F2F October

#AO-Bushwood is a new. We are energized. We are pain bringing and growth pushing. October will be no different as we drag weary soles from the depths to see if they still have it. In our Face to Face month of hell we will pit Gladiators of old hailing from Indian Land against the Spartans of Fort Mill. Friends and families will be torn apart as we draw a line across the county. Who you got? East or West?

Curious to know more, well too dam bad. You gotta show to know. Every Wednesday in October, Catawba Ridge Stadium lot, 515

#MILGA

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13 year Convergence

  • QIC: Backdraft, Assassian, Boogie Nights
  • When: 09/29/2025
  • Posted In: Pre-Blast

The Fort turning 13. Come celebrate as our Region becomes a teenager!!!

NaFo – 9/29/2025
0515
Run/Ruck: Assassin on Q
Bootcamp: Backdraft on Q
Kettlebell: Boogie Nights on Q

Let’s be the accelerating men our community needs.

Slightly different parking location from the usual AOs that meet there. NaFo has some construction happening and the football team has been arriving at 0555. We’ll keep COT out of their way.

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Title McTitle-Face

WARMUP:
– Air Squats
– Good Mornings
– Lunges
– The Windmill
– Imperial Walkers
– Hillbilly Walkers

THE THANG:
– Mike Tysons # 5
– Squats # 10
– Good Mornings # 10
– LBCs # 10
– Merkins # 10

After you completed the exercises you ran a lap. After each time you completed the thang you added one lap to the run.

Ended with some good ol stretching

MARY: Around The Circle
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: Yes, there was COT

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Q-Swap at the Fort

WARMUP:
– Large arm circles
– Windmill
– Imperial Walker
THE THANG:
Circuit training -> two rounds 45 sec exercise + 15 wait
– Lunges
– Leg raises
– Squats with 25 dumbbell
– Manmakers -35 lbs sandbag
– Mountain Climbers
– Imperial Walker
– Plank
– Flutter Kicks
– Plank Jacks
– American Hammers

Four corners – Round 1 5 reps, Round 2 10 reps and Round 3 15 reps
Corner 1
– Mountain Climbers
– Squat Jumps
– Flutter Kicks

Corner 2
– Side Straddle Hop
– Donley Kicks
– Ankle Taps

Corner 3
– Burpees
– CDD
– Wind Sprints

Corner 4
– Merkins
– Plank Jacks
– Shoulder Taps

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Read the newsletter
– Christmas Parts -> we need tables and chairs
COT:

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Fish Tales with Birdcage

We had 9 at varsity (2 for IronPAX, 1 proctor, and 6 for a Cindy beatdown. Here’s what we did:

Warmup
– 10 Low Slow Swuats
– 10 Mountain Climbers
– 10 Windmills
Mosey to get a cinderblock

– 10 Manmakers
– 15 Curls
– 20 OH Press
– 25 Flutters with a Press
– 30 Cindy Swings
– 20 Squats
– 15 Skull Crushers
– 10 Sit-up to Press
– Jog to AO Jones

Repeat 2 more times

NMM
Below is an AI generated backblast about yesterday’s workout. Some of it is true.

The sun had yet risen where the flags would be, and the usual quiet was shattered by the sound of furious guitar riffs echoing across the lot. Rumbling Bald himself had decided that today was the day he would reinvent himself as a heavy metal solo act. His amps were cranked to eleven, his hair (which may or may not have been real) was blowing in the breeze, and every bird within a mile radius had fled in terror.

In a parking spot nearby, Birdcage was already five tall tales deep. “And that’s when Dark Helmet single-handedly wrestled a grizzly bear with a lightsaber and taught it calculus!” he boomed, waving his arms dramatically. Nobody was buying it, but everyone kept listening because Birdcage’s delivery was too good to ignore.

Time Machine, meanwhile, sat cross-legged on the asphalt, looking like he had aged a century overnight. “What am I doing with my life?” he muttered, staring off into the middle distance. “I mean, posting at Varsity? Was that really my legacy? Out of all possible timelines, why did I land there?” He sighed so deeply that Rumbling Bald’s double-bass pedal briefly went out of rhythm.

Finally, Spiderman dropped in from a nearby tree branch, landing with a thud. “Hey, uh, what’s all this?” he asked, eyeing the stack of cinderblocks Italian Job had been planning to incorporate into Bald’s stage show.

“Those,” Rumbling Bald growled, “are for dramatic effect. I need someone to swing them into the pit when the breakdown hits.”

Spiderman looked at the rocks, then back at Rumbling Bald, then immediately raised both hands. “Nope. Nope nope nope. Swinging heavy things is not in the contract.” With a single web-thwip, he was gone before anyone could argue.

Birdcage stood, puffed out his chest, and pointed dramatically toward the horizon. “Did I ever tell you about the time Dark Helmet built an entire stadium out of marshmallows just to host the galaxy’s first interstellar dodgeball championship?”

Time Machine groaned, Rumbling Bald shredded harder, and somewhere in the distance Spiderman was still muttering: “Nope. Not my job.”

And thus, the morning at NaFo ended the way all their gatherings did—half concert, half existential crisis, and entirely ridiculous.

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Up yours!

WARMUP:

Yes. Usual suspects and some dynamic stretching followed by some plank work (side note: Fishstix is a badass and did a pre-workout with sandbags)

THE THANG:

Starfish Routine or as Change Order called it, “Spread Eagle”

Center complete three man makers with sandbag every time you were back in center, 17 times total

complete x amount of reps at each of the 4 corners

Increase reps each round, 20, 25, 30 and 35

Exercises

CDD
Hand Release Merkins
LBCs
Monkey Humpers

MOD changed per round

Lunge walk
Bear crawl
Crawl bear
Walk :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing: (After 501 reps we were a bit fatigued)

From there we moseyed to the pull-up bars because BAOPS.

Took turns calling out ab exercises while one PAX did pull-ups to failure
:two: rounds of this was sufficient

Mosey back for Mary

MARY: 3 minute more of her
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Golf tournament
Invergence
Convergence
Fundraising for clean water for Kenya will be starting up!

COT: lifted up DDs M, Badlands, and praises for Pax supporting one another!

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Snatch and Run

WARMUP:
The 2.5 mile pre run

THE THANG:
A weird version of 21’s
Cones were set up at 50m intervals up to 500m
Suicide run to each cone performing cleans every time you go back to start.
E.g.
Perform 10 cleans and then run to the 50m cone and back (100m)
9 cleans, then run to the 100m cone and back (200m)
8 cleans, 150m cone (300m)

The amount of cleans plus distance ran = 11

MARY: huh ?
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel, 9/11 CSAUP, Golf Tournament

COT:

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Fathers were Forged

WARMUP: SSH x20, IWx15, HWx15, WMx10, CPx10, Merkinsx10, MCx10, PPx10, PPx10
THE THANG: Mosey to hill. At each light do 2 burpees to statrt then mode of transportation then 4 burpees at each light and end with 2 burpees at light.
Modes of transportation: Bear Crawl, Crab Walk, Power Skip, Lunge Walk, Karaoke
Then down the hill the same Burpee count:
Mode of transportation: Karaoke, Walk Lunge, Skip Power, Walk Crab and Crawl Bear.
Mosey to wall: 2 sets each of wall sits and BTW. Each man did a ten count.
MARY: Each called and exercise: American Hammer, LBC, Hello Ladies and X-O
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Talked about Forged Fathers. How to step up when your child has special needs.

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