• When: 2018-01-18
  • QIC: Milk and Cookies
  • The PAX: Big Box, Cheers, Coon Dawg, Cowbell, Notebook, Ranger, Floppy Disk, Ponzi, GED, Taurasi, Buzzsaw, YoYo, Goodhands, Rumble Strip, Lego, Bing, Knowzit, Dunphy, Malfunction Junction, Milk and Cookies


Dr. StrangeLunge or: How I Learned To Carry A Block With Numb Hands

Lexington, SC / By / January 18, 2018 /

It was great seeing 20 PAX brave the cold and resist the fartsack to join in on YHC’s VQ. After a rough start, YHC got the count going, but the PAX knew what to do. Next time, it my be worth it to actually pay attention to the videos that Ken Doll and Cheers send. Oh well, you live and you learn. YHC saw some interesting form on those lunges after the first 300 yards or so. If Uncle Ron had been there it would have been a reckoning, but luckily, Buzzsaw left him at home. Here’s how this leg beat down went…

Conditions: low 20s and icy

The Thang:

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BOM

Mosey to the main field
Little Baby Arm Circles x 20 IC (10 forward and 10 backward)
Through The Tunnel x 20 IC
Imperial Walkers x 20 IC
Slow Squat x 20 IC

Mosey to the darkest field I could find with a stop at the block pile

PAX lined up on the sideline with their blocks. Partner up. Partner 1 lunges down the field carrying both blocks while partner 2 runs suicides between the other sideline and however far their partner has gotten. When they are both at the other side, they each use a block to complete 42 reps of the given exercise.

Exercises:
Overhead Press x 42 with block
American Hammer x 42 with block
Sumo Squats x 42 with block
Curls x 42 with block
Squats x 42 with block

After the set, partners switch for Partner 2 to lunge the blocks back while Partner 1 runs suicides.

Return the blocks to the block pile and mosey back to the flag

COT & BOM

Prayer Requests

  • Barbed Wire: 
  • Braniac: Foot
  • Picasso: Summerville Brother in the hospital
  • Police Officers in York
  • Gremlin (Pax from NC): Passed away this weekend; prayers for the family
  • Pew: Healing for his knee
  • Dooda

Moleskin:

This was a landmark moment for me. I love being a PAX and showing up in the gloom, but i never saw myself as a Q. Today may have proven me right, but it doesn’t mean I’m not going to keep doing the harder thing to step up from time to time. This whole workout is based on my time in F3. The 42 reps represent my 42 weeks of posting after Knowzit pulled off the hardest EH of all time (seriously, who brings an FNG to the Kamikaze on Gauntlet week?!). During those 42 weeks, I’ve done bootcamps, rucks, runs, my first 5k, my first physical therapy rehab, and tons of other things that I never saw me doing. During all of those, I was the 6. I’m not fast. Never have been, never will be, and in any other place, it would be easy to lose heart, but not in the gloom. As the partner carrying the blocks slowly lunged his way down the field, he was never alone because his partner was always going to run back to him. It’s these men who kept with the 6 that kept me going. I want to thank every one of them. Thanks to Knowzit and the SGPC PAX for pushing me to get out and thanks to Cheers and the men of Shawshank for pushing me into this VQ. Can’t wait to see what the next 42 weeks have in store.

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