Category: Richmond, VA

  • Lucky Number 7

    8 DaVillians pulled up for a Hot Potato Q at DaPile.

    • Opus Q
      • COP
      • Pole smokers
      • Mosey to football field parking lot. Partner up for mini Dora
        • Partner 1 – touch a tree and back
        • Partner 2 – Exercise (Jump Squats, Merkins, SSH)
    • Spit Q
      • Mosey to hill behind Atlee stadium
      • Jacob’s Ladder – Up to 4 burpees
      • Love hill –
        • Partner 1 – Run to top of hill and back
        • Partner 2 – Broad jump burpees, bear crawl, lunges
    • Phonics Q
      • Mosey back to the Atlee playground but along the way lots of burpees, merkins and a general beatdown
      • At the playground, partner up and do 50 pulls ups total
    • Bulkhead Q
      • Native American run back to the flag, burpee not optional
      • 2 MoM
      • 1 minute of stretching
    • Opus took us out
    • Notes:
      • Good turn out today at DaPile, made for an old fashioned DaVille style beatdown. Great times as always after at the local cup.
      • Congrats to Rounders and family for lucky number 7 coming soon!
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    We will trial this for a while before considering moving additional functionality to Slack in the future.

  • The PAX were up for the Challenge

    Kicking the weekend off in style, 8 SOJ studs got together for the latest edition of Rock N Roll. We pushed ourselves through a tough upper body workout; and had a good time doing so. Here is a brief summary for your viewing pleasure:

    Mosey to the tennis courts for Warmarama:
    Ukranian Soldiers, Helicopters, Apple Bottom Poppers, Alabama Prom Dates, Plank Jacks, Suzanne Somers, Monkey Love Makers, Lunge Walk, High Knees, Butt Kicks, Mummy Bernie Sanders.

    Throughout the workout we took on 4 challenges.
    Challenge One was 50 burpees. Keep going until the first person is finished.

    Mosey to the Kubota Coupon Pile for Exercise One:
    Team One runs up the road a piece, while team two does exercises with cinderblocks. Then switch.
    Exercise were: Bench Press, LBC’s with Cinder, Squats while holding Cinderblock overhead.

    Mosey across the street for Challenge Two: 75 jump squats.

    To the side parking lot for Exercise Two: Frankenstein Exercise Mash-ups:

    PAX travel across the parking lot.
    Round One: Carolina Crab Rolls – crab walk x 5, roll over and Carolina Dry Dock x5, rinse and repeat.
    Round Two: Super Mario’s – Mario Jumps x 5, down for Superman x 5.
    Round Three: Crawl Bear goes to Heaven: Crawl bear x 5, roll back into Heals to Heaven x 5.

    Challenge 3: 100 Merkins.

    Mosey back to the Flag for Challenge 4: 200 LBC’s.

    Numbers/Names/Announcements (see Slack)

    CoPay took us out with some powerful words.

    Final Thoughts: Strong work by all today! A couple of those challenges were no joke. Ultimate goal was to test ourselves and see if we can push through adversity. When Hardywood is around, you know that mumblechatter is going to be strong. Great to see CoPay becoming a regular – I too was surprised that he is 60! Well done sir. Also shout out to Snuff for pushing through post-Covid.

    It was a great honor to lead!

  • Rockwood Chainsaw Massacre

    The Morning Wood crew is always up for an adventure and exploring new areas. This morning, Florence led us down a newly discovered trail that runs along the park’s boundary. Unfortunately, it appeared to actually be the driveway to a cannibalistic hillbilly compound. Realizing our mistake, we high tailed it back to the safety of the park. Cruised past the lake on the nature trail, then back to the flag. A good time was had by all.

  • Talkative FNG

    7 Regulars, 1 Semi-Regular, 1 New Regular and 1 FNG descended upon the sunny confines of northwest Henrico for a summer beatdown. Tater embarked on a new strategy of greeting the FNG with a bro hug. Me thinks they have known each other awhile. Probation, one of our semi-regulars invited him to Gridiron.

    COP: DQs, CPs, HRMs, FMs and Supermen. Mosey to second field.

    11s: HRMs and WWIIs.

    Partner wheelbarrows, 25 2 count flutters at each side of the field. Mosey to parking lot on way to front of school.

    4 corners: 10 burpees, 20 jump squats, 30 2 count mountain climbers, 40 SSHs. Mosey to pavilion near home base.

    Lindseys with derkins and one count step ups. Each set required a job to the goal post and back. Mosey to home base wall.

    Triple checks (2), 1 was wall sit coupon presses, 2 – heels to heaven 3 – run around the parking lot. Second triple check was 1 – coupon bicep curls, 2 – elbow plank and 3 – run to benches and 20 LBCs (in honor of J’ville).

    Finished with a stretch and counterama.

    Prayers for Lab rat, Pinto, Blue Moon, J’ville and anyone else with COVID and/or on the IR. The title comes from our FNG – Will Call (had to do with a side ticket business) aka Xavier aka Mike or Mikey. Although he struggled at a couple parts of the workout he came in with gusto. Welcome aboard. Good luck to Mariner on his baseball tournament. Also, I found out that White Deer owns a white shirt. Thanks to HoneyDo for leading the Bridge today and for you all letting me lead.

    Do great things!

  • What do you mean by Smash?

    5 warriors met up to tack a bit more mileage on a bootcamp. 3.5 mile run + 2.5 mile = 6 miles of fun. At one point YHC recorded a 8:30 pace. Good work men!

    YHC took us out. Capture energy and share it!

  • Solo trip to The Bridge

    YHC drove up to serve up a beat down for 5 pax at the Bridge.

    COP: Ssh, DonQs, IWs, Mertens, Flutterkicks.

    With 6 we did extensive partner work: Catch me if you can, PLTs, Dora, then some block work, including Block the Plank. Finish with some sprints and Ring of Fire.

    NMS: Solid pax and morning at the Bridge. Highly recommend taking a Q.

  • Moroccan nightclubs 

    16 men of F3 up and ready to take on the day. 70 and Sunny. F3Suncoast in Sarasota Fla gave a great welcome to YHC.

    Moroccan Nightclubs were on the menu today and you bet YHC kept his mouth shut . YHC learned a great lesson from Doozy and he didn’t want thisQ to punish the pax especially with theAlligators close by

  • It was a Square J Kind of Day

    Sixteen (or was it seventeen?) Saturday morning thrill seekers stretched and waited for the Q to arrive before YHC grabbed the reigns and off we went to the field in front of the carrilon for:

    COP

    • SSH x25
    • High Knees x10
    • Helicopters x10
    • DQ x10
    • Mountain Climbers x10
    • Merkins x10
    • Wilson’s Wife
    • Fudd’s Wife

    The Thang

    Since we were on the field, YHC called triple check on the field. Group into threes with exercises being merkins, freddie mercuries, while the pace car bernie sanders down and back to the last tree on the right before the gap. YHC passed to Bacon Bits

    Bacon Bits had us mosey to ye old stage and grab some coupons before partnering up for Dora. Exercises were 100x overhead presses, 200x squat swings, 300x curls. Pace car ran to the third tree. This took a while then Bacon passed it to Mr Rogers.

    Mr Rogers led us to the triangle for a tribute to Garbage Plate. Partner up, one person runs the triangle while the other progresses through bear crawls, lunges, polar bears, broad jump burpees. Then pass to Wilson.

    Wilson led us to the amphitheater for a short triple check. Merkins, LBCs, while the pace car ran up 8 steps and returned. Plenty of name combinations shouted with the most memorable being Bacon Gas. Wilson had us mosey back to the flag before passing it back to YHC (presumably because he didn’t want to write the BB).

    YHC led us through 3.5 minutes of mary including American Hammers, Rosalitas, Dollys, and LBCs before finishing promptly at 07:00.

    Numbers (someone was skipped), names (no one was skipped), before YHC and then Hitchhiker took us out.

    Announcements

    • Shiplap’s big day is tomorrow! Keep him and his new family in your prayers.
    • Prayers for our PAX who are recovering, especially Lab Rat. We are with you brother.
    • As of today, commenting on backblasts on the website has been disabled. Use Slack to comment on backblasts. If you aren’t on slack, as a friend or ask me.

    Moleskin

    Many of the PAX were expecting a tire to be dropped off somewhere, which must have been why the Q wasn’t in attendance. Turns out the signed up Q just overslept. Make sure to ping him on Slack and let him know how much we appreciate him.

    Great to be at Dogpile two weeks in a row. Going to have to make this a more regular thing… Great coffeeteria afterwards where we solved all problems IT related.

    SYITG!

    Splinter

  • Look at me when you’re dipping

    YHC was honored to Q my first AO outside of DaVille at Twin Team today. I have always heard great things about this AO and it absolutely held up to its name. 10 other F3 brothers decided to join the fun.

    • COP – Mosey to the bus loop
      • SSH x 20
      • Helicopters x 10
      • Imperial Walkers x 10
      • Don Quixotes x 10
      • Arm circles small x 10, big x 5; Reverse
      • Shoulder taps x 10
      • Hand release Merkins x 10
      • Cherry pickers x 10
      • LBCs x 20
      • Copperhead squats x 10
    • Suicides – Quick mosey to the basketball court for some 2 rounds of suicides.
    • 4 corners – Mosey to the track next to the basketball courts
      • Corner 1 – 5 pull ups
      • Corner 2 – 10 Merkins
      • Corner 3 – 20 Squats
      • Corner 4 – 40 LBCs
      • 2 rounds
    • Mosey to the James River HS side and the big field is locked. No problem, we improvise and mosey to the big parking lot. Starting at one end of parking lot do a Love Hill modified.
      • Partner 1 – Run to other end of parking lot and back
      • Partner 2 – Does exercise (bear crawl, lunges, broad jump burpees)
      • Once PAX hit the end, back to other end with exercises in reverse
    • Mosey to the pull-up bars for some Bulkhead Special. Multiples of Pull-up x 1, Dips x 2, Squats x 3 all the way up to 5 pull-ups.
    • Mosey to Bettie Weaver softball field for 1 round of 7 of diamonds with some burpees (won’t be a Bulkhead Q without some burpees)
    • Mosey back to BW parking lot for a some MoM and stretching
    • DTH took us out
    • Notes:
      • I am very grateful for the Twin Team PAX for welcoming me and turning up. Great conversations and laughter as always. I will be coming back to check out the hill which we did not have time for.