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Thomas Hobbes once described the natural state of man to be one of “continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” Pulling into an empty Anvil parking lot, YHC couldn’t help but contemplate those words. As 5:30 ticked away into 5:31, a hand reached up to put the car in gear and dejectedly return to the ooze from whence I’d emerged, when like a knight in a shining Highlander, Yard Sale arrived and saved the day. Neither of us having a plan, here’s what we ended up on:

COP: cotton pickers, arm circles, Freddie Mercury, and possibly something else.

Mosey to the track for a Track Beast, consisting of merkins, monkey humpers, mountain climbers, American Hammers, WWIIs, and burpees.

On the blacktop for Four Corners, with weird counting. Exercises were merkins, squats, flutter kicks, and side straddle hops. 10, 20, 30, 40, but then keep the exercises in the same place but rotate the numbers. Over four rounds, each corner got each number of reps. 40 merkins is hard when it comes after 10, 20, and 30 of them. YHC was briefly reminded once again of Hobbes, but was saved by the running chatter from Yard Sale.

A couple suicides for good measure, and then it was back to the flag.

Anvil has been a small gathering of 2-3 for several weeks now. While I’d enjoy seeing some more faces in the gloom, it’s been a good time to connect with the Anvil faithful, as well. Maybe Hobbes didn’t have it quite right, after all.

We started at 5:30 sharp which is often a challenge for these guys from the other end of Daville and Glen Allen.  It’s been a struggle to get more guys to show up at this AO but we 3 have fun and get a great workout.  As we often do at The Anvil, we did a hot potato.  Warmup:  SSH’s, Hand Release merkinsRelease Merkins, LBC’s and maybe something else.  The workout:  mosey to the jungle gym where we hung from the bars and touched our toes the bar. We keep including this and it gets a little easier each time.  30 calf raises and then a lap around the track.  Headed to the back of the school to work the stairs.  3 laps on the starts – lunges up the stairs, and bear crawls back down.  30 various exercises at the top and bottom.  We did 3 rounds of this.  Mosey to the grass hill on the other side of the school.  Had to do an audible due to the mud so headed back to the playground and track.  We took turns calling out 30 of an exercise followed by a lap around the track.  Some laps were run Bernie Sanders style, some forward and some a mix with karaoke’s on the shorts sides of the oval track.  We then headed to the swings.  Put your feet in the swing but instead of doing a merkin, pull your feet to your chest.   30 flutter kicks and time was up.  Headed back to the parking lot.  Numberama, Namarama and a quick prayer by Yardsale.  Trout can’t make it next Monday so we need a stand in – any takers?  SYITG.   

5AM wakeup came very early after springing forward. Warmup: SSH’s, Cherry Pickers, Freddy Mercury’s and Hand Release Merkins. Mosey to the playground/track area. One runs the track while the other does 100 Merkins, 200 Mud Face Squats and 300 Flutter Kicks. Moved to the blacktop for Wilts. 100 calf raises, 100 flutter kicks, 100 lbc’s, and 100 something else. We still had a couple minutes so we ran a couple of suicides on the basketball court. Mosey to parking lot. Numberama, Namarama and Mr. Holland took us out with a prayer. Great way to start the week but a little light by 6:15 would be nice. SYITG.

We agreed in the parking lot to do a hot potato but Trout really too the Q. Warmup: arm circles, lbc’s, cherry pickers and the thing where you lay on your belly and twist one leg across to the other side. The workout was simple, 1 lap around the track followed by: 10 sets of 5 reps of the following: Incline Merkins, Dips, Pullups and the thing Trout started where you hang like a pullup but touch your toes to the bar you’re hanging from. This took longer than one would suspect. We finished by running a lap around the track (that was the only part that wasn’t a Trout Q). Numberama, Namarama and Prayer by Trout. As always, it was great hanging with you guys this morning. See you in the gloom.

The Trout and I met up on a not so sunny and 70 degree morning. I locked my keys in the car so it wasn’t a great start. Mechanicsville EM has a lot of covered sidewalks so there was plenty of room to work out in the dry. We started off with a few laps around the courtyard sidewalks followed by arm circles, side straddle hops, lbc’s and merkins. Thanks to Corned Beef, I have learned that a Tabata is perfect for a rainy or snowy day with limited space. We did 36 minutes, including 8 cycles of 9 exercises. We did 3 upper body, 3 core and 3 legs. Exercises were something like: bear crawls, boat canoes, Helix squats, balls to the wall, freddy mercuries, jump up onto the bench, incline merkins, I can’t remember and calf raises on the garden ties. It went quick. We headed toward to the car with 1 minute left. We skipped numberama and namerama as we know each other, it was raining and I needed Trout to drive me home. As always, my day is better because I started it with F3.

4 men arrived at The Anvil for a fun workout. Started with parking lot tracers, merkins, cherry pickers, lbc’s and side straddle hops to warm up. Headed to the basketball court to run a few suicides. Someone should really repaint those lines. Went to the jungle gym to touch feet to the monkey bars (Trout taught me this but I can’t remember what it’s called). Next we did a modified Dora. We paired up. 1 Ran while the other did the exercises (60 boat canoes, 100 merkins, 200 lbc’s and 300 heels to heaven. Headed over to the benches. Where we did 20 dips and 20 jumps up on the benches. We repeated this 5 times for 100 of each. Time was up so we headed to the parking lot for numberama, namerama, and a quick prayer by the Q.

I hadn’t seen Mudface in a couple of weeks so it was great to have him back. Rumor is that No Idea will be back soon. Hopefully we’ll see him at Manndate on Wednesday.

No Q no problem in the new year. 5 men came out on a foggy morning for the morning hot patato. Bulkhead lead the group in the COP and then went over to the blacktop and formed a line, started with one burpee then sprinted to the left then right side of the basketball court, increased to 5 burpee. Then mr Holland stayed on the blacktop and did 11’s of jump squats and WW2 situps. Then it was handed over to mudface where he did merkin squats (dont know what they are really called) against the wall then balls to the wall, bearcrawl, then crawl bear to edge of blacktop and back, started at 1 went up to 5. No idea then moseyed over to the playground and we did 5 meekins, ran a lap, 5 meekins, 10 toe things, ran a lap, 5 meekins, 10 toes 15 dips, ran a lap, 5, 10, 15 then added 20 calf raises. Then handed over to trout, went over to the swings, feet on the swings and did 20 reverse crunches, 20 jumping Jack’s, did that 3 times, then feet in the swing and did 20 meekins and jumping Jack’s and did those 3 times, ran back to the flag when we did windshield wipers and stretched.

Numbered around and Trout took us out.

Prayer request from Bulkhead who just found out last night his boss passed away yesterday suddenly from a stroke.

YHC was excited to be back to F3 workouts and Anvil moved to Monday was a great place to start. This will be the last 2020 work here out so with Christmas behind and the new year to look forward to YHC will tour some of his favorites as it has been awhile working out here so here is what went down:

COP

20 SSH, 20 Arm circles 15 small 5 big, reverso, 20 Helicopters, 20 American Hammers, 20 LBC’s, 20 scorpions and 20 Merkins.

THANG

Track Triple Check we divide into groups of 3 and we perform the following:

Partner 1 (P1) – runs lap around track as the timer, P2 – performs 40 merkins then Al Gore until P1 returns, P3 Bench Step ups. P2 – Runs Lap, P3 40 merkins then Al Gore until P2 returns and P1 – Bench Step ups. P3 – Runs Lap, P1 40 merkins then Al Gore until P3 returns and P2 -Bench Step ups this is one complete rotation. We perform 2 more rotations for a triple check.

We mosey to the Chamber for triple check 2

Partner 1 (P1) – runs lap around Chamber as the timer, P2 – performs windshield wipers, P3 – Bench Dips. P2 -Runs Lap, P3 Windshield Wipers and P1 – Bench Dips. P3 – Runs Lap, P1 – Windshiled Wipers and P2 – Bench dips, this is one complete rotation. We perform 2 more rotations for a triple check.

We mosey to ‘little’ hill on the other side of school and do 11’s where we start with 10 Donkey Kicks at the bottom of hill, run to top of hill for 1 LBC. Then return to bottom of hill for 9 DK’s then run to top of hill for 2 LBC’s We continue until we are 2 DK’s and 9 LBC’s and stop due to time and mosey to the flag. BTW – The hill felt big at this time of the work out!

Mary

We circle up to stretch and then Numberama and Namerama.

COT

We welcome Farm Country who was visiting from Atlanta. He told us about the 6th man tradition where the 6th man in the numberama would go to the center of the circle and tell the group about himself, how he got his F3 name, etc . This would be helpful for the potential FNG’s that may be attending the work out. So we tried this with Opus and we learned a lot about a brother that we have workout out with during our time in F3.

Trout took us out in prayer

New Year’s Day convergence is at Satan’s Hill, check out the pre-blast for details. In observance of the COVID-19 10 people restriction we will have a New Year’s Day work out at The Creek. We will post a pre-blast by Tomorrow for details.

It was great to get back into working out again and seeing some brothers I have not seen in awhile. It was an honor to lead. Have a great day….Cheers CB!

5 men showed up in the to the re-opening of the Anvil

Mosey to the blacktop

COP

• SSH
• Helicopters
• DQ’s
• Arm Circles

12 Days of Christmas AMRAP

• 1 – Explosive Merkin
• 2 – Flutter Kicks (2 Count)
• 3 – Burpee Toe-Touches
• 4 – Squats
• 5 – HRMs
• 6 – Heels To Heaven
• 7 – Ball Dippers (2 Count)
• 8 – Dirty Dogs (2 Count)
• 9 – LBCs
• 10 – Burp-Ups
• 11 – V-Ups
• 12 – Lunge Steps (2 Count)
• Run a Lap

Repeat until time is up

Mosey back to the flag

Numberama

Namearama

Yard Sale took us out

NMS

Anvil was shut down temporarily at the start of the lockdown and this was the first day of its reopening. With Christmas being so close a themed workout seem to be warranted. There are few things that make YHC happier than hearing the PAX complain about how hard the workout is, your tears are like fine wine to him. YHC also realizes that his language has gotten a little rough in the last month or two, for that he apologizes and will try to do better.

As always it was an honor to lead

What do you get when you combine an Army and Marine Vet? A beast 3 mile run followed by a 2 mile cool down. We ran the farmhouse loop in Kings Charter. It was very humid but cool and at Mile 3 we slowed down to a fast walk for the remaining workout. See the splits below… fun run and recovery walk with great 2nd F mumble chatter this morning.

SYITG Cheers from CB and BH