YHC and Bubba Gump had the pleasure to our own Fort Mill combine at the friendly confines of Walter Elisha Park. Gump led the pack out onto the field.

The Thang:

1/2 lap around the park then COP: 20SSH, 10 Merkins, 20 Imperial Walkers, 10 Merkins, 20 squats, 10 Merkins, 20 Windmill, 10 Merkins, then off to the first set of drills

1/2 of the PAX started a set of cone drills while the other 1/2 stayed in COP, then we flip flopped.

Cone Drill 1: Bear Crawl in and out of cones, forward and backwards run in and out of cones, lateral slides in and out of cones, & sprint through cones touching the top of the cone on each turn.  Each one of these exercises were followed with 10 dips and 10 lbc’s.  Off to 2nd set of cone drills

Cone Drill 2: 3 rows of cones, at 1st cone we football chopped and then rolled to right and left, 2nd cone was football chop and then up downs, 3rd cone was mountain climber chops and then roll left and right.  We moved through each option 3 times. Off to 3rd set of cone drills.

Cone Drill 3: 4 rows of cones about 20 yards apart. Cone 1 10 Merkins, sprint to cone 2, 20 lbcs, sprint to cone 3, 30 Freddy Mercury’s, sprint to cone 4, 40 SSH.  Rinse and Repeat.

Gump then Barry Switzer’ed us for a few words of encouragement.  He mentioned that today was the 5th anniversary of his Father’s (Big Al) passing.  He told us that his father was a simple man and he always had 3 things he told each of his 5 boys, which has stuck with them for their lives.

1) No Excuses (do your best, lay it all on the line, no matter what you are doing).

2) Use Good Judgement (follow this principle and you will always stay out of trouble).

3) Once Chance (You are never guaranteed a second chance, lay it all on the line each day)

Next was a Hand off to Audit: Mosey up to the soccer fields for some more football action.

Partner up: Drill 1) partner 1 was DE and partner 2 was OT, partner 1 would push partner 2 (who was applying resistance) to mid field then partner 1 would release and sprint the rest of the field while partner 2 would chase him. FLAPJACK on the way back

Drill 2) partner 1 was WR and partner 2 was CB.  Partner 1 would try and get past partner 2 across the whole field and partner 2 would try and keep partner 1 in front of him at all times.

Im not going to lie, I intended to keep doing these type of exercises for the majority of the second half but I was partnered up with Longshanks and he had me sucking serious wind, so I had to throw an audible in to catch my breathe.

4 Corner Drill at each corner of the soccer field: (I was still lightheaded at this point, so I cant remember the exact count of these so forgive me.

Corner 1) 20 Merkins, Corner 2) 40 SSH, Corner 3) 10 Burpees, Corner 4) 30 mountain climbers.  Rinse and Repeat.

circle up for 5 minutes of ab lab – dealers choice.  We did several different exercises here.  Ok, at this point I had finally caught my breathe and was feeling good so we then lined up on mid field for some wind sprints.  Just like at the end of football practice back in the day.  We did 5 wind sprints and then on the 6th we sprinted back to COT.

As always, it was a pleasure to team up with my fellow Clemson Tiger Bubba Gump to lead the PAX and welcome in 2 FNG’s (Dawg Pound and Mainframe).