12 dudes, mostly regulars with a couple newbies and a celebrity guest who usually does not go this far west came to lift some weights. It felt weird not seeing Attila but we had a Handshake appearance so I call that even. COP: DQs, helicopters, ACs, diamond merkins, plank jacks and LBCs. Mosey to bus loop. 11s with presses, halos with a rifle carry in between. They say if you can’t do it don’t Q it. Well that is what I did. I started faltering on rifle carries after a few sets of these. Good shoulder workout nonetheless. Gypsy gets…
3 men in the HOT SANDS of Bermuda accomplished the following: Warm up:Side Straddle Hop, Don Quixote, Ukrainian Soldier, imperial walker, and 20 flutter kicks. Workout: A short run incorporating a Bernie. Ring of fire: 10ea Freddie Mercuries, pulse ups, American Hammers, starfish, WWII, and 30 Flutter variations. Circuit 10ea: pull ups, Merkins, jerkins, short pull ups, and easy merkins. 40 Hoe Downs, 20 wall walkers, Four corners: 10 Merkins, 20 Carolina Dry Docks, 30 Side Straddle Hops, and 40 monkey humpers.
Three decades of HIMs showed up for a swampy beatdown on the track. The thang: – 200 warmup of Cadence drills and sprinters- 20x100s (run the straight, walk the curves) @ 20-25 seconds each- 400 @ race pace (6-7min mile) Then a slow walk back to the flagDoozy did a slow 6-8 so we didn’t see him after the warmup. Finkle came out for the first time in a year, but forgot his F3 name so YHC was able to track it down with much support from fuzzy memory, Big data, & our glorious backblasts. Welcome back Finkle! Homegrown Half…
We were sweating before we even started… 9 regulars and 2 FNGs came out for a sweltering summer smack down. Warmarama 4-Corners Lady of the Night Style: 10 Mike Tysons; 10 Pull Ups; 10 Lt. Dans; 10 Burpees Adora: 100 Merkins; 200 Mtn Climbers; 300 Flutter Kicks Jerkin-Merkin-Derkin reps COT “Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.” (Rom. 12:11) 7/4 Convergence; 7/14 Home Run Derby Welcome FNGs Transplant (I thought of “Scrubs” too late…) and Catfish!
The Forge hosted its first-ever F3 Flag Football Showdown, and the gloom was lit not by the sun, but by pure testosterone, terrible QB reads, and the sound of men arguing about Mississippi counts. We split into two squads, each powered by caffeine, pride, and increasingly creaky hamstrings. The Rules: No kickoffs or punts Start every possession at the 30. TD = 30 side straddle hops by the defense. INT or fumble = 10 burpees by the team that turned the ball over 1st Down = 10 merkins by the defense 4th down stop = 10 WWII sit-ups for the…
The heat and humidity did not stop 5 men from posting at Manndate. COP – various exercises Thang – Both YHC and Corned Beef brought our club bells so we setup workout stations, timer will do 50 jump ropes and rotate. Exercises were squats, curls, tricep extensions, snatches, swings etc. Numbers, names, Corned Beef took us out.
the PAX arrived at Timberwolf bright and early for a day of fun and punishment. The game today was Ultimate Golf, aka All Sports Driving Range With Consequences, aka A REAL Numbers Game. Due to the frankly absurdly complicated rules, YHC will spare you from a description of the horribly convoluted and half baked game. The important details are as follows: It turns out Fandango is some strange gecko-human abomination and he can’t drop a ball Flyboy is not as good as he claims at golf Nerf footballs are harder to catch than I remember probably should have brought a…
The Crossing Crew was expecting molten temperatures, but 97 and breezy wasn’t all that bad in the shade… until you stepped onto 120 degree pavement in the sun. The Q thought very briefly about taking the PAX inside the church, but the Core Principles were instead honored in gloriously sweaty fashion – in the following manner: The THANG: WARMERAMA: Mosey loops around the Annex Lot and circle up Welcome & Disclaimer The usual DTH top to bottom IC Reps COP #1: Mosey down to the Portico (shaded) Partner up for B.O.M.B.S. – Similar to Dora 1-2-3 but more exercises, B.O.M.B.S.…
Guess it’s been a while… Seven ‘yakers and one SUP’er, hit the mighty James this morning at the earliest or F3RVA hours. According to the owls, great blue herons, ducks and dead people in the water with their zippers down, the following occurred: 0500 launch 29 minutes upriver 5 minute turn around 26 minutes downriver 0555 hop back on land Group hug photo Numbers, smell the dead animal, Names, smell the dead animal, Announcements, gag, Kubota takes us out! NMS: Awesome, beautiful morning and sunrise! Maurice had the save of the morning. Coffee after was fun. Six years of this…
Eleven HIM’s converged at Ruckhenge in 1000% humidity to happily discover that a new DTH caber would accompany their morning ruck. This conifer log is about 8’ long and weighs about 80-100 pounds, dense with embedded sap. The PAX took turns in pairs to share her uncomfortable weight as we looped through Larus and local neighborhoods. (See pictures on Slack). Dealer was heard to exclaim “oof, that log just hits different!” An official name of this hefty new coupon is still in progress but current candidates like “Justinian” and “Sophia” hail from our new book “The Uses of the Past:…