Tag: DaVille

A rock-solid team of 14 stormed the Atlee High School parking lot and fired up an early morning carnival that went something like this…

Mosey across the parking lot, around the greenhouse and back to the parking lot.

COP All IC – 50 SSHs, 10 hand-release merkins (HRMs), 50 LBCs, 10 HRMs, 25 imperial walkers, 10 HRMs, 10 don quixotes, 10 HRMs, arm circles, 10 HRMs

Mosey to the sidewalk near school entrance

Triple check – with the following three exercises (1) run around the green house (2) heels to heaven (3) dips with a bear crawl from (2) to (3)

Slow mosey to the school entrance door and smile for the security camera

Little DORA – Partner up, one partner runs the perimeter of the school parking lot while the other exercises. Cumulative exercises for 50 HRMs, 100 WWII situps, 150 two-count mountain climbers.

10 HRMs

Mosey to the flag.

All IC – 20 American hammers, 20 freddie mercuries, superman, 10 alabama prom dates

Numberama, Namerama, Announcements, YHC took us out

NMS:

The Mechanicsville PAX is starting to re-engage and a strong team of both core participants and new guys showed up to play this morning.

Lab Rat drove into the parking lot at 5:31 and the PAX took off running. YHC already had in mind to circle the green house and that doubled as a way to trick Lab Rat (and Yard Sale) about our location. They caught on quickly and joined us for the COP.

As expected, Emoji was super elated when Don Quixotes were called and he exclaimed, “MY FAVORITE!” The hand-release merkins didn’t seem to be the favorites for the PAX however. They provide a solid way to warm up and get the blood pumping.

YHC kept everything “local” in the Atlee High School parking lot and entrance in order to create an efficient workout. YHC didn’t want to waste any time. Spike didn’t waste any time in his sprints around the parking lot. Lab Rat was right behind him. The whole PAX gave 100% both in terms of effort and GAS (“the 4th F” according to Mudface). We may need to hand out gas masks along with gloves for future workouts…

It is always an honor to lead and this morning was no exception.

The Carpenter

At 0529, the weather was 34 degrees and raining sideways. (YHC was still inthe Jeepster) At 0530, it was Sunny and 70. Six F3 RVA men moseyed to the middle of AHS parking lot for the COP. SSH and DQs in cadence. Too cold for a long COP.

Mosey to the first light pole.

1st pole-WWIIs, Second pole-16 squats (K-Swiss BDAY), 3rd pole-10 merkins, 4 pole-10 Flutterkicks, 5 pole-5 Burpees. As you run by each pole, perform exercise. Repeato 5 times.

Mosey to garage for Chicken Pecker Ring of Fire. Each PAX performs 5 Chicken Peckers while reat of PAX holds BTTW.

Mosey to side parking lot for touch a tree. Partner up, while one partner performs exercises, other partner touches 3 different trees. Repeato with 6 trees and 9 trees. Exercises included, merkins, LBCs, and something else.

Mosey to BBALL courts for suicides. Regular, Reverse, Burpee, and WWII suicides with 25 LBCs upon completion of each suicide.

Mosey back to VSF for 5 MOM. Exercises included Freddie Mercury Ring of Fire, Flutterkicks Ring of Fire, APD and American Hammers.

COT-Numberama, Namearama, YHC too us out with a prayer.

NMS-Mumbkechatter this am centered around the weather and the puddles. PAX clothing this am ranged from Mailbag and Emoji having an entire closet on to Helix with shorts, short sleeves, gloves and hat. Working out in gloom likes this always reminds YHC that we are truly blessed each and every day. (Hot shower felt great) It is up to each PAX to use our blessings for the betterment of our community, workplace, and each individual we encounter.

The BB title comes from F3 Core Principles.

Circle K

12 men showed up for Mudface’s VQ at Daville, in which he expunged high school demons.  Here’s how it went down.

Mosey to basketball court for COP: arm circles, 10 small, 5 big, reverse   helicopters x 10     hamstring stretches, forward and back

Mosey to grass next to bball court, enter the 50-70 pound sandbag (in that range).  With sandbag, one PAX throws it forward at a time, rest of PAX bearcrawl after taking turns until all have had their chance.  Do same with underhand throw and side throw, then line up single file and pull the bag through your legs.  Plank up, shoulder to shoulder, pull the sandbag through the tunnel, then back again.  All PAX save one stay in plank and do merkins, while each PAX in turn does a burpee, then picks up bag and throws it over their head.  Repeat this adding Helix squat, lunge both legs, then curl, then rack, and throw it over your back, while rest of PAX does LBC’s and then switches to Helix squat.  One last set with rows added, then circle up tossing the bag from one PAX to the next.

Mosey back to flag, with first Mudface, then Bulkhead, and finally Spike carrying the bag, stopping intermittently for burpees.

Numberama, namerama, The Carpenter took us out.

NMS

Mudface named the sandbag Eric, because (his story) this was his lab partner’s name in high school “and I carried him the whole year” so it is apropos to do so again.  The initial exercises left too much time on the PAX’s hands, so LBC’s, merkins and squats were added.  Yea!  The Carpenter was very enthusiastic tossing around Eric, perhaps working out some memories of his own.  It’s a safe space, it’s good to share….  Mumblechatter included multiple theories about what really happened with Eric, whom Mudface evidently still talks with from time to time.  There were some who posited that it was actually Eric, minced down to size, in the bag.

By the end, he had taken a toll on all of the PAX, and YHC’s back will be remembering this workout for a while.  Eric was even gifted an official F3 name–welcome to Deadweight!  A great Daville VQ from Mudface, and YHC is willing to bet Deadweight will be seen sooner rather than later.

As usual, Mudface has no idea what he’s doing.

“Two ruckers diverged in the gloom and neither took the workout less traveled,

and that made all the difference”

9 grownup men and 0 ruckers converged in the gloom to an announced “rucker friendly” workout.  Since nobody was carrying weight, the Q changed it all up.  Here is the workout most traveled:

-Parking lot tracers.  You know it!

-COP: If you’ve seen one Lab Rat COP, you’ve seen them all

-Triple Check-  On the football field, Player 1 runs to the goal post and back.  Player 2 does hand release merkins and squats if needed.  Player 3 does rotating Mary of his choice.

-Rotating pullups- pax planks in a line in front of pullup station.  Pax1 does 10 pullups while pax 2 spots him.  Rotate thru so everyone gets a turn.

-Phonics’ sprints of death:  Im sure there is a better name for them, but this pretty much sums it up.  Teams of three…basically you sprint 50 yards, tag out a partner, then do 5 burpees.  Do this 5 times.  When everybody is done, bear crawl to the middle.  We screwed it up, but all points were covered.   These suck, bt dubs.

-burpee indian run:  Just like it sounds.  We took the long way home, and switched it up into basically a Chinese fire drill Indian run.  It did not go smoothly.

Ring of Fire (Rosie style):  From Al Gore, first guy drops does 10 merkins then holds plank.  Pass it around to everybody.  Back to first guy, 10 more merkins and back to Al Gore…then pass it back around.

NMS

Lab Rat announced this would be rucker friendly on the local boards, with an AYE from Spit and Shakedown.  Circle K also showed up this morning with ruck sack and layers of clothing.  Something happened between 0530 and 0530 and a half that made these two ditch the rucks and join parking lot tracers instead of heading for the designated rendezvous.  What exactly happened, we may never know……or Shakedown can tell us.  Regardless, Lab Rat took full advantage of the freedoms gifted to him to completely change the planned Q to something more mobile and fluid.  One can imagine what caused Spit to be a no-show.  My money is on a late night with the baby, which is always a free pass in my book.

Exactly nine guys lent well to the triple check.  Options were given, which made the hand release merkins a little more palatable to the group.  No excuse for bad form.  Emoji made the comment on how long the field was….120 yards for those counting at home, just like every other football field.

Phonics’ sprints plus burpees thing seemed like a good idea at the time.  I remember there being a little break in between to catch your breath.  Nothing is so disheartening as finishing a round of burpees and standing up to see your “relief” sticking his hand out to high 5 you back out to run.

The Indian run back with burpees was going well…..too well.  Audible was called that instead of burpees, run around the group before returning to the front of the line.  There were two lines.  It was a Charlie Foxtrot.  Pretty sure Pavaratti just kept running in circles the whole time.  That’s ok, we can work on that.

Announcements:

-Still plenty of room on the Growruck event.  There are loaner weights and packs available.

-Extra credit ruck at 0500 at Dogpile.  Run kicks off at 0530 from Elwood Thompson’s.

 

Apology of the week goes out to Robert Frost for butchering up his life’s work just to get a cheap chuckle out of the pax.

 

Lab Rat apologizes…

 

6 fighters saw 13 degrees on their thermometers, laughed and stormed the Atlee High School parking lot for a sunny and 70 degree fun fest that went something like this…

Slaughter start – 5 burpees followed by 25 SSHs IC

Mosey to the entrance to the school, 5 burpees, 25 SSHs IC

Mosey to the next parking lot, 5 burpees, 25 SSHs IC

Mosey to the far end of the parking lot, 5 burpees, 25 SSHs IC

COP all IC: 20 imperial walkers, 15 copperhead squats, 50 LBCs, 10 helicopters, 10 don quixotes, arm circles

Mosey to the field

Polesmokers – PAX held 6 inches while each person did 10 two counter flutter kicks and ran down to the end of the group.  PAX held 6 inches while each person did 10 heels to heaven and ran down to the end of the group.

Climb This! – Four Corners – First corner 5 two-count mountain climbers, Second corner 10 two-count mountain climbers, Third corner 15 two-count mountain climbers, Fourth corner 20 two-count mountain climbers.

Mosey to the football field parking lot

Touch a tree – Touch a tree, do 7 heels to heaven, run to field entrance, 7 merkins… continue touching trees with descending numbers of heels to heaven and merkins down to 1.

Mosey back to the flag

20 two count American hammers, 15 two count flutter kicks.

Numberama, Namerama, Annoucements, YHC took us out.

NMS

The PAX started moving right at 5:30 am and we kept moving throughout the entire time. All of the PAX pushed through the entire workout and the mumblechatter elicited all kinds of laughter. Emoji always has something funny to say to keep everybody on their toes.

It is always an honor to lead.

The Carpenter

 

 

4 Davillians that decided to not enjoy some extra sleep since the kids were on a delay, arrived at Atlee HS for some fun in the snow.

This is how it went down

Mosey around the schools to the gravel track.

COP (ALL IC) – SSH, DQ, Hillbillies, Merkins, WWII Situps, Arm Circles

THANG

Track Work – While running around the track stop at three different spot to complete exercises. Stop #1 – x20 Dips IC. Stop #2 -10 Pull Ups OYO, Stop #3 – x15 Incline Merkins IC. Rinse and Repeat 3 more times for a full mile

Mosey to the bus loop

Catch Me If You Can – Partner Up, First partner runs around the bus loop will second partner starts Polar Bearing. Switch, Rinse and Repeat

Mosey back to the SF

2 MOM – Freddie Mercury, Heels to Heaven

Numberama, Namerama, and Announcements. YHC took us out

MOLESKIN

The “official” Garmin said it was 25 this morning. If you had asked Spike or YHC we agreed it felt warmer, Wheelie would have said otherwise (mainly because he needed better glove) and based on Helix attire, it was at least below freezing his he had a hat on (still in shorts and short sleeve shirt).

The title of today’s backblast the subject of majority of the mumble chatter was center around stationary bikes. This is also know has Wheelie’s winter training. Learn some new things about stationary bikes all most make you want to drop a couple grand on a Peloton (Not really!).

SPIT ON THAT!!

5 studs arrived at the AO that is known as DaVille for a beatdown that went soemthing like this:

Mosey across the parking lot for COP.  Exercises included Invisible Jumpropes, Arm Circles and DQs.

Mosey to the first light pole for 5 merkins and 10 WWII situps.  Second light pole=10 merkins and 20 WWIIs.  Progress to the fifth light pole for 25 merkins and 50 WWIIs.

Mosey all the across the way sidewalk for 11s.  Start with 10 LBCs and run across the parking lot for 1 squat.  Run back across the parking lot 9 LBCs.  Alternate methods of crossing the parking to run backwards, skipping, and kareoke.

Mosey to BBALL courts for suicides.  (It is not a CK Q w/o suicides)  Regular, backwards run and reverse suicide with burpees.

Mosey to the bus loop.  PAX mosey as a group and one member perform 3 burpees and catches the PAX.  Repeato until all PAX have completed burpees.  Repeato 3 times.

4 Corners.  Corner 1=20 dips.  Corner 2=10 incline merkins.  Corner 3=20 dips.  Corner 4=20 flutterkicks.  Repeato 2 times.

Mosey back to VSF for APDs and Freddie Mercuries.

Numberama, Namearama, LR took us out with a prayer.

Announcements-Wanna play Disc Golf-See LR.  Opus M is having surgery, throw some prayers his family’s way.

NMS: As YHC was watching the CFP Championship game last night, YHC realized YHC did not have a plan this morning.  SO YHC showed up to the AO Swirly Early and rucked for 30 minutes to think of what kind of beatdown YHC would deliver.  As we finished the PAX moseying as group with burpees, YHC realized YHC had completed the palnned exercises.  YHC then remembered that Bulkhead mentioned during the running that he needed to increase his cardio work.  All you had to do was ask.  Your welcome for the 4 corners.  It was great having the PAX stay together for some mumbelchatter about various items.  LR had a a Jeep that he spent more to repair in the first year than he paid for the vehicle was how we started the morning and it went from there.  Great work by the PAX this morning.  It was a pleasure and an honor to lead this morning.

Circle K

11 Magellans defrosted the windows to start their day the Lab Rat way:

-Parking Lot tracers

COP-  The same stuff we always do.

Find the volleyball court. Unsuccessful.

Bail to tennis court for Lazy Lindsay:  10 Merkins/30 situps first corner.  add 5/subtract 5 each corner until back to original for 30 merkins/10 situps.  Bear crawl long ways, lunge with knee touching the ground short ways.

Mosey to soccer field, stopping at benches for 20 dips OYO

BEAST:  run the length of the field stopping 3 times out/3 times back to perform 6 of prescribed exercise. 666….get it?  -merkins -crab cakes -deep squats -alabama prom dates TIME

Opus took us out.

NMS

-There’s just something about parking lot tracers to get me in a better mood!  Glad to see some old faces and new out this morning!  Emoji brought out the yuks during COP.  Several brought out the confusion during Lindsay and the Beast.  “How many do we do now?” was asked 100 times this morning.  Rounders was back in action this morning as well, great to see him out.  He claims to have popped a button when he put on his dress blues last time, so we expect he will be joining us a little more frequently in the near future.  We are planning a poker night, too….let me know if you are interested in getting in on that.  All in all a beautiful morning to get after it….even with the heavy frost.  The stars were out in strong fashion.

I swear to you all….there used to be a dang volleyball court out there somewhere.

 

Apology of the week goes out to Yard Sale and whomever else found that knee deep pit of semi frozen mud.

Lab Rat apologizes…

Four warriors stepped onto the frozen tundra of Atlee High School for a 24 degree snowy beatdown.  Wait a minute, Helix is in shorts and a t-shirt.  It must be sunny and 70 again in F3RVA!  This is what occurred.

Mosey to bus loop

COP

• 40 SSH IC
• 10 Don Quixotes IC
• 15 Arm Circles (10 small, 5 big) IC / Reverso
• 10 Ball Dippers IC
• 10 Merkins IC
• 10 Angles Knee Bends IC
• 10 Foot to Hand Mountain Climbers IC
• 10 Merkins IC
• 20 LBCs

Mosey to Chickahominy Track and Partner Up

• Activity #1 – Partner Carry around the track.  Every time the partners rotate, both partners do 25 merkins and 25 Freddie Mercuries.
• Activity #2 – One partner jogs around the track while the other does burpies.  The partners have to complete 100 burpies combined.

Mosey to playground

• Activity #3 – Each Pax member will rotate between the following exercises for 8 minutes.
  • 5 pullups
  • 10 merkins
  • 15 jump squats
  • go down the slide

Mosey back to the VSF

COT – Numberama, Name-o-rama, YHC took us out.

NMS

When YHC signed up to Q for this date about a month ago, he didn’t anticipate a snow day.  Because the parking lots were basically ice skating rinks, it was much safer for the Pax to head over to the snowy track and playground than to try to exercise on the pavement.  The following were general observations from today.

• 50% of the Pax members had bare knees.  Although that percentage is acceptable in most nano-regions of F3RVA, it is not acceptable in Daville.  As we observed with Helix, it was sunny and 70.
• How cold does it have to be for Helix before he puts on long sleeves?
• Not sure if it was the temperature, but during Name-o-rama, Wheelie confused his last name with his F3 name.  YHC doesn’t believe he officially changed his actual name to Dave Wheelie.  Wheelie quickly corrected this but it was funny.
• Even though the Pax was in continuous motion, the mumblechatter was strong throughout the workout.

The highlight from today was the slide.  As YHC gave instructions for the 5 pullups, 10 merkins, 15 jump squats rotations, Spike suggested to end each rotation by going down the slide.  The slide is probably around 12 feet long and does not appear to be designed for 6 foot adults.  The last 4 feet of the slide was covered in snow.  After all 4 of us went down the slide, the snow was finally knocked off thanks to Helix who shouted as he got a shirt full of snow.  Once the snow was gone, this allowed Helix to get so much speed that he flew several feet off the end of the slide for a crash landing.

YHC feels truly blessed with the opportunity to lead with such a fine group of men.  Great job to all Pax members today!

Gotta Run!

Phonics

13 Rucksacks, 4 sand bags, 1 shovel flag, and the appropriate number of pax for rucks decended upon DaVille this morning to wait on their Q.  He showed up with 30 seconds less than what time he needed to get an actual pair of gloves, but the workout at least started on time.

Pax reluctantly joined Lab Rat at his vehicle after some prodding to pick up accessories for this mornings workout.  I mean, if we arent going to run, we have to carry stuff!  A little late night reconnaissance last night netted a huge score for those that either want free weight to carry around, or if anybody wanted to install their own home bocci ball course.  The local tennis courts have piles of old clay for the clay courts out back and I gained permission to take all I wanted.  “Enter the sand bag”….apologies to Metallica.

We rucked over to basketball courts, where we let Bulkhead catch up to us and let EF Hutton secure the shovel flag and then fall over backwards.  NICE.  It went something like this:  Huge round of laughter…..wait is he ok????  Yes he is…..another round of laughter.  After things calmed down, we had a BIG disclaimer seeing this is the first time we have done this and the Q wanted zero reported injuries afterwards.  Regular COP with packs on the ground to ensure everybody loosened up and got the blood flowing before we did anything really stupid.

We rucked thru the cedars because fun, looking for the beach volleyball courts….which somehow we didnt find.  No matter, the soccer field will suffice.  Triple check consisting of 20 ruck swings (point man), lunges with a sand bag, and situps with ruck on chest.  This was NO JOKE.  Afterwards, we bear crawled the width of the soccer field (kind of in the ditch????), followed by a ruck/shuffle to the front of the school.

Once we reached the front, everybody took a nice comfy air seat against the “bulkhead”, where we did wall sits for a couple minutes, alternating between 45 degree and 90 degree knees.  Back to the traditional shovel flag spot, and we finished it up with 8 count body builders (slow cadence to protect the back of your head).  These also NO JOKE.  We did 6….7 would have been painful.

It was great to see a diverse crowd of people out this morning!  Thanks to the traveling pax members for joining us.  I hope that everybody is sore but healthy.  My goal this morning was an intro to a rucking style workout where we tried out multiple new twists and nobody gets hurt…I hope it was successful.

Apology of the week goes out to all pax for being rushed at the start.  For those that didnt hear, I was late because one of the dogs “hid” my shoes outside in the back yard.  Fun.

Announcements:

-GrowRuck the weekend of March 24th.  Honey Do is taking the lead, see preblast.  Pax coming so far from Roanoke, Hampton, Charlotte, and Pennsylvania!

-Army Navy game this weekend, Bulkhead is buying the first round at a location to be disclosed soon.  Go Navy!

-Mudface and No Idea are heading up a team for the Rugged Maniac on May 4th.  See them for the deets.

 

Lab Rat apologizes…