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Bootcamp Q-School

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PAX ran around for some pearls on a string. At each stop, YHC worked to espouse some of my ideas on Qing. At the last stop prior to COT, other PAX took opportunity to count in cadence

Topics I tried to cover:
Counting the number present while calling SSH
Calling exercises in cadence – slower can be better
Keeping the PAX together – planking up
Modifying the Weinke based on numbers
Making mistakes as Q and moving forward
Having 11s in your back pocket
Be willing to leave something and mosey on
The mission of F3 involves building leaders. Do it. Build the leadership in yourself and in the other me that post with you.

Closed COT without a prayer, but took a moment to focus on someone in your life that needs an extra effort or word from you today. Challenged PAX to contact that person after they’d showered this morning.

Required Reading:
Q101: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zFiVyspf1Xph6GIv-r-z5brONWUzhEYrBvXzbnKfdBc/edit?usp=sharing

Q201: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15qotyZbXt7ahRJIQN93qeThjcAkjrk482sOoDoCZXbc/edit?usp=sharing

Suggested Reading:

Q School

10 of us also stuck around for 5 min to do 50 burpees with Badlands, who now has a new process to help him remember his shovel flag. 🙂

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3 > 1

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WARMUP:
SSH
Low slow squats
Merkins

THE THANG:

2 hill repeats on big hill

4 corners:
Kettlebell is conveniently stashed at corner #2

crowdsource mode of transport on short edges. If you have the bell, you are exempt from mode of transport.

Pax will plank up for the 6 before departing for next corner.

Start with 10 reps each, then increase by 5 per round

corner 1:
merkins
shoulder taps
CDDs
hello dolly

corner 2:
diamond merkins
bomb jacks
Peter parkers
Big boys

corner 3:
wide merkins
Grave diggers
Freddie Mercuries
jumping lunges

corner 4:
Burpees!

made it 3 full rounds before COT

MARY:
Passed the bell between the 3 PAX. Do a squat when you get it
Flutters in cadence
30 sec body destroyers

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Bourbon tasting and trash pickup saturday

COT:
mental health

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Crashing the buffet

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WARMUP: 0500-0505
Q school followed by 3 side straddle hops to practice calling cadence. We got places to be.

THE THANG:

Coupons: sandbags and 60lb kettlebell. One guy without a coupon

0505-0525
Ruck to Golden Corral, trading coupons as needed
Moderate complaining about the kettlebell

0525-0540
Crash the party at Golden Corral
Line up all the gear
All PAX do 10 merkins, sprint to other side, 5 burpees, then choose your weapon. Faster guys got first pick. There aren’t enough coupons for everyone.
The recommendation before starting was to not be without a coupon.

The converged PAX were now separated into 3 groups:
Ruckers – those who picked up a ruck
Couponers – Slicks who picked up a sandbag or kettlebell
Slicks – Those who were not able to get a coupon

DORA – Couponers are the timers, everyone else does reps until they return.

Round 1:
Ruckers do merkins
Couponers carry coupons to other end of parking lot then do 20 squats with coupon.
Slicks do burpees

Round 2:
Ruckers do squats
Couponers carry coupons and do 20 overhead presses
Slicks do burpees

Slicks were taken off the hook and allowed to choose someone to trade with.

repeat round 1, then we had to get back to COT. Departed at 0540.

0540 – 0601
A brisk ruck back where there was even more complaining about the 60lb kettlebell, and arrived at COT at 0601. No extra charge for the extra minute

MARY: no time

ANNOUNCEMENTS: trash pickup saturday, bourbon tasting saturday

COT: A reminder from Slapshot about safety and being sure someone has a phone – especially when traveling off campus, and especially now that the weather is warming up.

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What idiot called this?

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PAX showed up expecting for Shady to be on Q (which explains the large numbers). They had to settle for me, but I’m just happy to be Shady’s understudy. Hope he gets back to 100% soon

WARMUP:
SSH, IW, HW, Shoulder Taps, Peter Parker, Parker Peter, Merkin

THE THANG:
Extra weight. PAX had rucks, sandbags, and bells galore in honor of Gear MAYhem

3 groups
1 took a lap and did swings for the 6
2 groups carried weight the length of the parking lot, did 10 merkins, 15 squats, and came back.

Then we rotated. After everyone got to run we add weight

Between each set of 3 rounds:
(With no extra weight on)
5 manmakers
5 cleans (each side)
5 overhead presses (each side)

We got through 3 sets of 3 rounds

At one point during set 3, I causally and in a very neutral tone mentioned that my grip was shot. Vuvuzela pointed out that he’d never heard anybody gripe about their own Q so much. Maybe I mentioned something earlier too?

MARY: Uhaul Q-jacked for Mary a little early by my clock, but he doesn’t like manmakers.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: read the newsletter, lots of community impact going on!

COT: doing one thing really well is better than 5 things done halfway. Bear reminded us today that form matters. Do a good squat.

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New perspectives

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The theme for today was looking at things from a different perspective. That perspective was upside down nose to nose with a brick wall.

 

Disclaimer asking PAX to modify as needed – you know your limits, but also don’t be a wuss.

 

Warmup on side of HT:

20 Goofballs – increasing the pace to ludicrous speed by rep 20

10 merkins

10 moroccan night clubs

10 Carolina Dry docks

lean up against the wall and stretch the lats. I find that when doing shoulder work, warming up the shoulders and stretching the lats really helps me. Your mileage may vary

 

Part 1 – The wall

balls to the wall

10 count from PAX

shoulder taps – 5 each side

another 10 count

get off the wall

 

20 merkins

10 wall walks with a merkin

People’s chair

while holding people’s chair, leapfrog x2

Duck walks round 1 to really get after the quads

Crab walks round 2

 

Balls to the wall

10 Hand stand pushups – preferably without smashing your face on the sidewalk

optionally Carolina dry docks – know your limits here

 

Mozey to the other side of the parking lot near the Indian restaurant

 

Part 2 – The Pain

AMRAP (15 minutes)

5 burpees every minute on the minute

20 Squats

20 Lunges (10 each leg)

10 Diamond merkins

Bear crawl to other side and repeat

 

Part 3 – The calm before the storm

10ish minute AMRAP

20 Mountain climbers

20 LBCs

20 Flutters

10 Box cutters

skip to the other side

 

Part 4 – The Finisher

3 minute AMRAP – This is a sprint

10 jump squats

10 jump lunges (5 each leg)

10 wide arm merkins

sprint to other side

 

“That was sufficiently terrible” – Change Order

This took us straight into COT, where we discussed being better husbands.

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Simple – Gear, Burpees and Sprints at the Armory

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Typos quite possible…

Armory for the kickoff of the month of Gear/May:

PAX brought a few sand bags, a ruck, plate carrier and kettle bells ranging from 20lb-60lb. Tesh would’ve blushed.

Disclaimer but hey, push yourself.
Carry the coupons to the near end of the large parking lot.
Mosey lap around then circle up for some warm up things (garden variety).

10 Burpees and sprint to the other end of the lot
10 Burpees and sprint back, partnering up with a coupon of your choice (it pays to be fast)

25 Squat Thrusters
25 Curls
26 Merkins (1/2 & 1/2)

5 Burpees, run 1/2 way and run back (had to start watching the clock) to the coupon of your choosing…unless you had no other options.
25 Flutters
25 Freddy Mercury’s
25 X’s & O’s

5 Burpees, run 1/2 way and run back
25 LBC’s
25 American Hammers
26 Box Cutters

5 Burpees, run 1/2 way and run back
25 Bent Over Rows (slow cadence)
25 Overhead Press (slow cadence)
25 Chest Press (slow cadence)

10 Burpees, Run all the way down and run all the way back

Carry the coupons back for COT

Until next time.
Maximus

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I’m Back and Better Than Ever… Well, I’m Back at Least…

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Following my 2 year hiatus I have returned and apparently been showing up enough to be voluntold that my fans have been waiting for my return to the Q… That or they had an opening and needed it filled, I chose to believe the former…

We started with a brief warm-up with some SSH, windmill, imperial walkers and hillbilly walkers and then began with the inflation impacted “Suns Out, Guns Out” buy in… 30 curls and 30 triceps extensions.  Following that  we turned on my little app with our very friendly coach and and began a little HIIT set to Foo Fighters in honor of their lost drummer.  Each exercise consisted of 4 sets of 30 seconds on and 10 second rest.  Every 3 exercises were separated by a more cardio based movement done in 2 sets of 50 seconds on and 10 seconds off

-Dead Lift

-Goblet Squat

-Row

-SSH (50 sec x 2)

-Pull Through

-Triceps

-Lunge

-Mountain Climbers (50 sec x 2)

-Curl

-Calf Raises

-Flutters

-Swings (50 sec x 2)

Following these sets we returned to COT to buy out at 30 reps of curls and triceps extensions.

We had the honor of welcoming a new PAX member this morning.  Welcome Beaker.  It was great to meet you and hope to see you in the gloom soon

The we formed into COT with announcements and prayer requests

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Sun’s Out Guns Out at The Armory

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Kept the guns locked away in the armory all winter? Time to bust them out with some upper body work. We are skipping leg day today and getting all the gainz upstairs. Today’s workout kicks off a Spring of Sun’s out guns out, where we will encourage Qs to focus on the upper body and do a buy in/buy out of hammer curls and tricep extensions just to drive the point home.

The Thang:

2 minutes each exercise followed by 1 minute of each exercise in round 2.

 

Biceps:

21s

Hammer Curls

 

Triceps:

Tricep extensions

scull crushers

 

lats:

Lawnmower pulls

Pullovers

 

Delts:

Overhead presses

Bat wings (with the provided light dumbbells)

 

Traps:

Shruggs

High Pulls

 

Chest:

Chest press (with the optional 60lb monster KB)

Derkins

 

Everyone got stronger today. Band Camp got the most out of his lower jaw exercising. Can you really own anything? Yes: you can own your GAINZ

 

Thanks to Shatner for handing off the shovel flag

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