Tag: NoToll

It’s April but winter seems to be holding on. Ten SOJ’ers broke the strong hold of the fartsack this morning (and it was strong) for a cold and dark beatdown that went something like this:

COP:

DQs x 10

Helicopters x 12

SSH x 25

LBCs x 20

Alternating shoulder taps x 20

Long mosey around all fields

7 of Diamonds

Round 1: 7 burpees at each corner of field

Round 2: 14 merkins at each corner

Round 3: 21 2-count flutters at each corner

Round 4: 28 monkey humpers at each corner

Mosey to another soccer field.

Bearpees

Cross field by performing 1 burpee followed by 4 count bear crawl

Repeat with 2 burpees and 8 count bear crawl

Repeat with 3 burpees and 12 count bear crawl

Repeat with 4 burpees and 16 count bear crawl

Mosey back to the flag.

Numbers, Names, Announcements, J’ville and Ollivander took us out.

Announcements and Prayer Requests:

The Forge starts this Thursday at Huguenot High School

Lots of prayers needed for the Nicolette family (known to Shakedown and family) who were hit by a truck while on spring break in Kitty Hawk. Mom and Dad did not survive the crash and have left behind their kids. This is really hard to imagine…take a moment to hug your family tight today. https://www.wavy.com/news/north-carolina/2-pedestrians-die-child-hurt-after-being-hit-by-truck-in-kitty-hawk/1893342891

NMS:

YHC was looking forward to this April Q thinking (naively) that it would be both warmer and maybe a little lighter. Big giant “NO” on both fronts this morning. For some reason, all the lights have been off recently at No Toll making for a very dark entrance. As Gumbo noted, they must be taking off for an extended spring break.

The Bearpees were a huge hit with the PAX this morning. If it’s mumblechatter worthy, then it’ll be worth bringing back.

Great to see Dr. Tryhard back out this morning after his lengthly bout with the plague. Thanks for posting the shovel flag. Sorry the PAX was unable to deliver a crowbar after you locked your keys in your truck while putting away said shovel flag. YHC trusts Ollivander got you home safe and you were able to get the spare keys.

The entire New Market crew was noticeably missing this morning…it wasn’t because YHCs name was on the Q sheet was it?

Gentlemen, thanks for allowing YHC to lead this morning…always a pleasure. Make today a great one!

Peace…I’m out!

16 of RVA’s best men skipped an extra hour of the fartsack to show up at NoToll to get better. Dr. Tryhard has been stricken with the plague and unfortunately could not fill his Q slot for today but that was just fine since there are plenty of men to step in and fill the void.

YHC took the lead to start and after a short mosey to the parking lot, informed the PAX of the intent to Hot Potato. Warm-up with some SSH, IW, Peter Parker, Mountain Climbers, Alternating Shoulder Taps and LBC.

Quick 4 corners in the parking lot with 5 burpees, 10 HRM, 20 Jump Squats and 30 Freddie Mercurys

Orange Crush (he hasn’t been around long but there is a rumor that he led some workouts in a previous life). Continue 4 corners with 5 burpees, 10 Copperhead Squats, 20 HRM, 40 LBC.

Don Draper – Forest to Sea. Bear transitions to a crab. Bear crawl half width of field, 5 burpees, crab walk the rest, 5 burpees. Mosey around the field to the parking lot. Partner 4 corners 10 boo-yah merkins, partner carry/karaoke to next corner, 10 boo-yah, 20 PLT; Corner 3 add 20 partner shrugs each; Corner 4 add 40 squats (total). Lunge back to the six.

Tobit – Mosey toward the cars but, realizing we had a little more time, turn and take a full lap around all fields. Honeymoon may have been whispering in his ear a little. Back to the basketball court for Mary – lots of Dollies, Rosalitas and American Hammers.

Count/Name/Wilson took us out with his usual conversational style.

Viral has a Richmond Toolbank tour coming up soon, see him for more info.

Some new blood in the HP today. Orange Crush was a little hesitant, more about the exercise names than the actual work. Look forward to more out of him. Draper was ready with something straight from the Exicon. Partner carries always elicits some groans, especially from those in the silent or respect years, today was no different. Tobit’s just getting warmed up for his NoToll Q next week, he has gotten the last of the HP at a couple workouts recently and crushed us with Mary.

Tclaps to Honeydo for organizing the GrowRuck and the other 42 PAX for completing 14+ hours of CSAUP. YHC is looking forward to hearing more about the GrowRuck and lessons learned from the PAX that participated.

14 No Toll Veterans arrived this morning to a lights out parking lot and a full moon. Nothing could keep the PAX from starting the day out in a pure awesome way. 0530…let’s mosey

COP- x 20 Seal Jacks, x 20 SSH, x 15 Russian Soldiers, x 15 Copperhead Squats, x 20 Box Cutters, x 20 Rosalita’s, x 20 LBC’s, x 10 Merkins, x 10 Booyah Merkins. Enough. Mosey over to the soccer fields

The Spartan- Run the length of the field. After the run, 30 Merkins. Repeat 10 times.

Partner Up. PLT’s, 200. Complete in any number count necessary between partners.

Mosey to the basketball court for Mary: x 31 American Hammers, x 31 LBC’s, x 31 Rosalita’s.

Slaughter Finish. 20 Burpees OYO. But with 2 mins left, plank and alternate from 6 inches to a merkin, back to 6 inchs and a merkin. And done. Mosey back to the flag.

Number-ama, Name-r-ama, Announcements: Growruck this weekend. Happy Hour Friday night at Triple Crossing. Dogpile is at 0700, Saturday. Breakfast Club meeting at ET’s 0630 for a glorious run to Dogpile. Growruck, Saturday night, starting at 1800.

Marmaduke took us out!

NMS: No lights at No Toll. O well, that did not stop the PAX from crushing the workout. Mr. Roper, YHC is amazed at your verbal skills during a workout. Glad to hear you got out of Colorado but also had fun!

The Spartan was found last week on the Lexicon. Perfect for YHC MO, according to Rosie, run a lot, and do 1 exercise a lot. BOOM. Love The Spartan! Rosie and Ollivander-RESPECT on perfect form for all 300.

Thank you for following this morning men. The PAX that YHC has come to know at all AO’s are true friends and ones that will be there, if YHC ever needs anythings. But No Toll is YHC’s home-SOUTHSIDE!! A true blessing and YHC is grateful! Continue to be the beacon of light, always!

Only those who post understand.

Loud and Proud,

Flatline

12 Warriors hit the ground running this morning at No Toll with the hope that Spring is here to Stay.

COP

SSH x 20

Helicopters x 10

Imperial Walkers x 20

LBCs x 20

Merkins x 10

Mosey to Soccer Field

THE BEAST

6 Rounds, 6 Reps in 6 Locations

Round 1 Burpees

Round 2 Squats

Round 3 WWIIs

Round 4 Monkey Humpers

Round 5 Merkins

Round 6 Lt. Dans

Mosey to Parking Lot

How many Laps can you complete?

PAX runs circle around lot for 1 minute, at 1 minute mark YHC yells walk and PAX turns and walks back towards the direction they came from, PAX did 4 mins on 4 mins off

Circle up

Arm Circles 15 forward and 15 reverso

Mosey to Basketball Court

March Madness Suicided

• Regular Suicide
• Run forward out, run backwards back suicide
• Escalating Merkin Suicide, 2,4,6,8

Mosey to Flag

3 Burpees OYO

Numberama, Namerama, Honeymoon took us out

7am Dredd Q @ Dogpile on the 23rd.

NMS:

Awesome weather and and even better morning in the gloom. YHC completed his years of HATE this morning with a final Q. On to the 40s it is!! Everyone rocked the workout this morning, mumble chatter was beginning to pick up until the burpees on the beast were called. Sorry not sorry! Appreciate this group allowing me to lead, it truly is an honor to call each of you my brothers! Go out today be great at everything you do! SYITG

Marmaduke

A total of 15 optimistic daffodils escaped the warmth of their bulbs to bloom this beautiful Spring morning. Here’s how YHC watered the flowers:

The THANG:

WARMERAMA on the BBall Court:

• 4×4-icides – Suicides with x3 4×4’s each time you hit the baseline (each Burpee has x4 Merkins & x4 Mountain Climbers)
• LUMBERGH & HARDYWOOD arrived late, but just in time to join the fun and say – “wait, what’s a 4×4?”

Mosey to COP #1: (parking lot)

• Crab Cakes – 4ct x10
• Breakdancer Merkin – 4ct x10
• DR. W – Dolly / Rosalita / W – 8ct x10
• Angle Grinder – Merkin, Rt hand to Lt knee, Merkin, Lt hand touch Rt knee – 8ct x10

Mosey to COP #3: (run loop around to main field)

• Four Corners (+Escalator):  x10 Dive-bomber Merkins, run, add x20 Ball-dippers (2ct), run, add x30 American Hammers, run, add x40 Mountain Climbers …escalator back to start
• ABC’s for the SIX

Mosey Back toward Flag:

• Capture the Flag – Two planking lines facing one another – Caterpillar 50 yards to the ShovelFlag (last man box jumps over planking teammates to the front, repeato until flag reached). Winning team performed Flutter Kicks while the Runners-Up enjoyed 10 more Burpees.

10 Minutes remaining – Repeat the fun:

• 4×4-icides – Suicides with two 4×4’s each time you hit the baseline
• DR. W – Dolly / Rosalita / W – 8ct x10
• Angle Grinder – Merkin, Rt hand to Lt knee, Merkin, Lt hand touch Rt knee – 8ct x10
• x20 Freddie M’s IC … “just for funsies”
• Finish up with the DTH CircleMerk (x3 one-armed Merkins completed in tight plank circle, right arm over back of next man) 

COT:

• Counterama #15
• Namerama …mostly DTH’s present today
• Announcements (included below in Comments)
• YHC closed in Prayer

NMS: 

Wow, where to even begin?! The contagious good humor, corrupting our every intent to perform quality exercises – granted they may have been new – and YHC may have messed up the cadence once or twice… then the brutal four corners escalator with DRAPER modifying the depth of his Ball Dippers to account for his testicular enormity… then an impressively competitive Capture the Flag. Getting back to the new exercises at the end, the general form looked much better…will have to use Dr W & Angle Grinder on the regular. And finally, what a way to end! There are now 4 Dr TryHards and one “Big Balls” Draper in our PAX…good luck Big Data. You guys crack me up – thanks for allowing me to lead and join you today.

SYITG, The REAL Dr TryHard

Nineteen fans of 1980’s one hit wonders posted at No Toll to find out what was rad. 05:30. Time to strap on the fanny packs and go to work:

COP: Arm Circles x 10. SSHs x 20. Russian Soldiers x 10. Enough of that. Anymore and it would be more than a one hit wonder.

The Cult of Personality: 15 merkins + 15 2-count mountain climbers. 10 merkins + 10 2-count mountain climbers. 5 merkins + 5 2-count mountain climbers. Run to the end of field 1 and back. Rinse and repeat. AMRAP x 12 minutes.

The Cult of Personality:  15 SSHs + 15 Squats. 10 + 10. 5 + 5. Crab walk from the header of your parking space across the lot to the top of the next space. Bear crawl back. Rinse and repeat. AMRAP x 12 minutes.

The Cult of Personality:   15 Rosalitas + 15 Hello Dollies. 10 + 10. 5 + 5. Run to the end of the parking lot and back. Rinse and repeat. AMRAP x 12 minutes.

I Know Your Anger / I Know Your Dreams: Flutter kicks x 100

Back to the flag. YHC took us out.

Announcements: Handshake has the F3 softball shirts that Dr. Tryhard ordered, if you haven’t already picked yours up.

NMS: YHC is really enjoying the theme party this week. Today, we rolled out a little one hit wonder. No Hardywood, not Small Wonder. And not because there is video tape somewhere of me in the Kings Dominion recording studio cutting a music video to this song while in middle school, but because today’s workout was a cult of personality. You vs. you. Push yourself. Get after it on your own. That said, I’m guessing DK has a Living Colour singlet somewhere in his closet, probably beside his frog skin Oakley jacket.

“You don’t have to follow me / only you can set me free.”

19 warriors emerged in the calm before the storm for a NoToll beatdown that went something like this.

THANG

Mosey around outer perimeter, turn towards shelter and circle up at parking lot

COP – SSH, DQ, Joe Harris Squat Jumps, Copperhead Squats, Russian Soldiers

Mosey around outer perimeter, turn towards shelter and circle up at parking lot

Burp & Merk – Up to 10, then back down

Mosey around outer perimeter, turn towards shelter and circle up at parking lot

Bearimeter – Partner up – Partner 1 bear crawls, Partner 2 runs – switch repeato x2 (switch to crawl bear 2nd time)

Mosey around outer perimeter, turn towards shelter and circle up at parking lot

Space Invaders – 5 bullets attack line by forward lunging, while lines
of alien ships Bob & Weave left & right. When tagged, ships become bullets. Repeato x3, adding walkouts and 5 burpees for missed bullets

Mosey around outer perimeter, turn towards shelter and line up on soccer field

Over/Unders – PAX either elbow planks or Fudd’s Wifes while back PAX runs over or under to the end. Repeato x 2

Audible back to VSF for 4 minutes of mary: LBCs, Hello Dollies, Dying Cockroaches, American Hammers, Protractor

COT – Marmaduke took us out

Naked Moleskin

We packed a lot in this morning. Thanks to the PAX for humoring YHC with some of our sillier drills.

The name of this Back Blast was born from Hardywood’s comments during the Hello Dollies. Please see him for clarification…but the comment did provide solid schoolboy humor.

Mumblechatter was heavy this morning…and Wilson may have gotten more words in than the Q.

At one point, YHC asked the guy next to him if he thought the main fields would be too wet to use….then realized it was Flatline, who has no wonder-if-field-is-too-wet judgment capacity.

Cheers to Orange Crush for attending his 2nd workout in as many days! Keep it up.

Cheers also to Dr. Tryhard for organizing the F3 shirts, though YHC is salty that they couldn’t sort out the umlaut in Döner…

Announcements:

The regular ones.

8 local Weathermen arrived at No Toll with 100% chance of rain and killed it. All 8 weathermen stayed in their vehicles until the very last minute…..and 0531, oops, off we went to assess the fields at No Toll this glorious morning.

Underneath the field house is where the PAX circled up for the COP: x 15 SSH, x 15 Copperhead Squats, x 20 Plank Jacks, x 10 Merkins, x 15 Box Cutters, x 10 Don Quixote’s.

11’s: Exercise 1 at Field House, x 1 Mountain Climber (2 count) run across the field, x 10 Carolina Dry Docks, run back. x 2 Mtn Climbers, run, x 9 Carolina Dry Docks and so on till x 10 Mtn Climbers, x 1 Carolina Dry Dock.

Partner Up and x 200 Dying Cockroaches, any way possible, just finish 200 as a group.

11’s (again): Exercise 1 at Field House, x 1 Merkin, run across the field, x 10 Imperial Walkers, run back. x 2 Merkins, run, x 9 Imperial Walkers and so on till x 10 Merkins, x 1 Imperial Walker.

Partner Up and x 200 PLT’s, any way possible, just finish 200 as a group.

Mosey back to the flag. Number-ama, Name-r-ama, Announcements- Hardywood’s daughter has a book signing at Crossroads, Friday, 2/15, 1730-1900. Don Draper’s Grandfather fell and had hip replacement surgery-prayers are need for his recovery. Greenbow’s M is in the final stretch with child 3-prayers for Greenbow and his family too.

NMS: Thank you to FC Richmond for a covered pavilion (Field House) because that was EXTREMELY HELPFUL this morning! Super impressed with 7 PAX members braving the rain but never fear we are still here and BOOM, started out our day in a glorious fashion!

Thanks for the prayers and insite brothers. Yes, we all get off keel, inpatient, and tempered and hearing that struggle within the PAX is reassuring!

YHC needed the insight this morning brothers. Each of you continue to amaze me and I am a better person due to F3 RVA!!

Use that energy today and be a guiding light but also let that energy guide us through times when patience and calmness are needed!

Only those who post understand.

Loud and Proud,

Flatline

18 polar bears (including 1 visitor from Raleigh…a Bills fan for Wilson) removed a layer or two (except for Wilson) and enjoyed the relative warmth of NoToll on this Sunny and 70 morning in the RVA. YHC has the Q and had baseball on the mind with Spring Training gearing up. Thus, here is what followed:

Mosey to the backlot and around the parking lot and circle up for COP, including:

• DQs
• Helicopters
• SSHs
• Imperial Walkers
• HRMs
• LBCs
• Flutter Kicks

THE THANG

9-innings of Pain. In baseball you need 6 outs to complete an inning. Today, that equated to 6 exercises, 10 reps each. Exercises were:

• Box jumps
• Squats
• Ball Dippers (2-ct)
• Merkins
• LBCs
• Box Cutters

Then, to complete the inning – sprint across the field and back. Plank for six with various plank-o-rama while waiting. Repeat x 9 for our game.

Oh, and for those critical late innings, we added some Burpees. 1 for the 7th, 2 for the 8th and 5 for the closer in the 9th.

Mosey back to the basketball courts for Mary, which included 51 Freddie Mercuries IC (varying speeds) and 30 seconds of Superman.

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

NMS-

It’s never too early to start thinking about Spring and Baseball. With the football season over, YHC wanted to get things started with that today.  Great work by all. Those ball dippers added up quickly.

The 51 FMs were tough too. They were in honor of Micheal Medlin – a St Edwards parent who we lost on Friday at the way-too-young age of 51. It’s tragic. It’s important that we not only stand by each other and lift the family up with help and prayers, but also that we take time and perspective to appreciate and take advantage of what we have every single day. It is a blessing!!

Announcements:

• GrowRUCK March 22-23.  Looking for more participants.  See Honey Do.
• Deadline for personalized t-shirt orders is tomorrow – See Dr. Tryhard

Great morning fellas.

No More Gumbo For You!