Tag: Mammoth Balls

  • Freddie Funderwear

    2 Gloom scrollers emerged from the darkness for a Mammoth morning on the fresh blacktop!
    Warmarama – arm circles, helicopters, Chinooks, Michael Phelps, Deadman, Tow grabs, butterflies, quad stretches.

    CoP1 – 4 corners

    • 10 KB Handle Merkins
    • 20 KB Crunches
    • 30 KB Press
    • 40 KB Swings
    • MoT – Around the belt

    CoP2 – 11’s

    • 2 arm KB Curl
    • Upright 2 Arm Row
    • MoT – Around the belt

    CoP3 – Parking Spaces

    • 3 Dead Lifts
    • 3 American Hammers

    CoP4 – Dora

    • 50 WWII
    • 100 LBC’s
    • 150 Freddie Mercury
    • Timer Burnies a lap

    Numbers & Names

    Starting this Saturday YHC will be out of town for 2 weeks, but I will still be doing IPC wherever I am and I hope you guys do too.

  • What’s a Burnie?

    2 grizzled Mericans emerged from the dark gloom for some reverse style kettlebag and sandbag action. We walked away free of any Merlot splashing but walking away sore was successful. This is one of those workouts that had a lot of arbitrary activity, so here we go!

    Warmarama with a lap through the fresh asphalt followed by some leg stretches.

    • 3 Goblet Squats at every parking space, 8 spaces.
    • Bear Crawl back
    • Bearhug Sandbag reverse walk through the parking lot
    • Burnie Lap around the islands
    • Lunge walk KB through parking lot
    • 3 Merkins & Rows at every parking space
    • CrawlBear Back
    • Burnie lap
    • Crabwalk
    • Sandbag Deadlift
    • plenty of other stuff I can’t recall

    Numbers/Names

    Prayers for Chicken Jockeys Dad

    IPC coming up real quick!

  • Heavy Metal

    A couple of early morning hardos emerged from the gloom to bring the heat at Mammoth Balls.
    Pick up Chooch from our usual meeting spot and carpool to the outdoor gym.

    Unload all weights – 2 sandbags and 4 KB’s

    Warmarama

    • Deadman Hang
    • Micheal Phelps
    • Arm Circs
    • Mid range to high Clappers
    • Legs Stretches

    Start with a max set of pull-ups

    Pyramid

    • 10 Pull through Merkins
    • 20 Halos
    • 30 Single Arm Push Press (15 ea Arm)
    • 40 Revers Lunge (20 ea leg)
    • 50 Buffalo Wings
    • Reverso back down the pyramid

    Finish Pyraimid with half of your max set of pull-ups, extra counts are always encouraged.

    3 Sets – Sandbag Bear Hug Burnie walk 30 yards and back. YHC blacked out during this one as I only recall the walking and the set of 7 ground to shoulders with the SB’s.

    3 Sets – PAX 1 Farmer Carries 2 35 lb KB’s 30 yards and back while PAX 2 performs V-Crunches with their choice of KB.

    That’s time and Beavers gotta get! Work has been hectic! Yall keep one another in your prayers!

  • All Gloom, No Doom

    Beaver emerged from the gloom with his most mammoth, Mammoth Ball, 40 lbs, Not a Big Deal! 🤫

    “Let’s get them thighs lookin’ good” as Choo Choo would say. Farmer carry to the hill. 11’s – Squat Thrusters, SA OH Carry down hill. KB Swings at the bottom, Burnie SA OH carry back up the hill.

    I Am the Third back to the helipad for some upper body sets:

    • Curls
    • 2nd Amendments
    • Tricep Extensions
    • Incline Bell Merkins
    • Bent over Rows

    Finish with some Mary

    Get home and finish up with a pull-up sesh on the new pull-up bar!

    I hope you men are doing well.

  • Mammoth Fake Out!

    YHC posted a phony preblast last night for this mornings Mammoth Balls workout. Choo Choo showed up prepared to put in the sweat! Here’s what the Jeepers Creepers witnessed.

    Stretch OYO and a mosey south and back up the parking lot.

    The workout was simple: perform 3 sets of 7 reps of a KB or sandbag exercise in rotating fashion between Choo Choo and YHC until we run out of time.

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  • Pray Hard. Lift Heavy. Stay Deadly.

    1 PAX emerged from the cool gloom with a mammoth bell and sandbag to get a heavy workout in at the helipad. Although solo, it was a great morning.
    I hope yall are doing well! God is good!

  • 8 Weeks to IPC 26!

    As the fog slowly rolled out with the rising of the sun, 2 HIMs rallied in a dry location on the Pine Fork Park asphalt parallel to the football field with kettlebells and sandbags. We had a little bit of mumble chatter take place and quickly got to work with the following basic IPC inspired beatdown! Let us not forget, we almost died today via the gray Kia that wouldn’t get over for us! Here’s what she witnessed!

    4 Rounds

    • Run 600m
    • 24 Sandbag Lunges – 50 lbs
    • Run 400m
    • 18 KB Woodchoppers
    • Run 200m
    • 12 Burpee Broad Jumps

    Numbers & Names!

    Announcements – Muddy Run coming up on the 27th. So far we’ve got 5 F3 men attending!
    IPC 2026 begins in Sept! That less than 8 weeks away!

    YHC closed us out with a prayer.

  • Big Trouble In Little 80’s Movies

    4 HIMs emerged from the gloom for a cool as a cucumber forecasted Mammoth Beatdown. Let’s see if YHC’s memory is still firing here!

    Warmarama!

    • Arm Circles
    • Helicopters
    • Nolan Ryan’s
    • Merkins (slow)
    • Alabama Prom Dates
    • Leg Stretches

    The Thang!

    CoP1 – 4 Corners (easy)

    • 10 Curls
    • 20 KB Swings
    • 30 Overhead Press
    • 40 (20 ea. arm) cleans

    CoP2 – Triple Check

    • P1 – Ball Dippers
    • P2 – Merkin Pull Through
    • P3 – Bear Crawl to half Court and back.

    KB March to the Outdoor Gym – Perform 4 Squat Thrusters at each Light Post on the way.

    CoP3 – Each PAX takes a turn performing 4 pull-ups while remaining PAX performs KB Swings. 3 sets.

    KB March it BTTF! At every light post Perform 4 reps SA Rows and clappers. Switch it up half way to 4 reps of toilet plungers and oblique dips.

    Numbers & Names

    Announcements – Convergence this Saturday 07:00 – 08:00.

    Prayer Requests – Prayers for our brother Larkin and his wife and girls as he’s overseas supporting our military.

    Master Oogway closed us out in prayer.

  • Free Ballin’

    2 Boys of Summer emerged from the gloom for a moderate Mammoth Balls beatdown. YHC had nothing planned but some upper body shoulder, lats & back. I guess you could say we were free ballin’.

    The Thang!

    Bring your mammoth ball with you! Warmarama:

    • Michael Phelps
    • Tie Fighters
    • Moons Over My Hammys
    • Roscoe’s Wife
    • Toe Grabs
    • Quad Gods
    • CopperHead Squats

    Rack KB to the east Helipad for 25 KB Swings

    Rack KB through parking lot EB, perform 10(hard way) pull through Merkins at speed bump.

    Rack KB to Pull up bars for 3/6/9

    • Pull-Ups
    • Merkins
    • Any Core exercise of your choice

    Rack the KB and travel to the Snack Shack for a round of Walls Of Jericho. Since we each had a 25 lber YHC took advantage to get in some heavy lifting utilizing both KBs at once, including:

    • Gorilla Rows
    • Squat Thrusters
    • Deadlift

    Rack up the KB’s and head back to the helipad to grab our remaining items and to the trucks!

    Announcements –

    • Choo Choo’s 2 Year F3 Anniversary was this Monday, make sure to send congratulations his way.
    • This Friday is on the schedule for The F3RVA Summer Tour.
    • 4th of July Convergence coming up. July 4th 07:00 – 08:00 at The GridIron AO – 4747 Pouncey Tract Rd. Glen Allen, VA

    Prayer Requests –

    • Prayers for NKCC new school build is fulfilled on time before the school year begins.

    YHC closed us out!

    Be a prayer believer, not a prayer beggar.

  • Rocky 3

    The New Kent sunrise 🌅 greeted 3 boxers 🥊 this gloom to get a triple check style weight training beatdown at Mammoth Balls! Consensus is, we can’t box but we can jump rope like the dickens!

    Mosey to the E helipad for Warmarama

    • Ukrainian Soldiers
    • Cherry Pickers
    • Don Quixotes
    • Slow Copperhead Squats Up & Down
    • Alabama Prom Dates
    • Toe Grabs
    • Butterflies
    • Roscoe’s Wife

    Mosey back to the gear and haul it to the stranger parking lot.

    Triple Check 1 –

    • P1 runs lap around the lot as timer
    • P2 Jump Rooe
    • P3 merkins with 30 lb plate on back

    Triple Check 2 –

    • P1 carries 50 lb sandbag to light post and back as timer
    • P2 American Hammers w/ KB
    • P3 two arm KB curl and press

    Triple Check 3 –

    • P1 lunge walks with/ KB to light post and suitcase carry back as timer
    • P2 KB Swings
    • P3 Merkin KB pull through

    Finisher- Bear Crawl/ Crawl Bear Suicides. Each of 5 Parking stripes. gets 1 of 5 core principles, crawl Bear back to start and Bear crawl to the parking stripe and continue on until finished and end with The Mission.

    Numbers & Names!

    Announcements –

    • 4th of July Convergence coming up at Gridiron 07:00

    Prayer Reqs

    • For some of our brothers in Christ – Avery, Kevin and Travis

    Master Oogway closed it out in prayer