Category: Soul to Sole

S2S meets the coach’s box

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WARMUP: rucks up
THE THANG: ruck towards FMHS, approximately 0.75 miles, the night before I had talked to Badlands to meet with the coach’s box crew at the hill by the football stadium so we can share our gear.
Quick warmup led by Badlands: circled up for SSH, WM, IW, MNC, LSS all IC. We brought 3 sandbags and 6 rucks to the party so we utilized them in a mini-DORA. Instructions were a little mixed up at the beginning because we ended up with 5 groups of 3 PAX… bottom of the hill: 50 burpees – while 2 of the PAX did overhead rifle carry up the hill with sandbag/ruck 100 squats – while 2 of the PAX did farmers carry up the hill with sandbag/ruck 150 merkins – while 2 of the PAX did bear hug carry up the hill with sandbag/ruck, for the final movement we split into 3 groups of 5 PAX and rotated throwing the sandbag up and down the hill

Time to head back to COT, another 0.75 miles to go.
MARY: broga and stretches.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Manion hero Ruck on 9/14.
COT: stays in cot

Tinsel out…

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Leading the Way

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Weather was fantastic at 59 degrees and YHC was excited for my VQ at Soul to Sole.

Based on a recommendation from Maximus, YHC read the Comfort Crisis and became a follower of Michael Easter who is big believer in the power of rucking. Since that time, I was gifted a ruck and have included this in my workouts more frequently yet my only Q to date was a solo workout at Dawn Patrol.

I have been thinking about the 5 Cs of leadership from Q Source recently. Q Source resonates with me on so many levels at home, work and in our community and the 5 Cs serve as the standard for Leading Right. I decided to standardize the definitions of these with the Pax as part of the workout.

The Thang

3ish miles of rucking and shuffling

5 stops along with the way with these 6 exercises:

Bent over rows x 10
Merkins x 10
Overhead Press x 10
Curls x 10
Squats x 10
Lunges x 10

At each stop, we discussed one of the 5 Cs:

Candor
Commitment
Consistency
Contentment
Courage

The fellowship, weather and beat down serve to standardize the day. My prayer is that we can begin to optimize the day.

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Do the Shuffle

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WARMUP: Gave the usual intro and then we got after it.

THE THANG: We toured the longer Kingsley loop and the rucks stayed on the whole time. Starting from COT we had our first 10min ruck interval, 5min rucking followed by 5min of ruckshuffling.
Stopped by a group of benches for our first pain station.
25 – Step-Ups
25 – Alt. Lunges
25 – Incline Merkin w/ 2 shoulder touches at the top = 1 rep

Onto the next 10min ruck interval. This time we rucked for 4min. and then ruckshuffled for 6 min.
Stopped at the round-a-bout towards the back entrance for our next pain station.
150 total reps – Squats and Calf Raises (PAX chose how they wanted to split up the reps )
Then completed 1 lap via BearCrawl around the round-a-bout

Marched right into our next ruck interval – 3min ruck followed by 7min of ruckshuffling.

Ended up at the amphitheater area for our next pain station where there were plenty of more benches to utilize.
20 – ButttouchSquat followed by 2 alt lunges = 1 rep
15 – Incline Merkin followed by 2 Grave Diggers = 1 rep

From that pain station we moved into our final ruck interval – 2min ruck followed by 8min ruckshuffle which we completed in the parking lot behind Panera. Last call was at 1min as PAX were asked to ruckshuffle back to COT.

MARY: No time

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel Serve, Blood drive, Trash pick-up, T&H, read your newsletter

COT: SHOWTOKNOW!

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KB replacement theory

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THE THANG: Standard laps around the 1 mile loop until 10 minutes left.
MARY: Gathered by the fire pit for
flutter press 4c x20
Overhead drop with ruck x10
Modified Hello Dolly 4c x 10 with core engaged to keep lower back on the concrete, hands over stomachs, and heads in the air with chin tucked
Modified Wheezy Jefferson x10 in the same way
Flutter Press 4c x15
Overhead drop with ruck x10

ANNOUNCEMENTS: CSAUPS and serving opportunities. Sofrito has something cooking for September 21st
COT: get vulnerable

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Around the Lake Stroll with Pain Stations

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The Q arrived 5 minutes late and took lead.
WARMUP: laps around the lot waiting for a
THE THANG:
Mosey around the Kingsley lake with pain stations
5 Stops in all with the following exercises
Rucks used for workouts

Steps ups
Dips
Moroccan Night Clubs
Curls
Triceps
Lunges
Over head carry
CDDs
Shoulder Shrugs
Calf Raises

MARY: Never found!

ANNOUNCEMENTS: CSAUPS & Read the Newsletter

COT: We shared and leaned on each other.

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Searching the Trails for T-shirts

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WARMUP: Rucks ON and HeadLamps ON

THE THANG:
Headed out towards the hospital and into the trails. Back out towards Kingsley and around back to COT.
Mid Stop Exercises were called with 10 reps each:
Cherry Pickers
Morrocan Night Clubs
Ruck Curls

MARY: None

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Slow Burn 10yr Anniversary, Acceleration Project, Bethel Church Mens Shelter, CSAUPs
COT: Stays in COT

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