Tag: Dogpile

Eight men emerged from the gloom converging at the appointed place and time to have their limits pushed and see what the QIC had in store for them on this beautiful spring morning. According to the runners surprised to find the creatures moving on Love Hill were not deer, this is how it what took place.

Mosey to the Nickel Bridge toll booth parking lot for COP: SSH, Helicopters, DQ, IW, DMH, Copperhead Squats, Merkins, LBC’s, APD’s

From the toll both, cross the Nickel Bridge alternating 5 merkins and 5 WWII’s at each lamp post. Return doing 2 burpees at each light post. Convene at the toll booth and proceed as a group to the base of Love Hill.

On Love Hill, pair up and cycle through bear crawls, lunges, and broad jump burpees while the timer runs to the curve at the garden and back. Runner turns when they meet the runner ahead of them. At this point in the workout the ninth member of the PAX joined us claiming to have found us by identifying giggling in the dark. The PAX doesn’t giggle. We chuckle. We guffaw. We have been known to split a side, but we don’t giggle. He must of have been mistaken.

Slow mosey to the amphitheater – 5 incline merkins on each step to the top, 5 dips on each back to the bottom to pickup Hitchhiker’s top layer which he discarded on the lower step.

Return to the flag for Mary: AH’s, Freddie’s, APD’s, 4 minutes of savasana.

Numbers and Names.

Announcements: Training for grow ruck continues and a reminder to look for opportunities to support Breaking Bread.

YHC took us out and we convened for 2nd F at Libbie Market. It was great to see Swirly at Dogpile and in some backblasts this week. Congrats on 1 Year, Senor Frog. Thanks for letting me lead.

4 stallions coming in hot. Let’s go find some puddles.

Warmarama: Mosey to the other end of the Carillon field, SSH, Imperial Walkers, DQ, Copperhead Squats, Helicopters, Arm Circles

The Thang: Mosey to the Triangle:
Corner 1: 20 Merkins
Bernie – Corner 2: 20 Squat Jumps
Bear Crawl – Corner 3
Mosey to Corner 1: 20 Merkins
Bernie – Corner 2: SSH
Lunge – Corner 3
Mosey to Corner 1: 20 Merkins
Bernie, Butt Kickers, High Needs – Repeat Corner 3

Mosey to the fence: Quad Check
1: Touch 5 trees
2: Flutter Kicks
3: WWII
4: Heals to Heaven
Repeat 4x

Mosey to the Amphitheater
Merkin Ladder to the top
Mosey back to the bottom
Reverse Crunch Ladder + 1 box Jump back to the top

Mosey to Amphitheater Stage: Ring of Mary
Mr. Rogers: American Hammers
Bootleg: Alabama Prom Dates
Handshake: Heals to Heaven
Oyster: Flutter Kicks

Mosey back to the flag
Numberama: Namerama
Announcements – See Slack
YHC took us out!

NMS: Thanks to Honeydo for giving up the Q. YHC had planned on bringing out a friend who was in town from CA and YHC wanted to give him a proper tour of dogpile. YHC friend had many excuses, jet lag, too many drinks, something about “I TOLD YOU, I just had rotator cuff surgery and can’t workout right now”….. We’ve heard it all before…. Maybe next time.

Oyster

Six fully erect redwoods gathered on a rainy morning to put in the work rather than lounging on a beach and trying for a cameo on MTV spring break.

Since we saw NO One out in Byrd park, only the birds singing their renditions of Barry White and preparing for spring can corroborate that this is what happened, more or less:

6 Success Burpees. Short mosey to a nice size Success Puddle. 10x Success HRM IC; 10x Success APD in cadence. Now properly marinated, we moved on the the real event with a short mosey to the first circle for a COP, welcome, disclaimer, and f3 core principles.

COP is all IC: 10x Side Straddle Hop, 10x Merican, 10x Don Quixote, 10x Helicopter, 10x small circle + 5x big circle, reverso, keep them arms up for a time, 5x overhead claps, 5x SEAL claps, 10x Merican, Plank, Elbow Plank, 10x Peter Parker, 10x Diamond Merican, 10x Wide Arm Merican, flip it over for 10x WW2 Situps, 10x Flutter Kicks, 10x Hello Dolly, 10x Rosalita, 10x Box Cutter, 10x Heels to Heaven, 10x Bohemian Rhapsody, 10x Freddie Mercury, 10x Alabama Prom Date, 10x Tuscaloosa Trailer Park Twister, 10x Merican. 25 minutes elapsed. Get Some. Mosey to the amphitheater waterfall feature.

Descending dips, starting with 18 and decreasing each step. Mosey to the rusty cage.

Partner up. 3 sets of 10x pullups. 3 sets of 8x jerkins. Jelly arms complete. Mosey to the stage – that large puddle sure looks inviting….

Triple check, Touch a tree, spreading the love uniquely in sets of 9, 6, and 3. Voyeurs perform Monkey Humper and Squats. Handshake picks the furthest trees to warm up since it is still pouring.

Mosey back to the waterfall feature (amphitheater), starting at the bottom, descending Incline Mericans (though thought strongly about everyone’s favorite Vee up but wanted to finish out the arms). Arms of Jelly again.

Quick circle up: 10x Monkey Humper, 10x Gorilla Humper, Mosey BTTF.

Upchuck took us out. Prayers for Upchucks nephew Chance who is leaving the Corps. Prayers to work on Integrity in ourselves and tactfully help others with the same. Cafeteria at Libbie Market.

NMS – It was good to get back out and Q after some debilitating painful injury and heavy travel starting in December. Somehow the knee held up – PT working? Or stopping the statins?

Appreciation to my hardcore brothers for making it out on such a terrible weather day for a little success building.

Did you know MTV Spring Break has 28 seasons? YHC was shocked, shocked because MTV became difficult to watch when Kurt Loder left and the music videos stopped – and also, in Germany only Eurovision Song Contest was available, but you all knew that – still thinking that was a fair trade for great croissants and beer.

Also, whilst writing this WNRN Grateful Dead and Phriends in the background played ALL of Phish’s WILLLLLLLSSSOOOONNNNNN, and YHC realized I was missing my good buddy in the rain… Next time.

Todays weather represent the best conditions to melt the muffin revealing the character, strength, and resiliency of the man underneath. The best part is that warming feeling you get after a warm drink and a hot shower and knowing you pushed yourself successfully to another level – especially after making that decision at 5ish to push the covers off, kiss the M, and get after it in sporting weather. Makes YHC fully appreciate life, family, my brothers, and the leisure to enjoy it all. Grateful. Truly.

These are only the building blocks for each of us. Our mission is to help each other and then get more men on a path to this same place.

Get Some!

16 men gathered for the official Handshake 40th Birthday Q and this is what happened:

Mosey out the back gate of Dogpile to the lake in front of Maymont for a COP. First location was too muddy and goose poop ridden so we traversed up the hill. Exercises completed to include among others Inverted Scorpion Kicks and (2) sets of 20 HRM’s

Mosey to the intersection and notify the Pax to remember this location and then form up for an Indigenous Peoples run over to Burpee Lake (no Burpees).

Party is such sweet sorrow: partner up and each partner runs in the opposite direction and at each Lightpole partners complete (5) HRM’s and (1) WWII’s and meet up at the opposite corner.

At the opposite corner partners reunite and we make our way back around the lake hop scotching with P1 doing 10 Squats while P2 runs to the next Lightpole and starts the squats and when P1 catches back up P2 goes to the next Pole and continue to the end.

Mosey from the original starting corner back up to the top of corner of Trafford and Westover and get in groups of 3’s for a Triple Check. P1 runs an unreasonable distance while P2 does Flutters and P3 does LBC’s. Everybody does all 3 and then round 2 was Running, Alabama Prom Dates, and Inverted Scorpion Kicks. Round 3 was Running, WWII’s and something else, YHC does not remember.

Mosey back down Westover to the intersection YHC had pointed out earlier. Al Gore the 6 and YHC asked the Pax to pick a number between 1 – 10, 7 was picked and 7 Burpees were completed.

Mosey up to Spottswood and complete 20 HRM’s.

Mosey back to the Flag for 20 more HRM’s and 1 minute of stretching.

Announcements – Grow Ruck is coming the first weekend of May. Rosie says anyone who completed today’s bootcamp can handle the Grow Ruck. Flight Nurse out of Wilmington is taking over the Grow Ruck and he is aware of what happened last time and he is determined to make it a success. Sign up.

Prayer Requests – none

NMS – thank you for everyone for the birthday wishes and for those who were able to make it to, it is truly appreciated.

7 dad bods…. Ready for another edition of Dogpile. LetsGo!!

Warmarama:
Mosey to Toll Booth parking lot (don’t be late)
SSH, Imperial Walks, DQ, Cherry Pickers, Monkey Humpers, Jazzercise, Merkins, LBC, Flutter Kicks, Hello Dollys, Alabama Prom Dates

Lamp Post Alley
Run to the 1st lamp post = 10 Merkins, back to the start.
Run to the 2nd lamp post = 10 Merkins, 20 SSH, back to the start
Run to the 3rd lamp post = 10 Merkins, 20 SSH, 30 Squats, back to the start
Run to the 4th lamp post = 10 Merkins, 20 SSH, 30 Squats, 40 Mtn Climbers, back to the start.

Mosey to Love Hill
Mosey up Love Hill – Bone Thugs leads the way with his head lamp.
Stop – Bear Crawls.   
Mosey
Stop – Lunges
Mosey
Stop – Broad jump burpees.

Mosey to the fish bowl
Triple Check #1
Runner to the top of the hill = 3 jump squats
SSH
Monkey Humpers
Triple Check #2 – Other side
Runner to the light pole
Flutter Kicks
WWII

Mosey to the Amphitheater 
Descending Dips then A little Mary
American Hammers
Pickle Pounders
LBC
13 count WWI
Hip Slaps
Heals to Heaven

Mosey back to the Flag

Numberama:Namerama
Announcements:
See Slack — GroRuck

YHC Took us out!

Thanks for letting me lead. Next week Handshake has the Q. No more hate! Let’s go!!!

YHC was greeted with fifteen brave PAX members including a visitor from GA this morning and we took a little field trip as follows:

Moseyed to the square near Police Memorial Way for COP as follows: 10 x dead man hang, tippy toes with hands in the air, left and right side stretches, 10 x imperial walkers, 10 x SSH, 10 x LBC, 10 x American hammers, 10 x merkins.

Moseyed to the the lake. A set of exercise at each light post: 3 x merkins, 3 x WWII, 3 x lunges. Including one broken one, there are 28 light post.

Moseyed to the neighborhood on Westover Road. A little long 11s on the entire block. merkins and WWI.

Moseyed back to the flag.

Number, names, and announcements. YHC took us out!

Thank you for allowing me to lead this morning! Enjoyed it a lot!
P.S. A FNG was supposed to join the beatdown, but he came 4 minutes late and was not able to find us. McGruff and I will try to bring him next time.

16 men gathered to see what Handshake had to offer and enjoy 53 degree weather and this is what happened:

Traveling COP – Mosey from the Parking Lot across Boulevard and stop at various places. Each stop we did (2) exercises and moved on. We went down Shirley and took a left and made our away around the Lake into front of the Maymont Nature Center and end at the Maymont Nature Center Parking Lot.

Triple Check – P1 Runs the Parking Lot Loop, P2 Squats, P3 HRM’s. At the end Bear Crawl to the start of the Parking Lot.

Indigenous Peoples Run from the Parking Lot back over to Shirley Road and across the Boulevard and down to the bottom of Love Hill.

Mosey back over to the bottom of the grassy hill and Bear Crawl up the hill then switch to Bernie Sanders and then Mosey the rest of the way back to the flag. EF Hutton clocked us at 3.5 miles.

NMS – It was a great crew today. Good to see Nancy Lopez, Wilson, Fergie, and Bone Thugs at Dogpile. Also good to see Heist, Swoop, and Yeehaw who were doing a training Ruck.

Announcements – Heading Place 10k Challenge starts February 10th, something else is going on with the Healing Place on March 16th, Grow Ruck Feb 10th? Grow Ruck Coaches training starts. Grow Ruck practice tomorrow (Sunday) at Stony Point/Larus Park at 7:00, meet at Trader Joes. February 10th Frozen Triangle at 0600. Breaking Bread – see Oyster/Slack. Oyster is challenging people to pick one of the days in the Birthday Month. Cheers to Chumbucket for doing Saturday/Sunday this month for Breaking Bread.

Prayer Requests – Flatline/Flatline’s family with his son starting to drive

Seven dudes tried their hand at making viral trick shot videos and content, but alas they were not perfect. 

Here’s what transpired:

Slaughter Starter – 10 x Burpees

Mosey over to the Carillon patio

COP

• Dead Man Hang
• Good Mornings
• Helicopters
• Imperial Walkers x 30 (woah!)
• Arm Circles
• Copperhead Squats
• Freddie Mercurys
• Inverted Scorpion Kicks
• Hand Release Merkins
• Plankorama
• SSHs

Perfect Challenge # 1

Bottle Flip

• Hold plank and take turns attempting to land a bottle flip – 10 Merkins per miss for entire PAX, dish out 10 Burpees for a hit, 10 Squats for round 2 – Final Tally: 70 Merkins, 70 Squats, and 0 Burpees

Mosey to the traffic circle

Perfect Challenge # 2

Buckethole (WWIIs between turns)

• Bag on the ground – 10 Merkins for PAX
• Bag hits the bucket – 10 Jump Squats for PAX
• Bag in the bucket – Dish out 10 Burpees to PAX (1 by Bone Thugs)

Mosey down to the Ampitheater

Perfect Challenge # 3

Bowlorama

• Strike or Spare – LBCs (1 each by Oyster and Hitch)
• Open Frame – Run up the stairs and do 20 Donkey Kicks
• Gutter Balls – Run a loop and do 10 Burpees (2 for YHC)

Mosey to the Carillon Field

Perfect Challenge # 4

Ultimate All Sports Golf Battle

• In teams of 3 alternate shots using various non-golf sports equipment until putting an object in the “hole.”  Weapons of choice included Softball/Bat, Mini-Lacrosse Stick/Ball, Kickball, Frisbee, Football, Nerf Bow and Arrow, and whatever else YHC could find.
  • 1^st Stroke – 10 Hand Release Merkins
  • 2^nd – 20 WWIIs
  • 3^rd – 30 Jump Squats
  • 4^th – 40 Flutter Kicks
  • 5^th – 50 SSHs
  • 6^th – 60 Monkey Humpers
  • 7^th – Burpees x 5 per additional stroke

Collect all equipment and mosey back to Flag

Numberama, Nameorama, COT

MOLESKIN

YHC put out a disclaimer at the beginning that the workout might not be the hardest, but would certainly be the dumbest.  To no surprise, the PAX was not quite ready for its own YouTube channel and lots of Merkins and Jump Squats were dished out.  When the 2.0 lands a bottle flip, YHC might actually be impressed from now on.  An un-angled hole, improper distancing, and the lack of a beer in the non-throwing hand made for very sub-par Bucketholing.  YHC is an adequate bowler in real life, I swear!  Regretfully UASGB was cut short.  It may return when there’s better lighting.  Team Bleedoyhiker was victorious with a score of double bogey.  Next Saturday Hitch will give a lesson in the bees and the birds.  Shout out to Mr. R for double-dipping DP and R&R.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Breaking Bread continues

Frozen Triangle – Feb 10^th

Sportable – needs volunteers in April – see Gumbo

Congrats to Purple Rain on 1 heck of a year (168 posts and counting!)