Category: Richmond, VA

  • Bobbin n Poopin

    3 men posted for some tabatha workout.

    COP

    Tabatha style 20 seconds on, 10 seconds off.

  • No COP, No Welcome Message

    Sixteen bootcampers and six runners appeared at SOT on a beautiful Spring morning. The QIC was rusty and unprepared for the larger crowd. This is how it went.

    Mosey around the school while the last runner sprinted to the front.

    Stop in front after 1 lap for a curb crawl.

    Doors. Begin at Door 1 with 1 Merkin. Door 2, 2 Jump Squats. Continue to door 24 when chatter was too loud to ignore. Best line… “This is the dumbest thing we’ve ever done.” XOXO, DK.

    Mosey to the bus loop for a Dora. 100 Donkey Kicks, 200 2-ct Flutters, 300 SSH. Timer runs around the bus loop.

    Mosey to the bottom of the hill by the track for a Triple Check. Plank, Wall Sit, Timer runs up and down the hill.

    Mosey up the hill Bernie style. Circle up at the flag for a quick Wring of Fire.

    Welcome to FNG, Enron. Thanks to Duke for taking us out. Thanks to all the others for their verbal “support” and spending this awesome morning with me. Nice to see so many veterans and new faces.

    Bullesye

  • Beast of Burden

    Six dudes showed up for a Singer Q and this is how things played out:

    Mosey to Carillon field for warm up – SSH, Don Q, Squats, mountain climbers, pickle pounders, Freddie Ms

    Jacobs Ladder – bear crawl sideways across field, 1 merkin, lunge back, 2 merkins, repeat up to 6 merkins

    Beast (dealers choice) – hand release merkins, burpees, ARM CIRCLES, SSH, couple others in there

    Mosey to rusty cage – 5 pull ups and 10 jerkins, repeat 3 times

    Mosey to amphitheater- 1 irkin on each step.

    Return to flag and AMRAP WWII sit-ups.

    Moleskin:

    Pigskin made is inaugural trip to the AO and YHC seized the opportunity to show him around a little though the beast took up the majority of the time. Thanks to Oyster for calling the burpees but later convincing others to do arm circles so we all won in the end. Hitch brought all the dudes to the yard with the offer of coffee, and BT prefers to notify others he is fart sacking around midnight before the workout. Lead on my friends.

    Best of luck to that old motorboatin SOB leaving for the west coast Saturday. See you in the gloom someday.

    -Singer

  • Fashionably Late

    A late call was made in the waning hours of the eve prior. 3 veteran brogiis heeded the call and eventually turning into a quartet. With intel on the upcoming workout, legs, hips and hamstrings were emphasized. Shoulders and back were worked into the mix as well. Mumble chatter is starting was strong for a broga session with a few passing tales of mixed variety that shalt not be mentioned. Great work this morning. Prayers for quality housekeeping to those regulars on current and upcoming travels.

  • Westhampton Walk of Fame

    10 papered purebreds emerged from the gloom to get a up a bit of a lather to start up the day. We started at a trot, so any LIFOs were doomed to work out on their own. According to the early morning maintenance crew who stopped to watch the PAX, this is what went down, more or less.

    Long Mosey to UR South Court Green. Mission. Disclaimer. All CoP IC. 20x SSH, 10x Don Quixote, 15x Arm Circles, 15x reverso Arm circles, 5x overhead claps, 5x seal claps. 25x LBC, 10x Flutter Kicks, 15x Hello Dolly, 15x Rosalita, 15x HtH, 15x Freddie Mercuries, 10x Grass Angels, 10x Australian Grass Angels. 52+ Merkins: 10x Merkin, 10x Wide Arm, 10x Diamond merkins, 10x HRM, 10x SHAZZAMs, 2x Merkin + 1 Merkin for the Rangers in the sky.

    Mosey to Greek Theatre. 10 dips each step. Ladder Vee Up starting at 1, complete at top with 17.

    Mosey BTTF. 10x Monkey Humpers, 10x Gorilla Humpers, 1x Hogging. Stretching: Deadman hang, trucker’s ballet stretch.

    Hutton took us out. Prayers for Upchucks family (uncle Dudley), James River High School community.

    Coffeeteria at Starbucks afterward.

    NMS- YHC has always wanted to lead a FW from UR since we started. Today, the campus is integrated, but when YHC attended the south side, Westhampton College was the womens side of the campus, so hanging out there had its special charms. Especially the Greek Theatre where on our first “date”, my now M helped me nurse the aftereffects an epic evening pregaming for an Awareness Art Ensemble concert Sept 1990, which makes it 32 1/2 years ago (dang). That nights events included “pain is just a sensation” Nestea plunge into a thorn bush on the Richmond side of campus and enjoying a Reggae soundscape after suddenly discovering pregaming limits and subsequently contemplating a pile of Spaghetti which was better than trying to see a now blurry multicolored AAE stage. I still have the ticket around here somewhere. First Watch Oversharing complete.

    The “walk of fame” back then was an early morning walk back from Westhampton toward Richmond College and catching a few more winks before starting the day.

  • Did I Say Merkin?

    When YHC had dreams of getting kicked off the Q Sheet it almost happened. After YHC scraped the fartsack off arriving late, we went directly into some Warmarama.

    8 count absolution, 14 SSH, 10 LBCs, 20 Merkins, Arm Circles,

    #1 Dora: 100 dips, 100 merkins, 150 SSH

    #2 11s Merkins and WWIIs

    #3 Broya 25 PLTs ea 25 Boya Merkins 25 PLT 25 Merkin.

    #4 Ring of abs.

    YHC had big dreams of carrying a telephone pole through this workout. Watch out for the Q at No Toll there may be an opportunity yet. After totaling that Merkin love up it’s around 176. Excellent work fellas, again sorry for the late Q.

  • This Beatdown is Out of Context

    Friday night, YHC declared to the group chat that he was preparing a “hybrid beatdown that will make you cuss,” which was enough to keep much of the PAX snuggled in their fartsacks. Three of us entered the octagon for a combination of running and things the Q hates to do. Best anyone can recall, here’s what went down:

    COP in front of Atlee HS with standard fare: SSH, helicopters, Ukrainian soldiers, LBCs, hand-release merkins. Then, mosey over to the Chickahominy parking lot for the first challenge Mr. Holland hates: bear crawling. It’s a long damn parking lot, and we traversed the whole thing, stopping at each of the six islands along the way for 20 of an exercise: WWIIs, mountain climbers, jump squats, merkins, calf raises, and burpees to finish it off (but 10). There was discussion about non-consensual activities with road signs, but YHC will let you imagine the context for that.

    With the goal of getting two laps in (3 miles) along with other painful things, we needed to make up some time, so off we ran until the speed bumps behind Cool Spring. Then, the next installment of things Mr. Holland hates: sprinting. Sprint from one speed bump to the next, then walk to the next one, repeat several times. For the remainder of the first lap, the PAX stopped at every speed bump for 20 exercises, alternating arms, core, legs.

    Lap two included a triple check in between Atlee and CMS: donkey kicks, bench dips, and more bear crawling. It sucked. More running until we reached the speed bumps, and then to finish the lap, each man took turns calling 20 of an exercise until we ran out of time. Along the way, there was discussion about a certain PAX member’s expanding groin. Again, readers can imagine their own version of the context.

    Special mention to Spit, who ran his own personal 10K while we were out doing our thing, with an 8:50ish pace.

    YNWA

    -Mr. Holland

  • Batteau Batteau Batteau

    3 men enter the Batteau. It will not sink.

    Warmarama: YHC with the warmup.
    Mosey up the hill to the Forest Hill parking lot. SSH, Helicopters, DQ, Copperhead Squats, Merkins, LBC, Rosalita’s or Hello Dolly’s PAX choice.

    The Thang:
    Oyster: Triple Check
    Shelter1: P1: Dips. P2: Stepups. P3: Run to the end and back. Switch, Repeat 3x.

    Wedding Singer: ILPs??
    20 Imperials Walkers, 20 Lunges, 20 Polar Bears. Repeat 3x
    Mosey to the Circle
    Triple Check: P1: Merkins. P2: Heels to Heaven. P3: Run around the circle. Switch, Repeat 3x.
    BTTF for a ring of Fire.

    Wedding Singer took us out.

    Numberama, Namerama

    NMS: 70 and Sunny as usual at Batteau. See you in the gloom.

    Oyster

  • Circus Tent

    One chose to ignore the lure of the Fart Sack on an especially awesome south Florida morning to hit the streets. Temps were actually 70 and sunny. According to the circus performers cleaning up from the rain, the following performance may have happened.

    Lumber to Peters, east to 30th, north to Broward (zig-zag through the mall parking lot), and reverso BTTVSF. Number, name, and YHC took himself out.

    NMS: 3 time zones in 7 days. Let’s do this.

  • Bermuda Triangle Leg Day

    4 PAX were out for what turned into Leg Day at Goyne Park in Chester.

    We started out with the standard warmup in the parking lot

    SSH, Don quyotes, Imperial walkers, Cherry pickers, LBCs, fingertip Merkins

    Mosey over to the football field for a modified prostitute style Four corners

    10 Burpees

    20 Lieutenant Dans

    30 Merkins

    40 squat jumps

    Next some Ab work

    American Hammers IC 20 count I think

    Alabama Prom Dates IC 25 count

    WW2s IC 50 count!

    Mosey over to the steep hill between the football field and parking lot

    Bernie Sanders up the hill then run down the hill Repeat for about 6 or 7 minutes

    Mosey Bttf

    Stretching, announcements, numbers, names. YHC took us out.

    YHC was planning on doing some grip strength work for the second half of the workout, but I decided to stay around the football field. Good work guys!