Author: John Norbury

  • Care Bears Ripping Discs

    10 men came together at the Forge for some fun with discs and burpees.

    The Thang

    Pledge, run around the parking lot, warm up with SSH, Good Mornings, Michael Phelps

    Indian Run down to the court for a round of care bear square with 25 burpees, 25 merkins, 25 squats, and 25 BBS

    Then to the football field in pairs with one PAX throwing a disc as far as he could while the other PAX did 3 exercises per every 10 yards on the way back after retrieving the discs including: hand release merkins, squats, and burpees.

    Weaving Indian Run back to the flag for Chumba Wumba Burpees

    Q Tip: Listening is a key leadership principle: “Tell me more”, repeating the last word, and repeating back the words said are effective ways to improve the skill.

  • Tell Me More

    12 men gathered at Heartbreak to grown as leaders.

    Quick Indian Run, Care Bear Squared x 1, Weaving Indian Run to the elementary school, Lunges followed by sets of exercises; Weaving Indian Run Back, Chumba Wumba Burpees, Side straddle hops x 21 x 2, 10 Extra Burpees, Marys

    Q Tip: Listening: Repeat the last word that is said or Prompt with “Tell Me More” or “What I’m hearing you say is…”

    Announcements: 2nd F today. Welcome FNG Bogie!

  • Resilience

    12 men came out to focus on resilience. There was sledding, 100 burpees, pearls on resilience and 10 Minnesota Burpees which include 15 degrees or less, no shirt, and snow.

  • Back to school

    7 men came together for a back to school workout. Prayers for Taters dad.

  • Four men conquered the parking lot near pocahontas. Ran up and down there the parking lot with increasing numbers of merkins, burpees, and jump squats.

    Good story

  • Overshare

    Eight men came together to dominate the midwie hump. It did ten loops around the parking lot, with increasing numbers of exercises. BOM at the parking lot. Q tip: tell me more, repeating, and taking a breath are great strategies for active listening. Prayers for taking the high road.

  • I get knocked down

    warm up with pledge of allegiance, followed by ten SSH, ten good mornings and ten don.Quixote. three burpees as part of a batan death crawl. 10 burpees paired with monkey humpers. Then a set of them 10 burpees. As a timer with side straddle hops, what flutter kicks and squats times three. Q tip: the higher impact man demonstrates resilience by understanding the bad things happen and focusing his thoughts and actions on positive things that help him to work through the pain and continue to succeed. Then to the wall for some gratitude.Wall sets, followed by hallelujah’s with another ten burpees. Run across the parking lot for another ten burpees. Chumba womba burpees. Then Mary’s. COT: Prayers for resilience and taking the high road. Frozen triangle February.

  • Resilience

    Warm up with ten side straddle hops, ten good mornings and ten Don Qs. Then ten sets of burpees alternating with moseys and other exercises. Mosey up the hill for a Q Tip on resilience. At 90 burpees, transitioned to Chumba womba burpees for a total of 107. Marys finishing with a run. COT: prayers for resilience, for helping out those with food insecurity, and for taking the high road.

  • Hot Potatoes

    6 men met up and did a set of Doras with a hot potatoe q. Switched to bear crawls around the benches with step ups, dips, and merkins. Went into a round of blimps with bear crawls in between, but a bus came so had to pivot. Ran up the hill with increasing numbers of Merkins, then back to the flag.