Author: Beat It

  • The 12 Abs of Christmas

    Did you know the twelve days of Christmas begins on the 25th and ends Jan 5th with Epiphany Feast? We ain’t done yet.  And Yardsale’s skiing stories are just beginning.

    Assignment: Moving spot to spot for 45 minutes around the school, each man got to choose the next ab or ab “adjacent” core exercise to repeat in 12 days of Christmas song style.

    These are the 12 abs we chose today:

    1 … “and a 30 second plank from F3”
    2… Burpees, “and a 30 sec. plank from F3”
    3… Alabama Prom Dates, 2 burpees, and a 30 sec. plank
    4… Reverse seated crunches, 3 Proms, 2 Burps, 1 30 sec. plank
    5… 4 ct. Flutters, 4 Rev. crunches, 3 proms, 2 Burps, 1 30 sec. plank
    6… WWIIs, 5 flutters, 4 Rev. crunches, 3 proms, 2 Burps, 1 30 sec. plank
    7… Hillbillies (?), 6 WWIIs, 5 flutters, 4 Rev. crunches, 3 proms, 2 Burps, 1 30 sec. plank
    8… Windshield Wipers, 7 Hillbillies (?), 6 WWIIs, 5 flutters, 4 Rev. crunches, 3 proms, 2 Burps, 1 30 sec. plank
    9… Freddie’s, 8 Windshield Wipers, 7 Hillbillies (?), 6 WWIIs, 5 flutters, 4 Rev. crunches, 3 proms, 2 Burps, 1 30 sec. plank
    10… I honestly can’t remember, but we did all the rest
    11… Yardsale broke the rules and chose squats… then all the rest
    12… Trout chose Helicopters because everyone was burnt out and the clock struck :45

    “And a 30 second plank from F 3 “

    COT: Time to get our butts back in gear and attack the new year. New Year New You.

    Some of our Mechanicsville guys are doing Dry January – definitely a good time to reflect and review habits as we kick off 2025.

     

     

  • “Do you guys ever think: what the **** are we doing out here?” Birthday Scrabble


    A frosty morning indeed (19 F) with five posting for a delayed birthday Q: “Beat It’s 40th Birthday Scrabble.”

    There were zero “coming in hot” today per Opus’s stern warning the night before. Beaver from New Kent was actually on site 10 minutes early. We all deserve rounds of applause for waking up 10 minutes earlier to defrost cars, grab extra mittens and make it on time.

    After some warm burpees and a mozy, Bulkhead said what we are all thinking :

    “Do you guys ever think: What the **** are we doing out here?”

    Warmup: Butt kickers, high knees, karaoke, side straddle hops, squats and the soldiers.

    Thang 1: Wheel of Musical Fun
    One partner runs a lap around the bus loop, while the other follows the Jello Legs directions. A clock is running 1:50 intervals and when the whistle blows, anyone running does 5 burpees on the spot. They are exempt if they beat the time and tag their partner. Soundtrack: Home Alone 2 Music

    All was fun and games until Beat It tore his calf muscle out of nowehere on lap 4. Ah — the irony the 40th birthday. Shoulda done more warmups in these temps I guess. Or … blame the Duck Walk.

    Thang 2: Scrabble
    One partner holds plank position with the Scrabble tray and the other partner runs across the field to the scrabble bucket to grab one random letter. First team to form a 5-letter word gets to take a break (truthfully the team with the most points wins, not the first to finish). However today, there was only one word formed and that would be the word “SCOOT”

    Winners: Opus & Bulkhead with “Scoot” – 7 points

    COT –
    Appreciate the concern and awareness for Mitchell Leahy, a senior at Hanover High and at our church youth group, that just ran away from his adopted parents this weekend. He’s 6’0″ tall skinny red headed kid, can’t miss him. We have hope that he is still in the RVA area.

  • I feel like an undercooked Fish Stick

    These were Trail Mix’s closing remarks as we finished 3 and a half miles around the 22 degree frozen Tundra of Giles subdivision. Although he added “But maybe the opposite.” We believe he was trying to say that sometimes, you pull the fishsticks out of the oven and they are hot on the outside but still cold in the middle. Whether he was appearing to be warm enough on the outside but internal organs failing, or actually just cold on the outside but warm enough on the inside … we’ll never know.

    Yardsale posted solo for the Ruck, and he enjoyed the alone time with some Johnny Cash tunes.

    The trails behind the Giles recreation building are kinda cool, hope to use those more this year.

    A 40 foot inflatable snowman was spotted as the most expensive decoration in the neighborhood.

  • “It’s like Rain… on your VQ day”

    Two fearless pax who know how to turn off sunday night football & set the alarm ⏰ arrived in the rain for a leg & speed workout. Reminiscent of Beat It’s VQ in a tropical storm.

    Warm-ups then over to:

    Bus Loop: “Wheel of Pain”

    • Goal: 12 laps (3 miles) as a team of 2
    • One runner at a time
    • Other runner does leg or ab workout in place
    • 120 second Tabata timer ⏲️
    • Queue some great tunes 🎵
    • Runner 1 runs
    • Runner 2 lunges etc
    • At the whistle, only the runner does 5 burpees
    • Motivation to finish your lap & tag your buddy to avoid burpees in under 2 minutes

    Prayers for veterans day – awareness & support how we can. Beat It took us out

  • Virgin in the Eye of the Storm

    Popped my VQ today, in a tropical storm no less. Theme: AB day with two new competitive games (Scrabble and “Around the World”) because, after all, TGIF.

    COP #1: Abs

    • After perimeter school warm up jog: General Ab 10 count warm ups followed by 4 corners [ 10 atomic situps, 20 Freddies, 30 LBCs, 40 F-kicks ]

    COP #2: Team-Scrabble

    • I had pre-positioned a small bucket with all of the scrabble letters I could find in my house. Demo’d the bucket, then ran the PAX to the other side of the school and divide teams of 2. One buddy stays in plank position at the dry spot while other buddy runs in the rain to grab a random letter. He brings it back to the word tray. Switch. Goal is to spell just a 3-letter word – per dictionary rules of course – and the team with the highest point score once all teams had a word was exempt from 20 WWIIs. Plan to explain this more clearly and extend to 4 and 5 letter words in the future.

    COP #3: Around the World

    • At the blacktop, I had pre-positioned one pickleball. Would be better if it glowed in the dark, as this really tested PAX night vision in a storm. 3 on one side, 3 on the other side. Goal: chuck the pickelball as hard as you can to get it past Pax 1 on other team – then Run the perimeter to other side. If Pax 1 catches it, game continues and he chucks it back to Pax 2, then runs. Around the world continues until someone misses. If so, everyone drops for 10 WWIIs (or choose your poison) EXCEPT the victorious thrower who gets to gloat. We were soaked. Mr. Holland made me type that he defeated us all with two successful throws past pax.

    COT: Trail Mix is on the hunt for part time work on weekends or any time. Shout out what you got.

    Opus took us out.