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LAZARUS · THU OCT 29
EMOM at the movies…
WARMUP: SSH, Cherry Pickers, down dog, honey mooners, pigeon stretch, mosey to the parking lot in front of the movie theater. THE THANG: 4 corner EMOM (every minute on the minute) PAX broke into three group and picked a…
RING OF FIRE · MON OCT 26
Dorie - Partner Hero Workout
On December 7th, 1941, during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dorie was serving as a Mess Attendant aboard the battleship USS West Virginia. When torpedoes struck, he ran into the fight—carrying his mortally wounded Captain…
BLOCK PARTY · TUE OCT 20
Mozy Ruck 4
WARMUP:Moroccan Night Clubs, Strawberry Pickers SSH THE THANG: 4 Corn of Pain 20x Ruck Squats 20x Swings with Ruck sack 16x Lunges 8 each leg. Station 2 15x Curls 15x Merkins 15x Over Head Press Station 3 30x Flutters…
MINNOW POND · FRI OCT 16
I felt like running
WARMUP: pledge THE THANG: ran a lot, some pain stations throughout at humble cup, American legion, church of God were we did merkins, squats, big boys and a few of us did bear crawls MARY: flutters, hammers…
BLOCK PARTY · TUE OCT 13
Benches and Hills
WARMUP: SSH, lizard and plank stretches, windmills THE THANG: 1) 5 Burpees at each set of benches until reaching playground 2) Dora at Playground 100 Irkins, 125 dips, 150 step ups, run the playground ring 3) 5 merkins…
SWEEP THE LEG · MON OCT 12
Hateful 8s
9 did the hard thing this morning at Sweep. The Thang 3.8 miles, 3 exercises (Burpees, Pistol Squats, Hand Release Merkins) of 8 reps at 8 stops on a figure 8 course - Stop 1 - Earth Fare - Stop 2 - Kangaroo Express …
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…
SWEEP THE LEG · MON OCT 5
Groundhog Workout
WARMUP: Warmed up before if needed THE THANG: Mosey across the street to the bottom of Brayden Hill. 5 Burpees at the bottom 10 Jump Squats at Emory Ln 10 HR Merkins at entrance to Inizio parking lot 10 Hammers at…
RING OF FIRE · WED SEP 30
Not Exactly Comfortable...Good
WARMUP: Run around the parking lot and end up at the bottom of the hill by the elementary school. Jump Squats, SSH, Wind Mills THE THANG: Ok, here's the deal. We're going to do things we've all done before however…
BLOCK PARTY · TUE SEP 29
FORTeen Years
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…
SWEEP THE LEG · MON SEP 28
Poles of Death
The Thang: Mosey to the light poles at the back of the school. Out one, 10 merkins, back to start 10 lunges (each leg). Out two poles 5 burpees, back to start, 10 squats. Out 3 poles, 10 merkins, etc. Repeat until time…
LAZARUS · THU SEP 24
Week 4 of 4 Shield-Lock-September
WARMUP: yes THE THANG: 2 laps around the theater (apparently that's a far distance) 11’s with Burpees and Jump Squats Ab Webb ft. Straight leg Freddy Mercurys MARY: hold a plank and then American hammers ANNOUNCEMENTS…
BLOCK PARTY · TUE SEP 22
Cinder Block Party
We had 12 including a fly by guest appearance from Warning Track. Standard warm-up exercises then we moseyed over to the stack of cider blocks. 1st DORA - Merkins (100), Squats (200), LBCs (300) partner 1 did exercises…
COCKPIT · MON SEP 21
Bert
WARMUP: Brief tour of our 0.25mi loop THE THANG: 50 burpees 400m run 100 merkins 400m rub 150 lunges 400m rub 200 squats 400m run 150 lunges 400m run 100 merkins 400m run 50 burpees I believe all pax made it through at…
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…
LAZARUS · THU SEP 17
Kumquat
WARMUP: BC led that....it involved burpees in cadence, but only after some creative running THE THANG: Split into 3 groups, was gonna be 4, but Tesh was late. Rotated at Esso's whistle. Band Camp's job was to travel the…
BLOCK PARTY · TUE SEP 15
Of course, more burpees
WARMUP: Moroccan nightclubs Windmills Cherry pickers Hillbilly walkers Mosey to some curb merkins in cadence BurpBackMountain - partner up. Partner 1 does burpees while partner 2 nurs up the hill and runs down twice…
SWEEP THE LEG · MON SEP 14
Post BRR good ideas
(Courtesy of DH, thanks buddy!!) 10 came to Sweep the Leg to celebrate the one day of the year that I get to run near the front of the pack… the Monday after BRR. It was a veritable party… Q: Shady Pax: Shady 38 Special…
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…
LAZARUS · THU SEP 10
Pipe Hitters Shieldlock Q
14 at Lazarus for a Pipe Hitters Shieldlock beatdown. Here’s what we did: Warm-up - 5 Merkins (IC) - 5 Low Slow Squats (IC) - 10 SSHs (IC) The Thang Island Hopping with Maximus - Run to 2nd island, run back, 10 Mtn…
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…
SWEEP THE LEG · MON SEP 7
Dorothy
WARMUP: There was some neck stretches as we looked around for Tesh THE THANG: Ran to Tesh's house in Baxter, 10 Monkey Humpers IC, Stop signs down Richard's Crossing... 10 HR Merkins, 10 Squats, 15 Hello Dolly, Ran down…
MINNOW POND · THU SEP 3
Sweaty
Massey to Harris to McCammon to Clebourne to Main to Veteran’s Park Exercises at following: John Boys FM Pharmacy Veteran’s Park 10 Merkins 10 Squats 10 LBC’s
RING OF FIRE · WED SEP 2
Lotsa Lotsa Laps
WARMUP: SSH, IMPERIAL WALKERS, PIGEON STRETCHING,DOWNWARD DOG,HONEYMOONERS, MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS THE THANG: 100 FLUTTERS, 75 SSH, 50 MERKINS, 40 SQUATS, 30 SHOULDER TAPS, 25 LBC'S ,15 BOMBJACKS, 10 CDD AND 5 PULLUPS. AFTER…