Tag: GridIron

Holiday weekends can bring out the 2.0s.  YHC adolescent 2.0 was headlocked by the M, and as a result, got a grade A beat-down as a part of his 4-day weekend.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • SSH
  • IW
  • DQ
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles
  • Jazzercises
  • Merkins
  • LBC
  • Suzanne Somers
• Mosey to the basketball court behind the school for a 4 corners with 10, 15, 20 and 25 reps of an exercise plus a version of an arch loader on the short sides of the multiple courts (running on the long end)
  • HRM and bear crawls
  • Crab cakes and crab walks
  • WWII sit-ups and lunges
  • Hammers and duck walks
• Mosey to the front of the school for a 3x check with run, Australian mountain climbers and flutter kicks
• Mosey back to the pavilions for a descending ladder of step-ups (each leg) and dips – 20, 15, 10, and 5 reps (with 30 dips accompanying the 5 step-ups)
• COT with YHC taking us out

Great work from the PAX today, including Mariner.  When you trade Pigskin for Mariner, the average age of the PAX at Gridiron is transformed; no longer the senior citizen AO. Enjoyed the 3^rd F afterwards at Starbucks where Blue Moon joined the PAX.

Prayers for Lighthouse as his father passed this week.  Continue prayers for Lab Rat and other PAX members who are healing injuries, including Blue Moon who has surgery this week.

Convergence on Monday at 7 am at Tredegar.

God is good all of the time!

Attila

13 men met this morning at Grid Iron, pre summer heat. Some may have wished they stayed home?

After a brief warm up we headed to the fields for some cardio with “Thunder-Burpee”…burpees for every time ACDC’s Thunderstruck said “Thunder”. Unfortunately after one burpee we lost Polly.

Then it was time for core. After sets of 20 of Freddy Mercury’s, Mercury Freddy’s, Crunchy Frog we Bear Crawled our way for another set of 20 of Reverse Crunches, Heals to Heaven, and WWII’s with a twist…and then Bear Crawled for another set of 20 V-Up Roll Ups…followed by Bear Crawl and 20 Side Crunches and Ukrainian Hammers. Gomer injured his shoulder but fought on. Finished core with some 7’s of Get-Ups and Merkins. Lost PigSkin to some unknown injury (get better, my friend).

Time for shoulders with Jacob’s Ladder of Carolina Dry Docks and Air Presses. Then time for legs with a Triple-Check of Squats, Lunges, and Runs. Had to work arms so we did 7’s of Pull Ups and Dips.

Finally ended with a Ring of Fire. It was a good morning with these fine men…and then we got to meet up with our fallen brother, Pinto, for coffee!

10 noble warrior were invited to a birthday party today.  Tuckahoe Takeover took a backseat to YHC personal celebration.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • 47 SSH
  • DQ
  • Jazzercizes
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles
  • Suzanne Somers
  • Merkins
  • LBC
• Mosey to the football fields for 47s
  • Run down the field, stopping at the 25, 50, 25 and goal line to do 12, 12, 12 and 11 reps of an exercise respectively and then run back and chase it with 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 and 7 burpees respectively
    • HRM
    • WWII sit-ups
    • 2x crab cakes
    • Storm squats
    • Merkins
    • Reverse crunches
  • 47 second elbow plank
  • Mosey to the pull-up bars and partner up for 47 combined pull-ups (partner does Freddy Mercuries while he waits)
  • Partners do 47 PLTs, respectively
  • Mosey back to the parking lot for a 3x check with Australian mountain climbers, side crunches and a run
  • 47 second wall sit
  • COT with YHC taking us out

All I can say is thank goodness this was not Pigskin’s birthday!  Great work by the PAX.

Announcements include the blood drive in 3 weeks.  Please sign up to give!

God is good all of the time!

Attila

11 dudes showed up to the slightly rainy confines of Short Pump Middle north to experience a beat down. It was a good surprise to see Roger Roger make the trip out west (even for part of the time) and for Gyspy and Homer to come back. I am happy the rain stopped last night so I didn’t have to come up with a bus loop only workout. The hour went something like this:

COP: DQs, CPs, HRMs, helicopters, FMs – Oh here comes Attila.

Mosey the long way to Stryker Park. Ascending exercises: 10 burpees, add 20 WWIIs the second set (continue the burpees), add 30 jump squats, 40 2 count mountain climbers and last set adds 50 SSHs. The PAX enjoyed the 50 total burpees. Mosey to the pavilion by the pickelball court (by the way I played pickleball for the first time last Sunday – quite fun).

Start with 10 derkins and 15 dips, then 15 and 20 and then 20 and 25. Mosey to chin up bars.

2 PAX does 5 chin ups with the other now 8 PAX do elbow plank. Rinse and repeat.

Long mosey to curb in front of Short Pump Middle. Curb crawl to 3 down to 1. Lunge to bus loop pillars.

Triple check with pole smokers, diamond merkins and a run around the triangle. Mosey to home base.

We went with some requests at the home base wall including donkey kicks, balls to the wall, chicken peckers, and dirty hookups. Finished with AHs, plank jacks, MCs and DQs.

Announcements: lunch this Tuesday 5/10 at Joey’s hot dogs in Innsbrook (this is a fancy group). Tuckahoe Takeover starts tomorrow. Convergence on Memorial Day at Tredegar Iron Works downtown, June 4 Blood Drive and June 4 workout in Charlottesville. See Pigskin for details on the blood drive and Vinny for details on the Charlottesville workout.

Prayers for Gypsy’s upcoming surgery and for Lighthouse’s family in the Ukraine. Have a great weekend!

Fireman Ed

10 Redwoods gathered dangerously close to the hotbed of Lasagna parties to swap jabs, barbs, and maybe the Q.

According to the twin hickory early morning walkers here is what went down, more or less:

COP – Gomer: all iC; 20x SSH, 10x IW, 10x DQ, 20x WW2, 25x LBC, 10x Dollies, 10x Rosalita, 10x Flutters, 10x WW2, 10x Grass Angel, 10x 4count Merkin, 10x HRM, 10x Shazam.

Beast – Lighthouse. Mosey to Gridiron for a beast, 6 Burpee, 24 LBC, 12 HRM, 12 Monkey Humper, 12 Flutters, 6 Burpee

Four Corners – Pinto, 10,15,20,25 Merkin, WW2, Flutter.  +5 SSH, LBC + 5 Merkin chaser.

Feats of strength – White Deer. 20yd “races” Bear crawl, Crab walk, Bear Crawl

Gomer – Ring of fire.  partners across the ring Bear Crawl, Booyah merkins, Crawl Bear. Finish off with Flutters.

Pinto took us out.  Prayers for Drew, LabRat and all recovering / working through physical, mental, and spiritual challenges.

Announcements –

• May 13 Currahee 2 year celebration
  • Fun routes for all skill levels including walkers.
  • “Special routes” available for those worried about / prone to getting lost.
• Memorial day convergence – Browns island 7am
• Freed to bleed June 4 – Volunteers needed.  Let Pigskin know: 2 setup, 2 signin 1st shift, 2 signin 2nd shift, 3 teardown.
• Bridge clown car June 4

NMS – Fun to be back out at GridIron. On the drive over from Dogpile, YHC realized that there are some other great Qs out there that have not signed up and decided on a hot potato.  Thanks to the fellow Qs for jumping in. White Deer reminds us that while the Q is in charge he is also on a stage with a spotlight.

Coffeeteria makes YHC seem that some might be interested in a military history / movie watch night where we can go in knowing what we are talking about and avoid building up to a downer.  Bottom line: War sucks – the aftermath sucks too. When nations policy goals conflict and diplomacy fails, war is the outcome.  No soldier really wants it, and some end up being good at it…  regardless, the goal of my military brethren is to make war violent at the precise point of most impact, and therefore quick so that more of the brethren can go back home.  We are lucky here that so few of us have needed to be involved – its not like that around the world. This is made possible and we are kept safe by rough men and women “on the borders” that you may never know. If interested, YHC would be happy to get some other veterans together to share what those brave souls go through with those that want to know.  

Get some!

Gridiron had 9 participants including Polly (FNG last week). Unfortunately, Homer was a little late and missed out on some burpees. You snooze, you lose. I was pleased to note that the football field was lined off.  That way, we knew where midfield was. No guessing!

Mosey to tennis courts

20 SSHs, 10 MM Merkins, 15 Knee-ups, (all in cadence), stretch

Mosey to near pull-up bars

5 minutes of Burpees, stretching exercise

Using Pull-up bars:

11s with Hanging Knee-ups and HRMs, stretching exercise

Back to football field near fence

10 Romanian Leg Lift (in cadence) Left leg then right leg

Football field

Burpee/Broad Jump to midfield, stretching exercise

Jog to end

11s with get ups and Ukrainian Hammers, stretching exercise

Jog to Wall in front of school

15 People’s Chair air press, 10 BTTW Hip slaps, (all in cadence), 15 donkey kix

15 People’s Chair milkers, 10 BTTW Australian Mountain Climbers (all in cadence), 15 donkey kix

15 People’s Chair la-lanes, 10 BTTW toe taps (all in cadence), 15 donkey kix

Stretching exercise

Mosey to the loading dock

Behind the loading dock 10 Squats, climb wall and fence to loading dock, cross loading dock, climb down loading dock, mosey to asphalt for 10 merkins. 3X, stretching exercise

Mosey back to football field

Bear crawl/Crab walk to Midfield alternating every 10 yards

Mosey to parking lot

20 Heels to Heaven, 20 Rosalitas (all in cadence) 6-inch leg left to count of 60

It’s always great to be out here. I had to miss coffee after the workout but I needed to help out with our grandson. His parents are out of town this weekend at a wedding and so we’re keeping their 10-month old. It’s a lot of work. Frankly, I don’t how we did it with our two or how they do it. He’s asleep now so I have time to write up the backblast.

Announcements:

Blood Drive June 4 at Epiphany Lutheran, west end of Monument where it runs into Horsepen, 10 to 3. Please go to Red Cross Blood donate and sign up.

Richmond Bluegrass jam: (F3 Whitesnake is helping to pull this together) April 30 11am to 8PM, Parking available at James River High School, Midlothian, VA 23113, Free shuttles: Bring chairs/blankets RVABLUEGRASSJAM.com

Fourteen Fearless redwoods (including 1 FNG – Polly and 1 visitor Webelos from F3 Naperville) gathered on a purrfect cool morning to develop their physiques for upcoming bikini season. According to those standing around at the local cricket league it went something like this:

5 burpee start

Mosey to COP all IC, all 4 count; 10x SSH, 10x IW, 10x APD, 10x Tuscaloosa Trailer Park Twister, 51 LBC, 10x Bohemian Rhapsody, 10x Freddie Mercury, 10x Hello Dolly, 10x Rosalita, 10x Merkin, 10x HRM, 10x Merkin + sky Reach, 10x Grass Angel, 10x Aussie style, 10x ww2, 10x Arm Circle, 10x reverso, 10x seal claps, 10x overhead claps. Wrap it up with 10x control freak merkin.

Triple check. Touch a tree. Flutters and WW2s.

Booyah merkin ring of fire.

Partner 11s. Jumpsquats. Everyones favorite WW2s

5 bonus burpees at PAX request – Thanks Tater

Mosey to pole smoker. 5 box cutters while PAX work various exercises. Called after 3 rounds. We will get all 60ish poles done at some point gents.

Mosey for spider merkin on bleachers – instruction needs refinement.

BTTF for a ring of fire.

Seymour took us out

Welcome to FNG – Polly (nee Adrian). Polly was brought out by Webelos visiting from F3 Naperville. Originally from Birmingham, moved to Twin Hickory from west Chitown, into music and a former Rugby Union flanker. Several great naming alternatives including Susan Boyle.  We left the Twin Hickory themed Swinger and Lasagna Party for next time. Several Rocky alternatives came to mind as well. Finally, we settled on a Peaky Blinders theme – which Polly will now binge on as he has never seen it. 

Polly is hardcore, and so is Polly – cigars and brown liquor on the horizon.

Prayer Requests: Lab Rat, Handshakes family, Lighthouse family.

Announcements:

• Breaking bread sign up
• April 29 Friends of Barnabas virtual benefit.
• June 4 blood drive at Epiphany Lutheran corner of Monument and Horsepen.

NMS – YHC five year anniversary Friday.  Today kicks off the annual week of Qs.  See slack for more.  Lets bring some FNGs out.

Get some!

Eight loyal Gridironers joined today at the maiden AO for an Attila-style beat-down.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • SSH
  • IW
  • DQ
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles
  • Suzanne Somers
  • Merkins
  • LBC
  • APD
• One man Dora – divide reps into 5 sets with run in-between
  • 100 HRM
  • 200 squats
  • 300 LBC
• Arc loader with 15 2x crab cakes at mid-field and 15 2x Freddy Mercuries on opposite sideline
  • Bear crawl
  • Crab walk
  • Bunny hop
  • Duck walk
  • Cheetah sprint
  • Bear crawl
• 4x check
  • Run
  • Wall sit with air presses
  • Dips
  • Side crunches
• Ring of fire
• COT with YHC taking us out

Great work from the PAX today, including 100% attendance at 3^rd F coffee afterwards.  Today was a throwback with 100% of our time on the AO namesake, the gridiron.  The HRM were a terror, but a must.  Great to see each of the members of the PAX.  Continued prayers for Gypsy and Lighthouse’s family in Ukraine.

God is good all of the time!

Attila

At Gridiron today, we started out, after warm-up (SSHs, IWs, Don Quixote, US (Ukrainian Soldiers), Stretching), with 10 minutes of Burpees on Burpee Hill, in hopes that the Burpees will bring Homer back out to Gridiron. Almost expected him to sense the vibes and show up. But alas, no Homer. On the other hand, there was a rare Blue Moon appearance.

Next, Stretching and then 11s:

Pullups and WWIIs. J’vile and I forget who else finished early so I didn’t get to finish my 11s. Darn!

Back to the parking lot for 3 rounds of 20, jumping over the line, in cadence, with a stretch in between.

Over to the stands by the football field for single count Bulgarian split squats (each leg) and Dips: 10, 9, 8, etc. down to 1.

Over to the parking lot in front of the school for more 11s: Mike Tysons and Plank-arm raises.

Back to the original parking lot for 1 leg balance. Impressive balance shown by Atilla and Tater. Tater was able to touch his nose to his shoe while maintaining his balance.

Finished up with Dollies, Heels to Heaven and one-legged APDs,

So, a bit of a geography lesson today: Ukraine (tribute to Lighthouse and the people of Ukraine), Bulgaria (split squats) and Alabama (APDs).

J’ville offered to work on Pinto’s Porsche. Pinto didn’t seem interested. Wonder why? I know Chum was disasppointed we didn’t do a lot of really long distance running.

I just checked and the Q-sheet is wide open. Lots of opportunities!

 

Today was not a day for the casual and occasional PAX member.  Rain and dropping temps meant only a special kind of craziness would embrace the Gridiron gloom.  Here is how it went down for 5 noble warriors:

• COP
  • SSH
  • Ukrainian soldiers
  • DQ
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles
  • Suzanne Somers
  • Merkins
  • LBC
  • APD
• Deck of destiny under the cover of the bus loop without the deck

• Mosey back to the Pavilions for 25 step ups each leg
• COT with YHC taking us out
• Starbucks for some 2^nd F

When Johnsonville rolled in at 6:55, we put wagers on who might be off-center enough to post on a miserable day.  Well, no surprise, Chum Bucket and Pigskin rolled in.  Gomer Pyle was a welcomed edition.  Great work by the PAX, and YHC was thoroughly educated by Gomer Pyle at 2^nd F.  His military wisdom served for a great listen.  Thanks to the PAX members that braved the elements.  It was a fun one. 

God is good all of the time!

Attila