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Rucking with push-ups

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Plans had to be changed slightly as there were only 3 of us there but I still made sure we get our moneys worth of the early wake up.
We left the sandbags and ladder in the car and rucked around the school for 2.86 miles with 10 merkins every 3 minutes on the minute, total of 200 merkins. We finished up with 3 minutes of abs lab.

Great time to catch up with Mainframe and Divac.

I’ll keep the ladder handy for my next Q…

We prayed for our families, kids, patience and a great summer for everyone.

Tinsel out!

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The Forts fastest AO

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Tuesday July 12th seabiscuit becomes the Forts newest official AO. Join us in the parking lot of Blues smokehouse @5:15am at the corner of Doby’s bridge rd and the bypass. This is going to be a speed based running AO, geared towards improving overall speed. If you’re not fast, then this is for you. If you are fast, this is also for you. It’s kinda like Disney, there’s something for everyone.

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Treehugger Ruck WOD at Chupacabra

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We honored our brother Treehugger with a Ruck version of the WOD.
5 rounds of:
10 sandbag rows
20 flutter kicks with ruck overhead
30 merkins
40 yard sandbag toss
50 yard sandbag farmers carry
1/4 mile run/ruck

It was a sweat fest and the merkins with the ruck on received the most complaints.

We prayed for the people affected by the accident at the beginning of the bear race, prayers for our families and for patience and balance on our minds.

I will suggest to keep a water bottle handy when working out in this heat and humidity, I had to pull mine out of the car 10 minutes into to WOD.

Stay hydrated brothers!!

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Respect Bday Q

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YHC was honored to Q minnow pond on my actual 50th (RESPECT) birthday. since the theme is 50, the route was a loop with 5 pain stations with 3 exercises of 10reps (to equal 50 reps per exercise and lap). Goal was 5 laps for the gazelles.

The stations were at Main/Tom Hall, Tom Hall/Withers, Withers/Confederate, Withers/Watson, and Railroad/Main.

Unfortunately I scheduled skin cancer surgery 2 days prior without thinking about the implications. Doctor requested I not exercise for 2 weeks but I couldn’t resist. Reason why I mention this is as a Public Service Announcement: use sun screen all year long and always reapply daily to avoid skin cancer.

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Hardest 24 minutes in all of The Fort…

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WARMUP: Sasquatch ran the PAX to a lit area and instructed them to form 3 lines facing him (2 lines of 4 and 1 line of 3).  After some initial gloom-fogged math and logistics, he got to limbering up the PAX for the first 15 minutes.  Queue *SPONGEBOB VOICE* “21 minutes later” the handoff was completed to YHC (SkateOrDie)
THE THANG: Given that YHC was shorted 6 minutes, we had to forego the body destroyers and get after it… the PAX moseyed (alright, just short of dead sprint) around to the back of the school (NAFO) and found some picnic tables and benches.  The group performed step ups while 1 PAX ran around the outer sidewalk, serving as the timer.  Upon completion, the next PAX ran while the group did box jumps. Rinse and repeat 2 more times. The PAX then repositioned (again, just short of dead sprint) to the pull-up bars behind the JROTC building. Next up, the group completed 1 pull-up, 2 chin-ups, and 3 merkins, rinsing and repeating, while 1 PAX ran to the stop sign at the top of the hill as a timer. Repeato until the remaining PAX ran. The PAX again repositioned (yeah yeah dead sprint…blah blah) to the hill behind Sugar Creek Elementary School. After hearing some mumblechatter about the stupid things we do, YHC implored the PAX to realize that the “stupid things” we choose to do are preparing us for the “tough stuff” that we have to do at other points in our lives. Next up, Jacobs Ladder (1 big boy sit-up at the bottom, 10 burpees at the top). We made it through 4-5 rounds for each of the PAX before repositioning (“quickly”) 1 last time to the bottom of the hill back to NAFO. Once a 10-count was counted, jail break sprint back to the stop sign at the top of the hill and then back to COT for MARY!
MARY: Flutters and Hammers were on the menu, followed by… wait for it… THE BODY DESTROYER!!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter!
COT: 🙏🏻s for both spoken and unspoken items on our ♥️s. Thanks for the opportunity to lead gentlemen!!!

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Great Pyramid of Dirt and Grass

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WARMUP: Mosey towards entrance – circle up and perform following in cadence: goofballs, low slow squat, shoulder taps, updog/downdog, MNCs then mosey back toward field next to CoT

THE THANG:
Pyramid of Pain- start around midfield where all gear was laid out

Tier 1:
50yd bear crawl then run back to midfield and perform 25 reps of the following: medicine ball slams, diamond merkins, upright rows with weight plates, Freddy Mercuries, imperial squat walkers

SSH for the 6

Tier 2:
40 yd bear crawl then run back to midfield and perform 30 reps of the following: merkins, alternating lunges (both legs is 1 rep), calf raises, bent over rows with weight plate

Plank for the 6

Tier 3:
30yd bear crawl then run back to midfield and perform 35 reps of the following: wide arm merkins, jump squats, curls with weight plate or Cindy

shoulder tap for the 6

Tier 4:
20 yard bear crawl then run back to midfield and perform 40 reps of the following: LBCs, overhead claps

flutters for the 6

Tier 5:
10 yard bear crawl then run back to midfield and perform 50 reps of the following: burpees

upon completion, PAX began working their way back down the Tiers with most getting back down to Tier 2 before it was time to head back to CoT.

MARY: Help carry my gear back to CoT and start trying to get all the grass and dirt off

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Final F3 Dads session this Saturday at WEP from 9-930, convergence Monday NaFo 0500, 1776 merkin challenge for July

COT: Show to know

Thanks for the chance to take over the Ranch for a day Poppins. Enjoy your vacation!

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Sandbag Games

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WARMUP: Slick mosey around the parking lot followed by some SSH, Good Mornings and a few Merkings.
THE THANG: I borrowed, or stole, this workout from Steak Knives in Cape Fear while we did a version of this workout as extra credit prior to a running AO. Everyone hear had a sand bag between 40lbs-60lbs.
(50) Sand bag Getups (think a Turkish getup) without ruck on.
(50) Sand bag ground to shoulders (and toss it over your shoulder) while wearing ruck.
(50) Sand bag squats while wearing ruck
(50) Sand bag clean & throws (same as a sand bag toss) while wearing ruck.
We were on a 2min timer so every 2mins, you had to do 5 burpees. After 2 rounds, we changed the count to 3 burpees.
MARY:
Box Cutters with ruck overhead
LBCs with ruck overhead
Flutters with ruck overhead
American Hammers – slick
Standing side-bends with ruck in hand
Series of planking with rucks on
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter, Independence Day convergence at NAFO, give blood, Men’s Shelter
COT: You had to be there.

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Bobby Hurley Hell

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We were joined by Deadbolt from the Raleigh area. Got to talk a bit before we started, but gave disclaimer at 0515 and got started.

WARMUP;
Downward dog/honey mooner
SSH (IC – sort of…apparently I had inflection that made Poppins think we were stopping at 10).

THE THANG:
Moseyed over to back of school, balls to wall while each person does 3 burpees
Then did wall squats while PAX ran around the loop (another Poppins shout-out, this HIM is sneaky fast #sprinter)

Next we headed over by the band room area. We got to see the horses and YHC learned that is why it’s called the Ranch (#themoreyouknow)

@bobber asked if we’d get to do Bobby Hurleys like I called at a previous Q…he was excited when he heard what I had next..a Dora with:

100 lunges (single count leg)
200 Carolina dry docks
300 Bobby Hurleys (audibled to 250 when I recalled how awful these were and my form was getting pretty bad)
400 Freddy Mercury
Bonus round of burpees for a few of us as the last group finished.

Headed to the playground for a Pull up/merkins series (5 OYO/6 IC, 4/5, 3//4)

Sasquatch led some mountain climbers at COT while YHC grabbed my phone from the car to do video namorama!

Announcements: read your newsletter
Prayers: lots offered up.

Thanks @poppins for the opportunity to lead

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Run, ruck or crawl…we’re taking the hill

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WARMUP:
– Quick warmup lap around the parking lot (slick).  YHC received immediate feedback about running at a ruck WO.  Complaints noted.
– COP:
   – LSS (IC)
   – Overhead clap (IC)
   – SSH (IC)
   – Peter Parker (IC)
Runners started rolling into the parking lot as the 4 ruckers departed for “the hill.”  Apparently the hill is useful not only for a ruck WO, but also to train for The Bear.

THE THANG:
There are many hills on the peninsula, but Heart Attack Hill is in a class all its own.  Today’s wienke was simple…out/back to summit the hill.  While in route, we stopped at 5 minute intervals to complete 10 reps of each of the following exercises:
– Merkin (ruck on)
– Overhead press
– Ruck curls
– Ruck rows
– Squats (ruck on)
For the final 100 +/- yards up the hill, PAX were not permitted to wear the rucks on their backs.  We started with an overhead carry and were permitted to front carry (no straps) to rest.  Anyone who’s been on that section of the hill will understand the balance challenge this presents as due to the incline, you’re practically nose to pavement.  Heart rates were elevated.  The highest recorded metric was Divac’s 170 BPM “recovery” reading on the descent.  

2.55 miles and 7 rounds of exercises (350 total reps)

The runners remarked at the ruckers impeccable timing as we rolled into COT at 0559:45.  That could be attributed to solid planning, pure luck or more likely a little of each.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Q School
– FM Care Center
COT:
– Prayers for marriages

Honored for the opportunity to lead. Thanks Divac!

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Often threatened, finally bestowed!

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WARMUP: Grunts and groans and turn your gear on
THE THANG: The third Monday means Wally World. FunHouse taking a young FNG down the road and back. Mainframe and Hoff got their miles in as well. YHC still walking on a road to recovery. DaVinci and Crabcakes were busy lugging those rucksacks.
MARY: Turn off your gear
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read the newsletter
COT: Prayers for Mainframe’s 2.0s with camp adventures and work concerns. Praise for Funhouse’s 2.0 coming back from a successful trip to Clemson soccer camp, also her first overnight camp experience! Funhouse came out with a buddy’s 2.0 who loves to mountain bike. And for years in The Fort we’ve heard a certain handle bantered about but never placed. Well that all changed today as Liam Gouda is now officially Skid-mark! And he thinks it’s awesome! AYE!

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