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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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Shaking off the Rust

AO: greenmachine
Q: Focker
PAX: Cowboy, moneyshot, Black Lung, Goose, Betty Ford, t-cell
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
CONDITIONS: touch of cool

WARMUP: various stretches to look at the stars

THE THANG:
“Fake 11s”
3 chin ups, Bernie up hill, 8 jump squats
Rinse and repeat

Real 11s
Dive bomber merkins, Bernie up hill, prisoner squats

400m run
20,15,10 dip, incline, decline merkin
300m run
20,15,10 DIDs
200m run
20,15,10 DIDs
100m sprint
Wait for 6

5 minutes of gut work

MOLESKINE: Black Lung mouthing off like usual, Cowboy getting a trip down memory music lane, declines continue to be a man-maker exercise

ANNOUNCEMENTS: multiple 5K’s this Saturday, future chili cook off this Fall

COT: the word “legacy” has been bouncing around my head lately. Tomorrow is not guaranteed for any of us. So if today is our last day here or our last day of good health, what will our legacy be?
I butchered a quote, so here is the original:
“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems” – James Clear from “Atomic Habits”

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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

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Overtime Pickleball

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Chunks
PAX: sooner, Schnauzer, Pole Dancer, Toothless, Betty Ford, hambone, Hanes, Young and Restless
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
CONDITIONS: Very Nice

WARMUP: Mosey around the park
Light stretching

5 Burpees EMOM for 10 mins
With Big Boy Sit up, Squats and Rest till the top of the next minute

THE THANG:

Head to the Tennis Court for Overtime Pickleball
Winner Servers and then Winner of the rally stays on the court
Loser picks the exercise for the PAX to do while waiting.

MOLESKINE:

Don’t worry about criticism from someone you wouldn’t ask advice from.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT: Prayers for Betty Ford and family, also for Sooner’s coworker battling cancer

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Five x Five

AO: middle-tooth
Q: DintyMoore
PAX: sooner, Oatmeal, Rocket Mortgage, Pole Dancer, Schnauzer, DrRupp, Betty Ford
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
CONDITIONS: bueno

WARMUP:
Good Mornings
Imperial Walkers
Willy Mays

THE THANG:
Five Stops w/ Mosey around Big Field
5 Exercises EMOM
Min 1 – Burpees 10
Min 2 – Air Squats 15
Min 3 – 15 Merkins
Min 4 – 20 Staggered RDLs
Min 5 – 20 BB Situps

MOLESKINE:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
9/11 Convergence
10 year Anniversary Convergence

COT:
Renewing your tags is advised but not mandatory?

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Dragonslaying and Other Recreational Activities

AO: handsomizer
Q: SalPal
PAX: Black Lung, Freakonomics, Strutter, Cuban Missile, Rocket Mortgage, Frasier, Betty Ford, Patty, Natural Ice, Blueliner
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
CONDITIONS: Epic

WARMUP: WMH + Mosey

THE THANG: Tiamat is a legendary five headed dragon goddess with high armor class, limited magical immunity, elemental resistance, the works.

How do you take down this dragon? Sweet sweet sustained damage per second.

Start with 1 Durpee at the bottom of the stairs. Run up to each landing and back, doing a durpee at the bottom. Each landing is 5 Dips, 5 Derkins, 5 Dive Bombers, 5 Diamond Merkins.

Repeato, increase Durpee by 1 and landing reps by 5. Finish doing 5 durpees at the bottom and 25 reps at each landing.

MOLESKINE: Black Lung made a healing joke. I laughed/coughed up blood.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: A lot happening. Bourbon run (see Strutter), Brew Ruck, Hunger Games, Night Moves, Castle Run, Gulliver’s Travels.

COT:
Lift up the men who need F3.

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Clydesdales Unite!

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Subway
PAX: Betty Ford, bluemule, Cowboy, Cal Worthington, Goose, Hipster, moneyshot, Oatmeal, Rocket Mortgage, Toothless, Starblade McKoy (Sp?)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
CONDITIONS: warm

WARMUP: Mosey, burpees , stretching

THE THANG:

5 / 5 minute rounds

Supersets 20 reps

Merkins (your choice)
Rows

Calf Raises
Curls

Side Straddle Hops
Step Ups

Taint Scrapers
Dips

Squats
Overhead Press

W/ coupons when applicable

Guantanamo Bay followed by dealers choice ab work

MOLESKINE:

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Friday and Saturday stuff- check slack!

COT: Prayers for Bareback and his family as they move westward!

Thank you for letting me lead- it was a pleasure! SYITG

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Special 11

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Rocket Mortgage
PAX: sooner, Betty Ford, DrRupp, moneyshot, Toothless, Oatmeal
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
CONDITIONS: Low 70s

WARMUP: The usual. Sooner was tired.

THE THANG: Ran to playground. 3 sets of
10 Pushups
20 Carolina DDs
25 Squats
Lap around the playground

Ran to Tennis courts

11s – Burpees on one end, Star Jumps on the other. Mode of travel was lunges (painful) one way – Bernie on the way back. Was hard. Y

MOLESKINE:

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Busy July – check Slack

COT: Prayers for travel & mental acuity.

Thanks for being tired with me!