Tag: GridIron

Maybe 1 was hoping for Ultimate Frisbee, no one was hoping for the Eye of the Storm. Instead these 8 men of F3 got Linkin Park, Bleed it out on Repeat. You’re Welcome!!

Warmarama: Mosey around the Pickleball Courts, back to the parking lot, SSH, DQ, Hillbilly’s, Copperhead Squats, Arm Circles, Helicopters, Jazzersize, Merkins, LBC, Flutter Kicks, Freddy Mercuries. Mosey to the pavilion.

The Thang: Part 1 – Tabata w/ music
6 exercises – 1 minute on, 30 second rest:
1. Jump Squats: Music: Linkin Park – Bleed it out
2. Freddy Mercuries: Music: Linkin Park – Bleed it out
3. High Knees: Music: Linkin Park – Bleed it out
4. Plank Jacks: Music: Linkin Park – Bleed it out
5. Dips: Music: Linkin Park – Bleed it out
6. Mtn Climbers: Music: Linkin Park – Bleed it out

Part 2:
6 exercises – 1 minute on, 30 second rest:
1. Jump Squats: Music: Linkin Park – Bleed it out
2. Freddy Mercuries: Music: Linkin Park – Bleed it out
3. High Knees: Music: Linkin Park – Bleed it out
4. Plank Jacks: Music: Linkin Park – Bleed it out
5. Dips: Music: Linkin Park – Bleed it out
6. Mtn Climbers: Music: Linkin Park – Bleed it out

Part 3: Another group, were spying on these dad bods from the parking lot, we felt uncomfortable and decided to move to the bleachers. Which gave YHC enough time to fix the playlist on the Tabata App.
6 exercises – 1 minute on, 30 second rest:
1. Jump Squats: Music: Linkin Park / Jay Z – Numb
2. Freddy Mercuries: Music: Beastie Boys – Sabotage
3. High Knees: Music: Foo Fighters – Everlong
4. Plank Jacks: Music: Blur – Song 2
5. Bleacher Burpees: Music: Eminem – Lose yourself
6. Mtn Climbers: Music: Smashing Pumpkins – Bullet with Butterflies

Part 4: Mosey over to the Pickleball courts. A couple of the Pax tried to steal the Q but they left their Ghost Flag at home and YHC always carries his Reverse Uno Card wherever he goes!!! Nice Try!!
4 Corners:
20 Merkins
20 Squats
20 WWI
10 Merkins
Run it Back
20 WWI
20 Squats
20 Merkins
10 Burpees

Part5: Mosey to the Shed – Triple Check!!
1. Run to the end of the parking lot and back
2. SSH
3. Squats
x3

Part 6: Picnic Table Ring of Fire – your choice
10x Donkey Kicks
10x Step Ups
10x Derkins
10x Kick Outs
Back to the Flag

Numberama:Namerama
Announcements: Get on Slack!!
Home Grown Half
Ultimate Frisbee Tournament
Pickleball Tournament
Thursday Evenings – Kayaking the James
Much Much More…..
YHC took us out!!

NMS: Well done boys!! We did not tour GridIron today, Instead we opted for the Ground and Pound. I did hear this was the first for using the Pickleball Courts. Thanks for letting me lead! Coffeteria was great, with special guest Polly. WhiteSnake will play all your Linkin Park requests tonight indoors at Hardwood (Richmond). See you in Gloom!!!

Oyster

A surprising # of PAX – 14 with Polly were present for a warm weather beatdown. Polly gets half credit as he was there with his FND on a shaded speed walk. The workout was theme for my dad who turned 85 today.

COP: 8 DQs, 5 cherry pickers, 8 helicopters, 5 merkins, 8 and 5 or so of MCs, ACs, FMs. The whole cadence was a mess because I usually count 10, 15 or 20 and Pigskin was loudly counting in another language, and I am like “where are we”. I should have added Blue Moon’s favorite SSHs.

Mosey around school to tennis courts stopping for 5 burpees at a time. 8 sets of these and everyone finally arrived ready to go.

Modified Dora: 85 Diamond Merkins, 150 jump squats, 250 LBCs. There was shaded side to the tennis courts which was oh so nice. Mosey around school.

Oh crud someone has the field in front of the school. off to football field. 3 sets of dips and step ups. 20 and 10 then 30 and 8 and finally 35 and 5. Mosey to home base.

Triple check with wall sits, heels to heaven and run around parking lot. Offshore was running away from something as he was a lot faster than the rest of us. Off to comfy playground area.

Mary with ab exercises. I learned about JLos and no one repeated. Finished with prayer and some needed hydration.

Prayers for Offshore’s dad who fell and has a fracture in his neck. Praise for my father n law’s attitude toward his cancer. Firehouse Subs lunch at Innsbrook this Tuesday. Stay cool.

Thanks for letting me lead and giving me feedback on my off cadence this morning.

Fireman Ed

11 regulars sweated out their Friday night libations during a heavy aerobic workout (we traveled over 2.2 miles). For a change, we started with a Mosey to Burpee Hill where we did a bunch of warmups exercises and only one burpee. Piglet was running late and found us. Maybe it was from our Cherry Picker claps?

Since the Pickle ballers were starting to flood in, I started us with a proper greeting of 11’s: Monkey Humpers and Pickle pounders, running back and forth between the courts. We got a lot of frowns while running. Maybe that was because we picked up all the empty plastic bottles that were left on the ground from yesterday. The “pick” in Pickleball obviously does not stand for picking up after yourself.

We then went to the soccer fields for a double quarter pounder. Started with 25 Merkins, 50 squats, 75 single count Mountain Climbers and 100 SSH–done at the 25, 50, 75, 100 with Bernie Sanders after each. Second time with 25 HRM, 50 Plank Jacks, 75 LBCs and 100 SSH.

Tired and wet, we headed back to Burpee Hill for ten minutes of ….Abs. We ended up doing 9 different Ab exercises for 45 seconds each and then a 15 second break. We did WW2, Flutters, Reverse Crunches, Side Crunches (both sides), LBCs, Freddie’s, American Hammers and WWI. We finished with one minute of Burpees (or ten count, whichever you reached first). We left the hill with only 11 burpees for the day. There was some gnashing of teeth and tears of disappointment across the Pax.

We went back to the flag and had time for some bear crawls up the small hill next to the parking lot. We ran down, bear crawled up, five times.

After a minute of dead man hangs, we were done. Some were done earlier…

Announcements:

7/4 convergence at Forest Hill Park, 7AM.

Gomer, Hutton and I will be bringing a traveling AO to West End Neighborhoods, Mondays at 6PM. If you are interesting in co-leading with us, please reach out. Hoping to use this to find some more men who need F3.

Home grown half marathon with 10K and 5K run by SOJ in early August. See Slack for more details on this and more!

Thanks for letting me lead.

Thirteen posted for the most recent GridIron offering, enjoying the coolest weather available in anticipation of higher temperatures later in the day. Greetings and gathering in the Pouncey Tract parking lot followed by a short mosey, starting at 7 AM sharp, across the adjacent football field to a shady area just inside the middle school’s track. Warmup with Imaginary Jump Ropes, Imperial Walkers, Don Quixotes, Helicopters, some Dead Man Hang, Shoulder Taps, Suzanne Somers(es), Alabama Prom Dates, Arm Circles, Overhead Presses, and a few Burpees.

Move to the western straightaway of the track for a 40 yard run, 20 yard Lunge Walk, and 40 yard run in the straightaway, followed by an easy jog around the turn to the other side. Repeat twice, moving around the track, increasing 40 speed a bit each time. Finish with a single 40 on the school side of the track.

Come down the hill from the track to the school’s soccer field for a Merkin ladder. At the northwest corner, complete a single rep. Jog together halfway down the end line for two reps. Together to the other corner for three. Continue, together, stopping at each corner and at at the halfway point of each side of the field for increased reps, finishing with 21 reps.

Mosey back to the football field. Line up and complete three Pole Smokers at each chain link fence post on the small fence adjacent to the football field, working from east to west. Wait for all to finish.

Resume mosey to the rubberized playground. Circle up for Little Baby Crunch round with variants. COT once done. Coffee for the willing at the usual spot followed.

12 veterans of the gridiron came out to see which SOY man would be leading the Mecca of F3 Richmond for the final day? Of SOJ takeover. YHC signed up early for this one due to enjoying going to where it all started. We had 2 10 year men with us (J’ville and Chum). We owe a dept of gratitude to these and all 10 year men. Without them breathing life into F3 in the early days there may have been no F3 for all of us to find. We are all grateful.

According to the early morning pickleball crew here is what went down.

Mosey to the gridiron for warmarama. COP- 20 each SSH, LBC; 10 Each, Jazzercise, Helicopters, Imperial Walkers, , Copper head squat, Dead man hang, Merkins, Dollies, Flutters.  

Line up on goal line for a Build a Beast. Squats, Merkins, LBC’s, Flutters, Drydocks, SSH’s. 6x6x6

Back to goal line for a triple check. Runner, Deshaun Watson merkins, LBC’s.

Back to goal line for various runs over various distances up and down the field 3 times. Back to COT. YHC took us out in prayer.

Whitesnake is playing at Richmond Roll today 12-2 for a biker rally if you want to partake.

Always an honor to lead.

Off and running on a Saturday.  Almost ½ the PAX did a pre-run, but not your YHC.  Here is the chaser for our runners:

• COP
  • SSH
  • IW
  • DQ
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles
  • Suzanne Somers
  • Merkins
  • LBC
• 4 corners on the football field – 10, 15, 20 & 25 reps at each corner
  • 70 HRM
  • 70 WWII sit-ups
  • 70 monkey humpers
  • 70 CD
  • 70 side crunches – each side
• Lindsay with dips and bench kicks
• Arch loader – animal movements to midfield, 25 APDs, animal movement back to the sideline, 25 squats, mosey back to the other side
  • Bear crawl
  • Crab walk
  • Bunny hop
  • Duck walk
  • Bear crawl
  • Cheetah run
• 3x check in parking lot
  • Run
  • Wall sit
  • FM
• COT with DMH and YHC taking us out

Lunch at Firehouse Subs on Tuesday.  Great work from the PAX.  No one got more hurt!

God is good all of the time!

Attila

Ten of us posted for a beautiful fall like morning (50 degrees) and we were glad to welcome a FNG (Sprinkles). After a warm up we went to:

Playground area for: 2 sets of 20 Jerkins each

Soccer field for: 100 yard of 10 squats every 10 yards. Turn, do 50 yards of Ukrainian Soldiers. Ab Break at midfield with 100 abs (4 sets of 25…WWIIs, Crunchy Frogs, Knee Ups, WWIs). 50 more yards of Ukrainian Soldiers. Turn, 50 yard job back to mid field for: Leg Dora (L’Dora): 100 Squats, 200 Lunges, and 300 Heal Raises. Each of us doing approx 500 yards between the leg exercises. Ab Break at midfield with 100 abs (4 sets of 25…Rosalitas with legs down to ground between sets, Heels to Heaven, Knee Ups, Side Crunches). Then a Jack Web: 1 Chuck Norris for every 4 Air Presses Ab Break at midfield with 100 single count American Hammers. Break included 60 second plank.

Playground area for: 7’s of Chuck Norris and Pull Ups, and 11’s of Step Ups and Squats.

Prior to COT, another 60 count plank hold.

A dozen warriors trained all morning to take on any region in a future F3 Dodgeball tournament. After some warmups in front of the school and a triple check of balls to wall toe taps, WWII and a runner, we hit the tennis courts for dodgeball. White Deer brought his balls and we split up into two teams: team DeerAtillaSnakeletville and team BluePintoSkinbuckethouse. Each team also had one of the FNG young Magnano’s, later named Crocket (moving to Miami) and Carl (landscape business).

Rules: you get hit or have your ball caught, you have to run to the far side (past 3 courts) and do 3 burpees. If your team is still alive when you get back, you are in. Ready, set, dodge!

After 15 minutes of a draw, we took a quick break of flutters and the 3 burpee dodgeball rule became 5. That rule change seemed to do the trick.

Team DeerSnakeville took 3 in a row. Carl and Piglet led the way. By the third game, the losing was getting to BluePintoSkin and the bickering across both teams got louder. We had time for one more game and once you were out, you were out. Chum rallied his team and it was soon 3 on 1 with the 1 being White Deer. Could White Deer be the hero? Crocket, in his white blazer and pink t-shirt, soon took White Deer out and BluePintoSkin was the victor.

We collected White Deers balls, moseyed back to the flag, did some LBCs (except Pinto who wanted Merkins), and then did some monkey humpers for the walkers as they made their way back.

And best of all, no injuries!!

So which AO is going to challenge Gridiron to the next Dodgeball contest?

A wet day but at least it wasn’t really cold. I keep thinking about the saying “there’s no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothes.” I dressed appropriately today. But that didn’t stop me from getting wet.

We started out under the shelter beside the parking lot.

Warmup

• 20 SSHs
• 20 Merkins
• 20 IWs
• 20 Lunges
• 10 Don Quixotes
• 20 Squats

Mosey to the ‘entrance’ to the covered walkway behind the school.

11s between ‘entrance’ and far end of the sidewalk with V-ups & Hand Release Merkins

• 10 & 1
• 9 & 2 etc.
• Stretching exercises

Divided up for Triple Check

• Partner 1: Timer runs down the covered walkway, turns right to run down the sidewalk by the back of the school to the gate, does 5 Burpees and then runs down the other sidewalk back to the covered sidewalk and turns right to run to the ‘entrance’ to the covered walkway.
• Partner 2: Squats
• Partner 3: Crunchy Frogs

Mosey back to the outside wall of the bathroom near the flag (parking lot)

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

Mosey back to the shelter beside the parking lot.

• 10 Dips in cadence
• 10 Bulgarian Split Squats right leg in cadence
• 10 Bulgarian Split Squats left leg in cadence
• 10 Dips in cadence
• 10 Bulgarian Split Squats right leg in cadence
• 10 Bulgarian Split Squats left leg in cadence
• 30 Bench kicks OYO
• 10 Dips in cadence
• 60 count elbow plank

Announcements

Memorial Day (Monday) 7:00 AM, Brown’s Island

Socrates was considered the wisest because “he knew that he knew nothing at all”. Plato

Thirteen gathered for yesterday’s GridIron. Following a few minutes of greetings, we started with a short mosey around the nearby sheds, concession stand, and bleachers before assembling our circle at the usual spot in the parking lot.

Initial COP with 15 x Full SSHs, 15 x Imperial Walkers, 10 x Don Quixotes, 15 x three-quarters SSHs, 16 x Helicopters, Dead Man Hang, 15 x half SSHs, 10 x Merkins, 10 x Suzanne Somers (each side), 35 x APDs, and finish with 12 x one-quarter SSHs.

Move to the nearby grassy hill adjacent to the parking lot. Line up for 11s. Run downhill for 10 x Carolina Dry Docks, Bear Crawl uphill, and complete one x Prisoner Squat. Run back downhill for nine and continue in the usual fashion until completion of one and 10 of the called exercises. Replace the Bear Crawl with a Bernie halfway through.

Run across the football field to the rectangular parking lot just beyond the other side. Start in the middle of the parking lot, running to each corner to complete 50 of a different exercise, including WWIIs, Reverse Crunches, Jump Squats, and Single Count Side Lunges. Complete exercises in whatever sequence you like, but return to the center after each round and complete five Burpees.

Relocate to the Middle School’s field, circle up, and take a knee for Jack Webb with Arm Circle chaser. Stay together for each round completing one Merkin, four Overhead Presses, and eight Arm Circles. As usual, add a Merkin each round and maintain the same ratio for the other exercises. Break briefly midway through with some short runs and Al Gore.

Mosey off the field, across the parking lot, and back to the football field and line up on the sideline for a few rounds of taking turns running across the field and back.

Return to the parking lot with a few minutes to spare for some stretching. COT and Attila took us out. Most of us hit the usual coffee spot after – Starbucks at Lauderdale and Broad.

While great to see our GridIron regulars, too, we appreciated seeing EF Hutton, Honeydo, and Kubota this morning. Congratulations on 1,000 posts Honeydo.