Time to Make the Doughnuts

Time to Make the Doughnuts

The THANG:

PreWorkout:

6:00 KB Session with DT, EE, and HH (some started closer to 6:15 due to technical difficulties) with a few Hairband miles thrown in to keep the blood flowing. Brought out the single arm ladders that TR showed us yesterday before Kevlar and decided to try the whole circuit with a 44lb bell, which was tough to finish. Double E beasted it with a 50lb bell. No idea what happened before 6:15 unless it was on the can at BoJangles. Drop Thrill demonstrated his ability to decipher whether questionable music is actually being played by the original artist or a even more questionable cover band – only missing the mark on the Lego Song when he incorrectly deemed the #realdeal an inferior copy. That one is terrible no matter how it comes out, so i suppose it does not matter much.

The Real THANG:

Doughnut Hole Q

Preparation Drills – 10 reps – 4 count
Bend and Reach
Squat Bender
Push-up
Windmill

10 Tuck Jumpers OYO
10 8 count Burpees OYO

Mosey to Shuttle Flag

8 for the Core – 10 reps – 4 count
V-ups
Bent Leg Body Twist
Rower
Supine Bicycle
LBC’s
Hip Thrust with awkward hold and smile
Flutter Kicks
Dollys

Mosey to SVHS front parking lot

2 sets of shuttle sprints from light pole to light pole

Turnover to HorseHead

Horsehead Q

Mosey around the High School to SVHS Track with a stop for Mt. Climbers in cadence to regroup

Group lines up on track and does following set of exercises OYO, followed by a 400m lap

7 CDD / 14 burpees / 21 merkins / 28 squats / 35 LBC / 1 400m lap

Plank-o-rama to regroup with a few mixed exercises

Repeat entire sequence

Plank-o-rama to regroup again

Mosey to practice field

Ark Loader across field

– Bear Crawls
– Crab Walks
– Karaoke Run
– Bearaoke Crawls
– Long Bear Crawl (ugh)

Indian Run back to Shelter Area

“Bring Sally Up” push-o-rama under the shed. Play “Flower” song by Moby and the PAX do merkins along with the song. The “song” (if it can be classified as such) is basically a repeat of “Bring Sally Up” and “Bring Sally Down” over and over. Nobody completed this. Lots of neat noises coming out though. Idea was borrowed from Bulldog’s Kevlar a while back. Maybe he and Busch completed it then . . . they are bad dudes.

10 Burpees OYO

Single Legged Flutters IC

END

Moleskine:

When we found out late this week that Doughnut Hole’s National Guard deployment was postponed (maybe indefinitely) we roped him in to his first Q on Friday AM. Without much time to prepare, he decided to (ironically?) do some military preparation drills that he was familiar with. And by military preparation drills that he was familiar with, I mean we got busy with bunch of the weird in a group setting. It wasn’t a bad weird though, just a weird weird mostly stemming from unfamiliarity (no IWs or SSH) and the fear of the unknown. It was still weird though, just not in a bad or terrible way. Given that Doughnut Hole is such a quiet and nice guy who also serves and protects our country, we decided to honor this by heckling him mercilessly. He took it like a champ and did not flinch. The 8 count burpees were tough and the running to break up the boot camp drills was a nice way to keep things going. 1st half was a lot of fun.

2nd half was all stolen material. The ladder sequence on the track came from The Charge (yes that is actually a tough A51 workout) where I think we did it 3 or 4 times. I believe that Hamlet led that AM and called it “The Kirk”, so maybe he stole it from something that Kirk did? No idea, but it almost made me throw up so I figured it was good stuff. The PAX kept together surprisingly well, and I could see some guys really pushing it on the runs.

The ark loader was brought out because we had an FNG present and I figured that he might as well get the whole complete body soreness thing over with all at once. #youarewelcome. Our #F3MECA visitor Bling #pigtails smoked everyone on the bear crawls, but didn’t have much luck with the crab walks. Definitely a warm blooded mammal, this one.

Strong move by Bling in driving all the way down from Huntersville to #HazardCounty to EH his buddy Steve. Steve lives right down the road from the Outland site and hung in there pretty well. Since he works for Microsoft with Bling, we named him Blue Screen since we all love their software so much. We hope to see more of Blue Screen at upcoming workouts and less of it on our computers.

DT was struggling today with some general bad feelings going on. I hope he is not getting sick. Way to push through buddy. Sometimes I think the workouts that you feel like you are barely able to complete are the best ones for you.

Strong work by Turnpike and Shephard – good to see them coming out. Shepard is a respect beast and made it through the ark loader with sheer grit and determination. No #loungewalking for this guy.

The shorn Late Show is a sight to behold. May be short lived though, looks like the #GardenGnome is already underway

Good seeing Zip back out. Hang in there brother. We need your counting.

Always fun working out with CounterTop. I’m glad you beat me down so mercilessly at my first workout but kept me coming back. You complete me.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

GJ and HH running 15K on 2/7 in Columbia with Splinter – MGC Long Run

Outland looking to fill two Mud Run teams for Spring Run

Blue Ridge chatter is high – teams forming now while folks don’t remember how much it hurts

New Third F was given a trial run today after the coffeteria. We decided to run the coffeteria from 8:00AM to 8:30AM and move into the Third F from 8:30 to 9:0A0AM each Saturday at the Sun Valley McDonalds. After some discussion, we named it “The Grindstone” as we sharpen one another by holding our brothers accountable to be leaders in their marriage, families, and community. Since we sometimes have a heavy 2.0 contingency, we will have a kids table set up so they can hang out while we meet. We selected “Not a Fan” by Kyle Idleman as the initial book. We will cover part of the 1st chapter on next Saturday 1/24/15, so everyone is encouraged to get the book by then.

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Always an Honor and a Blast

– Horsehead