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Bunker Tabata

We had 8 PAX hunker down in the bunker!  Anyone familiar with my PainLab workouts knows I bring my normal set of Athlean-X inspired tools.

Tabata Timer App:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.evgeniysharafan.tabatatimer&hl=en

6 Pack Promise App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mi.AthleanX&hl=en_US

Athlean-X Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/JDCav24

After splitting from The Fighting Yank crowd, we we began our workout.  No FNG’s, but there were a few faces I hadn’t seen before that morning!  We began with a dynamic warmup and an ab circuit via the 6 pack promise app.  The exercises consisted of 7 rounds.  Each exercise in each round was 1 minute long with 30 seconds rest between rounds.

  • Rounds #1 and #2
    • Bench overs (for time, 60 seconds)
    • Tricep Extensions (kettlebell), 25 reps in 60 seconds
    • Single-leg high hip bucks – Switch at 30 second mark
    • Kettlebell 2-armed rows – 25-30 reps in 60 seconds
  • Rounds #3 and #4
    • Imperial Walkers (for time, 60 seconds)
    • Single-arm overhead press (kettlebell), 15-25 reps in 60 seconds
    • Hindu Squat Through (for time, 60 seconds)
    • Kettlebell bicep curls – 15-25 reps in 30 seconds each arm
  • Rounds #5 and #6
    • T-Squares (I didn’t know what else to call them.  T-Square showed me the video of the exercise).  They involve performing a halo in tandem with a reverse lung.  We did these for reps.  10 each side in 60 seconds.
    • Merkins (25-30) in 60 seconds
    • Prisoner Squats (20-25) in 60 seconds
    • Superman Pullups – 25 reps in 60 seconds
  • PT Prep Bonus Round
    • Ketllebell Swings – 60 seconds
    • Merkins -25 reps
    • Bodyweight Squats – 25 reps
    • LBCs – 60 seconds
    • Side Straddle Hops – 60 seconds

As the leaf turns

10 at Crossroads this morning for some running. I chose the big loop around. The bat flippers including those on the 80/20 plan were already gone so 6 of us set out. As we went around the gate at the college SA decided to practice his JJ5K plan and tried shoving me in the woods. Despite this act of violence I turned the leaf right back over and forgave him.  Heading up the tower lane a skunk crossed our path so we slowed the pace to let it get by. All of a sudden SA grabs me and throws me between him and the skunk. Yet again I let it go and turn the leaf back over. This is the nature of our relationship. He constantly does things to try and antagonize me and I just keep turning the leaf, he flips, right back over. As we discussed at Q-Source this morning the best way to influence someone is by word and deed. I hope that someday my deeds will ignite a palpable desire for change in him.  I recognize he has to want it and I can’t make him change but I can influence him.

COT:

Announcements-“OUR” service project items, Murph on Monday, Bike ride at 7 on Monday from Ingles

Prayer Request-A lady from PM’s church who lost her baby, due to SA’s unruliness I didn’t here the others

3 seconds

4 PAX posted at Old School on Saturday.  Some may have been scared away by my picture of blocks I posted on Slack.

Warmup: Nope

The Thang:

I converted some workouts from the Heavy Drop Training Boudin and I did a few months back to be done with blocks instead of rucks and sandbags. We did an upper body and most of a core workout.  This is how it went.

hand release merkins- 4 sets x 30seconds with 30s rest between each

curls-3 x 15 reps with 30s rest

Rollers(google ruck rollers)-4 x 10r ic w/90s rest

Bent row-3 x 15r with 60s rest

High pulls-4 x 15r with 60s rest

Merkins-2 x 2 minute rounds with 90s rest

Butterfly situps-3 x 30s with 30 s rest

4 ct Freddy Mercury’s-3 x 20r with 30s rest

4 ct back scratcher(block on your stomach)-3 x 10r with 30s rest

Block to toe lever(v-up holding your block in the air)-3 x 20r with 60 s rest

WW2 situp-2 x 2 minute rounds with 90s rest

COT:

Announcements-service project items, Murph on Monday, bike ride from ingles at 7 on Monday.

Prayer Request-Pappy and family, SA and family,

Moleskin:

Just looking to share some of the HDT with the guys this morning. Apparently Short Sale thought we would be going somewhere and had his watch on run or something because it only showed 3 seconds of work on Strava. If you are looking for something to change things up I highly recommend it. It’s a great 6 week training program with various options. I got faster and stronger over the course of the program. I went in looking for strength gains and ended up setting multiple run PR’s. Look up Cleveland area rucking crew and heavy drop training.

Conspiracy Theories at the Gashouse!

On a Memorial Day Saturday with some early summer heat and humidity with a light pax at the AO YHC had a plan and it definitely involved being a little different. Which is a good thing! After 5 straight posts and a some pretty challenging work all week long YHC was a little spent today. Throw in the first roll of heat and humidity and it was a sluggish start – but it didn’t stay that way. Here’s what happened:

COP:

Arm stretch

SS – burpees X 5

Foot to had stretches

Grass pickers X 20

Bootcampers off with me to the track, painlabbers stay back.

Bootcamp work, six shooter variation.

10 burpees, lap

20 Big boys, lap

Over to the tables.

Dips, Stepups (each leg), Dirkins, inclined big boys

3 repeats, 10X, 15X, 20X.

Back to the track:

30 Werkins, lap

40 squats, lap

Down to the area next to the baseball field for “chop-chop burpees” Chop-chop is where you run in place then hit the ground on Q’s “down” call and do a burpee. Do 5X then run up the hill and back around. Repeat 4X.

Back to the track:

50 merkins , lap

60 SSH. Decided not to do the lap but come back to the COT. Except we decided to do the lap! Then mosey back.

On the way back we saw Clavin leaving out for work and we had no pain labbers present. so we made up the story about Clavin and the pain labbers. As only we could do. But we weren’t done!

Rugby sprint v2.0

Skip between islands, run back, walk back.

1st round: LBCs X 20, AHs X 20, Heels to Heaven X 20

Rinse and repeat above, hold plank for 2 minutes. Keep expanding on the Clavin story. Where minds can go! Ha Ha Ha!

Done and pledge as pain labbers return, squelching our story line via Clavin. It was fun while it lasted!

NMM:

Great work by a skelton crew today. Congrats to grads and parents. Been an interesting year to say the least. Now everyone is on to better things – we hope and pray. Not a 2nd F today, we need to work on that here. it’s usually pretty good. But again a holiday Saturday contributed. But let’s put the effort in here guys! YHC went over ot Fighting Yank’s 2nd F. 24 pax and at least half attended coffeteria/breakfast. We can do that here.

Enjoyed leading. Great group!

Tesla

 

 

Don’t forget leg day!

I am working on changing things up real soon here because I’m too predictable. I enjoy focusing on my core and low back, so that’s why this style workout works for me. Let’s start with some warm ups:

Don Quixote’s, Moroccan Night Club, Windmill, Simple March, Overhead Reach

Set 1:  (50sec work/10 sec rest)

Side Lunges, Slow-n-low squats, step-ups, Donkey Kicks, Single Leg Romanian Deadlift, Assisted Pistol Squats, (Rinse & Repeat 1x)

Set2:

American Hammers, Seated Alternating Toe Stretch, Six Inch Hold, Hips Ups, Quadruped, LBC’s, Reverse Crunches, (Rinse & Repeat 1x)

Set 3:

Merkins, Bulgarian Split Squats, Heels To Heaven, Kettlebell Sit-ups, Seated Figure 8, Superman Pullups (Rinse & Repeat 1x)

Mary for 5 minutes

Looking for Q’s for PainLab for the month of June, but no-one reads these anyway, lol.

F3 Dads Workout Lineup & Dates

Hello everyone,

we are excited to be kicking this off again this year after a year away.  The dates for the workouts are as follows, with the Qs.

June 19 – The Fighting Yank – 07:00 – Gavel, Bubba Sparxxx, Nutria

July 17 – Gashouse – 07:00 – OPEN Q (Need some dads)

August 21 – Folsom – 07:00 – Ball Joint, Purple Haze.

This will be separate from the regularly scheduled workouts. Bring out the kids and we will have a great time.  Snacks and drinks provided by YHC.

NUOS

GrowRuck is coming (? some time in August if I remember correctly)-get signed up then show up for some EC with your ruck. Every Saturday we will have a few options. Today it was GasHouse and The Yank. We did similar workouts and the focus is more on ruck exercises and less on mileage with the ruck on. Both are important, but the mileage with the ruck takes a bit of time and this workout is meant to get you (un)comfortable with your ruck and exercises that maybe we don’t work on as much with regular boot camp stuff.  HIPAA took The Yank and I had GasHouse this week. Below is what we did at GasHouse. HIPAA probably did something similar-we discussed briefly earlier this week.

WU: 10 reps each X total of 4 sets: ruck military press, bent row, upright row, squat. At the start and between sets we did 25 big boy situps (total 100). WU over, we grabbed the toys out of the truck and went into the woods behind the Schiele. Today the toys were a 40# sandbag, old bicycle, and wheelbarrow with 80# weights in it. We got to the bottom of the hill in the woods and dropped the toys, made a few laps with lunges, bear crawls, short mosey then picked up the toys and did a few laps up and down the hill. At the top we did some squats and Merkins. We eventually did some Bear with Me: ruck on and do an exercise with 20 reps after bear crawling about 10 yards. The exercises were Merkins, Squats, Mtn Climbers, Flutter Kicks, and Upright Rows. We grabbed the toys and headed back to start.

This was a good start but definitely needs to grow in intensity and duration. I think we did about 40 minutes total. Honestly, I thought I was going to spew Merlot. My twins graduated high school today and last night we had a little celebration with some friends.

I guess I could have picked a better weekend to start this but sometimes you just have to say Nut Up or Shut up….

Folsom

Short mosey around the park to the soccer field, then line up to do a Bantaan Death Crawl half the soccer field then partner up and do the broken wheel barrow the rest of the field swapping up half way.

We partnered up did farmer carries and Dora for about 3,000 reps.

100 curls

100 block swings

100 squats

100 LBC’s

100 merkins

for 5 rounds using the full length of the soccer field

The Cooper!

Warm-up

  • SSH x 30ic
  • Mountain Climbers x 20 ic
  • Hillbillies x 20 ic
  • Moroccan Knight Clubs x 20 I/c
  • Merkins x 10 ic
Mosey over to bridge leading to Goat Island
Each PAX lung walk across bridge and then to the playground and picnic area.
The Thang:
The Cooper
10 burpee, 10 squat, 10 merkin, then a lap around playground
Then 9,9,9 of them same. Count down to 1and then back up again as time permits
COT

Announcements –

Announcements:

  • Blood drive June 16th at Tech Worx in Belmont, 1:30pm – 6:30pm,
  • Amoeba Ruck, Saturday May 22nd,

Prayer Requests:

  • Turtle Man
  • Brutus and mission trip
  • Pillager’s M

YHC closed out in prayer.

Thank you all for allowing me to lead this morning. Hard work was done!

Breaker Breaker

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