Tag: The FORGE

11 scouts warmed the 24 degree air with exercise and mumble chatter.

WARMUP: Mosey down hill for warmup. Side straddle hops, DQs, cherry pickers dead man hangs, planks, and some mericans. Run back up hill but stop at each light to perform B.L.I.M.P.S. Street light #1: B – burpees x15. Street light #2: L – lunges x 20. So on and so forth:

B.L.I.M.P.S

• B – Burpees 15x
• L – Lunges 20x (single count)
• I – Imperial Walkers 25x
• M – Merkins (no cheat) 30x
• P – Plank Jacks 35x
• S – Squats 40x

JERKIN GYM: Stop at handicap ramp/jerkin gym after 1 round. Line up single file; each man takes a section. 10 jerkins then 10 dips OYO. Leapfrog to next open slot. Repeat all the way up.

Mosey.  

FOUR CORNERS WITH HILLS: Prostitute style. Corner 1 – 10 mericans. Corner 2 – 20 squats. Corner 3 – 30 American hammers. Corner 4 – 40 monkey humpers. 

End with B.L.I.M.P.S. x5 reps at each street light back to flag. Hold plank 6” off ground for 1.5 minutes. 

Pray for Richard. Pray for us. Show up when you are needed. 

A 9-pack of HARDER Lemonade enthusiasts converged at The Forge and embraced the suck. Many were surprised to learn the Forge is an acronym for the 5 core principles. Many were not surprised that a DTH beatdown is in fact challenging. 

F – Free

O – Open to all men

R – Rain or Shine

G – Guys rotate the Q

E – Ends with COT

The THANG:

MOUNT WARMERAMA: 

• Circle up on top level/lot of Mt Chaplain, which we will call Level 1
• Welcome & Disclaimer
• Level 1 – Don Q’s x10 IC
• Run to top of Knolls, x5 burpees, run back down to next level down on Mt Chaplain
• Level 2 – Smurf Jacks x20 IC
• Run to the top for x5 burpees, run back down
• Level 3 – Mericans x30 OYO
• Run up, x5 Burpees, run down
• Level 4 – Hallelujah Flutters x40 IC
• Run up, x5 Burpees, run down
• Level 5 – Monkey Humpers x50 IC
• Run up, x5 Burpees, run down
• Level 3 – WWII x60 OYO
• Run up, x5 Burpees, run down

HANDICAP MOVERAMA:

• Form up at the bottom of the handicap ramp and Q calls variable movements for the PAX to eventually reach the top
• Examples: Bear Crawl, Lunges, Broad Jumps, Crab Walk, etc

WRECKING THE ROTATOR CUFFS:

• Mosey over to the bottom of the stairs
• LINDSEY:
• Dips at the bottom 30–>10
• Tooth Fairy up steps (x16 merican hops)
• Donkey Kicks at the top 10–>30
• Mosey around grassy slope to bottom

TOSSING LEGS:

• Partner up for PLT’s
• Complete x3 Rounds of x20 each

MINI WALLORAMA:

• Stop to complete a painful set of Hoedowns on the faux brick wall

BTTF:

• Merican Ring of Fire – PAX successfully and admirably chose a different style of mericans for their 10-count set
• Snuff served the PAX a moment of breathing meditation

COT:

• Counterama # 9
• Namerama
• Announcerama (see Below)
• YHC took the PAX out in Prayer

NMS:  Someone has been enjoying Harder Lemonade at The Forge, and we all suspect Machismo. Mount Warmerama is more than just a warm-up …OOF!  The stench is back, but not nearly as bad as years past. Doublemint shared stories from his glory days – surprise tattoos, STD’s, near-miss pregnancies and maybe paying a chick to pee on his face? Tough to say whether that was a joke or not… Appreciate Mudslide bringing the ShovelFlag since YHC had left it at BWE after the Ruck. Good to have you at the Forge brother! And thanks to Snuff for reminding us of the gift of every breath. Always an immense pleasure and honor to lead the Forge PAX! Yours Truly, DTH

Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

• Shoe Drive ongoing – being your used shoes to The Forge on Thursday!
• 11/23 Thanksgiving Convergence at Mary
• 12/9 Magnum PI at Dogpile
• MORE Ruck Opportunities coming!

Prayer Requests:

• Chaplain’s MIL is sick and now living with them

Last week at The Forge 7 men gathered to do all their favorite workouts, ad nauseam, until they were no long a favorite workout. And to discuss Japanese animation.

Mosey to the front, warmarama with 44 SSHs. Lots of other warmups to end on 44 LBCs. What could possibly be the significance? No idea.

Mosey to the amphitheater where YHC queued up a killer playlist featuring all the greatest hits from the Studio Ghibli movies. To his surprise and complete dismay, not a single person present had ever even heard of these movies. So the playlist was canceled and a new workout began.

Too much of a good thing: PAX does a continuous exercise while one at a time, the timer box jumps the big stairs then comes back down. Flutterkicks, arm circles, monkey humpers, APD, arm raises, all the easiest movements that become crushingly hard after doing them nonstop.

After a while it was too much of too much of a good thing, so we switched to:

Super tooth fairies: 5 incline burpees on the steps all the way up, then dip + 5 plank jacks on the way down. 3x Incline Lieutenant Dans on the way up, scrunchy frogs on the way down. Beautiful sunrise.

Mosey back to the flag where gratitude was given.

Here are some Studio Ghibli movies for homework:

Spirited Away. Howl’s Moving Castle (YHC’s personal favorite). My Neighbor Totoro. Princess Monoke. Ponyo. It would be amazing to be able to watch any of these movies again for the very first time – count yourself lucky.

9 brothers hit the HHS freezer to honor the snake.

Mosey to bus circle for some curb-to-curb merkins/bear crawls and dips/crab walks. Mosey to another parking lot for side straddle hops, DQs, cherry pickers, and a sampling of Broga to complete the warmup.

Mosey to the soft, dry comfort of the turf football field for The Snake.

Start on corner of the field where goal line and sideline meet. Run along the goal line to opposite sideline. Run up sideline to 5-yard line, then run along 5-yard line to opposite sideline. Run up sideline to 10-yard line then drop for 10 merkins. Run along 10-yard line to opposite sideline, up sideline, back across 15-yard line, up sideline to 20 then drop for 20 mountain climbers. Repeat – 30 merkins at 30-yard line, 40 mountain climbers at 40-yard line, 50 merkins at 50-yard line. 

Halftime guest performance by Doozy singing his hit single “Man Killers.”

Do The Snake run on the back half of the field doing 50 American hammers, 40 flutters, 30 hammers, 20 flutters, and 10 hammers.

Mosey back to flag but hit Peoples Chair for a two minute hold.

Enjoyed the fellowship and mumble chatter and prayer. I’m not bringing my mom next week.

A thin layer of gloom hovered over the parking lot of Huguenot High as YHC waited for the PAX to arrive for the second NTB beatdown of the week. Low turnout was to be expected given the option of an Orange Crush birthday bash, but after a silver sedan took a lap through the parking lot and then exited back onto Forrest Hill, YHC knew it was going to be the ultimate “you vs. you” morning. Mosey on!

Warmarama at the flag pole.

Brickyard 400 – Mosey around to the amphitheater for a Snuff-inspired pyramid.

• 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-6-5-4-3-2-2 rep scheme, moving up/down the brick steps each set for a total of 50 reps.
• Squats, Merkins, Ball Dippers, WWIIs, LBCs, Flutter Kicks, Carolina Dry Docks = 400 reps

Beep ($#&*%) Test – Mosey down to the football field for YHC’s inaugural beep test. While traditionally conducted on a 20m interval, YHC did the math and shuttled between the goal-line and 21-yard line which is close enough. Scored a 7.9. Finished with a cooldown lap around the track and then mosey BTTF for a few minutes of self-reflection and prayer for the PAX.

16 men gathered for what was expected to be a Dealer Q only to find out they’d be “Ghosted” and some West-hoes took the Q and this is what happened:

EF Hutton Q – Mosey down to the field between the two schools for a COP followed by a Jack Webb with Squats and Monkey Humpers

Flip to Honeydo Q – with Dealer having scouted the AO it was known there was access to the Football field, so we moseyed to the Field for a Beast. All 6 round, non-escalating and finishing with Burpess

Flip to Handshake Q – mosey back up to to Bus Loop in front of the school for 8/9ths of a Triple Check with P1 Running the Loop, P2 Flutter Kicks, P3 Deep Squats. Mosey back to the Flag for 20 WWI’s to finish out the time.

Announcements – SOJ Leadership Happy Hour at Diamond Billiards Friday at an unknown time. SOJ Family Potluck/Jack-o-Block Decorating at Rock and Roll – Rockwood Park – Sunday from 4-6 pm.

Prayer Requests – none

NMS – A group text was going yesterday about “Ghosting” a SOJ Q but nobody was on the Q Sheet for The Forge. Yesterday afternoon Dealer took the Q so our takeover could be done. Thank you, Dealer, for graciously giving up the Q and we know your beatdown next week will be great, maybe you too could lead a Ghosting in NOJ? YHC, EF Hutton, Senor Frog, and Honeydo made the trip and we were glad we did. Great time to see faces were don’t always see.

9 Beastie Boys gathered in the gloom to kick it Root Down. Meanwhile, YHCs hounds were out on the town having escaped earlier that morning by digging a giant hole under the fence. Sabotage.

Warmarama with SSHs, DQs, helicopters, arm circles and more arm circles, shoulder taps, Alabama Prom dates, LBCs, etc etc.

Mosey to the middle school for a stair climb triple check: Hoedowns squats, timer runs up and around.

Mosey around the front for another stair climb triple check: Dips, WW2s, timer runs up around around.

Mt Chaplin climb triple check: Flutter kicks and one other thing while timer ran up the hill and back down.

Back to the flag for an ascending squat parking space lunges, ran it back with bear crawl ascending leg lifts.

Gratitude for the morning and yes, the hounds were found.