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THE FORT · SAT OCT 24
Birthday Bash
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…
DAWN PATROL · THU OCT 22
Mall Cop Special 🚨
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…
THE FORT · SAT OCT 17
Teddy Massacre
WARMUP: THE THANG: MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: COT:
DAWN PATROL · THU OCT 15
Extra sleep isn't bad
WARMUP: all the favs THE THANG: 11s with stairs, wall sits with bear crawls, laps with sets of 12 merkins,12 squats, 12 big boys MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter COT: Lords Prayer
DAWN PATROL · TUE OCT 13
Brought the Gear to Dawn Patrol
Have participated in the Dawn Patrol workouts for a few months now. Noticed one thing missing at most workouts, gear. Remedied that this morning. WARMUP: Started at COT with the usual suspects THE THANG: Set-up gear in…
THE FORT · SAT OCT 10
The Fort Mixtape
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…
DAWN PATROL · THU OCT 8
Oct 8 DP Kingsley
Partner work. Alternating stationary exercises with cumulative counts to 80 (usually), and a run to different places for burpees.
DAWN PATROL · TUE OCT 6
Sally Field Has Entered the Chat
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…
THE FORT · SAT OCT 3
Tour de Fort
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…
THE FORT · SAT SEP 26
The Easiest Hardest Workout
WARMUP: windmill, SSH, Imperials, Hillbillys, Toy Soldiers, deadlift stretches THE THANG: Paula Abduls to playground 5 squats 3 merkins At playground Circle N'Diayes (16 and 20) Inverted rows on swings Mosey to statue…
DAWN PATROL · TUE SEP 22
Bear Crawls and Jack Webbs
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
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 · THU SEP 17
The longest mosey…..
WARMUP: Mosey down then up Kingsley Blvd. Merks, SSH, Nightclubs, LBCs, FreddieMercs, Squats and Burps THE THANG: 9s ( 2 exercises each side of parking lot) Merks/squats-Iron Mikes/OH claps. Board of pain ( 5 exercises…
DAWN PATROL · TUE SEP 15
No buckets just work
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 FORT · SAT SEP 12
You use your whole body so workout your whole body
WARMUP: SSH, cherry pickers, greatest stretch ever, down dog, honey mooners, mosey to big parking lot above old Pike building THE THANG: 4 corners each corner focused on a different muscle group and had various…
THE FORT · TUE SEP 8
Saturday Fish Special
Warm-up, lap around the park. Five cones and cinder blocks were set up in the middle of the field. We began with a Dora style workout. Partner 1 - ran cupcakes between the cones while partner 2 began the cindy reps 100…
DAWN PATROL · THU SEP 3
Yellow Brick Road at Kingsley
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
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 FORT · SAT AUG 29
Bands and Birthdays
WARMUP: SSH, Windmills, Willie Mays Hays, Cherry Pickers, Imperial Walkers THE THANG: Each PAX was given 2 resistance bands. We then made our way around the AO stopping 8 times to do 5 band exercises in reps of 13 …
DAWN PATROL · TUE AUG 25
Primetime Workout (or We Won't Be Running Much)
WARMUP: windmill, imperials, short mosey, toy soldiers, lunges THE THANG: Station 1 - crosswalk - bombjacks Station 2 - entrance - burpees Station 3 - amphitheater - core - PAX choice - cadence Station 4 - grass hill …
THE FORT · SAT AUG 22
Heavy Shiiiii
WARMUP: lap around the park. Stopped for some merkins, SSH and squats THE THANG: PAX cycled through 8 stations 1: 2x50 KB carry 2: 20 sandbag burpees 60lb 3: 20 hand release merkins, 20 squats, 20 big boys 4: 150lb ball…
DAWN PATROL · THU AUG 20
Every Second Counts
WARMUP: Blue took the reins and rocked his first leadership effort as a pax of The Fort! SSH, Windmill, Merkin, etc THE THANG: Pax moseyed to the parking garage at Sunbelt Rentals (The Forbidden Zone according to…
DAWN PATROL · TUE AUG 18
Blast Coupon
WARMUP: buttkick, high knees, karaone THE THANG: Run up to parking lot and did following exercises 10 counts 1) side str hops 2)imperial walker 3) Hillbilly walkers 4) moraka night club or sun god run up to big parking…
THE YARD · SAT AUG 15
Borrowed ideas of sweat
WARMUP: Mosey with SSH, Hillbiliies, Lo Slo Squats, Bonnie Blair’s THE THANG: 4 Corners with 5 Burpees in middle (plagiarized from Maximus The Fort Q a few weeks ago. 2 Rounds 15 Merkins 15 Jump Squats 15 Carolina Dry…