Dawn Patrol

Six this morning at Dawn Patrol.  Taking advantage of the extra hour of sleep and still getting our work in!

Warm Up: Mosey, SSH, Merkins, Slow Windmills, etc.

Thang:

All PAX wall sit, take turns 15 yard bear crawl and 3 burpees.

Split into two groups and circle the parking lot alternating between bear crawls and mosey. Stations of 30 squats, 25 Merkins, 30 Lunges, 25 LBC’s , and 20 Plank Punches.

Back to the Amphitheater for a quick ab lab and and COT.

Show Me The Money (sleeping in) and Jekyll (vacation) were missed, and they missed out on some life and safety lessons from Change Order.

Prayers for kids making smart choices and those undergoing medical procedures.

It’s been a while, but I am glad to have the opportunity to Q this morning.IMG_3796

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Alcatraz Awesomeness

Alcatraz Awesomeness

2 for Pre-Run

Straight to Mosey to Fire Station parking lot:

15 Windmill, 15 Imperial Walker, 10 Mountain Climbers, 10 Peter Parker, 10 Parker Peter, 15 Moroccan Nightclubs, 15 Big Arm Circles, 15 Reverse Big Arm Circles.

Mosey to Big Hill and Down Big HIll:  20 Squats and 20 Lunges

Mosey up Big Hill and 20 LBC

Mosey to Playground for Choose Your Own Adventure:

Complete all however you choose:

30 Pull Ups, 45 Burpees, 90 Squats, 120 Dips, 150 Abs and 3 laps

When complete head to shorter Hill

4 Rounds of Quadzilla:  2 groups one moving the other doing 1. Merkins 2. Abs 3. Calf Raises 4. 10 count

Mosey to parking lot for 1 set of Rosalita x20 and 30 seconds of body destroyers

Alcatraz has the finest group of men that you can ask for.  Thank you for letting me be a part of it.

 

 

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Convergence Before the Invergence

It was rainy, cloudy, dark, in other words perfect weather for a convergence. We had roughly 55-60 PAX out for the variety of workouts that were about to be executed.  Disclaimer disclaimed, FNG identified (Randy from heaven on earth (aka Pittsburgh) , and we launched.

Bootcamp Q : Slapshot

Bootcampers followed me up the hill and towards the springs parking lot. After a quick plank for the 6 we moved onto to the parking lot across 160 behind the former bank and now drug store for the warm-up.

Warm-up:

50 SSH (IC)

20 Merkings (IC)

10 Michael Phelps (IC)

5 Windmills (IC)

20 Mtn Climbers (IC)

Stretch

20 Plank JAcks (IC)

Mosey to the other side of the parking lot.

DORA: Partner up with someone you haven’t worked out with. Run was around the drugstore and through the parking lots.

200 Plank JAcks

200 Toe Touches

200 SSH

150 Diamond Merkins

100 4-Ct Flutters

Recover Run Back towards COT.

Tabata Series

30 Seconds on 10 seconds off

4 Rounds 4 sets

  1. SSH
  2. Seal JAcks
  3. HR Merkins
  4. Am. Hammers

Last 7 minutes: 10 Burpess EMOM (which was reduced to a an 11 of sorts after minute 5 where we started going 10 burpees plus 1 BBS, then 9 burpees plus 2 BBS….etc… until we had about 20 seconds left.

I had everyone recover on their feet and then add 1 last Burpee.

NNM: I spoke today about one of the many examples of what F3 has meant to me. Specifically, the other day I was out for a pre-run where I started out at a “comfortable pace” already deciding in my head what I was “good” with that morning.  Then about 2 miles in I came across a fellow Pax who got to the AO early and decided to go find me. We started to run together and my “comfortable pace” got very uncomfortable very quickly. All told, when we got back to COT I had increased the pace I was running at by over 35 seconds. He literally found me where I was, didn’t leave me behind, and pushed me to accelerate. It is what I needed then, and it’s what I needed 5 years ago when I started F3. I never knew how fast I could run, until I started running with faster guys. That Friday morning was a great reminder that I can always push more, that I have plenty of gas left in the tank, and that somewhere out in the gloom a brother is willing to go find you and get you better. (Thanks Olaf)

Whether you are accelerating 1F or the 2nd and 3rd, run with faster guys and don’t just be comfortable. You never really know what you are capable of until you push just a little bit more.

AYE!

Running Q Bandcamp

Speaking of Running with faster guys…Bandcamp executed a 10K route where he was able to hit a PR. The route went all over the downtown Fort Mill area. Again, men surround yourself with HIMS you never know what you’re going to be able to do.

Ruck Q : JWOW

Ruck to Church of NAzarene

10 rounds –

5 merkins at the bottom then 10 squats at the top of the stairs.

Rucked to Print Shop

20 step ups and 20 dips

Rucked up Main STreet and back to Wep for the chair swing loop at each chair swing 5 squats and 5 CDD’s One more half loop to COT.

Kettlebell Q: 38 Special

Leg stretches for a couple minutes while us 40somethigns PAX complained about our joints

The Thang:

10 each of Arm Curl and Press, tricep ex. and overhead press. Grabbed bells and went for a stroll around the park. Bells always farmered carried. We used the park equipment to tell us what to do. Each Swing 20 swings, Statues 30 Standing Tesh with squat each arm Bathrooms = 20 squats same set as the start upon our return.

Paired up for a dora

100 Goblet Squats

200 Calf Raises

300 Flutter with chest press

6 minutes to go carry back to bathroom and back 1 minute of squats and 1 minute of swings.

IR Q: Kermit

Took a nice mosey around downtown Fort Mill and even down to the Peach stand and back. Big thank you for leading this piece and not leaving any men behind!

 

Post Workout  JWOW led us in prayer and we named a  FNG The name Cannonball.

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Simon Says at the Ranch

Start with a Mosey run in Parking lot
Side shuffles
High knees
Butt kickers
Toy soldiers
George Washington was born on Feb 22nd, 1732
More mosey run

Circle up for Warm up
SSH (IC 10x)
Windmill (IC 10x)
Imperial Walker (IC 10x)
Moroccan Nightclub (IC 10x)
Low Slow Squats (IC10x)
Merkin (IC 10x)
Peter Parker (IC 10x)
Plank stretches
Downward dog
Honeymooner
More mosey run

Thang 1: Bermuda Triangle
Three cones spaced 20-30 yards apart.
Start at cone 1, do one burpee, bear crawl to next cone
Cone 2, do two burpees, bear crawl to next cone
Cone 3, do three burpees, bear crawl back to cone 1, and pick up a clothes pin from the bucket
Repeat the circuit, picking up a clothes pin for each completed circuit.

More mosey run

Thang 2: Bench work
Step ups
Incline merkins
Decline merkins
Butt touch squats
Calf raises

Thang 2: Simon says
Football training style
Do what Simon says: Shuffle left, shuffle right
Exercises
SSH
Bobby Hurleys
Mountain Climbers
OH claps
Smurf jacks
LBCs
If pax breaks with Simon, they lose a clothes pin. Change Order earned an extra clothes pin by remembering Geo. Washington’s birth date.

Simon says penalty: Pax do burpees: their count is calculated by: 20 minus number of clothes pins remaining

Mosey run to COT

Thang 3: Sally Routine
Low plank/high plank

Fini

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