Tag: The Creek

5 men including one FNG showed up to finish off the quarantine week strong.

• COP
  • SSH x 20
  • IMW x 10
  • Helicopters x 10
  • Arm Circles small x 10, big x 5, reverse
  • HRM x 10
  • Flutterkicks x 20
  • Alternating lunges x 10
• Blackjack
  • Start at one end of basketball court, do 1 ‘merkin then run to other end of court then do 20 LBCs, then run back to starting point repeat with 2 ‘merkins and 19 LBCs.
  • Repeat until you finish with 20 ‘merkins and 1 LBC.
• Suicides – mosey to the big parking lot for some death by suicides
  • Round 1 – starting from the curb, run to 1st island, then to starting point, run to 2nd island then starting point, run to 3rd island then starting point
  • Round 2 – run to 3rd island first, 2nd island and 1st island
  • Round 3 – bernie sanders to 1st island, 2nd island and 3rd island
  • Round 4 – bernie sanders to 3rd, 2nd and 1st islands
  • Round 5 – 5 burpees at each island
  • Round 6 – 10 jump squats at each island
  • Round 7 – 10 carolina dry docks at each island
  • Round 8 – 10 alternate lunges at each island
  • Round 9 – 5 burpees at each island
  • No time for round 10
• Mosey to flag, numberama, namerama, Spit took us out.
• Notes:
  • It was good to get out and get some F3 workout in. YHC was slacking last week. Hard work was put in by all.
  • Please welcome Cleveland to Daville.

5 Davillians arrived on the second day of Spring where it was truly 70 and sunny for some block party fun.

This how it went down

Trout and YHC thinking this may be a block party for 2 mosey over to the blacktop with our cinder blocks for the COP. Opus and Buckhead arrived shortly after and we got started

COP (ALL IC) – DQ, SSH, LBC’s, Scorpion Kicks, Arm Circles

THANG

Corned Beef arrives shortly after

Angry Dora – complete reps and wait for the 6: 50 – Coupon Burpees, 100 – Sit-up + Press, 150 – Curls, 200 – Coupon Merkins , 250 – Flutter Kick + Press. Second partner does a running medley up and back on the black top (Round 1 – Suicides, Round 2 – Reverse Sucides, Round 3 – Suicides, Round 4 – Run Up and back 4 times, Round 5 – Backward Run and Back 4 times)

Mosey to the play ground

Quintuple Check – Run to the side of the school and back, Pull Ups, Burp Ups, Incline Merkins, and Dips. (Got in 2 Rounds)

Mosey back to the SF

1 MOM – Boat/Canoe

Numberama, Namerama, Announcements, YHC took us out

MOLESKIN

Another great warm morning. YHC always enjoys bring the cinder block out every another month or so. Trout and YHC were happy to see some other had join us this morning. Chatter still focusing around COVID-19 and Trout’s Q yesterday with the 2.0’s

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Mr Holland is starting a new AO in the West End on Monday. Check out the Pre Blast!
• Continue to support local. Tonight maybe choice to get curbside or pick from a local restaurant and some drinks for a brewery/winery.

SPIT ON THAT!!

rainy morning so the Q hit the snooze button 3 times and would have slept in if he wasnt the pack leader. Q rolled into the parking lot 3 minutes before game time and our southern visitors, Honeydo and Offshore, were the only men ready to go. Locals all came in on 2 wheels before starting at 530.

Ran around the school and the circled up on the blacktop.

COP – 20 SSH, arm circles, LBC, Don Quixote, Q was being made fun of so much because he has no rhythm and was screwing up counting that COP ended early to start the pain.

Ran over to the parking lot to start the pain early…..

Starting at the curb closest to the school the following went down:

25 sit-up jump up burpee, then bear crawl to 1st parking lot landscape island then 25 hand release meekins, bear crawl to 2nd island then 25 windshield wipers, then Bernie Sanders back to the curb.

Repeat above doing 20 of each, then 15, then 10, then 5, then wall sits till the group finishes.

Q was so lighted headed after the above he doesnt remember if it was still raining or if he was just sweating he ass off. But the group wanted more..

We ran over to the swing set, 4 of the 8 got in the merkin position put feet in the swing then pulled our feet to our chest (x25), the other 4 did incline merkins (x25). We did 3 sets (75 total swing crunches and 75 total incline merkins) and ran out of time.

Ran back to the flag area, numbers, announcements, then Q took us out..

It was great Q’ing this morning and look forward to future outings.

Stay safe fellas..

6 guys showed up for an epic 21st wedding anniversary beatdown

COP — Marriage is a union, so in honor of that we did combo exercises
arm circle squats, alternating shoulder tap merkins, plank jack rotators and american hammer pull ins

it takes two to tango — 21 bowing cockroaches, 21 jumpovers, 21 PLT’s

Ascending 4 corners — 21 butt kickers, 21 mountain climbers and 21 bk’s, 21 ww2’s 21 mountain climbers and 21 bk’s, 21 dirty dogs 21 ww2’s 21 mountain climbers and 21 bk’s

Lazy Dora —
99 merkins while other one does plank
99 squats while other one does Al Gore
99 american hammers while other one does 6 inches

The beast
merkins
jump squats
smurf jacks
heels to heaven

Times up! Back to flag for Numbers, Names, Announcements

So, Corned Beef relayed a story this morning about Wednesday’s WDog about going to retrieve the coupons from under the stage and how they had mostly all been smashed and Corned Beef mentioned how it was probably Seal Team that had done it. So that was basically the joke the rest of the day. “No it couldn’t have been any of the other teenage hoodlums that might hang around the city park any time of day — had to be Seal Team.” or “Hey there’s litter on the ground over there, Seal Team did it.” or “There is a big hole in this field — I bet that was Seal Team.” There was also an awful lot of the 4th F this morning, hence the title of the backblast. There was so much mumblechatter this morning, there could have been ten backblast titles from the crap that was said today. The PAX loved the combo exercises at the beginning and ruthlessly made fun of YHC’s creativity asking if this was a DTH workout. Well played. Love the camaraderie of this group — it is always a pleasure to lead!

Opus

8 Surly gentlemen showed up for a ground and pound this morning. Nuff said. They left the better for it.

Run round the building. 8 burpees OYO

COP — helicopters, hackeysackers, the opus, SSH, dirty dogs, arm circles, tempo mountain climbers, dying cockroach, AST’s

Lindsay Vonns — need some good good legs to ski like that. So we did Split jacks and sumo squats 10 and 30 incrementing by 5’s to get to 30 and 10.

Lindsey Buckinghams — former member of Fleetwood Mac — wrote the iconic lines in the song Second Hand News “Lay me down in the tall grass and let me do my stuff”. So we laid down in the not so tall grass and did 10 and 30 of flutterkicks and heels to heaven

Lindsay Wagner — The Bionic woman would have wanted us to do this, so we obliged. 10 and 30 donkey kicks and merkins. Ouch.

And at last a Cindy — 5 pull ups, 10 merkins 15 squats while partner kept running back and forth to the school — do it twice.

Numbers, Names, Announcements
Great morning buys — it is a joy to lead you all now take on the day!

Those were the options given to YHC by Mudface and Rounders. YHC opted for beatdown, and accepted the guest Q.

The THANG: Mosey to the playground for COP: SSH, Helicopters, IWs, DQs, Carolina Dry Docks, Freddie Mercuries, Scorpion Kicks IC.

Mosey to the short track for some Jack Webbs: x Merkins and 4x Overhead Air Presses for x = 1,2,3,…,10. After x=3, 6, and 10, run a lap.

More Jack Webbs: x WWIIs and 4x Reverse Crunches. After x=3 and x=9, Lunge through a turn. After x=6 and x=10, Bear Crawl the straightaway.

Mosey to the other side of the playground for 4-man Partner Jerkins. Sets of 6, 8, and 10. After the each of the first two sets, Crawl Bear up the grassy knoll, 10 Donkey Kicks and jog back.

Mosey to the parking lot for COT.

Announcements: Prayers for Wild Thing and family. See the preblast for funeral arrangements for his M.

NMS: It was YHC’s first visit to the new Creek location. YHC parked so that the bus loop and entrance were visible, while Mudface and Rounders pulled into the rear entrance. At 5:29:30, as YHC was preparing for a solo beatdown, they approached and offered the BB title.

Mudface, a true Davillian, was thrown off by the large numbers involved with Jack Webbs, but kept pace with the PAX. Rounders remarked about all the different positions required by exercises: on the knees for Overhead Air Presses, on the back for Reverse Crunches, bending over for Bear Crawl, topped off with Partner Jerkins. Corned Beef was celebrated by the F3 PAX in his hometown of Roanoke for being named after a well-loved restaurant there. He returned with many ideas for a parking deck beatdown. PAX should consider themselves lucky that no AOs are near parking decks, at least for now.

COP

Helicopters

Don Quixotes

Arm circles front

Arm circles back

merkins

mosey to entrance of parking lot

4 corners round 1:

1^st – 20 merkins

Sprint to next corner

2^nd – 20 ball dippers

Sprint to next corner

3^rd – 20 windsheild wipers

Sprint to next corner

4^th – 20 copperhead squats

4 corners round 2:

1^st – 30 monkey hummers

Bernie Sanders to next corner

2^nd – 30 ball dippers

Bernie Sanders to next corner

3^rd – 30 flutter kicks

Bernie Sanders to next corner

4^th – 30 jump squats

mosey around the entire school and back to the blacktop.

Suicide sprints Round 1

1st turn (1/4) around 5 merkins

2^nd turn (1/2) around 10 merkins

3^rd turn (3/4) around 15 merkins

Last turn (1) around 20 merkins

Suicide sprints Round 2

1st turn (1/4) around 5 squats

2^nd turn (1/2) around 10 squats

3^rd turn (3/4) around 15 squats

Last turn (1) around 20 squats

Bernie Sanders Suicide sprints Round 3

1st turn (1/4) around 5 merkins

2^nd turn (1/2) around 10 merkins

3^rd turn (3/4) around 15 merkins

Last turn (1) around 20 merkins

Bernie Sanders Suicide sprints Round 4

1st turn (1/4) around 5 squats

2^nd turn (1/2) around 10 squats

3^rd turn (3/4) around 15 squats

Last turn (1) around 20 squats

Staying on the blacktop:

Split up into 2 groups

Round 1

One group did dips while the other group did frog jumps up and back on the blacktop (x2)

Round 2

One group did windshield wipers while the other group ran to a big tree and back (x2)

Finished up with descending burpees

Ran to other side of blacktop 5 burpees, ran back 4 burpees….3…..2…..1 and then the bell rang

Strong Friday group. Looking forward to next week.

After many inches of rain, a literal Creek flowed through the AO to challenge the aquatic finesse of seven fine gloom warriors. Here’s how YHC ensured each man embraced the suck:

The THANG:

Mosey around Parking Lot for COP #1:

• Welcome & F3 Disclaimer
• Nancy Kerrigans x10 Each Side IC
• The Opus x10 IC
• Crab Cakes x10 IC
• Dying Quixotes x10 IC
• Rosalita Whip x10 IC
• Werkins, Alt Leg Up, x10 Each Side IC

Mosey to Swing Set for COP #2:

• TRIPLE CHECK:
• P1 – Swing Pumps (Inverted Gas Pumps [Reverse Crunches], Planking with legs on swing)
• P2 – Captain Thor’s (Ascending)
• P3 – Run around track, Bernie sanders half the lap, return to swings & switch

Mosey to Track for COP #3:

• OLD 100 – Reps count down by 10 from 100 with mosey around the track between sets:
• Partner up for x100 PLT’s
• x90 LBC’s
• x80 SSH’s
• x70 Monkey Humpers
• x60 Am Hammers (2-ct)
• Partner up for x50 Squerkins
• x40 Heels to Heaven
• x30 Lunges (x15 ea leg)
• x20 WWII
• x10 Burpees

Mosey BTTF for COT:

• Counterama # 7
• Namerama
• Announcerama (see Comments)
• YHC took us out in Prayer

NMS:

• Day 5 of Corporate Challenge under the belt, and what a GREAT way to start the day! YHC can always rely on most excellent mumble chatter with the Northern PAX…let’s just say what’s said in the Gloom should stay in the Gloom… strong work fellas grinding out the COP’s! Appreciated having Hardywood’s support and camaraderie for our Clown Car up North – always a pleasure thinking deep things with you my friend. Next up Double Dip Bootcamps tomorrow. SYITG boyz!

7 men showed up on a chilly Friday morning to finish the work week strong.

• COP
  • Parking lot tracers
  • SSH x 20
  • Imperial Walkers x 10
  • Don Quixotes x 10
  • Russian Soldiers x 10
  • LBCs x 15
  • HRMs x 15
  • Lunges x 10
• Modified 11s
  • Partner up, each partner starts on the inside of a parking lot island and facing each other.
  • Each partner will do a WWII situp with a squat on the parking lot island curb then bearcrawl to meet each other in the middle for buyah ‘merkins.
• Burpees Ladder at the basketball court
  • Start with 10 burpees, 10 2-count mountain climbers and 10 LBCs, then run to opposite end of basketball court and back.
  • Repeat with 9,8,7…all the way to 1.
• Mini Dora (YHC did not think there was enough time for a full Dora, looking back there enough time)
  • 25 dips on the playground perimeter logs
  • 50 Squats
  • 100 2-count flutter kicks
  • Partner 1 runs to the big tree and back while partner 2 does the exercise. Then switch off.
• The PAX moved fast so YHC had to improvise. Back to the basketball court for 2 rounds of suicides.
• With 1 minute left, the PAX completed a Reign of Fire with 5 ‘merkins of your choice while the remaining PAX held plank.

YHC had to dig deep into my Marine Corps boot camp memories for the modified 11s. YHC decided I’m too old for duck walks so I modified to bear crawls. The PAX worked hard, thank you for letting me lead. Corned Beef took us out.

It is with a heavy heart I post this BB today. I found out last night Wild Thing’s M passed away. My thoughts and prayers are with Wild Thing and his family.

5 guys came to check out YHC’s planks this morning and they were not disappointed.

Run around the buses until late people caught up. 🙂

To the field for a little COP action

• DQ’s
• Helicopters
• Chinooks
• AST’s
• Angled Knee Jumps
• plank jacks
• flutter kicks
• heels to heaven
• v-ups
• SSH

Sir Planks a Lot
30 second plank, 15 merkins, 15 second rest
40 second plank, 20 merkins, 20 second rest
50 second plank, 25 merkins, 25 second rest
60 second plank, 30 merkins, 30 second rest

Partner up
Each partner does twenty partner leg tosses
One partner runs to the fence and back, the other starts bear crawling until partner 1 meets them on the way back, do 10 booyah merkins
Each partner does twenty PLT’s again, switch who runs and who bear crawls, repeato on the booyahs.
Keep going until both partners are basically at the fence.
Get in a circle to celebrate with a coordinated 10 jump squat high fives

Triple check
Corned Beef turned this into everyone working together kind of thing and it was great.
Pardner 1 — Bear or crab crawl to the bridge and back
Pardner 2 — DK’s
Pardner 3 — Monkey Humpers

Back to the flag for a ring of fire WW2 situp style. Then another totally silent 50 second plank time led by Emoji’s brilliant silence.

NMS — Thanks for coming out this morning. It was a great warmish morning to make ourselves better and act like crazy fools. If only the rest of the men around us knew how much fun they were missing… Keep EH’ing boys!

I’m out.
Opus