Category: Currahee

Limited miles and no smiles

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WARMUP: Quick warmup ruck around the back of the school to the front entry drive for COP.
– SSH
– LSS
– Plank into downward dog, honeymooner, L arm high and R arm high.
– Windmill

THE THANG:

Ruck to trailhead park. While in route, there was some chatter/concern that we were headed to “the hill” for a second week in a row. As much as I love taking the hill, I had something a little different planned…an early intro to prep for The Chad.
– 100 step ups
– 100 squats (ruck on)
– 100 irkens

With 30 minutes left on the clock, we rucked back to the school for some field work.

Cones were placed every 20 yards (approx). 4 segments out / 4 segments back. 5 ruck man makers to start and at each turn.

Out:
– MOT = bear crawl / 10 ruck on merkins at each cone

Back:
– MOT = Lunge walk with ruck overhead / 25 ruck rows at each cone

Out:
– MOT = Bear crawl ruck drag / 10 BBSU at each cone

Back:
– MOT = Lunge walk with ruck front carry / 25 DC flutter press at each cone

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Support the shoe drive.

COT: Prayers for safety, health, peace and trust in the Sky Q.

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rucking up heart attack hill

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WARMUP: plankitude
THE THANG: head towards the heart attack hill. Perform 5 ruck thrusters at bottom of hill. Take the hill.
MARY: we did some flutters with ruck press
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Sprocket is putting together football game picks with F3 integrated into the competition
COT: prayers for healing and thanks for family & F3

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Just some miles with good discussion.

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WARMUP: Oops…

THE THANG:

Planned on a version of the Tribe 1776 WOD but once we got to walking we were having good conversations so we audibilized to just getting miles with some stops every 10 minutes or so for reps of 25 of an exercise.

We got in somewhere between 2-3 miles (my watch accidentally got stopped) and did 25 OYO of squats, high pulls, swings and curls

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pick it up, put it down, drag it all around

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Warmup – SSH, Windmills, plank, merkins

Rucks on – grab sandbags/loose weights and take with for lap around campus- squats/merkins

Move to field – for spoke/wheel style workout using half field (50 yards between corners):

Corner 1 – swings
Corner 2 – OH press
Corner 3 – curls
Corner 4 – bent over rows

Center- man makers (always 5 reps)

Round 1 – suit case carry (5 reps each corner)
Round 2 – Bear Crawl ruck drag (10 reps each corner)
Round 3 – suitcase carry (15 reps each corner)

Another lap around campus with weights- merkins/squats

Announcements: lots of ruck opportunities coming this fall. 10 yr anniversary details to come

CoT: prayers/praises

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Log Jam at the Highland Games

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YHC celebrated 37 trips around the sun today and could think of no better way to start it off then with my brothers at Currahee!

WARMUP: Some stretchy things
THE THANG: The PAX went to the back of the school to find the logs. Two teams carried 2 logs (aprox 100-1000 lbs each) around the school and dropped them in the field. Pax lined up on the fence line for 4 rounds of the following
– 10 merkins
– 10 Squat
– 10 Ruck Curl
– 7 Man Makers
Ruck overhead carry to failure then suitcase carry length of the field.
Rinsed and repeated this routine for 4 rounds then split up for some Highland Games style relay log flip race! Pays to be a winner!
One more round of the movement above then losing team had to carry all rucks across the field while winning team jogged back and forth until the six was in.
Each team loaded up their log (aprox 500 – 5000 lbs each) to take back around the school – rotating as needed.
Ruck back to front parking lot for ruck overhead carry to failure back to COT – no one failed!
Olaf took us out with some BROGA
MARY: BROGA
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Charity brew ruck on Thursday – Bourbon and BBQ coming back in Nov – GORUCK Star Course coming in early October (lots of interest here) – Grow Ruck Valley Forge coming later in the Fall – Cylops is HC! – Currahee should be busy with all these events coming!
COT: You had to be there

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Rucking with push-ups

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Plans had to be changed slightly as there were only 3 of us there but I still made sure we get our moneys worth of the early wake up.
We left the sandbags and ladder in the car and rucked around the school for 2.86 miles with 10 merkins every 3 minutes on the minute, total of 200 merkins. We finished up with 3 minutes of abs lab.

Great time to catch up with Mainframe and Divac.

I’ll keep the ladder handy for my next Q…

We prayed for our families, kids, patience and a great summer for everyone.

Tinsel out!

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Sandbag Games

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WARMUP: Slick mosey around the parking lot followed by some SSH, Good Mornings and a few Merkings.
THE THANG: I borrowed, or stole, this workout from Steak Knives in Cape Fear while we did a version of this workout as extra credit prior to a running AO. Everyone hear had a sand bag between 40lbs-60lbs.
(50) Sand bag Getups (think a Turkish getup) without ruck on.
(50) Sand bag ground to shoulders (and toss it over your shoulder) while wearing ruck.
(50) Sand bag squats while wearing ruck
(50) Sand bag clean & throws (same as a sand bag toss) while wearing ruck.
We were on a 2min timer so every 2mins, you had to do 5 burpees. After 2 rounds, we changed the count to 3 burpees.
MARY:
Box Cutters with ruck overhead
LBCs with ruck overhead
Flutters with ruck overhead
American Hammers – slick
Standing side-bends with ruck in hand
Series of planking with rucks on
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter, Independence Day convergence at NAFO, give blood, Men’s Shelter
COT: You had to be there.

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Run, ruck or crawl…we’re taking the hill

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WARMUP:
– Quick warmup lap around the parking lot (slick).  YHC received immediate feedback about running at a ruck WO.  Complaints noted.
– COP:
   – LSS (IC)
   – Overhead clap (IC)
   – SSH (IC)
   – Peter Parker (IC)
Runners started rolling into the parking lot as the 4 ruckers departed for “the hill.”  Apparently the hill is useful not only for a ruck WO, but also to train for The Bear.

THE THANG:
There are many hills on the peninsula, but Heart Attack Hill is in a class all its own.  Today’s wienke was simple…out/back to summit the hill.  While in route, we stopped at 5 minute intervals to complete 10 reps of each of the following exercises:
– Merkin (ruck on)
– Overhead press
– Ruck curls
– Ruck rows
– Squats (ruck on)
For the final 100 +/- yards up the hill, PAX were not permitted to wear the rucks on their backs.  We started with an overhead carry and were permitted to front carry (no straps) to rest.  Anyone who’s been on that section of the hill will understand the balance challenge this presents as due to the incline, you’re practically nose to pavement.  Heart rates were elevated.  The highest recorded metric was Divac’s 170 BPM “recovery” reading on the descent.  

2.55 miles and 7 rounds of exercises (350 total reps)

The runners remarked at the ruckers impeccable timing as we rolled into COT at 0559:45.  That could be attributed to solid planning, pure luck or more likely a little of each.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Q School
– FM Care Center
COT:
– Prayers for marriages

Honored for the opportunity to lead. Thanks Divac!

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We saw a bear

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WARMUP: Ruck a lap
THE THANG: Deck of pain with mosey breaks every 7th card.

2-7
– Heart – Man Maker
– Diamond – Ruck Curl
– Clubs – Shoulder Press
– Spade – Ruck swing
8-A
– Heart – Calf Raises
– Diamond – Squat
– Clubs – Merkin
– Spade – BBS

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Active recovery

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WARMUP:
Standard warm up
Ruck half the loop
SSH
Cherry pickers
Yoga
Merkins

THE THANG:
We had the following exercises and reps that we did for 5 mins straight.

5 man makers
10 curls
15 squats
10 overhead press
5 burpees with ruck on

Then for active recovery we would ruck for 2 mins

Repeated this 5 times.

We were definitely faster rounds 1 and 2. No one was able to complete the list twice in one round.

Simple but effective workout. Just an example that a hard workout doesn’t have to be complicated.

MARY:
30 LBCs to finish
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
The runners practicing for the Bear joined us

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