7 Pax with 7 SACS (well 6 sacks and one ruck… sack)

7 Pax with 7 SACS (well 6 sacks and one ruck… sack)

0515 was the time, still 15 minutes earlier than necessary in YHC’s opinion, but more on that later.  The least hospitable asphalt in all of A51, the SCMS bus lot, was the place.  Back where it all began for me, and the birthplace of the regions youngest AO, SACS.  CheeseCurd has created a special thing here, even it would be better at 45 minutes, and made the mistake of asking YHC to Q.  So here I was, with sandbag in tow, ready to dish out the downpainment.  Little did I know, today was to be a record day setting the high water mark thus far for this young AO at 7.  Grizzled veterans and new guys alike arrived just in time to shoulder their bags and head off into the gloom.

THE THANG:

-Walk somewhat adroitly down the hill to the track for 4 corners.  Corner 1, 5 “baggies” (merkin on top of the bag/ruck, jump up, lift bag/ruck up to a press position, press, return bag/ruck to ground, repeat). Corner 2, 5 Baggies / 5 Squats.  Corner 3, 5 Baggies/ 5 Squats / 5 2-count lunges.  Corner 4, 5 Baggies/ 5 Squats / 5 2-count lunges / 5 Counter-rotation reverse lunges.

-Walk with purpose back to parking lot for suicide ladder.  Starting with 2 each of squats, baggies & counter-rotates (we gotta come up with a better name for this one guys), complete reps and run out 2 parking spots for 10 merkins, run back.  Next set 4 of the 3 exercises, run out 4 spots for 10 merkins, run back.  Continue through 6, 8, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2.

-Shoulder bags for a jaunt around the bus lot and assume a seated position on the edge of the sidewalk.  With bag on knees, stand unassisted from the seated position, using the bag as a lever, return to seated.   This move is very challenge as the bag is resistance for your quads and hip flexors, but is also the source of your balance as you move through the movements.  We did 25.  Flutter press X20 OYO.  LBC with bag on Knees X20 OYO

-Shoulder bags, walk back down to the track and lunge walk from start to stands.  50 calf raises.  Walk back to the bus lot, 20 H2H in cadence, done.

Ye Ole Moleskinny:

-YHC struggles to find an hour worth of ruck PT to fill a weinke, but I think that mostly has to do with the feeling of antipathy for walking around carrying a sandbag or ruck.  I know its walking under load… but its still walking.  After years of boot camping and running, it just feels wrong to walk during a workout.  I’ll get over it, but in the mean time I’ll continue to bust on CC about this being a 60 minute workout… just what I do.  All of that said, today kicked my butt. #workingfromhomemeansPAXcannap

-T-claps to CC’s neighbor Bubblewrap who posted for the very first time at Swole on Monday, and today was his 3rd workout (Hawksnest yesterday).  My man hung strong throughout this challenging workout and handled the #40 sandbag quite easily.  Next time I’ll bring him a #60.  Clearly he’s been bitten by the F3 bug, welcome to the movement.

-Geraldo CRUSHED the ladder exercise.  YHC was hard pressed to catch him in the final two sets.  Big man is strong, though maybe more than 40 lbs. next time?  Just sayin that was too easy for you bro.

-Speaking of crushing, clearly CC was aware his limitation (both mental and the walking boot he is wearing) would keep him off the podium for most of the workout, so we killed the walking segments.  By the time we got to the next “station” CC had arrived, had a sip of tea and was waiting impatiently for the party to resume.  I gotta say, I was duly impressed with the work done by a man who, for all intents and purposes, should be on IR.

-It was great to work out with Jazz Hands and Brexit, who I’ve met before, but I rarely see given their southerly nature.  Its nice to see SOBs venture north of 485 for something other than a running workout.  If this keeps up, I may have to post SACs more often, just so I can get to know more of our southern brothers (you know the SOBs who don’t run…)

-Having Dora present was great, the man has been doing ruck work since the Spearhead days, and that probably was why he and Geraldo were able to spend the entire workout talking about things the rest of us had never heard of.   I know Goruck is a thing, maybe I should learn more about it one day…

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