Category: Middle Tooth

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Christmas Eve

AO: middle-tooth
Q: DintyMoore
PAX: Oatmeal, DrRupp, Topanga
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
CONDITIONS: balmy

WARMUP: SSHs, WMHs, LBACs

THE THANG:
Silent Night –
11 exercises, 11 reps, run a lap, delete an exercise
1. Squats
2. Iron Mikes
3. LBCs
4. Elbow to Knee
5. Narrow Merkins
6. Tricep Dips
7. Ninja Jumps
8. Incline Merkins
9. Glute Bridge Dollys
10. Hops – Single Leg
11. Two count mountain climbers

MOLESKINE: Presence is the greatest of presents for those in your life

ANNOUNCEMENTS: #leanpax coming on Jan 6, NYD convergence at #titan next Wednesday at 6am.

COT: Merry Christmas

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Dew & Dora

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Hanes
PAX: DrRupp, Focker, Oatmeal, SalPal, sooner, Toothless
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
CONDITIONS: Tropical Winter + Puddles

WARMUP: SSH, LBAC, OHP, FF, WMH
Jog around the track, sprint to front

THE THANG: Dora
Burpees
Squats
WWI
MTN Climbers
Lunges
American Hammers
Merkins
Bobby Hurleys (jump squats)
Freddie Mercury’s
Lunges

Control – run down the long straight on track and back, keep working out till All In. Change exercise.

Mosey to flag, 1 round of toe taps

MOLESKINE:

ANNOUNCEMENTS: NYD Convergence led by Grape. Lean Pax.

COT: Prayers for those who have lost loved ones during the Holiday Season. Prayers for healthy families and travel. Prayers for individuals who may have some trauma during this season.

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” -Maya Angelou

You can’t always control your environment or the things that happen to you, but you can always try to change your outlook or the way you choose to see something or someone.
The Challenge: Be the positive change wherever you are and encourage others with your effort to shape the things that you can change.

Shout out to Oatmeal and sooner for delicious coffee and encouraging and supporting another great AM in the gloom.

-Hanes

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The basics

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Focker
PAX: Toothless, sooner, Oatmeal, Hanes, DrRupp, Betty Ford, Young and Restless, Pole Dancer, Wolfpack
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
CONDITIONS: wet, but only from below

WARMUP: Toothlesswas kind enough to lead warmups while I slept through my alarms

THE THANG:
15 decline merkins, lunges to 10 swing rows
20 decline merkins, lunges to 11 swing rows
25 decline merkins, lunges to 12 swing rows
Failure incline merkins, lunges to 13 swing rows
20 decline merkins, lunges to 14 swing rows
15 decline merkins, lunges to 15 swing rows

11s in the parking lots
Sit throughs and prisoner squats

Finished with sprints and high skips

MOLESKINE: great work by all, this one challenged me for sure as was my first time leading since the new addition.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: come on out Sunday 12/15 for LOTR movie!

COT: prayers for those with illness and death in their family, praises for healing,

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Is it Christmas?

AO: middle-tooth
Q: sooner
PAX: Toothless, Topanga, Hanes, Betty Ford, DrRupp, bluemule
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
CONDITIONS:
It was really cold and Oatmeal was missing

WARMUP:

Mosey to the front of the school and do some active stretching

THE THANG:

Thing 1
Pull ups amrap
Uphill sprint
4 sets

Thing 2
Hanging decline merkins amrap
Uphill sprint
4 sets

Thing 3
Swing set sets 25 each
– swinging thrusters
-Elevated prom dates
– Upland Jane Fonda’s
– mountain climbers
– hanging decline low plank
– swing row
– canoe on a swing (Betty Ford is really good at this)

MOLESKINE:
Grateful for this shared discipline

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Freed to lead

COT:
Evan, giving Tuesday, Sottick extended family

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My Fellow Americans…

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Goose
PAX: Betty Ford, Toothless, DrRupp, Topanga, Pole Dancer, sooner, Oatmeal, Snouzer
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
CONDITIONS: perfect

WARMUP: Willie mays hays, forward fold, good mornings, cherry pickers

THE THANG:
-2 laps Indians runs with 10 burpee penalty for dropping the light
-100 squats/ merkins/ burpees in 25 rep increments. Run to light and back between sets.
-Dora: 300 SSH while partner runs
-Lunges down and back, 2 trips
-Circle Of Mary

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
-Tuesday Brewsday tonight!
-AOQ school next weekend, contact Toothless for details.

COT: On this Election Day remember we are all Americans, social media purge also suggested.

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A Spooky Q: Journey to the Upside Down for the Deck of Horrors!!!

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Toothless
PAX: Pole Dancer, Schnauzer, Topanga, DrRupp, sooner, Hanes
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
CONDITIONS: Crispy, but just right for fall :pinched_fingers:

WARMUP:

– Side straddle hops x 31
– Zombie walk out & back
– Werewolfs (aka Downward Dog into Cobra and back) x 10
– Scorpions x 10

THE THANG:

First, obligatory Burpee Thriller!! Listen to Thriller and do a burpee every time you hear the signature “thriller” in the chorus or something scary in the verses. Such a scary song…

Deck of Horrors!!!

To the lower lot, circle up and get ready to pull cards.
– Add 10 to digits (2-10)
– Royals trigger 10 reps of a harder exercise
– Aces have their own deviltry

Spades :spades:
– Digits = Squats
– Royals = Squat Jumps
– Ace = Squat Jump to parking lot and back
Clubs :clubs:
– Digits = LBC’s
– Royals = WW1’s
– Ace = 200 American Hammers (single count)
Hearts :heart:
– Digits = High Knees
– Royals = Hopping Hillbillies
– Ace = Cotton Eye Joe (High Knees with lyrics, Hillbillies with instrumentals)
Diamonds :diamonds:
– Digits = Carolina Dry Docks
– Royals = Diamond Merkins
– Ace = Bear Crawl to parking lot and back

Back to post at 5 mins out for Howler Monkeys, I.e. monkey humper ring of fire. 2 rounds at a time with a 10 count in between.

MOLESKINE:

Didn’t tweak much from the debut at atlantis, and it still slapped. Once again the Burpee Thriller was a crowd favorite that helped jump start the mumblechatter. Pole Dancer had the distinct pleasure of pulling 3 of 4 Aces from what may or may not have been a stacked deck :face_with_peeking_eye:, the last of his being the Ace of Hearts which led to a new fan fav: the Cotton Eye Joe!! Frankly this group impressed with their Hopping Hillbilly skills, and they were rewarded with several high digit high knees to follow :smiling_imp: Coffeeteeria was a delight after this sneaky burner.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– As always, brewsday on the first Tuesday of the month (2 Tuesdays from today)
– Half marathon coming soon
– TN Tussle in early November, sign up and figure out teams!
– AOQ Grow school to follow

COT:
– Prayers for sooner’s milestone event at work with his work on display, that it would move forward as hoped
– Prayers for Topanga’s mom who is working through vision loss, for healing or for figuring out what the future holds
– Prayers for Schnauzer’s mom as she continues to sort through re-construction efforts in the aftermath of Helene

MEN! WHAT A MORNING! Truly it was an honor to lead and to be with you this AM. To those not with us, you were missed, and thank you to those present for your effort to push yourselves and each other. Until next time!! AAOOOOOOOOO!!!! :full_moon: :wolf:

— Toothless :tooth:

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Better Late Than Never?

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Young Pawn
PAX: Go Fish, Oatmeal, sooner, Hanes, Pole Dancer, Black Lung, Zelenskyy, Two Face, Haggis, Harbaugh, Foot Drop, Pep, Grape, Toothless, Betty Ford, Formica
FNGs: None
COUNT: 17
Figure I’ll squeeze this in before the end of the month so we all get our PAXminer stats.

Ran several laps of the field and then did a “you vs. you” round where each lap must be faster or face a penalty. Closed with some Sally Up and Sally Down squats (and merkins!) and 5 minutes of mary. Credit to Bad Boy Pole Dancer for inspiration.

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6f

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FIFA Legends ( Part 1)

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Subway
PAX: Pole Dancer, Oatmeal, Toothless, Betty Ford, Schnauzer, DrRupp, Topanga, sooner
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
CONDITIONS: 63 – clear skies

WARMUP: Mosey, stretches

THE THANG: Dribble around the PAX, then 5 on 4 concrete futsol (street soccer). Game was close, ball was bouncy. Goals resulted in 10reps of scoring teams choice for defending team; scoring team 10 reps of ab work chosen by defending team. Final score – doesn’t matter- no ACLs were torn- victory for all!

Game 2 – atlantis this Thursday
MOLESKINE:

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Brewsday today

COT: Prayers for those in Western North Carolina affected by Helene.

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Oatmeal’s Texas sized pain

AO: middle-tooth
Q: sooner
PAX: Betty Ford, Pole Dancer, Rocket Mortgage, Schnauzer
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
CONDITIONS: perfect

WARMUP: some yogging and stretching

THE THANG:

Abs
– 5 frogs + 10 hammers + 15 WW1 + 20 stars + 25 leg lifts
– same order, reverse count

Texian run

Thing 1, amrap 1 min
– T – hand release merkin
– E – unEven merkins, switch halfway
– x – Xover planks
– A – Alternating shoulder taps
– S – Super bird dogs

Texian run

Thang 2, amrap 1 min
– T – Tuck jump
– E – unEven lunge jumps
– x – x-skaters
– A – all the way down squats
– S – star jumps

Texian run to start

MOLESKINE: schnauzer is in charge of coming up with an announcement

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Brews day next Tues day

COT: babies

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Go Skyhawks!

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Pole Dancer
PAX: Oatmeal, sooner, Hanes, DrRupp, Betty Ford, Cal Worthington, Schnauzer, The Rafter, Smokey
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
CONDITIONS: Beautiful

WARMUP: Mosey around the school, dynamic warmup, dynamic stretching, static stretching

THE THANG: Hearkening back to my track days we ran 200m repeats with a 150m jog and 50m walk in between. No stopping, rolling right into the next rep. Great pacing by the pack keeping each lap within ~15 seconds.

An anti-running contingent performed a traveling exercise-a-palooza around the loop.

Groups reconvened for 10 minutes of Mary, a round of Big 10 er… 11 (10 merkins, 1 WW1, 9 merkins, 2 WW1 and so on), and some side straddle hops to reach 6:15.

MOLESKINE: Keeping an eye on a future attempt to break the marathon record via PAX relay event; we would have to double our pace on those 200s, and do so across 10 reps instead of 6 (with considerably more rest in between, but point being we’ve got our work cut out for us)!

ANNOUNCEMENTS: No major announcements following last week’s convergences. Brewsday is always on the horizon.

COT: Prayers for the future of our country, and a meditation on embodying the personal improvement path of the ultimate meritocracy; track and field.

PLAYLIST: A varied sampling of my Stonehill College era favorites;
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3xXsbui4e7HtcNwcJK8jxQ?si=c52da93f534748dc