AO: The Wood
When: 04/25/2023
Number of Pax: 7
DR Names:
Number of FNGS: 0
FNG Names:
QIC: Pi 3.14
Introduction
The forecast looked ugly. We were prepared to embrace the suck. We were luck, but prepared. No rain. For our punishment, there was no On-site coffeeteria
Conditions
30°, cool, Damp, threat of rain
Announcement/Disclaimer:
Good morning!
1. We are not a professionals
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
SSH IC (35)
High Knees IC (15)
Capri lap around parking lot
Stretching
Good morningsc IC (10)
Abe Vigodas IC (10)
Arm Circles IC (10 forward and 10 backward)
The Thang
Head to the gate and board Indian Run Airlines 🛩
(Indian Run 300m)
Journey to Brazil 🇧🇷
Brazil Marching
(1 minute under tension)
Similar to heal touches with butt in the air
Start by lying on your back, with your knees bent. You will want your toes off of the ground (curled into your shins) to focus the tension on your glutes and hamstrings
Donkey kicks
All fours and kick leg back
(1 minute)
Board the plane
(Indian Run 400m)
Head to Australia 🇦🇺
Australian Swimmer
(1 minute under tension)
Set Up: Start by lying on your stomach.
Cue 1: Lift your legs and chest off of the ground into a Superman hold.
Cue 2: Kick your legs up and down as you alternate your hands reaching forward. Hold this position until the clock runs out
Aussie Burpees
(Groiner with a hop)
Starting from a merkin position, thrust your feet forward, landing outside of each hand. Thrust backwards to original position. Repeato.
(1 minute)
Board the plane
(Indian Run 300m)
Head to U.S. 🇺🇸
Floridian Flamingos
(1 minute under tension)
Setup: Start in a tall standing position.
Cue 1: Anchor your heel to your butt with the same-side hand, balancing on the ground with one foot.
Cue 2: Slightly bend the knee that is in contact with the ground.
Cue 3: Hinging at the hips and keeping your back as straight as an arrow, reach down and tap the foot. Reset. Repeat with the opposite side. (30 seconds each side)
Regular F³ style Burpees
(1 minute)
Board the plane
(Indian Run 300m)
Head to Japan 🇯🇵
Japanese Sumo Burpees
Set Up: Start in a tall standing position with your feet just outside of your shoulders and your hands placed high overhead.
Cue 1: Lower your hips. Do your best to meet or break parallel to the ground. Reset
Cue 2: Lift your left knee as high as you can and slowly bring it out and over to a super-wide (sumo) squat position. Keep your hands overhead throughout. Once your foot makes contact with the floor, go into another overhead squat. Reset. Repeat with the right side.
Cue 3: Transition right into an F³ style Burpee (1 minute)
Tokyo Two Count Burpees
Set Up: Start in a tall standing position.
Cue 1: Perform an F³ style merkin.
Cue 2: Instead of one merkin at the bottom, you will perform two merkins (1 minute)
Board the plane
(Indian Run 300m)
End at Flags 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
6MoM (Did not have time for Mary)
Flutter kicks IC (41)
Outlaws IC
Swimmers IC
Plank
Circle of Trust
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.
Naked Man Moleskin
Today was a perfect example of Preparedness and perfect SiteQ duties. YHC blew out a hammy on a sprint during Indian Runs. SiteQ made the transition, took charge like a True HIM and kept the PAX moving through the Indian Runs and had PAX do an xtra exercise until QIC caught up with a slower mosey. The beatdown ran like a Swiss watch