Tag: The FORGE

11 shredders cranked up the amps to 11 for an axe-slinging homage to Joe Satriani and Steve Vai.

Morbid Angel mosey to the roundabout for some warmarama, a Valley of Eternity with SSHs, DQs, Rosalita dips and a whole lot more.

Mosey around the back to the clockwork hill where we burned some time with 11s, donkey kicks at the top of the steep hill and mirkins at the bottom. Then clockwork LBCs and clockwork APDs. Smoked and we still had a good 20 minutes left.

Back around the front of the school and all the way down to the base of Mt Chaplin for a triple check – jerkins on the bar, WW2s, timer runs to the end of the lot. Cliffs of Dover wasn’t done so we did burpees almost to the end. Its a very long song.

Then, the Hill of the Skull. Race to the tip top of the mountain.

Once up top we crab walk down, bear crawl up. Craw bear down, crab walk up. Bernie down, Bernie up. Bear crawl down, craw bear up. That last one was tough.

Then over across the top the hills for some WW2s to bring it home.

COT and coffee.

Warm-Up.
The PAX Mosey’d to the football field and then winded it’s way like a snake from Greek mythology up and down, down and up through the stairs on the bleachers. Mumble chatter about “skipping,” the stretches were heard from the unhappy serpent until we arrived at the top of the last set of stairs.

Circle up:

• Cherry Pickers x 10 IC
• Worlds Greatest stretch 10 OYO
• Arm Circles fwd/bwd x10 IC 
• Imperial Walkers x15 IC

I proceeded to miss-name exercises and ruin the “Next exorcise, In Cadence, ready position, move,” procedure, but my supportive PAX was quick retrain me. Here I thought I was a big bad Q with 2 notches in my belt, but I clearly have some homework.

Thang 1: “Tour – De – Stade” The pax will revisit the bleachers to touch every stair twice

Set-up: 8 stair sections; assign 1 pair per section to start (staggered). 

Per cycle (together or alternate): 

• Run up stairs to top → 10 Dips
• Run down stairs → 10 Merkins

– After completing aisle, move right to next section & repeat. 

– At far right end, mosey back to far left & loop again. 

Transition: The PAX regrouped at the bottom of the bleachers and did air squats till the six joined us. Then we ran to the football field.

Thang 2: Field Mary Suicides  

Set up: Start in end zone. Suicide-style: sprint to each line (10, 20, 30, 40, 50 yd), do full reps of listed exercise, sprint back. Advance to next line after completing previous. 

  – 10 yd: 10 Australian Snow Angels 

  – 20 yd: 20 WWII’s

  – 30 yd: 30 American Hammers 

  – 40 yd: 40 Alabama Prom Dates

  – 50 yd: 50 Flutter Kicks 

Thang 3: Dora

Pair up, each group does 100 Squats, 200 Plank Jacks, and 300 monkey humpers as a pair. One member of the pair runs to the other sideline and back while the other member knocks off sequential reps and then they switch.

Transition: Run to the ramp for some lunges and then back to the parking lot.

Thang 4: 2 minutes of Side straddle hops.

Back at the cars we found a fearless leader, very ill, and equally Nyquilled Snuff who rolled out of his death bed to bring us coffee.

I needed to kill 2 minutes so we did 47 SSH in cadence.

– Name-o-Rama, announcements, prayer, and Coffee-Rama followed by a DTH lead discussion of our Shorties and shield wall

🔥 WARMARAMA

A jog with some butt kickers, high knees, and Bernie’s. Light exercises to get us into the Valentines Day mood: monkey humpers, pickle pounders, Fudd’s wife and then Wilson’s wife. 

Turned on Valentine’s Day playlist. Finding love songs that were not slow and sappy was a task but we succeeded. 

Mosey to the turf field to recount love lost. 

💪 THE THANG

Cupid’s Arrow 

To honor all those times the teenage PAX were shot out of Cupid’s bow like a love arrow only to suffer heartbreak and then mend. 

• The Arrow: 100y sprint across fields. 
• The Heartbreak: Bear crawl various lengths back. 
• The Mend: Walk the rest back to the start.
• Repeat 4 times.

Heart Rate Escalator

A ladder-style burn to ensure the PAX left with a rosy red face.

• 10 Burpees
• 20 Groiners
• 30 Big Boys
• 40 Squats
• 50 Side Straddle Hops

Then we worked our way back down.

Now that the PAX remembered love, suffered heartbreak, and healed, they were ready to tie the knot. 

The Wedding Ring

The PAX forms a large circle.

• Everyone holds a Plank. One man runs around the outside of the ring. When he returns to his spot, the next man goes.
• If the “Ring” collapses from plank we go “through the big D and I don’t mean Dallas.” It was a long, lovely marriage, however. No divorce penalty. 

Mosey back up the hill for one final push. 

Heartbreak Hill

Move the whole PAX to the base of the hill to climb the Valentine’s ladder.

• Run to the top: 14 Merkins (for Feb 14th). Run down.
• Run to the top: 14 Squats. Run down.
• Run to the top: 14 WWIIs (Wide-grip). 

Mosey BTTF 🇺🇸

🧘 MARY

Various an burners. Ended with a minute of Alabama Prom Dates which is 45 seconds longer than any of the PAX ever lasted. 

🗣️ COT 

• Name-o-Rama
• Announcements
• Prayers:
  • For practicing unconditional love. 

Dealer’s Musings:

• Love is difficult but love is the way. 
• Help us practice unconditional love and, when we are not, let’s try harder. 
• Love my F3 brothers. Happy early Valentine’s Day. 

12 men came out to focus on resilience. There was sledding, 100 burpees, pearls on resilience and 10 Minnesota Burpees which include 15 degrees or less, no shirt, and snow.

Start at the flag, Jog to the tennis courts, its windy

Warm Up: Side Straddle Hops; Helicopters; Copperhead Squats; Merkins; WW2; Arm Circles (all count to 15 because its 1/15)

Workout1: Divide into Pairs. Chase the other, for a lap (Q needs to give better direction on this moving forward):

• Lap 1: Rotating Squats;

• Lap 2: Bear Crawl

• Lap 3: Broad Jump Burpee

Workout 2: On Football Field – Four Corners Escalator:

• 1^st Corner – Burpees (10)
• 2^nd Corner – Merkins (20)
• 3^rd Corner – Squats (30)
• 4^th Corner – Monkey Humpers (40)

Workout 3: DORA on the sideline of the football field:

• Run to first hash / 50 Carolina Dry Docks
• Run to 2nd hash / 100 Jump Squats
• Run Across Field / 150 Plank Jacks

Workout 4: Triple Check at Stairs:

• Step Ups
• WW2
• Tooth Fairy Stairs

On the way back to flag, stop by wall:

• 20 count Muhammed Ali/10 Donkey Kicks
• 15 count Muhammed Ali/10 Donkey Kicks
• 10 count Muhammed Ali/10 Donkey Kicks

Mosey Back to Flag, circle up and hold plank, each PAX rotates getting to do a pull-up on the DTH pull-up car-bar (pretty creative contraption, if I do say):

• Numbers; Names
• Announcements: Check Slack for The Bridge; Frozen Triangle (2/7); Dry January; Futsal Training with DTH (1/24); Q Source at the FORGE after workout every Thursday; Snuff – You bring it, he’ll brew it (coffee wanted/needed)
• Prayers

Dix-sept hommes cultivés du monde entier se sont réunis pour explorer les aspects les plus raffinés de la culture française et pratiquer des activités physiques.

La bande originale d’Amélie a enchanté leurs oreilles et a remonté le moral de ces personnes fatiguées et manquant de sommeil.

À leur agréable surprise, l’échauffement comprenait les exercices habituels : sauts écartés, mouvements de bras à la Don Quichotte, rotations des bras, flexions des jambes et étirements. Le nec plus ultra de l’échauffement !

Une course à pied lente et incroyablement agréable vers une nouvelle zone de la Forge pour une équipe de trois personnes qui fumaient des cigarettes, dansaient des danses folkloriques et couraient en rond.

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Nous avons couru jusqu’à l’amphithéâtre et avons fait une série de 11 exercices, avec des références à la Seconde Guerre mondiale et des mouvements bizarres, sautant sur des caisses comme des grenouilles ivres draguant des étudiants américains en échange universitaire dans un bar touristique quelque part dans le Quartier latin.

Une affiche spéciale sur le thème du football américain accrochée au mur, avec des danses endiablées, des débauches sans limites, des coups de pied de mule et des rencontres sulfureuses : une parfaite illustration des soirées tardives de Snuff dans le quartier chaud près de Pigalle.

Retour tranquille vers le drapeau pour quelques instants de détente et le fameux Cercle de Confiance. Café et discussion autour de la source Q – le thème de cette année est la rupture.

Vois sur ces canaux
Dormir ces vaisseaux
Dont l’humeur est vagabonde;
C’est pour assouvir
Ton moindre désir
Qu’ils viennent du bout du monde.
— Les soleils couchants
Revêtent les champs,
Les canaux, la ville entière,
D’hyacinthe et d’or;
Le monde s’endort
Dans une chaude lumière.

Là, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté,
Luxe, calme et volupté.

— Charles Baudelaire