Tag: The Creek

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

26 warriors (including nine 2.0s) broke the previous record for The Creek (25) and launched out of the fart sack to engage in a workout that went something like this…

Spit took the Q…

Mosey around the church, run forwards, then backwards, back to forwards, back to backwards

COP

-SSH X52 (For our 52 weeks at The Creek)

-Split Jacks

-LBC’s

-Crab Cakes

-American Hammers

-Arm Circles

NMS

It is incredible to think that The Creek started nearly one year ago. Abacus took the initial Q and we missed him this morning. We know that he is dishing out pain down near Charlotte.

Cars poured into the parking lot. Men, boys and 1 girl of all ages jumped out of the cars. Chowdah rolled into the parking lot at 64 mph and blasting BackStreet Boys circa 1999 (“You are my fire… the one desire… I want it that way… Tell me why…”) That song never leaves your head once you hear it…

Spit started the party and the PAX aggressively attacked the workout, especially the Dora Suicides. The mumble chatter was light but the high fives and head nods were prevalent. The Carpenter took over with 15 minutes to go and tried to maximize the punishment for the remaining time. The lights turned off at 6 am and everyone was left in the dark. Some of the PAX seemed to fall asleep during the flutter kicks because the word “recover!” was met with minimal movement. The PAX seemed intent on star gazing as opposed to moving onto the next installment of pain.

The 2.0s were everywhere (including a female – Wheelie’s daughter held her own throughout the morning). There is something special about multiple generations (from age 8 up to 62) facing the workout challenge together.

The first year of The Creek has been a worthy one. There numerous skeptics who did not think that this Friday AO would take root but they were wrong. Happy Anniversary!

Spit (on that!) and The Carpenter

13 Davillians arrived ready to roll on this humid September morning to participate in another addition of The Creek. The Q sheet was empty until yesterday afternoon so a hot potato Q plan was put into action.

This is how it went down

Spit’s Q

ReeseStrong start: 25 Merkins and 25 Squats OYO

Mosey around the front of the parking lot to the grassy area around the flag pole

COP (ALL IC)

• SSH
• Invisible Jump rope
• Hillbillies
• DQ
• Helicopters
•  LBC’s
• Flutter Kicks
• Merkins
• Arm Circle

Opus’ Q

Mosey to the pavilion 

Triple Check (on the picnic tables) – Skull Crushes, Dips, decline merkins (three sets each)

Emoji’s Q

Mosey back to the parking lot

Curb crawls: Bear crawl to one side complete 10 incline Merkins, crab walk back complete 10 curb dips. Rinse and repeat for another set

Four Corners: 10 Jump Squats, 10 LBC’s, 10 Burpees, 10 Merkins

Spike’s Q

Parking lot Subsides: run to and back each median; complete WWII Sit-ups. Sets were 5, 10, and 15 reps

Rounders’ Q

Indian Run around the field while completing high knees and butt kicks on Q’s command. Circle up in the pavilion and complete 500 raid boxers? (not sure of the name)

Q was given back to the YHC to mosey to the SF for 3 to 4 MOM. Exercises were Freddie Mercury’s, AL Prom Date, Rosalita, gas pump, and 6 inches

Numberama, Namerama, Chowdah took us out. 

MOLESKIN

It was good to change things up a little bit with a hot potato. Gave us the opportunity to see some not so regular Q’s (Emoji and Spike) and a VQ for Rounders. YHC arrived at the AO around 5:16 thinking he would be alone for at least 10 minutes. Most of the PAX seems to be ready to go showing up only a few minutes after YHC

Around 5:28 The Carpenter was no were to be found. Opus had texted him earlier and share the following response.

Opus: Are you up?

The Carpenter: “Yes, puppy”.

This would explain his LIFO post today showing up around a 1/4 the way through the COP.

When the PAX was starting Emoji’s Q. All the parking lot lamps decided to go off a the same time. This made bear crawls a little harder and the groons could be heard in the next county.

Glad to have Rounders get a little VQ today. The PAX got a little taste of a what is to come.

Glad to have a few our 2.0 back in the PAX after the start of the school year! Hope to see even more next week.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Reesestrong 5k tomorrow morning – Kid’s run at 8:30 and 5k at 8:55. We are up 63 on the F3 team. You can still register the day of the race.
• Convergence on 9/30 –  come out at 6:00, stay until 8:00 if you can.  Second workout starts at 7:00 for late risers.  Bring a friend or two.
• Next week will The Creek’s first anniversary – Start EHing now so we have our largest PAX ever!!

SPIT ON THAT!!

7 fighters showed up to tackle a workout at The Creek that went something like this…

The Thang…

Mosey around the field and back to the far corner of the church building.

All IC – 25 SSHs, 10 hand-release merkins, 15 imperial walkers, 10 hand-release merkins, 30 lbcs, 10 hand-release merkins, 10 don quixotes, 10 hand-release merkins, arm circles, 10 hand-release merkins.

Mosey around the church building – running forward for one side, running backward for the next side, following that pattern until returning to the starting location.

Dora 1-2-3 – Partner up. 100 merkins, 200 lbcs, 300 squats

Mosey to the pavilion and picnic tables

All IC – 10 skull crushers with one leg, 10 skull crushers with other leg, 10 dips.

All IC – 20 skull crushers with one leg, 20 skull crushers with other leg, 10 dips.

All IC – 30 skull crushers with one leg, 30 skull crushers with other leg, 10 dips.

Mosey to the flag

10 flutter kicks, 10 hand-release merkins, 10 american hammers, 10 hand-release merkins, supermans, 10-hand-release merkins

Moleskin

YHC hasn’t Q’d a workout since the DaVille takeover way back in June. Spit lit a fire under YHC to come out of retirement and step up. Challenge accepted.

A smaller PAX showed up and it was quickly noted that the 2.0s were all in the fart sack in light of the first week of school (some dads were too). YHC was pleasantly surprised to see Mudface avoid being a LIFO but then realized that his three 2.0s were asleep. He noted that it was a lot easier to show up on time without the 2.0s.

The mosey around the field soaked all of our shoes but warmed up the PAX for some hand-release merkins fun. The moaning grew over time in the COP. Opus made some comment and that led to an automatic doubling of the number of LBCs. He has been known to trigger YHC in this way.

The PAX smashed the rest of the workout, including the increasing skull crusher pain under the pavilion.

It felt great to be back in the lead. Thank you to Spit and the PAX for the encouragement and challenges. We are all better when we light fires under each other.

Announcements:

Reese Strong 5K – We have 44 signed up. Our goal is 50. Let’s close the gap!

Prayers for Lab Rat in light of the loss of his grandmother.

15 surly dudes showed up this morning at The Creek (5 were 2.0’s) to tackle a football themed workout!

Scout Run around the church 2x

Increasing Emom
1 minute to perform the task given.  If a PAX member finished early, it was rest time for them.
Started with 5 SSH and 5 merkins, increased to 10 of each, then 15, then 20, then 25, then 30.
Circle K suggested that he could do 40 of each in a minute, so we tested it.  Everyone else did AMRAP’s.
At the end, Circle K said he did complete the task, but with not the best form on the Merkins.

Shift over to the picnic tables to do 10 IC dips and 10 IC raised merkins to give time for more light to appear in the sky so we could do the next thang.  haha.

Headed to the far corner of the field (where there is one lone street light) to perform a fumble drill.
One PAX member was the fumbler at the end of the run.
All else lined up behind the first cone and held squat position until it was their turn.
Runner ran forward to first cone, sideways to the next, backwards to the next cone, sideways to the next one
and finally forward to the last, where the fumbler threw the ball on the ground and the runner dove on the ball to collect the fumble.
The runner became the next fumbler and Fumbler moved to the back of the running line.  Every once in a while, the PAX did squats or jump squats while waiting.

Next drill:
3 groups — one QB, one WR, one DB.
QB hikes, WR runs a pattern, DB tries to defend
Incompletion = 1 burpee for all
Interception = 5 merkins for all offense
Completion = 5 merkins for defense
rotate stations

Over Under Relay
2 teams spread down the line in plank position.
One runner from each team leaps over the first dude, goes under the second, etc. until the end where they get in plank and become part of the obstacle course.
First team to complete everyone running through wins.

Back to the Flag for some Mary
Spit led the gang while YHC retrieved his phone.  10 merkins around the circle.
Then, after YHC got back, we did X’s and O’s, then 10 Rosalitas, 10 Dories, 10 Rosalitas IC

Numbers, Names, Announcements, Bring it In

YHC wore his RG3 jersey this morning to commemorate the beginning of the new football season!  In the opening circle, I was explaining why I wore my RG3 jersey this morning and Carpenter chimes in with some pithy comment about us getting injured and never being the same afterwards.  He is a Giants fan, so take that for what it’s worth.
The fumble drill was fun to do and to watch others do as well.  Highlight was Circle K receiving a fumble that was more like a bullet pass right to the upper chest/head area.

Wish it had lighter for the passing drill bc we would have had more completions, but as it is, we had a few interceptions and completions.  Mostly bad passes and drops though.  Highlight was Wilt’s longish catch in the dark.  YHC was impressed!

The over under relay had some funny moments, like YHC trying to go under one of the 2.0’s (possibly Recess) and lifting him off the ground in the process.  Mudface — kudos to you on the unders.  You rocked it.

Giant props to Recess for finding YHC’s car keys after the workout was over.  Whew.  Thought Wilt and YHC were going to have to squeeze in the Mudface-mobile to head home.

Fun times had by all this morning.  Enjoy the video — it included Leon Lett’s gaff as well as the Romo screwed up FG hold so it had to go on the BB.

— Opus

12 from DaVille posted on a cool August Friday morning for a beat down.

This is how we did it

Scout Run around the church to pick up the LIFO’s\

COP

• Two sets of 10 second toe toches
• 20 Side Straddle Hops
• 10 Four Count Merkins
• 20 Invisible Jump Rope
• 10 Smurf Jacks

THANG

11’s

• Merkins and Goblet Squats – Bear Crawl across the parking lot.  Start with 10 merkins, run back for 1 goblet squats.  Continue until 1 merkin and 10 goblet squat

4 Corners of The Church

•  Run to first corner – 10 Bobby Hurley’s
• Karaoke to 2nd corner – 20 Merkins
• Run backwards to 3rd corner – 30 Heels to Heaven
• Karaoke to 4th corner – 40 LBC’s

Partner Up

• 1 partner perform Skull Crushers on picnic benches while second runs to the far end of the field.  When partner returns, they switch.  Each partner performed 4 sets of Skull Crushers and ran 4 times.

4 Corners of the Field

•  Start at first corner with 40 Mountain Climbers
• Run to second corner – 40 LBC’s
• Run to third corner – 40 knee bends (Helix style)
• Run to forth corner – 40 leg scissors with feet 6 inches off the ground

Numberama, Nanerama, Wild Thing took us out

As I get in better shape this fall I hope to be leading from the front instead of the rear.  As always, it was my pleasure and a blessing to be able to lead these guys.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Reese Strong (9/16/17) registration is open.   We currently have 38 signed up but are hoping for 50.
• F3 RVA Crab Fest – Starts around 11:30 – 12:00 after Reese Strong at Circle K’s.  Let him know if you’ll be attending.
• First Thursdays is coming up – discussing playing basketball and heading to Kreggers afterwards.

15 men were drawn to New Highland Baptist Church this humid morning for a workout to end the week.   After a 2 month break from being the QIC, YHC slept little and dreamed big for today’s beatdown.  This is what occurred.

Mosey around the church to the COP.

COP:

• SSH IC x 20
• Arm Circles IC – 10 small, 5 big, reverso
• Imperial Walkers IC- 15
• Smurf Jacks IC x 20
• Hillbillies IC x 15
• Don Quixote IC x 10
• Merkins IC x 10
• LBCs IC x 20
• Star Jacks on your own x 10

The Thang:

1.  Run to end of church and do 5 burpees.  Karaoke to other end of church and do 5 burpees.  Run backwards to front of church and do 5 burpees.  Karaoke back to start of church and do burpees until the last PAX member arrives.
2. Lunge to end of church and do 5 burpees.  Side shuffle to other end of church and do 5 burpees.  Lunge backwards to front of church and do 5 burpees.  Side shuffle back to start of church and do burpees until the last PAX member arrives.

Mosey to picnic tables.

3.  Triple Check – Inverted APD with dip, Freddie Mercuries, run to road and back.  Do this 3 times.

4.  Stay in group of 3 for triple sprints  Two people stay on one side of field while other person is about 50 yards away.  Person #1 sprints to other side and does 5 burpees.  Once the first person gets to other side, the person on that side sprints back.  This continues until everybody has done 4 sprints.  When group finishes, bear crawl to middle.

5.  Circle up in plank position for modified Plankarama

• 5 Merkins IC- Then hold plank
• Lower to 2 inches.  Hold and then 5 Merkins IC
• Back up to plan.  Hold and then 5 Merkins IC
• LBCs IC x 20
• Freddie Mercuries IC x 10
• 10 Mountain Climbers IC – Then hold plank
• 5 Rotating Elbow planks IC – Then hold plank
• 5 Carolina Dry Docks IC Then hold plank
• Rotate to side plank – hold – then dip hip for 10 count IC
• Rotate to other side for plank – then dip hip for 10 count IC

Mosey back to VF for COT – Numberama, Namearama, Mudface took us out

NMS

Although it has only been 2 months since YHC has Qed, it appeared that a good amount of rust had built up in that time.  This was also YHC’s VQ at the Creek.  When we left at 5:30 AM to mosey around the church, we had 9 PAX members.  By the end of the COP, we were up to 15.  About 1/2 way through the COP, Spit and Yardsale joined us.  It was obvious that Spit is not used to being late.  He said he got up at 5:16 and lives at least 10 minutes from the AO.  He looked like he just did that drive in about 5 minutes.

After the COP, we did one round of exercises around the church which involved running.  For the 2nd trip around the church, YHC made it clear that the PAX would lunge.  As soon as YHC said exercise, YHC started running.  All PAX members caught this and asked if it is more important to follow the Qs directions or copy what the Q is doing.  That mistake knocked a little rust off of YHC.  The rest was removed during the Triple Sprints and attempting to give directions for that.  Luckily, several of the PAX members had done this before and knew the basic concept of it.  One thing that YHC loves about F3 is that the PAX will do exactly what he says.  The problem is that sometimes YHC says one thing but means another.  In this case, YHC meant to run to the electrical pole, not the light post which was much farther away.  After the corrected instructions were given, the PAX did a fine job completing the Triple Sprints as well as all of the challenges today.

Great seeing Rounders today!  YHC had not seen him in several years.  He seems to be a natural at everything we did today.  Well done as well to the five 2.0s in attendance today.

Thank you F3 RVA for your support of the ReeseStrong 5K!  It is humbling that in the little time YHC has been a member of F3 Nation, so many F3 Nation members from RVA and Hampton Roads are participating or volunteering and are promoting my event.  F3 RVA will have the biggest team on September 16 and it is not going to be close.  Thank you as well Circle K for organizing and hosting Crabfest to follow the ReeseStrong 5K.

Announcements:

ReeseStrong 5K – Saturday, September 16 – F3 RVA team is still the largest team.   Kid’s runs start at 8:30 am, 5K starts at 9 am, Crabfest at Circle K’s house starts at 11 am.  To sign up for 5K the Hard Way, see Lab Rat.  F3 members are not required to do it the hard way.  You can run it or walk it as well.  Spectators and volunteers are also needed.

• For more information, click here
• To register for the F3 RVA team, click here
• To see the Crabfest Preblast, click here.
• To volunteer, click here.

F3 RVA Convergence – September 30 at Gridiron.  The main event is at 7 am.  There is also a bonus bootcamp at 6 am.  To see the Preblast, click here.

Mudface and No Idea are recruiting for assistance with Y Guides.  See one of them if you are available to help.

Phonics Out!