The usual Ruck warriors welcomed Dry Rub to speed ruck the mean streets of Bon Air, clocking 3.5 miles with the encouraged topic of Doomsday Prepping livening up the usual discussion. Coffee and deep philosophical thoughts occurred after at Einstein. Always a pleasure gents! Yours AYE! ~DTH
8 HIMs woke up to no more lightning, so we grabbed large iron orbs and went outside to toss them around. According to the bullfrogs (or cheeks clapping, hard to tell) here’s what took place…
Under promise and over deliver, no running today, let’s just circle up, stretch it out, and get to work.
Kettlebell Poker
– Each round, YHC calls out an exercise and we do 10x
– Then one-by-one, each PAX draws a card and we perform that many reps: 2-10, J 11, Q 12, K 13, A 14
– Spades – Single Arm Clean + Press
– Clubs – Skullcrushers
– Diamonds – Romanian Deadlifts
– Hearts – KB Swings
Rinse and repeat until each PAX member has 5 cards
Spades were heavily favored, but clubs came out 4 times in a row to really hit the triceps. YHC turned it into 5 card draw, at the cost of 10 halos you could trade in 2 cards for a better hand.
How good of a hand you had determined final workout. High card = 20x, Pair = 18x, 2 Pair = 16x, 3 of a kind = 14x, Straight or Flush = 12x, Full House = 10x, Royal/Straight Flush/4x = 5x
Based on your hand, do X for each of the suits.
To finish the day off, squatted against the wall and did 3 sets of 10x front raises. Wildcat had some gas escape the trap door which led to many PAX going around the corner to a different wall.
Numbers, Announcements, Prayers – Wildcat scans & the family of the boy who drowned in the reservoir
It was a hot and humid morning but 16 HIMS were up for the challenge. I had this workout planned for several weeks and then Crabgrass decides last week to do it but I like the pain so why not do it again? Mosey across the way and circled up for some warm up exercises including SSH, Jazzercise (after being complimented by Nancy last week for good form), cherry pickers, LBCs, and merkins.
Thing 1: partnered up for 100 reps of squats and merkins alternating exercises after 10 reps, then a run to the next intersection. This was repeated again and a bear crawl was thrown in there because, why not? Run to the next intersection. Same concept but switched to LBCs and Alabama prom dates. Run to the next intersection, repeat, and then one last run.
Thing 2: Mosey through the neighborhood stopping for a circle up with SSH and some burpees, then more mosey with a sprint thrown in there. Finally we arrived at the hill. Triple Check with flutter kicks, monkey humpers, and a run up the brutal hill. Not much time left after this so a slow mosey to mosey back to the flag for a couple minutes of plank until time expired.
Circled up, numbers, and names.
Announcements: Home grown half in August, mini CSAUP in September, the bridge next week, Spartan in October. All others please check slack. Prayers out for Wildcat’s quarterly scans tomorrow, Futon’s family, and Matlock’s trial at work this week. Great work out there this morning grinding it out with the run heavy boot camp. Each time I lead my cadence improves. Pleasure to lead you guys. Each time it gets easier. Hope everyone has a great week!
A rare occasion where a workout and one I created kicked my own ass. I was struggling just walking around collecting the things from earlier yet 12 of us came out. The humidity hit fast I believe we could have jumped into an ice bath afterwards and felt great. Here we go(warning content you’re about to read may cause distress or other medical problems please see a doctor if so).
Start with the COP(SSHs, Imperial Walkers, DMH, Don Quixote, Merkins, Alabama Prom Dates, a little stretching). We ventured down to the corner where the parking lot of hell commenced. 12 stations of pergatory went like this:
Station 1: 50 Supermans, 50 DC Flutters, 50 Wipers, 50 Pickle Pounders
Station 2: 100 Toe Taps
Station 3: 90 S2S Ski Jumps
Station 4: 80 Jump Rope
Station 5: 70 Plank Jacks
Station 6: 60 Oblique LBCs(then to the playground for death planks, merkins, and tricep dips)
Station 7: 50 Carolina Dry Docks
Station 8: 40 Fwrd/Back Murder Bunnies
Station 9: 30 Double count MC
Station 10: 20 Groiners
Station 11: 10 HR MERKINS
Station 12: 5 Navy Seal Burpees
A mortal may think that’s it, wrong there’s more. Mosey to the woods for assisted pullups with negative holds and a little run to the gate. The end featured runs up the hill, and a bear crawl with jump squat combo that might have been the icing on the cake. A little stretch, time called names numbers and prayer led by YHC to close out. Yes a rare time that something beat me to where I was struggling to recover. A good workout will give me a high that carries over. This one was straight up no mercy on the soul. It felt like Leonidas was calling out on how to beat the Persians in battle. I wanted to do this workout I have had it in my mind for a while now it’s done. I will bring it back one day a new version there were things I can add if an FNG came today, I think a merlot might have taken place. 54 still out there I will tell you am I 100 when I come out(No) in have little things that hurt yoga helps plus having that gear that’s taken years to understand helps. See you next time earned a feast today
10 gloom brothers of the F.O.R.G.E. embraced the suck this morning, pushing beyond the boarders of the AO and the standard comfort of carrying just their own body weight. Here’s how the PAX embraced some fresh coupons:
The THANG:
WARMERAMA:
COP # 1:
COP # 2:
COP # 3:
COP # 4:
COP # 5:
5min Mosey BTTF for COT:
Prayer Requests:
NMS: The PAX knew they were in for a sweatfest when we started out with a run and bernie on the hill, and the fun didn’t stop there! YHC had a couple trees come down over the winter and had recently chainsaw-smoothed a number of new logs of variable size – today was the day to take them for a walk and the PAX was more than enthused to take on the challenge. Solid effort invested by all and we made it back to the SF just in time. Fun to see Officer Florence roll up between coming off a night shift and heading to a jiujitsu workout. We miss having you around bro! Keep posting and pushing fellas. Yours AYE! ~DTH
Announcements (SEE SLACK!)
Seven soggy HIMs braved the Larus Park Swamp for a brisk 4 mile ruck. The local ducks thought we were part of their gaggle and decided to join us for coffee rama. We stretched our minds discussing world history as we powered our way through chapter 2 of The Uses of the Past.
YHC arrived early to set up the field and appreciated the assistance of House Party who was already on site getting some miles in. Moseyed back to the parking lot to collect 11 eager frisbee lovers and returned to the field for warm-up and a slightly late arrival of ringer Snuff. Here’s how we ran into Destiny:
The THANG:
WARMERAMA:
THE TEAMS:
THE MATCH:
Circle up at the Shovel Flag for COT:
Prayer Requests:
NMS: Awesome matchup today with both Teams hammering hard to win. Awesome to have a surprise FNG, a neighbor of Machismo and Belay, happen to be in the park and come over to join us. It was clear DESTINY was with us, hence his fantastic nickname “Destiny’s Child!” Haha, welcome bro! See ya’ll out there again soon. Yours AYE! ~DTH
Announcements (SEE SLACK!)
YHC has a little nasty hill he likes, but I save it for special occasions (i.e. Nightmare Before Christmas) and today was a good day to revisit…not too hot, not too cold. Futon pointed out that the clouds were parted with a little bit of sunshine coming through above the hill, it was destiny today.
Quick mosey through the bunker, up the stairs (watch out for mud) and we did a series of butt kickers > high knees > karaoke rotating at each mailbox. Quick stretch sess and we hit firecracker alley 1>2>3>4>5>4>3>2>1 at mailboxes. oh hey looks, there’s a hill.
11’s (Chase the Hare Version)
Swoop was randomly selected to be the hare. Rules are simple – once the Hare completes his 11’s, everyone is done. If any PAX member beats him, Swoop pays a penalty. If Swoop beats everyone, the PAX pays a penalty. Lt Dans at the top of the hill, planks at the bottom (21 seconds first round, 22 sec, 23 sec…). Swoop ran valiantly only losing to Wildcat, so the PAX paid the penalty – two burpees each.
Warby wondered where the trail went so we did an Indian run to show him. PAX members were dropping like flies so we turned it into a slow mosey back to the start of firecracker alley. Did butt kickers > high knees > karaoke back to the playground.
Four Corners on The Dukes block. It’s a big block. Someone tried to make a last minute rule that if you cant see the next corner then you can’t do four corners. YHC vetoed, lets go. 10 J’Lo’s, 20 V sit ups, 30 donkey clappers, 40 mountain climbers. BTTF for a ring of fire. PAX clocked 2.6 miles today, not too shabby!
Numbers, names, announcements, prayers. Prayers for Futons family and those impacted by the storms in TX.
7 HIM’s converged at Rockwood for a ride on the pain train, which in YHC’s estimation isn’t nearly as brutal as in past years, BUT plenty of reps nonetheless. Here’s how we crushed the comfort zone for the day:
The THANG:
WARMERAMA:
KILODORA:
CABER SPRING CLEANING:
Mosey BTTF:
COT:
Prayer Requests:
NMS: Absolutely perfect weather and a wonderful group of brothers to get after it with. Always amazing how much longer it takes than expected to get through the Kilodora. Appreciate you guys putting in the hard work! Yours AYE! ~DTH
Announcements (SEE SLACK!)
You can tout your fireworks or drone displays all you like, but nothing beats a glorious sunrise on a fine summer day. Five HIM’s got in a few miles under ruck-weight, and concluded with a ceremonial uncovering of the cabers and GTE logs. Conversation was excellent as usual and all five PAX stuck around for the main event – see next post… Yours AYE! ~DTH