WARMUP: windmills and produce pickers
THE THANG: 2 rounds of 4 exercises by suit. 2-14 reps depending on the card you draw.
MARY: none
ANNOUNCEMENTS: D2D relay, wine tasting dinner
COT: Wives and Children
Tour downtown churches to find their stairs and the Harris Street’s dark path to WEP. A couple of pain stations sprinkled in.
WARMUP: A little of this, a little of that…
THE THANG:
We took our rucks and sandbags and traveled to the top of gentle slope of the entrance to the school in the hopes of finding a less icy spot. We were disappointed. It was slick most everywhere. Kind of like the top of <@USBP08L1G>‘s (not present) head.
After letting men know that it was ok to feel their feelings, no matter how big they were (TWSS), we all cuddled for a few minutes and affirmed one another’s masculinity. We decided we were both good enough AND smart enough, and we think that people like us.
Then it was basically taking turns releasing our trauma and making space for each other. We even all took turns going to the crying room that Farmers had installed. It was very affirming.
From there we did 3 very thoughtful and mindful rounds of 7s with our rucks on and with our sandbags.
It was a round of manmakers and squats, one of curls and bag ups, and one of merkins and flutters with a press.
Peta reached a whole new level and had a real breakthrough in accessing his inner child.
MARY: We decided it best to just have men present for this session.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: The newsletter contains the latest, please avail yourself of this wonderful resource.
COT: The 5th Core Principle
WARMUP: pledge
THE THANG: mosey over to Academy and Monroe white
Hill pendulum from parking lot to parking lot on Monroe white – 10 jump squats/squats at the top of one hill, 2 kraken burpees at MW and academy , 10 lunge jumps/lunges at 160. Rinse and repeat.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: D2DB
COT:
WARMUP:
THE THANG:
Academy St. to Monroe White St. stop at the intersection and the man with the bag walked backwards up to the top of the big hill to the abandoned parking lot entrance, then back down forward and go up the other side of the fishbowl backwards up to Confederate St, back down to the starting intersection to hand off the bag for the other man to repeat, then we walked down Academy to Country Club Dr, Howington Cir, Banks St, Phifer St, Allison St, Banks, 160, back down Monroe White St, up to Watson and back to COT.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
WARMUP: Some of the usual windmill, IWs, etc
THE THANG:
The rain was light but steady throughout and it didn’t scare off any of the pax. 36 degrees and wet — I’m grateful anyone showed up but I was especially grateful to see my co-Q Trucker. We used the morning as a faceoff between Trucker repping Penn St and DD repping Notre Dame in advance of the CFP game the following Thur.
Trucker led off with a history lesson of the rivalry that started in 1913. His upper body sequence included the list below with 19 reps on the first round and 13 reps in the second round.
Chest press
Skull crushers
Lat swings
Shoulder press
Front shoulder raises
Upright rows
Bent over rows
Curls
LBC
Mosey to funeral home and back
DD took over halfway through for a lower body sequence that included 4 quarters (4 rounds) of the following:
Cleans R/L
Goblet squat
Racked lunge R/L
Goblet calf raise
Swings
Core exercise
Mosey to front of church and back
It was a great .morning (once it was over) and a great warm up for the Irish victory 4 days later!
MARY: nah
ANNOUNCEMENTS: wine event, D2D, etc
COT: yes!
WARMUP: Nope
THE THANG: 6 PAX shared (3) 60lb sand bags while the 7th man nursed an injury while wearing a weight vest, of course.
Make our way over to the WEP parking lot and down the trail weaving our way to the bottom of Harris Street. Here’s where we tried something new. Each PAX would have the “opportunity” to single-handed farmers carry the 60lb sand bag up to the top of the hill.
From there, make our way over to the bottom of Massey for…you guessed it, walking backward up Masses. Every PAX went 2x.
MARY: Not officially but tighten your core during the carries.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Give blood.
COT: 5th Core Principle.
WARMUP: 10 merkins. Lap around the lot to go through the workout.
THE THANG: A big lap around the soccer field with four stations. Each station had 30 reps of an exercise and then one partner would toss the bag while the other ran to the next station and back until the bag being tossed made it to the next station.
Station one : 30 plyo pushups, back carry and regular toss
Station two: 30 cleans, over shoulder toss and single shoulder carry
Station three: 30 gas pumpers, side toss and farmer carry
Station four: 30 press, thruster throw and front rack carry
MARY: yes
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter
COT: yes
11 men attended the weighted stroll this morning. We made our way around town finding a hill at the bottom of Harris. Backwards walk up the hill, trek around WEP and one last look at the downtown XMAS lights
WARMUP: Happy Hour started the warm up because YHC was coming in Hot from North Fort Mill and got stopped by the border patrol at Captain Steve’s. Seems anyone coming for outside the bubble of Baxter or Eastside is questionable :man-shrugging: :face_with_one_eyebrow_raised:
Did some exercise moves and some shuffles, high knees, karaoke and then back to bells
THE THANG:
Did following 3 times for 1minute each with run up hill and back between sets
KB Swings
Curls
Squats
American Hammers
Tri Extensions
Lunge Passthru
Bent Rows
MARY:
5 burpees for CSPAN
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CriOut run and party at Riverwalk 12/14 9am
COT:
Prayers for many medical and difficult health conditions for PAX and families