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DATE: 2021-11-01
AO: Patriot
Q: Lazlo
PAX: Bone, CableGuy, Lucius, Maj. Payne, Wedding Singer, My Space FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
They say variety is the spice of life, so I guess this Q was sort of the baking soda. But I know everyone wanted to get a head start on the 100 blockies a day monthly challenge and felt like I should oblige.

WARMUP: SSH, Imperial Walkers, hillbillies, cherry pickers, LBACs, Michael Phelps, Ricky Bobby lap at an uncomfortably fast pace

THE THANG:
It’s complicated but see if you can follow. Get a coupon. Bear crawl with it to the 5. Do a blockie. Another 5, and 2 blockies. Continue pattern to the 50 where you’ll do 10 blockies. Turn around. Go 5 yards and do 9 blockies and work your way back. When you get to the goal line and realize that the exercise would be zero blockies, which just feels wrong, do 3 burpees.

Part 2: To spice things up, we did something new.
Round of 10: murder bunny to the 10. Do 10 kettlebells
10 coupon squats
10 derkins
10 thrusters
Rifle carry back

Round of 20: murder bunny to the 20
20 each of the same exercises
Rifle carry back

Decide that a round of 30 is a bad idea. Repeat round of 10.

Wrap up with a 100 yd rifle carry, and another 100 yd rifle carry.

MARY: 10x WWIs, 10x toy soldiers
Repeato x3

ANNOUNCEMENTS: grunt, Chad 1000, turkey trot, 2nd F

COT: the Q has been staying up a lot watching the Braves and knew that the fart sack was going to have a strong pull today. So signing up to lead this fine group was a strategy to make sure I started the week the right way. Very much appreciate this group for giving me that opportunity and holding me accountable.

DATE: 2021-10-28
AO: Highlands
Q: 2 percent
PAX: Booking, Speedo, Trolley
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WARMUP: SSH, Hill Billy’s, Arm Circles, Michael Phelps, Willy Mays Hays, Imperial Walkers, Cherry Pickers, Downward Dog, Kobra Kai
THE THANG: the Pax completed multiple exercises based on whether or not they were able to toss an inflatable inner tube onto a parking cone. No one succeeded and zero points were awarded. Then we moved to sets and reps of exercises that were determined by rolling giant lawn dice. I am very tired and just want to go to bed but I need to write this so Paxminder doesn’t Pax shame me for the month of October. DM if you want the full details of the workout. MARY: Nolan Ryan’s
ANNOUNCEMENTS: the Grunt 11/6
COT: quotes about luck. None of which came from Andrew.

DATE: 2021-10-30
AO: Farm
Q: Chile
PAX: Infinity, Matthew – Running Man, Gekko (Keith Capp)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WARMUP:
Grady Corn
Beet pickers
Willie Mays Hayes
Michael Phelps
Imperial walkers
THE THANG:
LARM Stations Workout –
AMRAP – 1 minute, 20 second rest, next station
Arms – Coupon Curls, Bent Over Rows
Legs – Lunges, Squats w/resistance band
Abs – LBCs, High to low plank
R – Jump Ropes, Rosalitas
M – Merkins, Mountain Climbers
MARY:
Penguin crunches
Australian snow angels
Starfish crunches
PAX Choice/Pass the mike
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Veterans Day memorial run/workout next Saturday
COT:
Excellence vs. Perfection
Don’t seek perfection, but instead strive for excellence. It may seem that these two have only subtle semantic distinctions; but in fact they are quite at odds. Perfection is excellence’s somewhat pernicious cousin. It is pedantic, binary, unforgiving and inflexible. Certainly there are times when “perfection” is necessary to establish standards, like in performance athletics such as diving and gymnastics. But in general, perfection is someone else’s perception of an ideal, and pursuing it is like chasing a hallucination. Anxiety, low self-esteem, obsessive compulsive disorder, substance abuse, and clinical depression are only a few of the conditions ascribed to “perfectionism.” To be clear, those are ominous barriers to success.

Excellence is an attitude, not an endgame. The word excellence is derived from the Greek word Arête which is bound with the notion of fulfillment of purpose or function and is closely associated with virtue. It is far more forgiving, allowing and embracing failure and vulnerability on the ongoing quest for improvement. It allows for disappointment, and prioritizes progress over perfection.
>From “5 Characteristics Of Grit — How Many Do You Have?” by Margaret Perlis, Forbes Magazine, October 2013.

DATE: 2021-10-26
AO: Atlantis
Q: Deflator
PAX: Rogue, Hammerhead, True North, Bratwurst
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP: Jumping Jack-o-Lanterns, Scarecrow Circles, Pumpkin Pickers, Zombie Fighters, thriller burpees, Friday the 13th Merkins, Frankensteins
THE THANG: Mosey around and pass around calling Boo! – the called out Pax then led 3 Burpees, 3 Overhead Claps, 3 O’s (ab exercise). We passed around the Boo! 2 rounds throughout the workout.

Mosey back to the start. Perform descending sets of Burpees, Squats, Werewolf Merkins, Big Boi Sit-ups. Round of 10 each then run around the fake grass “trick or treating”. Back to start and do 9 of each, run, 8 each etc until we got to 1. MARY: I think we did a plank off and then ab mountain climbers. ANNOUNCEMENTS: None
COT: Always keep your old Weinkes handy in case you get tapped to Q at the last minute. Recycling is encouraged in F3!

DATE: 2021-10-30
AO: Aerie
Q: Rocketman
PAX: Chasqui
FNGs: None
COUNT: 2
Warmup/CoP

– Imperial Walkers x12, IC
– Michael Phelps x12, IC
– Hillbilly Walkers x12, IC
– Don Quixote x12, IC
– Squat jumps x12

THE THANG

Performed on a large diamond (square). For the first round, do 7 reps of an exercise at each of the 4 corners with a mosey (or sprint) in between corners. Each round, increase by 7 reps with a different exercise each round, for a total of 4 rounds. Then head back down!

1. 7 burpees, count
2. 14 XYs, IC
3. 21 Big Boi Situps, ups
4. 28 SSHs, single count
5. 21 Squats, IC
6. 14 Nolan Ryans, IC
7. 7 Bonnie Blairs (didn’t reach)

6 MoM

Stretch day!

– 3 count Don Quixote
– Frankensteins
– 3 count cherry picker hold
– Modified frankensteins (IT band)
– Willie Mays Hayes
– Cobra Kai