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Date: 2025-10-06
AO: thefarm
Q: Infinity
PAX: Running Man, Firehead, Lumbergh, Trilogy
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WarmUp: IWs, Beet Pickers, Tie Fighters (Tempo Lunge while doing LBAC), Fist-Bump Merkins, Mountain Climbers, Michael Phelps, and Mosey.

The Thang: Blackjack! Using a standard 52-card deck, have the PAX draw cards until (1) the PAX decides to hold, the cards add to 21, or the PAX draw another card that puts the total over 21 (a bust). Anytime someone gets 21, take a 21-count rest.

Each round, perform as many of the following exercises as the number on the cards of their suites: – Spades: Jump Squats
– Diamonds: CDDs
– Clubs: Bonnie Blairs (single count)
– Hearts: Beast Merkins (from forward leaning tben z rest position, squat back onto balls of feet, then gss so forward and down into a Merkin)

Also perform one of the following, depending on the total score each round: – Hold: 60m Sprint
– Blackjack (21): 21-count rest
– Bust: 30m Bear Crawl

Mary: Freddie Mercury, J-Lo’s, Box Cutters, Side Crunches, and Dolphin Crunches.

Announcements:

CoT:
Rule 4: Compare Yourself to Who You Were Yesterday, Not Who Someone Else is Today
No matter how good you are at something, or how you rank your accomplishments,there is someone out there who makes you look incompetent.
You might object: I should be winning at everything! But winning at everything might only mean that you’re not doing anything new or difficult. You might be winning but you’re not growing, and growing might be the most important form of winning.
Happiness is to be found in the journey uphill, and not in the fleeting sense of satisfaction awaiting at the next peak.

Tags: thefarm, Running Man, Firehead, Lumbergh, Trilogy

Date: 2025-10-05
AO: social-distance
Q: Popeyes
PAX: Big Short, Breach, Booking, Gambler
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP: Observed that there were no ruckers
THE THANG: Cemetery run for about 6.7 miles
MARY: 43 merkins
ANNOUNCEMENTS: El Pollo Rico family meals offering a full chicken is on par with Popeyes family special… the only decision is if you want fried vs rotisserie
COT: be a well behaved adult during your kid’s sporting event (soccer mainly) and stay away from swim meets

Tags: social-distance, Big Short, Breach, Booking, Gambler

Date: 2025-10-03
AO: theaerie
Q: Rocketman
PAX: Watchdog, Lonestar, Trifecta, Stewie
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP: Some standard warmups.

THE THANG:

Two tabata rounds of the following stations:

– Merkins
– Big Boi Situps
– jump rope
– exercise bands (rows,
– sandbag squats

Between each round, do a mosey then pick out a yoga pose and go in/out of it for 2 min.

– stretch up
– touch toes
– child’s pose
– downward dog / cobra kai

MARY:

– LBCs
– Penguin Taps
– Flutter Kicks

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

– The Grunt on Veteran’s Day
– Old Rag Hike Oct 26th

COT:

Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-‬18 ESV

https://bible.com/bible/59/1th.5.16-18.ESV

Tags: theaerie, Watchdog, Lonestar, Trifecta, Stewie

Date: 2025-10-03
AO: thepatriot
Q: citrus
PAX: Trademark, Hops, Bob the Builder, Rim Fire, CableGuy, Anchorman, Maguire, My Space, Big Short, 2 percent, Flipper, Enron, Hard Case FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
We closed the books on IPC 2025. A few PAX earned their IPC t-shirts (remember – you can only wear it if you do all 5 IPC beatdowns).

WARMUP: Yep
THE THANG: IPC 2025 Week 4. 50 Burpees, 100 Merkins, 150 Lunges (easy way), 200 air squats, 150 Lunges (easy way), 100 Merkins, 50 Burpees. Various lengths of murder bunnies, running, and reverse murder bunnies interspersed. MARY: Not during IPC – no time.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: TODAY @ 5:30p: HH at Westover Beer Garden / 10/24: Old Rag Hike / 11/8: The Grunt
COT: No self-respecting trainer would program something like IPC Week 4 as a way to improve your physical conditioning. But the PAX do the training so that they can do CSAUPs like this. Mad respect to the PAX who turned out for this full-body enema. You could have slept in or gone to another AO, but you chose the hard path. Good on you.

Tags: thepatriot, Trademark, Hops, Bob the Builder, Rim Fire, CableGuy, Anchorman, Maguire, My Space, Big Short, 2 percent, Flipper, Enron, Hard Case

Date: 2025-10-03
AO: ao-the-bullpen
Q: Peloton
PAX: Crystal, Hops (F3 C’Ville), Peloton
FNGs: None
COUNT: 3
WARMUP:
– 10:1 Motivators (10:6, jailbreak from home plate to centerfield warning track, 5:1, jailbreak back to home plate) – Imperial Walkers
– Willy Mays Hayes
– Stretch OYO

THE THANG:
– Home Plate – 4 Burpees
– Rifle Carry to 3rd – 30 Curls
– Rifle Carry to Home – 4 Burpees
– Rifle Carry to 2nd – 20 OHP
– Rifle Carry to Home – 4 Burpees
– Rifle Carry to 1st – 10 CPRs
– Rifle Carry to Home – 4 Burpees
– Mosey the fence line
– REPEAT three more times (Burpees become Blockees on the last round).

MARY:
– LBCs
– Penguin Tappers
– Captain Thors
– Plank-o-rama

COT:
– Shared (again) one of my favorite poems: The Man in the Glass:

When you get what you want in your struggle for self
and the world makes you king for a day
Just go to the mirror and look at yourself
and see what that man has to say

For it isn’t your father or mother or wife
who judgment upon you must pass
The one whose verdict counts the most in your life
is the staring back from the glass

You may be like Jack Horner and chisel a plum
and think your a wonderful guy
But the man in the glass says you’re only a bum
if you can’t look him straight in the eye

He’s the fellow to please never mind all the rest
for he’s with you clear to the end
And you’ve passed your most dangerous difficult test
if the man in the glass is your friend

You may fool the whole world down the pathway years
And get pats on the back as you pass
But your final reward will be heartaches and tears
If you’ve cheated the man in the glass.

Tags: ao-the-bullpen, Crystal, Hops (F3 C’Ville), Peloton