Tag: 45 Minutes of Mary

At 0527 YHC pulled up to Mary to see an empty parking lot. In the distance the Bat Mobile could be seen but it wasn’t clear if anyone was in the car. Moments later Bleeder exits, so there were 2. At 0529 Fergie pulls up, so then there were 3. With SOJ Takeover happening this week it was clear out Q was not coming (YHC hopes the original Q is ok), so YHC took the Q.

Mosey to the Recess Blacktop for a COP of various exercises.

With a pax of 3 we quickly assembled for a Triple Check. P1 Wall Sit, P2 WWII’s, P3 Run to the Fence and back.

Mosey to Lil’ Blue to retrieve the lil’ Cinderblocks. Mosey back to the Pavilion to complete various exercises. Mosey back to lil’ Blue to deposit the blocks.

Mosey to the northwestern corner of Mary for a Four Corners. Mosey to the first corner and complete 10 HRM, second corner 20 Squats and 10 HRM’s, third corner 30 WWII’s, 20 Squats, 10 HRM’s, fourth corner 40 SSH’s, 30 WWII’s, 20 Squats, 10 HRM’s.

Mosey over to the Benches for 10 single count step ups, 20 Dips, 10 Derkins.

Mosey back to the parking lot for 45 seconds of stretching.

Announcements – non

Prayer Requests – Fergie’s brother as he’s about to start Chemo. TYA and Blue Moon as the go through/recover from Meniscus surgery.

NMS – YHC can’t say there was a lot of motivation today, but we did it. We broke the bonds of the fartsack and conquered the day. Thank you for the opportunity to lead.

10 men of character (or just characters) assembled in the haze for the latest edition of 45MOM. Temperatures were sunny and 70. According to the tomato counting her colleagues efforts, the following might have happened.

Mosey along the sidewalk to the corner of Westmoreland and Grove. Circle up.

SSHs (50), Don Quixote (5), burpees, let’s try DQs again (maybe 3), 10 burpees, Imperial Walkers 7, LBCs 20, Hello Dolly 7, Rosalita’s 7, Scorpion Kicks, Inverted Scorpion Kicks, HRMs.

Mosey about 9 feet to the west/southwest to the picnic tables for 11’s.

Incline merkins and step ups.

Mosey to the blacktop. Dora 100-200–300 with a twist.

100 merkins (split 50/50), 200 WWIIs, and 300 SSHs. Twist is 5 boo-yah merkins between sets. After about 50 WWIIs, the Q realized that was going to take all day, so audible to 4-count flutter kicks (or have Bleeder do some kind of belly dance for the tomatoes). We knew he could play pickle ball; apparently, he can belly dance, too.

Mosey to the tennis courts for a Beast (redux). 6 sets of 6 exercises. Squats, monkey humpers, dry docks, and we are running out of time…

…Mosey BTTVSF for some stretching and time.

Announcements:

Friday SOJ hosting a 2nd F billiards evening. Jorts for SOJ guys, popped collars optional for Tuckahoe.

SOJ takeover starts Saturday. Best YHC can tell, Rosie is Qing every workout.

Summer Tour…continues.

For SOJ takeover and Summer Tour…Recommendation to Traveling Qs: learn / explore the AO before Qing, especially if the AO is new to you.

Breaking Bread needs a couple of July sign-ups. New guys: this is F3RVA’s volunteer group. Give this a try. It’s far easier than you think. 4th Sat/Sun of every month. 5:30. You make dinner for 8-12 people recovering from a medical issue. Super rewarding.

NMS: Bodo’s has a friend whose motto is, “If you can’t give yourself a vasectomy, who can you give one to?” So, he did. With a mirror. And, wait for it, his wife watched. YHC thinks this says something about trust in a marriage. Is this is a sign of “complete trust” (We can share this moment!) or the total absence of trust (She wants to make 100% sure he goes through with it)? Perhaps a topic for the next F3RVA discussion group.

Handshake is scouring YouTube for videos to see if this is a better way to go. Saab points out the financial savings this would offer. See what people miss when they pay for a gym membership?

YHC turns 7 in F3RVA years today (at $20/month, roughly $1680 in savings, Saab!). Thank you to HoneyDo for hounding me to join. Thank you to Bleeder for trying to kill me the first day (or at least make me puke, which YHC still has never done).

This group has been transformative for YHC. The fitness side is simple. YHC is far more muscular, and the fat has been pushed further from the midpoint of the torso. The results are obvious: Mission not accomplished. 2nd F has been friendships galore built during beatdowns, runs through the woods, social events, and countless breakfasts at ETs and Libbie Market. Thank you.

The real magic has been in the 3rd F. A long time ago TYA shared with me a video that should be titled,”It’s not about you.” The 3rd F is not about a specific religion; it’s about faith demonstrated by doing things for other people. Each of us can do that and collectively we can do that. This group has provided a set of role models, especially among the Old School guys, who remind YHC regularly of the importance of being there for other humans. Help the poor, visit the imprisoned, and help to carry other people along the walk of life (and be ready to welcome their help when you need it).

Onward – Given that Pigskin is Respect, Respect, Respect AND is roughly 12 in F3 years, YHC predicts the best is yet to come.

4 men ready to dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge converged at Mary for an early morning dodgefest. Here’s what happened:

COP: standard fare

7 of Diamonds on the blacktop: 7 Burpees in each corner. 2nd round: 14 4x Flutters // 21 Merkins // 28 squats // 21 Carolina Drydocks // 14 LBCs // 7 WW2s.

Dodgeball! Seymore + Bodos v. Last Call + Hitchhiker. If you get hit, run to the other end of the tennis courts, 3 burpees, run back and jump back in the game. If both men get knocked out before the other is back, game over. Team Seymore + Bodos edged out the win 2 games to 1.

Play of the day goes to Hitchhiker, who caught a ball hurled at him by Seymore while holding 3 other balls.

SMS: Apparently dodgeball is not a draw for the pax. Really want to do this again with a bigger group- it’s SO MUCH FUN . We did find TYA huddled in a corner of the blacktop trying to repair his bike, but he would not join us. Neither would 4 other guys working out around the playground. And Handshake slept in. ?

7 studs said no to the fartsack and gathered for a beatdown at Mary. Here’s what went down:

Quick COP on the corner of Commonwealth and Grove.

Burpee Alley: Run the length of Hanover from Commonwealth to Shadwell and perform 3 burpees at every lamppost/streetlight. Crunchy Frogs IC for the six. Mosey across Grove to parking lot.

Wall to Wall: Partner up. Round 1: P1 runs to wall and performs 10 2x Chicken Peckers, P2 People’s chair 3x. // Round 2: P1 runs to wall and performs 10 Donkey Kicks, P2 wall sit. 3x. // Round 3: P1 runs to wall and performs 10 2x Dirty Hookups, P2 Chicken Peckers, or balls to wall. 3x. Mosey east down Grove to Lock Lane. 

Lock Lane: Stop midway for ab exercises IC

Triple Check in the First Pres lot P1: WW2s // P2: Hand release merkins // P3: Run to fence, Bernie back. Audible after 2 rounds. Mosey back to Mary. Stop on the corner of Westover and Cary for more ab exercises.

COP : LBCs, end with some up downs.

NMS: a fun group this morning, lots of good mumble chatter, also lots of running. Shakedown is happy to take his shoes off and show you his five finger toe socks.

YHC got the 50/50 committal from an FNG, which in F3 parlance means ‘not a chance in hell.’ Best practices according to Shakedown: ‘offer to pick him up on the way in.’ Lesson learned.

Ruckers headed out and the warmarama commenced: SSHs, Don Quixotes, helicopters. Imperial squat walkers… what? Is that some kind of complicated southside mating dance? LBCs, then some Rosalita whips… what? It’s true what you’ve heard, the SOJ evolution has led to some exercise inbreeding.

Mosey to the pavilion for some 5 station picnic table rotation: incline mirkins, dips, step ups, dirty hookups and WW2s.

Mosey to the basketball courts for a mini-beast: burpees, LBCs, mirkins, jump squats, heels to heaven and Lieutenant Dans. Then we ran the loop.

Some nice wall work: 3 rounds of wall sits, 15 donkey kicks OYO, and balls to the wall. With a bonus round of dirty hookups.

Mosey back to the flag for some ab Mary x5 with a 1.5 minute elbow plank to finish it out.

Ruckers came back and we took it out in the COT.

Grateful to be out there in the gloom with the guys – way to put in the work. Won’t make the same mistake with the FNG next time.

An intrepid six convened for 45MOM. After some COP stretching, we jumped right in.

OLD 100. Perform a set of exercises, run the track, wait for the six

• Round 1: 100 Squats. 
• Round 2: 90 2x Flutter Kicks. 
• Round 3: 80 2x Mountain Climbers. 
• Round 4: 70 LBCs. 
• Round 5: 60 Carolina Drydocks. 
• Round 6: 50 WW2s. 
• Round 7: 40 Merkins. 
• Round 8: 30 Plank Jacks. 
• Round 9: 20 Jump Squats
• Round 10: 10 Burpees. Sprint back to the flag.

Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out.

NMS: Is the track at MM really .25 miles as claimed? Lots of mumblechatter and testing of distances to determine the answer. Bleeder saved all his energy for the very last sprint back to the flag- the man’s still got it.

7 for the Bootcamp and 1 on a Bicycle for this weeks 45MOM

Mosey to the Blacktop for a COP of various exercises and either (1) Burpee or (1) HRM after each exercise

Mosey to the grass and partner up. P1 stays and does WWII’s and P2 runs to the Monkey Bars and does 7 Pull Ups x 3 rotations

Mosey to the northwestern corner of campus to the Tables and complete (20) Derkins, (20) Dips, and (20) Squats

Mosey to ‘lil Blue and retrieve the Fun Size Coupons. Mosey back to the same corner and complete various exercises with high volume of reps to offset the smaller Blocks.

Group up for a very ambitious Triple Check. P1 takes their block and runs to the southwestern corner of the school and completes (10) Dips on the bars. Meanwhile P2 is doing Curls for the Girls and P3 is doing Step Ups on the Picnic Tables. We only had time for 1 round.

Mosey to the Flag

Announcements – Gomer’s CSAUP at Godwin on Saturday. 0600-0645 Ruck, 0700-0745 Bootcamp, 0800-? Run. Senor Frogs son graduates from ODU on Saturday

NMS – quiet morning, not much mumble chatter. We were missing some key players today, so it was a little more 45MOM and not 45MOG (Minutes of Geri). Fergie brought down the average age by a lot.

A mysterious SOJ Q was welcomed by 8 of his Tuckahoe brethren. Here’s what the guy walking around who may or may not have been talking to himself witnessed :

Warmarama : 20 SSH IC, 10 Ukrainian Soldiers IC, 10 IW’s IC

THE THANG :

Merkin Jax – Done in a 1:4 ratio : 1 merkin, 4 plank jax, 2 merkins, 8 plank jax, up to 5/20 and all the way back down 

Mosey to pavement outside of tennis court

Squat Jump Holds (do Squat Jumps counting down from 10 to 1 then hold Al Gore in helix counting down from 10 to 1. Repeato with 9 seconds, 8 seconds etc down to 1 seconds. Hold the last Al Gore for 10 seconds for the burn)

25 WWII’s IC

11’s traveling to tennis court fence and back : Start with 1 Merkin and 10 Lunges DOUBLE COUNT

Mosey inside tennis courts

Santa’s Ladder – run across all the courts to the far side and do 10 burpees. Run back to starting point then back again and do 9 burpees. Repeato until you complete 1 burpee (Fudd used to like Santa but hates him now)

Mosey to pull up bars

3 sets of 7 pull ups

Mosey to school building wall

40 Donkey Kicks

Mosey to bench

40 Dips

Mosey BTTF

1 minute of Flutters IC

1 minute of rapid fire Punches while holding Al Gore (Handshake won the style award for looking like Richard Simmons with his form and attire)

DONE

Numbers, Names, YHC took us out

Prayers : continued recovery for Chippendale; Handshake has knee surgery tomorrow; pray for the well being and healing of a young girl named Eliza Payne who’s Dad is a friend of Fudd’s and also pray for the well being and healing of Bodos’ friend named Mac

Announcements : This Saturday TYA is heading to the Bridge. Contact him if you’d like to join;

Hitchhiker wants to organize an F3 pickle ball tournament. He could use some extra rackets. Contact him if interested

NMMS : Really enjoyed the crowd at Mary this morning. It’s nice to visit a different AO and mix it up sometimes. Thanks to Hutton for the idea on Q’ing at a different AO this month.

8 warriors emerged from the gloom to melt the muffin top, gain abs of steel and chests of power – just in time for pool season. According to the guy liming the Mary peewee soccerfields in the dark (wtf?), this is how it went down more or less.

Mosey to grassy field. F3 Mission. Disclaimer. All exercises IC: 35x SSH, 10x Don Quixote, 10x Helicopter, 15x Arm Circles, 15x reverso Arm circles. On 6. 10x WW2, 25x LBC, 10x Flutter Kicks, 10x Hello Dolly, 10x Rosalita, 15x HtH, 10x Freddie Mercuries, 10x Australian Grass Angels. Flip it over. 10x Grass Angels, 52+ Merkins: 10x Merkin, 10x Wide Arm, 10x Diamond merkins, 10x Merkins, 10x SHAZZAMs, 2x OMC Merkin + 1 Merkin for the Rangers in the sky. 20 min COP so far. 10x Alabama Prom Dates, 10x Tusacaloosa Trailerpark Twister. 22 min COP.

Mosey to pull up bar. All pax plank. 1 pax plus one assist attempt 8x pullups YvsY. 6x on round 2.

Mosey to blacktop. Quad check. BTTW, WW2, Helix Squat. Timer runs to fence.

Whomp there it is! (working title, new one next BB). Pair up. 20x WW2 run to catch up to partner who bearcrawls for 20 full crawls (thats 40 paces Fudd). 5x booyah merkins. Switch it up. Called at time. BTTF.

Rosie took us out. Prayers for Caroline (Gomers niece) for full health, Chris (BoneThugs relative) on his loss, PAX overall.

Announcements:

• BG festival 4/22 JRHS
• CSAUP
• Gomer Qs leading up to 6 yr anniversary at DogPile 4/22.

NMS –

Some PAX broke their apprehensions and discovered that not only is a 20min CoP do able, but it can be a rip roaring blast, so much fun! YHC plan is balance. Seeking challenge for veterans and new PAX alike. YvsY. Rosie says we need to add legs. How much COP is too much? Work before fun.

Get some!