03/29/2023 - The Outpost - A7X at the OP
AO: The Outpost
When: 03/29/2023
PAX:
Number of Pax: 7
Pax Names:
DR Names:
Number of FNGS: 1
FNG Names:
QIC: Bean Counter
Introduction
“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man” PreBlast for an Avenged Sevenfold themed bootcamp at The Outpost, Wednesday 3/29 0515 @channel
Bring your coupons and beast-like grit. I will bring the plan and the A7X tunes!**I highly encourage you to check out some of the other amazing Q’s we have lined up tomorrow, especially our man @Donkey‘s Manniversary Q (285 posts in his first year!?!)… but if OP is your thing tomorrow, I promise to make it worth your while! SYITG! 
I got to the AO around 0500 and wrote out some exercises in chalk in the north lot. I did this in case the group got separated but I ended up making a last-minute decision to keep us together the entire time. Nonetheless, it was a good refresher. PAX circled up, I hit ‘play’ on the music playlist about a minute and a half early (for good reason), went through the disclaimer, 5 core principles, mission statement, credo, and we were off! FNG showed up a minute late mainly due to not knowing exactly where to park. Stay Puft went and got him and he jumped right in.
Warm-O-Rama
WoR – Waken The Fallen / Unholy Confessions (6:25)
SSH IC x 10 – Mosey around small island
Smurf Jacks IC x 10 – Mosey northeast w/coupons
Toy Solders IC x 10 – Mosey west w/coupons
Grady Corns IC x 10 – Mosey more west w/coupons to starting point of Thang 1
The Thang
Thang 1 – This Means War / Buried Alive (6:09 + 6:44 = 12:53)
Team Ladder
Base: 5 Clerkins
S1 – 10 Thrusters
S2 – 20 Coupon Swings
S3 – 30 Rows
S4 – 40 Overhead Press
S5 – 50 Curls
S6 – 60 Chest Press
After each station, we would mosey back one rung of the ladder for 5 Clerkins before going back ‘up’ the ladder, grabbing our coupons, then advancing to the next station.
0533 – When Finished Rebel Run to Parking lot behind ‘freshmen building’ – 10 Burpees on my down – Nobody (5:54)
0539 Thang 2 – The Stage (8:32)
Split into three groups
G1 – Body Builders x 5 – Run to G2
G2 – Monkey Humpers – Run to G3
G3 – Motivators x 2 on repeat – Run to G1
0547 Thang 3 – Rebel Movements – Beast and the Harlot (5:43)
1 – Bear Crawl / Plank
2 – Crab Walk / Crab Cake
3 – Lunge Walk / Squat
4 – Run to coupons, pick them up and head back to flags
0553 Mary – Not Ready to Die (7:05)
E2K each side x 12
45 Degree Flutter IC x 12
American Hammers IC x 15
Heel Touches IC x 10
Blockee Finisher – Blockee everytime M. Shadows sings “Not Ready to Die” (10 Reps)
Recover, recover
Circle of Trust
Count – 7 – Perfect for A7X Day!
Announcements – Thank you Barf Bag
Name o Rama – Pothole, Boo Boo, Bambi, Silo, Stay Puft, Barf Bag, Bean Counter
CoT
I read a portion of the lyrics from the song “The Stage” by Avenged Sevenfold:
There were days these child eyes
Would overlook the ugliness and fantasize
I found my heart for the first time and I awakened in me
I left myself to navigate, and oh I felt control
As the boy became a man
In came a calm sophistication I can hardly understand
So lost in ego, didn’t notice when the time had slipped away
Jesus Christ, was born to die
Leave it to man to levitate his own to idolize
We’re simply sociopaths with no communication baby
I see your angle but we differ from our points of view
It took the birth of sin to snake-rattle the mind
Before a blow to the head by the gavel of time
To wake up
Won’t you wake up?
When did the walking apes decide that nuclear war
Was now the only solution for them keeping the score?
Just wake up
Can’t you wake up?
Who is the crowd that peers through the cage,
As we perform here upon the stage?
Tell me a lie in a beautiful way
I believe in answers just not today
I remember vividly the first time I heard this song and watched the music video… it dropped my jaw. In short – it really hits at the way we are all born as innocent. We see things through this ‘clean’ lens. Then things eventually get cloudy. Time passess on… history (unfortunately) repeats itself, and we see nothing really changing. Let us be that change. Get out here… make yourself better … impact others positively… be the change. Don’t let history continue to repeat itself in a negative way.
Naked Man Moleskin
Great group of PAX this morning. We had an FNG (Bambi) join us after he saw a Facebook post I put out on our neighborhood page. It was great having him out and I can’t wait to see him accelerate.
This workout theme was something that I had slowly worked on over the last month or two. Not so much the actual exercises but the song selection, the themes, and the flow. I’d like to think that it ended up turning out pretty good. The workout itself felt good to me. The timing of the songs and the Thangs flowed almost the exact way I wanted to with a few minor modifications. I warned the PAX that when I started the playlist at exactly 5:13.45 there was a reason. The “Not Ready To Die” blockee finisher ending exactly at 06:00.00 was why!
Look forward to the next opportunity to lead!
Honored as always – BC