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Date(s) - 04/04/2024
5:30 am - 6:15 am
Site Q - Hannibal
Location
The Wall
Categories
Boot camp style workout. On the River. Amazing way to watch the sun come up and start the day with sweat pouring over your rejuvenated soul. Some ramps, lots of steps, a little concrete, a little grass, all the fixens for beautifully scripted beatdown!
Best Parking is on Cherry Street. **Please be considerate when you park on the side streets, keep the Mumblechatter at a minimum out of respect for the residents.**
Backblast: April 4th, 2024
AO: The Wall – Riverside Park – Perrysburg, OH
PAX:
Photon – Q
Beretta
Binford
Crawdad
Echo
Hannibal
Irish Hoss
Mile High
Spaulding
Workout: The Wall Presents: Grunge Lunge
FNG’s: N/A
Mission and Principles:
F3: Fitness, Fellowship, Faith
Mission: To plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership.
The core principles of F3 are that it is always:
1. Free of charge
2. Open to all men
3. Held outdoors, rain or shine, heat or cold
4. Led by men who participate in the workout in a rotating fashion, with no training or certification necessary. You versus you. Modify or stop an exercise if you need to. The most important thing is that nobody gets hurt.
5. Ends with a Circle of Trust
Credo: Leave no man behind but leave no man where you find him
Warm-up: In cadence
SSH (2 is 1) – 91.
While it technically started several years earlier, grunge really hit the mainstream in 1991 with the release of Nirvana’s “Nevermind”, Pearl Jam’s “Ten”, and Soundgarden’s “Badmotorfinger”
The “Thang”:
Mosey over to the hill at Hood Park (The Pump Station). Partner up.
SEA 1-9-9-1
YHC take on the DORA 1-2-3 where each set of partners was responsible for collectively completing the following 4 sets of exercises in order. When one partner was performing the work, the other was lunge walking from the base of the hill to the first streetlight and then running back to switch out with their respective partner.
100 No-cheat Merkins
90 Jungleboys
90 Absolutions
100 Hurpees (Hand release burpees)
As an added twist, there was a 30lb ruck sack that was rotating through the teams in which the person lunge walking had to wear the 30lb ruck sack. Upon returning to their partner to switch roles, the ruck moved to the next team. Anyone wearing flannel could choose to forgo the ruck sack when it was their turn to lunge. Only person wearing flannel was YHC (pants) and chose to wear the ruck anyway.
Oh…halfway through the exercises a 2nd 30lb ruck was added into the rotation to make the entire ordeal even grungier.
Ended with:
Count-O-Rama: 9
Name-O-Rama
The Six – Hannibal
LDP3
Ball of Man
Spreadsheets from the Gloom: 34, damp, and calm. From the get go it was obvious that performing in cadence SSH while not keeping time with music that is playing simultaneously is a recipe for disaster. Not sure if a single PAX was able to keep with the Q’s cadence throughout the entire duration. Next time we’ll either need to forgo the music during the SSH or perform them at the tempo of the music.
Besides the tempo hiccup, the BD went surprisingly well. Good amount of difficulty and variation with good time allotment. No team finished completely, but several were at least halfway through the hurpees at the end. Another 5 minutes would have been enough. So either reduce the SSH or shorten the mosey. The rotating ruck was a nice addition to increase the difficulty in spurts…lunge walking uphill with the ruck was grungy to say the least. Originally planned on requiring 3 dirty manmakers upon putting on the ruck, but it was axed due to time.
Of course I couldn’t go without a playlist that fit the theme, so the track listing below did just that. Keep in mind that this was curated from the Qs own personal collection and was intended to be a listenable grunge playlist as opposed to one whose tracks truly embraced the pits of grungy despair that many were capable of. Also, given the date was 4/4, all of the tracks chosen were in 4/4 time, which actually proved to be quite difficult with multiple Chris Cornell-led bands in the mix. The tracks were played in order of when the bands were created and provided a quick timeline of the grunge movement.
“This Town” – Green River
“Nearly Lost You” – Screaming Trees
“Superunknown” – Soundgarden
“Breed” – Nirvana
“No Excuses” – Alice in Chains
“Holy Roller” – Mother Love Bone
“Hunger Strike” – Temple of the Dog
“Why Go” (Live in Atlanta 1994) – Pearl Jam
“Arrow” – Candlebox
“I Don’t Know Anything” – Mad Season
It was a pleasure to lead. I’m hoping to see more flannel next time around.