Category: Richmond, VA

  • Social Distancing Party of 2

    2 Davillians arrived to ready to start the challenge month off with a bang.

    This how it went down

    Mosey around the school grounds to the blacktop

    COP (ALL IC) – DQ, Helicopters, Cherry Pickers, Merkins, LBC’s, Merkins, Freddie Mercury’s, Merkins, Flutter Kicks, Merkins, Heels to Heaven, Merkins, Arm Circles

    THANG

    4×4 4 Corners – Around the blacktop, First corner complete 1 4×4, mosey back to the start, 1 Burpee, Mosey back to first corner, 1 4×4, then to second corner for 2 4×4’s, mosey back to the start 1 Burpee. Rinse and Repeat to corner 3 and 4.

    11’s – Merkins and SSH’s

    Mosey to the courtyard

    Dora – First partner mosey around the courtyard while second partner completes exercises. 100 Dips, 200 Merkins, 250 Squats

    Mosey to the front of the school

    1 MOM – Merkins IC

    Numberama, Namerama, YHC to us out

    MOLESKIN

    Thanks Opus for showing up so YHC didn’t have to go about this alone. Opus and YHC enjoy some good mumble chatter about this month challenge and our thoughts on things we hope that will reopen soon

    SPIT ON THAT!!

  • Street light bulb popped and sparked

    Six men gathered at 45 MOM for a beat down on a windy morning. Here is how it went down:

    COP (Swirly) – SSH’s, Helicopters , Windmills, IW’s Plank, Flutter Kicks LBC’s, and 6 inches. (*) I was late so this is based on my imagination

    Swirly led the first exercise between two pull-up bars with two groups of three. Each group did 5 pull-ups, 10 dips, and 10 WWII at the pull-up bar bear the school playground and did 5 inclined merkins, 10 dips, and 10 WWII at the other pull-up bars since the bar is taken down.

    Handshake led the second exercise with “big” four corners using the entire Mary Munford elementary school block with accumulating exercise. 10 hand-release merkins at the first corner, 10 hand-release merkins and 20 squats at the second corner, 10 hand-release merkins, 20 squats, 30 flutter kicks at the third corner, and 10 hand-release merkins, 20 squats, 30 flutter kicks, and 40 SSH at the fourth corner.

    Hitchhiker led the third exercise at the tennis court with Dora. One partner runs to the other side of the court and back and the other partner do the following exercises: 100 merkins, 200 squart, and 300 LBCs.

    Last exercise was the ring of fire with individual version of 10 merkins.

    Announcement: The new AO Gomer Pyle initiated will have grand opening tomorrow.

    Hitchhiker closed it with a prayer.

  • Tempting the rain

    4 Circus regulars came out to see if the rain would hold off until at least 6:15. With KBs in hand to ground the PAX from the 40 mph winds we did:

    COP: SSH, Imperial Walkers, Helicopters, Merkins, LBCs, Scorpion Kicks

    Mosey away from shelter to back road for some time on the wall: Donkey kicks, bear crawl across then: 15 lawnmower pulls each arm, 40 KB Swings, 10 Sit N Press. Mosey over to field behind school for some Catch me if you can: 1 man takes 2 KBs and carries while other does 10 merkins then catches up. 2 laps of this. 3rd round: Lunge with KBs while other does 15 merkins then Crab Walks to catch up.

    Back to normal spot: Boat & Canoe, Swings, Pullovers, Sit N Press, then run a lap. More swings and snatches then another lap. Back to flag.

    NMS: Can’t believe rain held off during the whole beatdown. We stayed away from the covered bus loop area and took on the heavily aerated field in the back. Nobody questioned lunging across the open field with metal KBs in hand with a storm ready to break open any second.

    Atilla asked whether this would be a 35 Lb KB friendly workout, not sure what that means but guessing this worked. Good to be back out at the Circus after a hiatus.

  • Reviving the Roller Coaster

    Three strong hit the hills of Hillcrest on Wednesday evening to turn a couple loops in some warmth that we haven’t felt in a while. It was good to get back out in that neighborhood for the first time in a LOOOONG time!

    Deer, Rabbits and TYA seemed unphased or unaware of our presence even though we hung out on the latter’s rear truck bumper to catch our breath for a couple minutes.

    Welcome to FNG-Cubbie (Cub Cadet) for making her first official F3 post.

    SYITG!

    Kubota

  • 4 X 4 X 4(cubed) = ? (where is Tobit)

    4 Healthy Warrior made their way to The Forge this windy morning to try to get in a beatdown before the rain sets in. YHC arrived a touch early as he usually does and not long after Wedding Singer parks his sled in the lot, wanders over to YHC’s car to ask if a mile run was in the plan. YHC has no plan so Singer elected to get some EC on the last day of the challenge and off he went into the gloom. With two other PAX showing up we mosey to the COP in the 3rd lot from the right.

    COP: DQ’s, Helicopters, (Wedding Singer is back) Cherry Pickers, Inverted Scorpion Kicks, Hello Dollies, 5 burpees OYO

    Mosey to the next lot down: Four Corners

    Corner 1 – 10 Rosalitas, Corner 2 – 20 American Hammers, Corner 3 – 30 Sugar Sticks, Corner 4 – 40 LBC’s

    Mosey to the next lot down: Four Corners

    Corner 1 – 10 Diamond Merkins, Corner 2 – 20 Shoulder tap Merkins, Corner 3 – 30 Hand Release Merkins, Corner 4 – 40 Merkins

    Mosey to the next lot up: Four Corners

    Corner 1 – 10 Copperhead Squats, Corner 2 – 20 Jump Squats, Corner 3 – 30 Lunges, Corner 4 – 40 Heal Raisers

    Mosey to the next lot down: You guessed it Four Corners

    Corner 1 – 10 Burpees, Corner 2 – 10 Hand Release Merkins, Corner 3 – 10 American Hammers, Corner 4 – 10 Heal Raisers

    Mosey down to the bottom circle: Man Killers

    Only one way back to the top: Light poles do one merkin at each pole until you get to the street.

    Time left on the clock: Mosey to the flag area where the hill is

    6’s basically 11’s but we don’t have time for 11’s

    Bernie Sanders up the hill 5 Jump Squats, Run down the hill 1 Jump squat and so on and so forth until time is called

    Numbers / Names YHC took us out

    NMS:

    PAX seemed to really like the merkins four corners, mumble chatter intensified after the 30 hand release merkins something about killing Doozy burying the body or along those lines. YHC believes it was repeated after the Man Killers and on the way up the light poles. YHC has the Q at Twin Team tomorrow and Snuff was inquiring about what that workout was so far be it from YHC to not show Snuff the namesake that is Twin Team tomorrow.

  • #AloneTogether

    After not feeling well for a while, it was finally time to get back into the gloom on the regular for Mr. Holland! Considerably less exciting, when it turned out to be a PAX of one. Unfazed (well, somewhat fazed), YHC launched into a one-man hot potato.

    Mosey around the school, land at the blacktop for COP: SSH, Don Q, Imperial Walkers, Russian Soldiers, LBCs.

    To the parking lot for Extended Range 11s: Merkins & WWIIs, running the length of the parking lot between them.

    Mosey to the hill for a One Man Triple Check: bear crawl up the hill, 20 WWIIs, run down to the school, 20-count balls to the wall. (3X)

    Into the courtyard for a Lunge Lap. Intersperse 20x bench dips and flutter kicks along the way.

    Back to the flag for number, name, and I skipped the announcements since I had nothing to tell myself.

    YNWA (but sometimes you might exercise alone),

    -Mr. Holland

  • No More April Fooling Around………

    Three soldiers fought off the fartsack to what was rumored to be a rainy shit show. But………….not a surprise……….It’s Always Sunny & 70.

    YHC knew if I did not sign up for the Q, I would be a victim to the fartsack. So against all my Pete Rose instinct (NM will get it), I sent the Q text and went to bed. Instead of meeting at the normal spot we met at Wilson’s.

    YHC announced there would be NO COP and we would be getting straight into the work out. Cul De Sack Tour/Roulette. Each New Market cul de sack will be visited by the men to perform 10 of the called out exercise. Here is where the roulette comes in…the PAX decides (novel idea right – NEVER been done! LOL)

    On the eighth cul de sack (last one) we stopped for some ground & pound with cinder blocks. YHC called out a penelty for the gazelle’s – On the run back to the clubhouse parking lot, the gazelle’s had to stop and perform ten SSH and turn around to find YHC. With three minutes left, we did some Mary.

    Rosetta took us out. One month of quarentine down and hope and end is soon. Stay safe. I might have been halucinating, but did we see a unicorn???Great work this morning men.

  • People are itching to come out

    Six men showed up for the WDog workout on such a beautiful morning and here is how it went down:

    We moseyed to the circle in front of the Amphitheater for COP: 25 SSH, 10 DQ, 10 Merkins, 25 LBC, 10 elbow plank.

    Bodos took us to the rusty cage for the first exercise. Classic triple jack with 10 pull ups, 10 deeps, run to the fire extinguisher and run back to the cage.

    Hand Shake took us to the stage next to the tower for second exercise. Dora with one partner touching trees from 7 to 1 and the other partner doing the series of exercises: flutter kicks, merkins, burpees, squat, balls to the wall, etc.

    Viny took us to the “mixing bowl” behind the Amphitheater for the third exercise. One side we did one merkin and LBC and the other side we did two merkins and LBCs and up to 12 merkins and LBCs.

    Hitchhiker led last minute workout with 20 merkins and 10 Hitchhiker.

    Announcement: Murph Challenge on Memorial Day.

    Viny closed it with a prayer.

    We noticed that several smaller groups of people started working out at the park. A movie called “Extraction” on Netflix was recommended to watch.

    This is based on my poor recollection.

  • Dora, Diego and a Centipede

    5 guys (not the restaurant) showed up this morning for a beatdown. YHC delivered.

    Walk around the loop with a kettlebell held high.

    COP — crabcakes, tempo lbc’s, american hammers, russian soldiers, rotating merkins, arm circles, helicopters

    Dora’s Little Donkey
    one partner runs across the lot and does 10 donkey kicks, return
    complete together 50 situp presses
    100 swings
    150 goblet squats

    Diego’s Bear Crawl 11’s
    bear crawl across loop
    1 4×4
    bear crawl back
    10 renegade rows
    continue till YHC calls time with 5 minutes left.

    Centipede
    spread out, hold out kettlebells in front
    first person does 5 kb thrusters and moves to other end
    go through the whole group 3 times

    Run around the loop for the last minute

    Numbers, Names, Announcements

    F3 Daville is having a merkin challenge for the month of May. Here is the link.

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12T3CrYVUljOlFu9FYO3krk-ZaVehZMF5LZ7kN05EHDA/edit?usp=sharing

    Keep praying for members who are recently having to stay home for various reasons. We miss you all, stay safe and stay in touch!

    NMS — YHC is pooped. Bernie Sanders yesterday, 4×4’s today. Nuff said.

    Later,
    Opus

  • 4 Corners of New Market

    5 warriors showed up for a beat down in New Market this morning,

    COP

    SSHs x 10

    Copperhead Squats x 15

    Helicopters x 10

    Imperial Walkers x 15

    LBCS x 30

    Flutter Kicks x 10

    Moseley top of Hill!

    4 Corners

    Round 1 – 50 Merkins, 100 Mountain Climbers, 150 Squats, 200 LBCs – Stop at every house with irrigation running and do 3 burpees

    Round 2 – 20 WWIIS, 40 Dry Docks, 60 Monkey Humpers, 80 SSHs, Every car parked on street stop and do 10 Merkins

    Back to CLubhouse and grab COUPON

    Rounds of ground and Pound and Toe Touches

    Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out!

    Strong work Gents!