Tag: Batteau

From the archives of YHC, here’s a long overdue BB.
Sippy started us out, everyone went to the picnic table and we got on one side of the picnic table and warmed up with slow Perkins, then moved onto a round of step ups being ever so mindful of the icy steps. 

Next Sippy took us on a bear crawl tour of the tennis court always facing the same direction – bear crawl forward five Merkins, bear crawl sideways five Merkins, crawl bear five Merkins, bear crawl sideways back to start and five more Merkins. 

Doozy took us down the hill and we did 11’s on the hill with dips and squats.

YHC closed it out with multiple laps around the circle. Partnered up – one partner did abs and the other partner ran around the circle. The abs consisted of 100 World War II‘s, 200 double count flutter kicks, and 300 LBCs. Finished out with 6 inches holding it steady.

numbers, names, and no announcements

Playing some catchup here – here’s how things went down at Batteau based On YHC’s old man memory.

It was a prompt 5:30 AM start time in Bleeder start us out with some quick stretches at the tennis courts, after that we probably headed down to the lake for some ice-skating lessons. The lake wasn’t frozen over yet so we decided to run around that stopping at every single light pole descending Merkins starting with 19 and subtracting one at every single light pole we got to.

next we had it up the hill and picked up some rocks from the lovely rock garden. Everyone partnered up and sorely let us in some partner rock exercises. I’m pretty sure Sippy’s rock weighed more than he did.

The next Hot potato recipient was Hardywood, we partnered up again and crawl bear-ed up the hill to the top towards the light post while your partner stayed back and completed three burpees. After the Burpee’s each partner ran up to their crawl bearing partner and switched out. Everyone made it to the top and we waited in the merkin position.

YHC got the hot potato next and was so creative he swapped out crawl bear and Burpee’s with lunges and 25 single count flutter kicks. Fun ensued to the end, then we fast moseyed back to the flag for numbers, names, and announcements.

It was great having you as a visitor Boberry on your winter tour. Friendly faces and new names are always welcome at Batteau!

Announcements: see Hardywood if you want to see a rock climbing movie with your kids and drink beer on a Friday – I think I got that correct…

Seven naturalists posted at Batteau for a scenic tour. They didn’t get it. Instead, they got this:

Camp Setup: Hill Billies x 20. Russian Soliders x 15. Helicopters x 10. Boat Holds x 10. WWIIs x 10. Scorpion Kicks x 10. Hello Dollies x 10.

Gone Fishin’: Crab Walk 11s with WWIIs and LBCs on the tennis court. Singles lines.

Meal Prep: Triple Check. Round One – Partner one traces the tennis court lines – out and back. Partner two Squats. Partner three Rosalitas. Round Two – tennis court lines / Merkins / LBCs. Round Three – (drawing a blank) / Elbow Plank.

Dinner Bell: Down to the Pit. Dips x 20 / Incline Merkins x 20 – then run to top of hill. Repeat x 3.

Whiskey and S’mores: Grab a curb. 5 Decline WG Merkins then lunge to opposing curb for 5 Incline WG Merkins. Repeat until the whiskey runs out.

Announcements: DTH is leading the iron on shirts campaign once again. If you want a shirt with your name on the back, or someone else’s, please order it by Wed. See preblast for the deets.

Bear Skin: Great to be back at Batteau. Haven’t been there since my foot went rogue. Always enjoy being with the Batteau stalwarts, and enjoyed having some of the Hoedown nudists join us today. Thankfully, they left their gear on today.

14 stud muffins shunned the temptress that is the fart sack and committed to making themselves better. Despite cooler temps in the Richmond metro area, it was a successful 70 and sunny at Batteau.

COP: SSH X 20, IW X 20, Lunges X 10, WWII X 20, FC X 20, HRM X 20

Mosey to tennis courts

FOUR SQUARE: The old Hardywood goto came out of the stables for the first exercise. Here’s how this works. On each round add a corner, then hit each corner as you make your way back to the start. So on round two you’ll do corners #1, #2, #1 then on round three you’ll do corners #1, #2, #3, #2, #1. Got it….good. This ended up being a ton of merkins and a helluva way to start a Monday.

• Corner #1 10 shoulder tap merkins
• Corner #2 20 wide grip merkins
• Corner #3 30 decline merkins
• Corner #4 40 regular merkins

Mosey to Spring of Success.

DORA: All of YHCs knowledge really boils down to three things; 1990s baseball trivia, rollerblading and that if you are gonna show up on a Monday…you are ready to bring it. The pax put on a show!

Partner up. One partner runs down the Hill of Ill Repute to the first light on the left and the second partner is completing the following exercises to a specific quantity in succession. Exercises are as follows

• 100 Captain Thors
• 200 Imperial Squat Walkers
• 300 Two Count Flutter Kicks

Mosey Back To The Flag

Numberma, namerama and the greatness that is Flatline took us out.

NEWS:

You can order custom F3 Dr. Try Hard (or is it simply Try Hard) shirts here. It’s extra to get your own name on it. https://backblasts.f3rva.org/2019/12/20/your-f3-name-shirt/

Oyster is the best and a beast. Not only has he organized the Winter Tour of 2020, word on the street is that he’s on the organizing committee of the Earth Day 5K and Reese Strong 5K.

MyFace & Tic Tac: Fact; there are way to many social media channels and 99% of the crap on them is mental Doritos. Fact #2; most people post only the things they want other people to see and most people do it from the toilet. If you are like YHC you justify some social media channels to stay in touch with F3 buddies. Honey Do has set up an F3RVA Slack channel.

Moleskin: YHC is borderline obsessed with the following book; Second Mountain by David Brooks (thanks to Bodos for the recommendation). If you are reading this stupid backblast then you will love this book. Do yourself and your family a solid and read this book.

Many concepts from the book resonated deeply with me and this one starts with a Parker Palmer quote; “If you can’t get out of something, then get into it. Brooks goes on to write. “If you can’t easily walk away from something , then the only way forward is to double down. When the well of love dries up, it takes an act of will to dig a little deeper.”

When all the things that used to work seemingly stop in their tracks or you get frustrated and tired, or even worse when you simply feel like your best effort leaves you stuck, sometimes the only thing to do is dig the damn well. As long as you keep digging, you’ll hit that eternal spring.

Three strong Pax , with one out-of-towner, but a RVA holiday regular, gathered for some medicine ball fun.

COP--Helicopters, DQs, Plank-o-rama, SSHs

Mosey to picnic table. In incline position migrate clockwise, then counterclockwise around table.

Mosey back to the circle for a medicine ball/burpee/running triple-check. One pax picks up and throws the medicine ball forward repeatedly progressing around the circle, one pax does burpees, and the third pax (the timer) runs around the circle, relieving the pax doing burpees who then catches up to and relieves the thrower.

Round 1–Granny throws. Round 2–chest pass, Round 3–overhead, soccer pass, Round 4–right hand shot-put, Round 5–left hand shot put.

Mosey to tennis courts for some medicine ball animal walks. The route was across the width of the tennis court and back. Each Pax did each exercise once.

Round 1. Polar bear, bear crawl pushing medicine ball ahead of you, crab walk.

Round 2. Bear crawl, crab walk with medicine ball on chest, lunge

Mosey back to the circle to play some medicine ball catch. Any time ball is dropped, all pax do 3 burpees.

Round 1. 2 pax stand about 1 feet apart and pass medicine ball back and forth while the other pax runs the circle.

Round 2. Same, but passes are with right hand.

Round 3. Same but passes are with left hand.

Round 4. One pax planks while other two run around the circle side-by-side passing medicine ball back and forth while running.

Round 5. Same as round 4.

Mosey back to the VSF for some medicine ball clockwork. Pax places feet on medicine ball in plank position at the center of the clock and rotates their body clockwise and counterclockwise around the circle. The other pax plank while waiting their turn.

Moleskin. This workout was generated when YHC re-discovered an old workout manual he had been given a decade or so ago. YHC decided to make his own medicine ball, by filling an old basketball with sand, sealing it up with a bicycle patch and several layers of polyurethane. This creates a ~25 pound medicine ball. YHC made 2, but one broke during the workout (its rubber was severely degraded prior to making it, so not surprising). YHC would be happy to make some more for the PAX–just donate an old outdoor basketball that is in decent shape. A small basketball “pop-a-shot” would also be useful and makes a 15 pound ball.

The workout itself was quite fun. It is quite challenging to throw a heavy ball and also hard to catch a heavy ball thrown at you–it requires full body cushioning, which made for a good workout. YHC actually accidentally dropped the ball when placing it on Swirly’s stomach for the med ball crab walks–thankfully it missed his groin by a couple of inches. Coordination on the side-by-side running led to some hilarity also.

All in all a different type of workout and quite fun.

3 studs posted this morning for Batteau and here is how it went down.

Warm up : SSH’s, Helicopters, windmills, IW’s merkins, flutter kicks, LBC’s

Rock work (Swirly) ” 20 curls carry rock down the steps – 20 dips – 6 rounds different – exercises – include over head presses – incline merkins – WWII’s – decline merkins – burpee press – dips

Curb crawl (Posh) – 1-10 – bear crawl – incline merkins

Box jump – long mossy – Pull ups (Sippy Cup) 1-5

Wasn’t sure how we left it regarding writing the BB fella’s so went ahead. Short and sweet !

Great work this morning – thanks for taking us out Sippy – well said my man.

Swirly Board 12/23/19 – Hey remember that guy who gave up ? Neither does anyone else ! = Boom…

See y’all in the gloom…

7 warriors fought the disease known as comfort this fine Monday morning. There was working to be done and according to legend it went a little something like this.

COP: SSH X 20, IW X 20, WWI X 20, FC X 20, HRM RL X 5, HRM LL X 5, HRM X 5, CS X 10, Arm Circle X 1

Pax mosey over to the coupon factory and pick a suitable steed. Mosey over to Spring Square.

Three Rounds of the following: 5 Decline Merkins with right hand on coupon, 5 Merkins with left hand on coupon, 5 regular Decline Merkins, 20 dips, run to top of hill with coupon and back to start.

Old School Barbell Club: Pax gather in circle with coupon. Each coupon has an exercise. At each coupon complete 20 reps. The exercises at the seven stations were as follows: arm curls, squats, dips, WWII, overhead press, merkins (and one other I can’t remember for the life of me).

Mosey down to the bottom of the hill and partner up. One partner runs to light post and back, other partner completes and exercise. The exercise changes after each partner completes a round. Exercises are bear crawl, crawl bear, lunges. Pax broke this up into 3 segments all the way back to Spring Square where our coupons were patiently waiting.

Grab coupons and mosey back to coupon factory. Along the way back there were overhead presses, arm extensions and merkins oh my.

After depositing coupons head back to the flag. There were three light posts between the location of the Pax and the flag. At the first light post complete 5 burpees, second light post 10 burpees, third light post 15 burpees.

Numberama, namerama, DTH led us out.

News: Here’s a fun fact these are the three best things about the holiday season; Christmas Vacation Movie, strategically placed mistletoe and Rosie’s Annual 12 Days of Christmas Workout at No Toll on 12/17.

Welcome Term Paper from Carpex! You crushed it today brotha and thanks for bringing it this morning.

Great job today fellas. Way to dig a little deeper and get it all out.

It was a usual Batteau hot potato, with some unusual rain. Swirley started us out with side straddle hops and a host of other not on the ground warm-up exercises. Swirley then rolled us into 3x run up hill with 10x derkins and 10x dips in between each hill run.

Hand off to Bleeder who took us up to the top of Forest Hill Park for 5x run with progressive WW2’s. Run to light pole 1 come back and do 10 WW2’s (shielded from the rain in the pavilion). Then run to the next light pole come back and do 20 WW2’s, and so on until you get to 50 WW2’s.

Handed it off to Sippy and we headed down to pick up some rocks. Moseyed 4x rocks over to the courts and did 3x rounds. Time ran around the courts always facing one direction. Other three did some form of rock exercise. First one was one hand on rock push-ups alternating hands, second was sumo squats with rock, third was one hand in the air alternating on the rock.

Sippy handed it off to YHC and finished out with a slow walk back with the rocks in hand to drop them off. Stopping intermittently with rocks and alternating between deep squat, mid squat, and back up again. Dropped off rocks and moseyed back to the flag in time for names, numbers, and announcements.

The rain stopped towards the end of the workout.

Three Veterans and one Visitor (so it felt) assembled for a smoke fest this morning.

COP: SSH, Helicopters, DQ’s, Cherry Pickers, Copper Head Squats, American Hammers, Freddie Mercury, Shoulder Taps, Merkins.

Mosey to top of steps, partner up. Partner 1 holds plank, while partner 2 runs to bottom of steps, performs 5 dips on the bench, back up to meet partner and perform 5 Booyah Merkins before switching. 5 rounds of this, increasing the dips by 5 each round. So, 5 th round is 25 dips, with the 5 Booyah’s.

Pick a rock and start just before the maintenance building. Lunge 5 paces, stop and do 5 overhead presses. Continue routine to the first street light (30-40 yds). At the light drop the rocks and pick someone else’s (YHC made sure to tell Swirly not to choose the largest rock for this reason). Turn around and lunge 10 paces, 5 curls, repeating till back to start line. Put rocks back and Mosey!

Made our way to bottom of hill looking up at Forest Hill Ave. 11’s are called out. Bottom of hill is Lt. Dan’s, top of hill is CDD’s.

Mosey back to flag for a short jog around the circle and some additional SSH’s till time is officially called.

Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out.

Announcements: Special TYA Q at No Toll tomorrow AM. Annual debate over the first Thanksgiving to take place at Mary – coffee will be served. Seems there was something else, but slips me.

YHC explained it was long overdue getting back to Batteau, so what better way than to sign up on the Q sheet. It was a pleasure leading this morning and you guys crushed it! I tried to incorporate upper band lower beatings and I believe it was achieved! YHC will be traveling over Thanksgiving and wish the best to all! Stay safe whether traveling far or staying close to home. Apologies, if things are not as complete…doing this on my cell.

5 PAX gathered for a crisp fall Hot Potato workout.

R1. Swirly leading COP–SSH, DQ, Scorpion kicks, Scorpion kicks on back, Flutter kicks Merkins

R2. Swirly leading. A circuit of Running the big loop (2x, the timer), Step ups, Abyss Merkins and Dips

R3. Face plant leading. Mosey to bowl for 15 x Derkins, then head to the bottom of the hill for a WW2, Burpee Hill run. 20x WWII, run up hill to first light pole 3 Burpees, 15x WWIIs, run up hill to 2nd light pole, 6 burpees. Continue to 4th light pole adding 3 burpees and subtracting 4 WWIIs each time.

R4. Sippy Leading. Mosey to Rock pile for a circuit of: plank with rock on back, crossover merkins, plank with rock on back, cros over merkins, carry rock up and down steps (the timer). Done 2x. Then mosey to playground for AMRAP pullups in ~ 1 min.

Sippy took us out.

Moleskin. The hot potato Q lives on at Batteau, and it is fun to see all of the experimental workout ideas. Doing a circuit with 5 guys is a bit tricky, but we managed to pull it off a couple of ways today. The Abyss Merkins were new to YHC–they are done with hands and toes on adjacent picnic benches and really get the full range of motion. Face Plant gave his usual dose of solid cardio, and YHC’s rock rotation was an interesting experiment with a fair bit of groaning. Solid work gents, and a beautiful morning for it.