Tag: GridIron

It was 7:10 and Fireman Ed said “Honey” and my M says “Yeah”. I am supposed to Q today and my workout is at 7. And she says “You better move fast.” And so I did. Instead of the standard one hour Q, I had two opening acts, Mr. Rogers and Tater. And at 7:30 I moved in as the headliner. It is amazing how easy it is to Q for a half hour. But the PAX did not beat me up too bad so for that I give them credit. There were 10 in total with a visitor from Arlington (welcome 2 percent).

COP: Mr. Rogers with an assortment of epic warm up exercises. Hand the baton to Tater.

Tater: On brand, he headed to the Strikers field. Did a beast with various awesome exercises.

Ready to hand the baton to Roger Roger, Fireman Ed steps in the way and says “Hey sorry about that dudes. I am late. I bet Roger Roger had something better in mind but he is a nice guy so he said “OK”.

Chin up bars: 10 chin ups, 20 dips, 8 chin ups, 25 dips, 6 chin ups, 30 dips. Mosey to benches.

Elevens with step ups and carolina dry docks. Mosey to home base

Triple check with donkey kicks, squats and run around the parking lot.. or at least most of it.

Finished with bear crawls, lunges, bunny hops, ab exercises and stretching.

Prayers for Nick, Freeman grad who is dealing with severe headaches, Fudd’s sister Mary, Handshake’s niece Charlotte and those recovering or dealing with cancer. New AO coming to the far west End led by Roger Roger starting in November. Come visit and help it get launched. In spite of my mistake in showing up late, hopefully I will learn a lesson and be a better person for it. Thanks for letting me and Tater and Mr. Rogers lead.

Fireman Ed

14 men gathered at various times for a Q by someone that wasn’t Respect, Respect Respect, or Respect Respect Respect.

Mosey around the Parking Lot to pick up stragglers. COP with various exercises.

Mosey to the front of the School for a Triple Check. P1 – run to the end of the Island and back, P2 Dirty Hookups, P3 – Balls to the Wall.

Circle up while each man individually picks an exercise and we do 10 of that exercise.

Pick up partner and go off on your own and do 10 minutes of exercises.

Mosey to the Parking Lot by the Football Field and Parking Lot Bear Crawl.

Mosey back to the school for one last set of exercises.

Announcements – F3 RVA 11 year Anniversary at Dogpile September 20th at 0630. The Pixies Cover Band let by Whiteshake (person, no the band) are playing at Brambley Park tonight

Prayer Request – Charlotte as she is going through Chemo. All those with a suffering from political divides.

NMS – thank you for the opportunity to lead.

17 new Chargers fans and 1 happy Q celebrated the big win in Brazil. Wearing my powder blue jersey, I was ready to lead–and so was Tatar. But Tatar made another signup sheet error and had to watch me steal his football themed workout.

We circled up at the 50 yard line (around the “T” that Tatar painted in the middle of the night) and did warm up exercises in 27 and 21 counts. It did not take Attila long to know the pattern was the score last night. We did SSH, IW, WW2, Hammers, Squats, Flutters, LBCs and others I cannot remember.

We moseyed to the goal line and did my favorite football field exercise, the Double Quarter Pounder. 25 count at the 25, 50 count at the 50, 75 at the other 25 and 100 count at the other goal line–running to the exercise and bernie back to the start. We did 25 merkins, 50 Squats, 75 flutters and 100 SSH. Second time we did 25 Hand Release Merkins, 50 single count hammers, 75 LBCs and 100 SSH. A group of volunteers with the help of bacon smelling cheater, were able to give me the Big Mac rap and so we did not do a 3rd round.

Went to the side lot to spell BOLTS! 5 Burpees in the center and then as a group hit each corner, returning to do 5 Burpees in the center after each exercise. 50 Overhead claps, 50 single count Lunges, 50 Toe Taps, and 25 SSH and 25 Squats (as Blue Moon looked lonely doing squats on this own). Lots of walking by the pax. I knew they needed a way to push more.

So we hit the lower field for some sled work. Broke off into 4 teams and one team pushed the football sled down the field while the other three groups did some sort of exercise (bad instructions were to blame). Polly seemed to enjoy the sled the most–maybe a Rugby and booze themed Q coming soon??? And even White Deer was seen angrily pushing that sled. No injuries occurred to the Pax or the Sled.

Then for fun, we did 2 rounds of suicide runs (to the 10,20,30,40,50). Second round included one burpee at each “finish” line to ensure the pax touched the line before returning to the start (5 burpees total, stop your whining).

We hit the bleachers next. After telling them how disappointed I was in their effort, we did 3 rounds of bench kicks and dips: 20,25 and then 30. We then moseyed to the soft playground area for some Mary, including some super slow LBCs, and got to time.

Announcements: party at Taters starting at 4 for Gypsy and Pinto and their upcoming wedding (to other people). Firehouse Subs on Tuesday at noon. 11th Anniversary convergence on Sept 20th.

Whose got it better than us???

Nobody!!!

14 RVA regulars, one downrange visitor, and one FNG showed up for a Rosie beatdown at Gridiron. According to the geese that tried to take the field, this is what may have happened.

Mosey to the middle school football field for a welcome, mission, and disclaimer. Standard warm up fare with some fast paced hillbillies and 5 burpees to welcome the LIFO. Line up on the goal line. Various methods of moving 10 yards at a time – bear crawl, crab walk, lunge, crawl bear, polar bear (thanks Gomer), and others with a new exercise every 10 yards increasing then decreasing by 10. Burpees, merkins, squats, flutters, SSH, freddies, monkey humpers, werkins, burpees.

Dora on the soccer field. WWII, squats, SSH. 2 rounds of PLTs with boo yah merkins. Curb work with toe taps, single leg squats and Mike Tysons. Finish up with some Mary.

Great to be out at the first F3RVA AO with a great group of men to start the day. Thanks for letting me take the lead today.

2 convergences coming up.

Labor Day Dogpile 7am – see preblast and Slack.

F3RVA 11 year Manniversary Sept. 20 details to come

Prayers for Fireman Ed’s mom and her surgery and Gomer’s interviews.

We had 19 post at Grid Iron to enjoy the beautiful Fall-like day. After warm up we went to pull-up bars for 2 sets of a 30-20-10 (30 Carolina Dry Docks, 20 Dips and 10 Pull-ups). Finished with a 15-20-5 to save our energy for the rest of the morning. Headed to the soccer field for a 50 yard Bear Crawl with 2 stops of 10 Merkins. Then a 50 yard Crawl Bear with 2 stops of Heals to Heaven. Followed by 50 yards of Ukrainian soldiers and 50 yards with 5 sets of 10 Squats. This was the warm up before The Beast.

After the 1st round of Merkins, we were asked to find another location (something about us not being youth soccer players) so we had a long mosey to the original Grid Iron to finish off The Beast with Wide Grip Merkins, WWII’s, Squats, Carolina’s, and Burpees.

Took a break with Abs: 4 sets of 25 of Crunchy Frogs, WWI’s, Side Crunches each side. Then a crowd favorite of 10 Irish Hammers and Up/Downs led by Gomer Pile.

A sweet 16 descended upon the Gridiron for a traditional Saturday boot camp.  They were definitely a bunch of chatty bitches to start, but soaked in sweat by the end. Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • SSH
  • IW
  • DQ
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles
  • DMH
  • HRM
  • LBC
  • APD
• Curb crawl up to 5 merkins and back down to 1
• Beast on the gridiron
  • HRM
  • WWII sit-ups
  • Squats
  • Crab cakes
  • H2H
  • Mike Tysons
• 3x check
  • Run
  • Wall sit with air press
  • WWII crunches
• Mosey to the pull-up bars for 4 sets of 8 pull-ups and 20 PLTs
• Mosey to the playground for Mary
  • FK
  • Side crunches – each side
  • Reverse crunches
  • Elbow plank
• COT with YHC taking us out

Great work from the PAX.  Each man looked like he had jumped in the James as conditions were sauna-like.  It had been so long since Polly had posted that he gave his age 2 years ago when he actually worked out.  Good to see him sober up for a Saturday boot camp.

Prayers up for those with cancer.  Upcoming party (9/6) at Taters for Gypsy and Pinto’s upcoming weddings.  Labor Day convergence at Dogpile.

God is good all of the time!

Attila

14 dudes ranging in age from 13 to 50 plus decided to enjoy a nice fall morning at Northern Short Pump with a slightly more cardio centric beatdown.

COP on a nice wet field: DQs, DMH, Helicopters, HRMs, MCs, FMs, arm circles Mosey to track. I am carrying a bag. What is in there?

Go round the track. 1/4 the way – 1 burpee, 1/2 the way – 2 burpees, 3/4 the way – 3 burpees, fully around – 4 burpees. Mosey to nearby road for:

Curb crawl with 2 squats per merkin go up to 5 wait for all PAX to finish then go down to 1. Mosey to bus loop.

Now I reveal what is in the bag I am carrying and it is… discs for disc golf. But…we did not just play disc golf. I incorporated it into a triple check with disc golf the second person doing WWIIs, the third person doing flutter kicks. Seymour showed some accuracy with a near hole in one on the third round. Mosey to chin up bars.

10 chin ups then 20 dips, 8 chin ups then 25 dips then 6 chin ups then 30 dips. Mosey to burpee hill.

4 sets of burpees, first set is 5, then 6, then 7 then 8. Then a set of 10 diamond merkins. Mosey to benches near football field.

Set of elevens with 2 count step ups and heels to heaven. Mosey to home base. Set of American hammers and then stretching because most of us are AARP eligible.

Prayers for Handshake’s niece who needs 0 negative blood badly. If you have O negative blood and can donate, please reach out to Gypsy to see how you can help. Prayers also for Fudd’s sister, my full recovery and for Gyspy’s ankle. Also, Whitesnake is covering the Pixies, rather Whitesnake’s band is covering the Pixies tonight at the Canal Club tonight. Lastly, Tater is hosting a celebration on 9/6 for soon to be married Pinto and Gypsy (no they are not marrying each other). Thanks for letting me lead!

Fireman Ed

0645 Friday, August 1st 2025 Gomer and Handshake are sitting next to each other at Dunkin, talk about the evenings Crab Feast and wondering who had the Q at Gridiron. YHC beat Gomer to the punch to sign up for the Q and he had the great idea to Co-Q.

1545 Friday YHC’s M dropped him off at Gomers house to Mrs. Gomer could take us to the Crab Feast at the American Legion Post off Robious. Gomer and YHC drink several beers and eat roughly 16 crabs over the 4 hour Crab Feast. Night ends after a couple beers at Rare Old Times and Gomers mildly annoyed M picked us up from our late play date.

0630 Saturday YHC wakes up wondering why he didn’t just sleep in. YHC makes his way to Gridiron to see what was in store, Gomer was on the docket to start the workout.

Gomer Q –

6 Crab Cake Burpees to start things off

Mosey to the field in on the main road for Disclaimer and COP.

First iteration – 20 Squats, 10 Don Quixotes, 10 Helicopters, 10 HRM’s, 10 Grass Angles, 10 Australian Grass Angels, 20 Arm Circles, Reverso, Overhead Claps, Seal Claps, 10 Merkins, 6 Ranger Merkins, 6 Wide Arm Merkins, 20 LBC’s, 10 Left Leg Straight LBCs, 10 Right Leg Straight LBC’s, both Leg LBC’s, 10 APD’s, 10 TTPP, 20 Flutter Kicks, 10 Hello Dollys, 10 Rosalitas, 10 Freddy Mercurys

Handshake Q – Bunch of random stuff. Pencil Rolls, Relay with Crabwalk, Triple Check, etc

Announcements – none

Prayer Request, none

NMS – Offshore brought out an FNG. We had trouble naming him but eventually we settled on Slim Pickings

Grid Iron relocated to Lake Anna and had our first of hopefully many more events there. After a brief warm up we hit 4 stations for 3 rounds of 20 of: Dips, Dirkins, Pole Smokers and Steps Ups. BiProduct came by boat with J’ville and WhiteDeer, but for some reason they couldn’t make it out of the boat for the first round…so we did a second round. Then to the beach for a series of Abs, Merkins, and Swimming/Kayaking/Padeling.

We kept the Fitness part short this morning and then had coffee and carbs in the parking lot before hitting the lake on a few boats for a morning of Fellowship. Great morning. Thankful for my F3 Brothers.

YHC dragged his teenage 2.0 in to the gloom of the Gridiron dew.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • SSH
  • IW
  • DQ
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles
  • DMH
  • Merkins
  • LBC
  • Superman meets a prostitute (form the figure S on the field doing 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 reps of an exercise at each point, repeating on the trip back)
    • 110 Mike Tysons
    • 180 squat thrusters
    • 210 single count crab cakes
    • 200 monkey humpers
    • 150 LBC
    • 60 APD
  • Modified Linsday with pull-ups and PLTs
    • 10 pull-ups, 11 PLTs
    • 7 pull-ups, 14 PLTs
    • 4 pull-ups, 17 PLTs
    • 1 pull-up (hold 10 seconds), 20 PLTs
  • Mosey to the playground for some Mary
    • FM
    • One-legged side crunches, each side
    • WWI crunches
    • Reverse Crunches
  • COT with YHC taking us out

Great work by the PAX today.  Good to see that so many went to the Bridge.  Spider laughed as soon as he got in the car, “White Deer does not do anything the Q calls out and never does all of the reps.”  Yes, that is true, but we still love him.

Gridiron is at Lake Anna next week.

God is good all of the time!

Attila