Author: Jim Huddle

For the last several Gridirons, it felt like déjà vu all over again: Tater, Atilla, Tater, Atilla. So, to break the pattern, I signed up for the Q. Salt Lick missed an opportunity to get 100 Burpees. His loss.

As always, it’s 70 and Sunny in RVA, although the internet claimed it was 55 and rainy and Chum showed up in a Gloucester Halloween disguise.

Mosey to the new Pickle Ball Courts because:

• We don’t want to get sunburned
• We want to be visible to any latecomers

Disclaimer

• I’m not a professional
• Push yourself but don’t hurt yourself
• Don’t leave here with more injuries than you came with
• Feel free to modify any exercise

11s from one baseline of the court to the other baseline with V-ups & Burpees

• 10 & 1
• 9 & 2 etc.
• Stretching exercises

Divided up for Triple Check

• Partner 1: Timer runs around the court twice and does 5 Burpees
• Partner 2: Squats
• Partner 3: Crunchy Frogs
• Stretching exercises

Mosey to the bathroom wall near the “flag” (parking lot)

• People’s Chair 15 Air Press, 10 BTTW Shoulder taps, 5 Burpees OYO
• People’s Chair 15, Milkers, 10 BTTW Australian Mountain Climbers, 5 Burpees OYO
• People’s Chair 15 Muhammad Ali, 10 BTTW Toe Taps, 5 Burpees OYO
• People’s Chair 15 Lalannes, 10 Dirty Hookup, 5 Burpees OYO

Mosey back to the shelter beside the parking lot.

• 10 Bulgarian Split Squats right leg in cadence
• 10 Bulgarian Split Squats left leg in cadence
• 10 Dips in cadence
• 9 Bulgarian Split Squats right leg in cadence
• 9 Bulgarian Split Squats left leg in cadence
• 9 Dips in cadence
• Etc down to 1

Mosey to the covered walkway at the school

• 15 pole smokers in cadence
• 15 paper dolls in cadence
• 10 Burpees, OYO

Line of Fire (same as of a Ring of Fire but we were all in a line): everyone called an exercise.

Mosey back to the bathroom

• 30 count elbow plank

Times up!

Announcements

January 13: Tuesday: 2^nd Tuesday 2^nd F: Joey’s Hot Dogs in Innsbrook, Noon.

January 24: Saturday: The Bridge. DM me in Slack (1^st-F-fitness, 3^rd-F-faith, Westhoe channels)

COT

Epiphany is January 6, the first day after the 12 Days of Christmas (December 25 to January 5.)

It is also the beginning of the season of Epiphany (in Christianity). Epiphany ends on Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras. The next day is Ash Wednesday, which is the beginning of Lent.

“Epiphany” means “a sudden revelation or insight.” It describes a breakthrough in your outlook that is wholly overwhelming. It commemorates the visit by the Magi.

In Latin America, Epiphany is often celebrated as the main gift giving day (vs Christmas). “Día de los Reyes Magos”.

The Venerable Bede (c. 673–735 AD), an influential English monk and scholar, significantly shaped Christian tradition, especially concerning the Epiphany, by popularizing the names and characteristics of the Three Magi (Melchior, Caspar, Balthasar) and linking their gifts (gold, frankincense, myrrh) to Jesus’s kingship, divinity, and mortality, solidifying Epiphany’s focus on Christ’s manifestation to all peoples, not just Jews.

Prayers for Flo’s father-in-law who recently broke his hip.

A cold day! In the 20s. Polly offered everyone some antifreeze beforehand.

Mosey to the parking lot for

Disclaimer

• I’m not a professional
• Push yourself but don’t hurt yourself
• Don’t leave here with more injuries than you came with
• Feel free to modify any exercise

Warm-up in cadence

• 20 SSHs
• 20 Imperial Walkers
• 20 Copperhead squats
• 15 Crunchy Frogs
• 10 Don Quixotes

Mosey to the Gridiron and line up on Goal line

• Mosey to 25 and do 6 Burpees
• Mosey to 50 and do 6 Burpees
• Mosey to 25 and do 6 Burpees
• Mosey to Goal line

Something new, more or less, in the End Zone

• 15 Start in plank position; in cadence
  • 1: Raise left hand straight up while the left foot goes across body horizontal to the ground,
  • 2: back to plank position
  • 3: Raise right hand straight up while the right foot goes across body horizontal to the ground,
  • 4: back to plank position
• 15 Start in plank position
  • 1: bend left leg at knee and touch knee with right hand
  • 2: back to plank position on elbows
  • 3: bend right leg a knee and touch knee with left hand
  • 4: back to plank position on elbows
• 10 Deep Mountain Climbers in cadence
• 10 Gorillas in cadence

Mosey to wall in front of school

• People’s Chair 15 Air Press, 10 BTTW Hip Slaps, 6 Burpees OYO
• People’s Chair 15 Muhammad Ali, 10 BTTW Australian Mountain Climbers 6 Burpees OYO
• People’s Chair 15 Milkers, 10 BTTW Toe Taps, 6 Burpees OYO
• Stretch:

Mosey to loading dock: 3X:

• 15 jump-squats on the loading dock
• Get down from the loading dock and run to the asphalt part of the driveway:
• 6 Burpees
• Return back to the loading dock
• Stretch after Triple Check completed

Divided up for Triple Check at the entrance to the ‘triangle’

• Partner 1: Timer runs down the covered walkway, turns right to run down the sidewalk by the back of the school to the gate, does 6 Burpees and then runs down the other sidewalk back to the covered sidewalk and turns right to return to the ‘entrance’ to the covered walkway.
• Partner 2: Squats
• Partner 3: Pole smokers

Find a bench inside the triangle

• 15 Shoulder taps with feet on bench

Mosey to benches on home team side of Gridiron for Countdown (10, 9, 8, etc)

• Bulgarians
• Dips

Back to the parking lot for

• 20 Dollies
• 20 APDs
• 20 Crunchy Frogs
• 1 Burpee

COT

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”-Heraclitus (Greek philosopher prior to Socrates: approximately 540–480 BCE)

Finished up with Donuts and some more antifreeze.