Category: Backblast (Page 91 of 904)

Do stuff when its hard.

Four of us made the choice to get out and get some miles in.

We did werk.

Good morning with the pax eager to run.

Some ran. Some walked. Some rucked. Then we went in had coffee and spoke of the man who builds the Worlds best Trucks.

We ran through 2 tough HERO/Memorial WODs on Veterans at Old School. What I saw out there was Awesome. You guys left it all out there. While we all held our own during The Mogadishu Mile WOD it  was the Loredo WOD that separated the PAX into 2 different groups. Broke and Gumby found another gear and smashed through all rounds with time to spare. MW, Flintstone and I didn’t quite finish on time. I’m especially pleased to say all work was done with good form even as we started breaking down. The failing of reps nor the failure to finish the workout on time is actually a failure. Failure to do the work or failure to attempt the work is the failure. There was a lot of grunting and gnashing of teeth to grind through these workouts. They’re tough that’s the point. The men these workouts were created in honor of gave their all for us.

Thanks for the Hard Work

Thanks to all the Vets out there

I chose this workout because it’s Halloween and this THANG is scary when performed correctly. That’s where I failed because I didn’t run it correctly. AR-7 stands for Accelerated Results 7. The theory is that you can get in an insane amount of reps at a little lower than normal weight and lower than normal rep count by cutting the rest and adding a lot of rounds to your circuit. Well I completely dropped the ball on this one. I guess you could say I dropped the block on this one actually.

The workout was supposed to go like this.
7×7 for round 1 then rest or active recovery for 1 minute then 6×6 for the next round and 5×5 for the final round. We only made it through the first round as I got overzealous with the active recovery piece. Here’s how it went.

Working sets were as follows. 7 exercises with 7 reps each for 7 rounds.  Blockees, 1 Arm Rows, Thrusters, HR Merkins, and JB Squats. Active recovery was 200m Rifle Cary after each round this took well over a min. each time and it should only be @ 15-20 sec. rest between sets until your final set  Then it’s @ 1 min. recovery then back to work with the next round of torture. These active recovery times ate up all of my workout time so with @15min. to go we hit a few AMRAP sets of whatever I could think of and we headed back to the Flag stopping a few times to get in some NAVY SEAL Burpees along the way.

PLEDGE, COT

FYI the total rep count will be 110 reps for each movement for a total of 770 reps in the WOD. I know that’s not an absurd number but when you keep the work moving and drop the active recovery times back this should be completed in about 30 min. tops. It can quickly become a heart and lung buster if done correctly.

I will put this one back in the rotation soon and we will finish all rounds when I do.

Until Then

SYITG