Author: Beaver

  • There’s A Lot that Went On This Gloom!

    I should preface this post with a heads up to the NK PAX. Choo Choo may or may not be getting a phone call or email from the high school principal in the near future determining further use of their property as an F3 AO…the gate was open, I couldn’t resist!

    F3 Warmarama – In the pattern of F3 -perform 3 sets of 10 Imperial Squats and 10 Navy Seal Merkins through the parking lot.

    Mosey over by the that nice track we’re not supposed to use (it’s a nice track!) Behold! A gate left wide open! Beaver entered and moseyed up the ramp to the bleachers and did a full round of stairs while entertaining the thought of running a lap on that beautiful new track, YHC gave in to the temptation in need of completing the stair climbs on visitor bleachers. Finish up the remainder of the track and get out of there! Not a single minute later a small white vehicle pulled right up to the gate as I I stopped to take a breather at the end of the parking lot, I thought it best to continue moseying BTTF allowing for any confrontation to take place, however, that did not happen.

    Once back to the main road a Sheriffs Deputy was creeping by slowly from behind to witness an approach to box jump the Jr High Stairs and perform 5 beautiful full form burpees at the top.

    I was on close watch now, Mosey around the front of the jr high, 5 dips at every bench out front. Continue moseying eastbound bear crawling from speed bump to speed bump and doing a jump squat at every “No Parking” sign along the way. Here comes another car from the far end of the high school parking lot…Mosey up the middle road toward the round about and perform 10 second wall sits around 4 posts, MoT is broad jumps between posts. Mosey over to the main entrance and perform 50 incline merkins. Work my way over behind the flag wall for 10 slow hands to the ground wall climbs. 20 WWII. 20 LBC’s, 20 Penguins, 20 Freddie Mercury. Recover and mosey to the bus lot (there’s that sheriff deputy again, watching me from the high school student parking lot, completely unrelated I almost crapped my pants in this moment as well. Never trust a fart!) perform 5 Bulgarians at every bench and mosey my way back up the road to the flag! Make a clean escape for home base!

    Don’t leave your gates open!

  • Land of 1,000 Yards

    2 Q-destrians emerged for an OTB in the heart of New Kent for more running than the usual man would like to sign himself up for.


    Warmarama in the parking lot OYO with some mumble chatter.


    Choo Choo take the wheel!

    4 Corners (Revolver Style?) around a huge bus parking. After a set run 1 1/4 lap to next corner for following exercise

    • 10 Burpees
    • 20 Merkins
    • 30 Bulgarian Squat
    • 40 WWII

    Mosey to the round about and flags for Beavers Dora – Timer runs lap around the round about.

    • 75 Box Jumps
    • 150 Decline Merkins
    • 300 Mountain Climbers

    Mosey back to the stairs for some sets of calf raises.

  • Body Slam!

    A pair of Yard dogs emerged for an OTB that ended up more difficult than either of them expected.

    No Warmarama! Let’s get into it!

    Garbage Day! – Run the neighborhood – Perform 5 HR Merkins for every Can on the road. Once reaching the end, perform 5 LBC’s at every can on the way back to the park.

    Make our way to the new Basketball court for some MoT’s – Bearpee all the way across the court. Lunge Back. High Knees Across the court. Wayne Gretzky back(9 bearcrawls /9 Tysons)

    4 Corner Ab Cruaher (Lady of the Night)

    • 10 Pole Smokers
    • 20 LBC
    • 30 WWII
    • 40 Flutters

    End it with a little stretch.

    Great workout Choo Choo!!!

  • Merkin Mosey

    Choo Choo and Beaver couldn’t make it out to the Loco Motion AO, however, we met up to join forces for a Merkin 5k out at the Ol Lumberyard. Nearing the Merkin Challenge Month finish line our upper bodies are looking like something out of Baywatch (could be either sex) but feeling like burnt toast!

  • Summer Dreaming

    The same 2 Herculean Iron Haulin’ Brutes arrived on horseback this gloom to keep the torch burning with some sandbags and metal music! We kicked this gloom off with some Warmarama and great conversation about last nights Men’s Group.

    Countdowns – Start with a 10 Rep exercise called by either PAX – run a lap around the pavilions and meet up for a set of 9 reps and continue that pattern until finishing at 1 Rep. included: Ball Dippers, Pistol Squats, Weighted Step Ups, Wojo Squats, Sandbag Squats, Burpees…

    3 Sets – 30 sec Wall Sit / 10 Donkey Kicks / 10 Hoe Downs – run a lap around the snack shack after every round.

    3 sets – 10 sandbag Squat Thrusters – run the snack shack between every set.

    3 Sets – Core Stuff! P1 Freddie’s until P2 completes 12 sandbag WWIIs. Run a lap and switch P1 with P2, run a lap (that’s 1 set)

    3 Sets – Bench Raises – Pit a sandbag on the edge of the picnic bench and perform 20 calf raises per set, run a lap after each set.

    CoT

    Moleskin: every man hits that fork in the road of life, to go down a path of his own or God’s, the path of his own is unchanging and ends in the way of nothing but a sad clown. Then there’s the other path of having faith and following the plan that God has set out for you, into the unknown and the wild, but that same faith will get you through anything and that is ultimately the life of adventure and legacy we want to leave behind.



  • Not Keen on the Neighborhood Hound

    2 Herculean men emerged from the gloom into the field of the Iron Haul!
    It was BYOCoffee on the ruck to keep up the core temps. We stuck around a bit to make it a solid 5k. Look at for that rowdy dog at the cul-de-sac!

  • BBBLAZE

    With the strength of 20 men at the Lumberyard this gloom, emerged 2 grizzled gladiators! But first, they had some detective work to do as an abandoned, smooshed up BMW was found in the parking lot, much investigation and speculation was made in place of Warmarama. Once we realized we could go no further with the investigation, we called in the Sheriffs dispatch knowing full well every time a sheriff is present, 10 burpees must be performed. The following is the Q Potato witnessed by a smashed beemer and a couple of Sheriff Deputy’s. Warmup with 10 burpees.

    Snake Lot Squats – Follow the parking spaces in a snake travel pattern, perform 3 air squats per parking spaces.

    Indigenous PAX – Round 1 – P1 Lunges with 50 lb sand bag , while P2 runs around the parking lot, switch when runner catches up to lunger.
    Round 2 – P1 3 Merkins and bear Crawls, P2 runs around the lot.

    Do a bit of mid workout Warmarama and stretching and another Deputy showed up (10 burpees).

    4 corners (Lady of the night)

    • 10 Squats
    • 20 Merkins
    • 30 Alternating side squats
    • 40 LBC’s

    5 minutes of Mary

    CoT

  • Frosty Bells! Oh! Frosty Bells!

    3 strapping young lads and an FNG emerged into Mammoth Mountain for a frosty one that included sandbags and kettlebells.

    Mosey 1/3 mi. Around the football trail for Warmarama

    • Ukrainian Soldiers
    • Cherry Pickers
    • Busch Garden Machines
    • Tie Fighters
    • The Wives

    Grab all the toys and take them over to the frosty Bermuda.
    Partner Up- Each PAX makes their way across the field P1 – bearcrawl pull through with KB of your choice. P2- does a lunge walk with sandbag.

    Assemble the KBs in a large circle and play Musicall Kettlebells. Each PAX works their way around each kettlebell doing 11 reps per kettlebell of an exercise chosen by a PAX member. Leroy Jenkins came into play during this COP.

    Oh look a sheriff! 10 Burpees!

    CoT! Numbers and Names!

    Wonka’s brother in law joined us for Mammoth this morning, Harrison (31) from upstate NY? Or more like all over the country, told us of his story of he and his wife quitting their jobs and traveling all over the countryside, Thus, he was to be named Teton after the Grand Teton mountains. Thanks for coming out Teton! We hope you continue to make some F3 visits.

  • Merkin Run

    2 magic men emerged in the early gloom for some EC. While everyone else in New Kent seemed to be in the beautiful woods hunting for some Whitetail, we were out running 2.5 miles and logging 110 merkins in the process.

  • Q Tater!

    4 Mystery Men emerged from the gloom for a 70 & Sunny good time at The Lumberyard! Nobody had the Q on the sheet so we tossed around the tater for the workout! Beaver sounds like he’s going through puberty with this strange cold.

    Beaver Section
    Warmarama!

    • Mosey around the football field trail to the E helipad.
    • 10 Michael Phelps IC
    • 10 Cherry Pickers IC
    • 10 Tie Fighters & Reverse IC
    • Toe Grabs
    • 5” I Hate You” IC
    • Quad Stretch
    • 10 Rope Climbers IC

    COP 1 – Leg Burner! 11’s – Monkey Humpers and Wojo Squats / MoT – Mario across the lot / Mosey back

    Hand the Q to Wildwood for another round of 11’s – WWIIs and Merkins / MoT Mosey

    Choo Choo takes the Q and moseys us over to the Snack Shack for a solid, sanctified 7 rounds of Walls of Jericho!

    Mosey back to the cars for CoT

    Announcements – Daddy Daughter Dance on the 6th at WEAG. Thanksgiving Day Convergence at 7 AM at 45MOM location. Wildwood is tying the knot on Dec 6! Congrats Wildwood!

    Prayer Requests- Everyone stays healthy this time of year.

    Commando closed us out with a good prayer!