Tag: GridIron

Ten noble warriors came together at the maiden AO for the traditional Saturday beat-down.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • Run the parking lot followed by parking space tracers
  • IW
  • DQ
  • Cherry pickers
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles
  • Merkins
  • LBC
• Mosey to the turf field for a cumulative beast
  • 216 HRM
  • 180 WWII sit-ups
  • 144 monkey humpers
  • 108 reverse crunches
  • 72 2x crab cakes
  • 36 burpees
• Partner up for partner wheelbarrows followed by 10 derkins – rinse and repeat 4x for each PAX member
• Run the outer edge of the soccer field for 5 minutes
• Mosey back to the parking lot for COT with YHC taking us out

Great to be with my brothers today, including some 3^rd F at Starbucks afterwards.  It was certainly an F-U to soccer arms Q.

God is good all of the time!

Attila

Four of the faithful braved the ice, snow, cold, and wind for a 7AM workout on the west end Saturday. Johnsonville was the volunteer Q, and this is what went down (more or less):

COT for fairly brief warmup (50 ssh, hillbillies, suzanne sommers).

Mosey to atrium in back of school, mostly to try to get some shelter from the harsh wind. YHC set up his phone for the following six (6) sets of Ciabatta:

• Burpees (8 cycles 20 sec. on 10 sec.)
• Lunges (8 cycles 20 sec. on 10 sec.)
• Imperial Walkers (8 cycles 20 sec. on 10 sec.)
• Merkins (8 cycles 20 sec. on 10 sec.)
• Plank Jacks (8 cycles 20 sec. on 10 sec.)
• Sit-Ups (LBCs because we were on pavement) (8 cycles 20 sec. on 10 sec.)

Interlude of stretching

1 more Ciabatta set for good measure– Donkey Kicks (8 cycles 20 sec. on 10 sec.)

Mosey to south side of school for Four Play — wall sit -> close grip pushup -> hold 6 in. leg raise -> Pigskin parkour.

Mosey back to VSF.

COF with YHC taking us out.

7 well chiseled middle-aged folks descended on the frozen tundra of Short Pump Middle School and Pouncey Tract Park to endure a beatdown. While we were missing a few of our regulars due to mission trips and fart sacking, we had a good ole time.

COP: Invisible jump rope, DQs, CPs, FMs and arm circles.

My daughters purchased a ten-sided foam dice that had different exercises on each side. We would mosey a couple hundred feet throw the dice and see what we had to do. Anything from Bonnie Blairs to mountain climbers to burpees to merkins to Supermans (or Supermen). On our long mosey we fit in the following:

Curb crawl up to 5 down to 1

Triple check with pole smokers, SSHs and a run around the bus loop triangle.

Dora with 100 wide grip merkins, 200 WWIIs and 300 2 count flutters.

Coupon press wall sits and 2 sets of donkey kicks (15 and 25).

Finished with an odd-looking stretch led by Tater.

Closed in prayer. Pray for Pigskin’s cousin’s daughter who has COVID, is 22 weeks pregnant and is in the hospital. I mistakenly said 22 months pregnant; my bad. As we started our workout, Tater was talking to J’ville about playoff fantasy football and J’ville said “Rodgers, he is a player right?” Perhaps he is watching too much soccer.

Prayers for Pigskin and Gomer doing mission work and for anyone suffering from COVID. We noticed the coffeeteria was more crowded than usual. Perhaps they were hoping to get a glance at us studs. I imagine the ladies (and perhaps a couple of dudes) were disappointed in not seeing Pigskin.

Have a great weekend and I will root for Upstate New York’s team the Bills.

Fireman Ed

It was so cold, I started a minute early, before Dial-up showed up. He found us. He found us because he could hear the crunch of the frozen grass on the football field as we did SSHs. Did I mention it was cold? As in 18 degrees. As in colder than it typically is in Charlotte, from where I used to be.

Despite the cold, it was a great day for a workout. As always, it is great to have a group to workout with. No fart-sacking with these guys.

Despite the lack of a disclaimer, no injuries, even on the obstacle course. This site provides a great obstacle course. Warning; I will do this again! It is too good not to use.

We had the place to ourselves. No pickle-ball players. Evidently, you can’t play with a frozen pickle.

Anyway:

To the goal line of the football field:

20 SSHs, 10 Man-maker Merkins, 15 Knee-ups and a stretching exercise

To the track:

20 IWs, 10 Diamond Merkins, 15 American Hammers and a stretching exercise

To the soccer field in front of the school:

20 Russian Soldiers, 15 Crunchy Frogs, 10 Stagger arm Merkins and a stretching exercise

To the side of the south side of the school:

20 squats, 10 Stagger arm Merkins, 20 Dollies and a stretching exercise

Follow the leader: We used the loading docks, stairs, railings as an obstacle course.

To the wall in front of the school:

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

Back to the parking lot.

To the parking lot:

Jump in cadence over the line 20 count, 3 times with a stretching exercise in between

To the historic school’s pull-up bars, near the pickle-ball courts

10 Pullups, 20 LBCs, 20 merkins and 25 squats: 3 times

Back to the parking lot:

Less-fatal Man Killer: 10,8,6,4,2.

Stretching exercise

Romanian Single Leg Dead lift (bend knee up and forward, bend at waist but keep hip neutral and extend bent leg back behind you.) 10 each leg.

To the bathroom: divide up into groups of 3: 1 does Lalannes, 1 does dollies while the other runs around the parking lot. 3 times

To the stadium bench for 10 Bulgarian split squats

Back to the parking lot for stretching exercise and then 6-inch leg lift for 60-count.

YHC is just full of holiday cheer these days.  11 noble warriors assembled on the Gridiron to celebrate the unusually warm weather.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • Punitive burpees to shut White Deer up
  • SSH
  • IW
  • DQ
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles
  • Suzanne Somers
  • Merkins
  • LBC
  • APD
• 12 days of Christmas – cumulative exercises with a run across the football field after each set
  • 12 – 144 merkins
  • 11 – 121 WWII sit-ups
  • 10 – 100 2x flutter kicks
  • 9 – 81 reverse crunches
  • 8 – 64 2x crab cakes
  • 7 – 49 Carolina drydocks
  • 6 – 36 monkey humpers
  • 5 – 25 hurpees
  • 4 – 16 heels to heaven
  • 3 – 9 diamond merkins
  • 2 – 4 rotational merkins
  • 1 – 1 12 second sumo squat
• Mosey to the pull-up bars for an 11 with pull-ups and step-ups at the pavilion picnic tables
• Mosey back to the parking lot for rehab exercises and sobriety tests led by Gomer Pyle
• COT with YHC taking us out

Great work from the PAX today.  Today’s workout was intended to be user-friendly for the injured and rehabbing portion of our PAX.  A big welcome to Pick Pocket, a buddy of Gomer Pyle.  Hope to see more of you in the New Year. 

Lots of announcements

• Christmas Day – there will be a 7 am Gridiron workout for those with older kids
• Next Tue AM (12/21) – “12 Days of Christmas” hosted by Rosie at NoToll
• Friday 12/31 – TWO OPTIONS – Murph at TwinTeam or 3rd F convergence at 0600 at Boberry’s Starbucks in Short Pump
• New Years Day (1/1) Convergence 7-8am at NEW SOJ AO at Rockwood Park
• Connect with Corned Beef to join a ramp building, beer drinking, 2nd/3rd F good time! Details TBD.

Enjoy the holidays and remember the reason for the season.  God is good all of the time!

Attila

Warm and wet, just the kind of morning Johnsonville dreams of.  Here is how it went down:

• COP      
  • SSH until Pigskin’s mastery of foreign languages runs out
  • Hillbillies
  • Cherry pickers
  • Mosey to the track
  • Merkins and maybe some other stuff
• Scrap the ground and pound – 12 laps of the track (1/4 mile at a time) with dealer’s choice exercise to follow, including HRM, arm circles, PLT, reverse crunches, WWII sit-ups, Hello Dollys, shoulder tap merkins, side lunges, and others YHC cannot remember
• Mosey back to the parking lot where Johnsonville took us out

Solid work from the PAX today.  Gridiron is more than just ground and pound.

Announcements –continue to bring interview clothes and shoes for donation this month

God is good all of the time!

Attila

10 Pax, all regulars. After a brief warm-up we moseyed over to football field and did the beast starting with Burpees, continuing with 2 count Freddie Mercuries, then Burpees again, 2 count Flutter Kicks, Burpees 3rd time, ending with Heels to Heaven.

To slow down Homer and to work on his Burpee form it was suggested that he do a Hand-release Burpee. He tried it, and it worked great! Though it did not stop him down completely.

After the beast we moseyed to Pull-up bars and did 11s rotating between Pull-ups and Step-ups. Then on to tennis court for Suicides. We finished with the Ring of Fire and American Hammers.

Great job everyone!

Thank you for suffering through my first Q.

With it being about 25 degrees outside I was driving up and I guess they were playing a doubleshot of Foreigner on 96.5. The song that came on was “Cold As Ice” by Foreigner.

We were happy to have a FNG from Jersey and Ukraine join us. He came in a fancy Porsche (not to be confused with no frills Porsches) so we named him Yugo. I guess if you can afford New Jersey property taxes you can afford a nice car. Welcome Yugo!

The exercises went something like this:

COP: Lap around parking, lot, DQs, CPs, Freddie Mercuries, Arm circles

Mosey to field, run around field go to bus loop.

Pole 1 – 1 burpee, pole 3 – 2 Lt. Dans, pole 5 – 2 burpees, pole 7 – 3 Lt. Dans, etc. until we hit 10 burpees. Run around school to front of school.

Quadruple check with all exercises done 3 times: Balls to the wall, dips, flutter kicks and run around loop. Mosey to nearby parking lot.

Four corners with 10 HRMs, 20 WWIIs, 30 2 count mountain climbers and 40 jump squats

Mosey to home base. 2 sets of pass the coupon while wall sitting, one shoulder press for each of the three coupons that came by.

Another quadruple check: Donkey kicks, coupon press, heels to heaven and run around parking lot.

Finish with American hammer and long LBC set.

Announcements: We think the first Friday is a rucking happy hour deal. We will need to look for a backblast to confirm/deny. Punisher is doing a workout happy hour the first Monday of December. Lastly Lighthouse has Q next Saturday. Come out and support LH.

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. Take some time to help someone in need this holiday season.

Thanks and blessings.

Fireman Ed

For the record:

4 sets of 10 count in cadence merkins: 80

5 minutes of Burpees: 50

11s including merkins: 55

Derkins and dips: 55

Total Merkins: 240

 

To the goal line of the football field:

20 SSH, 10 Man-maker Merkins, 15 Knee-ups and a stretching exercise.

To the other goal line of the football field:

20 IWs, 10 Diamond Merkins, 15 American Hammers and a stretching exercise

To the parking lot in front of the school:

20 Russian Soldiers, 15 Crunchy Frogs, 10 Stagger arm Merkins and a stretching exercise

To the goal line of the football field:

20 squats, 20 Dollies, 10 Stagger arm Merkins and a stretching exercise

5 minutes of Burpees.

To the wall in front of the school:

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 hands on wall and floor, 15 Donkey Kix OYO

To the Football field: Bear crawl 20 yards, crab walk 20 yards, backwards run to the start.

Burpee-bear crawl 20 yards, lunge walk 20 yards, backwards run to the start

Bear crawl 20 yards, crab walk 20 yards, backwards run to the start.

On hill leading up to the Football field:

11s with WWII sit-ups and Merkins:

On the stadium benches:

10 Dips in cadence, 10 Derkins in cadence; 9 Dips, 9 Derkins, etc.

To the parking lot: jump in cadence over the line 20 count, 3 times with a stretching exercise in between

A couple of minutes of Mary and stretching

 

 

Announcements:
Give to Give; log onto F3Nation,

Forest Hill Run the day after Thanksgiving

Convergence at Mary Mumford at 5:30 on Thanksgiving or Circus Maximus at 7:00

 

 

While four GridIron regulars were about to line up elsewhere in Richmond to begin Saturday’s Richmond Marathon, eight of us posted for GridIron proper. We undertook a mini-marathon involving 26.2 laps of the Pouncey Tract Park parking lot.

Take an initial lap, then take sidewalk chalk to mark the concrete in tracking progress. Warmup with SSHs, DQs, IWs, Helicopters, Merkins, APDs, and Arm Circles. Divide into two groups of four and complete Quadruple Check – four rounds, taking turns running a lap, holding People’s Chair, completing Freddie Mercuries, or Merkins followed by a Plank. Follow with a lap.

Pair up with one guy completing a lap while another guy completes a few Squats then holds in Squat position. Four rounds.

Pair up again with one guy completing LBCs while another guy runs one lap, then turns around and runs back the other way.

We added laps between exercise rounds and finished our 26.2 laps with a final push before time. Mix in a few Merkins as desired for November’s challenge. Finish with a few minutes of stretching. COT and Cecil took us out.

Garmin indicated distance – 3.3 miles. Not to shabby.