Category: The Stronghold

Rolled into the 4:13 compound with a truck bed full of fun this balmy AM.

21 PAX:

Red Skull, Hot N Ready, Big Ticket, Gussy, Biscuit, Satchmo, Bruh Bruh, Teddy, Lil Tony, Can’t Get Right, Fallout, Claud, Jersy$ (FNG), Olan Mills, PA, Bagger Vance, CAPSLOCK, Porcelain, Hambone, Hi-Viz, Blood Clot, Preacher Man (Q)

Circle up and read the riot act. Mosey to upper field for some side-shuffle, back-peddle and the following WOR: Goo’mornin, SSH, LBC forward and back, Squats, and maybe something else.

 

THANG:

You know when you can’t help but take your work home with you? Well YHC couldn’t help but take his work to his workout with him. PAX were informed we was going to be at church this morning and started off with a bang:

 

C – Crawl Bear roughly 100yds

H – High Knees x50

U – Up-downs (5 steps + 1 drop) x10

R – Russian plank-kicks x50

C – Crunches x50

H – Hallelujah High Knees x50

 

Mosey back to edge of upper field where PAX partnered up and lined up in two rows – on top and bottom of steep bank. Top row AMRAP of Murkins, bottom row AMRAP of squats. All the while, wheelbarrow full of unknown weight of blocks, rocks, and wood was passed up and down the bank from partner to partner all the way down the line…and back so everyone had the pleasure of pushing the roughly 75lbs of flat-tired fun up the bank.

 

Mosey to bball court for quick sprint races (loser does 10 burpees) and then circle up for Mary.

 

MARY:

Spell “church” with outstretched legs

Flutter kicks X20

WW1s X20

J-Los X10

Hallelujah High Knees for 1.5 mins

 

Countoff/Nameoff with naming of FNG Jersey$.

Prayer

Temp: Low 70s maybe, YHC was a discombobulated this AM

Gloom: Nil

PAX: Red Skull, Hot N Ready, Big Ticket, Gussy, Biscuit, Satchmo, Bruh Bruh, Teddy, Lil Tony, Can’t Get Right, Fallout, Claud, Life Champ, CAPSLOCK, Bagger Vance

QIC: BV

Quick Mosey out of the gate to the lot behind the STEM center only to find out there are some brand new consumers of Fossil Fuels in the way.  No worries, head around the building and to the upper lot with the dumpster.

Circle Up for WOR:

Two minute or so plank while YHC explained the grammatical terminology of a #Homonym and shared an #Example Weight v Wait.  In true ATQ fashion, there was some choice language thrown in for Color.

All IC x 13

SSH, IW, Squats, Hill Billy’s

THANG:

Dirty McDeuce-ish

Partner Up in 1s and 2s and take a leisurely mosey around our loop for the day.  Once the 6 was in we performed

Squats x 13, Merkins x 13, Flutter Kicks x 13 IC (had a couple of restarts to stress form) and to the building for Wall Thrusters (think Mike Tysons w/o the Merkin)

Run a lap

Jump Tucks x 13, Lunges x 13, Power Merkins x 13 (Crowd Pleaser), Ola Dolly (IC) x 13

Run a short lap

Skaters x 13, Lunge to Squat x 13, Atomic Merkins x 13, Reverse Thrusters x 13

Run a lap but go through the quad to the back of the building where YHC introduced two Firsts

P1 squats on wall while P2 performs Bulgarian Split Squat (P1 holding P2’s foot) x 13 ea leg

Flap Jack

Holy Moley, there are some spare tires over here, why don’t we P1 v P2 in a spare tire tug of war.  Lots of grit and heart out there, couple of bruises and some blood but a good time was had.

To the main Lot for the last lil Bit

Monkey Humpers x 13

Merkins, Dips, Merkins x 13

6 MOM:

F Kix x 13

Time

Count Off

NMM:

So, the idea of the Weight and the Wait has been weighing heavily on YHC’s mind as I wait on what the Lord has in store for me and my family and as I think about the Burdens we carry in this life.

Funyuns and I ran with Rob Jones last year as he was completing 31 Marathons in 31 Days in 31 Cities…First one was in London (Not Kentucky).  Oh by the way, Rob is a 2x Amputee.  Rob’s tag line his to “Use The Weight” and his story can be found at https://youtu.be/gq4IdUpxVYY  …

We all have different Weights and we all carry them differently.   The only thing I would change in Rob’s awesome message is that we all need a partner, a spouse, a friend and sometimes a Brotherhood to help us carry the weight.

As a man with a Christian worldview (and a Potty Mouth), I also think about the word Wait and what it means to me.  Right now, I am waiting on the Lord to show me the way to my next career so that I may provide for my family.  The life that has been predestined and ordained for me is one of waiting, Waiting on the Not Yet but Will Be, waiting on the Voice for the next step and Waiting on being reunited with all my Brothers and Sisters at Home.

BH:

Prayers up for Spicoli, for this Class of young men that they become HIM (High Impact Men) and that they change the course and trajectory of their lives and families.  Spoke with Olan Mills today, his Dad received good news from his Doc yesterday.

YHC,

Bagger Vance

It was hot this morning.  Yet there was Sinestro rocking a full sweat suit.  Hoodie.  Pants.  The works.  What a guy.  Here is what happened.

PAX: Porcelain, CAPSLOCK, Hot n’ Ready (incredible name), Venom, Sinestro, Night Crawler, Red Skull, Wolverine, Killmonger, Floppy D, Donuts/Dmish, CCR (CoQ), Brother-at-Law (CoQ).

WOR:

CCR kicked us off with a mosey to the LF foul pole.  Killmonger took off like a bat out of hell.  After the workout Red Skull informed us that Killmonger was determined to kick ass this week after what he felt was a poor showing last week, thus the fast start.  We’ll get to how that turned out.

SSH (x20), GMs (x10), WMH (x10), LBAC (x12?), Reverse LBAC (x12), Overhead claps (x12), NAVY SEAL claps (x12).

Four corner workout.  Each station has 4 sets of 13 reps of the following:

1. Merkin variations

Broad jump to behind home plate

2. Squat jumps.  Sinestro led us by counting.  Killmonger faded after the third set and had splashed merlot by the time we lunged our way to the RF foul pole.  “Steve, that pork is coming up on me.”  I assume they all had pork for dinner last night.

3. Carolina Dry Docks.  Sinestro ditched the hoodie here.  Wise.

Backwards run to Center field.

4. Burpees.  People were struggling at this point, but everybody perservered.

Slowsey to LF foul pole, gather up, then Brother-at-law tags in for a slowsey to the basketball court.  We picked Killmonger back up in the parking lot.  He jumped right back in like a champ.  Love it.

11’s on the basketball court with jump lunges at one end broad jump to wide grip merkins, then jog back to jump lunges.  Many were hurting during this, but everybody kept at it.  Great attitude across the whole group this morning.

Everybody was pretty gassed so we slow rolled into Mary with some GMs and WMHs, then a bunch of Happy Jacks IC.

Mary was a simple flutter kick x20 IC and high plank shoulder taps x20.  Wrap it up with 10 GMs.

Porcelain delivered an excellent announcement to the group about taking responsibility for your own actions.  Porcelain will have the Q next week and will be splitting it with Wolverine, who asked to Q for the first time.  Awesome initiative shown on his part.  Let’s try to get as many guys out to support them.  Sinestro and Venom both offered up prayers that they keep on the right path and keep looking forward.  Killmonger and Red Skull discussed how to deal with negative thoughts towards others.  A great final five minutes and COT.

Unfortunately Shaq left 4:13 Strong on Sunday night.  Let’s pray for him and all the others that are sticking with it.

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