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9 triple checkers gathered for a Brick inspired workout.

Brick Jacks

WWBrick

American Brickhammer

Brick Angels

Brick shoulder taps

Brick merkins

Brick Circles.

Mosey to first obstacle Triple check. Dips, American Hammer, Run to intersection Bernie back.

Bricklayer crawl then last man does a Merkin and runs to the front.

Next triple check was pole smokers and shoulder taps bear crawl then mosey back.

Mosey back to the flag for your choice brick excercise.

Reflecting on the title freed to lead. It’s an oxymoron. Leadership is often considered a shackle when we choose to lead it’s empowering. Go, lead, be free.

Nine nefarious SOJ studs gathered in the NoToll gloom to experience the latest SOJ attraction… the finest pair of beatdown balls in all RVA! Here’s why these fine gentlemen won’t be walking straight for the rest of the week:

The THANG:

WARMERAMA:

• Mosey onto the BBall Court and circle up
• Classic Rock ON
• Welcome & Disclaimer
• Variable IC Reps to get the muscles warm top to bottom
• Mosey out to the bleachers, stopping en route to pay the Toll – x20 Dips, x20 Derkins

COP #1:

• DEATH DICE – Round 1
• Circle up, each PAX takes a turn tossing the dice to determine exercise & reps
• Highlight: DEALER rolls x30 “Dealer’s Choice” – he chose Burpees – oof

COP #2:

• Mosey the full field
• TRIPLE CHECK: Dips, WWII, Run

COP #3:

• DEATH DICE – Round 2

Mosey BTTF for COT:

• Counterama # 9
• Namerama
• Announcerama (see Below)
• OC took the PAX out in Prayer

NMS: There was a death dice on Station in Papua New Guinea which looked like a really good/bad idea. We roped it into one of the last bootcamps while I was there and it produced a solid sweatfest. So YHC got home and ordered a version from Amazon with two foam dice, one with variable exercises and the other with total reps, seconds or “burn-out”. The PAX initially gave YHC’s squishy balls a D- on badassery but soon discovered (mostly thanks to 30 burpees called by Dealer) that the dice are worthy of an A+ in the world of bootcamp sweatfests. In fact, it was enough YHC spontaneously gave the PAX a break with a mid-way run and triple check between Death Dice sets. Always fun to bring something new to the gloom! #SOJSTRONG …SYITG fellas, DTH

Prayer Requests:

• Let’s lift up OC and all our fellow Dad’s in the throws of parenting difficult teenagers. 

WORDS OF WISDOM:

“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.” Abraham Lincoln

“The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.” Theodore Roosevelt

“God meets daily needs DAILY. Not weekly or annually. He will give you exactly what you need when it is needed.” Max Lucado

Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

• MAY – FNG CHALLENGE – Bring out as many FNG’s in May as you can, then get them to come out again for our Memorial Day convergence
• 5/12 – SOJ Happy Hour and Leadership Chat
• 5/21 – SOJ Family BBQ at BWE
• 5/29 – Memorial Day Convergence at Tredagger 
• 5/30 – Rosie hosting the 1st SOJ Summer Coffee Tour following NoToll
• 6/3 – School of Rock workout for our kids that will follow R&R monthly through the summer
• 6/29 – Ultimate Frisbee at the Forge – other future dates/locations TBD

An intimate gathering set for 2 was played on this perfect sunny and 70 morning. Parking lot looks a bit empty but rules are rules, lets get this going. According to the cops and dogwalkers patrolling the area, this is what went down.

Warm up mosey down to Robious and return to the basketball courts for quick warm up that included a variety of exercises.

Venture back out to the parking lot for Love Prairie. Runner runs to the gate and returns to switch with partner that is doing Bear Crawls, Lunges and Broad Jump Burpees. Mosey around the gate to the big parking lot.

Seven of Diamonds. Run around the parking lot, stopping at each corner for 7, 14, 21, 28, 21, 14 & 7 reps of an exercise. Merkins, Squats, WWII’s, CDD’s, Lunges, LBC’s, Burpees were called.

Mosey back to the basketball court for DK perimeter run and quick suicide/pole smoker. Short stretch session to finish things off.

Numbers, Names, Announcements (see slack), Prayers, YHC took us out.

NMS: Great to have Rosie come out for an unusually lite mix for No Toll. Good mumble chatter about a variety of topics including vacations, colleges among others. Numerous events are upcoming throughout SOJ in effort to engage new members and families. Tremendous leadership by everyone pulling these together.

It has been a minute since YHC Q’ed a bootcamp (and apparently Q’ing a run doesn’t count). 8 HIM joined YHC on the lush fields of No Toll this morning to get the day started off right. Here’s what went down…

30 second late start waiting for PAX coming in hot. YHC received some jabs over starting late so off we go. Mosey to back parking lot.

COT: DQs, Imperial Walkers, LBCs, Flutter Kicks, TTTs, Tricep Extensions

Ascending Quarter Pounder:

Run to 25 for 25 merkins, Bernie back.

Run to 50 for 25 merkins, 50 squats, Bernie back.

Run to 75 for 25 merkins, 50 squats, 75 two-count mountain climbers, Bernie back.

Run to the end zone for 25 merkins, 50 squats, 75 two-count mountain climbers, 100 SSHs, Bernie back.

One round of Killer B’s: Bear crawl half way across field, repeat 5 broad jumps, 5 burpees until crossing the rest of the way

11s: Box jumps and WWIIs

With plenty of time remaining, the PAX earned another round of Killer B’s.

Indigenous people’s run around the entire perimeter (and BTTF) with last person doing 5 merkins before catching up.

5 MOM: American Hammers, WWIIs, Flutter Kicks, Dollys, Crunch Frogs, and more that I can’t remember

Burpees until time is called.

Numbers, Names, Announcements, Prayer Requests, YHC took us out.

Announcements:

Oyster Pays lunch this Thursday at Rusty Taco (1145 till ?)

May 21: Family time with basketball and grillin at Bettie Weaver, 530 (see OC for more details)

May 6: CSAUP (see Gomer)

Prayers for Chippendale who is recovering from a minor stroke on Saturday. Glad that all is well.

NMS: Great to be at No Toll this morning with these fine gents. Appreciate OC turning down the Q at Old Hundred to join YHC this morning….and appreciate Gumbo crossing the river. And appreciate the rest of y’all too. Today’s Q involved a lot of counting. So much so that it cut into the mumblechatter a bit too much. The BB title is a quote from DK…who wasn’t letting all the counting mess with his conversation.

Have a great day fellas! Thanks for letting me lead. Peace!

When YHC had dreams of getting kicked off the Q Sheet it almost happened. After YHC scraped the fartsack off arriving late, we went directly into some Warmarama.

8 count absolution, 14 SSH, 10 LBCs, 20 Merkins, Arm Circles,

#1 Dora: 100 dips, 100 merkins, 150 SSH

#2 11s Merkins and WWIIs

#3 Broya 25 PLTs ea 25 Boya Merkins 25 PLT 25 Merkin.

#4 Ring of abs.

YHC had big dreams of carrying a telephone pole through this workout. Watch out for the Q at No Toll there may be an opportunity yet. After totaling that Merkin love up it’s around 176. Excellent work fellas, again sorry for the late Q.

8 regulars and a self EH’ed FNG made their way out of the Gloom to find themselves at the first Doozy Q of the year, it also was a birthday Q so extra fun was had by all.

5:30 mosey to the parking lot but pay the Toll on the way

20 Dips, 20 Incline Merkins

Circle up in the lot

52 SSH, 2 Burpees, DQ’s, Helicopters, 52 Crunches, 5 Burpees, dead man hangs, 52 Imperial Walkers, 10 Burpees

Mosey to the corner for a four corners prostitute with a twist

First corner 10 WWII’s, second corner 20 American Hammers, third corner 30 Scrunchy Frogs, fourth corner 40 Lunges. The twist is that there is no free return corner, every time you return to the starting corner you do 52 Squats

Mosey to the parking spaces just past the gate for some parking lot crawls

Bear Crawl to the first line and do 1 Merkin, increase be 1 Merkin at each line until you end at 10 Merkins

Mosey BTTF but pay the Toll on the way, 20 Dips / 20 Incline Merkins

Circle up in the basketball court for a ring of fire

PAX holds a Lazy Boy position while each HIM does 15 of his favorite ab exercise

Numbers / Names Greenbow took us out

NMS:

Welcome to our latest FNG “Fritos”. The title for this BB was based off a comment that Fritos made during the four corners. Greenbow was jabbing at YHC about turning 52 and Fritos said “there is a difference between a 52 year old that been working out for 30 years and a 20 year old that hasn’t”. The comment really got me thinking, YHC hasn’t been working out for 30 years but YHC is in the best shape of his life and its all because YHC started (5ish years ago) with this PAX and this PAX has made me better. We do all have to start somewhere but starting is only part of it, we all get out of it what we put into it.

I did take some time off from the Q sheet but in the words of John Wick, “people keep asking if I’m back and I really haven’t had an answer but Yeah I’m thinking I’m back”

8 stalwarts posted to NoToll this morning (2 extra early for some Broga) and most knew exactly what was in store…perhaps others stayed in the fartsack or traveled to a different Nano region to avoid it – only they know.

The 8 of us crushed an Old Glory and are all better off for it.

Log your laps here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-L8e9W24ygnU0suaGyKxzi1PgPqY1CBd57hLrKTZI-g/edit#gid=1717732871

Well done men!

Announcements – see slack

Prayers for Wildcat and Dinky.

No More Gumbo for You!

11 March Madness bracket busters joined forces on the courts of No Toll for a murderous maraud.

Warmarama: SSH, DQs, Susan Summers, Freddie M., Diamond Merkins.

The Thang: Eye of the Hurricane South, East, Midwest, and West Corners of the double ball court met in the middle for 10 WWIIs then dispersed OYO for 50 American Hammers, Freddie Mercuries, Scrunchy Frogs, and Flutters.

Reconvene for Eye of the Mericane with 10 burpees then back to various corners for OYO 25 Diamond Merkins, Werkins, CDD, and Hand Release Merkins.

Triple Check with Raise the roofs, and Lt. Dans. Timer does suicides or murderous marauds whatever the pc way of calling that out is.

With arms and abs sufficiently exhausted, what better than to try and play 10 min. of basketball on this 70degree and sunny morn. Score was 4 to 2. YHC is glad no one got hurt.

This tournament has been a crazy reminder of what can be accomplished with strong leadership. It doesn’t always take the most capable or the biggest budget to make an effective team. We lead this together, with vigor, outside.

5 noble Warrior took on the gauntlet that No Toll had to offer. For the onlooking Mac members it may have gone something like this:

Warmarama (waiting for Dealer): SSH, Diamond Merkin, Alt cross leg LBC, Wide Merkin

Tennis court lap High knees, butt kickers, Step Overs.

Squat ladder on the parking lot: start broad jump 2 spots then ascending squats every two spaces 2, 4, 6, 8 – 20

4 Corners on soccer field 10 merkins, 20 WWII, 30 CDD, 40 SSH

Mosey to entrance to the Mac, Hoe downs in cadence, Dirty hook up in cadence. Invite paying club members to join F3RVA.

Run to Johnston Willis (dips on curb in cadence) 20

Find pickle ball court (Tour de merkin and and ab excercise)

Hansel and Grettle back to the playground for a little curb crawl indigenous people style.

Numbers, names, COT.

YHC Has really been thinking about what the word efficiency means. Take what you have and use it to the best of its ability. That goes for this a AO as well as the our actions in our daily lives. We took a tour of this AO and got to see all that it has to offer. YHC is grateful to rub shoulders with four noble warriors who laid footsteps across the paths of No Toll this AM.