Lucky me, after the weekend of the GoRuck Selection Facebook Live event I get to Q the Fire Ant. I felt privileged to be the first. If you don’t know what the GoRuck Selection is just check out Go Ruck on Facebook. This event goes 48+ hours of some of the worse PT, ruck marches, and extra weight carries you can imagine. If you’ve done a GoRuck Tough, it like that on steroids for 2 straight days! And it’s led by 7-10 of GoRuck’s best cadres. Completion % is > 2%. And you get to watch this live on Facebook! It’s crazy, if you want to check it out, video replays are on their FB page.
So we had 14 PAX ready to test their will on the ruck, including Sasquatch and Wegmans who borrowed rucks to join us, as well as Tinsel for his 1st ruck workout! I had asked all the regular ruckers to bring their sandbags and they did not disappoint. It’s amazing how the numbers work out sometimes. 14 guys + me / 7 sandbags of extra weight = perfect fit! (Spiderman later ragged me for clip boarding for like 4 minutes…he was right) After Dark Helmet’s Q school disclaimer we lined up 2×2 with a sandbag between each man and started the long march.
We moseyed over to the church parking lot north of the shopping center talking about the GoRuck Selection and Doug – the only man to finish the 48 hour Selection this year. About half of the ruckers watched some of the Selection on Facebook Live at some point this weekend. Many of them were yelling at their devices “DFQ 011!!!!!” at least a few times…
When we arrived I told them about our goal today. In honor of 011s Selection completion we had 11 ruck exercises and we would complete 11 reps for each. These were some of my favorite PT items the cadres had 011 go through countless times during Selection!
- 8 count Burpees with ruck on
- Ruck Curls
- Squat Thrusters
- Flutters with ruck press
- Overhead ruck press
- Ruck sandbag toss (in the grass)
- Ruck Swings
- Man Makers
- Tricep Extensions
- Overhead Ruck Hold with Lunges
- Ruck sandbag Bear-hug Carry for 110 yards
This PT was brutal and allowed for plenty of mubblechatter. We completed the full rotation twice before we were almost out of time.
Once complete, we lined back up in 2×2 formation. Each man had a sandbag between them. This time we would rotate the bags between partners on our route back to COT. We took the long way and each man carried a bag twice.
Back to COT right on time – Dark Helmet and his 6 PAX not so much. We did flutters while we waiting for their LATE return.
COT with Nameorama – announcements – prayers – BOM
An Honor to Lead
-Royale