Category: Richmond, VA

  • Partner carry tooth fairies, is that a thing?

    5 strong men Forged in fire made their way out of the Gloom for a beatdown at the Forge this A.M.

    5:30 4 men strong made their way to the flag poles for COP

    DQ’s, Helicopters, Imperial Walkers, Russian Soldiers Mosey over to see who rolled in half way through the COP

    Collect Bone Thugs as our 5th wheel to finish out COP with SSH’s, Merkins, LBCs and Dead Man Hang

    Mosey to the stairs for 11’s 1 Donkey Kick at the bottom, Tooth fairies up the stairs, 10 LBC’s at the top run back down

    Mosey to the corner of the parking lot

    4 corners (regular) 10 – Jump Squats, 20 – Ball Dipper (2 Count), 30 – Calf Raises, 40 – Squats

    4 corners (regular) 10 – WWII’s, 20 – Scrunchy Frogs, 30 – American Hammers (2 count), 40 – LBC’s

    Use the hill for a partner triple check – we had 5 total so two teams of two each team working as a partner while YHC was the 3rd partner. Partner team 1 does Jump Squats, partner team 2 does merkins, partner team 3 bernies up the hill does 1 burpee at the top and runs back down

    Mosey to light pole alley – Bernie up the hill stopping for one burpee at each light pole to Forrest Hill Rd

    BTTF with 1 minute left – sit in a peoples chair for 1 minute WOW a minute is a long time

    Numbers / Names YHC took us out

    NMS:

    The tooth fairies proved to be one of those exercises that looked good on paper but in reality where a real smoker during the beatdown. Originally, YHC had called Merkins at the top but modified it to LBC’s mid way up the 15 steps worth of tooth fairies (X10). After the ball of man there was a conversation about tooth fairies and how DTH could make them suck worse, that’s when the thought of how we could partner carry while doing tooth fairies came up. It was a unanimous decision that anyway you slice it, Partner carry tooth fairies is just a bad idea.

  • Field Trip Day at 45MOM

    12 men (later to be 13) arrived on time (or maybe 30 seconds late) for todays workout and this is what transpired

    Clock strikes 0530 and we were off. Mosey across the street to N Willetta to Kingcrest to Woodlawn to Cary to Windsor Way. Circle up for a COP. Various exercises. Quick 5 Burpess for TYA and continue down Windsor Way to the field in front of Grace Baptist Church.

    Ascending/descending 4 corners. Run to Corner 1 and do (10) HRM’s, Corner 2 (20) WWII’s (10) HRM’s, Corner 3 (30) Jump Squats (20) WWII”s (1) HRM’s, Corner 4 (40) SSH’s (30) Jump Squats (20) WWII’s (10) HRM’s and then run back to Corner 3 for as we started the descending back to Corner 1.

    Triple Check – 3 exercises: P1 runs diagonal across the field P2 – Flutter Kicks P3 – Squats. 3 rounds.

    Time was running short so we started the mosey back. On the way we stopped one time to complete 20 HRM’s and 20 WWII’s.

    Mosey back to the flag and arrive at 0617.

    Announcements – The Bridge workout in Dillwyn, Va. at 0730 on Saturday, February 26th. Please see Slack for details.

    NMS – Beautiful weather today. It was great to see a FNG (Survey) and well as a guest from Downrange (Brick) from Lexington, SA. Survey was EH’d by Kokomo. He’s a Pediatrician and he enjoys adventure racing, welcome Survey. YHC felt bad today when we ran back to Mary and there was Anthrax waiting for us, apparently he was 30 seconds late and YHC had already taken off with the Pax. Sorry Anthrax!

  • Snatch and grab

    8 men descended to the glorious grounds of Timberwolf. High on the competitive spirit of the olympics (not to be confused with the banned substances taken by the Russians), an excellent beat down ensued. According to the lone runner going round the track, this is how it went down.

    Cop 

    Nancy Kerrigans

    Michael Phelps 

    Hairy Rockettes 

    Dead man hang

    Collard Pickers

    LBCs

    Flutter kicks

    Merkins

    Peter Parker’s 

    mosey to the track for…

    “Olympic Triple Check”

    2 groups of 4 so we did four exercises, 3 times…

    Lap around track

    Apollo ono’s

    Bonnie Blair’s 

    “Snatch and grab“ (Squat and touch the ground, then extend and hands in air with the invisible bar)

    back to the flag, 5 burpees OYO.

    numbers names YHC took us out

    NMM

    Did not think through how long the triple check would take. All good, made for nice mumble chatter and YHC has some things on the Weinke for the next Q. great work yall, have a great day!

  • 2-10 Ramp Build

    2-10 Ramp Build

    Corned Beef, Mr Rogers, Tryhard and Hitchhiker

    Last Thursday 4 brothers converged with Project Homes and their volunteers to build a Ramp for a Chesterfield Resident in need. Weather was great and we finished before 11:30am. We will have more dates later this spring including a weekend date! Please contact Corned Beef if you are interested and thank you to Mr Rogers, Tryhard and Hitchhiker for your time and effort on this ramp. Have a great week!

    Cheers….CB

  • Lethal Weapon 1, 2, 3, and 4

    A lucky 7 came out to WDog for YHC’s post birthday beatdown. In YHC’s travels YHC tries to post in different locations and learn new things. Today YHC brought two new activities to F3RVA. This is how it all went down

    Started out with stretching, dead man hang, fudd and wilson’s wife, Donny Q’s, and a new one straight from F3 Houston, the sprinkler. Then it was a short mosey on to the stage to pick up coupons.

    For the rest of the workout the coupons didn’t really leave our sight. On another recent travel to Cape Fear F3 in the Wilmington, NC area YHC learned about 50s. With coupons in hand moseyed over to the sunken field.

    50s consists of a square/rectangle, with stops at each corner. First corner 20 of the exercise, next corner 15, next 10, and the last 5 reps. Running between each corner with coupon in tow.

    First Round: overhead presses

    Second Round: dips

    Third Round: curls

    Fourth Round: WW2s but run with block over head between each stop

    Fifth Round: burpees, but murder bunny the short side of the rectangle and run with block over head between the long sides.

    That took up pretty much all the time, took coupons back to the stage for safe storage, then mosey to the Mel Gibson hollywood star. Mel you say, well when YHC learned about 50s in the middle of a field where we ran around there was a film crew and they were setting up for a new Mel Gibson movie being field in Southport, NC. At the star everyone did their 10 merkins of choice and stated their favorite Mel Gibson movie. A lot of the PAX love Lethal Weapon.

    Mosey back to the flag and with time left over there was some cool down stretching.

    Names and Numbers and Announcements and YHC took us out.

  • Birthday Dice Surprise

    Last attempt at this was washed out by a freak rain storm but YHC planned well this time and asked the rain gods to not wash away the chalk markings. It went down like this, PAX pairs up with a runner of similar abilities. Each duo gets a dice, and we moseyed to the bottom of a nearby hill. YHC had marked out six chalk lines of varying distances up the hills. Each duo rolls their dice, sees the number on the dice and then proceeds to run up the hill to said rolled number – and repeato until time is called.

    YHC left a birthday surprise at dice roll number six with one burpee. Bodos and Swiper had the most fun and were the most excited for the hill dice roll workout. Don’t worry guys this one will be back!

    Names, Numbers, and Announcements.

    Announcements: Gypsy is still looking for a few more volunteers to help sort things. Vinny is Q-ing at ‘The Bridge’ on the 26th – very powerful place, highly recommended you go at least once.

    YHC took us out

    followed by coffee and donuts for YHC’s birthday. Thank you to everyone who joined in the festivities!

  • It’s like skiing

    A good turnout today with 4 gents showing up for a KB workout.

    • COP
      • SSH x 20
      • Invisible jump ropes x 20
      • Fat Alberts x 20
      • Don Qs x 10
      • Arm Circles
      • Scorpion kicks x 10
      • HRMs x 10
      • Heals to Heaven x 10
    • Ladders
      • Shoulder thrusts + Goblet squats (5 + 15, 10 + 10, 15 + 5)
      • KB swings + Curls (5 + 15, 10 + 10, 15 + 5)
    • 11s
      • Good mornings + Demon crushers
    • MoM
      • Boat canoes
      • Flutterkicks + KB presses
      • KB American hammers
    • Stretching
    • Corned Beef took us out
    • Notes
      • Hard work put in by all and as always at Manndate, very interesting conversations.

    Great job gents!

  • Its Getting Crowded

    Two is fun but three is better as was determined by the early risers looking to get some Broga in before a brutal Hutton beatdown. According to Handshake’s M, that thought it is nuts to Broga at 4.30, this is what went down.

    Big emphasis on hamstrings with some work on the hips and calves. Pleasant surprise that Doublemint was waiting for YHC and Kubota to make this morning a group session. Getting limber for the upcoming nuptials. Limited pops from Kubotas knees proves this stuff works.

    Great to see numbers increase. Look forward to warmer temps. Broga goes south next Tuesday at No Toll – 5 am start.

  • 25s

    9 Bootcampers and 4 Lost runners posted on a chilly morning at SOT. Beatdown went as follows!

    COP – Helicopters, SSHs, Dead Man Hang, DQs, Russian Soldiers, Copperhead Squats, Merkins, LBCs

    Mosey to track

    25s – Pax member call exercise, 25 reps, and run a quarter of the lap and wait for next exercise. 7 1/2 laps completed.

    Exercises included – SShs, LCs, Merkins, Mountain Climbers, Raise the roof, Squats, Jump Squats, Dry Docks, Monkey Humbers, Shoulder Taps and more.

    Back to the flag!

    Numbers Names Honeymoon took us out!

    Announcements – SOJ has voted to go back to huddling to pray. This group was built to lean on and put our arms around our brothers and pray for them together. If a PAX member doesn’t feel comfortable doing that, it is completely understandable and will be respected for their decision. We are a strong group and will support each other in the decisions made!

    NMS:

    Thank gents for basically leading the workout! Strong work by all men!

  • Devil’s Perineum

    Elevenish guys took on the hills of First Watch covering roughly 2.5 miles with some exercises along the way.

    Here’s what transpired:

    Long slowsey to the dead end of Ross Rd now better known as Satan’s Taint.

    COP

    • Don Quixotes
    • Copperhead Squats
    • Jazzercises
    • Helicopters
    • Merkins
    • Mountain Climbers

    Double Trouble

    • P1 – Run to turnaround point A and back
    • P2 – Lt. Dans
    • 10 Booyah Merkins and Flip
    • All – Mosey to point A (sorry, no rest for P2)
    • P1 – Run to turnaround point B and back
    • P2 – Crunchy Frogs
    • 10 Booyah Merkins and Flip
    • All – Mosey to point B
    • Repeato 2 more rounds to point C & D

    Mosey back to parking lot and retrieve coupons

    Double Impact

    • P1 – Murder Bunnies, Walkout Squat Thrusters, Overhead Carry width of parking lot and back
    • P2 – Incline Merkins, Dips, Decline Merkins on guard rail

    Mosey back to flag

    Numberama, Nameorama, COT

    MOLESKIN

    YHC broke the Q code, albeit unintentionally, but is now Jacka$$ for the day.  Sincerest apology to all.  As things went a little sideways, the oversharing became somewhat secondary.  Or maybe YHC just missed it.  Did hear that Doublemint has standard and electric toothbrushes packed for the week ahead.  Great coffeteria as always.  Don’t pair with Ronnie for movie trivia unless the category is about Jackies.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    Great to have new faces at FW, please come back