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Old School PT Grinder: The Pulp Throw Relay by Mark Hatmaker

Oh, Crew, looking to get outside the comfy smooth gym and test your real mettle with activities and objects that haven’t been designed to make hefting them easier so you can skip grade-school reveling in the WOD participation trophy hamster wheel? Then, belly up to the bar for a PT Challenge from ye olde days of lumberjack and woodsman prowess. Pulp wood was a designation for bucked lengths not quite up to par for lumber use. For our purposes, and those into Woodsman and Lumber Sports Competitions, grab yourself 4 lengths of log four feet in length with an approximate weight of 30-40 pounds per. If you don’t have logs available, you can hit the resource that is Home Depot and pick up a couple of 6 x 6 pressure treated timbers. They come in 8-foot lengths so a wee middle cut to each gives you a PT resource that will last. [They’ll be a bit on the light side but they will serve the log-bereft.] The Course ·         Lay out...

A Warrior Conditioning Challenge: Bodylocks/Rough & Tumble/Sit-Outs by Mark Hatmaker

This brief burner will allow you to groove old-school strong, three modes of striking, and two rounds of hot and heavy ground movement. Part 1 Grab your heaviest sandbag, heavy bag, throwing dummy. ·          Body lock it and take it for a 50 yard carry. ·          Do not put it on your shoulder, you must remain in body lock grip while walking. ·          Rest 30 seconds. [In your rest, be thankful that you are merely working out/training and not hefting heavy loads morning noon and night via life and death necessity. ·          Repeat x’s 10 Part 2 Use a 3-minute round/1-minute rest protocol on the next 5 rounds. ·          Round 1: Bang the bag H-A-R-D wearing 16 oz. gloves. Power-Power-Power! ·          Round 2: Co...