Tag: Batteau

8 strong posted this humid morning @ Forest Hill park for a Hot Potato Q.

Bleeder :  SSH’s , Windmills, LBC’s

Run around the lake – 10 merkins – run up the hill to second light and back down.

Singer : run around the lake – @ each light pole 10 merkins.

Swirly : Run up the steps – 20 dips on the benches – run up the steps – 15 hand release merkins – run to the tennis court – polar bears to the fence – 10 donkey kicks – lunge back – planks. Polar bear to the fence 10 donkey kicks – lunge back 20 WW II situps. 20 WW II sit ups – polar bear to fence – 10 donkey kicks – run back – 10 burpees .

Hardywood: 4 corners : 10 merkins – 10 merkins 20 squats – 10 merkins – 20 squats – 30 LBc’s – 10 merkins – 20 squats – 30 lbc’s – 40 2 count flutter kicks.

Mary : 20 WWII situps – 20 flutter kicks 10 merkins

Always a beatdown when there is a Hot potato Q – way to work guys. Wow it was humid – the sweat was rolling even before we got moving. Great to see Opus out at Batteau. Peta was back out – good to see you out there again man. Awesome to have Bleeder back in action @ a bootcamp – way to push brother..

Hardywood and Sippy crushed the lake. Singer and Pele – crushed the court – Bleeder smoked the 4 corners. Opus and Peta slammed through that brutal mary. Great to have Sippy join me on the run back to the house after the workout!

Great job guys – excellent way to start the week !

See y’all in the gloom..

9 warriors rose to great the dawn of a new day for an epic beatdown.  According the legend, it went a little something like this.

Swirly – COP IC: SSH, DQ, Helicopters, Flutter Kicks, Merkins

3 Rounds: 20 dips, 10 decline merkins, run up to the top of the Hill of Ill Repute for 15 more merkins.

Sippy Cup – Grab a Rock and head over to the Suffer Loop.  Take your rock down to the bottom and complete 16 crossover merkins (hand alternating on the rock).  Run with rock along the service road to stairs and complete 15 Goblet Squats with rock.  Run up the path (with rock) to the top and make a short jaunt up the stairs.  Do that for 3 rounds.

Hardywood – Mosey back to flag.  Ring of fire, WWII X 20 IC, Flutter KIcks X 40 IC.

Namerama, numberama, COT, Sippy Cup lead us out.

News: F3 Field Day at Dogpile Saturday 6/16.  Vinny has the Q and is requesting you come with a t-shirt that represents your formative years.

Puppy Pile 6/23 at 7:05am.  Sippy has the Q.

Welcome PETA.  Here’s the lineage. Flange brought Hunter (birthname), who works at ET’s and before that opened a boutique butcher shop in the fan, his parents are vegetarians -> PETA seemed obvious and appropriate.

Moleskin:  For full disclosure, YHC had intentions of taking a rest day today.  No digital alarms were set.  However, the alarm of obligation went off at 4am sharp and essentially dissolved the loving embrace of the fart sack.  YHC is very happy for this unexpected divine intervention.  Today was an EPIC beatdown.  Swirly had us hitting the basics hard from the start.  The star of the show was Sippy’s 3 rounds on the Suffer Loop.  Hats off to Abba, Fez and PETA for crushing it on a Monday in what has to be one of the hardest workouts YHC can remember in a long time.

Have a great week fellas!

Dig a little deeper, get it all out and be super.

Hardywood

Four ball boys showed up at Batteau Lawn and Tennis to meet Andy Murphy. Credentials were checked, uniforms were issued, and off we went.

ANDY MURPHY (The THANG): Mosey to lower tennis courts. NO COP. Run 5 laps around two courts. 5 burpees OYO. Run 5 laps reverso around same two courts. 5 burpees OYO.

10 crab cakes – single count / 20 merkins / tennis court line tracers out and back. REPEATO x 10

Bonus round for such quality ball boy performances.

WWIIs until the PAX finished the bonus round.

5 laps around the two courts. 5 burpess OYO. 5 more laps around the 2 courts, reverso. 5 more burpees OYO. Back to the Flag.

6 MOM: 50 LBCs in cadence. 50 PLTs (2 sets of 25). YHC took us out.

NMS: YHC grew up playing tennis and even dabbled in it at the collegiate level. When we did The Murph a few weeks ago at WDog, it came to me that we could modify to a tennis version. Hence, the Andy Murphy. 24 laps around a tennis court equals a mile. Not wanting to get the ball boys dizzy, YHC opted for 12 laps around two courts. Given it took the PAX some distance to reach the courts, we went 10 laps on each side of the exercises, for a total of 2 miles.

The boys did great today, given there were only 4 of us, we were a bit spread out. Very little mumble chatter. Then again, The Murph, or any modified Murph, is designed to keep the mumble chatter to a minimum. In all, it went very well. We finished with time to earn some extra credit by way of an 11th circuit. 6 MOM was equally tough given the high concentration of core muscle exercises.

At the end, during on-site 2nd F, a cat/kitten found its way to our group and went straight up to Hardywood. It was great seeing Hardywood bond with his Friendly New Cat (FNC). I’m not sure, but I think I saw Hardywood building him a towel nest as they rode off into the sunset together. It really is great to see a man and his cat.

Announcements: 

The Ghost Flag made an unofficial appearance at Batteau today. It was there to announce that it will be up for grabs on June 16th at DogPile, for Vinny’s DogPile VQ. As part of the roll out, YHC would like to challenge each PAX member who plans to attend to scower local thrift stores and ebay for a t-shirt that best represents your elementary school days. There will be a $5 limit placed on your purchase, if you go that route. You can also make your shirt if you’d like. Hint. Hint.

Summer Tour is on

July 4th Convergence at Tredegar

Puppy Pile June 23rd

 

5 warriors rose to greet the dawn of a new day.  According to legend the hot potato Q went a little something like this.

Swirly COP: Don Quiote, helicopters, flutter kicks, merkins, copperhead squats

Lunge and Then Some

Line up the the bottom of the hill for what seems like an impossible task.  With the trees on your left, lunge between each tree.  When you get to a tree, complete 5 hand release merkins.  Repeato until the top.

Pass to Upchuck

Some Kind of Pentagon:  Break into groups of 5 with each man at a station.  Station 1 stairs, Station 2 WWII, Station 3 Incline Merkins, Station 4 Dips.  Run from station 4 to the stairs.  Complete 1 cycle.

Pass to Hardywood

Run down the hill to the stairs leading to the duck pond and grab a rock.  Run the loop of success with a rock. Complete the following exercises at each junction.  10 burpees at the bottom of the first set of stairs.  Run along the service road to the other stairs and complete 20 merkins.  Run back up the hill to complete 30 squats with rock.  Complete 2 loops.

Pass to Sippy Cup

4 round of 5 pull ups and 20 dips.

Hold chin up position until Sippy Cup becomes exhausted (which there is no written record of) or bored.  The first round was a normal chin-up.  The second round was a nightmarish invention in which you are “supposed” to pull yourself up and have the bar at the back of your head.

Mosey back to the flag for a little Ring of Fire.

Nuberama, namerama, YHC took us out.

News:

Upchuck has the Q for Breaking Bread this Sunday, see him if you’d like to participate.

Upchuck is also working on the next puppy pile with a tentative June date.

Way to work this morning fellas.  This is the greatest privilege to be a part of this group.  Make it a great week!

Get it all out, dig a little deeper and be super.

Hardywood

Six regulars and one FNG gathered at Batteau this morning for coffee, bagels, and Hot Potatoes. 5:30 sharp, time to mosey. YHC took us to the far side of the field to see what the neighbors on Forest Hill Avenue were having for breakfast.

COP: Arm Circles (10) SSHs (20) DQs (11 – not sure why). Shut it down. NOTE: YHC hasn’t practiced much with cadence, so I wanted to get some in today. Unanimously confimed, I’m terrible at it. Come bust my chops tomorrow at Heartbreak Ridge for my Q.

THANG: Clockwork Merkins – OYO. 5 at midnight / 3 o’clock / 6 o’clock / 9 o’clock. Repeato counter clockwise.

Mosey to top of the stairs of pain. Collect rocks. Circle up. 2 left arm / 2 right arm Merkins at each rock. Plank walk to next rock, clockwise back to original rock. Next up, counter clockwise, 1 left arm / 1 right arm Merkin back to your rock.

Pass the sugar. Hardywood, you’re up. Saunter to the bottom of the stairs. HR Merkins – run to the bottom of the next set of stairs. Squats. Hump to top of the stairs. Burpees. Repeato. 5 /10 /15. Shakedown’s turn to serve coffee.

Tennis Court: 4 corners. 10 Merkins / 20 LBCs / 30 2-count Mountain Climbers / 40 squats – Progressive.

Native American run – sorta – to the stage left over from last night’s music fest. Attempt box jumps. To shakey. Mosey back down to the site of Clockwork Merkins. Burpees / Box Jumps x 20. Dang!

Sugar Sock, you’ve never been to Batteau before, so you’re up. Make sure the food is hot, and bring us home brother! Mosey to tennis courts for Triple Check: Leg Lifts / Squats / Lap around tennis courts x 3.

Back to the Flag

NMS:

Great work today gentlemen, especially to FNG ABBA. I hope the pain was as promised. Look forward to seeing you back out soon.

Thoughts and prayers this morning for a few of our brothers specifically, and all of them collectively. Great thing about F3 is that no matter where you turn, there’s a brother nearby. Lean on us when needed, hold us up when you can. Awesome stuff!

Announcements:

Puppy Pile is this Saturday, 7:05.

Shakedown is kicking butt to kick children’s cancer’s butt. See prior backblasts to help him out.

Memorial Day convergence at Tredegar/Belle Isle May 28th.

Wilson has a golf tournament May 18th / Pre-game May 16th at Independence. 5:30

Always tuck in your shirt. Never wear flip-flops.

-Vinny out!

 

Four studs attacked a Monday morning and here is how it went down.

Hot Potato : Hardywood – COP : SSH’s Helicopters. Windmills, IW’s. Flutter Kicks., Freddy Mercury’s . Hand release merkins .

Tree to tree – 5 merkins run to bottom of hill 5 squats run to top of hill 5 WW 11’s – repeat 4 times.

Swirly : 10 dips 10 decline merkiins bear crawl to pull up bars 5 pullups bear crawl back repeat 3 times.

Bootleg : 11’s : Burpees and LBC’s

Sippy : Zig Zag : Partner runs across field to tree and back to partner that is bear crawling then switch work your way down the field.

Trail sprint – plank – mossy to the flag.

Tried to remember everything we did as best I could fellas. Always enjoy a hot potato Q .

Way to work guys strong beatdown ! Great way to begin the week.

Announcements : Shakedown shaving his head to raise funds for childhood cancer . Wilson’s golf event is May 18th. Puppy pile returning soon….  Let’s get out and support these causes fella’s !

See y’all in the gloom..

 

Eight warriors boarded up the windows of the fart sack shack (say it 3 times fast) and got their respective middle aged keesters out of bed and set tone for complete and total domination this week.

COP – Swirly

IC: SSH, Don Quiote, Helicopter, Merkins, Flutter Kicks, LBC

Mosey to the mouth of hell otherwise known as the stairs to the duck pond and grab a boulder.

3 Rounds of the following (hit the benches on the way up and down)

At the top: 10 curls, 10 overhead presses, run down the steps to the benches

At the benches: 20 dips, 10 decline merkins, run down the path all the way to the duck pond

As the duck pond 10 WWII

Pass to YHC

Loop of Terror, 3 Rounds

15 incline merkins at the benches then run down the path to the bottom

5 burpees on the service road then run to the next set of stairs

20 squats then run up the path back to the benches

Pass to Fudd

Four Corners, 3 Rounds

20 Flutter Kicks

20 Freddie Mercury

20 Merkins

20 WWII

Mosey back to flag, numberma, namerama, YHC took us out.

News

Shakedown is proving once again that he is a leader of men.  He’s shaving his head for childhood cancer research. Let’s show him some support. He’ll be posting a link.

Puppy Pile is on 5/19 at 7:05am.  Do this.  Get your kids out of the fartsack and show them that your are more than a money bag who controls how much time they can spend on the iPad.  Bring them out, let them see you sweat and let them see you still have some bad ass in you.

Come see Chi Chi Rodriquez and Nancy Lopez battle it out at the Wilson Charity Golf Classic For America Pro Am Regional Middleweight Championships Divisional Qualifier Pool Play Open.  YHC may be off on the name, but see Wilson for details on a great event for a great cause on 5/18.  http://www.forethecause.org/

YHC’s brother is in a challenging transitional period in his young life.  Keep him in your prayers.

Moleskin: It is with much gratitude that a day starts being able to see a rising sun and a full moon with a solid tribe.  Today was a solid beat down and the first time in a long time to use the hill circuit. Go out and crush it this week fellas.  The world is a better place when you share your talents, go out and make it happen.

Hardywood

 

 

 

Four tree huggers brought their gardening gloves and shovels to Forest Hill Park in honor of Earth Day 2018, and it went something like this:

Mosey to the planning area to establish the day’s activities and celebrations. YHC was so excited to be one with mother earth, that he may not recall all that we did, but here is what YHC recalls:  SSHs / Helicopters / DQs / Imperial Walkers.

Mosey to the Playground: pull-ups (5) / Derkins (10) / Incline Merkins (15) / Dips (20) / LBCs (25) x 3

Mosey down the hill, grab rocks, mosey back up to green space beside the lower tennis courts. Circle up. Ring around the rosie merkins (great way to be one with mother earth), PAX picks up rocks for overhead slams (sorry mother earth) 5 x at each rock. Back down for another round of ring around the rosie merkins. One more set of overhead slams (we mean no harm, mother earth).

Leave rocks, time to express our one-ness with mother nature.  Nine trees. Hand release merkins (5) / WWIIs (5) at each tree. You could taste the worms. On your six. Mark Spitz joined us to plant a few sapplings. Flutter kicks – ouch.

Time to get to work. These trees won’t plant themselves. Partner up. Wheel barrow a load of mulch to nearby tree. Drop the mulch (touch the tree) and return the wheel barrow (backwards). Switch up and deliver a second load of mulch.

PAX was really feeling the earth day love. Different partners. Plant (touch) a tree. 7 /5 / 3 / 1. Partner does SSHs. Hardywood was so taken by the sunrise that he forgot to count. Is happens to all us tree huggers, bro. Don’t sweat it. Peace and love!

Rinse repeat (modified). Plant (touch) more trees. On your own. 5 / 3 / 1. 5 merks in between just to ensure the PAX was one with the earth.

Army crawl to nearby tree – 40 yards of one-ness.

Back to the flag. Ring of Fire. 3 burpees while PAX sits in plank and admires once again all that mother earth has to offer.

Hardywood took us out.

Congrats to Spit and his #Colonial200 brothers (sorry if YHC is leaving anyone out). It got Swirley’s competitive juices flowing – wow! Time for an F3RVA squad to field a team for next year.

Great start to the week (and remember to recycle)!

 

 

Five suitors showed up for Vinny’s VQ. It went like this:

Happy Hour & Icebreakers. DQs (15)/ Arm Circles (10 and 5) each arm/ Invisible jump ropes (15)/ Helicopters (15).

Speed dating at Love Hill. Partner up: Crawl bears, Backwards lunges, Triple Jump Copperhead Squats (2) to the top of the hill while partner runs (and switch). If they came back, it was meant to be.

Dinner date by candle (street) light. New partners: Line tracers at the tennis courts while remaining suitors ate crab cakes (100), flutter kicks (200), SSH (300). Team numbers to completion of the date.

Palate cleansers. John Merkinroes – each corner of the room (tennis court) :  Dive bombers (15), HR merkins (15), werkins (15), merkins (15).

After dinner drinks. New partners: Leg tosses -15 straight; 30 left/right (alternate); 40 random (two sets of 20).

Front porch goodbyes. Circle up. Ring of fire. PAX in plank position. 5 wiper merkins each around the ring. Date’s over. Time to go home. Back to the flag.

YHC took us out. Always grateful for the opportunity.

Numberama /Namorama / Announcements

Great work on #CSAUP men. Truly awesome to watch. Can’t wait to join in the next one. Appreciated the opportunity to lead today.