Tag: Dogpile

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!)

Seven men made their way from various locations across the greater metro Richmond area to gain some inspiration and motivation from the Monument to Perpetual Self Improvement – aka The Carillon. Basking in its glow, this is what went down:

COP – SSH, IW, Helicopters, DQ’s, Copperhead Squats, Merkins, LBC’s, APDs – all IC

Wander to the rusty cage for a triple check: Pull-ups, squats, the timer checks to make sure the hydrant hasn’t moved.

Relocate to the Triangle – Round 1 – Bear crawl, 10 x Carolina Dry Docks, down the hill, 20 x WWII’s, Up the hill, 10 x Merkins. Round 2 – Bear crawl, 10 x jump squats, down the hill, 10 x 2 count American Hammers, up the hill, 10 x merkins. Round 3 – Lunge, 10 x an exercise, down the hill, 20 x Heels to Heaven, up the hill, 10 x merkins

Follow the leader to the other end of the reflecting pool – 1 burpee at each light post down the block, coagulate with the six, and return down the other side of the block.

Mosey as a group to the circle at the top of the ampitheater for some Mary and stretching and then back to the flag….psych!… for 11’s between utility poles – LBC’s and 2 count American Hammers, calling it at the designated time.

Count around and identify ourselves. Announcements: Training is in progress for the Grow Ruck in May – watch the Q sheet and Slack for times and places. Frozen Triangle CSAUP is scheduled for February 10th starting at DogPile. It’s more fun than it sounds! Check the Q sheet for opportunities to participate in Breaking Bread during 2024!

Thoughts – Most Saturdays I look forward to getting up in the gloom and joining a group of friends at the Carillon to bump some fists, exchange some humorous anecdotes, hear what’s going on in people’s lives, and get some endorphins and dopamine and seratonin circulating through physical exertion. And also the cheesy eggs at Libbie Market. Some weeks life presents challenges and I find myself drawn into my inner world trying to sort everything out. Left to my own devices it can be very difficult to come out of that. Having the external commitment and sense of responsibility to be at Dogpile on time with a plan requires putting the other stuff aside and thinking outside myself. This is a week I needed that and might not have been there if I didn’t “have to” be. Thank you for the opportunity to lead.

Six strong were undeterred by the pending ice storm and found the Gloom quite hospitable for an early January morning. Red Baron joined us from PA (pretzeltown region?) again so YHC tried to cover some of the Dogpile favorites for him. We did:

COP: SSH, Don Qs, Imperial Walkers, Helicopters, Merkins, Flutterkicks, Scorpion Kicks.

Mosey over to other COP circle for some Bermuda Triangle. Bear crawl to 1st corner, 10 Burpees, run down to bottom, 20 HRMs, run up hill 30 WWIIs. 2nd round: lunge over corrner, 20 Dry Docks, bottom 30 Heels 2 Heaven, top 40 SSH. Mosey over to Penny stage: Dora 123. 100 Merkins, 200 Squats, 300 LBCs.

Down to Rusty Cage: 3 rounds of 8 Pullups. Then 3 rounds of 8 Jerkins. Over to Amphitheater with stop for 3 sets of 25 PLTs along the way. Bottom of Amphitheater partner up in 3s for Triple Check: Flutterkicks, Dips, & run steps and back. With liquified Sleet starting to fall we moved onto stage for few min or Mary and Ring of Fire. Mosey back to Flag , finish with 1 min of American Hammers. YHC took us out.

NMS: For the predicted poor weather it was warmer than usual and we stayed dry. Red Baron returned for his anniversary weekend in RVA again this year and at 68 can rival our own Pigskin for discovering the source of the Fountain of Youth. It was great that all 6 PAX were SOP and Senor Frog and Mr Rogers were short sleeved as well. Oyster used the beatdown to warm himself up for his Mixed Doubles Pickleball tournament later today. When he pegs a 60 yr old Grandmother with a shot YHC will be happy to take some credit.

7 of the hardest PAX around took a wrong turn and ended up at Dogpile for a not so easy 3+ miles.

Warmarama: Mosey to pump house road. SSH, Helicopters, Arm Circles, DQ, Imperial Walkers, Helicopers (YES, we did Helicopters 2x), Copperhead Squats, Carolina Dry Docks, Merkins and 1 Burpee.

The Thang:
4 Light Post Alley. Prostitute Style on the Hill.
1st Light Pole: 10 Merkins, back to the start.
2nd Light Pole: 20 SSH, back to the 1st Light Pole 10 Merkins, back to the start.
3rd Light Pole: 30 Monkey Humpers, back to the 2nd Light Pole 20 SSH, back to the 1st Light Pole 10 Merkins, Back to the start.
4th Light Pole: 40 LBC, back to the 3rd light pole 30 monkey bumpers, back to the 2nd Light Pole 20 SSH, back to the 1st Light Pole 10 Merkins, Back to the start.

Mosey to the Bridge: Alternating Light Posts to the end of the Bridge.
1st light post: 5 Merkins
2nd light post: 5 Squats
3rd Light Post: 1 Burpees
Repeat to the end bridge. Back Across
1st light post: 10 Flutter Kicks
2nd light post: 10 WW2
3rd light post: 10 Squats
Repeat back to the other side.

Back to Pump House Road:
Bear Crawl, Lunge, Broad Jump Burpee to the 1st Lamp Post (In honor of the hardest mile).
2nd Light Post Bernie Sanders
3rd Light Post: 10 lunges, 10 American Hammers, 10 Lunges, 10 Heals to heaven.
Mosey to the End of the road.

Ring of Fire. Choose your favorite Merkin and pass it on.
Mosey up the devils triangle, around the carilion to the Amphitheater.
Ring of Mary. Choose your favorite Ab exercise in cadence all Pax.
No shortcut Mosey, back to the Flag. 3+ miles

Announcement:
Sign up for the Ruck — See Slack.

Well done today boys. Thanks for letting me lead.
Oyster

A Merry Eight, or 7.5 with Fudd’s early departure, kept the Dogpile flame going. A convoy of Pax came in with minutes to spare and we promptly departed on time.

Taking a back ways to the first circle, we formed a smaller intimate arrangement for COP to stay dry a little longer. COP was a bit of the usual plus some light yoga.

Off we went to the Rusty Cage for some Dora. Partner 1 – Run to the fire hydrant and perform 15 V-Ups. Partner 2 – 100 pull-ups/assisted pull-ups on the low bars, 200 box cutters, 300 shoulder taps.

Off to the Haf Penny Stage for an extensive touch a tree session. Started off with 9 tree and BTTW. 7 trees and wall sit. 5 trees and American Hammers. 3 trees and broad jump burpees. 1 tree and arm circles (somewhere Flashdance smiled with approval).

With all of the trees properly cared for, off we went to the big field for Red Barchetta. 10 yards, 10 HRM. 25 = 25 mountain climbers, 50 = 50 monkey bumpers, 75 = flutter kicks, and 100 = 100 LBCs.

Over to the poles for a round of pole smokers 20 in count. Circle up for a ring of fire, but a ring in which we all did the exercises. After 70-80 merkins, we emerged and made our way back to the flag.

Time for a few minutes of Mary and Shavasana.

Honey Do took us out.

The title of the backblast is derived from a sampling of the strong mumble chatter this am. Coffee was excellent and most issues were discussed, and even some solved.

Enjoy the holidays with family and friends!

It has been five years in the making to get to this point, and YHC was so honored to see the 14 studs turnout, even a few that read the weather report wrong. We had everything from full pants to no pants, and everything in between. The deal still stood – if you bring a FNG YHC will take you and your FNG out to breakfast at Libbie Market – no FNGs were spotted today.

Warmup

We started with a reminder about the mission of F3 then it was off to do some much overlooked and needed stretching. Then 25 SSHs, progressively getting faster, followed by a 10 merkin wave. Handshake said that YHC stole this idea but YHC really was just doing an homage to YHC’s pal.

Thang

Following the warmup, it was off for a tour of the sites. YHC reminded everyone to mentally mark the flashing crosswalk because it would come into play later. Mosey to a new triangle near the pond for a triple check. Slight modification to the triple check, every time the timer/runner comes back the three of you do 3 burpees in unison. So timer runs while the other two do merkins for the first round and airsquats, second and third round goes from merkins to WW2s.

Finish up then its off to do an homage to EF Hutton, run down the road of pretty houses and at every SUV/Truck 5 merkins, car 5 WW2s, and convertibles 10 air-presses, but there were no convertibles. And for every Woodfin truck it was 20 burpees – no Woodfin trucks today.

At the end of the road take a left down the tunnel street for lunges, crabwalk, and bear crawls. At the end of the tunnel look what we have here but two Frisbees!

YHC reminded everyone to remember the flashing cross walk – the game is this, get the frisbee all the way to the flashing cross walk in under 5 minutes. If the frisbee touches the ground its 5 merkins for everyone. If we don’t get to the flashing crosswalk in 5 minutes its 20 burpees for everyone – race was on. soon everyone stopped catching and just threw the Frisbee as far as one could. We may need to do some ultimate practice. All arrived safely at the flashing cross walk.

Mosey to the valley behind the stage. Count off by 1-2-1-2, and for Upchucks case count off 1-2-1-2-1-2. He certainly followed directions. Once we were all into two teams, we paired up with an opponent for a game of Rock Paper Scissors. You and your partner play 10 rounds in the bottom of the valley, between each round you run back up the hill and meet back down in the middle of the valley. Winner of each game goes into plank and the looser of each game does 3 burpees. Rinse and repeat 10 times. After that the ultimate winner so the person with the most games won on team 1 and team 2 meets in the middle for the ultimate showdown – rest of the PAX is in plank and the Mr. Rogers and YHC faced off in a squat for best 2 out of three rounds. YHC was victorious, and the losing team had to do 25 merkins.

Mosey back to the flag for some stretching. This group means so much and are a great part of my day, thank you all for the opportunity to lead today.

Announcements: Rosie’s 12 days of Christmas on Tuesday, and don’t forget your present!

YHC took us out!