21 warriors got all dressed up to enter Richmond’s newest club, Coyote.  If you’re looking for a wild time with monkeys, two miniature horses and whispering men, this is your place.  It’s also the only club in Richmond where vests are welcomed and there’s no cover fee between 5:30 and 6:15am.  According to the Yelp review, it went a little something like this. COP: SSH X 10, SSH RL X 10, SSH LL X 10, CP X 20, WWII X 20, FC X 20, HRM RL X 10, HRM LL X 10, Arm Circle X 1. Mosey to Rusty Cage…

First Dogpile of 2019 and 39 RVA redwoods made it through the early morning fog for a fully planned Rosie Q. Mosey to the circle and get into a line for some dynamic warm up, Flange style. High knees, butt kickers, slide left, slide right, lay ups.  COP, start with Don Quixotes for Wilson and Saab. Next up, since Toga’s name has come up a couple times recently, a little tribute to his focus on form. 8 count merkins with hand release and shoulder taps. Slow full squats.  Slow Freddie mercuries. Watch Swirly leave the COP,zero wonder if it wasn’t…

29 of the finest men in F3 including an all week visitor for NC and 4 Ruck beast, arrived on the last Saturday of 2018 to review how great this year was. The ruckers dropped off Swirly and when off their way for another hour then the PAX got to work This is how it went down. This marks the 52nd Dogpile of the Year. Slaughter Start – 52 (2ct) American Hammer Mosey to the far circle COP (ALL IC) –  20x SSH, 18x DQ, 20x Hillbillies, 18x Merkins, 20x LBC’s, 18x Dying Cockroach,  20x Arm Circles (large only/forward), 18x Arm…

29 Strong gathered in the gloom after the longest night of the year for a kickboxing beatdown. Mosey to the far circle for: COP.  10x helicopters, 10x woodchoppers, 10x Imperial Walkers, 10x Merkins, 15x SSH.  Stay in the circle for a series of crawls to the center, followed by 5 merkins and then backwards crawls out.  The series was: Bear Crawl, Crab walk, Crippled bear (R leg), Crippled Bear (L leg). Mosey near the stage for Round one of kickboxing.  20 seconds on, ~10 seconds rest for each set.  Alternating sides.  Set #1:  Jab-jab cross.  Set #2: Jab-Uppercut. Mosey to…

27 lovers, muggers, and thieves sallied forth to love the dirty water at today’s version of The Dogpile.  Weather forecast was light rain and 50 on the outside, sunny and 70 on the inside. Pre-Workout: Wilson: “Hey, UpChuck, you’re going to keep us dry today, right?” YHC: “You bet, pal.” Mile Mosey to the Far Traffic Circle: During the run, YHC said to Swirly: “Hey, Swirly, where can we stay warm and dry?”  After some consideration about how few options there are at Dogpile, one place came to mind: at home, in bed. Swirly’s response: “I can’t do that.”  Bam.  Let’s…

37 Gladiators of the Gloom faced cold weather and certain beat down for the following, more or less. Mosey to the first traffic circle for COP: Helicopters Don Quixote HRM Crab Cakes SSH Over to the amphitheater: Descending count of Monkey Humpers – start with 18 At the bottom, partner up for 3×20 Wilson’s Boxing Cockroaches Ascending count of Box Cutters and end at 18 Jog on back to the Rusty Cage.  5 Pullups, 10 Dips, run to the fire hydrant and do 20 scissor kicks.  Three times through. Partner up for Jerkins – 4 sets of 7. Over to…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR9WJToFsTs 31 fired up men posted to Dogpile to start their weekend off the only way us F3 men know how…with a beatdown that went like this: Start with a few pre-launch STACHE photos of YHC and Vinny looking strong with their Magnum PI shirts and dirty upper lips.  Glorious.  0530, ok, let’s roll… Mosey to the circle in front of the amphitheater and around then circle up for a S.T.A.C.H.E. COP, including: SSHs x12 Tempo Merkins x11 APDs x19 Copperhead Squats x80…in theory…no idea how many were actually done (NOTE to future Qs, don’t announce a number of exercises,…

When YHC was a boy, there was a story told of brave men who battled the cold, fartsack and sad clowns to save the day.  This morning that vision was birthed into reality au naturel.  Once we cut the chord, here’s how it went down. COP: SSH X 10, SSHRL X 10, SSHLL X 10, WWII X 20, FC X 20, M X 10, MRL, X 10, MLL X 10, Arm Circle X 2 Mosey to the bottom of the hill. Hill Work:  One partner runs to the top of the hill and back down.  The other partner exercises making progress up the hill,…

27 came out on a frost morning with FNGs and out of town visitors we had a lot of ground to cover: COP –  Imaginary Jumprope, Don Qs, Merkins, Flutterkicks, Imperial Walkers Head to Carillon field – Bear craw width, 20 merkins, crawl back then 10 more.  Crab Walk across, 15 WWIIs, then back and 10 more WWIIs.  Wheelbarrow across, switch partner and back.  Head over to the Rusty Cage for: 5-10-15-20.  5 Pullups, 10 Jerkins, 15 Dips, 20 Jump Squats.  5 Rounds through. Then head down Pipeloop with just enough sunlight to allow for:  Triple Check – Run loop,…

Little did Lab Rat know, but today was the Marine Corps birthday.  Seems only fitting that a squid should take the Q to talk about how awesome vets are on a day to celebrate the Corps.  Luckily, 1 marine and 18 others came out to join him. COP-  Run around the circle and do some karaoke plus backwards run.  To loosen you up, Spit!  Then a bunch of the usual stuff.  If you’ve seen one LR COP, you’ve seen them all. THANG- -Give me 5:  Mosey up the long awaited open carillon steps and circle up.  All Vets (even Marines)…