Tag: GridIron

Beautiful day for 10 of us at Grid Iron. After a warm up, we went to the Grid Iron for:

Arms/Chest: Merkin-Beast for 216 (Merkins, Diamonds Chuck Norris, Staggered Armed, Wide Grip, and Carolina)

Legs: Elven’s with 2count step ups and Squats

Abs: 200 abs broken down with 8 reps of 25 of WW I’s, WW II’s, Flutters, Heals to Heaven, Side Crunch L and R, Crunchy Frogs, and Knee ups

Arms: 100 Dips broken down in 4 reps of 25

Cardio: 10 minutes of Burpees was called, but after round 5 the St. Patrick’s Day Quiz was “While St. Patrick tried to convert the Irish to Christianity, what did he call the three leaves of the shamrock?” If anybody got it correct, we’d stop the 10 minutes of Burpees and end on 5 rounds. Congrats to Seymour who knew that it was “Faith, Hope, and Love”…and saved the day. (4th leaf is Luck if anybody wanted to know).

Despite the rainy conditions that used to be commonplace for Fireman Ed at Gridiron, 6 mature studs showed up to see what was in store.

Mosey to pavilion for a close proximity workout. COP: CP, DMH, merkins, LBCs, FMs, ACs. Stay put for elevens. With some furniture rearranging, the PAX found barely enough dry space for 6 to perform 11s with Derkins and 2 count step ups. Then do sets of 10 dips, 15 dips and then 20 dips.

Wet mosey to bus loop. Fireman Ed special with a running pacer and the PAX rotating with Burpees, LBCs, squats, HRMs and flutters. For some reason, Ed gets the burpees when Attila yogs. Second set involved diamond merkins, pole smokers (which sucked when the rain hit your face at certain intervals), Lt. Dans, Carolina DDs and heels to heaven. At this point the PAX were screaming for variety.

Stealing or using Tater’s Super Bowl idea, I had divided the PAX into VCU and Richmond and we all played knockout. Richmond won three times thanks to Attila and Tater and despite me. I can’t shoot worth a lick. Attila had the best form. Tater had an impressive knuckler. That is why I play disc golf. We then divided into two groups and played PIG which wasn’t a lot of cardio but it was fun.

Mosey to home base with merkins called out at certain intervals and a stretch because stretching is good.

So based on our games, Richmond should win a close one but Richmond rarely beats VCU so we will see what happens. Ended in prayer and a burst of backblast from one of our PAX.

Thanks for letting me lead. Go Spiders!

Twelve noble warriors welcomed the final weekend of February with an abundance of mumble-chatter and old-man energy.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • SSH
  • IW
  • DQ
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles
  • Suzanne Somers
  • Merkins
  • LBC
• Mosey for a bit before finding a spot to do a one-man Dora on the football field – each man does all of the reps in 5 intervals with a run in between
  • 100 HRM
  • 200 monkey humpers
  • 300 LBC
• Mosey to the pull-up bars for a ladder – 8 pull-ups down to 1 with 20 2x FK between each set
• Mosey to the parking lot for a 3x check – run, ball-to-the-wall-toe-taps and APDs
• Mary
  • FM
  • Side crunches each side
  • DMH
• COT with YHC taking us out

Great work from the PAX today!  It was a bit of a ball buster.  YHC said to hell with sharing reps on that one-man Dora. Gypsy had something return to sender during the workout so YHC gave himself t-claps.  Great to see Nightcrawler putting a bit of a streak of Saturdays together.

Prayers up for Homer as his mom is in hospice care. 

God is good all of the time!

Attila

If you Q, you can bring the music. We listened to Spanish, Beatles, Hank Williams, etc. Great to have Nightcrawler back, 3rd Saturday in a row!

Disclaimer

In the Pouncy Tract Parking lot for Warm up:

• 20 SSHs
• 20 IWs
• 20 Ukrainian Soldiers
• 20 Copperhead Squats
• Stretches

Mosey to the school parking lot:

• Stretch
• 7 minutes of Burpees
• Stretch

Mosey to the courtyard behind the school for Triple Check

• Partner 1: Timer runs down on sidewalk to the covered walkway and then over to the other sidewalk and back to the start:
• Partner 2: Hand Release Merkins
• Partner 3: Flutters

Mosey to loading dock: 3X:

• 20 SSHs behind the loading dock
• Climb over the rails, across the loading dock and to the asphalt part of the driveway:
• 10 Mike Tysons
• Return to the back of the loading dock

Mosey to wall in front of the school for:

• People’s Chair 15 Air Press, 10 BTTW Hip Slaps, 15 Donkey Kix OYO
• People’s Chair 15 Muhammad Ali, 10 BTTW Australian Mountain Climbers, 15 Donkey Kix OYO
• People’s Chair 15 Milkers, 10 BTTW Toe Taps, 15 Donkey Kix OYO
• People’s Chair 15 Lalannes, 10 Dirty Hookup, 15 Donkey Kix OYO

Mosey to the benches beside the Gridiron for:

• Bulgarian Split Squats and Derkins
• 10, 9, 8, etc.

Last 5 minutes for Mary

• 20 Hammers in cadence
• 20 pole smokers
• 20 flutters
• Brazilian Mind bender

Much to Gomer’s disappointment, we quit about 2 minutes early.

Announcements:

Go Ruck May 4 weekend.

Takeout: “Remember you are dust and to dust you shall return.”

With Sunday’s Taylor Swift watch party coming up, somebody decided to run the 1st annual Grid Iron PPK. We divided in to two teams (Chiefs and 49ers) and much like the groundhog predicting the weather, we have predicted the score.

Warm up, then Football Indian Run to soccer field. First in line throw ball to last guy, who then runs to front. Ball hits the ground equals 10 Merkins. Not a lot of “hands team members” so we paused for 60 Merkins. Once we arrived, 10 Burpees for unsportsmanlike like behavior from one participant. Then a series up Up-Downs (old school football practice) to get the heart rate up.

Warm up before the Punt contest was 50 yards of 10 Squats every 10 yards, followed by 50 yards of walking Ukranian Soldiers. Punt contest went three rounds. A team punts, other team catches and tries to return. One finger touch, no tackle. 50 WWII’s to divide between teams based on punt return yards. (You gain 10 yards on return, then other team does 10 WWIIs and your team does 40 WWIIs, you return all the way for a TD then other team does all 50). We’ll call this event a tie.

Warm up before Pass was 50 yards of Bear Crawls and Arm Circles. Then 3 rounds of passing: 1st was distance, 2nd was pass and catch, 3rd was pass and catch while other team had a Bear Crawl rush. WWII’s and Burpees were passed out equally. Ehhh, we’ll call this even a tie also (drama building for last event).

Half Time show of modified 1 arm Alabama Prom Dates, Rosalitta’s, and Dolly’s…and visions we can’t unsee.

Warm up before Kick event was 50 yard mosey with every 10 yards 1 legged Ass Kickers. Kick event was multiple rounds of field goal kicks from 3 distances, to score 3, 6 or 10 points. If you missed, the other team got the points. Chiefs dominated this round.

Final Prediction of Super Bowl based off our very accurate and reliable system: Chiefs 24-San Fran 20.

Post PPK event was a celebration shot with Pinto for his 5th Anniversary at F3, and his BDay.

12 able bodied men, 11 regulars and an FNG (welcome Jelly Roll) came out looking for a workout, maybe even a beat down. For some reason, at times some of the regulars were not happy with aspects of my workout. As people get older, they complain more often.

COP: DQs, DMH, merkins, mountain climbers (the ones that went to Circus noticed similarities between that COP and this one), FMs (flatulence makers) and Arm circles. Mosey to curb next to main football field.

Curb crawls with 2 WWIIs added per merkin. Jelly Roll found it challenging but was a good sport. Went from 1 to 5 back down to 1. Mosey to bus loop.

Ascending exercises of 5, 10 , 15 and 20 with pole smokers, HRMs, Carolina Dry docks and heels to heaven. Mosey to tennis court.

Suicides for the 4 tennis courts with 5 squats on court 1, 10 on court 2, 15 on court 3 and 20 on court 4. Second set was 2 burpees, then 4 burpees, then 6 burpees and lastly 8. Mosey to bus loop again.

Triple check with bear crawl, donkey kicks and flutter kicks. The length of the bear crawl was reduced to account for the grumpiness of some PAX with doing too many donkey kicks. they were right. The donkey kicks sucked. Long mosey to chin up bars.

First set: 10 chin ups or whatever your max is, 20 dips. Second set 7 chin ups and 25 dips. Third set 5 chin ups and 30 dips. Mosey to home base.

American hammers, APDs, LBCs (at half Jville speed) with stretching to end the fiesta.

No announcements from us. No prayer requests. Welcome Jelly Roll whose given name is Jeremy. He works as a lawyer and lives out in the far far west end near Tater. The name came out of him telling us he likes alternative music and was more family friendly than the other suggestions. Congrats on the Spiders for a big victory over 16th ranked Dayton. Now they just have to beat VCU. Enjoy the rest of your weekend. Safe returns for Pigskin, Gomer and Fudd’s parents from Honduras.

Fireman Ed

Eleven of the faithful and one FNG (White Beaver) posted at GridIron early on a Saturday morning. Both the undersigned and Tater claimed to have reserved the Q, but Tater yielded to the undersigned. That decision would prove to be tragic.

The undersigned took the Q and started the PAX out with a typical warmup COP (merkins, don quiotes, LBCs, etc.) The undersigned then declared that there would some Frank’s ball (kickball), confident that Polly’s injury at the prior round of Frank’s ball was just a fluke.

It was requested that Frank’s ball be played on the Astro Turf field at Striker Park. The PAX made its way over and a makeshift field was constructed using hats and gloves as bases.

The teams were allocated randomly. That turned out to be a mistake since Piglet, it turns out, is a professional quality kickball player and proved himself capable of covering the entire infield and outfield, along with covering all bases and along with hitting runners with the ball form 80 yards away. It was a route, and team Piglet won easily.

Tater was injured almost immediately, I believe during the first “at bat”. He was out for the remainder of the battle (and day). The following was overheard around the table at Starbucks.

In the realm of valor, a warrior stood tall,
With a heart of courage, ready for the brawl.
He allowed his comrade to lead the charge that day
Into the chaos of battle, they made their way.

With armor gleaming, and resolve so strong,
He watched as his friend marched forward, headlong.
“To lead the way,” he selflessly decreed,
His trust in his comrade, a warrior indeed.

But in the midst of the clash, a cruel twist,
His own leg, a weakness, in pain it did exist.
The great warrior stumbled, his strength gave way,
His life extinguished in the heat of the fray.

In this tale of valor, we mourn the loss,
A leader’s sacrifice, at such a cost.
His memory lives on, in the annals of time,
A noble warrior’s end, in a battle’s prime.

We called the game with roughly 25 minutes remaining in the workout and spent the remainder of the hour doing four corners on the astro turf field.

At the COT, Liam was named White Beaver in order to conform to a GridIron convention.

Frank’s Ball is hereby retired at GridIron on account of it’s tendency to cause unfettered mayhem.

Johnsonville

8 warriors gathered in the frozen air to fight off a hangover(at least 4 of us) and burn some calories Here’s the thing: warm up was 25 side straddle Hops, 10 Don Qs,10 helicopters, 15 arm circles, 15 reverse arm circles, 10 push-ups, 20 LBC‘s.

Mosey to Striker field for some elevens to halfway Mark of field. Round 1: merkins and World War II, next set of 11s :Burpees and American hammers. Needing to cool off we rolled the giant snowballs to the center feild and then pushed them off field. Mosey to pull up bars, eight pull-ups, 15 dips, six pull-ups 15 dips, four pull-ups 15 dips two pull-ups 15 dips, mosey to the playground for ab workout: 25 WW2s, 20-2 count Freddie Mercury, 20 hello dollies , 20 Rosalita‘s, 20-2 count penguins, 20 copperhead squats, mosey up to the bathrooms. Wall sit: 10 air press, 10 -Merkins, 10- milkers then 10 LBCs, 10- Mike Tyson‘s, 10 Merkins, 10-head knees and toes wall sits, 10 LBC, run two loops around half of the parking lot. Circle up in plank for ring of fire each member doing five of whatever they want. close with prayer head to coffee for the warming up and fellowship. Was great to lead this group of Men and friends. Always the best part of my day working in the F3 circles.