Tag: The Woodshed

  • ResQ and a Teddy KGB sighting

    10 HIMs showed up to be surprised by an 11th, the return of Teddy KGB. Teddy was instrumental in starting up the Woodshed, so it was great to have him back out. Restarting as a Q (ResQ), YHC chose to run the HIMs around and sprinkle in some coupons along the way.

    After a mosey down the road, we began with SSH, Cherry Pickers, Dead Man Hang, some stretches and finished with Ukranian Soldiers.

    Cop1: Run to the local school and conduct 4 corners, LOTN style with 15 of each

    • LBCs
    • Mountain Climbers in honor of Snookie returning from Montana
    • Windshield Wipers
    • Freddie Mercuries

    After a 20 count, we returned to the flag

    Cop2: Coupon work 11s

    • Side 1 = Overhead lifts
    • Side 2 = Curls
    • Grocery carry in left hand going one way, right hand going the other (both hands if YHC needed to modify his own directions!)

    Cop3: 2 rounds of Merkins and Chest Press with the coupons

    Closed with 1 minute of SSH to complete the time

    COT with numbers, names and announcements

    • Saturday – 5K with Nancy Lopez to raise funds for his son’s illness
    • 5/16 – watch for a backyard BBQ announcement

  • Fun, sweaty and all over the place

    5 grown-boys made their way out to The Woodshed this morning to get April started out right!

    WARMARAMA – Moseyed to the end of the soccer field where YHC had done a little recon work a few days before. Turns out that there’s a path through the woods that feeds right into WES and the hill that the PAX likes to run on sometimes. Gave the mission, stretched out and got into it.

    COP #1 – Quintuple check

    • Pacer to a far light pole while everyone else did Pullups, Merkins and Dips on the playground.

    COP #2 – Knockout!

    • PAX found (2) basketballs and rims short enough to dunk on. Played two rounds. Lots of dunks, a few balls over the fence and YHC got to throw down an alley-oop.

    COP #3 – Bus Line runs and exercises

    • Ran, back-peddled and did some karaoke (spelling).
    • Bus lanes were labeled “A, B, C, D, E” so each PAX member took a land and performed exercises based on the letter assigned. Rotated a few time.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    • Nancy’s fundraiser/race
    • Futon’s 40th Birthday Q is on 5/1 at Satan’s Hill!

    PRAYERS/WINS

    • Patience with kids home on SB

  • Shedding Wood in other ways

    How much wood can a woodshed shed if a woodshed could shed wood? Only Gotham knows. According to a grunting deer, here’s what took place today:

    7 HIMs *although after our count I am not sure how many HIMs it was* came out for a classic Pyramids beatdown. Mosey around the dark field aimlessly and then circle up for some max effort stretching.

    Run down the road a bit for Pyramid 1: 10x squats/toe taps/calf raises/sumo squats/firecrackers

    Run up the hill for Pyramid 2: 8x merkins/CDD/walk backs/arm raises/HRM

    Run down the hill for Pyramid 3: 10x LBC/heels-to-heaven/hello dolly/APD/Freddy’s

    Walk BTTF.

    Announcements – DTH organized a family friendly ruck this weekend. 4/11 5k see Nancy for deets.

    Prayers – Excel’s wife taking her Stepfather to an elderly care facility, Woodsman’s balsa-wood ankle.

    Great work today fellas!

  • Hare of the Dog

    The night before was St. Patty’s, but the fellas understood that if they were drinking then, the only “hair of the dog” they’d receive the morning after would be their Q. An easy mosey into the new neighborhood section and subsequent warm-up gave way to a cinder block workout on the Woodshed’s own version of Satan’s Hill (yet to be named). Trips up and down the hill included a handful of burpees on the descent and rounds of various coupon lifts at the bottom (bicep and tricep curls, bent over rows, and military presses).

    Following the hill workout, the PAX did a Triple Check with a shorter run into a cul-de-sac interspersed with goblet squats and flutter kicks. After toting the coupons back to the clubhouse, we finished up with a Circle of Fire.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS: Nancy Lopez is sponsoring a 5K, the GLOW for Galactosemia, on 4/11 at Robius Landing. Rudy is also raising money for Family Lighthouse (and folks could have signed up for his bracket challenge).

    PRAYERS: to everyone in general.

  • What “Chores” Do You Hire Out For?

    5 HIMs came out to The Woodshed to find perfect weather, a deck of cards and some chicken scratch on a piece of cardboard. Conversations ranged from soreness in our old age to how much bourbon/beer was consumed last night to hiring out for “chores” around the house that we/M’s don’t want to do. According to the sole toddler soccer cleat we found sitting in the parking lot here is how it went down:

    Warm Up: Mosey around the parking lot. Circle up for various IC exercises and stretches. Grab a coupon and circle up in the parking lot.

    COP 1: Deck of Cards Ladder Style: 1st PAX member pulls top card. PAX performs quantity of exercise for number and suite shown. If the next card is also a number card, then PAX performs 1st number card followed by 2nd number card. If the next card drawn is a face card, then this takes away the “ladder build up” of exercises and forces the PAX to run about the parking lot and return to perform exercises assigned to each face card. If Ace was drawn = 25 burpees. If Joker (2 total) was pulled, the member that drew the card was able to make the rest of the PAX perform dealer’s choice OR they could rescue the PAX from doing exercises. We had a mix of ladder build ups with our highest being a run of 5. 1 Ace drawn for a total of 25 Burpees, 1st Joker drawn negated any further Aces to be drawn (Hermey), 2nd Joker drawn and PAX was made to perform 7s across the parking lot with Decline Merkins and Burpees (Futon).

    Clubs = Carolina Dry Docks

    Diamonds = Diamond Merkins

    Hearts = Hammer Curls

    Spades = Squat Thrusters

    Jack = Plank Jacks x 10

    Queen = Double Count Freddy Mercuries x 15

    King = Double Count Flutter Kicks w/ block overhead x 20

    Ace = Burpees x 25

    Numbers, Names, Announcements (Fandango F3 2-year anniversary Q 3/16 at The Alamo, 3-Year Anniversary of The Alamo 3/30, Glow for Galactosemia 4/11, YHC 40th Birthday Q 4/29 at The Woodshed) Prayers (Wildcat with important scans today, Our country, for the toddler that lost his soccer cleat at The Woodshed).

    The time change doesn’t make it any easier to wake up and work out at 5:30 AM, but I appreciate you fellas showing up this morning. Keep spreading the word and lets get numbers consistently back up in the double digits for The Woodshed. Have a blessed day!

  • Trio at The Woodshed

    3 HIMs came out this morning to the Woodshed for a nice little beatdown! Nothing fancy, but went something like this:

    Warmup: Mosey to the end of the parking lot and back for some warm up stretches and IC exercises. Grab a cindy and left at the flag.

    COP 1: Start at end of the parking lot with called exercise, run to the cindy and perform called exercise, run to the other end of parking lot and perform called exercise. Exercises were added each time. Exercises were as follows:

    5 Burpees, 5 Overhead Press, 5 HRM

    Repeat reps of 5, add 10 Squats, 10 Single Leg Squats, 10 Calf raises

    Repeat reps of 5, 10, add 15 Carolina Dry Docks, 15 Bicep Curls, 15 Incline Merkins

    Repeat reps of 5, 10, 15, add 20 Donkey Claps, 20 Flutter Kicks w/ cindy overhead, 20 JLos

    COP 2: Overhead carry block to middle of parking lot for 11s – Bicep Curls, run across parking lot and up small hill for Dips on the bench

    COP 3: Overhead carry block to the flag for quick ring of fire – PAX called Leg, Ab and Arm Exercise x quantity 10

    Numbers, Names, Announcements (Glow for Galactosemia Run 4/11 – See Nany Lopez), Prayers (Globetrotter and Wildcat in their treatments, any PAX on the IR)

    Pleasure leading you fellas today. Thanks for showing up! Have a blessed day!

  • The Power of 2

    It’s hard to compete with Dumar offering Eagle Rare 12, so I knew the Shed would be light today. It’s not the size of the PAX that matters, it’s the motion of the burpee that counts!

    Mosey down to the end of the street for a warmup, back to the main area and grab a cinder. Light pole lunges! Do 8 reps of called exercise, then lunge to next light pole. do 8 reps of 2 exercises, keep going to 5x. Rest, turn around, head BTTF.

    Quick 4 corners. How many Alabama prom dates is too many Alabama prim dates? Not sure, but 80 is a lot…

    Finish off with wind sprints for 5 minutes.

    Snookie – great workout today, good to have company in the gloom

  • A “Two” on 2/11 at the Shed

    Mother nature gave us a break from the winter ice on a balmy Wednesday morning in February, so six PAX gathered at the Woodshed for Snooki’s second Q. A doubling over last week’s turnout (from 3 to 6!) saw the gang start with a mosey around the clubhouse parking lots before warm-ups with plenty of acknowledgment of our middle-aged nature and accompanying need for hip stretches and such.

    Following a solid warm-up and relocation to the new neighborhood section south of the clubhouse, the PAX decided to explora with a DORA of 100 Merkins, 200 LBCs, and 300 squats that also included runs to stations 2 and 3 where firecracker burpees and mule kicks found their way into the rotation.

    After exploring with DORA , the gang relocated to the Woodshed playground, whereby Triple Checks became the name of the game. (Shout out to Hermey for naming the routines for me!) First round had runs, dips, and step-ups with the second round rocking runs, calf raises, and hammer twists. Snooki blessed the festivities with a final round of side straddle hops before calling it a morning and moving on to numbers, name-o-rama, COT, and imbibing some Futon coffee.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS: Frozen Triangle was moved from last 2/7 to Sat, 2/21 on account of a little TOO much “frozen” (my native NJ might’ve managed, but in RVA we say nay when things get a bit too frostay).

    PRAYERS: to Heist’s son, dealing with a knee injury in a family that has a history of orthopedic issues in that particular region; to Wildcat for his ongoing illness and treatments (homeboy is still rocking Q’s – come on out to Satan’s Hill on Fri for a beating); and to F3 Nation in general.

  • Globetrotter’s World Tour of Pain

    Cold Exposure Edition (Apparently This Is Virginia)

    PAX: Futon, Snooki, YHC (Globetrotter)

    Despite aggressive weather deterrence and the kind of cold that makes an Arizona man question his life choices, three brave HIMs emerged from their fart sacks for a global expedition of questionable judgment. YHC, still biologically calibrated for desert mornings and sensible sunshine, was reminded that east coast “cold” hits different. Futon and Snooki, however, showed no fear—either from the temperature or from whatever playlist was about to drop.

    The Thang:

    Globetrotter’s World Tour of Pain—a musical passport stamp tour featuring international beats and F3 classics, because if you’re going to suffer, you might as well do it rhythmically.

    Stations rotated through various “countries,” with exercises inspired by allegedly traveled destinations that he could neither confirm nor deny Standard F3 movements were upgraded with Cindy’s for extra cultural enrichment. At one point, Snooki demonstrated the structural limits of government-issued concrete by breaking a cinder block, forcing an equipment swap mid-beatdown. OSHA was not notified.

    Exercises included a mix of merkins, squats, carries, lunges, and other globally recognized movements of pain with Savannah Sprints between sets. Music selection was loud, questionable, and fully committed to the theme—no passports required, just grit.

    Cold conditions ensured proper form through involuntary muscle tension. YHC remained vocal about the temperature in an attempt to manifest warmth through complaining. It did not work.

    COT / BTTF:

    • Counterama: 3
    • Namerama
    • Announcements
    • Prayer
    • Choclateria (hot chocolate as YHC doesn’t drink coffee)

    Naked Moleskin:

    • Futon and Snooki get full credit for showing up when logic suggested staying home.
    • Snooki’s cinder block did not survive the workout, but Snooki did—next block lived to see another day.
    • Turns out international pain feels the same no matter the country.
    • Virginia cold remains disrespectful, especially to Arizona imports.
    • World Tour completed. No refunds. No souvenirs. Just soreness.

  • Down the Shore, Baby

    Snooki’s VQ was a summer beach fantasy in the frigid cold at the Woodshed. After a quick mosey away from the clubhouse and back and some light warmups with a thundering cadence, the gang took a run down to Seaside Heights (or Winterpock Elementary) for some GTL action. Gym, Tan, Laundry – Every. Single. Day!

    GTL was worked into some four corners action, LOTN style (since the original Snooki was a bit of a trollop). The G (corner 1) included some LBCs, box cutters, and hammer twists; the T (corner 2) included Muricans, mountain climbers, and shoulder taps; and the L (corner 3) included squats, lunges, and calf raises. Burpees came in at corner 4 for good measure.

    After taking care of GTL, we ran to the club(house) for some partying, where we fist pumped (tricep curls) and uppercutted (bicep curls, in honor of when Snooki got punched in the face) with some coupons and threw in some crabwalking and bear crawling for good measure.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS: Gotham is doing SuperBowl boxes in support of his daughters’ gymnastics, and there is a CSAUP event upcoming on 2/7 with 10ish miles of running/rucking and 3 workouts.

    PRAYERS: Excel got a job after months of searching, and continued wishes for everyone’s health and well-being, especially with a nasty winter storm incoming.

    I appreciate F3 and all of you, and thank you immensely to the 13 of us that braved the cold for my VQ! (Apologies for the day late BB; needed to regain access.) Keep it up, fellas!