A band of 7 studs took advantage of the unseasonably cool weather for a Greatest Hits of Mary beatdown. COP – various exercises and TYA making various comments about The Institute Four Corner – Entire Campus of Mary Mumford. Ascending, compounding, and descending. 10 Hand Release Merkins, 20 WWII’s, 30 Squats, 40 SSH’s. Triple Check – P1 runs across recess blacktop and back, P2 Wall Sits, P3 Bear Crawl from wall to blacktop and does Hand Release Merkins. 3 rounds. Monkey Bars – 2 people due Pull Ups while the others do either Merkins or Dips Mosey back to flag.…

6 men and two Gerrys descended upon Mary to make the best of her landscape. This is what transpired, more or less Quasi warmup which included a round of ball-lickers. Lots of out and back running on the courts with copious exercises in between. Partner Doras that weren’t really partner Doras, more running while mixing dips and derkins in between, then chicken peckers, more polar bears, and running. Finish with a few minutes of Mary (abs)….(did I mention there was a lot of running….) NMS: Ball-lickers were a hit although it appears more practice and dexterity are needed. Bodos aptly…

Six, wait seven… no eight, hold it, nine boot campers plus two circumnavigators gathered for a Q-less Mary. Upchuck stole the potato and off we went for: COP (Upchuck)SSH, ROF, DQ, IW, APD, LBC, ROF UpchuckMosey to the collection of high quality plastic picnic tables for partner exercises. Run, dips, deline merkins. Run, dips, incline merkins. Run, dips, squats. Upchuck offered the potato and Faceplant took it before it being passed to him. FaceplantBack to the parking lot for escalator exercises. WWII escalator on one side of parking lot and single count flutter kicks on the other side. 1-21 with…

11 creaky dudes stumbled into the parking lot for 45 MOM of fun. Here’s what happened. COP on the blacktop: DQs // Cherry Pickers // Copperhead Squats // Imperial Walkers // LBCs // Crabcakes // Inverted Crabcakes // Tempo Merkins // SSHs Florida Bang: Plank up in a circle around the state of Florida on the blacktop map. On YHC’s command, the pax jumps up from plank position, runs 10 paces, performs 10 burpees, then runs back to Florida to plank position // Next Round: 20 paces, 20 Jump Squats // Round 3: 30 paces, 30 Carolina Dry-docks // Round…

11 PAX came out for YHC’s Day 3 celebration. This is how it went down Mosey to the blacktop COP (ALL IC) – SSH, DQ, Hillbillies, LBC’s, Heels to Heaven, HRM’s, Arm Circles THANG Chaos Four Corners – In groups of 5; 4 of 5 mosey to start exercises at different corners. On YHC’s Q The 5th PAX member runs to the first corner and completed 20 reps of the exercises with 1st PAX member, 2 PAX members then run to the 2nd corner and complete 20 of that exercise with the next PAX member. Keep going till reaching the fourth corners.…

A lucky 13 descended upon Mary for a gerry-administered beatdown….This is what transpired more or less…. Dips and Derkins. 10 at each station, run back and forth, 4 iterations. Dora’s: 100 HR Merkins, 200 WWII, 300 Flutter Kicks. Partner runs out and back Courts: Suicides and bearcrawls, crawlbears, crabwalks, Polar Bears. Various exercises in b/w. Solo triple check: Chicken Peckers followed by 3 rounds of donkey kicks, bearcrawls, and out and back run. Finish with a few minutes of Mary. NMS: Absolutely nothing to report aside from the realization that YHC and Handshake need to come up with a safe-word.…

8 of Mary’s finest fought the relapse of Winter for an early morning beatdown. Here’s what happened: COP on blacktop: All IC. Deadman Hang // Helicopters // DQs // Cherry Pickers // Imperial Walkers // Russian Soldiers // SSHs 21s (Hitchhiker did it!!). Mosey west on Cary to First Pres back lot. Triple Check with foursomes: P1: American Hammers // P2: Carolina Dry-docks // P3: Mountain Climbers // P4: Run to playground, Bernie Sanders back. 3x. Mosey up Lock Lane and hang left on Calumet to Grove. Stop every 100 yards or so for 10 merkins// 15 LBCs // 20…

14 studs converged to find out what YHC had in store for this week at Mary. 12 bootcamp’d while the Esther Williams fan club took a mosey in the adjacent ‘hoods. 70 degrees, sunny and 530? Time to boogie. COP casual stroll around the stone track back to the world map for COP dead man hang, one burpee imperial walkers, two burpees DQs, three burpees jazzercise, 4 burpees LBCs, 5 burpees…. mosey to the soccer fields The Thang Exercise I: Dean Smith’s Four Corners (ascending) first corner: 15 hand release merkins second corner: 15 hand release merkins, 20 copper head…

The gloom chill was back for a 34 degree start to 45MOM and 15 dudes gathered to kick off a Thursday. Here’s how it went: Mosey around the school to the tennis courts for a warmup: 20xSSH, DMH, 10x cherry pickers, 20xIW’s, 20xLBC, 10xHRM, 10x pickle pounders (side to side), plank & recover. Gather at the center of the field for an earth day tribute edition of touch a tree, 4 rounds: 2 trees + Tony Hawk Burpees, 4 trees + Rosalitas, 6 trees + Carolina Dry Docks, 8 trees + Copperhead Squats. Alphabet spell earth day for the six.…