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Moving Weight

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4 PAX came out for the #DRP at the newly named Lake Wylie Ruck AO ” Tugboat. Poopdeck’s weight moving brother.

Ice-T dropped the Disclaimer for the both the boot camp and ruck, and they took off.

We rucked up grabbed the the Sandbag and started off on a 1 mile 14 min time hack.  We started as 3 and 38 special caught us at the turn.  good 2ndF while maintaining pace and passing the sandbag.

As we tuned into the boat ramp time was waning and with a 15 Man Maker penalty a ahead of us a shuffled was warranted. Around the long side and back down the middle right on time.

No COP/Warmup- That is what the 1 mile ruck was for.

5 pain stations were laid out across the parking lot.  It was supposed to be down the center light posts but LK’s behind on the power bill so I called an audible and spread them out.

It went like this:

Station 1

5 Man Makers 1 pax does MM with Ruck on with Sandbag

25 Merkins Ruck on

35  ruck swings

Station 2

5 Man Makers 1 Pax does MM w/ Ruck on and Sandbag

35 Ruck curls

25 Up-Right Rows

Station 3

5 Man Makers 1 Pax does MM w/ Ruck on and Sandbag

50 Ruck Squats 1 pax does with ruck on and sandbag

25 DC Flutter Kicks w/ Ruck Press

Station 4

5 Man Makers 1 Pax does MM w/ Ruck on and Sandbag

25 DC American Hammers w/ ruck in hand

25 Squat Thrusters 1 pax does with ruck on and sandbag

Station 5

5 Man Makers 1 Pax does MM w/ Ruck on and Sandbag

25 OH Presses 1 pax does with ruck on and sandbag

25 DC Mountain Climbers

We got through 4.75 stations and with 7 minutes remaining we competed Block hammers and did another 5 MM and headed for COT.

Great group to ruck with this morning. look forward to see this AO grow.

Duck Out!

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4 big boy corners

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Upon arrival, Darkest of All was already in 2020 form with the newly coined “traveling pants” extra credit.  A handful of brave (stupid) souls joined him for a 3-4 warmup prior to 0515.  As 0515 quickly approached, 10 was the number that came to play for what was an extremely warm late December morning.  Quick disclaimer and a short mosey over to the neighboring parking lot for some warm ups.  Started out with SSH, windmills, merkins, low slow squat, parker peters, then some stretching…yes, stretching.  Quad stretches followed by some shoulder and arm stretching.  Now that warming up was out of the way, YHC quickly mapped out where the 4 corners were going to take place.

Corner 1 – Old Navy; Corner 2 – Ulta; Corner 3 – Home Depot; Corner 4 – Best Buy / COT…this made for a 1.5 mile loop around the grounds we call Quagmire.  At each corner, the following exercises we performed:

  • 10 bomb jacks
  • 20 diamonds
  • 30 CDD
  • 40 jump squats
  • 50 flutters

Oh ya, the goal was to get to the corners via bear crawl….j/k, that would just be insane (please don’t anyone do this or Jedi may complain a little bit).  We used our legs and ran, but the goal was to run quickly.  Jedi and Cha Ching were the pacesetters while the rest of us mortals made sure we could still see them.

Once all had completed the one loop and all the exercises, making it around again with exercises in 15 min was not going to be worth the price of admission.  So we moved the 4 corners into closer range and proximity.  In the bigger Best Buy parking lot, we did a mini-4 corners but with a center starfish idea.  In each corner we did the merkin exercises with the center being 5 burpees (go do the corner, come back to the middle, repeat until all corners complete).

  • 20 wide arm
  • 20 diamond
  • 20 ranger
  • 20 partner derkins

With 7 or so minutes remaining, we did the same concept / idea but in MARY style.  In the center was 5 LBC.

  • 10 flutters
  • 10 hello dolly
  • 10 rosalita
  • 10 American hammers

Wrapped it up at 0600 and headed over to COT for name-o-rama, announcements and prayers and praises.  YHC didn’t bring any words of wisdom (like I have any…lol) today as this was a non-talking, mimimal mumblechatter, no-10 count kind of morning.  Yes, there was the occasional Jedi rib shot and DH “encouragement”, but pretty calm given the constant go.  Prayers go out to Milehigh who is nursing a knee injury.  Thanks for the call to lead, always appreciate it!

Shady

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Olaf coupon buffet at Golden corral

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My knee was still recovering so minimal running was on the buffet. Luckily I have more than enough coupons to entertain the PAX crammed into my garage so the couponmobile was loaded down and sitting low rolling into the coral.

Short mosey after disclaim was disclaimed over to a warmup a Rama. It’s been too long since the actual workout so I’m going to list some of the staples I usually go for along with a few I remember.
Lots of SSH to start. I remember a comment about my knee must not hurt to do SSH so I made sure to add a couple 20-30 once the mumble chatter started for good measure.
Then a magnificent Peter Parker followed by Parker Peter screw up by YHC.
Then it wouldn’t be a snowman Q without a full circle of hump.
A little longer mosey to the church parking lot across the street where the coupons were organized into a painful sequence starting with picking up something awful and awkward and ending with battle rope AKA hose tug.

Oh and don’t forget the timer to rotate obstacles being the pull-up dead hang as the center attraction.

Everyone got better except DoaH and Spiderman who chatted the whole time like two schoolgirls at summer camp. Anyways it’s always an “interesting” time and muscles you don’t normally use were sore for days following.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead Lutefisk.

Until next time stay frosty my friends.

OLAF

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Block Building at Pantheon

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Eight men showed up on a cold morning at Tega Cay Elementary school for the workout.  After a quick disclaimer, we ran around the carpool lane and stopped in front of the school for the following warm-up exercises:

SSHs

Imperial Walkers

Plank Stretches

Next, we each grabbed a cinder block along with a ruck and weight vest.  We partnered up for a Dora-like workout.  Partner 1 had a choice to either run to the end of the parking lot or briskly walk with a weight vest, ruck, or cinder block to the end of the pillars and back.  Partner 2 started with the cinder block exercises and switched out once Partner 1 returned.

Round 1 (100 Reps each):

Swing

Press

Calf Raise

Flutter

Merkin

Box Cutter

 

Once complete, we play catch me if you can around the carpool lane.  Partner 1 carried two of the cinder blocks around the circle while Partner 2 ran (fast) in the opposite direction to switch out with Partner 1.  It turned out to be a better idea on paper.

Next we finished out with round two.  We only got through a few exercises.

Round 1 (100 Reps each):

Curls

Squat Thrusters

Chest Press

Hello Dolly

Lunge

Row

 

COT

Great job by everyone this morning!

 

 

 

 

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Pantheon Randomness

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5 of us hung out in the gloom last Wednesday without a substiQ – so we made the best of it and split the Q.  Fish sticks made us run around the school (not a running AO!) and COP warm-o-rama.  38 made us run a circuit and cornhole finished with a leap frog laddering of the pillars where the first one there got to pick the 10 reps at each pillar.  Too bad Lutefisk can’t count right. It was supposed to be arms/abs/legs but after so long, who cares right?

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A Little Of Dis And A Little Of Dat

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Despite the cold temps, thirteen HIM decided to get out of the old fart sack and accelerate their Thursday morning. It was a good opportunity to remind everyone that it was cold out and not to stick your tongue to a flag pole. Disclaimer was given and we were off.
Quick Mosey and we circled up. Exercises were done in reps of 20.
  • 20 Side Straddle Hops
  • 20 Windmills
  • 20 Low Slow Squats
Right off the bat, we bear crawled around the covered semi circle. Once the six were in another mosey over to the far parking lot.
  • 20 Plank Jacks
  • 20 Flutters
  • 20 Bib Boy Sit Ups
Moseyed over to the back of the school for some wall work.
  • 20 Wall Mountain Cimbers
  • 20 Peoples Chair Overhead Claps
  • 20 Wall Mountain Cimbers
  • 20 Peoples Chair Overhead Claps
A challenged the group to take some time out and focus on what is really import over the upcoming weeks. The birth of our savior.
Moseyed towards the side of the school.
  • 20 Donkey Kicks
  • 20 Dying Cockroaches
  • 20 American Hammers
Moseyed/Toy Soldiers/Lunges over to the front of the school where two cones were setup for a little Jack Webb. The loop was about a quarter of a mile in total and we had a cone setup on each opposite end. We definitely got some miles in on this segment.
Cone 1: 10 Partner Slap Pushups
Con 2: 1 Big Boy Sit Up 
 
Cone 1: 9 Partner Slap Pushups
Con 2: 2 Big Boy Sit Up 
 
We got down to about 5 and 5 or 4 and six depending on how fast you were running.
 
Moseyed back to COT for prayers and praises.
 
– JWOW

 

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Pantheon – Facing our biggest challenges and being encouraged by those around us!

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Pantheon 12/4/19

Warm Up
• Mosey
• Shuffle left
• Shuffle right
• Butt kickers
• High knees
• Karaoke left
• Karaoke right
• Toy Soldiers
• Sprint

Repeat above 3 times

  • Suicides 3 times while partner was doing, merkins, SSHs, squats

Mosey to playground

• Pull-ups 10
• Swing crunches 20
• Monkey Humpers 30
• Lap x 5 (5 rounds of above)

Mosey to Amphitheater

Start with 1 rep and move up hill adding a rep each round……I think Fish Stix got to 10 rounds…..rest of us in the 8 range…..fun times
• Dry docks
• V ups
• Sumo Squats
• Until time runs out

Mosey to COT – 8 boot campers and 9 for coffeteria provided by Bear Gryils

WE got 2.25 mi in plus the exercises and a whole lot of mumble chatter in between. Thanks for the Q Bear and Merry Christmas!!!

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Blind Date at the Fort

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The Gloom

12 men gathered in the gloom at the Fort. 6 of which were destined for Milllllllkshake and the other six submit themselves to a beatdown by Keiser and YHC.  I will not attempt to begin to understand the inner workings of Millllllllllllkshake, and will let their Q write more about that later.

Keiser looked for any new faces and dispensed the disclaimer to the crowd of veterans.

Warmup

Despite having never met Keiser, this co-Q worked out very well.  Keiser started us off with some tappy taps, windmills, SSH, and imperial walkers. Then passed the baton to YHC who added some low, very veeerrry slow, squats, and hillbilly walkers. Then gave the baton back to Keiser.

The thang – keiser

Immediately moseyed straight to the playground and paired up for an arm-burning dora.
50x pullups
100x derkins
200x dips
The run was around the playground (roughly 160m).

As the workout continued to move along we noticed that a large group of people were gathering on the Eastern field. Turns out they were wearing Krav Maga shirts and eventually running in circles around the park.

That wasn’t enough to pad out Keiser’s half of the workout, and he knew it, because there was a round two.
100x hello dolly
200x LBC
300x flutter

With one minute left, there was a 6″ plank called.

The thang – yhc

The first thing YHC said was that Keiser must have overheard him talking at the Christmas party because the dora (which is an old standby for a darn good reason) was my idea, too. No matter, let’s do AMRAP and run even farther!

Split the group up according to the original partners and instructed the 3 PAC running and doing the exercise to work as a group.  We did all of our reps at the picnic table just outside the SE side of the playground.  The runners would B-line from picnic table to the white mile marker thing seen just over the trash can here. Then turn right and run to the top of the hill turn around and head back on the same path. In total about 530m.  The exercises were (again, AMRAP):

  1. Step ups
  2. One leg down, the other on the bench behind you, squat (these have a name but I can’t find it)
  3. V-Ups
  4. Pistols

YHC was pleased to hear mublechatter amongst the PAX as they ran together and learned about Big Ben’s graduation from AIT recently.  When YHC mused, “I suppose these runs are easy mode for you.” Big Ben responded with a smile and an enthusiastic “Yes, sir!”  YHC is always honored to work out with veterans and those actively serving and Big Ben was no exception.

Five minutes left, not quite enough time for one more round, so YHC announced a mosey back to COT for 5 minutes of Mary. But that seemed like a darn waste of such a fine field. So we stopped 4 times for 5 OYO burpees.

COT

Met up with the Milllllllllllllkshakers and noticed there was a WHOLE MINUTE left and did 10 windshield wipers. There were some park maintenance people who were (im)patiently waiting for us to vacate the parking lot so we kept it quick. But first we renamed Big Ben to Screaming Eagle.

Read your newsletter and prayed for the pax who are hurting.

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Rust Removal

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8 HIM decided to shake off some Thanksgiving Holiday Rust at Quagmire.  After observing a missing flag due to a notably absent site Q (cough cough, Mile High, cough cough), disclaimers were given, 5 core principles of the workout were spoken by the PAX in proper order.  Off we moseyed.  Here’s what happened:

COP – 1)  SSH x 20, 5 burpees  2) Imperial Walkers x 15, 5 burpees  3) low slow squat x 15, 5 burpees, 4) merkins x 10, 5 burpees  5) hillbilly walkers x 15, 5 burpees

Moseyed to Target for Partner DORA – 1,2,3,4.  Having 8 led to even numbers and pairing off evenly.

100 – Jumping lunges (crowd favorite)

200 – Squats

300 – LBC’s

400 – Clave Raises

A 10 count was given, 5 more burpees were done (just because) and off we moseyed to the fountain for some 30 on 30 on 30

At the fountain – 30 dips, 30 derkins, 30 step ups.  Time to mosey to the Marshalls lot

Partners were found again for a quick DORA 1 – 100 merkins while partners ran 40(ish) yard sprints – 20 down and 20 back.   5 burpees were done (to be consistent) and we moved on.

Mosey again to COT for a few minutes of Mary:  American Hammers x 21, Box Cutters x 20 and some protractor work to keep people sharp on their geometry.  COT brought things to a close.

Announcements – Read your newsletter, XMas Party this Friday at Baxter Mushroom Pool Clubhouse, Convergence and Clave Boos 5K/10K on Christmas Eve at Colosseum.

Prayers and Praises were offered.

YHC is admittedly not a regular at Quagmire.  Monday was a great experience and my thanks goes out to Mile High (despite his absence) for the opportunity to Q and to get better around some very high impact men.  It was a honor to post this morning and start December off right.  The message to us all was to remember why we are here – for others first, ourselves last.   For it is true that when we are right, we can be right for others to make the impact we are called to bring as leaders.

Honored,

Cyclops

 

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Site vs Site

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Well the Site vs Site was CRAZY good thanks to some excellent leadership on both sides of the workout. 0500 launch, 6 Q’s (3 from fire ant, 3 from golden corral) took 10 minutes each. Lutefisk forgot how to flip a coin but managed to have it land in favor of fire ant going first.  The first fire ant Q was Router who took us through a ruck run/pain station. Next up was golden corral’s first Q Mile High who took us on a sprint-fest in the back of HT with some wall work on the legs. Fire ant Q #2 was Cha Ching who put us through some nasty ruck reps.  Golden corral put Bones in charge of some repeating leg work by the green olive – some funky squat jumps that didn’t feel good.  Spiderman finished the fire ant lineup with a terrible idea of bear crawl/crawl bear for what seemed like eternity while the partner did reps with the ruck.  Lutefisk finished it up with the final golden corral Q by starting, and staying, in the plank position for the duration of his 10 minutes.  Dark Helmet notable threw in the towel and to make himself feel better he poked the Q.  I will not forget.  Welcome FNG Thigh Master (not Jane Fonda) but he’s from New York so evidently it’s OK to drop F-bombs whenever and wherever.  All in all 30 PAX came out for a nasty beatdown that was surely a crowd pleaser.  It was an honor to be a part of it and special thank you to the Q’s for stepping up and all of you ruckers for bringing us some extra gear to use.

Final tally of the votes: Fire Ant 15, Golden Corral 11, Tie 3, Bonsai = disqualified for his answer

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