7 PAX made the early morning drive to post at the sacred ground known as The Reservation. Even though it’s one of the best AO’s to venture, little did the PAX know I had no intention of exploring the great terrain The Reservation has to offer.

Warm Up:
Walking Toe Touch – 20 yds (there & back)
Hitler Kicks – 20 yds (there & back)
Side Lunge – 20 yds (there & back)
Lunge – 20 yds (there & back)
Back Lunge – 20 yds (there & back)
Hurdlers Karaoke – 20 yds (there & back)
Shuffle – 20 yds (there & back)
Shuffle – 20 yds to Stride 20 yds (there & back)
Stride – 40 yds (there & back)

Mosey to the lower parking lot.

The Thang:

Suicides with burpees – length 50 yards
10 yds – 1 burpee
20 yds – 2 burpees
30 yds – 3 burpees
40 yds – 4 burpees
50 yds – 5 burpees

Rinse & Repeat in reverse
10 yds – 5 burpee
20 yds – 4 burpees
30 yds – 3 burpees
40 yds – 2 burpees
50 yds – 1 burpees

7 – 50 yard build ups (1 for each PAX member present)

Mosey to the top parking lot. Break into groups (one of 3 / one of 4). One PAX from each group runs around through the bottom parking lot back to the top. Other groups do squats and LBCs. Cycle ends when all PAX run. Rinse & Repeat and replace squats and LBCs with Merkins and Lunges.

Last 12 minutes was a series of exercises named the “Circle of Pain”. Get in a tight circle in exercise starting position until your turn exercise. Exercise as followed:
Merkins – 4 revolutions
Carolina Dry Docks – 4 revolutions
Lunges – 3 revolutions each leg
Russian Twist – 10 revolutions each side

Mosey back to COT (or in this case – stand up from the circle of pain).

Moleskin

In remembrance of 9/11 and all who has sacrificed, I can’t say enough how grateful we are to have the ability and the freedom to sweat with our F3 brothers as we push each other to be better both physically and mentally! I leave you with a quote from one of my favorite Generals who served our great Nation.

God of our fathers, who by land and sea have ever led us to victory, please continue your inspiring guidance in this the greatest of all conflicts. Strengthen my soul so that the weakening instinct of self-preservation, which besets all of us in battle, shall not blind me of my duty to my own manhood, to the glory of my calling, and to my responsibility to my fellow soldiers. Grant to our armed forces that disciplined valor and mutual confidence which insures success in war. Let me not mourn for the men who have died fighting, but rather let me be glad that such heroes have lived. If it be my lot to die, let me do so with courage and honor in a manner which will bring the greatest harm to the enemy, and please, oh Lord, protect and guide those I shall leave behind. Give us the victory, Lord.

~ General George S. Patton