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AUG 3, 2022
Site Q Hideout
WARMUP: Mosey around big loop in front of school and broke it up in 3 stops. 1 - 10 Merkins / 2 - 10 Merkins, 10 Squats / 3 - 10 Merkins, 10 Squats, 10 LBCs. Second lap: 4 - 10 Merkins, 10 Squats, 10 LBCs, 10 Lunges / 5…
RING OF FIRE · AUG 3, 2022
Lucky 7’s
WARMUP: Mosey to stop sign, run back towards CoT and perform exercise at each speed bump. THE THANG: Lucky 7’s AMRAP 7 pull-ups 7 hanging leg raises 7 wide grip push ups Walking lunge + broad jump to stop sign Turn and…
COLOSSEUM · AUG 2, 2022
All Over the Place
Seven men posted at Colosseum. Began with disclaimer and a run up to the bank (1/2 mile distance). Warmup: SSH (15x I/C) Windmills (10x I/C) Imperial Walkers (15x I/C) Moroccan N/C (15x I/C) Low slow squats (10x I/C)…
SWEEP THE LEG · AUG 1, 2022
3.5mi-4mi of leg sweeping
WARMUP: Walk 20ft, circle up and do some SSH followed by 5 Burpees. That's all you get. THE THANG: Run the Earth Fare lot then 20 Merkins. Run to the bottom of the hill before the GHES entrance. 10 Carolina Dry Docks…
THE FORT · JUL 30, 2022
Seven Years Later
Seven years ago, Jekyll invited me to The Fort for my first workout. WWL and Rooney did a great job keeping the 40 Pax busy with difficult exercises and ended with a strong message - Pay attention to detail, It is the…
SLOW BURN · JUL 29, 2022
The parking lot is always smoother in the other corner
WARMUP: Some side straddle hops, windmills, imperial walkers, hillbilly walkers, Moroccan nightclubs and cherry pickers to loosen things up THE THANG: Used the ol’ Seconds Pro app to provide a TABATA workout with 50…
JUL 28, 2022
Accountability takes a Brother
Minnow Pond starts with the pledge of allegiance. Off to Church of God parking lot. The route - Crossroads 10 Merkins -4 different legs with 4 different exercises. 15 squats top of Hill, 15 Monkey Humpers top hill at…
JUL 27, 2022
Pillar Pain
WARMUP: Lap around the car loop. Circle up for SSH, Imperial Walkers, Windmills, Plank Stretches THE THANG: 11s on the curb. Merkins, crabwalk, dips, bear crawl, rinse and repeat. Next, Pillar work, Alternate exercises…
RING OF FIRE · JUL 27, 2022
Burpee Fest
WARMUP: SSH, Imperial Walkers, LS Squats, Merkins, Windmills, Mountain Climbers THE THANG: Mosey to hill behind ROTC Bldg: #1: 8's: Bombjacks @ the bottom of the hill and Merkins @ the top. #2: 17 Burpees OYO - then 1…
BLOCK PARTY · JUL 26, 2022
Roots
Swampy Soup conditions were no match for 17 men to do the harder thing by launching from startex and heading into the #gloom. And when I say #gloom, I mean original AO, full grass, dirty, immersion. *just want to add…
CLYDESDALES · JUL 20, 2022
We Went Bass Fishin'
WARMUP: Discussed the route, got a head count. It was... poorly understood. THE THANG: Old Kingsley loop over to Bob Jones stadium for some hill repeats, then back through the old Kingsley loop for 2.5 miles and 20…
CURRAHEE · JUL 19, 2022
Log Jam at the Highland Games
YHC celebrated 37 trips around the sun today and could think of no better way to start it off then with my brothers at Currahee! WARMUP: Some stretchy things THE THANG: The PAX went to the back of the school to find the…
SNAKE PIT · JUL 13, 2022
Hill runs after squats suck, but not as much as Cancer
THE THANG: YHC’s nephew (my sister’s son) and sister in law (my M’s brother’s wife) both start cancer treatments this morning. He is 17 and fighting Aplastic Anemia for the second time in his short life (his odds of…
ALCATRAZ · JUL 9, 2022
24….
It was a gloriously humid morning at BAOPS where I was joined by 4 other pax to tackle the hills of Tega Cay. WARMUP: 24 SSH. That’s all we needed to get warm with 70ish relative humidity. THE THANG: Sprinted out of the…
THE FORT · JUL 9, 2022
All kinds of Grinding
WARMUP: - mix of SSH, Cherry pickers, Windmills, etc. THE THANG: - mosey around WEP, stop at each bench and do a set of 3 exercises: 5x Burpee + 10x BigBoy + 20x MonkeyHumpers. At the end do some Mary until 6 is in. …
VARSITY · JUL 8, 2022
Broga amd a Beatdown
WARMUP: Sasquatch started with some Broga to warm us up THE THANG: We had a choice of two exercises per round. 125 SSH and or Merkins RUN 100 SQUATS and or Mountain CLIMBERS RUN 75 BOMB JACKS and or BB SITUPS RUN 50…
THE YARD · JUL 2, 2022
Leading The Old Men in Circles
WARMUP: Everything in cadence to 10 Windmills, Cherry pickers, M Nightclubs, Imperial Walkers, HB Walkers 2 laps on the track around basketball courts, met around 4 square and did SSHs, calf stretching and groin…
ALCATRAZ · JUL 2, 2022
BAOPS worthy - don’t do easy
WARMUP: Run to the back of the fields 5 burpees, windmills (for trucker), 4 burpees, low slow squats finishing to peoples chair while doing Moroccan night clubs. Mosey to pull up bars. Plank while each pax did 1 pull up…
VARSITY · JUL 1, 2022
Hardest 24 minutes in all of The Fort…
WARMUP: Sasquatch ran the PAX to a lit area and instructed them to form 3 lines facing him (2 lines of 4 and 1 line of 3). After some initial gloom-fogged math and logistics, he got to limbering up the PAX for the first…
JUN 30, 2022
Run and Gun Work
WARMUP: Run THE THANG: Ran to WEP where we ran the loop then ran the loop again stopping at each bench to do 10 merkins and 10 squats...rinse and repeat. MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: COT: thanks to Jekyl for the opportunity to…
THE ARMORY · JUN 27, 2022
Slash’s Slam
WARMUP: dynamic: exercise>Mosey>rinse/repeat THE THANG: 4 Corners. Each corner had two exercises. Do exercise 1 run to middle for 3 burpees run back out to next corner. Complete rotation. Rinse/repeat with exercise 2…
JUN 27, 2022
7-4-1776
WARMUP: plank, upward dog, downward dog, (choice: Peter Parker, Parker Peter, plank jacks, merkins, mountain climbers) --- Repeat x7 THE THANG: 7-4-1776 7 rounds: 4 kraken burpees, 17 big boys, 76yd partner push (switch…
SLOW BURN · JUN 24, 2022
Not Naked, Not Afraid, Just a VQ with a Crew
Slow Burn was smoldering this morning with 23 strong men choosing the gloom over the 'sack & supporting YHC for my VQ! Some special guests were among the group: 2 PAX made the trek from Metro, and we welcomed our newest…
JUN 20, 2022
The "McGarry"
This WOD was inspired by my friend and mentor Brendan "Joe" McGarry...he was a legend in the NYC Transit Police and US Marine Corps . Joe served 6 years in the Marines and 13 months in combat during Vietnam. He joined…