Tag: The FORGE

An unorganized group of ghouls enjoyed the ideal conditions for a numberless beatdown with plenty of good mumble chatter. Here is how things went down according to Bobby.

Mosey to the bus loop for introductions and disclaimers. YHC announces that no numbers will be used in todays beatdown. Warmarama all in conversation, shout out to the Lounge, which included DQ’s, Helis, Dead Man Hang, Ukrainian Soldiers, Heals to Heaven and Merkins. All seemed loose and limber, so lets get this thing going…

Triple Check: Timer runs a variety of loops routes without repeating (Big bus loop, small bus loop, around the school to the stairs and back). Partners perform various exercises changing each round. Opening Round – Elevated Merkins, WWII’s. Next Round- Shoulder Taps, APD’s. Next Round: Carolina Dry Docks, LBC’s.

Catch Me if you Can: Partner up. Partner lunges around the bus loop. Partner runs around the loop and catches lunger from behind. Switch roles and repeat for single lap.

Triple Check: Peoples Chair against the school (milkers and Muhammed Alis), Lt. Dans while timer runs up the hill and back down the stairs.

Indigenous Curb Crawl: Mosey back to the small loop. Curb Crawl around the loop while last person runs to the front. Single round was completed.

MBTTF: Quick stop for some additional curb crawling to balance out the burn.

Few minutes of broga. Names, announcements, prayers. Flatline took us out.

NMS: Great work today fellas. Thank you for entertaining an idea that was in my mind to eliminate the counting in preference of good mumble chatter. This was achieved with a phenomenal variety of conversations and laughs. Things got a bit serious once we noticed Bobby waiting for us at the flag. No conversations were had as Bobby did not leave his vehicle choosing instead to text Rosie. Stay tuned for next weeks exciting adventures.

HOT Potato Q all the way.

Machismo warmed us up with some slow dawg DQs and some arm circles much to Last Calls’s delight.

I’m really invested here writing this.

Then Machismo made us do various movements between light poles all the way down the hill including high knees, butt kicks, Bernies, murder gorillas, crab walks, lunges, you name it.

Then Belay made us run to light posts, Bernie back one, and hit some Mercans all the way back up the hill.

Then I had the last 5 minutes which is how I got stuck with writing this. Made the dudes run and hit abs. Nuff said.

Prayed for our health, others dealing with physical, spiritual, or mental health issues, prayed for our care takers. Appreciated the men and the work today. Last Call and Scram want to run more next time.

After a waiting for Snuff an uninvited guest showed up. Bobby director of facility services ushered 11 men off of school premises on a hunt for their good Dr. While the intent of this Q was to explore the vast reaches of the Forge to prove to Handshake that it wasn’t a boring AO, alas, Machismo, under Bobby’s direction was forced to play chicken with cars under the light poles of Stratford Hills.

Warmarama under light pole: DQs, Merkins, X Cross Situps, APD, Arm Circles.

1: Triple check. Run to the next light pole. ISWs, and X cross situps.

2: Ascending burpee light poles to DTHs house.

Intermission: 50 Monkey Humpers facing DTHs unmanned truck.

3: Dora: Run DTHs driveway loop., 50 LBC, 100 Merkins, 150 APD.

Indigenous people noler coaster up bear crawl, down lunge walk. to the street.

4. ascending LBC light poles, to descending squat Light poles.

Announcements, CPR course on Tuesday and Wednesday has slots.

Prayers for tampa and NC.

Theologian Tom Wright suggest that “love and power are the themes of perhaps two thirds of all the novels, plays, and poems ever written. The love of power has laid waste continents and empires. The power of love has driven weak people to do powerful things – these are the forces which shape our lives, our homes, our countries, our politics, our world.”

Ephesians 3:14-21 says: ” for this reason I bow my knees before the father… that… according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power … being rooted and grounded in love.” Pardon my ellipses I hope that the intent remains.

F3 is a group that intends to physically and mentally strengthen our communities through love. Love for our children and families, love for our brothers, love for our communities. There but for the grace of God go I.

12 men gathered for this weeks episode of The Forge. The Pax was expecting to make good use of the giant AO but YHC had alternate plans…

We began with a mosey around the parking lot to see if Snuffleupagus would make an appearance, however he did not. We circled up for various exercises.

Count off in 3’s to get in groups of 4. YHC knew we had 12 Pax members. Each group gets 1 micro-coupon from ‘Lil Blue.Mosey up to Forest Hill Avenue and turn left and head up the sidewalk to Stratford, turn left on Stratford and mosey down to the intersection of Stratford and Robert Bruce. Time for a Quad Check. P1 does an exercise with the Coupon (we varied between Overhead Presses, Curls for the Girls, Block Raises, and lastly Partner Squat/Block Raise/Pass/repeats). P2 runs up Stratford to the Speed Limit Sign, P3 does various exercises (HRM’s, Squats, WWII’s, Partner Squat/Block Raise/Pass/repeat), P4 runs up Robert Bruce to the Speed Limit Sign and back. After 3 rounds Last Call thought we were done but an energetic and enthusiastic NTB reminded him that it was a Quad Check. We Al Gored for the 6 and then completed the last round.10 minutes left on the clock and we had some ground to cover.

Get back in your groups of 4 in a line and complete an Indigenous Peoples Block Run. Second to last man had the block and the last guy runs to the front. Last guy passes the block to the man in front of him and runs to the front. The idea was to make it to the top of Stratford/Forest Hill. All that glitters is not gold, our group fell apart about halfway there. At the top of Stratford/Forest Hill YHC called for 5 Merkins every other object on the side. We continued this all the way back to the Parking Lot.Circle up. 10 HRM’s, Pencil Roll left, 10 LBC’s, Pencil Roll right, 2 HRM’s to finish things off.

Announcements – CPR class being organized by Flatline. Either see Flatline or Slack. Tryhard has his 6 year celebration this Saturday at Rock and Roll. Pre workout with Logs at 0600.

Prayer Requests – Fudd’s sister as she has be diagnosed with cancer again. The Cancer appears to have spread according to the last scan. She is going in for a second opinion.

NMS – After some serious hype game from Snuff YHC was surprised not to see him. Also, Honeydo said he’d be there but he was a no-show too. We missed you guys! Backblast title comes from a text from Last Call that verified YHC’s internal thought that we ventured to The Taint of The Forge. YHC likes to make off campus trips and this was another good one. Have a great day, it was a pleasure to lead.

What guy doesn’t love exploring cevasses. Noone knew what aerial acrobatics may be in store on the grounds of Huguenot Highschool. It was a canyon run not unlike the new Top Gun as 15 spelunkers explored the deep indent.

Here’s what went down.

Warmarama: SSH, ISW, DQs, UkS, Xcross Situps, MCs,

Mosey to wide lot

Thang 1: 4 corners 20 merkins, 30 Xcross Situps, 40 Mountain Climbers double count, 50 Squats,

Cocaine bear crawl on the lot. Stopping at each line to grab sniff a line and do a merkin. Arrive at school for canyon exploratory wall conveyor. Here’s where we moved with purpose alternating to wall sit when we reached a window. This could have been done with more speed.

Thang:2 Partner up for Dora the Explorer 1-2-3 50 No Cheat Merkins, 100 Dips, 150 Step ups – Partner touches 1 then 2 then 3 trees not the same. This could have been alternating 1 then 2 then 3 trees to keep it interesting.

Mosey to next lot

Thang 3: Wilt Chamberlain famous 100 point scoring basketball champ 94 foot identified start 100 LBCs, 100 squats, 100 Flutters, 1…ish apds with a premature finish.

BTTF

Numbers, Names, Announcements:

Tomorrow meet at Snuffs for a 3rd F gathering 5-7 prior to the convergence Saturday. Crazy people begin at 5am, Ruck/Run options begin at 6am. 7am Convergence with awards and food to follow. 1:30 cookout for family’s at Huguenot park bring your family bring a side. Contact Flat Line to sign up for CPR

Prayer request: Maria – Machismo’s church friend got home from surgery this week. Pray for recovery from liver surgery to remove cancer. Pray for Gumbo’s Childhood friend that just got diagnosed with breast cancer. Pray for Gumbo’s 16 y/o daughter Luci suffering with postural tachycardia syndrome (pots). This is a chronic condition pray not only for alleviation of her symptoms but also for her mental health. Pray for remission.

Naked Moleskin: PS 133 says “How good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity”. Reflecting on the word remission. YHC likes to think in double meanings and this one has a powerful effect in prayer. We pray for both the remittance (remission) of a disease or malody sending it away. Also, we think invigorating us to move with purpose (re-mission). As we gather this weekend to celebrate 10 years of F3 in RVA let us move with purpose.

A Bakers Dozen of F3RVA’s finest doughnuts came out hot and ready for the inviting conditions awaiting this SOJ beatdown. Machismo arrived in his newly purchased Gumbomobile, complete with F3 stickers and sweat rings on the seats. Off we go.

Slaughter start with some hill work. Bearcrawl up the hills, lunge across the top, Crawlbear down the hills.

Mosey to the bus circle for introductions and warm ups that included DQ’s, Helis, Jazzercise, Ukrainian Soldiers, Merkins, LBC’s, Suzanne Summers left, Reverse Crunch, Suzanne Summers right, Dead Bugs.

Find yourself a couple friends for a triple check. Timer runs the loop, HR Merkins and various Wall Exercises (Balls to the Wall/Donkey Kicks/Peoples Chair).

Mosey over to the hill for Clockwork Merkins.

Mosey down to the amphitheater for 11’s. 10 crunchy frogs at the bottom. Box Jump/Lunge to the top for 1 incline merkin, return to the bottom and continue 9/2, 8/3, 7/4…… Plank work for the 6.

Mosey to the loading dock and find a partner. Love Hill back up to Forest Hill (or most of the way). Timer runs a distance and returns to find his partner bearcrawling for round 1, lunging for round 2, and broad jump burpees for round 3. 5 booyah merkins at each exchange.

Mosey up to the sidewalk along Forest Hill mosey BTTVF performing 2 burpees at every other light post. Time caught up with us so just Mosey BTTVF.

Numbers/Names/Announcements – Convergence Weekend coming up – see slack to fulfill all your F3 desires. YHC took us out.

Naked Moleskin: Great work this morning fellas with a strong turnout. YHC forgot that he signed up for the Q until receiving Snuff preblast late in the evening. My eyes were bigger than my stomach on this occasion as YHC was all over the place on the fly. Thank you for your patience and willingness to roll with YHC. Great to have some travelers from the south up for a visit. Welcome Sawzall, a frequent RVA visitor that started F3 in January and has already hit his 200 post for the year. Couple of VQ’s coming up with Snip taking the lead at the Forge and Sin Bin at No Toll. Exciting times. Great mumble chatter as always and great work today. Thank you for the opportunity to lead. SYITG.

We went down the hill and then we made our way back up. That is all – end of backblast.

Not really, it was a challenge to remember all that we did but here is my best recollection.

After NTB warned Rev that ‘Rosie’s a runner’ and Gumbo provided a correction that you never know what you’re going to get with Rosie at the helm, a mighty 15 took off in a slow mosey down the hill.  The cul-de-sac was much further than I remembered but we made it in tact.  #16 arrived after a brief search of the AO.

Warm up starting with DQ (you’re welcome Last Call), Ukrainian Soldiers, Imperial Walkers, SSH, Shoulder Taps, Peter Parkers, Tempo Merkins, Freddie Mercuries and LBC.  After rave reviews of the low rep/good form at Dogpile YHC tried to recreate a similar beatdown to work our way back up the hill.  Exercises included lunges, no-cheat (HRM w/ shoulder tap) merkins, American Hammers, bear crawl, crunchy frogs, 30 seconds of curb taps, reverse lunges, copperhead squats (add the twerk, if needed), single leg squats, werkins, heels to heaven, and burpees.

Mosey to the ramp railing for an indigenous jerkin run.  Everyone hang, those with long arms may have a cheat code, man at the end does 3 jerkins (chest to bar) and run to the front – 2 rounds.  Mosey to the box office for diamonds merkins, WWII, wall sits, questionably cadenced hoe-downs, and high donkey kicks.

Mosey up the stairs to the next level for more lunges, stagger merkins, and varying speed flutter kicks – the only exercise with high reps and obviously a crowd favorite.  Up to the next level for bear crawl, crab walk, reverse lunge, and plank jacks.  Mosey to the flag for a ring of fire but first, we have to scratch the itch for arm circles – do them in a boat position, legs raised, back off the ground – forward and reverse.  Solid flair during the ring of fire with some Chuck Norris, HRM, Hitchhikers, single leg, and others.  Stretch it out to close out the full 45.

NMM

Minimal running today but solid work by the PAX on a beautiful late summer morning.  Chatter with other PAX recently have lamented the lack of good form in some exercises.  Sometimes it good to do high volume, fast, and to fatigue but there is a lot of benefit to getting it done right– including a lower risk of injury – and sometimes that takes lower reps. 

Solid chatter around the PAX this morning but I missed most of it trying to think of what to do next. Go out and get better today, it takes effort but the PAX is there for support.

Announcements –

James River Float Sunday at Huguenot Flatwater

F3RVA 10 Year – Friday 9/20 and Saturday 9/21 events – see pre-blast.