Are you Army strong?

Are you Army strong?

A robust 35 men showed up at the Vine parking lot, so we counted off, one and two, split up, and headed out into the soup.

Tha thang

Dear Abby Q:

Mosey across the street by the gas station for a COP:
SSH x 25
IW x 15
Windmill x 10
Low, slow squat x 20

Down to the lake for a version of the U.S. Army Physical Fitness Test.
2 minutes max pushups
2 minutes max full situps
2 mile timed run

Mary while we wait for everyone to finish the run

Find some wall for in-cadence exercises:
Dips x 10
Derkins x 10

Head back to base

Soft Pretzel Q:

Mosey to the Pei Wei lot for warm up: 15 IWs, 15 merkins, 20 SSHs, 10 diamond merkins, 15 squats, 10 wide arm merkins (all IC).
Mosey toward parking deck and stop at the low wall outside Moe’s: P1 plank walk on the low wall while P2 does peoples’ chair. Flapjack and repeat 3x.
Continue to parking deck. For each ramp, perform the called exercise at the bottom before running to the top.
Ramp 1: 10 burpees IC, sprint up.
Ramp 2: 10 jumps squats, backwards run up
Ramp 3: 10 burpees IC, sprint up.
On the way down, use the pillars as markers.
Ramp 3: lunge walk three pillars, jog down.
Ramp 2: backwards bear crawl three pillars, jog down
Ramp 1: lunge walk 3 pillars, jog down.
Partner up. Run to the top, stopping at each level to do partner decline merkins, same thing on the way down. Alternate at each level.
Back at the bottom, circle up for merkins and Mary. Merkins x 5, 10, 15, 10, 5 in between each called Mary exercise. Went around the circle for PAX choice and did:
Flutter x 20, Mason Twist x 20, Freddie Mercury x 20, Heels to Heaven x 20, knee ups x 10 (all IC).
Mosey back, stopping to wait for the 6 with burpees, planks, etc.

COT

Moleskine

The workout write-up is short but I think the pax came out of it feeling spent. I know I did. The APFT is simple but brutally effective and a good gauge of your physical and mental stamina. Here are the standards, which are on a scale according to age.

Basic (minimum) standards:
2 min Pushups: 34 (hate) / 30 / 25 (respect)
2 min Situps: 45 (hate) / 38 / 30 (respect)
2-mile run: 17:00 (hate) / 18:18 / 19:30 (respect)

Standards to earn the APFT Badge (worn only on PT uniform)
Pushups: 67
Situps: 72
2-mile run: 14:12

Maximum credit (perfect score)
Pushups: 75
Situps: 76
2-mile run: 13:18

Now y’all have something to shoot for. Plug your numbers in here to see how you did. You can read a 434-page manual on APFT here.

–Welcome FNGs Leia and Data. Fantastic to have you out, and hope you’ll be back.
–Great take-out by Hops. Also pretty good #mumblechatter from him earlier as he reminisced on his days in gym class during the windmills.

Announcements:

–Next week our Metro friends from SIB will converge with Swift. Should be a good time.
–Don’t forget the Calvary Church food drive. Details.
–We’ll be running the Murph on June 28. Details.

Thanks as always, gentlemen.