Category: Richmond, VA

  • Chap Hard

    With most of the Crossing crew night fart sacking – YHC and TryHard had to hold down the fort. Here is a brief summary for your viewing pleasure.

    5 minutes of solo running. Various leg exercises across the upper parking lot for warm up: Lunge walks, Karaoke, Crab Walk, Butt Kicks, High Knees, Appalachian Lunge Walks

    Next Exercise: Super Suicide – standard suicide along the length of the complex. Increasing burpees when you get back to the start.

    Exercise Two: Ab Enhancement: 25 pole smokers, 50 American Hammers, 100 LBC’s

    Mosey to the benches for 50 Dips and 10 Burpee+ (Hand Release Burpee with 2 Mtn Climbers and 2 SSH’s at the top.) Might need to work on the name

    Back to the Wall for Hoe Downs, Donkey Kicks w/wall hold, Chicken Peckers

    Back to the Flag for a minute of hamstring stretching

    Final Thoughts: Started this workout solo and got some curious glances from the parking lot walkers. Was grateful to see the DTHmobile roll in. YHC has been dealing with some (minor) heart issues and various psychosocial stressors – very grateful to the numerous PAX who reached out/checked in over the last 2 weeks. Jumping on the Q sheet is always the best way to get yourself back in the groove IMHO. Looking forward to a massive turnout at the Twin Team Lounge.


  • Mean Girls, 45MOM edition

    YHC was hitting every red light as he made his way up Three Chopt and down monument on his way to meet his friends for a morning workout. YHC pulled up to the school at 5:29:30 excited to see all his friends. YHC opened the car door and could hear snickering from barely audible jokes. All YHC wanted to do was spread fitness joy.

    After a long 10 seconds YHC launched the workout heading up Wiletta to Kingscrest. We completed an extended and interrupted COP.

    YHC had to contented with a great deal of verbal resistance this morning. Therefore, YHC brought out Pencil Rolls, Burpess, HRMs, Parklot Tracers, etc.

    Hitch was picked up along to way, it was impressive that he found us.

    Announcements – Frozen Triangle

    Prayer Requests – non

    NMS – YHC was happy to sign up and build greater emotional resilience.

  • kb OH molars and mamm crew part duex

    cot – rolled in to a crew ready to party and we warmarama in the normal way w ssh, merkins, etc. YHC set up the music and it was a classic rock jam sesh per usual for this crew

    thang – assortment of ex that dumar came up with on the spot that i don’t recall

    cot – number/namarama, announce, hermey prayed us out

  • OH KB Molars and Mamm crew

    COP

    on a balmy 15 degree morning, the usual suspects gathered at OH to swing some iron and start the day off strong.

    Warm up : SSH, deadman hang, Roscoe’s mom, LBC, merkins, V stretch

    THANG

    a series of four ex completed in 3 sets, then rinse and repeat

    1. swings, squats, calf raise, deadlift, mosey thru parking lot
    2. ww2, APD, flutter kicks, American hammer, mosey
    3. high pulls, lawnmower rows, pullovers, cheat press, mosey
    4. curls, skull crushers, merkin pull throughs, chest press, mosey

    finisher: 5 burpees to close us out strong

    COT name/numberama, announce,Tzatziki led us out

  • All who wander are not lost

    Four tough guys assembled this morning to blindly follow YHC into the bush, but everything turned out okay. NTB coaxed me to Q Ruckhenge earlier this week and after I agreed, NTB proceeded to telegraph his own fartsacking and then actually did fartsack. NTB did show up after the ruck ended to grab some carbs and coffee. YHC still doesn’t know if NTB’s no-show was genuinely accidental as he claimed or a brilliant piece of performance art. Regardless, I’m grateful to NTB for getting in my grill about Qing an AO I frequent. 

    We covered 2.7 miles of trail, did some walking lunges, bent over rows and overhead presses to close things out. 

    Prayers for PAX on IR, for Rosie’s cousin, and Dealer’s mom. 

    Thanks for joining me fellas; helped to kick the day off on a strong note!

  • Beaver is In a Mental Pretzel

    4 HIM’s emerged from the gloom for a little baby crunches beatdown this morning!
    YHC got some news yesterday that caused for some DTH style inspiration routines this morning. Here’s the good stuff!

    EMOM set for 45 mins to go off every minute to do 3 LBC’s.

    Warmarama – Start with a 10 Burpee penalty. Mosey to the west octagon.

    • 10 Arm Circles IC
    • 10 Reverse Arm Circles IC
    • 11 Helicopters IC (Choo Choo claims wires are crossed in Beavers head)
    • 10 DQ’s IC
    • Wilson, Fudd, Roscoe’s Wives.
    • Leg Stretches

    COP 1 – Mosey to the snack shack for some KIDS, 3 sets. 1st set begins with 3 reps, add 3 additional reps to each round.

    • Karaoke around the rock pits
    • Imperial Walkers (2ct)
    • Donkey Kicks
    • Squats

    COP 2 – Mosey to the football field for more moseying on the football field in arbitrary patterns.

    COP 3 – BABY Lights – Run through the parking lot making stop at all 10 light posts. Perform 3 reps of each following exercise.

    • Burpees
    • APD’s
    • Big Boy sit ups
    • Y raises

    Mosey to east octagon for Ring of Fire

    • 10 Elliptical IC
    • 10 Freddie’s IC
    • 10 Mississippi Flutters IC.- Way to go Yukon!!
    • 50 Penguins single count

    Numbers and Names!

    Announcements –

    YHC and the M are expecting! Still very early stages, but the whole family is very excited, including big sister Piper(Rainbow Blast)8 and little brother Griffin(Shark Tooth)5.

    Frozen Triangle coming up in 10 days!

    YHC took us out in prayer.

  • Instagram Workout Model Inspired Wall Exercises

    6 men looking to better themselves showed up this morning at the Green Mile. Weather conditions were much better today compared to last week, although Hardywood had more clothes on today, confusing us all. According to the 2 guys checking the school alarms that informed us the fire alarm was about to go off, this is how it went down:

    Warm Up: Mosey to bus parking lot and circled up for SSH, Helicopters, Ukranian Soldiers, Deadman Hang, Merkins, Butterfly Stretch, Knee to Chest Stretch, Roscoes Mom

    COP 1: Bus Parking Spots (18 total spots working our way down) Spots 18-16: Lunge down the lines, Squats in the parking spot equal to quantity shown in the spot. Spots 15-13: Backwards lunge down the lines, Side lunges in the parking spot equal to quantity shown in the spot. Spots 12-10: Bear Crawl down the lines, Double Count Mountain Climbers in the parking spot equal to quantity shown in the spot. Spots 9-7: Crawl Bear down the lines, WWIIs in the parking spot equal to quantity shown in the spot. Spots 6-4: Broad Jump Burpee down the lines, Merkins in the parking spot equal to quantity shown in the spot. Spots 3-1: Backwards Broad Jump Burpees (these were weird) down the lines, Diamond Merkins in the parking spot equal to quantity shown in the spot.

    COP 2: Moseyed around the school to the playground for at triple check – P1 performs a burpee to a pull up on the bar with the jump, P2 performs single leg squats and P3 runs down around the dumpster and back.

    COP 3: Wall Work – Balls to the wall and complete double count mountain climbers on the wall x 20. Rest. Balls back to wall and then walk hands forward while walking feet down the wall trying to keep feet in contact with the wall without placing them down on the ground. Good shoulder and core workout. Exercise termed the “Cliffhanger” in the COT.

    COP 4: Moseyed back around the school to retrieve lost articles of clothing as Hermes put on a strip tease earlier and ended at the flag with 2 Amelia Style Burpees for our Amelia crew that showed up and 1 minute plank.

    Numbers, Names, Announcements (Frozen Triangle Feb 8), Prayers (No specifics, just general appreciation for our blessings)

    Thanks for showing up today fellas and hope you have a blessed day!

  • Gunning for Lockjaw’s Q Ratio

    A hearty 9 fellas emerged from the gloom for a glorious day at First Watch. Here’s how it went down:

    Mosey to the church for a COP – SSH, Don Q, Ukrainian soldiers, reverse crunches, LBCs, merkins, and Dead man hang.

    Triple check – merkins, flutters, and run to the street.

    Mosey to the back of the church with a few burpees along the way. Partner up for some PLTs – 2 sets.

    11-s merkins and LBCs.

    Then 4 corners – burpees, jump squats, flutters, and LBCs. Next we found some wall space for People’s chair and balls to the wall.

    We tried out a few wind sprints with some merkins at the end, with some karaoke and skipping to keep it interesting.

    Mosey back to the parking lot for a brief round of Mary.

    Numberama, nameorama, and the Q took us out.

    Prayers for Splinter’s son who turns 16 and for Splinter’s check book after paying the insurance bill.

    Weather was just about perfect and spirits were high. Until the next time.

  • Ruck Improved

    YHC set out to the great route in Giles and we finished in faster time that we had to add more route in the lot to finish on time. Runners posted about 4 miles.

    Ruckers – Corned Beef, Bulkhead, Maco and No Idea Runners – Opus Beat it and Trail Mix

    Opus took us out in prayer.

    Great discussion and ruck gents…see you in the gloom…Cheers….CB!

  • goodness gracious great balls of

    YHC found out the hard way Choo Choo is a true ginger as we were getting our stretches on this morning. Kidding! I’m glad to keep that vision out of my mind!

    4 dark strangers gathered at the park of the Pines for a ruck around the neighborhood on this windy gloom. We encountered activities such as neighbors leaving their driveways at the same time as if we were in the Truman Show as well as being stalked by some character in a pick up trying to play it cool as if he wasn’t following us around.

    Thanks for the ruck guys!