Tag: Dogpile

Byrd Park

  • Rosie introduces another lady

    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 squats repeato until Q says stop.   10 minutes today

    Mosey down the pipeline.  Partner up for a couple pipeline runs.   Round 1 break dancers until your partner gets back,  round 2 captain Thor until your partner returns.   

    Mosey to Hate Hill.  Audibles needed here for time,  exercises ended up as inch worms, duck walk,  russian soldiers.

    Mosey to amphitheater.  Makthar N’diaye for the 6.  4 step ups alternating legs to the top.

    Flutter kicks x 20, dollies x 25

    Back to the flag.

    COT, Wilson took us out.

     

    NMS

    The PAX was strong today with maximum mumblechatter directed toward Cindy.  Apparently the ladies YHC introduces to the PAX are not well liked: Sally, Nicole and now Cindy.  Knowing that I am sure they will make a return visit at some point.  Upchuck and Honeydo were pounding out the pull ups while discussing their dislike of Cindy whether she had a connection to YHC or not.  Cindy is a full 20 min under the official list but YHC had to many other things planned to do that. 

    Break dancers made their way back into a Q after being introduced by Sippy some months ago.  Also the real Captain Thor with escalating 1:4 counts.   YHC enjoys that pipeline loop but pushed a little hard trying to catch up with the PAX.

    The original plan called for an animal kingdom Hate Hill but audibles were needed to speed our way up the hill to get to the amphitheater.  

    Singlet continues to post and crush it despite being on the road 5 days a week.  Keep pushing brother, you know you are getting stronger.

    The Carpenter posted after an excellent VQ on Tuesday at Daville.  We discussed the lack of sleep and adrenaline rush you get when Q.  Especially the VQ.  I expect a few more of the Daville men will be picking up Q’s once they get a few more workouts under their belt.

    2nd F at ETs was great as always with a Starsky from TYA.

    Great job today men a pleasure to lead such a good group.

    Until next time.

    Rosie.

  • A directive from Splinter

    Twenty strong converged to Dogpile on yet another muggy Saturday morn.  With a request from Splinter from the evening before to deliver a solid beatdown YHC commenced with:

    COP:  50 SSH, 20 Flutterkicks, 14 Merkins, Arm Circles – front and back, 20 Hillbillys, 18 Burpees (in honor of the RNC convention and 18 GOP presidents)

    Mosey to side of Carillon for TAT – TAP. Partner up, one partner does Touch a Tree while other does designated exercise.  Round 1 – 8 Trees & Donkey Kicks,  Round 2 –  6 Trees & Mtn Climbers, Round 3 – 4 Trees & Russian Twists.

    Mosey to Pull-Up bars.  Partner up.  3 Sets of Pull-Ups and Chin-Ups.  8 for first set, then 6, then 4.

    Mosey to bowl behind Amphitheater for Jacobs Ladder– Up to 8.  Then over into Amphitheater.  Derkins down the steps:  5 every step to the bottom.  Then escalating back up with Jump Squats 1 up to 18.  Then mosey over to field for:

    Jacobs Ladder (Halloween version): Same Jacobs ladder concept but instead of Burpees up the hill do Merkins, up to 6.  And oh yeah instead of running the PAX will bear crawl and Crab Walk between the sides.

    Mosey back to the Flag.

    NMS:  YHC received a text from Splinter last night announcing he was back in town and in need of a good beatdown.  Considering Dogpile Qs are expected to be the toughest of RVA each week so with the added pressure YHC decided to double up on the Jacobs Ladder, while reprising the Halloween version from last year with the Bear Crawl / Crab Walk in between.  YHC hopes the PAX enjoyed the extra effort with the lack of overall theme.

    Good to see Slurpee out at Dogpile put in a strong post today and very good to see Singlet come back for more, especially after Hardywood’s beatdown last week. Also Upchuck went again this morning to bike the trails after Dogpile for qseudo-double dip of his own.  Glad to see him as a Dogpile regular now.

    Again it is cool to see how Swirly’s Touch A Tree has evolve into a true deliverer of pain, and how much better it is to do in the sunlight, Aye!

    It’s been a while since the PAX has done the true Jacobs Ladder in the Bowl behind the theater. That, coupled with the heat & humidity seemed to wear out the PAX.

    To YHC’s knowledge none of the PAX needed the Blue Relief stations today, offsetting the recent trend.  Toga continues to show glimpses of the Old Toga during the beatdowns but does his best to hide his true sarcastic nature.  Maybe the PAX can negotiate a truce whereas New-kinder gentler, restrictor plate Toga appears only when Fudd is in attendance, and when not then the Old Toga is allowed to be freed.

    Prayers went out for Toga’s father, Emoji’s wife, and Spit.  The PAX is praying for all of you.

    Announcements:  Less than 50 days for the BRR.  A Convergence/Grow school is happening August 6th (?) at Dogpile at 7:00.  See Toga or coming Pre-blast for more details.

    What a privilege it is to lead a fine group of men this morning!

  • Do The Work

    15 strong and brave men posted up for Dogpile on this beautiful Saturday morning.  The conditions were ripe for success.  The theme for today was to help your brother thrive.

    The Thang:

    COP  – 20 X SSH, Imperial Walker, LBC, Freddy Mercury, 10 Merkin

    Head Rush – In teams of two.  One partner gets their head right with balls to the wall.  The other partner runs to tree and performs 10 air squats.  Once each partner has completed a set, that is one round.  Complete four rounds.

    Even Steven – In teams of two, with a different partner.  Each partner completes 10 pull ups, then run to the fire hydrant and complete 10 WWII situps.  Then complete sets of 8, 6, 4, 2.

    Southern Equator Love Hill – In teams of two, with a different partner.  Starting at the first incline of Love Hill one partner runs up to the halfway point.  The other partner completes an exercise.  Once the running partner has come back to the exercising partner, then switch.  The exercises were broad jump burpees, lunges and the mighty Polar Bear (bear crawl to 5 count then merkin).

    Northern Equator Love Hill – Let’s finish this mother out.  Switch up partners.  Same exercise, but this time to the gate at the top of Love Hill.

    Sup Bro – In teams of two, with a different partner.  Partner one holds feet pleasantly six inches off the ground.  Partner two runs up to the 10 step and performs 10 decline merkins.  Then switcheroo.  Partner one gets off their six and goes to step 9 to perform 9 decline merkins.  Then switcheroo with the next partner to the 8th step.  Etc to completion.

    Numberama, namerama, COT, Seymour lead us out.

    There are a few things that stood out for today.  Spit flipping DOMINATED Even Steven and Sup Bro.  He is a beast.  A huge fist bump goes to  Pigpen for crushing Love Hill Southern Equator.  That isn’t easy for anyone.  The crusher award goes to Singlet for hopping like a frog on PEDs on the Northern Equator of Love Hill.  Just incredible.  It is the understanding of YHC that was the first time Love Hill in it’s entirety was conquered in full.  Damn it feels good to be a gangster.

    On Friday I heard some one say “don’t confuse the menu for the food”.  It’s one thing to talk about doing the work and how good it would feel to be that disciplined and driven.  It’s quite another to wake your ass up at 4:30 in the morning and sweat your brains out on a diet of whatever your kids didn’t eat the night before (mac’n cheese & chicken tenders).  Doing the work is not ever as easy as talking about it.  It is however always better.  Always.

    It is just the greatest privilege of YHC to lead this fine group of men.  Have a great weekend gentlemen.

    -Hardywood

  • Planking with the bears.

    It was a surprisingly non-humid and beautiful July morning for a workout. 16 Pax.
    COP.
    Mosey to warmup circle via a circuitous route.
    10x helicopters, 15x Don Quixote, Arm circles forward and back, small and big, 7x Knerkins, 20x Freddie Mercuries.
    Polar bear crawl (staggered merkin every five bear crawl steps) back and forth from edge of circle to center (2x).
    Mosey to amphitheater for 3.5 minutes of bunny hop up and run down.
    Mosey to pullup bars for partner pullups 1-5 pullups and 5-1 chin ups.
    Mosey down pipe and eventually make way down to the path behind Maymont past the bear habitat.
    Plank with feet up on rail. Pax on end runs to the other end and everyone does 2 derkins when each Pax passes, after 1 cycle, do one derkin, after 2 cycles just plank.
    Incline plank on rail, move right and move left according to instructions of YHC. More Plank-a-rama exercises.
    Mosey back to bottom of hill. Run ¾ of the way up hill. Skip up last ¼ of hill, balls to the wall on the brick building at top of hill while you wait for the six.
    Touch a tree. Revolution #1—3 trees: alternate bear crawl and crab walk with each tree. Revolution #2—touch 10 trees, running.
    Mosey to parking lot poles for 30 pole smokers.
    Mosey back to flag for 25x mountain climbers.
    COT—YHC led us out with prayers for the day and for Spit’s recent illness.
    Naked Moleskin:
    YHC kept the PAX moving today and we explored a new area of the AO, one that is well traveled during Sunday’s trail run. The rails should provide some good opportunities for plank-a-ramas. YHC opted for mostly full-body exercises today after a tough RAMM workout yesterday. Still we did about 2 miles of mostly moseying during the workout.
    Random thoughts: Hardywood and Malpractice impressed today in the bunny hops. Hardywood was taking one hop per step and Malpractice was taking a disciplined 2, both with excellent form. EF Hutton made it through the partner pullups without help! Skipping up hill is exhausting. YHC did not realize that there are a lot of poison-ivy covered trees in the area we did touch a tree—let’s hope no one touched those! There was a brief Saab sighting during the COP as he motored down love hill.
    As always men, it was a pleasure to lead you this morning.

  • Arms, more arms, and a little running

    17 RVA regulars, 2 FNGs and 1 SC visitor posted to Dogpile to get their holiday weekend off right. Temp was 75 degrees and muggy although the AO was freshly mowed for the forthcoming fireworks.  Swirly was on Q and delivered a typical arm-bruising beatdown:

    COP –  25 SSH, 20 Don Qs, 15 Helicopters, 20 LBCs, Arm Circles – forward & backwards

    THE THANG:

    Mosey over for Modified Love Hill – Start at turn-around point for normal Love Hill and go back up to top of hill by Amphitheater.  Partner up – exercises were Bear Crawl, Russian Soldier, Lunges

    Mosey to Amphitheater for Descending alternating ladder –  Start at 18th step, down to 1st step, alternate with Dips on Even steps, Incline Merkins Odd steps. Plank at bottom.

    Reverse Newton’s law – What comes down must come back up – Start at 1st step and go back up at 18 – alternating Dips and Incline Merkins

    Mosey to Pull-Up bars.  5 Pull Ups, 5 Chin Ups, 10 Second Hold.  Repeato x3.

    Mosey to the field in front of Carillon for Triple Check – Run, WWII Situps, & Squats.

    Mosey back to COP circle for Curb Crawls –  Up to 5 and back down.  Odd #s incline merkins, even #s decline merkins.  Finish up with Firedrill – stop drop & roll.  Mosey back to the flag, Gumbo took us out.

    NMS:

    Swirly asked YHC to write-up this BB as he is on his way to the Beach today.  YHC believes Swirly decided to get in all the arm work he would normally do during the week during the Q this AM at Dogpile. Between the combo Dip-Incline Merkin ladder, pull-ups and Curb Crawls YHC’s arms are smoked.  Great work by the PAX knocking these out.

    The morning started with the non-Davillian’s getting a look at the now-infamous Emoji F3 S racing jersey.  Although there was some good ribbing about the tightness of fit, and rightfully so, there is definitely a tinge of jealousy by some of the PAX (YHC included) for being able to pull that off at 50, aye!

    On Love Hill YHC learned that Grunt can bear crawl much better than his father, guess he got that from Swirly’s M. The firedrills at the end, right after the curb-crawls, saw many of the PAX lose any semblance of proper form. Most seemed to be flailing around on the ground, waiting for the call to mosey back to the flag.

    At ETs afterward Stewardess arrived, he had gotten the location mixed up and missed Dogpile. Guess he’d heard ETs is the best part of Dogpile, which is true but even better after getting smoked for an hour.  Still a valiant attempt to post twice in your first week, Aye!

    Great work by Munson and Laughing Gas.  Posting to a Swirly Dogpile for your first time is no joke! There is an F3 saying that it does not get any easier, you just get stronger but that may actually be true after this beatdown…

    Apologies if I missed any of the PAX here, Swirly handed me the Name-o-rama list but it is written in a foreign language YHC cannot decipher…

    Announcements –  Batteau is the only AO on 4th of July – special starting time at 7:00.  Don’t miss this Hardywood beatdown!  See the pre-blast for details.  Also Blue Balls has his VQ this Tuesday at Daville, way to step up!

  • “Paying to workout, that’s like paying for porn!”

    A gorgeous morning for a workout, and 23 brothers agreed!  24 total of a fine breed of men started their Saturday with a bang.  Is that a Dogpile record????  It’s got to be close.  YHC stuck a shovelflag in the ground, and here is what went down:

    COP

    (Disclaimer:  all numbers selected are completely arbitrary and have no meaning whatsoever)

    • SSH X28 IC
    • Don Quixote X21 IC
    • Ball Dippers X18 IC
    • Arm Circles X10 little X5 Big, Reverso
    • Full Supination Merkins X12 IC
    • Dreya Rolls X10 OYO

    The Sippy Cup Bridge Run

    • Start at toll booth, head south on Nickle Bridge.  X1 burpee at every light pole
    • Fastest 3 pax (plus ties) go to Riverside Dr. X20 merkins then had back north, X1 Dreya roll at every light pole.
    • Rest of pax drop and do X20 merkins when passed by fastest pax member, then return north bound (X1 Dreya roll at each light pole).

    Amphitheater 11’s

    • Freddie Mercuries while waiting on pax (X28 IC)
    • Full supine merkins at bottom of amphitheater
    • Incline APD’s at top
    • Run perimeter of amphitheater when complete

    The Testing of the Q

    • Q does 1 burpee for every pax he cannot name.  3 burpees performed by Q.
    • All pax does X10 OYO burpees

    COT/BOM

    OK, so no avoiding the obvious:  the story of the day was the Q having no idea who a certain member of the pax was (Pax Member X), even though Pax Member X knew Q.  YHC was racking his brain thru the entire set of 11’s trying to come up with name.  No luck.  So, upon return to shovelflag, Q asked Pax Member X for penance. Pax Member X stated Q should have to do a burpee for every pax he could not name.  Sounds fair, let’s do it!  First burpee was visitor from Kernersville that Q had not met yet (Frodo).  Second burpee was pax member X (Conspiracy).  The third one is the only that Q is embarrassed over, as YHC named him last week (Seymore).  Turns out, Conspiracy had LIFO’d into a #Punisher workout a few months ago, which was also a Lab Rat Q (he also got a Kotter there).  Sorry to not have remembered you, but it’s been a while.

    The title of the BB was a quote overheard by Opus between unknown pax member and Conspiracy regarding Conspiracy’s posting to a certain pay to play workout group. (YHC’s money would be that Wilson said it.)

    Three lessons for all to take away from this:

    1.  If you want people to know you, you got to post up.
    2. You are always welcome back to F3!
    3. Dont mess with the Q, he writes the backblasts.

    Other than that, the pax worked hard today!  Beautiful views for the bridge run, and the 11’s in the amphitheater really  got the blood pumping.  Mumblechatter definitely picked up regarding the full supination merkins, where even Sippy complained a little (which speaks volumes).  That warms YHC’s heart!  You are welcome.

    ET’s was lively this morning.  One of YHC’s favorite parts of the week is the 2nd F after Dogpile, taking over the bar area with lively conversations and offending odors.  Glad to see TYA stopping in “the office” as well, although he made YHC put a shirt on otherwise he wouldnt sit at our table.

    Announcements

    Great to have our two visitors from NC!  Great to meet you, Frodo.  Good to see you again, Dr. Evil.  Way to represent!

    Also, Kotters to Winstons, who has been dealing with some knee pain.  Heal up quick, Brother!

    Special congratulations to Rosie for smoking a recent half marathon in Roanoke!  1:41, good enough to take 4th in his age group!

    Phonics is race director for Reese Strong 5K, proceeds going to help kids dealing with cancer and their families.  This is an awesome grass-roots organization, and we will have a strong F3 presence at the race this year.  It is the week after BRR, and it is family friendly.  Look for more details coming soon, but mark your calendars now.

    It is always an honor to be able to step out in front of such a great group of men to sharpen YHC’s leadership skills.  Thanks to each and every one of you for allowing that to happen.

    Lab Rat

    PS, Lab Rat hopes you enjoy reading this post with associated background music….courtesy of Conspiracy and Winstons!

  • What happened today in history and what’s in your name?

    21 strong men showed up for what YHC hoped to be a creative beat down.

    Quick lap around the VITA track to warm up the legs.

    COP: 18 SSH, 18 Don Quixote, 18 LBC’s, Merkins

    W: 20 Burpees(OYO)

    A: 50 SSH

    L: 2 min wall sit

    T: 15 Squats

    D: 15 Merkins

    I: 30 SSH

    S: 30 Burpees (OYO)

    N: 40 SSH

    E: 1 min wall sit

    Y: 30 LBC’s

    T: 15 Squats

    A: 50 SSH

    R: 15 Merkins

    Z: 15 Arm circles (both directions)

    A: 50 SSH

    N: 20 Cross leg lifts (each leg)

    Line up for box cutter run – do box cutters until the 1st man runs to end of line. Repeat the other way but with elbow planks (last time I listen to SAAB)

    Short Mosey to Tower stairs. Partner up. One runs up and around tower and other does SSH. (2x)

    Mosey to shovel flag.

    Moleskin:

    So, in full disclosure YHC has been just plain lazy and has been enjoying the comfort of the fart sack the last week or so. I figured the best way to jump start my attendance was to Q! WOW how F3 RVA has grown. It was great to meet all the PAX I have not yet met. GREAT additions! As I was preparing my weinke (some behaviors are hard to break), I wanted to combine a workout I saw online (each letter of the alphabet is assigned an exercise) and what happened today in history. So I searched the great big World Wide Web! Today in history was absolutely BORING! I forged on and found that in 1999 Walt Disney released Tarzan today! Genius move of them to open the new Tarzan movie this weekend! Anyway, as I began to write the back blast I saw on Twitter (@WFRIV) that TODAY Van Halen released the album For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge (watch Sammy talk about it!). Where was that on the web? One of the best! So as we speak I’m jamming to VH!

    It was an honor leading the PAX today. Welcome Singlet & Blue Balls! Great job and I WILL see you all more in the gloom. Like it or not! 🙂

    Announcements:

    Tuesday – SHOW UP! We are going for record numbers!

  • Going to Deep Water


    2 Pioneers and 3 Faithful and 1 Jacksonville PAX member rolled in early for Earthworms Pre-Game at Gridiron, to be joined by 2 more Double Dippers. 18 faithful posted at Dogpile for a mild,wild workout.

    THE THANG

    The Rest of the routine at Gridiron went something like this:

    Mosey around Parking Lot for a COP

    Warmup COP: Side Straddle Hops (SSH) x 39, American Pushups (Merkins) x 12, Flutter Kicks x 32, Low Slow Squats x 25.

    Run to backside of Short Pump Middle School, planking along the way to keep the pax together.

    Middle School Bus Lot — Ark Loader: Lunge Walk; Bear Crawl; Crab Walk;.

    Run to tennis courts for Burpee Suicides: Run to first sideline, 1 burpee, back to start; to second sideline, 2 burpees, back to start; to third sideline, 3 burpees, back to start. going up to 6.

    Bleachers for Linday’s, Step-ups and Dips.

    Run back along middle school arcade, mixing in lunge walks and bear crawls.

    Run to Pouncey Tract Park football field — COP for Push-o-rama: Merkins x 10; Werkins(wide arms) x 10; Peter Parkers x 10; Diamonds to failure, Repeat Sequence.

    Run to Pouncey Tract Park football field for a COP — Six Minutes of Mary: Little Baby Crunches, High Slow Flutters, Heels to Heaven, X’s and O’s.

    Ring of Fire: Merkins and Box Cutters both ways

    Superman

    Return to parking lot for COT with TYA taking us out

    Dogpile

    Mosey to Ampitheater, Ascending and Descending Merkin Ladder up the steps. First step 1 Merkin, Bear crawl to third, 2 on next and repeato until the top. Disclaimer was done as part of the first exercise. Mosey to Love hill. Teams of two, one PAX run to gate (look out for Bobo), and other performs exercises. Switch and repeato until everyone hits the gate. Exercises are Lunges, walk out merkins, and broad jump burpees. Mosey to bottom of the half pipe for a 1k – 5k. One pax run up the half pipe, take a left and make your way back down to road. Other PAX performs exercises: 100 Burpees, 200 Merkins, 300 Captain Thors, and 400 2 count flutter kicks. Mosey back up Love hill and to the shovel flag. COT by YHC and out into the day.

    Moleskin

    Bleeder departed Dogile mid-workout with Circle K, Circle K headed to a Tennis Match, Bleeder headed to Q at Gridiron. Earthworms passage of going to deeper water was excellent. At Gridiron, Bleeder basically doubled the entire first workout the pioneers experienced over year and a half ago. Even the elements of Keeping the PAX together, White Deer plowing forward, but having knee replacement has slowed his running speed( However, not his Bear Crawls). Way to push through White Deer!

    TYA stinks, literally. At the first circle up at Gridiron, TYA quickly noticed a rank odor coming from the PAX. Of course, as is his way, he let everyone know that there was an issue. He quickly found out, once he moved downwind, that the issue was his. WOW, has he taken a shower all week. To remedy that situation, Bleeder doused TYA with a bottle of water after the workout.

    Skipping the initial COP and going right into the exercises was different today. TYA had a lot of work scheduled and did not have extra time to spend on items he could take care of during the exercise regimen. When we got to the Amphitheater, feedback from the PAX was instant, as I declared yesterday that I did not want to do anything in the Amphitheater. As I thought through the workout, the amphitheater is one of the best assets at Dogpile and it seemed a waste to not take advantage of it.

    Lots of mumbling and grumbling about the exercises and number of exercises during the 1k 5k. The Q hearing the feedback immediately decided to make no changes. Timeframe ended up being really tight, but we did get back to the shovel flag at 7:01 (no extra charge for the extra minute of workout today, its already includedin your fee).

    During this week several PAX members asked both TYA and Bleeder about the Corporate Challenge of Q’ing every day of the week. Like most CSAUP’s( Completely Stupid and Utterly Pointless) there was no reason for doing it; other than “can you?”. Most things F3, “can you?” is the operative question; Everyday has it’s own challenges, Work, Family, Friends, everyone has a challenge that they are facing. Some may seem simple, others overly complex, F3 is a simple challenge, but it’s a choice. Take the red pill.

    TYA and Bleeder, over and out.

  • Behold…fresh cut grass

    19 faithful and 2 FNGs posted to Dogpile on a cloudy Saturday. Temp was 75 degrees, humidity much higher with the fresh cut fields of Dogwood Dell calling to the PAX to come play. Here is how it went down:

    Mosey to COP with disclaimer- 35 SSH, 20 Merkins, 25 Boxcutters, 20 Mtn Climbers, 10 Helicopters.

    Mosey to Amphitheater for modified Lucky Horseshoe
    Escalating exercises per step up to 5 then drop exercises down to 9th step:
    20 Merkins, 20 Mtn Climbers (4 count), 20 Carolina Dry Docks, 20 WWII Situps, 10 Burpees.

    Mosey to Pull Up Bars, pair up.  5 Pull-ups, 5 Chin-ups, 15 Dips, run to Maple tree & back.  Repeato x3.

    Go halfway up hill to Carillon then:  Tunnel of Love.  

    Mosey to Carillon:  Run up, 5 Burpees at top, go down then 20 Flutterkicks at bottom.  Repeato x4.

    Mosey back to Flag for COT.

    NMS: YHC is known for themes and today’s beatdown was no different but a rather sentimental one of historical significance: 6/4/15 was YHC’s first F3 post so everything was an homage to Loose Goose’s beatdown last year.  That day was the first appearance of the now dreaded Lucky Horseshoe and YHC barely survived that one.  Since Sippy broke out the Lucky Horseshoe at the Amphitheater a few weeks ago YHC had some minor tweaks as the storm squats suck.  4 Ct Mtn Climbers are not much better apparently, and 10 Burpees because who doesn’t love more Burpees.  Speaking of Sippy he burned through the LH in no time per his usual while for many of the PAX this was their first exposure to the classic beatdown.

    The Tunnel of love was also a repeat from YHC’s 1st beatdown.  Two observations: of any PAX exercise the TOL creates the most mumblecatter, immediately.  Also there seem to be way more than 21 PAX in the tunnel.  At the end there was quite a bend in the tunnel and although starting uphill finish going downhill.  At least Lab Rat got another time through the TOL as he has been asking for a reappearance for some time.

    Great work by the DaVille crew who rolled in 5 deep in their clown car (truck) and nice work Lost & Found.  Also welcome to Seymour and Gucci, solid work on your first posting.  21 at Dogpile is a great sight!

    Announcements–  Lost & Found does a bible study every other Friday, talk to him if interested.  Also Phonics is leading a cornhole tournament in Mechanicsville, post to DaVille to find out more…

    Again many thanks to the PAX for allowing YHC to lead today and share my story in the COT.  This group has been a powerful inspiration to all of us but YHC is especially grateful to have found F3 RVA.  This last year has been an amazing experience for YHC and cannot wait to see the positive influence it continues to have in our lives.

     

     

     

     

  • Charles Bronson makes his F3 debut

    17 Pax didnt have anywhere else to be this holiday Saturday morning, so why not come work out?  Sounds great, let’s get busy…

    COP

    • SSH
    • Hillbillies (the Johnsonville Hop)\
    • arm circles, reverso
    • Break Dancers (much preferred name to step outs)
    • Crab Cakes
    • Pass the Q to HoneyDo so that he can call out his beloved Richard Kimbles (X10 OYO)
    • From pavement to inner circle:
      • bear crawl, crawl bear back out
      • crab walk, walk crab back out
      • plank walk, walk plank back out

    THANG

    • Charles Bronson
      • X50 SSH, sprint to second flag, army crawl to third flag, slow jog to first flag
      • X50 Burpees, sprint to second flag, army crawl to third flag, slow jog to first flag
      • X50 Merkins, sprint to second flag, army crawl to third flag, slow jog to first flag
      • X50 LBC’s, sprint to second flag, army crawl to third flag, slow jog to first flag
      • X50 Jump Squats, sprint to second flag, army crawl to third flag, slow jog to first flag
      • When finished, run the Carillon steps, alternate between American hammers and flutter kicks between each pass
    • 11’s in the Ampitheater
      • American Hammers at the bottom of the ampitheater
      • Freddie Mercuries at the top steps
    • Behind the flags Indian Run- 1 lap around the greenway then back to the truck.
    • 1 minute of Mary- extended Superman.

    COT

    • Reminder to say personal word of thanks for those that gave the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country.
    • “The Man in the Arena” by Teddy Roosevelt

    NMS

    YHC did the “Charles Bronson” workout many moons ago while training for his first Tough Mudder event.  It was developed by a TM legend known as “Mustache Man”…YHC remembers it kicking butt back then, so was wondering how the Pax would do.  Lab Rat 2.0’s dry erase board was brought in to play so that the pax could concentrate on the task at hand, and not remember the excersizes and orders.  Dry erase board seemed to be much appreciated.

    Also brought in to play were 3 shovel flags that were carried with the pax from spot to spot (and served as the Bronson markers).  Most pax had the opportunity to take turns carrying a flag for at least a short distance.  This was so well received that Hardywood borrowed one for his run back to his car parked at Ellwood Thompsons!  YHC decided that was a momentus occasion worthy of capturing, and was delighted to find Saab running along side for a truly spectacular image of patriotism and athletic endurance.

    Speaking of athletic endurance, T-claps to Saab, Sippy Cup, and Hardywood for moseying to and from The Dell this morning.  Yall are inspirations to us mortals.

    T-claps as well to the newer pax members for posting up this morning, way to work Gentlemen!  Most notably Spit and Grabber (coming in hot from Daville), as well as Lost and Found, who YHC had the pleasure of meeting for the first time this morning.  Also, glad to see Viral back in the mix….although his merlot would have benefited from a 45 minute workout!  Way to hang in there thru the Suck!

    YHC broke tradition this morning and took us out with “The Man in the Arena” speech by Teddy Roosevelt.  YHC had two thoughts for doing this instead of the traditional prayer:

    1.   A reminder to the Pax that although most of us are Christian, F3 is welcome to ALL men, regardless of religious calling.
    2. It is a bad-ass quote that absolutely applies to all those that “dare greatly” every single morning they crawl out of that warm fart-sack and embrace the gloom with their fellow F3 brothers.  We are a group of doers, and there is no room for “cold and timid souls” in this group of men.

    Announcements

    • Daville and Spider Run T-shirts pre order thru June 1.  Free shipping thru memorial day if using the code: REMEMBER
    • Trail run 7:00 a.m. same bat channel.
    • River Run on Monday moved to 7 a.m.  See preblast for details.
    • Punisher on Monday special Memorial Day time and AO change:  7 a.m. at Tredegar Parking lot for the Belle Isle footbridge.  Preblast announcement coming.
    • F3 Richmond Linked In group is live!  Start networking with your brothers in the Gloom!
    • Congrats to Swirly 2.0 for HS graduation!
    • Thoughts and prayers (and opportunities) for Viral, who is looking at a layoff in the near future.  Hopefully he can put some details on what he is looking for out there….maybe on the Linked In page???

    A pleasure to lead this morning, gentlemen.

     

    Lab Rat