Buddies, Burpees, Bearcrawls, Bodybuilders, Booyah! Merkins and B.O.M.B.S. all start with that letter B, that’s what.
18 attended the Swamp today, half rucked, the other have joined YHC for a little schooling on the letter B.
I decided a couple weeks ago that I was going to work my way through the Exicon one letter at a time. This was my 2nd Q since making that decision so the 8 unlucky PAX that got stuck with me and B today were thoroughly beat-down.
I gave the quick usual disclaimer an off we went. I immediately heard grumbling about the speed so I slowed it down a bit and we did some karaoke’s and toy soldiers before circling up for a quick warm-up, which consisted of 9 Windmills and 15 Merkins (IC) followed by a couple 10 counts holding a 6″ plank. A quick stretch and off to the 1st routine.
Routine 1:
Burpee, Bearcrawl, Booyah! Merkin…Chase
Buddy up and partner 1 does 5 burpees and then chases down his partner who is bearcrawling around the 2 roundabouts (about .25 miles). Tags his partner and then they each do 5 Booyah! Merkins and switch/repeat until getting back to the starting point. A real shoulder burner!
Routine 2:
For routine 2 we moseyed to the parking lot next to the fountain and did some B.O.M.B.S. This is basically a DORA with more exercises and the suggestion to pick an exercise that matches each letter in BOMBS.
- 50 Bodybuilders
- 100 Overhead presses (with cinderblocks)
- 150 Monkey Humpers
- 200 Big-Boy sit-ups
- 250 Smurf Jacks (suuuuuucked)
In typical DORA fashion, 1 partner does the exercise while the other (in this case) sprints to the 2nd island, bear crawls around the island, and then sprints back and picks up where his partner left off while his partner does the sprinting.
I think only Cha-Ching, Duck Dynasty, and I finished, but that was probably because we were the odd group and we took the higher of the 2 reps. I’m not sure if we would have made it otherwise since it came down to the last few seconds before heading back to CoP.
Everyone did awesome and pushed for the entire 45 minutes.
We made it back to CoP at exactly 6:00AM with the Ruckers about a minute behind.
Maximus announced a couple of new AO’s coming to Fort Mill, including a “Bruisers” workout for injured PAX, what a great idea. As well as a bootcamp AO with a mandatory pre-run, sounds harsh! In any case, not a lot of PAX spoke up with Prayers except for Maximus again so we prayed for family and everything that was on our hearts.
Thank you for the Q Cha-Ching it was a pleasure to lead these men today. Nice work everyone!
Until next time,
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