Tag: The FORGE

Huguenot High School

  • Logs of Love

    10 gloom brothers of the F.O.R.G.E. embraced the suck this morning, pushing beyond the boarders of the AO and the standard comfort of carrying just their own body weight. Here’s how the PAX embraced some fresh coupons: 

    The THANG: 

    WARMERAMA: 

    • Run to bottom of hill, Bernie back to top
    • Someone remarks “UH OH, DTH IS MAD…”
    • Circle up at the Flag
    • Welcome & Disclaimer
    • A smattering of many usual DTH warm-up exercises, but fast paced with only x5 reps IC each

    COP # 1:

    • ELEVENS at the topmost grass slope of Mt Chaplain
    • Incline Merkins at the bottom 10–>1
    • WWII’s at the top 1–>10

    COP # 2:

    • FIELD TRIP – mosey off post into the hood, only about 200 yards to Casa-de-DTH
    • Form up around the trailor and walk it up to park outside garage
    • Now with trailer moved, return to a lovely pile of fresh cabers of various length and girth, and organize PAX into carrying teams
    • x4 PAX under the behemoth 12’ trunk
    • x2-3 PAX on the medium sized 8’ log
    • x2 PAX on the smaller medium 7’ log
    • x1 PAX carrying the smallest 5’ log

    COP # 3:

    • Shoulder carry the logs back to the road and down to the bottom of Love Hill
    • Put down logs and complete x5 perfect form burpees OYO
    • Loosen up with Michael Phelps and Windmills
    • Switch carrying teams

    COP # 4:

    • New teams under logs carry back up Love Hill and back down to bottom
    • x5 more perfect burpees OYO
    • Some other strecthing
    • Switch carrying teams again

    COP # 5:

    • New teams under logs carry back up to the top of Love Hill 
    • Ground logs and circle up for Scrunchy Frogs IC
    • x5 perfect burpees OYO
    • Switch carrying teams and return logs to DTH’s place

    5min Mosey BTTF for COT:

    • Elbow Plank it up for F3 Review of Mission, Credo, and 5 CP’s
    • Counterama # 10
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • BOM Prayer
    • FLATTY honks as he passes by – HEYO!
    • Officer FLORENCE shows up in time for high fives and a group picture

    Prayer Requests:

    • Dealer’s cousin getting married
    • Snip’s friend with a very premie Baby A. in NICU fighting or life
    • DTH stressors with work/life

    NMS:  The PAX knew they were in for a sweatfest when we started out with a run and bernie on the hill, and the fun didn’t stop there! YHC had a couple trees come down over the winter and had recently chainsaw-smoothed a number of new logs of variable size – today was the day to take them for a walk and the PAX was more than enthused to take on the challenge. Solid effort invested by all and we made it back to the SF just in time. Fun to see Officer Florence roll up between coming off a night shift and heading to a jiujitsu workout. We miss having you around bro! Keep posting and pushing fellas. Yours AYE! ~DTH

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • Summer Tour Ongoing
    • 7/19 Bridge
    • SOJ GHOST FLAG is on the move 
    • 7/22 Ultimate Tourny
    • 7/27 School of RUCK (7am kid-friendly workout and ruck)
    • 8/16 Homegrown Half
    • 9/26 Night Ruck CSAUP
    • 10/3-5 GrowRuck in Cary NC 

  • Rule Number 4: Always Respect Your Elders

    You’ll have to ask Scram about Rule # 3. Today we had a strong group of 16 to help celebrate YHC’s ascension into the realm of respect. Here is a brief summary for viewing pleasure:

    Slaughter start on the Knoller Coaster: Bear Crawl up the hills, Lunge Walk across, Crab Walk down.

    Warm Up: Jazzercise, Ukranian Soldiers, Ski Jumps, Apple Bottom Poppers, HR Merkins, Freddy Mercuries, West Virginia Prom Dates, High Knees, Butt Kicks, Appalachian Lunge Walks, Hillbillies, Mummy Kicks.

    Exercise One: Indigenous People’s Mario Jumps. Man in the back completes 5 merkins, then runs to the front. We made our way to the bottom of the hill.

    Exercise Two: Broke Back Railing. Side lunge under the rail – work your ways to the top of the sidewalk.

    Exercise Three: Mount Chaplain
    Ascent: 2 Double Tap Hand Release Merkins plus 20 Mountain Climbers at the first parking lot. Add two merkins to the mountain climbers at each parking area until your reach the top.
    Descent: 5 Heels to Heaven at first parking lot. Add 5 at each lot.

    Exercise Four: Tooth Fairies up the staircase. Then mosey back towards the flag.

    Exercise 5: Mystery Box
    One PAX draws an exercise for everyone to complete – they run up the hill and back. Then switch
    Exercises included: Pickle Pounders, Hand Release Merkins, Hello Dollies, Crawl Bear, Broad Jumps.

    Back to the Flag for Numbers/Names/Announcements/Prayer Requests

    YHC took us out

    Final Thoughts: Great crowd today as YHC reflected on turning 50 (tomorrow) and 6 plus years in F3. It has truly been a blessing! This workout featured some of my favorite routines from Q’s past. Ran out of time for Ring Around the Toadie, unfortunately. The FORGE was the site of my original workout at F3, so its always great to see all of the regulars. Strong work today fellas!

    SYITG

  • The Forge Bowl

    The Forge hosted its first-ever F3 Flag Football Showdown, and the gloom was lit not by the sun, but by pure testosterone, terrible QB reads, and the sound of men arguing about Mississippi counts.

    We split into two squads, each powered by caffeine, pride, and increasingly creaky hamstrings.

    The Rules:

    No kickoffs or punts

    Start every possession at the 30.

    TD = 30 side straddle hops by the defense.

    INT or fumble = 10 burpees by the team that turned the ball over

    1st Down = 10 merkins by the defense

    4th down stop = 10 WWII sit-ups for the offense

    QB swaps every 2 plays

    Rush only after “10 Mississippi”

    Announcements: Upcoming convergence on July 4th, Ruck at Rock N’ Roll led by DTH, ab-cathalon led by Chaplain.

    Prayer Requests: Pad Thai’s moving issues

  • The First of Many

    14 Strong, for DOOKIE’s VQ. Made sure I ran through the disclaimers before we started….

    Warmup at the tennis courts, your normal warm-ups (Side Straddle Hops, Ukrainian Soldiers, etc.) and ended with High Knees and Butt Kicks.

    Workout 1 – (Double) Triple Check – 1 – Squats, 2 – Plank, 3 – Stadium run with 5 Merkins at the Bottom. I was inspired by Dealer a couple weeks back to do this, I also saw the Huguenot FB team doing bleachers runs the other day. After, headed to the football field

    Workout 2 – Four Corners Escalator – 1st Corner (10 – Burpees), 2nd Corner (20 – Carolina Dry Docks), 3rd Corner (30 – WW2’s), 4th Corner (40 – Monkey Humpers). After, headed to the Lane of Light Posts

    Workout 3 – Street Light Progressions – Run to every light post, and perform a jump squat. Start at 1, and progressively increase. There were 11 light posts. On the way back sprint to every other light post, whoever was there first got to choose their exercise (count of 10). Threw in a wild card of bearcrawl the grass hill.

    Finished with Count Off, Namerama, COT.

    Just wanted to thank all who have pushed me to Q, truly enjoyed it, and as the post name states, hoping to the be the first of many!

  • Champions Rule Losers Drool

    A lucky 13 ultimate warriors took to the perfect turf field of The Forge for a 6v7 game of Ultimate. Our captains Snuff and Oyster picked teams, trying to evenly split by footwear and height. Turns out neither of those variables matter, nor even an extra player. Team Snuff maintained a strong lead with excellent passing and TD runs, winning over Team Oyster 7-4. Thanks to L Woods for bringing the pinnies which helped a ton. Welcome to FNG Dopamine (Jacob from Midlothian area) who’s a premed undergrad at Randolph Macon currently shadowing DTH. Appreciate all you guys showing up and putting in the work! Yours AYE! ~DTH

  • We rolled the dice- and it called for burpees

    The Forge turned into a full-blown casino of pain this morning—except the house always wins, and the house wanted burpees. We started with a dice-rolling gauntlet where every number brought a new flavor of exercise, followed by sprint ladders that made sure no muscle was left behind. Just when PAX thought it was winding down, we hit the hills for bear crawls and heels to heaven.

    The Thang:

    Warmerama: side straddle hops, ukranian soldiers, imperial squat walkers, cherry pickers, lbcs, alabama prom dates, roscoe’s mom

    COP 1: Roll the dice: One PAX rolls oversized dice and runs a lap around bus loop carrying a cinder block. while first PAX runs, rest perform exercise that matched the number rolled. 1- merkins, 2- squats, 3- mountain climbers, 4- lbcs, 5- side straddle hops, 6 burpees. Repeat until all Pax rolled and run

    COP 2: Sprint Ladders: (football field): Sprint 25 yards- 10 merkins and jog back. Sprint 50 yards- 15 squats jog back. sprint 75 yards, 20 lbcs, jog back, sprint 100 yards, 10 burpees jog back. Round 2 reverse- sprint 100 yards- 10 jump squats, sprint 75 yards 20 flutter kicks double count. Sprint 50 yards, 30 wide arm merkins. sprint 25 yards, 40 mountain climbers double count.

    Count 3: Parking lot and hills: bear crawl up each hill segment. at each parking lot checking, starting with first one, 10 heels to heaven, increase each time by 5.

    Announcements: Father’s day event hosted by DTH at the Forge; Thursday nights kids and fathers sports/activities at Machismo’s

    Prayer requests: Prayer for L. Woods’ friend going through lung cancer.

  • The Return

    Seven non-tourists arrived at The Forge for a dry weather session for a change. It was great to welcome back our brother recently returned from mission in PNG. Here is how we spent the time.

    Mosey to the tennis courts for a brief warm up of the usual: SSH, Merkins, Helicopters, Imperial Squat Walkers, Alabama Prom Dates, DQs

    The Thang

    #1: Mosey to the field for 4 corners. 10 Burpees, 20 WWIIs, 30 Squats, 10 Bear Crawls/Crawl Bears to 10yd line and back.

    #2: A modified beast—from goal run to 20, 40, 50, 40, 20 and goal on opposite side doing 6 reps at each location. Merkins, Lunges, Carolina Dry Docks, Something, Alabama Prom Dates, Scrunchy Frogs.

    One lap of the track doing an Indigenous Run, mosey to top of the ramp

    #3: OYO 50 Jerkins and 50 incline Merkins, mosey to stairs

    #4: Triple check: Dips, LBCs, and timer on stairs loop, mosey BTTF

    #5: Ring of fire – 10 Merkins.

    Announcements: Summer Tour

    Prayer Requests: For Purple Rains Brother in Law as he and the family face his health challenge, The DTHs as they adjust back to life on this side, Doozy with a full house with the family home, Belay as he recovers from his back injury, and for safe travels.

    Last Call took us out. Thanks brother and thanks men for keeping the iron sharp.

  • Rise of the Machines

    Beckoned by the sounds of Snuff Underground: Machine Forge, eight T-100 model Terminators arrived in the fading gloom. One of a few final fleeting dawns before humanity is eaten by A.I.

    Mosey to warmarama. Mosey around to the hill + wall. 11s mirkins run up the hill donkey kicks on the wall and back down.

    ICBMs in the air, we stumbled to the glass-strewn fallout shelter. Dry, dark and safe for a Dora. 200 LBCs, 300 squats, 400 monkey humpers. Mostly over the hump, audible to a hand release mirkin rendition singing ‘Let the Bodies Hit the Floor.’ And when I say audible, I mean the volume was LOUD. The walls reverberated with percussive nuclear blasts.

    Exiting the shelter it was off to the Arena for the battle against ourselves. A.I. is but a mirror to the grand average of humanity’s messy language and we will not stand it. 11s up the steps, mirkins and V-Ups. Large Language Milquetoast. ChatGPTedious.

    A prayer of gratitude: for this fellowship, this fitness and this faith. Carry the fire. SYITG.

  • Last Call’s $h!t List?

    WARMARAMA: Took a lap around bus loop with karaokes for late comers then moseyed to tennis courts for SSHs, merkins, stretches, and light abs.

    Moseyed to turf field. 

    COP 1: 

    1st & 10

    100 yard field marked at 10 yard increments. Perform 10 Burpees, 1 WW2 (11’s) at the 10, sprint the remaining 90 yards. Recover jog back to the 20. Perform 9 Burpees, 2 WW2s, sprint the remaining 80 yards. Recover jog back to the 30. Repeato until all 100 yards and 11’s have been completed.

    Last Call started chirping that I might be on his $h!t list after that first lovely pearl. Ran 1 lap around the track indigenous people style. Then moseyed to a hill.

    COP 2: 

    Build a Beast Abs

    Find a hill then:

    • 5 scrunchy frogs, run up and back
    • 5 scrunchy frogs, 10 hammers, run up and back
    • 5 scrunchy frogs, 10 hammers, 15 flutters, run up and back
    • 5 scrunchy frogs, 10 hammers, 15 flutters, 20 LBCS for extra credit. 

    I thought Last Call was bringing me a heart ballon and discarded, used water bottle – both found in the HS parking lot – to let me know I was not on his $h!t list but instead he brushed past me on the way to throw them out. 

    Hit some tooth fairies on the steps as we made our way back to the flag. Saw an empty wall and stopped to say hi. 

    COP 3:

    Wall Work

    20 milkers + 5 Tyson push ups + 5 donkey kicks then break

    20 Muhammad Ali’s + 6 Tyson push ups + 6 donkey kicks then break

    20 hoe downs + 7 Tyson push ups + 7 donkey kicks then break

    ANNOUNCEMENTS:

    I did not make Last Call’s $h!t list because I “slowseyed” the workout towards the end. Yacht Rock at Twin Team next Friday!

    PRAYERS: 14 years of marriage for Dealer. For collective will to be better men in all relationships.

  • Merkin with a Side of Merkin

    A dozen PAX were left confused and blissfully ignorant by Snuff’s preblast that an NTB beatdown was in store for this glorious Thursday morning at The Forge. YHC made it a lucky 13 and off we went at 05:30.

    Warmarama
    – SSH, Helicopters, DQ’s, Fudd’s Wife, Wilson’s Wife, Various Stretches, WWIIs

    The Thang

    • We attempted a 21-count SSH exercise where the PAX counts out loud for the first five, then completes the last 16 in silence. If everyone stopped at the same time, no penalty would be given. Single count SSH was too simple for this PAX’s IQ level. Next time we will look to complicate the rep scheme a little more to make it interesting.
    • We moseyed to the amphitheater area for a grueling mix of Merkins and Raise the Roof, Jack Webb style. To spice things up, the PAX bear crawled down the burm and back up between sets of ascending reps. After reaching 10 merkins and 20 RTR we moved on to the next station.
    • After a Wedding Singer 20 count we partnered up (unnecessarily) for Stairway to Seven on the amphitheater steps. Each pair did the following rep scheme from 1-7:
      • WWII, Incline Merkin, Step Ups to the top of the amphitheater, Squats, Down the amphitheater. Repeato.
    • Sticking with the partner theme we then ran the steps in opposite directions, performing a number of burpees each time we met up with our partner.
    • With time running low we moseyed back to the flag IP style where we had just enough time remaining for one of YHC’s favorites, license plate scramble. Each PAX stands in front of their vehicle and adds up the numbers on their license plate. When their turn around the circle comes the PAX calls out an exercise of their choosing with the reps equaling their license plate number.

    Announcements/Prayer Requests

    • Sign up for The Bridge and Breaking Bread
    • Prayers for Dookie’s dad who was recently diagnosed with Leukemia and awaiting testing results.
    • Prayers for YHC’s dad preparing to meet with a cardiologist in the coming days to run some tests.
    • YHC took us out.