Bags for Days

Bags for Days

Every junky has his favorite fix, and gear heads are no different.  You have your garage gym warriors, making mini cross fit boxes next to their minivans and storage shelves.  Then there are your bell-heads, prizing swings and get-ups as men among boys.  Then there are the chosen few, the non-conformists, the bag-men.  Lugging hundreds of pounds of granulated silicate encased in canvas causes eyes to light, synapses to fire and muscles to burn with anticipation.  These warrior elite are at home in parking lots, beaches, forests and streams.  Akin to Ruckers, but with less attachment, they walk a different path and are the better for it, these are there stories…

The Thang:

Shoulder bag (or ruck) and run/shuffle around the exterior of the bus lot to get the muscles firing then circle up under the basketball goals.

3 movements x20: Alternating side merkins (1 hand on bag), 2 hand bag swing, Overhead Press

WOD 1: Once acclimated to these movements complete ladder 2,4,6,8,10,8,6,4,2  of all three movements in series.

Shoulder bags, lunge walk to the 2nd basketball goal, reverse lunge back

WOD 2: Hang Clean to Press X10, 30 lateral bag jump overs, Hang Squat Clean X10, 1 minute rest – 4 sets

Shoulder up the bags and walk to benches, Little Hazes, calf raises, step ups, calf raises

Walk to field behind basketball goals and reverse bear crawl across the field pulling bag, then forward pulling bag.

WOD 3: Strict Curl to Press X10, Lateral Jump Burpees X10 – 5 sets

PAX started to fall out (including YHC) during WOD 3 so we called it and went for a stroll down around the track and back.

Ye Skinny Moleskin:

T-Claps to Curd for leveraging his new found power… ahem… responsibility to bring back this much loved format.  The re-birth of the art of the kettlebell in A51 is a good thing, but the fact Swole killed T&M was a real bummer.  That said, as YHC shared several times during today’s workout, an hour is a bit much for constant bag work.  I am championing a short format starting at 0530, mainly so I don’t have to set my alarm for 0415 on Wednesdays.

Proehl is a beast, yes he is 19, but thats just the facts.

There isn’t a rock song from the 70s or 80s which Geraldo doesn’t have a story about it seems as he provided quite the commentary on YHC’s impromptu playlist.  Don’t play the music too loud though, there are people sleeping nearby it seems.

CheeseCurd was ‘curd squeaking’ quite a bit by the end of the 3rd WOD, must have done something right…Unless I don’t get invited back.

The newly minted A51 board was well represented this morning, with 3 of the 6 members attending T&M.

This F3 thing is the gift which keeps on giving, and I am supremely grateful for the ability to get out into the gloom with my brothers each and every day, and for being able to take a break from running to build some strength.

SYITG Men

-Flipper