The pre-dawn gloom of Forrest Hill Park welcomed 11 GrowRuck warriors to an epic beatdown. With only 47 days left to train for GTE #47, today’s challenge was a taste of the real deal, but only 1/6th the duration. Here’s how these HIM’s turned green to celebrate the holiday and conquer the flesh: ROSIE’s “WARM-UP”: Warm up on the tennis court – SSH, Ukrainian Soldiers, Helicopter, Imperial Walkers. PT test prep with 30 HRM and 35 WWII’s. Over to the hill for 11’s – Squats at the top, Mtn Climbers at the bottom. Finish at the bottom and bear crawl…
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An eclectic crowd of 17 gathered at WEAG for the last edition of The Crossing. 70 degrees plus and sunny made for a great time. The following is a brief summary for your viewing pleasure:Mosey around the parking lot, mixing in some Bernie, Side Shuffles, Butt Kicks, and High KneesCircle Up for the following: Copperhead Squats, Ukranian Soldiers, Don Quixote’s, Freddy Mercuries, Hello Dollies and Hand Release Merkins. To the curb for Hillbillies, Broad Jumps, Knee Pulls, Broad Jump Burpees, Lt. Dan’s, and Mario Jumps. Exercise One: Coupon Circuit. We had 17 stations, runner carried a ruck pack and ran…
A rabble of 15 studly gloom warriors accepted today’s Ruck challenge, including NTB’s two high-spirited FNG’s. Yoko and Sandy (75lb punching bag & 50lb sand bag) joined the PAX from the get-go, and we didn’t travel far before collecting all four 8’ logs plus other cindies. Here’s how the PAX carried ‘em: The THANG: WARMERAMA: Welcome & Disclaimer Shoulder Yoko & Sandy Ruck 200 yards to Casa De DTH Collect x4 eight foot telephone poles and a number of cinder blocks Ruck the woods loop behind DTH’s house Circle up at the Shed & stretch TRIPLE CHECK: Get into groups…
9 members of the fabled Rock&Roll band tuned their instruments for an album of pain rarely appreciated by the common palate. An additional member join the PAX today, endearingly named YOKO, bringing with her an invitation to physical transcendence. Here is how these SOJ HIM’s threw caution to the wind and cried out in one voice “I want you!” The THANG: INTRO YOKO: Circle up in front of the DTH coupon wagon where the PAX meet“Yoko”, a 75 pound full size punching bag (State Farm lunged at the opportunity to wrap his arms around her) GOAL – Yoko remains held…
YHC was unable to decide what today’s theme should be – so TGIF at Satan’s Hill had a variety of elements for all PAX to enjoy. The Warmarama – all Partner stretches. The Thang – Satan’s Circle of weights. The tunes – 90’s rock and hip hop. The finisher? Coffeerama on the banana truck tailgate. Random grab bag of YHC’s favorites – but somehow it worked. Thanks to this group of Friday Freakbeasts for always being down for the nastiest beatdowns while having some fun. As @boberry and @heist tenderly partner stretched – they saw the following… Warmarama Mosy Disclaimer…
5 SOJ ruckstallions converged for a 45min OTB ruck at The Forge, but quickly escaped the AO into the hills of Oxford. After a half-mile loop, the PAX found themselves at YHC’s house being introduced to our special guests, a collection of 8’ logs, procured specifically for such GTE#47 purposes. Two logs were selected and shouldered, and YHC was sure to include the big hill in our little log-training circuit. This was not easy, and yet the PAX made it look easy. YHC felt better once the logs were returned and the complaining commenced (phew! I’m not the only one…
10 Elfs showed up to get in some last minute training before the big day. YHC had a plan to get them ready! Warmarama- Dead man hang, arm circles, imperial walkers, flutter kicks, LBCs , merkins Mosey up the hill and around the neighborhood- 10 merkins at every house along the way with Christmas lights – stopping in Nancy’s cul de sac. Surprisingly not that many houses were festive this year. Triple check at the cul de sac- Runner ran to nancy’s house 2 burpees before returning, exercises were freddie mercury & squats Mosey down heist street and back to…
10 Forge regulars + 3 DTH raw recruits gathered in the frigid pre-dawn gloom of DTH’s 41st Birthday to catch a ride on the pain train, and have a damn fun time doing it! Some anticipated a canoe hiding behind every light pole, but there was something better in store… WARMERAMA: Mosey around to a lower lot and circle up Welcome & Disclaimer Variable IC Reps to get the muscles warm top to bottom …8-count Opus reps did the trick toward the end The THANG: Mosey on down to the end of South Coleman Lane to the culdesac, stopping twice…
The rumors were swirling that the north of the river men were saying that SOJ wouldn’t hack the cold weather. This morning 12 angry SOJ beasts showed up to prove them wrong…wearing jorts of course! Here is how it went down Warmarama- quick mosey to the front of the entrance and back followed by SSH, Don Q, Imperial Walkers, Cherry pickers, Merkins, LBC’s 11’s – Decline merkins & jump squats- runner to the opposite end of the parking lot triple check with coupons- curls, skull crushers, runner to the other side of parking lot BUILD THE HILL- 1/4 way up…
2 HIMs enjoyed a starry morning tossing the Cindy around. While I missed our normal entourage of Bermuda bros, it was a pleasure chattering with ma dude Florence . He remains a friend and mentor that helped welcome me into F3 a few months ago – not to mention working out with him “pushes my capacity” to say the least – iron sharpens iron. I pulled out the old Crossfit Exicon for this one… Warmarama, Intros, Mosy to Playground COP 1: Cinderblock “Cindy” (+ RUN) 5 Cinderblock Pull-ups (Hold Cindys w/ feet) 10 Inclined Merkins 15 Cindy Weighted Squats 200m…