Tag: GridIron

  • Triple Triple Check

    On a humid but not hurrendous Saturday morning, we (13 PAX) embarked on what turned out to be a series of triple checks with other stuff sprinked in. Also incorporated was one of my favorite past times, disc golf.

    COP: Pretty much the same sh$t. DQs, helicopters, invisible jump rope, HRMs, plank jacks, freddies. Mosey to other football field.

    Cumulative exercises with 10 HRMs, 20 Irish hammers, 30 2 count Mountain climbers, 40 jump squats and 50 LBCs. The Irish hammers were the hardest portion. Now to the Triple checks.

    Triple Check 1: Pole smokers, wide grip merkins and throw disc to basket near cricket players. Mr. Rogers played from the senior tees (running up 15 yards before throwing).

    Triple Check 2: Flutter kicks, diamond merkins and throw to the other basket. Mr. Rogers then played from the ladies tees (20 yards pre throw). Mosey to front of school.

    Triple check 3: Dips, wall sits and run around the school loop.

    Mosey to home base and finish with American hammers and stretching.

    Finished with prayer for travelers including Pigskin, ones with health issues in their families (Wojo, Handshake and Fudd) and for us to be good Christians. Lunch on Tuesday at Capital Ale (rumor is that Attila is paying). Welcome Spinner from Dallas. I was supposed to help him find the Starbucks and I hope he did not end up at a different Starbucks. Also, Spinner send me the group picture and I can post it. Welcome Cobbler! He likes to work with leather which created multiple names that were funny but not kid friendly.

    Thanks for letting me lead.

    Fireman Ed

  • 250th Celebration of USA

    What an amazing day for out country and F3! Hot, sunny, and what the gloom is all about. An honor to lead and be part of America and F3 Nation! Convergence at the roots of F3 RVA, I wanted to include those that brought me to this excellent community. Johnsonville as one of the founders of F3RVA, Tatar for convincing me I really needed this, and Chum Bucket who was the first Q and proved exactly why I needed it. Thank you for stepping up and leading with me today. Gomer Pyle read the Declaration of Independence for the Pax which was a great way to end the celebration and cool down on a hot day. 67 showed and this is what the beat down looked like:

    Start with SSH, Imperial Walkers, Don Qs, Ukrainian Soldiers, Merkins, and LBCs and 5 burpees. Count off into groups of 4. about 8 mins at each session:

    1st group with Tatar: The Ab King did 250 Core exercises, stretching and 5 burpees

    2nd group with Chum: Leg focus- Jacob’s Ladder with squats on hill, Lunge walking uphill Crawl Bear back down between reps working to 7 reps. finished with lunge/leg medley

    3rd group with Pinto: Triple Check – Partner 1- run the loop, Partner 2- Merkins, Partner 3 – WW2s.

    4th group with Johnsonville: Jackweb with 1 Merkin, 4 arm raise, 8 LBCs up to 10X.

    Finished with reading by Gomer the numbers, names, and COT. 2 FNGs named- Sitting Bull and Pink Panther. Prayers for those struggling with sickness and other life battles, prayers for our country and this great nation to unite and a great celebration . Thank you to Gypsy for cooking and getting food ready for all of us afterwards. The fellowship and time was excellent. Thank you for all that brought food, water, gatorade, coffee, eggs, bacon, sausage, tortillas, and condiments. The community pulled together as is normal for this great group of Men. Continue to be such great lights into this world, your families and communities. God Bless each of you and your families. Thank you for allowing me to lead!

  • 18 sweaty ball sacks

    White Deer and Whitesnake co-led this group of Gridiron idiots. White Deer started and led us on the gridiron with some warmups and proved he could do standard SSH. He then had to grab his ball sack so Whitesnake took over.

    Whitesnake introduced a pyramid scheme. Everybody was interested. Suckers. Started with 1 burpee, 2 merkins and 3 squats. Worked our way up to 7 burpees, 14 merkins and 21 squats and then back down. I broke this up as we worked our way to the tennis courts. (total 49 burpees, 98 merkins, 147 squats).

    At the tennis courts, White Deer’s 8 balls fell out of the sack and a game of dodgeball ensued. If you get hit or your ball is caught, you have to run down a couple courts and do 5 burpees and then you can get back in. Tater and Gypsy opted out to be declared capitains and had the privledge of covering the penalty burpees (if they wanted to)to help their teammates. That only helped team Tater. And at some point, Tater joined the battle and Attila took over as burpee cover. Gypsy did some abs, collected balls and laughed at us.

    The game was never ending so the 5 burpee penalty was increased to 10. And eventually team Tater was the winner. Yay!

    We moseyed back to the bball court for White Deer to show the one thing besides talking that he is great at: bear crawls. He led the width of one court and back and then gave out burpees and then we two full courts widths. White Deer then took us to the poles for 2 round of 25 poll smokers and 20 curtsey squats.

    We then moseyed back to the football field field for some Mary and stretching.

    Nice to have a downrange guest in Shinnecock (aka Shiney Cock). We covered 1.3 miles today with no reported injuries and closed out with a very moving prayer about testicles. Great attendance at Coffeteria following the workout.

    Don’t forget, July 4th Convergece at Gridiron. Sign up on slack to help or reach out to Pinto.

  • GOOOOOOOAL!

    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

  • High 5

    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???

  • Not a Murph

    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

  • Escape from the Mud

    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

  • Turf Field Audible

    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 🙂

  • Venturing to the Backside of Gridiron

    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

  • Monkey humpers near the Yard Sale

    16 Pax regulars including a spirited young new regular went to Short Pump to workout and clean litter from last night’s workouts.

    COP: DQs, jazzercise, merkins, arm circles, cherry pickers, freddies. Mosey to football field.

    Cumulative go ten yards, do 10 of an exercise. Then 10 and 20 yards 20 exercises, 10, 20 and 30, 10, 20 30 and 40 and lastly 10, 20, 30,40 and 50. Exercises were merkins, WWIIs, 2 count mountain climbers, jump squats and SSHs.

    Mosey to other side and repeato with 10 HRMs (50 total), 20 Irish hammers (80 total), 30 Carolina Dry docks (90 total), 40 squats (80 total) and 50 LBCs (50 total). 80 Irish hammers suc%s pretty bad.

    Mosey to field next to yard sale. Dora with 50 burpees, 150 American hammers and 250 monkey humpers. I did not look at the yard sale to see if the patrons were admiring our monkey humper form. I did notice a number of more mature folk; that may be what Pigskin would be doing if he didn’t kick so much a#s. Mosey back to home base.

    Triple check with balls to the wall, flutter kicks and a run around most of the parking lot. Finished with DQs, a dancing exercise suggested by Fire Chicken and Dead Man Hang.

    Closed in prayer for Charlotte, Mary and those looking for work and/or suffering from the drought. I am told that Upchuck may be looking for a replacement for the Bridge. Coffeeteria was good as always. Thanks for letting me lead!

    Fireman Ed