Tag: Batteau

Policeing my own today… If a Faceplant posts in the woods of Batteau all by himself does he post a backblast? The answer to that question is a resounding yes as I embrace Big Data now.

Since Faceplant was the sole poster this morning, the potato was cold and was carried the entire time by one.

It went down like this, stretches in the requisite tennis court area. Then run down to the gym for a pull-up ladder starting at 5 down to 1 then back up to 5.

Moseyed on down to the pit area, 10 incline merkins, 10 dips, run up the hill do 20 air squats then repeat 5 times. After that headed down the hill to the lake for a Faceplant favorite lap around the lake – Stopping at each light pole for alternating 5 burpees and 10 WW2s. Made my way around the lake, and headed up the hill of ill repute, alternating between lunges and running between each light pole. At each light pole stopping to do 20 Merkins. Ended at the top of the hill right at 6:15.

Names and numbers were quick, Faceplant took us out.

Keeping with YHC tradition this post is of course late, and a Swirly never forgets so I had to make sure that this post did not lag into 2021. Monday morning we were well below our government mandated maximum number of people and we all practiced extreme safe social distancing for the grand total of 3.

When a first time Batteau visitor shows up on Monday, we always like to make them feel welcome with a full tour of all that the Richmond City Park System has to offer. Swirly kicked us off with stretches and warm-ups at the tennis courts. YHC noted all the usual Swirly warm-up routine stretches, plus a few new ones added into the rotation like touch your toes, a new favorite of YHC. We rounded out the stretching with a series of exercises in the front lean and rest position and alternated between ‘HOLD IT’ position at 3 inches, and up to the regular merkin position.

After warm-up Swirly mosey-ed us over to our second Batteau stop to pick up some of the Richmond regions finest and heaviest granite boulders. Since all of the weight lifting gyms are closed because someone ate a bat, Swirly led us in a series of boulder lifting exercises. Start out with 20 curls, run down steps with boulder and do 20 dips, run back up, do 20 curls, then add 10 overhead presses… repeat down to the bottom 20 dips. Then we kept going adding to our series of exercises ‘bench press’ with boulder, squats with boulder and I might be missing one.

Swirly handed off the potato to YHC, and we headed down the hill in the dark to continue the Tour de Batteau. We then started one lap around the lake stopping at each light post (lit or un-lit) and did 5 Merkins, and we waited in the front lean and rest until all were done then we all got up and ran to the next light post. Once we got back to the finish we had to make our way out from the bottom.

On up the hill of ill-repute, one person started to lunge up the hill while the remaining two stayed at the bottom. The ‘timer’ did 30 side straddle hops while the other did flutter kicks. Once timer was done, timer sprinted up the hill to swap out with the lung-er. Former lung-er ran back down the hill and started doing flutter kicks, and flutter kick-er became the ‘timer’ and did 30 side straddle hops. Repeat until someone got all the way to the top of the hill.

Once we all got to the top of the hill we still had extra time so 20 OYO WWIIs. Moseyed on up to the start where we did numbers and names and announcements.

Big thank you to Jaque Penné for joining us this Monday morning, Batteau regulars hope to see him back to experience everything else that Batteau has to offer! Jaque Penné took us out with some inspiring words.

As I left my house and jogged in the rain through the neighborhood towards Batteau I thought this could be a low turnout – something about cold rain/Monday. Corona Virus …..

Well come to find out I was right I was the lone wolf out there this morning so it went down like this – continue running around the park and back through the neighborhood – back to my house – nope I didn’t see another person out there this morning and yes I was completely soaked. .

Certainly missed seeing the pax out there this morning but also certainly understand why I was alone out there today. Hope everyone is felling well – see y’all in the gloom..

Numbers were light this morning but the motivation and mumble chatter was high this morning. In typical Batteau fashion the potato showed up to Q and we were off and running.

Swirly started everyone out at the tennis courts with some windmills, don quixotes, lighting stretching, planks, reach for the skys, reach for the toes, and merkins.

The kids moseyed over to the playground and proceeded to wipe it down with cholrox wipes. At the playground we did 3 rounds of 5x pullups, 10x decline merkins, and 15x dips. Rinse and repeat. Then we headed over to the picnic tables for snack time. Snack time had us doing 3 rounds of dips, step-ups, and incline merkins.

YHC was passed the potato and we moseyed on down the trail taking us on the full tour of Batteau. On the uphills we stopped intermittently to do 5x burpees, then on the up hills we continued to stop intermittently to do 5x burpees. Moseyed all the way doing the burpees here and there until we got to the steps of doom. Proceeded to bear crawl up steps and do lunges on the sections without steps. All the way to the landing, 5 more burpees, then finished out the remainder of the steps doing bear crawl.

YHC didn’t want to hog all the fun so handed off the potato to Flatline. We moseyed on down to the bottom of the hill (always a YHC favorite!). Triple check ensued with LBCs, lunges, and running to the top of the hill. The LBC location would move with the transition point of the lunges. When everyone had done one round we finished out with bear crawls to the top. Flatline took us down to the bowl area and we did 50 step-ups to round out the morning.

Headed back to the flag for COT where we adhered to the new COT procedures. We did numbers, names, announcements, and Flatline took us out with some kind and inspiring words.

Have a wonderful Monday everyone and stay safe and healthy out there!

Three studs arose to greet the dawn of a new day. According to legend, it went a little something like this.

Swirly started us off with the COP:

SSH X 20, DQ X 10, Helicopter X 10, Merkin X 10, Flutter Kick, 10

Rock Show – Swirly; grab a batteau coupon

• Round 1 – 20 curls, 10 overhead press, down stairs with coupon, 15 dips.
• Round 2 – Round 1, plus 15 bench press.
• Round 3 – Round 2, plus 20 squats.

Triple Check – Offshore

• One person runs up hill to light pole, exercises are decline merkins and flutter kicks.

Team Jerkins – Offshore

• 10 jerkins completed by pax holding the hand of the two other pax. 2 rounds.

Hardywood Special – Hardywood; mosey to tennis courts

• Run to 1st corner for 10 merkins and back to start.
• Corner 1 10 merkins, Corner 2 10 merkins, 10 WWII, corner 1 10 merkins, back to start.
• Corner 1 10 merkins, Corner 2 10 merkins, 10 WWII, Corner 3 20 ball dippers, 10 merkins, 10 WWII, Corner 2 10 WWII, 10 merkins, corner 1 10 merkins, back to start.

3 Min of Mary – Hardywood

• 20 American Hammer
• 20 Cat Killers (in American Hammer position, except doing arm circles)

Numberma, namerama and YHC took us out.

Keep Double Mint in your thoughts are prayers. His dad has been placed on hospice. Kudos to Hitchhiker for 100 days in a row of working out and eating clean! Way to set the bar for the rest of us.

Bone Thug 5k – 4/24 at 45MOM.

A fantastic PAX of Four won the war against the Monday morning fartsack as YHC made the first return to Batteau since the last tour. A relatively unknown Gloom with City of Richmond’s maintenance on street lights added up to a few obstacles in the dark.

Just as Oyster emerged from his vehicle the clock struck “Go Time” and the PAX were off.

COP

Money to the pickle ball courts, avoid the cliff YHC nearly Took the PAX off

F3 Welcome, Disclaimer (including one about YHC’s hiatus from this AO)

SSHs, DQs, Russian Soldiers, Imperial Walkers, Helicopters, Merkins. Warm? Let’s Boogie.

The Thang

Exercise I – Hot Box Lindsays

Mosey through the valley and back up to the SOJ Farmers Market Activities Hut. Grab a picnic table.

3 rounds – 10 merkins, 20 step ups, 30 reverse crunches. Run to and from the stone chimney. algore for the six

Exercise II – Touch a Tree

Partner Up – 3 trees, 3 rounds

Round 1 – LBCs, Round 2 – Lt Dans, Round 3- Alabama PromDates

Mid Beatdown MARY

rounds of flutter kicks, rosalitas, hello dollies and alabama prom dates

Exercise III – Merkins/Lunge Ladders

Mosey back down and up the valley to the pickle ball courts. pick a square

Merkin Ladder – Bear crawl, side crawl, back bear crawl, merkins up to 5

Lunge Ladders – lunge forward, side lunges, reverse lunges, 5 down to one squats

Exercise IV – Mini Merkincide

Mosey to the tennis courts. 10 merkins at each line on the court. Run down and back.

LBCs until the final bell.

Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out.

Lift those up named and unnamed this morning.

Some words from a daily devotional on the theme of “It’s Go Time”

Look back 12 . . . 18 . . . 24 months. What should you have started doing then so you’d be closer to what you want now? There’s always something.

Now forget it because it’s done, but keep the lesson with you. You have new decisions to make. Future moments depend on these moments.

What are you waiting for? Get started today.

Felt great to get back in the gloom after a few weeks away due to a tweaked back. Near perfect conditions for a late winter time beatdown. Enjoyed it fellas! SYITG.

Seven brothers met to start the day off right. A meeting of the minds ensued.

COP: Imperial Walkers (do as I say, not as I do) x 10. Russian Solders (again, do as I say, not as I do) x 10. WWIIs x 10. LBCs x 10. Rosalitas x 10. Scissor Kicks x 10. Hello Dollies x 10. Flutter Kicks x 10.

MENSA: Partner up at the top of the Hill of Ill Repute. Partner one runs to the bottom and back. Partner two Lunges. Round 2 = Bear Crawl. Round 3 = Polar Bears. Repeat to the bottom.

INSANITY: Repeat MENSA back up HIR.

LOW TIDE: Mosey over to the tennis court for Crab Walk Elevens. Singles line to singles line. Exercises are Merkins and Box Cutters. After hitting the 5/6 interchange, replace Crab Walk with Lunges.

BILLIE JEAN KINGS: Triple Check. Partner one runs line tracers out and back. Partner two = Squats. Partner 3 = LBCs.

BTTF: Zippy announcements

NMS: Keep our brother Sippy Cup in your thoughts and prayers. He suffered a significant bike crash (was not hit by a car), but, I understand, will be fine. I don’t have details beyond that.

There’s a guy who is always at FHP around 05:15 on Mondays. He parks next to the Stone House for about 15 minutes, then leaves. No idea why. Today, that person joined us. Apparently … it’s Oyster.

We preach daily about living our lives to the fullest. Now go do it.

Three pax joined up in The Gloom for a Monday morning Hot Potato. Temps were sunny and 70. Despite looking far and wide, no latecomers joined….so, onward to…

The COP – Courtesy of YHC

3 veterans means save the time devoted to the Disclaimer and get started…SSHs, DQs, Hillbillies, reverse crunches, LBCs, and HRMs.

Monday Morning 6-Pack

Starting with the picnic table to the left of the Batteau House, the PAX did a loop, performing one exercise at each of 6 tables. Exercises were:

10 Derkins
20 dips
10 step-ups (per leg)
20 four-count Flutter Kicks
15 incline merkins
20 WWIIs

Two rounds in the dark. Avoid tree branches and holes. YHC wondered why Swirly wasn’t up front…more to follow.

Flip it to Doozy for…

Mosey des Doozy

Mosey across the Batteau Field to the Park Road, stopping along the road for two sets of 20 dips. Continue along the r

Burpee des Trois

Loop around the lake. Find a lamppost (lighted or otherwise), stop and do 3 burpees. YHC estimates 10 lampposts.

Triangle Up at the Intersection of Loop and Other Loop. Short mosey to stairs for…

Sippy’s Crawl of Death

Bear crawl up the steps, then up the path, then up the steps. Longer than it sounds.

Swirly’s Revenge

YHC did not know Swirly had a bum ankle until after YHC ran Swirly around and across an uneven field with lots of sticks in the dark. All else equal, with three PAX, there were other options for the group.

Swirly got his revenge (YHC is making this more dramatic than it was).

Everyone grab a stone. Time for some boulder-work.

First round: 20 curls, walk to terrace on the steps with the stone, 20 dips, carry stone back up.

Second round: same as First Round, but add 10 over-head presses before going down the steps.

Third round: 20 curls, 10 over-head presses, 15 squats, walk to terrace on the steps with the stone, 10 derkins, carry stone over-head back up to the top. YHC attempted to remain conscious.

Mosey BTTF.

Number-am-a, Name-a-ram-a, YHC took us out.

Announcements:

Keep Doozey’s mother-in-law Louisa, who is going through a tough spot, in your thoughts as well as Doozy’s wife (only child of a single mom).

YHC’s mother-in-law is doing better, probably never going to be great, but she will take it.

3 studs posted this morning to batteau and here is how it went down.

Hot Potato style

Bleeder : COP – Mossy

Agility drills : Tennis courts – run forward – side shuffle – backwards – repeat 5 times

Sippy Cup : Triple Check with rocks on pickle ball court – run with rock forward – side shuffle – backwards along with sit up press with rock cross over merkins on rock.

Swirly : Let’s stay with the rocks ! 20 bench press – 1- American Hammers with rock mossy down steps to the bench with rocks 15 dips back to the top – 20 squats – 10 american hammers 15 dips – 20 overhead press 10 american hammers 15 dips – 20 curls 10 sit up press 15 incline merkins – 20 overhead press 10 squats 15 incline merkins

Mossy to the flag :

Great work guys – lot’s of boulder work this morning – mixed in with some agility – excellent job . Another full moon morning it was fantastic out there. Thanks for taking us out Bleeder.

The Batteau gloom accepted resumes from seven wanna-be Shakira back-up dancers this morning. Wearing a hot pink leopard print spandex g-string unitard, Flatline stole the show, but despite great efforts by all to flawlessly pull off the following routines, they were saddened to learn the absentee Hardywood had already won the coveted position with a mail-in VHS shakeweight snuff film produced by his side-kick Houdini (…or is he gonna stick with Snuff…?). 

The THANG:

Moseyrama around Stone House a couple times then stop for COP #1:

• Clock Lunges x2 Rounds IC
• The Opus x10 IC
• Dying Quixotes x10 IC (DQ’s on your Six)
• Oblique Crunch x10 Each Side IC
• DTH’s x10 IC
• Surfer Merkins x10 OYO (Jump 360 degrees, drop for merkin, recover)

Mosey to the Grassy Hills for COP #2:

• Booyah Merkin Ladder – Partner up, complete 10 Booyah Merkins, P1 runs access valley & back while P2 remains for Marionettes, complete 9 Booyah Merkins, P2 runs & P1 remains, etc. down to 1 Booyah Merkin. BOOYAH! 

Mosey down to Lake for COP #3

• Stop at trail wall for x20 Dips IC and x10 Incline Merkins IC
• En route, Bataan Death March – Indian style, PAX lunge while last man Burpees x3
• Once at lake, start DMC Mosey – Stop at each light post, alternating x10 reps of Diamond Merkins, x15 Merkins, x20 CDD’s 
• ABC’s in the Bowl for the SIX

Mosey BTTF for COP #4:

• Plank Compass – feet remain while hands plank walk X degrees in whichever direction Q calls, plus x5 merkins between each new direction
• Rosalita Whip x10 IC
• APD’s x20 IC
• Hands-up High Flutters x20 IC
• Hands-under-tail Low Flutters x20 IC
• Freddie M’s x20 IC
• Wilson’s Stretch
• Plank & drop to hold 3” …x3 sets of counting down 10-1

COT:

• Counterama # 7
• Namerama
• Announcerama (see Comments)
• DRAPER took us out in Prayer

NMS:

• Good times as always with the Batteau boys, and awesome having Flatty back in the gloom! Had the workout all ready for my inadvertent fartsacking last Monday, so felt right making up for it this week. Good positive feedback on the all-new-DTH-original “Dying Quixotes” …YHC will keep them included with future Q’s. Glad to have Draper with me this week to complete a standard version Corporate Challenge. Thanks for leading us out in prayer today bro!