Tag: Sprocket

Adventure through the Isometric Inferno

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WARMUP:
Hoist three 50# sandbags on your shoulders and mosey to the office.

THE THANG:
On this adventure, we exchanged the sandbags every 75 yards ( est. ) and rotated them from shoulders, to left shoulder, right shoulder, front shoulders, waist carry and bear hug carry.
1st stop: The office – all rotated twice through a 30 dead hang on chinup bar, dip hold, plank hold, and low squat hold with rucks on and/or holding the sandbags on our shoulders.

2nd Stop – we advanced into the middle earth of the mtn bike trail in front of Gold Hill Middle and stopped and dropped the bags at some benches and cycled through rounds of a 1/2 dip hold with right leg hold crunch, then decline 1/2 merkin hold, then 1/2 dip hold with left leg hold crunch and then another decline 1/2 merkin hold.

3rd stop – we practiced teamwork in moving the sandbags across the Gold Hill nile river system and scaled the Denali like and gravel based hill to the electrical substation. We each chose a very attractive tree for 20 low slow squat row tree humpers.

Olaf drew our eyes to his exquisite trail markers along the way salvaged from historical snow plow extractions from the road.

MARY:
n/a

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Thanksgiving convergence. Olaf travelling to Waxhaw on Black Friday to pontificate on the virtues of Q Source.

COT: Prayers for a safe Halloween!

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I ain’t afraid of no ghost.

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WARMUP: Warmup? That was the disclaimer in motion.
THE THANG: We left the shovel flag and headed for 160. The Haunted Ruck was just a couple days ago, and we missed it. Let’s improvise a makeup.

Squats IC at the light until we could cross.

Talk of Fort Mill High ghost

Riggings relayed goat man story from his childhood.

Arrive at WEP, remove rucks for BBSU, Moroccan Night Club

Return leg. Low, Slow Squat/MC waiting for the light.

Finished with Step Ups/MC/Lunges

MARY: Don’t know her
ANNOUNCEMENTS: NEWSLETTER! NEWSLETTER! NEWSLETTER

COT:Ham Hock family, Riggins’ wife and extended family for upcoming wedding

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Live, Laugh, Love

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WARMUP:

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.” Charlie Chaplin

15 (4 count) Imperial Walkers
15(4 count) Imperial Walkers
Side Shuttle Hops (Jog around the outer circle until everyone has gone around)
Moroccan Night Clubs (side-step-shuffle around the outer circle until everyone has gone around)
Cherry Pickers (Big Skips around the outer circle until everyone has gone around)
Big Arm Swings (Mosey Backwards around the outer circle until everyone has gone around)

5 ants rented an apartment with another 5 ants, Now they’re tenants

On your sixes stretches
Feet together
Feet apart -Right Leg
Feet Apart – Left Leg
Butterfly Stretch

Someone just called my phone, sneezed and then hung up
I’m getting sick and tired of these cold calls

Mosey to the courts

THE THANG:

One runs a lap around the lower lot while the other is doing PT

Get a Partner If 3 in a group
200 Step-Ups 300 Step-Ups
100 Erkins 150 Erkins
125 Squats 200 Squats
50 Derkins 75 Derkins
100 Calf Raises 150 Calf Raises

ended up being 1.8 miles of running

“I have not seen anyone dying of laughter, but I know millions who are dying because they are not laughing.”

Proverbs 17:22 A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a person’s strength

MARY:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT: Announcements, Prayers & Praises, Sprocket closed us out in prayer

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There’s a hill here?

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I was late. It’s a long story. Happy to tell you any other time

WARMUP: Olaf took the PAX that were on time to the FW parking lot for some stuff that YHC missed
THE THANG: Hustle down the hill and hit the very dark trails. YHCs light is in the other car so it was fun navigating the gloom. No matter. We got to the hill by the GHMS lot and up we went.
At the top bear crawl both ways across the street and 20 4 count flutters with press.
Down the hill and 20 4 count ruck curls and overhead presses. Repeat up and down with same reps.
Bottom of the hill we head back and stop at each bridge.
1. 10x LSS
2. 15x Overhead press
3. 10x Ruck Curl
4. 10x LSS
Then it was time to airport power-walk back to CoT. With the last 300 meters a ruck run to meet up with the STL crew
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Cuts like a knife-Get Sharper(Wet Stone&Blade)

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WARMUP:
THE THANG: Re-start Wet Stone and the blade relationship.
The value in the relationship:
1.Makes you better
2.helps someone else.
3.a confidant for life
4.Helping another person is Gods plan for all of us.
5.Life is better not alone
6. gain perspective on the way you see things.

Who to pick as a Wet Stone; Someone who has something you want or like or respect.
1.Paece and happiness
2.a good attitude
3. A good relationship with spouse /God
4.Content with what they have
5.Responsible or dependable
6.A good friend
7.A good leader
8. Great shape

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Sack of poo

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Ruck 3 1/4 miles at sub 18 minute pace (3 laps around Kingsley)
Stop for 50 step ups and 10 merkins each lap in front of Carolina Ale House.

Of particular note: there are a lot of poo bags in front of LPL. It seems that some of the locals go through the trouble of bagging their dog poo, but just leave the bags around. Perhaps a community cleanup/beer run is in order?

Some Shield lock bros were walking around holding hands. It was adorable.

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Cold + mumblechatter (whiners) = SlowBurn

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The cold and the complaining was out in full force this morning. Great effort by … most

The first thing I did when I got home was was my sweatshirt, with my Weinke, so you get the cliff notes …

Warm-up:
The pattern was 1. exercise on your feet 2. exercise on your 6 3. exercise on your feet 4. exercise in the plank position 5. rinse/repeat

We did stuff like: imperial walker, hillbilly walker, Travolta, shoulder tap, SSH, LBC, Mahktar N’Diaye, squats, sumo squats, Morrocan NC, OH Claps. Stuff like that. Mostly in dozens.

Then onto the those exercises that were rejected by the nation’s Exicon
Patrick Swayze: Karaoke L, Karaoke R, Power Skip, NUR with arms out
Jonah Hill: 3 broad jumps, 3 merkins, 7x
Matt Foley: 1 animated squat, 4 dying cockroach, 2-8, 3-12, 4-16, 5-20

Then a round of Assassin suicides, squats, imp walkers, OH claps, or something like that, super easy

Over to 4 corners where some actual did the work and some walked from corner to corner chit chatting
15 BB Sits, 15 Jump squats, 15 bombjacks, 15 merkins, 5 flying squirrels in the middle

To the wall for a sit and 2 burpees from each end, rinse/repeat

Back for 2 rounds of Assassin merkins
LBCs, HELLO DOLLY!, BB Sits
Donkey kicks, shoulder taps, mountain climbers

SlowBurn was my first AO I attended, SlowBurn was my first site Q, and has always been a great Friday workout. Thanks Weezer for the lead.

Looks like we made it,

Barry Manilow

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I Missed The Memo

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WARMUP:
THE THANG: 3 mile ruck – TCE -Around Walmart – Around TCE
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Its cold
COT:

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Rucking with a Ripple

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WARMUP: walk to corner and wait for Stang
THE THANG:
Carrying the 6 plus ruck sacks we hit 2.5mi through Baxter and back to COT
MARY: n/a
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read newsletter
COT: Olaf took half the PAZ to uncharted territory at end and so hopefully nobody got lost or bit by coyote 👍🏻👏🏻🐆

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Rucktober sandbag exchange at the JOC

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WARMUP: mosey around the parking lot loop
THE THANG: we took a few minutes to learn how to transition a sandbag between men since it was frustrating to see so many guys struggle during GTE32.

We then took some cones and threw them out and bearcrawled to pick one cone each and bring it back to a parking spot. There we each did what was on our cone while using the bearcrawls exercise station as the timer. Then we rotated to the next spot and performed that exercise. It was a great time. We did all kinds of ruck swings, ruck rows, big boy burpees, around the dome, squat thrusters, bear crawling finished with a 3 minute sandbag shuffle.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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