Tag: GridIron

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!!! 

13 strong Redwoods took root at Gridiron, accepting whatever challenges they were presented.  Here is how it went down on the lush home of the Tuckahoe Tomahawks:

• COP
  • 40 SSH
  • 15 Russian soldiers
  • 15 DQ
  • 15 helicopters
  • 10 2x merkins
  • 20 Suzanne Somers, each leg
  • 40 APD
  • 40 2x LBC
• “Laps of Luxury”
  • Start at the 50 yard line with 25 monkey humpers
  • Run the sidelines
  • Series of exercises to traverse across the field (both ends) for each of the 5 total laps
    • Bear Crawl
    • Partner wheelbarrows
    • Lunge walks
    • Partner carries
    • Crab walk
  • 20 hand release merkins at the opposite 50 yard line
  • End with 10 burpees at the same 50 yard line we started from
• Triple check
  • Run across the field
  • Derkins
  • WWII sit-ups
• 5 minutes of intervals around the football field
• Mary
  • 15 American hammers
  • 15 crab cakes
• COT with YHC taking us out

YHC was excited to be back on the Q sheet at Gridiron have an extended hiatus.  A PAX of familiar faces was a true blessing, with Earthworm, Picaboo, and Cecil making returns.  As usual, Johnsonville, Offshore, Blue Moon, Cheetah, Tater, and Chum Bucket led the way.  No slackers to be found today, especially with the large amount of respect due this PAX.  It was a blessing to grind out this workout with these men.  Iron sharpened iron.  The party then went on the Einstein Bagels for some quality 3^rd F.

Public service announcement, we have an APB out for Nightcrawler.  Merlot season has extended to a year round gauntlet.  There is discussion as to whether there will be a bonus Gridiron in his front yard in the coming weeks if he continues to be MIA. 

God is good all of the time!

Attila

11 noble warriors fought the fartsack of the eve of ByProduct’s 50th to see if he was continue with a themed workout.

Abbreviated COP all IC:

• 15 SSHs
• 15 Invisible Jump Rope
• 15 DQ’s

The Thang:

Mosey to the burpee knoll where we were greeted by a HD bucket of balls. Each member randomly selecting a color-coded golf ball, determining the 2 teams. Because Chum was LIFO, we made him switch teams at halftime.

The Rules:

• Each player launches their ball toward the 5-gallon bucket off the tee for each hole.

• The team closest to the pin wins the hole.

• Everyone has to complete the predetermined exercise of the hole, but the number of reps is determined by which team won the hole.

• There are no mulligans.

• Exercises are single count and OYO.

• Bucket cannot be closer than 25 feet from the tee – the more creative the better!

• The player closest to the pin choses the placement of the bucket for the next hole.

• If your team gets a “hole in one”, the losers have to complete all of their reps as well as those of the winning team.

• After the 1st nine holes, the losers have to complete 20 burpees OYO.

Holes – Exercises – Reps (losers / winners)

LBC’s – 50 / 40

Derkins – 30 / 20

Burpees – 20 / 15

Arm Raises – 50 / 40

WWII Sit Ups – 50 / 40

Copperhead Squats – 50 /40

PLT’s – 40 / 30 APD’s – 50 / 40

Derkins – 30 / 20

Side Straddle Hop – 50 / 40

Flutter Kicks – 50 / 40

Jump Squats – 30 / 25

Freddie Mercuries – 50 / 40

Crab Kicks – 30 / 25

Dips – 50 / 40

Step Ups (each leg) – 40 / 30

We worked hard, had some laughs, banter and friendly competition. Didn’t quite finish all 18 holes once we started almost needing a club to reach the pin.

Atilla was the only member of the Pax to get it in the hole, but the F3 gods said not today!

Numberama

Namerama

Atilla took us out and many continued to Einstein’s for coffeerama.

Thank you for letting me lead!

8 tarmac warriors beat the heat and humidity at the Gridiron with coupons and water balloons in hand. 

COP warm ups with

29 SSH

29 DQ
10 Inch worm to Push up

29 Helicopters forward / reverse 29 small arm circles 
29 Air Squat 
29 Flutter kicks29 LBC 29 APD’s

Mosey over to Clown truck and pick up your favorite paver Coupon and then over pavilion by the Pickle-ball court 

29 touch merkins run to tree 29 touch merkins run back 

29 Goblet squats karoke to tree 29 Goblet squats karoke back

29 kettle bell swings run to tree 29 kettle bell squats run back 

29 lateral lunges r & l lunge to tree 29 lateral lunge r&l lunge back 

29 halos run to tree 29 halos run back

29 high pulls run to tree 29 high pulls run back 

Line up on tarmac trail 10’ foot apart – Throw paver as far as you can, bear crawl to your paver, retrieve paver wait for pax and then throw paver again. Repeat until bear crawls reach the barn. Reverse direction and repeat back to tarmac. Tator and Johnsonville made the last throw a “closest to the edge of the tarmac”. Tater must have been practicing corn hole skills by landing the paver short side up inches from the edge.  Time was starting to be a factor so we quickly completed two rounds of 29 dips under the pavilion.

Mosey back to parking lot for a quick triple check:

Run around the parking lot
Wall sits with block paver
Sit and presses with paver

Mosey over to Clown truck 
YHC set up a large rectangle using the coupons and mark out a no thow zone using the area between four parking spaces.  He then asked the PAX to gather around the back of Hoop’s  Honda Rigeline for a cold water out of Whitedeers cooler.  Johnsonville sucked a 16 oz of ice cold water down faster than ….  Funny, he was giving Cheeta so much crap for bringing his water bottle when the clown truck picked them up this morning. JV shouted… “Who needs water”.

The delicious cold water was good but not as good as the surprise under the secret compartment under the Ridgeline bed. 120 balloons filled with cool refreshing H2O. Yes the PAX played Water Ballon Dodgeball.  It plays like american dodgeball, only difference is you have two buckets full of balloons In the center. The no throw zone was behind each of the coupons. Well, the no throw zone quickly turned into a slug and crouch fest.  

It was great seeing a bunch of growth men acting like a bunch of kids getting off of the school bus on the last day of school. Atilla being the biggest kid, picking up both containers  full of water dowsing Johnsonville like it was a cooler full of Gatorade after a UVA football win. He then tried drenching YHC but the deer in White deer won. 

COT by Atilla and we proceeded to the big E for Coffeeteria

Great work Boyz in the heat and humidity of Summer !

A solid dozen posted for Saturday’s GridIron including one FNG. As usual, there was some grief-giving and breeze-shooting just before the 7:00 hour. We started on time per my satellite-supported armband and began with each in attendance picking a lateral parking lot line which we used for 5 minutes of jogging forward and pedaling back.

Regathered in a circle for a warm-up with Side Straddle Hops, Imperial Walkers, Russian Soldiers, Don Quixotes, Hello Dollys, Susan Somers(es), and Arm Circles.

Stroll to the edge of the parking lot facing down a short hill to the tree line for mobile Elevens. Jog down the hill to complete one Burpee appetizer followed by 10 Carolina Dry Docks. Bear crawl up the hill for another Burpee followed by one Forward Lunge (two-count to include each leg). Plank after each round to keep the PAX together. Continue, increasing the downhill exercise by one and decreasing the uphill exercise by one and keeping the Burpee. After 6/5, audibled changing the uphill movement to backpedal.

Saunter to the playground for Jerkin rounds. Three groups of four take turns holding feet. Uninvolved group members hit the ground for Boxing Cockroach while waiting. Competed six rounds of 5 Jerkins each, holding the fifth Jerkin for five seconds.

Mosey across the nearby foot bridge and circle in the grass near the volleyball area for Super 21 with an LBC chaser. Exercises were Merkins and Squats. Began with one of each followed by 15 LBCs. Added another rep each round along with the LBCs. As overall workout time was expiring, we began to batch the rounds, completing 13 and 14 reps back to back, but still in separate rounds and followed by LBCs. Did the same for 15 and 16 and for 17 through 19. Finished by blending 20 and 21 for 41 rep total of each and one last LBC round.

Returned to the parking lot for COT with Numberama and Namerama. Attila took us out.

Welcome FNG Feather. Check F3RVA for details on the F3 retreat. Check the signup sheet for Byproduct taking the Q for his birthday weekend workout (respect at last). Nice work.

After 2 weeks on the road, YHC was eager to jump back in the saddle.  A PAX of 10 noble warriors locked arms to battle the Gridiron.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • 25 SSH
  • 15 IW
  • 12 DQ
  • 10 2x merkins
  • 30 2x LBC
  • 12 Suzanne Somers
  • 10 scorpion kicks
• Mosey to the grassy knoll of 11 minutes of burpess
• Mosey the pavilion for an 11 – 2x boxing cockroaches and decline merkins
• Mosey to the softball field for a modified arch loader
  • Animal crawl/walk from RF line to CF – bear crawl, crab walk, duck walk, bunny hop
  • Karaoke to LF line – 25 WWII sit-ups
  • Karaoke to CF and run back to RF line
• Indian run to football field for a series of 100 yard dashes
• COP with YHC taking us out

It was good to be with the PAX this morning after being out of town for 2 weeks.  YHC correspondent spent 11+ hours in a car yesterday.  Hence the theme of 11 for the 1^st half of the workout.  For the PAX, solid work by all.  It was good to see my brothers today, with some solid fellowship afterwards at Einstein’s. 

T-claps to Byproduct for holding down the fort over the last 2 weeks. Solid work with 2 theme workouts.

Reminder that the RVA PAX will be celebrating the 4^th of July with a convergence at Tredegar Iron Works on Thursday at 7 am.  Be there, aloha!

God is good all of the time!

Attila

Ten redwoods fought the fartsack to witness ByProduct’s consecutive Q, while many of the Gridiron regulars were on sabbatical until next week.  

COP:

After the PAX made a perfect circle, YHC called an audible and we all moseyed to the lower football field were we were once again greeted by props.

Batting Practice:

In preparation for this week’s home run derby, we all took turns swinging the bat.  The leadoff batter hit one of the two balls as far as they could down the field.  The PAX ran in full sprint and a bandaid was ripped from the ball revealing the “The Next Exercise Is…”. I won’t say which of the PAX you don’t want early in your line up, but for POG “I have not picked up a bat in 10 years” won this HR derby! 

All exercises were OYO as they were revealed.

• 25 – SSH

• 10 –  Arm Circles – Large – Forward and Backwards

• 15 – Flutter Kicks

• 10 – Dry-docks

• Bear Crawl – 25 paces

• 20 – Invisible Jump Rope

• 10 – Burpees

• 10 – PLT’s

• 20 – LBC’s

• Crab Crawl – 25 paces

• 10 – Diamond Merkins

• 10 –  Arm Circles – Small – Forward and Backwards

• 10 – Jump Squats

• 25 – More SSH

• 10 – DQ’s

• 10 – More Burpees

Run the Bases: 

The PAX divided into 4 groups for some to cumulative 4 corner fun!

Round 1 – Run to each corner and complete 10 WWII’s, ending where you started. 

Round 2 – Run to each corner and complete 10 WWII’s, 10 Merkins, ending where you started. Not bad so far.

Round 3 – Run to each corner and complete 10 WWII’s, 10 Merkins, 10 Copperhead Squats, ending where you started. Mumble-chatter starting to slow down really quick. 

Round 4 – Run to each corner and complete 10 WWII’s, 10 Merkins, 10 Copperhead Squats, 10 Burpees, ending where you started.  Heartburn starting to suck big time.

Throwing and Fielding:

Everyone partnered up and selects a water balloon.  Started about 15 feet apart for the toss.  When your water breaks, team completes 5 reps of called exercise and repeats each time another team is eliminated.  

• APDs (regular – Not Adderal Style)
• Monkey Humpers
• LBC’s (I think)

POG strategically selected the smallest balloon, which was was impenetrable until Marmaduke changed that.

Extra Innings:

We then moseyed to the playground, where the visitors were enamored by the hippo, the giraffe and the turtle.  After we were able to pull them away, we completed a jerkin ladder (declining from 7 to 1).  

YHC then had the PAX begin a curb crawl from the park to the invisible shovel flag.  It did not take long to realize that this may be a bad idea and admitted “I’m just trying to fill up the hour…”.  

Over to the bleachers for a quick Lindsey of Dips & Bleacher kicks.

Wilson could tell that I was considering more burpees to run out the clock and offered to lead 5 minutes of Mary.  I gladly took him up on it!

Numberama

Namerama

Cecil took us out and many continued to Einstein’s.

I had a blast leading this week and everyone got their monies worth!

Nine noble warriors (many completing the summer challenge) fought the Father’s Day weekend fartsack to see what ByProduct had up his sleeve on this fine morning.

Abbreviated COP all IC:

15 SSHs

10 Helicopters

Arm Circles 5 Big, 10 Small, Reverse

Mosey down to the wooded foot bridge, behind the pickle ball courts and along the forest until we reached the last volleyball court.

The Thang:

In spirit of the US Open, today’s workout was going to be a friendly best ball tournament – Gridiron Style!

The Pax was divided into two teams by randomly selecting a color coded golfball from the 5 gallon HD bucket.  Team blue balls had the advantage with 5 PAX going into the round.

The Rules:

• Each player launches their ball toward the 5 gallon bucket off the tee for each hole.

• The team closest to the pin wins the hole.

• Everyone has to complete the predetermined exercise of the hole, but the number of reps is determined by which team won the hole.  

• Exercises are single count and OYO.

• The player closest to the pin choses the placement of the bucket for the next hole.

• Bucket cannot be closer than 50 feet from the tee – the more creative the better!

• There are no mulligans (unless you hit something and your ball bounces back to the tee – which actually happened).

• If your team gets a “hole in one”, the losers have to complete all of their reps as well as those of the winning team.

Hole #1

Winners: LBC’s – 40

Losers: LBC’s – 50

Hole #2

Winners: Derkins – 2 Sets of 10

Losers: Derkins – 2 Sets of 15

Hole #3 (Par 5)

Winners: Burpees – 2 Sets of 7

Losers: Burpees – 2 Sets of 10

Hole #4

Winners: Arm Raises – 50

Losers: Arm Raises – 75

Hole #5

Winners: WWII Situps – 40

Losers: WWII Situps – 50

Hole #6

Winners: Copperhead Squats – 40

Losers: Copperhead Squats – 50

Hole #7

Winners: PLTs – 2 Sets of 7

Losers: PLTs – 2 Sets of 10

Hole #8 (Par 3)

Winners: APDs – 35

Losers: APDs – 50

Hole #9

Winners: Jerkins – 2 Sets of 7

Losers: Jerkins – 2 Sets of 10

Hole #10

Winners: SSH – 40

Losers: SSH – 50

Hole #11

Winners: Flutter Kicks – 40

Losers: Flutter Kicks – 50

Hole #12 (Par 5)

Winners: Burpees – 2 Sets of 7

Losers: Burpees – 2 Sets of 10

Hole #13

Winners: Freddie Mercuries – 40

Losers: Freddie Mercuries – 50

Hole #14

Winners: Crab Kicks – 25

Losers: Crab Kicks – 30

Hole #15

Winners: HR Merkins – 2 Sets of 10

Losers: HR Merkins – 2 Sets of 15

Hole #16

Winners: Jump Squats – 25

Losers: Jump Squats – 30

Hole #17

Winners: Dips – 40

Losers: Dips – 50

Hole #18

Winners: Step Ups – 30 / each leg

Losers: Step Ups – 40 / each leg

Overall the round was a lot of fun with a lot of creative participation by all of the PAX.  The blue balls dominated 13-5.  Dr. Tryhard landed one in the bucket on the 17th (but bounced out) and bounced one off the rim on the 18th.  Offshore won closest the pin more times than any other player with 6.  ByProduct lost his ball on the very first tee!

Numberama

Namerama

Cecil took us out and many continued to the 19th at Einstein’s.

Enjoy your Father’s Day weekend!