Category: Uncategorized

Date: 2026-06-29
AO: The Driveway
Q: Play-Doh ,
PAX: Play-Doh, Flux, Prestige
FNGs: None
COUNT: 3
WARMUP:

SSH, IW, HB, WMH, MP, IYTWs, DD, WGS, CK, Goblet Squats

THE THANG:

Cut Frankenbuddy down to 115 lbs of awkward Cordura coated weight & carried around WMS and DES.

Stopped to trade places and for
– Slow eccentric step ups
– Flutter kicks with ruck hold
– Free hangs for spinal decompression
– Slow Kettlebell Romanian Deadlifts

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

– Ruck float & 9/11 Stair Climb Coming Up
– Pax will be traveling for summer
– May run another Kettlebell session Friday

COT:

Let the pursuit of fitness goals drive your creativity and inventiveness, but don’t let ego push you too far past your limits or you risk injury. Look at the great Louie Simmons, legendary power lifter and founder of Westside Barbell. He revolutionized strength training because he let his goals drive his creativity—inventing new tools, methods, and machines when standard approaches failed. We have him to thank for the use of heavy chains and heavier bands, the belt squat and reverse hyper machines. But he also broke his back twice and tore his tendons off the bone because he let ego blind him to his absolute physical limits. Be inventive in how you pursue your strength, but be smart enough to survive the process.

Date: 2026-06-29
AO: Acropolis
Q: Hightower ,
PAX: OnlyFans, Atlas, Hightower, NOAA, Bird man, Doodles, HalfCaf FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WARMUP:
Stretching and warm ups in parking lot, followed by Ricky Bobby passing sledgehammer to back fields

THE THANG:
Set up 7 stations:
Station 1: right side sledgehammer tractor tire
Station 2: left side sledgehammer tractor tire
Station 3: run out and back
Station 4: roll tractor tire
Station 5: tractor tire flips
Station 6: push sled
Station 7: bear crawls

End of round Ricky Bobby lap around track.

Group got 2 rounds done!

MARY:
Ring of Fire core work.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
None

COT:
Getting uncomfortable gives us opportunities to learn, grow, develop new skills. Keep pushing yourselves, to post in the Gloom, but also to try other AOs and, or take on Q to lead. Both great opportunities to learn, grow, develop your leadership skills!

Date: 2026-06-29
AO: Hamilton
Q: Sloop ,
PAX: Sloop, Hobbyhorse, Tax Guy
FNGs: None
COUNT: 3
WARMUP: the usual
THE THANG:
3 Rounds
Ladder of blockees with lap. Go upto 5.

3 rounds
Down dog to Cobra Kai to Warrior 1 pose 30 count to alternate leg raise backwards 30 count

MARY: 3 rounds of
Plank or Supermans. 30 count.
Upside down bug 30 count
ANNOUNCEMENTS: evening workouts and beers; check out the_night_owl
COT: there is a lot to be said for putting one foot in front of the other, and getting things done. Sometimes it does not feel like progress, but it is.

Date: 2026-06-29
AO: Terrapin Station
Q: Goldfish ,
PAX: 2 percent, Goldfish, Ripcord, Summit, Enron, Ice Tea
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARMUP: the usual

THE THANG:
started with 11s of merkins and squats for the monthlychallenge crew

then the thunderdome – one partner coupon carries around the dome while the other performs exercises. keep swapping until done. exercises were 100 burpees, 150 thrusters, 200 SSHs

MARY: not this Monday

ANNOUNCEMENTS: thedriveway is now M/W/F, remember this option for recovery and mobility! 9/11 stair climb (25th anniversary), let’s invite folks from outside the area too.

COT: YHC talked about a friend doing okay with a collapsed lung due to being in good shape, which is another good reminder to keep coming out in the gloom together and working hard like everybody did today.

Date: 2026-06-28
AO: TG10
Q: Hobbyhorse ,
PAX: Gherkin, Hobbyhorse, Lazlo
FNGs: None
COUNT: 3
WARMUP: stretch
THE THANG: sq, bc, m, cb. Gherkin takes first narrowly, closely followed by Lazlo, and Hobbyhorse gets a participation ribbon MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: