Tag: GridIron

10 PAX including one FNG (Welcome Deliverance) took to the grounds of the county’s famous (maybe infamous) Short Pump Middle School for a cold beat down.

It went a little something like this:

COP: two loops around the football field with high knees, karaoke and Bernie Sanders mixed in. 25 side straddle hops, 10 Don Quixotes, 10 arm circles and 10 Russian soldiers

First exercise: Go to the overhang by Short Pump Middle. At one pillar do 3 2 count flutter kicks and at the next pillar 3 heels to heaven. After getting to pillar 30ish, we reversed direction and did one burpee per pillar.

Second exercise: “Yog” our way to the open pickleball court at the park. Do elevens with jump squats and side straddle hops

Third exercise: Partner leg tosses 100 per “couple” in honor of the Spiders hard fought 100-98 victory over mighty St. Francis of PA. Sky is the limit y’all.

Fourth exercise: Mosey to benches, Do 20 dips and add 5 derkins and drop 5 dips till you get to 20 derkins 0 dips.

Mosey to parking lot after performing lunges and a bear crawl. Ended with 25 Freddie Mercuries, 25 2 count flutters, 20 American hammers and a merkin ring of fire.

Closed in prayer in advance of Veteran’s Day. thanks to the military for their continued service. Welcome to Mack (Deliverance). He like Johnsonville comes from across the riva. He has a lot of legal counsel experience and is a less than stellar banjo player, hence the name Deliverance.

Fireman Ed

NOTE: In order to watch Blue Moon compete in his marathon, on 11/16 Gridiron will NOT be held at Short Pump Park. We the mature folks of Gridiron are looking at a location at Libbie Mill or somewhere near the race course. Be on the lookout for more details over the next few days.

Nine PAX posted in cool temperatures and on the last Daylight Saving Time morning of 2019 for GridIron. Spread out in the parking lot, pick a parking lot row (short line), and complete 1 Burpee and 5 SSHs. Jog to the end of the short line and do the same. Complete six rounds. Assemble in a circle for Invisible Jump Ropes, Hillbillies, Don Quixotes, Suzanne Somers(es), Off Tempo APDs, and some Arm Circles.

Line up and march west in Mobile Imperial Walker mode. Last guy runs to the front of the line Indian Run-style. Continue out to Pouncey Tract Road and take a right on the walking track – stop at the edge of Striker Park.

When last we visited Striker Park, the parking lot had a sand and gravel surface with spaces marked by horizontal wooden posts. Successful fundraising and solid contractor selection has transformed this lot into a smooth, well-marked surface with markings helpful to an F3 effort. We split into three groups of three and each group starting at the southern edge of parking columns with one group starting with 3 Merkins in each parking space, a second group completing 3 Squats in each space, and the third group completing 3 Rosalitas. Rotate into a different column and complete a different exercise coming back. Continue until all groups have completed the first three exercises.

Staying in our groups, move to the three remaining parking columns for different exercises – alternating, this time, 2 reps per space of, in different columns, Carolina Dry Docks, Two-Count Side Lunges, and Two-Count Flutter Kicks. With just a few minutes to spare, we jumped the ditch and headed around the Pickleball Courts to a picnic pavilion for one set of 25 Bench Kicks. Up and mosey back to the start. COT and YHC took us out. Coffeeteria at Einstein’s afterwards, as per usual.

Blue Moon is tackling the full Marathon in a couple of weeks. May shift GridIron closer to town so GridIroners can sweat and then take positions as spectators. Details later on workout shift.

Nine noble warriors convened at the Gridiron to start their Saturday with a solid beatdown.  YHC attempted not to disappoint with some familiar favorites.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • 35 SSH
  • 15 Russian soldiers
  • 15 DQ
  • 15 helicopters
  • 20 merkins
  • 10 2x Suzanne Somers, each leg
  • 40 LBC
• Burpee march – 15 burpees down the parking lot, with 25 WWII sit-ups, 25 2x flutter kicks and 25 APD; rinse and repeat for a total of 75 burpees and 125 WWII sit-ups, 2x flutter kicks and APDs
• Mosey to the pickle ball courts
  • 5 shuttle runs
  • 7 reps of 3-man jerkins, rinse and repeat 3x
  • 5 shuttle runs
  • Partner wheelbarrows with 10 derkins at end, rinse and repeat 3x for each man
• Mosey to the parking lot for some Mary – 20 2x American hammers and 20 FM
• COT with YHC taking us out

Welcome home McFly!  Awesome to have you at Gridiron, and grateful for your service to our country.

During our time on the pickle ball courts, the PAX was monitored by an employee of Henrico parks.  After a set of shuttle runs, he introduced himself and offered to get us whatever equipment we might want for the AO.  JACKPOT!   If all works out, the PAX will have its pull-up bars and a jerkin gym.  Gridiron is already a top-notch AO, and it is only going to get better. 

Great to lead this PAX this morning.  God is good all of the time!

Attila

Today was the return of the prodigal son.  With the help of Chum Bucket’s headlocking efforts, Nightcrawler made his triumphant return to Gridiron as he avoided the temptation of merlot, firearms and fishing lures for the first time in months.  There was no need to find a fattened calf as Nightcrawler himself served in this symbolic role.  Once all of this joyful greetings concluded, a beatdown commenced.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • 30 SSH
  • 15 IW
  • 15 DQ
  • 15 helicopters
  • 20 HRM
  • 40 2x LBC
  • 10 Suzanne Somers –each leg
  • 40 APD
• Mosey to the football field for a bearimeter stopping every 50 yards (6 total times) to do 10 burpees, 20 WWII sit-ups and 30 flutter kicks
• Mosey to the bleachers for a Lindsay with dips and bench kicks
• Triple check with 100 yard dash, wall sits and scorpion squats
• Intervals around the football field
• COT with YHC taking us out

Solid work from the PAX today.  Great to have FNG Scrapbook with us today.  Quick warning, never use sarcasm to introduce yourself, providing fake and somewhat feminine hobbies in your biography.  That will come back to haunt you when given a handle.  YHC should also point out that Tater headlocked our newest member of the PAX, but failed to show up for his virgin post.  Am I missing something?  Is this how it is supposed to work? Hoping there was a good reason for his absence, like a wicked case of the dueling dragons that sidelined that mighty redwood this morning.

For the record, that bearimeter required a massive embracing of the suck.  It was all YHC envisioned and more.  Grateful the PAX did not have an all-out mutiny.  No merlot was returned to the Gridiron AO as a result that that exercise. Grateful to lead this fine group of men this morning after so many pre-empted Saturdays for little league ball. 

God is good all of the time!

Attila

This falls under the category of “better late than never.” Nine of the faithful posted last Saturday at GridIron.

Light warmup with the usual stuff. Grab coupons. Mosey to field and do 2 laps around 1/2 perimeter. At corners do 1 coupon burpee, then 2, 3, 4 .. 8. Ark loader along length of field with coupons. Death crawl/lunge; then Death crab/lunge. Jack webb with coupons to 10. Native American run to front of shool. Exit Attila for little league, leaving 8, a perfect number for a quad check with coupon wall sits, sit and presses, lawn mower, and run bus loop. I am sure I forgot some shi**. It was all done on the fly. Feel free to add exercises by comments below.

Moleskin: We would love to claim Opus as a GridIron regular, but he admitted that he just came because he slept late. Either way, he is a welcome addition. All others came up through the GridIron academy system. Earthworm is regaining form after long medical leave. White Deer exhibited extreme gas (nothing new there). Tater led most exercises that involved mobility. We need to pair him with Rosie so those two can (almost) kill one another. Pinto seems to be getting faster each week. Attilla is a rock solid leader across the board, but had to do a legit LIFO due to little league. Byproduct may have gotten (re)married in Amsterdam. My coupon workout helped Blue Moon with his MTT 20 miler on Sunday.

Ten of the faithful posted on a lovely late-summer morning at GridIron. Johnsonville (YHC) took the Q, and this is what went down, more or less:

COP warmup — Don Quiotes, Imperial Walkers, 50x arm circles (front) + 10 big, merkins, LBCs, 50x arm circles (back) + 10 big.

Mosey over to the grassy knoll past the dozen or so pickleball courts that Henrico county is building on the site that formerly housed the sand volleyball courts.

10 minutes of burpees — no explanation need.

Mosey to original pickleball courts. 10 rounds of suicides divided by various plank and wall-sit exercises. After round 6, we took a break by moseying to the nearby pavilion and doing 10 rounds of ciabatta merkins. We rotated through 2 stations of abyss merkins. After round 8 we took a break with an ark loader across the courts (bear crawls, bunny hops, backward runs, back bunny hops).

Mosey back to the pavilion for 4 rounds of ciabatta dips.

COT with Earthworm taking us out. Coffeeteria (although many, YHC included, had to skip due to family obligations).

Lots of running at this one, which is not typical for GridIron. Way to step up! Jville

A dozen PAX comprised entirely of grizzled veterans posted for the most recent GridIron. We shook hands and told some lies prior to our start, but began promptly at 7 AM with a short mosey across the parking lot and a COP with 25 x SSHs, 15 x Imperial Walkers, 15 x Don Quixotes, 15 x Helicopters, 15 x Russian Soldiers, 59 x LBCs (for the 59 degree starting temp), and 15 x Arm Circles (small and big, each direction).

Complete another short mosey to the parking lot corner for Deck of Death. We used an official F3 card deck, but kept things relatively simple with reps equal to the card value and face cards increasing reps above 10 (Aces as 14 reps). The exercise / suit pairings were Clubs / Carolina Dry Docks, Diamond / Box Cutters, Hearts / Mountain Climbers (Two Count), and Spades / Squats.

Line up and begin a Indian Run towards the middle school. Adjacent to the edge of the school’s bus awning we loosely circled and completed a couple of rounds of Gary Gygax – a randomized Jack Webb with reps determined by D&D dice tossing. Gygax was the creator of D&D – someone out there may have known this already – and we used the 12 sided die to determine reps. First round, with Jack Webb multiplier of 1 / 4 reps, involved Merkins and Overhead Presses – everyone got a roll and we all completed the reps. Second round, same multiplier, involved WWII Sit Ups and LBCs.

Indian Run back to the parking lot with 30 seconds of standing stretching. COT and Attila took us out.

Nice work guys. Good energy to offset your Q’s slow start. Sorry to miss a few of you at coffee afterwards.

It was a glorious Saturday morning, unusually cooler temps and humidity than normal late August.  Mumblechatter was extensive.  It was a spectacular day for a beatdown.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • 30 SSH
  • 10 IW
  • 10 cherry pickers
  • 20 helicopters
  • 20 HRM
  • 20 Suzanne Somers, each leg
  • 20 APD
  • 40 2x LBC
• Mosey to the upper football field for a cumulative beast:
  • 216 merkins
  • 180 WWII sit-ups
  • 144 2x flutter kicks
  • 108 2x lunges
  • 72 2x crab cakes
  • 36 burpees
• Mosey to the jerkin gym for 3x 7 jerkins
• Mosey to the bathroom walls for wall sit
• COT with YHC taking us out

Welcome FNG Shank!  Great showing for your first posting.  YHC was assuming Tater was going to post since he has been exclaiming the greatness of the cumulative beast.  Sorry you had to miss this one brother!

The field was moist and freshly cut, so the PAX was covered in shavings and sweat.  It was a glorious start to the Labor Day weekend.

See everyone at Timberwolf on Monday morning at 7 am for the convergence.

God is good all of the time!

Attila

Arriving early to scout the AO, YHC found a construction site where the sand volleyball court used to be… so YHC took a jaunt around the AO to scout new COP points. Just about that time, Tater pulled up, and was noted to spend a few minutes in deep contemplation swinging on the playground swing set. There is something wonderful and mysterious about a full grown man enjoying a swing set all by himself. There were just four gloom warriors to take on the day, but as the watch ticked over 7am, the Jville clown car came in hot with another 4 studs – so an even 8 paired up and (much to their surprise) collected their cabers from YHC’s truck. 

The THANG:

Mosey to Gridiron for COP#1:

• Partners shoulder-carry cabers, stopping every 20 yards circumnavigating the field for x3 overhead press, alternating shoulders
• Circle up for SSH x20 IC
• Standing Caber Squat Press with Partner x20 OYO
• DQ’s x10 IC
• Caber Curls w Partner x10 IC
• Little Baby Caber Crunches w Partner x10 IC
• Caber Bench Press w Partner x10 IC
• Rapid Alternating Feet on Cabers x20 IC
• Find a new partner/caber

Mosey to Field within the Track for COP #2: 

• Round 1:  Caber Toss Suicides – spread out & cross a 30 yard space and back by tossing caber as far as possible (either as a team or individual tosses) running back together to touch baseline between throws 
• Plankorama on Cabers for the SIX
• Round 2:  CaBEAR Crawls – bear crawl across 20 yard space and back pushing caber in front
• WWII’s for the SIX
• Round 3: CRABer Walks – crab walk across 20 yard space and back kicking caber along in front
• SSH for the SIX
• Find a new partner/caber

Mosey to the Further Parking Lot for COP #3:

• x2 Unbroken Squats each parking space across the lot (Caber held overhead the entire time) – total of 18 parking spaces
• x2 Caber Curls x18 spaces returning
• ABC’s for the SIX

Return to Track area for COP #4:

• Circle up for Crab Cakes x20 IC
• Derkins with feet on cabers, x20 OYO
• Dancing Bears x20 IC
• Incline Merkins on cabers, x10 OYO
• LBC’s x20 IC
• Find a new partner/caber

Mosey up to the roadside grass for COP #5:

• Triple Check
• Partner 1 (Timer) performs WMD Crawl: BearCrawl x10 steps w hands spaced wide, perform x10 Werkins, then x10 normal BC steps followed by x10 standard Merkins, then x10 narrow BC steps followed by x10 Diamond Merkins
• Partner 2 – Post Hole Diggers (squat to lift standing caber high overhead then slam it down into the ground)
• Partner 3 – Monkey Humpers for the drivers passing by

Mosey Back to Flag:

• Stow cabers in YHC’s truck
• Circle up for MARY: APD’s, Flutters, Heels to Heaven, times up!

COT:

• Counterama #8
• Namerama (renamed Touchya to BAMBI)
• Announcerama (see Comments)
• YHC took us out in Prayer

NMS: 

• YHC has been looking for the right time to deliver another Caber Q, and it only seemed right that our GridIron friends who did not have the pleasure of YHC’s Dogpile Caberama, have equal opportunity to test their strength. The routine was nearly identical to the Dogpile Caberama, and the GridIron boys (many of Respectful years) did an excellent job throwing around the Cabers. This was the 3rd Q for DTH this week, and the Qenergy was really slacking by the time WMD’s came around – many thanks to White Deer for the encouragement to push on! After our Namerama, with YHC’s encouragement to get an F3RVA shirt, it became clear that we needed to rename Touchma (Birch Cox) so his new F3RVA T-shirt wouldn’t incite a CPS case. This brother works at James River Equipment, a John Deere dealer with the buck logo, so “BAMBI” it is! As of writing this backblast it appears we have reached the necessary 12 shirt orders – thank you all for your help!!!