Tag: The FORGE

Six warriors, pure and true, embraced the rain for something new. With every breath precious, and precious time finite, these warriors of the gloom dug deep and won the fight:

The THANG:

WARMERAMA:

• Parking Lot Loop
• Circle up for Variable IC Reps
• Parking Lot Loop with movement exercises
• Complete one set of BLIMPS:  x5 Burpees, x10 Lunges (ea leg), x15 Imperial Walkers (2-ct), x20 Merkins, x25 Pole-Smokers, x30 Squats
• Note: YHC chose to replace the usual x25 Plank Jacks with x25 Pole-Smokers, which in the absence of poles was simply leg lifts (hands under tail)

BLIMPS FIELD TRIP:

• Run a loop through YHC’s “Oxford” neighborhood, stopping frequently (usually in a pool of lamp post light) to complete x2 components of BLIMPS, before moving on (Burpees/Lunges, RUN, Walkers/Merkins, RUN, etc).
• Variable movement exercises were called randomly as well between some stops (Bear Crawls, Broad Jumps, Bernie, etc)
• The tour also included bear crawling on either side of YHC’s house …good job not waking the fartsacking Cooper…

Mosey BTTF for COT:

• Counterama # 6
• Namerama
• Announcerama (see Comments)
• GARBAGE PLATE took the PAX out in Prayer

NMS:  Having Thugs back in the Bootcamp Gloom after a long BRR training hiatus was a very special treat. Welcome back bro!!! YHC brought something simple but effective to give a little variety to the usual Forge routines, and my core is telling me that the switch to do Non-pole-Smokers was worthwhile. Apologies again for gassing ya’ll toward the end… Thanks as always for letting me lead – it’s an honor to have you guys in my life!!! SYITG, YHC, DTH

The first Q for YHC in over a year and five studs showed up to join in. The beat down went as follows:
Run to bottom of hill to circle for warm up. DQ’s, Helicopters, Smurf Jacks, Russian Soldiers, OYO 20 2 count Mountain Climbers, 15 Carolina dry docks, 10 Burpees.
Mosey over to first light pole. Goal is to use every light pole all the way up the Hill to Forest Hill Rd. A leap frog is in order. Partner 1 performs 5 Merkins, while partner 2 runs to next light pole and gets in plank position. Partner one completes Merkins, then runs to partner 2, “tags” partner so they can begin 5 Merkins as partner 1 continues to the next light pole to hold Plank. This increased by 5 till each partner has done 20. Exercises change to holding Al Gore/Jump Squats to finish out light poles.
Mosey to Grassy hill. 11’s are called. Starting at bottom of hill, 1 Lt Dan, run to top of hill, 10 WWII sit-ups, run back down and so on.
Mosey to front entrance of school for a welcomed exercise with no running. It’s a Lazy Dora! Partner up, 100 Merkins, 200 LBC’s, 300 Squats. 1 partner performs 10 Merkins, while partner 2 is holding plank. At the completion of 10, switch and partner 2 completes 10 while partner 1 is holding plank. Continue to 100. 20 LBC’s while partner is holding 6”…HOLD IT! Up to 200. 30 squats while partner is holding Al Gore, up to 300.
Mosey back to flag.

Announcements: Field Day this Saturday at Dog Pile.

YHC took us out.

Today was a pleasure to be back on the Q sheet and to be in great company! You Men crushed it! The leap frog was introduced not too long ago and was a little clunky on the flow, so YHC decided a great time to bring it back for another try and it seemed to work well. That Hill is no joke!

Have a great day, Gents!

6 Forge All-Stars ignored the weather report and showed up ready to put in some work. Don’t tell us its not worth tryin’ for – you would be wrong. Here is a brief summary for your viewing pleasure:

Mosey to the elementary school for Warm Up:
Russian Soldiers, Imperial Walkers, Helicopters, Cherry Pickers, Dead Man Hang, Don Quixotes.

Mosey to the lower parking lot for Exercise One:

We tried out some potentially off-the-Exicon moves – basically just making crap up.

Rd 1: Lt. Dan Walks the Plank aka “Angry Lt. Dans”
Lunge walk, squat, fall forward for 5 plank plank jacks. Move across the parking lot, then jog back.

Rd. 2 Crab Rolls
Crab Walk 5 steps, roll over for 5 Merkins, repeat. Jog back

Rd. 3: WWII Crawl Bears
Crawl Bear for 5 steps, fall back and do 5 WWII sit ups, then switch back. jog back

Rd. 4: Jumping Herpees
Hand release broad jump burpees across the parking lot. Jog back.

Mosey to the Ampitheater for Exercise 2:

Triple Check – runner box jumps up the stage, 10 dips, run back down.
Other 2: Heels to Heaven, Incline Merkins

Mosey to the side of Huguenot High for Exercise 3:

Another Triple Check! Runner does Broke Back Railing to light, jogs back.
Other 2: Hold Plank, LBC’s

Mosey the flag for numbers/names/announcements

YHC took us out.

Final thoughts: A lot to unpack from this workout. Appreciate everyone’s enthusiasm in trying out some new combinations. I think Jumping Herpees are here to stay. For me, the Crab Rolls proved the most challenging. Might have to work on some of the names.

Not exactly sure what happened, but somehow Garbage Plate getting confused between Incline Merkins and Decline Merkins devolved into various takes on the Bryan Adams classic (Everything I Do) I Do it For You. For example, “every Merkin I do, I do it for you………….” There were many combinations.

Hot take: Bryan Adams is solid, but this single from the Robin Hood Soundtrack has to be one of the worst and douchiest songs ever recorded. Am I the only one?

And just like that, RVA’s sweaty mistress of humidity has departed, leaving a bedraggled summer PAX lapping up the sweet cool air of freedom. Here follows the tale of eight vets and one FNG, invigorated with the first taste of Autumn, digging deep to overcome the flesh:

The THANG:

COP #1:

• Mosey a couple parking lot loops with moving exercises
• Circle up for F3 Welcome & Disclaimer
• Variable IC exercises to get blood pumping to all the necessary parts 
• Donkey Kickoffs to close 5–>20

COP #2:

• Mosey another couple lots to end up down at the Tooth Fairy stairs
• LINDSEY:
• Dips at the bottom 30–>10
• Tooth Fairy up
• Donkey Locks at the top 10–>30
• Mosey around grassy slope to bottom

COP #3:

• Mt CHAPLAIN BEAST:
• x6 reps at each (upper) hardtop levels en route to the top, x3 stops to the top, and hit the same x3 stops down to the start
• x36 2-Count Lunges
• x36 Crunchy Frogs
• x36 Merkins
• x36 2-Count Flutters
• x24 Elbow Slides (OUT OF TIME)

Mosey BTTF for COT:

• Counterama # 9
• Namerama (welcome Ratchet!)
• Announcerama (see Comments)
• YHC took the PAX out in Prayer

NMS:  Absolutely beautiful morning to be out in the gloom with the finest band of brothers a guy could ask for. Also great to have FNG Chris Edwards “Ratchet” join us. He was at the recent men’s retreat (with myself, Doozy, Greenbow, & Elmer’s), and missed the F3 workouts while there, so he chose to come out today. Among many fine attributes and qualities, Chris is a systems manager at a Nursing Facility, hence the Nurse Ratchet reference. Great to have you with us brother! Also, forgot to share this AM, but Greenbow recently challenged me on whether the FORGE was an acronym for something since it’s all-caps. I admitted the original idea was more about the idea of Forging HIM’s in the fire of the 3 F’s, but then came up with the below. Fancy that! SYITG, YHC, DTH

F – Free

O – Open to all men

R – Rain or Shine

G – Guys rotate the Q

E – Ends with COT

Four sweaty gloom vets (yes, sweaty before it even began) posted to the Forge for a scenic tour, as follows:

The THANG:

WARMERAMA:

• Mosey down South Coleman to the culdesac for a well rounded DTH full body warmerama IC

THE TOUR:

• Circuit the entire AO, stopping at every light post to complete called reps
• The bottom: Alternate x10 Merkins with x10 Squats
• (GARBAGE PLATE was kind enough join us at this point having already toured the entire AO looking for us)
• The Hill: Bernie up the hill stopping for x10 WWII alternated with x10 Mtn Climbers
• The Parking Lot: x5 Burpees alternated with x10 Flutters (2-ct)
• Front of HS: x10 Ball Dippers (2-ct) alternated with x10 Am.Ham’s (2-ct)
• Front of MS: x10 DR.W’s alternated with x10 ?can’t recall
• The Far Side: x10 Jump Squats alternated with x10 Merkins
• The Back Stretch: x20 LBC’s alternated w x20 SSH’s

Mosey BTTF:

• En route, alternate x10 Dry Docks with x10 Monkey Humpers

COT:

• Counterama # 4
• Namerama
• Announcerama (see Comments)
• LAST CALL took the PAX out in Prayer

NMS:  Well, 0530 is definitely getting a lot darker these days, but the 1000% humidity hasn’t budged. Good to have a few fine souls to share the sweat fest with. YHC is honored as always to call you brothers. SYITG, YHC, Tryhard

6 LPGA want-to-be’s showed up to a Forge beatdown knowing not what was in store for them. According to the off color, color man this is what went down.

Mosey / try to out run GP coming in hot

COP – DQ’s, Helicopters, Weed Pickers, Russian Soldiers, Imperial Walkers

Mosey to the back of the school at the bottom of the steps Crab Cakes and LBC’s, Box Jump to the top

Find 12 (cheep Wal Mart) Frisbees take one and write your name on the painters tape on the bottom.

YHC will pick an object (as the flag) for each hole. Everyone tees off at the same time (hence the names on the bottom) before you can throw your disc you have to do a burpee for the number of shot that you are on. Start with your first shot is one burpee, your second is two so on and so forth. Once you have taken your shot you run to your frisbee and do your next round of burpees before you shoot again. If you catch an opponents frisbee they have to do an extra 5 burpees as a penalty.

In total I think we did 8 holes possibly 9 (YHC lost track) at minimum 40 burpees but I think most of us did much more than that. I know YHC had at least 2 holes that where 8 shots and twice YHC’s frisbee was caught giving him 5 extra burpees each.

After last hole near the flag stop for a quick round of Man Killers

BTTF

Numbers / Names YHC took us out

NMS:

Last Time proved to be the best hands of the PAX this morning, both of the penalty catches YHC had where caught by Last Time and one was off a quick skip that YHC was trying to get around him on.

Frisbees where .10 each at Wal Mart and flew like you would expect a .10 frisbee to fly. They may get you banned from an actual Disc Golf coarse if you where brave enough to play with them in public. For a bunch of 30 to 50 year old goof balls they where perfect.

A perfect 7 gathered at the Forge for a morning beat down. YHC rolled in, unintentionally gloveless, and off we went.

Warmup: Variety mosey (high knees, butt kickers, karaoke) to circle up for SSH x 20, DMH, IW x 10, LBC x 15, Hello Dolly x 10, Merkin x 10.

Main event: Sneaky sneaky surprise coupons emerged from Garbage Plate’s vehicle. Partner up and rifle carry to the bus loop. Bear crawl coupon drag around the bus loop, alternating as each partner runs the loop. Repeat with 50 x alternating coupon Merkins. Repeat with 200 x overhead coupon presses.

Mosey to the base of the infamous hill and circle up for some Mary. Alternating one by one, each PAX member bear crawls to top of hill for 2x burpees while the group does LBC’s, reverse crunches, Rosalitas, hip dips, Superman, side V-ups, and finishes up with back extensions.

A rifle coupon carry back to the flag finished our coupon work. Mosey down towards the track with alternating 10x HRM and jump squats at each light pole. At the bottom partnered for 2×25 PLT’s. Catch me if you can up the hill, with a 2x burpee-run & Bernie combination. The top of the hill brought 2×25 Wilson’s Dying Cockroaches and our grand finale was a Burpee shuffle.

Numberama, Namerama, Announcements (repeat the full schedule in August & September), and YHC took us out.

Moleskine: It was super to be out at the Forge with everyone and really solid work by all this morning, especially with the humidity. Next time there are coupons stowed in the truck I’ll take Last Call up on his offer for extra gloves… GP