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The Official End of Octoburpee

AO: detention
Q: ccr
PAX: ccr, Deep State, Donkey Hammer, Esposa, EZ-Go, Focker, Michelin Man, Movin On Up, Pedialyte, t-cell, Topanga, Winona, Works for a Guy
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
CONDITIONS:. Gloomiest day in awhile. Steady rain, steady sweat

WARMUP: some stretching, some quick yoga and some arm circles forward and back. Also 10 slow and low merkins for good measure

THE THANG: well, everyone thought yesterday was the end of the octoburpee challenge. Today was a bonus day. We started with a sequence of 3 burpees, high plank and then another exercise. We did 10 total rounds mixing in merkins, dry docks, thrusters and low plank. 33 burpees.

Next was some ole fashioned 11s. Burpees and jump squats. 55 more burpees for a total of 88.

Last was some tabata work featuring atomics, sumo squats, 8 count body builders, WWI, low plank-high plank, lt. dans, BURPEES, heel touches and sprints. 16 more (for me) burpees for a total of 104 for the morning.

MARY: a quick Mary a ding in a few good mornings closed us out.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Not a ton of announcements from corporate or the AO, but @movinonup gave us a scouting report on Will Levi’s. He was good.

COT: prayers for the Tursi family in Des Moines and Rachel’s uncle Burl. Shared a quote A heard in a song and realized later was from proverbs. “God promises a safe landing, not a smooth journey”. This struck me last week as I was pondering some sad events and reminded me to keep my eyes farther down the road and know that we will all weather the ups and downs.

Great to be back fellas, Deep State, appreciate the invite as always.

Cheers,
CCR

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Bond, James Bond

AO: iiipillars
Q: Vector
PAX: Focker, Go Fish, Grape, princessaurora, Pep, t-cell, Zelenskyy, Formica, Haggis, Harbaugh, Swiffer, Tacklebox
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
In celebration of James Bond Day (October 5th – who knew? Dr. No, the first Bond film was released in 1962 on that day) and because I thought it’d make a cool playlist, we put on our big boy spy shoes to celebrate 007.

CONDITIONS: Shaken, not stirred

PLAYLIST: Bond themes:
James Bond Theme – John Barry
Live and Let Die – Paul McCartney & Wings
The World is Not Enough – Garbage
Goldfinger – Shirley Bassey
The Living Daylights – a-ha
Nobody Does it Better – Carly Simon
Skyfall – Adele
A View to a Kill – Duran Duran
Goldeneye – Tina Turner
Die Another Day – Madonna
Another Way to Day – Jack White & Alicia Keys

WARMUP: SSH, LBAC, Seal Claps, Overhead Presses, Overhead Claps, RLBCs, Good Mornings, and Willy Mays Hayes to get prepped.

THE THANG:
“007s” – To help those PAX on their Octoburpee Challenge, 10 burpee buy-in and the 7s x 3 rounds: each with burpees, of course (and some grumbling about why @Blacklung wasn’t there), with jump squats, Lt Dans, and WWIs as the other paired exercise. In between, a 10 count and a PAX note of their favorite Bond film . . . Moonraker? Hmm . . . sure.

“SPY”s to honor the PAX member most suave like Bond, T-cell, we did his favorite exercises renamed to fit the theme: Super DIPs, Perfect Incline Merkins, Your Favorite Decline Merkins . . .

MARY: Rounds of exercises starting with Alabama Prom Dates, because Bond has, ahem, other skills too . . .
And the astute among us (@GoFish) counted we were up to 93 burpees, so 7 more to get us to 100.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1) Octoburpee continues — grumbling as today’s workout “only benefitted @Focker” as he’s the only one participating, but didn’t we all benefit?
2) Game night at @Firefox’s house which already happened and was epic
3) BBQ at Tim’s with @Chunk’s brisket

Honor to lead you all! SYITG

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In Defense of Middle Earth! :swords: :one-ring:

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Toothless
PAX: Breadsticks, Pole Dancer, Esposa, sooner, Betty Ford, Rocket Mortgage, Young Pawn, Hair Band, Focker, Transfer (F3 Birmingham)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
CONDITIONS: Prime. Starry. Brisk. Medieval. The stuff of legends.

WARMUP:
– SSH (Scarecrows) x 20
– Cherry pickers (Carrot pickers) x 10
– Willy Mays Hays (Eaves dropping) x 10
– Windmills x 10
– Michael Phelps (Brandybucks) x 10
– Good mornings x 10

THE THANG:
10 burpees
Mosey out to the school drive through
10 burpees

Dwarf Workout
10’s, from lower entrance to basketball goal, Bernie up mosey down
– Burpees (Forge Bellows) (45 total here)
– Lunges (Striders)

10 pull ups
Bear crawl to upper entrance

Elf Workout
10’s from upper entrance to basketball goal, Bernie out mosey back
– Carolina Dry Docks (Bow Benders)
– Jump squats (Branch Grabbers)

10 burpees

Hobbit Workout
10’s, from school entrance to swings, mosey both ways
– 4 count American hammers (Pint Passers)
– Swerkins (Wheelbarrows)

The Q didn’t keep an eye on time and we ran out of it! Ran back to Post to the Shire pub tune of The Green Dragon.

Mad T-Claps to @breadsticks who came IN COSTUME AS A HOBBIT.

Also props to those intrepid PAX who made sure to round out their 100 burpees for the day during coffeeteeria, graciously provided by @sooner, when I left them 15 short due to time.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Night Moves this Thursday @ 6, come early to park
– Side Straddle Hops this Friday @ 7, see #2ndF for details
– Bunch of other things coming in October, check that calendar!
– Of course, #octoburpee continues

COT:
– Prayers for Betty Ford’s 3 mo who is sick
– Prayers for wisdom for Hairband with a potential job opening
– Prayers for Bareback, his father in law, and their family

>From _The Return of the King_:
> “What do you fear, lady?” he asked. “A cage,” she said. “To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”

Remember that today is all we have in this life, and even that is not for granted. I’m glad you all came to get better this morning, but don’t let it stop there. Take the strength you build here and bring that back to your friends, families, communities, and workplaces. Make the most of the time we’re all blessed with in the ways that matter most.

— :tooth:

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30-B

AO: detention
Q: EZ-Go
PAX: Accounts Receivable, Donkey Hammer, Esposa, Focker, Movin On Up, Winona
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
CONDITIONS:
Jacket?

WARMUP:
Good mornings, Willy mays, walk out merkins, down dog, cobra

THE THANG:

Bearway to heaven:
In parking lot
15 burpees
Bear Crawl
For duration of stairway to heaven song

30B workout:
At bus loop
30 big-boy sit ups
Mosey to bottom
30 8ct body builders
Bernie to top
Rinse and repeat x2

At pavilion
30 Bonnie Blair’s – jumping lunges
30 Murder bunnies
Rinse and repeat x2
Then – imperial walkers for duration of Baba O’Reilly

MARY:
Box-cutters until end

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Night moves on Thursday
Side-straddle hops Friday

COT:
Marriage, parenting, illness, war in Israel

Great to be with y’all, enjoy that Fall Break 🍁

-EZ

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BurpeeClock-Alypse

AO: greenmachine
Q: Natural Ice
PAX: Esposa, Rocket Mortgage, moneyshot, Betty Ford, Cowboy, Grape, Michelin Man, Focker, NFT, Black Lung
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
CONDITIONS: Nigh Perfect

MUSIC Toto’s fourth studio album released in March of 1982 was played cover to cover.

WARMUP: SSH, Arm Circles, Squats, Willy Mays

THE THANG: Burpee-A-Clock-Alypse
5 Burpees every minute on the minute with a variety of “resting” exercises in between each set. Pax ran over 1 mile, lunged a good distance, and got in a sneaky amount of mary.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Octoburpee in full force

COT:Prayers were lifted for @Monsterbiscuit and the new 2.0, @MichelinMans current case, and YHC’s company going through lay offs and restructure.

Thank you again for the opportunity to lead!

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Covering some ground

AO: greenmachine
Q: Grape
PAX: The Arch, Focker, Pedialyte, Esposa, Baguette, moneyshot, Movin On Up, Bad Boy, monster biscuit, Cowboy, Sherlock, t-cell, Betty Ford, Rocket Mortgage
FNGs: None
COUNT: 15
CONDITIONS: perfect fall weather

WARMUP:
long 1.2 mile mosey around lipscomb
10 SSH
10 LBAC F
10 LBAC R
10 OH Claps
10 OH Press
10 Moroccan night clubs
10 Seal claps

THE THANG:

Modified Murph: total of 2 (really almost 3) miles in the workout, 100 burpees, 200 merkins, 300 squats

Start at one end zone, do 10 merkins and 15 squats, then run to the 10 yard line and do 1 burpee, run back to end zone, then repeato with 2 burpees at 20, 3 burpees at 30, etc. until working your way back down the field

MARY:

Some flutters, LBCs, mercs, etc.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

None

COT:

Prayers for T cell on his way to Africa
Prayers for Bad Boy’s brother Josh

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The Start of Something New

AO: greenmachine
Q: Focker
PAX: FeelTheBerns, Focker, NFT, Topanga, Betty Ford, t-cell, Bad Boy, Deep State, Rocket Mortgage, Esposa, monster biscuit, Sherlock, Cowboy, moneyshot, Works for a Guy, Batman (F3 Hampton Roads), Haggis, FNG Alex (SlappingDaBass)
FNGs: 1 FNG Alex (SlappingDaBass)
COUNT: 18
CONDITIONS: Fall Y’all

WARMUP: the Usual

THE THANG: Long Mosey through Burning Man Mud and to pull up bars for one round of max pull ups. 10 burpees followed
Mosey to sideline of field to perform main thing. Multiply max pull ups x 10 and do that many reps of each exercise:
Dips
Merkins
Monkey Humpers
Drop Squats
Leg Raises
Run to opposite sideline and back every 1.5 minutes
Those who sandbagged on their pull-ups and got done early got to do 5 burpees every 5 yards

We all went to goal line for 7s of Hindu push ups and Hindu squats running to 50 and back

MARY: 2 quick exercises

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 9/11 convergence on 9/9 led by @cowboy. 9/13 workout for 9th anniversary at #titan.

COT: @batman’s prayer request was a great reminder to us all that these workouts serve as a way to strengthen more than just our bodies. May we do well to remember that as we serve the people in our lives.
The lack of coffeeteria (my bad everyone)  motivated everyone to rush home and be more present there so you’re welcome.

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III Pillars – 09.05.23 – “Fumble”

AO: iiipillars
Q: princessaurora
PAX: batter, Bad Boy, Cowboy, Harbaugh, Pep, Zelenskyy, wardas1, moneyshot, monster biscuit, Grape, Go Fish, Pencil Pusher, Young Pawn, It’sJUSTLunch, Focker, Betty Ford, Will Norton, Haggis, Swiffer, 0
FNGs: 1 0
COUNT: 20
CONDITIONS:
Soupy

WARMUP:
After a brief disclaimer and admission to being a Clemson Tiger, YHC informed the PAX I would be attempting to make them experience the hurt and confusion I felt watching our season get off to a rocky start at Duke. While I’m not sure if I accomplished the hurt, confusion abounded throughout the workout!

Mosey to track for 4 laps/.5 miles at medium pace and followed with COP:
– SSH x 28
– LBAC F/R x 7
– SnL Squats x 28
– Merkins x 14

THE THANG:

Head over to the jungle gyms and swingset to grab some bar for pull-ups. Max reps followed by equal number of seconds rest. Rinse and repeat until you can only get one rep.

Mosey back over to the short hill off the track. This is where I really laid on the confusion. Re-living the two fumbles and dropped passes, we dropped the B.A.L.L. as well. PAX continuously run down hill and back up stopping EMOM to perform 7 reps of exercises below. After going through entire circuit in the first round, I adjusted the game plan to be one exercise at each minute mark.
B – Burpees
A – Ab thrusters
L – Lunges (2ct)
L – Leg Raises

After one (or two) cycle(s) through, PAX were instructed to run the hill 16 more times, still stopping for exercise EMOM. Once all laps were done, PAX could rest for remainder of minute.

It was all as confusing it looks, but rest assured, it was very on brand for the Clemson offense.

Mosey back to startex for…

MARY:
– APDs x 10
– Merkins x 15
– Jane Fondas L/R x 10

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– 9/9 – @Cowboy on Q for a 9/11 workout at 0600 at Percy Warner Stairs.
– 9/13 – F3 Nashville’s 9th Anniversary workout at #titan. 0500 preamble led by YHC. 0530 main event with @DintyMoore
– 10/1 – Octoburpee Challenge begins. See @Black_Lung for details
COT:
– Prayers for @batter’s cousin’s marriage and @two_face’s next step in his career

Go Tigers.
PA out.