Tag: The FORGE

Huguenot High School

  • Late Night You Tube

    10 SOJ regulars arrived on time, with the Site Q coming in tardy. Demerits were distributed accordingly so the beatdown began. Here is how things went down according to Machismo’s internet search history.

    Circle up at the bus loop for a variety of warm ups. Some in cadence most in conversation with exercises including Ukrainian Soldiers, DQ’s, Dead Man Hang, Cherry Pickers, Jazzercise (with toe taps), a bit of Michael Phelps as the cherry on top.

    Mosey down to the steps to the lower lot. Partner up at the jerkin gym. 3 sets of jerkins with 10 reps each while partner holds feet. Rotate between sets.

    Mosey to the lower lot, 4 corners. 10 HR merkins, 20 Drydocks, 30 Squats, 40 Monkey Humpers.

    Mosey to the bottom of the stairs for Triple Check. Timer tooth fairies up the stairs and runs down the hill and around. Partner Leg Tosses performed by the other 2 members. Rotation ensues. 3 rounds.

    Mosey to the middle parking lot, 4 corners. 10 WWII’s, 20 American Hammers (2-count), 30 dying cockroaches, 40 APD’s.

    Head over to the wall for Pigskin Special. 10 Donkey Kicks, 10 Muhammed Ali’s (or George Forman’s, RIP), 10 Australian Mountain Climbers. Next Round: 15 DK’s, 15 Milkers, 15 Hoedowns. Final Round: 20 DK’s, 20 Air Press, 20 Hoedowns.

    Mosey to the top parking lot, 4 corners. 10 Lt. Dans (or Dans Dans Revolution), 20 Calf Raises, 30 Squats, 40 SSH’s. BTTVF for time. Numbers, Names, Prayers, Announcements. YHC took us out.

    Prayers: Upcoming Travelers over the next few weeks.

    Announcements: Breaking Bread – go do it. Century Classic – get on a team.

    Naked Moleskin: Good morning with a fine group of fellows. Good to see Oyster stop by outside of the Summer Tour. Mumble Chatter is always strong with limited counting. Variety of topics were covered with all the worlds problems solved for 45 minutes. We are not responsible for what happened after time was called. Thank you fellas for the opportunity to spend the morning with you. Always good times.

  • #WINNING

    There were no losers today at the FORGE………only winners. Whatever obstacles were placed in front of the PAX – they were able to overcome. Here is a brief summary for your viewing pleasure:

    Mosey to the lower circle for warm-ups: Jazzercise, Ukranian Soldiers, Helicopers, Suzanne Somers, Hand Release Merkins, Freddy Mercuries, Heals to Heaven, plus Marion Jumps, Karoake, Mummy Bernies, Butt Kicks

    Exercise One: Jog to first light pole, sprint to the next. Repeat until we reach the ramp.

    Exercise Two: The Great Wall: All PAX scale the retaining wall near the track. Was looking for Belay!

    Exercise Three: Lt. Colonel Dan’s: 6 Lunge Walks, 10 squats, repeat. Made our way to the end of the parking lot. All PAX were promoted to Vice Admiral.

    Exercise Four: Triple Check with Dips, Double Tap Hand Release Merkins, run around parking lot

    Exercise Five: Tooth Fairies up the stairs next to the school

    Back towards the flag for Exercise 6: Victory Hill – sprint up hill, jog down until time was called.

    Numbers (10), Names, Announcements, Prayer Requests

    YHC took us out

    Final Thoughts: As usual – amazing effort by all this morning! It was good seeing Fiona and Garbage Plate. The wall climb is definitely in the CSAUP category and, maybe a bit dangerous?? Snuff and I were discussing hitting up the larger section closer to the football field……………..But we all survived and a good time was had by all. Thanks for letting me lead

    SYITG

  • What Color is Dealer’s Truck??

    The color of Dealer’s truck is predicted to be the hottest debate topic of Spring 2025. As early mornings in the gloom continue to mask parking lots in darkness it will be hard to verify if his truck is dark grey or the olive green he claims. That was just about everything we discussed during the beatdown because the boys got after it this morning!

    Six lean and mean HIMs moseyed down to the backside of the football field for warmarama and then a triple check against the snack bar compiled of people’s chair and donkey kicks while the timer ran. With our legs awake we set out on a journey down light pole alley. We lunged, bear crawled, shuffled, and sometimes walked, between poles where we added a burpee at each stop. After 45 burpees we regrouped in the lower parking lot for a few trips up and down Mt. Chaplain. After 5 merkins and WWIIs we ran from the lower parking lot to the top of Mt. Chaplain, then back down to the next closest parking lot for 4 merkins and WWIIs. We continued that cadence until all parking lots were merkined and then we caught our breath at the top of the hill.

    We finished off the morning with cliff hanger holds at the top of the hill (on your six, facing downhill, hold feet of the ground) and then a plank ring of fire at the flag!

    Announcements

    • SOJ Chili Cookoff – March 22nd @ 3pm – L Wood’s Home – Open to Entire Family
    • The Century Classic – May 2-3 – Your favorite non-golf classic makes a comeback. Sign up!
    • GROWRUCK #59 – October 3-5 – Cary, NC

    Prayer Requests

    • Machismo looking to hire a superintendent/PM.

  • A Soggy Beast @ The Zoo

    WARMARAMA: Mosey to far bus loop for SSHs, helicopters, dead man hangs, cherry pickers, merkins, and American Hammers, and Alabama prom dates

    Mosey to parking full of broken glass and needles. 

    COP 1: The Zoo – Find a parking lot. 1) Crawl Bear across and do 20 merkins with both feet on the curb. 2) Crab Walk across and do 15 merkins with your right hand and foot on the curb. 3)Bear Crawl across and do 20 merkins with both hands on the curb. 4) Murder Gorilla across and do 15 merkins with your left hand and foot on the curb.

    Mosey to soggy, wet field. 

    COP 2:  The BEAST – 6 exercises, performing 6 reps at 6 stops. Burpees, Lunges (two count), Imperial Squat Walkers, Merkins, Plank Jacks, Squats. YHC did not make the PAX lay in the mud. You’re welcome.

    COP 3: Found a wall. Peoples Chair for 15 Muhammad Alis and 15 Donkey Kicks OYO. Round two was Peoples Chair for 20 milkers and 20 Donkey Kicks OYO. 

    Mosey back to flag for some Peter Parkers.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS: Chilli Cookoff at L Woods 3/22. See Slack for deets. 

    PRAYERS: For brothers getting laid off who have tuition, mortgages, 2.0s, Ms, car payments, and other responsibilities for which they are responsible. Let’s help how we can and recognize the human toll. 

  • Q4 Results – Snuff Underground

    13 ravers mosey to the club and dance to the beat until the break of dawn. ‘Read the book that wrote itself.’

    Wararama to ‘The Fall of Babylon’ and ‘Surf Rider.’ Started a musical dora with ‘The Mirror’ and 200 mirkins, 300 squats and 400 LBCs but an audible to the wall for ‘Ritual’ tempo work with wall sits, balls to the wall, and donkey kicks.

    To the amphitheater to continue the dora. The song ‘Stress’ only amped things up. Audible again back to the club because the acoustics weren’t as good and the song ‘Angel of Death’ came on. Dora continues to ‘F**kFray.’

    Mosey back towards the flag and ‘The Lake’ with a moment on the hill for some Shivassana and a dark reflection on mortality and aging to the sounds of ‘Piel.’ But the sun is on the horizon and every day from now until November there is more light.

    Find your ‘Secure Place’ out there in the gloom. COT and prayers.

  • Feel the Rhythm! Feel the Rhyme! Get on up, it’s bobsled time!

    10 brave souls battled the cold, snowy streets and icy conditions to perform a reenact of the hit classic, “Cool Runnings”. Big shout out to DTH for his canoe, sled and inspiration for the Q!

    Warmarama: Bus circle: Side Straddle Hops, Don Quixotes, Ukranian Soldiers, Merkins, LBCs, and Alabama prom dates. 

    COP 1 Bus loop:  DORA: Partner 100 Merkins; 200 squat jumps; 300 monkey humpers, Timer runs around bus loop.

    Cop 2: Jamaican Bob Sled (with a canoe): start at top of hill near flag, 2 Pax sit down in the canoe, the rest pull and push the canoe down the hill. At the bottom of the hill, change out 2 pax, rest of the pax push/pull canoe uphill. Repeat 2 x. For third time around- 3 pax in the canoe, while rest of pax pushed/pulled down/uphill.

    Cop 3 Triple Check with sleds: partner 1: timer runs to top of hill with sled, sled down. Partner 2: snowman world war 2s  partner 3: icy shoulder taps

    Close out with ring of fire.

    Announcements/Prayer Requests: Prayers for DTH and his family as they prepare for their mission trip, as well as his father-in-law’s health.

  • Eye of the storm

    Seven arrived at the FORGE this morning expecting a deluge, given the weather report and preblast, however…..70 and sunny was all we got (relatively speaking). We set off for an adjusted plan given we didn’t require any shelter. The Q stumbled through the following.

    THANG

    Mosey for one half loop of top lot waiting for potential stragglers —none appeared.

    Wararama
    SSH, DQs, Imperial Squat Walkers, 6 count burpees, Alabama prom dates, American Hammers

    COP 1: Mosey to next lots for 4 corners, (forgot the prostitute part of the instructions) so we adjusted after the first corner.
    – 5 burpees
    – 10 Lieutenant Dans
    – 15 WW IIs
    – 15 Carolina Dry Docks

    COP 2: Mosey to bottom of ramp, near 3rd parking lot
    bear crawl to first street light, walking lunge to the next, walk to top, 20 jerkins, 25 incline merkins on railings

    COP 3: Triple check at top of lot
    partner 1 – Dips, partner 2 – flutters, partner 3 stairs and loop

    COP 4: Mosey up stairs back to lot 2
    holding the wall – 60s, then Balls to the wall for 20 Aussie mtn climbers, repeato

    COP5: Mosey to lot in front of school, for a mess (poor instructions). Something like curb crawl half top oval of island, indigenous style, though the Q did not follow his own guidance and then mosey the straight to opposite end of the island for more curb crawl, 2nd round was better,

    BTTF for a final 45 SSH, time…

    Numbers, names and announcements, Machismo took us out. Thanks for the company this morning gents, enjoyed it!

  • Googling **ward ***derson

    Sunday night, February 2nd NTB posted on Slack about needing a Q for The Forge. He commented about it was 5 straight weeks of different Q’s and YHC felt it was a good reason to get back out to The Forge.

    Wednesday night February 5th YHC looked at the weather and eye rolled at the thought of 34 degrees and rainy, would YHC be alone at 0530?

    0529:23 YHC pulls into the Parking Lot and realizes YHC will not be solo. 9 F3 Brothers were waiting and wondering where the Q was.

    YHC had decided on an off-campus Stratford/Lansdale loop but quickly realized that the Pax would not be able to make a double loop in 45 minutes. YHC had also considered figuring out exactly which house was Tryhards and taking advantage of the opportunity to add his property to the AO. Luckily his address is easily googable.

    We did all the fun things today: Throuple Checks, Pencil Rolls, 10-Count Star WWI’s. And it was even better since the rain held off until the end of the workout.

    NMS – Good times, new faces.

    Announcements – Frozen Triangle 0600 at Dogpile. Ruck option is also available.

    Prayer Requests – Tryhards M’s Father has Lung Cancer and will start treatments about the time they leave for New Guinea. Prayers for Tryhards FIL and his M while she comes to grips with not physically being with him

  • Jerkin’

    WARMARAMA: Mosey to bus loop for butt kickers, high knees, karaokes, SSHs, helicopters, dead man hangs, cherry pickers, merkins, and LBCs. 

    Mosey to handicap ramp for Jerkin Gym.

    COP 1: Jerkin Gym – Line up at ramp single file. Each man takes a section. 5 jerkins then 5 dips OYO. Leapfrog to next open slot. Repeat all the way down. 

    Mosey to parking lot.

    COP 2: 7 of Diamonds – Performed on a large diamond/square). For the first round, do 7 reps of an exercise at each of the 4 corners with a mosey in between corners. Each round, increase by 7 reps with a different exercise each round rounds 1-4. Decrease by 7 reps for rounds 5-7. 

    • Rd. 1: 7 burpees
    • Rd. 2: 14 WW1s
    • Rd. 3: 21 squats
    • Rd. 4: 28 plank jacks
    • Rd. 5: 21 LBCs
    • Rd. 6: 14 calf raises
    • Rd. 7: 7 mericans

    Mosey back to flag and finish with 7 burpees to get Salt Lick to an even 110 for the day. 

    ANNOUNCEMENTS: Ruck this Sunday. Frozen Triangle next weekend. 

    PRAYERS: For F3 brothers who continually step in and Q and set the example. For individual initiative to get up and go. For dudes on IR showing up and doing what they can. 

  • Frozen Forge

    10 delirious popsicles decided to come out and drop their core temps for 45 minutes. It was not sunny and certainly not 70. 9 f^#@ing degrees, yes, you read that right; single digits. It was cold and we were stupid enough to decide to come together and make ourselves better. The things men do for bikini season. Here is how things went down.

    Motion was the call of the day. Mosey down through various parking lots. Introductions and disclaimers were done in motion to keep the blood flowing. Mosey for lightpole 11’s (merkins and squats) down to the cul de sac. Gazelles did SSH’s as they waited for the turtles.

    Mosey thru the open gate to the track. Run 2 laps around the track, stopping at each corner for 20 reps of various exercises. PAX assisted in selecting the exercises that included WWII’s, Booyah Merkins, Elbow Plank, Lt. Dans, SSH’s, American Hammers and Burpees (not YHC’s choice).

    After the 2nd lap, triple check was on the menu. Timer runs across the field and back. Hoedowns and LBC’s were performed.

    Back down the road performing various motion exercises between light poles. Lunges, Imperial Walkers, Ukrainian Soldiers, Butt Kickers, Bernie, High Knees, etc.

    At the ramp we Polar Bear 1/2 the distance up the ramp, Lunge walk the remaining.

    BTTVF performing tooth fairies up the steps.

    Name/Numbers. Too cold for announcements and prayers. See slack for upcoming event (Frozen Triangle, Breaking Bread, etc.) YHC took us out.

    NMS: It was cold. YHC arrived with Tin Man and Dealer already awaiting enjoying the heated seats of their vehicles. YHC was certain he could convince these early risers to join him in the warm confines of Starbucks instead of only for 6 arrivals at 5.27. Great work out there today with a on the fly Q. Good to get the blood pumping and great conversation. Salt Lick loves a burpee. Thank you fellas for joining me in the cold. Next time lets meet in June.