Category: Richmond, VA

  • Second hand smoke

    At 5:30 am Huguenot High School welcomed an eclectic mix of Forge regulars, visitors, and a special lady smoking the chronic in her car. The stage was set for an epic beatdown that was sure to be enjoyed by all.

    Mosey to the lower circle for warmups that included the following: Don Quixotes, helicopters, cherry pickers, dead man hang, Russian Soldiers, LBC’s, hand release merkins.

    Exercise 1:
    Using the lower parking area that is divided into 3 sections:
    Broad Jump Burpees, Broad Jumps, Broad Jump Burpees.
    Turn around and complete: Plank walk, crab walk, plank walk.

    A late arriving Hardywood infused the group with energy and propelled us to the finish line.

    Exercise Two: At the base of lower grass hill: Bear Crawl up the hill, reverse bear crawl down. Repeat x 5.

    Exercise 3:

    Mosey to the big hill and partner up. Partner one does a suicide style run using 3 no parking signs as the turnaround points. Other partner does WWII sit ups.

    Audibled to 2 parking signs for the second and third set. Partners alternated between running and doing flutter kicks then hello dollies.

    Exercise 4: At the school: Rotate between Tooth Fairies, 20 count chicken peckers, 20 count dips until time was called. Back to the flag!

    Names/Numbers

    Announcements: Celebrate dry January by getting your drink on at Kindred Spirits in February. See Slack for details.

    Greenbow took us out. Specific prayers for Last Call’s MIL and all those battling COVID.

    Final Thoughts:

    It was great to have Fin stop by this morning. He is part of F3 in Greenville, NC and was in town for a couple days for a swim meet.

    Also happy that Greenbow’s comeback tour reached our neck of the woods.

    Glad we got this workout in despite all of the uptick in COVID cases. Stay safe out there!

    There’s a lot to love about being outside early in the morning: the crisp cold air and the crunching of the frost beneath our feet can be magical at times. But there is no better treat than running through a cloud of ganja smoke in route to the warm-up circle.

    It was an honor to lead!


  • Comin’ In Hot

    2 top notch gentlemen of the gloom arose, defeated the fartsack and posted at Timberwolf today. According to the lunch ladies, this is how it went down:

    Warmerama

    Mosey all the way around the school. Circle up (line up) for

    COP

    • 10 Invisible Jump Rope
    • 1 Batwing:
      • 20 Arm Circles
      • 20 Circle Arms
      • 20 Seal Claps
      • 20 Overhead Claps
    • 10 Don Quixote
    • 10 Collard Pickers
    • 10 Freddie Mercury
    • 10 Hello Dolly
    • 10 Rosalita
    • 10 Merkins

    Mosey long way around to basketball courts via indigenous people run, PAX in back does 3 burpees before going to front of line. Once at basketball court:

    Wilt Chamberlain

    Run length of court and back before each of the following:

    • 100 LBCs
    • 100 Squats
    • 100 Flutter Kicks (2 count)
    • 100 Lunges (50 each leg)

    Mosey to picnic tables for Dora:

    • 100 Dips
    • 200 Incline Merkins
    • 300 Squats
    • Timer is to last light pole in line and back

    BTTF, 2 minutes of mary, numbers, names, no announcements, YHC took us out.

    NMM

    While we were chatting at the end there was a speed demon lunch lady who must have been late, we were ready to jump out of the way as fast as they were rolling in! Good to catch up with Bullseye. These times are tough on all of us. YHC is very thankful we have each other to lean on. As ever during this ongoing pandemic it feels like we are in the year 2020 part 2. YHC appreciates we all have different comfort levels. Two PAX with COVID is certainly scary. As with all the beat downs YHC has attended this week we took extra care to maintain social distancing.

  • Esther Williams Spread

    A lucky 11 descended upon 45 minutes of Gerry to see if the velcro on their Depends would hold. This is what transpired, more or less….

    COT: Light stretching, merkins, and what have you

    Early Bird Special: Bear Crawl, 10 Merkins, Crab Walk,10 WWIIs. Traversing about 6 trees.

    Next: 10 Merkins and 10 Dips. Run point to point. 3 iterations

    Catch me if you Can: One Lap. Partner does 5 merkins while other runs backwards.

    Balls to Wall, Chicken Peckers, Bear Crawls, Out and Back Run, Donkey Kicks…out and back run

    Partner Up: Partner runs out and does 5 pull ups while other partner does series of exercises. 4 iterations: Merkins, WWII, MC’s, Dollys.

    Finish: Suicides and Crab Walks, then ring of fire.

    NMS:

    Beyond the din of TYA’s excessive commentary not much to add…

    YHC is continuing to be mistaken for TYA, you can make pretty much any running route phallus-shaped, and Esther Williams had it going-on for a randy 4th grader.

    Announcements:

    Thoughts and prayers to Bleeder’s mom who is in the hospital.

    Ongoing support to TYA as he continues his treatments.

    Saab abides – when able.

  • A Little Hill Workout

    6 Davillians showed up for our weekly run this morning. YHC had given everyone a heads up we would be switching it up a little this morning and doing a hill workout rather than a normal run.

    We started with a warmup jog to the Knollwood entrance a little over a mile from starting point. Once at hill we started at bottom and gave it all we had to run to top (about .15 miles), then walk back about 100 yards and jog down to bottom of hill. Repeat. Half the group completed 6 rounds and other half completed 5 reps. Finished with 1 mile jog back. Total mileage was approximately 4-4.5 miles for the PAX.

    Counterama, Namerama, Announcerama, 6th man

    We encouraged each to sign up for Q’s and continue to work on getting others out for workouts.

    Great workout this morning fellas.

    YHC took us out in prayer.

  • Back To Normal

    In a crispy cold morning, seven strong men showed up for the beatdown. Here is how it went down:

    YHC moseyed through the Bump House to get to  the Carillon Courtyard for some warm-ups–it was about a mile run.

    Arm circle x10 (both direction), DQ x10, Helicopters x10, LBC x 20, Merkins x10, Scorpion Kicks x10 OYO.

    First, YHC broke PAX into two groups. Circumnavigate inner and outer Carillon Field, running lengths, bearcrawl far end, returning to the courtyard to complete reps IC for the SIX. Each group took turns in running inner and outer the field: Round 1: 20X Merkins, Round 2: 20X American Hammers, Round 3: 20X SSH, Round 4: 20X WWII

    YHC moseyed to the triangle right next to the Carillon Courtyard. Started at the top with lunge to intersection, ran down the hill, 20 LBC, bernie saunders up the hill, and 20 merkins. Repeated this exercise three times

    YHC moseyed back to the flag.

    Numberama, Nameorama, COT

    Announcements – Swirly updated us on M’s current status and thanked all text, calls, and care.

    Prayers – prayer for Honeydo and DTH ‘s quick recovery and for TYA and Bleeder’s mother.

    Pucker took us out with prayer.

  • Refreshing Run

    In a crispy cold but refreshing morning, three brave men showed up. Orange Crush felt like we did not put enough layer considering temperature. As soon as we started running toward the DogPile, he never mentioned it again. Upon completion of return trip, we all felt great and were glad we did run in the morning.

  • Bodos’ Revenge

    Potatoes were passed, as well as pinecones, some at faces.  The PAX exercised along the way.

    Here’s what transpired:

    UpChuck Q

    Mosey to the church patio. 

    COP

    • SSHs
    • Imperial Walkers
    • Good Mornings
    • Hand Release Merkins
    • Flutter Kicks
    • Hello Dollys
    • Don Quixotes
    • Dead Man Hang

    Tripleish Check

    P1 – Run to Lightpost and back

    P2 – Exercise (Derkins, Squats, WWIIs)

    Bodos Q

    ?

    Handshake Q

    Mosey to parking lot

    Compounding 4 Corners

    • 10 HRMs, 20 WWIIs, 30 FKs, 40 Jump Squats, reverso w/o compounding

    Back to Bodos Q

    Mosey behind Church

    Burpicides

    • Run to ¼ mark for 1 Burpee, back to start 2 Burpees, up to ½ mark 3 Burpees, back to start 4 Burpees….finish at 8 Burpees

    Kubota Q

    Mosey to Garbage Shelter

    • 10 Merkins?, Bear Crawl to Curb, 10 Merkins, Crawl Bear back
    • 20 Donkey Kicks, Lunge, 10 Reverse Crunches, Lunge
    • 20 Donkey Kicks, Russian Soldier, 10 Merkins, Reverse Russian Soldier
    • 10 Chicken Peckers

    EF Hutton Q

    Mosey to oddly place guard rail, proper stop for Speed Bump Burpees along the way

    • Jack Web until time – Derkins/ Dips

    Mosey back to flag

    Numberama, Nameorama, COT

    MOLESKIN

    A hot potato was the soup du jour.  Bodos’ soup was cold and sent back, then returned piping hot.  The PAX took extra precaution in staying the prescribed 6+ feet apart today.  Handshake encouraged such with remnants of lasagna and bourbon.  Bodos wielded pinecones against any encroachers.  UpChuck told a joke about f*ckin broccoli.  Ask him to repeat it to you sometime. 

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    Stay safe out there

  • Buckets of Fun

    YHC decided last minute to pull the plug on SOT Q and stayed close to home with a Satan’s Hill Q. According to the two deer in the parking lot and perhaps Sparky who was warming up his car, it went down like this.

    Warmup: SSH, Deadman hang, imperial walkers, jazzercise, Don Quiote, merkins

    Thang 1: with coupon 3 sets of: 15 curls, 15 overhead press, 15 jerkins

    Thang 2: with coupon 3 sets of: 15 triceps extensions, squats, merkins

    Thang 3: mosey to YHC’s driveway where two 5 gallon buckets of near freezing water awaited. one partner carried the 70+ lb and walked as far as possible while other partner called out an exercise. After 20min and multiple trips up the hill we headed back to the flag.

    YHC took us out, prayers for all the PAX affected by Covid.

  • WTH have I been missing?

    3 met in the gloom at WTH to celebrate the triumphant (slow) return of Greenbow.

    The Thang:

    Quick warm up around the bus loop 2x waiting for stragglers. There were none other brave enough.

    Run East on Three Chopt; North ramp into WBV; Stay right toward lake; gravel path on right to cross Three Chopt; South on Thamesford Way.

    At each street (dead end) on the West side of Thamesford Way, run to the end, circle back-to-last until pax is together. Then, perform exercise prescribed by the Q:

    Harcourt Ln: Merkin x10; Tottenham Ct: keep running; Tottenham Pl: Merkin x10; unnamed circle: Jumping Jack x1 (because it’s not really a full street); Ivy Home Terr: scissor kick x20

    Start the trip back North. Repeat run to end, back-to-last, exercise for each street (dead end) on the East side of Thamesford Way:

    Ivy Home Pl: Downhill Merkin x10; Thamesford Ct: keep running; Harcourt Terr: merkin x10

    Cross Three Chopt; right to continue around lake; back to the parking lot, run loops until Greenbow arrives – optional, burpees in parking lot until Greenbow arrives (weird, no one did this)

    Burpee x10; Pinto’s beach body special request aka LBC x25; Rosalita x10

    Total mileage: 3.65

    In closing:

    YHC skipped for a while.. Working to get back at it. Praying thanks for those who were there and quick recovery for those who were not.

    Take a moment, reach out to someone. Or, if you have something going on, reach out to a fellow brother!

    -Greenbow

  • 6, the perfect number

    6 of West Ends finest and this is what we did

    COP – various exercises

    Mosey over to the playground at Pemberton and partner up

    • Partner 1 -5 Pull Ups while Partner 3 does Merkins x 3 rounds each

    Mosey over to the track around the larger playground, partner up

    • Partner 1 – Bear Crawls while Partner 2 runs around the track. Switch when reunited until you make it around the track completely.

    Mosey to the Blacktown behind Pemberton. Partner up for a Dora

    • 100 Merkins
    • 200 LBC’s
    • 300 Side Straddle Hops

    Triple Check

    • Partner 1 – Iron Chair Partner 2 WWI’s, P3 Run to the far side of the Blacktop and back

    Mosey back to the flag:

    • 4 Minutes of Mary.

    Announcements:

    • Prayer for the United States and the Pax members currently suffering from Covid or any illness.
    • Prayers for Tryhard and Honeydo

    NMS – YCH enjoyed Qing today. We chatted about Covid procedures/concerns. YHC hopes that we can continue to exercise while putting a safety a top priority.