Author: Mud Face

  • Rough Draft

    11 regulars and one FNG hit the Anvil, this is what went down

    COP

    • SSH
    • DQ
    • Arm Circles – big and small
    • Helicopters
    • Arm Circles Reverso – big and small

    The Thing

    Split into two teams of 6. One member from each team goes to a station and begins doing the exercises at that station until they are relived by the team member from the last station. This goes on until all team members are back to the station they started at. Whoever gets this done first wins

    • Station 1. 3 jump-ups, 3 wide derkins, run to the soccor goal and back 3 times (This was later audibled down to 1 of each). This is the timer to move to the next station
    • Station 2. Throw the sand bag and run a lap back to the sand bag, repeat
    • Station 3. Go to basketball court. Run to first goal and back, one burpee. Run to bench and back, one burpee. Run to end of court and back, one burpee. Run to second goal and back, one burpee. Repeat
    • Station 4. Run to field. Run 10 strides, drop to ground and perofrm one merkin. Repeat to end of field and back
    • Station 5. Run to back of the school. Bearcrawl up the stairs and back down. Repeat
    • Station 6. Run up hill at back of school and do one burpee, run back down and do one donkey kick

    Announcements

    • Puppy Pile this Saturday at 7:05
    • Community movie night at Mechanicsville Church of Christ at 7 PM with food truck, yard games, and showing The Greatest Showman about 8:30 PM ish. Bring the whole family! It’ll be a lot of fun!

    Numberama

    Namearama

    No Idea took us out

    NMS

    It has been a month since the Anvil opened up and YHC wanted to touch back on some of the things that have been done in that time. the thinking was that it would be a relay race and looked really good on paper. So the call went out to gather the required number for the PAX (oddly enough the threat of a Murph actually brought more people to the AO). It went …ok, some changes need to be made before it come back out again.

    Welcome to Speed Racer, he and the entire PAX made a strong showing and crushed the workout.

    As always it was an honor to lead

  • You’re Welcome

    Six statuesque studs and a single sickly sir strove for success and stomped out the surrender to the sedentary sack of slumber

    One Burpee to celebrate the birth of Spit’s youngest

    Mosey to the inner courtyard of the school for…

    COP

    SSH

    LBC

    Arm Circles – big and small one way

    DQs

    Merkins

    Arm Circle Reverso – big and small

    Mosey to the front of the school for …

    Build a Burp Baby Bench Beast

    Start at bench in front of school – 6 squats

    run to playground to next bench – 6 squats, 6 mountain climbers

    3rd bench – 6 squats, 6 mountain climbers, 6 HRM

    4th bench – 6 squats, 6 mountain climbers, 6 HRM, 6 jump squats

    5th bench – 6 squats, 6 mountain climbers, 6 HRM, 6 jump squats, 6 SSH

    run to the far end of the fieldto the last bench – 36 burpees

    run back to each bench in reverse order, removing an excersize at each bench until you are back down to 6 squats

    Mosey back to the playground for a little

    Triple Check

    groups of 3

    first partner runs to the soccer goal and back while the others do wide hand derkins (werkin derkins?) and burp-ups. Switch up when the runner gets back. Normal triple check rules apply

    TO THE BASKET BALL COURT for…

    Suicides

    run to first basketball hoop and back, do one burpee

    run to benches and back, do two burpees

    run to second basketball hoop and back, do three burpees

    run to the end of the court and back, do ten burpees

    Mosey back to the flag

    Ring of fire

    first round 5 explosive merkins

    second round 5 crabcakes

    Announcements

    no excuses workout happening this Saturday, EH some people

    https://www.facebook.com/events/2335554440048502/

    NUMBERAMA

    NAMEARAMA

    Chewy took us out

    NMS

    It was good to get back to the Anvil after a week off. There was a plan for today’s workout that was thrown out the window once Spit asked if we could a one burpee at the beginning of the workout for a birthday celebration. That sounds like a great idea and if we are doing one why not do a lot more. This all sounded great and that YHC blames on the fever that he had the night before. Solid effort was put in by all and it was great to have Bucket Mouth returning for the summer.

    Thanks for letting me lead

  • Lots of Things Were Passed This Morning

    COP all IC

    SSH x 10

    Helicopters x 10

    DQ x 10

    Arm circles x 10 small 5 big and reverso

    Thang

    all done wth 40 pound KB

    1st – PAX lines up and  turns left to pass the KB  to the man behind them then run to end of line, switch to right turn halfway around the circle.

    2nd – Line up like the first this one passes the KB over their head to the person behind them and they pass it under their legs to the person behind them. Run to the end of the line after the KB is passed. Positions were changed halfway to ensure everyone got a chance at each position. Some did a burpee on the way to the end of the line.

    3rd – Pax lines up again and holds plank. Do 2 Merkin-Rows and pass the KB, run to end of line and plank up. This is done for half of the circle

    4th – PAX holds Helix Squat. First man performs 1 Turkish Get Up and pass to the next in line, then runs to end of line and get back into squat. Done till the tree got in the way

    Lumber Jack Line to burn up time

    Mosey to the Flag.

    Announcments

    Labor Day Covergence at Three Lakes Park 7:00 Labor day. See Pre-Blast

    Numberama

    Namearama

    THE Carpenter took us out

    NMS

    The night before YHC send out a message telling everyone that they would not need to bring a Kettle Bell to a Kettle Bell workout. So everyone brought a kettle bell anyway.

    YHC wanted to ease the PAX into these exercises as 40 pounds was more than some were used to moving around and to help them get an idea of what would be done. Some decided that this was too easy and started doing burpees on the way to the end of the line. Wanting to give the PAX what they wanted we went right into the Merkin Row line. This started out moving slow until someone dropped some of the 4th F that proceeded to progress down the line, the tempo increased greatly.

    The 4th F made its presence know a lot this morning prompting the PAX to wonder food combinations would produce the most pungent aroma. Suggestions that this be the September Challenge were put forth.

    Good work was put in by all

    Thanks for letting me lead

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • The 5 D’s

    6 regulars, 2 summer tourists and one FNG answered the call for the MANNdate Murph

    Run 2 laps from the parking lot around the bus loop and back, walk 2 laps around the parking lot while performing slingshots

    100 High pulls

    200 lawn mowers

    300 snatches

    repeat the walks and runs if finished

    Mosey to SF for Boat/Canoe

    Numberama

    Namearama

    Announcements

    Pre-blast for Labor Day Convergence coming out soon

    Ghost Flag should be making an appearance soon as well

    Spit took us out

    NMS

    YHC really liked the walking slingshots that Spit introduced last week and after the customary several minutes of thought they were worked into today’s Murph. It was good having Kubota and Rosie with us this morning as they continue on their Summer Tour.

    About halfway through, No Idea and YHC lost count of the number of rounds that they had done. They then started talking trash to Helix in an attempt to make him lose count as well. Not sure if it worked or not but it was fun to try.

    The main topic of conversation this morning revolved around injuries that were odd for the activity being performed. Like breaking your arm swimming. The someone said “if your are gonna get hurt it should be cool, like being hit with a thrown wrench”, and that is how Patches got his name. Needless to say the Dodgeball quotes were flying.

    Strong work was done by all. Thanks for letting me lead

  • Back to the Circus

    COP all IC

    SSH

    Helicopter

    Don Quixote

     

    The Beast

    6 (or 7 if the Q forgets how to count) Rounds of 6 stations with 6 count of exercise performed at each

    lunge to first station, bear crawl to second, crawl bear to third, Frog Hop to fourth, Hop Frog to fifth,  lunge to sixth. All with KB.

    Sit and press

    lawnmowers

    snatch

    merkin row

    high pull

    goblet squats

    halos

    Triple Check

    Donkey Kicks

    Turkish Get-ups

    Waiter carry to end of pavilion and back

    Announcements

    4th of July Convergence

    Pick2’s wedding Q at The Creek July 6th

    Numberama

    Namearama

    J-Ville took us out

    NMS

    It has been 6 months since YHC’s last trip to the Circus. So when Opus asked if he wanted to go, he said “sure”. it was good to be back with this crew.

    Apparently YHC cannot count, he blames this on his Mechanicsville public education, and the beast went for 7 rounds instead of 6. Which everyone was very happy to point out.

    Everyone put in good work and it was great to see Wedding Singer come out for The Summer Tour.

    Thanks for letting me lead

     

     

     

     

     

  • Bells, Babies, and Dinosaurs

    6 men showed up to MANNdate for Chewy’s 2nd Q, with a Jurassic Park theme for the upcoming movie

    COP
    SSH
    Helicopters
    Smurf jacks
    DQ
    LBC
    Crab cakes
    American hammers

    Mosey to car loop

    Catch me if you can – all the kettlebells placed along car loop, everyone partnered up and decided whether to be the lawyer running to the bathroom (chased) or the tyrannosaurus (chasing)
    Lawyer – at each kettlebell 10 kettle bell squats (toilet squats)
    Tyrannosaurus – start of with 10 hand release merkins (t-rex merkins) and 3 each arm hammer curls (t-rex curls) at each kettlebell. When they are caught they switch.

    Mosey to field

    Egg Hunt – 2 teams (raptors and people) are on opposite sides and the kettlebells (eggs) start off the boundary line. The goal is to get the most bells into the team’s specific area. Both teams can cross the boundary line, but when the are on their opponents’ side, they can get tagged. When someone is tagged they let go of any bells they’re holding, drop down, and to crab cakes until someone does 5 2-count crab cakes beside them.

    Mosey to flag

    Boat canoes

    Numberama

    Namearama

    Mudface took us out

    NMS
    The workout got off to a shaky start since it was only Chewy’s 2nd Q, but things quickly got better during the COP. Chewy enjoyed having everyone do excessive amounts of crab cakes to Mudface’s disproval.

    The only time someone had their own kettle bell was when they were doing American hammers during the COP or around the flag doing boat canoes. The rest of the time everyone used everyone’s bell. During the Catch-me-if-you-can and Egg Hunt the kettlebells were with someone different than their owners.

    After Helix and No Idea left, Spit received a call. Right afterwards, he hopped into his car and drove away. Everyone left thought either his wife was having the baby they were expecting or No Idea decided to drive into their house.

  • The Creek gets an R rating

    COP all IC

    SSH x 15

    Merkin x 1

    Helicopters x 10

    Crabcakes x 1

    Arm Circles x 10 small, 5 Big, Reverso

    Mosey to the dew covered freshly mowed field

    Belching (this is what it is named in the Exicon)

    Pax lines up face down

    Q says go

    PAX sprints 10 strides and hits the deck

    One merkin, one WWII situp

    Low crawl forward or back to line the PAX back up

    Repeat until they reach the end of the field

    Mosey back to the parking lot

    Four Corners Ascending

    Run to each corner and perform 10 burpees

    exercises added to the bottom of the burpee at each corner

    1st – 1 Hand Release Merkin

    2nd – 1 Hand Release Merkin, 2 WWII sit-ups

    3rd – 1 Hand Release Merkin, 2 WWII sit-ups, 3 2 count Mountain Climbers

    4th – 1 Hand Release Merkin, 2 WWII sit-ups, 3 2 count Mountain Climbers, 4 Alabama Prom Dates

    Yard Sale asked if we could do them again and YHC hates to disappoint the PAX.

    Four Corners Descending

    APD replaced with LBC’s because some things can never be unseen

    Work the corners back down to Hand Release Merkin Burpees

    Mosey back to the flag

    one Turkish get up each side and one Boat/Canoe to eat up time

    Announcments

    Summer Challenge is going on

    Puppy Pile 6/23 0705

    July 4th Convergence

    Numberama

    Namearama

    Chewy took us out

    NMS

    The Belching was just good, wet, messy fun that looked interesting while reading through the list of routines.

    YHC watched a video of a lady beating the world record for burpees in 60 minutes (1,490) with form that would get you mercilessly mocked at any AO that YHC has been to. This lead to too much though about burpees and all the fun things that can be done with them. That gave YHC an opportunity to get his work in for the Swamp Rabbit challenge as well. Tea Party and The Carpenter tore this one up. Aperently YHC will have to step up his Qing game if he hopes to challenge those two in the future.

    It was necessary to change out APD after watching the form and technique of Yard Sale, that along with the noises that he was making this morning was definitely NSFW. There is not enough brain bleach in the world for that image. YHC was just glad that he did not have to explain that to his kids on the way home.

    Proud father moment, when Chewy went back to the second corner to check on Ewok who was having some trouble and then staying with him until he finished the last corner. YHC seeing his oldest 2.0 go back and make sure that his youngest 2.0 was ok was almost enough to give him a feeling. Coincidentally, at that same time some dust got in YHC’s eye and he had to blink a lot to get it out.

    Thanks for letting me lead

     

     

     

     

     

  • How Fast Can We Leave

    8 men showed up for some  early morning fun in the 70 and sunny

    COP all IC

    SSH x 11

    Merkins x 10

    LBC x 10

    Don Quixote x 10

    Mosey to bus loop

    Beast

    6 Rounds of 6 stations with 6 count of exercise performed at each

    lunge to first station, bear crawl to second, crawl bear to third, Frog Hop to fourth, Gorf Poh to fifth, backward lunge to sixth. All with KB. Waiter carry back to start. Al Gore or Plank to wait for the 6

    1st round Halos (6 right, 6 left)

    2nd round sit-up press

    3rd round Overhead Press (This is as far as we got)

    4th round slingshots (6right, 6 left)

    5th round squat press

    6th round Lawn Mowers (6 right, 6 left)

    Mosey to SF

    10 Helix squats IC

    Announcements

    F3RVA Summer Tour has begun

    Numberama

    Namearama

    The Carpenter took us out

    NMS

    YHC and Chewy rolled in to an empty parking lot, planted the flag and went to make sure that everything that was planed would work. People started rolling in and 5:30 rolled around, time to go. Opinions about YHC’s counting speed were voiced and then voiced again when the sped was changed. YHC was just happy to get it done before Emoji could mess up his count.

    Things quieted down as the beast progressed. There was talk about some people wanting a massage after the workout and things tool a bad turn from there. The beast took longer than planned, expect the second half to show up later.

    Hard work was put in by all. Thanks for letting me lead

     

     

     

     

     

  • Where Did All These Kids Come From

    Warm-up run around the church

    COP

    Crunchy Frog

    Smurf Jacks

    Hand Release Merkins

    Arm Circles (big, small, reverso)

    to the wettest, muddiest part of the field for

    Tunnel of Love

    Pax lines up in plank

    Last in line army crawls to the front

    2 time through

    5 burpees or boya merkins at the end

    Mosey to the back parking lot for

    Basketball Shootout

    PAX Separates into two teams (1.0s VS 2.0s)

    one member of each team takes a shot

    Make it , the team does 3 burpees

    Miss it, team runs other side of the parking lot and back

    shoot for 10 minutes

    Winners take a victory lap around the church

    Losers plank until they get back

    Seagulls

    plank up

    Play the song Seagulls, Stop It Now

    Merkin every time it says “seagulls” or “stop”

    Mosey back to SF for

    Boat/Canoe ring of fire

    PAX holds boat

    one person does 5 Boat/Canoes then hands off to the person beside them

    Announcements

    PuppyPile 2.0 Workout is May 19th at 7:05am at Dogwood Dell after Spit’s beat down.

    Numberama

    Namearama

    Recess took us out

    NMS

    Three months ago Recess and Ewok asked if they could Q The Creek. YHC checked the Q list and it was open and the date was saved.

    They jumped in it feet first. I typical VQ fashion  there was no sleep on VQ eve and they woke YHC about an hour and a half early. The workout was discussed and it was determined that a weinke would not be needed (this ended up being a mistake). We woke up Chewy and hit the road.

    YHC and his crew got to the AO at 5:20 to see and unfamiliar car waiting. Welcome to The Creek Vinny. A quick ride around the AO to make sure that the basketball hoops were still there, another five minutes watching The Carpenter take his 2.0s for a quick tour of the parking lot, and then we got to work and picked up Hardywood at the end of the first lap.

    After some coaching, the disclaimer was said and the FNGs were welcomed. Cadence for the COP was on point, but there was some confusion as to what exercises were going to be performed. But the pulled it back together.

    Tunnel of Love, was originally gong to be four corner tunnel of love with ascending count exercises at each corner around the field. The PAX made it half way down one side when an audible was called. All of this occurred after the debate of weather it should be done trough the mud or over the gravel, mud won out. Have several 2.0s making up the tunnel adds a level of difficulty, as YHC learned as he tried to crawl under The Carpenter’s smallest 2.0.

    The teams for basketball were 2.0s versus 1.0s. The boys in the DaVille region need to work on their shooting skills. YHC belives that at least one, if not both, of the 1.0s baskets were scored by visitors from other regions. The 2.0s dominated the 1.0s in this, leaving with a score of 4 to 2. They then went off on what was either the longest or the slowest victory lap while the rest of the PAX planked. We were running out of things that you can raise while in plank by the time that they got back.

    YHC thought that there were a lot more “seagulls” and “stop” in the some. It turned into a 3 minute plank with 4 merkins as a rest.

    YHC is proud of this boys. Was it the smoothest Q? No. Did they lose focus and start planing with the other 2.0s there? Yes. Did they push the PAX? I think that they did. Was it fun? yes it was. Was it the most frustrating Q the YHC has been a part of? Yes, Yes it was. But they came to me to lead it and they planned the whole thing out with little input from me and in the end two boys, with their age still in single digits, lead their VQ for a PAX of 18. So what they have from me is pride and respect.

    Thanks for letting them lead

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Less Talk, More Work

    A PAX of three made it out to the 70 and sunny  spring morning to test themselves against the MANNdate Murph for April

    The Murph

    Run a mile

    100 Sit and Press

    200 Lawnmowers

    300 Goblet squats

    Run a mile

    Mosey to the Flag

    Merkin Ring of Fire

    PAX hold plank

    while one member does 10 merkins

    go around the circle until all have done merkins

    Numberama

    Namarama

    Chewy took us out

    NMS

    The PAX attacked the workout this morning and strong work was put in by all.  Mumblechatter was at a minimum, most of it coming from YHC and Spit. Chewy was working too hard to get brought into boring adult conversations.

    There are PAX out there that have not been to the gloom in some time and some men that are not aware that they should be in the PAX. We need to EH and re-EH. Lets get those numbers up

    As always it was an honor to lead.