Category: Green Machine

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Running, but at Pep speed. The Pep-alty

Date: 2026-05-14 AO: Green Machine Q: Pep , PAX: Chunks, Squatter, Shania, moneyshot, hambone, Pep, Cowboy, Twinkle toes FNGs: None COUNT: 8 CONDITIONS: Cool, no humidity
WARMUP: None
THE THANG: String of pearls Run around lips comb block. Do an exercise at each corner. First time around 1 rep, second time 2 reps, third time 3 reps. – pull ups – Merkins – Fire hydrants – Windshield wipers
To the hill: 10 squats at bottom, 10 merkins at top 5 squats at bottom, 5 merkins at top
COT: Fox trot’s son moving from sober living to normal life
PLAYLIST: A+ playlist from Cowboy. Songs from his senior year of high school
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Green Machine

Date: 2026-05-07 AO: Green Machine Q: Pep , PAX: Cowboy, Shania, The Gipper, Betty Ford, Black Lung, Topanga (Scott), Pep, Esposa, One Call, Stevie-Wonder FNGs: None COUNT: 10 CONDITIONS: Cool and dry
WARMUP: None
THE THANG: move through field in a rectangle Indian run plus: – mosey – Bernie – Skip – side shuffle – lunge walk – bear crawl 11’s – hand release meriken – Meriken hammer
ANNOUNCEMENTS: 21st holly smoker at cowboys house
COT: Squatter wife Topanga surgery Betty ford new baby
PLAYLIST: None
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Green Machine

Date: 2026-04-23 AO: Green Machine Q: Focker , PAX: Young and Restless, Squatter, Esposa, bluemule, Focker, EZ-Go, SalPal, Horizon, Pep, Topanga (Scott), Cowboy, Wham-O, moneyshot, Andrew McDermott, Pepsi, Swig, Matador, Black Lung, Pedialyte, Puzzlah, Betty Ford, SquareD FNGs: None COUNT: 22 CONDITIONS: chill in the air that gave way to dripping sweat
WARMUP: walking from your car
THE THANG: 400m burpee broad jump, 400m lunges, 400m bear crawl, 400m run
MOLESKINE: everyone can’t wait for next year. I’ll make sure to give the countdown weekly
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Murder Mile in 365 days
COT: laughing and hugging and holding hands
PLAYLIST: Cowboy with the assist

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Green Machine

Date: 2026-04-09 AO: Green Machine Q: moneyshot , PAX: Black Lung, moneyshot, Shania, Grape, Pepsi, Esposa, Topanga, Pep, Cowboy, Peabody FNGs: None COUNT: 10 CONDITIONS: clear
WARMUP:
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PLAYLIST:Phil Collins, Genesis, Peter Gabriel
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Eight Reliving 1979

Date: 2026-03-19 AO: greenmachine Q: Cowboy , PAX: Shania, Esposa, Black Lung, Focker, Betty Ford, Movin On Up, moneyshot FNGs: None COUNT: 8 CONDITIONS: Fine Fine Finely Warmer
WARMUP: Good Mornings OYO, SSH, LBC (forward and backwards) with slow lunge, Don Quixote, Mosey to Amphitheater. Divide in 3 groups THE THANG: 3 Rounds of 3 Exercises, Dora 100 Merkins, Box Jumps up, 3rd Man Loop as Timer 200 Palm Squats, Box Jumps, Timer 300 Dips, Ditto Plank for six between each round Line up at Stairs : Bunny Hop up burpee at each landing. Mosey back with a planned stop at intramural field for sprints – New fence around it so had to improvise. Back side of Lipscomp Athletic Complex at hill – Mosey down sprint back up x2 Back to stardex Mary till the end
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Monster Mile April 23, see clack for rest
PLAYLIST: Hits from 1979 – My HS graduation music.apple.com/us/playlist/1979/pl.u-leyllaJCxgZkbN
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7th Manniversary of Toothless 🦷

Date: 2026-03-05 AO: greenmachine Q: Toothless PAX: Focker, Esposa, Pep, Sherlock, Grape, Black Lung, Cal Worthington, Betty Ford, Topanga FNGs: None COUNT: 10 CONDITIONS: Clear sunrise, breezy, not too warm, felt like 30A. Perfection.
WARMUP: – 49 x SSH – 7 x Good mornings – 7 x Scorpions
THE THANG:
7 Rounds of Tabata – 45s on, 15 off – High knees, squats, burpees, butt kickers, prisoner squats, peter parkers, iron mikes
Six-Seven’s – Perform 6 and 7 reps of two exercises respectively at every 10 yard line – Broad jump, hand release merkins for 6, WW2’s for 7
Repeat 7 Rounds of Tabata (mod burpees to low plank)
Stairway to 7 – Stair runs up & down all the way to the end – After each, do an increasing count of burpees, add 1 per round
MOLESKINE: YHC was gassed by this one – I pulled the plug a little early on the stairway to 7. We only got through 5 rounds when we probably could have made 7, but as they say if you can’t do it don’t Q it! Folks were big fans of year 8 Toothless who threatened penalties for exercise infractions or dropping during the low plank of tabata. Perhaps a precursor of what is to come :smiling_imp: Finished up by draining the thermos of some excellent anaerobic natural processed coffee. :coffee:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: – Holy smokers soon – Merkin Madness – Many other good things in the Slack post!
COT: – Praise and prayers around those battling leukemia – Prayers for those taking on a 50k this Saturday! For weather and injury free endurance! – YHC shared a learning of this last year, that it’s the little habits that can make you or break you. Don’t shy away from the hard but right choice in the small things because those compounding choices build momentum for the big things.
PLAYLIST: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Q4PxR9KwkV62jZ86GZ9iI?si=b48993d308b5458b – The PAX loved this one – in reality it wasn’t close to all 7 minute songs but they were picking up what I was putting down with the 70’s rock ballads!
As always, it was an honor to lead men! Looking forward to the next 7 years with you!
— Toothless :tooth: , start date March 8th, 2019
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Olympics

Date: 2026-02-13 AO: greenmachine Q: Focker PAX: Pep, Shania, Black Lung, Betty Ford, Cowboy, Esposa, moneyshot, Sherlock, Purple Tiger, Sardine FNGs: None COUNT: 11 CONDITIONS: crisp with closing sunrise
WARMUP: various stretchy stretches
THE THANG: Celebration of Olympics! EVENT 1 – bobsled 20,40,20,100: Bear Crawl down 10 Merkins Crab Walk back 10 jump squats increase by 10 everytime EVENT 2 – Hockey Start on goal line. Sprint to 20 yd → 5 hand release merkins Backpedal to goal line → 5 lunges Sprint to 40 yd → 10 hand releases Back → 10 lunges Sprint to 60 yd → 15 hand releases Back → 15 lunges EVENT 3 – BIATHLON COMBO Broad jump across field 1 minute wall hold 20 bird dogs each side 20 heel lifts Repeat continuously for time.
MOLESKINE: Pep complaining about obvious truth espoused by Esposa
ANNOUNCEMENTS: nothing special except Slack!
COT: Put away your cynicism and enjoy the Olympics. A time to let sports overcome differences and show America is still the best country around (except when it comes to VO2Max, Norway has us on that)
PLAYLIST: Rocky
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3 minutes is a long time. Trust me

Date: 2026-02-05 AO: greenmachine Q: Shy Guy PAX: Pep, Shania, Betty Ford, Topanga, Sherlock, Black Lung FNGs: None COUNT: 7 CONDITIONS: A brisk 21 degrees
WARMUP: SSH Tempo Squats Tempo Merkins Mosey
THE THANG: 3×3 Perform mode of transportation to the 15 yard line and back until 3 minute timer goes off. Pace is about 90% capacity, Followed by isometric core for 3 minutes.
Exercises: Burpee broad jumps Recover: plank Bear crawl Recover: side plank Sprint/backwards run Recover: side plank Shuffle Recover: 6 inches
MOLESKINE: Pep covered my 30 seconds of tardiness and started us off with his favorite exercise: Side Straddle Hops The idea for the workout was originally to be a Norwegian 4×4, a VO2 max workout, but changed last minute to accommodate the chosen exercises. Nobody wants to burpee broad jump for 4 minutes.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Slack COT: Brandolini’s law: the energy required to refute misinformation is an order of magnitude greater than the energy required to create it. I applied this to other parts of our life. Cheating on your diet for a couple days seems like it takes 2 weeks of working out to recover from. The repercussions of anger are hard to mend even if you just lose your temper temporarily. Succumbing to temptation is easy but takes divine intervention to remove sin from your life.

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The hearty three

Date: 2026-01-29 AO: greenmachine Q: Pep PAX: Shania, Esposa FNGs: None COUNT: 3 CONDITIONS: Cold but not windy
WARMUP: – SSH (obligatory) – Imperial walkers – Willie Mays Hayes – Good mornings
THE THANG: Deck of death Suites: – diamond: wide grip merican – Heart: American hammers – Spade: lt Dan – Club: diamond merican
Caveats: – numbers 2, 3, 4 are run around parking lot – Face cards are 15 count – Aces: wild – flipper if card chooses exercise and count
COT: Oops didn’t do it. My fault. Too focused on the chairs Shania had and the fancy coffee brought by esposa and Shania
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Cold but not as cold as next week

Date: 2026-01-22 AO: greenmachine Q: Pep PAX: Squatter, Cowboy, Betty Ford, Esposa, Shania, Black Lung, Focker, Sherlock, Yalp FNGs: 1 Yalp COUNT: 10 CONDITIONS: Cold but not cold like next week
PLAYLIST: F- : no playlist.
WARMUP: – imperial walker – Good morning – Willie mays Hayes – Hillbillies
THE THANG: Travel around sideline of field Pax moving in a line, last man up runs to the front (Indian run) Movements – mosey – Lunges – Bear crawl – Bernie – Sideways – Duck walk
ANNOUNCEMENTS: – leanpax : “you’ll feel better in the morning to reject short term gratification”
COT: – yalp mom in stage three cancer