10 hearty fellows rose to the occasion for 2014’s first edition of “Base Camp”. An 11th man appeared from the gloom emerging from his vehicle completely unready for the Pain Stations awaiting. #Runstopper decided to stop in and get his math checked by Passport before proceeding to the office. At 5:30am? Dude is a early riser for sure. With some perfectly timed remarks and slight chiding we moved out. Sans Runstopper and his stylish workout beret. #missingrunstopper
Lap mosey in parking lot.
COP
SSH x 20
IW x 20
Mtn Climber x 20
Merkin x 20
Rock hoppers x 20
Squats x 20
Mosey to opposite end of parking lot for Station 1.
St 1: Brick 21’s (w/bricks)
Push press x 21
Curl x 21
Seal jack x 21
Mosey to Station 2.
St. 2: Weight Plates
Hairburners for 20 yards (crowdpleaser)
Mosey to Station 3.
St. 3: Concrete Coupons (35lbs ?)
Bucket brigade Indian walk down and back (experimental – more on this later)
Mosey to Station 4.
St. 4: Group Therapy
Seal sit-ups x 10. Interlock arms and legs.
Merkins x 10.
Seal sit-ups x 10
Mosey back to Station 1.
Round 2
St. 1: Arm raise x 21, hammer curl x 21, SSH x 21 (w/bricks)
St. 2: Inchworm 10 yards (crowdpleaser) grab coupons
St. 3: Merkin walk. One time around – 360 degrees. Grab coupons
St. 4: Recursive Russian twist w/4 coupons (circle up on your 6, shoulder2shoulder facing out, 10 lb weight plates – hand to man to left) 2 mins
Catch me if u can. Coupons/5 merkins. Down and back
Mary
Lbc x 20
Dolly x 20
Flutter x 20
Protractor x 20
Groiners x 20
Dive bombers x 10
2:00 left – LD takes us on for some Peoples Chair
Moleskin:
Base Camp men are getting stronger! (insert Rocky theme) Strong work from 10 men whom I heard mumblechatter pre workout about not posting for 1 or 2 weeks. Glad I could accommodate your ease back into it with a slightly more intense Base Camp workout. Relo, Pele, Hopper it’s my pleasure to induct you all into the Hairburner/Inchworm club. A first at Base Camp for sure. Bucket Brigade turned out to be not so bad once you got into the rhythm of pass and run to end of the line. Worth a try again. Seal situps, and Recursive russian twist are nice additions to the Mary arsenal. Many thanks to everyone as YHC may have turned it up a notch this morning. But that’s what we do. We work!
Announcements:
1/18/14 – Cornhole tournament benefiting Udder’s mission trip team to El Salvador. More Info
1/10/14 – Lone Survivor premiere at arboretum. 6:30 @ vitners. 8 movie. Bring cash for movie. More Info
1/11/14 – the murph workout at your local Sat AOP. See above link
Ball of man just before it started pouring down rain.
13 PAX reported to The Matrix to get a workout in before the arrival of Winter Vortex 2014. With temps pretty comfortable and rain holding off until after we were done we got to work as the clock struck 0530.
Jog around parking lot and over to school parking lot for COP:
Mosey over to bus parking lot and line up for suicide ladder:
Jog over to playground in front of school for some circuit work:
Mosey down the sidewalk to rock pile and grab a friend (size does matter as we will be on move). Cross the soccer fields (aka swamp) and line up in the parking lot:
Return rock to rock pile and slow jog back to launch point for 6 MOM:
COT
Moleskin:
Announcements:
D.J. #1: Okay, [wigglers], rise and shine, and don’t forget your booties ’cause it’s cooooold out there today.
D.J. #2: It’s coooold out there every day. What is this, Miami Beach?
D.J. #1: Not hardly. And you know, you can expect hazardous travel later today with that, you know, that, uh, that [wiggler] thing.
D.J. #2: [mockingly] That [wiggler] – thing. That [wiggler] – thing. Oh, well, here’s the report! The National Weather Service is calling for a “big [wiggler] thing!”
See you out there tomorrow! 5:30 am – corner of Foxcroft and Rothwood. Post-holiday hiatus pace…
** DJs 1 and 2, Groundhog Day
Great start with an Ace (14) of Clubs. This set the tone as the majority of cards pulled were Club face cards. A close second were the brutal Partner Push ups. As one PAX mentioned, “never been so glad to do Turkish Get up!” Mosey back to the DMZ, half way circle back, pick up rest of the team. Strong Finish!
Moleskin:
Not a whole lot of mumblechatter as the PAX were all business. There was no escaping the pain, solid workout by all. Loud T-Claps for the Ruckers, solid performance men! Rain ruined several names during the COT so sound off if you’re missed on the PAX list.
4 PAX today took advantage of a balmy Monday morning to get some pain in with the kettlebells.
The Thang:
Mosey to lower parking lot for: SSH x 25, IW x 20, Slow Squats x 20 and Merkins x 15.
Head to the field and “triangle up.” New term for when there are only 3 PAX around the Q.
Monkey Humpers + Burpees on a “Jack Webb” count. 1 burpee, 4 monkey humpers, etc., up to 5 and back down. You feel this one in the quads!
Alternate exercises w/ half field sprints carrying the bell: 2 hand swings x 20, KB merkins x 20, suitcase squates x 20, rows x 20, squat and press x 15, upright rows x 20, hammer curls x 20, tricep presses x 20.
Long mosey over to pull up bars. Alternate Mary and pull-ups for 5 sets. Mary = dolly presses, Freddie Mercury, flutter presses, russian twists, LBCs.
Grab wall and do 3 x 1 min each in people’s chair position: sack draggers, upright rows, curl and press. Mosey back.
Moleskin: Migthy Mite rucked it to and from so special respect to him! No new announcements other than Lone Survivor Premier this weekend. Oh, and one announcement that FC turns 50 Feb 3. Mark your calendars!
Thanks to the guys who came out. We put in the work this morning and it felt good.
Wow it was cold this morning, but 17 of the faithful pulled themselves from the comfort of the warm fartsack to put a proper #downPAINment on the day on the frozen tundra!
The Thang:
Mosey to the South Parking Lot for a brief COP:
SSH x 20
Imperial Walkers x 20
Mt Climbers x 20
Mosey to the entrance 4 hill for some hillwork:
Round 1) Lunge Walk down, Backwards Lunge Walk back up (Crowd Pleaser), 30 Squats at the top and plank when done.
Round 2) Sprint down, Bear Crawl Up, 30 Carolina Dry Docks at the top and plank when done.
Round 3) Sprint down, Sprint back Up, 15 Burpees at the top.
Line-up for Indian Run around the parking lot picking up 4 cones continuing on to the soccer pitches. Bug Eater (still at this point) lead the pax in Prarie Fire Mary while YHC places the cones 20 yards apart.
The Beast (extended 40 min version): Sprint to each cone and perform 6 of exercise called unless an audible for a larger number at each cone (3 cones down & 3 back). We did so many rounds of The Beast this morning I’m going to try to recall to the best of YHC’s recollection:
1) Merkins
2) Jump Squats
3) Carolina Dry Docks
4) Sister Mary Catherines
5) Merkins
6) Squats
7) LBCs
8) Carolina Dry Docks
9) Lunges
10) Lunge Walk to each cone w/ Merkins
11) Bear Crawl to each cone w/ 10 LBCs
12) Diamond Merkins
13) LBCs
14) And we did several other exercises I can’t recall off hand.
Mosey over to the picnic table benches next to the kitty litter for as many sets as you can get in during time remaing of: 20 Dips, 20 Jump Ups/Ste Ups, 10 Derkins, 40 LBCs.
Run it back to the shovel flag for COT
Moleskin:
It was down right cold this morning to the point that the soccer pitches were literally frozen with the remaining rain soaked soil and dew. If you didn’t have a good pair of gloves on in the gloom today your fingers were hating life! Great group of guys today that usually post at various different Saturday workouts. Strong work by all! Especially Lobster Roll and Uncle Leo as they continually blew the pax away during The Beast!
There may have to be a rename in order for our lovable Nebraskan friend. All through The Beast workout it sounded like we had either a Bug “Zapper” or a Bug “Fogger” rather than a Bug Eater. He punched his card so many times eating bean burritos last night that he gets a free one every day this week! No wonder everyone kept moving farther away from you brother! We kid because we love! And Kotters to our brother Cheese Curd as it was great to see you out in the gloom today.
Great showing and support at the Ft. Mill Convergence and the Joe Davis 5k today. The results are in for the Joe Davis 5k and several of our Area51 pax placed in their age brackets and many more had great times for the 5k. Be on the lookout for that Backblast.
Announcements:
Sign up for the Lone Survivor movie private F3 Area51 showing for Friday night 1/10/14. Make sure to bring cash as they won’t be accepting debit or credit cards for the combined movie ticket and our private booking fee. Sat 1/11/14 we will perform The Murph at all Area 51 workouts. Day Zero and The Rock will converge and launch from The Rock for the workout.
Until Next Time
It was just warm enough for 6 Pax to emerge from the Gloom into the COP 2.0
Quick Warm-up:
SSH x 20
IW x 15
T-Merkins x 10
Reach Back Squats x 10
8 Stations of Pain:
Tire flips (5) and Sledgehammer Pounds (10+)
Firehouse Flow – similar to battling ropes
Hairburners
30lb Med Ball Squat and Launch
70lb. KB Farmer’s Walk (70 each hand)
Banded Lateral Bearcrawl (8 yard course)
Firehose Run (60 ft.hose dragging behind you)
Dolly Bearcrawls
The Tire and Firehose Run were the timers. One round completed.
3-Man Grinders
Team 1 – Hairburners
Team 2 – Firehose Run
The partners at the “start end” performed goblet squats and the partners at the “finish end” performed shoulder presses. One round through for each team then switch locations.
3-Man Stations
Team 1 = Tire flips, KB snatch, KB Lunge – Rotate after the “Snatcher” has performed 5 reps each side.
Team 2 = Firehose flow, MB squat and launch, banded lateral bearcrawls – Rotate after “Squat and Launcher” has hit 10 reps.
Teams switch locations.
KB Core Suicide – KBs stay at the start line. Perform 5 combos on each side – 1 swing, 1 high pull, 1 clean and press, 1 snatch = 1 combo. Sprint 25 yards and hit 15 flutter kicks and dollies. Sprint back to start for 5 more combos on each side. Sprint 50 yards and hit 10 side plank hip abductions each side. Sprint back to start for 5 combos each side. Sprint 75-ish yards and hit 10 flutter kicks and dollies and 5 side plank hip abductions each side. Sprint to start.
COT – Good send-off BLC with your prayer!
Moleskin:
*The Clock says Go, but the Body says No – After the first round of stations, I asked Gullah for a time check. We were 30 minutes in! Half way. 30 minutes to go. Why Lord? This hurt fellas but when it is cold, I like to get heavy and nasty with fun implements of doom. Thanks for playing with my toys and the opportunity to lead. Our glutes will never be the same.
*Special prayer for Hoff’s bowels. Let’s just say that while we working our extremeties, he had a special internal isometric contraction to focus on. Hope you made it home, big guy.
*No Olympus next week, but hopefully everyone is doing the Murph…check the site for details.
*F3 Charleston on 2/1…I am heading down with Nibbler and crashing at a minister’s house on Friday night. Anyone interested in joining us is invited, just comment below.
Wow. Now that was cold.
#dowork
1 mile “warmup” run. #yeahright
4 Pax line up, one at each station. All Pax exercise until exercise #1 is complete, then all pax rotate to the next station until all pax visit each station once. Goal for exercises #2 – #4 is minimum 10 reps.
#1 – Decline merkin plank walks
#2 – 40 lb. sandbag cleans
#3 – KB merkins or Man-maker merkins or both
#4 – 10-brick ruck squats
Repeato (yes, do it again.)
400 meter mosey #breathcatcher
#1 – 20 8-count body-builders #crowdpleaser
#2 – 40 lb. sandbag clean and press
#3 – KB merkins or Man-maker merkins or both
#4 – 10-brick ruck squat press
#1 – 20 burpees
#2 – 40 lb. sandbag clean and press
#3 – KB merkins or Man-maker merkins
#4 – 10-brick ruck squat press
400 meter mosey #breathcatcher
COT
AAR/NMMS
Frozen ground, frozen air, frozen gear, frozen pax. Everything was frozen.
How do you explain how or why 4 men would get up this early and go outside in this weather and do what we did, including a 2 mile pre-ruck for 3 of them?
Easy.
They weren’t going to let the weather win.
ALCON
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The virtual shovel flag was planted and 14 pax posted for what was YHC’s coldest post to date. Wind chill reports varied between 12 and 15 degrees. NW wind at 20 mph.
The thang:
120 yard mosey to parking lot for COP:
Partner up: size matters
Mosey to Swim Academy parking lot:
Partner 1: Lunge walk down hill
5 Burpees
Bear crawl up hill
Partner 2: Arms straight out squats
SWITCH
Plank when both complete cycle.
Round 2: Sprint down hill
5 Burpees
Sprint up hill
Hill run to McMahon with 3 Merkin x20 stops (1st and 2nd street lights and McMahon). Turn right onto McMahon to Wells Fargo parking lot.
Partner 1 carry partner 2 around the building
10 Burpees
Partner 2 carry partner 1 around the building
10 Burpees
Mosey to Picnic tables at front of Clt Catholic
20 step-up (10/leg)
20 dip
15 derkins
Repeat x2
Mosey to lower lot adjacent to football field
Short rest 50-yard sprints x10
Burpee Tabata: 60 seconds of work/20 seconds rest x3. Roughly 50 burpees.
Mosey to start parking lot for Mary. Titan invited to Q Mary: Rosalita/LBC/Leg raises and holds at various angles.
Plank-o-rama provided by Wingman while QIC retrieved phone to record COT.
10 burpees to close it out.
Ball of man: prayer by QIC
Moleskine:
YHC had a sleepless night and was suffering from a belly ache. It was a rough night/morning. We got started a little early to get the heart rate up rather than stand in the cold, biting wind. No complaints from the pax. Several Larry Bird’s this morning: Chelms, Mighty Might, Hops, Cane, Titan, just to name a few. Good work out there by all today. Partner carry was more trouble than YHC anticipated. It was at this point that YHC was very close to puking, while being carried on Cane’s back. We were burpee heavy this AM (approx. 100 total). The burpee tabata may have been better received earlier in the workout. YHC was running on fumes at this point. Thanks to Titan for providing some Mary and to Wingman for plank-o-rama. Fighting through mornings like this makes us stronger.
Announcements:
• Convergence at the Fort and Joe Davis 5K tomorrow 01/04/2013. See website for more details.
•New workout at Carmel Middle School: Run and Gun. 5K pace run followed by Tabata. Titan reports it should be pretty painful. Look for preblast on website.
•Chelms reports that opportunities for Q available at Centurian in late January or February. Let him or Escargot know if you are interested.
•See website or weekly email for additional announcements.
16 fine fellas ventured out into the Arctic blast along with their favorite home fitness equipment for some New Year pain.
THE THANG
10 burpees on your own
Mosey to parking lot
SSH x 25
Squat jacks x 15
Merkins x 12
Parker Peters x 12
MC’s x 20
Slow squats x 15
Hill ladder. Burpees at top and squat jumps at bottom 1-7.
Mosey to school.
45 secs on 15 off.
Tethered bear crawl touching chalk.
Shake weight.
Push up handles.
Box jumps.
Squats with sandbag.
Stretchy band curls.
Perfect push ups.
Ab roller.
Jump rope.
Tricep dips.
Push up handles.
Medicine balls squats/throws.
KB good mornings
KB curls.
Repeato with 30 secs on and 10 off.
Mary
COT
MOLESKIN
I think Hairband tweeted that there are several exercises or contraptions that causes one to question his manhood. The thigh master being one, the hand on hip Cleveland County viaduct, and even the Rosalita being others. Today however many of us got to experience the Shake Weight for the first time. Although it may not be as girly looking as the exercises mentioned above, there is an awkwardness about this one, and you would rather not shake it while staring at a bunch of lads. It seemed though that Hacker (as the War Daddy) had a great technique and many of us could only admire the way he shook and circled that thing around. The young 22 year old FNG Fast Cash was the only one keeping up with Radar on the tethered bear crawl but he still had a lot of catching up to do when it came to the Shake Weight.
The person performing the bear crawl was prime pickings for some haggling from the pax and I think Semi Gloss got a nice dose as he showed off his six pack in the freezing temps.
Sound off below if I missed anything.
Thanks for showing up today and keeping up with your resolutions!
Bulldog