Tag: #CSAUP

Completely Stupid and Udderly Pointless

  • NO TOIL

    Eight CSAUP-loving SOJ studs accepted the 4WD challenge and whatever MABA madness might be in store. Here’s how we counted to 100:

    The THANG: 

    • Welcome & Disclaimer
    • #MABA… x10 Burpees OYO

    COP #1: 

    • WARMERAMA = BURPEE TRAIL
    • Mosey around the woods loop periodically stopping to complete x5 burpees
    • TOTAL x30 Burpees

    COP #2:

    • QUARTER POUNDER PLUS
    • Line up on the end of the Field
    • Sprint to 25yd, x25 Mtn Climbers (2-ct), Bernie back
    • x5 Burpee recovery
    • Sprint to 50yd, x50 Michael Phelps holding People’s Chair, Bernie back
    • x5 Burpee recovery
    • Sprint to 75yd, x75 LBC’s, Bernie back
    • x5 Burpee recovery
    • Sprint to 100yd, x100 SSH’s, Bernie back
    • x5 Burpee recovery
    • TOTAL x20 Burpees

    COP #3:

    • PAVILION LADDER
    • x8 Burpee, run around Pavilion
    • x7 Burpees, run around Pavilion
    • ETC, down to x 1 Burpee & Run
    • TOTAL x 36 Burpees

    F3 PLANKORAMA REVIEW

    COP #4:

    • PAVILION COOL-DOWN …you know, since we didn’t do the usual Warm-Up at the start
    • x6 Burpees
    • x10 DQ’s IC
    • x10 ISW’s IC
    • x10 Soldiers IC
    • x10 Cherry Pickers IC
    • x15 Tempo Werkins IC
    • x5 Ranger M’s IC
    • x10 WWII’s IC
    • x10 Left Oblique WWII’s
    • x10 Right Oblique WWII’s
    • x20 Heels to Heaven
    • x10 Suzanne Sommers (ea side)
    • x20 APD’s
    • x30 Moroccan Nightclubs IC

    Mosey BTTF:

    • x10 Final burpees to complete today’s MABA 100 Burpee Challenge – BOOM! 

    COT:

    • Counterama # 8
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • BOM Prayer

    Prayer Requests:

    • Power outages, City Water Out

    NMS:  The DTH+Sable caravan arrived on scene and another 6 joined the party. GREAT numbers for 20 degrees and black ice everywhere. Extra emphasis was given for the Disclaimer this morning! Effort was made to spell NO TOLL in the snow while cranking 100 SSH’s, but Bromance thought the beatdown wasn’t hard enough and spelled NO TOIL instead. L Woods continues to accelerate and earned the name “L rabbit” as YHC tried to keep up with him. Belay’s fitness level and high quality form continues to set the standard. YHC did not take the bait and leap the gate today – nobody needs a broken leg. And hey, we stayed warm and crushed 100 burpees! (Actually 102 cause addition apparently isn’t my talent). Yours AYE! ~DTH

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • TONIGHT!!!  7pm SOJ Meeting at Rodeo Clown’s house, open to ALL SOJ PAX
    • Thur 1/9, TIM MAN VQ at The Forge!!!
    • Sat 1/11, Split BDay Q at Dogpile
    • MABA JANUARY CHALLENGE = 100 Burpees per Day x31 days! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q8mbKXzRZw
    • DRY JANUARY – abstain from your usual indulgences this month! 
    • Ongoing opportunities (details on Slack): Breaking Bread, The Bridge, SOJ OTB monthly Ruck
    • February CSAUP – Frozen Triangle
  • Polos and Dockers

    Polos and Dockers

    6, maybe 7, depends how you count it, total studs stopped off on their way home to pick up chicken and work off some pounds in the latest edition of The Punisher. Temperatures were 70 and sunny. According to the waitress at Dot’s Tavern, the following might have happened.

    COP

    SSHs, Hillbillies, Don Quixotes, Dead Man Hang.

    Run the loop, 1.25 laps.

    Line up at the parking signs. YHC felt inspired by Senor Frog. At each sign, we did 1-2-3. One burpee, 2 WWIIs, 3 merkins. Let’s call it 10 signs.

    Mosey over there for the Deck of Death. Here’s the catch: we didn’t have a deck of cards, which is a little bit of a challenge when playing Deck of Death. So, YHC just improvised and called cards of his choice.

    Diamonds: side straddle hops, or hop stride saddles
    Clubs: Monkey humpers
    Hearts: Squats
    Spades: Merkins

    This one will be back.

    Mosey BTTVSF. One round of the squat wave, dealer’s choice.

    Numbers, names, and The Handshake took us out.

    Announcements: Splintervals today.
    January 25, Fudd leading at The Bridge. Other Q’s, please announce this.

    NMS: Kubota and EF Hutton are sharp dressers for work.

  • Thanksgiving

    A bunch of PAX showed up for the 2024 edition of Thanksgiving. Temperatures were 70 and sunny. According to TYA, the following might have happened.

    From memory…

    …COP…pacing…SSHs…pacing…mumbling about Massachusetts…pacing…mumbling about Berkeley Plantation…some questioning of an unsuspecting PAX member (maybe Fudd?)…pacing…I can’t hear him…can you hear him?…pacing…guys wondering if anyone can hear him…WWIIs…pacing…mumbling…some discussion of rain…pacing…TYA’s got a really big parka…pacing…Pilgrims mentioned…say what you are thankful for…pacing…modern medicine…pacing…saved Kay, which is awesome…pacing…pacing…is that his real skin color?…pacing…he should get that checked…pacing…he has…pacing…doctor says that’s “natural”…pacing…merkins…pacing…let’s mosey…

    …back and forth to the picnic tables…elevens…watch for the sticks…pacing…parka…darkness…rain…pacing…

    …black top…triple check…pacing…Massachusetts…pacing…Virginia only held for one year…pacing…maybe 2 years…pacing…Massachusetts…Swirly’s getting anxious…pacing…did you know the Bruins won the Cup in 1623?…pacing…really? No way…Swirly ready to start running…pacing…as true as anything else said today…pacing…parka…pacing…rain…pacing…Swirly/anxious…pacing…more questions for Fudd…pacing…let’s start the triple check already…pacing…three things are…pacing…balls to the wall, WWIIs…run to the fence…pacing…Bernie Sanders back…pacing…ok, boys…pacing…let’s go…

    …mosey BTTVSF…No Idea who took us out (different guy)…pacing…

    Net outcome…Berkeley first, TYA pacing, upset that Massachusetts second,…real Thanksgiving started with Lincoln (yep, that Lincoln).

    NMS: TYA paces as fast with a parka as he does without a parka. And, he’s super thankful for Kay and modern medicine. Amen.

    Announcements (prospective, as of November): The Bridge on Saturday, November 30th (sets the record for F3RVA attendance!!!).

  • The games are made up and the points don’t matter

    100-4-100 The celebration of reaching 100 posts before the end of 2024. I started with F3 in May, Choo Choo shortly after and Beaver shortly after that. We all reached 100 posts about the same time. Props to Choo Choo and Beaver for starting up the lumberyard and reaching these numbers so fast. I wanted to do something special and stupid. Everything was 100 count or 100 yards. We even had an FNG. Special thanks to the guys who traveled an hour to be here. Several completed the list and added to it. Great job by all. What a way to finish 2024 and looking forward to an even better 2025. I want to shout of Big Rig for dragging me out on that Tuesday back in May to get me where I am today. I want to thank everyone for continuing to push me since then.

  • Iron Sharpens…… Cardboard?

    13 PAX met at the Hill of Satan for Week 2 of the IronPAX Challenge 2024 edition. Some knew what was in store for them and were ready! Some didn’t know and stayed to get some! Some knew what was in store and knew better. All 13 put in work this morning. 3 PAX left for the “cardboard PAX” edition.
    90s playlist started, clock started and away we went with the following.

    THE THANG:

    • Run 800 meters
    • 80 Merkins
      • Lt. Dan’s Magic Legs travel 15 yards
      • 14 Cactus Jump Squats (no cheat/no surrender)
      • Lt. Dan’s Magic Legs back to start
    • 80 Coupon Plank Jacks (toes down & up = 1)
      • Murder Bunny travel 15 yards
      • 14 Cactus Jump Squats
      • Reverse Murder Bunny back to start
    • 60 Merkins
      • Bricklayers travel 15 yards
      • 14 Cactus Jump Squats
      • Bricklayers back to start
    • 60 Coupon Plank Jacks
      • Lt. Dan’s Magic Legs travel 15 yards
      • 14 Cactus Jump Squats
      • Lt. Dan’s Magic Legs back to start
    • 40 Merkins
      • Bricklayers travel 15 yards
      • 14 Cactus Jump Squats
      • Bricklayers back to start
    • 40 Coupon Plank Jacks
      • Murder Bunny travel 15 yards
      • 14 Cactus Jump Squats
      • Reverse Murder Bunny back to start
    • 20 Merkins
      • Lt. Dan’s Magic Legs travel 15 yards
      • 14 Cactus Jump Squats
      • Lt. Dan’s Magic Legs back to start
    • 20 Coupon Plank Jacks
    • Run 800 meters

    800 meters tuned out to be up to Rosetta’s house and back. Some had to modify, some left it all out there, and then some! Twerking was optional as per usual. Ten year events happening today and tomorrow. Big one is 7am beatdown at dogwood dell tomorrow. Make it a great day fellas!

  • IPC WK 0 aka Welcome Back Flo!!

    7 warriors of the gloom met at 0600 for Goyne Hard… IronPAX edition week zero. According to the walker that can’t seem to be EH’d this is how it went down. Short warm up and explainer, then down to business:

    Kalsu and then Reverse Kalsu

    • Format
      • Complete the workout for time
    • Equipment
      • 400 meter track or 200 meter out and back
      • Coupon is needed for this workout
      • EMOM timer set for 1 minute
    • The Thang
      • Kalsu – 100 thrusters
        • Start the 1-minute EMOM timer
        • Perform 5 burpees
        • As soon as you finish the burpees, start doing thrusters
        • When the timer goes off, do 5 burpees
        • Keep repeating this until you finish 100 thrusters
      • After 100 thrusters, run 400 meters
      • Reverse Kalsu – 100 burpees
        • Start your 100 burpees as soon as you get back
          • Don’t restart the EMOM timer. You are at the mercy of the timer as to when you get back
        • Each time the EMOM timer goes off, 5 thrusters
        • Perform burpees in between until you get to 100 burpees
      • Workout ends after your 100 burpees
      • Record your total time

    All PAX completed it and agreed it was terrible. Best form award goes to Beaver, dude had perfect jumps on every burpee and got down LOOOOW for the squats, TCLAPS to you ! Great to share this challenge with you guys this morning!! Kotter award goes to Florence, great to see you in the gloom again! Fastest time goes to State Farm, with a blistering sub 19min time!!

  • OTB BranderRUCK

    Four chiseled warriors found gloom on the other end of the day rucking a little over five miles around the perfectly paved trails of Brandermill (distance and pace varied between devices). Thanks to MEATBALL for the route and leading a blistering pace! Welcome to FNG STEVE who’s from our church and lives near Bon Air – he’s looking forward to earning his nickname at a bootcamp soon! And always awesome conversing with KATNISS. Thanks for choosing the hard path fellas – we’re getting stronger together! Yours AYE! ~DTH

  • SAVE THE BABY

    Last scheduled Holy water but more to come. Good positive turnout and looking to grow from here.

    WARMARAMA: Stretches oyo and laps to warm up and cool off in the pool. After we jumped in the relay race. Two teams of two, One person bear crawling underwater with 20lb dumbbells while the other swims a lap and jumps out for 5 merkins. Back in to tag the team mate until they reached the side of the pool they started on. Next was the buddy brick teams of two slide a dumbell under water while both are holding onto it. One had to hold onto the dumbell at all times. Each would alternate coming up for air. Working on treading water we passed a small 5lb watermelon ball while keeping it above water. It you drop it you had to retrieve it.

    THE THANG:The baby 10lb dumbell made it’s way too the deepend and needed to be saved. After various different routines of saving the baby we moved onto drownproofing. While some may find it intimidating it’s a great exercise to become more comfortable with under water activities. Alot of boundaries were pushed and great improvements made today. Buddy breathing using a snorkel is a great team building breathing exercise that pushes everyone.

    I’m looking forward to hosting more feel free to reach out. Great work by all today.

  • Some are happy he’s moving away

    Before Slider moves away to college he was encouraged to VQ on his last workout and took the opportunity to “thank” those that encouraged him. It was a little cooler than it has been recently but it was still another 45 minutes of the most intense sweat you can get!

    Slider led a mosey to the other side of the property taking a lap to wait for a few stragglers to arrive.

    Warmarama: Karaoke, Butt Kicks, High Knees

    • Arm Circles
    • Imperial Walkers
    • WW2 Snow Angels

    CSAUP: (Drop 10 Add 10) Starting from one end of the parking lot with 100 LBCs. Lunges to the next lines and then 20 merkins. Bear crawling to the last line and then 10 Side straddle hops. Run back to where we started and do 90 LBCs and 20 SSH this time, everything else the same. Iterated though until 10 LBCs and 100 SSH was reached.

    Mosey to Hillside

    Wounded warrior crawl up hill, then alternating with a partner one would run down the hill and do 3 burpees and run back while the other would do LBCs.

    Mosey back to start just in time.

    COT Prayers:

    • Slider as he goes off to college

    Announcements:

    • Convergence 9/21
    • Pickleball Tournament 8/17

  • Please Don’t Ride Over Faceplant

    Five runners hit the circle of vrroom today in the latest edition of Sunday Funday. Temperatures remained 70 and sunny. According to the lone rider intent on squishing Faceplant into the dirt, the following might have happened.

    South bank (Buttermilk), T-Pottersfield, North Bank, BTTVSF. 1x loop for most of us (6.5 miles or so).

    Anthrax x2 loops. If you start earlier, you get the trails to yourself, and you get to break all of the spider webs.

    Numbers, names, and YHC took us out.

    Announcements:

    Pickleball Tournament. This Saturday. 06:00 a.m. Forest Hill Park. Sign up in advance.

    Rumor has it no Dogpile due to Pickleball. Need a confirmation from Bootleg.

    August 21: My dad’s 100th Birthday. Come out and celebrate (and celebrate your own Dad). First Watch. 05:00.

    The Bridge has re-started due to the commitment of 7 studs. The Bridge is a ministry-led educational program for men coming through, and we hope out of, the prison system. It’s in Buckingham, Va.

    Each of the men below has agreed to organize others from his immediate workout area. Call this a nano-region or a micro-region or some other F3 nom de guerre of your choosing. It’s the guys you work out with regularly. These seven will organize you into a group to visit The Bridge twice a year. Simple enough.

    State Farm – Goyne Park
    Heist – Alamo
    Hardywood – Amelia
    Whitesnake – Gridiron
    Corned Beef – DaVille
    TYA – City Proper
    UpChuck – Tuckahoe

    BTW, someone asked YHC, “Where are the other areas?” Great question. Candidly, if you don’t see your area represented, you can be the guy to lead, all you need to do is step forward. We can expand our investment almost limitlessly (up to 52 weeks/year). “F3’s mission is to reinvigorate male community leadership.” Here’s an opportunity to work with F3RVA’s finest on a mission to help other men. Let’s go!

    UpChuck spits the bit.