YHC (Band Camp) failed to persuade Esso to submit his own backblast. Sad day….sad sad day (took me 7 minutes to submit two backblasts and review the name-o-rama videos from the workouts….3.5 minutes per backblast)
Who knows? This is Band Camp submitting a backblast for Esso (because 4 minutes was too much time for the man to spend….?)
We rucked around Kingsley
WARMUP: started with the classic SSH, cherry pickers, merkins, low slow squats, finished with some hamstring and back stretching (which was amazing)
THE THANG: Pearls on a string theme where we ran all over “campus” to different waypoints to do the exercises below…adding a new exercise per stop…start with 10 merkins, next stop 10 merkins + 15 squats…and so on. Once we got to 30, we did 30 again and back down dropping the highest rep exercise at each stop.
– 10 merkins
– 15 squats
– 20 CDD
– 25 flutters
– 30 calf raises
Finished with a starfish / 4 corner. Paired up and went to each 4 corner coming back to the center for 3 burpees. Corners were: 10 wide arm, 10 bomb jacks, 10 jump squats, 10 American hammers.
MARY: circled up and each pax called an exercise.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: lots in the newsletter coming up in September!
COT: prayers for Caroline (Shady’s 2.1 teammate) surgery
WARMUP: standard stuff really
THE THANG: kettle bell sets sorted by full body , legs, arms, and core. Mixing in some new exercises and flows.
MARY: last 5 minutes
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
WARMUP: SSH, Windmills Merkins Squats Imperial Walkers
THE THANG: 4 Corners- Starfish w cadence Burpees, 100 yd Merkins and Jump squats every 10 yds. Finish on 50 yd line w flutters.
MARY: BROGA
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Community Svc events Mens Bethel Dinner / trash pick up and the CSAUP.
COT:
WARMUP:
THE THANG: Ruckished for 30 min. Then chatted for 30.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
WARMUP: Mosey to COG, SSH, Windmills, IW, HW
THE THANG:
10 handicapped parking spaces…hmmmm…..
1 merkin bear crawl to the next space
2 merkins bear crawl
3 merkins bear crawl, etc. to 10
same on the way back with squats and lunge walks
Mosey to front stairs of First Baptist
7s with Squats at the bottom, Merkins at the top
Mosey back towards COG hit all the stairs…I mean ALL of them
Wall sit with 2 burpees down the line
rinse and repeat
Mosey to the new parking lot at the UMC
Parker Peter, Peter Parker, Mountain Climber sequence
ANNOUNCEMENTS: 10 year events. Mental health is health
COT: YHC thinking about professional orchestral auditions….sometimes you have to drink your own kool-aid. let go of everything you want to fix or do better and lay it out there like it’s the best thing around
WARMUP: mosey to playground parking lot – burpees, windmills, imperial and hillbilly walkers, more burpees, squats, holding people’s chair for Moroccan night clubs and air presses while mumblechatter escalated quickly. Pusher enjoyed the view of YHC’s good side at this point of the workout.  Planks ensued along with a few Broga poses, Peter Parker’s and merkins.  From there we moseyed to the bus loop for the main event.
THE THANG: partners took turns alternating running between ab stations and 4 exercise stations. The stations were comprised of 8 burpees or 8 kraken burpees (which Dark Helmet loved), 18 of another exercise and 22 of another – Carolina dry docks, derkins, squats, lunges, merkins and side straddle hops (because YHC did not include them in the warm up) specifically. PAX did all of them and got 1% better.
After 8 rounds were completed between partners, we moseyed around the school, recited the pledge to honor those serving our country and protecting our freedoms. Then moseyed past three more light poles were 3 burpees were done at each one. Â Just because. Â
MARY: Sasquatch led 2 minutes of Broga which brought us to 0600.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: We’re exclaimed
COT: Prayers were offered. Â And we welcomed FNG Sweat Shop.
YHC is grateful for the culture and fellowship we are so fortunate to have in the Fort. Showing up in the gloom each morning for the man next to us truly enables acceleration beyond just the workout. Â
Thanks to Poppins for the call to Q.  It’s always an honor to lead.
Gratefully,
Cyclops