Category: Alcatraz

Soggy Sloggy

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It was a wet sloppy morning at The Rock, so we embrace the suck.

Quick disclaimer and warmup and we were off.

Thang;
Dora – Partner 1 – Kraken Burpees, 200 Squats, 300 Monkey Humpers. Partner 2 – runs to the pullup bars for 5 pullups.

Arod – Partner 1 – 300 V-Ups, 200 CDDs, 100 Merkins. Partner 2 – Nur across the parking lot and back.

6 Minutes of Marry, then announcements/prayers & praise.

– JWow

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ALCATRAZ 10 YR ANNIVERSARY PARTY

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PRE-WORKOUT: Pullups with Trucker

WARMUP: Run back and forth two times in the Runde parking lot

THE THANG:

After a brief introduction including some history of Alcatraz, Funhouse kicked off COP with 50 SSH, (although I believe 100 were planned in homage to Santini). From there it was imperial walker x 10, hillbilly walker x 10. Before we got to the meat of the workout, YHC called out a classic Alcatraz upper body workout called Green Sally (Decibel/2014). It’s a song by Moby called ‘Flower’ where you plank when he sings ‘Green Sally Up’ and drop to 6″ when he sings ‘Green Sally Down’. It’s pretty tough to complete the whole song and I don’t think anyone did today. But, you have to have monster shoulder strength. Because we had a large group today, we split them in half and started our Q’s:

Funhouse on Q:
The Wheel of Pain (Funhouse/2013)
Each PAX gets a cone with an excercise and reps.
40 yard diameter circle with a cone in the middle.
Do the excercise on the cone, run to the middle and out to the cone to the right.

Freddy Mercury – 25
Lunges – 30
Burpees – 15
Merkins – 15
Rosalita- 30
Squats – 25
LBC – 25
Burpees – 10
SSH – 30
Parker Peter – 25
Plank Punches – 30
Mountain Climbers – 30
Merkins – 15

Senator Tressel on Q
Mosey to the bottom of the hill on Tara Tea Drive for ‘Quadzilla’ (Zima/2018)
Group 1 does squats while Group 2 runs backwards up the hill and does 5 bombjacks at the hilltop. Run back down and flapjack. Rinse and repeat 2 more times.

Mosey to the playground for pullups, step ups, and ab exercises (Senator Tressel/2013) We did 2 rounds today

Mosey to the wall by the concessions stand and split into two groups.
Group 1 does Peoples chair and passes a kettle bell (White Lightning/2018), while Group 2, runs to the fence, hops over it, sprints up the hill, does 3 burpees at the top, and runs back to the wall. Flapjack. (Jekyll/2017) We did 2 rounds today.

Form a line for tunnel of love (stolen from Santini at WEP/2012)

MARY: Hello Dolly x 20, Seal walk (Cornhole/2013), Navy Seal Team Sit Ups (Santini/Trucker 2013)

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter

COT: Today we celebrated 10 years at Runde Park by paying homage to some of the classic beatdowns led by the great Q’s of Alcatraz. Funhouse and I drew an Alcatraz record 32 Pax and that made me very proud (of course, we advertised heavily, offered free coffee, beer, cake, and closed the other two Saturday AO’s so maybe that had something to do with it – LOL). Although, attendance at bootcamps on Saturdays isn’t what is used to be, I will post whenever I am able. Runde Park has been my home on Saturday mornings, and even after all these years, I still look forward to getting up early, meeting the Pax at 6:30, and doing that tough bootcamp workout. Many thanks to all that posted with us this morning and special thanks to our current and former site Q’s: Funhouse, Smuggler, Trucker, Skipper, and Uber for their leadership and help pulling this all together. I appreciate all you guys!

Prayers: ST’S mom with cancer, DD’s friends with a new pregnancy, Long Duck recovering from burns and back injury

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Jams Sesh at the traz

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WARMUP: Stretches and IC exercises
THE THANG:
1)Tabata – 6 cycles, 6x sets ea. 20 secs on, 11 secs rest. 1 min recovery run. Run around lot.
1. Squats
2. Flutters  
3. Monkey humpers
4. American hammers
5. Lunges
6. Vups

2)DORA at steep road. Partner does 5 flying squirrels at the top.
1. 100 jump squats
2. 200 hillbilly Walker
3. 300 lbcs

3)Round of 11 motivator to end things

MARY: 2 remaining minutes were used for IC on your 6 exercises
ANNOUNCEMENTS: poker night, bbq and bourbon night, read your newsletter
COT: prayers for those that are ailing and those dealing with loss of a loved one. Prayers for our 2.0s. Always thankful for what we have.

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When does Broga begin?

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WARMUP: SSH, Imperial Walkers, windmills, plank Stretches
THE THANG:
Simple lap around the prison walls. First stop, pull up bars – 3 reps
Second stop- stairs near hill, Hand release merkins – 5 reps
Third stop- bottom of hill, diamond merkins – 5 reps
Forth stop – top of hill, wide arrow merkins- 5 reps
last stop- back to parking lot, man makers and squat thruster – 5 reps each
+1 rep each lap
Last lap was shorted time
MARY: body destroyer

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Training for the Prison Break

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We had four strong for a solid day on the prison yard and a chance to run.

Mosey around the park with stops for warmups:  IW x 20, CDD x10, SSH x 34, Moroccan Nightclubs x20, Arm Circle x15, Reverse Arm Circle x15.

Mosey to play ground for a circuit x4:

5 burpees, 10 pull ups, 15 Merkins, 20 Lunges, 25 dips and 30 squats then a lap around the park.

Ab lab with 20 LBCs, 20 Hello Dollies and 20 flutters.

Once all completed we moseyed to the hill.  Nur up the then hill 5 times with one less burpee per time up the hill (5-4-3-2-1).

Mosey back to parking lot.

Finish with Freddy Mercury x20.

Great crew as always:  Uber continues to show tours of his van.  If you haven’t seen it get out to Alcatraz and check out his masterpiece.

Speaking of Masterpiece it was great to have him out.  I discovered you just have to have him over for some bourbon the night before and he will post.

Senator Tressel continues to accelerate in his bid for the Senior Olympics.  I believe his going for the all around metal.  He continues to drive us into the ground.

I was there and did all of it.

Decibel

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Duct-Tape-to-Nuts

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WARMUP:
Mosey to fire station, then:
10 Windmills IC – the mumblechatter began.
10 HIllBilly Walkers IC – the PAX thought this might bother me.
10 LSS IC – Block Party is way worse.
10 MNC IC
10 Shoulder Taps IC
10 Merkins IC
Broga – mumblechatter significant here.

THE THANG:
Moseyed to the pullup bars. All planked while we two waterfalls of 5 pull ups each. The weather had been nice, but all of the hot air spilling out of the PAX had changed the local conditions. Shirts became optional.

Moseyed around the ball fields and down Tara Tea Drive. Partnered up and did a DORA, with NUR up the hill for the first half and then running the second half. Exercises were:
100 Merkins
200 Overhead Claps
300 LBCs
One last run up the hill. Toy Soldiers and slow Lunges down Windward Drive. Mosey to ball fields.
Halftime
A series of Webbs, starting with Core.
Captain Thor, 1 big boy sit-up – 4 American hammers, progress up to 10 BBSU and 40 Am Hams.
Total: 55 BBSU and 220 AH

Legs
1 squat – 4 calf raises, progress up to 10 squats – 40 calf raises.
Total: 55 squats – 220 calf raises

Upper Body
1 merkin – 4 shoulder taps; progress up to 10 merkins – 40 shoulder taps.
Total: 62 merkins – 248 shoulder taps

The mumblechatter was off the charts through the 2nd Half. I can’t recall all of it, but the laughter hurt as much as the 220 American Hammers…. and the ant bites.

MARY:
Flutters, Hello Dollys, Box Cutters, Xs & Os… just for Decibel!

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Highway Clean Up, Convergence, Sweetwaters Coffee on 7/30

COT: Stays in CoT.
6 of us made it to Dunkin Donuts for some Coffeeteria. It was a great morning for 1st-F and 2nd-F, thoroughly enjoyed it fellas!

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Welcome Back Mr. Clean

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Five strong met at Runde Park for a beatdown in swampy mid-July SC conditions. Here is what they did:

THE THANG:
Senator Tressel on Q:
Mosey from the parking lot to the 1st field, take a lap, and continue to the 2nd fiield, take a lap and circle up for COP:

SSH x 25, windmill x 10, squat x 25, merkin x 10/hold/left arm/leg high/flip/dip x 10/flip, right arm/leg high/6″ hold repeat twice and recover, alternate lung x 20, mountain climbler x 25, hellow dolly x 25, pretzel crunch x 25, box cutter x 20, diamond merkin x 10

Tunnel of love x 3 cycles.

Mosey to concessions stand wall for extended peoples chair (90 sec) followed by BTTW. Rinse and repeat.

Mosey to the playground and split into two groups. Group 1 does 10 pull-ups while group 2 does reverse step-ups. Rinse and repeat two more times.

Handoff to M. Clean:
Everyone pick up a cinder block and head to the end of the parking lot. Do 20 reps of the following exercises with a run to the opposite end of the lot and back between each exercise.

Exercises with cinder blocks: squats, bench press, burpees, shoulder press, elevated CDD, right arm and left arm push up, upright row w/squat, curls, core heel touches, flutters, ground to shelf and block pass around (no time for this one).

MARY: See above

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter

COT: Prayers for ST’s mom and friends with cancer, Fish Sticks’ family going through transition, and Walker’s son looking for a new job opportunity.

I got the call yesterday to assist Mr. Clean with his Q and I was happy to help him out. He’s been away from F3 for a while and it was good to have him back. There was a lot of chatter and jokes today about getting older, and the things you have to do at the doctor when you approach 50 (Backdraft was the ‘warbaby’ at 47). Today, I turned 59, and Alcatraz has been my home on Saturday mornings for the past 10 years. I’ve always been injury prone and as I get older, the injuries seem to get more frequent and take longer to get over. But, somehow, my body recovers and I can still do these hard F3 workouts during the week and on Saturdays. It’s truly a blessing and something I never take for granted.

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1 Hr Warm-up

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Change Order filled in for the schedule d Q. Initially, he said he would take the warm-up, but kept on going. We hit the pull up bars and went up and down the hills several times. Finished off with some boulder exercises. No bees present.

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The Alcatraz 3

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WARMUP: Mosey to Pitcairn Park boat ramp
SSH, IW, MNC, LSS, Merkins, Shoulder Taps, Mtn Climbers,
THE THANG: 11s Burppies at the bottom, LBC at the top then some dips and step ups, followed by Derkins Irkins and calf raises. Head back to Alcatraz, and the bottom of “the hill” for a Sisyphus run 10sec, 20sec, 30sec. Slow mosey back to COT
MARY: No Mary, but a @airborne Hip routine. Closed with Body Destroyer
ANNOUNCEMENTS: July 4th convergence, read your newsletter
COT: Prayers for Uber and his family as they head out on a 3 week road trip in his new camper van!

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Prison Painball

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NASA and Ruby Slippers tag-team Q. It was a wonderful dewy muggy morning! PERFECT for what was planned…..

WARMUP: Ruby led the warmup. First a run around the entrance road loop out front, approx half mile or so, then circle up in the parking lot for the following:
* 1 burpee OYO
* 7 windmills IC
* 2 burpees OYO
* 7 cherry pickers IC
* 3 burpees OYO
* 7 Moroccan night clubs IC
* 4 burpees OYO
* 25 (4ct) SSH IC
* 5 burpees OYO
Quite a nice warmup! Then on to….

THE THANG: PAINBALL
Divide the pax into 2 teams. Team NASA, and team Ruby. One team is on “Offense”, the other on “Defense”. The offense does their workout, tries to circle the bases, and cross home plate as much as possible until the defense finishes their workout. When the defense finishes their workout it ends the respective half of the inning. Teams then swap from offense to defense and vice versus. Continue/repeat until time to go to COT.

OFFENSE – BASE WORK:
Cones set up at all 4 bases on the baseball infield – home plate, 1st base, 2nd base, 3rd base. Each cone has a set of exercises and a type of movement to the next base. Only one person is allowed on a basepath at any given time – you can have a runner going to each successive base but not going to the same base, just like baseball. No more than 2 runners on a base at any given time (tough to have only one – things clog up). Do SSHs while waiting to exercise or move. When a runner does all the bases and crosses home plate, that is a run for that team. Exercises and movements:
* Home – 1 burpee, 10 merkins, then long jump to first base
* 1st base – 1 burpee, 10 merkins, 20 CDDs, then Lt Dan to 2nd
* 2nd base – 1 burpee, 10 merkins, 20 CDDs, 30 BBSU or LBC, then crab walk to 3rd
* 3rd base – 1 burpee, 10 merkins, 20 CDDs. 30 BBSU/LBC, 40 flutters, then bear crawl to home
* Rinse and repeat until defense is done. A run does not count if the runner has not crossed home plate. No halfway there scores. All or nothing.
>> A suggestion was made for next time to have offense start the runners off where they left off at the previous inning.

DEFENSE – DORA
Two cones about 30yds apart is the run portion. One person does and exercise, while the other runs. Swap when runner returns, continuing the exercise count where the other left off. In the case of multiple people on defense – split the group and take the highest count of one person. Exercises:
* 50 burpees
* 100 sumo squats
* 200 flutters (2 ct)
Defense records the last out when the last flutter is done AND the runners are back in.

Pretty much nonstop movement for one hour! No breaks between innings. Just swap offense/defense and get after it.

We got 3 full innings in, and another 4th inning where reps were cut in half in order to complete before COT. Team NASA won by one run, but dangit if team Ruby came on strong and almost…….by a half base…….tied it in the end. Not sure what we would’ve done in a tie…….
WAGER: was going to be burpees but everyone was smoked. An IOU for that.

PAX really enjoyed this! A rematch was mentioned. This will reappear later this summer or early fall……

These guys were hammering it out, knocking out long balls, and flippin some bats all morning! AWESOME JOB FELLAS!! AND between rolling around in the dewy grass and infield sand, everyone got nice and sandy dirty – sugar cookies!!! Yes, that was intended. You are welcome!! HA HA HA!!!

Observations:
* Senator Tressel is a MACHINE! Dude just cranks it out.
* Tapout definitely benefits from his youth but put in A TON of work…..did every rep! So cool to watch him do his thing.
* Headspin can burpee with the best of them. Don’t tell Slapshot that though……
* Falcon Crest gets the work done, a silent killer, John Wick style. So great to see him back in the gloom accelerating.
* Ruby Slippers is really returning to form from his injury……watch out Fort. He’s coming for ya!!
* Uber kept the mumblechatter going and knows what levers to pull to keep guys motivated and pushing through the pain. MUCH appreciated!!
* I was just happy to be there with the fellas and complete it all without merlot. I wanted to push everyone including myself. Pain = growth.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
* Read The Fort Newsletter and get involved
* All AOs closed next Saturday 6/10 for Poppins’ Convergence for Kenya
* Fort Mill Care Center needs volunteers to help with lawn maintenance. Jiffy has been doing alot of mowing on his own. We can do better Fort!! Let’s help……see signup in the Newsletter

COT / P&P:
* Senator Tressel’s mom
* Vuvu’s son and family
* The serving at Bethel Men’s Shelter
* Marriages
* Health – including mental health
* Ruby in his mentorship of a gentleman at Bethel Men’s Shelter
* Many more……

GREAT way to start off the day, up 1-0 at sunrise!!

On behalf of Ruby Slippers, we thank you for the opportunity to lead. God bless.

– Ruby Slippers and NASA

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