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4 men posted on a crisp November morning to celebrate the 248th Marine Corps birthday the right way.

COP

Pull-up/Merkins pyramid – 1 pull-up+1 merkin, 1 pull up + 2 merkins…all the way to 10 merkins.

Mosey to parking lot for ascending squats with lunges in between parking lot lines and reverse back.

Dora – 100x Carolina dry docks, 200x Don Qs, 300x flutter kicks

4 corners – C1 10x burpees, C2 20x seal claps, C3 20x T claps, C4 20x arm circles and 20x reverse.

Mosey back to flag for some stretching.

Names, numbers, Spit took us out.

COP

Bunch of exercises, you should have been there.

3 guys showed up today to TRI some new exercises…

Heres what transpired…

COP — a few exercises

New Exercise Friday routine
Tabletop crunches — reach behind legs and touch hands
Lay down flat — elbow to knee, then hand to foot
RUN THE LOOP
slow down heels to heaven
dirty dogs
elbow plank rotations
RUN THE LOOP and TOUCH the overhangs
american hammers
plank position, bring one leg in, twist in to the body (do both sides)
heel taps laying on back

TRIPLE CHECK
P1 — donkey kicks
P2 — people’s chair
P3 — bear crawl to first island, crawl bear back

BENCH WORK
squat kicks — 10 in cadence
5 really good upward merkins
5 really good derkins

Do this 3x

Nice work this morning! Everyone loved the new exercises 🙂

HAGWeekend!

8 guys showed up after a brutal Commanders loss to drown their sorrows in some exercise.

COP — fun exercises to warm up

Progressive 4 corners —
10 merkins
10 merkins, 20 WW2
10 merkins, 20 WW2, 30 split jacks
10 merkins, 20 WW2, 30 split jacks, 40 LBC’s

Meet in the Middle
partners on opposite ends of the lot
one side does 20 flutterkicks, other side does 20 squats
meet in the middle for 10 boo yah merkins
travel to the other side and do those exercises.
Come back and do 30 of each with boo yahs in the middle
come back and do 40 of each with boo yahs at the end

3 sets fo partner leg tosses (20 each)
one go round of swordfighting

merkin ring of fire
some stretching

Great morning — every body was fairly upbeat despite the Commanders losing last night!

SYITG!

Opus warmed us up with a mix of arm circles, don quixotes, merkins, lbcs, etc…

Opus started the workout: Flutter kick/hold 6 inch combo, plant/ast combo. Partner runs to island, does 10 jump squats and returns. Other partner stays at curb and planks up. When runner returns, they do 10 boo yah merkins. Each partner took 2 turns.

Hand off to Yard Sale. Started with 4 corners but diverted a bit. Mosey to first corner for 40 LBCs, Mosey to flag pole for 40 calf raises, Mosey to 3rd corner for 40 alabama prom dates. Mosey to 4th corner for 40 monkey humpers. Mosey to basketball court. Partner up for 100 of each. One partner runs a suicide while one does 100 WW2 Situps, 100 Heals to Heaven, 100 flutter kicks. Mosey to wall for 4 one minute wall sits. Mosey to parking lot for 1 minute of boat canoes and 2 minutes of flutter kicks.

Numberama, Namarama and Opus took us out with a prayer.

Thank you for letting Opus and I Q. Everyday is better when in starts with F3.

No it’s not Oklahoma. It’s better than that. It’s Virginia in the Autumn

7 dudes showed up to get fit.

Here is what happened.

10 burpee slaughter start. Woot.

COP — a lot of fun exercises including plank jack merkins, AmHam, arm circles, ankle circles, leg lifts twice, Freddies, DQ, etc.

Doracides
100 merkins
200 squats
300 Flutterkicks

11’s
Calf raises and WW2 lunge between stations

That was it!
Great morning with sub 60 temps. Lots of stars in the sky and a few planets as well!

Thanks gents!

5 gents came to work out. 5 guys left 1 percent better than they were.

COP — tempo merkins, arm circles, copperhead squats, am ham, flutters, LBC’s IW,

DORA —
100 bench step ups
200 dips
300 SSH

ISLAND HOPPING
30 second Wall Sit
15 DK’s
bear crawl
10 deep squats
lunge
10 2 ct Shoulder taps
lunge
10 WW2
lunge
10 merkins
lunge
bear crawl
repeato in reverso on the way backo

next iteration
1 minute wall sit
20 DK’s

bear crawl
15 deep squats
lunge
15 shoulder taps
lunge
15 WW2
lunge
15 merkins
lunge
bear crawl

out of time. sniff sniff

great times had by most this morning.

6 men posted at The Creek on a cool first day of September morning.

• COP
  • SSH
  • Don Qs
  • Helicopters
  • Imp walkers
  • Cherry pickers
  • Arm circles
  • HRMs
  • Flutter kicks, Freddy Mercuries, American hammers
• Triple check
  • P1 negative pull ups
  • P2 Dips
  • P3 Mosey and touch 3 trees
• Appalachian Billy Madison (same as Billy Madison but only go up to fifth grade)
  • 1st grade SSH
  • 2nd grade Mountain climbers
  • 3rd grade Squats
  • 4th grade Merkins
  • 5th grade Burpees
• Island hop MoM – slow mosey from island to island and do an ab exercise in cadence
  • LBCs, Flutterkicks, WWIIs, American hammers, heels to heaven, gas pumps
• Stretching to close it out
• Numbers, names, Spit took us out
• Labor Day Covergence at Dog Pile Monday at 7am
• Great job gents

5 HIM’s posted to The Creek this morning, which included one FNG. All HIM’s soon realized why Boo Boo doesn’t play cards as his shuffling leads to some awkward face card stacking of the deck…

Warm-O-Rama: Quick mosey to the flag poles. COP – various light stretches, 10 each: SSH, Merkins, Squats, LBC’s, Hello Dolly’s, & Flutter Kicks

The Thang: Deck of Death: Spades = Squats; Hearts = Step-Ups; Diamonds = Merkins; Clubs = LBC’s; Joker = Burpees x10.

YHC took us out in prayer.

3 Davillians brave the rain to finish the work week with some coupon fun

This how it went down

Grab a coupon (cinderblock) and mosey to the covering by the office

COP (ALL IC) – SSH, DQ, Helicopters, Imperial Walkers, American Hammers, LBC’s, AL Prom Dates, Heels to Heaven, Arm Circles

THANG

Mosey to the courtyard

Triple Check #1 – Coupon Lunge, Curls, Overhead Press

Triple Check #2 – Run around the courtyard, Coupon Walk Sit, Swings

Coupon Crawl – Bear crawl with Coupon and stop at each creak for increasing Merkins up to 5 then turn around and come back with decreasing back to 1

Lunge Squats – Lunging to each creak increasing Squats up to 6 then turn around and come back still increasing up to 12

Mosey back to the VF

2 MOS (minutes of straights)

Numberrama, Namerama, Announcements, YHC took us out

MOLESKIN

YHC had plans for more intense coupon workout by the track today but as it is tradition at The Creek, when it rains we use the school awning. Bulkhead was glad to hear that with “Plan B” murder bunnies was scratched

TClaps to Mustang for being in his second week and post 4 times this week

SPIT ON THAT!!