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Fly, you fools! 🧙‍♂️

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Toothless
PAX: Betty Ford, Focker, Topanga (Scott), Pole Dancer, Esposa, Oatmeal, Matador, sooner, DrRupp, Hot Water
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
CONDITIONS: One more nippy day, still warm comparably. Slippery on the grass though, conducive for injury.

WARMUP:
– SSH x 25
– Air presses x 10
– Michael Phelps x 10
– Willy Mays Hays x 10
– Carrot pullers x 10
– Scorpions x 10

THE THANG: Fly, you fools! :male_mage:

Mosey to tennis courts to the horns and drums of Howard Shore…

Defend Helm’s Deep
– Tag based capture the flag
– 10 x merkins to reset as a defender
– 10 x squats to reset as an attacker
– Mutual tags are allowed
– Downed players can be tagged to reset their count
– Attackers win when flag is captured and returned
– 7 minute cap, swap and play other side

Ride of the Rohirrim
– Rohirrim run across field between baseball diamonds, dark forces of Easterlings and Haradrim tag (a la sharks & minnows)
– Tagged players go back to start after performing 10 burpees, hold plank through next waves until all are tagged
– Teams swap positions and repeat
– Cut field in half and all bear crawl instead of run
– Teams swap positions and repeat

Last March of the Hobbits
– “I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you!” – Samwise Gamgee
– Travel “there and back again” across the field
– Team must always be carrying one man, others are lunging. Cycle men out from the carrying group, cycling man runs to physically tag lunger who joins the carriers. All must be carried at least 20 steps, first full team to get there and back wins.

Destroy the Ring
– Overcome the mental and physical attachment to comfort with 25 burpees

Round table at the Green Dragon (Mary to time)

MOLESKINE:
All fun and games here on April Fool’s Day, evidenced by the ever industrious PAX finding ways to bend the rules to their purposes.

Defending Helm’s Deep went fairly smoothly, a few leaps over the tennis nets and an interesting tagged-but-tossing-the-flag strategy secured the win for both teams. Mutual tagging as a strategy “passed out of all knowledge” as teams fell back on a one-sided tagging approach.

Ride of the Rohirrim was not without incident – very few survivors made it across the fields though there were some very close calls. I’m sure I missed some, but I saw Topanga (Scott) absolutely lay out to tag Pole Dancer before he made it through. YHC managed to sprain an ankle while attempting to cut away from sooner, fulfilling the prophecy of all F3 games resulting in at least one injury. The bear crawl round proved to be far too difficult for the runners, with YHC being the only survivor due to playing dead under Matador after accidentally felling him in friendly fire before crawling to the end when the Eye of Sauron moved away.

Last March of the Hobbits was pretty much an instructional disaster which I will own up to, leaving much room for interpretation. After team 2 took a roaring lead by having everyone carry the one person to reduce the slowness of the lunging, team 1 copied that strategy and flew past during a switch while carrying our lightest member of the party, reminding team 2 that it was a minimum of 20 steps per person which they had misunderstood to mean only a maximum of 20 steps per person before switching. A valiant sprint was made after that reminder, but to no avail.

Almost everyone had a chance to provide an exercise in the ab section, but the Hobbits celebrating with a flagon at the Green Dragon were not as safe as they seemed…someone ripped a loud, juicy fart, inspiring Topanga (Scott) to comment: “Well that was straight from the eye of Sauron.” It was too much for the PAX to take, exercises suffering in quality for several minutes until Focker forced focus with his slow burn reverse leg raise.
Last but not least, almost everyone had a chance to provide an exercise in the ab section. Unfortunately the Hobbits at the Green Dragon weren’t as safe as they seemed…

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– brewsday is TODAY! 4:30p @ 12S Taproom!
– Spring Fling is this Sunday at the Warner parks, shelter #5, families & friends welcome!

COT:
– sooner shared
– Pole Dancer shared
– Focker shared

Grateful for the vulnerability in the CoT, PAX. YHC shared a word about the importance of fun and silliness in our every day lives, and shared appreciation for the PAX joining me in that today.

As always, it was an honor to lead, men. I’ll SYITG throughout the week!

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3/31

AO: detention
Q: Winona
PAX: Deep State, Esposa, Mistah Mistah, Pedialyte, Michael Freiburg
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
CONDITIONS: soggy

WARMUP: stretch

THE THANG: 40 Merkins
40 squats
Native American run around the block
11s on the hill. Merlin and v up
Rowx20
Lungx20
Squatx20
WWIx20
Burpee burnout
Plank it out

MOLESKINE:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:

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BEACH BODS 🏖️ 💪

AO: greenmachine
Q: Toothless
PAX: Pep, Cowboy, Betty Ford, Works for a Guy, Esposa
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
CONDITIONS: Crisp, but enjoyable. Gloomy.

WARMUP:

– 30 x SSH
– 15 x Willy Mays Hays
– 15 x High Knees
– 15 x Carrot pullers
– 15 x Windmills
– 10 x Scorpions

THE THANG: BEACH BODS :beach_with_umbrella: :muscle:

Separate into two groups, one group moves around a 50 yd box while other group busts out reps. Mosey-Shuffle-Bernie-Mosey around the box. All PAX complete all prescribed reps of the following exercises, plank and wait for all PAX in group to finish each exercise before starting the next one.

– Big boy sit ups x 50
– Euro steps x 50
– Atomic Merkins x 50
– Crab Jacks x 50
– Happy crunchy frogs x 50

– Bulgarian Split Squats x 50
– Outlaws x 50
– Dry docks x 50
– Smurf jacks x 50

MOLESKINE:

PAX made it through BEACH B’S, as YHC stressed form as the most important aspect of the workout so we took our time. Surprising how much harder these reps were when focusing on perfect form and not compensation with other muscles! Learned that Esposa has some knowledge to drop surfing and has been on his own Surfing Safaris. Pep really liked the run portion of the workout, and as usual Works for a Guy crushed the reps.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

– AOQ Grow School 3/22, stonewall @ tel:0600-0800
– Merkin challenges continue!

COT:

Prayer requests shared, along with gratefulness for ability to be out and active. Coffeeteeria was excellent thanks to Cowboy’s consistent efforts.

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Toothin’

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Goose
PAX: Toothless, Pep, Go Fish, Esposa, Pole Dancer, Tonka
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
CONDITIONS: Chilly

WARMUP: Willie Mays Hays, Cherry Pickers, Arm Stretches, Forward Fold, LBC

THE THANG:
-Mosey around loop
-Deck of cards: hearts=merkins, diamonds=ssh, clubs=squats, spades=crunches, aces/faces=mosey.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
-Night Moves Thursday
-Q school coming up, Toothless for details

Prayers for Toothless mother n law

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The Long and Winding Throw

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Pole Dancer
PAX: Toothless, Esposa, Hair Band, DrRupp, Oatmeal, sooner, Betty Ford
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
CONDITIONS: Beautiful

WARMUP: Dynamic Warmup, Mosey around the school

THE THANG: Frisbee Battle!

The PAX paired off and battled their litter mate; one PAX tossed the disc and exercised while the other fetched. Whoever had less reps on their turn had to repeat reps.
– Burpees
– Squats
– Merkins
– Freddie Mercs

Accuracy Challenge!

The pups joined forces to play “closest to the disc.” Bear crawl to your first throw, all losers then lunged from their second throw to the disc.

Zoomies!
All PAX tossed discs in a speed round of disc golf- everyone but the winner exercised either burpees, squats, or merkins.

Back to the start for Mary!

MOLESKINE: You many have noticed my flashy yellow running shirt and thought, “Man, I want one of those!” Well fear not; you can order one from All Out Running Co. alloutrunningco.com/! Shoutout Hair Band and Chunks for a sweet design and high quality gear.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Brewsday, Night Moves next Thursday, Merkin Challenge ongoing

Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6NmHKgqYPJwsKx2QVLuIWt?si=d14188ade25049a4

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Animal Movements

AO: greenmachine
Q: DintyMoore
PAX: Cowboy, Esposa, Hipster, Betty Ford, t-cell, Canned Heat, moneyshot, Shania, Ronaldo (2.0), Leonardo (2.1)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
CONDITIONS: Solid

WARMUP: Lap and arm exercises

THE THANG:
Animal Movements
Working across the field, go halfway for each exercise and switch. Some evolution/Darwinism from smallest to largest animal.

Animal 1 and 2
Inchworm :worm:
Crab walk :crab:
1/2 Bernie

Animal 3 and 4
Frog Jumps :frog:
Leaping Lizard :lizard:
1/2 lap

Animal 5 and 6
Duck walk :duck:
Donkey Jumps đź«Ź
1/2 Bernie

Animal 7 and 8
Coyote :wolf:
Kangaroos :kangaroo:
1/2 lap

Animal 9 & 10
Bear Crawl :bear:
T. rex :t-rex:
1/2 Bernie

Finished with 10 minutes of ultimate football with Ronaldo scoring two goals (woops) touchdowns

MOLESKINE:
Great to be at green machine with my boys. Good to see Hipster on this side of the river.
Appreciate the opportunity from Cowboy to appreciate and use parts of our body that we overlook. #staysore

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
LentPax, Game Night, MarchMerkin, Night Moves, Biscuit Run

COT: Tactisquatch from Black Rifle on Brew today

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Water Heater Workout

AO: detention
Q: Donkey Hammer
PAX: Pedialyte, Accounts Receivable, EZ-Go, Esposa, Michael Freiburg, Topanga, Uncle Jerry, Winona, Family Ties, Peabody
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
CONDITIONS:
29 degrees

WARMUP:
Mosey to Winston Church Hill
– GM, WMH, calf raises
– Bernie uphill halfway, jog back
– Cocaine bear crawl up hill, jog back
– Backwards crab walk uphill, jog back

Extended mobility warmup:
– down dog
– Cat/cow
– Runners stretch with thoracic rotation each side
– Squat with thoracic rotation
– Prone snow angel
– Prone scorpion
– Side lying shoulder rotation
– Arm extended Jane Fondas
– Supine pigeon
– Straight leg raises – R, L, B

THE THANG:
Mosey to playground, pick up a block on the way.

– 1 minute hang
– 30 calf raises with block

Head to pavilion
– Picnic table workout – 30 seconds on/30 seconds off, 2 rounds
Marching, one leg kicks, knees to chest, heel kick outs

– Tabata – 45 seconds on/15 off, 2 rounds
Hip dips on block
Apollo Ohno’s
Jump squats with block
Decline Merkins
Block burpees

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
None

COT:
– Losing a pet is like losing a family member.
– Sometimes marriage is a struggle. But it is worth it.

It was a great morning. Thanks for letting me lead.

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Snow Q, Get That Heart Rate Up

AO: greenmachine
Q: Hair Band
PAX: Betty Ford, Cowboy, Shania, Bear, Esposa
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
CONDITIONS: cold and snowy

WARMUP:
Mosey a lap around the track
50 SSHs
High knees x 30 sec
Butt kicks x 30 sec

THE THANG:
30 lunges (15e)
10 burpee broad jumps
Run to next corner
Repeat until one lap is finished around the track

Jog a lap

50m Sprints with 30 secs of drop squats on a timer

Repeat Lunge, BpBJ, run lap

Mosey back to start-x

MOLESKINE:
On days like today a balance between leg soreness & staying warm had to be made. We warmed up and kept that heart rate high.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Night Moves Thursday March 6th, check SalPal post in main channel
– AOQ Grow School, Sat March 22nd tel:0600-0800
– Spring Fling by Natural Ice – CBO in early April

COT:
• prayers for general family health and wellness, for the new fathers in the group (shout out to Bear for his 1mo old), safe travels to Shania as he flies to Canada today

Thanks for having me out to Q today! Always a pleasure to spend time at the machine

Rock On,

Hair Band

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What Piqued My Interest in 2024

AO: greenmachine
Q: Cowboy
PAX: Focker, Michelin Man, Esposa, moneyshot, Grape, t-cell, Cowboy, Canned Heat, Betty Ford, Shania
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
CONDITIONS: Balmy You Say? 60 something
PLAY LIST: music.apple.com/us/playlist/2024-cowboy-listen/pl.u-b3b889eHL5zqDp
WARMUP:
SSH
General Stretch OYO – WMH, Good Mornings
Sit Spread legs lean forward – oops the parking lot is wet, darn let’s go to the field

Grab Coupons, 3 total and mosey
Yog to encircle the Mustang at the 50yardline.
Stretch – Sit Spread legs lean forward
Left heel to nuts –
Right heel to nuts
Low WMH – Hands down 2x count IC

THE THANG:
Circle Up – Every 2 reps pass the coupon to the right (quickly modified to every 5). After passing the coupon run to sideline and back. Rounds as follows IC.
30 Squats. 40 Lunges, 50 Thrusters, 60 Kettle Swings (squats)
Elbow Dips at Benches on each sideline bench.
Go to Benches
Elbow dips both or 1 leg
Elbow dips run across when a guy gets there one man runs across the field. When the teams are flipped hold till the 6
Push Ups Bent Elbows

Run to the Stairs at Stands
The PAX holds a plank till their turn.
Crawl Bear up stairs and then run up stands, across, down and back to start
Hold Plank
Rinse and Repeat the stands run.
Back to Star Deck
Mary. Dealer’s Choice

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 25K Merkin Challenge, March mini challenge Merkin Ladders of 10 Per Day, Lean Pax in the last days.
PRAYERS:” for Cowboy’s Friend Richard,

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Groundhog Day All Over Again

AO: detention
Q: EZ-Go
PAX: Esposa, Michael Freiburg, Deep State, Donkey Hammer, EZ-Go, Fortran, Topanga, Works for a Guy, Young and Restless, Peabody
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
CONDITIONS:
First Spring

WARMUP:
50 SSH
50 air squats
50 shoulder taps
50 air presses

THE THANG:
3 rounds, 4 stations around the “clock” in parking lot
2 min on, 15s off
3:00 – block merkins
6:00 – block triple arm killers
9:00 – block squats
12:00 – block flutters

*6 more weeks of winter!
Burpees during “I Got You Babe” by Sonny and Cher

MOLESKINE:
We celebrated Groundhog Day over and over again, inspired by both the holiday and the classic movie of Bill Murray fame. Songs inspired by time was our soundtrack:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7IrKx0bXGtTUsCtOPDhApr?si=ZQwhwAClT3GbDpLBlbFTUA&pi=9LNlyRfZRXeuv

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Leanpax ends Sunday!

COT:
Prayers for health and healing were shared.

Great work boys, always a pleasure!
-EZ