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THE FORT · SAT AUG 8
Chicken wing progression and playground Dora
Musical warmup: 1. https://youtu.be/K9GxdQ2MkzA?si=FDfWgqVtFrQM7muq remix by State of Mine (3:37) 1. Base = Imp. Walkers 2. Chorus: fruit pickers 3. Solos: Big Arm circle 4. Short loop mosey, while Q queued up next tune…
COLOSSEUM · TUE AUG 4
Whoa
WARMUP: - Mountain Climbers, - Strawberry Pickers, - Windmills THE THANG: Mosey to the back road for a Dora. Exercises at the lowest level light, partner run up the hill to the second light. - 200 Merkins - 400 Squats …
THE YARD · SAT AUG 1
Not-erate Yard Work
WARMUP: 10 each - SSH - Moroccans - Cherry Pickers - Windmills - Flying Squirrels Mosey on track doing: - Butt kickers - High knees - Karaoke - Toy Soldier - Lunge - Burpee broad jumps (~10) - Bear crawl THE THANG: Goal…
THE COACH'S BOX · THU JUL 23
Random Workout
Warmup. Goal line to 10 and back, 20, 30, 40, 50. Do ten of each exercise when you return to goal line. Plank after each exercise. Merkins Squat Big boys CDD Lunge (10 on each side) LBC (We ran out of time. We didn’t do…
RING OF FIRE · WED JUL 22
Round About
WARMUP: Yea, interspersed with burpees THE THANG: A bit ADHD - 7s on the hill behind sugar creek - merkins, squats, and bulgarian split squats in front of the school - bear crawl the front wall of the elementary school…
SWEEP THE LEG · MON JUL 20
What is a Picket?
WARMUP: you’re supposed to come warmed up to Sweep the Leg THE THANG: run towards Gardenia stopping occasionally for: 5 burpees 10 merkins 15 squats 20 lbcs Or some variation of that. We added them up on the way out and…
LAZARUS · THU JUL 16
Lazarus Beatdown
WARMUP: - 7-to-1 Motivators IC - Imperial Squat Walkers: 10 reps IC - Merkins: 10 reps IC THE THANG: - (run to front of theater) - Four Corners - Round 1: Bear crawl between corners. At each corner: 10 Merkins (40…
RING OF FIRE · WED JUL 15
The Brickyard at ROF
Arrived early to walk around and stretch a little before the workout. A few minutes after arriving another young man showed up. Didn't recognize him so introduced myself and we started talking. Did not know this was…
SNAKE PIT · TUE JUL 7
Hills, bells, Cindy’s… A two-man show at the pit
WARMUP: the usual suspects THE THANG: we ran out of time with this somewhere during round 6 Circuit: Each round, do exercise at each station… every time you pass the base, grab Cindie & do manmakers. MOT up hill is NUR…
RING OF FIRE · MON JUL 6
Hot Potato Audible
Since the guys who wanted to have Murph Mondays didn't show and 3/4th of us can't do pull-ups, we called an audible and did a hot potato Q. WARMUP: 4 mile run THE THANG: We all got a cindy or ruck with more weight in it…
COCKPIT · MON JUL 6
Cockpit Circuits, wait, what?
The basic rundown of this morning's workout was to sprint (or run) approximately 400m then do a series of exercises, in reps 10, 15, or 20. WARMUP: 400m jog to the bottom of the hill Side Straddle Hops, Squats, Butt…
LAZARUS · THU JUL 2
4 HIM for 4 Corners
WARMUP: We did several exercises and some stretchy things. Then we Moses around the the back of the theater then to the front. THE THANG: Corner 1 (10 reps) - Merkins– 10 reps Corner 2 (10 + 20 reps) - Merkins – 10 reps…
COLOSSEUM · TUE JUN 30
Four corners, lots of reps
WARMUP: SSHs, IWs, WMs, Plank THE THANG: 4 corners of pain and some burpees All corners start with 50 reps each, exercises stay the same each time around – Corner 1: squats, then run to corner 2 – Corner 2: hand release…
RING OF FIRE · WED JUN 24
Gam Guillotine Redux
This BB is going to be easy, at least for the workout part. In honor of the 10th anniversary of my first F3 workout – 6/29/2016 at Pantheon with Jekyll on Q – I decided to recreate his Q nearly verbatim. I was able to…
KITCHEN SINK · WED JUN 24
Carl Lewis
Active stretching before and After is a HUGE MUST!!! WARMUP: Hillbilly walkers x10 Bend & Reach x5 Windmill x8 Slow jog 20yards of 1. High knees 2. Buttkicks 3. Walking worlds greatest stretch 4. Elephant walks 5…
CURRAHEE · TUE JUN 23
Day Of The Rangers Goruck Hero WOD
WARMUP: Mosey around parking lot High knees, Butt Kickers, Karaoke Left, Karaoke Right, Toy Soldiers, Shuffle Left, Shuffle Right THE THANG: Day of The Rangers Goruck Hero WOD Buy-In: 73 Sandbag Squats (30/20 Ib Ruck…
RING OF FIRE · MON JUN 15
The Loredo
WARMUP: 20 SSH, 20, Hillbilly Walkers, Moroccan Nightclubs (or some version of that) THE THANG: The Thang We put our own spin on Loredo, kicking things off with the run: 6 Rounds for Time - 🏃 400-meter Run - 🦵 24 Squats…
THE ARMORY · MON JUN 15
Oh FNG where art thou?
WARMUP: SSH IMPERIAL WALKERS HILLBILLY WALKERS WINDMILLS DOWN DOG HONEYMOONER THE THANG: PYRAMID. 1st exercise, 1st 2nd and so on to the top. Then come back down, taking off the top exercise each round. 10. Tricep…
COCKPIT · WED JUN 10
Tour de Campus
Warmup (in cadence) Imperial Walkers, Cherry Pickers, Low Slow Squat, Big Boys, Plank Tour of Campus - Stop at locations: - 10 Merkins - 20 Squat - 30 Calf Raise - 40 LBC - Stop at Baseball Stadium - Throw the ball 20…
COCKPIT · MON JUN 8
Drop the Hammer
WARMUP: yea. That’s important THE THANG: pearls on a string to make our way to the FCMS track and field Fast lap but in Bear crawl to the 10 10 merkins Crawl Bear back Burpees in cadence for the 6 Bear crawl to the 20…
THE COACH'S BOX · THU JUN 4
Cindy Heaven
Warm-Up: SSH – 30 IC Imperial Walkers – 20 IC Windmills – 10 IC Strawberry Pickers – 10 IC Mosey lap around AO Cheese shredder Main Thang: Round 1: Cinder Strength 3 Rounds- MOT per Round: Round 1- Run Round 2- Lunges…
THE FORGE · FRI MAY 29
Ascending Everest
WARMUP: Returned to Golden Corral COT to pay respects with Hillbilly walkers, imperial walkers, MNCs THE THANG: 5/29 1953 - Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to summit Mt. Everest 73 years ago. In…
RING OF FIRE · WED MAY 27
Field of Pain
It was a dark, dank, steamy morning and then Stud Muffin walked in and we were able to officially start. Quick warmup and then we made like a tree and moseyed. Over to the benches for dips, dirkins, and step-ups. For…
SNAKE PIT · TUE MAY 26
Kettlebell Cindy
Warmup Calf Raise, Imperial Walker, Moroccan Night Club, Cherry Pickers, Merkins, LBC Farmer’s carry to Cindy Storage AMRAP (as many rounds as possible) 40 reps Exercise 30 reps Mountain Climbers 20 reps Exercise 10…