Tag: The Alamo

10 strong made it out for beautiful morning at The Alamo. I’m told it’s a small group for this AO but they brought it!

Circle up for the usual intro and a warmup

Multiple exercises performed In Cadence

SSH, Don Qs, Imperial Walkers 30 count In Cadence(Speeding up the count as we go), LBCs ( regular, and Chums one legged LBCs) Canoe holds with arm circles.

Next we would go for a run around the neighborhood for a somewhat golf inspired workout. Stop at every intersection and perform an exercise, adding an additional exercise at each intersection and increasing the reps in increments of 3.

3 burpees

6 squats

9 WW2s

12 Double count Mountain climbers

15 merkins

18 monkey humpers

21 LBCs

24 calf raises

27 American Hammers

We stopped adding exercises at 27 but we did 3 more full sets I think.

I believe we did at least 36 burpees

@NancyLopez got a sprint in on the way back to the flag. He thought we were stopping at an intersection, but I threw him a curve and kept going.

Back to the flag for some Alabama prom dates and Supermans.

I believe it was Pele who led us in some Broga to finish.

Names, numbers, prayers and announcements.

Prayers for McGruff’s neighbor who passed away too soon at 31. Pray for her family to get through this trying time.

Great group at the Alamo! Lots of PAX I’ve never had the opportunity to post with. It was a great group to lead, even with Negative Nancy!(Just kidding!)

Was planning on doing a different workout but decided to change last minute based on our clown car conversation on the way over to the Alamo.

Changed it to this….

Warm up

Mailboxes 1-10 (on the right), increasing reps at each mailbox up to 10.

-Merkins

-Burpees

-Reverse Lunges

-WWII’s

-Jump Squats

-Carolina Dry Docks

-Another round of Burpees

At the clubhouse did 5 merkins, 5 jumpsquats, 5 lunges on one side then around to the other side for 10 of each and back to the start for 15 each. 5 minutes left for some core work.

Strong work boys!!!

This was my VQ. I have been coming out for about 6 months so it was about time I led this brotherhood. Even had an FNG (accidently called him FNQ) who powered through.

Warm up:

Side straddle hops, Don Quixote, helicopter, Ukrainian soldiers, cherry pickers, LBC’s and mercans (forgot to add the Jazzercise for Nancy Lopez to demonstrate flawlessly….will do that next time)

Work out #1 (11’s):

Run length of parking lot and complete10 mercans, run back and complete 1 diamond push ups, run length of parking lot and complete 9 mercans, run back and complete 2 diamond push ups etc……

Work out #2 (Triple Check):

Partner 1: Run full loop from the end of tunnel to the beginning, Partner 2: air squats, Partner 3: Wall sits

Work out #3 (Hill Burpees):

Run up and down the wet grassy hill then complete 5 burpees for a total of 10 rounds

Cool down: Stretch with deadman hangs

Announcements and prayers completed. Shout out to Futon who is an FNG who hung tough. God Bless all you guys for making my VQ go somewhat smoothly.

Romans 5: 3-5

“Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”

VQ today with 20 PAX to start the week off. After some mild VQ hazing, here’s what went down.
Mission statement announced, damn near word for word.
Warmaram
SSH, Don Quyotes (slow down the count Warby), Ukrainian Soldiers, cherry pickers

COP #1 Burpee Plank jack 1:4 ratio to 5:20 with parking lot side shuffle in between

COP #2 Core-de-sac (patent pending)
Mosey to 5 cul-de-sacs. One exercise at each of:
10 V up roll ups
20 WW2
30 American Hammers double count
40 flutter kicks double count
50 LBC
10 Merkins on the mosey back at each cross street

COP #3 light hazing turned into mild hazing
Dora with 100 curb triceps press, 200 plank toe taps, 300 buttkickers

COP#4 Triple check with squats and shoulder taps

Finished the day with ring of fire merkins, 50 LBC and a DMH
Thanks for the support gents!!

Morning amigos. 15 strong came out in the gloom this morning, including three fresh recruits.

Warmorama: 1/2 mile jog up to Rankin Lane Culdsec and back. 

Gave the F3 prepared speech (nailed it): F3 is a national network of free, peer-led workouts for men. Our mission is to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership.

Went through the main F3 tenets, the disclaimer and worked our way through the rest of the warmup: 

SSH/CHS/Mountain Climber/Merkins/Flutters/

Mosey to Courts for COP 1 and 2

COP #1Partner burpee and Booyah Merkin

Grab partner. Face partner along width of tennis court. Bear crawl accross the court and complete 1 rep booyah (1 rep is 2 pushups with a hand slap with partner). Recover and jog back to line perform 1 burpee. Repeato until Pax built up to 5x reps.

COP #2 Warby leads four corners. “Lady of night” style:

10 merkins (1)

20 Jump Squats (2)

30 Monkey Humpers (3)

40 LBCs (4)

COP # 3 Triple Check in the lot (from courts to dumpster)

Squats/Decline Merkins/Runner

COP # 4- Mini Dora (50/100/150)

LBC/Squat/SSH

COP #5: Ring of Fire abs

Numbers/Names

Nancy took us out in prayer (thanks brother).

 

FNGs

1. Jake (brought out by Warby) aka “Rudy.” Diehard Notre Dame fan.
2. Jim (brought out by Armstrong) aka “Goldeneye.” Says he does government consulting…sure. ?
3. John (brought out by Blacktop) aka “Swoop.” Eagles fan.

Mumblechatter about YHC being too nice with the names for the FNGs. All I can say is grab the Q next time boys!

Good deal of SOJ stuff going on this month. We also cap off May with a convergence.

Closing thoughts: Since opening the Alamo, we have had the following FNGs:

1. Warby
2. 3 Doors Down
3. Nap Pod
4. Armstrong
5. Cookie
6. Pelé
7. Blacktop
8. Merman
9. Goldeneye
10. Rudy
11. Swoop

 

14 of Richmond’s finest got together for a classic beat down. The gathering was held ant one of SOJ’s most well lit AOs. According to the runners who steered clear of our shenanigans, this is how it went down.

Mosey back and forth around the horseshoe shaped parking lot, the. Circle up for F3 mission and disclaimer.

warmerama followed including the ever popular scorpion kicks, as well as hillbilly’s (with or without the skip).

looong mosey to the new home construction area for:

Dora

runner runs to second dumpster, partner does the following:

100 No surrenders

200 monkey humpers

300 LBCs

TCLAPS to Warby for the idea of putting gloves down to save the PAX’s knees during the no surrenders.

Lindsay’s

Jump squats, WW2s

mosey back to the start with a nice sprint half way

We’re not done yet, had time for some Agassi’s, broken up by 10 donkey kicks, went through that twice

Circle back up, then spell “the Alamo” with both feet, followed by Ring of fire

Numbers, names, YHC took us out

announcements

CSAUP on Saturday, ruck at 6, boot camp at 7. Relay run to follow. Rock and Roll will be open for those not able to attend.
-may21st 5pm at Bettie Weaver: cook out and basketball, 2.0s and Ms welcome!

NMM

Glad to get back out to THE ALAMO. Nice to see vets as well as newer PAX. Lots of questions asked. YHC’s favorites both concerned Monkey Humpers “is this even and exercise?” “How do you count the reps?” Have a great week everyone!

12 strong started the week off right at the Alamo. Ready to seize the day and the week. According to those up with crying babies here is what went down.

COP- 20 each SSH, LBC; 10 Each DQ’s, Jazzercise, Helicopters, Ukrainian Soldiers, , Coper head squat, Merkins,Flutters , Plank jacks, 

The Thang: Alamo parking lot is shaped like a horseshoe! The greatest CFB team plays in the Horseshoe! I smell a horseshoe. Run to opposite side of shoe and complete 5 WWII’s, Run back and do 5 WWII’s and 10 Drydocks. It was progressive and progressed with 15 Copperhead squats , 20 Dollies, 25 Merkins, 30 Lunges, 35 LBC’s. Then back down shedding an exercise with each run.

Announcements: CSAUPin May, see Slack.

Prayer Requests: To Chippendale, to those recovering from 10K, To our High Schoolers as they attend prom and grad activities.

YHC took us out in prayer.

Make Today Awesome!  

13 SOJ desperados mounted up for another Monday session at (whistles) THE ALAMO (whip snap)

Mosey around the parking area and enter the Tennis Court. Disclaimers, etc. 

Warmorama: SSH, Ukrainian Soldiers, Copper Head squats, Muricans, LBCs, “Duke” stretch left and right side, 60 seconds for Pax to stretch OYO. 

The thang: 

Part 1: Started out with a “lady of the night” four corners on the tennis court. Exercises were 10 squats/20 LBCs/30 Drydocks/40 SSH. Build up and build down.  

Part 2: For context, the parking lot at the Alamo is U-shaped, so I decided to kick off partner bear-crawl/lunge/broad jump burpees. My bad on this one guys…

We started at tennis court and worked our way towards dumpster. Audible for the next corner (in front of the Alamo.  Halfway through the broad jump burpees we switched to crawl bear. Made it to the final stretch and I decided to bring it all then way home. Finished up with backwards lunges to the end. Lots of grumbling. 

Part 3: Mosey to small hill behind Pool for 11s with Muricans and Sauats. 

20 count. Recover. Mosey to “the bunker”

Part 4: Bunker is the tunnel that goes underneath  Woolridge Road. 

Teams of 3. A man goes to opposite side of tunnel holds plank/B man holds squat position along the tunnel wall and shuffles to A man. C man performed flutters. Rotated several times through this and then back to flag. 

Part 5:  1 round of Murican Mary. 

Cool down with some stretches. 

Outro: Numbers and Names.  Welcome Adam aka  “Pelé” our newest member of the Pax. Name comes from his time spent in Brazil. 

Announcements:

• OC has KB Q tmw
• CSAUP at Godwin Highschool on May 6. See slack
• SOJ get together last Friday. Lots of good stuff coming. 

Prayers – Wildcat took us out. Prayers for all in the Pax. Prayers for all the guys on IR. 

Other thoughts: Shout out to our Pax members Vagabond and McGruff who suggested the idea of the Alamo. It has been awesome having all these new guys out in the gloom. Would not have happened without that idea. 

A Sunday night 8:00 check of the Q sheet showed no Q for the newest-hottest AO in town. YHC had been thinking about making a trip down to The Alamo and this proved to be an easy opportunity.

Mosey around the full parking lot to get the muscles warm and start with a COP full of various fun exercises to include Inverted Scorpion Kicks, Suzanne Summers, etc.

Mosey to the Tennis Courts and for Wheelbarrows. P1 Wheelbarrow from the end line to the net and complete 10 Derkins. Mosey back to the line and repeat with P2. Repeat for 3 rounds for each partner.

Mosey to the street in the front of the main building. When there is no four corners to run around we can still do a Four Points run. Mosey up the street and complete 10 Jump Squats, next stop 10 Jump Squats and 20 WWII’s, next stop 10 Jump Squats and 20 WWII’s and 30 Merkins, next stop 10/20/30 and 40 LBC’s. Now descending 30/20/10 then 20/10 then 10.

Mosey back to the front of the Tennis Courts. Get 2 partners for a Triple Check. P1 run to the front door of the building and back. P2 LBC’s, P3 Squats. 3 people, 3 rounds.

Mosey back to the front of the building for Curb Crawls. Bear Crawl and then (1) Incline Merkin, Crawl Bear back for (2) Merkins. Ladder up to 5 and then back down.

Finish with 2 minutes of Mary featuring Flutter Kicks and WWII’s.

Announcements – SOJ Happy Hour this week at Diamond Billards. Not sure the exact date/time.

NMS – It was a good day to make a road trip. Definitely surprised some people when they rolled up and Lil’ Blue was sitting in the parking lot. Great job to Vagabond and others for taking charge and getting The Alamo started and getting new people out. Way to use the power of Facebook and weaponizing spousal guilt.