Author: Mud Face

Three posted for a little kettlebell work on a foggy and humid morning. This is what they did

COP all IC

SSH x 15

APD x 10

LBC x 10

Arm Circles x 10 small 5 big (reverso)

Triple Check x 3

Sit up Press

Boat/Canoe

Waiter carry around the parking lot

Four Corners

Lawn Mower x 25 each side

Waiter carry

Clean and Press x 25 each side

Rack carry

Goblet Squats x 50

Waiter Carry other arm

Snatch x 25

Rack Carry other arm

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Blue Cheese took us out

NMS

No one had taken the Q for MANNdate the night before so YHC had called a Hot Potato. Mumble Chatter was about what would be done for each section. Good work done by all

Thanks for letting me contribute

 

 

6 happy party goers arrived to celebrate Chewy’s V-Q on his birthday. Here is how the party went down

COP all IC

• SSH x 26
• Helicopters x 13
• Imperial Walkers x 13
• LBC x 13
• Arm Circles x 13 small 6.5 big reverso

Triple Check x 3 rounds

• Goblet Squats x 26
• Boat/Canoe
• Hell-BC – begin burpee, after merkin roll to your six and perform 5 LBCs, roll back over to another merkin and   finish the burpee

break into groups of three with one PAX member on each exercise. Once 26 squats are done, rotate to next exercise

Four Corners

26 Clean and Press each arm

lunge to next corner

run a lap

13 Lawnmowers each arm

Death Crawl to next corner

run a lap

Halos 13 each direction

Backward lunge to next corner

run a lap

13 swings each arm

Ring of Fire

Round 1

PAX hold Boat, one at a time each PAX member holds Canoe for 13 seconds and passes to next in line

Round 2

PAX holds Al Gore with kettlebell, each PAX member completes 13 kettle bell presses and pass to next in line

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Announcements

• First Thursdays in DaVille this Thursday at 6pm. Ultimate Frisbee then head over to Marty’s (9357 Atlee Rd, Mechanicsville, VA 23116)  for drinks. M’s and 2.0’s welcome to join
• Reesestrong registration is now open and Phonics has created the F3RVA team: https://runsignup.com/RaceGroups/4045/Groups/386047
• Sunday August 5th is the dry run of the Bootcamp on Sunday’s – To Be Named on the 5th.  It will be at 7am and end at 8am at Atlee HS. Invite, EH, attend, make it happen. We all know a few who say – “It’s too early” or “I can’t do anything during the week.” Time to go back to them and EH them some more.

Chewy took us out

NMS

The normal sleepless night before a virgin Q seemed to hit Chewy last night, as YHC found out this morning when he was woken up by a fully dressed and wide awake 13 year old. The nervousness lasted on the trip to the AO with questions, reassurances, and discussions about servant leaders. All nervousness dissipated as soon as the flag was planted and the first “Let’s Mosey” was spoken.

Chewy hit the cadence to the point that he was comfortable increasing it during the Smurf Jacks. He had some questions on the 6.5 arm circles, but after a round of “you’re the Q” it was picked back up like there was no pause.

Triple check was interrupted by the 4th F, to which a reply of “I see you, and Ill raise you one” brought on some mumble chatter as to whether the raise would require a change of pants. YHC was a little concerned when Chewy announced that the first group done would get a prize, as he knows Chewy and the way he thinks. The prize was for the winning group to do 5 extra Hell-BCs while the other group did Boat/Canoe until they were done.

Four corners apparently got spirits high as some of the PAX decided that it was a good idea to slap YHC on his six while he was doing death crawls. YHC can remember it happening seven times, so someone took more than one turn at it. Next time a simple get your butt down will work fine. YHC can see why people would want to do this, but explaining to his M why he has a hand print on his six could have gotten awkward.

Saw the ChainRing crew as we were finishing up, but we could not wave at the time as we were all holding kettle bells in AL Gore at the time. Its good to see a Da’Ville AO ride past another Da’Ville AO.

YHC could not be prouder of Chewy this morning. He was there to help, but Chewy gave every indication that he would have been fine without him. YHC may be biased, but this was the greatest V-Q ever done. After the COT there must have been some dirt or grass clippings that got in his eye.

It was good to see E.F. Hutton make the trip this morning, hope to see him in Da’Ville again.

Thanks for letting Chewy (us) lead

Mudface

 

 

 

6 men posted on a beautiful morning at Washington Henry Elementary to move some cast iron around. This is what occurred

COP all IC

SSH x 20

DQ x 10

Hillbillies x 10

Arm Circles  x 10 small 5 big and reverso

Pyramid

Two had swings

One hand swings 2 count

Snatch 2 count

Thrusters 2 count

Lawn mowers 2 count

Sit-up press

Diamond merkins on bell

Do all each round, increasing count by one each round. Ten rounds up and then back down to one

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Announcements

• Reese Strong 5K 9/16
• 2nd F at Brewville at 5:30 to 7:30 tonight. See Wildthing
• Ghost Flag will make an appearance at The Creek this Friday for Abacus’s Q

COT

No Idea took us out

NMS

YHC was looking for redemption after the lame Q that he brought here recently. it was decided that simplicity was the way to go.

Mumblechatter was high until the second round had begun and then nothing but grunts and heavy breathing, I can only imagine what the runners that came by thought we were doing.

The PAX only made it up one side of the Pyramid. Except for Chewy , who finished up two rounds before everyone else, demonstrating  why he gets hate at the end.

Arranging the eye candy at the end of the workout was difficult, but necessary as there was nothing in the PAX worth looking at.

Thanks for letting me lead

 

 

 

COP all IC

SSH X 15

DQ x 10

Hillbillies x 10

Indian Burpees

PAX lines up and perform burpees

the six run up to lead

from playground to post

Death Crawl Polar Bears

Bear crawl 5 steps with KB

one merkin with hand on KB

spin around

one merkin with other had on KB

crawl bear 5 steps with KB

from post to playground

Mosey to track for

Lindsey

30 merkin rows and 10 situp presses

run a lap

then increase and decrease by 10

Some Abomination That Did Not Work

I don’t know what happened here

there were merkins in swings

weighted leg lifts

I think a playground slide came into play

some running was done

NMS

YHC needs to apologize to the PAX that showed up today. He did not have his act together and the Q showed it. In a moment of pride he thought that he could just wing it when he got there, that proved to be hubris on his part. There was too much walking, nothing flowed right, and that thing at the end was a travesty. YHC owes you a better, proper beatdown. Thank goodness there were no FNGs there.

With that said the PAX crushed everything that was put in front of them with out complaint.

 

Three men showed up to bravely explore the MANNDate AO.

COP all IC

SSH x 16

Helicopters x 10

Arm circles (10 big 5 small)

Thing

Four Corners

Corners are the far corners of the school. Beast is done to get to the corners, stopping every ten steps to perform a five count of one exercise. Exercise changes after three round

Corners

1. Clean and press x 25 each arm
2. Squats x 50
3. High Pulls x 50
4. Lawn Mowers x 25 each arm

Beast

1. WW2 sit ups
2. LBC
3. Merkin Rows
4. Kettle Bell Burpies
5. Snatch
6. mountain climbers
7. Dips
8. Probably a lot that are missing

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Blue Cheese took us out

NMS

YHC has wanted to get a goo exploration of the MANNDate AO for some time now, but never seemed to get it. So today we took a walk. We only got three of the corners before we had to mosey to the flag. Bleacher were found and tested for its structural strength (dips) and all kinds of things were found that could be used in a beatdown. Thanks for letting me lead

 

Six grim eyed warriors bravely conquered the fartsack to face the rain and gloom to scream defiance in the face of the Sad Clown. This is how the battle progressed…

Mosey to school entrance

COP: All IC

SSH x 10

Hillbillies x 10

DQ x 10

Mosey to front yard

Crush Your Enemies

11s – goblet squats and Lawnmowers each side

5 step Death Crawl between

See Then Driven Before You

Tree of Woe – Partner up with someone with a bell close to the same weight. Partner one runs the loop while partner two static holds both bells at arms length to the sides until partner one returns, switch

Two rounds

Hear the Lamentation of Their Women

Valeria (Lindsey)

Merkin Rows and sit up press

adjust by ten each time

2 count Mountain Climbers between sets x 20

Beast

6 Clean and press at every third parking space. Right arm down, left arm back

6 of whatever you want down and back

Mosey to the VF

Announcements:

Askcreek 5K May 20th see Spit

Charlottsville expansion May 20th see LabRat

New AO in Mechanicsville at Pole Green Park May 11th See Phonics

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Emoji took us out

NMS:

Welcome to Blue Cheese, hope to see you around more. YHC only had a 10 pound bell for him to use. This brought some mumblechatter at the beginning but he seemed to be more appreciative of it at the end.

YHC was originally worried that the beatdown would not live up to the Conan theme in intensity. But one the Tree of Woe was brought out and experienced, all doubts vanished. As usual, Helix’s form was excellent, even when he was trying to death crawl back to his car.

Once again thanks for giving me the privilege of leading and for allowing me to be part of this great group.

Do you want to live forever?

5 men gathered in the gloom to move some bells. It should have been 6, but the person that called out YHC to lead this morning didn’t show up. Not gonna name names, Wheelie knows what he did.

Mosey to the school entrance

COP

SSH x 12 IC

Don Quixotes x12 IC

Hillbillies x 12 IC

Mosey back to the front yard for the main set

Each hold is for a four count, each set is done for 90 seconds

Two handed press  hold half way

repeat with  no hold

Clean and press hold at rack then press

repeat with  no hold

Sit up press hold at top of press

repeat with no hold

Merkin rows hold at bottom of merkin and at top of row

repeat with no hold

Lawn mowers  hold at top of pull  (switching arms throughout)

Repeat with no hold

Low Pull  hold at top

repeat no hold

Low Lunge  hold in lunge and at transition

repeat no hold

Squats  hold at bottom

repeat no hold

KB swings hold over head

repeat no hold

Curl hold at half (switching arms throughout)

repeat no curl

Boat canoe to finish out time

Short Mosey to flag

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Helix took us out

Announcements

• Ashcreek 5K May 20th. See Spit. http://www.ashcreek5k.com/

NMS

The weather was beautiful in the gloom as YHC pulled in at 5:26 to see two cars in the lot but another two follow him in, none of which contained Wheelie.The COP was meant to have more exercises each one only have 4 done, but apparently YHC cannot count past 3 when Q’ing. YHC’s son (Chewy) saw the swings for the challenge and stated “what if you stopped half way through and froze” the light bulb went off and this workout was created.

The mumble-chatter slowly died to grunts during the merkin rows and the low lunges, not sure but it looked like THE Carpenter was thinking about lunging back home. The PAX attacked this workout with enthusiasm and vigor and did us all proud.

Thanks again for letting me lead