Ruck & Block Grind: The Ultimate Shoulder Challenge!

Showed up with only Falcon Crest there, and the PAX started to trickle in.

Warm-up:
A few exercises to get started.

The Thing:
Grab a cinder block and speed ruck to cones in the car lane.

Round 1:
– 10 Cinder Block Squat, Curl to Overhead Press
– Ruck to large cone on the right:
– 5 Man Makers
– 10 Ruck Push-ups
– 15 Overhead Ruck Hold Squats
– Speed Ruck around the parking lot

Round 2: Rinse and repeat
– This time, further ruck around more of the parking lot.

Round 3: Rinse and repeat
– This time, ruck the immediate parking lot and then around the field.

Round 4: Rinse and repeat
– Bring the block with you.

After Exercise:
– Carry block to the bottom of the hill going to Walmart.

Light Post Challenges:

1. 1st Light Post:
– Farmer carry your ruck and a cinder block.
– Perform 10 cinder block curls.
– Hold cinder block straight out in front of you for a 10 count.

1. 2nd Light Post:
– Farmer carry your ruck and a cinder block.
– Perform 10 cinder block squats to curls.
– Hold cinder block straight out in front of you for a 10 count.

1. 3rd Light Post:
– Farmer carry your ruck and a cinder block.
– Perform 10 cinder block squats to curls to overhead press.
– Hold cinder block straight out in front of you for a 10 count.

Once completed, farmer carry your ruck and cinder block to the entrance of the school. Then, put the ruck back on and get the cinder block back any way you can.

It was a shoulder smoke show!

Announcements, Prayers, and Praises:

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Ranch Relays

Let’s try this again… slack doesn’t like my backblasts and the first one I wrote for this was may more epic-er
WARMUP: lap around CoT parking lot and circle up for stuff including SSH until first PAX quit – 51 to be exact

THE THANG:
Ranch Relay
Split into 2 teams to compete against each other in relay race where each team member took a turn to complete about a 30 yard out and back with a 45lb plate. While not doing the out and back the rest of the PAX completed various core work including LBCs, flutters, shoulder taps, and Freddy mercuries.

First race – mode of transportation was overhead rifle carry

Second race – mode of transportation was right handed suitcase carry

Third race – mode of transportation was left handed suitcase carry

Fourth race – mode of transportation was overhead rifle carry

After each race PAX took a break from racing with 5 burpees OYO

Tie goes to the Q and thus my team was crowned the inaugural Ranch Relay champions

After relays, we moseyed to the car line loop near the entrance to the other school.

We did an accumulating ladder with laps around the pickup line loop except we scaled the retaining wall on each lap.

5 burpees
10 merkins
15 squats
20 LBCs
25 Overhead Claps
30 Lunges

MARY: ran back to COT

ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter

COT: yup

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Fun up the hill

WARMUP:
The hill has been neglected and the enemy captured it. Time to take it back!

THE THANG:
With rucks and without coupons

Playground obstacle course:
Bear crawl up the little ramp
Down the rocks
Climb across the poles
bear crawl to the top

March on to the hill
Drop it into 4 low (bear crawl) up the little hills on the way
Capture the hill

Return to COT for 7s of burpees and thrusters

MARY: ain’t nobody got time for dat.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Drop the Pull-ups take the Cannoli

WARMUP: Full 15 Min COP
THE THANG: 5 rounds of
17 dips
19 CCDs or9/Pullups
71 yardish maybe feet bear crawl

Jog neighborhood and 6 rounds of
5 burpees
10merkins
15 squats

15min Broga
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read newsletter
COT: prayers for fishstix as he needs them :pray: :fire: :point_up_2:

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Moist Shovel Flag Transfer

Mist and drizzle at 0445 but it was raining hard at my house so I knew we were going to get wet.

WARMUP: rucks off, yogging around parking lot and warm-a-rama including plank and various doggy-named stretches, in-cadence SSH, Windmills, MNCs then ruck on and walk around parking lot

THE THANG:
3 sets of 11s with shortening travel distances

Set 1:
Ruck on
Ruck shuffle full length of parking lot
Merkins on one side, squats on other side

Set 2:
Ruck off
Suit case carry between first two parking lot jut outs
Squat thrusters on one side, bent over rows on other side

Set 3:
Ruck off
Bear crawl ruck pull throughs on field between fence and random pile of clothes
Manmakers on one side, curls on other side

MARY: no time

ANNOUNCEMENTS: shovel flag handoff to Falcon Crest

COT: yup

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Rain…meh

WARMUP: we gathered in the “rain” because it wasn’t really raining or lightning at this time. We ran over to the corner where the elementary and middle school split off and did: SSH, windmills, cherry pickers, low slow squats, merkins, mountain climbers, up and down dog and then mosey’d to the circle.
THE THANG: We played 4 corners with the giant circle tot he middle school. At each corner for round 1: 25 merkins, 25 squats, 25 four count flutter. We did this at each “corner”.

Round 2, 4 corners: 25 CDD, 25 lunges single count, 25 double count Freddy mercury and his silly bicycle.

Round 3, 3 corners because we ran low on time: 5x5x5 of diamond, wide arm, ranger merkins, 10x10x10 calf raises out, reg, in, 20 LBCs.

we talked about feeling, how Slash works out standing up to avoid laying on the wet ground, and how Flipper wished we could just do pushups the entire 45 min.
MARY: not today mary
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter
COT: always

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BAOPS Ladder Fun

When a shieldlock brother sends the late night text that he needs a sub, you gotta answer the call.

WARMUP: lap on the paved trail and circled up for IC warm-a-rama Goofballs (except for the liver eaters who are too cool to do those), various plank based stretching, mtn climbers, shoulder taps, MNCs

THE THANG:
BAOPS Ladder
Accumulating bear crawl/crawl bear ladder with exercises at every tier (took about 30 minutes)

Bear crawl to 10 yard mark and do exercise and crawl bear back to start line – SSH for the 6

Bear crawl to 10 yard mark and do exercise then bear crawl to 20 yard mark and do exercise then crawl bear back to the start – SSH for the 6

Continue accumulating adding 10 more yards each time until you finish the 50 yard ladder.

B for Burpees – 10x at 10 yard mark
A for American Hammers – 20x at 20 yard mark
O for Overhead Claps – 30x at 30 yard mark
P for Plank – 40second hold at 40 yard mark
S for Squats – 50x at 50 yard mark

10 count recovery

Mosey around path to left field corner (top of the road with the long hill.

Partner up for classic DORA – 100x merkins, 200x squats, 300x LBCs – partner runs about 2/3 down hill to the 3rd rock and back as the timer

Mosey back to basketball courts and do a 50 yard lunge walk

MARY: circled back up on basketball courts and did IC core work – flutters, American Hammers, Freddie Mercuries, dying cockroaches and finished off with merkins

ANNOUNCEMENTS: mothers day

COT: yup

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Run Forrest, Run!

We ran.
Down Munn to Harris, left on Harris, left on Audrey (to WEP), left on Hwy 160, back to COT.
Extra mileage option: Down Munn to Harris, left on Harris, left on Audrey (to WEP), left on Hwy 160, left on Jackson, right on Harris, right on Munn back to COT.

Nobody got lost! At least I don’t think so.

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Light Post Roulette

WARMUP: Rucked a lap around the school
THE THANG: Once we determined the scheduled Q was MIA, we improvised and rucked down to Walmart. We stopped at every light post along the way and back, and a pax called out an exercise in cadence at each light post.
MARY: Freddy Mercury, Heels to Heaven, LBC, American Hammers
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter
COT: Closed in prayer

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