Author: Bodo’s

3 HIMs and 1 rucker converged in the dark parking lot of Mary for 45 minutes of bootcamp. As no pax was on the Q sheet, we commenced with a hot potato.

COP: Bodos took the start with some dynamic stretching

Triple Check: dips, wall sits, run to the pull up bar, 3 pull ups, run back. Potato passed to Swirly.

Picnic Tables: dips, incline merkins, step ups

Curb Crawls: bear crawl up to 5. Pass to Faceplant

Burpee Suicides: on the tennis courts, run to baselines, burpees, lots of em.

Back to the flag for final COP.

NMS: sorry for the late BB, good work gents!

5 studs jumped into the hotbox of Richmond August for a sweaty beatdown. The following is what transpired:

Mosey to the corner of Willetta and Willetta for some COP warm up and stretching. Continue mosey to the end of Ashlawn Dr for more of the same. Mosey into Reveille UMC parking lot through the secret path and head to the Pavillion.

Table Work: Grab a place at a picnic table for 3 rounds of 3 sets of excercises in cadence. Round 1: Incline Merkins x10 IC, 3 sets. Round 2: Wingnuts x10 IC, 3 sets. Round 3: Dips x10 IC, 3 sets. Finish up with 10 Marios- hop up to the bench, hop up to table top, hop down the other side. Upchuck expressed concern about collapsing his table.

Dora: 100 Merkins / 200 Squats / 300 LBCs. P2 run to the brick wall and back.

mosey up to Andrim to the Orthodox Cathedral back parking lot.

Sevens (modified 11s). On one side of the lot, 6 Jump Squats. Bear crawl to the other side of the lot, 1 WW2. Run back across the lot. 5 Jump Squats, bear crawl, 2 WW2s and so on.

Mosey to the head of Kingcrest Pkway. Mosey back east toward the school, stopping in between each median to perform 3 burpees. 5 stops totalling 15 burpees.

COP back at the flag, American Hammers til time.

Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out.

Great to have a solid pack of 5 this morning. At least 3 languages were used for a 10 count, and Romanian was not one of them.

SYITG

Ten men celebrated the gift of life with an early morning beatdown at 45MOM. After a short mosey and some warm up COT, the thang commenced:

100 SSHs. run a lap around the blacktop

90 LBCS. run a lap.

80 Mtn Climbers 2x. run a lap.

70 Squats. run a lap

60 Merkins. run a lap.

50 American hammers 2x. run a lap

40 WW2s. run a lap.

30 Ball dippers. run a lap

20 Diamond Merkins. run a lap

10 Burpees.

Mosey to tennis courts.

Burpee Suicides: Run to the end of first court, 1 burpee, back to baseline. Run to second court, 2 burpees, back to baseline. third court, 3 burpees, back to baseline. fourth court, 4 burpees, back to baseline, 5 burpees. mosey back to the flag.

Ring of Fire til time.

NMS: great to have Labrat back out and to have Costco join us. Very welcome cooler temps, and great mumble chatter. Well done men! SYITG

It’s always exciting when a workout begins with Q confusion. As 8 mighty men gathered at 5:28am, it was apparent that Saab believed he had the Q. In reality, Bodos’ name was on the Q sheet. Whether it was a geriatric moment or a supernatural intervention, we shall never know. Regardless, Saab was a gentleman and let me take it. Here’s what happened:

Warm up on the Blacktop: stretching to make the Respect among us happy. Mosey to treeline

At the Treeline: Mosey from each tree. At the first 3 trees, stop and peform 20 merkins, 20 squats, 20 WW2s. 2nd 3 trees, drop to 15 reps of each, 3rd set of trees, drop to 10. Bodos hands off the Q to Saab!

Saab took over the Q – it was great and involved some solid cardio, but the rest has evacuated my memory.

Ended with some Ab work, namerama and COT.

NMS: The real reason I handed the Q off to Saab was to get him to stop telling his jokes. We appreciate you, buddy.

4 of the most chatty HIMs in RVA plus the Q converged at Mary for a 45 minute beatdown. Here’s what happened:

COP in the parking lot: warmup and stretch. Mosey to Picnic tables

Picnic Tables: 3 rounds of 3 excercisesx10. Incline Merkins, Dips, Wingnuts. Mosey to field, stopping at trees along the way for Squats.

Treeline: Lunge 2 trees, Bernie Sanders back 1 tree. At each tree perform 10 merkins, 20 WW2s, 30 squats. Mosey to Pull up bar

Pull ups: Each man hops up for 5 pulls up, Q calls other excercises while waiting. 2 rounds. Mosey back to flag

COP: end with circle of fire, ab excercises.

COT

NMS: Still dealing with some foot pain, so grabbed the Q to minimize running. only 5 PAX today, but 4 of us talk enough to reach an equivalent of the word count for a Pax of 10. Good times, good laughs, good workout!

5 funny guys found their way to Mary this morning, and we commenced a beatdown at 0530. To the disappointment of Oyster, no 4 Corners or 21s were to be found. Here’s what happened:

Easy jog over to Reveille UMC. In first parking lot, the Q attempted to lead some stretching IC but the group never stopped talking. Mosey to pavillion.

Every man grabs a picnic table:

Excercise 1: Marios. Box Jump up to bench. Then box jump up to table top. Step down to the other side all the way to the ground. That’s 1 rep. 3 sets of 10.

Exercise 2: Wing Nuts. Sitting on picnic table, feet under bench, leaned back to approx. 15 degrees with back and neck straight, fists touching in front of chest so that elbows point parallel with shoulders, rotate waist so that each elbow touches the table top. Complete in 4-count cadence.  3 sets of 10 IC.

Excercise 3: Dips on the bench. 3 sets of 10 IC.

Dora: P1 runs to wall and back, P2 performs excercises

100 Merkins / 200 Squats / 300 LBCs

Mosey to Kingsway

Little Lindsay: 10 Jumpsquats, run to end of first median, 30 Mtn Climbers 2x. Run back, increase/decrease by 10.

Mosey up Kingsway, stop at each median for 5 burpees

COP : Back at the flag, Circle up and each man calls a set of ab exercises, 10 reps IC.

YHC took us out.

NMS: Great field trip today. So much chatting!! Topics included: the heaviness and speed of EVs, humiliating public speaking moments, Small chapels made for squirrels to have church services, ripping pants, small dogs with small legs, and the perspective that being in space brings to one’s personal life and our collective existence. Nanu nanu!