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Somebody’s Watching You

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WARMUP:

Mosey to the back of the school

COP
Windmills
SSH
IW
Merkins
Cherry Pickers
Plank

THE THANG:

Mosey to the side of the school for some AMRAP (take a lap between exercises)
Jump Squats x 10
Flying Squirrels x 20
CDD x 30
Flutters x 40
Merkins x 50
Jumping Lunges x 50
Dips x 30
Derkins x 20

Due to time, had to shorten the back half of the AMRAP.

MARY:

LBCs x 10 (3 times)
Flutters x 10
Hello Dolly x 10
Rosalita x 10

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Dam 2 Dam Bar signup is live
Santa Boss 5k on 12/24

Moleskin:
YHC was reminded yesterday that someone is always watching you. Whether its your Concentrica, the Pax or work colleagues, you have infinite opportunity to influence others positively or negatively. The choice is yours. As leaders, ask yourself after interactions with other people “How do they feel after speaking with me?” Did you lift them up or bring them down? Set the temperature for others. Be the light!

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Baxter Loops

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WARMUP: Ran to Baxter Mushroom pool parking lot
THE THANG: Run laps around the circle road. At each stop sign do the following.
15 Merkins (5 Diamond, 5 Regular & 5 wide arm)
15 Squats
15 LBC

Return back to COT
MARY: A few were back early for 3 mins of Mary
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: Prayers lifted for healing, surgery, lost loved ones.

Thanks Badlands for the opportunity to Q and lead the pax.

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Merkin 200 at the Yard

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Short mosey to start
Warm-up: SSH (I/C 20x), Windmills (I/C 8x), Imperial Walker (I/C 15x), Moroccan N/C (I/C 15x), Mountain climbers (I/C 15x)
Six count burpees (5x)
Short mosey run
Routine #1: Prison Yard Merkins: at a half basketball court do 10 merkins at one corner, bearcrawl to next corner and do nine merkins, keep going around until finish with one merkin (from 10, the total merkins here is 55).
Short mosey run
At the benches:
Step ups (10 each leg, OYO)
Derkins (15, single count)
Butt Touch Squats (15x)
Incline merkins (15, single count)
Calf raises (I/C 20x)
Dips (I/C 15x)

Short mosey run to fire access road
We ran a short bit and then stopped and did a push up exercise, rinse/repeat.  Some ten counts in between.  The push ups were:
HAND RELEASE (15 single count)
WIDE ARM (15)
DIAMOND (15)
CURB RIGHT (10)
CURB LEFT (10)

Short mosey again, stopped and did:
Toy soldiers, stopped and did monkey humpers
Lunge walk, stopped and did bobby hurleys

Short mosey run
Another push-up exercise bit:
HAND RELEASE (10 single count)
WIDE ARM (10)
DIAMOND (10)
REGULAR (10)

Short mosey to last push-up-related bit:
Six count burpees (5x)

Mary: Freddies, LBC
Fini, COT
Thanks to all for joining me on the day I hit 200 F3 posts in 2022.

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Win the Morning, and the Day

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WARMUP: Quick run around the parking lot, back to an area close to COT then circle up for 15 reps each of the following:
* SSH
* Windmills
* Imperial Walkers
* MNC
* Strawberry pickers
That got the heart rate up. muscle groups loose, and blood flowing nicely.
THE THANG:
Keep it simple. Starting from where warmups were done near COT, do the following in order…..
* 5 Burpees
* 10 Box cutters
* 20 Hand-release merkins
* 40 Mountain climbers (2 ct)
* Run a lap around the shopping center’s parking lot (approx 1/4 mile loop)
* Repeat until time is up

Not much mumblechatter because we were all in constant movement. Everyone got in at least 2.5 miles, others got in more. Tesla was King, lapped everyone at least once. I think he got me twice. Ugh!!!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
* A LOT going on! Read the newsletter, get involved.
* Thanksgiving convergence this Thursday at The Ranch!
* Raised approx $1,100 at the Bourbon Tasting! Great job Cyclops organizing and hosting, and great job Wegmans on the catering.
COT:
* A lot of P&P.
* Special prayers for Spectre and his M.
* Blessings for Beaker and his M in celebrating their 5th anniversary.
* Prayers for my youngest son as he is battling flux at school still trying to get accustomed to the workloads and responsibilities of 6th grade.
* Sorry if I missed posting any of them in this backblast. My mind is still covered in frost.
* Give thanks this week, pay forward your blessings to someone less fortunate and in need.

Thank you Badlands for the opportunity to lead. Thank you PAX for showing up and pushing yourself and each other. We won the morning!

Thankful and blessed,
-NASA

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You Could’ve Stayed In Bed

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WARMUP: Run the parking lot down and back, twice. 5 Jump Squats. 10 Merkins. 15 Mountain Climbers. 10 Windmills.
THE THANG: I’m not sure how much ground we covered but the intent was to get ~2mi plus a good workout to make getting out of bed worth it. After all, we have way too many guys staying in bed on a Saturday morning. Anyways, back to the topic at hand.
Line up on the left field line and bear crawl to the McDonald’s sign on the outfield fence. 20 Mountain Climbers. Bear crawl back for 20 more Mountain Climbers.
Run to the main hill on the back side. Run to the bottom, dodging deer, 5 burpees, NUR up the other side, 10 Carolina Dry Docks. Run back to the bottom for 5 Burpees then NUR up to the original start point for 10 more Carolina Dry Docks.
Head to the Pull-Up Bars:
Each PAX must complete 20 Pull-Ups and while you’re not doing Pull-Ups, you’re cycling through 10 Merkins and 20 American Hammers on repeat until everyone is done their Pull-Ups.
Head over to the 2nd most famous hill, Tara Tea Drive, again, dodging more deer.
Run to the bottom, 10 Jump Squats, run up, 10 Diamond Merkins. Complete 3 rounds.
Head to the field for a modified Jack Webb series:
1 WWII sit up : 4 Flutter Kicks. Complete all the way to 10:40.
Get on the line and run to the net and back.
Here’s the new one. Two lines, get in a plank position, head to toe. Man in the back does 5 Wide-Arm-Merkins then bear crawls to the front of the line (Indian Run style). Keep cycling through for about 50yds.
3-tier suicides.
MARY: Sprinkled in throughout the workout…that’s more my speed. We did finally close it out with Grave Diggers, Toe Touches and elbow planking.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter (3 convergences in a row starting on Thanksgiving, Turkey money drive, clay shooting, etc)
COT: You should’ve been there. Our guys are carrying a lot these days. Head up, shoulders back, eyes clear and lean on each other as needed.

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The Zipper

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Pledge of Allegiance at 5:14 and then off to Hardee’s. The plan is called the zipper. Main spine is Springs St, 20 Merkins, at Unity Street, 25 LBC at Pine St 25 Flutter each leg. Meet back at Hardee’s at 5:55.

Got the call yesterday for the Q and luckily this site is easy Q to plan. The zipper didn’t disappoint and provided the sweat on a cool morning. Thank Jekyll for the call.

MARY: Plank Crunches and LBC with feet at 6”
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Blood drive, Bourbon and BBQ, Charity Shoot
COT: Prayers lifted

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Forget the Spartans!

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WARMUP: If you consider an almost 1 mi run with toy soldiers, karaoke, NUR and 60 merkins a warmup, then yes
THE THANG: broke up into three groups of three for 4 rounds of pain stations…

First round:
Group 1- 20 pullups
Group 2 – run around small parking lot
Group 3 – 30 burpees

2nd Round
Group 1 – 15 pullups
Group 2 – run
Group 3 – 50 merkins

3rd Rd.
1 – 5 pull ups, 10 squats, 15 calf raises
2- run
3 – 50 flutters

Rd 4
1 – 50 squats
2- run
3- 25 Mike Tysons

Run back towards COT, got in some wall sits with 5 merkins each
MARY: More merkins and some supermans
ANNOUNCEMENTS: tons of stuff going on
COT: prayers and praises!

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Honoring Noah

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Cable guy took the full hour at Alcatraz. We started with a mosey down the street to the fire station and back. The FNG was running a little late and almost took us out with his vehicle, thus we named him Wipeout. Back to the parking lot. In Cadence exercises, all sets of 22 in memory of Noah, Cable Guy’s 2.0 who would have celebrated his 22nd birthday.
Continued with some partner sprints and sets of 22 merkins, squats, and Big Boys.

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Could’ve been worse

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WARMUP:
31 IC SSH

THE THANG:
Moseyed up the Massey St Hill to the parking lot.
Counted off into 3 groups to engage in a DORA style workout.
50 Merkins, 100 BBs, & 150 squats per pax in your team. As the group completes the exercise, a pax runs down the hill and back. Swap out till all reps are done.

Moseyed over to the parking lot behind Springs Global on McCammon St for another DORA style. Maintaining the same group,
25 half burpees (down to merkin and back up stopping at the squat position as 1 rep), 50 Mike Tyson’s, 100 LBCs. 1 pax from each group runs to the end of the parking lot and back. Swap out till reps are completed.

Headed over to the parking lot with the big wall by Pike for some wall sits and merkins. Lined up on the wall, and from the outside in, each pax would do 10 merkins then back on to the wall. Once we got to the center, repeat going back to the ends.

Headed over to COT to wrap up with 10 burpees OYO

MARY: had a little lamb?
ANNOUNCEMENTS: NEWSLETTER

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