Author: Bodo’s

12 guys gathered in the gloom for 45 minutes of Marian joy. Here’s what went down after a mosey around the school campus:

COP in the field: standard stuff.

Big Bang: Plank in a circle, shoulder to shoulder, with a headlamp at the center. On the YHC’s command, the pax EXPLOSIVELY jumps up from plank position, runs 10 paces, performs 10 burpees, then runs back to the circle to plank position // Next Round: 20 paces, 20 Jump Squats // Round 3: 30 paces, 30 merkins // Round 4: 40 paces, 40 LBCs // Round 5: 50 paces, 50 SSHs. Back to plank position for Pickle pounders IC.

Dora on the Tennis Courts: 100 WW2s // 150 Merkins // 200 Squats. BONUS ROUND: 50 Burpees.

Triple Double Switcheroo: P1 runs to chin up bars and performs 5 pulls up or chin ups while P2 performs ab exercises. Switch. 3x.

COP: Classic Burpee Shuffle for 2 minutes

NMS: Sweater brought an FNG (Andy) but they had to roll out early. Hope Sweater’s back is ok and Andy comes back soon so we can name him. Awesome to see Trampstamp again and welcome Shiplap back after baby’s arrival- sorry brother to ask you an awkward question about your wife’s pain. No one wants to have to say the V word at 5:30am in a school parking lot with a bunch of dudes. Great group of guys and great mumble chatter. Always a privilege to lead.

7 HIMs, with a recovering TYA chaperoning, gathered for a field trip. With TYA’s permission, we ventured out on our own.

COP: Soft start in the teacher’s lot. Deadman Hang // Helicopters // DQs // Copperhead squats // Imperial Walkers // Russian Soldiers // SSHs. Mosey to corner of Westmoreland and Hanover.

Burpee Alley: Run the length of Hanover from Westmoreland to Shadwell and perform 3 burpees at every lamppost. Mosey across Grove to parking lot.

Wall to Wall: Partner up at Jenny Maragy’s lot. Round 1: P1 runs to wall and performs 10 2x Chicken Peckers, P2 Wall Sit with overhead press. 3x. // Round 2: P1 runs to wall and performs 10 Donkey Kicks, P2 wall sit with milking the cow (or yak). 3x. // Round 3: P1 runs to wall and performs 10 2-count dirty hookups, P2 Wall sit with toes/knees/hands in the air. 3x. Mosey east down Grove to Lock Lane. 

Lock Lane: Stop at every lamppost, 3 WW2s, all the way to First Pres lot.

Triple Check in the 1st Pres lot.: P1: American Hammers , P2: Lt Dans, P3: Bernie Sanders to the end of the lot, run back. Mosey down Cary back to Mary Mumford

Pull Up Circle: PAX incline merkins while each guy takes turns doing 3 pulls up. 2nd round LBCs.

Numberama, Namerama. YHC took us out.

NMS: Great work this morning, field trips are always fun. Temp felt great at the beginning but the humidity struck back with a serious vengeance. Good sharing about the need for vulnerability and compassion in our friendships. Strength is not the absence of weakness, but the capacity to admit weakness and having the kind of friends who will hold you up and make you better.

Nine of RVA’s finest gentlemen converged in the dark lot of Mary for a Thursday morning beatdown. Seeing that YHC drove past the PAX at 5:25 to make a drop off on the blacktop, Pucker asked if there was a “surprise” waiting for later in the workout. Indeed there was…

COP on the blacktop. Normal COP stuff today

Chutes and Ladders at the Treeline: Run two trees, Bernie Sanders back one tree, 5 merkins. Then run two more trees, back one tree, 5 more merkins. Rinse and repeat to the last tree.
Round 2: Same program with WW2s.
Round 3: Same program with 3 Burpees at each tree

GAGA BALL: The pax moseyed back to the Gaga Pit, at which point the SURPRISE Q emerged in the person of 10 year old Franny Widmer, aka Lady Gaga, aka Poker face ,aka Gagaball champion of Mary Munford school. Franny instructed the Pax on the rules of Gagaball, although she suspiciously continued to update us on the rules through the play. The pax played several rousing games of Gagaball, the twist being that when eliminated you step out of the pit and perform the exercises directed by the Q. Franny won most of the games but the grown men won a couple too.

TRIPLE CHECK: P1: Wall sit, P2: American Hammers, P3: run to the benches at the front of the school, 5 dips, run back.

COP, COT, Numberama, Namerama. YHC took us out

NMS: Thanks for welcoming the surprise Q today. Last night when talking to Franny about my ideas for the workout this morning, Franny suggested Gagaball , and suggested that she herself could come and teach us how to play. Kudos to the kid who was willing to wake up at 5am on summer vacation and show us the ropes!

A perfectly divisible twelve gathered in the gloom for 45 minutes of Marian joy. Once it was clear that Fudd was indeed present and it was not just an apparition, we moseyed forth at 0530. Here’s what went down:

COP on the blacktop: normal Bodos stuff

Triple Check: P1: Copperhead Squats // P2: Ab exercises called by the Q // P3: Run to the pavilion, 50 jump ropes, run back. Switch.

Dora on the tennis courts: 100 Merkins // 200 LBCs // 300 SSHs

Ring of Pull ups: Plank up around the pull up bars and each pax member jumps up in turn to preform 5 pull ups. Second round:3 pull ups while pax performed incline merkins.

Numerama, Namerama, YHC took us out.

NMS: We’ve all been talking about Fudd moving back to RVA for a while, but Swirly thought it was a big joke until today. Anthrax just learned what a “backblast” is and didn’t know about “Slack.” Fudd kept complaining about how humid it was, apparently no one sweats in Colorado. Welcome back buddy!

12 warriors and the ghost of Toga gathered in the mist for 45 minutes of Mary. Here’s what transpired:

COP: Mosey to corner of Grove and Westmoreland. Deadman hang // Helicopters // DQs // Acorn Pickers // Imperial Walkers // Ukranian Soldiers // 1 legged APDs // LBCs // Hand release Merkins // Inverted Crabcakes // Elbow Plank to Pickle Pounders // SSHs 21s // 5 burpees

Lindsay: 30 Dips at the Picnic Tables // 10 Merkins at the school entrance. Repeato decreasing and increasing by 5, always total of 40.

Dodge Ball! : Mosey to the Tennis Courts. Teams of 6. When you get hit, run to the other end of the courts and do 3 burpees, run back and then jump back into the game. Headshots allowed. After 5 minutes, whichever team has the most players on the court wins. We played 3 five minute games, Team A (aka “shitheads”) won one game and Team B (aka “awesomeness”) won 2 games.

COP back at the flag, American Hammersx50 IC.

Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out.

NMS: It felt like a reprise of the most commented BB ever with the misty weather and plenty of slippery balls. Many amazing sports-center worthy plays, and many terrible middle aged men throws. Handshake had some highlight moments, TYA is surprisingly wily, and Shiplap likes taking out men nearly twice his age. so much fun!

Praying for comfort, peace, justice and change for the people of Uvalde and for our violent society.