Tag: The Crossing

West End Assembly of God

  • Just Like Clockwork

    A dirty dozen did exactly what you do at the West End Assembly of God. They assembled, ready to be washed by the water of an NTB beatdown. For five of the PAX, this was their second post of the day!

    According to the children hecklers on the playground, here’s what happened at the third iteration of The Crossing:

    WARMARAMA

    • Welcome, Mission Statement, Disclaimer
    • Various IC movements with the Epic Sax Guy track on loop to keep us moving to the beat. SSH, Jazzercise, Don Quixotes, Merkins, LBCs, Reverse Snow Angels, Dead Man Hang…

    COP #1: Touch a Tree

    • Touch 10 trees and return to the center for 10 Peter Parker merkins. Repeato decreasing the reps and always finding new trees.
    • Mosey to the grassy area in the middle of the parking lot for the main event.

    COP #2: Clockwork

    • Partner up and get the tunes blaring. Fan out to find the 12 exercises written down on notecards around the WEAG parking. Once an exercise is completed, return to the center for burpees, working from 12 down to 1.

    Numbers/Names/Announcements/Prayer – YHC took us out, pumped to get to share a good beatdown with a new PAX as well as some solid F3 HIMs. Respect to DTH, Chaplain, House Party, and Broadway for getting in a second hour of work today following this morning’s coupon ruck.

    Next Week at The Crossing: Meatball VQ!

  • Bread + Butter

    14 strong for week 2 of The Crossing……….the WEAG parking lot will never be the same. Here is a brief summary for your viewing pleasure:

    On the grass hill: Bear Crawl, Crab Walk, lunge walk, Bernie Sanders while we collect a few stragglers.

    To the upper lot for Warm up: SSH’s, Hillbillies, Helicopters, Alabama Prom Dates, Freddy Mercuries, Shoulder Taps

    Exercise One: 4 Corners (Prostitute)
    10 Hand Release Merkins
    20 Jump Squats,
    30 LBC’s
    40 double count Mountain Climbers

    Mosey to the other side of campus for Exercise Two: Dora
    50 Merkins, 100 squats, 200 Flutter Kicks – runner goes around the island and back

    Mosey back towards the flag, stopping for Partner Exercises
    Boxing Cockroaches, BooYah Merkins, BooYah Burpees

    BTTF for some Dead Man Hang for a minute or so

    Numbers/Names/Announcements/Prayer Requests

    Meatball took us out

    Final thoughts: Great to see a number of first/second timers come back out this week! I tried to primarily stick to the basics so that our newer members can learn the F3 lingo. Always fun to break out APD’s and Prostitutes for the church folk. There is a rumor of an NTB Q next week – come check us out!

  • Taking New Ground

    YES YES YES!!! This was long overdue, but RIPE for the season. RVA’s newest AO, The Crossing, kicked off tonight with a bang as 15 PAX converged on the grounds of West End Assembly of God (WEAG) that sits off Parham Road just north of the river. Yes, some SOJ studs invaded WestHo turf, but who knows, maybe the OG West Enders will come out sometime and like it! Either way, there are a LOT of brothers in our church community that are prime for headlockin’. Here’s how we introduced tonight’s new guys to F3:

    The THANG: 

    WARMERAMA: 

    • Mosey down to the lower parking lot for parking space tracers, then moseyrama back up to the shovel flag and circle up
    • Welcome & Disclaimer
    • Variable IC Reps to get the muscles warm top to bottom

    COP #1: 

    • Indigenous People Run all the way around to the South parking lot
    • TRIPLE CHECK
    • P1 – Dips
    • P2 – WWII’s
    • P3 – run to end of lot and back

    ELBOW PLANK INTERMISSION:

    • Review the F3 Credo, Principles, etc

    COP #2:

    • CHAPLAIN handed the Q
    • He called for ELEVENS with Mericans and Jump Squats
    • Await the Six with ABC’s
    • DTH receives the Q back

    COP #3:

    • Move around the back of the church and find a wide stretch of brick for a bit of WALL WORK
    • Hoedowns x10 IC
    • Donkey Kicks x20 IC
    • …maybe one other thing?

    COP #4:

    • Mosey back up to the Annex Lot and circle up for EYE OF THE TIGER
    • SSH’s for the duration of the 4 minute song, dropping for a Burpee every 15 seconds (=16 burpees) using the EMOM timer

    COT:

    • Counterama #15  (x5 FNG’s)
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • YHC took the PAX out in Prayer

    NMS:  Chaplain and YHC have experimented a couple different times in the past hosting an OTB workout at our church, but nothing stuck. Now this season in particular has primed The Crossing perfectly for a successful launch. We’ve had brother PAX at WEAG for years (Don Draper, Roger Roger, Seadoo, Fresh Prince, Floppy Disc, etc), but some new (and very active) additions in Broadway, House Party, and Meatball have really strengthened our WEAG presence. Also, without another PM bootcamp in all of RVA, the church location is fairly central for many PAX in F3RVA who’d like a solid midweek after work option. All that said, we had great numbers for our kickoff and expect to grow quickly as a number of HC’s were ultimately unable to come tonight but plan to make it out soon. Praising Jesus for the opportunity to bring the F3 brotherhood to our church community, and SO SO SO thankful for Chaplain and the others standing with YHC to get it going. We are taking NEW GROUND! Chaplain has the Q next week so come on out! Yours, DTH

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • Coffeeteria at Einstein Bro’s after the Forge tomorrow
    • DTH is gonna do a Pre-FrozenTriangle ruck with some others on Saturday – meet at Dogpile at 0600
    • Register for GrowRuck!

    Prayer Requests:

    • Birdman’s M Traci recently diagnosed with depression
    • Hangman’s sister and mom with health issues
    • Kimura’s dad with prostate cancer