Tag: GridIron

A frigid day matched the Q’s frigid heart.  The grinch came early and here is how it went down:

• COP
  • Parking lot tracers
  • SSH
  • IW
  • DQ
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles
  • DMH
  • Suzanne Somers
  • Merkins
  • LBC
  • APD
• Mosey to the turf field for a one-man Dora – each man does all the reps divided into 5 sets with a run in-between
  • 100 HRM
  • 200 Monkey humpers
  • 300 crunches
• Mosey to the new pickle ball court parking lot for a 3x check
  • Run
  • Dips
  • FM
• Mosey back to the parking lot and the auxiliary building for a Pigskin cycle – 2 sets
  • Wall sit exercise – 15 reps
  • PLT – 20 reps
  • Mike Tysons 10 reps
• Circle up for some Mary
  • Side crunches – each side
  • Reverse crunches
• COT with YHC taking us out

The grinch came early.  No sharing of reps with a traditional Dora.  Sharing is not caring. Plenty of grumbling.  Very little holiday joy in the cold.  Embrace this suck!

Welcome back Garbage Plate, and good to see Gypsy and get a health update.  Prayers remain up for Fireman Ed, Fudd and Roger Roger.

Lunch this Wednesday at Firehouse Subs in Innsbrook.

God is good all of the time!

Attila

The frozen tundra on the Gridiron was about 25 degrees. A great group showed up 2 days after Thanksgiving. Tater’s still got his mustache, for another week. Senor Frog is back from 4 weeks in Argentina, Uruguay and Chile.

The game plan was to do 72 burpees in groups of 9 or 6. Success!

Warmup in the parking lot

• 20 SSHs in cadence
• 20 Crunchy Frogs in cadence
• 10 Don Quixotes in cadence
• 9 Burpees OYO

Mosey to the Gridiron:

• 20 IWs in cadence
• 20 Hammers in cadence
• 20 Lunges in cadence
• 9 Burpees OYO (Total 18 Burpees)

Mosey to Parking Lot on other side of Gridiron

• 20 Copperhead Squats in cadence
• 20 Suzanne Summers in cadence (10 each side)
• 20 Ukrainian Soldiers in cadence
• 9 Burpees OYO (Total 27 Burpees)
• Stretch

Mosey to Wall in front of SPMS

• People’s Chair 15 Air Press, 10 BTTW Hip Slaps, 6 Burpees OYO
• People’s Chair 15 Muhammad Ali, 10 BTTW Australian Mountain Climbers, 6 Burpees OYO
• People’s Chair 15 Milkers, 10 BTTW Toe Taps, 6 Burpees OYO: (Total 45 Burpees)
• Stretch

Mosey to middle of Covered Walkway Triple Check

• Partner 1: Timer runs down the covered walkway, turns right to run down the sidewalk by the back of the school to the gate, does 6 Burpees and then runs down the other sidewalk back to the covered sidewalk and turns right to run to the ‘entrance’ to the covered walkway.
• Partner 2: Shoulder Taps
• Partner 3: Pole Smokers
• After three times stretch (Total 63 Burpees)

Mosey back to the benches beside the Gridiron. (3X)

• 10 Dips in cadence
• 10 Bulgarian Split Squats right leg in cadence
• 10 Derkins in cadence
• 10 Bulgarian Split Squats left leg in cadence
• Stretch

Mosey to the parking lot for Triple Check: Timer runs around lot

• Dirty Hookups
• Crotch Grabbers

Mary

• 20 Flutters in cadence
• 9 Burpees OYO (Total 72 Burpees)
• Brazilian Mind-Benders

Announcements

Friends of Barnabas: Gomer and I are going to Honduras next year. If you would like to contribute, 3rd F on Slack.

Likewise for Tater. He’s raising funds. https://m4krichmond.org/donate-to-a-grower/grattansmith

Circle of Trust

Thanksgiving services were routine in what became the Commonwealth of Virginia as early as 1607; the first permanent settlement of Jamestown, Virginia, held a thanksgiving in 1610. On December 4, 1619, 38 English settlers celebrated a thanksgiving immediately upon landing at Berkeley Hundred, Charles City. (One of Tater’s ancestors landed in 1619 with the group.)

George Washington designated November 26, 1789, as “a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness”.

• The above was copied from a couple of Google searches.

No one signed up and so we did a ‘Hot Tater’. Everything described below is more or less correct.

Lighthouse with the warmup: all in cadence

• 20 SSHs
• 10 IWs
• 10 Hillbillies
• 10 Man-maker Merkins (8 count)

Next, Burpee-Parking spots; 2X

• 1 Burpee per Parking place
• 20 WWIIs at the end

Roger-Roger took over and we moseyed to the ‘bus loop’ in front of the school for a triple check

• Partner 1 does a burpee w/o the merkin but with a curb hop
• Partner 2 does Merkins
• Partner 3 runs the Bus Loop

Atilla took over and we went to the soccer field in front of the school for

• Jack Webb to 10: 1-4, Merkin-air-press

Johnsonville took over and we did 11s the width of the Soccer Field

• Copperhead Squats
• Jump Squats

Pigskin took over:

• Stretches

we went to the wall in front of the school for

• 15 People’s chair air press in cadence
• 10 BTTW Hip slaps in cadence
• 15 Donkey Kix OYO
• 15 People’s chair Milkers in cadence
• 10 BTTW Australian Mountain Climbers in cadence
• 15 Donkey Kix OYO
• 15 People’s chair Lalannes in cadence
• 10 BTTW Toe Taps in cadence
• 15 Donkey Kix OYO

Mosey to the parking lot for a few stretches

Announcements

Chili Cookoff

Convergence Thursday at 7:00 PM at Mary Mumford

Prayers for Mollie (Roger Roger’s wife), Mary (Fudd’s sister), Fireman Ed, Gypsy, Sherry (Piglet’s aunt), Piglet and Johanna (baby due in April!)

Pigskin with the COT

When I used to work for a living, one of the things I did was work at a nuclear station. Nuclear stations are very complicated and there is always a concern about Human Performance. (I was the Business Manager so fortunately, I was not responsible for running or maintaining the plant.) One of the programs that was implemented was STAR, which stands for

• Stop; Before you begin a task.
• Think; About what the steps to your task is. Typically, you have a set of procedures you need to follow.
• Act; Do the task.
• Review; what you just did to make sure you did it right. You might want to think about what improvements you might do next time.

This same process can be used outside of work. For example, if you find yourself in a debate, Stop. Don’t feel like you have to respond immediately. Think. About what you’re going to say. Act. Say your piece. Review. Reflect upon how your words were received.

11 PAX showed up to play parts in the greatest movie filming of all time, or at least the best one filled at Short Pump middle school, at 7 in the morning.

COP: DQs (with an abundance of mumble chatter), helicopters, HRMs, Freddie Mercuries (in honor of Tater Mercury who is growing a mustache for a good cause), LBCs and arm circles. Mosey to track.

4 corners on track 1/4 of the track, 10 merkins, 1/4 track, 20 merkins, 1/4 track 30 merkins and 1/4 track 40 merkins. 100 merkins – not shabby at all my friends. Mosey to nearby soccer field which looked like a swamp so audible to nearby asphalt.

Bear crawl as far as you can or to the stop sign. When you can bear crawl no further, lunge.

Lindseys: Lindsey 1: Carolina Dry docks and monkey humpers. Lindsey 2: plank jacks and squats, Lindsey 3: APDs and pickle pounders. Mosey to front of school.

Triple check with wall sits, dips and run around the road in front of the school. Mosey to bus loop.

Burpee for each two posts. ~15 burpees total, Burpee per two post on way back. Mosey to home base.

Ab mary with each PAX calling out an ab exercise for all PAX. Finished with a stretch.

Prayers for Fudd’s sister Mary (and Fudd/family too), Fireman Ed and Roger Roger (wife). A lot of this workout was being filmed with Attila and Mariner for PE class. I bet the film will be rousing and entertaining for all. And the Emmy goes to…..

Have a great rest of your weekend.

Fireman Ed

Ten men attended the Grid Iron Concert this morning. Basically, high energy music along side your favorite exercises. If an F’bomb occurs in a song…time to do a burpee.

Warm Up: (Eminem’s Lose Yourself)

Mosey to Grid Iron for:

Starfish. Start in center and go to each corner for 20: WWIIs, Squats, Carolina Dry Docks, and Side Straddle Hops…after each corner come back to center for 5 Burpees (AC/DC Back in Black, Metallica Enter Sandman, Kanye Power, RTJ Blockbuster Night)

Leg-Dora: 100 Squats, 200 Lunges and 300 Heel Raises (Gun’s and Roses’ Paradise City, Lim Bizkit’s Break Stuff, Shinedown’s Sound of Madness, Kanye’s Stronger, Nickelback’s Burn it to the Ground)

WWII’s to Van Halen’s Panama.

Thunder Burpees to AC/DC’s Thunderstruck (33 of them)

”50 yard mosey-50 yard sprint” to House of Pain’s Jump Around

Beast: WWIs, WWIIs, Side Crunches, LBC’s, ‘Merican Hammers, Squats to Motley Crue’s Dr. Feelgood, The Cult’s Love Removal Machine, Fall Out Boy’s Sugar We’re Going Down, Ozzy’s Crazy Train

On beautiful Saturday morning, twelve gentleman went to Gridiron, had some fun, and left without any new injuries. That is a successful morning.

We started with some warmups in the new fancy parking lot then moseyed to the covered bus loop for some smokers and a timer of burpees (5). Ended up with way too many smokers.

Hit the basketball court for a couple rounds of four corners. First round was 25 HRM, Jump Squats, Hammers and Plank Jacks. Second round of 25 Merkins, WWIIs, Mountain Climbers and finished with 53 SSH.

All of this was just to get us near the Tennis Courts. After we moseyed around the courts a bit, I took out my balls and we played Dodgeball.

Basic dodgeball rules except when you are hit or your ball is caught, you have to run to the other end and do 3 burpees before returning. If a team ends up with no one in the court, that team loses. We eventually changed it to a 5 burpee penalty and at the end, moved to if you are out you are out. Each team got one win. Highlights included Attila with a one handed catch of a ball that previously hit a teammate and Piglet with a winning catch of the same. Those young kids get all the glory. Everyone helped grab my balls at the end and then we moseyed back to the start for some stretching & burpees.

Prayers for Fireman Ed and Fudd’s sister Mary. Coffeteria at Starbucks afterwards was fun as always.

My week of Q’s has ended. Someone else fill up that Q sheet for next week!

8 loyal Grid Iron men posted this morning for Abs, Legs, Arms, and of course, more Abs.

Legs- 50 yard mosey with 10 squats every 10 yards, 50 yard mosey with 10 heel raises every 10 yards, 50 yard mosey of Ukrainian Soliders, followed by 50 yard mosey with 10 leg curls every 10 yards.

Abs- Millenium Dora: 100 WW I’s, 200 WW II’s, 300 Heals to Heaven, 400 LBCs. And as the back blast says…yes we swapped partners mid Dora (I mean, we were in Short Pump after all).

Arms- Eleven’s with pull ups and dips, followed by 3 sets of 10 jerkins on the swings

Legs- Series of Bulgarian Squats counting down from 10 to 1, so 55 on each leg

Abs- 50 Bench Kicks

Stretch

Nine noble warriors gathered on a cold and dewy morning at the Gridiron for a cumulative beat-down.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • SSH
  • IW
  • DQ
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles
  • DMH
  • Merkins
  • LBC
• Cumulative beast on the turf field
  • 216 HRM
  • 180 WWII sit-ups
  • 144 deep squats
  • 108 side crunches – each side
  • 72 2x crab cakes
  • 36 burpees
• Mosey back to the parking lot for a 3x check
  • Run
  • APD
  • LBC
• COT with YHC taking us out

Great work from the PAX this morning.  Lots of mumble-chatter at the start, no so much at the end.  As opposed to grass clippings, the PAX collected rubber pellets on clothes, in hair and all around today.  No workout with White Deer is complete without a “carpet matching the drapes” comment.  Got that early.  Wondering if he is just wishing his did?

Whitesnake’s band is playing down at the satellite Kindred Spirits by the Diamond tonight.  Be there, aloha. 

Prayers for Fireman Ed and Fudd. 

God is good all of the time!

Attila

10 mature warriors showed up in Northern Short Pump and dodged pickleballers for a Fireman Ed beatdown. Mosey to the football field that is the inspiration for Gridiron.

COP: DMH, DQ, merkins, HRMs, FMs, Phelps the arms out to get them ready.

Line up at goal line for a Triple Check.

Pacer bear crawls to 20 and crawl bears back. Others do Carolina Dry docks and APDs. Three sets of bear crawls and crawl bears are tough especially when you are next to energetic Tater. Line up at 50.

Pacer lunges to 25 and bernies back. Others do squats and jump squats. Mosey to little hill next to parking lot.

Burpee time with first set 30 seconds of burpees with 30 seconds rest, then 35 and 25, 40 and 20, 45 and 15, 50 and 10, and finally 55 and 5. This one was a crowd pleaser. Mosey to the Gator bars.

First set 10 chinups/jerkins and 20 dips, then 7 chin ups/jerkins and 30 dips, then 5 chin ups and 40 dips. Mosey to Marcy’s playground.

Doras with 100 derkins, 200 2 count flutter kicks and 300 LBCs. Other partner runs a half loop around the parking lot.

Finished with APDs, American hammers, diamond merkins and stretching exercises (I am allowed to lead those since I am an AARP member).

Firehouse subs on Tuesday. Pray for Fudd’s sister, Fireman Ed’s father and law, Fireman Ed’s medical test on 10/14 and those recovering from Helene’s aftermath. While Attila graciously took us out in prayer, a parent of one of the young football players decided to come in with 90 decibel modern rap music. Hence the title of the backblast.

Let’s go Mets!

Fireman Ed