Author: Faceplant

Keeping with YHC tradition this post is of course late, and a Swirly never forgets so I had to make sure that this post did not lag into 2021. Monday morning we were well below our government mandated maximum number of people and we all practiced extreme safe social distancing for the grand total of 3.

When a first time Batteau visitor shows up on Monday, we always like to make them feel welcome with a full tour of all that the Richmond City Park System has to offer. Swirly kicked us off with stretches and warm-ups at the tennis courts. YHC noted all the usual Swirly warm-up routine stretches, plus a few new ones added into the rotation like touch your toes, a new favorite of YHC. We rounded out the stretching with a series of exercises in the front lean and rest position and alternated between ‘HOLD IT’ position at 3 inches, and up to the regular merkin position.

After warm-up Swirly mosey-ed us over to our second Batteau stop to pick up some of the Richmond regions finest and heaviest granite boulders. Since all of the weight lifting gyms are closed because someone ate a bat, Swirly led us in a series of boulder lifting exercises. Start out with 20 curls, run down steps with boulder and do 20 dips, run back up, do 20 curls, then add 10 overhead presses… repeat down to the bottom 20 dips. Then we kept going adding to our series of exercises ‘bench press’ with boulder, squats with boulder and I might be missing one.

Swirly handed off the potato to YHC, and we headed down the hill in the dark to continue the Tour de Batteau. We then started one lap around the lake stopping at each light post (lit or un-lit) and did 5 Merkins, and we waited in the front lean and rest until all were done then we all got up and ran to the next light post. Once we got back to the finish we had to make our way out from the bottom.

On up the hill of ill-repute, one person started to lunge up the hill while the remaining two stayed at the bottom. The ‘timer’ did 30 side straddle hops while the other did flutter kicks. Once timer was done, timer sprinted up the hill to swap out with the lung-er. Former lung-er ran back down the hill and started doing flutter kicks, and flutter kick-er became the ‘timer’ and did 30 side straddle hops. Repeat until someone got all the way to the top of the hill.

Once we all got to the top of the hill we still had extra time so 20 OYO WWIIs. Moseyed on up to the start where we did numbers and names and announcements.

Big thank you to Jaque Penné for joining us this Monday morning, Batteau regulars hope to see him back to experience everything else that Batteau has to offer! Jaque Penné took us out with some inspiring words.

Numbers were light this morning but the motivation and mumble chatter was high this morning. In typical Batteau fashion the potato showed up to Q and we were off and running.

Swirly started everyone out at the tennis courts with some windmills, don quixotes, lighting stretching, planks, reach for the skys, reach for the toes, and merkins.

The kids moseyed over to the playground and proceeded to wipe it down with cholrox wipes. At the playground we did 3 rounds of 5x pullups, 10x decline merkins, and 15x dips. Rinse and repeat. Then we headed over to the picnic tables for snack time. Snack time had us doing 3 rounds of dips, step-ups, and incline merkins.

YHC was passed the potato and we moseyed on down the trail taking us on the full tour of Batteau. On the uphills we stopped intermittently to do 5x burpees, then on the up hills we continued to stop intermittently to do 5x burpees. Moseyed all the way doing the burpees here and there until we got to the steps of doom. Proceeded to bear crawl up steps and do lunges on the sections without steps. All the way to the landing, 5 more burpees, then finished out the remainder of the steps doing bear crawl.

YHC didn’t want to hog all the fun so handed off the potato to Flatline. We moseyed on down to the bottom of the hill (always a YHC favorite!). Triple check ensued with LBCs, lunges, and running to the top of the hill. The LBC location would move with the transition point of the lunges. When everyone had done one round we finished out with bear crawls to the top. Flatline took us down to the bowl area and we did 50 step-ups to round out the morning.

Headed back to the flag for COT where we adhered to the new COT procedures. We did numbers, names, announcements, and Flatline took us out with some kind and inspiring words.

Have a wonderful Monday everyone and stay safe and healthy out there!

From the archives of YHC, here’s a long overdue BB.
Sippy started us out, everyone went to the picnic table and we got on one side of the picnic table and warmed up with slow Perkins, then moved onto a round of step ups being ever so mindful of the icy steps. 

Next Sippy took us on a bear crawl tour of the tennis court always facing the same direction – bear crawl forward five Merkins, bear crawl sideways five Merkins, crawl bear five Merkins, bear crawl sideways back to start and five more Merkins. 

Doozy took us down the hill and we did 11’s on the hill with dips and squats.

YHC closed it out with multiple laps around the circle. Partnered up – one partner did abs and the other partner ran around the circle. The abs consisted of 100 World War II‘s, 200 double count flutter kicks, and 300 LBCs. Finished out with 6 inches holding it steady.

numbers, names, and no announcements

Playing some catchup here – here’s how things went down at Batteau based On YHC’s old man memory.

It was a prompt 5:30 AM start time in Bleeder start us out with some quick stretches at the tennis courts, after that we probably headed down to the lake for some ice-skating lessons. The lake wasn’t frozen over yet so we decided to run around that stopping at every single light pole descending Merkins starting with 19 and subtracting one at every single light pole we got to.

next we had it up the hill and picked up some rocks from the lovely rock garden. Everyone partnered up and sorely let us in some partner rock exercises. I’m pretty sure Sippy’s rock weighed more than he did.

The next Hot potato recipient was Hardywood, we partnered up again and crawl bear-ed up the hill to the top towards the light post while your partner stayed back and completed three burpees. After the Burpee’s each partner ran up to their crawl bearing partner and switched out. Everyone made it to the top and we waited in the merkin position.

YHC got the hot potato next and was so creative he swapped out crawl bear and Burpee’s with lunges and 25 single count flutter kicks. Fun ensued to the end, then we fast moseyed back to the flag for numbers, names, and announcements.

It was great having you as a visitor Boberry on your winter tour. Friendly faces and new names are always welcome at Batteau!

Announcements: see Hardywood if you want to see a rock climbing movie with your kids and drink beer on a Friday – I think I got that correct…

It was a usual Batteau hot potato, with some unusual rain. Swirley started us out with side straddle hops and a host of other not on the ground warm-up exercises. Swirley then rolled us into 3x run up hill with 10x derkins and 10x dips in between each hill run.

Hand off to Bleeder who took us up to the top of Forest Hill Park for 5x run with progressive WW2’s. Run to light pole 1 come back and do 10 WW2’s (shielded from the rain in the pavilion). Then run to the next light pole come back and do 20 WW2’s, and so on until you get to 50 WW2’s.

Handed it off to Sippy and we headed down to pick up some rocks. Moseyed 4x rocks over to the courts and did 3x rounds. Time ran around the courts always facing one direction. Other three did some form of rock exercise. First one was one hand on rock push-ups alternating hands, second was sumo squats with rock, third was one hand in the air alternating on the rock.

Sippy handed it off to YHC and finished out with a slow walk back with the rocks in hand to drop them off. Stopping intermittently with rocks and alternating between deep squat, mid squat, and back up again. Dropped off rocks and moseyed back to the flag in time for names, numbers, and announcements.

The rain stopped towards the end of the workout.

It was a nice cool morning over at Batteau with some Batteau regulars. Like most Monday mornings at Batteau we all got to flex our creative muscles with a Hot Potato!

Bleeder started us out with some side straddle hops, merkins, LBCs, DQs and a couple other morning stretching essentials that are escaping me.

Bleeder proceeded to lead us in an episode of four corners around the tennis court, we started with 10 Merkins, 10 box cutters, 10 World War II’s, and 15 double count mountain climbers. For each exercise we ran one lap and a quarter times around the tennis court.

From the Bleeder handed it off to Swirly and we moseyed on over to the jungle gym. Swirly chased off all the Monday morning people hanging out at the jungle gym in the pitch black darkness so that we would have the whole place to ourselves to work out. It went down like this five pull-ups, 10 incline Merkins, 15 dips, and repeat three times.

Then Swirly let us in and exercise I am not sure how to describe but it ended up with us doing a combination of 6 inches off the ground with other challenging moves in between, there was even a 3 inches off the ground in there somewhere. We heard “hold it” several times and we held it!

Swirly hand it off to sippy cup, and we moseyed on down to pick up some rocks. Partner up first partner carries a rock second partner runs ahead to like post around the lake then runs back to the partner caring the rock. Switch rock curing and proceed around the lake for one lap.

Since the rocks came down the hill the rocks had to go back up the hill and we partner carried them up alternating at the landings. We drop the rocks off and sippy cup handed it over to face plant.

YHC moseyed everyone back down to the bottom of the hill where we partnered up again and proceeded up the hill alternating running and lunges. Partner one did a rotation of five Merkins, 5 Burpee’s, and 10 World War II’s while partner two lunged up the hill then sprinted to catch up in between exercises. We took this all the way to the top of the hill somewhere in there there’s an audible to change from lunges to bear crawl. Once we got to the top we kept going back to the flag alternating with 10 Merkins 10 Burpee’s and 10 side sor we took this all the way to the top of the hill somewhere in there there’s an audible to change from lunges to their crawl. Once we got to the top we kept going back to the flag alternating with 10 Merkins 10 Burpee‘s and 10 side saddle hops.

My early morning memory may have failed me so I’m sorry if I missed some stuff.

numbers and names and YHC took us out .

Let’s just get right into it. Swirly took the potato and started us out.

Mosey on over to tennis courts for a Swirly warmup consisting of:

Side straddle hops, merkins, LBCs, scorpions, Wilson’s and Fudd’s, and a couple others I may be missing. Swirly handed off the potato to Goldberg.

Goldberg mosey’ed us over to get some rocks. Partner up and one partner ran up to light and back (backwards run up hill, forwards run down hill), 3 times through, other partner was doing squats, overhead press, and LBCs with your rock of choice.

Goldberg then mosey’ed us over to the playground for some play time. Three sets of 5 pull-ups, 10 decline merkins, and 15 box jumps. Then hot potato Sippy.

Sippy took us on a run through forest hill park, stopping at every light post and doing 10 perfect merkins, also know as perkins. Then took a run and not a mosey back up to the top. Hot potato off to Face Plant (that’s a me).

Mosey on up to the iconic forest hill park house for the “walls of burp-a-co”. Seven times around the house each time do seven burpees. Hat tip to Hardywood for being the one one to finish before we called time.

Number-rama, name-rama, announcements. I probably missed something so let me have it in the comments section!