Tag: Dogpile

Eight men emerged from the gloom thinking it was a Saturday in October but apparently it was a Saturday in April. In any case, according to the equally confused deer this is what transpired…

COP: SSH, Helicopters, DQ, DMH, IW, Copperhead Squats, Merkin, LBC, APD all IC

Mosey to the end of the field for a down and back on the boulevard, turning at Garrat. 2 Merkins at each lightpost down, increasing burpees at each light post on the way back.

Saunter down to the opposite end of the field for The Beast (6 modes of movement, 6 exercises, 6 sets): 1 – Run/Arm Circles, 2 – Bernie/American Hammers, 3 – Karaoke/LBC, 4 – (Half field) Bear crawl/Squats, 5 – Walk or lunge/SSH, 6 – Run/monkey humpers (YHC: This is what I wrote down but seems like it was actually different. Serves me right for not getting BB written sooner)

Head over to the good ole amphitheater and perform 5 dips on each step on the way down, on the way back up perform two V-Ups on each step.

Return to the flag for Mary: 20 LBC’s in cadence, 10 APD’s in cadence, short savasana.

Happy Birthday to Gambler! Reminder to look for opportunities to support Breaking Bread. Groups are making trips to The Bridge – all are welcome.

Prayers continue for Fudd’s sister and family and wishing a speedy recovery for Faceplant’s M.

It was great to see Goldberg found the opportunity to join us and we got to catch up at Libbie Market over cheesy eggs.

The magnificent Seven. Let’s Go…

Warmarama: Mosey to the toll booth parking lot, SSH, DQ, Imperial Walkers, Copperhead Squats, Merkins, LBC, Helicopters.

The Thang:
Bridge:
10 Merkins every light pole to the end of the bridge.
10 Squats / Jump Squats every light pole back across the bridge

Back Road:
5 Burpees
PAX chooses exercise every light pole.
Triple Check:
Run / Squats / WWII
A bit of Mary

BTTF

Numberama:Namerama
Announcements: see slack
YHC took us out.

Moleskin: The goal today was to move around a bit but stay together. Mission accomplished. Well done boys. Good times at 2nd F at Libby Market.

Oyster

6am: Let’s roll! Mosey to the circle. Butt kickers. High knees. Karaoke this way and that. 5 Burpees OYO.

Disclaimer. Mission. 

COP: Arm Circles, Cherry Pickers, DQs, SSHs, Mt Climbers, WWIIs, Merkins. 

We did 11s in the Valley of Ill Repute. Merkins and WWIIs. Between sucking air, we talked a little about what we each think the valley is really called.  UpChuck graciously led some plank work afterwards.

Lindsay in the amphitheater. Step ups and dips. More modifying from Hitch. Back is acting up. Get better fast buddy!

We then did 5 another burpees for fun. Next, run to the top.

The Hardest Quarter Circle:  (This was a far cry from the actual The Hardest Mile, but it was still challenging). Broad jump burpee a quarter of the circle.  Then Lunge, Bear Crawl and finally run the final quarter.  Tried it again.  Recover. Oyster w/ the 10 count and then we were off.

With a perfectly divisible by three, 9 pax today, a Triple Check at the Rusty Cage was called.  Timer ran to the classic spot, the fire hydrant, and back.  Others did pull ups to failure (squats after) and jerkins. 

Native American Run BTTF for Mary: Flutters, FMs, and a finish w/ merkins to failure. 

Numbers, Names, Announcements:

The Bridge on 10/26. TYA is leading. Join him.

Breaking Bread is still open for Sunday, 10/27. If you have a bday in Oct., step up.

Prayers: Continued prayers for Fudd’s sister Mary, who has 3 children, a husband and is battling cancer. Additional prayers for the entire Hart family. 

Prayers for those along the east coast still struggling in the wake of 2 hurricanes.

Thanks for allowing YHC to lead today. It’s a privilege.

Forteen warriors in the gloom, one topic of conversation for 90 minutes straight. We worked out around the lake, amongst the deer, and with an unusually great number of car traffic. Micro-blocks were used and the conversation was plenty.

YHC took us out.

2nd F at Libbie Market next disappoints.

6 of the baddest mofo’s in RVA joined for a Swirly Q at Dogpile. As expected it was wet, but at least it wasn’t raining….

Mossy to the Carillon for conversation about whether or not it will be reopened and various exercises for the COP.

Mossy to the Amphitheater for 2 rounds. Start at the top and do 5 Dips per step on the way down. Start at the bottom and do 3 Incline Merkins per step on the way up.

Mossy to the Rusty Cage. 3 Rounds. 3 Pull Ups, 5 Burpees, 10 Squats.

Mossy to the Circle for a Triple Check. P1 Runs the Circle, P2 WWII’s, P3 Lieutenant Dan. 3 Rounds.

Mossy to the field for a 4 corners. C1 10 Burpees, C2 20 Jump Squats, C3 30 LBC’s, C4 40 Merkins. Repeat C4 and descend.

Mossy over to the Circle for a Curb Crawl. Bear Crawl then 1 Incline Merkin, Crawl Bear 2 Decline Merkins, up to 5.

Mossy back to the flag for Swirl-Yoga.

Announcements – CPR Class being organized by Flatline. See Slack for details.

Prayer Requests – non

NMS – solid morning at DP. Conversations ranged from how some prefer it wet and some prefer dry with high-friction, you needed to be there to understand the context. Conversations also about Life Insurance and its value. Lastly, YHC is writing the BB because Swirl Y was headed out of town and didn’t have time to write it up. YHC wanted to stay on-brand with Swirly and misspell “Mosey” over and over.

Seven young men congealed from the gloom wondering if the stairs up the side of the reservoir were accessible despite the construction obstructions. Spoiler alert: they’re not. According to the folks trying to setup for a 5k race around the boat lake in the early morning hours, this is what transpired.

Warmup jog do the former location of the police officer memorial for COP.

COP: SSH, Helicopters, DQ’s, Dead man hang, IW’s, Copperhead Squats, Merkins, LBC’s, APD’s all IC

Mosey along the edge of the reservoir to see if there are stairs to include in an exercise set: nope, not on that side so continue on around to the other side of the reservoir and confirm that the paved walkway is inaccessible due to construction barriers and on down to boat lake.

Starting near the boat house – alternate 10 merkins and 10 WWII’s at each lamp post to the bench at the far side where leaders return to meet the 6. From the meeting point continue around the lake alternating 10 american hammers and 10 lieutenant dan’s at lightposts to the point about a third of the way around. Finish the trip around the lake with incrementing burpees at each lightpost ending with 8.

Continue our tour of the reservoir to see if the stairs can be gotten to – nope. Onward to the corner of Westover Rd and Trafford Rd for 11’s – LBC’s and Merkins between the corner and alley between the houses as you head down Trafford and back.

Return to the flag for LBC’s and stretching and savasana to close things out.

The 10 year anniversary is coming up Saturday 9/21: Workouts at Dogpile starting at 5am, 6am, main convergence workout is at 7am with awards at 8:20. Family inclusive potluck cookout Saturday at 1:30p at Huguenot Park.

Mr Rogers reminded us that September is Suicide Awareness Month and shared that clinicians report that a high percentage of patients will not acknowledge they are having thoughts of suicide or self-harm even when they are and then act on those thoughts. Remember that people may be suffering silence and not sharing the pain they are experiencing. Have compassion and look for other signs that people are struggling.

Flatline is organizing CPR classes. Sign-up! You never know when it can save a life.

Handshake share the his niece’s dog got scared and ran away and the family was hoping to be reunited. In an update since Saturday morning Handshake let me know that the dog had been found!

OBT is looking for a location to start an AO he was fond of in Charlotte called T3 – Tabata / Track / Tuesday – coming to a track in the RVA area soon.

Keep Fudd’s sister Mary and her family in your prayers as she continues to battle cancer.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead. SYITG

16 strong hit Dogpile this morning for a Swirly Q and here is how it went down.

Mossy to the Theatre for warmups – 3 solid incline merkins on each step to the top – 5 solid dips each step on the way down.

Touch a tree – partner up 2 – 4- 6 trees exercises SSH’s – WW2’s – LT. Dans

Hill of IL repute – partner up – run down hill back to partner bear crawling and switch – run up the hill back to partner doing lunges to the top of the hill.

Short side beast – merkins – burpees – hand release merkins

Pole smokers – 5 pole smokers run to the end of the line – pax holding 6 inches

Curb crawls up to 5 merkins

Burpee shuffle 16

Mary

Back to the flag.

Excellent work guys. Thank you all for coming out this morning. Nothing like a good ole dogpile beatdown. Great to see some OG’s and some new faces. Thanks for the birthday wishes and for allowing me to lead this morning.

See ya in the gloom!

5 Dogpile regulars joined YHC for some of the Dogpile Classics. Chatter around the flag continued through the mosey to the circle and into the warmup with most of the exercises done In Conversation instead of in cadence. Mountain climbers shut down the chatter and the workout was on.

Avoid the tall grass and downed branches on the way to the Rusty Cage for 3 rounds of a Murph starter package. 5 pullups (assisted if needed), 10 Booya merkins, and 15 jump squats. Finding the trail helped on the way back to the amphitheater. Going up the stairs working on low reps, good form with a variety of exercises on each step – merkins, dips, lunges, WWII, capping it off with burpees. Down to Posh’s garden which needs some attention for the start of Love Hill. Runner to the gate – rotate through lunges, Polar bears, broad jump burpees. Since the amphitheater was such a hit, we had to go back down with the same stuff – low reps, focus on form. Back to the flag for some stretching to close out the hour.

Lots of good chatter this morning with some OGs at Dogpile this morning.

Labor Day Convergence tomorrow – 7am Nuckols Farm Elementary

We talked about how it doesn’t take much for a guy to slide out of the routine and get into a Sad Clown cycle. If you’ve read the backblast this far, reach out to a couple of guys that you haven’t seen in a while, F3 or not, invite them to Labor Day or the 10-year or just check in. It doesn’t take much but it may mean more than you realize.

4 Dogpile veterans emerged from the gloom get a status on the Carillon renewal project which has appeared to be without end. Today, however, behind the fence it appears much of the extra material and equipment has been removed. Could they possibly be nearing completion? Nobody appears to be holding their breath.

The workout went like this:
COP – SSH, Helicopters, DQ’s (nice and slow), IW, Dead man hang, Copperhead Squat, The Merkin, LBC, APDs all IC

Mosey to the end of the field and perform incrementing merkins at each light pole down to Condie. Cross the road and do incrementing WWII’s at each light pole coming back

Saunter to the Amphitheater and do 5 dips on each step going down

Navigate through the set of Rapunzel down to the Pipeline for a four person triple check, err, quadruple check with three cycles, something like that. One person ran while the other three cycled through American Hammers, Lunges, and Squats

Back up the hill to the Amphitheater: starting at the bottom alternate 1 merkin and 2 merkins to the top.

Back to the flag for Mary, stretching, and savasana.

Numbers and names. YHC took us out

Announcements:

• 3 RVA 10 Year Anniversary Convergence 9/21 at Dogpile – Main workout starts at 7am / Check the pre-blast for all of the other related activities including a family friendly potluck/cookout at Huguenot Park at 1:30p
• 9/2 Labor Day Convergence a new AO – To Be Named at Nuckols Farm Elementary off North Gayton Road

It was great catching up with folks I haven’t seen in a while with summer trips and what not. Very glad to see Swirly back in action.

SYITG

On a super-humid morning, 6 regulars, a Kotter (welcome back Goldberg) and a gent at his 3rd F3 workout (Gambler) climbed down from Mount Olympus for some Olympic fun & games. 

We moseyed to the Carillon, where about 4 deer eyed Bodos, contemplating how they might take him out. But with his mighty brothers surrounding him, the deer thought better of it, backed off and warm uparama ensued:

COP: Arm Circles, Cherry Pickers, DQs, SSHs, Mt Climbers, WWIIs, Merkins. 

In honor of the city of lights, hosting the 2024 summer Olympics, we moseyed to Burpee Lane.  2 Burpees at each lamppost. 

Like the handsome champions we are, next we moseyed to the Tennis courts and entered like Rafael Nadal.  Triple check called.  P1 ran the other side of the court and back.  P2 did LBCs.  P3, shoulder taps. 

Mosey to Byrd Lake, which will henceforth be named Ledecky Lake, in honor of the American swimming phenom, Katie Ledecky.  We partnered up, alternated wheelbarrowing b/w lampposts w/ 5 jump squats at the first lamp, 5 crunchy frogs at the next.  Repeato. This got modified real quick. We added lunges and bear crawls to the rotation. After completing 66% of the way around the lake (which was pretty dang impressive), we audibled to running, alternating 5 merkins and 10 SSHs at each lamppost.

Once around Lake Ledecky, we moseyed back, decidedly unlike Noah Lyles, to Burpee lane for, you guessed it, more Burpees at each lamppost. Since most of us were swimming in our own sweat at this point, we only did one Burpee at each stop on the way back.

At the Carillon, we lined up for an Indigenous People’s run BTTF. With 60 seconds left, we did a 6 inch leg raise for 60 seconds and were then grateful to be done.  Numbers, Names, Announcements:

Pickleball Tournament on 8/17 @ 6am @ Batteau. There will be no Dog Pile on 8/17.

2nd F at Innsbrook Fire House Subs on Tues, 8/13 @ 12pm.

Bootleg, our fearless Site Q, we missed you and hope you are enjoying Scotland. Looking forward to hearing all about it upon your return.

Prayers for Byproduct, who might just be a grandfather for the 1st time today, if his daughter gives birth today. Whenever it does happen, prayers for a safe delivery for mom and baby.

Thanks for letting me lead today. See y’all in the gloom!