Tag: The FORGE

A plethora of fine looking adventure seekers came out to enjoy the cooling temps and pleasant breeze that awaited them on the sweeter side of the river. Upon the arrival of the Machismo clown car it was time to venture out only to return 45 minutes later. According to the Huguenot security cameras, this is what occured.

Warm up Mosey around the bus loop to include a variety of calisthenics such as high knees, buttkickers, outside straddle, inside straddle and back to mosey. Circle up for introductions, disclaimers and all legal mumbo jumbo. YHC proclaimed no burpees will be performed today as enough were completed in previous Q’s by Snuff and Oyster this week. Warmups included invisible jumprope, DQ’s, Jazzercise, Merkins, Mountain Climbers, LBC’s and Kimchee Twists. All is good with the world, let us begin our travels.

COP 1: Mosey to the hill beside the school for Clockwork Merkins. We all know how these work and yes they do suck. AG for the 6. Mosey down to the amphitheater.

COP 2: Clock Eating Dora: Partner up for 100 Donkey Kicks, 200 WWII’s, 300 Shoulder Taps (2 count). Timer runs up the stairs around and back down. Fun was had by all. Mosey to the delivery area.

COP 3: Catch me if you Can: Partner Up, Partner 1 Bernies towards Forest Hill, Partner 2 – 2 HR Merkins then sprints to catch up to Partner 1 and switch. DTH is a beast on these and almost Bernied the entire way on his own. Well done.

COP 4: Light Pole Alley: BTTVF but stopping at every pole along Forest Hill for either 2 Lt. Dans or 2 Shoulder Tap Merkins, alternating at each pole. Rabbits come back for the turtles.

Circle Up for 1 minute of American Hammers followed by 1 minute of Alabama Prom Dates. Finished off with 1 minute of stretching. Numbers, Names, Announcements and Prayers. YHC took us out.

Announcements: Sat. Sept. 2nd – School of Rock is happening following Rock and Roll. Bring out the 2.0’s for them to experience a DTH inspired beatdown.

Convergence Mon. Sept. 4th – Dogpile @ 7 am with rotating Q’s. See slack for deets.

Welcome Red Card who is Machismos’ Brother in Law from Holland. Would be a very interesting fellow to share a story or 2 with. Hope to see you back out in the future.

NMS: Good turnout this morning. Was hoping to hit the turf but Snuffs’ Gate was locked up tight and YHC was not interested in scaling walls. Improvised with some old favorites after too many burpees earlier this week. Not much mumble chatter with all the counting but good time was had by all. Thank you gents for coming out and enjoy your holiday weekend.

YHC arrived early to a peaceful AO at the Forge, planted the flags and watched the group of 10 more men arrive for a morning beatdown. Here is what went down this morning.

COP

Mosey down to the bottom cud de sac and circle up to perform 20 SSH, 10 DQ’s, 10 Imperial Walkers, 10 Russian Soldiers, 15 arm circle 10 small and 5 big, reverso, leg stretch, 20 LBC’s, 10 windshield washers, 10 Alabama Prom Dates (4ct), 10 scorpions and 20 merkins.

THANG

We divided in to 2 groups of 4 and 1 group of 3 for a triple check. P1 Ran to the access road and back (About 2 pole lights) as the timer, P2 Hand release merkins and P3 LBC’s. Each partner rotated to complete a set and then repeated 2 more sets for a triple check.

Next, we formed a line at the pole light and lunged to the next light, performed one burpee, reverse lunged to the next light, 2 burpees, Karaoke(facing school) to the next light for 3 burpees, Bernie Saunders to the next light 4 merkins, Karaoke (facing woods) to the next light 5 Peter Parkers, lunge to the next light 6 decline merkins with feet on the curb, reverse lunge to the last light for this workout and 7 reps dealers choice for push ups. Next mosey to the handrail on sidewalk to stadium and we performed 10 Jerkins, 10 dips and 10 bar merkins for a set and completed 2 more sets.

Mosey up the steps by the stadium/school and take a right to the brick wall and do a wall sit. We then do 10 ea 4 count knee toe knee then wall touch (Thank you Orange Crush for this cool routine) 10 times. Do 10 donkey kick return to wall sit and do 5 4ct knee toe knee walls, 10 DK’s, then do 6 4ct knee toe knee then wall touch.

Mosey to lot below top lot and line up for 11’s. bottom of hill 10 squats, Bernie Saunders up hill 1 LBC, jog back to bottom 9 squats, top 2 LBC’s and continue until 1 squat and 10 LBC’s. Mosey to flag for COT

COT

Numberama and Namerama, YHC took us out in prayer. Look at Slack for the Pickleball update, Labor Day Convergence and a 2.0 workout (Babies and M’s Also) on September 2.

So YHC was watching everyone drive in big trucks and SUV’s for this workout and had to laugh as it was starting to feel like a project site and we were gathering to build something. I continue to be amazed with the newer men posting and some of the veterans also still working out and keeping up with the younger energy. It is inspirational and an honor to lead such a group this morning. Have a great day, gents and I will see you in the Gloom Soon! Cheers….CB!

Huguenot High School, home of the Falcons, played host to an FNG takeover.

Warmarama with all usual suspects: SSHs, DQs, helicopters, copperhead squats, Ukrainian soldiers, tempo mirkins, Rosalita dips, dead man hang etc etc.

Mosey to the amphitheater where DTH commented that ‘YHC has that look, like he’s making it up right now.’ Obviously!

Called for a Millennial where we would do 100 reps of an exercise. PAX immediately chimed in that YHC could not do math: “That’s a Centennial, dumbo.” Jokes on them because they just gave me the idea to do it 10x. IE a Millennial. School is back in session.

7 reps at the top of 7 steps, then 7 reps back down again for a clean 98. First man to finish calls out and everyone comes back down, then winner picks the next round. Lots of competition but DTH, NTB and Chaplain were in it to win it. Incline mirkins, Bobby something jump squats, arm circles, oblique crunches, monkey humpers, Freddie Mercuries, shoulder taps, step ups and SSHs.

Mosey to the flag for the last round which was burpees until time.

COT with gratitude for the day, for the challenges that make us stronger, for the spirit we carry out into the day.

Welcome to Scram – former nuke engineer now retired (shut down). Welcome to XO – there were many great names but YHC made an executive decision for a Navy guy. Glad to see you both come out. Millennial was a great way to balance out the challenge for both the vets and the new guys, the ultimate in you vs you routines. SYITG.

We were 12 deep at The Forge this morning! Not a triple check to be found. The following is a brief summary for your viewing pleasure:

Mosey down the snake Parking Lot mixing in some Bernie Sanders, High Knees, Butt Kicks, Mummy Kicks, Karaoke.

Warm Up: Ukranian Soldiers, Apple Bottom Poppers, Dead Man Hang, West Virginia Prom Dates, Freddy Mercury’s, Alternating Shoulder Taps

Exercise One: Muscleman Circuit
10 Burpees
20 Jerkins on bar
30 Merkins
40 Dips
50 Carolina Dry Docks

Exercise Two: Brokeback Railing
Side lunge under each bar, make your way down the sidewalk to the road

Exercise Three: Mt. Chaplain

Ascent: Run up hills, Flying Monkey Humpers (5 Monkey Humpers plus broad jump) across the parking lots

Exercise Four: Clockwork Merkins on the upper hill.

Exercise Five: Mt. Chaplain Descent: Crab Walk down the hills, 20 WWII situps, then 30, 40, and 50.

Exercise Six: Tooth Fairies up the staircase

Exercise Seven: People’s Chair – roughly two minutes, Raise the Roofs (House Party’s) to cool down

Back towards the flag – 100 meter strider down the parking lot.

Finished up with some Heels to Heaven until time was called.

Numbers/Names/Announcements (see slack)/Prayer Requests

Don Draper took us out

Final thoughts: Strong work by the PAX this morning! Great having Gomer Pyle stop by. We had to show out today with Channel 8 News posted at the entrance to Huguenot High. Hopefully they were impressed by our Monkey Humping prowess. Big respect to Kimura who has been posting consistently since his debut at Rock N Roll. As always it was a great time leading this fine group of gentlemen.

SYITG

A dozen SOJ lumberjacks gathered in the cool gloom of the Forge, their axes and appetites whetted for whatever glorious pain DTH had in store. Here’s what the Neighborhood Watch has reported to the authorities:

The THANG: 

WARMERAMA: 

• Moseyrama around the front bus loop and then circle up
• Welcome & Disclaimer
• Variable IC Reps to get the muscles warm top to bottom

COP #1:

• Mosey Off-Grid to Casa-de-DTH
• Collect CABERS in the back yard
• Mosey to THE BIG HILL

COP #2:

• Partner up at the bottom
• P1 – Lunge walks up the hill holding the caber (extra credit to carry overhead)
• P2 – Runs to top of hill and back down to switch with lunging partner
• Once all PAX reach the top, return to the bottom

COP #3:

• Circle up for CABER REPS
• Curls
• Shoulder Press
• Incline Merkins
• Rapid Alternating Step-ups
• Shoulder carry cabers back up the hill to the DTH back yard and deposit cabers

EXTRA CREDIT;

• PAX line up to roll a felled tree trunk a short distance, then switch sides to roll back again

COP #4:

• Mosey back to the AO and form up at the bottom of the Knolls
• MINI DORA
• x40 Incline Burpees
• x80 Downhill Flutters (2-ct)
• x120 SSH
• Moving partner bear crawls up and crab walks down to switch

Mosey BTTF for COT:

• Counterama # 12
• Namerama
• Announcerama (see Below)
• YHC took the PAX out in Prayer

NMS:  Remarkably cool weather helped soften the insulting and painful nature of handling the DTH cabers, but a change is as good as a holiday, and the PAX crushed it. Last Call won the Most Grumbling Award. Understandable given the lightweight stature of his wood. Kimura won Most Improved PAX by hitting 3 AO’s in his very first week. TClaps! Bone Thugs won the 3rd F Award with some deep thoughts and words of encouragement during the COT. Also, incline burpees are waaaay nicer then regular ones. Keep posting gents! SYITG, DTH

Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

• School of Rock! Bootcamp for kids starting just after 8am when the R&R COT ends. Followed by watermelon and cake on the playground.
• Every Monday 0530 Coffee Prayer&Share at Starbucks off Robius/Huguenot
• 8/11 – SOJ Happy Hour at Diamond Billiards – come share your SOJ ideas! 
• 8/19 – Homegrown Half Marathon CSAUP

Prayer Requests:

• Thugs lost his Aunt recently, unexpectedly, as she hadn’t shared her cancer battle with anyone, and then died faster than expected. Thugs’ words of wisdom were in forms of poetry and scripture, but essentially YOUR LIFE MATTERS – so don’t lose the opportunities each day to connect with those around you. 
• DTH is making it a dry month – encouraged PAX to join him for Dry August if they wanted/needed that kind of challenge or re-centering. 

Great AO! Last time I was here, we had ice coffee at the end of the workout and a lot of heat and humidity. No ice coffee today but plenty of heat and humidity. Discussion of the difference between Cherry pickers and Strawberry pickers. Someone else will have to provide the precise details but one involves clapping hands behind back and the other involves clapping hands just above the ground.

Traveling COP

• Mosey a short distance: 20 SSHs, 10 ManMaker Merkins, 15 Crunchy Frogs, (preceding all in cadence), stretch
• Mosey some more: 20 Imperial Walkers, 10 Diamond Merkins, 15 Knee-ups, (preceding all in cadence), stretch
• Mosey some more: 20 Copperhead Squats, 10 stagger arm Merkins, 15 dollies (preceding all in cadence), stretch
• Mosey some more: 20 Don Quixote, 10 stagger arm Merkins, 15 Ukrainian hammers (preceding all in cadence), stretch

Wall Exercises

• 15 People’s chair air press, 10 BTTW hip slaps (preceding in cadence), 15 Donkey Kix OYO
• 15 People’s chair Muhammad Ali, 10 BTTW Australian Mt Climbers (preceding in cadence), 15 Donkey Kix OYO
• 15 People’s chair Milkers, 10 BTTW Toe Taps (preceding in cadence), 15 Donkey Kix OYO

Partner Jacob’s Chair: Mosey to the ‘outdoor’ amphitheater:

• Partner 1 does a called Ab exercise while Partner 3 runs to the top of the amphitheater, does 1 burpee and returns. Repeat adding one burpee each time until 7 burpees are completed. We changed the ab exercise after each pair of burpees.

Bulgarian/Dip/Derkin: Mosey trying to get to the other side of the school. Couldn’t do it from the direction I was trying so we went back to the top of the amphitheater and used the benches there.

• 10 Bulgarian split squats, flapjack, 10 Dips, 10 Derkins (all in cadence): 2X

Back to the flag with a stop on the way for:

• 20 SSHs, 10 Cherry Pickers, stretch
• Brazilian Mindbenders for 30 seconds

We’re done:

Water break

Numerama & Namearama.

2^nd F event in the West End

Takeout by YHC: Prayer St. Francis

A trio of trios emerged from the swampy gloom to see what was in store at The Forge. Rumors were abound for a variety of cultured games including Croquet, Red Rover and Duck Duck Goose. YHC would have no such shenanigans on his watch. Here is what really occurred as far as I can tell.

Mosey down to the turnabout. On the way stopping at each light for 5 merkins to get the blood pumping. Introductions, disclaimers and salutations followed by warm ups that included SSH’s, Arm Circles, Dead Man Hang, Jazzercise, Heels to Heaven, LBC’s and Suzanne Summers. All seems good in the world, let us begin.

Perfect conditions for a triple check. Mosey over to the visiting locker room wall. Donkey Kicks, Hoedowns while timer runs to the driveway and returns.

Back to the base of the sac for 11’s. 10 jump squats, 1 WWII at the 1st lightpole, 9/2 at the 2nd…..Plank for the 6 at the final light pole.

Mosey to the ticket booth. Unfortunately no rear entry access to the fields this morning, so we modify. Triple Check it is. Dips, American Hammers, timer runs up the stairs and around.

Slow walk up the stairs then partner up for love hill w/o the hill. Bear Crawl, Lunge, Broad Jump. Partner runs to the flag poles and returns. Carpenter won the partner challenge as Snuff was to the flag poles before many of the running PAX.

BTTF for merkin ring of fire. Time still on the clock for a brief Shavasana to slow the heart beat and breathing. Numbers, Names Announcements, Prayers. YHC took us out.

Announcements: Oysters Paying: Lunch next Thursday. McRib is jamming tonight at Hurleys Tavern.

Prayers: Snuffs friend (and DTH’s neighbor) has some serious health concerns. Take care of yourself fellas. Listen to your check engine light.

NMS: Great numbers for the Forge this morning. YHC tried to lead an extended version of SSH in honor of Carpenter’s return but did not have the endurance. Carpenter is really growing the New Jersey F3 chapter. Hopefully they will find a challenger for Hardywoods 100,000 merkins in a month, Good luck. Good to see Opus and Oyster punch their summer tour passports. Mumble chatter is always strong with this group and always welcome on these sticky mornings. Great work this morning. Enjoy the corn.

YHC rolled into the Forge to find Tuckahoe clown cars erupting with First Watch maniacs (all proudly wearing their nonsense shirts …you have to be one to understand), including Kubota who claimed a virgin attendance at the AO – well that changes everything! Scrapped the planned field trip for a caber beatdown to run a tour of the Forge favorites. Here we go! 

The THANG:

WARMERAMA: 

• Mosey loop around the top lot and circle up
• Welcome & Disclaimer
• Variable IC Reps to get the muscles warm top to bottom

COP #1:

• KNOLLS TRIPLE NICKLE
• x5 Jump Squats at the bottom
• Bear crawl to the top
• x5 Groiners
• Run back down to the bottom
• x5 Sets total

COP #2:

• Moseyrama around the bus loop with karaoke, bernie, high knees, butt kickers, low shuffle
• ECHO CHAMBER
• Line up in People’s Chair
• Hoedown’s x10 IC
• BTTW for Hip Slappers x10 IC
• Dirty Hookup’s x10 IC each side
• Donkey Kickoffs up to 20

COP #3:

• Mosey around to the Amphitheater
• TRIPLE CHECK
• P1 – Flutters
• P2 – Merkins
• P3 – Box jump steps up and down

COP #4:

• Mosey back around to the grassy slope
• CLOCKFACE WWII’s
• PAX on their Six on the grassy slope
• x3 WWII’s at each hour of the clock

COP #5:

• Mosey over to the small loop
• INDIGENOUS CURB CRAWL
• PAX lines up in carousel plank while last man does x3 Burpees and runs to the front

COP #6:

• Mosey around the school and down to the handicap rails
• AWKWARD PARTNER RAILWORK
• P1 holds legs while P2 completes:
• Jerkins x10
• Cliffhanger Merkins x10
• Dips x10
• Each Partner completes x3 Rounds of each set of exercises

COP #7:

• MOUNT CHAPLAIN
• Mosey up to the top of the Knolls stopping for reps at each level
• x5 Burpees
• x10 Merkins
• x15 Ball Dippers 2-ct
• x20 American Hammers 2-ct
• x25 Mtn Climbers 2-ct
• x30 Sunrise Sump Squats – stopped early since overtime

Mosey BTTF for COT:

• Counterama # 11
• Namerama
• Announcerama (see Below)
• YHC took the PAX out in Prayer

NMS:  What a pleasure to have the summer tour in force at the Forge today – you can always count on some hilarious mumble chatter from the First Watch gang. The Forge tour ended up producing a wonderful well rounded sweatfest, and everyone was in agreement that it was better than the caber alternative. Also enjoyed the iced coffeerama afterwards. SYITG, DTH

Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

• Tomorrow! Friday 7/14 SOJ HAPPY HOUR at Diamond Billiards after work, roughly 5-8pm.
• 7/20 McRib playing music at Innsbrook After Hours

Backblast (better late than never?)

Title: NTB should have bought the road hazard coverage

Date: 2023-06-22

AO: #ao-forge

Q: @Greenbow

PAX: @Don Draper @Dr TryHard @Machismo @NTB @Dealer @Greenbow (did I miss anyone? I swore I had a video of nameorama..)

FNGs: none

Count: 5

Moleskine: GQ (Greenbow Q) as it’s not my first but also it hasn’t happened in a while. We sprinted. Maybe too quickly. NTB blew out a tire on the 2nd lap. Was great to get out there the week before I traveled to India

WARMUP: Running approximately .25 miles. Not quite enough to get the youngins’ warmed up, apparently.

THE THANG: Starting with the Q, a pax member calls out an exercise. Sprint to a place. However many finish after that pax, the exercise called x7 is performed. I believe we started with 21 burpees? Also did others as called. (NTB only) Pop a hammy on the 2nd sprint. Mosey down stairs to the top concrete overlooking the field. Prostitute with WW2s, Merkins, dips. Make fun of Huguenot High for having a mascot other than a Hawk. Some more running.

MARY: stretching the hamstrings, Rosalitas, leg lifts, etc

ANNOUNCEMENTS: breaking bread The Bridge – contact Upchuck

COT: prayers and out.

The Macheesman was ready to skip and start work early but opted for a slutterstart at the Forge instead. The pax not warned nor prepared started with a pole to pole American Burpee Bigmac. 3 burpees 10 American hammers repeato to the primary school. Warmarama included: Ukrainians, Merkins, imperialists, Rosalitas, Don Qs, Freddie’s, it was a Star studded line up. On to a Dora while admiring the sunrise with 100 dips, 200 LBCs, 300 flutters.

Echo chamber for dirty hookups.

Eye of the hurricane 10 burpees middle with 20S hammers, WW2, CDD, SHOULDER TAPS,

Back to the echo chamber for how downs.

merkin ring of fire to finish.

If the fart sack is calling sometimes the best thing is just a little Machismo.