Showing up to The Swamp for my inaugural Swamp Q and seeing the Ruck Packs present, I knew it was game time. Fortunately, Zima and I conversed and he advised me that they would be going their own way.

With that said I opened us up by focusing us in on our Why, just as Jekyll did all week and brought the topic of marriage front and center. We don’t just go out there to sharpen and harden our bodies. We go out there to find balance in our daily lives across all aspects and we must always make it a point to pour our physical energy into our marriage. We’re better men when our wives and significant others know that we put them first – even when we’re not in the room with them. That said, I started the pax with 10 Burpees and we were off.

We mossied from BB over to the quant little shops and circled up for:

SSH – 25
Windmills – 15
Mountain Climber – 20
Plank Jacks – 20
LBC – 20
Moroccan Night Clubs – 20

Once warmed up, we hustled over to the red balls of Target where we found our first set of cones. There were four cones spread out at the red balls. Each cone had a leg exercise on them and to travel to the next cone the pax had to bear crawl. We did three rounds of:

Squats – 20
Left Leg Speed skaters – 20
Right Leg Speed skaters – 20
Squats – 20
Rinse and repeat 3 X’s

Then we headed out to find another set of cones – honestly, I didn’t know where I put them besides in the darkest lot possible. When we found them we split up to 3. The cones were setup in a triangle shape and each cone had a set of 3 exercises. In the center of the triangle was the burpee cone.

Each group headed off to their cone to complete exercise 1 and then ran to the center burpee cone to do 5 burpees and then head back to their cone and finished exercise 2….repeat this sequence until all cone exercises were complete. Once done, move to the next cone and so on.
The cones:
Cone 1
Merkins – 20
Bomb Jacks – 20
Dive Bombers – 10

Cone 2
Caroilna Dry Docks – 20
Shoulder Taps – 20
Ranger Merkins – 10

Cone 3
Diamond push ups – 20
Left arm dry docks – 29
Merkins -20

Once done, pebbles, I mean puddles, pointed out that we didn’t do right arm dry docks and was concerned our left arms would be significantly larger than our right. So, we did 20 right arm dry docks.
Post that, we centered up and worked on our beach abs:
Flutter kicks – 20
Hello dollys – 20
Protractor
Boat and canoe

As always, it’s an honor to lead our workouts. The mumble chatter before, during and after is unique and keeps us coming back. Today felt extra special as Gears reminded us about the important of Memorial Day Weekend. It’s about those that paid the ultimate price to give us the opportunity to work out at 5 AM anywhere we want in this great land of America. Get to know a vet, learn about someone KIA, and show up to attend the Murph workout on Monday and remember those KIA to protect this great country.