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The Stronghold

Date: 2026-10-22 AO: The Stronghold Q: Hipster , PAX: Makita, Red Skull, Crawlspace, Barney, Decaf, Tinkertoy, Pearl (Jonathan Halter), Pepsi, Right Said, Dan and Dave, Hipster, hambone, Dulce Mile,Napoleon,Heart Song,Floyd,Unc,Spagetti-O’s,Suasage Man,Bedazzled,Good Luck Charlie,Strikeout FNGs: None COUNT: -3 CONDITIONS: Crisp
WARMUP: Grab a block, warm o rama
THE THANG: Cary block to basketball courts
AMRAP circuit, 45 seconds on, 15 second rest, 45 seconds on
1- Merkins 2 – Drop Lunges 3 – Suicides 4 – Overhead Press 5 – Walking Block Lunge 6 – Tricep Extensions 7 – Curls 8 – Goblet Squats 9 – Admiral Dans
Return to startex
MARY: Upper Case Alphabet
MOLESKINE: Finish Line Bias – notice it as you near completion, and adjust to maintain effort and intensity until you’re done. Don’t let up.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: SIGNING DAY MF’ers!!!!!! Ceremony and lunch Friday 1130
COT:
PLAYLIST: Old school hip hop
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The Stronghold

Date: 2026-10-15 AO: The Stronghold Q: Dr. Brown Slip , PAX: Makita, Hipster, Red Skull, Right Said, Wham-O, Decaf, Barney, Young and Restless, Chunks, Tinkertoy, Pepsi, Dr. Brown Slip, Strikeout, Heart Song, Dolche Mila, Unk, Good Look, Sausage Man, Floyd, Spaghetti-ohs, Train Wreck, , Atticus Ziegler (DooDoo Bird) FNGs: 1 Atticus Ziegler (DooDoo Bird) COUNT: 21 CONDITIONS: The air was thicker than a pirate’s grog
WARMUP: – 20 – SSH – 13 – Baby Arm Circles – Ahead & Astern – 13 – Big Arm Circles – Ahead & Astern – Right & Left Willie Hays Hayes to runner stretch – 15 Imperial Walkers – Collect Coupons & Mosey to Basketball Court
THE THANG: There She Blows! AMRAP – perform reps through each song
– “Wellerman” 2:15 minutes Coupon Thrusters (squat + overhead press) Every chorus: 5 burpees without coupon
30 Windmills IC 20 Count Breather
– “Drunken Sailor” 2:30 minutes Coupon Swings (like kettlebell swings) Every “early in the morning” = 5 coupon curls
20 Carolina Dry Docks IC 20 Count Breather
– “Roll the Old Chariot Along” 3:08 minutes Coupon Goblet Squats Every “roll along”: 5 coupon overhead presses (Chorus)
20 Rosalitas IC 20 Count Breather
– “South Australia” 2:10 minutes Coupon Deadlifts Every “South Australia”: 5 coupon rows
20 Monkey Humpers IC 20 Count Breather
– “Paddy Lay Back 3:07 Minutes WW1 Sit-ups with coupon AUDIBLE – SWITCH Weighted Leg Lift
20 Count Breather
– “Fish in the Sea” 1:28 Minutes Coupon plank hold during verses At each Windy Weather chorus: 5 coupon push-ups
– “Haul and Drag” 1:46 minutes American Hammer Rows All Circle up | Count 1 / 2 – 1’s Keep Coupons Pass to the left until end of song
– “Randy Dandy Oh” 3:16 Minutes Coupon Murder Bunnies Line up & Murder Away – Down & Back
– “John Kanaka” 2:17 Minutes Cool Down Mosey back to the flag, return coupons Hold a squat for the 6, of course while offering words of encouragement
MARY: None, the sea was too angry
MOLESKINE: A few members of the crew were dragging their anchors today and didn’t bring full effort to the deck.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Check Slack; 4:13 Signing Day Next Friday
COT: Prayers for healing – physically, mentally, and spiritually; Job search; Travels
PLAYLIST: See Above
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Death Clock

Date: 2026-10-08 AO: The Stronghold Q: Minnie Pearl , PAX: Barney, Tinkertoy, Hipster, Red Skull, Minnie Pearl, toga, Dan and Dave, Chunks, Decaf, Right Said, Also the current 4:13 Strong Cohort FNGs: None COUNT: 11 CONDITIONS: Brutal
WARMUP: Nope
THE THANG: 5 burpee EMOM, rotate every round, some spaces have sandbags available for sandbag burpees
MARY: despite Dan and Dave’s request, Nope
MOLESKINE: Don’t let “perfect” be the enemy of “good”
ANNOUNCEMENTS: something at ML Rose benefiting 4:13 strong soon, reach out to Red Skull , Barney or Decaf for details
COT: Kept Private
PLAYLIST: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJt79jx7utddEqINdZiN9ph8az_GB90I8&si=HjiJj3bQpEXh7vLR

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The Stronghold

Date: 2026-10-01 AO: The Stronghold Q: hambone , PAX: Tinkertoy, hambone, Young and Restless, Red Skull, Epcot (F3 Tulsa), Barney, Dan and Dave, 12 of 4:13’s Finest FNGs: None COUNT: 19 CONDITIONS: Dark, but not dark enough that I could completely pop out of the dark…but close enough
WARMUP: No.
THE THANG:
Phase 1) Take off running and get limber.
Commence sit up protocol. We reached 67, but pax decided to stop. Restart sit up protocol. Team made it to 24 sit ups before we needed to mosey.
Phase 2) Take off running and commence next phase of exercises
Commence squat protocol for 87 squats. Switch protocol back to sit ups for 60 more.
Revert to squat protocol for 50 more.
Phase 3) Take off running and head to shuttle run area
Shuttle area protocol–run down and back. Repeat as instructed.
During shuttle protocol, failures of effort were noticed. The team proceeded to burpee protocol for 24.
Shuttle protocol resumed with new rules–don’t let hambone beat you. The crew gave solid effort.
Phase 3) Return to StartEx – Part 1
Team proceeded to move out towards StartEx. Team needed to pause and do 30 more situps to wait for pax.
Phase 4) Return to StartEx – Part 2
Return to StartEx and commence burpee protocol for 30 burpees.
Time.
MOLESKINE: There is no
ANNOUNCEMENTS: ML Rose oct 21 donations, etc
COT: prayers for healing, family friends passing, children, and going forward with heads held high.
PLAYLIST: HA no.
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The Stronghold

Date: 2026-09-24 AO: The Stronghold Q: Tinkertoy , PAX: Hipster, Wham-O, Swig, Decaf, Barney, Red Skull, Right Said, Pepsi, Tinkertoy, Shocker (Mark Holmes), Doché Milé, Sausage Man, DeVito, SpaghettiO, Hoody, Good Luck Charlie, Bedazzled, Unc, Heart Song, Strike Out, Cheese Wiz, Floyd FNGs: 12 Doché Milé, Sausage Man, DeVito, SpaghettiO, Hoody, Good Luck Charlie, Bedazzled, Unc, Heart Song, Strike Out, Cheese Wiz, Floyd COUNT: 22 CONDITIONS: Ideal 67*
WARMUP: SSH, Hamstrings, WMH, DownDog, Foot2Hand, Hand up thread through, Inch worn, Shoulder Press, Phelps
THE THANG: Hills and Thrills Mosey to hill 11s and Hills -Merkin and Burpee -Lunge up mosey down -Proceed as a group 7sand Hills -Squat jump and dry dock -Bernie up mosey down Mosey to startx -Circle of thrust
MARY: N/A
MOLESKINE: Bernie up the hill was brutal
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Struggle 008 10/02 start.
COT: Men are stronger together in a community of like minded men
PLAYLIST: TinkeToy Special
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The Stronghold

Date: 2026-09-17 AO: The Stronghold Q: Right Said , PAX: Dan and Dave, Young and Restless, Hipster, Tinkertoy, Red Skull, Right Said, Barney, Tax Man, Hootie, Dolce Mile, et al. FNGs: None COUNT: 24 CONDITIONS: Beautiful
WARMUP: SSHs, Merkins Partner up, mosey, learn 3 facts about your partner grab a block and head to basketball court
THE THANG: One partner does stationary exercise, other partner travels. Partners switch 50 block curls, bear crawls 50 rows, crab walk 50 overhead presses, shuttle run 50 partner around-the-worlds
MARY: Sit-ups, LBCs, flutter kicks
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The Stronghold

Date: 2026-08-27 AO: The Stronghold Q: Barney , PAX: Young and Restless, Barney FNGs: None COUNT: 2 CONDITIONS: perfect
WARMUP: Mosey, SSH, WMH
THE THANG: 5 sets with mosey in between: Burpees – 10 WW1 – 20 Merkins – 30 Squats – 40 Plank – 50 sec
MARY:
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8-Count Body Builders!

Date: 2026-08-20 AO: The Stronghold Q: Hipster , Red Skull PAX: Young and Restless, Hipster, Red Skull, toga, Barney, Right Said, Decaf, Dr. Brown Slip, Zummies, Gumbo, Micro Soft, Sweet Tooth, Purple Rain, Stick Death, Cuties, Pinto, Blue Cheese, Dory, Krabby Patty FNGs: None COUNT: -15 CONDITIONS: Absolutely Perfect – wet, rainy with a little thunder
WARMUP: Started with a mosey to the front school lot; YHC was unsatisfied with the effort to extended the mosey to the NSA parking lot. The warm up included a Scorpion Stretch to ensure our front side was wet and some WW1 to get the backside wet.
THE THANG: After demonstrating how to count and execute the 8-count body builder movement, each 4:13 Strong man came in the middle, introduced himself and told us one thing he had learned about himself over the past 40 Days. Then he lead us in 5 8-count body builders. That brought our 8-count body builder count to 60.
Mosey to the Smokestack parking lot where each 4:13 Strong man told us about a goal and then led us in another 5 8-count body builders bring our total to 115.
Mosey back to the NSA lot where toga led us in the final 5 to get our total up to 120.
Mosey back to the StartEx and time was up.
MARY: No time for Mary today
MOLESKINE: So thankful for the rain this morning. There is nothing better than getting a man into adverse conditions to help him realize that he can do hard and uncomfortable things. There was a lot of self pity this morning as the 4:13 Strong were feeling sorry for themselves for getting a little wet. The perfect way to end the 40 Day Challenge. Thanks to bluemule for the workout idea and the F3 PAX that joined us.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Signing Day is tomorrow at 11:30am. Come join us.
COT: Prayers for guidance and wisdom as these men transition into the Work Phase of the program.
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Perpetual Motion Engine

Date: 2026-08-13 AO: The Stronghold Q: SalPal , PAX: Dan and Dave, Tinkertoy, Wham-O, Dr. Brown Slip, Young and Restless, Red Skull, SalPal, The 4:13 Guys (had to duck out before COT due to morning obligations) FNGs: None COUNT: 8 CONDITIONS: 77 and Humid PLEASE MAKE IT STOP
WARMUP:Burpees, rifle carry your blocks.
THE THANG: Perpetual Motion. EMOM with 10 seconds to rotate b/w stations of sprints, plank hold, burpees and thrusters (which became squats).
MARY: 5 burpee buyout + whatever Red Skull came up with.
MOLESKINE: GET OFF THE X. When you don’t know what to do, the worst thing to do is freeze. Keep moving. Do the next right thing.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: See slack.
COT: For intentions unspoken and spoken.
PLAYLIST: Decaf yelling “I see you ”
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The Stronghold

Date: 2026-07-23 AO: The Stronghold Q: Chunks , PAX: Tinkertoy, Young and Restless, Vanilla Ice, Red Skull, tampalibra, Barney, Dr. Brown Slip, Decaf, Chunks, Purple Rain, Top Chef, Stick Death?, Zoomie, Curious?, Cat Woman, Bisquick, Sweet Tooth, Crabby Patty, Blue Cheese, Pinto, Squid, Micro Soft, Gumbo, Dory FNGs: None COUNT: 24 CONDITIONS:
WARMUP:
THE THANG: Burpees with Chunks. Hills with Chunks
MARY:
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ANNOUNCEMENTS: Hipster FartSacked the Q
COT:
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