Seventeen sweaty and soggy faithful posted to Dogpile for yet another rainy and humid beatdown. Theme for the day was 100 in respect to our brother Saab undertaking the Cloudsplitter today.  It went down like this: COP:  100 SSH, 100 Merkins, 100 LBCs.  SSH were IC. Mosey to field:  100 PLTs, each partner 4 sets up to 100.  Then Elbow plank – Indian run to end of field.  Then Burpee Road, but escalating.  All the way up to 8 burpees at the 8th streetlight. Mosey down road to right.  Partner up again.  Bear crawl across street and up hill to…

27 faithful and newly anointed presented themselves at Dogwood Dell today for what YHC hoped would be a satisfactory beat-down. This is what transpired (more or less)… COP: SSH, DQ’s (Abe/Swirly style!), Arm Circles, LBC’s, maybe something else… 4 Corners (on a Triangle?): 25 WWII, (Bear Crawl to next station), 25 Merkins, 25 Burpees, 25 Flutter Kicks (4 count)…all done near “far traffic circle” past the Carillon. Doras (Carillon): 100 Merkins, 100 LBC’s, 100 Box Cutters, 100 Jump Squats, Rusty Cage: 5 pullups (overhand, underhand), 5 Jerkins (overhand, underhand). Repeato Jacobs Ladder (Burpees) on pit of pain Amphitheater: Lindsays (Dips…

YHC was delighted to see all of the pax this morning along with a special out of town F3 guest OBT ! A beautiful morning indeed – and here is how we rolled.. Warm ups : 20 SSH, 10 windmills, 10 helicopters – 10 Arm Circles – 10 Imperial Walkers – 10 APD”s 10 LBC’s. Rusty Cage : 3 sets of 5 overhand pull ups – 3 sets of 5 under hand pull ups Rusty Cage 2 : on the dips bars – partner holding feet. 3 sets of 5 overhand pull ups 3 sets of 5 under hand pull…

An enthusiastic PAX of seven posted for Dogpile just ahead of the SpeakUp 5K planned for later that morning. The Thang: We moseyed from the Dogwood Dell parking lot across the driveway northward to a grassy knoll for the COP with 15 x Imaginary jumpropes, 20 x Hillbillies, 15 x Don Quixotes, and 15 x Arm Circles (little then big, forward then reverse). We headed north for a jog around the perimeter of the Vita Course, sticking to the sidewalks and less busy streets.  Stop at each lit streetlight for Little Baby Crunch set of 20 – YHC didn’t count…

It’s been a while since YHC has experienced such a wet & muddy AO. 20 brave & strong men left the comfort of the fart sack looking for a solid beat down. The THANG: Mosey to the amphitheater stage for a dry comfy Earth Worm ground & pound style workout to music! Perform the called out exercise for the entire song! Disclaimer – not the normal one, but one from Wilson’s wife. “Don’t get injured or let anyone else get injured a week before BRR!” She got a bit worked up over it…more on that later! SSH – Yankee Rose…

Twenty “Teen spirited” tallboys took to Dogpile on the 25th anniversary of Nirvana’s debut video on MTV.  For the Silver anniversary occassion YHC requested the PAX show up in Grunge garb to enjoy another themed beatdown.  Temperature at 6 was 84 with high humidity, not ideal for extra flannel layers, but still the PAX persisted: COP – 30 of all exercises to note 30 million albums of Nirvana’s Nevermind.  SSH, Merkins, Flutterkicks, IWs, Arm Circles.  Mosey to Amphitheater for Modified Beast – 6 sets of exercises, 6 for each step, up to the 6th Step.  6 also was the highest…

15 faithful emerged from the fartsack and decided instead to attack this beautiful morning at Dogpile to get their day started off right.  After possibly the shortest mosey in Dogpile history and figuring time would be of the essence today to complete the planned decathalon, YHC dispensed with a quick disclaimer seeing no FNGs and got right into a short COP that went something like this: SSH x20 IC DQ x10 IC IW x15 IC Merkins x10 IC LBC x20 IC In the spirit of the Olympics and after watching American Ashton Eaton successfully defend his Decathlon title this week,…

11 extraordinary men dominated Dogpile on a beautiful Saturday including one FNG. The conditions were optimal for success.  We took full advantage of those conditions. The thang: COP  – 20 X SSH, Imperial Walker, LBC, Freddy Mercury, +10 Merkin.  Homage paid to Gnarly Goat. 4 Rounds – Run up stairs at The Carillon, lunge across, back down, bear crawl to flower pots and run back to stairs. Ladder Of Domination – Picking six trees of semi equal distance apart in the field in front of The Carillon, run to the first tree to perform 5 merkins and 5 LBC.  Run…

22 hard-chargers sallied forth to take a stiff shot of Dogpile with a #growSchool chaser.  Humidity met stupidity as we undertook this THANG: Front leaning rest for muster, instruction and inspection.  All hands were accounted for, so we shoved off and were underway/making way. Mosey, Karioca run, side shuffle over to the 240′ Carillon Tower where we took station on the brick courtyard for CoP. 30 x ssh 10 x windmill 15 x IST 15 x toy soldiers 1 min invisible jump rope John “IHOP” Powers IHOP’s x2 rounds All hands muster on the Great Lawn for “The Michigan” Re-convene…

14 faithful rolled into Dogwood Dell for a cool summer beatdown.  YHC hasn’t had the Q at Dogpile in a while so there were a lot of things to do plus a look at the exercise list have me some ideas too. THANG Mosey to the first Circle for COP 10 Abe Vigodas-  1 burpee 20 Seal Jacks – 2 burpees 15 arm circles foward/Reverse sobriety style – 3 burpees 20 Hillbillies with optional Jville hop – 4 burpees 15 dancing chilcutts – 5 burpees Mosey to the pull up bars for a modified Cindy – 5 pull ups/10 merkins/15…