Tag: First Watch

…the gift of beer is just extra incentive!

15 thankful men beat the fartsack and “greeted the dawn of a new day”(-Patton Gleason, Hardywood, 40-something)

At the end of the workout, everyone’s “cups were full”(-Christian Craft, Flatline, 40-something, almost 50)

Circle up on church patio for:

COP: SSH’s, Invisible Jump Ropes, Arm Circles F&R, Freddie Mercuries, Inverted Scorpion Kicks, Ball Lickers (just because Saab was there), Regular Scorpion Kicks, 3 Burpees OYO

Mosey to the large parking lot for:

Build-a-Burpee Four Corners, Bro-Code:

Corner 1: 40 Kick-Outs

Corner 2: 30 Jump Squats

Corner 3: 20 Merkins

Corner 4: 5 Burpees

That was fun, lets run it back!

Team up for a:

Triple Check:

Partner 1: Run to church buses and back

Partner 2: Wall Sits

Partner 3: LBC’s

Three rounds, of course

Partner up for:

Partner Leg Tosses 2 rounds x 20 reps each

Find a new partner for:

Wilson’s Dying Boxing Cockroaches or something like that 2 rounds x 20 reps each

Mosey over to the Donkey Kick wall for:

Donkey Kicks, of course

10 DK’s, then bear crawl, 10 Hand-Release Merkins, then Lunge back. 3 Rounds

Mosey back to the VSF circle up for 4MOM:

LBC’s, Flutter Kicks, APD’s, Handshake’s Star exercise, Diamond Merkins, Fudd’s O-Face exercise, others…

Numbers, Names, Announcements and YHC took us out!

Fake News Thanksgiving History workout tomorrow at 45MOM!

Welcome to First Watch virgins, Saab and Wedding Singer! Glad you could join! Saab told the Lentil/Chick-Pea joke again for those that haven’t heard it before and for those who have heard it many, many times. Also, Saab has strong thighs. If you ever have to partner with him for Wilson’s Boxing Cockroaches, be prepared! O-Face exercise from Fudd was a good one. The workout started out with exercises that YHC hates doing and then realized that YHC hates them all.

Enjoy the Holiday Season and remember, this is the SZN of GVN. Enjoy the gifts responsibly and YHC will SYITG!

Also, 87% attendance at coffee after the workout!

Kubota “abides”(-John Crabtree, Saab or Sabb, 59)

11 warriors of the gloom emerged for this week’s installment of First Watch. Hutton had some solo yoga/nap/merkinfest prior and came ready to roll!

Over to the small triangle park and get wet early in the leaves for COP. Mobile workout the whole way down to Westham Station and back up the hill with an assortment of crowd pleasers throughout. We finished with a mary ring of fire.

YHC took us out.

Coffee is always a fine way to start any day, but especially Wednesday with this crew!

A generational blend of X’s and Z’s ventured onto the First Watch campus for a beatdown mixed with movie quotes, spring break destinations and other quality conversation gems that will remain discreet and anonymous. Here is how things went down.

5.30 strikes, lets mosey. Handshake coming in hot, let us circle back to collect. Down the dark path to the church parking lot, honoring various burpee traditions. Mosey around to the front of the church for introductions and disclaimers. Warm ups were in cadence and conversation with a few Dead Man Hangs, Invisible Jump Rope, Ukrainian Soldiers, Copperhead Squats, Merkins and DQ’s. Let us move along.

Mosey to the main church lot for escalating 4 corners – brocode style utilizing the entire parking lot. 1st corner – 10 merkins; Corner 2 – 10 merkins, 20 WWII’s; 3rd corner – 10 merkins, 20 WWII’s, 30 squats; 4th corner – 10 merkins, 20 WWII’s, 30 squats, 40 monkey humpers.

Wosey to the church steps. Partner 15’s. Timer runs to the dumpster performs 15 merkins, runs back to the stairs while partner performs LBC’s. Switch, with timer running to dumpster performing 14 merkins and so on. Everyone runs together to complete the last single merkin.

Mosey to the side parking lot for 11’s. Donkey Kicks and Squats with lunges between both to and fro.

Mosey BTTVF for quick 4 corners around the lot. 10 jump squats, 20 CDD, 30 mountain climbers, 40 SSH’s. Perfect timing for Names, Numbers, Prayers (Fireman Ed, Fudd’s Sister, those who are currently on IR), announcements (Chili cookoff). Kubota took us out.

NMS: Great way to start the cool morning. Hutton was the early riser by getting in some broga on the frozen tundra. YHC was called out for performing a perfectly executed 3 point turn getting into the lot. Always enjoy a conversation heavy beatdown with good laughs, lite jogging and little counting. Enjoy the libations fellas. Grill or cook until the bacon is cooked but not crisp. Plenty more if refills are requested. Always enjoy getting together.

Eight studs got a stubby chubby.

Here’s what transpired:

Mosey to the Church

COP

• Don Quixotes
• Imperial Walkers
• Helicopters
• Copperhead Squats
• Merkins
• Suzanne Somers (L/R)
• Freddie Mercurys
• Merkins

Mosey to Church Sidewalk

• Bearcrawlorama

Mosey down S Ridge, R on Cameron

Dora (4 stops on Cameron, Thom, Culpepper loop – audible Grattan)

• Merkins x 25 x 4
• Monkey Humpers x 50 x 4
• LBCs x 75 x 4

Mosey to the parking lot

• Partner Wheelbarrow across lot
• Scissor Sisters 3×10 R/L
• Ring of Fire

Numberama, Nameorama, COT

MOLESKIN

If you don’t understand the title, just map out the loop.  Good suggestion by the PAX to skip the head on loops 2 and 3.  Oyster accused YHC of making this up on the fly.  But every meandering step was planned to keep you on your toes.  During the COP, the PAX questioned if a VQ is even a VQ if there’s no cadence to ridicule.  Jury is still out.  Merkin count was 150.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Chili Cookoff SOJ
• Prayers for the USA

Six strong and one weak teamed up for the 5th anniversary of First Watch and YHC’s 7th F3 anniversary. After Last Call was left scratching his head on who the Q was, this is what happened:

Mosey to the patio in front of the church for:

COP:

Dead Man Hang, Reach for the Sky, DQ’s, Helicopters, Jazzercises, LBC’s, Suzanne Somers Left, Flutter Kicks, Suzanne Somers Right, Alabama Prom Dates, Plank up for a couple minutes while YHC attempts to tell an abbreviated history of First Watch.

Staying in plank position, YHC tosses the potato to Honeydo who graciously has the PAX perform merkins x 10 in cadence.

Recover and mosey to the truck for coupon collection.

Mosey with coupons to the itty bitty tiny park and partner up for:

Sit-N-Press x 20

Then, partner up for a:

DORA: 100 x block thrusters, 200 x bench presses, 300 x Alabama Softball Players. Timer runs to traffic light and back. To YHC, this looked like it hurt.

Keeping same partners, perform three rounds of Block The Plank (always a fan favorite)

Honeydo tosses the potato to EF Hutton.

Mosey back to the far end of the parking lot and get new partners for:

Touch-a-Tree x 4 rounds. Exercises were Curls, Overhead Press, Tricep Extensions and Block Burpees

Hutton tosses potato to Handshake for the last five four minutes after a voluntary slow 20 count from Last Call.

Put all coupons back in truck except for one.

Circle up shoulder to shoulder in an outward facing direction for a new routine called the:

Circle Twerk. Pass coupon around the circle a few times to the left and then to the right in order to get Last Call’s body symmetrical. then do a couple curls and overhead presses while passing the coupon. Non-coupon holding PAX hold squat position. After a couple rounds of this, time is called, thank God.

Numbers, Names(all normal name deliveries except for one unmentioned pax member who used to be the Nan’tan), Announcements and Gomer Pyle took us out!

Announcements:

Tuckahoe Triathlon is in preliminary planning stage

FW SZN of GVN starts last Wednesday of November, unless Lockjaw wants to start it on November 20th!

Millennial of the Week needs to come back, but may need to be changed to Gen Z’er of the Week

Gomer Pyle is Quinquagenarian of the Week

NMS:

Nice morning for a dual anniversary beatdown. Thanks to all the FW regulars for making FW what it is (successful) and for the whole RVA PAX for helping make YHC what he is. Thanks to Honeydo for going in on this FW idea with YHC! Last, but not least, thanks to Handshake for reviving FW when it was fading. IYKYK

Go out and conquer the day!

SYITG!

Kubota

The Q sheet has been sitting somewhat empty in Westhoe over the last couple of weeks so YHC has been jumping in to fill the sheet as needed. Yesterday it was the Site Q/Weaselshaker at Heartbreark and today it was 1st F/Weaselshaker at First Watch.

0500 YHC launches us and we mosey down the hill. Flip Flip COP perfectly choreographed.

Hutton Q – Mosey over to a hill for a Triple Check. P1 runs up the hill to the street sign and back. Partner 2 does Merkins and Partner 3 does squats.

Handshake Q – Mosey up the hill to the street sign and do another Triple Check, but this time P1 runs down the hill and back, P2 does Flutter Kicks, P3 does Carolina Dry Docks.

Hutton Q – Mosey back up to the parking lot for a Dora. 100 Decline Merkins on Guard Rail, 200 WWII’s on Guard Rail, 300 Monkey Humpers

Handshake Q – each man get in a Parking Spot, Pencil Roll left to another spot, LBC’s, Pencil Roll again and some other exercise that YHC can’t remember. Partner Up for while P1 gets in the Merkin position and P2 picks up his feet and they do a perfectly synchronized Derkin-Squat combo, henceforth to be call the Partner Squerkins.

Announcements – none, but grab and over Q if y’all can

Prayer Requests – Mary, Fudd’s sister. All those in need known or unknown.

NMS – fun morning with 6+1 guys. Kubota is on the Broke Dick Brigade but we were glad to see him come out and walk

8 men gathered all wondering who was going to be the Q. YHC spoke up and said we’d do a Hawt Potato and YHC would start off….

Mosey to the top of the Triangle for a COP. The Pax was mocking YHC for the Swedish Chef counting routine so YHC decided to keep the Q.

After the COP we moseyed down to the bottom of the hill for a Triple Check. P1 runs, P2 HRM’s, P3 WWII’s.

Mosey over to the bottom of the hill. YHC did a freestyle riff of an Arch Loader. We did various exercises to make our way up the hill. First up was YHC’s Traveling SSH’s.

Eventually we made it almost up the hill then decided to mosey to get to the top and finish with 2 minutes of Mary.

Announcements – none

Prayer Requests – Mary who is Fudd’s sister, who is battling Cancer.

NMS – fun morning and good laughter. YHC’s favorite new exercise was introducing the 16 Count Don Quixote/Burpee Combo. The Pax LOVED it.

It started as seven and then broke out into two groups of two and three groups of one for a series of Tabathas after COP.

Series 1 – Seal Jacks, Squats, HRMs, Elbow Plank, and Box Cutters – Timed across stations and three times through the series.

Series 2 – Rocky Balboa’s, Lunges, Dips, Elbow Plank, and Flutter Kicks – Timed across stations and three times through the series.

YHC took us out. Prayers for those in our schools and Last Call’s friend’s grandson.

As the clock struck 0500, Splinter and Hutton returned from their pre-workout run and Fudd came screeching into the parking lot. YHC knew it was time to get started. Slow mosey around the parking lot to pick up everyone.

Mosey across River to the front of the church and circle up. Warm up exercises included:

• SSH
• Don Quixote
• Dead Man Hang
• Merkins
• LBCs

Mosey around to the back of the church and partner up for a triple check. P1 – BTTW. P2 – WWIIs. P3 – run short loop around dumpsters.

Staying at the same spot, partner up for a dora. P1 runs to the church vans at the end of the parking lot. P2 completes 50 merkins, 100 flutter kicks, 150 jump squats.

Short mosey towards Ridge for 4 corners.

• 10 burpees
• 20 squats
• 30 American hammers
• 40 SSH

Mosey around to the side of the church for 11s.

• Donkey Kicks (starting at 10)
• Bear crawl across to curb
• Inclined merkins (starting at 1)
• Lunge back

Mosey back to flag for a few minutes of Mary

• APBs
• Freddie Mercuries
• Heels to Heaven

Numbers / Names / Announcements. YHC took us out.

Moleskin

Lots of good mumble chatter this morning. Topics included whether 1-900 numbers still exist (not verifying while in my office), whether YHC is a Gen X or millennial (YHC thinks of himself as a Xennial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials), and the brick pattern used at River Road Church, Baptist (which is the source of the backblast title). During 11s, Fudd asked if anyone knew the pattern and YHC knew that it was flemish bond (which is alternative short and long bricks). After much discussion surrounding the origination of flemish bond, Splinter complained about spending too much time on the topic. A brief tour of Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemish_bond) indicates the name references a region of northern Belgium (not the Netherlands as the pax initially believed) but originated in Northern and Central Europe in the Middle Ages. It became popular in England in the 17th Century, and then became popular in Virginia.

At the start of another year around the sun, I am eternally thankful that I am part of this group coming together in the early morning hours, rain, heat, cold, whatever, to push each other to be better men. Thank you for letting me lead today!