Author: Fireman Ed

  • Is this what May is like in Seattle?

    11 dudes showed up to the slightly rainy confines of Short Pump Middle north to experience a beat down. It was a good surprise to see Roger Roger make the trip out west (even for part of the time) and for Gyspy and Homer to come back. I am happy the rain stopped last night so I didn’t have to come up with a bus loop only workout. The hour went something like this:

    COP: DQs, CPs, HRMs, helicopters, FMs – Oh here comes Attila.

    Mosey the long way to Stryker Park. Ascending exercises: 10 burpees, add 20 WWIIs the second set (continue the burpees), add 30 jump squats, 40 2 count mountain climbers and last set adds 50 SSHs. The PAX enjoyed the 50 total burpees. Mosey to the pavilion by the pickelball court (by the way I played pickleball for the first time last Sunday – quite fun).

    Start with 10 derkins and 15 dips, then 15 and 20 and then 20 and 25. Mosey to chin up bars.

    2 PAX does 5 chin ups with the other now 8 PAX do elbow plank. Rinse and repeat.

    Long mosey to curb in front of Short Pump Middle. Curb crawl to 3 down to 1. Lunge to bus loop pillars.

    Triple check with pole smokers, diamond merkins and a run around the triangle. Mosey to home base.

    We went with some requests at the home base wall including donkey kicks, balls to the wall, chicken peckers, and dirty hookups. Finished with AHs, plank jacks, MCs and DQs.

    Announcements: lunch this Tuesday 5/10 at Joey’s hot dogs in Innsbrook (this is a fancy group). Tuckahoe Takeover starts tomorrow. Convergence on Memorial Day at Tredegar Iron Works downtown, June 4 Blood Drive and June 4 workout in Charlottesville. See Pigskin for details on the blood drive and Vinny for details on the Charlottesville workout.

    Prayers for Gypsy’s upcoming surgery and for Lighthouse’s family in the Ukraine. Have a great weekend!

    Fireman Ed

  • Fire Extinguishers and Garbage Receptacles

    7 merry lads got together for some kettle bell fun. It went a little something like this:

    COP: DQs, CPs, Merkins, MCs, FMs and ACs. Run around bus loop.

    Mosey with coupon held high to side of school facing pump. Lindseys with coupon press and heels to heaven, Run to the fire “hydrant”, not extinguisher after each set. Mosey with coupon held high to main parking lot.

    Next exercise: Burpee with overhead coupon press for each parking line. We did not go through the whole parking lot. If we did, a mutiny would likely have occurred. Estimating 15 burpees with the same # of overhead presses. Mosey to Curb and do 10 lawnmower pulls each arm.

    Mosey to back of school. Dora with 100 sit and presses, 200 curls and 300 LBCs. Partner runs to the garbage thing called a “receptacle” but is a “big metal doo hickey” and then switches off. For some reason the spot where Pigskin and I were doing the sit and presses was rather wet. Mosey back to home base with a waiter’s carry each arm (Homer’s favorite).

    We finished with 15 lawnmower pulls each arm and a set of CPs to stretch.

    Announcements: 6/4 blood drive. Epiphany Lutheran church. Donate or volunteer please. Contact Pigskin for details!

    Prayers: Gypsy, Handshake’s family, White Deer’s customer, Lab Rat, Ukraine including Lighthouse’s family

    I struggled with proper word choice today. Instead of a fire hydrant, I called it a fire extinguisher and instead of a garbage dumpster I called it a garbage receptable. I was never a pro with vocabulary but today I was off. I was like Scuttle the bird in the Little Mermaid, one of White Deer’s favorite movies.

    It was great leading the PAX this morning. Welcome Spring. Do great things today!

    Fireman Ed

  • Seeking Warmth

    5 brave souls braved the frigid air of western Henrico County with coupons in tow,

    A couple of us are not 100 percent but why not let’s give it a go.

    COP: DQs, CPs, DMH, ACs and a quick calf stretch.

    Run around bus loop twice. Fireman Ed realized at this point that his calf is not where it needs to be but continue on. Get bells/coupons and mosey past bus loop to side of school facing Pump Road.

    Elevens with sit and press, bear crawl across curb and then do WWIIs,

    Mosey to south side of school – 4 corners with 10 burpees, 20 coupon squats, 30 jump squats no coupon and 40 flutter kicks while holding coupon. Mosey to east side of school.

    Modified Dora with 100 chest presses and 200 coupon curls. Mosey to parking lot near bus loop.

    Coupon American Hammers, mountain climbers and DQs.

    Closed in prayer. Hopefully both Pigskin and Gomer are doing well on their mission trip. I am ignorant of the ramp builds that Corned Beef is leading so go to Slack for details.

    Both Attila and I have issues that are keeping us from being 100 percent. Hopefully we will rest and recover quickly. Hopefully all those with COVID can recover quickly and hopefully the strain will lessen on our health care workers. And with a 15 degree day one PAX summed it best by stating “I need to seek warmth now.” Good working out with you gents!

    Fireman Ed

  • Rodgers, he’s a player right?

    7 well chiseled middle-aged folks descended on the frozen tundra of Short Pump Middle School and Pouncey Tract Park to endure a beatdown. While we were missing a few of our regulars due to mission trips and fart sacking, we had a good ole time.

    COP: Invisible jump rope, DQs, CPs, FMs and arm circles.

    My daughters purchased a ten-sided foam dice that had different exercises on each side. We would mosey a couple hundred feet throw the dice and see what we had to do. Anything from Bonnie Blairs to mountain climbers to burpees to merkins to Supermans (or Supermen). On our long mosey we fit in the following:

    Curb crawl up to 5 down to 1

    Triple check with pole smokers, SSHs and a run around the bus loop triangle.

    Dora with 100 wide grip merkins, 200 WWIIs and 300 2 count flutters.

    Coupon press wall sits and 2 sets of donkey kicks (15 and 25).

    Finished with an odd-looking stretch led by Tater.

    Closed in prayer. Pray for Pigskin’s cousin’s daughter who has COVID, is 22 weeks pregnant and is in the hospital. I mistakenly said 22 months pregnant; my bad. As we started our workout, Tater was talking to J’ville about playoff fantasy football and J’ville said “Rodgers, he is a player right?” Perhaps he is watching too much soccer.

    Prayers for Pigskin and Gomer doing mission work and for anyone suffering from COVID. We noticed the coffeeteria was more crowded than usual. Perhaps they were hoping to get a glance at us studs. I imagine the ladies (and perhaps a couple of dudes) were disappointed in not seeing Pigskin.

    Have a great weekend and I will root for Upstate New York’s team the Bills.

    Fireman Ed

  • I can’t talk about your mother

    9 studly men gathered in the somewhat far West End being confused about who would lead Circus Maximus today. Fireman Ed put his name on the Q, took it off, showed up and felt bad that he took his name off so we went with a modified hot potato.

    Fireman Ed:

    COP: DQs, CPs, merkins, Freddies and ACs

    Mosey to bus loop.

    Rotate and do eight exercises with the pacer running (or yogging) around the bus loop. Exercises were lawnmower pulls, coupon squats, coupon flutter kicks, sit and press, overhead presses, shoulder presses, bicep curls and KB swings.

    3 sets of derkins and coupon bench presses. First 10 and 10, second 10 and 15 and then 10 and 20. Torch was then handed to Offshore.

    Offshore: 25 dips, 10 2 count coupon step ups and 15 2 count American Hammers in cadence. 3 times

    Hand off to Homer.

    Homer: Waiter’s carry around the full bus loop with 10 herpes (hand release burpees). Do it again (this one sucked).

    Walk around bus loop. 10 sumo squats and finish with more herpes.

    The reason for the title is that as we were waiting for 5:30 White Deer was talking and Siri from his watch said “I am not able to talk about your mother.”

    Thanks Offshore and Homer for your partnership in Q’ing. No announcements although I was asked whether shoes and clothes are still being collected. Let me find out. Do great things today!

    Fireman Ed.

  • Who needs coupons when you have discs?

    10 almost Merry Pax descended on the great Spiders disc golf course (thank you U of Richmond for having lights on for us) to complete a challenging 3 holes along with some real exercises mixed in.

    Fudd flew all the way from Denver just to partake in this workout (and probably because he has family here too).

    COP #1 – DQs, CPs, DMHs (without counting at first and then with counting – I think I fell asleep briefly).

    Mosey to disc golf course (with Splinter jumping in a puddle) to the second COP.

    Second COP: Merkins, Mountain climbers and ACs.

    Hole 1: Throw discs, bear crawl to disc, throw disc again, bear crawl to disc, etc. plank when done. 3 burpees per shot

    Hole 2: Throw discs, bear crawl to disc, etc. and for Handshake etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. and etc. Admittedly hole is tough with limited lighting and tree limbs galore. 4 burpees per shot

    Hole 18: 25 SSHs, head to tee box, throw and then lunge and etc. Upchuck nearly lost a disc by looking 50 feet ahead of where it actually was laying (I do that with my golf game). 3 burpees per shot

    Mosey to Club Vista Lane halfway down Club Vista do 25 merkins, all the way down do 12 diamond merkins. Mosey to parking lot. Finish with 25 PLTs each, then 25 American Hammers (EF Hutton sounded the flatulence alarm to inform us that our time was up) and then 3 burpees.

    It was good to see Fudd again and to have Kubota join us post booster shot recovery. I am happy I got my booster shot as I am still planning to go to COVID central NYC for a couple days next week. Please put Upchuck’s mother n’ law and family in your prayers as she goes through declining health.

    Happy hour this evening – 5:45 at Final Gravity (eclectic clientele with good beer). Ramp builds next month – see Corned Beef for details. Rock n roll Saturday January 1st at Rockwood Park (7 a.m.)

    Have a merry Christmas.

    Fireman Ed (still a Jets fan)

  • Cold As Ice

    With it being about 25 degrees outside I was driving up and I guess they were playing a doubleshot of Foreigner on 96.5. The song that came on was “Cold As Ice” by Foreigner.

    We were happy to have a FNG from Jersey and Ukraine join us. He came in a fancy Porsche (not to be confused with no frills Porsches) so we named him Yugo. I guess if you can afford New Jersey property taxes you can afford a nice car. Welcome Yugo!

    The exercises went something like this:

    COP: Lap around parking, lot, DQs, CPs, Freddie Mercuries, Arm circles

    Mosey to field, run around field go to bus loop.

    Pole 1 – 1 burpee, pole 3 – 2 Lt. Dans, pole 5 – 2 burpees, pole 7 – 3 Lt. Dans, etc. until we hit 10 burpees. Run around school to front of school.

    Quadruple check with all exercises done 3 times: Balls to the wall, dips, flutter kicks and run around loop. Mosey to nearby parking lot.

    Four corners with 10 HRMs, 20 WWIIs, 30 2 count mountain climbers and 40 jump squats

    Mosey to home base. 2 sets of pass the coupon while wall sitting, one shoulder press for each of the three coupons that came by.

    Another quadruple check: Donkey kicks, coupon press, heels to heaven and run around parking lot.

    Finish with American hammer and long LBC set.

    Announcements: We think the first Friday is a rucking happy hour deal. We will need to look for a backblast to confirm/deny. Punisher is doing a workout happy hour the first Monday of December. Lastly Lighthouse has Q next Saturday. Come out and support LH.

    I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. Take some time to help someone in need this holiday season.

    Thanks and blessings.

    Fireman Ed

  • Flatulent Flutters

    8 Pax gathered together to get a beat down or to see the great ruckus they call pickleball. As we arrived we were wondering why so many gathered before 7 a.m. to play a sport that at its best gets viewed on ESPN the ocho. Anyway, the exercises went like this:

    COP: DQs, CPs, merkins, pickle pounders (in honor of the nearby tourney), FMs and ACs.

    Exercise 1: all you can exercise buffet consisting of 10 burpees, 20 2 count MCs., 30 Carolina DDs, 40 squats, 50 SSHs, do as many sets as possible for 20 minutes.

    Mosey to school – Exercise 2 – Quadruple check run around bus loop dodging another exercise group driving in, flutter kicks (this drove an ever higher than normal flatulence from White Deer), heels to heaven and LBCs. This took awhile and Fireman Ed kept looking at his watch wondering if we were going to finish in time. We did.

    Mosey to home base. We did a combination of wall sits, donkey kicks and balls to the wall. We ended with a merkin ring of fire.

    Announcements: Merkin challenge – Fireman Ed is doing 5000 for November. Also, Johnsonville will be going to Mount Trashmore on 11/6 to visit Hampton Road’s 5 year celebration. Please join him to show your support.

    Closed in prayer.

    Fireman Ed now is going to watch the PSU/OSU game.

  • Dora meets the Beast

    9 studly dudes came out on a nice fall morning to experience some exercise and fellowship. Even though a few regulars decided to fartsack, a good time was still had.

    COP: DQ, DMH, Invisible jump rope, merkins, Freddie Mercury, ACs

    Mosey to lower field and take on the beast. The wrinkle was that we would go across the field widthwise or go lengthwise depending on how I flipped my coin. We started with merkins, went to Lt. Dans, plank jacks, Carolina dry docks, mountain climbers and then of course burpees.

    Mosey to front of Short Pump middle.

    Mega Dora with 100 HRMs, 200 WWIIs, 300 SSHs, 400 LBCs. Gotta work those abs.

    Mosey to home base. 3 rounds of wall sits with coupons. Pinto had the idea of a coupon shoulder press while passing the coupons; that went well. We also worked in 3 sets of donkey kicks and 2 sets of chicken peckers.

    We closed with the main announcement (no disrespect to sit and sip but by the time I write this sit and sip is in full gear) is a blood drive on Wednesday 10/20 on a church at South side (near 288). Volunteers are needed to either give blood or work the event all the way from set up to take down. All of the details are on backblast; you can also ask Pigskin the ageless one.

    Thanks to god for this wonderful weather.

    Fireman Ed

  • First Time Leading the Circus

    8-9 solid dudes enjoyed a fall like morning to get a coupon beatdown. I write 8-9 because Gypsy came out in the beginning, went on a run somewhere and then was back. Maybe there was an early morning 2 kegger. The workout went like this:

    COP: DQ, DMH, FM, merkins, AC

    Mosey to loop. Partner 1 – 5 burpees, partner 2 – carries both coupons, Partner 1 catches up to Partner 2 and switch. We did two loops. Mosey to another part of the bus loop.

    Set of exercises written on the ground of the loop. 1. Bench press 2. Curls, 3. Flutters, 4. Coupon squats, 5. Sit up press, 6. Swings, 7. Triceps while laying on the ground (forgot the F3 name) and run around the loop get coupon and get to back of line.

    We did these twice. In between we took a field trip and did 10 merkins and 10 heels to heaven w/ coupon when getting to an outdoor light. We were treated to a visitor playing a little Black Sheep. Who doesn’t get pumped up by some old school rap? At the last lights we did 20 merkins and 20 heels.

    There was some mumble chatter at times and a couple of brown clouds but otherwise great morning with a little less sweat than we are used to for the summer. It was a challenge for me to lead when I forget the names of half the kettle bell exercises but you have to start somewhere.

    Announcements: 9/18 – Field Day, 9/25 – Amelia sit and sip – Cornhole participants wanted, Iron PAX – da&n hard but there is a modify version so anyone can participate.

    Prayers for those with and recovering COVID, in Afghanistan and recovering from health maladies. Good to see Gypsy back!

    Do great things men!

    Fireman Ed