Tag: Mammoth Balls

  • “You’ve Got What?” Mammoth Huevos!

    Curpees! We’ve got Curpees!

    4 Amigos emerged from the gloom for a Cinco De Mayo fiesta!

    Warmarama – Mosey from corner to corner of the football field!

    • 5 Pickers IC
    • 5 Michael Phelps IC
    • 5 Tie Fighters IC + Reverse
    • The 3 Wives
    • 5 Alabama Prom Dates IC

    The Thang!
    CINCO DE MAYO Complex – 5 Reps/5 Sets

    * for 5 reps each arm and/or leg.

    • C-Curls *
    • I – Imperial Goblet Squats
    • N – No Cheat Merkins
    • C – Clean Swings*
    • O – Overhead Press*
    • D – Deadlift
    • E – Extensions (Tricep)
    • M – Merkin PT’s*
    • A – Alternating Lunges*
    • Y- Yoke Walk (sand bag, 50 yards)
    • O – One hundred yard run

    CoP 2 – Partner Up – 2 PAX – P1 performs 5 solid Bear crawl pull-through s while P2 walks and counts the 5 reps. Both Partners perform Booyah Clurpees (cardio Burpees(burpee w/o the merkin)). Switch on the 5 Bear crawl pull throughs. Continue rotation for 50 yards.

    Ring Of Fire – 10 ct cadence of core exercise from each PAX member

    • Taco Shells (V – UPS)
    • Mexican Hammers (Amer. Hammers)
    • Nacho Libres(Superman’s)
    • Street Chihuahuas (fire hydrants)

    CoT! Numbers & Names!

    Announcements – DTH has his 500 Q at The Forge this Thursday

    Memorial Day Convergence – 07:00 to 08:00 at Dogwood Dell Amphitheater in Richmond.

    Prayer Requests – Prayers for some of the older kids in the community as they are hearing about the b&b’s and guidance to navigate how to try keeping their innocence.

    Prayers for our friend Kenny & Becca as they lost their main source of income and expecting a 4th child within weeks.

    Commando closed us out in prayer.

    Great work this morning men! Thanks for letting me lead!

    ”Whatever has begun in anger, ends in shame” – Benjamin Franklin?

  • Well look at that!

    Came rolling in hot and ready to get after it. Master Oogy was already there locked in and ready to go. At 5:29 Commando came rolling in with a fresh new flag to add to the collection.

    We got the usual warm up and stretching knocked out then got straight into it.

    Started things off with 11s pull through merkins and goblet squats, using around the worlds as our transportation.

    Then Commando grabbed the wheel and delivered an upper body beatdown that felt like every arm, chest and shoulder exercise ever created.

    Announcements:

    • Commando will be doing a nighttime trail run during Dominion Riverrock Belle Isle.
    • Beaver is set to run the Christy Puller out in West Point.

    Always grateful for the ability to show up and push through these sometimes silly workouts. Even more grateful for the fellowship and brotherhood built with these men and the rest of F3. I’m personally thankful our paths crossed.

    Closed it out with a prayer from Commando

  • Be A Conduit, Not A Cul-de-sac

    4 High Impact Men emerged for a glorious yet frigid late April gloom known as Mammoth Balls! What seemed like an extended Warmarama of 10 minutes was rather necessary for what YHC had set prepared on the kettlebell schedule..

    Rack your kettlebell and mosey to the helipad for Warmarama!

    • SSH’s IC (would’ve loved to keep going on this but YHC was out of breathe calling cadence).
    • Imperial Walkers IC
    • Cherry Pickers IC
    • Arm Circles IC
    • Leg & Quad Stretches
    • Alabama Prom Dates IC
    • Slow Merkins IC
    • The Wives

    Rack up that KB and Mosey to the 1st CoP – 11’s

    • KB Swings
    • March down hill Single Arm Overhead Carry
    • Squat Thrusters
    • March up hill Single Arm Overhead Carry(opposite arm)

    Meander to the Sankc Shack for a round of Dora!

    • 100 Merkins
    • 200 Feet on bench crunches
    • 300 Step Ups w/KB
    • Partner moseys around the snack shack

    We ran out of time on the step ups so we kept the partners, 1 PAX farmer carries both KB’s while partnering PAX performs 5 merkins and moseys for the handoff, ultimately returning the entire PAX to the flags for CoT

    CoT – Announcements – planning a 2.0 in coming Saturday mornings. Chesty Puller 10 & 11K coming up in June, come help Beaver rep F3, start your training now if you can.

    Prayer Requests – For the Perez family in south Richmond(a young mother’s life was taken over a domestic dispute regarding her 3 month old baby. Prayers for that little baby. Prayers for patience in our daily struggles.

    Commando closed us out in prayer.🙏


    Moleskin:

    Shout out to Master Oogway! It’s his second time out doing Mammoth with us and he’s doing a great job staying with the pack. He left us of with a term that has resonated with me all morning, “Be a conduit, not a cul-de-sac”. For YHC that means, be someone that you can help usher others into a relationship with Jesus and not just someone that will turn others around and back the way they came. “No man left behind, leave no man, where you found him”.

  • Blacked out again….

    Three sunrise chasers got up early this morning to sling some balls together here’s how it went down…

    We started with some much needed basic stretches then jumped straight into Tabata

    6 rounds of 20 seconds on, 10 seconds rest. After each 6th round we ran ¼ mile. We cycled through 6 different exercises

    • Halos

    • Merkin pull throughs

    • Curls

    • WW3

    • Squats

    • Plank pull-throughs

    It felt great to be back at Mammoth Balls and this weather made it even better.The YHC had a habit of blacking out and talking like Boomhauer during Merkins for some reason

    We also had an FNG join us from church who absolutely crushed it. Prior military, works at Dominion, married with a couple of kids. He even shared a story about the Green Turtle bar inside the Caps stadium. We’ll hold off on naming him “Green Turtle”… for now naming comes next week.

    Beaver closed us out with a prayer.

  • Is This Beaver’s Glory?

    I think there could be some more to add as YHC and Commando discussed some MoT options in the future but this is how it went. Beaver Brings the Sink!

    Warmarama with a lap around the 🏈 field.

    • DQ’s
    • Cherry Pickers
    • Ukranian Soldiers
    • Arm Circles
    • Leg Stretches and The Wives

    The Thang! 💥

    AMRoundsAP! Of the following Circle ⭕️’ Pain includes(start where ever you like):

    • 20 ct. 50 lb Sandbag Squats
    • 20 Decline Merkins
    • 20 ct. 40 lb KB Swings
    • 50 Jump Rope
    • 20 Chain Twisters
    • 20 ct. (2)25 lb KB Squat Thrusters
    • 20 ct. 30 lb KB SA Curls
    • 20 ct. 35 Lb Gorilla Rows
    • 25 Yard Coupon Lunge Walk
    • 25 Yard Bear Crawl Coupon Pullthrough

    We made it very close to completing 3 rounds. Great work Commando!

    Announcements – Family Ruck + 🍕 in Richmond on 4/12 at 4 PM.

    Prayers for TinMan and BamBam.

    YHC closed us out.

  • All 3 F’s

    2 Pork Rinds emerged from the gloom for the not so mammoth of Mammoth Balls, but we made something of it! YHC says this because he promised a lot of equipment on deck for the workout, however he forgot to load it all up in the pick up. Next Week!
    Commando logged a couple miles of pre workout rucking in at the park!
    We borrowed the cones out in front of the park and lined them up across center football field for some ladder type exercises.

    Warmarama OYO for mumble chatter:

    • Deadman Hangs
    • Helicopters
    • Arm Circles
    • Ukrainian Soldiers
    • Wives
    • Leg Stretches

    The Thang

    • Ladders – 10 KB Reps at random on the Sideline. 10 Core Reps at every cone. After returning from 3 cones, PAX tosses frisbee as a MoT distance marker.
    • We preformed a various number of exercises including: bear crawls across the field, Weighted squats increasing by 10 reps every cone. Bus Driver MoT and SSH’s increasing by 10 reps at every cone.
    • The Beast – including Mountain Climbers, Merkins, Jump Squats, Superman’s, 2 Arm Curls.

    CoT – Numbers and Names

    Announcements- Family Ruck this coming Sunday at 14:00 meeting at Ruckhenge AO location, Gelati afterward.
    Let’s continue to EH some men into coming out to F3. “Give it away”

    Prayer Requests- Commando’s good friend Tim was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s , prayers for Tim and his family and friends. Per Handshake, Prayers for this little girl Charlotte 11 yrs old with stage 4 cancer and her parents,These are constant reminders of how fragile life truly is on this earth.

    Commando closed us out in a great prayer.

    Lastly, If someone is on your mind, don’t hesitate to check in with them and let them know your thinking about them and you’ve got their 6.


  • Mammoth Bros!

    2 Mammoth Ballers emerged from the gloom for a big ball of a time! YHC brought out the competition bell to get doubly wild with a KB routine that had the quads and forearms pleading mercy! Commando saved the day with some hand warmers as YHC must have either the wrong winter gloves or some poor circulation in his fingers(call me chicken fingers(frozen)). Here’s what you sorry fartsackers could’ve witnessed!

    Warmarama!

    • Mosey to the helipad
    • 17 SSHs IC
    • 17 Mountain Climbers IC
    • Wilson’s Wife
    • Fudds Wife
    • Toe Grabs
    • Butterflies
    • 17 Helicopters IC
    • 17 ish Tie Fighters IC
    • Mosey back to the balls!

    The Thang!

    8 Sets – 30 break after each set.

    • 2 Kettlebell Squat Thrusters – 6 Rep
    • 1 KB Tricep Extensions- 12 Reps
    • 2 KB Farmer Carry 100 yards – replace final set with counterweight oblique dips.
    • 1 KB Goblet Squats – Sissy Style 10 Reps.

    That’s about all we had time for this gloom. CoT and Commando prayed us out! Prayers for Commandos good friend Tim who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and prayers for our PAX Bam Bam and his family!

  • One Man Triple Check?!

    Yes, one man triple check is possible, as long as you set reps for yourself during the exercises because the timer never leaves. Shut up Beaver.

    1 extra credit HIM emerged early for a pre Mammoth quick 1 mi. Run. As soon as 5:25 struck, I figured I might check the Slacks in case my F3 fasha had sent out a message, sure enough he did and YHC had to start preparing for a solo mission. Here’s what went down. I don’t want to give too much away because I’d like to do it all over with some other HIM’s. Never mind, I’ll share it all, here comes the preblast/backblast!

    Grab the 35 pounder and shuffle it to the helipad for Warmarama: Cherry Pickers, SSH, Don Quixotes, Ukrainian Soldiers, Imperial Squat Walkers, Plank Jacks, Kettlebell Swings, Curls. Walk the KB any way I like to the hill.

    11’s – Kettlebell swing at the top – Right arm overhead carry down hill. Squat Thrusters at the bottom – Left arm overhead carry to the top.

    Carry the KB to the 6 bleachers – 6 step-ups tricep extensions at each bleacher. MoT-I am the 3rd between bleachers.

    1 man Triple Check – 20 crunches w feet on the bench / KB Snowman Routine(5 SA KB swings, 4 Cleans, 3 Snatch to clean, 2 Shoulder Press, 1 Squat Thruster – other arm) / Run up to the batting cages and back.

    80 Second Wall Sit

    11’s – WWII / Merkin KB Pull-through(hard way) No MoT.

    Make Trek BTTF with variety of KB exercises while walking.

    It felt great to really push it after a great nights sleep last night! I can’t wait to get back at it as this was hopefully the last cold day of the year!

    SYITG!

  • Who’s David and Why Do I Have His Cookies?

    2 Mammoth Ballers emerged from the gloom for a ruck/kettlebell mashup. Here’s what the neighborhood mutt missed this gloom, because this morning we were stealthy ninjas!

    No time for Warmarama! Sack up and bring a kettlebell!
    Ruck through the neighborhood hand off KB at the culdesac. KB hand off back at Pine Fork and ruck to the ODGym for a session of pull-ups, KB curls and merkins.

    High tail it BTTF with another ruck/KB handoff. Finish up with YHC doing burpees and ChooChoo’s doing more merkins.
    Awesome gloom, spending time in fellowship and with the pull up bars!

  • Southern Snowmen

    2 statesmen emerged from the gloom to a lovely 70 and sunny Mammoth beatdown! Here’s what the CAT truck witnessed:

    Warmarama – Mosey down the lot

    • SSHs IC
    • Don Quixotes IC
    • Imperial Walkers IC
    • Cherry Pickers IC
    • Helicopters OYO
    • Arm Circles OYO
    • 1 minute free stretch OYO

    CoP1 – Snowman Complex

    P1 – w/KB performs snowman complex – 5 SA Swings, 4 Cleans, 3 Snatches, 2 OH Press, 1 SA Thruster while P2 performs merkins. Rotate until both arms are worked. Begin another round of rotation, only change is P2 performs squats.

    Mosey

    CoP2 – Tabata – 4 exercises:

    • KB Swings
    • Alternating Side Squats w/KB
    • Bus Driver w/ 30 lb plate
    • Curls w/ plate

    Mosey

    CoP3 – Traveling Men!

    • Walk halfway down the lot while performing Tricep Exts
    • Perform 10 Merkins
    • walk the 2nd half of the lot performing Oh Press
    • Perform 10 Merkins
    • Around the belts halfway down the lot
    • perform 15 WWIIs
    • Rest of the lot is tricep exts.
    • perform 20 flutters IC

    Finish up with a brief round of Mary

    CoT – Commando closed us out in prayer.

    Moleskin: just a quick but heavy quote. “Show me the people you spend your time with, and I’ll show you your future.”

    SYITG