Tag: Heartbreak Ridge

  • Would anybody notice if Heartbreak Ridge BB wasn’t posted?

    The 4 chosen men of the West End for THE Handshakes Q at Heartbreak

    Mosey to Tennis Courts for COP finishing with real Scorpion Kicks, inverted.

    Quick round of Partner Bear Crawls (aka Wheelbarrows) across both Tennis Courts

    Mosey to the Black Top for Four Corners, ass-ending. Corner 1 – Sharts, Corner 2 Sharts, Sit Ups, Corner 3 Sharts, Sit Ups, HRM’s, Corner 4 Sharts, Sit Ups, HRM’s, Jump Squats

    Mosey to Bus Loop for Quadruple Check, P1 Runs the Loop, P2 HRM’s, P3 Flutter Kicks, P4 Jump Squats

    Mosey back to the flag for 2 Minutes of Mary, LBC’s and Alabama Prom Dates. This is where Atilla commented he had never done so many that he was actually sore. I bet he has lots of cavities too.

    Announcements – Pickleball Tourney this Saturday at Batteau at 0600, Labor Day Convergence at Dogpile at 0700

    No prayer requests.

    NMS – We were all surprised it was only 4 of us, but we had a good time.

  • A perfect number PAX plus Atilla

    Seven sweaty and swampy PAX posted to HBR, with a SOJ Summer Tourist in tow, we took off to find a dry spot to roll around on with mixed results. We did:

    COP: Invisible Jump rope, Don Qs, Ukrainian soldiers, Squats, Helicopters, Merkins, Reverse Crunch, Scorpion kicks. Mosey over to PES side lot for a Triple check: Hand Release Merkins, WWIIs, & run lot and back.

    Mosey over to PES playground. Partner up for 4 rounds of 8 Pull-ups and alternate Flutterkicks. Head over to QMS basketball court for HD favorite: 8 HRMs at each basketball hoop while alternating Bear Crawl and lunge between hoops. Down to, but passed the Jerkin Gym, for 3 rounds of 40 Benchkicks and 15 Dips. Sneak onto the football field for a sprint across, 10 burpees in the end zone. Back to flag and finish with 2 min of Mary & Ring of Fire.

    Announcements: Pickleball tournament next weekend, Roger Roger looking for a partner still. Summer Tour wrapping up – look for some 2nd and 3rd F events coming to check those off your list.

    NMS: Good to have 7 out at HBR while missing regulars Handshake, Pigskin, and Lighthouse. Nancy Lopez is flying through his STC having punched off Punisher and now HBR in last 12 hours. It was good to cover some of the HBR classics for Nancy Lopez as we gave him a tour of one of the Best AOs the West End has to offer. No need to run off campus and do Monkey Humpers in a strip mall parking lot at HBR. EF Hutton put the PAX to shame as he ran to the AO and refused YHCs offer to drive him back. The Gloom was extra thick this morning but the PAX pushed through while we covered some ground.

  • Visitors Welcomed

    The HBR PAX welcomed a bevy of guests this morning for a limited turn of our expansive Tuesday AO.  Here is how it went down:

    • COP
      • SSH
      • IW
      • DQ
      • Helicopters
      • Arm circles
      • Dead man hang
      • Suzanne Somers
      • Merkins
      • LBC
    • Burpee march – burpee in each parking spot across the parking lost (appx 18) with 20 WWII sit-ups and 20 APDs, rinse and repeat back to the start
    • 1 minute wall sit
    • Mosey to the baseball field for an arch loader
      • 1st to 2nd base – alternate bear crawl, crab walk, duck walk and bunny hop
      • 2nd base – 20 side crunches each side
      • 2nd to 3rd base – Bernie
      • 3rd base – 20 HRM
      • Mosey back to 1st base
    • Mosey to the bottom of Heartbreak hill for a 3x check
      • Run up the hill
      • FM
      • H2H
    • 2 more hill runs to make a total of 5
    • Mosey to bleachers for 20 derkins and 20 crunches
    • Mosey to parking lot for COT with YHC taking us out

    Great to have a lot of visitors today, Rosie, Stump Jumper is back in town, and Globe Life visitors Glow and Fuzzy Navel.  Fuzzy Navel is a part-time bartender, so hence the moniker.  Welcome back Ronnie!

    Where was Handshake? Must have missed Horneydo.

    Great work from the PAX.  God is good all of the time!

    Attila

  • Autumn in August

    Six strong posted for a different kind of HBR workout in the comfortable 65 degree gloom this morning. Here is what went down:

    Mosey to the front of the Middle School for:

    Dead Man Hang, Reach for the Stars, SSH’s, DQ’s, Imperial Walkers, Jazzercizes, Flutter Kicks, Suzanne Somers Right, Scorpion Kicks, Suzanne Somers Left, LBC’s, Merkins

    Mosey to the entrance of the Elementary School and begin a Travelling Lindsey into the Farmington neighborhood. Carolina Dry Docks and Two-Count Flutter Kicks.

    At the divided highway with the canal in the middle, perform Travelling 11’s. WW2’s and Lt. Dan’s/Squats.

    Work our way back to the AO and head over to Heartbreak Hill. Perform 7’s running up and down in between sets. Merkins and Burpees.

    Partner up for 2×20 sets each of PLT’s

    Partner up for 10 Boo-Yah Merkins

    Mosey back to the Shovel Flag for some Pigeon Pose and Shavasana.

    Time!

    Numbers, Names, Announcements and YHC took us out!

    NMS:

    Nice morning for a walk/mosey/run-a-bout! YHC decided to head off campus and change things up a bit instead of the usual Jerkin Gym, Pull-Ups and Donkey Kicks that are popular at HBR. Bro-Code travelling exercises are some of YHC’s favorite things to lead. Everyone put in hard work this morning and everyone will be better for it.

    Thanks for putting up with YHC this morning, men, and SYITG!

    Kubota

  • Heartbreak Ridge

    9 gathered for this weeks rendition of Heartbreak and this is what happened:

    YHC was the mystery Q, it only came with a little disappointment from Lighthouse, once this was established we launched.

    COP of various exercises to included Inverted and regular Scorpion Kicks

    Park lot Bear Crawls. Bear Crawl and (2) HRM’s at each parking spot

    Mosey over to Lil’ Blue and grab a Microblock. Mosey over to the field.

    Various high rep exercises with the Microblock. Even though the weight is low when you do 50 reps it still burns.

    Mosey back to Lil’ Blue to return the blocks and then over to wall and group up for a Triple Check. P1 runs the lot and back, P2 does Bench Kicks, P3 does wall sits.

    Complete (2) Squats at each parking spot across the lot.

    Announcements – Oyster is hosting Frisbee at Gridiron NEXT Saturday (August 5th, not July 29th). Pickleball Tournament on August 26th, grab a partner. Honeydo is doing a Kayak trip from Huguenot Flatwater this Thursday about 5:00.

    NMS – quiet morning, not much mumblechatter. It was good to have Chaplin make the trip as part of the Summer Tour. EF Hutton ran over like a stud. We had 3 for Coffeteria afterwards.

  • No One Stays Dry

    Absent a few fart-sackers, five noble warriors assembled in the dew of the morning to a late-night Q volunteer.  Here is how it went down:

    • COP
      • SSH
      • IW
      • DQ
      • Helicopters
      • Arm circles
      • Suzanne Somers
      • Merkins
      • LBC
    • Cumulative beast
      • 180 HRM
      • 144 WWII sit-ups
      • 108 side crunches – each side
      • 72 monkey humpers
      • 36 2x crab cakes
      • Last round – 36 burpees as out of time
    • COT with YHC taking us out

    Great work from the PAX today.  Great to have Whitesnake back.  Too bad Horneydo and Handshake were not there.  Many of the PAX have been injured at some point in the last 6 months, so grateful hearts that we were able to come together and do some ground and pound.  The ground was moist to say the least, so no one went home dry. 

    God is good all of the time!

    Attila

  • Ultimate returns to Heartbreak

    8 frisky wanna be Lab Rats descended on the less than stellar football field of Quioccasin Middle for one of YHC’s favorite ways to spend 45 minutes…..Ultimate frisbee. Bodos was nice enough to bring his small orange cones. After setting up the field and some last minute changes back and forth on light vs. dark jerseys we had our 4 vs. 4 and kicked it off. About 5 minutes in Attila showed up to throw off our even numbers, making it 5 vs. 4. The dark shirts stormed to the lead with superior numbers, and after the score reached 5-1 Lighthouse volunteered to abandon the dark side in favor of the light side. Our paler brethren then rallied to come back but were unable to eclipse the dark team’s lead, despite the spittle flying from Handshakes lips as he continued to harangue his teammates whenever they dropped a pass. YHC announced that the last goal scored would win, and Bodos and the other “lighties” quickly stormed down the field to score the “winning” goal.

    COT: Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out

    Announcements: Honeydo is now calling himself “Horneydo” and has declared that he is back in the dating game! Katie bar the doors and someone better warn the ladies of RVA as it has been a while since this stallion has roamed the pastures looking for mares.

    Thanks for coming out today guys! That was a blast. I love playing Ultimate and hope to do this a few more times while we still have the early AM light.

  • Swamp Donkey is back in RVA

    Nine noteworthy gents survived last night’s storm and made it out to HBR. We were joined by a semi-regular visitor from Davidson and off we went:

    COP: SSH, Don Qs, Imperial Walkers, Merkins, Reverse Crunch, Scorpion Kicks.

    Mosey over to PES front for Triple check: HRMs, WWIIS, and run loop. Mosey to back of school to playground for 4 rounds of 8 Pullups and Squats. Over to blacktop, few rounds of Bear Crawl, Crawl bear, Crab walk and lunges.

    Down to tennis courts for 3 rounds of Wheelbarrow and 15 Derkins. Just enough time to hit the Jerkin Gym with 4 rounds of 10 Jerkins and then back to flag for 2 min of Mary. Atilla took us out.

    NMS: Ample humidity and soggy conditions made this morning a challenge. But the PAX got after it. Good to be back at HBR after some travel and be met with Atilla’s “hospitality” again. Kubota says he has converted to a summer-time HBR regular. Swamp Donkey has posted several times before here and gets after it for someone who is 61. Unfortunately that is only mildly impressive when Pigskin is out keeping up with the PAX as Triple-Respect. Swamp Donkey was introduced to Jerkins and found out what the RVA pax knows, they suck. Hopefully he brings those back to to Davidson.

    Announcements: 4th July Convergence at Dogpile, 7:00.

  • It’s summer

    Oyster checked another box on the Summer Tour with a visit to Heartbreak Ridge. The first month of the Summer Tour is 2/3s over! Got to visit some other AOs!

    Mosey forward, Karioke left, Mosey backwards, Karioke right back to start

    Disclaimer

    Warmup: in cadence

    20 SSHs

    20 Imperial Walkers

    10 Don Quixote

    Mosey to benches in front of Quioccasin;

    10 Dips in cadence

    10 Derkins in Cadence

    10 Step-Ups in cadence

    3x

    Mosey to the wall at Quioccasin

    15 People’s chair airpress

    10 BTTW hip slaps in cadence

    15 Donkey Kix OYO

    15 People’s chair Milkers

    10 BTTW Australian Mountain Climbers

    15 Donkey Kix OYO

    15 People’s chair Muhammad Ali

    10 BTTW toe taps

    15 Donkey Kix OYO

    Mosey to hill between Quioccasin and Pemberton

    Jacob’s ladder with 5 Knee-ups at bottom each time: up the Heartbreak hill 7 times with 1, 2, 3, etc. to 7 Burpees at the top

    Mosey to wall across the parking lot at Pemberton

    Dora with

    100 Merkins

    200 Crunchy Frogs

    300 SSHs

    Mosey to parking lot in front of Quioccasin for

    20 Ukrainian Soldiers

    10 Diamond Merkins

    Mosey to flag

    15 Heels to Heaven in cadence

    60-count 6-inch leg lift

    No Announcements

    Takeout by YHC using an excerpt from Romans:

    We also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.

  • The ULTIMATE Takeover

    Ultimate Frisbee at Heartbreak was a BLAST this morning with perfect 7v7 teams and White Snake taking laps on the track. With a final score of 5 to 5, and each scoring team “earning” x5 Burpees for every TD while the loser walked, here are the HIGHLIGHTS:

    • Labrat – best short throws (nobody was fast enough to catch the zingers he played long)
    • Gecko – stickiest hands, both catching and intercepting (LOVE this guy’s energy!)
    • Snuff – best TD catch (literally laid out flat and superman caught a speeding bullet in the very last second before it touched the ground – BOOM! …and yes, Labrat had an eyebrow raised)
    • DTH – credited for still having an extra gear, but won extra burpees and the “worst throw award” on the final Pull slung out of bounds
    • Tebow – hammer throw success!
    • Lighthouse – most missed TD’s and accompanying profanity (he was always there making the perfect TD run but never quite catching up with the pass)
    • Mariner – cleanest TD routes and effortless TD’s
    • Joey C – amazing effort for 99% of the game, but then couldn’t land the winning TD
    • White Snake – credited for the last catch of the game, and yet somehow, his only catch

    COT:

    • Counterama # 15
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Comments)
    • YHC took the PAX out in Prayer

    NMS: Hey fellas, thanks so much for humoring the SOJ Takeover and posting decent numbers for a great game. Loved to finally meet Señor Frog who I’ve read so much about, and it was awesome energy today from Gecko who recently transplanted from the Carolinas. Much appreciation to Labrat for explaining the rules and keeping the bootcamp extra credit to a reasonable minimum. Respect to all the older gents getting after it today! Missed some of the West End regulars – where was HoneyDo and Handshake?! Maybe next time. SYITG, DTH

    Announcements (see SLACK!):

    • TODAY “Pigskin’s Buyin” 2nd F lunch at Firehouse Subs Innsbrook
    • SOJ Takeover – keep posting for more fun!
    • 6/21, 0500, Paddling the James
    • 6/27 – Gumbo’s Home Run Derby

    Prayer Requests:

    • Gecko mentioned the loss of a friend’s M to suicide. Life is precious brothers – may the Lord use us to stand in the gap and rescue folks to His Love.