Date: 2025-08-01
AO: ao_flat_earth
Q: Shiplap
PAX: Tortuga, BigBlue, Swish, Jolly, Shiplap, Jack, Bloomer, DQ, TBTF, Panda Express, LouGee FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WOR: SSHx15 – down and back
The Thang: Ultimate
Moleskine: It’s never as good or as bad as it seems
COT:
Tags: ao_flat_earth, Tortuga, BigBlue, Swish, Jolly, Shiplap, Jack, Bloomer, DQ, TBTF, Panda Express, LouGee
Date: 2025-07-25
AO: downrange
Q: Ankles
PAX: Ankles, Coach
FNGs: None
COUNT: 2
WOR:
Mahalo Nui Loa to Ankles from Wheaton, IL for making it out to Friday Move Heavy Sh*#.
The Thang:
15 Blockees
100m farmer carry
15 Grip Rip Roll
100m farmer carry
20 coupon curls
30m Bear Crawl Coupon Drag
Mosey a lap around triangle Park
repeat x 3
Moleskine: Wear the world as a loose fitting garment.
COT:
Tags: downrange, Ankles, Coach
Date: 2025-07-31
AO: ao_mastodon
Q: LouGee
PAX: Jayhawk, Penny, DQ, Sparrow, Panhandle, Mr Roboto, Falsetto, Airpump, Stock boy, Jailbreak, Tortuga, LouGee, Dead Drop FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
WOR:
11x Arm Circles (f/b), 10x Abe Vogoda, 20x SSH, 10x Superman, 60 sec- Plank The Thang:
#1 Escalator (~5 min): 10x Bobby Hurleys, 20x Burpees, 30x Merkins, 40x Squats, 50x Lunge Walks (repeat until everyone finishes)
#2 On the 10’s (~7 min): 10x Blockees, Plank Jacks, Curls (repeat until time); social walk around the shop
#3 On the 20’s (~7 min): 20x Goblet Squats, Rows, Windshield Wipers (repeat until time); social walk around the shop
#3 On the 30’s (~7 min): 30x Dips, Deadlifts, Leg Lifts (repeat until time); social walk around the shop #4 Mary (3:52 to the tune of “All you need is love”)
Moleskine:
Roles of a Husband:
Protect, Provide, Procreate
Continue to train ourselves to be strong men in marriage.
We calculated 186 years of marriage in our COT. Surround yourself with great examples!!! COT: 60 seconds of silence.
Announcement: 2nd-f at Panhandle !!!
Tags: ao_mastodon, Jayhawk, Penny, DQ, Sparrow, Panhandle, Mr Roboto, Falsetto, Airpump, Stock boy, Jailbreak, Tortuga, LouGee, Dead Drop
Date: 2025-07-31
AO: downrange
Q: Crack
PAX: Crack, Buzz (Q), Speed Racer, Tuba, Madonna, Dougie, Woodie, and one other FNGs: None
COUNT: 1
WOR: SSH, El Chapo, Peter Parker’s, Merkins, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Tin Soldiers, Mountain Climbers
The Thang: 7’s: four stations going up the drive, 7 reps each station, mosey back to start and plank for the 6. 1. Hand-release merkins
2. Squats
3. Star Jumps
Om the last round, we continued to the other end of the drive, but movement downhill had to be 1/3 lunges, 1/3 bear crawl, 1/3 crab walk.
Jacob’s Ladder: Run to top of hill, do reps. Each round add another exercise 1. Merkins (5)
2. Merkins, Dips (10)
3. Merkins, Dips, Squats (15)
4. Merkins, Dips, Squats, LBCs (20)
People’s Chair at the Wall – held for a 30 count from each PAX, ~3min time.
Mary
Moleskine:
COT: prayers for travel, for those who serve
Tags: downrange, Crack, Buzz (Q), Speed Racer, Tuba, Madonna, Dougie, Woodie, and one other
Date: 2025-07-31
AO: ao_dark_room
Q: Lakers
PAX: Manhole, LeMond, Jolly, Toto
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WOR:
– Mosey around parking lot
– Windmills
– Arm circles
– Leg stretches
The Thang:
Setup: 5 coupon stations spaced around the edge of the cricket circle. PAX partner up. • One partner runs a lap around the circle
• Other partner AMRAP at a station
• Switch and rotate until both partners have done all 5 stations (2 laps around the circle)
1 – Thrusters
2 – Blockees
3 – Curl-to-Press
4 – Lawnmower Rows
5 – Coupon Flutter Kick Press
Thang 2:
Hero Worship on playground
– Count was 20 dips
– Pull-ups
– Horizontal pull-ups
– Leaning push-ups
– BBSU
Mary:
– Box cutters
– Leg lifts
– Hold low plank
– American Hammers
– BBSU
Moleskine:
We only get so many laps around the sun, make them count. Connect with others and don’t let your mistakes define you.
COT: Manhole’s M
Tags: ao_dark_room, Manhole, LeMond, Jolly, Toto
Date: 2025-07-30
AO: ao_tar_pit
Q: Da Vinci
PAX: Stock boy, Da Vinci, T-bone, Panhandle, Samsonite, TBTF, Airpump, Jolly, Tortuga, SAGA, The wet burrito, DQ FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
Warmorama: Follow the leader to Margaratiaville with burpee at Margaritaville
The Thang:
In order to gain the privilege to roll:
Sprint 200/mozy 200
60 curls
50 merkens
40 shoulder press
30 BBSU
20 skull crushers
10 Thrusters
Those who finish, make up for others (during rolling as well)
ROLL THE DIE OF DEATH
1. 100 curls
2. 20 hand release merkens
3. 30 derkens
4. 40 merkens
5. 50 shoulder press
6. Run 400 meters
7. Run 800 meters
8. Scout run around lake
9. Scout run around school
10. 10 World War III sit ups
11. 20 burpees
12. 20 Skullcrushers
13. 13 burpees
14. 14 hodors
15. 15 thrusters
16. Sprint 200 meters/ mozy 200 meters
17. 40 BBSU
18. 60 curls
19. 25 thumb curls
20. 100 LBCs
Moleskin: If, as Josef Pieper put it, what I means for us to love is to say, ‘I am glad you exist,” then what it means for God to love us is for God to say, “Because I am glad, you exist.” -Bauerschmidt, https://www.amazon.com/Love-That-God-Invitation-Christian/dp/0802877958 (14)
COT: Prayer for PAX in harm’s way in Hawaii, T-bone’s M’s birthday
Tags: ao_tar_pit, Stock boy, Da Vinci, T-bone, Panhandle, Samsonite, TBTF, Airpump, Jolly, Tortuga, SAGA, The wet burrito, DQ
Date: 2025-07-29
AO: ao_mastodon
Q: Mr Roboto
PAX: Sparrow, SAGA, Samsonite, LouGee, Falsetto, Jailbreak, Airpump, Da Vinci, Stock boy, Jayhawk, Penny FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
WOR:
SSHs x20
Grass Pickers x10
Abe Vigodas x10
Michael Phelps OYO
The Thang:
(Courtesy of Thin Mints from AO Legion of Gloom in F3 Pittsburgh)
Mosey to playground. According to https://youtu.be/v69HA7CpU7A?si=trETplBqWueImPYa, the men who fought in WWI and WWII did only the following to prepare. – SSHs x10
– Merkins x10
– BBSUs x10
– “Climb the rope” x10 (Get your harness on first!)
– Lap around the baseball field
Completed 6 sets.
3 minutes of Mary
Moleskine:
Habits can be formed and broken with reward systems. (Case in point, my 10-year Dunkin’ habit.) If there’s a habit you want to start or stop, you may want to try a reward system.
COT:
Jobs, citizenship, new moves.
Tags: ao_mastodon, Sparrow, SAGA, Samsonite, LouGee, Falsetto, Jailbreak, Airpump, Da Vinci, Stock boy, Jayhawk, Penny
Date: 2025-07-29
AO: ao_flat_earth
Q: Panda Express
PAX: BigBlue, Candyland, Fiona, Wagyu, Shiplap, Tortuga, Jack, Lib, Jolly, Cheese, DQ, TBTF, Swish, Panda Express, dacount FNGs: None
COUNT: 15
WOR:
SSH, there and back
The Thang:
frisbee
Moleskine:
have fun
COT:
Tags: ao_flat_earth, BigBlue, Candyland, Fiona, Wagyu, Shiplap, Tortuga, Jack, Lib, Jolly, Cheese, DQ, TBTF, Swish, Panda Express, dacount
Date: 2025-07-28
AO: ao_tar_pit
Q: Panhandle
PAX: SAGA, Jolly
FNGs: None
COUNT: 3
WOR: (had to move to parking garage b/c of lightning) SSHs, Abe vigodas, copperhead squats, picking daisies
The Thang: 7 stations with an exercise and mode of transport to the next station. Make your way through with 10, then 20, and then 30 reps per station. Exercises and mode as follows:
– merkins/lunge
– squats/bear crawl
– BBSs/sumo lunge
– Hand-release merkins/lunge (switched to shoulder taps b/c garage ground was kinda nasty) – star-jumps/bear crawl
– leg-lifts/sumo-lunge
– broad-jump burpee to last cone
(note that original plan had to make PAX run a lap in between sets, but with move to garage, just ran back down to first cone)
Moleskine: invest in people
COT: Panhandle’s friend Bill with brain cancer; SAGA’s dissertation writing
Tags: ao_tar_pit, SAGA, Jolly
Date: 2025-07-28
AO: ao_ground_zero
Q: Manhole
PAX: Stock boy, Mr Roboto, Manhole
FNGs: None
COUNT: 3
WOR: nope, drove to parking garage
The Thang: walked stairs up, ramps down
Moleskine: enjoy the time you spend with others
COT: Stock boy 2.0 looking for a job, Manhole M with health issues
Tags: ao_ground_zero, Stock boy, Mr Roboto, Manhole
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