Author: Dr Tryhard

  • Gettin Wet with DTH

    After many inches of rain, a literal Creek flowed through the AO to challenge the aquatic finesse of seven fine gloom warriors. Here’s how YHC ensured each man embraced the suck:

    The THANG:

    Mosey around Parking Lot for COP #1:

    • Welcome & F3 Disclaimer
    • Nancy Kerrigans x10 Each Side IC
    • The Opus x10 IC
    • Crab Cakes x10 IC
    • Dying Quixotes x10 IC
    • Rosalita Whip x10 IC
    • Werkins, Alt Leg Up, x10 Each Side IC

    Mosey to Swing Set for COP #2:

    • TRIPLE CHECK:
    • P1 – Swing Pumps (Inverted Gas Pumps [Reverse Crunches], Planking with legs on swing)
    • P2 – Captain Thor’s (Ascending)
    • P3 – Run around track, Bernie sanders half the lap, return to swings & switch

    Mosey to Track for COP #3:

    • OLD 100 – Reps count down by 10 from 100 with mosey around the track between sets:
    • Partner up for x100 PLT’s
    • x90 LBC’s
    • x80 SSH’s
    • x70 Monkey Humpers
    • x60 Am Hammers (2-ct)
    • Partner up for x50 Squerkins
    • x40 Heels to Heaven
    • x30 Lunges (x15 ea leg)
    • x20 WWII
    • x10 Burpees

    Mosey BTTF for COT:

    • Counterama # 7
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Comments)
    • YHC took us out in Prayer

    NMS:

    • Day 5 of Corporate Challenge under the belt, and what a GREAT way to start the day! YHC can always rely on most excellent mumble chatter with the Northern PAX…let’s just say what’s said in the Gloom should stay in the Gloom… strong work fellas grinding out the COP’s! Appreciated having Hardywood’s support and camaraderie for our Clown Car up North – always a pleasure thinking deep things with you my friend. Next up Double Dip Bootcamps tomorrow. SYITG boyz!

  • Double Mint can Handle Two Men…

    Eleven crusaders seeking the Answer traveled from near and far to the one and only Source of Truth. The Question sought by all was to know Double Mint’s superpower. Here’s how we found out:

    The THANG:

    Mosey to Side Field for COP #1:

    • Welcome & F3 Disclaimer
    • SSH’s x20 IC
    • DQ’s x10 IC
    • Hurpees (Hand-Release Burpees) x10 IC
    • Crab Cakes x10 IC
    • Dying Quixotes x10 IC
    • DR.W’s x10 IC

    Mosey to Bleachers for COP #2:

    • Partner Up for x3 Sets of:
    • x20 Box Jumps
    • Run to Middle of field for x20 PLT’s
    • Run back to bleachers for x20 Dips
    • NOTE: What does the 11th man do for PLT’s?!

    Mosey to Football Field for COP #3:

    • ROUTE 66 – Sequential reps down Field stopping every 10 yards (including end zones for x11 stops total = x66 reps per round) …Rounds included: 
    • Lt Dan’s
    • CDD’s
    • Heels to Heaven
    • Monkey Humpers
    • DiveBomber Merkins
    • Corkscrews
    • Copperhead Squats

    Mosey BTTF for COT:

    • Counterama # 11
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Comments)
    • YHC took us out in Prayer

    NMS:

    • The Answer – the 11th man finds Double Mint, who can handle two men’s appendages at the same time! YHC was the 11th man, and Double Mint stepped up to ensure no man was left behind… thanks for a great time fellas. Now that we’ve all got Hurpees, we can share it around with the rest of the RVA PAX. SYITG! 

  • Pre-VQ Potato

    The sun was shining bright over Quioccasin Middle as six men of greatness assembled to receive a beatdown. YHC had noted the Q sheet empty, so a hot potato was called and every man shared a turn on the giving end of the beatdown. 

    The THANG:

    DR TRYHARD:

    • Moseyrama with variable warmerama around track to COP #1:
    • MORNING CALL at the Pull-up Bar – each pax takes a turn cranking out 5 pull-ups while the planking PAX perform a merkin for each pull-up completed. Six men = 30 Merkins.

    PROBATION:

    • Mosey to bleachers
    • Dips x20 one-count
    • Merkins x10 IC

    HANDSHAKE:

    • Mosey to bus loop for Triple Check
    • Flutters, Windshield Wipers (Kimchi Twists), and 3rd man sprints to end to complete x5 Merkins and sprints back

    LINKED IN:

    • Partner up and complete x2 Rounds:
    • Partner 1 Donkey Kicks
    • P2 Suicides

    DON DRAPER:

    • Mosey a little way around the school
    • Stop for People’s Chair with painful variations
    • Mosey to Upper Courts for 4 Corners
    • x10 JumpSquats, x20 BallDippers, x30 Squats, x40 Lunges EACH LEG 
    • Mosey to grassy hill and take turns with a Bernie Sanders up hill while PAX plankorama’s
    • Mosey over to schools’ back steps for two minutes of rapid fire stair stepping or box jumps

    LIGHTHOUSE:

    • Mosey to handicap rails and bearcrawl from bottom to top, then plank walk with hands and feet on top rails from top to bottom …x2 rounds

    PROBATION – Round Two:

    • Mosey to grassy hill 
    • Round 1 – Bear crawl from bottom to top & complete x6 burpees
    • Round 2 – Crabwalk up & x6 Burpees
    • Round 3 – Polarbear up & hands-up Flutter kicks x20 IC

    Mosey BTTF for COT:

    • Counterama # 6
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Comments)
    • DON DRAPER took us out in Prayer

    NMS:

    • Day 2 of the Corporate Challenge brought YHC and Draper to HBR this AM, only to discover no Q on the books. NO PROBLEM! Great opportunity to give a couple of the newer guys the chance to lead. WELL DONE Probation and Linked In. We’ll be looking for your VQ’s sometime soon. And of course Draper just HAD to wreck our quads for the rest of the week…thanks a LOT bro. Keep posting fellas, and keep headlocking your coworkers and neighbors – they need this!!!

  • Shakira has nothin on Swirly!

    The Batteau gloom accepted resumes from seven wanna-be Shakira back-up dancers this morning. Wearing a hot pink leopard print spandex g-string unitard, Flatline stole the show, but despite great efforts by all to flawlessly pull off the following routines, they were saddened to learn the absentee Hardywood had already won the coveted position with a mail-in VHS shakeweight snuff film produced by his side-kick Houdini (…or is he gonna stick with Snuff…?). 

    The THANG:

    Moseyrama around Stone House a couple times then stop for COP #1:

    • Clock Lunges x2 Rounds IC
    • The Opus x10 IC
    • Dying Quixotes x10 IC (DQ’s on your Six)
    • Oblique Crunch x10 Each Side IC
    • DTH’s x10 IC
    • Surfer Merkins x10 OYO (Jump 360 degrees, drop for merkin, recover)

    Mosey to the Grassy Hills for COP #2:

    • Booyah Merkin Ladder – Partner up, complete 10 Booyah Merkins, P1 runs access valley & back while P2 remains for Marionettes, complete 9 Booyah Merkins, P2 runs & P1 remains, etc. down to 1 Booyah Merkin. BOOYAH! 

    Mosey down to Lake for COP #3

    • Stop at trail wall for x20 Dips IC and x10 Incline Merkins IC
    • En route, Bataan Death March – Indian style, PAX lunge while last man Burpees x3
    • Once at lake, start DMC Mosey – Stop at each light post, alternating x10 reps of Diamond Merkins, x15 Merkins, x20 CDD’s 
    • ABC’s in the Bowl for the SIX

    Mosey BTTF for COP #4:

    • Plank Compass – feet remain while hands plank walk X degrees in whichever direction Q calls, plus x5 merkins between each new direction
    • Rosalita Whip x10 IC
    • APD’s x20 IC
    • Hands-up High Flutters x20 IC
    • Hands-under-tail Low Flutters x20 IC
    • Freddie M’s x20 IC
    • Wilson’s Stretch
    • Plank & drop to hold 3” …x3 sets of counting down 10-1

    COT:

    • Counterama # 7
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Comments)
    • DRAPER took us out in Prayer

    NMS:

    • Good times as always with the Batteau boys, and awesome having Flatty back in the gloom! Had the workout all ready for my inadvertent fartsacking last Monday, so felt right making up for it this week. Good positive feedback on the all-new-DTH-original “Dying Quixotes” …YHC will keep them included with future Q’s. Glad to have Draper with me this week to complete a standard version Corporate Challenge. Thanks for leading us out in prayer today bro!

  • “I break you so I can heal you!”

    The Forge welcomed a dozen perfectly smooth and fragile eggs, still warm from the mother hen fartsack – here’s how DTH made the most delicious breakfast omelet:

    The THANG:

    Mosey to COP #1:

    • Welcome & F3 Disclaimer 
    • Extra Disclaimer provided for Cooper
    • Squat Walkers x39 IC (Happy Bday Seadoo!)
    • T-plank Arm Circles x10 Each side
    • Dying Quixotes x10 IC (DQ’s, but performed from your Six…)
    • Windshield Wipers x10 IC
    • Flutter Kicks x30 IC

    Mosey to Handicap Rails for COP #2:

    • Over-Unders to the top
    • Partner up to complete x3 sets of:
    • x10 Jerkins each
    • x10 Cliffhanger Merkins each
    • x10 Dips each
    • ABC’s for the SIX

    Mosey to 2nd Lot Grassy Hill for COP #3:

    • Triple Nickel:
    • x5 Burpees at the Bottom
    • Bearcrawl to the top
    • x5 Heels-to-Heaven
    • Run back down
    • x5 Rounds total 
    • AlGorama for the SIX

    Mosey to Amphitheater for COP #4:

    • DORA 1-2-3:
    • Moving partner performs the TOOTH FAIRY up the stairs (incline merkin each step with a full body hop on arm extension to advance up each step), then Crab Walk down amphitheater steps back to other partner performing:
    • x100 WWII
    • x200 Squats
    • x300 SSH’s
    • ***OUT OF TIME BEFORE SSH DONE***

    Mosey BTTF for COT:

    • Counterama # 12
    • Namerama (welcome back Pew!)
    • Announcerama (see Comments)
    • YHC took us out in Prayer

    NMS:

    • YHC was pleased to have a solid crowd for the Forge this AM, especially since braining up “Dying Quixotes” yesterday and discovering “Tooth Fairies” in the Exicon. Ya’ll know DTH just LOVES some new material to try. Great to have PEW join us again, now back in RVA for a season – we’ll be seeing more of him! The title for today’s BB is a quote from YHC after the Moseying PAX suggested the seemingly sadistic Dr Tryhard ought to be named Dr Kevorkian. But hey, as it turns out, you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few yolks. As always, it’s an honor to join you fine men being broken and Forged into something stronger! SYITG

  • New Year, New Material

    0550: Just YHC and Posh idling engines in the Gloom. 0553: Cooper whimpers to welcome a few heroic headlamps advancing on the AO. 0555: A veritable parade of headlights cutting through the misty gloom. 0600: A hearty throng of gloom warriors follow DTH into the unknown. Here’s how YHC fed the mumble chatter:

    The THANG:

    Mosey to 1st Putting Green for COP #1:

    • Welcome & F3 Disclaimer
    • Nancy Kerrigans (1 leg SSH) x10 each
    • DQ’s x10 IC
    • The Opus x10 IC …8 count!
    • Hydraulic Planks IC (x10 each way)
    • Marionettes x20 IC (WWII w hands alternated Lt of feet, Ctr, Rt of feet, Ctr, etc.)
    • Rosalita Whip x20 IC (Legs out & in for 1&2, then drop legs to 6” and up for 3&4)

    Mosey to 2nd Putting Green for COP #2:

    • Hardywood-Approved Arm Circles:  Assume T-plank with Rt arm out for x15 arm circles IC, roll to Six for x15 Hands-up Flutter Kicks IC (Add Chinook arm circles overhead as extra credit), roll to T-plank with Left arm out for x15 arm circles, roll to Six for x15 IC Chinook Flutter Kicks …complete x2 more Rounds OYO & AlGore for the SIX
    • Not-So-Lazy Boys:  Sitting, legs straight, arms crossed, alternate leaning back & hold, rotating Right & hold, rotating Left & hold
    • Wilson’s Wife to stretch it all out …thx Kim ?

    Mosey to Stage for COP #3:

    • OPP’s – P1 assumes Peoples Chair with Overhead Claps to cadence of P2 completing x20 PlankJacks …switch to complete x3 rounds each
    • Each PAX collects a Coupon

    Mosey to Carillon Field for COP #4:

    • Coupon held overhead (or at least shoulder height) for mosey
    • Tea Party Twists – Partner up and sit back to back in People’s Chair. Twist to pass coupon around x10 rotations. Repeato x3 sets, each set followed by Wheelbarrow across space & back. 
    • Circle up for Coupon COP:
    • Tempo Incline Merkins x10 IC
    • Shoulder Press x10 IC
    • Cradle Coupon Copperhead Squats x10 IC 
    • Return coupons to Stage – Coupon held overhead (or at least shoulder height) for mosey

    Mosey to Rusty Cage for COP #5:

    • SIX PACK – Counting up Pullups 1-5, Counting down Merkins 5-1 …reverso to bring PullUps down to 1 & Merkins back p to 5
    • Front-runners enjoy x20 dips OYO 

    Mosey BTT-Field for COP #6:

    • Divide into four teams
    • PLANK HURDLES: line up and P1 sprints 5 paces to drop into plank. P2 runs and hurdles P1 continues another 5 paces and drops to plank. Each PAX continues runs/hurdles to move entire team to the other end of the field. 
    • Winners AlGore, Losers x10 Burpees, other two teams x20 Merkins

    Mosey to Amphitheater for COP #7:

    • From bottom, ascend steps with descending reps from 17-1 …so x17 Reverse Crunch at bottom, then x16 Incline Merkins on next step, then x15 RC’s next step, etc. 

    BTTF for COT:

    • Counterama # 27
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Comments)
    • YHC took us out in Prayer

    NMS:

    • Creativity is the spice of life! And part of being DTH is bringing new flavor to the RVA PAX …if nothing else it makes for some great mumble chatter! Really proud of you guys posting in the wet gloom and leaving it all out there! Thanks and credit to Hardywood for the Nancy Kerrigans – a great workout AND just damn funny. YHC always enjoys new material, but was particularly excited for today’s Tea Party Twists… turns out doing them on your own is both ridiculously hard and F2-less. Will wait to call those next time when there are even numbers. Our FNG for the day is Mason Adams who’s into photography and cards – original F3 name of SNUFF brought the PAX to tears, but powers that remain unnamed have steered YHC to providing him the nickname HOUDINI. Welcome!!! As always, it is my greatest honor and pleasure leading and becoming stronger alongside you guys. SYITG!

  • Frozen No Mercy

    A half dozen icicles of great length and girth formed up in the last minutes before 0530, freezing temps and gloom abounding. The DTH timepiece struck 0530, and amid bright sunshine and temps climbing to 70, six limber warriors shook off the ice and set to work. Here’s how Cooper led the way:

    The THANG:

    Moseyrama a latecomers loop around the parking lot, returning for COP #1 at the Flag:

    • DQ’s x10 IC
    • R.Soldiers x10 IC
    • Werkins x10 IC
    • WWII x10 IC

    Mosey to the Ridge for COP #2:

    • Bear Crawl up hill, run down, Al Gore for the Six
    • Imperial Squat Walkers x20 IC
    • Bernie up, run down, Flutters for the Six
    • Flutter Kicks x20 IC
    • Crabwalk Up, run down, Elbow Plank for the Six
    • NoCheat Merkins x20 IC

    Mosey to Bleachers for COP #3:

    • Big-O’s x10 each direction

    Step onto the Track for COP #4:

    • No Mercy Mile (DTH-Modified) – PAX completes 4 laps around track, each time stopping at the first 50 yard line to complete 25 Monkey Humpers & 25 Merkins at opposite 50 yard line. Straightaways run, while curve exercises varied for each lap:
    • Lap 1 Curves: Bear Crawl & Lunges
    • Lap 2 Curves: Alternate Partner Carries
    • Lap 3 Curves: Carioca both ends
    • Lap 4 Curves: Partner Wheelbarrows

    Mosey to Jerkin Gym for COP #5:

    • Same partners
    • Jerkins x10ea
    • Dips x10ea
    • Repeato 2nd Set

    Mosey Back to Flag for COT:

    • Counterama # 6
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Comments)
    • YHC took us out in Prayer

    NMS:

    “Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.” (James‬ ‭1:2-6‬ )

  • Tempting a Faceplant

    Seven gold medal fartsack escapees assembled bright and early at The Forge, basking in the usual Richmond January weather, sunny and 70. With the recent monsoon washing the AO clean of all goose excrement, the PAX heartily followed DTH into endorphin nirvana.

    The THANG:

    Mosey to front of high school for COP #1:

    • DQ’s, HairyR’s, CHSquats, DancingB’s, TempoWerkins, H2H, FreddieM’s, more M’s

    Mosey to Middle School awning for COP #2:

    • TRIPLE CHECK:
    • P1 – Pole Smokers
    • P2 – Lt Dans
    • P3 – BC up hill & back

    Mosey to Amphitheater for COP #3:

    • LINDSEY:
    • Bottom 10–>30 V-ups (or WWII)
    • Top 30–>10 Merkins
    • Box Jump to get Up & Down steps
    • Plankorama for the SIX

    Mosey to other side of HS for COP #4:

    • “Dirty HookUp” x20 IC (plank facing wall, place each hand up on wall, then bring them back down, 4ct, alternate hand order half-way through)
    • People’s Chair with variable arms
    • Hip Slappers x10 IC (BTTW with alternating hip slaps, 4ct)
    • People’s Chair with variable arms
    • Chicken Peckers x20 IC

    Mosey BTTF:

    • Flutter Kicks x30 High, x30 Low

    COT:

    • Counterama # 7
    • DTH-modified Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Comments)
    • DRAPER took us out in Prayer

    NMS:

    • Can we GET better weather?! Don’t know about you fellas but YHC is pro- Global warming. 😉  Great working with you guys this morning – you ROCKED it! And good job not faceplanting during Hip-Slappers. SYITG

  • Vincit Qui Se Vincit

    At an hour and with a climate that all logic screams “Are you MAD? Go back to bed!”, SIX veteran gloom warriors hydroplaned their way to NoToll to once again place the flesh under heel. 

    The THANG:

    Mosey in driving rain to Pavilion for COP #1:

    • Welcome & F3 Disclaimer
    • SSH x30 IC
    • DQ’s x20 IC
    • Imp.Squat Walkers x20 IC
    • No Cheat Merkins x10 IC
    • Freddie M’s x30 IC
    • Oblique Crunch x10 IC ea side
    • Gas Pumps x20 IC

    Audible to remain sheltered for COP #2:

    • 4 Corners + Escalator/De-Escalator:
    • Corner 1 – x10 Merkins
    • C2 – add x20 WWII
    • C3 – add x30 MH’s
    • C4 – add x40 FlutterKicks (2-ct)
    • High quality lunge between corners
    • Reverso x4 corners back to start
    • Plankorama for the SIX

    No Mosey for COP #3:

    • Partner up for DORA:
    • x100 Box Jumps (audible to step-ups for safety purposes)
    • x200 Dips
    • x300 LBC’s
    • Other partner crosses space & back in variety of creative ways (BC, CB, Lunge Walk, Broad Jump, etc. …our resident Whore Daddy (Rosie) chose to run Cooper out across the pond and back, bless him)
    • AlGorama for the SIX

    Circle up for quick COP #4:

    • James Bonds – BoatHolds with arms extended, hands together with fingers making a pistol – 10 count forward, 10 count Right, 10 count Left
    • x3 rounds completed

    Mosey BTTF for COT:

    • Counterama #6
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Comments)
    • YHC took us out in Prayer

    NMS:

    • The PAX remained dry in their cars until 0529, then emerged to get sloppy wet in the downpour, gladly waiting an extra minute to pick up our friendly neighborhood Boberry. Cooper couldn’t have been more thrilled to back out with his boys. We moved double time to find shelter at the Pavilion, and YHC audibled the entire workout to remain there instead of waterskiing on the surrounding ponds. Our theme for the day was “Vincit Qui Se Vincit”, which means He conquers who conquers himself!  Make it a great one fellas & SYITG.

  • ABORT! ABORT!

    A balmy wet TwinTeam welcomed 11 gloom warriors and 1 scruffy pooch to see what DTH’s beatdown engine had generated for the morning. Here’s how the swamp tadpoles saw it:

    The THANG:

    Latecomers Mosey up to Robious (got the PAX worried about Mount TwinTeam) then reverso back to BWE for COP #1:

    • DQ’s x10 IC
    • Body Builders x10 IC
    • Russian Soldiers x10 IC
    • The Opus x10 IC
    • DTH’s x10 IC

    Mosey to blacktop behind BWE for COP #2:

    • Partner up for x3 rounds of:
    • PLT’s x20 each
    • BearCrawl across Courts
    • Squerkins x10 each (P1 Derkins with legs held by P2, while P2 Squats)
    • CrabWalk back to start
    • American Hammers for the SIX

    Mosey to Stadium Field for COP #3:

    • Quarter Pounder:  Sprint to each quarter to complete exercise, Bernie back to start between
    • 25 yard line – x25 WWII’s
    • 50 yard line – x50 CDD’s
    • 75 yard line – x75 MH’s
    • 100 yard line – x100 Reverse Crunches
    • Stretches for the SIX

    Mosey to Grassy Hill for COP #4:

    • Clockface Merkins – x3 for each hour of the clock

    Mosey BTTF:

    • Plankorama for the SIX
    • Ring of Fire
    • Copperhead Squats x20 IC (SQUEEZE!)
    • Captain Thor’s OYO until times up

    COT:

    • Counterama # 11 (+Cooper)
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Comments)
    • HERMIE took us out in Prayer

    NMS:

    • Wet wild warm and wonderful – enjoyed teasing the PAX today with the TTHill fake-out, and Wilson naturally provided ample mumble chatter entertainment. The title for today came from those of us who tried to use the swamp for the quarter pounder, and were quickly reminded of why it’s called the swamp – Abort! Abort! – to the track we retreated. YHC enjoyed seeing Wojo back out in the Gloom today. Let’s make it a great day gents!