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Birthday Bash

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32 Trips Around the Sun
WARMUP: 32 Moroccan Night Clubs, 32 SSH.
THE THANG:
Stop 1: 4 Corners Parking Lot
At each corner:
8 Merkins
8 Squats
8 LBCs
8 Mountain Climbers
32 reps per corner
Jog between corners

Stop 2: Police station entrance
Step-ups, 16 each leg
Dips, 16 each arm
Derkins, 16 each arm
Bulgarian Split Squats, 16 each leg

Stop 3: police station wall
“Hitting the Wall at 32"

Round 1
Wall Sit: 32 seconds
32 Squats
Round 2
Wall Sit: 32 seconds
32 Calf Raises
Round 3
Wall Sit: 32 seconds
32 alternating Lunges
Round 4
Wall Sit: 32 seconds
32 Monkey Humpers

Stop 4: Downtown Gazebo
32 Shoulder Taps
32 Dips

Stop 5: The Print Shop
3 pull ups
32 Carolina Dry Docks
2 pull ups
32 Freddie Mercurys ic

Stop 6: Veterans Park “Birth Year"
Born in 1994
19 + 9 + 4
19-Weezy Jeffersons
9-Hand-release Merkins
4-Navy Seal Burpees 10 count

Stop 7: Up Massey to the lot
8 Diamond merkins
8 Bonnie Blair’s
8 V-Ups
8 Hand release merkins

Stop 8: back to the Amphitheater
8 Big Boys
8 Weezy Jeffersons
8 Pickle Pointers
8LBC’s IC

MARY: Broga
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Busy start to November
COT: yes

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Egypt > Desert > Promised Land Bootcamp

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WARMUP: We started with a mile around campus, fleeing Egypt with a few dynamic stretches along the way. Made sure to circle back for the six. @U5MQ8FHV0 stepped up with some Side Straddle Hops while YHC went back for @U02DKM63B7B.
THE THANG: We finally arrived in the Desert, a few parking lot islands away from the Promised Land.
25 Merkins, 25 Squats, 25 Big Boy Sit-Ups, followed by a controlled run to the next aisle. Repeat.
YHC also learned what a zipper is (and apparently isn’t).
Our first complaint came from @U02DKM63B7B, which seemed fitting considering the Israelites’ experience in the wilderness. He also appointed @U0BEBRDB5U7 as his proxy for any reps he wouldn’t be completing.
Once we reached 100 reps of each, we swapped Merkins for Dips, courtesy of @U08NJ8FF1PF.
We finished with a sprint around the parking lot perimeter, making our final push into the Promised Land.
MARY: A little Mary roulette followed, with @U011KKZ17U6 calling Jennifer Lopez, only for @U02DKM63B7B to discover someone was apparently doing the Ben Affleck instead. Hilarious.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Consider donating to F3 to support something that’s changed so many of our lives. Be proactive in providing food for Bethel Men’s Shelter. Convergence next month at the Ranch (apparently there’s good parking). The Excavation at Forest Hill Fort Mill is November 13. A few parties coming up, details of which YHC has not retained.
COT: Prayers for safe travels, a successful surgery for @UJKGM3VKJ and a speedy recovery. Prayers for @U0AQZ0DGP97 as he prepares to start his new job next month. Prayers for the Pope and for those requests left unspoken.

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The Fort Mixtape

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WARMUP: SSH, windmills, Imperials, ham stretches
THE THANG:
Pauly D –
Rochamburpees
Rock Paper Scissors in a forearm plank. Winner does 1 Merkin, Loser does 1 Burpee. Tie Both do 1 Burpee. 10 rounds.
Ab Webb
1 Hand Release Merkins (in a puddle)
4x4ct straight leg Freddy Mercuries
GO until time or 10-40 is reached

Wheaties – short band special
Low slow squats
Lateral walks
Renegade rows
Lateral walks
Bear donkey kicks
Lateral walks
Single arm rows
Monster walks
Forefoot marches
Monster walks

Pusher – 5 merkins, 5 burpees per WEP swing

Casey Kasem – HIIT intervals (3 minutes) – 15 merkins, 20 shoulder taps, 25 jump squats

MARY: some
ANNOUNCEMENTS: BBBB, Bethel, Reindeer Run
COT: M health prayers, family health prayers

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Running Season is Here

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WARMUP: Mosey down hill behind school with various movements until reached the road loop at the bottom
THE THANG: Running and exercises until finish

First "mile" = Burpees followed by a lap, 4 total starting with 20, then 15, then 10, then 5

Second mile = Shoulder taps in cadence followed by a lap with similar pace partner(s), 4 total with same rep #s as before

Third mile = Sumo squats with slowest group starting first then middle group, then speedsters, only time for one lap so group 20 or 30 or 40 reps together depending on when they started the lap

Run home

MARY: 2 mins

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Beers for Beetus on 10/24 at Print Shop

COT: prayers for aging parents/inlaws, college age 2.0s, family and friends battling cancer and their caregivers

Strong effort today by all pax with terrific temps around 50 at launch. Everyone took advantage and pushed hard.

Simple weinke with spotlight on importance of looping in a partner (or more than one) when life gets tough and when adversity extends for a long stretch. Don't do life OYO!

Thanks for the hard work by all and the invite from brother Pauly!

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Morris Hunting

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WARMUP: frowned upon at this AO
THE THANG: head down Market until it changes names, keep going, turn right on Gardenia, turn right on Morris Hunt, hit the cul-du-sac and come back
MARY: did a little yoga up till 0600 once we got back
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter
COT: was held

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Good Swinging Time

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Warm-Up:
SSH – 20 IC
Imperial Walkers – 15 IC
Hillbilly Walkers – 15 IC
Moroccan Night Clubs – 10 IC
Windmills – 10 IC
Strawberry Pickers- 10 IC
Cheese Shredder
Mosey to first wooden swing

The Thang:
1. Swinging Great Time:
At each swing perform the following exercises:
10 Merkins
20 Squats
30 Big Boys
Mosey between the Swings

2. Lucky 7s:
Burpees and Seal Jacks
Bear Crawl Up and mosey down hill

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: Prayers and Praises

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Band Tabata

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WARMUP:
Light jog
Side straddle hops
Cherry pickers
Hillbilly walkers
Groin lunges

THE THANG:
Band Tabata (20s work, 10s rest). 2 exercises per round, as many reps as possible each round. Ideally 4 rounds of each exercise.

Single long loop band required. Swing set used for anchor point of band.

PAX 1 completes 1 round of each exercise, then runs up the hill to get the next round. Remainder of PAX continue working until PAX returns with new round.

Paired exercises: (“Pole” indicates band anchored on pole, “no pole” indicates band off pole.)

R1 – Pole
Squat to Row
Tantrums

R2 – No Pole
Deadlifts
Pull aparts

R3 – Pole
Single arm Rows (R/L)

R4- No Pole
Front Squats
Bent over tow

R5 – Pole
Hip thrusts
Press to rotations

R6 – No Pole
Reverse lunges (R/L)

R7 – Pole
Core Rotations (R/L)

R8 – No Pole
Bent Over Rows
Front Squat lateral stepping

R9 – pole
Single Arm Press (R/L)

LAST EXERCISE
Partner Pallof holds

Return to parking lot: Bailout lunges

Everyone lunge walks back, one PAX can bail out group: 10 burpees earn a 30 second mosey. Cannot be passed by lungers!

Finish:
Plank / lateral plank series
Squat hold series

MARY: n/a
ANNOUNCEMENTS: n/a
COT: team work! We sometimes have to do things we don’t want to for the betterment of our community. Let’s build on it

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Tour de Fort

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Started with a mosey run from WEP to the Church on Harris street.
Thang 1: Elevens: Merkins then run up steps of church and do Bobby Hurleys at top.
Run down Harris, down Massey to Pike parking lot.
Thang 2: Bear crawl until “break” run to other side. Did squats there. Repeat.
Run up main street and right on Tom Hall St, down past the pumpkin patch to the municipal parking lot.
Thang 3: Simion says: Pax shuffle right or left and stop/so exercise when called. We did mountain climbers, smurf jacks and some others.
Run up Monroe White’s hill, did some abs here. Ran to Print Shop’s pull up bars.
Thang 4: 5 pullups, 5 knees 2 chest, 5 toes 2 bar. Repeat.
Run down to White st to the millstone. Did some step ups here.
Run along White towards WEP. Stop at small parking lot between City Hall and Ardrey st.
Thang 5: Pax plank on curb. Curb walk left, right. Stopped and did: dry docks, shoulder taps.
Run back to WEP’s parking lot. Circle up for Mary: Sally routine: leg raises.
Fini.

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FORTeen Years

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WARMUP: 14 Burpees
THE THANG: Mosey to center of WEP

Pax rotated into center based on year of 1st post (ie Class of 2026, 2025, 2024, etc). Varied exercises were performed by all including Burpees, Partner Derkins, Squats, Sumo Squats, SSH, Mtn Climbers, Mahktar N'Dyiae, Flutters, Freddys, Monkey Humpers, etc

Pax sprinted home for the finish.

MARY: She participated during the Thang

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel Shelters service

COT: Yes, of course, 5th Core Principle

The pax came early and stayed late to celebrate this Community of Brothers we call The Fort. For 14 years, men have posted in the Gloom of WEP and other wonderful sites throughout FM/TC (and in Rock Hill, Clover/LKW and now Chester) to sharpen each other, to hone leadership skills, and to prepare themselves and each other to tackle the ups and downs Life will regularly throw their way.

The number of men who've stood at COT in The Fort over these years exceeds 2,000. And roughly 200 pax keep the flame burning in 2026. Their continued participation is an individual choice, one they can't not keep making because, as they shared, they've found brotherhood, community, belonging and accountability in The Fort.

Who will be standing in COT in 2036 or 2046? Anybody? Nobody? You? Your son or son-in-law or grandson?

As Band Camp shared, we Get To make this choice. Each man stands apart from the general crowd in our culture in making this choice. And yet, each man of The Fort is no better than any other man who lives among us. All men are made of the same fiber in the same image of our Creator. As Dark Helmet said, every man is needed in the leadership mission required to bring to fruition the world our Creator intended. So stay in the game. Find the next man and bring him into the fold. Because 14 years of history only matters if we continue to bring Impact to men and our broader community today, tomorrow, next week and next year. #KeepPosting

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