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YHC with the opportunity to post and Q and Thunder for the first time. Not sure what the theme is anymore, is it running, no running, some running? So i figure I’d bring them no running today, because who runs anyway. YHC dug out the shovel flag waited for the Pax to show up. Good crowd, couple surprises. Crosby either posted because he heard I was Qing, wanted to no running, or is building his strength for his marathon training.

FNGs: None
Warm Up: SSH x25, Arm Circles, Overhead claps, Seal claps, SSH x 25. Introduced the workout exercises of head release merkins, Imperial Squats, and WWII’s
The Workout: Tabata style 45 seconds on, 15 seconds rest. Start with 8 reps of hand release merkins, 8 reps of Imperial Squats, and 8 WWIIs. If you make it in 45 seconds add 2 reps, if you don’t subtract 2 reps from each. Go for 20 minutes of 45 seconds on, 15 seconds rest
On the Tennis courts Burpee broad jump across the courts and bear crawl back. 2 sets
“Jump” by Van Halen was then brought out. Pax hold squat and when they say jump do a Star Jump
Mary: Homer to marge in the correct cadence. Plank hold with exercises: Peter Parker, Parker Peter, Mountain climbers
Announcements: A couple CSAUPs coming up. Oakwood 24, Christmas party
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: 187 and Tracy, Noah’s Arc, Families at Thanksgiving and Holidays

Didn’t we do this last week?

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EC: 500 swings – Dawgpound, Emeril, YHC; Run – Redenbacher, Emeril

FNGs: Not today
Warm Up:

SSH – was supposed to be x10 IC but we went to 40 while we waited for Pablo to get one in after arriving a little late. He took his time.

5x Burpees OYO for the late arrival
Hips in a barrel
Foot trace
Single leg hinge
The Workout:

Pyramid Building – start with one exercise, go through each round with the right arm followed by left. After each right side 30s chillcut plank, after each left 30s low plank hold. Add an exercise each round until all are added, then repeat once more and then we made it to one round on the way down before we were out of time.

Turkish Getup x1

Overhead squat x10

Upright row x10

Uppercut x10

Bow Draw x10

Death March x10

Mary:

Bobby Boucher was asked if he wanted more merkins or more squats. He said he could always use more merkins so we did Sally with merkins.

Freddy Mercury x20 IC

Low Slow Flutter x20 IC

American Hammer x10 IC – mace optional
Announcements:

Upcoming ruck events. Christmas party.
T-Claps (Recognition):

Bobby Boucher for getting after it in these first few weeks. Great work!

Steamboat for posting without Wiggly while Wiggly works his way off the IR. Impressive for an 18 year old!
Prayer:

187 & Tracey.

Pikachu learnt something new….

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Pax 6 for a cold as a grave diggers ass Thunder.

6miles ‘easy‘ 😂 EC for Pikachu and Deere.

Warm Up: 18 SSH, 9 fwd arm circles, 9 rev, 10 cotton pickers, 18 hill Billy’s, 18 walkers.
The Workout: 2miles mosey with 18 stops….

stop 1 – 1 x Merkin, 1 x leg raise, Turkish get up, 1 x squat…

stop 2 – 2 x Merkin, 2 x leg raise, Turkish get up, 3 x squat…

rinse and repeat till 18…. (18th set, Diamond Merkins)

18 cadence Balls to Wall

18 cadence box cutters

18 cadence Balls to Wall

18 count (9 left, 9 right) top taps (quad killers)

Mary: 18 cadence American Hammers, 18 cadence Crab leg HIGH heel taps, 18 cadence crab leg LOW heel taps.
Announcements: Frosty CSAUP, Beer Ruck, Bombshell Dec 17th Christmas piss up.

Prayer: unspoken, Kubota took us out.

2ndF – Crosby garage… special guest appearance GigaWatt.

excuse spelling and grammar…..

Veteran’s Day Thunder Murph

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PAX of 4 to honor those who have served for a Thunder Veterans Day MURPH.

John Deere with 11.11 honorary miles EC.

Work Out – MURPH

Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Strong

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Today our work was focus on being slow, holding the pose, and getting stronger. Thus we slowed it down as we built our pyramid.

We did a small number of Turkish Getups. I don’t know why guys don’t like Turkish getups. This is surprising to me. I think it is a problem that we are not doing enough Turkish getups in our workouts.

500 KB Swings: Dawgpound, Emeril, Pikachu
EC: Cupid
FNGs: None
Warm Up:

Bounce with Me
Foot Traces
Hips in the Barrell
Fazio Arm Circles Forward/Backward
Ring out the shoulders
Emeril’s Neck Stretch

The Workout:

3 Turkish Getups Each Arm

3 Turkish Getups Each Arm
5 Back Bow Draws
3 Turkish Getups Each Arm
5 Back Bow Draws Each Side
5 Overhead Squats Each Side
3 Turkish Getups Each Arm
5 Back Bow Draws Each Side
5 Overhead Squats Each Side
10 Uppercuts Each Side
3 Turkish Getups Each Arm
5 Back Bow Draws Each Side
5 Overhead Squats Each Side
10 Uppercuts Each Side
10 Halos Each Side
3 Turkish Getups Each Arm
5 Back Bow Draws Each Side
5 Overhead Squats Each Side
10 Uppercuts Each Side
10 Halos Each Side
15 Bent Over Rows Each Side
3 Turkish Getups Each Arm
5 Back Bow Draws Each Side
5 Overhead Squats Each Side
10 Uppercuts Each Side
10 Halos Each Side

3 Turkish Getups Each Arm

Mary:

6 Minute Abs — Everyone loved it.
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:

187 and Tracy

High Quality H2O

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YHC hadn’t Q’d a non-running oriented boot camp in a while and at the push of Abe I committed to branching out and Qing at least 5 workouts over the month of November. Downtown Train looked like a good one to push me out of my standard across the street Paradise City habit.

FNGs:

Welcome Bobby Boucher!
Warm Up:

SSH x20 IC

Daisy Pickers, Windmills, Sir Fazio forward/backward – all IC

Burpees x5 for a late arrival
The Workout:

Mosey to the rock pile, grab a rock that “your M would be proud of”, and mosey back to the flag.

Thing 1 – BOMB

Deposit said rock at one corner of the parking lot and mosey to the far end. We did laps of BOMB consisting of 5x Burpees, 10x Overhead Press with our rocks, 15x Merkins, and 20x Big Boy Situps. We kept at it for ~15 minutes.

Thing 2 – Cultural Visit

We John Cusack’d to the cultural center where we split into two groups. Alternating back and forth we did:

Step ups / reverse squats x2

Returned our rocks

Balls to the wall / dips

People’s char / dips

Mosey back to the parking lot

Thing 3 – Animal walks

Low slow flutter x10

Bear crawl length of the parking lot

Low slow flutter x10

Plank hold x10

Crab walk length of the parking lot

Low slow flutter x10

Plank hold x10

Homer to Marge x10

Duck walk length of the parking lot

Low slow flutter x10

Plank hold x10

Homer to Marge x10

Heels to the heavens x10

Mary:

Popcorn with favorite exercises from 4 different pax
Announcements:

TED talk tomorrow (17th), Frosty CSAUP Ruck December 5th, Beer Ruck December 12th
T-Claps (Recognition):

Aquaman, Odyssey, and Coal Ash for getting to run a real race at Shakori this past weekend.
Prayer:

187 and his M, Quiver and his family, Build-a-Bear

15 seconds is a lot

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A 8:30PM text message chain lead to a terrible idea of 7 mile EC at 0430 this morning. Doesn’t take a math genius that that means cutting it close to a 0530 workout, especially having the Q. It got worse once we factored in someone being a minute late and having to make an expected pit-stop along the way. But we got it in and came back to a parking deck with numerous pax despite the F3 rendition of Holly Springs half planned for the next day.

FNGs:

None – a real shame.
Warm Up:

Bounce for 60s

SSH x20 IC

Foot Circles x5 each direction

Fazio Arm Circles x10 each direction

Trunk Twists x10 IC

Daisy Pickers x10 IC

Burpees x5
The Workout:

Tabata – 1 minute on (that extra 15 seconds is a pistol), 15 seconds off. 5 rounds of 6 exercises:

Kettlebell Swings
Clean & press
Snatch
Figure 8
Turkish Getups
Chillcut
Mary:

Stretching
Announcements:

HS Half run Saturday

TED Talk from Breach on Tuesday the 17th
T-Claps (Recognition):

Lipstick for the 7 mile EC run – nice route
Prayer:

187 & his M. Quiver and his family. Build a Bear for surgery and recovery.

Veterans Day Dragon Route

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YHC stepped up and crossed the aisle to take the Q at R4TJ today. Apparently, there has always been some beef between R4TJ and TBD, but as co-site Q at TBD, I’ve taken on a minor duty to try to bridge the gap this year plus I’m also adding miles to my repertoire and the guys at R4TJ push me hard and keep me accountable on that end.  YHC had a 3 famous hills route at about 5 miles planned, but apparently overnight, some batflipping by some PAX was being planned. Now as I understand it, batflipping is done for all kinds of reasons…some good… some bad. Today’s bat flip was for a great reason. About 2/3 through the route, the pax detoured on a route that took us to the memorial at Veterans Park. We stopped there and spent a few moments of reflection and prayer on those who have served and paid the ultimate cost for our freedom. Like I said… a great bat flip plus it helped us form the dragon route as UTI discovered.

FNG’s: None
Warm Up: Frankenstein’s and Daisy Pickers. Since it is 11/11… we also did 11 Merkins.
The Workout: 10 PAX got in their miles with a few other PAX sightings along the way. We ran.
Mary: Once at the flag, we did our last 11 merkins to wrap up.
Announcements: HS Half on Saturday.
T-Claps (Recognition): Skidmark for a good flipping idea!
Prayer: Shamwow!, 187, and YHC’s M’s dealing with health issues.  Our Veterans and Nation.  Let us not waste the health, life, and blessings we are given.  Push for something and make your life worth it. Take opportunities to make it cool for somebody somewhere else… serve. Honor to lead!

Shit’s Creek

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Taper week is upon us for the HSHM so the EC crowd was light but PC held true with its very typical 11-14 pax every week. It had been a few weeks since YHC had visited the tunnel at PC. Can’t remember the last time we went down there but today was as good as day as any, especially since it hadn’t rained in a few days, reducing the chances of a hepatitis outbreak.

EC: Pikachu, Full House, Skidmark

FNGs: None
Warm Up: 2 groups of Indian Run for one loop around the complex with stops for IW, Hillbillies, Sir Fazio Arm circles, and Good mornings. YHC is such as nice guy that he only made Pax do SSH for the late Pax (shall remain nameless).

The Workout: Mosey to the tunnel. All the way to far end of the Greenway to nowhere is appox 1/4 mile. Set the pace at 2:30 for Pax to get out and back and complete merkins until the 2:30 was up. Next time out and back at 2:25 and do squats. 3rd time 2:20 LBC, last round 2:15 and preachers chair. Most Pax completed but one ventured out into the woods to pinch one off. You know the guy that disappears every workout about 1.5 miles in.
Next part of the workout was a Partner Dora will 100 Big Boy situps, 200 merkins, 300 squats. Moseyed to the other end of the tunnel to run the short side. As we approached that side of the tunnel it was clear where Lipstick took his morning squat. Never in all my travels, through tunnels, public restrooms, bus stations, subway stati9ns, and mountain outhouses have I smelled what I whiffed on the other side of that tunnel. Quicker than an 8-0 Ben Roethlisberger audible we ran as fast as we could back to the other side of the tunnel. The new running portion would now be up to the little greenway to the road and back down.
Finished off as a group with 2 rounds of Balls to the Wall and Preacher Chairs before the mosey back to the court.

Mary: Mountain Climbers, Pickle Pounders, Peter Parkers, Parker Peters, Homer to Marge, Have a nice day

Announcements: HSHM run this weekend. 0700 hard start with coffee in the lot. Dawgpound is planning a Christmas Party, Breach is giving a TED talk next week

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: Davis is having surgery today.

Burn out!

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FNGs: none
Warm Up: SSH, SFAC, Daisys, Windmill, lap around the deck
The Workout: 6 exercises, 5 rounds, 1 min work and 15 sec rest. Lawnmower, tricep extensions, ground pounders, curls for the girls, overhead press, and goblet squats
Mary: midget cookie pouches with the bell, low slow flutter with the bell
Announcements: Holly Springs half marathon F3 style next Saturday 11/14. Looking for people to man the aid stations

Prayer: 187 and family. Shamwow and family.