Tag: The FORGE

Huguenot High School

  • Mutiny managed

    An even 10 showed up this AM to welcome in the last day of April. We will be prepared once ultimate season if fully upon us!

    The THANG:

    WARMERAMA:

    • Mosey to tennis courts and circle up
    • F3 Welcome & Disclaimer
    • Variable IC Reps to get the muscles warmed up

    COP #1: triple check on the field

    •  Timer sprints 100 yard dash, jogs back
    • teammates do merkins, flutter kicks
    • Repeat 3x

    COP #2: Circle of MARY

    COP #3: The ultimate game of Hotbox i.e. halfcourt ultimate

    •  count off into two teams, split shirts and skins
    • objective is to score within the Eagle at the center of the field
    • with a turnover, the opposing team gets the disc but must clear it out past the yellow circle surrounding the Eagle
    • repeat
    • at each score, all PAX do 3 burpees

    Mosey BTTF for COT:

    • Counterama
    • Namerama 
    • Announcerama
    • Closing Prayer

    Naked Moleskin:  We had a delightful conversation post workout while sipping SNUFF’s coffee about the importance of modification. You know your body and what works/doesn’t work, so remember to modify where needed with confidence. No judgment!

    Kudos to Doozy for sticking with the half-court version of ultimate to keep the numbers even. Kudos to team shirtless for the win (Belay, Dookie, Machine Head, Snuff , YHC)! Snuff takes MVP given the many acrobatic snags of the disc. Shout out to Stagg for the multiple double-clutch catches to give his team a respectable score. Dookie takes the other MVP (most valuable pectorals, not to mention 6-pack abs) given his well seasoned physique that is 100% ready for the beach!

    Announcements: (see SLACK!)

    •  5/16 – a day of farewells – Flatline Dogpile Q and NTB going away potluck at DTH’s

    Prayer Requests:

    •  Praise the LORD for our health and the growing morning light to drive out the gloom.

  • This and That

    A dozen of the best looking gents enjoyed the ideal conditions that laid out for us in the gloom. There was a smorgasbord F3RVA that came from the far reaches of the region to enjoy what YHC was putting down. Here is how things happened.

    Shotgun start on the hills where we enjoyed the freshly manicured turf by bearcrawling up the hills, lunge across the top, crawlbear down. Upon completion of the 3rd hill we moseyed to the bus loop for salutations and disclaimers. Warm ups included Invisible Jump Rope, Helis, Deadman Hang, Cherry Pickers, Plank, Plank 6″, Superman (obligatory singing needs to be improved), 1/2 pencil roll, LBC’s with a short broga finisher. All seems right in the world.

    The Thang: Triple Check at the bus loop. Timer runs the loop, WWII’s, Lt. Dans.

    Mosey to the hill for clockwork merkins

    Mosey down the concrete walkway, bypassing the ampitheater for another triple check. Timer runs to the light, Australian Mountain Climbers, Hoedowns

    Mosey to the service road. Catch me if you can. 1 burpee while partner Bernies up to Forest Hill (rotate as needed).

    BTTVF along Forest Hill stopping at every pole. Alternate between 2 squats or 2 merkins. Some decided burpees were better but to each thier own.

    3 minutes of Mary with LBC’s, APD’s and some monkey humpers at Snuffs arrival with the coffee.

    Numbers, Names, Announcements. NTB send of in May. YHC took us out.

    NMS: YHC was a bit drowsy this morning after an extended evening at the riverside amphitheater. A loungy type beatdown was selected while the smell of stale beer, vape, cigarettes and other inhalants were pungent. Not spilling merlot was the achieved goal. To YHC surprise some travelers embrace the pristine conditions. Perfect morning with good mumble chatter and banter. Thank you Snuff for arriving with the beans right on time. Big Data credit achieved. Thank you fellas for the opportunity to lead this morning. Always a great way to start the day.

  • Fellowship of the Spring

    20 strong at the Forge. Perfect weather for a playlist with lots of lyrics.

    Mosey around the way and down to the low lot for a warmarama. SSHs, DQs, Freddie Mercurys, LBCs, mirkins, etc etc.

    Mosey to the lowest lot for a 4 corners. 10 burpees, wait, 15 since Last Call didn’t hear the first time, 30 squats, 45 mountain climbers, 60 of something else.

    Triple check at the base of the stairs: timer hops up then runs around while partners do step ups and Lieutenant Dans. We were going to do squats or lunges, why not both?

    Base of Mt Chaplin for a quarter pounder on the big section. 25 decline mirkins, 50 LBCs, 75 calf raises, 100 flutter kicks.

    Mosey around to the amphitheater for some box jumps with ascending squats, then ascending descending dips.

    The Cure was on the radio so we naturally did a tunnel of love with the PAX doing mirkins while everyone bear crawled through.

    Mosey back to the flag for some sunrise appreciation and COT.

    Great fellowship, lots of laughs, good way to ring in the morning. Welcome Metroid!

  • One Small Roll for Dice, One Giant Leap for PAX-kind.

    As YHC was doing his biweekly calendar review, he realized his Q next week would more than likely coincide with the birth of his second child. Not ideal timing… so an audible was called. After some last-minute coordination with Snuff, who graciously provided both the speaker and a perfectly dialed-in space-themed playlist, a new plan emerged, a space-themed beatdown in honor of the Artemis lunar mission.

    After a thorough warm-a-rama, the PAX moseyed to the amphitheater where we “took off”, rolling the dice to determine our fate, then immediately cashing it in with box jumps up the stairs and a lap around the amphitheater.

    From there, we pushed onward to Mt. Chaplin, ascending higher using a variety of “transport methods”, everything from bear crawls to crab walks, broad jumps to Bernie Sanders. Each climb ended with merkins at the summit, as if the elevation alone wasn’t enough.

    We finished with a light pole run, adding merkins at each stop, and circled up for core work, each man calling his own ab exercise to close out the mission. We ended with a great coffeerama about Impact and the people we touch in our lives.

    The Thang:

    WARM-A-RAMA:

    • Side Straddle Hops
    • Ukrainian Soldiers
    • Copperhead Squats
    • LBCs
    • Merkins
    • Alabama Prom Dates
    • Flutter Kicks

    COP #1 – Amphitheater Dice Roll– Circle up, each pax rolls the dice. After each roll, box jump the stairs and come back down the stairs.

    1 – 10 Burpees
    2 – 20 Merkins
    3 – 20 WWIIs
    4 – 20 Lunges
    5 – 30 Squats
    6 – 30 Side Straddle Hops

    COP #2: Mt. Chaplin Climb- each pax rolls the dice. At the top of the mountain, 10 merkins and mosey back down.

    1 – Bear Crawl up
    2 – Crab Walk up
    3 – Broad Jumps up
    4 – Run up
    5 – Bernie Sanders
    6 – Lunge Walk up

    COP #3- Light Pole Run

    Lap around Mt. Chaplin, 5 merkins at each light pole.

    End with ab circle exercises.

    Announcements:

    Saturday April 11, Ruck-A-Q Ruck starting at Ruckhenge, ruck to Machismo’s. BYOM (Bring your own Meat)

    Sunday, April 12 at 4:00 Family friendly Ruck with Beaver starting at Bottom’s up Pizza.

    May 16: NTB’s send off.

    Prayer Requests:

    DTH as he goes on his medical mission trip next week.

    Tin Man’s recovery.

    Prayers for the unborn children in our group.

  • 7 Year Forgeversary

    A festive party of 15 HIM’s showed up to celebrate The Forge and get smoked. Here’s how:

    The THANG: 

    WARMERAMA: 

    • Mosey lap around the loop then up to the top of Mt Chaplain
    • Complete x7 Burpees – Happy Anniversary!
    • Plank it up, Welcome & Disclaimer while two latecomers arrive
    • Still planking, Review F3 Mission, Credo, and the 5 Core Principles (conveniently lining up with the letters of F.O.R.G.E. 🔥)
    • Mosey to the bottom of Mt Chaplain, stopping for x7 Burpees at each landing to honor the anniversary (total of 49 burpees for the first 8 minutes of the workout)
    • Circle up for the usual IC warmerama reps
    • Mosey over to the bottom of Love Hill

    DORA 04/04/2019:

    • Including today there have been 366 Forge Thursdays! 💥
    • x66 No Cheat Merkins
    • x100 Scrunchy Frogs
    • x200 Nancy Kerrigans
    • Moving partner Bernie’s up Love Hill then runs back down to switch

    SENIOR LOG:

    • Mosey off-campus to YHC’s house
    • En route Senior Frog reminisced about log carries, so YHC scratched the second planned Dora (which would have represented 494 Q’s), and led the PAX into the woods to collect two massive spruce logs an take them for a brief walk 🪵 
    • Mosey over to introduce the PAX to YHC’s new 1,200sqft concrete pad, the latest love child of DTH & Machismo ❤️

    Mosey BTTF:

    • Run the Stratford Rd hills back to Forest Hill
    • Mosey BTTF
    • Circle up for WWII’s and Flutters IC

    COT:

    • Counterama # 15
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • BOM Prayer
    • Pull-up Challenge! (Currently at 12)

    PRAYER: 🙏

    • Big Rig’s mom finishing Chemo
    • Tin Man’s recovery 

    NMS:  Fantastic group this morning to honor the greatest AO in RVA, and all PAX were accordingly smoked, YHC included! We didn’t get to the 2nd Dora so Senior Frog (now Senior Log in SOJ) could get some time under the log, but we can push the Dora to the next Q for 495 reps. T Claps to Dangle posting twice in his first week back after a year hiatus – both DTH smokefests! Well done to all these brothers putting in the hard work today. Keep posting and there’s NOTHING stopping any F3RVA PAX from doing what I did 7 years ago… start your own AO next to your house! Yours AYE! ~DTH 💪

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • Weekly Forge Coffee + QSource
    • 4/11 OTB Ruck + BBQ (Machismo’s)
    • 4/12 Family Ruck&Pizza led by Beaver 
    • Monthly: Breaking Bread, Bridge
    • SEPT 26 GROW RUCK! (Registration Link:

    https://event.freedom-ops.fit/gte-74)

  • “Was this your VQ?”

    warmarama:

    We kicked things off with a downhill parking lot run, mixing in high knees, butt kicks, and karaoke on the way down. Stretch: Worlds Greatest, Don-Quiote, Quad, Cherry-picker

    The Thang:

    COP#1: 11’s

    10 Jerkins (on a bar that runs along the sidewalk above the tenis courts) and 1 Merkin.

    COP#2: TourDeStade with dips

    Next, we headed to the stadium for a partner Tour De Stade (touch every stair twice). One partner did dips while the other ran up and down the stairs, then we switched and moved to the next set of stairs. Solid teamwork kept everyone together and having fun.

    COP#3: 200m Sprint with partners and a twist

    Hit the track for 200m sprints with a twist: at the 100m mark, everyone stopped for 20 Merkins before finishing the sprint. The group was smoked after that, so we took a quick 20-count recovery led by Snip.

    COP#4: Evolution

    On the football field we “Evolved” from a ameba, to a worm, to a crab, to a bear, to a man.

    • Pencil roll to the 20-yard line
    • Inchworm to the 40
    • Crab walk to the 60
    • Bear crawl to the 80
    • Broad jump burpees to finish it off

    COP#5: Catch me if you can

    We wrapped up at the tennis courts with Catch Me If You Can: one person running circles around the court while the other did exercises, switching back and forth until the round was complete.

    1. Lunge
    2. Side Squat
    3. Bear Crawl

    COP#6: Evolution

    With about 7 minutes left, we circled up for Five Minutes of Mary — each PAX called and led an ab exercise in turn. This became 6-1/2 minutes of Mary and a unplanned hill-sprint back to the COT.

    COT: Countarama, Namarama, announcements and prayer.

    Great work this morning, men. We covered a lot of ground and got after it. Thanks for pushing through!

  • Conquering Tryhard at Handicamp

    10 gloom studs assembled for a refreshing ride on the Forge pain train, with YHC digging back in the annals of historic novelty for a nonstop high rep whoopin – as follows:

    The THANG: 

    MORNING CALL:

    • Mosey the latecomers loop and end up back at the Mobile Taco Pullup Station
    • PAX plank while taking turns doing 5 pullups on the bar, each PAX declaring their nickname with gusto and the PAX repeating

    SLAUGHTER LIGHT POLES:

    • Starting at the flag, stop at every light pole going down Sheila Lane to the Culdesac, and at each light pole complete x5 Squats AND x5 Merkins

    WARMERAMA: 

    • Circle up in the Culdesac
    • Welcome & Disclaimer
    • Warm-up Reps IC, including the infamous 8-count “DTH” (Dolly, Toe touch, Heels to Heaven)

    CATCH ME IF YOU CAN:

    • Partner up, runner Bernies while chaser completes x3 Burpees then sprints to switch
    • Stop at the “handicamp” ramp

    THE GREAT WALL OF TRYHARD: 

    • Climb the 8-10’ stone retaining wall, safely, for those PAX feeling comfortable doing so. If not, either spot from the bottom or help out at the top. 

    NEW GLORY RAMP:

    • 1st Half – Bear Crawl
    • 2nd Half – Lunge

    JERKIN GYM:

    • NEW Partners, each completing reps, for three rounds total
    • x10 Dips (feet held)
    • x10 Cliffhanger Merkins (feet held)
    • x10 Jerkins (feet held)

    DORA:

    • NEW Partners assemble at the stairs
    • x100 Heels to Heaven
    • x200 LBC’s
    • x300 Flutters (2-ct)
    • Moving partner Tooth Fairies the stairs and runs the loop back around to switch

    Beeline Mosey BTTF for COT:

    • Counterama # 10
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • BOM Prayer – specifically lifting up Scram’s brother in law with new esophageal cancer diagnosis and Dookie sharing about his son’s teacher who suddenly passed 

    NMS:  Solid PAX to run through some of our favorite DTH routines. TClaps to these Forge studs embracing the suck and conquering all these COT’s with great enthusiasm and effort. While bearcrawling the handicap ramp (AKA hadicamp) Snuff noted the brutal hear crawl was better than needing it for a wheelchair. This sentiment of gratitude for the strength and health we enjoy was rolled into the sober reality during COT that none of us can count on tomorrow, and we all ought to do all we can for the time we have today – seek and give forgiveness, put others needs before your own, stop to enjoy the beauty and blessing of moments and margins. Lovely coffeerama followed courtesy of Snuff, with excellent discussion about our 3rd F topics of Prayer and Study. We are better when connected with each other and with a greater power’s accountability and guidance of the What-What. The joyful grand finale on the morning was Scram agreeing to VQ this Saturday at Bon Iron. Let’s GO!!! Yours AYE! ~DTH

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • *Scram VQ* this Sat (3/21) at Bon Iron
    • 3/21 Kickers Game Home Opener
    • 3/29 Family Ruck (2pm Ruckhenge)
    • 4/11 OTB Ruck + BBQ (Machismo’s)
    • Weekly: Forge Coffee + QSource
    • Monthly: Breaking Bread, Bridge
    • SEPT 26 GROW RUCK! (Registration Link:
    https://event.freedom-ops.fit/gte-74)

  • HB WOD: The Calm Before the Storm

    An enthusiastic group of 9 assembled for the latest edition of Huge Bells. The skies looked ominous; but the fellas were ready to put in some work. Here is a brief summary for your viewing pleasure:

    Grab the KBells for a Slaughter Start on the grassy knoll. Bear Crawl up hill, overhead carries on the flat sections, regular mosey downhill.

    Warm-Up in the parking lot: Mario Jumps, Karoake (x2), Minecraft Walk, Butt Kicks, Bernie Mummy Kicks, Side Shuffles, BOC’s.

    Mosey to the Amphitheater area for Exercise One: KBell Wall of Death
    5 rounds of 20 Wall World II Sit ups, People’s Chair Upright Row, Wallabama Prom Dates (with Kbell), One Legged Shoulder Presses, People’s Curls, run to the abandoned school and back.

    Back towards the flag mixing in a couple exercises: Around the Worlds, Reverse Arm Curls, Bernie with High Hold, Lunge Walk.

    Numbers/Names/Announcements/Prayer Requests

    Stag took us out.

    Final Thoughts: Amazing effort by all the PAX this morning! By the end we were all swole and ready for the F3 Calendar photo shoot. Well deserved cups of coffee were provided by Snuff. Good luck to NTB as he starts his new job – just smile and nod!

    SYITG

  • Care Bears Ripping Discs

    10 men came together at the Forge for some fun with discs and burpees.

    The Thang

    Pledge, run around the parking lot, warm up with SSH, Good Mornings, Michael Phelps

    Indian Run down to the court for a round of care bear square with 25 burpees, 25 merkins, 25 squats, and 25 BBS

    Then to the football field in pairs with one PAX throwing a disc as far as he could while the other PAX did 3 exercises per every 10 yards on the way back after retrieving the discs including: hand release merkins, squats, and burpees.

    Weaving Indian Run back to the flag for Chumba Wumba Burpees

    Q Tip: Listening is a key leadership principle: “Tell me more”, repeating the last word, and repeating back the words said are effective ways to improve the skill.

  • Introducing: The Hardcore Cage

    15 men entered the cage, ready for a high intensity ab extravaganza. This one was not for the faint of heart…………A brief summary for your viewing pleasure.

    Mosey our way through the parking lots, mixing in some arm circles, raise the roofs, overhead claps, high knees, butt kicks, etc.

    Circle up for Jazzercise, Pickle Pounders, and various stretches. Warm-Up concluded.

    Mosey to the tennis courts for Exercise: The Hardcore Cage
    PAX complete as many rounds as possible in 25 minutes:

    25 WWII Sit-ups
    30 American Hammers (x2)
    30 Heels to Heaven
    50 Flutter Kicks (x2)
    25 Scrunchy Frogs
    30 Hello Dollies
    25 V Ups
    50 Alabama Prom Dates
    30 Chain Smokers
    50 LBC’s

    In between each exercise, sprint to the other end of the court and complete 5 hand release merkins. Run back.

    Wrapped things up with a cool down lap, additional stretching, then back to the flag.

    Numbers/Names/Announcements. Machinehead took us out.

    Final Thoughts: I have been thinking about trying the Hardcore Cage for awhile, and finally pulled the trigger. Hoping that it will become an Old Glory Style workout where we can track our progress. I believe TryHard was our top finisher and completed over 2 rounds. Everyone was looking strong out there! We had a great mixture of newer PAX and even some distinguished guests. For those who stuck around for coffee, there was also an excellent Q source discussion. As for the hardcore playlist………..opinions ranged from Incredible to God Awful. Perhaps that was the artist’s intent.

    SYITG