Tag: Bermuda Triangle

Goyne Park

  • A renovated bathroom is uncharted territory.

    I woke up this morning motivated to take the Q at the Triangle.  I climbed out of bed feeling chipper, and ready to cause some hate and discontent.  Now all I had to do was get ready, I walked into my newly renovated bathroom without turning on the light because I didn’t want to wake up the Misses.  This turned out to be a fatal mistake as I walked full force into our newly placed bathtub, stubbing my toe in the most painful way imaginable.  I immediately fell to the floor and began crying in agony as if I was a boy who had just been punched and had his milk money stolen.  As I lay on the floor in fetal position, I considered throwing in the towel, and giving up on the morning Q, but I realized that I had motivated brothers who depended on me to lead a great workout.  I immediately stood up with the adrenaline of a bull on red bull, wiped the manly tears from my face, put my big boy pants on, and sprang into action.  These are the events that followed. 

    Five hard chargers gathered for some morning work

    The Warm Up: side straddle hops, Ukrainian soldiers, Imperial walkers, Don Quixote’s, arm circles, Super Mario jumps, Karaoke, Bernie Sanders.

    The Work: Elevens, Merkins on one side, sprint the length of the basketball court, squat jacks on the other side.  

    Suicides with Bernie Sanders.  Sprint to free throw line, 1 burpee, Bernie back, Sprint to the half court, 2 burpees, Bernie back.  Keep this same fashion to the end of the court.

    Mosey to the parking lot.  Stop on the way to do 10 monkey bumpers… just cause.

    Next up, Chaplain’s world famous indigenous pole smokers, hard charger in the rear either had to bear crawl, lunge, or crab walk to the front. 

    Next, The Viking ship (formerly known as indigenous canoe) everyone in a single file doing American hammers, hard charger in the rear does five Merkins and lunges to the front. 

    Mosey to the football field.  Stop on the way to do 20 Alabama prom dates… just cause.

    Four corners, Corner 1, 10 burpees, Corner 2, 20 Merkins, Corner 3, 30 WWII, Corner 4, 40 Lt. Dans.  (It is important to note that my original plan was to do 40 flutter kicks, but for the life of me, I could not think of the two words “flutter” and “kicks”.  Not wanting to sound stupid in front of my peers, I asked someone have a good work out to which Big Rig responded Lt. Dans.  This is a perfect example of why you should keep a winkie on hand.)

    Mosey back to parking lot with three minutes to spare.  Merkin ring of fire. 10 hand release Merkins, 10 Ranger Merkins, 10 Wide Merkins.

    COT

    No announcements.  

    Prayer request:  Florence’s wife had an Aunt pass away, prayers for the whole family

    Big Rig’s mother requires a surgery, prayers for a safe recovery.  

    It was good to jump in the Q spot again, it’s been a while.  GO VIKINGS!! Looking at you State Farm, the Chiefs are going down.  They may as well not even bother coming to the Twin Cities as the Vikes are going to row all over them.  Maybe they should go see Taylor Swift live in concert instead.  

  • Monkey Humpers for an audience

    YHC had the Q for another version of the Bermuda Triangle. We started to mosey to the basketball court when we saw a car that looked like it was going to pull into the entrance. YHC called for the PAX to welcome them by doing some monkey humpers at the speed bump. Surprisingly, the vehicle decided to pull away after watching for a moment, so we moseyed over to the basketball court for the standard warmup with some side planks at the end.

    YHC remembered doing some donkey kicks in last weeks Q, and decided to try a different variation.

    Donkey kicks

    10 from left side plank position

    10 right side

    10 normal

    Then walking lunges to basketball goal and back

    YHC hates lunges

    11s

    Lieutenant Dans down from 10

    Groiners up to 10

    Mosey to the playground inside the track

    Quick trial of partner assisted muscle ups (need to figure out a better way to do this) Mosey back to the parking lot

    Mankillers counting down from 10

    OYO 50 DC Imperial walkers then

    50 DC toe taps

    Mosey over to the football field

    21s

    Merkins counting down from 20

    Jump squats up from 1

    I believe all PAX made it down to 8 merkins before YHC called the PAX back to the flag to stretch for about 2 minutes.

    Names and Numbers

    Announcements

    SOJ lunch Thursday @1145

    Final Iron PAX @Satan’s Hill on Friday w/Boberry

    State Farm has the Q @Rock n Roll on Saturday

    Dr TryHard’s 5 year Q @The Forge on Thursday (No Thursday Bermuda Q)

    Check Slack to stay up on upcoming events.

    Prayer Requests

    Pray for a family friend of State Farm dealing with Mental Health.

    Such a great crew at Bermuda Triangle. I hope to make it on a Thursday soon!

  • Remember when we did Front Crab Walks uphill?…Now, I remember 🙂

    8 Crusty Crabs crawled into the dimension known as the Bermuda Triangle. Here’s what the sketchy car parked at the other side of the parking lot witnessed :

    Disclaimers

    Warmarama : 20 SSH IC, 20 Ukrainian Soldiers IC, 20 IW’s IC, 10 Merkins IC (Side Note : Big Rig is a great counter)

    THE THANG :

    Mosey to wooden poles

    Chaplain’s Indigenous Pole Smokers : Line up one man at each pole. Last man Bear Crawls to front while the rest do Pole Smokers. Rotate and Repeato until all PAX have gone once.

    Mosey to workout station behind school then split into Two Groups

    Group 1 : 3 sets of 7 Pull Ups

    Group 2 : 3 sets of 10 Jerkins

    Groups switch Stations

    Mosey to wall on the side of the school

    2 Sets of 40 Donkey Kicks

    Mosey back to parking lot

    Lunges for about 100 yards

    Mosey to football field

    4 Corners : 30 Merkins, 30 Flutters DC, 30 Jump Squats, 30 SSH

    Mosey to grass hill

    Various Animal Movements up to the top of the hill : Started with Shaw-Shank’s favorite Front Facing Crab Walk then did Crawl Bear, Backwards Facing Crab Walk, Bear Crawl, Murder Gorillas facing parking lot, Murder Gorillas facing football field, Murder Bunnies

    Mosey to bench for 50 Dips

    Mosey to football field : 2 sets of Sprint from back of the end zone to other back of the end zone

    Mosey to bleachers : 20 Step Ups on each leg (do 20 straight on one leg before you switch to the other leg) , 20 Incline Merkins

    Mosey to parking lot

    Running Kicks BTTF

    1 minute of Rapid Fire Punches while holding Al Gore

    DONE

    Numbers, Names, YHC took us out

    Announcements :

    -F3 RVA 9 year anniversary Convergence this Saturday at *7:30 am* at Crucible AO (Blackwell Elementary School)

    -F3 RVA Sit N Sip hangout in Amelia this Saturday late afternoon/evening (BYOF, BYOB, Camping overnight optional)

    -State Farm is leading a Kettle Bell workout at Bermuda Triangle starting this Thursday and will be offered every Thursday going forward

    NMMS : Great to have EF Hutton join this morning. Strong mumble chatter. I wasn’t planning on Front Facing Crab Walks up the hill until Shaw-Shank gave me a friendly reminder on how much he loved them 🙂

  • Ascending test… What?

    YHC was ready for a 1 year F3 anniversary Q last week until some crazy bug hit me the night before. PAX started rolling up and we moseyed on over to the basketball court for what was to be a Big Rig Beatdown. Here’s an idea of what happened in the dark.

    Warmup

    SSH IC

    DC IC

    Imperial Squat walkers IC

    On your 6

    Legs in and out while doing arm circles IC

    Heel taps IC

    LBCs IC

    10 merkins oyo

    Warmup complete

    Time for some real Ab work

    Alternating stiff legged LBCs IC. Like Freddie Mercuries only slower and slightly different motion

    American Hammers IC

    Oblique V ups both sides IC

    one more round of Alternating stiff legged LBCs IC

    This is where things got interesting. With Florence having to push back his 5 year anniversary Q, YHC felt a deep dive into the Exicon was necessary to truly honor our fallen brother. We did a modified triple check on the basketball court.

    2 PAX would perform a broken wheel barrow (holding only one leg) while the other PAX performs Ascending Testicles on the wall. (Basically Balls to the wall starting out at an angle and walking hands in to vertical)

    Only 1 round of this seemed necessary

    We moseyed our way towards our vehicles but stopped for some of Chaplain’s Indigenous polesmokers PAX got to choose their own traveling exercise.

    Moseyed over to the hill next to the football field for A Dora

    100 DC Ball dippers for Florence

    150 DC Mountain climbers

    200 merkins

    PAX would Bernie Sanders up the hill and run back down. The ball dippers followed by Bernie Sanders up the hill were real quad killers.

    Mosey back to the flag and break up in teams of 2 for merkins and toe taps followed by a few minutes of Broga led by Mudslide.

    Great to be back after being hit with some type of bug last week. Been a great 1 year being a part of F3. I am truly blessed to have found this amazing group. God is truly great.

    Names and numbers

    Announcements

    Love for LIV on this Saturday. Check Slack for details

    Prayer requests

    Pray for a close family friend of Posh who just passed away last night.

  • In Honor of the Biggest Rig

    5 dreary eyed labor day Donkeys gave Bermuda a run for her money. A whole weekend of fatty food and cold beers couldn’t hold these men down! We had planned for a 1-year Big Rig Celebration – but the honorable BR came down with the sickness at 2am the night prior. YHC did his best to honor the fallen Pax – prayers for his quick recovery. Through sweat burned eyeballs -I think I saw the following happen?

    WARMERAMA:

    • Mosy, Welcome, Disclaimer
    • Ukrainian soldiers, Hangs, Helis, LBC’s
    • Football style warm-ups around the court

    *Things got interesting – Shaw-Shank and Posh rolled in – said warm-ups were for softies and wanted an immediate beat down…

    THE THANG

    COP 1: Curb Crawl Relays

    • All Pax planked on Curb (20′ spacing)
    • Pax 1 – Curb crawls to Pax 2, both do 5 merkins
    • Pax 1 – Lunges to front
    • Pax 2 – Curb Crawls to Pax 3 – continue the chain
    • Merkins/Crawls/Lunges indigenous style ALL the way around the loop
    • 5 group tempo merkins

    Let’s Mosy.

    COP 2: Stadium Stair Four Corners

    • Using each set of stadium stairs as the “Corners” – running sideline to sideline across field
    • 5 Incline Merkins
    • 10 Copperhead Squats
    • 15 Dips
    • 20 Overhanging Flutter Kicks
    • 2 times through!

    Mosy to the playground

    COP 3: “B-I-G   R-I-G ” Group Session – in honor of our man!

    • Work through 2 times through as a group
      • Bear Crawl (around playground)
      • Imperial Walkers – 20ea
      • Gravediggers – 20ea
      • Run to Streetlamp
      • Inverted Rows – 20ea
      • Groiners -20ea

    *Hot Potato’d over to Mudslide for some last minute Triple Check

    COP 4: Mudslide’s TRIPLE CHECK

    • Hold a Pull-Up Hang on bars
    • 200m run
    • Bulgarian Split Squats

    Finisher

    • MBTTF
    • Posh ran the clock with the Mary Ring of Fire

    COT:

    • Counterama #5
    • Namerama
    • Announcements: Big Rig 1 year Q at R&R Saturday, 9.16.2023 Love for Live, 10.17.2023 Rugged, 9-year reunion at The Crucible. SEE SLACK!
    • YHC Closed out in Prayer: Prayers to heal Big Rig from his sickness. Prayers for Liv. Asking for strength and some energy for our Pax back at work after a long well deserved weekend of fun!

    NMS:

    Props to all for pushing it this morning. Would have been easy to fart sack after a long weekend. Good reminder of what F3 is about – picking up your brother when he is down. Hoping our dedication to the Big Rig workout brought him some needed cheer while he recovers. @BigRig, big love homie! SYITG boys.

    -State Farm

  • Mini-Murph Maniacs

    5 Southside beefcakes gathered in the 99% humidity for a fun Mini-Murph surprise YHC had in store. After getting whooped by Team Twin Team a few weeks ago – I thought a partner style Murph would help my ego! Unfortunately Chunder (Downrange, MD), spent his load on the Morning Wood Run – but 25 years young, he can handle it! According to the swarm of swamp bugs – here’s what happened…

    WARMERAMA:

    • Mosy to Court
    • Welcome and Disclaimer
    • Various IC Warm-ups
    • Hold Plank – Name the PAX to your right – 5 merkins if you miss!
    • F3 Credo

    THE THANG

    Modified Partner Murph: Partner Up

    • ~1-mile run
      • 1 PAX 75% around track
      • Other PAX doing SSH or Shadow Box
      • Accumulate a mile (ish) – move onto the playground!
    • Partner’s Tackle together (Perfect form!)
      • 100 Pull-ups
      • 200 Merkins
      • 300 Squats
    • ~1-mile Finisher
      • 1 PAX Bernie half of track, sprint back
      • Other PAX doing various Abs

    MBTTF

    Tank was empty and time was up!

    COT:

    • Counterama #8
    • Namerama
    • Announcements: Labor Day Convergence, 10/17 Rugged Maniac, 9/16 Bootcamp for Liv
    • YHC Closed out in Prayer: Praying that Chunder gets some patience and guidance as he’s exploring some new job opportunities within the Navy. Thankful for our time together.

    NMS:

    Props to @BigRig and @Preach for really pushing through the pull-ups, not their favorite XO – but they got better the entire time. I still stand amazed that even a truncated Murph can crush your soul – but it finds a way – glad the HIM’s present could support each other through it. Missed @shaw-shank but rumor is his phone is at the bottom of Pocahontas! Let’s do it again soon guys.

    -State Farm

  • Royale W/Cheese and a Side of Sprints

    YHC traveled east to hang with the Triangle Mafia. We had a nice sized crowd of 11! The following is a brief summary for your viewing pleasure.

    Mosey to the basketball court for Warmarama:

    Side Straddle Hops, Jazzercise, Mummy Kicks, Freddy Mercuries, LBC’s, HR Merkins, Shoulder Taps AND High Knees, Squatting Side Shuffles, Mummy Bernies, Broad Jumps, Mario Jumps all across the court

    Exercise One: Curb Crawl, indigenous peoples style. Worked our way around the island with man in the back breaking off for 3 WWII situps, then run to the front.

    Mosey towards the football field, stopping for 25 pole smokers

    Exercise Two: The Royale w/Cheese – the somewhat confusing cousin of the quarter pounder.

    100 yard – Forward Straddle Hops, run back, 5 burpees
    75 yard – Side Lt. Dans, run back, 5 burpees
    50 yard – crab walk, run back, 5 burpees
    25 yard – Jumping Herpees, run back, 5 burpees.

    Exercise Three: Track Workout

    3 x 300 meters

    first 100 – 50% effort, second 100 – 75% effort, final 100 – 100% effort
    *Mandatory motivational speech thrown in before the final set.

    Back to the flag for some Monkey Humpers.

    Numbers/Names/Announcements/Prayer Requests

    Final Thoughts: Great work by all the PAX this morning! This AO has really grown with strong local leadership – Keep it up, fellas. Enjoyed meeting Chunder (MD) and awesome to see Mr. Kimble continuing to post.

    Took awhile for YHC’s shoulders to loosen up after Bodo’s brutal beatdown yesterday.

  • Bear Down Under

    Five hard chargers including one visitor (Chunda from Maryland) gathered to get their sweat on.

    The warm-up: Mosey to the basketball court. The Side straddle hops, imperial walkers, Don Quixotes, Ukrainian soldiers, LBCs, super Mario jumps, Karaoke, Bernie Sanders.

    The Workout: Mosey to the football field. Four Corners Prostitute style. Corner one 5 burpees, Corner two 10 Merkins (not push-ups, thank you Chunda), Corner three 30 jump squats, Corner four 50 side straddle hops. Total: 35 Burpees, 60 Merkins, 60 Squat Jumps

    Mosey to the parking lot. The OG, always emulated, but never duplicated, CHAPLAIN’S Indigenous pole smokers.

    Circle up for the MERKIN WAVE. All but one hard charger in the down position of the Merkin, with chest 4-6 inches of the ground, alternating everyone in the up position and back down.

    Finish with a TTC, curb kickers, mountain climbers, 100 yard run. (I once again ran short on my workout with five minutes to go. Thank you, Mudslide, for suggesting the TTC for the final five minutes.)

    After a couple weeks of decent (for Virginia) weather, I really felt the humidity this morning, and the sweat was flowing before the warmup even started.

    Glad to have a visitor grace the Bermuda Triangle.

    Prayer requests. Pray for Big Rig’s Mother who is dealing with health issues, safe travels for Chunda and his group when they travel back to Maryland.

  • Bermuda Triangle

    9 Citizens of the RVA were sucked into the vortex of the Bermuda Triangle. They had to perform various exercises before they could make it out. Here’s what may or may not have happened.

    Mosey over to the basketball court for a warmup right into an Ab session to prepare for the Fall Beach Season.

    Standard warmup with SSH, Don Quyotes, Ukrainian soldiers, Helicopters,Merkins

    Into the ground session

    LBCs, standard, one legged, both legs out performed In Cadence

    WW2s

    Penguins (heel touchers)

    Imperial walkers 30 double count increasing the pace as we go.

    Mosey back over to the pavilion near the flag.

    Triple check

    1 PAX planks while another does toe taps on or near the planker, as the timer runs to the short fence and back.

    3 rounds of each exercise for each PAX

    One more triple check

    1 PAX does chair dips as another does Merkins as the timer runs to the far end of the parking lot and Bernies back

    3 rounds.

    Mosey into the field at the entrance for some football training camp Up Downs inspired by Remember The Titans.

    Circle up

    Every PAX either runs in place, does Skaters or squats until the Qs call to do a Burpee or Power Roll. Did this for a few minutes. I think it was about 10 burpees.

    Mosey back to the basketball court for a Merkin ring of fire. Each PAX planks while one chooses their own variety of Merkin

    Mosey back to the flag for some Broga compliments of Mudslide.

    Names and numbers

    Prayer request for Liv at the Alamo. She is a 7 month old girl who has had multiple surgeries and is having a hard time. Watch for a fundraiser, possibly a tshirt drive on Slack as well as other activities and events.

    The number of regular PAX for this AO has grown over the summer. Really great to see!

  • August….has begun

    First day….new month and it felt good. It wasn’t like last week where we would bake and sweat after 15 minutes….yet it did help warm the body up faster. A ready-to-train group of 7 came out to Bermuda to go thru a Mudslide session. A little mosey to start, then to the warm-up(SSH, Imperial Walkers, Ukrainian Soldiers, Helicopters, Merkins,LBCs, and a little runners lunge stretch for the hips).

    A good workout is where you don’t have a set plan…..it comes along. The first triple check consisted of bear crawls up the hill(mosey back down) with plank jacks and squats to the bench(butt touching to bench each time). The next round and this one we used the parking curbs to rotate from one to another. 10 incline merkins, 15 2 count toe taps, 20 cross mountain climbers(left knee, right elbow and opposite). After that and a little recovery, there had been a spot I saw that was prime.

    The next one consisted of step-ups, tricep dips and a little run down to the fence and back(if we bear crawl, it would have been about half way). After that, mosey to the playground/track area for reverse crunches, shoulder taps and L hangs. What are L hangs you ask…in obstacle races if you can hold your arms in the L/90 degree hold, keep the body still long as possible then it’s easier to get across instead of your whole bodyweight going side to side(also really hits the lower abs hard cause the core comes into play)

    The final part….I haven’t done this in a long while but there it’s perfect. The idea is you start at 100, each spot you drop 10 reps till you get down to 10. Here’s the list

    –100 jump ropes, 90 SSH, 80 High Knees, 70 Monkey Humpers, 60 second plank hold, 50 squats, 40 LBCs, 30 reverse mountain climbers(reverse plank, knees to chest, 20 decline merkins, and it’s not a Mudslide Q without some burpees(10).

    Mosey back to the flag, a little deadman hang, open the lungs and time

    Count-outs, announcements, prayers request(to both mother and mother-in-law of Big Rig), final prayer lead by YHC and done

    A nice start to the month…weather felt great, each time working to get a little better key is not only having a good training session, yet to get my body moving in a way that feels natural, not stiff or cumbersome. It takes a good, long while not an overnight thing but in time. Have a good one and see you next time