Author: Opus

  • While you’re down there…

    COP —

    hillbillies
    SSH
    cherry pickers
    jump squats
    AST’s
    crabcakes
    IJR
    pistol squats foot on wall

    20 stepups, 15 dips. 10 tempo inclined merkins — repeat stepups with bell

    20 squats, walk half loop, 15 squat with press, walk half loop, 10 squat with press and tricep

    LAZY DORA

    100 am hamBTTW
    150 thrusterspartner does people’s chair against wall
    200 kb flutterkicks6 inches
    flutterkicks, am ham

    Boat Canoes

  • Oh What a Beautiful Morning

    No it’s not Oklahoma. It’s better than that. It’s Virginia in the Autumn

    7 dudes showed up to get fit.

    Here is what happened.

    10 burpee slaughter start. Woot.

    COP — a lot of fun exercises including plank jack merkins, AmHam, arm circles, ankle circles, leg lifts twice, Freddies, DQ, etc.

    Doracides
    100 merkins
    200 squats
    300 Flutterkicks

    11’s
    Calf raises and WW2 lunge between stations

    That was it!
    Great morning with sub 60 temps. Lots of stars in the sky and a few planets as well!

    Thanks gents!

  • baby animals

    5 gents came to work out. 5 guys left 1 percent better than they were.

    COP — tempo merkins, arm circles, copperhead squats, am ham, flutters, LBC’s IW,

    DORA —
    100 bench step ups
    200 dips
    300 SSH

    ISLAND HOPPING
    30 second Wall Sit
    15 DK’s
    bear crawl
    10 deep squats
    lunge
    10 2 ct Shoulder taps
    lunge
    10 WW2
    lunge
    10 merkins
    lunge
    bear crawl
    repeato in reverso on the way backo

    next iteration
    1 minute wall sit
    20 DK’s

    bear crawl
    15 deep squats
    lunge
    15 shoulder taps
    lunge
    15 WW2
    lunge
    15 merkins
    lunge
    bear crawl

    out of time. sniff sniff

    great times had by most this morning.


  • ocho.

    8 dudes showed up to take on the day the F3 way.

    COP — IW, Copperhead Squats, hrm’s, gas pumps, LBC’s, AST’s

    THE BEAST —
    6 of these exercises at each island
    1) squats
    2) merkins
    3) smurf jacks
    4) WW2’s
    5) IW
    6) Burpees

    LAZY DORA —
    100 Flutterkicks, hold 6 inches
    200 Squats, hold al gore
    300 LBC’s, hold plank

    Fun times had by all today as we pushed ourselves and didn’t hurt ourselves

  • Runners gonna run

    4 guys came out to run today — here is what happened.

    We ran.
    Haha.
    Farmhouse loop with a little extra
    Between 4.25 and 5 miles
    Lots of conversation.

  • Planks a lot!

    5 guys came without the burgers and fries to take on the day the right way.

    COP — Hillbillies, Copperhead squats, LBC’s, DQ’s, Helicopters

    Plank set 1
    elbow plank — pump biceps 30 times
    tall plank with single leg kicks (20)
    Do this 3 times
    Jog to new spot
    Plank set 2
    30 shoulder taps
    20 Wide grip merkins
    Do this 3 times
    Jog to new spot
    Plank set 3
    30 mountain climbers
    20 plank up downs (modified to plank jacks)
    do this 3 times
    Jog to new spot
    Plank set 4
    elbow plank — knee to opposite elbow (30)
    merkins (20)
    do this 3 times

    Done with planks.

    Love Hill — back of school
    One partner runs down to the gate and back
    Other partner does lunges, then broad jump burpees, then bear crawl

    Dora Hill
    one partner Bernies up, runs back down
    100 box cutters
    200 squats
    300 SSH

    On the way back to the flag, every speed bump do 10 split jacks

    Some stretching at the end.

    Great times had by all — coffeeteria was amazing — we got to hear about everybody’s trips and even Phonics joined us this morning!

    Peace out!




  • Bringing it!

    5 guys total including an FNG came out this morning to Dapile to feel the heat and embrace the sweat!

    Opus —
    COP included merkins, DQ, IW, LBC’s, Flutters, and other stuff
    DORA —
    Short run to the fence and back
    100 stepups
    200 squats
    300 SSH

    passed it on to Helix
    to the bball courts
    4 corners plus one
    plus one runs and relieves the corner who runs and relieves the next corner, etc.
    corners were
    Monkey Humpers, merkins, flutterkicks, do something on the pull up bar (pullups, hanging, etc.)

    passed it to Phonics
    11’s
    1 WW2
    10 Burpees
    etc.

    passed it to Mr Holland
    20 AM ham each speed hump
    sprint to the first one, then every other one we jogged or walked.
    Back to the flag
    V ups (5 OYO)

    Opus took us out.
    Jul4 convergence at Dogpile 7 am
    Good to have a FNG out today — karate instructor and builder of guitars. Welcome Mustang

  • You dropped a bomb on me

    6 guys including one summer tour visitor came out for an incendiary workout.

    COP —
    IJR, Hillbillies, DQ, crabcakes, a few other things…

    You Dropped a Bomb on Me — GAP Band
    1982 — a band of brothers from Tulsa OK exploded onto the music scene with this funk hit
    Every time You Dropped a Bomb on me showed up, PAX did a burpee, other exercises included trunk twists, SSH, arm circles, butt kickers, high knees

    TNT — ACDC
    1975 — Aussie rockers blew it up with this powerful song off their High Voltage LP. Bon Scott on lead vocals
    “Oi” — merkins
    various plank positions for the verses (one hand, one leg, etc.)
    TNT — down to elbow plank and back up
    anything after TNT — plank jacks
    on the word explode, lower slowly to two inches
    guitar solo — squats
    at the end where everything falls apart, as many merkins as possible

    Triple check
    timer is doing 10 jump ups on to pull up bars
    dips
    freddies

    4 corners
    10 merkins
    20 jump squats
    30 WW2
    40 SSH

    5 DK’s 5 deep squats
    10 DK’s, 10 squats
    15 DK’s, 15 squats

    time for stretching

    Nice to have 6 on a Friday! YHC will try and post from Hilton Head. Will see you all in three weeks!



  • 2 dudes

    2 dudes came to heft some bells this morning. Here is what went down…

    COP — Helicopters, DQ, Hillbillies, copperhead squats, HRM, AST’s, leg lifts, freddies

    Progressive Dora
    100 renegade rows
    200 Goblet squats
    300 flutterkicks holding bell
    other partner runs to first light then back, then second light and back, progressing to the last light and then regressing to the first light

    11’s
    1 demon crusher, 10 merkins

    time for a few boat canoes

    Lots of extra talk time this morning. Yard sale is a good talker. 🙂
    The most fun two people could have together without getting jiggy with it.

  • hour of power

    3 bootcampers and one runner came out today for an hour long hot potato beatdown. no sad clowns.

    Opus — run .8 miles to the back of the school
    COP — Helicopters, Rotating Merkins, other things YHC can’t remember
    One person runs up the hill
    Second person lunges up
    Third person stays down the bottom and does merkins
    When runner hits the lunger on the way back the lunger starts running.
    When runner hits the third person down the bottom, they start lunging.
    Continue until every one has done the merkins.

    Bulkhead
    to the track for some four corners
    first corner — squats
    second corner — dips
    third corner — heels to heaven
    fourth corner — mountain climbers

    4 laps total
    1st lap was 10 of each exercise
    2nd lap — 20
    3rd lap — 30
    then just a running lap

    Helix —
    Triple check
    one partner does a pull up bar swing
    second partner does crunchy frogs
    timer goes to the football warmup thing and jumps over the bars all the way down and back. whew.

    passed back to Opus
    native american run back to the flag.
    then some minutes of mary

    Spit ran and clocked in 5.5 miles
    fun times had by all!