Tag: The Crossing

8 PAX, including two young guns, gathered for the latest edition of The Crossing. With no Wednesday night activities at WEAG, we had the place to ourselves. The following is a brief summary for your viewing pleasure:

Mosey around the parking lot to loosen up. Mixed in some Bernie Sanders for good measure. Stopped back at the flag for Warm-up:

Don Quixote’s, Bruce Lee Punches, Cherry Pickers, Suzanne Sommers, Pickle Pounders, LBC’s, Flutter Kicks, Hello Dollies.

To the Big Parking Lot for Exercise One:

Modified Beast; Round One: 5 Hand Release Merkins per stop
Round Two: 10 V-ups
Round Three: 15 Bobby Hurleys
Round Four: 20 Freddy Mercuries
Round Five: 25 Moroccan Nightclubs

*Sprint across the Parking Lot

Exercise Two: Clockwork Merkins on the Hill
Exercise Three: Various Inverted Sit-ups: 25 count of LBC’s, Flutter Kicks, Heels to Heaven, American Hammers, reverse Mountain Climbers (50).

*Sprint back across the parking lot.

Back to Flag and finished off with a ring of fire: various exercises.

Final Thoughts: Great crew at the Crossing this evening! The fellas were putting in some work. Fergie will be doing his VQ at Dogpile on Saturday. 5 year FORGE celebration tomorrow. Lots of ruck talk, as usual. Respect to my younger 2.0’s for posting for the second time this week.

After getting a heads up from a few Crossing regulars that they couldn’t make it, YHC figured there would be a couple guys to post since we’ve been getting pretty good numbers on the regular. Even the last time it rained we had 5 to post, Not today. After a brief warmup of SSH, Ukrainian soldiers, Merkins, and copperhead squats, YHC decided to take a lap around the perimeter of the church then do 30 Merkins, 30 LBC’s 30 squats, and 10 burpees. YHC was able to do 3 rounds. The last round, with time running low, YHC decided to do 2 rounds of 10 Merkins, 10 LBC’s, 10 squats and 5 burpees and only run the upper parking lot. With only 2 minutes remaining YHC did burpees til time.

Prayers to all F3RVA pax experiencing any sort or hardship whether it be an illness, injuries, or issues with the family.

House Party

10 F3RVA brothers locked arms to forge the swift currents of The Crossing. Conditions were gusty, but quite sunny and 70-ish, and the PAX gave superb effort to complete this high-intensity beatdown:

The THANG: 

WARMERAMA: 

• Moseyrama loops around the Annex Lot and circle up
• Welcome & Disclaimer
• Variable IC Reps to get the muscles warm top to bottom

COP #1: 

• Mosey to the sloped end of the main parking lot
• FATBURNER LINDSEY (double the reps)
• SSH’s 60-50-40-30-20
• Mtn Climbers 20-30-40-50-60
• Run between top & bottom of lot

COP #2:

• Mosey to the front of the church
• WALLORAMA
• People’s Chair, Milkers x20 IC
• Hoedown’s x10 IC
• Dirty Hookups x10 each side IC
• Donkey Kick-offs up to 20
• Hip Slappers x10 IC

MOSEY around the church, stopping under the main entrance awning to circle up in plank and review our F3 Mission, Credo, and Core Principles.

COP #3:

• Discover some cones conveniently spaced apart in the South Lot
• Parter up for DORACIDES:
• x100 Ball-Dippers (2-ct)
• x200 Mericans
• x300 Oblique LBC’s (alt sides as needed)

Mosey BTTF for COT:

• Counterama # 
• Namerama
• Announcerama (see Below)
• WHITEWATER took the PAX out in Prayer

NMS:  Solid numbers continue to post for the newest hottest AO in RVA, and these PAX put in some tough work this evening tackling a behemoth of a beatdown. Most of the PAX discovered their exhaustion point during the Wallorama, if not in some of the other COP’s. You don’t know what you are, or aren’t, capable of until you’re pushed to discover it. SYITG, DTH

An eclectic crowd of 17 gathered at WEAG for the last edition of The Crossing. 70 degrees plus and sunny made for a great time. The following is a brief summary for your viewing pleasure:

Mosey around the parking lot, mixing in some Bernie, Side Shuffles, Butt Kicks, and High Knees

Circle Up for the following: Copperhead Squats, Ukranian Soldiers, Don Quixote’s, Freddy Mercuries, Hello Dollies and Hand Release Merkins.

To the curb for Hillbillies, Broad Jumps, Knee Pulls, Broad Jump Burpees, Lt. Dan’s, and Mario Jumps.

Exercise One: Coupon Circuit.

We had 17 stations, runner carried a ruck pack and ran to the front of the church and back. When they returned we rotated stations.
1. Runner with Ruck
2. Bear Crawl up hill
3. Plank Jacks
4. Kettle Bell Squats
5. Agility Ladder (do whatever you want)
6. Burpees
7. Upright Row with Kettle Bell
8. Hand Release Merkins
9. American Hammers
10. Jump Rope
11. Dips on the curb
12. WWII Situps with Medicine Ball
13. Tricep extension with dumbbell
14. Heels to Heaven
15. Pick up YOKO and walk around or do something
16. Jump Squats
17. Forgot one

We managed to make it through all 17 stations as time was called.

Numbers/Names/Announcements/Prayer Request

YHC took us out

Final Thoughts: Great group tonight! Really enjoyed seeing some PAX who hadn’t been out in awhile. We have a great core of new members (Duracell, White Water, Birdman, Biodome, Barista and others) who continue to post regularly. Keep it up! It was also nice to see Cookie roll up from the Deep South. We managed to get our Lead Pastor (Shane/Stress Test) to try the group out for the first time! He was looking strong, but will have to be consistent if wants to keep up with his son (Birdman). Hoping that he will inspire others to give it a try.

SYITG

7 holy rollers crossed the river to take a ride on the DTH pain train. Conditions were moist, and the PAX embraced suck, ahem, squelch in the following manner:

The THANG: 

WARMERAMA: 

• Moseyrama around the parking lot a few laps and then circle up
• Welcome & Disclaimer
• Prolonged set of Variable IC Reps to get the muscles warm top to bottom
• During plankorama, review the F3 Mission, Core Principles, and Credo

COP #1: 

• PARKING SPACE ESCALATOR
• Bear Crawl between lines, stopping to complete merkins, ascending 1–>10
• DE-ESCALATOR
• Crab Walk between lines, stopping to complete Crab Cakes, descending 10–>1

COP #2:

• FIFTIES 
• Mosey all the way around the campus, stopping for interval reps – first to complete 50 calls a stop and the PAX mosey on
• Donkey Kicks
• Cone Press
• WWII’s
• Incline Mericans
• Monkey Humpers
• SSH’s

COP #3:

• Mosey back up to the annex lot
• LINDSEY
• Heels to Heaven 10–>30
• Carolina DD’s 30–>10

Mosey BTTF:

• Final Countdown Pain Train Holds – Low Plank, Low Squat, Canoe

COT:

• Counterama # 7
• Namerama
• Announcerama (see Below)
• YHC took the PAX out in Prayer

NMS:  Solid effort put in by the PAX! The de-escalator crab&cakes took the cake on difficulty. Have had fewer numbers the last two weeks with inclement weather, but we have a good number of newbies still learning about F3, including the fact we’re there regardless of weather. They’ll be back. The Crossing is a strong AO, and we haven’t even began to scratch the surface of recruiting the men of WEAG. Speaking of recruiting, we have yet to see a WestHo veteran show up… who knows, maybe they need a little more light and will appear with the daylight savings time change. Keep posting brothers! ~DTH

Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

• Sign up for Growruck! https://growruck.com/event/gte-47/
• Order a Growruck shirt! https://f3gear.com/collections/active-preorders/products/f3-gte47-f3rva-pre-order-january-2024?variant=43276169576636

Prayer Requests:

• Family illnesses and issues

YHC has taken his time to get to this point but it was my time to lead the PAX. Ready or not. 12 PAX including 3 FNGs joined us for the evening VQ. Heading into parking lot traffic we detoured to our first stop in the North Lot.

Introductions, and then settles some nerves while doing Arm Circles, Ukrainian Soldiers, Alabama Prom Dates and LBCs. Time to avoid more parking lot traffic…

COT #1: 11s around the North Islands. Cut Through if needed to keep up with the PAX. Hand Release Merkins paired with Squat Jumps.

COT #2: Mosey to the Lower Lot, Partner Up and Dora. 100 Heels to Heaven, 200 Flutter Kicks, 100 LBCs. Lost FNG Sky Hook in the process who headed in for practice.

COT #3: Mosey back to the North Island for some “Island” Crab Crawls. Last One does a Merkin and runs to the front. Then Reverse Direction.

Finished Time with Dead Man Hang and Andy Dufresne, what a pairing.

Thanks for all the support for this VQ. Turning it around in 12 hours to Q another with the SOJ.

Announcements: GROWRUCK and find another AO during the week.

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!

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!