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DAWN PATROL · THU OCT 29 HIIT Workout Q: Snooker · 13 PAX WARMUP (at the flag) - 20 Side Straddle Hops - 20 Windmills - 20 Butt Kickers - 20 Moroccan Night Clubs - 20 High Knees Run to the SBUX parking lot - 20 Big Boys - 20 Wacky Jacks (or SSH's) - 20 Walking Lunges - 20… THE YARD · SAT OCT 24 Circle of Fun and Indian Run Q: Float Bridge · 9 PAX WARMUP: THE THANG: - 12 station circle of fun 45 secs exercise 15 second rest - Indian run - 12 station circle of fun 45 secs exercise 15 second rest - Indian run - Dora MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: - 4 B's - Bethel - 401k run… DAWN PATROL · THU OCT 22 Mall Cop Special 🚨 Q: Cake Boss · 9 PAX WARMUP: 8 or so exercises to get the blood flowing THE THANG: mosey down to circle and partner up 1) runs up hill 2) does Freddy mercurys Flip flop Mosey across the street 1) bear crawl up hill and run back 2) merkins… CURRAHEE · TUE OCT 13 The Hill Q: Blue · 6 PAX WARMUP: N/A THE THANG: The Hill, out and back. MARY: 20 LBC's with ruck on legs, 11 4-count flutter kicks ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel Men's shelter upcoming, COT: Prayers. Thanks to Pollo Hermano for the privilege to Q and to… DAWN PATROL · THU OCT 8 Oct 8 DP Kingsley Q: Old Bay · 6 PAX Partner work. Alternating stationary exercises with cumulative counts to 80 (usually), and a run to different places for burpees. LAZARUS · THU OCT 8 Goose Bread Beatdown Q: Goose · 5 PAX WARMUP: YHC warmed us up with the Motivator and some stretchy things. Then I handed it over to Bread Maker. THE THANG: We moseyed to the front of the theater and was introduced to the Leg Wrecker. Group 1 does Lt Dans… THE FORGE · WED OCT 7 Shoulders Where Forged Q: Stang · 8 PAX WARMUP: 20 SSH, 15 Hillbilly’s, 15 Potato Pickers, 10 Windmills and 15 Imperial Walkers THE THANG: Moseyed over to the church parking lot beside an awesome pumpkin patch. Partner up and do sets of 100 reps split between… DAWN PATROL · TUE OCT 6 Sally Field Has Entered the Chat Q: Casey Kasem · 7 PAX WARMUP: windmills, imperials, ham stretches THE THANG: Paula Abduls from the amphitheater to the playground via trees 5 squats 5 merkins 20 dips at the playground Circle N'Diaye 20 more dips Bear crawl the big hill up… SEABISCUIT · TUE OCT 6 Small loops , bigs speeds Q: Rolloff · 8 PAX WARMUP: THE THANG: laps around 7/11 and blue, one lap on one lap off, rinse repeat MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: COT: THE YARD · SAT OCT 3 Noah’s Ark - Just the Animals. Q: Pauly D · 10 PAX WARMUP: very warm already THE THANG: mosey around the islands of parking. Stop at one side and establish our workout area. The theme is Noah’s Ark so we did as many animal related workouts as we could do (and do it… BLOCK PARTY · TUE SEP 29 FORTeen Years Q: Double D · 85 PAX 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… THE YARD · SAT SEP 26 Prime Time BOP Q: Ruby Slippers · 12 PAX WARMUP: We did that THE THANG: Prime Time BOP MARY: None needed ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your NL COT: STK! DAWN PATROL · THU SEP 24 Coupons rock Q: Spike · 10 PAX WARMUP: side-straddle hops, imperial walker, hill billy walker,Parker Peter,Peter Parker THE THANG: mosie to steps side MARY: coupons 1. Over head -100 2. Sqad -100 3. Bent over -100 4. Around the world -100 5. Skull… DAWN PATROL · TUE SEP 22 Bear Crawls and Jack Webbs Q: Jekyll · 11 PAX The last of the hot days this week although we got a bit of a breeze which was nice. DD ran, the rest of us boot camped. WARMUP: run the circuit. At every bench: 10 SSH, 5 Bombjacks. At completion, we did the standard… THE FORT · SAT SEP 19 Band Tabata Q: seanwalshpt · 9 PAX 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… DAWN PATROL · TUE SEP 15 No buckets just work Q: Assassin · -75 PAX WARMUP: Large circle of warmup, while a pax runs twice around the circle THE THANG: The Thang went from warmup to partner sprint/chase, to the dreaded hill for Indian Bear Crawls uphill a few time (ask someone) - then… THE YARD · SAT SEP 12 Blue Oyster Cult & Volleyball Q: Hominy · 5 PAX Music: Amazon Playlist (curated by Jim Cooke) “Blue Oyster Cult” The playlist is long. We just listened to the beginning. Warmup: - Mountain Climbers - Big Boy Sit-ups - Imperial Walkers - Hillbilly Walkers - Windmills… DAWN PATROL · THU SEP 10 No title Q: Blue · 9 PAX WARMUP: Jogged from the Amphitheater to the big parking lot behind Panera for a warm up consisting of 1 Burpee 15 Side straddle hops 1 Burpee 15 Cherry pickers 1 Burpee 15 Windmills 1 Burpee 15 Tiny Arm Circles (10… THE BALLROOM · TUE SEP 8 The Hay is in the Barn Q: Sofrito · 5 PAX With several PAX getting ready to tackle the Blue Ridge Relay this Friday, today’s mission was simple: get moving without cashing any checks the legs need later this week. No heroics. No smoked quads. Save that… DAWN PATROL · TUE SEP 8 Blue's Board of Pain Q: Blue · 10 PAX WARMUP: 15 counts of: Side Straddle Hop, Cherry Pickers, Imperial Walkers, and Hillbilly Walkers 10 Merkins THE THANG: Blues Board of Pain SQUAT THRUSTS: 50 CALF RAISES: 150 (50 REG / 50 IN / 50 OUT) TRI-AB: 99(33 LEG… THE YARD · SAT SEP 5 Forgot to add Q: Float Bridge · 11 PAX WARMUP: THE THANG: Station 1 - 20 big boy sit-ups - 20 heels to heaven - 20 LBC - 20 American Hammers - 20 Mountain Climbers - 20 Jump Squats - 20 Butt kickers Station 2 - 20 Merkins - 20 Wide Arm Merkins - 20 Carolina… DAWN PATROL · THU SEP 3 Yellow Brick Road at Kingsley Q: Ruby Slippers · 9 PAX Arrived early to grab a parking spot near COT because I brought some “battle buddies” for the PAX, two brick pavers for each man to carry during the workout. At first, they felt pretty light. But as the workout… DAWN PATROL · TUE SEP 1 Dawn Patrol Q: backdraft · 11 PAX · +1 FNG WARMUP: normal, all in cadence and 15 reps THE THANG: mosey to wall 3 sets step up dips, Derkins. Mosey to park at each swinging bench we add an exercise start with burpees. Add squats, add merkins, add big boys, add… THE YARD · SAT AUG 29 Blame It On the Boogie!! Q: Boogie Down · 9 PAX WARMUP: Cherry Pickers, Pidgeon Stretch, SSH, THE THANG: Indian Run 1/2 way through back of the school. Flying Squirrels, Mountain Climbers at the half way point. Turn back around to B'ball court. Each corner had a deck…