Tag: Heartbreak Ridge

Is it really June?  A cool morning free of humidity greeted a lucky 7 at Heartbreak Ridge.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • SSH
  • IW
  • DQ
  • Arm circles – forwards and backwards
  • Helicopters
  • Suzanne Somers
  • Merkins
  • LBC
• Mosey to the tennis courts and partner up – wheel barrow to the net and do 10 derkins, rinse and repeat 4x each man
• Mosey to the blacktop for a 3x check
  • Run
  • Balls to wall
  • HRM
• Mosey to the football field for an arch loader
  • Bear crawl across followed by 25 reverse crunches and 20 monkey humpers
  • Crab walk across followed by 25 reverse crunches and 20 monkey humpers
  • Bunny hop across followed by 25 reverse crunches and 20 monkey humpers
  • Cheetah sprint across followed by 25 reverse crunches and 20 monkey humpers
• Mosey to the hill for 10 hill sprints (final being a Bernie Sanders)
• Mosey to the parking lot for COT and YHC taking us out

Post-convergence hangover could not stop this PAX.  Solid work on a glorious day.  Plenty of airline tales from Roger Roger.  The skies are reopening much like most of our country.  Great work by these rugged warriors. 

God is good all of the time!

Attila

A dozen of the West Ends finest gathered for a Heartbreak Ridge beatdown. However, what they didn’t realize is we’ve reached the time of the school year where nobody learns anything so we went for a Field Trip. A quick COP then off Campus we went. Ever quarter mile we stopped for 10 Merkins, 15 LBC’s, and 20 SSH’s, about 1/2 through we switched to 10 Merkins, 15 WWII’s, and 20 Squats). The route was: Quioccasin west to Gaskins. Gaskins north to Della, Della east across the path and continued on Della to Pemberton, Pemberton north across Quioccasin to the DMV Parking Lot, then DMV Parking Lot to east on Quioccasin east to West End Presbyterian Church (YHC’s Church) then west back to Quioccasin to the Flag. 3.44 miles by YHC’s watch.

Annoucements: 3rd F tonight, check slack tonight at 8:00, Offshore with the Q. Memorial Day Convergence at Tredegar, 7:00 on Monday morning.

Moleskin: In the 3 years YHC has been involved in F3 nobody has ever done an off-campus beatdown, YHC wanted to change that. YHC felt it went well, there was only one spot on Gaskins that cars went past while we were doing Merkins/LBC’s/SSH’s that gave YHC a little pause, but the other stops we stepped up off the sidewalk and into the grass. Thank you all for allow YHC to mix it up.

12 HIM’s arrived on a 70 and sunny morning to help YHC start off his anniversary week in style

This how it went down

Warm Up – Brought some Daville to Tuckhoe with parking tracers while we tried to avoid being hit by the garbage truck.

COP (ALL IC) – SSH, DQ, Hillbillies, LBC’s, Heels to Heaven, HRM’s, Arm Circles

THANG

4 Corners – Using the whole parking lot. Running the long ways and run backward the short ways. 10 Burpees, 20 2ct American Hammers, 30 Merkins, 40 SSH. Rinse and Repeat for two total rounds

Triple Check – Using the jungle gym by the track. Pull ups/Jerkins, WWII Sit-ups, and Bear Crawl to closest tree (slight up hill) then Crawl Bear back.

Jacob’s Ladder – Traditional style using the largest hill by the track. Run up the hill complete a Burpee, run down then back up for 2 Burpees. Rinse and Repeat till reaching 7 Burpees. To keep things interesting we Bernie Sanders up the hill the last two rounds

Rail Work – Using some sidewalk rails we complete High and Low Incline Merkins IC

Skull Crushers – 10 IC Right Leg then 10 IC Left Leg

The 6’s – Circle up. Hold feet six inches off the ground for six seconds. Exercise IC: Six LBCs, six Heels to Heaven, six American hammers, six Gas Pumps, six Freddie Mercuries, six Rosalitas.

Numberrama, Namerama, Announcements, YHC took us out

MOLESKIN

This Friday (6/21/21), marks YHC’s 5th Anniversary with F3. To celebrate I will be Qing for 5 days straight and wanted to post at some other AO’s beside DaVille since not traveling at all this year.

It was great to see some guys that I haven’t seen in months and meet some new PAX that wouldn’t normally have a chance to.

YHC has been getting a little horse this week due to grass pollen being high so my voice as started to “squeak” some during the COP and giving directions during 4 Corners. This of course lead to the “hate” mumble chatter on YHC’s age.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Memorial Day Convergences at Tredegar starting at 7 am

SPIT ON THAT!!

A lucky 13 warriors shook off the fartsack to start their Tuesday off right. YHC picked up some new coupons yesterday and we needed all of them.

COP: SSH, Don Qs, Block Squats, Alternating block merkins, Flutterkics.

THE THANG: 30 Minutes of Fun: 10 Derkins at near side bleachers, 20 Donkey Kicks on Concession Stand, 30 Benchkicks on far bleachers, 40 Block Presses at halffield. Repeato but increase reps by 5 each lap until time called at 30 minutes.

Some Mary then introduce Block the Plank to HBR Pax: Elbow Plank with block on back while other does 20 Thrusters. 2 rounds each. Drop coupons back and finish at flag. YHC took us out. Prayers for Bodos dissertation defense, although he is a lock after reading his Thesis title: “Integration of Parkour moves into Sunday Worship”

NMS: Third time around for this timed loop thing. Still seeking an appropriate name. Maybe Handshake Repellant?? as he opted for the fartsack this morning. Had he posted we might have set a HBR record of 14.

Gypsy was so excited he slowed down to stay near YHC and express his gratitude. Probation, Seymore, and Homer set the pace getting well into the 7th lap.

Announcements: Convergence on Memorial Day 5/31 0700. Belle Isle. We’re back on with our Memorial day tradition. 3rd F tonight with Florence on the Q, all are welcome. Last day for F3 monogram shirts for this round is Friday. See Slack for detail on all of these.

12 hardy gentlemen emerged from the gloom at Heartbreak. Here’s what happened:

COP – SSH, Don Quixote, Russian Soldiers, Arm Circles, Merkins and LBCs.

Mosey to the bleachers to select a coupon and then head to the football field.

Exercises at the 25, 50, 25 and Endzone lines. Two rounds that included Blockburpees, incline merkins, decline merkins, bench presses, kettlebell swings, and curls/pull ups.

Next, bring your coupon to the bleachers for 3 sets of tricep pullovers, combined with bench kicks.

Deposit your coupon and head to the Ridge for a triple check (finally with the right numbers). Squats, flutter kicks and run to the top.

We then headed to the track for catch me if you can, with two sets of merkins and two sets of burpees.

Next, over to the blacktop for a mini Dora – 50 merkins, 100 squats and 150 LBCs. The haters were wrong – we finished with 5 minutes to spar.

Finally, a quick ring of fire to honor an example of automotive excellence in the form of a high mileage, 20 year-old Miata. Plus American Hammers to run out the clock.

The Q had to exit left after numberama and nameorama to take his daughter to marching band practice. The Pax found a new Q to take them out.

Excellent work boys.

7 burly men met for a weekly Heartbreak Ridge beatdown and this is what transpired

COP – lots of stretching and 3 rounds of Scorpion Kicks. A survey was taken to determine which Scorpion Kicks were better: Inverted or Regular, YCH says the ground voted for Inverted.

Mosey to PES for a Triple Check: Run around loop, Hand Release Merkins, WWII’s

Mosey to PES Bus Loop: P1 Runs to end of of the loop and Back P2 Bear Crawls down the loop, switch and repeat going back up the loop. Lastly, Crab walk solo down the entire loop.

Mosey to Playground/Pull Up bars are PES Playground: P1 5 Pull Ups while P2 does Merkins, repeat 7/8 times.

Mosey to Blacktop at PES for a Triple Check: P1 Run to far fence and back, P2 Flutter Kick3, P3 LBC’s.

Mosey back to the flag for 5 OYO Burpees and 10 WWII’s to finish.

Announcements: Freed to Bleed on this Saturday, May 1st.

NMS: Nothing major to talk about today. YHC has a certain plan, but when Atilla wasn’t going to make it YHC put that option back in the filing cabinet.

No Q on the sheet this morning, so YHC just took it and ran with it.  Awesome morning with a robust HBR PAX.  A perfect start to a Tuesday went down as follows:

• COP
  • SSH
  • IW
  • DQ
  • Arm circles – forwards and backwards
  • Helicopters
  • Scorpion kicks
  • Merkins
  • LBC
• Mosey to football field for a beast
  • HRM
  • Freddy Mercuries
  • Storm squats
  • Crab cakes
  • Flutter kicks
  • Burpees
• Jack Webb
• Mosey to bleachers for a Lindsey with bench kicks and monkey humpers
• Mosey back to the parking lot for some Mary
  • Heels to heaven
  • American hammers
  • LBC
• COT with YHC taking us out

Great work by the PAX today.  Lots of chatter, but solid work and good bonding.  Here’s to more strong numbers at HBR.

God is good all of the time!

Attila

A tenacious ten took to the forbidden football field on a beautiful morning for the 2nd iteration of this timed loop beatdown. Before that we did:

COP: SSH, Hillbillies w/rooster in background for extra flair, Don Qs, HRMs (Handshake-Release Merkins) with full arm extension, LBCs, Scorpion Kicks. Mosey down to collect coupons and start in middle of field.

30 Minutes of: 10 Derkins on benches, 20 Donkey Kicks at Concession stand, 30 Benchkicks on other benches, then 40 Block Bench presses. 1 loop. Each loop increase reps by 5. Time called at 6:10. Deposit coupons back then 2 min of mary on the field then back to Flag. Gypsy took us out.

Annoucements: Blood Drive 5/1. Sign up to give. Tomato Run Relay on 4/24. Sign up for BRR. 3rd F tonight at 8:00 on Zoom.

NMS: This is the 2nd iteration of this timed loop beatdown. Revisions from 1st were added time, 30 minutes from 25 last time, and block bench presses instead of Block Swings. All pax ended up around 6 loops with the speedsters taking on a set of 40 Derkins for round 7. Bacon Bits took this on while nursing his calf, aye!

Nice mumblechatter before and after. If your considering getting the vaccine please reach out to Atilla, he’s happy to discuss the pros & cons. Congrats to Roger Roger on his house selling & move.

Spring break could not deter a loyal PAX from coming out to Heartbreak on a glorious Tuesday morning.  Mumble-chatter was persistent, but it did not deter YHC from sticking with the plan.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • SSH
  • Russian soldiers
  • DQ
  • Punitive burpees as Gypsy was distracting the PAX
  • Arm circles – forwards/backwards
  • Helicopters
  • Scorpion kicks
  • Merkins
  • LBC
• Mosey to the blacktop
  • Four corners with 10, 15, 20, 25 reps at each corner
    • HRM
    • WWII sit-ups
    • Monkey humpers
    • Crab cakes
  • 3x check
    • Balls to the wall
    • Reverse crunches
    • Run
• Mosey to the jerkin gym for a jerkin ladder (8 down to 1 by 1)
• Mosey to the parking lot for COT with YHC taking us out

Lots of mumber-chatter today.  As usual, YHC brought high reps, limited variation.  If you do not like it, sign up to Q.  Also, do as I say, not as I do.  There is method to my madness Handshake.  Somewhere Gypsy is still whining.  Good to have Bacon Bits out there, despite nursing a calf injury.  T-claps for our man as he continues to impress.

God is good all of the time! Attila