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9.19.17 – Schilling on Q – Vulcan

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BB for The Vulcan, Tuesday, September 19, 2017

32 PAX ventured out with the promise of ‘something different.’ I borrowed and outline of The Spartan and made it our own. Overall the Thang took 20+ minutes and provided a real beat down while giving everyone a say in how the workout played out.

Those who chose to get better: Walk on, Breach, Brick, Milk Man, Crabs Legs, Peaches, Hugh, High Vis, Turnbuckle, Cinco, Vet, Ding, Slumlord, Cocky, Drought, Dispatch, Commie, Bagman, Denied, Sparrow, Soccer Mom, Slider, weber, Carpet Bagger, Gomer, Pilgrim, Grundle, Pothole, Rabbit, Namaste, Wildfire. Shilling.

Warm-up:

  • 30 SS Hops
  • 20 Willie Mays
  • 20 Ray Lewis
  • 25 Imperial Walker
  • Mosey a Lap

The Thang:

The Vulcan’s version of The Spartan

Place cones 50 yards apart.  Sprint across the field, do prescribed exercise, mosey back.

Exercise: Pax choice:

8x Merkin, 6x Hand-release merkin, or 4x Maktar Merkin.

Everyone in attendance picked one of the three for their round.

Everyone starts together.  (You are reading that right. We had 32 PAX. We did 32 rounds). Men got better.

Mary:

Protractor

15x Rosalita

15x Dolly

Boat/Canoe to finish up.

 

*Announcements: I am going to take a temperature for a golf outing this Fall. Look out on Twitter for a scheduling link.

 

Until next time –

Shilling

8.17.17 – VULCAN

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38 PAX – on a SCAM-less morning, men stepped up to motivate and encourage.

6 FNG’s – Amazon, Digiorno, Dufresne, NOVA, WNBA, Yella

WARM UP —

  • SSH x30
  • Merkin x20
  • Squats x25
  • Sit ups x15
  • Run 1 lap

PARTNER UP —

Burpee “mile” – Partners perform 100 yards worth of burpees.  Partner A would perform burpee then leap.  At the end of partner A leap, partner B would perform burpee then leap.  Partners did burpees to the far cones and back.

TABATA Box Jumps

A tabata interval is 30 seconds of work (for a given exercise) with 10 seconds of rest, typically performed for 8 intervals or 4 minutes.  Mosey over to the stage.  PAX performed tabata box jumps – 20 seconds of max rep box jumps on the stage then 10 seconds of rest for 8 intervals.

PARTNER WORK – CONCRETE MASONRY UNITS!

PAX partnered back up at the cones with their cinder blocks (1 per team).

Next phase included 4 exercises:  1) block thrusters, 2) block sit up (lying flat on back, arms fully extended w/ block, perform sit up with arms extended to upright position with arms fully extended overhead in a press position), 3) hand release merkins 4) 100 yd sprint.  Rep scheme was “10!”.

  • 10 block thrusters
  • 10 block sit ups
  • 10 HR merkins
  • sprint to far cones and back
  • 9 block thrusters
  • 9 block sit ups
  • 9 HR merkins
  • spring to far cones and back
  • 8 block thrusters
  • 8 block sit ups
  • 8 HR merkins……..and so on, down to 1

One partner would work at a time, while the other rested.  Partners rotate through the exercises.  Partner A would do 10 thrusters, partner B 10 sit ups, partner A 10 merkins.  Then sprint together.  Partner B 9 thrusters, partner A 9 situps, partner B 9 merkins and continue to rotate accordingly down to 1.

TABATA flutter kicks

30 seconds of flutter kicks, 10 second rest for FOUR intervals

 

 

17 Men Brave Birmingham’s 1st Weekday Morning

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Economists call strong consumer enthusiasm after a recession or depression: pent up demand. Alabama lands F3 after NC, SC, GA, FL, LA, TX, TN, MS…and several other states. There were 20 PAX at the launch on Saturday and only three days later at 0530 an inspiring showing of 17 men posting – 5 FNGs. Impressive. The demand is here…and it’s on.

WARM UP
25 IC (in cadence) side straddle hops
15 IC shoulder rotations each way
25 LBC (little baby crunches) OYO (on your own)
20 SC (single count) Merkins

THE THANG
1 lap of the figure 8 pathway (about 600 meters)

“BELLE ISLE” (ancestral home of Fletch in “Fletch Lives”)
At the large pond-shaped, rust colored play top that looks like a bit to YHC like a toxic marshland (Belle Isle) we paired off. While one man makes TWO round trip sprints across the toxic marsh and back, his partner does flutter kicks to kick off the toxic mud from his high tops.
REPEAT 5 TIMES (10 round trip sprints per man). A bit of a smoker for most of us.

Mosey to the cone for a bit of relief after hell isle.
20 SC Merkins
25 IC Ray Lewis
10 OYO diamond pushups

Mosey to the amphitheater
15 right leg step ups
15 left leg step ups
20 dips OYO

“BEAR SCRAMBLE” (not a Tide reference) at the amphitheater
In partners (instructions to finish together) we scrambled up the amphitheater and then bear crawl down the grassy sides (downhill bear crawl, but as a gift to ourselves….feet first)
REPEAT 5 TIMES.

20 more OYO dips
10 OYO DECLINE Merkins

Mosey to the cone
20 SC Merkins
25 more IC Ray Lewis
Then…..something else in there I forgot about

Finish strong with 1 lap of the figure circle pathway (about 500 meters)
Name-o-rama for 5 FNGs
A few words from YHC about F3
Prayer

I aspire to write future Back Blasts of more lasting artistic merit. For now, my focus is just to Q what I can do. It was great to be with you men Tuesday morning. Iron Sharpens Iron. F3 Counts. Coming Soon: A 200 Merkin workout. Scam has Thursday’s Q.

See you in the gloom,
Barney Fife