Tag: The Woodshed

On a morning with perfect weather condition for January, 7 HIMs showed up to The Woodshed for a beatdown that combined 2 downrange workouts that YHC attended over the holiday break. Mumble chatter was minimal which YHC took as a sign that the workout was doing its job of being a good beatdown! Here is how it went down:

Warmup: Mosey around the parking lot followed by various IC exercises/stretches.

COP 1: Farmer’s Carry Four Corners – Each PAX grabbed 2 cinderblocks each and started in Corner 1. Performed 4 Corners with repetitions going 5-10-15-10-5.

Corner 1: Curls, Block Overhead Squats, Block Overhead Flutter Kicks (DC)

Corner 2: Block Anterior Raises, Single Leg Squats (each leg), Windshield Wipers over Block

Corner 3: Bench Dips, No Surrenders holding Block, Block Chops (each side)

Corner 4: Blockees, Lateral Lunges holding Block, Halos (Clockwise/Counterclockwise)

Farmer’s Carry 2 blocks between each corner. After completing Corner 4, carried blocks back to Corner 1 and ran to the end of the parking lot in front of clubhouse and back to re-enter the circuit.

Ran out of time and unable to complete the last set of 5, therefore time called. Numbers, Names, Announcements (Frozen Triangle Tentatively 2/7), Prayers (No Specific prayers)

Pleasure to lead this morning fellas! Get out there and make contact with a PAX member you haven’t seen in a while and/or a friend that you haven’t spoken to in a while. Have a blessed day!

4 HIMs ventured out in the cold to explore parts of Harpers Mill undiscovered previously. According to the Amelia County Sheriff, here’s what went down.

Mosey down to the townhomes with the well lit street lamps. Found a decent hill so we ran to the top and did our warm-up. Heist made a request to find jerkin bars, so off we went to (unsuccessfully) find some.

Pyramids:
Rd 1 – LBC/H2H/Hello Dolly/Freddy/Box Cutters x8
Rd 2 – Merkins/Dry Docks/Mtn Climbers/Shoulder Taps/Dips
Rd 3 – Squats, firecrackers, imperial walker, calf raises, jump squats

We ran to a new spot each round, then BTTF

Highlights:
Someone decided to start their resolution walks a day early and was caught off guard by our LBCs
Amelia Co Sheriff stopped for a chat on his way home from his shift, said he sees the Amelia crew all the time running around the courthouse
El Heisto M makes some good chinese food, just avoid El Heisto the next morning.
2 people think you need water, the other 2 think coffee + bourbon is a solid replacement. Hung jury

Prayers everyone is safe tonight ringing in the new year! Prayers for Snookie

For a Rocky workout montage, 9 HIMs showed up at the Woodshed to prepare for Rocky’s foes with a spirited workout.

Warmerama included moseying down the streets of Philly (or Harpers Mill), SSHs, Don Quixotes, Cherry pickers, Leg and Hip stretchers.

Finding the best from Rocky’s movies, we undertook some clear and some confusing exercises. Duly noted by YHC…

All rounds included 1-minute AMRAP style exercises, some that paired with another HIM and then a full parking lot jog and back.

Round 1: Apollo Creed

• Clapping merkins – note to self, don’t start with these again …
• Full sit ups
• Leg raisers with partner push off

Round 2: Clubber Lang

• Back to back with partner for a coupon (medicine ball) pass, both directions
• Shadow box shuffle from side of parking lot to the other side and back
• Frog hop with a coupon

Round 3: Ivan Drago

• Foot-elevated merkins with a partner
• Dragon Flies – or at least our attempt at them by raising torso and legs into the air on a plane
• Bear crawl up and down the field hill

Round 4: Tommy “The Machine” Gunn

• Medicine ball (coupon) merkins, first with one hand elevated and then switch to the other
• Full sit ups with a torso twist (optionally, could have partner slap stomach per Rocky’s trainer. No one chose this option.)

Closed with a circle up and some more SSHs and LBCs to time.

Numbers and Names

Announcements included Rosie’s 12 days of Christmas. Prayers for multiple people seeking jobs + reminder about Rudy’s ministry opportunity. See 3rd-f channel for details. Encouragement for more Qs at Woodshed!

YHC also learned there is such a thing as SOP and it is not standard operating procedure. Will have to do the shorts-only next time (maybe).

Look ma! There’s wood in that thar Woodshed!

That’s right, 4 HIMs from the Woodshed took last week as a challenge and showed up to join 5 other HIMs to take delight in the Nerd-based workout promised by YHC. With a little creativity and some learned Prompt Engineering studied while job searching, YHC let an older Llama2 model craft a workout that included warm ups, 2 COPS and some downtime. This ChatGPT-like venture allowed YHC to nerd out in the AI space while also crafting a sweat-inducing workout.

Warmarama took advantage of new lights down from the clubhouse to allow a short mosey to a cross-street where the PAX took part in Lllama2-based delicacies like SSH, Cherry Pickers, Arm Circles, Ukranian Soldiers, Torso Twists and some leg stretching. Moseying back to the parking lot introduced phase 2.

Llama2 then introduced COP1 which consisted of 3 rounds of sprint intervals the length of the parking lot and performing the following at subsequent ends:

• 10 Mountain Climbers
• 10 Freddie Mercuries
• 10 Leg Raisers with push from a partner
• 10 Plank Shoulder taps

A quick 20 count led to COP2 which was similar to COP1 except the sprint intervals ran the other direction for variety and consisted of:

• 10 Merkins
• 10 Wide Merkins
• 10 Diamond Merkins
• 10 Plank Shoulder Taps

Finishing with time left, the PAX enjoyed a solid ring of fire led by each of the 9. Llama2 did not account for this time, so looks like YHC’s prompting skills need some improvement.

COT included prayers for Excel’s 12:30pm interview on Thursday and praises for TeddyKGB joining St. Gabriel’s church with his wife and being able to now take communion.

Due to an unforeseen illness that took Excel (the original Q) down, the studs of New Market rallied to save the day! Six New Marketeers showed up ready to roll—only to find no wood in the woodshed! The cold temps and the looming Richmond Half/Marathon scared off the rest. What followed was a hot potato-style beatdown that went something like this:

Hermey Q – Warm up mosey followed various IC exercises, followed by a few minutes of Dojo Dan. Man Down!! Nancy Lopez failed to turn the hip over enough during sidekicks and suffered a minor pinched nerve injury. Despite the jolting pain, he lifted his head high and carried on!

Futon Q – COP 1: Mosey down to the newly lit street that has a sneaky incline for a little pyramid – Starting at the bottom of the hill perform 10 Squats, run to the top for 10 Squats, 20 Carolina Dry Docks, run down the hill for 10, 20, 30 Double Count Flutter Kicks, run up the hill for 10, 20, 30, 40 Hand Release Merkins. Quick rest and run back down the hill for 40 SSH, run up the hill for 40, 30 Double Count Mountain Climbers, run down the hill for 40, 30, 20 B-Girl Rayguns (named after the Australian Break Dancers), run up the hill for 40, 30, 20, 10 Alabama Prom Dates.

Heist Q – COP 2: Triple Check from the entrance to the parking lot to the stop sign at the main road. P1 performs Squats, P2 performs WW2s.

Globetrotter Q – COP 3: Short side 11’s in the parking with incline and decline merkins

Time called, Numbers, Names, Announcements – The Bridge 11/15, SOJ Chili Cook Off 11/23, Daddy/Daughter Dance 12/6, Prayer Requests – Hardywood and the F3 Pax lifted up for the great work to donate athletic gear and getting it shipped to PAX in Kenya, Wildcat and Gal for recent quarterly cancer scans – some changes seen and awaiting further testing for treatment options. Keep praying, but we know God has it in his control and Wildcat’s mental and physical power is truly amazing.

Pleasure taking part of the hot potato workout. There is a lot of sickness going around, so hope everyone stays well. Have a blessed day!

rolled up with 2 in the truck to a group waiting in the cold

COP warmarama in the usual way with the usual suspects at the shed.

THANG

The one and only Futon started us off with warmup and a series of 11’s with incline decline merks. He saw it fit to call on Dr. Scholls and passed it to him first. Futon was warned that it might be a mistake as amelia burpess were likely on the menu. He did not disappoint. It was a blur of bear crawls, curls and amelia burpees. Futon then recommended we pass it to a volunteer, I was voluntold and did some dojo dan and a PLT followed by a DORA with some usual ex’s. I passed it to Murr and he finished the punishment with some block work on the arms and a ROF.

COT name/numberama, prayers and FUTON took us out.

Honor and pleasure gents