Put on a Ruck as The site Q/Q was the only one there and hit the tracks for some,
Quick Rucking
Running with the weighted vest
and exercises on the track that included,
LSS
Merkins
Mountain Climbers
Calf Raises
SSH
Peter Parker’s
LBCs
Freddie Mercury
WARMUP:
Started with a Mosey to Lowes parking lot, followed with Warm-O-Rama exercises of below,
Side Straddle Hop
Produce Pickers
Hillbilly Walkers
Windmills
Moroccan Nightclubs
Imperial Walkers
Mosey to persis for some,
Lunge Walk
Toy Soldiers
Butt Kickers
High Knees
Bear Crawl
THE THANG:
Mosey back to the shovel flag for the main course Tabata workout that included 40 second exercise with 15 seconds to switch gears for the next one.
2 sets each alternatively of,
Carolina Dry Docks
LBCs
Plank
Run a Lap
2 sets each alternatively of,
Shoulder Taps
Freddie Mercury
Plank
Run a Lap
2 sets each alternatively of,
Superman
Mountain Climbers
Plank
Run a Lap
2 sets each alternatively of,
Peter Parker
American Hammers
Plank
Run a Lap
2 sets each alternatively of,
Flutter Kicks
Dying Cockroaches
Plank
Run a Lap
2 sets each alternatively of,
Monkey Humpers
Honeymooner
And the clock struck 6…
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Dam2Dam Fundraiser events
COT:
Prayer Requests
Started the day praying to the Almighty
Rain kept most away this morning, but it didn’t stop us from working out and getting better. We visited each one of the light posts at the back of the school doing a set of exercises at each one.
Next, we bearcrawled and did perfect formed merkins.
Finally, we found a basketball and took shots for burpees. As Milli Vanilli sang “Blame it on the rain”, we struggled to get a shot in the basket, but we did get our burpees in.
PRE-WORKOUT: Pullups with Trucker
WARMUP: Run back and forth two times in the Runde parking lot
THE THANG:
After a brief introduction including some history of Alcatraz, Funhouse kicked off COP with 50 SSH, (although I believe 100 were planned in homage to Santini). From there it was imperial walker x 10, hillbilly walker x 10. Before we got to the meat of the workout, YHC called out a classic Alcatraz upper body workout called Green Sally (Decibel/2014). It’s a song by Moby called ‘Flower’ where you plank when he sings ‘Green Sally Up’ and drop to 6″ when he sings ‘Green Sally Down’. It’s pretty tough to complete the whole song and I don’t think anyone did today. But, you have to have monster shoulder strength. Because we had a large group today, we split them in half and started our Q’s:
Funhouse on Q:
The Wheel of Pain (Funhouse/2013)
Each PAX gets a cone with an excercise and reps.
40 yard diameter circle with a cone in the middle.
Do the excercise on the cone, run to the middle and out to the cone to the right.
Freddy Mercury – 25
Lunges – 30
Burpees – 15
Merkins – 15
Rosalita- 30
Squats – 25
LBC – 25
Burpees – 10
SSH – 30
Parker Peter – 25
Plank Punches – 30
Mountain Climbers – 30
Merkins – 15
Senator Tressel on Q
Mosey to the bottom of the hill on Tara Tea Drive for ‘Quadzilla’ (Zima/2018)
Group 1 does squats while Group 2 runs backwards up the hill and does 5 bombjacks at the hilltop. Run back down and flapjack. Rinse and repeat 2 more times.
Mosey to the playground for pullups, step ups, and ab exercises (Senator Tressel/2013) We did 2 rounds today
Mosey to the wall by the concessions stand and split into two groups.
Group 1 does Peoples chair and passes a kettle bell (White Lightning/2018), while Group 2, runs to the fence, hops over it, sprints up the hill, does 3 burpees at the top, and runs back to the wall. Flapjack. (Jekyll/2017) We did 2 rounds today.
Form a line for tunnel of love (stolen from Santini at WEP/2012)
MARY: Hello Dolly x 20, Seal walk (Cornhole/2013), Navy Seal Team Sit Ups (Santini/Trucker 2013)
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: Today we celebrated 10 years at Runde Park by paying homage to some of the classic beatdowns led by the great Q’s of Alcatraz. Funhouse and I drew an Alcatraz record 32 Pax and that made me very proud (of course, we advertised heavily, offered free coffee, beer, cake, and closed the other two Saturday AO’s so maybe that had something to do with it – LOL). Although, attendance at bootcamps on Saturdays isn’t what is used to be, I will post whenever I am able. Runde Park has been my home on Saturday mornings, and even after all these years, I still look forward to getting up early, meeting the Pax at 6:30, and doing that tough bootcamp workout. Many thanks to all that posted with us this morning and special thanks to our current and former site Q’s: Funhouse, Smuggler, Trucker, Skipper, and Uber for their leadership and help pulling this all together. I appreciate all you guys!
Prayers: ST’S mom with cancer, DD’s friends with a new pregnancy, Long Duck recovering from burns and back injury
YHC made a temporary escape from Alcatraz to Q The Yard.
– Quick mosey to front parking lot followed by COP…windmill, produce picker, low slow squat, merkin, up dog and down dog.
THE THANG:
– Started with a series of gauntlets. PAX formed a line arms length apart and held plank. Each PAX took turns traveling the gauntlet, stopping to do a merkin at each planking PAX. Rinsed and repeated 3 times with the following variations…swapped out Al Gore for the plank and burpees for the merkins…plank / shoulder taps and Al Gore / lunge.
– Mosey thru the parking lot to the drive behind the elementary school. Completed a round of 7s using the straight section of the drive. Hand release merkins and big boy sit-ups.
– Mosey to the “track” for a DORA…300 sumo squats, 200 Superman, 100 wide arm merkin.
WARMUP: Windmills x 10 & MNC x 10 & Imperial Walkers x 10
THE THANG: Ejercicios (spanish for work stations) 10 Reps at each.
1. Sandbag Chest Pulls
2. Merkins
3. Kettle Bell Squats
4. Over the Shoulder Sandbag throws
5. Kettle Bell Swings
6. Ruck Triceps Pulls
7. Flutter Kicks
8. Single Lunges
9. More Merkins
After two rounds, Mosey for two laps around track and back to the rounds.
MARY: 4 Count Squats (Toes, Knees, Hands, Up) ask @Mainframe his thang.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: 10 year Alcatraz Reunion and read your newsletter in spam.
COT: Stays in COT
WARMUP:
9 motivators
Merkins
Low slow squats
THE THANG:
Would you like burpees here? Or there?
You do not like them.
So you say.
Try them! Try them!
And you may.
Try them and you may, I say.
Suicide runs at each 10 yard line 1 burpee at each turnaround
Mozy to pull-up bars
1 minute Dead hangs and planks
Stations – hub and spoke style
Hub: 2 pull-ups
10 reps each
Station 1
CDD
Merkins
Station 2
Burpees
Station 3
Bear crawl across pavement 2x
Station 4
Squats
Lunges
Station 5
Bomb jacks
Mountain climbers
Round 2 do everything in slow cadence. 6 count burpees
MARY:
<2 minutes of gut work
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Sober October. See slack for deets
COT:
YHC started with a mosey, that was long. PAX were wondering if they ended up in a running AO.
We stopped by the Pre-K, school for Warm-O-Rama. The usual that included,
Side Straddle Hop
Produce Pickers
Hillbilly Walkers
Windmills
Moroccan Nightclubs
Imperial Walkers
Then for the main course below routine to the opposite end of parking lot with a sprint back,
Lunge Walk
Toy Soldiers
Butt Kickers
High Knees
Bear Crawl
Next was some 11’s,
Burpees with Lunges
Merkins with Squats
Mountain Climbers (1 set of 13)
Run back to CoT for some Pax choice Marys,
Box cutter
Hello Dollys
Flutter Kicks
Freddie Mercury
Ended the workout with,
Announcements
Prayers and Praises
Mosey to WarmORama,
Side Straddle Hop
Produce Pickers
Hillbilly Walkers
Windmills
Moroccan Nightclubs
Imperial Walkers
Mosey to the back of the school for..wait…
100 Step ups
Mosey to the back parking lot for,
Lunge Walk
Toy Soldiers
Butt Kickers
High Knees
Bear Crawl
Run to the side of the school close to the football field for some 7’s:
CDD & Squats
Shoulder Taps & Monkey Humpers
Run back to CoT for Marys. PAX choice.
Hello Dolly
Rosalita
Freddie Mercury
V position
LBCs
CoT,
Announcements
Prayers and Praises
Welcome @MightyMite to Fort Mill.
@Cohiba ran on Puerto Rican time today at #ao-varsity. This also explains why @Bobber chronically pushes past 0515 arrivals. There were a lot of words; many of us understood very few. Let’s not allow cultural differences to impede F3 being OPEN to ALL men.
@Cohiba likes Big Boys
@Bobber understands more than he says, but when he’s in cadence it’s sweetly melodic
@Jazz Hands has invisible Big Boys
@Bitcoin counts well in many languages, and also likes Big Boys
@Boogie Down didn’t translate much for us, but could have
@Saw Dust apparently went of some kind of rant in name-o-rama
@Cousin Eddie spent the entire time confused (as did YHC)
@Mark Twain said something like: “Me da cólera” about the DORA. I just hope it doesn’t turn into dysentery
@Retiree wondered what he’d stumbled upon, but his buddy @chickenhawk was there to guide the way
@SouptoNuts put his Criminal Justice degree to work. Just like he does every other day, by being a more educated human
@HarryCarry was there early for “Ironing Pants,” but I might have misheard that. @CakeBoss and @Shield were helping. When you have to carry something that harry (hairy?), I suppose you need help ironing your pants? :man-shrugging:
You could spend the whole day wondering if you’ll fit within a new environment, read up on the lexicon, ask guys about procedure, examine backblasts, and consider where your priorities really are. But if you don’t set that alarm and get out of the fart sack…well: “too mah-leh-teen!”
This report is subject to verificación by @Punch List….if he ever opens slack again to check all these notifications
The names should be above
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@Cohiba ran on Puerto Rican time today at #ao-varsity. This also explains why @Bobber chronically pushes past 0515 arrivals. There were a lot of words; many of us understood very few. Let’s not allow cultural differences to impede F3 being OPEN to ALL men.
@Cohiba likes Big Boys
@Bobber understands more than he says, but when he’s in cadence it’s sweetly melodic
@Jazz Hands has invisible Big Boys
@Bitcoin counts well in many languages, and also likes Big Boys
@Boogie Down didn’t translate much for us, but could have
@Saw Dust apparently went of some kind of rant in name-o-rama
@Cousin Eddie spent the entire time confused (as did YHC)
@Mark Twain said something like: “Me da cólera” about the DORA. I just hope it doesn’t turn into dysentery
@Retiree wondered what he’d stumbled upon, but his buddy @chickenhawk was there to guide the way
@SouptoNuts put his Criminal Justice degree to work. Just like he does every other day, by being a more educated human
@HarryCarry was there early for “Ironing Pants,” but I might have misheard that. @CakeBoss and @Shield were helping. When you have to carry something that harry (hairy?), I suppose you need help ironing your pants? :man-shrugging:
You could spend the whole day wondering if you’ll fit within a new environment, read up on the lexicon, ask guys about procedure, examine backblasts, and consider where your priorities really are. But if you don’t set that alarm and get out of the fart sack…well: “too mah-leh-teen!”
This report is subject to verificación by @Punch List….if he ever opens slack again to check all these notifications
The names should be above