Tag: Bon Iron

  • ICE can’t detain THESE HIM’s!

    In spite of ICE’s best intimidation tactics, seven NOS HIM’s beat the allure of a cozy fartsack to embrace the warmth of a DTH beatdown. Here’s how we all gave and received a glowing after action report:

    The THANG: 

    WARMERAMA: 

    • Mosey loop around to a clear patch of pavement to circle up
    • Welcome & Disclaimer
    • Warm-up Reps IC with plenty of stretching

    COP #1:

    • Partner up for a DORA 1-2-3
    • x100 Merkins
    • x200 Squats
    • x300 LBC’s
    • Runner moseys down the cleared road and back to switch 
    • ABC’s for the SIX

    COP #2: 

    • Mosey the extent of the cleared sidewalk and back around to a dry patch near the wall
    • x40 Hoedowns IC
    • x20 Dirty Hookups IC
    • x40 M.Ali’s IC
    • x10 Hip Slappers IC

    COP #3:

    • Mosey back to the pavement circle for a spot of Q SCHOOL. 
    • Each PAX takes a turn to step into the center and practice executing a perfectly called exercise in cadence, after which the rest of the PAX provided an After Action Report (what was done well, and what needed improvement).

    Circle up for COT:

    • Counterama # 7
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • BOM Prayer
    • Pullups on the mobile bar
    • Polk House Coffeerama

    NMS:  Solid 7-PAX for another frigid morning dodging the treacherous undercover ICE agents. Excellent effort by the PAX practicing all the proper language for Q’ing in cadence, and SCRAM is signing up for his VQ soon! Congratulations to Machinehead for not just a healthy pregnancy but the wonderful news of a BOY!!! May Machineboy be just as likely as his old man to be the BEST Q anyone has EVER witnessed! And TClaps to Machismo for the delicious coffee after. Appreciate all you guys coming out. NOS is the best. Period. Yours AYE! ~DTH

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • Weekly Forge Coffee + QSource
    • 2/7 Frozen Triangle
    • 3/7 NOS OTB RUCK 
    • Monthly: Breaking Bread, Bridge
    • SEPT GROW RUCK!

  • VQ in just before the snowpocalipse.

    Some interesting context: Today was the first day Scrams doctors said he could safely do anything strenuous. This HIM shows up with stapples in his head and blew this workout away just like the windchill that makes it feel like one degree today.

    warmarama:

    SSH, Merkins, Freddie Mercuries, X-Cross Sit ups, Don Quixote’s, Cherry Pickers, The Opus (because the PAX got mouthy), Copperhead Squats, Imperial Walkers.

    The Thang:

    Mosey to the field:

    COP#1: Tag Me in “Burpee across the field, but you are not alone.”

    • Pair off
    • One person runs to the fence and back while the other broad jump burpess across field to the same fence
    • When you finish, find one of the six pair and join them in whatever they are doing.

    Mosey to the benches

    COP#2: Four corners prostitute style “because you need nicer abs to work corners in bon air.”

    • 10 Dips,
    • 20 Flutter kicks,
    • 30 Alabama Prom Dates,
    • 40 No cheat merkins which is the first time Belay and Dookie can feel their fingers.

    COP # 3: Catch me if you can. “You are going to work your way around this Diamond three times for a grand slam.”

    • Pair up
    • One person does the exercise around the diamond while the other runs until the lap the first person and then they switch. This continues until you have completed one lap of each exercise.
      • Bear Crawls
      • Lunges
      • Sideways Squat’s

    COP #4: Three man Relay with some frozen fingers

    • Mosey over to the playground and find a pull-up bar
    • One man does pull-ups, one man does push-ups, oh sorry tin man, “merkins,” and the third runs a lap, rotate when the runner returns

    COP #5: I don’t have a 5th thang planned, lets go do some wall sits and bear crawls until the time is up.

    Head back to the COT and asked Scram to lead us in some shoulder touches for the final minute. Countarama, Warmarama, anouncements and prayer.

  • 12 lines 13 spaces

    4 HIMs proved their worth in parking lot of Bon Air Library.

    6 am hit and the crew rolled out with good conversation all the way to the. Library

    warmarama with a pickle pounder cherry to finish it off.

    4 corners prostitute followed with 10 merkins, 20 squats, 30 American hammers, 40 pickle pounders. 70 merkins total, 100 squats 90 hammers but only 4 pickle pounders.

    next ascending line exercises from one end to the other. Cocaine bears adding a merkin at every line. This was brutal ending with 12 merkins. 78 more merkins.

    . next trench warfare with WW1 and walk crabs. Same

    next squat ladder.

    Mosey back to the playground for a quick quattro de checko

    pull ups dips pickle pounders do you see a theme 1 found is all she wrote.

    pull ups to faulur5e

    merkins to failure.

    great time gentlemen

    coffee was good. Prayers for Tinman’s dad recovery and l woods paralegals dad.

    anno

  • Pain Train Stations & Highland Games

    Light Rain, Cool Mud, Streetlight Gloom, 50# Kettlebell, 10’ Caber, Classic Rock, 60# Sandbags, balmy 60 degrees, DTH Mobile Pull-up Station, and 8 heroic badass HIMs embracing the suck and conquering the day before it even began.  Here’s what the fartsackers missed:

    The THANG: 

    WARMERAMA: 

    • Mosey lap and circle up
    • Welcome & Disclaimer
    • Warm-up Reps IC

    PAIN TRAIN STATIONS:

    • #50 Kettle Bell Sumo Squats
    • Caber Flips (lift heavy end to flip over repeatedly)
    • DTH Mobile Pullup Station – alternate pullups with chin-ups with Negatives
    • #60 Sandbag Chest Press
    • Abbs – Crunchy Frogs or Hammers
    • #60 Sandbag Clean
    • Burpees
    • TIMER: Runs the field loop, then all PAX rotate stations
    • x2 Rounds completed

    HIGHLAND GAMES:

    • Switch the Music to Scottish Pipes&Drums
    • DTH demonstrate the Caber Toss and sets the distance to beat at 11 paces
    • While each man takes a turn flipping the caber, the rest of the PAX complete OYO reps – squats, imperial walkers, humpers, WWII’s, single leg shoulder taps, etc
    • Ran out of time to try the Hammer Throw & 50# KB Throw …next time

    Circle up for COT:

    • Counterama # 8
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • BOM Prayer – lifting up the health and safety of THREE 2.0’s coming int the world in 2026, as well as Figo’s M who admitted with a psych scare
    • Coffeerama at the Polk House!

    NMS:  This was a FANTASTIC group of brothers for some CSAUP fun in the rain. Definitely challenged with the circuit reps and the mobile pull-up station worked out just fine! Nobody beat the DTH caber flip distance but a couple guys got close. To be fair this is YHC’s 12th year competing in the Henderson family Highland Games (coming up in 2 weeks) so experience pays off. The Coffeerama was amazing!!! What an awesome venue Machismo has created for this AO. And we had the very pleasant surprise visit from Snuff to join the hearty conversation. God is good ALL the time brothers. Yours AYE! ~DTH

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • Dry January Ongoing
    • Weekly Forge Coffee + QSource
    • 2/7 Frozen Triangle
    • Monthly: Breaking Bread, Bridge (1/24)

  • All Aboard!

    8 Masochists climbed aboard the only 45 min. Saturday pain train at Bon Air Station. What was in store? Not even Machismo knew. But as Nancy Pelosi once said, “you have to Q the workout to do the workout.”

    Mosey to the Riverside School for a Warmarama: SSH, Michael Phelps, Oblique L, Oblique R, WWIIs, Merkins, DQs.

    Lap around the course to start. at first it was a triple check. Then Machismo, inspired by his trip to Mt. Trashmore audibled with 4 corners partner style. 4 laps, 4 stations done in tandem, 20,15,10,5. Corner one link up situps “Big Boy Situps” Link arms with your partner for the reps, Corner 2 Partner Leg tosses, Corner 3 No Cheat Merkins with shoulder tap at the end, Corner 4 Squats.

    13 min. left on the clock, mosey BTTF.

    Hold plank for a quiz. Credo Fail (10 Burpee penalty) 1/2 Credo fail 5 Burpees. “Leave no man behind, leave no man where you found him.”

    Hold 6 in. 5 core principles quiz. Free for all men? does that count for 2? Ends in the circle of trust. fumble for 10 WWIIs. Outdoors rain or shine, Peer led in a rotating fashion.

    5 M.O.M. for the finish practicing the peer led part.

    Announcements including preblast on slack. A quick search of Slack suggested no F3RVA challenges but Salt Lick posted about the Make America Burpee Again challenge. 100 Burpees a day for January. 3100 burpees for the month. Get started. There is a website f3maba.com to push yourself. COT found prayer request for 3 Pax’s Ms with 3 babies coming Months 4, 5, 6 of this year. April May June. Keep up the good work gentlemen.

    Coffeeteria was excellent with 6 pax making the trip to the polk house for some extra strong coffee machismo style. Glad to have the fellowship gentlemen.

  • HIM HIM CLOWN

    The Bon Iron gang hopped aboard the DTH Pain Train, everyone with freshly pressed F3 t-shirts and full of enthusiasm for some new ideas. Accompanied by some fine alt/rock from the end of the last century, here’s how these SIX HIM’s conquered the hard thing:

    The THANG: 

    WARMERAMA: 

    • ROCKIN BEATS ON
    • Mosey lap around the big field and circle up
    • Welcome & Disclaimer
    • Warm-up Reps IC

    COP #1:

    • Mosey over to the school for a WALLODORA
    • Partner up, one completing reps on the wall, the other bear crawling up the hill and crawl bearing back down
    • x100 Dirty Hookups
    • x200 Donkey Kicks
    • x300 Hoedowns

    COP #2:

    • Mosey around the school to a grassy spot
    • Partner up for PLT’s – x25 each for x2 rounds

    COP #3:

    • Mosey to the back lot for a LOT LADDER
    • Broad jump between 14 parking lot lines, completing escalating Squat reps at each line

    COP #4:

    • Mosey BTTF and spread out in a large circle in the field to play HIM-HIM-CLOWN
    • While the group completes called reps, one PAX makes the rounds similar to Duck-Duck-Goose, but saying HIM-HIM-HIM until he chooses his victim and calls out CLOWN! ….at which point the chase begins.
    • The loser completes x5 Burpees while the winner picks both the next exercise and who will be next to make the rounds. 
    • Various exercises included: WWII, Freddie Mercuries, American Hammers, Flutters, etc

    COT:

    • Counterama # 6
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • BOM Prayer

    NMS:  Well done fellas! That wallodora was a hell of a shoulder and quad burner and YHC was very impressed with the enthusiasm that accompanied efforts for Him-Him-Clown. Gotta give a shout out to SPINE for his superman efforts to catch and tag LWoods with a fully extended cheetah leap, and also to TIN MAN who is sneaky speedy! Appreciate having this AO close to home and YHC is planning to attend an Q here more often. Happy New Year fellas. Yours AYE! ~DTH

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • Monthly: Breaking Bread, Bridge
    • 01/01 – 7am Convergence at Dogpile

  • Welcome party for Trojan

    Machismo and Belay were nearly late to the welcome party for Trojan. Machinehead, Tin Man and FNG Luke hereon “Trojan” were in their cars waiting on the temps to rise upon YHC’s 5:59 arrival. No time for small talk the pax went right into side straddle hops. As Machinehead and Trojan quickly found they were missing key winter hand apparel the pax scrambled for extra pairs of gloves. Tin Man produced a pair and Machismo grabbed some mittens for Machinehead. Properly attired the pax continued warmarama: SSH, Merkins, Freddie Mercuries, X-Cross Sit ups, Montain Climbers, Don Quixote’s.

    Mosey to the Riverside school.

    YHC was feeling the need to get the pre-burn on for the upcoming glutteny so this workout was sponsored by the abductors.

    COP#1 four corners prostitute stile 10 WWIIs, 20 Freddie Mercury double count, 30 American Hammers, 40 Alabama Prom Dates. Hit every corner coming and going building up to the main stage APD.

    COP#2 YHC found a loosely conscribed track around the 2 playgrounds and the school house. Start at the far in for a longer triple check. 1 runner/timer and paired pax for alternating exercises. Merkins and Imperial Squat Walkers, Plank and SSHs, Hold Plank and Alabama Prom date. Timer YHC announced the new exercises upon arrival.

    Mosey across the tundra to the back side of Bon Air elementary for a quick run of alternating wall sits and donkey kicks. 3 sets brought us close to time.

    BTTF for a 5 Burpee Cherry. Numbers, Names and naming. Announcements, Prayers. Great to have one more FNG at the Bon Iron. This one was the EH of Machinehead. According to him Trojan has a gift of teaching men about sexual purity so what better monnacure that one involves protecting one’s privates. Awesome to have growth in this fine group.

    Prayers for babies, both M.H. and Trojan have 2.0’s in utero. Raj YHCs nephew is improving, his eyes were open today but he is still sedated and intubated at CHKD Norfolk. Pray for the many families experiencing struggles this holiday season.

    Coffeeteria was frigid as YHC dropped the tailgate and served from the airpot rather than going inside. Loved the fellowship. YHC got talking about Snuffs idea of using a battery pack to power a perculator. Belay stopped listening.

    (YHC read the BB from House Party mentioning the lures of the Fartsack. LFG the Iron’s first FNG was lamenting over text his deference to sleeping in over building his body mind and soul. Mike Rey (LFG) says he will return. )

  • The Cinderblock Schlong

    Three HIMs joined YHC for Day 2 of his mini-takeover of NOS, as he makes his way through Qs at The Forge, Bon Iron, and Huge Bells, because, as they say, good things come in threes. The morning kicked off with a continuation of the cinderblock beatdown from The Forge. After some solid work with coupons, YHC finally showed mercy and put them aside… at least until Monday.

    It’s unclear whether the PAX appreciated the coupon-centric workout, though DTH’s mid-workout creation (which resembled either a stone phallus or a middle finger) may have offered some insight. The morning wrapped with a solid coffeeteria shared between Rosie and YHC.

    The Thang:

    Warmerama:Side straddle hops, ukranian soldiers, don quixotes, arm circles, copper head squats, merkins, Freddie mercuies, flutter kicks

    COP 1: Quadruple check: Timer rifle carries and walks around median. Rest of pax do  cinder block squats, curls, and plank pull throughs

    COP 2: Mosey to church parking lot, 11s with big boy sit ups and flutter kicks

    COP 3: Mosey back to bus parking lot, four corners

    Ring of fire with each pax member picking a merkin.

    Announcements: Rosie’s 12 days of Christmas (December 23); Also, DTH will be delivering some Christmas Day pain as he Qs the Forge on the 25th.

  • Community Building and Covalent Bonding at Bon Iron


    YHC wanted to focus on community building today, so we took a literal tour of the structures that hold a community together: The Church (Faith), The School (Education), and The Library (Shared Knowledge). Like water molecules, we needed a little cohesion to pull it all together.
    Warm-Up:


    Quick mosey to the Church Parking Lot to survey the perimeter.

    The Thang:
    Part 1: The Church (Faith in the Reps)
    We surveyed the 12 doors of the church.

    • Doors 1-5: 10 reps at each station (Merkins, American Hammers, Freddie Mercurys, Squats, WWIIs).
    • Doors 6-10: Combined effort for 150 Side Straddle Hops (SSH) total.
    • Door 11: Burpees.
    • Door 12: Imperial Squat Walkers.
      Part 2: The School (Higher Learning on the Wall)
      We moved to the school for some education on pain tolerance. We alternated reps with all PAX assuming the People’s Chair, performing the exercise while holding the wall sit, separated by an intermission.
    • Round 1: People’s Chair with Muhammad Ali Air Punches.
    • Intermission: 10 Donkey Kicks (OYO).
    • Round 2: People’s Chair with 10 Hoedowns.
    • Intermission: 10 Donkey Kicks.
    • Round 3: People’s Chair with 10 Milkers.
    • Intermission: 10 Donkey Kicks (OYO).
      Part 3: The Library (The Book of Pain)
      Final stop at the Library for some lines and corners.
    • Cocaine Bears: Bear crawl a parking space, stopping at every line for a Merkin.
    • Broad Jump Ladder: Back across the 13 lines. Broad jump the space, then Squats increasing from 1 to 13 reps at each line.
    • Four Corners:
    • Corner 1: 20 Merkins
    • Corner 2: 30 American Hammers
    • Corner 3: 40 Squats
    • Corner 4: 50 Raise the Roofs
      COT:
      Count-o-Rama, Name-o-Rama.
      Moleskin:
      Small numbers but high impact today. L Woods gets the assist for the pre-blast and rallying the troops. Machismo put in the work on the EHs, but his invites decided the fartsack was warmer than the gloom.
      It didn’t matter though. We experienced that scientific phenomenon—like covalent bonding or surface tension—where water molecules pull together tight to form a drop. With just three of us, the community was formed instantly. We toured the pillars of the neighborhood (Faith, School, Knowledge) and sharpened the iron.
      Great work men.

  • The Wheel of Time

    Chad and Brad where running late as the clock struck 6am and Machismo wagon pulled up just after with trailer in tow. Brad was sitting in his jeep impersonating Tin Man. When the pax went in for closer inspection the true identity of the Jeep driver was discovered. Brad finally responded to the EH and none the less on a 21 degree morning in the gloom. But what did Machismo have in store?

    After dragging brad out of his Jeep. The pax circled for a warmup. Circles and rotations were a theme of the workout. The pax discussed the origins of the Ukranian soldiers as we hit, SSH, Ukranian Soldiers, American Hammers, Etc.,

    Mosey to the spindle. YHC gave a brief introduction while Brad marked a tree. This Q took a turn towards forced labor as the pax were in for a version of indigenous people run as Machismo was reclaiming the spindle for the White farm. 3 pax on the spindle rolling it up hill as the 4th member did 5 burpees. Spindle was rolled up to the school where the pax completed a lap around the bike training course with a 10 burpee penalty for crossing any of the lines. After a victory lap around the circle it was to Machismos waiting trailer for one last push.

    Thang 2:

    Being well rounded as he is Machismo next invited the pax for a quattro de checko. With abs, legs, and arms. 3 pax worked while 1 pax ran to the fence at the end of the tundra. Squats, Merkins, and American Hammers.

    With time expiring the pax hit a 5 minutes of Mary. With 4 pax ab excercises included 2 seldom used ones from our new personal trainer “Brady Bunch” Brad Howren. X cross situps and some sort of hamstring bridge leg raise. Pax finished with pickle pounders.

    With time out we did numbers and had the opportunity to name our new pax member. Brad has several siblings and jokingly populates 50% of the adjacent Church Stony Point Presbyterian. He plays in the band and is a personal trainer. Given his music prowess and the Dookie’s attempt to jar his memory for famous family bands. Machismo gravitated towards the Brady Bunch. Brady was close enough to Brad and with multiple musical family members the name seems to fit. Machismo did a quick search of Brady Bunch episodes and it appears we may have missed an opportunity to call our FNG “Sergeant Emma”. Welcome our newest Pax Brady Bunch.