Tag: First Watch

Four Horsemen entered the squared circle at First Watch.  Here’s what happened.

Mosey down River Rd to the UR Intramural Field, pit stop to tell Saab hello.

• SSHs
• Russian Soldiers
• Hairy Rockettes
• Jazzercises
• Reverse Crunches
• Hand Release Merkins

Dora (P1 Exercise/ P2 Bear Crawl up hill to fence and run back)

• 100 2ct Mountain Climbers
• 200 Suzanne Somers
• 300 SSHs

Mosey over to long-jump area

Quadruple Check

• Dips
• Step Ups
• LBCs
• Run to giant Pack’n’Play and back

Mosey around to the hill behind the fields on Crenshaw

11s – Merkins/ Jump Squats (Bernie up between sets)

Mosey up Crenshaw to College to Club Vista to Westham and back to flag

Numberama, Nameorama, COT

MOLESKIN

Good to have some company this morning, though thoughts of a “solo Q” crossed YHC’s mind when First Watch Captain Kubota let YHC know he wouldn’t be able to make it this week. 

Things YHC learned this morning:

• Honeydo chooses his car in the morning based on which one of the four actually starts. 
• Handshake can hyper-extend his knees 3 or 4 times and keep on plugging away. 
• Splinter must have known we’d find the tall grass and possibly some ticks this morning, so he made sure to shave his….

ANNOUNCEMENTS

None of record

A pack of six mosey’d over to the grassy triangle for COP. Helicopter, Don Quixote, Imperial Walkers, SSH, and Scorpion Kicks were the exercise du jour. At one point I thought I saw eyes looking up at me and decided against foreboding copperhead squats.

Down Westham Station for “Side Street Lindsays”. At every intersection, we perform a set. Exercises were Box Cutters and Carolina Dry Docks.

At the flats by the canal, we partnered up for some Dora. Run a tenth of a mile down and back while your partner does 100 merkins, 200 monkey jumpers, and 300 flutter kicks.

Hang a left on old bridge heading up hill. Partner 1 runs the hill to the first intersection and back to partner 2. Partner 2 performs walking lunges, broad jump burpees, and bunny hops.

We had so much fun we did it again as we turned on Highland, but this time with bear crawls and reverse lunges. Hutton has a true bear crawl gift as he made it to the top had a beer, took a nap, and woke to greet us when we arrived.

Long mosey up the hill and along River. Stop for some Mary in Saab’s driveway (APD, right oblique crunches, left oblique crunches).

Back to the AO where YHC took us out.

This year is roughly halfway done and its been a crazy one so far. How are you going to get the most out of the second half?

Lockjaw

3 First Watch regulars found a lost FW newbie to make it 4 for a beautifully cool summer morning beatdown. We did:

COP of 3: SSH, Don Qs, Imperial Walkers, Merkins, LBC. Start mosey to church main lot (find Last Call on the way) and start of with a Lindsay of: Hand Release Merkins & V-Ups.

Dora 123: 100 Mtn Climbers, 200 American Hammers, & 300 SSH. Over to side wall for 3 rounds of: 30 Donkey Kicks, lunge across then 20 Jump Squats. Back to Kettlebells. 2 rounds of: Swings, Sit-n-Press, Cleans, 4th runs the lot loop. Finish up with 2 min of mary: APDs, Freddy Mercurys, Reverse Crunch. Announcements & YHC took us out.

NMS: Lighter numbers at First Watch this morning but no real rain to bother us PAX. During the COP we saw a SUV circle the lot a few times but not on the other side of River lot where we normally park. Luckily we were able to track down Last Call and promptly dropped a Lindsay with 100 HRMs on him right away. Prayers for Kubota who is getting a puppy this weekend.

Announcements: HR-HDHH at Kubota’s next Wednesday. 3rd F next Tuesday, check Slack for details. 4th of July Convergence at No Toll 6:00 am.

Six early birds gathered in the random parking lot on River for today’s iteration of First Watch. Pleasantries were exchanged then off we went to begin the melting process. Quick mosey to the triangle for COP that included:

COP
20x SSH
10x Don Quixote’s (complete with spine adjustments on #1)
20x LBCs
10x Merkins
15x Imperial Walkers

The Thang
Mosey to Cameron Road for mailbox bingo. Run down Cameron and do 3 burpees for every mailbox we pass on the left and 5 jump squats for those we pass on the right. Stop at the bottom of the hill.

Triple up for triple check. Shoulder tap merkins (audibled to just shoulder taps after round 1), freddie mercuries, third person runs up the hill to the 4th driveway.

Continue up Cameron until the end repeating the burpee/jump squat combo from earlier.

Turn down Ross and do 10 flutter kicks for mailboxes on the left and 5 merkins for mailboxes on the right. Audible to alternating mailboxes half way down.

Work our way back up Ross by partnering up. Partner 1 does lunges while partner two runs partway up the hill and back. Switch and repeat.

Second round with bear crawls and running. Joyous.

Mosey back to the flag where we complete a round of ring of fire.

Numbers, names, lots of fellowship then YHC took us out.

Moleskin
YHC won’t lie. There were times today where that sucked. Humidity and heat was kind of brutal. Sometimes YHC thought that running was better and other times exercises. In the end, they both sucked. Plenty of sweat prints left on the road this morning.

Conversation revolved around events of last evening and the comical rules of local pools opening.

Nice day for a cotton shirt Handshake. Enjoy the day gentlemen.

Splinter

Three First Watch newbies and two veterans hit the mean streets of River Road this morning in the very early gloom. After Hardywood and BT worked their way around the back of the church trying to find the correct parking lot, it was time to roll.

Mosey to the front of the church for:

COP (early ’80s edition):

Deadman Hang Regular, left leg over right leg, right leg over left leg

Helicopters

Don Quixotes

Russian Soldiers

Jazzercises

Suzanne Somers’ both sides (a Hardywood favorite)

Freddie Mercury’s

Mosey down River Road and make a stop at Saab’s driveway.

Face away from house and complete 20 Monkey Humpers

Mosey down River Road some more until the little bat cave entrance to the UR Football practice field.

Examine the beautiful turf and set cones up for:

Doracides – Deconstructed Burpee Edition

Partner up and complete:

100 Hands on ground kick feet back (1st third of a Burpee)

200 Merkins

300 Jump Squats

Runner runs to first cone and performs 1 Burpee runs back to baseline, then runs to second cone and performs 2 Burpees then runs back to baseline, then runs to third cone and performs 3 Burpees and runs back to baseline, then switch with partner.

Hand Q over to EF Hutton. EF Hutton stares at the 7 man football sled and makes a comment like “I really want to use that sled for something” but instead heads over to the field hockey goals. Grab a field hockey goal and complete a Pull-Up/Monkey Humper Jack Webb. 1 Pull-up/4 Monkey Humpers 2/8 3/12 4/16……10/40

10 minutes left, time to head back up River Road.

Stop at Saab’s house for 15 Alabama Prom Dates in cadence. Admire the sweat angels in Saab’s driveway.

Head back to the Shovel Flag and circle up for:

Burpee Ring of Fire (like we haven’t done enough Burpees yet.) Each pax call out 1, 2 or 3 Burpees without repeats.

LBC’s x 20

6 inches or 60 inches, whichever you prefer for 30 seconds.

Time up!

Numberama, Namearama, Announcements, and YHC took us out!

Announcements:

EF Hutton’s Father’s surgery went well though he has a long road to recovery. Please pray for him.

Shakedown’s surgery went well and he is now in recovery/rehab stage. Please pray that he heals up correctly and is back out with us soon.

Hardywood and DTH are leading the July 4th Convergence on July 4, 2020 at Brown’s Island/Tredegar. 6am this year. It’s too damn hot at 7am!

Offshore is leading the 3rd F Bible Study on Tuesday, June 9 at 8pm on Zoom.

NMS:

It was great to see some new faces at First Watch this morning. Swirly was his usual early self parking at 4:30 so he and YHC got to catch up for a few minutes. Hardywood and BT had trouble finding the correct parking lot even though YHC texted very good directions to them yesterday.

This First Watch workout is now called “The Crabtree” YHC wanted to name it “The Saabski” but Swirly informed me that is the offical name of the Spider Run route that was run yesterday. Maybe one day, Saab will step out of his house and run the 1/4 mile to the AO and join us 🙂

Plenty of Burpees and Pull-ups this morning and the Pax crushed them. Well done all! Hardywood and EF Hutton left at 6am to head over to WDOG where Hardywood was the Q and both were after an early Wednesday morning Double-Dip!

Have a great day all and SYITG!

Kubota

Three strong were on the First Watch this morning in the early gloom trying to figure out what month it is. The calendar says that it is May, but the wind and temperature says otherwise. Maybe it has something to do with either The Greenhouse Effect, The Ozone Layer, The Poles shifting, The COVID Effect or the fact that you need to wear a mask around Honeydo at all times.

COP in the grassy triangle:

Cherry Pickers, Don Quixotes, Russian Soldiers, Copperhead Squats, Jazzersizes, Helicopters, Crab Cakes, LBC’s, Hand-Release Merkins

Triple Check:

Deep Squats, WWII’s, Run the roads around the grassy triangle.

Mosey over to the big parking lot and find a spot on the Donkey Kick wall for:

Donkey Kicks x 10, Lunge, Merkins x 10, Reverse Lunge

Donkey Kicks x 15, High Knees, Merkins x 15, Reverse High Knees

Donkey Kicks x 20, Butt Kickers, Merkins x 20, Reverse Butt Kickers

Donkey Kicks x 25, Bear Crawl, Merkins x 25, Crawl Bear

Head back over to Small parking lot , stopping along the way for Speed Bump Burpees.

Kettle Bell Triple Check:

High Pulls with 35 pounder, Swings with 25 pounder, run the loop

Station Rotation:

Sit-n-Press with 25 pounder, Bench Press with 35 pounder, American Hammers. Rotate clockwise, one minute at each station.

Ring of Fire:

10 Diamond Merkins (EF Hutton’s call)

10 Werkins (Honeydo’s call)

10 Dive Bombers (YHC’s call)

Numberama, Namearama, Announcements and YHC took us out!

Announcements:

We have 1st F virtual workouts, 2nd F virtual Happy Hours, so why not have some 3rd F virtual Bible Study’s? Offshore has sent out an announcement for such a thing. Starting Tuesday, May 26th and running bi-weekly, volunteer PAX members will lead a Bible Study on Zoom at 8pm. YHC will lead the first one, so please pray for me, especially you, Bodos! Please join if you are able. Also, please do not mix up the Happy Hour Zoom with this and have a freshly poured beer sitting beside your Bible :0

NMS:

Way to work this morning, EFH and HD! YHC kept hearing a sick sounding rooster in someone’s yard near the grassy triangle. Heard it two weeks ago, as well. Didn’t know you could have chickens in Tuckahoe, but someone must have thought there was going to be an egg shortage soon. If you can have chickens in Tuckahoe, someone please let me know. YHC would like to have some.

Enjoyed it this morning, men, especially the stiff breeze!

SYITG!

Kubota

With nary a bear or a Honeydo in sight 4 early risers took the blue pill whether they needed it or not.  Here’s what happened:

Mosey to the church patio. 

COP

• Dead Man Hang
• Copperhead Squats
• Standing Rockettes
• Arm Circles
• Suzanne Somers
• Heals to Heaven
• Merkins

Mosey down River to Westham, right on Club Vista, left on College, right on Westhampton to the Greek Theatre

Up and Down

R1 – 18…1 Dips

R2 – 1…18 Box Jumps

R3 – 18…1 Reverse Crunches

R4 – 1…18 Incline Merkins

Mosey back to SF (a Monkey Humper or two sprinkled in)

Mary

• Freddie Mercurys

Numberama, Nameorama, COT

MOLESKIN

Two takers of the red pill returned to find out what would be unlocked by ingesting the blue pill.  Honeydo promoted the affair, but then fartsacked.  No word yet to his whereabouts.  Good to have LJ out.  Kubota prefers the blue pill.  The green pill next week is 45 minutes of bear crawl, wondering if Kubota will show.  Handshake enjoys the mystery of the gloom, but seeing the sun rise during a workout adds a little something extra. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Memorial Day Murph, home base is DogPile, annexed AOs TBD

Virtual Happy Hour today, 6pm, see Slack 2^nd F

As the sun rose to the tune of birds ringing in a new day, so also did 5 warriors.  Here’s what happened:

Mosey to the church patio. 

COP

• Don Quixotes
• Helicopters
• Imperial Walkers
• Russian Soldiers
• Suzanne Somers
• Scorpion Kicks
• Heals to Heaven
• Merkins with a Hooooooold It
• Upchuck’s choice of Red or Blue Pill (Red)

Mosey down Ridge, right on Ross, left on Culpepper to end of the cul-de-sac

• P1 – Run to Ridge and back
• P2 – Exercises toward Ridge (Lunge, Polar Bear, Broadjump Burpees)
• Repeato until all PAX is at Ridge

Mosey back up Ridge to Church side parking lot

Wall Work (3 Rounds Timed-ish)

• Wall Climbs
• Peoples Chair
• Donkey Kicks

Mosey back to Church patio

Mary

• Freddie Mercurys
• Spaghetti Party
• Alabama Prom Dates

Mosey to VSF and finish with Merkins and a final Hoooooold It

Numberama, Nameorama, COT

MOLESKIN

It was a beautifully cool and surprisingly dry morning to fight off the pull of the sack and work.  As a first time First Watcher Upchuck was given the honor of choosing the red or blue pill.  Concerned that the side-effects of the blue workout might last longer than 4 hours, red was chosen and the PAX’s destiny was set.  The mosey seemed excruciatingly long to the end of Culpepper, but the path back to Ridge provided just the desired result.  Some fast Lungers in this group.  Diving straight into DQs during the COP proved to be a mistake as YHC heaved a total body groan that made the PAX collectively cackle.  Glad to provide some comic relief, despite that sound being completely involuntary and a sure sign of non-hate days to come.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

As always lift up all our brothers, lend a helping hand where needed

Virtual Happy Hour today, 6pm, see Slack 2^nd F