Tag: GridIron

World cup is upon us and the Americans are doing great with yet another victory yesterday. For some odd reason I can not get the games on standard FOX so I am having to watch them all on Telemundo.. I need Pigskin to come over and translate for me.. but what I do know is how excited they get when there is a GOOOOOOOOOOAL!!!. with the Argentina and Brazil games , those commentators , we’re on a Tater level high , with all of those goals.

YHC appreciate all the pax showing update to help.me say goodbye to the 40s and prepare for the 50s. In what is becoming a Gridiron tradition for all of us Boneyard Expendables.. we started the Birthday Q with a shot of the Q’s choice.. today was Angel’s Envy Kentucky Bourbon. 7am.. time to mosey..

As mentioned.. it’s World Cup season so we headed to the nicest pitch in all of the Westend… no gravel asphalt for YHC.

Time to get to work. As Handshake said… we are going to Rawdog it. 1st exercise of the CoP.. Da Merkin. No helicopter.. no SSH.. no Arm circles.. and damn sure no scorpion kicks.. continue with warm up.. time for Sally Up/Down using squats as the exercise.. that’s a long damn song.

Next up is 4 Corners.. or what ever you want to call it. 1st round chest exercises 10 each…2nd round Abs, 20 each..3rd round Legs 30 each.. Start at center 5 SSH. run to a corner. Do exercise run back to center. 5 SSH.. go to next corner. For chest we had: standard Merkin, Wide, Diamond, Carolina Dry Dock. Abs we had: WW2, LBCs, American Hammer, Heels to heaven. For legs we had Bomb Squats, Jump Squats, lunges, Sumo Squats.

Circle up.. time for more music: Roxanne. Every time Roxanne is said you do an Irish sit up.. I think this is a made up Tater exercise but we go with it.. it’s a WW2 with and American Hammer at the top of the setup.

We Kill some time with a round of 11s. From the touch line to the midfield using Merkins and WW2s..

Time for last song on the Playlist…Thunderstruck. this sounded better in my head than in reality.. Plank Position for the entire song and when you hear Thunderstruck you do one Merkin.. we all modified at some point but stayed with it.

Time to mosey.. over to the Blue children play area.. another soft mat area.. still no exercises on asphalt or dirt. Lol.

10 minutes of Mary. Called every ab exercise i could think of.. messed the count a few times laughing at the expressions Polly was making.

Finish with a round of more Merkins.

count us off.. 18 HIMs.

Thank you Mr Roger for taking the pax out while I placed myself on the IR for a few mins..

Announcements: 4th of July convergence at Gridiron. Come get your ass kicked by the Boneyard boys. We may all be RESPECT but that just means we have more practice than most.

Summer tour still rolling along.

NMS: Another year in the history books. Thank you guys for being there with me.

SYITG!!

John (Gypsy) Boles

We had a 5 theme going on at Grid Iron. 5 goals scored with US 4, Paraguay 1…and this is the Q’s Bday week turning 55.

After warm up, headed to field. Stopped for 5 Burpees. Then completed 5 sets of 11 (Merkins, Diamonds, Staggard Arm Left and Right, and Wide Grip). 5 more Burpees.

Took a “break” with Abs. 5 sets of 50 (WWIIs, Crunches, Flutters, and 25 Side Crunches). 5 Burpees.

4 Corners with 5 Burpees in the center (25 total) and 50 at each corner (Carolina’s, Calf Raises, Imperial Walkers, Side Straddle Hops). More abs with 50 Partner Leg Tosses (30 and 20). 5 Burpees as we left the field.

Picnic Benches for 50 Step ups and 50 Dips (broken in to 30 and 25). To playground for 5 Burpees, Ring of Fire with 5 Merkins, and another “break” with same 5 Ab exercises of 50 (WWIIs, Crunches, Flutters, and 25 Side Crunches). Finished with 5 Burpees (55 total for the day).

Rumor has it…4th of July Convergence at Grid Iron???

10 noble warriors threw the tour stop and significant wear and tear from a Murph aside to assemble at Gridiron on this glorious Saturday.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • SSH
  • IW
  • Ukrainian soldiers
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles
  • DMH
  • Suzanne Somers
  • Merkins
  • LBC
  • Penguins
  • APD
• Mosey to the bus loop for an indigenous people style pole smoker matriculation
• Mosey to the tennis for a Dora meets 4 corners; 20/40/60 reps at each corner with one repeat corner
  • 100 HRM
  • 200 monkey humpers
  • 300 LBC
• Mosey to the basketball courts for 3 rounds of partner wheel barrow with 10 derkins
• Mosey to the school courtyard for 3x check
  • Run
  • Dips
  • Step-ups
• Mosey to the parking lot for 2x of:
  • Wall sits with 15 air presses then milkers
  • 20 WWII sit-ups
  • 10 Mike Tysons
• COT with YHC taking us out

No Murph, but our shoulders and arms are closer to looking like Mr. Rogers.  Great work from the PAX.  As usual, plenty of mumble-chatter and only heaven knows what White Deer was doing ½ the time.

Lunch on Tuesday at Taziki’s.  Continued prayers for our brothers looking for, starting new or struggling in their jobs.

God is good all of the time!

Attila

Fifteen of Short Pump’s finest hit the Gridiron this Saturday for a Snake Q. It started with a mosey to the covered championship pickleball court and we circled up for some warmups. Did some SSH, Copperhead Squats, DQs, Ukranian Soliders, Dead Man Hang, Cherrypickers, LBCs, Flutters, APDs, HRM, Burpees and Merkins. Not necessariliy in that order.

15 meant perfect triple check numbers so thats what we did next. Partner ran around the parking lot or other courts picking up trash or doing one burpee (if no trash is found) while the other two did WW2 or Jump Squats. Some guy ran by and said he was from the “Princeton Chapter” and kept running. Whatevs.

After the 3X check was over, I decided we were warmed up enough for some 11s: started with 10 dips at a local bench and then 1 burpee (groans). And we were off. That was fun.

Time to leave the protection of the roof and so we moseyed to the track. Did a little hill work: bernie up and mosey back and then a couple rounds of bear crawl up and mosey back. Slow mosey across the field and to the next small hill down to the soccer field. Did some Die Hard practice and went up and down that small hill ten times.

Continued towards the school and the runners circled up for 5 burpees and then we all gathered at the benches for 20 dips and 20 bench kicks (or as many as it took to get Code Red Moon to find a place to do a few).

We finally got to the front of the school for a final triple check of the loop and some combination of balls to wall toe taps and Australians with a lot of modifications to milkers and wall sits.

We then moseyed back to the parking lot and circled up for some squats, SSH, getting all our feet and hands confused and then burpees.

Welcome to Messi from PA (where he has met State Farm). Also welcome to Offshore and EF Hutton who were looking for some variety and planning on Dogpile for Monday’s convergence. I kept us out of the mud but not out of the rain. Pax complained less than normal. Enjoy the rainy holiday weekend as see you Monday.

-WhiteSnake Plissken

Six posted at Grid Iron this AM and after our first exercise of cleaning up the parking of trash (darn kids), and our brief warm up, we voted to stay dry (no actual Grid Iron) and took a mosey to turf fields.

On the way over we paused for some Squats, followed by a Lindsey of Dips and Steps Ups. Then to the field for 2 rounds of 4 corners:10 Merkins each corner, then round two had 20 different exercises at each corner (Carolina Dry Docks, Squats, Lunges, WWIIs).

A ”Tame Beast” (less running with just one direction down the field) came next with 6 stops of:

• 6 Merkins, 6 Carolina Dry Docks, 6 Side Crunches each side, 6 Squats, 6 Lunges, and finally 6 Burpees.

Ab Break next:

• 10 Irish Hammers, 20 WWIIs, 30 Crunches, 40 Side Crunches, 50 2 count American Hammers…then 50 two count Flutter Kicks, 40 Crunchy Frogs, 30 Heals to Heaven, 20 Dolly’s, 10 WWIs

Left field and stopped by benches for: 10 Decline Merkins, 20 Dips, and 30 Incline Merkins. Repeat.

Playground for: 15 Head-Shoulder-Knees, 15 Muhammed Ali’s, 30 Air Presses and Toes, 2 sets of 10 Mike Tysons and 2 sets of 20 Pole Smokers.

Stretch…and we’re done 🙂

17 noble warriors descended upon the Gridiron for an early morning Saturday beat-down.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • SSH
  • IW
  • Ukrainian soldiers
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles
  • DMH
  • Suzanne Somers
  • Merkins
  • LBC
  • Penguins
  • APD
• Mosey to the bus loop for indigenous pole smokers as we make our way down the bus loop
• Go to the softball field for an arch loader, with an animal movement from RF line to CF, followed by 20 WWII sit-ups, mosey to LF line for 15 HRM and Bernie back to RF line
  • Bear crawl
  • Crab walk
  • Duck walk
  • Bunny hops
  • Froggers
  • Cheetah sprint
• Mosey to the basketball court for partner wheel barrows across the court with 10 derkins, rinse and repeat 3x each
• Mosey to the courtyard for a 3x check with:
  • Run
  • Dips
  • Step-ups
• Mosey back to the parking lot and pick up trash
• COT with YHC taking us out

Welcome back Homer!  Good to have you while you are here on a visit.  Best wishes to Blue Moon and his family as his son gets married today!

Memorial Day convergence at Dogpile at 7 am.  Lunch on Tuesday at Tres Nachos.

God is good all of the time!

Attila

Celebrated the NFL’s 91st draft by heading to the Grid Iron for:

• Every 10 yards, 10 exercises (Merkins, Wide Grips, WWII, WWIs, Crunchy Frogs, Carolina Dry Docks, Squats, Sumo Squats, Side Straddle Hops) and 1 Burpee for 91.
• 1st Pick: Fernando Mendoza who threw 41 TDs (41 Arm Raises) but 25 Sacks (WWIIs)
• 2nd Pick: David Bailey who had 14.5 sacks (Run 10 yards and do 1 Burpee. After the 100 yards, do 4 more in end zone)
• 3rd Pick: Jeremiah Love who ran a 94 yard TD (so we ran 94 yards)
• 4th Pick: Carnell Tate who had 51 receptions (51 Jazzercise Stretch’s)
• 5th Pick Arvell Reese had 6 sacks (6 Burpees)
• 6th Pick Manson Delane allowed only 10 catches last season (10 yard Bernie with 10 Side Straddle Hops, for the length of the Grid Iron)
• 7th Pick Sonny Styles who is an absolute stud of an athlete
  • 82 Tackles (marched the Grid Iron for 10 Merkins every 10 yards +2=82)
  • 4.46 40 yard dash (Bear Crawl for 40 yards)
  • 43.5” vertical (43 1/2” Heel Raises)

Took a “break” with Abs (American Hammers, Irish Hammers, Side Crunches), then the Grid Iron 91 March with 10 exercises every 10 yards and another round of Abs (American Hammers, Irish Hammers, Flutter Kicks, Heels to Heaven, and more)

Eleven of the finest men on this side of the Mississippi got an extra hour of sleep, joined Gridiron and did their part to save the world.

5 burpee start in honor of Gomer’s 1000th post. Then after the four ruckers and a late Chum joined, we did it again. A traveling COT eventually made its way to the far end of the track. Back in 1989, when Gomer and I were doing shots of Vodka before going out to fraternity row, we dreamed about doing the biggest four corners known to Gridiron. While his days of running are over, I think the goal was met today.

The running group started at the far end of the track with 50 WW2, then ran to the basketball courts in the back of the school for 50 Merkins, then we ran to the blue playground for 50 Squats and then joined back with the walkers in the newest pickleball lot for 50 SSH. The walkers did the same exercises but their 2nd stop was the front of the school and their 3rd stop was at the football field.

It was at the parking lot that we saw that thanks to the “cool” high school kids who hung out at the courts last night, the parking lot was full of trash. I think I saw a crying Indian somewhere too. Instead of “touch a tree” we did “touch some trash” and did 3 rounds of running to grab trash & throwing it out. Chumbucket found a lovely smelling rice bowl while most of the trash was alcohol related. Rumor is finger prints could reveal Mariner or Joey Chesnutt were there (because they seem cool). We will never know. Either way, good work by the pax to clean up the parking lot.

We then went to the sunny gridiron for a Quarter Pounder. 25 HRM, 50 single count flutters, 75 jump squats, 100 SSH. At some point, Pigskin had to leave to cheer on some family at the 10K.

Shade was needed by YHC so we moved to the front of the school for a triple check with balls to the wall and heals to heaven as the fun parts.

We slow moseyed to the lower football field, did 25 WW2, then 3 rounds of Pigskin-ups with ten merkins at the top of the hill. Running out of time, we went back to the flag for numberama.

Ended up with almost 2.5 miles of distance today! Well done Pax!!

While 4 of us gathered before launch, Tater asked me to predict numbers. I said 11. Him and Pinto took the under. 11 was the final number. As a result of my Nostradamus-like genius, here are some other predictions:

1. Commanders trade up and get the RB. Trade next years #1 which they think will be #30 but it will be top 10 (again).
2. CM Punk retains the title at Wreslemania. Turns heal in the process.
3. The Dow will hit over 50,000 on Monday, drop under by the end of the week and not hit it again until 2027.
4. The founders of F3 will rename it to F3-AI and the stock will triple.
5. Tater will Q Gridiron soon and do lots of abs.

Thanks for letting me lead

Mosey around the parking lot.
Disclaimer
• I’m not a professional
• Push yourself but don’t hurt yourself
• You vs You
• Feel free to modify any exercise
Mosey to Gridiron Endzone
• 20 SSHs
• 10 Man-Maker Merkins
• 15 Crunchy Frogs
• Stretch:
Mosey to other Gridiron Endzone
• 20 IWs
• 10 Diamond Merkins
• 10 each side Suzanne Sommers
• Stretch:
Mosey to lower practice field
• 20 Squats
• 10 Stagger Arm Merkins
• 15 Dollies
• Stretch:
Mosey to soccer field in front of school
• 20 Suzanne Somers (20 each side)
• 10 Stagger Arm Merkins
• 10 Don Quixote
• Stretch:
Mosey to the wall in front of the school
• People’s Chair 15 Air Press, 10 BTTW Shoulder taps, 15 Donkey Kix OYO
• People’s Chair 15, Milkers, 10 BTTW Australian Mountain Climbers, 15 Donkey Kix OYO
• People’s Chair 15 Muhammad Ali, 10 BTTW Toe Taps, 15 Donkey Kix OYO
Divided up for Triple Check:
• Partner 1: Timer runs around the parking islands
• Partner 2: Squats
• Partner 3: Hand Release Merkins
• Stretch:
Mosey to the Loading Dock 3x:
• 15 squats behind the loading dock
• Climb the wall, cross the loading dock and run to the asphalt part of the driveway:
• 10 Burpees
• Return back to behind the wall
• On the third time, stay in the asphalt driveway
Mosey to the middle of the covered sidewalk in back
• Partner 1: Timer runs the route, stops in the middle for 10 merkins
• Partner 2: Squats
• Partner 3: Pole smokers
Mosey back to flag: Short Route or Long Route:
Circle up in parking lot for 60 section 6 inch leg lift
Times up!
Announcements
April 14: Tuesday: 2nd Tuesday 2nd F: Firehouse Subs in Innsbrook, Noon.
COT
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were: any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
Written by English poet and cleric John Donne (1572–1631) during a serious illness.
Life and Background
Born: 1572, London, England
Died: 1631
Raised in a Catholic family at a time when Catholicism was persecuted in England
Studied at Oxford and Cambridge but did not take a degree (due to religious restrictions)
Later converted to Anglicanism and became a priest
Donne’s life had two distinct phases:
Early life: Known for his witty, often sensual love poetry: Example “The Flea”
Later life: Deeply religious, writing sermons and spiritual works: Example “Death Be Not Proud”