CSPAN at Snake Pit 4/14/21

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4/14/21

13.33 PAX in attendance

22 kettlebell stations

partner up

sequence 4 flying squirrels, 14 reps at each station, run a lap (goal was 88 + 12 in COT to get to 100 = Q failure)

Band Camp and Birdcage set the pace

 

Spitz got called home by Elvis but returned for COT

Prayer and praise / Prayer

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Sandbags and a few tests at Currahee

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Currahee (April 13, 2021)

The term Currahee, as suggested by Site Q, Divac, references a Cherokee word meaning “Stand alone together.” This is the motto of the 506th Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division made known to most of us civilians through the HBO series, Band of Brothers. Over the last few months, Currahee has become synonymous with more difficult and become an AO where you come to be tested. With that understanding, it was now my responsibility as the Q for this morning to bring it.

Earlier in the week, I put the call out for this rendition to be a “heavy” version meaning, if you had a sandbag, bring it. Whether it was a 40lb, 120lb or a log, bring it. The PAX didn’t disappoint. This picture is before Site Q Divac dropped his 2 onto the pile.

Disclaimer for the 13 PAX: Check

Move ourselves and the coupons over to the turn in the drop-off lane.

Slick: SSH, Mountain Climbers, Windmills, 8ct Burpees, ½ the PAX sprint one way and back while the other ½ sprint the other way and back.

Explanation that during events, the Cadre’s will be yelling at you, testing you and giving you difficult time hacks to test the team. Utilizing a common test, the PAX had 10 seconds to empty their ruck of its contents. Penalty, 5 burpees. PAX then had 20 seconds to fill it back up…pass.
Do it again. 10 seconds to empty = fail, penalty. 15 seconds to fill = fail, penalty.

Ruck up and move all sandbags to the back of the school, drop in the center of the group.

10 Merkins / 20 Peter Parkers / 30 Slow Squats

Sandbags to the front of the school

10 Merkins / 20 Curls / 30 Flutters w/ Press

10 seconds to empty the ruck / 15 seconds to fill the ruck…penalty

Sandbags to the back of the school

10 Merkins / 20 OH Press / 30 High Pulls

Sandbags to the front of the school

Heels to Heaven

Man Makers

American Hammers

Groups of 3 run 30yds, slick while rest of the PAX plank. Complete till everyone goes through.

COT

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Introducing Q-Source at Quagmire

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YHC took the reins at Quagmire for a science experiment after listening to the roundtable podcast last week with Short Circuit and Stinger talking Q-Source. I really enjoyed the substantive portion of the 43 feet where Doah and Dredd would discuss the Q point of the week last year and have been looking to fold that into my routine while also needing to improve my rucking performance in preparation for the Growruck22 coming at the end of the month. Unfortunately lately I have been pretty busy so have missed out on the Q source discussions that Tesh and Anchorman have been leading here around the Fort so with the attendance numbers already suffering at Quagmire I felt the need to switch some things up to hopefully draw out a consistent group of PAX by offering a high-level intro/discussion to the Q-source. So YHC brought out the whiteboard and like Collin Powel says if you are 60% ready just go ahead and start. I had a desire and the Q schedule was open so I took the leap into trying to give an introductory to Qsource which will be henceforth referred to as Q-Source @ Quagmire.
This week we started off with the high-level intro to the four quadrants of the q-source by performing four corners at the perimeter of the Quagmire AO. The whiteboard had the four quadrants listed and at each corner of the AO we were going to learn about the respective quadrant. Giving the initial PAX that showed up and their experience in rucking YHC made the call that we were all going to ruck up and head to the first corner of Quagmire, which is Home Depot parking lot, to learn about the first quadrant of the G3L which is the Get Right. Normal exercises were performed and while everyone held a plank YHC read the introduction to the first quadrant of the G3L from the pocket-sized Q-Source. Mosey shuffle to the second corner of Quagmire which is the Ulta Beauty where we did some exercise and learned about the Live Right. Mosey to the corner of Steel Creek and Tryon where we learned about the Lead Right and exercises were performed and finally mosey back to ChickFilA/Bestbuy to learn about the Leave Right. A few minutes left so we continued over towards the PetsMart for some bear crawls and some lunges until it was 6:00.
COunt-A-Rama, Name-A-Rama, Announcements/ Prayers/Praises and finally YHC asked Flunder to close out the COT as only he can.
Thanks guys for letting me try this and for the feedback.

NMM:
Man, what a privilege it is to have the triple respect Flounder join us in the gloom every week and while his skills at calling cadence are still being refined his ability to close out a COT is second to none. His drive and desire to push himself to try and keep up with fellow PAX half his age is awe-inspiring and reminds me to challenge myself to push harder and get better.
Thanks to the PAX for allowing me to try this out and for the candid feedback on how we can improve in the near future.

Next week I look forward to my man HalfShell covering Q point 1.10 which is Prayer if you happen to be following along with the idiotic numbering system….
We will only cover the Socratic and the Spurs during the ruck workout and hope to have some discussion about how we as men today are trying to hone our skills and fulfill our “Get Right” responsibility to become HIM.

As always feel free to hit me up to discuss further any suggestions or roadblocks that you see might hinder our progress. Thanks again in advance for allowing me to attempt to fill a void I have been having.

Stay frosty my friends,
Build your guardrails out of bricks!
Olaf

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Better late than never!

4 Corners – Travel with KBover head

Squate/Lunges

Alt Arm Merk / Mtn Climber

Press/Burpee’

Curls/Am Hammer

Skull Crusher/LBC (I think)

Message: Say YES especially when you want to say NO. Good things follow that uncomfortable feeling.

Stack the deck in your favor every morning by asking for direction, patience, tolerance and understanding.

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Bushwood 4.14.2021

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L Train and YHC were the only two boot campers not in awe of the celebrity of CSPAN, who was on Q at Snake Pit. Fair.

 

Run long ways around the school and to the base of the main entrance hill. 

Stopping at random intervals we lunge walked, bear crawled, side shuffled, duck walked. All to get the blood flowing. A solid mile long warm up.

Stopped at the circle by the stadium. YHC read aloud this scripture. 

“The Lord passed in front of Moses, calling out, “Yahweh! The Lord! The God of compassion and mercy! I am slow to anger and filled with unfailing love and faithfulness. I lavish unfailing love to a thousand generations. I forgive iniquity, rebellion, and sin. But I do not excuse the guilty. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children and grandchildren; the entire family is affected— even children in the third and fourth generations.””

Exodus 34:6-7 NLT

YHC recently read a book called “God Has a Name” by John Mark Comer. The entire book was focused on the above verse and the true character of Yahweh, our God in the Bible. The last part of the verse with the sins of the parents being laid upon their children and grandchildren was pretty life shaking. 

At face value, the latter half of verse 7 seems crude and behind the times. But if you truly dig into the effect that choices we make have on our children and their trajectory – it’s sobering. Imagine if I decided to cheat on my M. It would likely lead to divorce, my children losing their trust in me, my personal life being a wreck, added stress which would likely lead to job loss. At the end of it all, even if I remarried I would probably never have the same relationship I have with my children today. My children would carry that through their lives with them and lack respect for fatherly figures. They would have a hole in their heart that would likely never be filled by anything but a “cheap substitute” as John Mark Comer puts it. 

L Train and YHC discussed this verse in depth and the effect our choices have on our children today and decades from now. We stopped to chat between each 10/20/30 suicide while holding a static position. 

Hill Suicides

Each Median Break 

10, 20, 30 Merkins/LBC’s at each turning point.

10, 20, 30 Curb Dips/Flutters

10, 20, 30 CDD’s/Hello Dollies

10, 20, 30 Squats/Rosalitas

 

A two man boot camp leads to strong conversation and much sharpening. Thanks for the tap, L Train.

Punch List out.

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Block Party 4.6.2021

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Catch up BB 4/5

Warm up

Arm/Leg ballistic stretching

SSH/Burpee Pyramid

 

Topic: Accelerating Fitness

Why are we here?

Why do we “take it easy” when it comes to fitness some times? We have the opportunity to be in the gloom. That’s right – an opportunity to be here. We aren’t forced here. It isn’t something that a judge or authority figures ordered us to do. We choose to do this. We get to do this. 

So why, then, is the temptation to “mail it in” so great, even when we go through the trouble to wake up at zero dark thirty? In the famous words of Youts: “We don’t wake up early to half-ass it.”

Mosey down Confederate Street to Withers, turn right to 4 way stop signs

ISI DORA

Partner up and challenge each other. DORA style but keep your reps secret from each other. After both PAX do a round of the movement, reveal the number of reps completed. Loser does the difference in a harder exercise while the winner gets a less difficult movement.

Legs – Run up Withers to Meachem & Back

Loser – Bomb Jacks

Winner – Squats

Bonnie Blairs

Monkey Humpers

Apollo Ono’s

 

Abs – Run down Academy to Forrest & Back

Loser – In & Outs

Winner – LBCs

Big Boys

American Hammers

Flutters

 

Arms – Nur up Withers to Confederate; run back

Loser – Diamonds

Winner – Wide Arms

Merkins

CDD’s

Dips

 

Putting somebody into your corner. 

The use of a brother (or several brothers) to motivate and push you. We are only as strong as we tell ourselves we are. And… spoiler… when we’re in the the thick of it – we’ll try to convince our own bodies to quit. Why?

Maximus quote: “I would have never completed, much less attempted, the GORUCK HTL without these men by my side. They knew the headspace I was in. Physically, I knew I could do it, but mentally, that is where I lacked confidence. These men saw to it that I wouldn’t train alone and each of them had their own motivation.”

There’s power in surrounding yourselves with like minded individuals. 

Mosey back toward Veteran’s Park for COT.

 

Punch List out.

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Running Deck of Cards

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Grassy Knoll has been posting within the Fort for quite a while and hitting Laces In and Alcatraz often. When he asked if I would Q Abyss, I was like when and where is it? Wednesday’s are normal a rest day and it’s all the way over in NC near the bridge…..it’s like those PAX east of the Peach Stand complaining that they have to drive to AO’s west of the Peach Stand. But what do PAX have in common? They support their brothers and don’t complain. So I wasn’t sure what the AO had to offer but figured it would be good to get out of the bubble and experience something new and different. It sure didn’t disappoint me nor the PAX who posted.

SO as we huddled around awaiting GO Time, I had to ask if there was a bigger playground behind the school….of course Grassy Knoll said No (laughing of course). So we began to mossy behind the school and on the way I dropped off a cone along the school road. We ended up right in front of a large playground where I dropped the second cone off and we began to do COP.

After a few warm ups that included SSH’s and windmills, we did 3 rounds of max-out pull ups. What’s a Trucker Q without Pull-ups.

We then gathered around the second cone and a deck of cards were pulled out. The goal was to not stay still and continue to move. The first cone was placed about 400 yards away, and the second end point was about 200 yards away.

We started at the second cone next to the playground. A card was drawn and if it is was a red card you ran to the farthest cone and completed the exercise and ran back to the other cone. If it was a black card we ran to the end of the parking lot past the basketball nets and back.

Hearts = Wide Arm Merkins

Diamonds = regular merkins

Spades = LBCs

Clovers = Squats

If the same suit was drawn three times in a row we had to do 10 burpees (that was a late addition half way through the WO thanks to Cha Ching’s recommendation).

We ended up running 3 miles by the end of the WO. Who would have guessed a Trucker WO would include 3 miles of running??????

Prayers for Cha Ching’s stress test today, for Smithers, and other prayers said and un-said.

Appreciate the opportunity.

Trucker

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Chupacabra 4.9.2021

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Catch up BB 4/5.

YHC was all alone until 0514 when Divac rolled up with this Brother-in-law, Blockhead. I was ready to mail it in until then… fortunately they kept me accountable.

 

We worked through a painfully time consuming pyramid that took the entire 45 minutes of Chupacabra. It was great.

 

No Strap Privilege Ruck around lot

 

Pyramid work. Do round one with 5 reps, do round two with 5 reps, add second exercise at 10 reps. Work up to all five movements 5-25 reps. Work back down by eliminating. We made it 75% of the way through.

 

Bear Crawl/Crawl Bear Pyramid – 5 spaces BC/CB

5 8-Count Body Builders

10 Lunge w/OH hold

15 Ruck Thrusters

20 Flutters w/press

25 Curls

Ruck w/OH Hold to COT

 

Punch List out.

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Currahee 3.30.2021

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Catch Up Backblast 2/5

 

Buy In 

5 Count Sandbag GTSS

5 Count Sandbag Clusters (Clean & Thrust)

5 Count BAD w/Sandbag

5 Count Sandbag Get Up

 

Coupon Ruck w/heavy sand bags and water jugs around the school.

 

2 TIMES

25-yard Duck Walk (5 Spaces), Walk Duck back

20 Ruck Squats

25-yard Duck Walk, Walk Duck back

20 push-ups

25-yard Duck Walk, Walk Duck back

20 Ruck High Pulls

25-yard Duck Walk, Walk Duck back

20 4-count flutter kicks, Walk Duck back

25-yard Duck Walk

20 4-count mountain climber, Walk Duck back

25-yard Duck Walk

 

Cash Out

5 Count Sandbag GTSS

5 Count Sandbag Clusters

5 Count BAD w/Sandbag

5 Count Sandbag Get Up

 

It sucked. We spent time under the 120, and everywhere else. Olaf said something profound (he usually always does), which I was planning to make the title of the backblast… but YHC slacked and didn’t write it down quick enough.

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The Hive 3.26.2021

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YHC has been slacking lately and hadn’t posted any backblasts for recent Q’s. So… here is # one of five.

 

Thunder was rolling early the morning of the 26th, which indicated we would be under cover with our bells. The humidity was high and the PAX were scared. Only four strong HIM showed up to the workout.

Call today’s workout a PT test as it was a repeat of a COVID related beatdown from Band Camp. YHC struggled last year (3/25/2020) through the WOD and wanted to see if acceleration or deceleration had happened since. Luckily, acceleration occurred and YHC felt much better on the second iteration of the Bandcamp WOD.

 

See below screenshots for the deets. Instead of 20 normal burpees at the end we did 10 Mountain Climber Burpees (Flying Squirrel w/4-count mountain climber) and 10 double burpees (two push ups, two squats).

 

Punch List out.

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