AO: The Wood
When: 06/01/2022
Number of Pax: 8
DR Names:
Number of FNGS: 0
FNG Names:
QIC: Pi 3.14
Introduction
The few days before, the weather looked sketchy, looked like rain the night before and through the morning of the beatdown. Seeing how GTE30 is right around the corner, I included in the Preblast that we would be lifting heavy things and working out at the hill. No pavilion with this beatdown. We don’t get up for easy!
Conditions
71°, Overcast, warm
Arrived 15 minutes early and set up equipment at the hill. Saw a new face, Millville, introduced myself and got ready to begin
Announcement/Disclaimer:
Good morning!
1. I am not a professional
2. You are here at your own free will
3. I am not aware of any injuries you may have
4. We are here at different fitness levels, Modify if needed, but push
yourself to get stronger
Warm-O-Rama
High Knees, Slow and OYO
High Knees (20)
Imperial Walkers (15)
SSH (20)
Capri lap
Good Mornings (10)
Abe Vigodas (10)
The Thang
Thang I
Indian Coupon walk to hill
PAX walk at a brisk pace, while last PAX in line moseys to the front of the line
Thang II
DORA Heavy
Teams of 2 PAX working together to reach cumulative exercise goals of 100, 200, and 300 reps. PAX 1 executes as many reps as possible while PAX 2 climbs hill with heavy equipment (50lb Log, 60lb GoRuck sandbag, 60lb long fire hose filled with sand or farmer carry two coupons). Drop equipment at the top of the hill and complete 10 SSH, Pick up equipment and return to base of hill. Exercises are a top-to-bottom of body progression, i,e, 100 merkins per team (chest), 200 LBCs per team (core), 300 squats per team (legs)
Thang III
Indian Coupon Walk back to flags
Arrived at flags at exactly 5:54
6MoM
Big Boys w/coupon (20)
Flutter Kicks w/coupon (40ish)
Swimmers (30)
Blocktanamo
Recover Recover exactly at 0600
Circle of Trust
Announcements read by Site Q from Info Only Channel
Thank you for joining me this morning men. We don’t wake up for easy. Getting up ITG sucks, working out in the wet slushy snow sucks and 39° Sucks! Embrace The Suck.
“Embrace The Suck” military speak for “The Situation Is Bad, But Deal With It”
It’s a very Buddhist concept. When we deny what reality is giving us, what is really happening, then we create suffering. So life is a dance between minimizing expectations and surrendering to what our lives actually reveal to us.
By embracing our lives totally (even the stuff that “sucks”), we get through them.
The Armed Forces have no other choice. If they’re out in the Iraqi desert or in the mountains of Afghanistan, the only way they’re going to get through those challenging experiences is by embracing (rather than denying or ignoring) them.
But for us with our modern conveniences and propensity for denial, we can distract ourselves, numb ourselves, fool ourselves over and over to avoid, disconnect, ignore, postpone, procrastinate and put our heads in the sand when we don’t want to look at what is.
Early in the growth of F3 Nation, Dredd and OBT developed GrowSchool as a way to teach the men of F3 Nation the principles and skills that helped them inspire a movement that spread across the gloom of America to invigorate male community leadership. Still, they knew something was missing.
They realized how important CSAUP events are to the growth of F3 as an organization, the Regions that men flock to, and even the individual leaders who participate in these Completely Stupid And Utterly Pointless events. They realized that participating in a Rucking CSAUP with the opportunity to immediately apply the skills learned from the F3 GrowSchool solidifies the principles that allow High Impact Men to harden the principles learned in themselves, like iron on a forge.
GrowRuck is a weekend-long event that combines F3 GrowSchool with a Rucking CSAUP event to immediately apply F3 leadership skills. By adding a CSAUP event (which brings a huge dose of 1st and 2nd F) to the GrowSchool experience, F3 Nation aims to catalyze and accelerate a location’s growth and the bonds of brotherhood that form when several regions join together and accomplish a mission.
GrowRucks are ideally suited to F3 locations where they can draw from multiple AOs within driving distance, with the ideal class size being 65-70 participants. Part of the draw for participating in GrowRuck are the connections and 2nd F that forms between regions. That being said, not everyone in an AO or region needs to participate in the Rucking CSAUP event to get something out of GrowRuck, as many of the weekend’s events are open to all PAX. GrowRucks can be coordinated in smaller regions and events can be hosted by individual regions with the right preparation.
Friday night 2ndF Event
Saturday AM workout + GrowSchool
Saturday PM Rucking CSAUP event (12-14 hours)
Sunday AM breakfast
GTE 30 July 15-17
Iron Sharpens Iron
Prayers
Naked Man Moleskin
Slow moving but tough workout. Climbing the hill was obviously a pushing the limit for some. Not many were moving quickly up the hill, but most were winded and sweating profusely. My heart rate was definitely in a good range for the entire workout. I was called out a couple times for a demonstration of an exercise since we had a relatively new PAX on board. It’s good to have experienced PAX along for the ride. Thank you Burnt Ends! I did observe that us men under 5’9″ have to step twice as much up the hill then the men that are 6′ or taller