Category: Richmond, VA

  • Pickleball Conditioning Mondays at 6pm

    Wherever there is injustice, you will find us. Wherever there is suffering, we’ll be there. Wherever liberty is threatened, you will find… The Three Amigos!

    Warmarama:  helicopters, imperial walkers, copperhead squats, DQ, Merkins, LBC, Flutter Kicks, WWII, Rosalitas

    The Thang:
    Triple check:  runner touch 3 trees, peoples chair, plank.  X3

    4 corners in a circle, it was weird.  
    10 Merkins, 20 Freddie Mercurys, 30 Monkey Humpers, 40 Heals to Heaven. 

    Light Pole Alley: P1  runs to the end and back. Switch P2
    R1. Bear Crawl, Lunges, Broad Jump Burpees.
    R2. Lunges, Broad Jump Burpees, Bear Crawls.
    R3.  Broad Jump Burpees, Bear Crawls, Lunges.
    R4. Lunges
    R5. Broad jump Burpees
    R6. Bear Crawls.  

    Triple check: picnic tables
    Run to the streetlight, Step Up, Incline Merkins.  X3

    BTTF.  

    Numberama, Namerama

    NMS:  Great to see Hutton out tonight and then out for he gloom Offshore appeared. Perfect numbers for a couple of triple checks.  Monday nights are back!!!! Maybe   I’ll see y’all next week for sure.  Let’s gooooo   

    Oyster

  • WestHoe Braintrust

    Four of WestHoe’s finest met to solve the world’s problems with a splash of 2nd F and cold beer.

  • Hayao Miyazaki

    Last week at The Forge 7 men gathered to do all their favorite workouts, ad nauseam, until they were no long a favorite workout. And to discuss Japanese animation.

    Mosey to the front, warmarama with 44 SSHs. Lots of other warmups to end on 44 LBCs. What could possibly be the significance? No idea.

    Mosey to the amphitheater where YHC queued up a killer playlist featuring all the greatest hits from the Studio Ghibli movies. To his surprise and complete dismay, not a single person present had ever even heard of these movies. So the playlist was canceled and a new workout began.

    Too much of a good thing: PAX does a continuous exercise while one at a time, the timer box jumps the big stairs then comes back down. Flutterkicks, arm circles, monkey humpers, APD, arm raises, all the easiest movements that become crushingly hard after doing them nonstop.

    After a while it was too much of too much of a good thing, so we switched to:

    Super tooth fairies: 5 incline burpees on the steps all the way up, then dip + 5 plank jacks on the way down. 3x Incline Lieutenant Dans on the way up, scrunchy frogs on the way down. Beautiful sunrise.

    Mosey back to the flag where gratitude was given.

    Here are some Studio Ghibli movies for homework:

    Spirited Away. Howl’s Moving Castle (YHC’s personal favorite). My Neighbor Totoro. Princess Monoke. Ponyo. It would be amazing to be able to watch any of these movies again for the very first time – count yourself lucky.

  • Confused by Cold Cellars

    Eight First Watch regulars, including one who declared it may never get cold enough to wear his Patriots beanie, gathered in the parking lot waiting for some natural light. Since no natural light existed, we made our own fireworks. Off we went to the front of the school for:

    COP

    • 20x SSH
    • 1x Merkin
    • 10x Copperhead squats
    • 2x Merkins
    • 10x Mountain Climbers
    • 3x Merkins
    • 20x LBCs
    • 4x Merkins
    • 10x Hellicopters
    • 5x Merkins
    • 10x Monkey Humpers
    • 6x Merkins
    • 15x Arm Circles
    • 7x Merkins
    • 10x Lunges
    • 8x Merkins
    • 10x Something or others
    • 9x Merkins
    • 10x Heels to Heaven
    • 10x Merkins

    The Thang

    After a few PAX members dried off after COP, we moseyed back the other direction toward Lindsay. Despite a PAX suggestion for 31 minutes of Don Quixote’s, we did a downhill version of Love Hill. Partner up, one runs to the bottom then back up while partner is doing exercises. Exercises were crab walks, lunges, broad jumps. YHC drew the lucky straw and had Garbage Plate who apparently does crab walks on wheels.

    10 count then 11 Merkins.

    Different partner then back up the hill. Exercises were polar bears, duck walks, broad-jump burpees up to the top.

    10 count then 12 merkins

    Scurry back over to the parking lot, waiting for teachers to arrive, but no teachers today. We did 11s instead. Bernie sanders across the lot, then backwards up the hill for WWIIs. Forward run down the hill and across the lot for jump squats. Either Mr Rogers & YHC miscounted or everyone else cheated.

    13 merkins.

    Quick circle for 20x Freddie Mercuries before numbers, names, and Garbage Plate took us out.

    Announcements

    • Shoe drive has begun. Mr Rogers will collect at Dogpile. Ask around for other POCs for other regions.
    • Thanksgiving convergence @ Mary. More details to follow.
    • Tuck-a-ruck Friday @ Hoedown @ 18:45. See Lockjaw for deets.

    Have a great day fellas!

  • Taking a ride down Route 66

    10 Fearless men turned out this morning for a nice morning ride down Route 66….Here is how it went down.

    Mosey to the other side of the horseshoe for a warmup- helicopters, dead man hang, imperial walkers, merkins, LBCs

    mosey over to the tennis court for a 4 corners (prostitute style) – 10 mountain climbers, 20 merkins, 30 monkey humpers, 40 freddie mercury

    Then off to Route 66- run around the neighborhood with a burpee at the first intersection and adding another burpee at the next…..we traveled past 11 intersections with increasing burpees for a total of 66 burpees. there were no pit stops on route 66 and Wildcat was our pace car so we crushed this!!

    back to the clubhouse for a dora- 50 carolina dry docks, 100 high knees, 150 LBC

    finished the time off with a 4 corners around the parking lot ( prostitute style) – 10 LBC, 20 Squats, 30 heels to heaven , 40 box cuttters

    Time called.

    announcements- meals for shaw shank, thanksgiving Q, breaking bread

    Wildcat took us out in prayer

    Thanks to the group. always an honor to lead this group of guys who are pushing to better themselves every day.

  • I’m late, I’m late

    YHC forgot to post this BB for Timberwolf last week so this is the shortened version for Big Data

    Everything we did was ab related, Elevens, four corners, triple check

    BTTF

    NMS:

    Don’t forget to write your BB next time Doozy

  • Don’t forget to hit Publish

    4 men with scalding potatoes in hand decided to share in an epic Dogpile beat down.

    Warmarama: Upchuck: DQ, Imperial Walkers, Hand Release Merkins, SSH, reverse Scorpion Kicks, LBC

    The Thang:
    1. UpChuck: 4 Man Triple Check:
    Balls to the Walls, People Chair, Reverse Crunches, Run to Mercedes at back. X3

    2. Helix: Amphitheater
    18 – 1 Dips down
    1 – 18 Squats up

    3. Mr. Rogers: Imma try to hurt y’all on this Triangle
    Partner up.
    Round 1: P1 Bear Crawls the Triangle, P2 runs the Triangle. Switch.
    Round 2: P1 Lunges the Triangle, P2 runs the Triangle. Switch
    Round 3: P1 Broad Jump Burpess, P2 runs the Triangle. Switch

    4. Oyster: Rusty Cage 4 man triple check.
    Pull-ups, Jerkins, Dips, Run to hydrant and back. X3

    Mosey Back to Flag.
    Stop at the fish Bowl. 3 Burpees here, 3 Burpess on the other Side. Mosey on
    Stop for a Ring of Fire.
    Stop for Abs of Fire.

    BTTF
    Numberama: Namerama

    NMS: Excellent morning for a Hot Potato and 4 man Triple Checks. Well done Men.

    Announcements: Planning to bring Punisher out of Suspension this Monday. Let’s Go!!!!

    Oyster

  • DaVille 10K and Bulkhead Breakfast

    A clowncar(truck) of 4 posted with 4 DaVillian for a special 10k ruck at DaPile. Below is our route:

    We walked through 2 neighborhoods on trails and wrapped up at 7:30am.

    Numberama, Namermama, Opus took us out in prayer.

    We then posted at Bulkhead’s house for breakfast where we had homemade scones from Opus, a Kringle from the Clown car guys, Bacon, Sausage, Eggs cooked on a flat top with Irish cream coffee, Bourbon Coffee. Speakeasy, Mustang and Choo Choo showed up also for the 2nd F where we were also learning about cricket as Bulkhead had a game on for us to learn the rules, etc…

    We had a great visit and it was fun catching up with gents south of the wall.

    Have a great weekend and I hope to see you in the gloom soon…Cheers…CB!

  • PT Q

    The Q is coming off IR, so it was not much cardio…but a lot of abs and arms. (I know, you’re shocked)

    Mosey to Grid Iron for 4 rounds:

    1st- 100 Merkins (10 every 10 yards), but take a break at the 50 for 100 Abs (4 sets of 25 WWI, WWII, Crunchy, and Flutters). 2nd- Turn around in end zone and march back to original goal line, with 10 Staggered Arm Merkins every 10 yards. Don’t worry, a break at mid field for another 100 Abs (4 sets of Knee Ups, Side Crunches each side, Heals to Heaven, Flutter Kicks). 3rd- Took a break of arms and did 10 squats every 10 yards. But of course we stopped for 100 more abs. 4th- Only 50 yards of Chuck Norris, followed by a break of 100 more abs.

    Left the Grid Iron for the bleachers and benches: 2 rounds of 20 Dips, with 20 Bulgarians in between. Then 20 steps ups and 20 Derkins.

    Finished at playground for 2 sets of 10 Jerkins on the swings, 100 more abs, and some balancing and stretching

  • We didn’t get lost

    NIce taper run for the Currahee crew… YHC looked for the fastest route possible for the area and came up with a 4 miler. 10 pax and three 4 legged crotch sniffers took to the route. Anyone that know me, knows I can’t tell you a single road name that we ran, but everyone enjoyed a route that wasn’t in Raintree and didn’t run towards Broad. Lighthouse and Tonka can tell you the road names since it was their neighborhood.

    Thank you for running with me guys. Had a great 1/2 marathon today and beat the goal by 4 mins.

    SYITG!

    v/r

    John (Gypsy) Boles