[ruck_u] You didn't need your arms today anyways

AO: ruck_u
Q: Chastain
PAX: Chastain, Black Hat, U-Haul, Hatchet, Mortar
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
What had happened was:
No extra gear today. Just our rucks. But that was enough. Mortar borrowed Gerber’s ruck that he’s had for over 2 years now and in one hour I think it got 10 times more sweaty and dirty. Don’t tell Gerber…

We didn’t stick around COT for too long and headed straight to the football field for a quick warmup and straight to the PT test. It’s gonna be a thing at the GTE so we might as well get used to doing it at Ruck U. 50 T-Merkins in 2 minutes followed by 50 Butterfly Sit-Ups in 2 minutes.

We sprinkled in a few laps around the football field at a quick pace but I don’t remember when or how many we did. Check Strava if you care.

Next up we did Bear With Me. Which is a 10 yard bear crawl, followed by 10 ruck-on Merkins, 10 ruck-on Squats, and then 10 High Pulls. Repeato until you get to the 50 yard line.

Next, to burn out our arms we played a little game I’ve decided to call “Arms Up”. As the name implies, your arms must stay up (T pose) the entire time. Or to the best of your ability. Then we did (in cadence): 15 Seal Claps, 15 Overhead Claps, 15 Arm Circles, 15 Reverse Arm Circles, and 15 Moroccan Night Clubs (UK Version). Oh yeah…with the ruck on.

Now that our arms were completely dead I switched over to the Time Hack. I’m gonna keep doing it until people figure it out. Basically, I time us while we ruck shuffle from one endzone to the other and back. After a 5 second break we repeato but we MUST beat the previous time (which I do NOT divulge) or we do penalties. We continue the repeato until we don’t beat the previous time. We completed it successfully 3 times with the 4th time coming up short. So as a penalty we each did 20 Ruck Over Burpees. I got complaints, but reminded the pax that I reduced the number of burpees by 10 for every successful completion. Otherwise we would’ve been doing 50 each.

A quick ruck back to COT with some rifle carries and suitcase carries and then we’re done.