Tag: The Creek

Warm Up:  20 Side Straddle Hops, 20 LBC’s, 20 Hillbillies, 20 Hellicopers, Arm Circles, 15 Heels to Heaven, 20 Invisible Jump Ropes and 20 American Hammers

Escalating 4 Corners of Church: Run to first corner – 5 burpees, run to next corner – 5 American Hammers, run to next corner – 5 Merkins, run to pavillion – 5 skull crushers each side.  Pause until the PAC catches up by doing planks.  Next do 10 of each, 15 of each, 10 of each and finish up with 5 of each.

11’s:  start with 10 heels to heaven, bear crawl across the parking lot, complete 1 LBC, grapevine across the parking log and continue with 9-2, 8-3, etc…..  Cut a little short due to time constraints.

Mosey back to the flag.  Numberama, Namerama.  Anouncements – Kid Friendly workout Saturday morning at 7:05.  Emoji took us out with a prayer.

I’d like to welcome 2 visitors today, Kubota and Shake Down.  I didn’t hear much muble chatter this morning but maybe it was because I was at or near the rear most of the time.  Thank you to Spit and Wheelie for planking everyone up until we slower members caught up. Have a great weekend men.

 

10 party animals launched out of the fart sack and landed in a parking lot for a hand-release fun fest that went something like this…

Mosey to and through the pavilion and then around the church building to the starting location.

COP All IC – 20 SSHs, 10 hand-release merkins, 20 crab cakes, 10 hand-release merkins, 20 LBCs, 10 hand-release merkins, 10 helicopters, 10 don quixotes, 10 hand-release merkins, arm circles, 10 hand-release merkins, 10 copperhead squats

Mosey to the corner of the building near the basketball hoops.

Dora 1-2-3 – Partner up. Crank out the Dora with 100 hand-release merkins, 200 WWII sit-ups, 300 jump squats.

Mosey to the flag

All IC – 10 american hammers, 20 flutter kicks, 10 american hammers, 20 freddy mercuries, 10 american hammers, 10 heels-to-heaven, 1 american hammer…

Numberama, Namerama, Announcements, Mudface took us out.

NMS

YHC has noticed some partial merkins in recent weeks and decided to amend that with some hand-release activity. This was inspired by Hardywood’s call to full merkin mayhem. It was also inspired by Helix’ full-form exercises at every turn.

The COP always provides an opportunity to throw the PAX off a bit. The hand-release merkins after every exercise elicited grunts and groans. That means YHC is doing something right! At one point, Spit tried to jump ahead of YHC and he got down to the ground but YHC shifted at that exact moment. There is always a healthy level of cat-and-mouse going on with Spit!

The PAX went to work on the Dora 1-2-3 and took no prisoners with the hand-release merkins. Spit called out Hardywood’s technique of throwing the arms out to the side and lifting legs. Some of the PAX gave it a shot. Most of them didn’t. Wild Thing continued to show that being in your 60s is not an impediment to pounding out a F3 workout. Spike shared how he woke up at 4 am for a five mile run before the workout. T-claps for that! The WWII sit-ups provided another “opportunity” to not shortchange the exercise. After the jump squats, some of the PAX decided to go for the dunk on the lower rims while others attempted to touch the high rim. Most missed…

It was another glorious morning in the gloom with a fantastic team.

The Carpenter

Spit posting for Pick 2

A Total of 21 including 9 FNG’s (Guys and Gals) and 7 2.0’s arrived at New Highland BC on Friday to help Pick 2 celebrate his wedding weekend.

This how it went down:

Mosey around the church one lap then head to the field

COP (ALL IC) – SSH, DQ, Imperial Walkers, Shoulder Taps, Merkins, LBC’s, Arm Circles

THANG – Mosey the pavilion

Triple Check – Dips, Skull Crushers, Run down the gravel road and back. Rinse and Repeat 3 times of course

Mosey back to the field

3 BALL

• PAX was divide into to teams
• Have one group start “at bat” and the other group start in the field. The group “at bat” should create a batting order that they maintain for the entire game
• The first participant at bat kicks each of the three balls into the field, one at a time, and then runs the bases. The kicker tries to kick the ball into open space so the fielders do not catch the ball. Fielders attempt to catch and/or retrieve the balls as soon as the first ball has been kicked, while being aware of the other balls being kicked.
• Fielders collect all the balls and place them in the bucket beside “pitcher mound”. Fielders work together to run and hand off the balls to each other to get the balls to the bucket.
• Participants must be on a base when all balls are placed in the bucket. Once on a base, participants are not required to run to the next base. They can decide to stay on the base if they do not think they can make it to the next base before all the balls are placed in the bucket. If they are between bases when balls are all returned to the bucket, they return to the previous base. More than one participant is allowed on a base at a time.
• Runs are scored each time a participant reaches home base safely.

Mosey to SF for Numerama, Namerama, Announcements, PICK 2 took us out

MOLESKIN

This was a nice change of pace at The Creek last Friday. We had a great showing from wedding party including the father of the bride (Blue Tux), father of the groom (Vila), and The bride herself (Pick 1).

The 2.0’s seem to enjoy 3 Ball the most but YHC did notice a few adults getting into as well.

To learn more how 3 Ball works watch the video

Congrats to Mr. and Mrs. Pick 2 on their marriage this past Saturday!

16 came out this morning to tackle a semi-themed workout at the Creek.

Here is what went down–
COP
IJR, DQ, arm circles, tempo merkins, plank jacks, alternating shoulder touches, flutter kicks, roll-ups, box cutters

Mosey to big field
10 minutes of burpees — PAX members pick a number of burpees between 6 and 12 and complete that many in one minute — any extra time left over is rest time before the next minute starts.  Repeato 10 times.

4 faces of Mount Rushmore
1st face — 10 Lincoln Leg lifts
2nd face — 10 LLL, 20 Roosevelt Roll Ups
3rd face — 10 LLL, 20 RRU, 30 Jefferson Jump Squats
4th face — 10 LLL, 20 RRU, 30 JJS, 40 Washington Werkins

Mosey to Lot for Bisontennial

One partner bear crawls to picnic tables and runs back while other partner does the following exercises —
200 Crabcakes
200 SSH
200 Mountain Climbers

Mosey to Flag for Numbers, Names, Announcements
Emoji took us out.

NMS —
YHC will miss all you guys for the next month while he is gone on a family vacation whose original plans started a long time ago when the kids were young and watched a documentary on the redwoods.  It was at that point that the vision of this great cross country trip first started.  It is now much bigger than YHC could have even imagined at the very beginning.
People’s reactions when we tell them what we are doing range from “That sounds like an amazing vacation” to “You’re crazy!”  We have thought the same things going through this process.
Anyhow, the workout went pretty well — everyone loved the 10 minutes of Burpees just as much as YHC loved them the first time he experienced them at 45 MOM a few months back and the second time a short while ago at the Gridiron.
Kudos to Sugarsock for kicking butt on the four faces of Rushmore.  Those roll ups were tough after about 10.
Will post pics of YHC and family planking in front of Mt Rushmore for you all on Twitter.

See you soon
Opus

 

8 Crazy guys showed up for a rain soaked workout this morning!  Gumbo was supposed to Q, but the M and 2.0’s got sick in the middle of the night.  Gumbo texted Spit who was already up because of Baby Spit and Hot potato was called.  Hope the Gumbo family is feeling much better soon!

Spit took the beginning — mosey around the church with 5 merkins every so often to break up the run a little
COP — in no particular order
IJR, Merkins, LBC’s, Arm Circles, DQ, Helicopters, Flutterkicks Crab cakes, Imperial Walkers, Dying Cockroach

Pass off to Hardywood
10 merkins, run around a loop of the parking lot
Next loop around do 10 merkins, add 20 squats
Next loop around  do 10 merkins, 20 squats, 30 WW2 situps
Next loop around do 10 merkins, 20 squats, 30 ww2 situps, 40 flutterkicks

Pass off to Vinny
A brand new exercise!!  with a cool name.
It is called the Windsor Farms Do-Si-Do
Brief description — Partner up.  1st partner holds 6 inches and holds other partners ankles while the other partner completes 10 merkins, repeato with 15 merkins and then 15 merkins again.

Pass off to Phonics
11’s — 1 upright alabama prom date on bench, 10 burpees
Rinse and repeat (literally)

Pass off to Opus
5 Skull Crushers each leg, 5 dips, 5 derkins
10 skull crushers each leg, 10 dips, 10 derkins

Numbers, names, announcements
Tomorrow is Puppy Pile at 7:05 Dogwood Dell — all bring frisbees!

NMS —
Last night there was a mysterious message from Phonics saying that there was a guy coming to the Creek today, but he needed some shoes.  size 11 or 12.  I thought it was an FNG — if it had been his name would have been Joe Jackson.  Anyways it turned out to be none other than Abacus who was not wearing normal workout clothes, but did have tennis shoes on from somewhere.  He showed up in a Tesla (his employer) — more on that later…

Workout was fun and difficult, but extremely wet.  It rained and then it rained some more.  and some more.  YHC was wringing his shirt and shorts out every few minutes.  At least YHC was not sweating to death…

Nice having Abacus, Vinny and Hardywood there from other venues!  Come back any time!

On to the Car.
Afterwards, Abacus asked if we wanted to ride in his car.  Some of us took us up on that offer.  But first, the car had to give us a demo…  see the video if you want to see something completely stupid and utterly pointless.  but also pretty cool.

So Abacus took some of us on a ride.  A few notes — going 0 to 45 in a second is quite awesome!  Having the car drive itself, also awesome, but maybe a little scary.  If Teslas are the way most cars will end up in the future, then the future will be great!  Go check one out if you ever have a chance.

Peace out,
Opus

 

6 Davillians that were not participating in the summer tour stormed the ground of New Highland Baptist for a Hot Potato Q (or in this case a 2.0 Takeover).

This how it went down:

Spit’s Q

Mosey around the church one lap stopping 8 times to complete 5 merkins

COP

• Invisible Jump Rope
• DQ
• Imperial Walkers
• WWII Sit-ups
• Arm Circles

Slash’s Q

Four Corners – 5, 10, 15, then 20 Heels to Heaven

Mosey to the field

Decline Ladder – 10 WWII Sit-ups, Run across the field, 9 WWII Sit-ups, run back. Rinse and Repeat till down to 1

Mosey to the Pavilion

Partner Burpees – As partners complete 50 Burpees. One partner works on Burpees with other partner run up and down the gravel road. Switch and repeat.

Mosey back to the parking lot.

4 Corner Escalator – 5 2ct American Hammers and 5 Merkins, increase by 5 at each corner till completing 20/20. Short 10 count rest then repeat going down 20/20, 15/15, 10/10, then 5/5

1 MOM – Merkins (IC) and 10 Heels to Heaven

Polar Bear Tracers – using the side lot bear crawl and complete one Merkin at each parking line (10 total)

Moesy back to the SF

Ring of Fire – 5 Squats then  1 Burpee

Numerama, Namerama, Announcements, YHC took us out.

MOLESKIN

This was the first “official” day of summer for the kids in Daville. With that being the case YHC noticing the Q was vacant for today proposed that we make today a 2.0 lead workout. There was no response on FB Messenger other than a thumps up from Pick 2. Well scratch that idea, Plan B normal Hot Potato.

With it being the first day of summer and RAMM special ride, YHC wanted what the numbers would look like. Yard Sale and Emoji pulled in early giving us some good ol pre-workout mumble chatter. Just after 5:25 Spike pulled up with Slash (his 2.0) and our newest PAX member Bulkhead (2nd post). It seemed that Slash was excited about leading some this more. Ok then Plan C!

YHC got things started and passed it Slash who pulled a Swirly and didn’t give it. He crushed it! YHC has never seen the PAX so spent at the end. Slash had the PAX moving non stop.

Glad to have Bulkhead out once again. Hope to see him as regular soon.

ANNOUNCEMENTS  (per Gumbo)

• Field Day at Dogpile this Saturday – t-shirt from your youth has been requested.
• Puppy Pile 6/23
• Get in on the Summer Tour – Phonics, Vinny, Offshore and others are checking them off fast.
• Amateur Hour (or 45 minutes) at RAMM Gears tomorrow
• HR Derby coming up 6/26 at Robious Elementary/Huguenot Little League INSTEAD of No Toll.  Pre-blast forthcoming.

SPIT ON THAT / SLASH ATTACK!!

COP all IC

SSH x 15

Merkin x 1

Helicopters x 10

Crabcakes x 1

Arm Circles x 10 small, 5 Big, Reverso

Mosey to the dew covered freshly mowed field

Belching (this is what it is named in the Exicon)

Pax lines up face down

Q says go

PAX sprints 10 strides and hits the deck

One merkin, one WWII situp

Low crawl forward or back to line the PAX back up

Repeat until they reach the end of the field

Mosey back to the parking lot

Four Corners Ascending

Run to each corner and perform 10 burpees

exercises added to the bottom of the burpee at each corner

1st – 1 Hand Release Merkin

2nd – 1 Hand Release Merkin, 2 WWII sit-ups

3rd – 1 Hand Release Merkin, 2 WWII sit-ups, 3 2 count Mountain Climbers

4th – 1 Hand Release Merkin, 2 WWII sit-ups, 3 2 count Mountain Climbers, 4 Alabama Prom Dates

Yard Sale asked if we could do them again and YHC hates to disappoint the PAX.

Four Corners Descending

APD replaced with LBC’s because some things can never be unseen

Work the corners back down to Hand Release Merkin Burpees

Mosey back to the flag

one Turkish get up each side and one Boat/Canoe to eat up time

Announcments

Summer Challenge is going on

Puppy Pile 6/23 0705

July 4th Convergence

Numberama

Namearama

Chewy took us out

NMS

The Belching was just good, wet, messy fun that looked interesting while reading through the list of routines.

YHC watched a video of a lady beating the world record for burpees in 60 minutes (1,490) with form that would get you mercilessly mocked at any AO that YHC has been to. This lead to too much though about burpees and all the fun things that can be done with them. That gave YHC an opportunity to get his work in for the Swamp Rabbit challenge as well. Tea Party and The Carpenter tore this one up. Aperently YHC will have to step up his Qing game if he hopes to challenge those two in the future.

It was necessary to change out APD after watching the form and technique of Yard Sale, that along with the noises that he was making this morning was definitely NSFW. There is not enough brain bleach in the world for that image. YHC was just glad that he did not have to explain that to his kids on the way home.

Proud father moment, when Chewy went back to the second corner to check on Ewok who was having some trouble and then staying with him until he finished the last corner. YHC seeing his oldest 2.0 go back and make sure that his youngest 2.0 was ok was almost enough to give him a feeling. Coincidentally, at that same time some dust got in YHC’s eye and he had to blink a lot to get it out.

Thanks for letting me lead

 

 

 

 

 

11 Davilians (including 4 2.0’s) and one guys that must have gotten lost on his way to RAMM, arrived at New Highlander to get this month started with a BANG!

This is how it went down:

Mosey around the church then pick up any LIFO (none yet)

COP (ALL IC)

• SSH
  • 5 Merkins
• Helicopter
  • 5 Merkins
• Copperhead Squats
  • 5 Merkins
• LBC’s
  • 10 Merkins
• Flutter Kicks
  • 5 Merkins
• Arm Circles (The Carpenter has arrived)
  • 10 Merkins

THANG

Mosey to the side parking lot

11’s – Bear Crawl to the opposite side start with 10 (2ct) American Hammers, run back to the other side complete 1 Heels to Heaven. Rinse and Repeat till reps are reversed

Church Corner’s – While running a lap around the church complete the following: (1st) 25 Squats, (2nd)  50 Merkins, (3rd) 25 Squats, (4th) 50 Merkins

Mosey to the pavilion

Triple Check – Dips, Box Jumps, Run down the gravel road and back

The Human Jerkin – Get into groups of 3. With one of the 3 laying prone, face-up on the ground and the other 2 using the lawnmower pull to lift him while his arms were at a static curl 90 degrees.  All 3 cycled through.  Then the person on the ground did the work while the 2 guys standing held their arms at a static 90 degrees.

Mosey to the SF for Numerama, Namerama, Announcements, YHC took us out.

NMS

What a great day to be at The Creek. YHC didn’t have a true theme other than working on F3 Swamp Rabbits’ June Challenge. For those who are Twitter followers of F3 Richmond (aka Lab Rat), would have noticed a tweet yesterday regarding join another F3 Region’s monthly challenge. The challenge (per Lab Rat) is the following: 5000 Merkins, 5000 Squats, 50 miles. Since YHC knows he wouldn’t be able to complete the summer tour, this seem to be a good alternative.

Speaking of Lab Rat, as one of the founding members of DaVille he finally made his first post at The Creek (yes this is true YHC looked it up!). The mumble chatter will never be the same.

The Carpenter clearing thought we were on CST by setting his alarm for 6. YHC received a text around 5:23 (did read till after the workout) from him saying he was on his way. Give the approximate time of 10 minutes it took for the PAX to complete the COP, The Carpenter basically got out of the fart sack and to the AO in about 15 to 17 minutes. Knowing its about a 10 minutes YHC would have to say that was pretty impressive.

The Human Jerkin (Which YHC  has just named) seemed to be a hit. That’s again to Moses from F3 Charlotte for introducing this and the Partner push/pulls to YHC at F3 Phoenix last week.

Apologies (taking a play out of Lab Rat’s book) goes out to those that decided to sign up for this June challenge after the workout. Turn out Lab Rat and YHC were mistake. The challenege is actually 5000 WWII sit-ups instead of squats. Oh well atleast it’s only day 1.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• F3 Arlington/DC launches tomorrow. Vinny and YHC will be attending. See Twitter post
• F3RVA Summer Tour has begun! Who will be the first to post at every AO this summer?
• Next PuppyPile 6/23 at 7:05. Sippy Cup will get things started
• July 4th Convergence at Tredegar. See Pre-Blast

SPIT ON THAT!!

7 Grown men and one feisty 2.0 showed up for a beatdown this morning.

Here is what transpired…
Hallelujah Run around the church

COP–
Hillbillies
Helicopters
Combos (not the snack) All IC —
5 SSH, 5 Merkins 5x (no stopping between exercises)
5 WW2 situps, 5 Freddies 5x
5 flutterkicks, 5 scissors 5x
5 copperhead squats, 5 pistol squats 4x

1 minute toe taps on curb
30 seconds on, 30 seconds rest
40 seconds on, 20 seconds rest
50 seconds on, 10 seconds rest
1 minute full on.

Triple Checks at the benches–
derkins, ww2s on benches, touch a car
dips, skullcrushers, touch a building

Catch me if you can — 
one partner starts bear crawling around the building, other one does 7 burpees and then runs to catch the other one.  Switch roles.  Repeato until we make it round the building.

Thanks to all the guys and girl who showed up today for this morning’s beatdown.  It was a beautiful morning with a little less humidity than normal.  Nothing stood out this morning as far as mumblechatter is concerned, but YHC thinks everyone was having a great time with the workout.  Pick two has become a regular again and we are glad for that!  Missed regulars Carpenter and Spit this morning.  Hope you both are doing well — see you soon!
BTW — George Young of AC/DC fame was a member of the Easybeats back in the 60’s.  This is one of the first rock songs YHC remembers from his youth and still loves it!

Peace
Opus