Tag: Band Camp

Changing Seasons at Bushwood

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9 Pax landed at Bushwood for a balmy November in the Fort. YHC reviewed previous Bushwood backblasts and found my Bushwood VQ from 2021 and decided to bring it back.

One thing I noticed from the backblast was the enthusiasm that I had for the being the Q. The world was beginning to come out of the global pandemic and the fellowship of the Pax provided much needed energy for me to deliver a beatdown. It was the closing of a season and nearing the end of a time of chaos across the globe that will shape our world forever. As I read it in my current mindset, I questioned my current season and the current chaos that surrounds me at this moment. There will always be chaos. YHC will always be going through seasons. Seasons of adversity and challenges and seasons of growth and positivity. Reading the backblast from 2021 was a good reminder of this.

Warmup:

The pax moseyed to the band lot for the following:

SSH x 30 (YHC got off to a rocky start on the cadence here)
IW x 15
Mtn climbers x 15
Peter Parkers x 15

Mosey to CRHS for Line of Fire

1 pax runs back and forth from the tower while the rest of the pax rotate exercises including:

Merkins
Squats
Mtn climbers
Burpees

Next round

LBCs
Flutters
Hello Dollies
Big boy sit ups

Mosey to front of CRHS and partner up

Partner 1 – Balls to wall
Partner 2 – Shoulder taps x 20
Rinse and repeat x 3

Next round
Partner 1 – Peoples chair
Partner 2 – monkey humpers x 20
Rinse and repeat x 3

Mosey to driveway
Bear crawl to 10 CDDs
Lunge back to 20 squats
Rinse and repeat 3 times

Mosey back to Line of Fire
Final round split between abs and shoulder work

Mosey home

During the workout, we discussed seasons of life and the examination of what season you are in with your M, your 2.0s, friends and work. It is important to put guardrails around a season of adversity for Mammon so that it does not affect your M and 2.0s. Its an ongoing struggle for me with work.

We closed with vulnerability and leadership across all of the Pax on their season, their prayers and their praises. All 3 Fs were covered today at Bushwood and YHC leveraged this energy throughout the day.

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Mr October

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THE THANG: some rucked, some ran Hills of Brayden, some did their own route, all got better
COT: Shout Out to Assassin as Site Q keeling Flught Plan strong! Thx for Q invite!

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Pull up your zipper

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WARMUP: run to old Hardy’s and do something while waiting for the six
THE THANG: the zipper run to Elliot street turn right. Run to Unity turn left. Do 10 merkins and 15 squats run to pine turn right and repeat till you run out of time.
MARY: nada
ANNOUNCEMENTS: to many to list. Call pusher
COT: prayers and praises.

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“Uphill Battle Burner”

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WARMUP:
SSHops 20X
WMills 10X
HBWalkers 10X

Weighted bags, users choice. Walk uphill stopping at 5 light poles for below movements:

5 – Under the wires
10 – Explosive Negative Pushups
15 – Man-Makers
20 – Alternate Leg Jackknifes
25 – Crunches

Lunch downhill stopping at 5 aforesaid light poles to perform following movements.

5 – Archer Push-ups
10 – Diamond Pushups
15 – Squat w/ overhead press
20 – Heals to Heaven
25 – American Hammers

Performed 2 Evolutions

MARY:
None
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Read newsletter
COT:/

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Halloween Fears

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Kept ’em moving.
Used a pretty standard warm up:
SSH
IW
HW
Merkins – slooooow cadence
Some yoga

Stopped for pull-ups (Print Shop)
Stopped for wall pull-ups (Springs office building)

Did some unaided pigeon lunges

Made it to the WEP hill for 7s
Burpees and Bombjacks
Reverse bear crawl up the hill
Reverse lunge down the hill

This was hard. Dark Helmet bat flipped

Stopped for Bulgarian Split Squats (Pike Electric)

NMM:
Asked guys during the workout what their biggest fears were. Among the answers were: not leaving a legacy for our family, recurrence of disease, mental health issues in our kids.

Love being in a space where we can work on being high impact men and share what is authentically on our hearts

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Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you

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WARMUP: A Jog, SSH, WM, CP, MNC, Merkins
THE THANG:
Eight exercises stations with a KB and non-KB exercise at each one. Mode of transportation to each station varies from bear crawl, crawl bear, power skip, broad jump. Once through all the stations, we ran a lap around the parking lot as started the process over again.
MARY: no time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter
COT: closed in prayer

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Reduce Reuse Recycle

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having been put in charge of both of our running with push-up AOs this week, I decided to make them entry level. it does not mean easy, it just means easy to understand what is required to do. to that end, I decided to recycle some of the easier to follow Qs in which I have participated.

the word, recycle and reuse together often. remind me of a program I saw in fourth grade. you may have bag memories of being hurted into your elementary school gymnasium in order to see what amounts to a public service announcement or little skit or play put on by a bunch of kids , maybe a small performance by the 5th graders who got to start orchestra. but the one I remember most vividly is being brought to that sad little gymnasium to watch a dude dressed up as McDonald’s mascot and Ronald McDonald caper about singing about reducing reusing and recycling. somehow they burned half an hour of our day listening to Ronald McDonald it’s founding on the virtues of mineralism in a 1980s world where everything was designed to be thrown away immediately after use.

WARMUP: the pledge of allegiance
THE THANG: run to Hardee’s. pair up. run opposite directions saying the block. On the east side (post post office) do 5, 10 and then 15 partners BBSU. Then 15 every time. continue running until meeting up at or around the Hardee’s lot. where you at 5, 10, 15 partner pushups. after the pushups, run the way you came back. this way each partner gets to run both directions around the block multiple times. sort of like a weird freaking Newton cradle
with about 4 minutes left PAX were gathered and Bandcamp led burpees while YHC perform the exhausting job of keeping an eye out for stragglers
MARY: 30-45s of flutters while YHC grabbed my phone
ANNOUNCEMENTS: duties were assigned to Funhouse
COT: duties were assigned to Funhouse

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Trick or Treat at the Hive

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WARMUP: Extremely brief and nearly devoid of cadence calling due to the Q having a mostly lost voice.
THE THANG:
The AO was set up with different exercises posted on lampposts lableled as either Tricks or Treats. Workout consisted of 8 rounds. Each round began with a 1 minute AMRAP of a specified exercise. Based on the reps achieved by the group approximately half of the HIM were directed to receive a treat for a high effort number of reps, the other half were directed to select the Trick. The Tricks were consistently worse than the treats but all were KB exercises. In some cases high rep counts would not be conducive to good form and a more random tool was used to split the group such as age (odd/even) or Birth Month (odd even).

Tricks
Manmakers
15 Snatches
15 Clean & Press
Turkish Get ups
Thrusters
Murder Bunnies to next “house”
2 minute plank
Uhauls

Treats
Halos
Goblet Squats
Calf Raises
LBC
Lawnmowers
OH Press
Side Leans
Tri Press

1min AMRAP exercises
Kettle Bell Swings (reps)
Man Makers (random)
Chest Press (reps)
Good Mornings (random)
Pullovers (random)
Deadlifts (random)
Hay-Balers (random)
Curls (reps)

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Brush fire at bushwood

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WARMUP: mosey down the hill, windmills, imperial walkers, hill Billy walkers, merkins
THE THANG: run down to end of bus lane. Sets of 5,10,15 between light poles. Exercises: burpees, squats, merkins, seal jacks. Did Dora with merkins squats and LBCs. Mosey back to COT
MARY: 5 minutes worth
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read newsletter
COT: show to know.

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14 STL Runners and 2 VA Ruckers for minimum plus miles and merkins

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WARMUP: SSH x30, Windmills x10, M. Nightclubs x10, Plank, Parker Peters x10, Plank, Peter Parkers x10, broga poses to stretch legs. Mosey around the Long Loop.
THE THANG: Short Loop in the Earth Fare parking lot, each corner complete exercise. 1st corner = 10 Merkins. 2nd corner = 10 Mountain Climbers. 3rd corner = 10 CDDs, 4th = 10 Flying Squirrels. Next complete a hot lap on the long loop, up to 160 take the sidewalk to the east entrance of Earth Fare, proceed at a fast pace around the back of Earth Fare. I believe the short lap + long lap was about a half a mile.
MARY: 10 American Hammers
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Litter pickup on Hwy 21 this Saturday. 2.0 friendly. Gloves, bags and litter picker sticks will be provided. Please read your newsletter for the details.
COT: Praise for those participating in SoberOctober and Battlebot for leading. Prayers for our Wives. Thank you Badlands for your leadership at this awesome AO and for leting me lead today. Video evidence may follow.

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