A pax of 3 eventually converged upon the fields of Holton to do some exercising where audience participation is always welcome.  Lab Rat was late due to a dead car battery, but made it just in time to pick up the Q from Chumbucket and give him the night off. Stuff: -COP included invisible jump ropes, side stradle hops, helicopters, Don Quixotes, merkins, LBC’s, and Hillbillies to test the commitment of audience members (they were commited). -Mosey to jungle gym for pullups and derkins.  3 sets of 7 and 10 reps, respectively. -Little 4 corners on the black top:  1)…

A PAX of six posted for the most recent episode of the Punisher.  Apologies to all for not posting the backblast sooner.  You were there.  It wasn’t your imagination.  Lab Rat reminded YHC on Saturday that everyone reads the backblasts.  More on that later. Anyway, for Monday, 8/13, following a brief warmup with some of the usual, we moseyed to the shady front yard rolled into the Thirteen Acres Baker’s Dozen with 13 rounds of 13 exercises – Merkins, Squats, Hello Dollys, Wide Grip Merkins, Forward Lunges, Rosalitas, Close Grip Merkins, Back Lunges, Freddie Mercurys, Carolina Dry Docks, Side Lunges,…

5 strong posted at Punisher this evening with the RVA conditions being Sunny, Hot, Humid and 88.  At Holton Elementary is was 70 and Sunny.  Here is what transpired: COP: Cotton Pickers x 15 Russian Soldiers x 15 Hillbillies x 15 Arm Circles x 15 Forward and Backward Freddie Mercury’s x 15 Hybrid Merkins/Shoulder Taps x 15 Thang: Partner up for Doracides Run to first tree and perform one Burpee, run back to partner, then run to second tree and perform two Burpees and run back a switch with partner.  Exercises at start line were 100 x Merkins, 200…

Five RVA pax, 2 local on foot and 3 on the tour, joined YHC for a 6:30 PM(!) workout. The thang: Warm  up – SSH, Don Qs (enter Sunny), Merkins, Peter Parkers, reverse crunch mosey to corner of school property – Roscoe special – 9 minutes of running the perimeter. Mosey to picnic tables – Lindsays – dips and LBCs Mosey to back corner of school property along Hermitage, run along street alternating sprints and jobs between light poles to AP Hill corner. Turn left and alternate running speeds to next corner – 50%, 75%, 95%, 50%,100%. Mosey to basketball…

A PAX five strong posted for the most recent Punisher.  The rain held off for several hours before our start and we had a nice breeze.  After a few minutes of greetings in the LHES parking lot, we started a slow run to the school side yard for the startup COP with SSHs, IWs, DQs, LBCs, Helicopters, and Arm Circles. We moved about 100 feet due north for Super 21.  We started with 1 Slight Wide Grip Merkin, 1 Reverse Curl, and 1 Squat and added one rep per round until we’d completed a final round of 21 reps.  We…

A PAX of three posted for the most recent offering of Punisher.  Jville and YHC met in the parking lot and moved to the school yard for slow warmup with some of the usual – Invisible Jump Ropes, IWs, DQs, Russian Soldiers, Helicopters, and Arm Circles. We shifted to a grassier part of the yard for an 8 minute AMRAP #1 (as many reps as possible within the time frame) – 10 Squats, 10 WWII Sit Ups, and 10 Slight Close Grip Merkins.  Nightcrawler posted as the AMRAP began.  We moved to the school wall for 8 minute AMRAP #2…

Four posted for the second Punisher of July 2018 and we went at it like so: Jog two loops of the front parking lot, then startup COP with 25 x SSHs, 15 x IWs, DQs, Helicopters, and Hello Dollys, and 10 x Arm Circles – big only, forward then reverse. Mosey to the shade of the school yard for Deck of Death with Squats, Slight Closegrip Merkins, Box Cutters, and Plank Jacks for each of the four suits – completing a corresponding rep number for each card ranging from 2 to 14 (Aces) and Jokers meant 10 Burpees.  Worked out…

2 strong braved the heat for a steamy Punisher.  EF planted the Flag.  Here’s how it went down. Long Mosey around AO and back to front field COP (IC) SSHs Russian Soldiers Imperial Walkers Rib Spreaders Arm Circles LBCs Merkins Mosey to front of building Partner 1 Exercise/ Partner 2 Run to Street and Back Wall Plank Donkey Kicks Flutter Kicks People’s Chair Repeato Mosey to Bus Loop Ark Loader Bear Crawl Duck Walk Crab Walk Bunny Hop Polar Bear Crawl Bear Mosey to Blacktop Partner Conveyor Belt (P1 Exercise/ P2 Make a Free Throw) Sledgehammer Tire Slams Jump Rope…

Seven studs, many who double posted today, arrived for the second Lockjaw beat down of the day. COP – In the shade of a small tree. SSH Imperial Walkers, Don Quixote Helicopters On the side of the school, Triple Check! Two partners do Plerkins while the other runs to the lamp post on the road and back.  Cycle through the positions three times. Over to the picnic shelter for Lindsays: dips off the benches and box cutters. Mosey over to the playground which was occupied by little kids fully enjoying all it had to offer.  Partner up in the shade…

Overcoming a 92 degree temperature as of the start time, a PAX of three posted for The Punisher.  We gathered briefly in the LHES parking lot before moseying to the shady schoolyard for the startup COP.  We completed 25 x SSHs, 20 x each of Russian Soldiers, Don Quixotes, and Imperial Walkers, and 15 x Arm Circles (small then big, forward then reverse). We moved to the edge of the yard and began a 4 Corners variant around the shaded field.  Mosey to the first corner for 15 x Carolina Dry Docks, to the second corner adding 20 x single…