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Here is a quick post of the group from Saturday's session. More comments will come. Sometime.

Exercise of the Week

The exercise of the week is the Fingal Fingers. The easiest way to explain it is to have you watch the video. While I'm not the most graceful at it, I get the job done.

Spring is in the Air

It was a beautiful Saturday morning. The sun was shining, birds were singing, and the sounds of grunting men permeated the air. It has been a while, but we were finally able to do an outside gauntlet again. We set up 20 stations, many of which we can't do indoors.

1. Supine Knee tuck with TO bands with 16lb med ball toss.
2. Agility cone runs while holding 2 8lb med balls. The cones were set up in a T formation with 15 yards in between cones. We ran forwards, backwards, and left/right latterals.
3. Battling Rope. We parted the waves.
4. Tire Pull. See the video on this post. SGT Bingham demonstrates for us.
5. Fingal Fingers. Our exercise of the week.
6. Steel Log Clean and Press.
7. Jump Rope.
8. Heavy Bag
9. TRX with Parrallets.
10. Box Jump while holding 18lb Kettlebell.
11. Make a Rock Pile. Got to break out the Husefel stones for a change.
12. Agility Ladder. High knee runs.
13. Keg Carry. Bear hug the keg and walk with it.
14. Barbell puts. I don't have a better name for this exercise. Essentially it was taking the equipment from the Barbell destruction exercise, and using in a shot put technique.
15. Sledge Hammer Tire.
16. Tire Flip and Hop.
17. 60lb Kettlebell relay. We walked up the steps, squating with the K-bell at each step and then doing a trap raise. Once you made it to the top, you come down the ramp and start over again.
18. BJS. Doing it on mats spoiled me.
19. Keg toss. We took the 3 kegs that won't hold liquid and Granny-tossed them over the 7' fence.
20. Cage climb, minus the cage. We used a TRX to grab on with our hands.

We did three rotations of 45 sec exercising and 30 secs for transition. Our total time was 75 minutes. It was a good workout.

Exercise of the Week

The Cage Climb is our featured exercise here. Watch as SSG Giles demonstrates.

Gauntlet Backlog

We have been busy with the workouts, but I haven't been busy updating the blog. We continue to find new ways to challenge our bodies every week. I have made a new parallette and the new steel log has arrived. We were lucky enough to get an introductory class with club bells and learn some new exercise techniques from CW3 Larson. Here's some pictures of the sessions.