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Blackjack – Recycled

THE SCENE: Dark and Dry

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH, BAC, Mtn Climbers, Suzanne Summers, Tempo Squats, Tempo Merkins, Smurf Jacks, 5 burpees on your own.

 

THA-THANG #1:

Ciabattas (20 seconds follow by 10 sec rest): Burpees, Jump Squats, Lung Jumps, SSH, Merkins, Mtn Climbers, American Hammers, Barrier Jumps

Then Suicides

THA-THANG #2: 

Black Jack (animal style):

1 MRK, animal walk to end of parking lot then 20 BBS and run back. Then 2 MRK and 19 BBS. All the way to 21. BLACKJACK!

MARY:
Ring of Fire, Bicycles, Flutter Kicks, Captain Thors

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I don’t remember what I said but I bet it was good.

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

THE SCENE: Chilly…Finally!

WARM-O-RAMA:
Some Fast SSH, Tempo Merkins, Tempo Squats, BAC

THA-THANG:
7 of Diamonds

Cones set up like a baseball diamond. Same workout at each cone for certain number of rounds. Animal crawl to next cone.

  • Round 1 – 7 Burpees – Lunge between cones
  • Round 2 – 14 Flutter Kicks (4ct) – Bear Crawl
  • Round 3 – 21 Merkins – Duck walk
  • Round 4 – 28 Squats – Crab Walk
  • Round 5 – 21 BBS – Lunge
  • Round 6 – 14 Merkins – Duck Walk
  • Round 7 – 7 Burpees – Bear Crawl

MARY:
Circle of Pain

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
1 Corinthians 13: 1-4tou

Crawl bear up the ladder

THE SCENE: Low 60s again, just having perfect gloom weather
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
3-point squats
BAC Forward
OH Claps
BAC Reverse
SSH
THA-THANG:
Grab keys and mosey out of the pavilion, out of the park and across the street to the parking lot of Fountain City United Methodist Church.  Routine is going down Jacob’s ladder.  Start in the lower parking lot, where you always do 5 BBSUs.  Run up the parking lot until you reach the split, and crawl bear up the storm drain to the upper parking lot.  Once you reach the upper lot, you have 10 eight count bodybuilders, then run out to the sidewalk and back down the hill to the lower lot.
The five BBSUs at the bottom remains the same for every iteration, but you decrease your reps of eight counts at the top.  Rounds 10-6 are eight counts, rounds 5-1 switch to diamond merkins at the top (this felt generous).

Everyone finished mostly at the same time, after which I thought we needed some lower body work.  Has been a while since I’d thrown in leg blasters, so we knocked out a round of that.  All exercises done together in cadence with no rest in between:

  • 20 squats
  • 20 lunges
  • 10 jump squats

I forgot how fun it is to run after doing those.  The plan was to reverse the ladder and do 10-6 with diamond merkins and 5-1 with eight counts, but time was a little short and I wanted to hit the escalator.  So we moseyed around to the parking lot adjacent to the duck pond.  I stole Swanson’s idea for the escalator without running from Tuesday.  Exercises as follows:

  • Imperial walkers (left right one)
  • Hello Dolly (4 count)
  • Alternating shoulder taps (left right one)
  • Crab cakes (left right one)
  • Dips on curb
  • Hand release merkins

Start at 1 rep of each, work down the list and return to the top.  Increase reps each time on the way to 10.  I think we finished 8 before time ran out.

MARY:
Crunches with feet elevated 6″
Flutter kicks
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5 Strong: Filter, Duggar, Manilow, Toucan, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Cap’n had sent a text with the following passage from The Daily Stoic: “When the standards have been set, things are tested and weighed.  And the work of philosophy is just this, to examine and uphold the standards, but the work of a truly good person is in using the standards when they know them.” – Epictetus
To me, one of the standards I need to both set and make sure that I am upholding is making my actions and decisions come from a place of love.  That doesn’t mean to always be nice, because as we’ve learned from the Q source you have to be able to tell people the difficult truths in life.  However, sugarcoating a problem or ignoring it also is not upholding the standard.  I need to make sure my actions are always based in love and to leave no doubt that that is the case.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Can drive for Second Harvest and Brolympics on November 9.

Mogadishu Mile

THE SCENE: Partly Cloudy, 63°F, Feels like 63°F, Humidity 62%, Wind 2mph from NNW
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • 19x SSH IC
  • 19x LBAC Forward & Backwards IC
  • 19x Squats
  • Little of This, Little of That

THA-THANG:

Mogadishu Mile
4 rounds
19 CMU swings
19 CMU squats
19 CMU push-ups (one hand on CMU)
400 meter CMU carry

Always keep a hand on CMU, if you remove your hand from the CMU restart the round.

Descending bear crawls (start at 13 push-ups and reduce by one on each curb)

Elevens – flutter kicks to hammers to completion

MARY:

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

The symbolism of the “Mogadishu Mile”
  • You cover a total distance of one mile. Even though the soldiers actually walked between 2.5 and 3 miles depending on their starting point, it has become known as a “mile”. You carry your CMU during the run to symbolize the gear the soldiers carried.
  • 19 reps – one honoring each soldier of Task Force Ranger killed during the battle and the day after.
  • CMU Swings – as the soldiers held up their rifles the entire time
  • CMU Squats – as they sought cover behind anything available
  • CMU Push-ups – as they fell to the ground and had to get back up
  • Don’t let the CMU go – symbolic for the dedication the soldiers showed towards their creed to ‘not leave a man behind
On October 3rd, 1993, members of the 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment and 1st SFOD-D (Delta Force), supported by pilots from the 160th Aviation Regiment (Nightstalkers) and other SF units, went into the city of Mogadishu, Somalia to execute Operation ‘Gothic Serpent’, an attempt to apprehend key players in Mohammed Farrah Aidid’s dictatorship. While the initial mission went smoothly, things took a turn for the worse when two aircraft were shot down, forever coining the phrase ‘Blackhawk Down’. Determined to not leave a man behind, and also facing the task of securing the crash sites, Rangers and Deltas, scattered at several locations throughout the city, under heavy fire, most of them wounded, and low on supplies held their positions until the morning hours of October 4th.
As help from the 10th Mountain Division finally arrived, the armored vehicles could not accommodate all of the soldiers. At this point, some of them began their exit to a rally point on foot, under heavy fire, dehydrated and sleep deprived, all of them wounded in one way or another. This has become known as the “Mogadishu Mile”.

As men we don’t always rely on our brothers we have a need. We try to do things on our own. These men show us that when we let our brothers have our backs we can accomplish many things.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Second Harvest Food Collection – Fia and F3
Brolympics II – Nov 9

Prepping for a Murph

THE SCENE: Clear, 69°F, Feels like 69°F, Humidity 84%, Wind 1mph from NW
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • 30x SSH IC
  • 15x LBAC IC Forward and Reverse
  • 10x Cherry Pickers IC
  • Little of this & little of that

THA-THANG:

  • 4 rounds
  • 2 mins per set
    • 1 Pull-ups, 2 Merkins, 3 Squats
    • 2 Pull-ups, 4 Merkins, 6 Squats
    • 3 Pull-ups, 6 Merkins, 9 Squats
    • 4 Pull-ups, 8 Merkins, 12 Squats

MARY:

  • Flutter kicks til time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
FNG Toucan, Filter
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

From the movie ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’.
Walter is an example of a Sad Clown. He spends his time lost in the daydreams of what he could do. Life throws a curveball at him and he takes the opportunity to step up and accelerate. At the end of the movie, he meets a photographer that he has worked with all his career but never actually met. At this point the photographer is trying to capture an image of an elusive snow leopard, called a ghost leopard. The leopard finally appears and he lets Walter view it through the camera, he then makes a choice to not capture the moment, but experience it.

Too many times in our lives we try to control the moments in our lives instead of actively experiencing them. We need to take the time to experience life.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Second Harvest Food drive – Fia & F3
Brolympics Nov 9