BATTLE, the AO designed to be a little different, turned 5 last week. We celebrated as Battle Pax should – with a workout that was outwardly competitive and on the edge of being considered physically inadvisable. We got the blessing of the F3 powers-that-be 5 years ago to do something slightly against the credo of our organization – a place where it might not be a workout that any man of any conditioning level can complete, a place where it’s commonplace to compete with each other, and that one workout out of the week that takes you beyond your limits. Once a week for this different kind of AO was all we asked for, The Nation agreed, and we’ve been getting after it ever since.
Here’s what we did —
Conditions: 50 perfect degrees
The THANG:
Chaser
5 Burpees
10 Squats
10 Sit-ups
x2
Divide up Teams, go to the Battle Rope in front lot
– each man on a Team is numbered a 1 or a 2
Tug of War Competitions for
2 minutes – run to curb, 5 Burpees
1 minute – run to curb, 10 merkins
1 minute – run up gym ramp, 5 merkins
1 minute – sprint 40yds and back
2 minutes – sprint up outdoor staircase and back
and some others, YHC can’t remember.
w/ differing challenges for each Competition
Chaser calls for 1’s or 2’s during the Set, the called number runs to do an exercise while uncalled teammates continue to pull – resulting in quick muscle failure…
Splinter
Run to Football Field
10 Slow Count Merkins IC
10 Fast Merkins IC
1,000 Yard Rusher Workout:
(300 yd Shuttle Run = 12x25yd continuous sprints)
(400 yd Gasser = 100yds x4)
300yd Shuttle
20 Squats IC (aka 40 squats)
300yd Shuttle
20 Squats IC
400 yd Gasser
20 Squats IC
10 Slow Count Merkins IC
10 Fast Merkins IC
Ab Circuit (especially fun when you can’t breathe)
Iron Cross Flutter Kicks 20 IC
Pulse Ups 10 IC
SL Sit-up 20 oyo
x3 #crowdpleaser
4 Corners x2
Corner 1: 10 Merkins
Sprint 100yds
Corner 2: Lunge-Lunge-Squat-Squat x2
Sprint across field
Corner 3: 10 Merkins
Sprint 100yds
Corner 4: Lunge-Lunge-Squat-Squat x2
Sprint across field
(for 2 continuous laps)
Run Back to COT
25 Merkins oyo
COT
After 5 years of Battling it out, YHC reflected on the past and the future by reciting the final lines of Tennyson’s “Ulysses”
…Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
BOM: Cesspool