Tag: Punisher

We relocated Punisher to Bingo Beer for a brief run – primarily to spot holiday light installations on Monument Avenue – and followed with a little social time. Turns out just a few households (really just one) in the nearby few blocks of Monument went big with lights. Not much to see in the 1K mosey. Point was to have some social time, anyway. Back patio at Bingo is nice with propane-fired fire pits. May head here again. There was a motion to possibly relocate Punisher once a month in the winter season for similar social time. Did I miss anyone in the PAX list? Thanks!

A PAX of five posted for last night’s Punisher with one arriving via bus, another by car, and three on foot. Form a circle and complete 25 x Imaginary Jump Ropes, 15 x Imperial Walkers, 15 x Don Quixotes, 15 x Helicopters, 10 x Merkins, 20 x Flutter Kicks, and a few Arm Circles.

Begin team Bearimeter of Linwood Holton Elementary school building in counterclockwise direction. Break into teams with one guy Bear Crawling while another completes one Burpee and ten Side Straddle Hops followed by a mosey to catch the crawler. Switch. One crawl rotation done and stop at the supply shed on the southeast side of the school. Grab lengths of galvanized pipe stored under the shed for some light weightlifting with 25 x Overhead Presses, 25 x Curls, 25 x Straight Arm Shoulder Raises, and 25 x Squats. Complete three rounds.

Resume Bearimeter, again alternating Crawls and other exercises around the shrubs and down the bus loop. Find a curb and complete some Captain Morgan Squats (one leg on the curb), side lunge across the pavement, and complete additional Squats on the other curb with the other leg in higher position. Repeat. Change directions. Repeat.

Solo Bear Crawl to the blacktop playground. Four corners with 15 x LBCs, 20 x Single Count Back Lunges, 25 x WWII Sit Ups, and 30 x Box Cutters.

Group Bear Crawl with PAX taking turns counting 15 hand placements then flip over for 20 x LBCs. Repeat for an estimated four rounds working our way from the playground to the outdoor classroom on the northwest corner of the school. Find a spot on the picnic tables and complete five rounds of 25 dips.

Line up adjacent to the table area. One guy completes 20 Bear Crawl hand placements while the others hold Al Gore position. When the crawler is done, we mosey to him and another guy starts a crawl. Complete several rounds, making it back to the Huttonmobile. Finish with a few minutes of stretching, then COT.

Nice work guys. Good seeing everyone.

Planning to relocate next week’s Punisher to a brewery near Scott’s Addition. As of this post, we’re tentatively thinking about Bingo Beer Company. We’ll meet there, take a brief run to Monument Avenue to view a Christmas light installation or two and run back for a beverage. Details to follow.

Four posted for the pre-Thanksgiving Punisher offering. Short mosey off the pavement and into the grass for COP with a few of our favorites. Resume mosey and complete a Lindsay. Follow that with a round of 11s. Continue with a little wall work. Additional mosey minutes built into the program along with some rounds of Merkins. Find grass again for a bit of stretching and COT.

Hope everyone had a fine holiday.

Four posted for the most recent Punisher. Warmup in the front school yard with the usual. EMOM #1 – complete 5 Burpees, 10 Donkey Kicks and about a 40 yard run and hold People’s Chair each minute for 10 minutes. Jack Webb with 1 Merkin to 4 Overhead Press ratio – begin at 1:4 and continue past the usual stopping point to 12:48. EMOM #2 – 5 Squats, 5 WWII Sit Ups, 25 LBCs, and 5 Jump Squats then hold Al Gore each minute for 10 minutes. Plank-A-Rama for a few minutes, stretch for a few, and YHC took us out.

Seven PAX posted for the first “fall back” Punisher. Mosey around the parking lot and into the grass near the western entrance to LHES for warm up with 30 x SSHs, 20 x Helicopters, 15 x Don Quixotes, 15 x Hillbillies, 10 x Shoulder Taps, 10 x Suzanne Somers (each side), 25 x Freddie Mercury(s), and 10 x Arm Circles (big only, forward and reverse).

Move to the parking lot entrance. Ten Merkins at the closest light pole. Mosey north along Hermitage Road to the next light pole for 10 Imaginary Jump Ropes. Repeat sequence, working north along Hermitage to Nottoway Avenue, then cross the street and return south doing the same. Finished 26 poles, 13 rounds of each exercise.

Return to the school and find a spot along the western wall. Complete seven Donkey Kicks and move into Balls to the Wall position and the first guy counts down from 10. Continue with six Donkey Kicks and 10 count BTTW. Continue, reducing the number of kicks, but continuing to count to 10 after each kick round. Finish with one and 10.

Mosey to the front parking lot and grab Tater 1 and Tater 2 (twin 50 pound kettlebells to be based at GridIron soon and donated by Tater). Break into two groups. One guy completes four weighted Squats then completes a carry of their choice of one of the taters across the parking lot and back. The other guys knock out LBCs. Repeat another round with Squats. Final round with one Upright Row with a four second hold, then carry. LBCs for the others.

Finish with two tater carry with walking Shrugs. Remaining PAX hold Plank while two guys carry, complete unweighted Overhead Presses while two others carry, Reverse Plank while two more carry, and Elbow Plank for the final carry. Finish with a few minutes of stretching. COT and YHC took us out.

Good showing tonight. Welcome back Offshore. Glad to see everyone.

Announcements:

Day after Thanksgiving Forest Hill Loop Challenge – 7 AM start for a loop per hour until goal or quit – TYA coordinating.

First Friday in December – nighttime ruck, then second F around fire pit – watch for details

Loose plan for First Monday in December – relocate Punisher to Scott’s Addition – to do Christmas light run to Monument and back to S.A. for second F.

With the November Merkin Monthly challenge kicking off today, YHC thought it fitting to ensure we had a healthy dose to get anyone on this challenge off to a nice start.

We mosey from the flag to the side yard of the school facing Laburnum Ave and circle up for the COP.

COP

We start with 15 SSH, 10 DQ, 10 Imperial Walkers, 10 Russian Soldiers, 10 Helicopters, 20 4ct American Hammers, 10 LBC’s and 20 merkins. YHC requested that Chum Bucket track the Merkin counts throughout the work out and we will finalize the count at the end of our workout today.

THANG

With 6 in the PAX this sets up for 2 teams of 3 for a triple check. Partner 1(P1) – runs lap as the timer, P2 – performs Donkey kicks (on the last rotation, we perform 10 DK’s then wall sit for a 10 count, then 10 Dk’s and wall sit we flap jack this until the runner returns) and P3 performs 50 merkins. Each person rotates the stations and we perform each exercise 3 times to complete the triple check.

We then mosey to the COP place and YHC has each person draw from the F3 exercise card deck.

YHC starts with Low Plank for 20 seconds, the Low Slow Squats – 20 reps, Ranger Merkins 20 reps, then Alternating side squats (10 reps each leg), 20 Heels to heaven and 20 Smurf Jacks. We repeat this order of exercise 2 more times for a triple check and Dial up called an audible for 10 forward lunges each leg for the final rotation.

YHC pulls out the deck of cards again we perform 20 Chuck Norris Merkins, 20 SSH, 20 Hand release merkins, 20 4ct flutter kicks (Good call here UpChuck who graciously provided cadence for this one), 20 Freddie Mercury, and finally 20 merkins. We only had time for one round here.

We mosey back to the flag for stretching for about 1 minute then numberama, namerama and Chum Bucket took us out in prayer.

Moleskin

Great evening workout with much mumble chatter as this was a sweat steady beatdown with many Merkins baked in so the final count was 20+150+60+60 = 290! Not a bad start for the November Challenge. It was a great evening for this workout a nice 60 degrees and was an honor to lead. Have a great week and I will see you in the gloom…Cheers, CB!

Unaware that Chum and most of the regulars were taking the night off, Forty Whacks moseyed to the AO where YHC was expecting a solo Q.  Appreciative for the company, here’s what was done.

Mosey to the basketball court

COP (IC)

• Don Quixotes
• Copperhead Squats
• Helicopters
• Merkins
• LBCs
• Imperial Walkers
• SSHs

Mosey to back corner of AO

5 Corners around entire AO

• Merkins x 20
• Merkins, Squats x 20
• Merkins, Squats, Mountain Climbers x 20 (2ct)
• Merkins, Squats, MC, WWIIs x 20
• Merkins, Squats, MC, WWII, SSHs x 20
• Reverso

Mosey to Picnic Pavilion

Lindsay1

• Dips
• Reverse Crunches

Mosey back to VSF

Lindsay2

• Carolina Dry Docks
• Monkey Humpers

Mary

• Heels to Heaven
• American Hammers

Numberama, Nameorama, COT

MOLESKIN

Good to chat with Forty Whacks while Qing on the fly.  YHC was reminded how small the world is in which we live.  Thanks for coming out.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Shoe Drive – see Gypsy

HDHH – Thursday Hardywood West Creek

Five Punisher regulars bathed in cooler weathers and a full moon to finish the last workout of the first day of the week.

Off to the field for COP under the mighty oak. The trees know that it is officially Fall and the acorns are aplenty. Sliding on acorns, tossing acorns and all around revelry involving acorns. Exercises included Helicopters, Don Quixote, Dead Man Hang, Russian Soldiers, and Imperial Walkers.

Over to the front of the school for a derivative of the Red Barchetta, which YHC will call AbSplosion.

• 10% of the way down the field for 10 HRM and back to the wall for 20 Donkey Kicks
• 10% of the way down the field for 10 HRM, 25% for 25 V-Ups, and back to the wall for 20 Donkey Kicks
• 10% of the way down the field for 10 HRM, 25% for 25 V-Ups, 50% for 50 flutter kicks, and back to the wall for 20 Donkey Kicks
• 10% of the way down the field for 10 HRM, 25% for 25 V-Ups, 50% for 50 flutter kicks, 75% for 75 LBCs, and back to the wall for 20 Donkey Kicks
• 10% of the way down the field for 10 HRM, 25% for 25 V-Ups, 50% for 50 flutter kicks, 75% for 75 LBCs, 100% for 100 American Hammers, and back to the wall for 20 Donkey Kicks

Yeah, that sucked.

Over to the wall and line up for the People Chair. First round – 2 feet on the ground while each member of the pax takes turns performing 10 wall jumps. Second round – left foot on the ground with left foot wall jumps. Third round – right foot on the ground with right foot wall jumps. Finish it off with 10 chicken peckers.

Off to the side of the school for triple check. Bear Crawl to the fence for 10 sling squats and bear crawl back. Other partners were BTTW and elbow planks.

A quick round of Lindsays at the picnic tables with dips and box cutters.

Chum Bucket walked us through some Yoga to make everything all right with the world.

YHC took us out.

Three posted for the last Punisher of September 2021. Warmup with some of the usual. Mary-basaed Lindsay (40s) broken up with Bear Crawl, Back Pedal, Lunge Walk, and Run. Ten rounds of 20 Dips on the outside tables. Triple Check at the wall. Mary and stretching. COT. Those of you there – you were there, it’s official.