Tag: The Creek

14 troopers (including four 2.0s) landed at The Creek and went to work this morning…

Mosey around the church building and circle up.

COP – All IC

30 SSHs, 10 merkins, 20 copperhead squats, 10 merkins, 15 crab cakes, 10 merkins, 20 crab cakes, 10 don quixotes, 10 merkins, arm circles, 10 merkins

Mosey to the corner of the church building.

4 Corners – Bear crawl the length of the church building, 10 burpees, run to next corner, 20 two-count mountain climbers, run backwards to next corner, 30 heels to heaven, crab crawl the length of the church building, 40 LBCs.

4 Corners – Lunge the length of the church building, 10 burpees, run to next corner, 20 two-count mountain climbers, run backwards to next corner, 30 heels to heaven, lunge the length of the church building, 40 LBCs.

Mosey to the flag

Modified Ring of Fire – everyone plank, one person leaped over each member of the PAX, each person did 5 merkins after they were leaped (like a KANGAROO) over… continue around the whole circles.

20 two-counter american hammers, 20 flutter kicks, superman.

Numberama, Namerama, Tea Party took us out.

Moleskin

YHC had some unanticipated delays and barely showed up on time. Opus and YHC rolled into the parking lot at 5:29 am and saw Spit eyeing his watch.

The PAX aggressively tackled the pair of Four Corners exercises. The highlight of the morning was the Ring of Fire where everyone had a turn with leaping over all the others around the circle. Mudface made it particularly difficult for us to leap over him. He tried to flip his 2.0s when they tried to leap him. Tea Party showed us how to do it though when he jumped like a KANGAROO all around the circle. Very impressive.

Thanks for letting me Q another ridiculously fun workout!

8 faithful awoke from their Turkey comas and post at The Creek for a Black Friday special. The shovel flag was planted and the PAX got to work.

This is how it when down

Mosey one loop around the church

COP (All IC)

• Arm Circles
• DQ (Abe Vigoda Style)
• Helicopters

THANG

The Beast – Black Friday Style

Instructions were given to stop at each median on side for church. 3 times down and 3 times back. The PAX then headed out to pick up their Black Friday items.

First Item at Target – Beats Headphones on sale $97
-97 Carolina Dry Dock (16 at each median)

Second Item at Target – XBOX One on sale $249.99
-250 Merkins (41 at each median)
-$40 Target card give at the register (40 SSH)

Third Item at Kohl’s – Fitbit Blaze on sale $149.99
-150 AL Prom Date (25 at each median)

Forth Item at Kohl’s – DJI Drone on sale $399.99 with a $120 instant savings
-280 LBC’s (46 at each median)

Fifth Item at Amazon – Echo Plus on sale $199.99
-200 American Hammers (34 at each median)

Sixth item at Toys-R-Us – Hello Kitty Cafe on sale $2.99
-43 Jump Squats (7 at each median)

Mosey back to the SF for Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out. 

MOLESKIN

The tradition is now in place for The Creek to host the ultimate Beast workout on every black Friday.  The PAX crushed YHC themed workout today with enthusiasm..

For the first ever the 2.0’s outnumbered the adults (5 2.0’s and 3 adults). It is truly a honor to have these kids join us every week. Not all of 2.0’s wanted all the items on the list. BB commented halfway through the merkins, she didn’t wait a XBOX One anymore

Welcome to Indy! Silently you crush your first workout.

The sweat on YHC back was so much that is left a imprint on the asphalt (picture below)

YHC is thankful this year for F3RVA. Through the support of all his F3 brother, YHC was able complete things he couldn’t have imagine!

SPIT ON THAT!!

17 Hardcorp Creeksters met at the Church for the Beatdown.  It must be cold in the mornings because everyone arrived within 4 minutes of the start time!

The Pain was brought in the following fashion:

Mosey 2 laps around the Church to COP

COP:

10 arm circles small, 5 big  (all three count) reverso

20 (3 count) Hillbillys that Q accidentally called imperial walkers.

20 (3 count) Imperial walkers that the Q properly called imperial walkers

20 (3 count) LBCs

Mosey 2 more laps around church.

Broken Wheelbarrows, each Creekster had to do 2 lengths from lightpost to lightpost in both barrow and pusher position.

Hold plank until all done with BW’s

20 (3 count) Carolina Drydocks

DORA OF DEATH:  100 burpees, 200 crabcakes, 300 dwight howards.

We had to stop at 0613 hours because we just couldn’t make it all fit except maybe OPUS and his Partner…who was that?  Teaparty?  So we had to get back to the Shovel Flag, numberama 17!!! and namarama…..announcements…. I forgot, so if you remember, put ’em in the comments please.  The Carpenter took us out with prayer.

Sorry, we couldn’t extend gentlemen, I had Guantanamo and Fire Drill planned but we just didn’t get to them!!!  Next Time!  Everyone worked hard….good to see people sweating in the cold!!!!

Thanks for letting me Q again.

10 Warriors joined YHC this morning for some pre half-marathon festivities.

This is how it went down:

Slaughter Start with a twist

13 merkins OYO, Mosey around the church
13 merkins OYO (Al Gore for the six), Mosey backwards around the church
13 merkins OYO (Al Gore for the six), Karaoke around the church
13 merkins OYO (Al Gore for the six)

COP 

SSH x13, (13 Merkins OYO)
DQ x 13, (13 Merkins OYO)
Helicopters x 13, (13 Merkins OYO)
LBFC (Little Baby Flutter Crunch) x 13 ,  (13 Merkins OYO)
Crab Cake x13, (13 Merkins OYO)
Arm Cirlces x8 small x5 big and reverso, (13 Merkins OYO)

Mosey to the Pavilion 

Bruce Lee (Marathon Repeats)

A set consisting of 6 ab exercises:

13 American Hammers
13 Leg raises
13 LBC’s
13 Heel Touches
13 Crunchy Frog
13 100’s.

Rinse and Repeat  total of 3 sets with additional sets of 26 and 8. Al Gore-a-rama between sets

Mosey back to the parking lot

WMD Crawl

Starting at the curb, Bear Crawl executed by doing 13 Werkins and crawling 13 steps with hands set out wide followed by 13 Merkins and crawling 13 steps with hands at normal position followed by 13 Diamond Merkins and crawling 13 steps with hands set in close. Rinse and Repeat back to the curb

Thunderstuck

YHC played “Thunderstruck” by ACDC. PAX complete 1 standard Merkin for every “thunder!” that is heard in the song. Plank during the rest of the song. LBC’s were mixed in during long breaks as well

Mosey back to the SF for  Numberama, Namerama, Chowdah took us out. 

MOLESKIN

Since tomorrow will be YHC’s first ever Half-Marathon only seemed fitting to theme today workout with all reps being 13. (or if you are Carpenter completing 13.1 not show how you do 0.1 Merkin). Tapering was taken to a new level with focusing mainly on core exercises today.

The 2.0 were close to outnumbing the old men today (4:7 ratio). Way to bring it everything week fellas!

T-Claps to our Veteran Rounders. Thank you for your service!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Good Luck to everyone in F3RVA running in either the Half or Full Marathon tomorrow
• Hampton Roads 1 year anniversary is tomorrow! See preblast  if you are planning on attending

15 PAX members showed up to take on a Wilt and Opus designed beat down.

Black Snake Weave around big Field.

COP
SSH
Alternating Shoulder Taps
Scissor Kicks
Flutter Kicks
Smurf Jacks
American Hammers
Freddie Mercuries

BUTKUS — 1 minute of toe tapping delight on the curb, 30 second breather
1 minute of toe tapping delight on curb, 20 second breather
1 minute of toe tapping delight on the curb, 10 second breather
1 minute of toe tapping delight

4 CORNERS
#1 — 40 WW2 Situps
#2 — 30 Mountain Climbers
#3 — 20 Merkins
#4 — 10 Burpees
then, we reversed the order and did Burpees, Merkins, Mountain Climbers and Situps

TO THE PAVILION for some AIKEN LEGS
20 Squats
20 Box Jumps onto picnic tables
20 Lunges
20 Split Jacks
Repeato with only 15 the next go round.

Inspired by Mudface’s slow mo workout a few weeks back at the Creek, we did 10 slow dips and 10 slow derkins off the benches.  Ouch.

Back to flag for 5 merkins all around.

Announcements –
Turn clock back 1 hr Saturday night!

Fun workout this morning.  YHC is super proud of his progeny for stepping up and helping to create the workout and helping to Q as well!  Aiken Legs are no joke.

14 members (including one young lady) of the Mechanicsville Davillians put on their uniforms and tall sports shoe to participate in a F3 version of the World Series

This is how it went down:

Mosey around the church for our traditional warm up lap

COP

• 30 – SSH (for the 30 MLB teams)
• 10 – Cherry Pickers (for the 10 playoff teams)
• 8 – Crab Cakes (for the 8 teams in the divisional series)
• 4 – OYO Merkins (for the 4 teams in the league championship series)

Mosey to the pavilion and the picnic benches

• 2 mintues of step ups (for the 2 teams in the World Series)
• 1 OYO Burpee

World Series Trivia

The PAX answered a series of questions about WS history and facts. If the PAX got the questions right everyone did one Burpee. If they got it wrong, the PAX would have to run to the opposite end of the parking lot and back then complete 5 Burpees. Questions were as follows:

1. Won has won the most World Series titles and how many?
2. Who has the 2nd most titles?
3. What year was the first series held and who won it?
4. What team was accused of throwing the series in 1919?
5. In what year did an earthquake accrue during the series?
6. Which two teams have never made it to the World Series?

Mosey to the field

Break up into teams of three or fours (one 2.0 per group) total of four groups.

Field of Dreams

1s start at First Base (1st cone) do AMRAP Squats until relieved. 2s at Second Base (2nd cone) do AMRAP Merkins until relieved. 3s at Third Base (3rd cone) do AMRAP LBC’s until relieved. 4s at Home Plate (4th cone) will perform 15 Burpees then run to First, relieving the Pax there. Continue until all Pax have done the Burpees.

F3 Baseball

Staying in the same groups, teams must complete a cumulative number of reps of different exercise at each base. 112 team merkins (for the number of WS that have been held) at first, 112 team squats at second, 112 team crab cakes at 3rd, 25 team burpees at home. Each time a team passes the base it started on, it gets a point. Team with the most points after 10 minutes wins. (Since the teams were uneven we didn’t keep count)

Mosey back to the SF for Ring of Fire, Numberama, Namerama, Wheelie took us out. 

MOLESKIN

YHC is a big fan of baseball and couldn’t pass up a WS theme. Since winning the WS is a team effort most exercises today were done as a team.

Things got started for the normal pre game mumble chatter including Emjoi asking YHC if he had slept in the AO last night and wondering if we final have The Carpenter join us this week.

Highlighters from today:

• Emoji showed up in a different vehicle everything day this week
• Despite the cooler weather, we had 5 2.0’s show up this morning
• The PAX needs to brush up on their WS trivia since they only got 2 out of 6 correct
• Wheelie was unsuccessful in completing a “Who on first” sketch (could have used some help for No Idea)
• Spike was a beast at F3 baseball since he had 2 2.0’s on his team

ANNOUNCEMENTS 

• Hampton Roads 1 year anniversary coming up on Nov 11th. See preblast
• All men’s 4 miler in C-Ville on Nov 12th. Here is the link to learn more: https://www.mensfourmiler.com/

SPIT ON THAT!! 

12 fighters and 6 2.0s gathered for some early morning training. YHC and his clown car of 2.0 minions got things set up,the Flag was planted and the work began.

Chewy / COP all IC

SSH x 20

IW x 10

DQ x  10

Smurf Jacks x 25

Hillbillies x 10

Smurf Jacks x 2

Mudface/Circuit

Partner up with someone about your size. One partner does the station while the other cheers/encourages/rests. Switch after a minute. after both have gone move to next station

1 – Jump Rope

2 – dips

3 – Hell-bc

4 – battle rope

5 – jump squats

6 – Jab, punch, bob and weave

7 – plank

8 – Abyss merkins

9 – flutter kicks

Chewy\Over and Under

PAX lines up and hold a plank

last in line jumps over and crawls under till the end until all have gone

Numberama

Namearama

Recess took us out

Announcments

2 Dog Pile workouts on Saturday @ 6am & 7am – thanks Upchuck
2.0 Friendly workout at Dog Pile on Saturday at 7am – thanks Marv

Hampton Roads Convergence – Nov 11
Miles to run in Charlottesville – Nov 12

Hardywood has Breaking Bread this weekend. Contact him for details

NMS

YHC found out the day before that they were doing construction at the church. This cut the size of the AO in half and minor adjustments were made to the plan. hard work was done by all. A couple of low punches were delivered during the bob and weaves. Mumble chatter and spirits were high trough the circuits as partner pushed partner. We say that this is a you vs you workout, but what i have seen is that it is a PAX vs the you that you were five minutes ago. the PAX pushes each other, cheers each other, raises each other to make each other better. From the first person done to the six the PAX is there.

Thanks for letting us lead

“you will be in the ring by yourself, but you will not be alone”

9 guys (hoping for 13) showed up this morning in the gloom to suffer together.

Break up into two groups — one ran around the church clockwise, the other anticlockwise (as the brits call it)  High fives as we passed each other.  (or trying to bowl people over.  thanks to the carpenter for that)

What a great morning to workout!  Nice and cool — little breeze.  Fun times!  YHC thinks some stayed home today because it is Friday the 13th.  Best part of today — the 2.0’s after the first Trifecta thought that they had heard they were supposed to run to the back of the building and do more exercises there.  Ummm… no.  They eventually figured it out and made it back to us at some point further in the routine.
Nice to have Abacus back in town today!!  Miss you bro!  He brought up a lot of mumblechatter about how things go down for F3 in Charlotte.  Basically the gist was their counting sucks and they have one person who is in charge of leading each AO and one has to ask permission to get to lead anywhere.  YHC thinks that is a crummy idea and likes the variety of leadership we have here in RVA!
YHC tried to get Wilt to lead a little today, but we should have had a better plan.  Next time!
Have a great Friday the 13th!

Ohh ohh, like a surgeon…  (anyone alive remember Weird Al’s parody of ‘Like a Virgin”?)  Well, it was my VQ and I tried to see if THE CREEK would die on me…

It didn’t die…in the Halloween spirit, they walked around after like the undead though….kinda staggered….

The workout went like this

SLAUGHTER STARTER: 20 burpees OYO

Mosey:  2 laps around the church, wait in plank

Plank:  right hand up for 30 seconds, left hand up for 30, arm through right, 30 sec., left arm through, 30 sec.

Cop:  10 x arm circles, 15 x 3count merkins, 20 baby situps, 20 side straddle hops, 20 hillbillys, 20 imperial walkers, 10 don quixotes

Plank:  right hand up for 30 seconds, left hand up for 30, arm through right, 30 sec., left arm through, 30 sec.

Global warming:  get into Al Gore in giant circle, circle left.  Q calls 3 count merkins (quantity 10), finish, get up into Al Gore, circle left (we should have circled right), Q calls 3 count side straddle hops.  started circling left again, Q got bored so,

Mosey over to field where there were 2 cylum sticks set up:  everyone paired up and did 4 broken wheelbarrows per individual and waited in plank til all were done.  This one was a buster…we took awhile but THE CREEK rocked it out!!!!  Cylum sticks moved closer to each other once the Q realized that they were ambitiously distanced to begin with.

Indian run around the field, with the last man slowing down at the front in order to keep us together, we did this for about 5 minutes then moseyed back to the cylum sticks.

After the indian run each pax had to carry their partner to the opposite cylum stick four times.  This promptly became piggy back for some of us!!! Everyone got their partner across 4 times though and that’s whats up!

Fairly sweaty at this point, mosey back to shovel flag for cop of 10 x arm circles and I think we did some don quixotes as well.  Numberama, Namearama and then circle of trust with announcements…Reesestrong NEXT SEPT…I think Quaker said that!!!  And prayer with special thanks for our 2.0s….and gone…..POOOF!

Thanks for being so gentle for my first time CREEK!!

SIGNING OFF FOR MY VQ,

Rounders

Nineteen came out to The Creek for the final day of Tuckahoe Takeover. 10 men and 9 2.0s made for a fun beatdown, start with run around church.

COP – SSH, Don Qs, Flutterkicks, Merkins, Scorpion Kicks, then tell Pax Form Friday required all pax to call out bad form. Anyone calls out bad form all pax run to end of parking lot and back.

Head to Benches for Donkey Kicks and run 3 rounds. Plank up, bad form called.

Head to curb for Bear Crawls and 15 Merkins, Lunges & Jump Squats  (good shooting form), lights go out so mosey to light at entrance for Pan-Pax Burpees then some mary. Mosey back to benches for AMRAP Dips, 2 sets. Back to the front for slow count Merkins and some more Mary.

NMS – The 2.0s got into the Bad Form Police theme quickly. They seemed to really enjoy the ability to throw things off, we must have ran 5 times per their bad firm calls. YHC really enjoyed it and watching the 9 2.0s, including 3 FNGs, was beyond cool.

Emoji brought a 2.0 not his own, not sure if that is normal.  Good to meet some Daville pax like Tea Party and Pit Bull.

Spit was not kidding that the lights go out at 5:50. YHC was not prepared for it to be that dark.

Silent Assassin signing off