Tag: The Creek

9 Davillians and one sojourner showed up to assist YHC in closing out his fifth Q of the week. Spoiler alert, there was a theme!

Mosey to slightly different part of the parking lot for COP: SSH, LBC, Merkin, Freddy Mercury’s, arm circles, DQ. Mosey to field for 4 corners: run to first corner, 40 LBC’s, bear crawl to second corner, 40 SSH, run to third corner, 40 Freddy Mercury’s, bear crawl to start, 40 low, slow squats.

Adjourn to picnic area and count to 25! Skullcrushers (25 each leg), derkins, dips and calf raises, plank for the six. Mosey back to parking lot, bear crawl length of lot, stopping every 3 spaces to do 20 each of the following: HRM, crabcakes, flutter kicks, heels to heaven, diamond merkins, and toe taps, one exercise per stop, ending with toe taps.

Mosey to flag for 7 minutes of Mary, exercises included boat canoes, tempo merkins, SSH, reverse crunches and LBC’s. Numberama, namerama, Hustler took us out.

NMS

YHC has been a fan of women’s soccer for about 20 years, ever since living in Chapel Hill, NC and attending UNC games, and have continued to watch World Cups and Olympics, where the US women have dominated. The 4 corners were representative of the 4 World Cup and 4 Olympic championships they’ve won, starting in 1991. In that first World Cup, they scored 25 goals, hence the picnic shelter number. Lastly, since the beginning of 2018, they have scored 103 goals while allowing 17, totaling 120, which is what the last exercises totaled.

It was great to have Hustler back with the PAX again after a leg injury slowed him down for a bit, and we appreciate Doozy coming all the way to The Creek! The PAX crushed the workout. YHC is proud of having done 5 Q’s this week, and will do it again, just not very soon…

As usual, I have No Idea what I’m doing.

5 firecrackers showed up today for a July 5th beatdown.

Run around the church — hide behind Truck until Phonics found us. 10 burpees OYO, continue run with some karaokes in there for good measure.

COP — High Knees
Butt Kickers
Twisty Jumps (aka the Richard Simmons, Emoji loved these)
Hillbillies
Cherry Pickers
Tempo Merkins
Alternating Shoulder Taps
WW2’s
Freddie Mercuries
SSH

Line up the PAX for some sneaky merkin fun

1st time — 5 sneaky merkins, run to first curb, 5 mountain climbers, run back, 6 inches for the 6

2nd round — 10 sneaky merkins, run to second curb, 10 mountain climbers, run back, 6 inches

3rd round — 15 sneaky merkins, run to third curb, 15 mountain climbers, run back, 6 inches

4th round — 20 sneaky merkins, run to bball hoops, 20 mountain climbers, run back, 6 inches

Tabata heaven
1 — alternate exercises — Situps and flutterkicks
2 — alternate — merkins and diamond merkins
3 — alternate — helix squats and smurf jacks
4 — all out burpees

back to the flag for a few american hammers

Numbers, Names, Announcements

NMS — July 5th — not the day that people remember when thinking of the birth of our country, but possibly an even more important day than July 4th. I wonder what our founding fathers were thinking the day after signing that historic document — was there some buyers remorse? was there an internal struggle weighing the values of safety and conformity vs the possible joyous freedom they could eventually attain? Or did they just dive right in guns blazing, balls exposed?
Where are we in our battle against mediocrity, conformity, taking the safe road? Do we strive for something greater than what can be attained through doing things the same old easy way? What have we done to challenge ourselves recently, to challenge others to take the road less travelled, the path that might be harder, but leads to so much growth? There are brothers out there struggling with really difficult things in their lives, things that are difficult to admit, things that drag us down. Who will help carry those burdens? Let’s step up not so much for ourselves, but for the lives of these guys. Make your July 5th just as important as your July 4th. SYITG!

Warm Up – Side Straddle Hops, Hand Release Merkins, LBC’s, Don Quixote’s

Mosey to the Field For a Wilt – Two times around the field doing 50 of each of the corners (total 100 each exercise) – LBC’s, Flutter Kicks, SSH’s and Skull Crushers.

Mosey to the parking lot.  4 Corners of The Church – 10 Bobby Hurley’s, 10 Merkins, 10 Mountain Climbers, 10 WWII Situps.  Plank and wait for the six.  When running between the corners, always face the west woods.  Go around again doing 20 of each.  Plank up and wait for the six. 

Indian Run until we got back near the cell tower/bell tower.

Tunnel of Love from bell tower back to the flag.  We had 1 minute left so we did a few boat/canoe’s until 6:15. 

Numberama, Namerama, Announcements – group going to Dog Pile tomorrow. A lot of guys are traveling to all of the sites this summer – it’s not to late to start.  (There were probably others but I don’t remember).

 Yard Sale took us out with a quick prayer.    As always – it was my pleasure and absolutely the best way to start a day.

6 Davillians and one visitor from the south arrived on a cooler Friday morning to enjoy the “officially” start of summer and the longest day of the year

This is how it went down

A Burpee Mosey – The PAX started out on a mosey around Forest Lake Hills for 12 minutes. After every minute, YHC would call out Burpee and the PAX completed one Burpee for a total of 12 Burpees

Mosey to the field

COP – DQ, Helicopter, Arm Circles

Mosey to the Pavilion

Friday Morning Dance Party – Concept is simply, complete an exercise while a song is being played. Exercises were choice from a small stack of the “F3 Workout Deck”. Exerices and songs were:

• Squats to Friday Night by Eric Paslay
• Shoulder Taps to Old Town Road by Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus
• American Hammers/LBC’s to It Ain’t My Fault by Brothers Oshorne
• SSH to Flatliner by Cole Swindell feat. Dierks Bentley
• Mtn Climbers to Chattahoochee by Alan Jackson
• Plank Jack/WWII Sit ups to Caught Up In The Country by Rodney Atkins
• Incline Merkins to Make You Mine by High Valley

Mosey to the Parking Lot

Summer Solstice Corners – Today is the longest day of the year with nearly 15 hours of daylights, the PAX did Four Corners to celebrate. 15 Merkins, 15 WWII Sit ups, 15 (2ct) Mtn Climbers, 15 SSH

Mosey back to the SF

1 MOM – Superman

Numberrama, Namerama, Announcements and YHC took us out.

MOLESKIN

Small but fun crew this morning. YHC got things start in a non traditional way. Yesterday was YHC’s 2.0 First birthday. Since he didn’t have the Q the day before today would be have do. The celebrate the PAX did one burpees every minute for the first 12 minutes.

This has been come a tradition for YHC around his 2.0’s birthday. As most would agree our 2.0’s are the best things that have happen to us (minus our M’s) so we should celebrate them.

Glad to have Patti Mayo back visiting us. Always good to catch up with him.

Also good see Denver (formerly known as Grizzly) back out

ANNOUNCEMENTS

No Excuse Workout tomorrow 7:30 @ Milestone Clubhouse. See pre-blast and Facebook Event for details. Don’t show up without a FNG’s fellas!

SPIT ON THAT!!

We started on time on a muggy 70 degree morning.  Warmed up with Arm Circles, LBC’s, Hand Release Merkins and Side Straddle Hops.  Headed over to the bus loop for some 4 corners.  Between the corners you had the choice of halo’s or moving the KB around your waist.  1st corner – 10 lawn mowers, 2nd corner – 10 sit up presses, 3rd corner – 10 goblet squats, 4th corner – 10 single arm kettle bell swings.  Plank up and wait for the six.  Next 20 of each, plank up and wait for the six followed by 30 of each.  Next – Partner up – 1 partner ran around the circle while the 2nd did the following:  25 boat canoe’s, 50 pull overs, 75 two arm swings and 100 halo’s or swing around the waist. Partners traded each lap. Indian walk/run – the Pax moved around the bus loop holding their KB’s over their heads. The one in the rear moved up to the front while doing halo’s. Some walked fast while some ran (Rounders). We were running out of time but started 11’s with Sit Up Presses and Clean & Presses. When we ran out of time we headed back to the flag. Numberama, Namerama, Anouncements – Saturday 7:30 at Milestone Clubhouse – new guy Saturday workout. Chewy took us out with a prayer.

It was YHC’s VQ at The Creek and of course I forgot to wear a watch. No problem, as usual the PAX is there to help.

• COP:
  • Mosey around the church
  • Parking lot tracers
  • SSH x 20
  • Arm Circles (10 big, 5 small); Reverse
  • Imperial Walkers x 15
  • Don Quixotes x 10
  • Russian Soldiers x 10
  • HRMs x 10
  • LBCs x 10
  • Invisible Jump Ropes x 10
• The Prostitute (naming credit goes to Honeymoon)
  • Corner 1
    • Start at one corner of the church run to 1st corner do 10 ‘merkins
    • Return to starting point do 5 burpees.
  • Corner 2
    • Run to 1st corner do 10 ‘merkins
    • Run to 2nd corner do 10 ‘merkins and 15 jump squats
    • Run back to 1st corner do 10 ‘merkins
    • Return to starting point do 5 burpees.
  • Corner 3
    • Run to 1st corner do 10 ‘merkins
    • Run to 2nd corner do 10 ‘merkins and 15 jump squats
    • Run to 3rd corner do 10 ‘merkins, 15 jump squats and 20 2-count mountain climbers
    • Run back to 2nd corner do 10 ‘merkins and 15 jump squats
    • Run back to 1st corner do 10 ‘merkins
    • Return to starting point do 5 burpees.
  • Corner 4
    • Run to 1st corner do 10 ‘merkins
    • Run to 2nd corner do 10 ‘merkins and 15 jump squats
    • Run to 3rd corner do 10 ‘merkins, 15 jump squats and 20 2-count mountain climbers
    • Run to 4th corner do 10 ‘merkins, 15 jump squats and 20 2-count mountain climbers and 25 WWII sit-ups
    • Run back to 3rd corner do 10 ‘merkins, 15 jump squats and 20 2-count mountain climbers
    • Run back to 2nd corner do 10 ‘merkins and 15 jump squats
    • Run back to 1st corner do 10 ‘merkins
    • Return to starting point do 5 burpees.
• Mosey to the picnic tables for some Triple Check
  • Partner 1 – dips on the bench
  • Partner 2 – pistol squats
  • Partner 3 – sprint to street and back
• YHC planned to do 11s but with only 5 minutes left, had to improvise to 6s.
  • Burpees on one end, frog jump to other end and imperial walker.
• Numberama, namerama, Emoji took us out.
• Notes:
  • YHC is not very creative, I like to keep my workouts simple (ground ‘n pound).
  • It was great to see brothers from other AOs (Rosie and Offshore from SOJ absolutely crushed the workout today). Just remember Daville can only count up to 10.
  • Welcome to Pyro for visiting us all the way from Jacksonville, FL. You are always welcome back. Goes to show there is always an AO where ever you go. No Excuses!!!

15 fighters rolled into the parking lot of The Creek, observed the temperature to be 70 degrees and went to work with a carnival that went something like this…

Mosey to the far part of the parking lot.

COP All IC – 50 SSHs, arm circles, 10 don quixotes, 2 helicopters, 10 hand-release merkins (HRMs), 10 imperial walkers, 10 plank jack merkins (PJMs), 10 copperhead squats, 10 HRMs, 10 hillbillies, 10 PJMs, 25 LBCs.

Mosey to the field.

Field Fun

Run 100% across the field – 100 SSHs – run back to do freddie mercuries

Run 75% across the field – 75 one-count mountain climbers – run back to do freddie mercuries

Run 50% across the field – 50 plank jacks – run back to do freddie mercuries

Run 25% across the field – 25 HRMs – run back to do freddie mercuries

Run 10% across the field – 10 burpees – finish with freddie mercuries

Mosey to the pavilion

Crush It!

5 skull crushers one way, 5 skull crushers the other way, 5 derkins, 5 two-count flutter kicks

10 skull crushers one way, 10 skull crushers the other way, 10 derkins, 10 two-count flutter kicks

15 skull crushers one way, 15 skull crushers the other way, 15 derkins, 15 two-count flutter kicks

10 skull crushers one way, 10 skull crushers the other way, 10 derkins, 10 two-count flutter kicks

5 skull crushers one way, 5 skull crushers the other way, 5 derkins, 5 two-count flutter kicks

20 skull crushers one way, 20 skull crushers the other way, 20 derkins, 20 two-count flutter kicks

Mosey to the flag

Ring of fire – Round 1 with 10 shoulder taps, Round 2 with 10 heels to heaven

Numerama, Namerama, Announcements, YHC took us out

Announcements:

• No Excuses Workout – Saturday, 6/22 at 7:30 am at the Milestone clubhouse parking lot in Mechanicsville
• Summer tour
• 5 AOs in Mechanicsville – One for each weekday – Check them out

NMS:

The PAX is growing out in DaVille and more guys are engaging. It is exciting to roll into the parking lot and know that the party is going to be a good one. This morning was no exception.

The COP brought multiple moments of laughter and pain. Opus baited YHC with some hand-release merkins and YHC took the bait. YHC added in one of Opus’ favorite exercises, the plank jack merkins too. Mudface restrained himself and did not blow any kisses toward any other PAX members. That is a great thing since we had a FNG and didn’t want to scare him away.

It was fantastic to have Chowdah back in the mix and he brought the FNG (along with encouragement from Gigawatt).

The PAX went to work in the field and knocked out the exercises. They showed themselves to be just as strong, if not stronger, during the skull crushers under the pavilion. YHC called for some directional help from Spit along the way and he helped us “choose our own adventure” in terms of the number and sequence of the exercises.

The Ring of Fire also brought out the best of the PAX. Mudface’s shoulder taps were legendary and the encouragement flowed like GLOOM sweat all the way around.

YHC always enjoys the challenge and opportunity to lead the PAX in the gloom and this morning was right up there on the list!

The Carpenter

An odd 9 including one traveler descended upon The Creek to cap off the work week. Mosey halfway around the church to COP, SSH, Imperial walkers/hillbillies, Freddie Mercuries, merkins.

Mosey to field for wheelbarrow fun–partner up, wheelbarrow half of half of the field (had to be there), 20 LBC’s, switch partners, same distance, 20 mountain climbers, repeat, HRM’s, wheelbarrow to end of field, 20 heels to heaven, sprint back to start, 20 booyah merkins.

Mosey to pavilion for lazy Dora, one partner holds low plank while the other works on 100 2-count American hammers, 200 high knees, and 300 shoulder taps, switching off as needed.

Mosey to tower, lunge to first island, 20 jump squats, lunge to basketball goals, 40 reverse crunches, run back to tower, hold superman for 60 seconds. Do four corners, running in between, perform 10 merkins, 20 flutter kicks, 30 squats and 40 SSH. Mosey to flag for boat/canoes led by Chewy.

Numberama, namerama, YHC led us out.

NMS

YHC did not feel well last night, chalked it up to being tired, didn’t feel well this morning, chalked it up to just waking up, and 15 minutes into the workout realized YHC was not well, probably having caught one of the bugs his 2.0’s had brought home recently. The PAX helped tremendously this morning, as only the first 2 parts were planned, and the rest made up on the fly with lots of help. Another example of how great F3 is, we always help each other out in our struggles–no matter how minor, we pick each other up every single time. It was great to see Upchuck this morning, and his teaming up with Emoji resulted in the first exercise being completed in record time. Chewy served as his own team during the lazy Dora, and still only finished a few seconds behind the rest of the PAX. Great effort!

Announcements: summer tour has started, let’s all try to visit at least a couple of new AO’s, and Puppy Pile is tomorrow after Dogpile. Also, Upchuck provided a great reminder that Breaking Bread has spots open for the summer, and is a wonderful experience.

As usual, I have No Idea what I’m doing.

12 Davillians came out to get their holiday weekend started off right

This how it went down

3 Lap Mosey (for three years with F3) around the parking lot. Running forward and backwards

Head to YHC’s car and grab a cinder block. Circle up for the COP

COP (ALL IC) – SSH, DQ, Hillbillies, Tempo LBC’s, Merkins (On Cinder Block), Arm Circles

THANG

To celebrate the last day of The Week of Spit, YHC choices some of his favorite exercise for the week with some modifications

Jacob’s Ladder From Monday (renamed Bear/Block/Burpee) – Starting at one side of the parking lot, bear crawl /w block to the light pole, complete 1 Burpee, keeping bear crawling to the other side, complete 2 Burpees, Head back rinse and repeat increasing to 3 and 4 Burpees

Lazy Dora From Thursday – 50 Workins (on the blocks), 100 Goblet Squats, 150 Sit up + Press
Partner holds PAX

Mosey to the pavilion

Three Check (One Round) From Monday – Derkins, Dip, hallelujah Run (Block over head) down the gravel road and back

Hallelujah Mosey back to the SF for Numberrama, Namerama, Announcements and No Idea took us out.

MOLESKIN

Wow! What a week this has been. YHC started with 20 cinder block on Monday and finished with 15. Most of them were broken today, two of which by Pavarotti alone. YHC guess a trip to Home Depot in in the future for some replacements.

YHC tried to through the PAX on “The Plan” for today. First he played music before 5:30 making them think we would be doing “Sally” or “Thunderstuck”. Then the laps around the parking lot to through the PAX off from the cinder blocks.

The Carpenter once again showed off his bear crawling skills but smoking the rest of the PAX. T-Claps to the rest for pushing through and not modifying.

Glad to see Mr Holland back out in action. He has moved closer to Mechanicsville so hopefully we will see him more often moving forward

Now I will stop talking in the third person. I wanted to thank the PAX for an amazing three years! The Creek in particular has a special place in my heart. 3 years this coming late September/early October, The Creek was launched. Despite the critics, Abacus, The Carpenter, and myself set forth to reach more men in Mechanicsville. The best way to do this, place an AO next to two of the three largest neighborhoods in the 23116.

The Creek help launch MANNDate and show that will help launch The Anvil. I’m excited for the challenges and journey the next 3 years bring for both F3 RVA and the nano-region of DaVille

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Memorial Day Convergence – Monday 0700 – meet in Tredegar parking lot
• Opus has the Q at Dogpile – Come Support
• New AO launch next Thursday – See Pre-Blast
• Summer Tour start Saturday – See Pre-Blast
• Happy Birthday No Idea and congrats on Two years with F3

SPIT ON THAT!!

9 men arrived at The Creek on a beautiful Friday morning to play some cards. The game is detailed below.

Mosey to field past shelter, COP: 20 SSH, 20 buttkickers, 15 Imperial walkers, 10/5 arm circles, 25 diamond merkins, 44 heels to heaven.

Mosey to picnic shelter for triple check: first partner runs to road and back, other 2 do WW2 situps and LBC’s. Move to parking lot by bell tower for suicides, keeping same partners: first partner does suicides and 5 burpees when done, other two do ranger merkins and hold plank.

Move over to curb for 25 calf raises, 25 dips, come back for high flutter kicks x 25, HRM x 25, monkey humpers x 25.

Mosey back to flag, numberama, namerama, YHC took us out.

NMS

This was YHC’s first attempt using the F3 card deck, and it turned out pretty well. The cards favored a lot of ab work this morning, and the PAX (especially Rounders) were eager participants in picking a card. Chewy twice tried to trick the Q into a different exercise–YHC thinks he needs to Q again to scratch that itch of telling the PAX what to do–same for Rounders, sign up and lead again! It was great for YHC to meet Corned Beef, who attacked the workout with vigor, and Gigawatt left the PAX in his dust on the runs. We did 44 heels to heaven during COP because Rounders heard 45 the first time, the PAX did 25 and he was still going, so we caught up.

Announcements: new AO, The Anvil, debuts 5/30 at Mechanicsville Elementary, the pre-Blast is already up. Spit is Q’ing at Dogpile tomorrow, YHC can’t make it but show up if you can. Also, Lab Rat and his M are still seeking donations for their non-profit, see the MANNdate backblast for details.

As usual, I have No Idea what I’m doing.