Date: 2026-02-14
AO: ao-eagles-nest
Q: Wax On
PAX: Waterboy, Spike, Strat, Wheelie, Dovetail, Audit, Wreck-it Ralph, Squash, Buckshot, foxtrot FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WARMUP:
Warming Circle.
Walk in a circle while performing the following moves: high knees, toy soldiers, runners quad stretch, on your toes, on your heels, toes out, toes in. Back to your cindy.
SSH 25 IC
Side Lunge 15 each side
Side Arm Circles 20ish each direction
Jaylows. 10 IC

THE THANG:
Thang 1: “The Side Hustle”
Partner up.
AMRAP 15 Minutes
While Partner A works, Partner B holds a Side Plank (switch every round) 10 Cinder Block Side Press (each side)
(from oh press position, drop one side, then push it back up). Audit was whining about the push, so we told him to pull it down instead of pushing it up. It helped. 15 Lateral Step-Ups on Cindy (each leg)
20 Mountain Climbers 1 is 1
25 Side Shuffles
Switch.

Thang 2 – “The Wrong Direction Circuit”
45:15 Tabata
Diagonal kettlebell swings in a “V” motion
Side plank rows with Cindy
Apollo Onos
Cossack Squats
Side Jump Burpees
3 Rounds

Thang 3
2-4-6-8-10 Ladder
Side Lunge
Side Plank Shoulder Tap
Lateral Block Overs

MARY: Obliques Anonymous
American Hammers x30 IC
Windshield Wipers x30 2 is 1

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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COT: Happened

Words of Wisdom:
A buddy of mine trained hard for a trail race up in the mountains. Strong runner. Linear thinker. Spreadsheet guy. Every workout was forward. Faster. Farther. Straight up the hill. Race day comes.
Halfway through, the trail washed out from a storm the night before. Course rerouted. Instead of climbing the ridge directly, they had to traverse it. Long, awkward, sideways steps across loose gravel. No rhythm. No stride. Just constant lateral tension. And that’s where most guys started to fade.
Not because they weren’t strong.
Because they had only trained for forward progress.
My buddy said something after that race that stuck with me.
He said, “I realized I was fit… but I wasn’t adaptable.”
Forward strength is obvious.
Sideways strength is subtle.
Forward strength is PRs and promotions.
Sideways strength is injury, detours, layoffs, hard conversations, sick parents, rebellious kids, projects that pivot, plans that tilt. Life rarely collapses head-on.
It erodes from the side.
And the men who endure aren’t always the fastest forward.
They’re the ones who can brace laterally.
Who can stabilize under awkward pressure.
Who can hold tension when the ground shifts.
That’s what today was.
All those side lunges.
All those defensive slides.
All those obliques screaming.
That’s not just fitness. That’s resilience.
Because when your life goes sideways — you don’t panic.
You plant.
You brace.
You adjust.
And you keep moving.
That’s strength.
That’s why we train.
And that’s why we do hard things together.

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