Blocks & Bombs for Folsom’s Kotter Comeback

It’s once again the first workout of the month here at Folsom this morning. You know what that means. It’s time for the monthly Folsom Kotter Comeback. It’s looking like a pretty decent showing right up until @ 0658. Then the flood gates opened. My man Ball Joint basically called out the entire F3 Gastonia region by name last night and he now appears he’s bout to pull an AT – Montross – Huckleberry – Sparky on us. (To be fair Sparky showed for 2/3 of the workout) It’s now a few seconds before the disclaimer and here comes Balljoint sliding in sideways in that big ass F350 (you may want to up grade those brakes and install one of your drag racing parachutes on the back of that thang there buddy) jumps out plants the flag and we’re at it. Looks like the total count is 19 including YHC I can tell now it’s gonna be an interesting one.

I had a pretty good blood pumping non-running warmup going on with SSH, Flutters, Gravel Pickers, Seal Jacks, etc…all IC paired super set style with with de-escalating rep count Burpees. I thought it was a pretty cool warmup but comments were made that maybe attend the next Q school well that was a kick in the junk right there so I kindly responded that I would go to Q school if teaching full properly performed reps was going apart of the curriculum.

Anyway we head over to soccer field grab some blocks and let’s go. Starting at the hill we did what I’d call Lucky 7’s. I pulled the handle on the ol’ slot machine at Will’s store and struck gold so I figured I’d share the wealth. 7x7x7 for you guessed it 7 rounds.

• 7 squat hold curls
• 7 thrusters
• 7 murder bunnies

We’re now on other side of the field and still a lot of moaning, groaning, and whining. Alright then challenge accepted. Let’s work the upper body core and legs some more with Mericans, LBC’s, & Calf Raises for a few rounds. Someone points out the Train whistle blowing and I said we’ll catch it at the end. Alright men warmup is finally over let’s see what you got left. Time for some BOMBS with the Blocks and Bear Crawls – Walking Lunges or whatever you can do for 15 yards and back. No rep count AMRAP until partner returns. My partner (Sparky) has a different version of BOMBS in mind and off he goes you vs you there buddy. In the meantime SA bails on Mayor and I know I said I didn’t need to tag in and out of a workout like the ol Canoe himself did last week Downtown but my hand was forced as my teammate went MIA and SA bailed on Mayor when the work got real so here I am tagging in to finish this thing out.

Heading back to the flag for the Pledge and COT when about that time Sparky shows back up. Now what do my ears hear but another Train. SA also catches it and reminds me we left out the 5 Burpees from the previous one so some of us finished out with 10 total for 2 trains and we’re done.

Prayers

• Goudelock Family
• Big Pappy and Family
• Westside’s Grandmother
• My Mother
• Gumby
• Def Leppard
• Roundup and Family
• Huggins Family
• Stogie’s Family
• Many more Spoken & Unspoken

Announcements

• Lots of Relays and Run coming up
• Q School date TBA

I know that this may have been little more aggressive than the usual Kotter Comeback – Pain Lab style workout and buddy believe me I heard about it. I do believe it was fitting though.  See all I promised was no running and we didn’t. If you were planning on a light weight or JV workout let this put you on notice nothing in life comes easy or without putting in a little unexpected hard work. Also this was nowhere near Folsom’s finest or hardest day of work.

Remember life doesn’t care if you wanted to take it easy today. Don’t let this be an excuse not to come back and get in some good work again on another day. If the work was too much, too fast paced, or just didn’t feel right. Remember you have the options to analyze, adapt, and modify it to your needs and finish strong. Life is hard we must prepare and train harder. Training is @ 5% of what we do. To put that in perspective if we’re not willing to put in that little bit of effort to make our body, mind, and spirt stronger then what are you not going to be willing to do when life itself gets hard. What will you do when your M says we’re done I’m through I’m out? What are you going to do when the Dr. say you or a loved one has cancer? What will you do if you’re let go from your job or your business fails? Will you choose to fight on and on and on until you can’t anymore? Or will you quit because it is easier to give up than it is to stay in the fight. Not me I choose to fight. The fight is different different everyday aka modified everyday to meet the needs of the day. Come on men let’s keep fighting every single minute of every day.

Thanks for the Push. Thanks for all the Tough Brotherly Love. Thanks for Showing to Grow and to Know. Love all of y’all.

I’m out.