Tag: 45 Minutes of Mary

On the eve of our Nation’s independence day weekend five morning warriors arrived at Mary to find that no one had the Q. Bodos stepped up and took the potato and we all moseyed on over to the blacktop for some much needed stretching.

It went down like this… some Swirley bend over and touch your toes stretching to begin, Donny Q’s, Helicopters… YHC’s memory is failing on the rest of the warm-up exercises as the Independence Day weekend beverages are already in play.

YHC feeling insipired volunteered to take the potato… and apparently the BB too. Moseyed over to the far corner of the blacktop for Hindenburg BLIMPS. It went down like this. Six rounds, start with ten reps of an exercise in each corner of the blacktop, running between each corner. Second round, change the exercise and increase the reps by 10, so 20 exercises in each corner running between corners, and on up to 60. First exercise was burpees, second round was air squats, third round was side straddle hops, fourth round was YHC forgot, fifth round was team effort merkins, each person took ten merkins for a total of 50 at each corner, sixth round was mountain climbers.

Passed the potato on to Handshake for a modified five person Dora. Two people doing dips, two people doing wall sits, and the last lone ranger timer ran to pull up bars and did 5x pull ups. Did that for 3 rounds.

Potato got passed then to Hitchhiker, for what was a very tough exercise… Moseyed over to the tennis courts, starting on the baseline bear crawls to the net, 10x walk out merkins, then polar bears to the opposite baseline, 20x LBCs, then polar bear back, 10x walk out merkins at the net, and bear crawls to the baseline.

But we still had 2 minutes left, so Hitchhiker was kind enough to pass the hot potato on to Pucker for the final round. Ran up and down the baselines and karaekoed along the net, for all five tennis courts. Final mosey back to the flag.

Numbers and names to round us out and, Pucker took us out with some kind words. YHC took the BB since the Hindenburg Blimps took up 90% of the time. Great work this morning gents.

11 strong posted this morning @ Mary and here is how it went down.

Field trip over to the church :

COP – SSH, IW’s, Windmills, Helicopters, Plank – merkins – flutter kicks – LBC’s.

Benches : 26 Abyss merkins 26 dips run to the end of the parking lot 26 WWII’s repeat 3 times .

Double Check : Partner up – 1 partner run to the circle – bear crawl the circle – run to the end of the parking lot and back to partners. Partners are doing LBC’s and LT. Dans !

Lunge across the parking lot – then mossy back to Mary.

5 pull ups – pax doing incline merkins around the horn – swithc to dips and repeat .

Mossy to the flag – 26 merkins = Boom !

Great job this morning guys thanks for allowing me to lead. Shout out to Splinter for the extra miles this morning. Nice to see double digits at Mary again ! Always good to have TYA join us at the end – he is right my M is a Saint for hanging with me for 26 years – I’m truly a blessed man! Thanks to Handshake for recording the pax. Thanks to Circle K for taking us out.

Swirly’s Board today : Do just once what others say you can’t do and you will never again pay attention to the limitations that they put on you. Believe – Succeed !

See y’all in the gloom…

10 godly men, including one from NC gathered this morning for beat down. Here is how it went:

COP
Deadman hang x10, Crossing leg stretch x10, Don Quixotes x10, Helicopters x10, Merkins x10, Scorpion kick x10, LBC x10, Arm circle x10, American Hammers x10

The Thang
Short moseyed over to one corner of the basket ball court. First exercise was four corners: 1st round 10 merkins at each corner, 2nd round 10 WWII at each corner, 3rd round 20 jump squats at each corner, and 4th round 5 burpees at each corner.

Moseyed over to the tennis court. 2nd exercise was three lines, PAX lined up along baseline of the court. 20 American hammers on one side of baseline, bear-crawled to the net, 10 walkout-merkins on the net, bear-crawled to the other side of the baseline, 20 LBC on the baseline, bear-crawled back to the net, 10 walkout-merkins on the net, and bear-crawled back to the starting line and 20 American hammers. This is consider 1 round and we did 3 rounds.

Moseyed over to the tennis court side and we did mini Dora: 30 burpees, 60 SSH, and 90 flutter kicks.

Moseyed back to where we started and did a quick ring of fire with variants of 5 merkins OYO.

Announcements
Fourth of July Convergence at No Toll 6:00 am
Happy Hour at Kubota’s next Wednesday

Numbers, names, announcements, prayer requests, YHC took us out.

Nine of greater RVAs finest gathered at Mary today, including one who seemed to be lost and arrived very early. After strategically locating a hole for the flag, we gathered to chat and then off we went, picking up said flag for a quick mosey down Commonwealth to Cary.

The Thang
Old Glory. One mile route was west on Cary, north on Westmoreland, east on Hanover, south on Woodlawn, back to Cary.

Use the entire field area up to the school for 20 minutes of 4 corners. 20 merkins, 20 jump squats, 10 burpees, 20 WWIIs.

After completing between 3 and 4 loops for those with varying abilities, gather up and reverse course for the final mile.

Back to the parking lot for COT where announcements were made and YHC took us out.

Moleskin
It’s been a long time since YHC has completed an Old Glory and this may be the first appearance at Mary. The soup was thick and the breeze didn’t help much until we stopped.

Fellowship was grand this AM as we all battled the elements. No hiding from the pain this morning and it was everywhere.

SJ – hope that ankle isn’t too bad and your ice maker starts making ice soon.

Announcements
Prayers out to Profit and Doublemint as they recover from their respective accidents.

See everyone soon.

Splinter

8 PAX, including the ever elusive flying EH FNG, came out on a truly 70 and sunny morning to soak in the humidity. Fudd missed the balmy RVA weather so much he drove in from CO to get a sweat on.

COP: SSH, Don Qs, Flutterkicks, Imperial Walkers, Merkins (no scorpion kicks 🙁

Mosey to dip bars for Dora 123: 100 Dips, 200 LBCs, 300 SSH. Then onto blacktop for 4 corners: 5 Burpees, 10 WWIIs, 15 HRMs, 20 Jump squats. Hitchhiker had so much fun he asked us to double it: 10 Burpee, 20 WWIIs, 30 HRMs, 40 Jump Squats.

Tennis courts: Lunge first court, 5 HRMs. Broad jump to 2nd court, 10 HRMs, Bear Crawl to 3rd court – 15 HRMs, Crab walk full length of courts then 20 HRMs.

Soccer field for: Wheelbarrow across (alternating) then 25 WWIIs. Back to flag for some Mary then YHC took us out.

NMS: 5 years ago today YHC showed up to 45MoM out of shape not knowing anyone there after hearing about F3 from my wife after she heard about it from the moms at the pool. 5 years later to say that F3 and this PAX have changed YHC for the better is a gross understatement.

What a great morning this was: FNG Bandito came out after Upchuck’s EH last week. On the other side it was Old School this morning with Fudd back in the Gloom. He is back for a month in RVA with his family visiting VA. Let’s get organized on the 4th Annual Fudd leaving RVA party later this month!

Mumblechatter was light this morning as the humidity took a toll. The days of sweating out 10 pounds during a beatdown are upon us.

Seven plus one LIFO plus one really LIFO, made for 8 (and sort of 9) dancers in the rain. Here’s the program.

COP: Deadman Hang OYO / Cross legged deadman hangs OYO / Imperial Walkers x 10 / Russian Soldiers x 10.

Super Dora: Boris Becker Style – First round = 200 Burpees. Second round = 400 SSHs. Third round = 600 Flutter Kicks (count amongst yourselves). We split up Upchuck and Handshake so there wouldn’t be any “discussion about how to count.”

Wall of Fame: Grab a seat on the wall for another prize-less contest. Sit on the wall until there is one PAX member remaining. If you fall off the wall, take a lap around the black top and bang out 10 Merkins at each corner. Then get back on the wall. At the five minute mark there were three left (Hardywood, Probation and Swirly). Time to up the stakes. Hold right leg straight out in front. One minute later, we had a winner. Swirl Y. Congrats brother, give me your t-shirt size. PAX makes one final lap around the black top with 10 variation Merkins at each corner. Merkins / Chuck Norris / Wide Grip / X Merkins.

Quarterback Sacks: Dexter Manley sacked COVID-19, so at Bone Thugs request, we banged out 72 LBCs while surrounding America. ‘Merica!

BTTF: Swirly took us out!

Announcements: Crickets

Prayers: Be mindful of the mental health consequences of COVID-19. Take care of yourself and others around you. Bone Thugs’ wife is starting her doctorate degree program. Kick ass Tammy!

NMS: You hear a lot of people say that they have nothing but time on their hands these days. While that may be true for some, YHC is super busy, as are others. That said, sometimes 45MOMM does feel like it takes longer than the beatdowns at other AOs. So, today we exaggerated the point with Super Doras. Just a nice slog in the warm rain and humidity.

As I near my move to Charlottesville, it has been noted by several of you that I must be trying to piss y’all off with these beatdowns, in order to make the breakup easier. Yep. It’s all I can think to do.

TYA buzzed the tower this morning. He’s somewhere near Memphis. Great to see him out, and getting it in.

Another awesome morning today men. If you’ve been with me the last few days, enjoy shampooing and buttoning the shirts.

See you clowns Saturday!

A crew of 6 got together for a beatdown with no Q on the sheet, a Hot Potato ensued.

Swirly Q –

• COP: Exercises and stretching

Pucker Q –

• Non-sensical 11’s: There are 11 Trees, so Pucker said that’s why he called it that. (5) Reps of Merkins at every Tree, then (5) Squats at every Tree, then (10) Merkins at every tree, then (5) Lieutenant Day’s at every Tree

Hitchhiker Q –

• Four Corners running around the Tennis Courts at the end of each exercise: Merkins, LBC’s, American Hammers, Jump Squats

• Mosey to Pull Up Bars, person one did 10 Pull Ups, while everyone did Merkins and rotate through then 5 Pull Ups while Merkins were being completed and a third set of 5 Pull Ups

Handshake Q-

• Triple Check – Partner 1 Bear Crawls across Blacktop to Fence and Runs back while Partner 2 does Flutters and Partner 3 does Iron Chair. We made it through 1.67 rounds before time expired

Announcements:

• Memorial Day Murph, be sure to check the Preblast and comment on which workout you are going to attend.

NMS: Fun times today with some pretty cool cats.

3 Westham residents, eager to avoid growing old, threw off the lure of the Fartsack and the environmental benefits of car-pooling in favor of a COVID-19-free commute to join 4 more for the latest edition of 45MOM. Temps were, remarkably, sunny and 70. Something like this happened:

Mosey to the Basketball Courts

COP

SSHs
IWs
Dead Man Hang (3 rounds…Both legs, Right leg over left, left leg over right…)
DQs
LBCs
Flutter kicks
HRMs

Ode to Chum…”Mosey over Here” for 4 corners:

Round 1:
10 merkins (PAX choice)
Bear crawl to…
…20 WWIIs
Run to…
30 squats
Bear crawl to…
40 SSHs (4 count, which means “Do 80 SSHs”)

Round 2:
10 HRMs
20 Lt. Dan’s
30 Rosalitas
40 Second Dead Man Hang

Mosey to the Parallel Bars for…Partner Loops Around the Track

Partner up. Run half-way around the track. Meet partner. Do non-partner exercises…10 boo-yah merkins, without the hand-slapping. Run back to the start. 10 Derkins. 2 rounds.

Mosey to the blacktop for Triple Check.
Partner 1: run the blacktop (back and forth)
Partner 2: reverse crunches
Partner 3: BTTW

Mosey to the Little Field Between the Parking Lot and the Playground
Lindsey…WWIIs and Hello Dolly…

Mosey BTTF…Quick round of Flutter Kicks

Number-am-a, Name-a-ram-a, Ole Handshake took us out.

Announcements:

Deuce and Seymour are back at work. Time to get a cleaning.

Deuce is organizing a Memorial Day Murph on (wait for it) Memorial Day at 7:00 a.m. (YHC thinks) at Dogpile (and maybe other places)…Deuce to post more on this.

NMS:

Ronnie is back. Get it? See Ronnie for details. Honestly, it’s just a terrible pun.

Great work today, fellas. YHC asked Hitchhiker how many days in a row he’s been working out. Basically, forever. YHC continues to be impressed. Well done.

Joke of the Day (From YHC’s 14 year old): “I bought a chicken and an egg on Amazon today. I’ll keep you posted on what happens.”

Terrible. If you have a better one, post it. YHC thanks you in advance.

An elite 9 ventured out into a full moon AO in search of the truth. Was this really a Lockjaw Q? Would he show? Does he really exist?

It turns out the answer is yes to all three questions.

A quick jaunt to the side of the AO for COP. 45 SSH, Don Quixote, Trademark Russian Soldiers, Scorpion Kicks, and HRM.

Mosey to the blacktop for a socially distanced Triple Check. BTTW, Elbow Planks, and Karaoke to the fence, three Burpees, and Karaoke back.

Back to the field and line up for the Beast.

• Copperhead Squats
• Captain Thors
• Carolina Dry Docks
• Mountain Climbers
• Heals to Heaven
• Freddie Mercuries

Tennis Anyone? No nets. Oh well, Dora here we come!

• 100 American Hammers
• 200 Monkey Humpers
• 300 Flutter Kicks

Back to the VSF for a ROF.

Announcement: Gomer is launching his new running AO tomorrow at Godwin. Last week was the soft launch and this week is for real.

Swirly took us out.

The Moleskin

It’s been way too long since YHC has seen many of the PAX and YHC misses the camaraderie, constructive competition, and mumble chatter that accompanies this fine group of men. I am glad to see everyone is strong and doing well.

Lockjaw

An incredible eight emerged from the darkness for 45MOM. Here’s what happened:

Mosey around the Tennis Courts.

COP: Deadman hang // Helicopters // DQs // Crabcakes // LBCs // Hello Dollys // Plank // Tempo Merkins // Alternating Shoulder Taps // Peter Parkers // Elbow Plank // Pickle Pounders // Lt. Dans // SSHs 21s

Chutes & Ladders: Run to 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 LBCs.
Round 3: Same program with Burpees.

Mosey to southwest corner for Quadruple Check.
Station 1: Decline Merkins or Mtn Climbers // Station 2: Chicken Peckers or Balls to the Wall // Station 3: Dips on the wall or Sit in the wall and talk stocks // Station 4: Run to the pull up bars to do 5 pull ups, run back.

Mosey back to the flag for one minute of silent meditation. Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out.

NMS: YHC checked the sign up list last night around 8pm and discovered that his name was already inscribed for the Q today. The culprit has not been found out. A fun group today and great exertion demonstrated, except for Handshake and Greenbow who misheard my instructions to perform dips as instructions to sit on the short wall and discuss investment portfolios. A new meaning of wall sit.

YHC invited the PAX to do the following as a closing reflection: Breath in through the nostrils slowly, while meditating on the word “LOVE.” Hold breath for 2 seconds while meditating on the word “SURRENDER.” Breath out through the mouth slowly while meditating on the word “TRUST.” Rinse and repeat for 1 minute in silence. In a time of chaos, we receive the love of God, we surrender to his rule, we trust his goodness. Pause occasionally throughout the day to try it.

SYITG!