of both, walking with CB, then running all over the Gloom to find us, then joining for the final 15. Nice work!

Prayers for Slapshot and his M and family as they navigate unfortunate health news for is MiL. TAPs, brother.

Thanks to the pax for pushing throughout and especially for posting. I can’t do this thing we call life alone, and it’s invaluable to know you’re always there.

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Don’t Call it a Comeback

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14 HIMs gathered with YHC on this cool morning at the Armory to celebrate a return to a KB workout for me. Some came to celebrate, some came to ridicule and some were just curious. Nonetheless, I was prepared with a Weinke and ready to get after it and get better.

The Thang

Uhaul started the music with a request for 80’s rap. Some glorious songs were played. Thanks Uhaul!

Mosey to the other side of the parking lot

COP

SSH x 20
MNC x 10
IW x 10
Hillbillies x 10
Mtn climbers x 10
Windmills x 10
Mixed in Burpee ladder to 5 throughout

Mosey back to the KBs and Partner up

Tabata workout for 1 minute

Partner 1 does exercise while Partner 2 rests then switch

Round 1
KB swings/Military Press
Goblet squats/Lunge w Exchange
Merkins/Bench press
SSH/SSH
Take a lap

Round 2
Switch exercises
Take a lap

Round 3
Curls/Triceps
Bent over rows/CDD
Jump squats/bombjacks
Mtn Climbers/Plank jacks
Take a lap

Round 4
Switch exercises

Round 5
Redo Round 1 since YHC messed it up

1 minute of Mary

YHC got off to a slow start with the Q and added 30 seconds to the Tabata to ensure each Pax got 3 rounds. Will do better next time

Moleskin
– Prayers for Dave and Marianne from Jwow
– Anniversaries this week for Dojo and Maximus
-Patience for Bonsai dealing with teen girls
-Respectable birthday for Santini
– Praise for Emma back at dance

Shoutouts
– Jwow gave me a KB. Thanks buddy!
– Dojo is someone who is accelerating. Keep up the great work!

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4 corners and back to basics

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WARMUP: SSH, Wind Mills, Burpees
THE THANG: 4 Corners around the whole Harris Teeter parking lot.
Every corner had 4 exercises, 1 per lap + the exercises from the lap before.
Station 1 (Cardio)
20 SSH
20 HBW
20 IW
10 Burpees  
Station 2 (Legs)
20 Squats
20 BH
20 CR
20 Lunges.
Station 3 (Abs)
20 LBCs
20 AH
20 BBS
20 Rosalitas
Station 4 (Chess)
20 Merkins
20 Dimond Merkins
20 WA Merkins
20 Shoulder taps.

MARY: total of 2.6 miles for every one a lot of sweet. Place stink in some places.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Wally World

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WARMUP: none… Just go
THE THANG: Run to Wally World via 160 left on stone crest until hit Model A. Then do BASS which consists of 5 burpees, 20 American hammers, 10 squats and 10 SSHs. Run back to COT do exercises again and repeat back to Wally World. Just a little over 4mi.
MARY: optional
ANNOUNCEMENTS: trash pickup Christmas party
COT: marriages, 2.0s

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10 Year Convergence

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Ten year celebration came to a close this morning with a convergence at WEP. 12 men came earlier for a run to support Operation Sweet Tooth. 84 men attended the main event with three great HIM leading the workout: CSPAN, Maximum, and WWL. No warm-ups this morning. CSPAN took his group around the block with various stops along the way. Seven reps of Flying Squirrels, Merkins, and Sit-ups. WWL had playtime at the playground. Burpees and Pull-ups along with running fast around the playground. Did I mention Power Skips? Maximum had a simple plan. Run backwards up the hill many times and destroy your abs with American Hammers.
We closed the chapter on the first 10 years.
Monday begin the next.
The future is bright.
How will you contribute to the next 10 years?
Make an impact.

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Turkish Bapstismal Getup

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WARMUP:

yes….SSH for the stragglers to start, then a few of the standards: IW, Burpees, Shoulder Tap, Yoga, Slingshot, Halos, slight moseys, windmills with the bell low and high (not a crowd pleaser)
THE THANG:
Dan John’s Humane Burppee – look it up. It’s good stuff
Series of 5 reps with some moseys occasionally
– Cleans
– Racked Reverse Lunge
– Single Leg Deadlift
– Racked Bulgarian Split Squat
– Single Arm overhead press

The fun bit was a table of Dixie water cups set up. We did Turkish Getups with the water cups in our hands. Then Turkish Getups with the water cup resting on our knuckles. Good times. A few guys got wet; all of us were challenged

Finished with burpee snatches and pigeon lunge

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Virtual Sweet Tooth run tomorrow 5am
10 year convergence tomorrow 6:30am
10 year hang at the Print Shop tomorrow at 5pm

COT:
Prayers for Grout’s sister and her four children on the loss of her husband

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To the Board

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Ran to Laces In down 160 to Munn Rd:
Did some of the board of pain 10 year celebration with those PAX
25 burpees
(I was a little bleary from the fast pace, I mistook Barry Manilow for Assasin. Read into that what you will)
Lap
150 calf raises
Lap
50 ski hops
30 merkins
Ran back on Harris Street

Everyone got back faster than me and was calling some Mary. Finished with 10 burpees in cadence

I ran faster and further than I ever would have alone. T-Claps to these guys

Convergence Saturday @ 6:30am
Print Shop Saturday @ 5pm

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Bring Home the Bacon

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COP
SSH – Low Slow Squats – Merkins – Southern Gentleman – Northern Aggressor

11’s on Backside Hill (Grant Farms Dr)
CDD’s/Lunges

1.5 Miles and 240ft of Elevation Gain later… Mosey to wall behind express oil change

DORA
50-100-150
Derkins – Dips – Step Ups

Jail Break to COT

At the outset of the workout, YHC offered actual bacon to the pax. The challenge was whoever is #king gets to bring home a bag of home cured/smoked bacon. Who would have thought that a vegetarian would bring home the bacon? Gears said his kids will enjoy it.

Announcements
Cash Memorial WOD tomorrow at Ring of Fire
Charity Shoot 11/11 with Change Order for the FM Care Center
Blood Drive coming to a text message near you – hit 3D up for more details

COT
FMHS threats being made against the principal, prayers for all involved and that the person making the threats does not follow through.
Prayers for Gears’ mother.
Prayers for Slow Jams’ wife.
Prayers for we leaders.

Thanks for the repeat Q, Slow Jams. Glad I was able to show up to this one!

Punch List out.

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Uphill NURing and lots of webs

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We had 11 Bootcampers and 2 runners, quick disclaimer before getting into the warm up.

Mosey to fire station
20 SSH IC
10 Windmills IC
15 LSS IC
15 MNC IC

Mosey to pull-up bars and plank. Waterfall of 5 pull-ups, and then back down the waterfall.

Mosey to bottom of Tara Tea and partner up.
DORA
NUR uphill and run back while partner completes
50 – merkins
100- overhead claps
150 – LBCs
200 – flutters

Back to the baseball field for some core, legs and upper body webs:

CORE
Captain Thor, 1 big boy sit-up – 4 American hammers, run 10 yards; 2 BBSU – 8 AH, run 10 yards; 3 BBSU – 12 AH, run 10 yards… repeat until completion of 10 BBSU – 40 AH
Total: 55 BBSU and 220 AH

Take a lap around the field.

LEGS
1 squat – 4 calf raises, run 20 yards; 2 squats – 8 calf raises, run 20 yards; 3 squats – 12 calf raises, run 20 yards… repeat until completion of 10 squats – 40 calf raises.
Total: 55 squats – 220 calf raises

Take a lap around the field.

UPPER BODY
Lots of mumble chatter while explaining this one, no running in between series this time
1 merkin – 4 shoulder taps; 2 merkins – 8 shoulder taps; 3 merkins – 12 ST; took a brake after 5-20, then another brake after 7-28 and YHC had already lost count and whining came into the game so as a crowd pleaser we repeated 7-28… finished up with 10 merkins – 40 shoulder taps.
Total: 62 merkins – 248 shoulder taps

We had a couple of minutes to go back to COT with smoked shoulders and Badlands thought it was a good idea to keep doing merkins, add 10 IC to the count. 9 for YHC, apparently my watch was out of whack and alerted me it was 0730.

Great work by everyone.

Announcements:
9/11 WOD at NaFo on 9/5 starting at 0600, bring sandbags and rucks.

10 year anniversary festivities start officially on Wednesday with someone named Zima at the PAINtheon games.

Final countdown happening on 9/10

Prayers and praises were lifted.

Tinsel and Kermit out…

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Running … into trees

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It was hot and humid, first day all year as such.
We ran.
Some ran 3.4 miles.
At least one ran 5.5 miles.
At least one ran into a tree (it’s not a laughing matter)
At least one hung out by the bank and smoked Marlboro Reds (rumor has it)

Get off my lawn!

Looks like we made it,

Barry Manilow

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