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Tag: Petey

Expect the Unexpected

THA-THANG:

25 reps Rock Presses

10 reps 4-ct Flutter Kicks

50 reps Rock Squats

5 reps Burpees

Exercise Dice Ladder

  • Roll Dice. Do exercise.
  • Mosey to other side of field.
  • Do an 8-Count Merkins (increase by one rep every time until you reach 8 then go back down the ladder)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
22 PAX

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Expect the unexpected in life. Obstacles can be seen as roadblocks or opportunities for growth.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
4 AUG- 2nd F at Anders

11 AUG- 3rd F at Overlook

18 AUG- Kickball

25 AUG- CSAUP

Alphabet Soup, Big Ball Style

THE SCENE: Balmy mid-70’s with LOTS of humidity!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x10 IC

Baby Arm Circles Forward x10 IC

Backers x10 IC

Little bit of this (Right arm across)

Little bit of that (Left arm across)

Hillbilly x10 IC

Little bit of this (Right arm stretch overhead)

Little bit of that (Left arm stretch overhead)

Michael Phelps

THA-THANG:
This morning, we decided to make sure we got ourselves in a full-body workout! We began our workout by moseying to the ledge of the amphitheater stage:

  • 15 single IC leg squats with right leg
  • 15 single IC leg squats with left leg
  • 15 incline merkins IC
  • Another set of single leg squats IC x 10
  • 10 incline merkins IC
  • Go up to handrails and as a group do 15 single count reverse pulls

Mosey over to the Church Street United Methodist back parking lot with the hill. We got in groups of 3 (2 groups had 4). One partner at the top and one parter at the bottom. Partner 3 is the runner that makes everyone rotate.

At the top, Partner 1 chooses 2 rocks that he can do a merkin with while partner 3 chooses a rock he can do squat-thrursts with.

For Time:

Partner 1 does merkins while gripping his rock, after each merkin he does a row with each arm

Partner 2 is at bottom of hill doing 10 squat thrusts with his rock then rotating to 10 mountain climbers

Partner 3 starts at bottom of the hill next to Partner 2. He’ll Bernie Sanders halfway up the hill, then run forward to Partner 1 at top of hill. Then, Partner 1 will run down hill, rinse and repeat

1 Minute Break

Continue exercise except this time Partner 1 will start with 5 Carolina Dry Docks at top of hill, then do 5 merkin rows with his rock. Partner 2 will just do squat thrusts. Partner 3 continues running.

Mosey over to top part of church parking lot near Henley Street Bridge. The PAX decided we wanted to get on the level of my almost one year old so we chose a medium-sized bolder and spelled the alphabet (all UPPERCASE) together, with each letter beginning at our belly button. Some of the PAX decided they wanted to spell their letter in italics, hieroglyphics, san script and Times New Roman…so I let them.

From our spelling bee, we moseyed back to the amphitheater where we did 10 more IC single leg squats then moseyed back to the AO for a little ab’s.

MARY:
15 IC Grinders, each side

25 Star Gazer LBC’s
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
23 PAX (including 2 FNG’s): Half Caff, Moana, Thread Count, Butterfly, Jenner, Petey, Cowbell, Careless, Casper, Soot, Abort, Guano, Quarantine, Uncle Rico, Duggar, Roto, The Voice, Bulldog, Bitcoin, Soup, Reverb (FNG), Beaker (FNG), Passport (QIC)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“Proximity breed empathy. Distance breeds suspicion.” Across our country and in our day-to-day lives, we use the words “Us” and “Them” a lot. An African-American pastor recently stated that saying in relationship to the racial divide in our country. But, I think this can be applied to many areas of our lives, not just race. Do we have a relationship with “those people” who look different from us, act different, in a different socio-economic class than us? Maybe you’re in a fraternity and look down on others who may not be in your “group.” Or, maybe it’s something like the LGBTQ community, that all you know about them is things you’ve seen at a distance but don’t actually know anything about them or anyone in the group.

My challenge to you is to ask “those people” who you’d otherwise not be in close relationship about their story. People love to talk about themselves. I think you’ll quickly begin to have empathy for them and be reminded of how we’re all created in the image of God. Reach out to someone who’s not like you and maybe you’ll see a side of empathy you didn’t know you had.

MOLESKIN:
The PAX pushed hard today! Mumblechatter was great and felt like everyone got a little bit better after this morning.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Make sure to get on GroupMe for announcements and updates. Abort mentioned about getting a Big Ball kickball team together and will get more info out to us.

Long way around

THE SCENE: 72* and rain ending right before we began
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Tempo squats x10 IC
Wide merkins straight into ranger merkins
Hammy stretches
A little of this and that
SSH x20 IC
THA-THANG:
Mosey away from the fountains in the direction of the amphitheater, running around the theater and coming back in from the far side.  Assemble near the stage to start 11’s routine.  PAX instructed to start with 10 Catalina wine mixers at the bottom on the stage (on wood planks instead of concrete, easier on the elbows), lunge up the middle two sections of stairs, finish with 1 squat jump at the top, then run down the outside sections of stairs.  Normal 11’s procedure, decrease reps of Catalina wine mixers each iteration while increasing reps of squat jumps.

Jack rabbits perform ab exercises on the stage awaiting the rest to finish up.  Butterfly led side crunches, Abort on flutter kicks, Pfeiffer on American hammers, Soot on flat leg sit ups, Quarantine on heals to heaven.  Recover and 10 count.  Run out the back side of the amphitheater and again around and back to the war memorial near the start point.

Partner up with someone you haven’t partnered with before for Dora routine.  Partner one performs exercises while partner two runs to the other end of the parking lot, up the small stairs, performs two burpees, and returns to relieve partner one.  Flapjack and continue until all exercises complete:

  • Dips x100
  • Flutter kicks on four count x100
  • Box jumps x100

Recover, 10 count, and run around the long way and back to start point for Mary

MARY:
Edward scissor legs x15 IC
Immediately move to plank for 30 seconds
Immediately move back to 6 for box cutters x10
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
15 Strong: Also in attendance (getting tags added) The Voice and Roto
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
As men, we tend to take the long way around.  Sometimes, taking the hard path or the long way (like in a workout) is a great thing to do.  However, when it comes to happiness, that is an area that I challenge myself and those around me to NOT take the long way around.  We don’t need to get that perfect job, to achieve that higher paycheck, to afford the house and the cars and the stress free life to achieve happiness.  In this case, we need to take the short path by realizing the incredible blessings we already have.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Big Ball better have at least one team for Guardians for Garrett kickball tournament this year!!!

Century Hill

THE SCENE: 69 degrees.  Humid
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Baby arm circles forward/back x12 (4 Ct)

Windmill x 12 (4 ct)

SSH x 20 (4 ct)

Tempo Merkin x10

5 Burpees on your own

THA-THANG:

  • Aiken Legs:  20 squats, 20 box jumps, 20lunges (10 each leg), 20 plank jacks.  Rinse and repeat.
  • Mosey to Candy factory for Century Hill.  Run from Candy factory to top of hill.  10 of each exercise at top of hill, each lamp post and bottom of hill.  Should total 100 reps.  Run back to top and start round 2, etc.  Round 1: Merkins.  2.: WWII sit ups.  3: CDD,  4.   Flutter kicks.
  • Mosey back to AO for Mary

MARY

Captain Thors with 1:4,2:8,3:12,4:16,5:20 ratios

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
16 strong.  2 FNGs.  Welcome The Voice (Jordan Wright) and Patty Melt (Parker Greene)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don’t have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.”
MOLESKIN:
Prayer requests:  Sam in Arizona battling cancer.  Greg in Knoxville who recently passed from cancer as well as for his family.  Marriages.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill this weekend.

Ups and downs

THE SCENE: 62* and clear, perfect for a beatdown or some more SWAT training
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH 20x IC
Temp squats 10x IC
Peter Parker merkins 10x IC
Imperial walkers 10x IC
Large group and plenty of mosey in store, had PAX number off prior to leaving AO to ensure we leave no one behind.

THA-THANG:
Mosey out of the SP towards amphitheater, making right turn up the hill.  Stop and Al Gore at red light at 17th street while waiting for the 6 to catch up.  Cross 17th and mosey around parking garage to the pedestrian bridge at the bottom of The Hill.
PAX lunge across bridge
First person across (Petey) clears the ramp and begins merkins, PAX join in as they clear the bridge.

Continue mosey to the west side of Ayres Hall on The Hill.  Routine is Sevens.

  • Start with 6 burpees at the bottom, run to the top of the hill, 1 jump squat.  Return to the bottom for 5 burpees etc. working through the Sevens routine.
  • Jackrabbits instructed to alternate between 15 merkins and 15 BBS at the top once completed.

Recover and 10 count.  PAX take a slow mosey down the stairs on the west side of the hill toward the University Center.  PAX instructed to find a battle buddy who they have never paired with before.  Partner A will start at the bottom of the stairs and sprint the stairs to the top, turn around and return.  Partner B does as many reps as possible of exercise one until Parter A returns.  Flapjack, Partner A does exercise one as many reps while Parter B runs.  Then move onto exercise two and continue through.  Exercises

  • Plank jacks
  • Superman swims
  • Table rows
  • Hand release merkins
  • Thrusters

Recover and 10 count.  Begin mosey back to AO

MARY:
Floor wipers 6x IC

New exercise, Q tried to move too quickly.  We’ll get there haha
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
22 Strong: Preacher, Half Caff, Soot, Petey, Stagehand, Singlet, Pretzel, Bareback, Lactate, Swanson, Filter, G6, Waffle House, Careless, Quarantine, Cougar, Cowbell, Downhill, Threadcount, Bitcoin, Rousey, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Don’t have a scarcity mentality, where you believe to get more you must take from others.  Have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets bigger.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill OCR in two Saturdays.  A few spots still open, and if anyone would like to volunteer or knows anyone that might to get in touch with Tank or with me and I’ll get them to Tank.