Tag: 45 Minutes of Mary

12 guys gathered in the gloom for 45 minutes of Marian joy. Here’s what went down after a mosey around the school campus:

COP in the field: standard stuff.

Big Bang: Plank in a circle, shoulder to shoulder, with a headlamp at the center. On the YHC’s command, the pax EXPLOSIVELY jumps up from plank position, runs 10 paces, performs 10 burpees, then runs back to the circle to plank position // Next Round: 20 paces, 20 Jump Squats // Round 3: 30 paces, 30 merkins // Round 4: 40 paces, 40 LBCs // Round 5: 50 paces, 50 SSHs. Back to plank position for Pickle pounders IC.

Dora on the Tennis Courts: 100 WW2s // 150 Merkins // 200 Squats. BONUS ROUND: 50 Burpees.

Triple Double Switcheroo: P1 runs to chin up bars and performs 5 pulls up or chin ups while P2 performs ab exercises. Switch. 3x.

COP: Classic Burpee Shuffle for 2 minutes

NMS: Sweater brought an FNG (Andy) but they had to roll out early. Hope Sweater’s back is ok and Andy comes back soon so we can name him. Awesome to see Trampstamp again and welcome Shiplap back after baby’s arrival- sorry brother to ask you an awkward question about your wife’s pain. No one wants to have to say the V word at 5:30am in a school parking lot with a bunch of dudes. Great group of guys and great mumble chatter. Always a privilege to lead.

11 titans and one woefully unprepared Gerry experienced a workout commensurate with its title…

Saab abides…when able

Fourteen aspiring gentleman dancers gathered in a darker than usual corner of the AO to earn their cuffs & collars. According to the dog walker the fistful of dollars, this is what might have happened:

Warmarama: SSH, DonQ, Imperial Walkers, Side Benders, WWII, & Dive Bombers

Mosey to tennis courts. Partner up for:

• Lunges
• Bear Crawls
• Grapevines
• Burpee Broad Jumps

Mosey to soccer field. Triple up for:

• Australian Pull-ups
• Triple-Check:
  • P1: Run field perimeter (adjusted to end-line)
  • P2: Elbow Plank
  • P3: WWII

Backtrack to flag. Stations along the way:

• Freddie Mercury + Back Extensions
• Jack Knives + Flapping Superman
• Flutters + Obliques
• Chase the Rabbit + Squats + Calf Raises

Back to flag for Elbow Plank + Announcements to run out the clock

Announcements:

• Labor Day Convergence @ DogPile
• BRR needs a driver (Handshake might be covering?)
• Sit n sip 9/24 in Amelia. Let Gomer Pyle know if you need the address.

NMS: Awesome weather and turnout this morning. As the PAX was well aware this was my Virgin Q and I appreciated all of the constructive feedback (cadence, jargon, distance). Welcome to our FNG, Sweater a Wheezer groupie who lives in the Museum District – look for him at Mary, WDog, DogPile, etc.

Thanks again to Bodos for nudging me to lead. Personally, this was a nice bookend to an unusual spring/summer filled with incredible highs and devastating lows. Being outdoors pushing myself with this crew was an important point of reference that kept me on track and moving forward. Remember to ask your brother how he’s doing; listen; share your story; lean on each other; pull each other up; keep moving forward.

Excelsior!

Open Q sheet so EF and the HP Band took the stage. COP, 4 Corners w Prostitute, PAX Carry Suicides, 100 yd Lunge w Squats, Mary, Announcements, Prayers, COT. Welcome back Tramp Stamp. And a loooonggg overdue Backblast.

7 HIMs, with a recovering TYA chaperoning, gathered for a field trip. With TYA’s permission, we ventured out on our own.

COP: Soft start in the teacher’s lot. Deadman Hang // Helicopters // DQs // Copperhead squats // Imperial Walkers // Russian Soldiers // SSHs. Mosey to corner of Westmoreland and Hanover.

Burpee Alley: Run the length of Hanover from Westmoreland to Shadwell and perform 3 burpees at every lamppost. Mosey across Grove to parking lot.

Wall to Wall: Partner up at Jenny Maragy’s lot. Round 1: P1 runs to wall and performs 10 2x Chicken Peckers, P2 Wall Sit with overhead press. 3x. // Round 2: P1 runs to wall and performs 10 Donkey Kicks, P2 wall sit with milking the cow (or yak). 3x. // Round 3: P1 runs to wall and performs 10 2-count dirty hookups, P2 Wall sit with toes/knees/hands in the air. 3x. Mosey east down Grove to Lock Lane. 

Lock Lane: Stop at every lamppost, 3 WW2s, all the way to First Pres lot.

Triple Check in the 1st Pres lot.: P1: American Hammers , P2: Lt Dans, P3: Bernie Sanders to the end of the lot, run back. Mosey down Cary back to Mary Mumford

Pull Up Circle: PAX incline merkins while each guy takes turns doing 3 pulls up. 2nd round LBCs.

Numberama, Namerama. YHC took us out.

NMS: Great work this morning, field trips are always fun. Temp felt great at the beginning but the humidity struck back with a serious vengeance. Good sharing about the need for vulnerability and compassion in our friendships. Strength is not the absence of weakness, but the capacity to admit weakness and having the kind of friends who will hold you up and make you better.

Off we went on a garden tour of Windsor Farms. Fun was had by all including the FNG. There were a few wildlife sightings – a fox and a buck.

8 strong posted for Mary this morning and here is how it went down.

Mossy to the tennis courts for some warmup exercises

Then over to the pull up bars for some rotations – 5 pull up cruntchs , 5 monkey humpers, 5 regular pull ups – then switch – incline merkins – dips – situps – rotate through 3 times .

Triple Check – run the blacktop – exercises LT. Dan – SSH’s

Polarbears to the fence – 10 donkey kicks polarbear back

Mossy to the pavilion – 10 pole smokers – 10 incline merkins – 10 dips – 10 step ups – rotate through 3 times.

Mossy to flag – ring of fire – 5 merkins dealers choice !

Hitch took us out.

Way to work guys – enjoyed it – way to push – grat to have Pacman from Knoxville join us !

5 HIM posted on time at 45MOM (and one LIFO joined us about halfway through) for a strenuous Fudd beatdown. Here’s what occurred:

Warm up lap around the block

Disclaimer then COP in the field:

SSH x 20

Merkins x 10

Deadman Hang, then again with alternating leg crossovers

DQ x 10

Line up on the south end of the field for further warmup while moseying back and forth (North, South) across field………high knees, butt kickers, karaoke, backwards jog, lunges, elbow to instep lunge, then bear crawl to the fitness track.

Triple Check/Four Corners……3 rounds….run 1 lap around the track per round, stopping to do assigned exercises in each corner

Rd 1: Squat x 10, pullups x 10, HTH x 10, Dips x 10

Rd 2: Merkins x 10, Hanging leg raise to bar x 10, alternating toe touches x 10, hanging lat pulls

Rd 3: Partner up for partner carry. Teams alternate carrying each other while stopping in each corner to do LBC’s x 30 then Flutter kicks x 30 then repeato until done.

Mosey to the field for 11’s…..burpees and V-Ups…….Started with 10 burpees and 1 Vup and ran out of time once we got to 4 burpees. Moseyed back to the shovel flag for Numberama, Namerama, COT. YHC took us out.

NMS: Humidity and anticipation were both high as Fudd posted for his second Q following his return from CO. Banter started early as it always does when TYA and Fudd are together, and the rest of the PAX seemed happy to join in as well….glad to be free of the fartsack for one more day in the gloom. YHC heard a wise man once say that “Pain is weakness leaving the body.” Pain was indeed felt by all this morning as YHC never wants a PAX to post to one of his Q’s and leave feeling like he did not get a good workout. TYA questioned whether the first evolution was a triple check or a four corners…..YCH believes it was both. Bodos showed up around 5:53am just in time for Round 3. This gave us 6 PAX which allowed YHC to audible to partner carry, which pleased all PAX to great lengths. #TCLAPS to Bodos for having the balls to post anyway, despite the partial fartsack and ensuing late arrival. #TCLAPS as well to Pre for running everywhere despite his avowed dislike of all things running. Anthrax and TYA both were moving like greased lightning, causing YHC to second guess their AARP memberships, and Seymour and Bodos were giving YHC a run for his money during 11’s. In short, everyone put out, felt pain, and became stronger because of it.

Prayer requests: Seymour has a new dentist starting in his practice this week….prayers that this person brings high moral values and excellent skills. Prayers for men under the age of 30 which seems to be the demographic for recent mass shootings. Prayers that F3RVA can have an impact in this community, reach not only men under 30 but all #SADCLOWNS that need this brotherhood. “The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.” James 5:16

Never stop chasing the wabbit!

Fudd out

Nine of RVA’s finest gentlemen converged in the dark lot of Mary for a Thursday morning beatdown. Seeing that YHC drove past the PAX at 5:25 to make a drop off on the blacktop, Pucker asked if there was a “surprise” waiting for later in the workout. Indeed there was…

COP on the blacktop. Normal COP stuff today

Chutes and Ladders at the Treeline: Run two trees, Bernie Sanders back one tree, 5 merkins. Then run two more trees, back one tree, 5 more merkins. Rinse and repeat to the last tree.
Round 2: Same program with WW2s.
Round 3: Same program with 3 Burpees at each tree

GAGA BALL: The pax moseyed back to the Gaga Pit, at which point the SURPRISE Q emerged in the person of 10 year old Franny Widmer, aka Lady Gaga, aka Poker face ,aka Gagaball champion of Mary Munford school. Franny instructed the Pax on the rules of Gagaball, although she suspiciously continued to update us on the rules through the play. The pax played several rousing games of Gagaball, the twist being that when eliminated you step out of the pit and perform the exercises directed by the Q. Franny won most of the games but the grown men won a couple too.

TRIPLE CHECK: P1: Wall sit, P2: American Hammers, P3: run to the benches at the front of the school, 5 dips, run back.

COP, COT, Numberama, Namerama. YHC took us out

NMS: Thanks for welcoming the surprise Q today. Last night when talking to Franny about my ideas for the workout this morning, Franny suggested Gagaball , and suggested that she herself could come and teach us how to play. Kudos to the kid who was willing to wake up at 5am on summer vacation and show us the ropes!