Category: Richmond, VA

  • Ultimate Burpee Football

    Warm-up

    Ultimate football: every turnover was one burpee for the team that committed the turnover, 5 burpees for team scored on

    Team 1: Boberry, Rudy, Cookie, TSG, Nancy Lopez, Blacktop, Switch, Wildcat

    Team 2: Woodsman, Tzatziki, Bru, Fandango, Crabgrass, Matlock, Mcgruff

    Team 3: Doozie (ran around track during game)

    Score 7-6, bad guys won

    Points for boyz of summer: 1 point to Matlock and Rudy for best catches, 1 point to Boberry for MVP (had a hat trick)

    Ecclesiastes 4:9-12: “Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor. If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But woe to the one who falls and has no one to help them up. Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? Though a single person can be defeated, two can stand their ground, and a threefold cord is not easily broken.” 

  • Hills’ hills

    After joking with BigRig and Boberry that nine 60-second hill repeats seemed wimpy, YHC convinced 2 of the 3 runners to do a hill test of our own.

    Bullseye, Greenbow and YHC hit the block for a warmup and converged at the bottom of Mt. Midlo. After four 90-second Mt Midlo repeats, we were spent! We then hit the block for a cool down where Doozy passed us, blasting some late-90’s boy band jams, working his way toward 6+. We gathered at the (non-existent) flag to close out.

    Thanks for the push, gents – it was good to rev the RPMs.

    Announcements: YHC needs to pick an August date for the homegrown half. If you haven’t started training – you should!

  • Tomato Ruckers only

    THANG

    Only Ruckers today and we walked past Starbucks to witness lift trucks getting their app purchased Starbucks! Only in DaVille. We walked this loop and through another neighborhood. Great conversation and Bulkhead is heading out to India for a week to help his parents return to the US. Travel Safe and look forward to seeing you in the gloom when you return!

    Numberama, Namerama Mach took us out in prayer.

  • Young kids and creepy Grandpas in the Gloom

    Eight strong came out to 45MoM to sweep up the grass clippings from the fields and get a beatdown in the process.

    COP: Invisible Jumpropes, Don Qs, Ukrainian Soldiers, Helicopters, Merkins, LBCs, Scorpion kicks.

    Dora 123: 100 HRMs, 200 LBCs, 300 Monkey Humpers. Stay with partners: 3 sets of PLTs. Over to soccer fields for Beast: Merkins, LBCs, Squats, Carolina Dry Docks, Heels2Heaven, SSHs. Mosey over to tennis courts for some merkins and WWIIs. Finish with sprints down Commonwealth and 3 min of Mary to close us out. YHC took us out.

    Announcements: Sign up for Breaking Bread and The Bridge.

    NMS: We took off a few seconds early and Hitch and Vandalay & Nacho Libre found us in the COP. Senor Frog posted in his namesake’s T-shirt, which we got all dirty in the process. Hitchhiker got his jacket back from Memorial day, be careful what you leave at workouts, just ask Faceplant…

    Solid work this morning from all. Always good to have teens and 60 yr olds in the Gloom together.

  • Sweet Alphabet Sweat

    4 uncommonly handsome met gathered at the crossing of life and sweat. With HP’s knee bothering him we decided to chill the pace and leave modification wide open. In true Pearls fashion the PAX stopped 26 times circumventing the church grounds to bang out reps (usually 20 IC) for every letter of the alphabet. After the NoToll shoulderfest it was a pleasure to keep a slowsy vibe and of course the conversation with old friends was sublime. God is good all the time! Yours, DTH

  • We rolled the dice- and it called for burpees

    The Forge turned into a full-blown casino of pain this morning—except the house always wins, and the house wanted burpees. We started with a dice-rolling gauntlet where every number brought a new flavor of exercise, followed by sprint ladders that made sure no muscle was left behind. Just when PAX thought it was winding down, we hit the hills for bear crawls and heels to heaven.

    The Thang:

    Warmerama: side straddle hops, ukranian soldiers, imperial squat walkers, cherry pickers, lbcs, alabama prom dates, roscoe’s mom

    COP 1: Roll the dice: One PAX rolls oversized dice and runs a lap around bus loop carrying a cinder block. while first PAX runs, rest perform exercise that matched the number rolled. 1- merkins, 2- squats, 3- mountain climbers, 4- lbcs, 5- side straddle hops, 6 burpees. Repeat until all Pax rolled and run

    COP 2: Sprint Ladders: (football field): Sprint 25 yards- 10 merkins and jog back. Sprint 50 yards- 15 squats jog back. sprint 75 yards, 20 lbcs, jog back, sprint 100 yards, 10 burpees jog back. Round 2 reverse- sprint 100 yards- 10 jump squats, sprint 75 yards 20 flutter kicks double count. Sprint 50 yards, 30 wide arm merkins. sprint 25 yards, 40 mountain climbers double count.

    Count 3: Parking lot and hills: bear crawl up each hill segment. at each parking lot checking, starting with first one, 10 heels to heaven, increase each time by 5.

    Announcements: Father’s day event hosted by DTH at the Forge; Thursday nights kids and fathers sports/activities at Machismo’s

    Prayer requests: Prayer for L. Woods’ friend going through lung cancer.

  • Hell’s Bells

    10 sultans of the KB converged upon the Circus on a glorious Thursday morning.  Here is how it went down:

    • COP
      • SSH
      • IW
      • DQ
      • Helicopters
      • Arm circles
      • DMH
      • LBC
    • KB deck of death – each suit is an exercise and jokers are burpees, each card is 12 reps
      • 156 sit ‘n press
      • 156 curls
      • 156 upright rows
      • 156 overhead pulls
      • 24 burpees
    • Round of Mary
      • One legged crunches, each leg
      • Straight legged crunches
    • COT with YHC taking us out

    Great work by the PAX today.  This workout is an arm burner that has a strong cardio element as we much pace ourselves to complete the deck.  It also starts with a lot of grumbling and mumble-chatter but quickly turns to grunts or silence.  T-claps to the PAX members using 40 and, for Lighthouse and Offshore, 45 lb. KBs.   Fireman Ed has glossed this workout “hell’s bells.” Even though the PAX did not say thank you, YHC will tell them you are welcome!

    Lunch next Tuesday at Joey’s Hot Dogs.  Continued prayers for Roger Roger, Fireman Ed and Fudd’s sister Mary.

    God is good all of the time!

    Attila

  • X

    Seven stalwarts posted early to First Watch, even our Site Q made an appearance, as well as some coupons. We did:

    COP: SSH, Don Qs, Ukrainian Soldiers, Merkins, Flutterkicks, Scorpion Kicks.

    Mosey to parking lot for 4 corners. 1st round: Burpees, HRMs, Jump Squats, LBCs. 2nd round keep the count growing by 10: Carolina Dry Docks, Flutterkicks, SSH, Dead man hang.

    Over to side lot: 3 rounds of 10 Donkey Kicks, Bear Crawl, 10 HRMs, Lunge back. Mosey back and pick up Cinder Blocks and over to the fresh cut grass of Henrico’s smallest park. Partner up. 1 partner run to stoplight and back while other does: Block Swings, Block presses, Thrusters, Boat & Canoe. PAX had so much fun 1st round so let’s Repeato. Back to flag and 1 min of Shavasna.

    NMS: Solid group of veteran PAX this morning. A good way to celebrate 10 years of posting. Coffee after was a blast as always.

  • Dutch Olympians Unite

    Having gotten the memo, 3 gloom stallions descended upon Pocahontas MS, all donning bright orange shirts. The clock struck 5:30am and like Dutch Olympians going for gold, we were off. COT consisted of some SSHs, arm circles, cherry pickers, DQs, Mt climbers, WWIIs & a 60-second leg hold while YHC defined today’s version of BLIMPS (5 Burpees, 5 Lt. Dans, 5 Imperial Walkers, 5 Merkins, 5 Plank Jacks & 5 SSHs). We went behind the school, took Wally (my dog) off the leash, did a lap and then did a BLIMPS. Then another lap. And another BLIMPS. Lap. Blimps. Lap. Blimps. Lap. Blimps. With seconds remaining, we knocked out 30 FMs. And time!

    Numbers. Names. Announcements: Joey’s Hot Dogs next week (6/10) at 12pm for 2nd F. The Summer Tour continues. Prayer Requests: Continued prayers for Mary Hart, Roger Roger’s post surgery recovery and having received his final treatment, we prayed that Fireman Ed will have a full and complete recovery. Fun fact: while enduring treatments and this entire process, Fireman Ed leveled up to a heavier kettlebell at Circus Maximus. Far out!

    Thought for the day: Each day is a gift. How often do we do something for the last time, unaware this is the case? Tmrw is not promised. Today, treat it like it’s special. Try to stay present. Be kind. Try your best.

    SYITG!

  • What do you mean you don’t know who Squiggy is?

    5 of SOJ’s finest came out to see what this week’s installment of the green mile had in store for them. 1 PAX came rolling in white lightning style as the PAX had started the mosey. No one could believe how fast that Van could corner. According to a jogger nearby here is what went down.

    Quick mosey around the front lot to start.  COP- 20 each SSH, LBC; 10 Each, Jazzercise, Helicopters, Imperial Walkers, , Copper head squat, Dead man hang, Merkins, Dollies, Flutters.  

    Starting at one end of lot perform 5 Squats at every 5th parking line. Perform 10 Squats every 10th line. Make it easy perform exercise in 3 stops along length of lot. 15, 20, 25, etc up to 50. Exercises. SSH, Drydocks, LBC’s, WWII’s, Lunges, Hand release merkins and a few others.

    Runs across lot, Sprints, Bernie, high knee’s to close us out.

    If you never seen Dr. Scholl’s monkey humpers it is worth the price of admission. Nicely done sir.

    YHC took us out in prayer.