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Huguenot Park

  • You say Tabayta, I say Tabata…

    You say Tabayta, I say Tabata…

    Four stormchasers braved the remnants of TS Isaias to see what Dr. Tabata, inventor of the beer bong and a gnarly HIIT protocol, had cooked up in his lab for them. Here’s the post mortem:

    Warmarama: mosey to the parking lot for IW x 20, DQ x 10, Russian Soldiers x 20, WWIIs x 20, Freddy Mercuries x 20

    The Thang:

    • Tabata workout: 20 seconds AMRAP, 10 seconds off x 8 for each:
    1. merkins
    2. squats
    3. american hammers
    4. dips
    5. MOSEY ‘ROUND THE FIELDS — DRIVING RAIN NEVER FELT SO GOOD
    6. flutter kicks
    7. mountain climbers
    • Happy Ending: 10 burpees OYO

    BTTF for 60 Seconds of Mary, numbers, names. Announcements: 3rdF tonight on Zoom; Tobit has the Q. Prayers for Doozy’s swift recovery. Strong work in the elements, gents!

    NMMS: Two notes about the mumblechatter this morning: (1) Some people think variety is the spice of life; YHC is not among them (2) nothing silences mumblechatter like Tabata rounds 6 and above ….

  • Beach Body Workout

    Nine bronzed Chippendale look-a-likes arrived at the trimmed, professionally manicured landing strip of Huguenot Park.

    COP 1 – Mosey to the plush field 3 for a quick warm up of arm circles and cherry pickers. Warm yet, lets travel a bit.

    The Thang – Moseyed off site to the CJW parking lot for a quick 4 corner of merkins (hand release variety), SSH, and some other limb loosening exercises. Mumble chatter in route as we crossed over a brush pile and some small trees but no one faltered.

    Back to the Pavilion for some X work. Round 1 included 25 dips (100 total) at the benches after each corner exercise of 25 (WWII’s, Carolina Dry Docks, Mountain Climbers, Jump Squats). PAX enjoyed this so much we decided to add Round 2 except 30 derkins (120 total) on the benches to get those arms pumped. Corner exercises of 30 included Heels to Heaven, Groiners, Rosalitas, American Hammers.

    Still time on the clock so lets do a triple check. Mosey to the parking lot for some pole smokers, curb crawl while the timer ran the curbs. 3 rounds was not enough so lets add a 4th for good measure.

    Slow Mosey back to the Flag for Numberama, Nameorama and Announcements. Prince has f3 shirts for Wojo and Posh. Wilson sent out prayers to F3 brothers and their families for recent health concerns.

    NMS: At 5.25 it looked like it would be the Covid No Toll regulars until New Market came in hot at 5.30 and Fresh Prince caught up with the group on the way to COP.

    Good luck to Wilson this weekend as he drops his daughter off at Wrightsville Beach for school. Kegger on the dunes next weekend.

    It was great to see Rosetta give Fresh Prince and Doozy some competition this morning with both of them only lapping YHC twice in each exercise.

  • BJ and The Bear

    Twelve incredible men showed up on what is planning on beign another Sunny & 72 day in RVA.

    Here is how it went down. COP – changed up to a ring of fire style. Twenty of each called out exercise by the PAX. All in cadence. No repeatos. Second round ten of each exercise (speed round). In hind sight, second round wasn’t needed, but Fresh Prince decided to show up late so YHC felt obligated to include him! So many exercises to remember……..sorry Rosie. I do recommend the PAX to comment with their exercises they called out.

    Short mosey to the far field for the BEAST! Inspired by Nancy Lopez and the Satan’s Hill Beast yesterday!

    Welcome to the ALL BURPEE BEAST. Ok – so full disclosure before a comment pops up. I screwed up the deconstructed burpee in round two or maybe it was three. Anyway, I own the mistake, but hopefully it made us better. 4.5 rounds of a form of burpees was completed. Can’t say YHC’s form or counting was great or accurate. Looked sooo good on paper.

    So YHC threw out an audible and inspired by Marmaduke and his finishes lately, we lined up and let it ALL out on the field to the start point. Seriously fast dudes in our PAX. Well done.

    Wait….there’s more. Stop at the gate (screw it YHC is already over the time) for a line up and another all out sprint to the flag. Duke almost caught up to Fresh Prince. Almost. YHC took us out.

    So your asking why the video of BJ and The Bear? Well, New Market has MANY issues, but we are pure at heart. We were chatting in clown car about Dukes of Hazzard (ok – so Marmaduke & Honeymoon watched reruns) and Nancy Lopez got all excited about a show called BJ and The Bear. Which apprently came on right after Dukes of Hazzard on ABC (seriously he knew the channel)! So enjoy the throw back intro to a show that has absolutely NO meaning. Seriously the guys best friend is a monkey named Bear and his name is BJ???? The 80’s were just different times for sure.

  • Triple Triple

    15 Of RVAs finest showed up at No Toll this morning! Fun occurred!

    COP

    Helicopters

    SShs

    DQs

    Imperial Walkers

    Copperhead squats

    Merkins

    LBCs

    Scorpion Kicks

    Mosey to back field

    Triple Check – Round 1 – Runner, Decline Merkins, WWIIs

    Round 2 – Runner, Incline Merkins, Box Cutters

    Round 3 – Runner, Dips, Pole Smokers

    Mosey to parking lot

    Sprints, 30 yards toughly, 6 Sprints AYG

    Mosey to basketball court

    Dora Suicides – 100 Squats, 200 LBCs

    Circle up – APDs, Rosalitas

    Back to the flag

    Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out!

    Prayers for Wilson’s friends whose child has a brain tumor. Lots of unspoken prayers as well.

    NMS

    Great morning in the gloom. Amazing mumblechatter as Hardywoods animal collection continues to grow. Also a little friendly competition as Long Pole attempted to catch Fresh Prince on the sprints.

    Gents lean on your brothers as needed! We are living in uncertain times but we do have one thing that’s consistent and that’s each other’s support. Reach out if you need it!

    Duke

  • SOJ Inaugural PuppyPile

    An extraordinary THIRTY gloom warriors posted this morning to our SOJ inaugural PuppyPile at NoToll, with a few brave men outnumbered at least 3-1 by a veritable herd of adventure-energized 2.0’s! An entirely intimidated DTH noted perfect conditions – sunny, 70 degrees, 0700 – and off we went!

    The THANG:

    Basketball Court Warmerama COT:

    • F3 Welcome & Disclaimer
    • SSH x10 IC
    • DQ’s x10 IC
    • Copperhead Squats x10 IC
    • Merkins x10 IC
    • LBC’s x10 IC

    Playground DORA:

    • Partner/Team Up
    • Running partner runs to top of playground ramps, slides down, and returns to teammate(s)
    • Stationary Partner(s) complete:
    • x50 Merkins
    • x100 WWII’s
    • x150 Monkey Humpers

    GUTBUSTERS:

    • Mosey to pavilion (carry smaller kids)
    • En route transfer bricks from the DTH-mobile to the Field
    • Circle up at the Pavilion
    • Play the Ghostbusters theme song – SSH to the beat, then drop for a Merkin whenever “Ghostbusters” repeated

    Bears & Bricks:

    • Mosey back to the Field
    • Split into 2 teams
    • As a team move your brick pile from the side of the field to half way out, then back again
    • Dad’s Bearcrawl with Bricks in hand and a 2.0 riding on their back wherever possible

    FRISBEE FIVES:

    • Frisbee is thrown by a 2.0, first kid to get it calls an exercise for the PAX to complete x5 reps, then that 2.0 get to throw the frisbee
    • Lots of merkins, squats, burpees, and sit-ups called

    Slip-n-Slide:

    • Hardywood rounded up the gang and had everyone doing Merkins, Squats, or Sit-ups while everyone took at least one turn getting their best move on the slide

    Mosey BTTF for COT:

    • Counterama # 30
    • Namerama
    • YHC took us out in Prayer

    NMS:

    • Holy moly, and I thought regular F3 workouts were fun! This was AMAZING!!! Such great energy this morning with all the 2.0’s absolutely tearing through the exercises. Many thanks to Seadoo for bringing a speaker (which YHC had forgotten) so we could do the Gutbusters musical number, and of course hats off the Hardywood for bringing that awesome Slip-n-Slide back out for our grand finale today. Also big shout out to the Honeydew Crew who policed up the bricks after COT. Not surprisingly, the watermelon was a huge hit, and YHC is thinking we’ll be seeing more of the watermelonorama for YHC’s summer Q’s to come. And keep tuned – we will be doing this again in August! SYITG!

  • 4th Annual HR Derby – There are no Big Al’s in our midst…

    but we do have Boberry Doublemint Snuff – the latest IPA flavor according to today’s PAX.

    I’ll save those of you in a hurry a lot of time — today’s HR Derby turned out like the last 4 – few HRs and LOTS of Burpees. Stop here if you don’t want to read the carnage.

    18 men stepped to the plate for 3 swings that resulted in exactly ZERO HRs and exactly 90 Burpees in approximately 25 minutes.

    It was so bad that we went Snake Draft and ran through the order in reverse with 2 swings each just so we could finally see a ball fly over the fence (other than the one I threw over the fence). LongPole was the first guy to break the seal and launch one out. Followed by Flatline and UpChuck.

    Not everyone was able to stick around for their second at bat, but roughly 90 swings produced THREE HRs. That’s it, I’m ordering a round of steroids for the entire PAX and I’m putting the balls in a humidor until next year. Next year, the HRs will be flying – you watch.

    Oh yeah, we started with some warmups – DQs, Helicopters, Jazzercisers, SSHs, Imperial Walkers, LBCs, Flutter Kicks and some high knees, butt-kickers, Karaoke’s and base-stealing sprints. PAX looked great during those. The carnage started when the pitches started.

    COT, Number-rama, Name-a-rama and YHC took us out.

    Announcements:

    • Puppy Pile at NoToll 0700 next Sunday (7/12)

    Great to be back out there. See ya next year!

    No More Gumbo For You.

  • Tender Heart, Strong Principles

    And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. – Another group of middle aged men trying to take a principled stand.

    21 independent warriors arrived to greed the dawn of a new day. It may have quite literally been 70 and sunny on this most blessed day in which our colonies that have turned to states celebrate Independence from the Queen Mother and her misguided attempts at trying to control a few so she could control her fortune. According to legend and naughty Ben Franklin, it went a little something like this:

    Mosey to SW field.

    Hardywood COP: SSH X 20, WWII X 10, FC X 10, AH X 10, AHAC X 20, HRM X 20, Lunge X 10 and an Arm Circle for our little cat burgular in the sky. One is more than enough.

    Mosey To Pavilion

    DTH Bulls On Parade: DTH busted out his favorite jam, by that one english band that was pretty famous. If you guessed The Beatles or Rolling Stones you would be wrong. Hell, it’s not even flipping Oasis. May the lord have mercy on his soul, he chose the song Tub Thumping by Chubawumba. Whenever the chorus came on, do a burpee on the line: “I get knocked down, but I get up again.”

    Old Hundred Teen Slayer aka The Fresh Prince Sprint Show

    Bust into two teams based on your preference for Ginger or Marianne. This is a 10 round sufferfest that goes like this. Start at the pavillion, run to other side to complete exercises as prescribed. Run back to pavillion. Team that finished first gets a point for something that is akin to bit coin or a Schrute Buck.

    Round #1 100 LBC

    Round #2 90 SSH

    Round #3 80 2 Count Flutter Kicks

    Round #4 70 Squats

    Round #5 60 American Hammers

    Round #6 50 Carolina Dry Docks

    Round #7 40 WWII

    Round #8 30 Merkins

    Round #9 20 two count ball dippers

    Round #10 Burpees

    Mosey to NE field

    Slippery When Wet Triple Check

    Bust into teams of 3. The exercises for this classic are ball dippers and American Hammer Arm Circles. The real star of the show here was the timer, The Independence Hall Slip N Slide. Please see the great shots that our very own Shakedown took on Instagram, TicTac, MyFace, etc. There was so much style, that awards simply had to be handed out.

    • Slide Most Resembling A Boudoir Shot – FlatlineBest
    • Best Jim Abbott Impersonation – Double Mint
    • Best Supporting Headband – Fresh Prince
    • Most Physically Abrasive Slide To Come From Someone Who Has Landed An Actual Plane With People On It Without Killing Anyone – Roger Roger
    • Best Man Soaper – Upchuck
    • Most Improved Smell – EF Hutton

    Hard-e-Wood Shuffle Dora

    DTH just could not wait for everyone to get a hold of his wood. Here’s how this worked out; split back into the original teams. Each team gets 5 cabers. DTH gets one huge smile. Now for the Dora part. The exercises are done by all the pax who are not running with cabers. Exercises are done in cadence as a group. Cabers must be motion at all times.

    Excercises:

    100 HRM in cadence

    200 Reverse Crunches

    *1776 Burpees With Cabers

    **Unfortunately we only had time to finish the 200 reverse crunches.

    Mosey back to flag

    Numberama, Namerama, Flatline opened his heart and spoke the truth on his way to taking us.

    News: Puppy Pile is next Sunday from 7am – 8am at No Toll. The slip n slide may make another appearance. And if you were concerned that Seymour would be in his speedo, I can confirm his restraining order does not allow him to come that close.

    Moleskin: Gents, thank you so much for making the time today. In all seriousness, it’s a really important day. I appreciate you for showing up, showing your enthusiasm and not being silent.

    It’s as much of a time to celebrate as it is a time to reflect. The signers of the Declaration Of Independence were not perfect. Scratching just beneath what was taught to us in school shows that they were profoundly flawed men. Aside from the powdered wig and pantaloons, they were much like us. It would have been easier to be submissive to the largest military force the world had ever known. Most American colonists were opposed to a revolution of any kind.

    Perhaps they sensed what would happen is they remained silent and obedient. Tyranny unchecked knows no boundaries. The following sums it up pretty good and is often attributed to Thomas Jefferson “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”

    So on this most wonderful of days, as you hold a cool beverage in one hand and an imported explosive in the other, pause for a moment to think about what is worth lending your voice to? What principle needs a champion in todays world? What thing are you wishing for some one else to do that you can and should be doing?

    Big cheers to you all.

    -Hardywood

  • SOJ is Ultimately Cooler!

    A perfect 14-count Pax posted to NoToll for a little Ultimate Frisbee today. All present were honored to have the one and only LabRat back out in the gloom after a long quarantine hiatus. YHC led a brief Warmerama COP while Labrat set the cones, and we divvied up black shirts against everyone else, making a perfect seven-V-seven split. In honor of today’s date, YHC called 6 burpees each time a team scored, while the losers would walk the field and complete 30 LBC’s. From the very start the men in black demonstrated an uncanny capacity for effective short throws winning a steady stream of touchdowns and burpees. The other-colored gentlemen also put together a few handsome plays to get their share of burpees and prevent the all blacks from a shutout. All together we saw some very impressive skills from our veternas Labrat and DK, while a few other men made their mark for quality throws (Snuff), defensive picks (Draper), sliding touchdown (Flange), and of course the trifecta of Fresh Prince’s speed, vertical jump, and flawless frisebee handling (having NEVER played before – whatta natural?). Sorry if I forgot to mention many of the other lads’ phenomenal plays and touchdowns. The men in black were in double digits for touchdowns and at least 70 burpees by the end. All present were entirely drenched in sweat, field dew, and sticky humidity by the end of an exceptionally enjoyable morning. Thanks for letting me lead fellas – we’ll do this another 1-2 times this summer at NoToll and/or Heartbreak Ridge. 

    Mosey BTTF for COT:

    • Counterama #14
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Comments)
    • YHC took us out in Prayer

  • !F3RVA Events at NoToll!

    6/30 – THIS Tuesday – Ultimate Frisbee – 0530-0615

    7/4 – F3RVA July 4th Convergence – 0600-0700

    7/12 – SOJ PuppyPile – 0700-0800

  • Johny “Louise” Warren was a great Mother-In-Law

    14 Solid Brothers showed up on a beautiful day at No Toll

    The BB is going to be short today because the kids and I are starting a 10 hour drive to Indiana for my Mother-In-Laws Funeral

    We did lots of burpees and some Man Killers

    See you next week