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7 strong posted for a Monday morning beatdown and here is how it went down.

Swirly :  SSH’s Helicopters, Windmills, IW’s,

Monkey bars :  3 sets of 5 over hand pull ups – 10 incline merkins 15 dips   – 3sets 5 chin ups – 10 decline merkins – 15 sit ups .

Hardywood: 4 corners : 5 burpees – 5 burpees 10 hand release merkins – 5 burpees 10 hand release merkins 15 WWII’s – 5 burpees 10 hand release merkins 15 WWII’s 20 squats.  3 sets of 10 partner incline situps.

ABBA:  sprint up hill touch tree – 5 times – 1 round clock work merkins – 1 round clock work LBC’s

Swirly : Indian run back to the flag.

Goldberg : Curb crawl – 3 incline merkins 5 dips 3 times – Mary – LBC’s, APD’s, American Hammers.

Hope I remembered this right fella’s – solid workout – great way to start the week.

Things to remember : Labor day convergence – 7AM 3 lakes park – Sept 22nd 4 year anniversary @ dogpile 6am regular work out then a fun run after 🙂 teams of 4 I hear not sure if it’s by nano region or not see Phonics ..CSAP in October ..

See y’all in the gloom…

8 weekend warriors, including 1 FNG, broke the hold and didn’t let the crazy thunder last night keep them from posting to Batteau this morning to start the work-week the only way we know how…in the gloom.  Gumbo made a long-overdue return to Batteau and took the Q in order to pay a little honor to his father who would have been 81 today…and Gumbo’s pops was no runner, so YHC needed to Q a bootcamp beatdown to be sure.  It went a little something like this:

Mosey through the darkness down to the Reedy Creek via the hill of ill repute.  Circle up at the bottom of the hill for a quick disclaimer and COP, all IC, including:

• DQs x 8
• Helicopterx x 20
• Cotton Pickers x 19
• SSHs x 37
• LBCs x 81 — whew, that was a lot of LBCs

THE THANG

Circle the Creek – lap around the creek stopping at each lamp post, whether lit or not, and do 10 merkins at every other lamp post and 10 2-ct flutterkicks at the other ones.  Plank for the six.

Given our PAX at 8, YHC needed 1 more prop for the next exercise so  he left the PAX in Swirly’s capable hands for some ab work while waiting for the six and YHC ran back up the hill to his vehicle.  Meet the PAX at the tennis courts.  Box Cutters for the six.

4 Corners Circuit  – 2 PAX at each corner, exercises as follows:

Round 1:

• Corner 1 (2 jump ropes) – each PAX member completes 30 jump rope revolutions.  When both are done, call SWITCH and the PAX moseys to the next corner.
• Corner 2 = Mountain Climbers
• Corner 3 = Freddie Mercuries
• Corner 4 (2 Kettle Bells) = KB squats.
• At the end of round 1 plank in your corner, then entire PAX bearcrawl to the center-net and perform 10 merkins in cadence, then bear crawl to your next corner for Round 2.

Round 2:

• same exercises as Round 1
• At the end of Round 2 – lunge to center-net and perform 20 Imperial Walkers in cadence, then mosey to your next corner for Round 3.

Round 3:

• Corner 1 = each PAX member completes 25 jump rope revolutions, consecutively.  If you mess up, start over.  You may choose 5 penalty burpees if you can’t get 25 in a row, but your partner has to do them with you.
• Corners 2-4: Same as Rounds 1 and 2.
• At the end of Round 3 – broad jump to center net, 20 American Hammers in cadence

ROF – hold plank, 1 PAX does 10 merkins, next PAX in the circle is jumping rope, pass when 10 merkins are done and finish when everyone has done merkins and jump rope.

1 Minute of Superman and time was up.

Mosey back to the Flag for COT, COR, NOR and YHC took us out.

Announcements:

• Puppy Pile on Saturday after Dogpile – Marv has the Q
• Breaking Bread – Sunday evening 5-7/7:30 – Gumbo has the Q.  Looking for 1 or 2 others to help out.
• Labor Day Convergence at 3 Lakes Park at 0700.  Be there.  Bring your SF and a mug for coffeeteria afterwards.
• BRR is right around the corner – the guys are looking for a second driver.  Talk to TYA or Swirly if you can commit.
• CSAUP 10/20 – miles and beers and maybe Kubota manning the grill….seriously, does it get any better?  Well, maybe – let’s find a way to get some football on TV…BAM!

NMS:

Batteau is the DEEP GLOOM for sure.  A different kind of darkness there.  A great AO and worthy of the trip if you have not made it over there.  Great group of guys this morning.  It was nice to meet ABBA and Crossroads and of course, Periscope (FNG – Jim).

Naming was a challenge this morning and the neurons were not firing in YHC’s brain, so after some reflection on the drive home, YHC settled on Periscope for Jim’s F3 Name alluding to Jim’s time serving in the Navy as an intel officer on a Submarine.   Welcome Periscope.

Thanks for coming out guys and for letting me lead.  I knew the 81 LBCs were going to stink but I just wanted to do a little  something to remember my father this morning.  November will be six years since he passed away.  I still feel his presence and remember him daily.  I miss him dearly, but I know he is smiling down on me and my family.  Love you, Pops!

Great work this morning guys – way to push through and give max effort!  I won’t wait so long to return to Batteau!

Have a great Monday fellas.

No More Gumbo For You!

4 studs posted @ Batteau this morning and here is how it all went down!

Hot Potato : Swirly – SSH’s, Helicopters, Windmills, IW’s, LBC’s, Flutter Kicks.

Four Corners –  on the tennis court –  Russian Solder – 10 fist merkins – High Knees – 15 hand release merkins – butt kickers – 20 workins – lunges – 25 merkins. Repeat 4 times.

Sippy Cup : Amwrap 4 corners with boulders. Run backwards with bolder to each corner with boulders – exercises – Burpees, Pull ups,  Flutter Kicks, elbow plank.

Crossroads: Lindsey : overhead press with bolder run down steps dips on bench.

Mossy to the flag.

It’s about time for head lights fella’s – glad Sippy had his at the beginning – dark out there at ole Batteau .. Great work guys – that was a bunch of arm/chest work today !  Thanks for taking us out crossroads.

See y’all in the gloom..

Four spa goers (one of whom is on tour) came for a steam bath, and Batteau delivered. Hot Potato is the custom.

Swirly Q: Mosey to the pit for COP – SSHs / DQs / Helicopters / LBCs / Flutter kicks. Mosey down Love Hill to the pond bridge. 12 posts crossing the bridge – ascending merkins (78 in total) with bear crawl to the end. Descending burpees (78 in total) with lunges back to the start. Russian Soldiers across the bridge. High knees back to the start.

Vinny Q: Indian Run to the second stair case. Mosey to the top. 30 second walking count towards the six trees in the field by Forest Hill. Mosey the rest of the way. Partner up. PLTs x 20 at each tree. Start at tree – 1, complete PLTs, run to tree – 6, then back to tree – 2, etc. until completion of 120 PLTs and all trees are stamped. Mosey back to the flag.

Phonics Q: 6MOM – Plank-O-Rama: Form plank. Carolina Dry Docks / Merkins x 10. Rotate to side plank.   Drop hip and raise x 10. Rotate to back plank. Inverted APD x 10. Other side. Drop hip and raise x 10. Front plank for rotating elbows x 10. Mountain climbers x 10. Freddie Mercuries x 20. Rosalitas x 15. American Hammers x 20. 6 inches 30 count. … dig your own grave … crawl in … lie down … die from heat exhaustion.

Crossroads took us out.

Announcements: Fireman Ed VQ at Hoedown next Monday. Roller Coaster HDHH this Wed. at Kuba Kuba Dos. Puppy Pile 8/25. Marv has the Q

NMS: Just a brutal morning. Hot Potatoes are tough enough, add in a Swedish Sauna, and you had Batteau today. All I can say is, way to work men. There was no hiding today. Swirly worked us over, then we had to climb out of the bottom and work in some abs. By the time YHC handed it off to Phonics, I was done. Lack of oxygen to the brain made me forget how ruthless and demanding a Phonics lead 6MOM can be. Not only did he bang out all of those exercises, but he did so in cadence with authority! Well done Phonics. YHC is known to sweat. Today I gave back about five pounds in water weight. Add that to the five I gave on the trails yesterday, and it’s not a bad start to the week. Drink lots of water today men, and we’ll see you back out tomorrow.

A mighty eight ventured into a rain storm developed especially for this workout.

COP

• Don Quixote
• Arm Circles
• Russian Soldiers
• Imperial Walkers
• Helicopters

Head down past the maintenance shed and pick up some stones.  Time for Lindseys.  The exercises are dips at the bottom of the rock stairs of death and overhead presses with the stones at the top.  Exercises are in 30/10, 25/15, 20/20, 15/25, and 10/30 reps.

Mosey up to the tennis courts for 4 Corners.

• Bear Crawl the long side of the court and perform 10 APDs
• Alligator Walk (plank like an alligator and perform a merkin with each arm forward) the short side of the court.  Perform 10 APDs, 20 Merkins
• Bear Crawl the long side of the court and perform 10 APDs, 20 Merkins, 30 Carolina Dry Docks
• Alligator Walk the short side of the court.  Perform 10 APDs, 20 Merkins, 30 Carolina Dry Docks, 40 Crab Cakes

Up to the Old Stone House for Triple Check.

• Run around the grassy loop
• Elbow Planks
• Step ups on the bench

Circle up for Merkin Ring of Fire.  Pax member calls a Merkin style and a quantity between 1-10.  Pax performs exercise and next exercise decisioning is passed to the left.  This group didn’t stick with any basics and got medieval with the choices.

Vinny took us out.

NMS

It’s raining, so it must be Monday.  The stone steps were a raging river of poorly lit hazards, but the Pax persevered.  At one point, we could feel the maintenance group drive by and study a bunch of guys in the pouring rain and dark lifting large rocks above their heads.  F3 at its finest.

It was after the Lindseys that YHC informed the Pax that since we were on Swirly’s home AO, this workout would be called “A Farewell to Arms”.  I don’t think it disappointed.

The 4 Corners were total silence as men got down to business.  Sippy Cup’s perfect form remained constant throughout the workout.  Likewise, his imitation of an alligator was true to form.  The rest of us varied and looked more like Komodo Dragons.  Sippy would be a great method actor.

There was a truck where we did the Triple Check and the earth around the elbow planks smelled of cigarettes.  I guess the Smoking Man payed us a visit.

Great workout.  Hopefully see others on the Summer Tour this week.

PS – Welcome Green Acres who is visiting from Chapel Hill.  Heading out of town today, but hopefully we will see him soon.

Always Be Tapering,

Lockjaw

 

Seven storm chasers appeared from the gloom into the gloom for an electric beatdown that went like this:

Swirly Q: COP – SSHs / DQs / Helicopters / IWs / 5 burpees OYO. Mosey to trees lining driveway. Lunge to tree. 10 HR merkins. Repeato to top of driveway. Run long circle loop and back to circle curb for dips while waiting on the PAX.

Bleeder Q: Mosey down to trail around lake. Progressive laps. Round 1: 10 burpees – take a lap. Round 2: 10 burpees / 20 American Hammers (single count, Lab Rat). Round 3: 10 burpees / 20 American Hammers / 30 spacers – YHC has completely forgotten the third exercise. Audible. Run back up love hill to second light pole. Back to the PAX. Run up love hill and back to the pit for reverse planks.

Vinny Q: Mosey to tree beside tennis courts. Pele 20 count. Mosey to circle for ascending curb crawls AMRAP style for 5 minutes. Incline / Decline merkins. Circle up. Captain Thors OYO – 1 min. Ring of fire. 1-5.

Lab Rat took us out.

Announcements: Aug. Puppy Pile in the works. We need a Q. BRR (you must know the secret knock to get in).

NMS:

YHC loves workouts in the pouring rain. Not so much when lightning is everywhere. Nevertheless, the 5:30 bell rang, and it was time to go to work. Glad I wasn’t the only crazy person who posted. Turns out there were at least six other crazies.

Always a solid way to start the week, and always a solid group to start the week with.

Eleven, yes, 11 F3 RVA All-Stars showed up to Batteau Stadium for a beatdown and some baseball. Batter up:

Mosey to outfield for COP: Helicopters x 10 / Willie Mays Hayes x 9 / LBCs x 10 / Scorpion Kicks x 9.

First Base: Cleveland Indians Run around the outfield. One of the hilliest outfields in the bigs according to Swirly, and YHC agrees.

Second Base: Touch ’em all: 1st base – 10 burpees / 2nd base – 20 merkins / 3rd base – 25 American Hammers (2-count) / Home Plate – 30 WWIIs. Run to 1st. Exercise. Back to Home Plate – 1 burpee. Run to 1st base. Exercise. Run to 2nd base. Exercise. Repeat until you touch ’em all. Finish at Home Plate. 5 burpees at each bag back reverso, ’rounding the bases. Finish back at home plate.

Third Base: 12 minutes of Pain (make that 11): 1st base – hold six inches for 3 minutes. Crabwalk to 2nd base. Hold elbow plank for 3 minutes. Lunges to 3rd base. Due to time constraints, YHC shook off the pitch and went with SSHs for 2 minutes. Backwards Lunges to Home Plate. Arm claps for 3 minutes. Sounds easy. Not so much.

Home Plate: Time to give the boys a break. Whiffle Ball – F3 Style! 5 pitches for each batter. After 5th pitch, batter calls a 1-5 exercise. WWIIs, Burpees, Dying Cockroaches, Knuckle Merkins, HR Merkins, and others were called.

Back to the Dugout (Flag).

Announcements: Puppy Pile this Saturday at 7:05

NMS:

YHC is proud to celebrate two milestones today. First and foremost, my son, Shark Bait, turns 8. The greatest gift I’ve ever received is him. He teaches me so much everyday. Happiness, gratitude, understanding, and much, much more. Love you buddy! Also, YHC posted for the 100th time today. Looking back on day one, and thinking about how far I’ve come physically and spiritually in such a short period of time is awesome! Thanks to each and every one of you for playing a role. YHC could not have done it without you.

I think F3 workouts are best summarized as butt kicking workouts with fun sprinkled in. That was my goal for today. Hope y’all enjoyed the time. I know and I did. Thanks for letting me lead today.

 

Six strong posted at Batteau today.  Three or so fresh off of vacation. No more asses in the sand. Time to shake off the crab legs, ice cream and cold beers. YHC started us off.

COP:  Helicpoters / DQs / Imperial Walkers / LBCs / Dying Coachroaches – ALL X 10

THANG: Introduce the Batteau PAX to Windsor Farms Do Si Dos.  Partner up. Two sets of 10 each. Nex up, Whatchamacallits.  Those who posted Gridiron on Saturday were introduced to these by our guest Q from Louisville. I think he called them Jack Whites, but even he wasn’t sure if that was correct, or why they were called that. YHC has taken it upon himself to rename them. They are completely underrated, and pack a nice punch. Just like the candy bar we all loved as a kid. 1 merkin / 4 air presses. 2 merkins / 8 air presses. Sounds easy. It ain’t.  Repeat the ladder until you hit 10 Merkins / 40 air presses. I don’t know about the rest of the PAX, but shaving and hair shampooing weren’t completed with their normal ease this morning. YHC passed to Swirly.

Mosey to rusty cage. 5 pull-ups / 20 dips x 3 sets. Mosey a bit more to picnic tables. 20 step ups (10 each leg) / 10 incline merkins x 3 sets. Pass to Flange. Mosey to tennis courts. Partner up. Bear crawl across tennis courts; sprint back. Partner collect 100 donkey kicks, 150 SSHs, 200 LBCs. Mosey to COT area for 15 minutes of pain. More bear crawls. More merkins. Bear craw across COT yard, 1 decline merkin. Run back. Repeato to 11. Flange called and audible after 10. PAX runs the large loop then back for Mary. Cherry Pickers (20, YHC thinks),  flutter kicks, Flange takes requests. Crossroads serves up V-ups. 10 or so, Flange lost his voice during counting. Easy to do at that point.

YHC took us out.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Puppy Pile 7/21:

Moleskin: YHC was excited to show the boys Windsor Farms Do Si Dos and Whatchamacallits. As expected, the PAX thought the latter would be easy. As predicted, the PAX fessed up that they weren’t. Great seeing everyone back in the gloom. If you are going to come off of vacation on a Monday, today’s 57 and sunny was a great way to do it. Nice to have Crossroads out with us. Interject some of that young blood.

Have a great week men!

2 regular Batteau rock haulers, one occasional visitory and 2 uninitiated Pax  showed up on a very hot Monday morning.    Hot Potato Q was called. Mosey over to the sledding hill.

Honeydo leading COP– SSH, Helicopters, Merkins, DQs, Freddie Mercuries.  Then zip-line back and forth. 15x Merkins at one tree and 15x WW2s at the other.  Work way down hill in a zig-zag fashion.

Sippy Cup leading.   Choose a rock and head down to the lake for a large loop.  Leg 1.  Carry rock up the long hill to the FH parking lot, then 10x crossover merkins.  Mosey to picnic shelter for 10x 2-count chicken peckers. Mosey to the bowl for 20x Box jumps, then run down hill to start.  Wait for pax and then run up the hill to retrieve rock and carry down.

Flange leading.  10x lunges each leg with rock on right shoulder, followed by 5x 2-count crossover merkins.  Then put rock on left shoulder and repeat.  I think we did this ~4 times on each shoulder.  Carry rock back up to its resting place and Mosey back to the flag.

Honeydo leading.  15x LBCs.

COT.  Splinter took us out.

Moleskin.  Great work today, men.  With the heat, that was a crushing workout and perhaps the sweatiest I’ve ever been at an F3 workout. It was nice to Honeydo, Splinter and Mr. Holland visiting today.  The summer tour has been nice!  Flange continues to crush the rock workouts.  YHC thought the lunges he led would never end.  He also brought a sippy cup to the workout, although it got left behind early on–I know the challenge, Flange!

 

No Q, No Problem.  5 seasoned vets and 1 newish guy emerged from the sack to explore the damp hillside at Batteau.  Here’s what was done.

THANG

SWIRLY Q

Mosey to field

COP

• SSHs
• Helicopters
• Imperial Walkers
• Don Quixotes

Mosey to playground

3 Rounds – 5 Pull-ups, 10 Derkins, 15 Incline Merkins, 20 Dips

HUTTON Q

Mosey to Tree Line

Tree Line Escalator (Add a tree and an exercise each round) 6 Rounds – Merkins, LBCs, Jump Squats, Carolina Dry Docks, Monkey Humpers, Burpees x 10 reps each tree

FLANGE Q

Mosey to Valley

Dora w Partner running to top – 100 Squats, 200 Flutter Kicks, 200 SSHs

TOBIT Q

Mosey to Loop

Triple Check – WWIIs, American Hammers, Run Extended Loop

PONCH Q

Stretch it Out – Cherry Pickers, Calf Stretch

Mosey back to VSF

Numberama, Nameorama, COT

MOLESKIN

YHC loves Batteau, it’s a darn fine AO, but Hoedown is so darn close.  Regardless, it was great to be back there after a long hiatus.  A quick glance at Big Data shows that Ponch has posted 8 times in 2 weeks.  He’s clearly drinking the Kool-Aid.  Drink it up buddy, this Kool-Aid won’t kill you, in fact it’ll make you stronger.  Side note, that expression should really be Drinking the Flavor-Aid, just look it up if you don’t know.  Speaking of Ponch, as he walked up to YHC this morning trying to recall YHC’s name, “Splinter right?”  Not quite, but I get that a lot.  Can’t wait for Ponch to see YHC and Splinter side by side and see how comically different we are in stature.  Later having not grasped YHC’s name pre-workout, “was it Fudd?”  Not quite, but I get that a lot.  Just messing with you Ponch, if you knew everyone’s name already YHC would wonder what really was in the Kool-Aid.  Anyway, great to have you out on the regular.  One other interesting tidbit from the morning.  Unless YHCs eyes deceived him, Tobit was wearing his gloves as he drove up, making him the anti-Mr.Roper.  YHC wonders if Tobit also wears his shoes to bed at night.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Home Run Derby – Tuesday @ Huguenot Little League (2801 Robious Crossing Drive, Midlothian, VA 23113) – May want to bring a glove

American Arena League Championship Saturday at the Coliseum – YHC will be there, will you?