Easy Button hit me up a couple of weeks ago and asked if I wanted to Q swap; he’d do Diesel and I’d do Watchtower. Easy peasy. Note to you guys who just finished Site Q School: that’s an effective way to fill your monthly Q schedule. So with a few weeks of time to plan I started thinking how I could change it up from the regular boot camp. Note to Site Qs in general: don’t give Chastain too much time to think about his weinke…uh, moving on.
Warmup
Quick mosey around the outside perimeter of the parking lot then circle up
SSH x15 IC
Imperial Walkers x15 IC
Merkins x15 on my down
Calf Stretch (you’re welcome)
Potato Pickers x10 IC
The Thang
The game is called “Make it stop!” and the rules are simple:
- The pax circle up and do the called exercise in cadence without stopping until someone has had enough and they yell “Make it stop!”
- The pax who says “Make it stop!” must call cadence for the next exercise
- Every 5 exercises take a hot lap the long way around the parking lot
- Each pax can only say “Make it stop!” once – Yeah, we broke that rule
- New rule needed: Once you’re no longer doing the exercise then you have to call out “Make it stop!” – Had a few pax that were too stubborn to verbally call it quits
Here’s the list of exercises and the number of reps we did. We were pretty stubborn at the beginning but were a little more liberal with the “Make it stop!” as we went along:
- SSH – 106 IC
- Lunges – 21 IC
- Big Bois – 61 CC
- Merkins – 22 CC
- Heels to Heaven – 56 IC
Run!
- Plank Jacks – 31 IC
- Mike Tysons – 21 IC
- Broad Jumps – 19 CC
- Squats – 33 IC
- Air Presses – 60 CC
Run!
- Pogos – 113 CC
- Dry Docks – 28 CC
- Bear Crawl – 20 IC
- Burpees – 10 IC
- LBCs – 80 – CC
Run!
- Jump Squats – 22 CC
- Imperial Walkers – 28 IC
- Monkey Humpers – 12 IC
- Plank – 56 seconds
- Speed Skaters – 20 IC
Run!
- Captain Therkin – 60 seconds OYO
This is as far as we made it in 45 minutes
- Flutters
- Bobby Hurleys
- American Knockouts
- Bomb Jacks
Run!
- Freddie Mercurys
- War Hammers (Big Boi with 4 American Hammers at the top)
- Mountain Climbers
- Al Gore
- Overhead Clap
Moleskin
Honestly, I had no idea how this one was going to turn out. I had a backup weinke ready to go in case it was stupid and after we broke 100 SSHs on the very first exercise I was starting to worry. We had some stubborn pax that didn’t want to be the ones to call it quits, but once a few guys had cycled through the exercises it got a little easier to give in. We got less mileage than I thought/had hoped. Originally we were going to be on the track, but Zin AKA the new Shake n Bake said “NO!” to running in close quarters. Admittedly, it worked out better in the front lot. Next time, if there’s a next time, we’ll run the hot lap every 2 or 3 exercises instead of every 5. That’ll fix it!
Shout out to O-69 and Schneider today. Most of us bore witness to O-69 up his pace from his non-stop hi-speed walk to an all out run! Way to go, buddy! You’re killing it! And Schneider beat the fartsack today and made it out with a bum ankle thinking he’d mash, only to find there weren’t any other mashers at Watchtower. That didn’t stop him, though, he brought out the coupon and got his sweat on regardless. Good job, brother!
Announcements
Q School – Saturday, 0630 at Cuthbertson Middle – You’ll get a full workout and follow up with the school portion. If you’ve never been then it’s a great opportunity to cover the fundamentals of your responsibilities as a Q. See me or go to https://bit.ly/f3qschool to sign up
100 PAX Challenge – Congrats and thanks to everyone who gave. We officially hit the $10,000 mark yesterday morning. Some money has already been distributed but the rest is set to be given to the remaining charities soon. Congrats to Brutus on winning the recliner and Bottlecap for winning the $100 gift card
Blood Drive – Thanks to all who have signed up! We are officially full and have been capped at 73 donors. Make sure you double-check your calendar and show up on Thursday for your time slot
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