Tag: GridIron

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!

Making it a clean sweep of Q’s this week.  The new pickleball area is almost complete at the Gridiron, providing more opportunities for beat-down.  Here is how it went down today:

• COP
  • SSH
  • Ukrainian soldiers
  • DQ
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles
  • DMH
  • Merkins
  • LBC
  • APD
• Mosey to the lower practice field for an arch loader – animal walk/crawl across field, 20 WWII sit-ups, mosey back for 10 burpees, rinse and repeat with the following
  • Bear crawl
  • Crab walk
  • Duck walk
  • Bunny hop
  • Cheetah sprint
  • Gorilla walk
• Partner off – 3x 20 PLT
• Jack Webb
• Mosey to the new pickle ball courts/parking lot for a 3x check
  • Run
  • Dips
  • FM
• Circle up for some Mary
  • 1 legged crunches, each side
  • FK
  • Side crunches, each side
  • LBC
  • Superman
• DMH
• COT with YHC taking us out

Never a dull day with White Deer.  He brought his clipboard and his big mouth, which we deemed to be one of his 3 sexual orifices.  We celebrate all 3 orifices with 3x PLTs. 

Pigskin never takes a rep off. T-claps and respect! Tater can gorilla hop at an alarmingly face pace!

Prayers up for Fudd and Fireman Ed.

God is good all of the time!

Attila

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

This was supposed to be a pig family affair but Chicharon got Covid earlier this week, so it ended up with just Piglet and me. Piglet started out. The following is more or less correct.

For the record, shocking display of good grooming by Johnsonville noted; haircut, beard trimmed. Almost didn’t recognize him.

Disclaimer and Warm up

• 20 SSHs in cadence
• 10 Don Quixote in cadence
• 15 Imperial Walkers in cadence
• 10 Merkins in cadence
• 15 Copperhead squats in cadence

Mosey to the goal line of the Gridiron (there’s no game here today)

• Bear crawl to the 5-yard line, 5 Carolina Drydocks, crab walk back to the goal line and do 5 Crabcakes
• Bear crawl to the 10-yard line, 10 Carolina Drydocks, crab walk back to the goal line and do 10 Crabcakes
• Bear crawl to the 15-yard line, 15 Carolina Drydocks, crab walk back to the goal line and do 15 Crabcakes
• Bear crawl to the 20-yard line, 20 Carolina Drydocks, crab walk back to the goal line and do 20 Crabcakes

Mosey to the track.

At the start, person 1 will start doing merkins. Person 2 runs about 1/3 way down the left side straightaway and starts WWIIs. Person 3 runs to apex of the opposite curve and starts merkins. Person 4 runs to 1/3 way down the right side straightaway and starts jump squats.

After person 1 finishes their 20 merkins they start running to person 2 and that starts the “chase”. Three times around track.

Handoff to Pigskin

Mosey to the benches on the Gidiron for Lindsay: Bench kicks and Dips

• 30-10
• 25-15
• 20-20
• 15-25
• 10-30

Bulgarian Split Squats and Derkins in cadence

• 10-10-10 Stretch
• 10-10-10 Stretch
• 10-10-10 Stretch

Finish up in on sidewalk beside Parking lot with Mary

• 15 Hammers
• 20 APDs
• 60 count 6-inch leg lift

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Circle of Trust

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971)

“His philosophy combines elements of Christianity with realism, emphasizing the tension between human aspirations for justice and the inherent flaws in human nature. He also developed the concept of “Christian Realism,” which advocates for a pragmatic approach to ethics and politics, acknowledging both the potential for good and the inevitability of sin.” Source: ChatGPT

The one thing that is truly within our power to change is ourselves. We need to have the desire, determination, persistence and the wisdom to realize how to go about making change.

Prayers for Fudd’s sister, Mary, who is battling a very serious case of cancer. We ask for the best in medical care and for Mary and her family, the strength to handle the enormous weight they are under.

Finish up with Bacon snack before the trip to Starbucks.

 

Mosey to burpee hill
Warm up: SSH, DQ, DMH, Armcircles forward back/big/small, LBCs, Merkins
Mosey to the field of pain
Sprint 10 jog 90 90 lbcs
Sprint 20 jog 80 80 penguins
Sprint 30 jog 70 70 American hammers
Sprint 40 jog 60 60 Freddy mercury
Sprint 50 jog 50 50 plank shoulder taps
Sprint 60 jog 40 40 calf raises
Sprint 70 jog 30 30 crab cakes
Sprint 80 jog 20 20 monkey humpers
Sprint 90 jog 10 10 merkins

Repeat with each member of pax picking an excercise

Wall 200 yds recovery

20 Don world War Quixotes
Strech
Circle up, prayer
Great work everyone.

A glorious and dewy morning awaited a bakers dozen.  Here is how it went down:

• Mosey to the pickle ball court area for COP
  • SSH
  • IW
  • DQ
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles
  • DMH
  • Merkins
  • LBC
• Mosey to the turf fields for a four corners – 10, 15, 20, 25 reps
  • 55 HRM
  • 55 WWII sit-ups
  • 55 monkey humpers
  • 55 2x crab cakes
  • 55 one-legged crunches, each side
• 20 yard partner wheel barrow followed by 20 PLTs – rinse and repeat 3x
• Mosey to the pull-up bars for 3x check
  • Run
  • Step-ups at the picnic table
  • Pull-ups
• Mosey to the parking lot for a 60 second wall sit to wrap things up
• COT with YHC taking us out

YHC felt like messing with the pickle ball players today to show them what real men do on a Saturday.  We got a visitor for COP, but he quickly checked out when the merkins came.

The PAX needs miracle ear.  How many times do you need to know the number of reps?  Apparently put it on a loop.

Welcome Red Roof!   Great to have a FNG.  Thanks for the head lock Mountie.

Convergence in 2 weeks.  Check Slack.

God is good all of the time!

Attila

10 – 12 mountains of muscle showed up on College Football day to embark on a cardio coupon workout.

Fireman Ed realized he forgot his watch but the PAX stepped up to give him time updates.

COP: DQs, ACs, HRMs, MCs, Plank jacks, etc. Go to coupons.

I was hoping for a multiplier of 4 but we had 10 at this point. I had the brilliant idea of doing a quintiple check with bench presses, WW2s, merkins, coupon flutter kicks and a bear crawl run/bernie pacer. The PAX were getting restless as they were forgetting the exercise order and the routine dragged on a bit. I stopped it after 4 rounds; I will put in on the “Do not do again” list. Mosey to other portion of field.

Triple check with bicep curls, coupon squats and a 50 yard and back pacer run. This was more efficient. Mosey to other part of field.

Dora with 100 coupon rows, 200 jump squats and 300 LBCs. Mosey to home base.

Pass the coupon wall sits both directions and finished with American hammers, heels to heaven and DQs. I was told I finished a little early; my bad.

Finished with prayers for healing for Gomer and for me to have a good specialist check up this Thursday.

Convergence Labor Day is west Short Pump at Nuckols elementary. 10 year anniversary at Dogpile later in September with a 7 a.m. main event and some pre events for go getters (including happy hour at Snuff’s in Bon Air). See backblast for further details.

I enjoyed coffeeteria including the debate on whether Pearl Jam sucks. I for one think Pearl Jam is a great band but there are those who think otherwise.

Fireman Ed