Tag: NoToll

Huguenot Park

  • Penance Paid

    14 no 15 Sojourner’s made their misery complete and paid their penance without and then with a Toll at No Toll. 

    Corks were popped on a few new tricks when Juanita’s VQ began with a mosey, then Warm-A-Rama:  DQ, Abe Vigoda, SSH, LBC, Rosalita’s, and Diamond Merkins were done with a without cadence as Juanita grasped the finer arts of a new PAX lingua.  Most exercises started without ready position move or the standard execute command proving once more that actions speak louder than words. 

    Faith took center stage as the Pax Moseyed to the benches to begin to prostrate, pay, and pray for their penance.  “What for,” came the retort, as the Q regularly brought up the six, we’ll skip that and give you ‘How-so’.   Absolution began with (10) vexicon inspired plank to Groiner to Makhtar N’Diayes to plank jack Makhtar N’Diayes up and repeat. Lunge walk to the opposite side of the pristine lawn for (10) 4x4s (burpee to plank, 4 merkins, 4 mountain climbers and up) YHC’s lack of coordination would suggest that more explanation would be necessary to perform proper penance.  I find the below a helpful explanation of the Exicon:

    Makhtar N’Diayes

    From plank position, a 4-count exercise in which you put each elbow to the ground and then back into regular plank. Named for late ’90s Senegalese basketball player at UNC notorious for his elbows. Pronunciation: MAC-tar JIE – rhymes with “sky”.

      120 Merkins later the pax moseyed for a carpenter’s triple check with a midfield run plank Saws and American Hammers. 

    When time ran thick marginally successful suicides were in order, that margin depended on uncalibrated power meters from 25% to 100%.  Tolls were paid with 15 dips and incline-merkins.  Then a final assembly on the tarmac for Danger Zone.

    Penance was sought for an Audible on Jaunita’s namesake but there were clearly no takers even as cadence would suggest a less than sufficient proficiency in the Spanish language. Father forgive me for I have sinned.   

    Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true natures. But they are invincibly brought back to more pious sentiments, for unbelief is an accident and faith is the only permanent state of mankind.”

    Alexis De Tocqueville – Democracy in America.

  • TuckaToll

    Tuckahoe take over continued at No Toll this morning. YHC arrived with a plan for ~10 based on big data and SOJ showed up strong with 20 dudes ready to rock. Here’s what went down:

    Mosey to tennis courts and tracers to circle up for the COP: 20xSSH, 10xCP, 10x HC, 10x merkins, 10x Scorpion Kicks**, 10x LBC, 10x heels to heaven.
    ** = fan favorite

    Animal suicides on the tennis courts including: bear crawl, crab walk & gorilla shuffle. Al Gores for the six.

    Mosey to the back lot with a bleacher stop for 30x dips, followed by a surprise coupon triple check: coupon thrusters, Big boy sit ups** and the timer runs around the opposite island. Plank work for the six.

    Traverse to the field pavilion for 2×25 PLT’s and a clockwise** four corners, cumulative, ascending and descending. 10 x HRM, 20 x WWII, 30 x squats, 40 x MH and back to last.

    Wrapped up the morning with 20x superman, a two team plank hurdle race, mosey to the flag and some light stretching.

    Numberama, Namerama, Announcements (HDHH 5:30p Wed at the Answer on Broad, Rock & Roll 7A Memorial Day convergence + School of Rock puppy pile, prayers for several injured PAX) and YHC took us out.

    No Toll definitely takes the prize for plush athletic fields! Great to be out with all of you this morning – solid work gents. Until next time, GP

  • It’s literally named “No Toll”

    14 strong made their way out of the Gloom and into the parking lot, some sooner than others for some Broga.

    Mosey to the tennis courts but first you must pay your fee at the bridge 20 Dips / 20 Derkins

    Complete mosey to the tennis courts for COP

    DQ’s, 5 Burpees, Helicopters, 4 Burpees, Hillbillies, 3 Burpees, Imperial Squat Walkers, 2 Burpees, Ukrainian Soldiers, 10 Burpees

    Mosey to the back parking lot line up on end line

    Parking lot crawls, bear crawl to 1st line 1 merkin, bear crawl to the next 2 merkins to 10. on the way back we did crab walks with 2 count crab cakes at each line (x2) your last count should be 20 2 count crab cakes

    Mosey to the pavilion circle up for Man Killers (AKA Motivators)

    On the line of the field for 11’s start with 10 squat jumps run across the field for 1 WWII SOSF

    Mosey back to the parking lot increasing four corners starting with 10 Hello Dollies at each corner, next round 20 single count American Hammers, next round 30 Scrunchy (Crunchy) Frogs Time was called at the first corner

    Mosey BTTF but pay your toll on the way back at the bridge 20 Dips / 20 Derkins

    Numbers / Names DTH took us out

    NMS:

    On the way back to the flag YHC heard Snuff say it’s literally named No Toll as we were paying the toll at the bridge. Silver or Gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth get up and do 20 Dips and 20 Derkins. Acts 3:6

  • NoToll’s Sacred Treasure: The soft touch of Wilson’s underbelly on your back…

    15 of SOJ’s unquestionable He/HIM’s worked up a sweat hammering a few more nails in the coffins of their old sad clown selves. To everyone’s delight, Wilson provides a personal “touch” to the experience…

    The THANG:

    WARMERAMA:

    • Mosey a little ways then circle up on the Bball court
    • Welcome & Disclaimer
    • Variable IC Reps top to bottom

    COP #1:

    • Mosey out to Field #1 and line up on one end
    • DESCENDING DIME POUNDER:
    • Sprint length of field, x100 calf raises, Bernie back to start
    • Sprint 90% of the way, x90 LBC’s, Bernie back
    • Sprint 80%, x80 reps
    • Etc etc, down to x10 Burpees

    COP #2:

    • Mosey over to the bleachers for a Triple Check with Dips, Heels-2-Heaven, and Run across field and back

    COP #3:

    • OVER-UNDERS down length of sideline

    Mosey BTTF for COT:

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

    NMS:  Ain’t no PAX like the SOJ PAX, as poor absentee Gumbo will soon find out. Awesome weather to hit those lush NoToll fields, and the PAX crushed the Dime Pounder with ease. After Wilson provided his own special touch on 2nd F, a few of the PAX lost momentum on completing the Over-Unders but heroically planked for the last man to reach the end line. Thanks for sharing your sweat and humor this morning gentlemen. SYITG, DTH

  • Can You Feel It? Yup I can

    Four stiff men came in this morning looking to become loose as a goose before TryHard’s beatdown at NoToll. At this point, we are all broga experts, so a hot potato was called…

    Oyster led us off with some upper body stretches then passed it on to YHC for some lower back and hips. Last Call took it and continued with the lower body and ended with Chaplain bringing it home with some good ole pigeons.

    In the end we were all made whole.

  • The stars are always brighter after a good rain

    9 Star gazers made their way out of the rain soaked gloom to find what they thought would be wet soccer fields.

    Mosey to the tennis courts: COP (pay toll along the way 20 Dips, 20 Derkins)

    DQ’s run a lap, Helicopters, Imperial Walkers

    Mosey out to the main parking lot to find 12 frisbees with lights on them set up in a big circle and a bucket in the middle. Start in the middle at the bucket and run to one of the stars and do 25 of the exercise on the frisbee, run back to the bucket do 5 burpees and move on to the next star until you’ve done all the stars.

    Mosey to the first corner, hit all four corners with 10 of those exercises, chris cross do those exercises with burpees at the bucket. We missed 2 exercises, Ball Dippers and Hand Release Merkins and Last Call wanted to do Arm circles so as the PAX went back and forth for the last 2 stars we did Arm circles forward and backwards and last but not least 5 more burpees

    Mosey BTTF pay more tolls (Taxation without representation) this is a Dictatorship and YHC got to be the Dic today.

    At the flag get in your best Lazy Boy position and recline

    Numbers / Names Chaplain took us out

    NMS:

    Stars was really supposed to be Clocks and the 12 frisbees where supposed to be the numbers but the fields at No Toll really retain water and it was only 36 degrees this morning (or as we like to call it 70 and sunny) so clocks was moved to the parking lot and renamed stars. Snuff and Last Call where thinking about all the burpees we did and tried to add them all up afterwards, if my math is correct we should have done right around 75 burpees this morning.

  • Bringing back the Regular NoToll OG!

    17 studs answered the call to test themselves and showed up to NoToll knowing (or they should have known) what was coming. OG is back, and it will be a regular (quarterly) thing at NoToll.

    YHC was feeling generous so we started with a little COT stretching by the cars and then I grabbed Old Glory and off we went – back to the back lot and fields and twice around. Thanks to Rosie for taking OG for a lap. Old Glory was planted in the front field, the timer was set for 20 minutes and AMRAP 4 corners around the entire facility was the order. Corner 1 – 20 merkins. Corner 2 – 20 jump squats. Corner 3 – 10 burpees. Corner 4 – 20 WWIIs. Go until time is called. Then, meet back at the flag and 2 more laps – native American style and back to the cars.

    Here is the link to add your laps for today: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-L8e9W24ygnU0suaGyKxzi1PgPqY1CBd57hLrKTZI-g/edit#gid=1717732871

    Great work men!

    COT, Numbers, Names and prayers.

    Prayer requests for DTH’s sister (starting chemo), Juanita’s nephew, and the daughter of Radar’s friend. Add these folks to your prayers tonight and going forward. We all know there are more prayers needed then those that were spoken, so add a few extra too for the good of the cause. Lots of stress and anxiety going around and a lot of folks just feeling heavy with life right now. Keep an eye (and 2 ears) out, increase the patience and lend a helping hand or caring ear and shoulder when you can. Take care of each other.

    No More Gumbo For You!

  • Caligula Training

    A dozen hormonal post teens converged on the lush fields of Huguenot Park to prepare their abs for the upcoming pool season. According to the dog walker patrolling the perimeter, this is what occured.

    Mosey to Field 1 for the F3 disclaimer and an upright Warmarama that included SSH’s, DQ’s, Helis, Imperial Walkers, Copperhead Squats, Jazzercise and Dead Man Hang. Everyone warm, lets begin:

    COP #1: Super Dora – Mosey to the side of the field for the following 50 Big Boy Sit ups. 100 Hand Release Merkins, 150 WWII’s, 200 Pickle Pounders. Timer runs across the newly painted field and back. Al Gore for the 6.

    COP #2: Triple Check – Long Mosey back to the restrooms and partner up. Pole Smokers, Jack Lalines (or Hoedowns), Timer runs to the playground and returns.

    COP #3: 4 Corners – Short Mosey to the Basketball Court. 4 corners: 10 Burpees, 20 Squats, 30 Carolina Dry Docks, 40 Monkey Humpers. Alternate between Bear Crawl/Bob and Weave between corners.

    Ring of Fire: 10 merkins each for 2 rounds. Followed by 50 LBC’s and 10 Heals to Heaven.

    Numbers/Names/Prayers/Announcements. YHC took us out

    Prayers to DTH and his family as his sister is battling some health issues.

    3 Year Anniversary at the Forge this Thursday (4/7). New shirt design and hats available for order shortly.

    NMS: Great turnout this morning with New Market and Amelia making the trip and contributing great mumble chatter. Garbage Plate provided the Super Dora idea to work the abs for bikini season. Big boy situps were well received but it was the 200 pickle pounders that got the blood flowing. Great work today gents. It is great to start the day with humor and energy.

  • Nay dear brother, the warmth you seek is not in my shorts

    A dozen SOJ HIM’s escaped the fartsack’s warm embrace to laugh it up with Hardywood in the chilly gloom of NoToll. With visions of Tryhard’s warm sugarplums dancing in their heads, the PAX heroically stomped the following beatdown:

    The THANG:

    WARMERAMA:

    • Mosey to BBall Court and circle up
    • Welcome & Disclaimer
    • Variable IC Reps to get the muscles warm top to bottom, broken up with variable movements across court & back

    MOSEY TOLL:

    • En route to parking lot pay the bridge toll, x20 Derkins, x20 Dips

    SEVEN OF DIAMONDS:

    • x7 Burpees ea corner
    • x14 Walking Lunges ea corner
    • x21 Heels-2-Hvn ea corner
    • x28 Merkins ea corner
    • x21 Squats ea corner
    • x14 WWII ea corner 
    • x7 Ball-Dippers (2-ct) ea corner

    MOSEY TOLL:

    • En route BTTF, pay the bridge toll, x20 Derkins, x20 Dips

    FIVE MIN OF CORE-BUSTIN’ MARY

    COT:

    • Counterama # 12
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Comments)
    • HARDYWOOD took the PAX out in Prayer

    NMS:  Solid numbers for a cold Spring morning, and YHC had just the routine to keep the blood warm. Always amazing how long it takes to rock a Seven of Diamonds, but there was also a definitive slowing with the midway 112 merkins. The PAX crushed it all the same, and still had time for showing Mary a good time at the end. Wonderful as always to have Hardywood back out in the gloom. In his prayer, he reminded the PAX to be EXCEPTIONAL instead of settling to be the exception. We all have the risk of taking short cuts, which only limit our own potential. Let’s lead by example to not only adhere to the rules but also serve others along the way. An honor to lead as always, YHC, DTH

  • OG Walk-through

    18 hungry men craving some Gumbo showed up for a 70 and sunny feast at the Fields of NoToll. Rumor had it Old Glory would be making an appearance, and it did…sort of. The flag was planted and this is what transpired…

    Mosey to back lot and circle up for COT, including

    SSHs, DQs, Helicopters, Copperhead Squats, Imperial Walkers, Tempo Merkins, Flutter Kicks and LBCs

    THE THANG:

    OG Walk-through – Gumbo wants everyone to be prepared, so we walked through the OG corners

    • Starting in corner 1 – 20 merkins OYO and plank for SIX; mosey to next corner
    • Corner 2 – 20 good form jump squats, Al Gore for the SIX, when SIX arrived, 20 more jump squats together (No Man Left Behind); Mosey to brown-water Corner 3
    • Corner 3 – 10 Burpees and Al Gore – 3 more burpees with the SIX; mosey to Corner 4
    • Corner 4 – 20 WWII sit-ups, then go pick up SIX and lunge in; 10 WWIIs in cadence

    Mosey to the Pavilion

    • Bench work – 10 steps ups, 10 Derkins, 10 Dips. As many sets as you can until SIX arrives
    • Plank-o-rama
    • Triple Check – Run across the field, HRMs, Slow Deep Squats
    • Al Gore

    Mosey back to basketball courts with some shuffles and backpedaling mixed in. And a bear crawl under the hypothetical gate that happened to be open today.

    5 MOM:

    • Plank – Bear Plank sets
    • Alternating Shoulder Taps
    • Rosalita
    • Reverse crunches
    • Flutter Kicks

    BTTF, COT, Numbers, Names, Prayer

    Moleskin

    There has been a call to bring back Old Glory, and Gumbo will answer the call on April 12 (delayed just for you Bullseye!), and YHC will commit to making it a quarterly thing at NoToll. So get ready to test yourselves and see results. For today, it was a dry-run, walk-through of sorts and bro-code style. Props to Florence and Rosie and others who left no man behind today and Tclaps to Soultrain for pushing through and even starting off with some Broga today. Well done. Keep posting brother, you will see the results and the strength (physically and mentally).

    Strong numbers today, gents. Keep it up. You’re on notice. Be ready 4/12.

    No More Gumbo For You!