Tag: Timberwolf

11 warriors, including 1 FNG, posted to Timberwolf on this glorious morning.  With no name on the Q sheet, YHC took the reigns and led off the hot potato that went something like this:

Mosey to the front parking lot for COP, including

• DQs
• Helicopters
• Cotton Pickers
• SSHs
• Hillbillies (hop mandatory)
• Tempo Merkins
• Flutter Kicks

THANG:

4 Corners Prostitute Style

• Corner 1 = 10 merkins
• Corner 2 = 10 merkins, 20 jump-squats
• Corner 3 = 10 merkins, 20 jump-squats, 30 2-ct Freddy Mercuries
• Corner 4 = 10 merkins, 20 jump-squats, 30 2-ct Freddy Mercuries, 40 SSHs
• Run the long sides; lunge the short sides, finish back in corner 1 planking for the six

Plank-o-rama and Pickle-pounders (miss you Wilson!)

YHC passed the Q to Mr. Roper (I would like this decision back) for the following:

Bear crawl across the side grass patch to the light poles

Lightpole 11s with WWIIs and BURPEES (yep, he called Burpees…ouch!)

Partner carry lightpole to lightpole back to the starting point.

Crab-walk across grass patch back to parking lot and sprint from Corner 3 back to Corner 1.

Q passed to Flange for the following:

Donkey-Kick 200 – partner up and complete 200 DKs together Dora-style taking turns running to the nearest lightpole and back.

Merkin ROF – quite a variety show.  Lots of flare.

Mary, including:

• LBCs
• Flutterkicks
• Alabama Prom Dates (or Wedding Dates?)
• American Hammers
• Superman

COT, COR, NOR and YHC took us out

Announcements:

• Field Day at Dogpile this Saturday – t-shirt from your youth has been requested.
• Puppy Pile 6/23
• Get in on the Summer Tour – Phonics, Vinny, Offshore and others are checking them off fast.
• Amateur Hour (or 45 minutes) at RAMM Gears tomorrow
• HR Derby coming up 6/26 at Robious Elementary/Huguenot Little League INSTEAD of No Toll.  Pre-blast forthcoming.

Moleskin:

Great to have double-digits at Timberwolf again.  First time in a while.  We learned that Roper is starting to like the power of the Q, and YHC apologizes (its all the rage these days) for passing it to him.  Those 11s sucked.

Phonics is putting in the miles.  On the bright side, the SOJ customs folks recognize him now and waive him right through.  Thanks for coming out Phonics.

Offshore also made the trek SOJ again – well done!

Also, great to see Bag Phone back out after his virgin post yesterday.  Great job.

Great to have FNG Superfly out with us.  Another wrestling buddy of Sugar Sock and Flange.  Getting close to our wrestler quota.  He crushed it today.

Hot potato Qs are always challenging and today was no different.  Way to bring it fellas.

No More Gumbo For You!

A PAX of 4 gathered in the re-dawn gloom and shared a few minutes of fellowship before the clock struck 0530, EFH noticing YHC’s lack of gloves and sharing his excitement after doing “like 300 squats with KBs yesterday”…sorry brother, its LEGS and ABS day at Timberworlf #BeachBody.  It went something like this:

Mosey down to the entrance to the school for Calisthenics up the hill — lunge to first light pole, butt-kickers to second, and high knees to third.

COP, including SSHs, DQs, Helicopters, Cherry Pickers, Imperial Walkers, Arm Circles, LBCs and Flutter Kicks.

THANG:

11s – around the bus lot lightpole to lightpole with Jump Squats and box cutters.

Mosey to the hill and field being the basketball courts.

Doras – 150 1-ct Freddy Mercuries, 200 Dollies, 300 Rosalitas.  Other partner runs up the hill, does 10 Moses Malone’s on the fence and runs back.

Field work:

• Matriculate down the lower field by various means called by the Q.  Each time we change, first drop and do 20 LBCs OYO.  Methods included: lunges, bounders (i.e., “skipping” per Mr. Roper), side lunges, sprints
• Up to the nice field for more – sprint to mid-field, do 20 2-ct mountain climbers and 20 2-ct Freddy Mercuries, then sprint to far endline.

PLTs – partner up and do 4 rounds of 25 PLTs each for a cool 100 each.

Mary – Mosey back to the parking area for Mary, including 2 rounds of ROF – hold six inches and when it is your turn do 20 1-ct American Hammers.  Then 20 Rocky Balboa situps IC.

Finish with 3 Burpees OYO.

COT, COR, NOR and YHC took us out.

Announcements:

• Puppy Pile 6/23 0705 – Sippy will kick it off.
• Hardywood looking for a Listing Specialist – see him for details.  Let’s help him fill the position.
• Mr. Roper is looking for interest in a Wednesday biking AO – considering Bon Air pool as a start/end location.  See him if you are interested.
• Send-off for Flashdance and Fudd  — discussion about trying to get something on the calendar and Hardywood WEST was thrown out as a location…anybody want to take the lead or pick a date?  Flash/Fudd – any particular date or week that would work for you guys?

NMS:

Not much mumblechatter today, but we got some work done and Mr. Roper declared that he is now ready to break out his two-piece at the pool.  Kudos my friend!

Always a pleasure to lead such a fine group.  Thanks for following along.

No More Gumbo For You!

Nine men assembled on a muggy morning at Timberwolf, 2 of those who traveled a touch longer distance to be a part of a epic beatdown.

COP –

5 Burpees OYO

SSH x 20

5 Burpees OYO

Helicopters x 10

Copperhead Squats x 10

Merkins x 10

LBC x 20

5 Burpees OYO

Mosey to tennis courts

4 Corners –

Corner 1 – 5 burpees

Corner 2 – 10 burpees

Corner 3 – 30 LBCs

Corner 4 – 40 Monkey Humpers

5 Burpees OYO

Hand Q off to Honeymoon

Mosey to Grassy Hill Beside the Track

HorseShoe

Work each exercise starting with the first all the way up to five adding an exercise after each loop of the horseshoe, and then bring it back down from the fifth exercise back to one.

Exercise 1 – 5 Burpees

Exercise 2 – 10 Merkins

Exercise 3 – 15 Carolina Dry Docks

Exercise 4 – 20 LBCs

Exercise 5 – 20 Mountain Climbers

One Minute Elbow Plank

Mosey to Flag –

Ring of Fire.

Numberama, Namerama, Honeymoon took us out

NMS

Apologies for the delay in the back blast, there was some confusion on who was handling it yesterday between YHC and Honeymoon.  Hats off to Phonics and Vinny for making the drive to the deep south to check the box on the summer challenge.  Great morning and a tough beatdown laid out by Honeymoon!  Of course Rosie and Phonics set the pace on the horseshoe, which certainly silenced the PAX quickly in the morning humidity.  Strong work by all fellas!!  Have a great day and see you in the gloom!

Marmaduke

 

 

7 SOJ regulars posted to Timberwolf this morning.  6 got the memo and split evenly, Red Shirts vs. Gray Shirts.  1 was LIFO (and extra LIFO to swap crocs for Brooks), and he came in wearing a blue shirt…odd man out.  Nonetheless, all 7 managed to work up a sweat doing the following:

Mosey to the front parking lot for a Gumbo-led COP, including:

• DQs
• Helicopters
• Cotton Pickers
• Copperhead Squats
• Imperial Walkers
• Tempo Merkins
• Box Cutters
• Freddie Mercuries

THE THANG:

Mosey to the near corner of the parking lot for 4-corners:

• Corner 1 = 10 merkins
• Corner 2 = 20 Jump Squats
• Corner 3 = 30 2-count mountain climbers
• Corner 4 = 40 SSHs
• Run from Corner to Corner stopping at each median/island for 3 burpees along the way.  6 medians in all, so 18 burpees along the way.  Add 1 more at the end for 19 total — punishment for VMI baseball’s 19-0 loss to Mercer in the first round of the Southern Conference Tournament yesterday…OUCH!

Aforementioned, LIFO (Mr. Roper), somehow didn’t see us in the front parking lot as he drove by, so after swapping footwear and running around the school, he came in from the East and joined the PAX in Corner #2.

Gumbo passed the Q to Wilson

Numbered Door Variety Show

• Mosey to Door #21 for 21 merkins OYO
• #20 for a wall sit while Gumbo did a 20 count
• #19 for Homer to Marger (AKA Heels to Heaven)
• #18 for Donkey Kicks
• #17 for something YHC can’t remember, but I’m sure it hurt
• #16 for Hello Dollies
• #15 for Carolina Dry Docks

Wilson passed the baton to Rosco…off to the track (YHC thinks Rosco was looking for the wooden benches for partner overhead presses, but thank goodness (for YHC’s shoulder) they were gone).

Rosco’s Field Games

• 20 Dips on the bleachers OYO
• Mosey to the long-jump pit for tire flips — 2 tires (1 large, 1 medium) = 2 teams (Red (and Blue) vs. Grays) – flip the tires the length of the runway…TIE
• Mosey to the track for 2 laps around the track
• Back to the tires for another tire-flip race…switch tires…TIE again
• Back to the track for Human sled drills and then sprint relays (about 75 yards)
• Back to tires for another race – Bobber defected from the Gray Shirts to join the 40+ crowd of 5 men on the large tire vs Rosie and YHC on the medium tire…TIE again (questionable judging).

Rosco passed the baton to Bobber for a Mosey back toward the flag and Mary

Bobber’s Mary

• 15 Merkins OYO
• Crunchy Frogs (a Balzer company favorite apparently)
• Monkey Humpers
• Merkin ROF

COT, COR, NOR and YHC took us out

Announcements:

• Convergence on Monday for Memorial Day – 0700-0800 at Tredegar/Brown’s Island.  Meet in the parking lot.  Bring a friend.  Plan for ET’s afterwards if you can. No other AOs in action Monday.
• Opus takes on the big stage at Dogpile for his Dogpile VQ on Saturday – come out and support Opus.
• NEW SOT at Midlo Middle is up and running.  LugNut (the original SOT Captain) laid  his ship to rest with a solo send-off yesterday — well don, sir.

NMS:

A great crew today at Timberwolf.  YHC personally was hoping to see Cougar Bait post again but it sounds like us old men put a whipping on him yesterday at SOT.  We must build out Bait’s stamina before we release him to the Cougars…looking forward to seeing you post again soon.

The color scheme and numbers were all set for some triple-check team madness until Mr. Roper sauntered in LIFO.  But, no worries, we made do.

Man oh man, that standing water on the edge of the field and track and the smell emanating from it instantly brought YHC back to muggy/muddy football practices.  Darn that stunk.

YHC always enjoys Rosco’s feats of strength and mano a mano combat drills.  Today, YHC, was able to establish some leverage and use it to his benefit…I’m sure a rematch is in the plans for the near future.

Great job today guys.  Take this energy into your day and make it great.

No More Gumbo For You!

9 SOJ redwoods beat the draw of the FS to post on a wet Thursday to greet the day. The beatdown went something like this:

Slaughter Start – 10 burpees OYO

Mosey to front of school for COP: SSH, Imperial Walkers, Copperhead squats, Flutterkicks, Dead/Dying Cockroaches

Mosey front loop

Partner up for Triple Check: front loop, dips on benches, elbow plank

Mosey to back of school to hill below basketball courts

Jacob’s Ladders
Set 1: run up, 1 burpee, run down, 2 burpees – increase by 1 up to 6, repeat 6 then descend back to 1
Set 2: run up, 2 monkey humpers, run down, 4 monkey humpers, increase by 2 up to 12, repeat 12 then descend back to 2
Set 3: run up, 2 donkey kicks, run down, 4 merkins, increase by 2 up to 12, repeat 12 then descend back to 2

Mosey to football fields
Partner up for Love Field
Set 1: partner 1 bearcrawl width, partner 2 run to end line and backwards run back, switch, repeat until complete.
Set 2: repeat-o
Set 3: partner 1 lunge width, partner 2 run to end line and backwards run back, switch, repeat until complete.
Set 4: repeat-o

Mosey to tennis courts
Quick Mary: LBCs, American Hammers, Dead/Dying Cockroaches

Mosey back to VSF

COT – Flashdance took us out

Naked Moleskin

YHC was not excited when his alarm woke him this morning…but he felt better 1 min in!

The donkey kicks on the Jacob’s Ladder were not well received…neither was using the hill in the first place. Still, Rosie set an impressive pace.

Flashdance is moving to Florida and provided some moving words about what F3 has meant to him. We wish him well on his new adventure. Reach out to him before he takes off.

Announcements: Let’s hope the rain holds off for Wilson’s golf tournament tomorrow!

6 Gloom Gladiators broke the warm hold of the sheets and comforters this morning and posted to Timberwolf to start their Thursday in the best way possible.  YHC tried to accommodate as follows:

Mosey to and around the track and circle up at mid-field for COP, including:

• DQs
• Helicopters
• Cotton Pickers
• SSHs
• Freddie Mercuries

THANG:

The Gunner

Line up on the 50-yard line, complete 20 2-ct American Hammers and 20 jump squats then sprint AYG to the end zone.  Plank up for the 6.  Repeato x 4 with some plank-o-rama in between rounds.

Indian Run around the track the long way to the basketball court

The Wilt

Line up on the end line of the basketball court, complete 100 LBCs, spring 100 feet to other end line, complete 100 squats, sprint, 100 2-ct flutter kicks, sprint, 100 1-ct lunges, sprint back.  Al Gore for the six.

Indian Run to the far light post at the end of the bus loop.

Light Post 11s

Starting at the first light post with 10 merkins and 1 2-ct mountain climber – sprint to next light post for 9 and 2, and so on around the loop stopping at all 10 light posts.

Love and Hate Hills

Partner up and work your way down hill (4 light posts) to the school entrance with the following exercises and sprints to the end and back, flip-flopping roles. Once we reach the entrance, turn left and head uphill toward  the flag to the 4th light post at the top of the hill.  Exercises were Lunges, Broad Jumps and Polar Bears.

Mosey to Flag area

ROF x 2

First Round = hold 6 inches, complete 10 heels to heaven, pass it along (and take it off Mute Mr. Roper)

Second Round = hold a good Al Gore (hug that tree), drop and complete 10 merkins and pop back up to Al Gore

2 MOM

Box Cutters x20 IC

Rosalitas x10 IC

COT, COR, NOR and YHC took us out

Announcements:

• HDHH – Wednesday, May 16 at Independence Golf Club.  5:30-6:30 range time, 6:30 – ? Tavern 19
• Wilson’s Golf Tourney – Friday, May 18.  Find a team or start a team.
• Puppy Pile – Sat., May 19 0700 (right after Dogpile).  Bring out your 2.0s
• Shakedown and Mr. Holland are raising money for Childhood Cancer and will shave their heads for it.  Support them.
• SOJ (Shakedown) has the Ghost Flag and plans to put it on the block May 23 at Dogpile.  Get your clown cars together and post.
• Several folks within F3 or friends/family are facing obstacles.  Let’s support when and how we can and keep the prayers and positive thoughts flowing.  Together ever obstacle can be overcome.

NMS:

Great work today with all the sprints.  Never EVER seen Mr. Roper run so fast.  Man on a mission on the football field.  Probably pissed when YHC called for more sprints on the b-ball court.  Rosie paced the group as usual…Machine!

Great to have Bobber out and great seeing Roper, DK and Flashdance making Timberwolf a regular weekly post.

Search party formed to find the Emerging Nano Region of New Market…

No More Gumbo For You!

7 strong SOJ beasts posted to Timberwolf to conquer the Mega Beast as follows:

Short  mosey to the end of the pavement for COP nearby in case of any LIFOs.  COP included:

• DQs nice and slow
• Helicopters
• SSHs
• Imperial Walkers
• LBCs

No idea on numbers.  Too much mumblechatter and conversation.  No worries, the Mega Beast would snuff that out quickly…

THANG:

Mosey to the Track for the Mega Beast = The Beast Track Style with 100-yard runs in between pain stops for a total of 1/2 mile per round.  6 rounds.  3 Miles.  Exercises were:

• Merkins
• Box Cutters
• Jump Squats
• Mountain Climbers
• Hello Dollies
• SSHs

Plank, Al Gore, LBCs, etc. for the six in between rounds, except for the last – just get started when ready due to time constraints.

Mosey up to tennis courts for 4 MOM:

• ROF with six-inches hold and 10 flutter kicks when it is your turn
• ROF with six-inches hold and 10 heels to heaven when it is your turn
• Monkey Humpers in cadence until time.

Mosey back to the flag.  COT, Number-rama, Name-a-rama and Wilson took us out.

Announcements:

• HDHH Wednesday, May 16 at Independence Golf Club.  5:30-6:30 hit some range balls to get ready for Wilson’s Golf Tourney.  6:30 – ? fellowship, food and beverage in Tavern 19 there at Independence.  Cornhole is also available.
• Wilson’s golf tourney (www.forethecause.org) – May 18
• Support Shakedown in his quest to raise $$ for the fight against childhood cancer by shaving his head through St. Baldric’s.

NMS:

Great morning for some miles mixed with some pain stops…Mega Beast time…BINGO!  Rosie broke this out a few weeks back at Twin Team and it is a crowd pleaser for sure.

Great job by everyone!  Way to push the entire time.  Great to have Flashdance back out at Timberwolf (thanks for the post-beatdown shoulder work – much appreciated) and great to have Beaker back out for the Spring season.  Looking forward to the resurrection of the Emerging Nano Region of New Market!

Have a great Thursday gents.

No More Gumbo For You!

3 Timberwolf veterans welcomed an SOJ stalwart for his first posting at Timbewolf and decided that a tour of the AO was in order.  YHC took the Q and this is how it went:

Mosey around to the front parking lot in case of any LIFOs.  Brief COP (since there is much to tour) there including:

• DQs
• Helicopters
• SSHs

THE TOUR:

Stop 1: Entrance Hill – partner up and complete traverse the hill up to the bus parking lot “Love Hill” style with Lunges, Broad Jumps and Polar Bears.

Stop 2: Lightpost 11s around the bus lot.  Exercises at each of the 10 lightposts around the lot starting with 1 jump squat and 10 box cutters shifting to 10 and 1 at the last

Mosey to the back corner of Sparky’s Alley

Stop 3: Donkey Kick Corner = 20 DKs OYO and 30-second wall sit.  Repeato x4

Mosey to the track

Stop 4: Dora on the Track.  Exercises were 100 merkins, 200 single count flutter kicks and 300 LBCs.  Run was a 100-yard sprint and back.

Mosey a lap around the track and up to the tennis courts

Stop 5: Progressive 4 corners on the tennis courts –

• Corner 1 = 10 scorpion dry docks
• Corner 2 = 10 sdds, 20 jump squats
• Corner 3 = 10 sdds, 20 js, 30 single-count mountain climbers
• Corner 4 = 10 sdds, 20 js, 30 single-count mountain climbers and 40 SSHs

Run long sides; Lunge short sides

Mosey back full-circle to the entrance

Stop 6: 4 Lightposts — sprint (AYG) up the hill stopping at each of the lightposts for exercises: 10 burpees at the first, 20 hello dollies at the second, 30 2-ct freddy mercuries at the third and 40 squats  at the fourth.

End of the tour – mosey back the cars for 4 MOM, including

• ROF = hold six inches and do 10 heels to heaven when it is your turn
• APDs
• Cross-leg Lifts — WILSON COME BACK!!!
• American Hammers at Honeymoon’s request and on his count
• 30-seconds of Superman

COT, Number-rama, Name-a-rama and YHC took us out.

Announcements:

• Wilson’s golf tourney – May 18th.  Find a foursome and get out there.  www.forethecause.org.
• Talk of a HDHH starting at a driving range one Wednesday before Wilson’s golf tourney, followed by beers — Maybe Windy Hill or Independence.
• Be on notice – Rosco Qs will include punishments for bad attitude and foul language.  Clean it up or do some extra merkins/burpees/etc.?  You’ve been warned!
• Continued prayers out for those in our PAX or in our families dealing with difficult issues or hard times.  There is power in prayer and strength in numbers.  Keep it flowing!

NMS:

Great to have DK out to Timberwolf.  Strong foursome today. We pushed the pace hard and got a lot of work in.  Good job fellas.  Always a pleasure to lead such a motivated group.

Have a great Thursday!

No More Gumbo For You!

YHC arrived this morning to Virgin Q and Virgin post for Timberwolf with Rosie and Tuco waiting. Bobber arrived with a few minutes to spare and Honeymoon came in hot and solo for New Market nano region. Shovel flag planted….yes YHC finally made his…..and 5 PAX members escaped the fart sack for a YHC Q with a dreaded exercise as a common theme for the Q. 0530….mosey time. Headed toward the tennis courts with Rosie asking YHC, “What you got in mind, Flatline?” YHC responded, “The track?” YHC immediately thought, “Our my thoughts that obvious?” Or Rosie has seen enough Q’s from YHC to know.

PAX ran 1 lap around the track to COP on the soccer field: Don Quixote x 10, Helicopter x 11, Copperhead Squat x 12, Imperial Walker x 13, Flutter Kicks x 14, LBC x 15.

Burpee Mile: 12 burpees, one lap and repeat x 4 for 48 burpees and 1 mile run.

Mosey to entrance of Timberwolf for Burp Back Hill: Partner up. Partner 1 runs backwards up the hill, turns at cones and runs downhill facing forwards back to start, while Partner 2 performs burpees, switch, repeat for total of 100 burpees.

Mosey to tennis courts, 4 corners: x 10 Squat, x 20 SSH, x 30 LBC, x 40 Mnt. Climbers and reverse back down. Run length of the courts and crab walk or bear crawl on the sides. Mosey to soccer field with Honeymoon stating ,”the flag is the other way.” Not yet buddy, we have more time.

50 yrd sprints with 5 burpees for length of the soccer field and back=x4, 50 yrd sprints and 20 more burpees. YHC was informed that there was a gate at tennis courts so no need to run around them again. YHC obliged and through the courts back to the flag with 1 minute to spare.

Ring of Fire: 10 merkins each and time’s up!!

Number-ama, Name-r-ama, and Announcements: CSAUP for next year. Find a team. Good luck to Tuco today and his interview with HCA! YHC took us out.

NMS:  Rosie officially has YHC understood….like my big brother but YHC is older! Burpees are just awesome and terrible at the same time. Tuco, glad to see you again and YHC hopes everything works out soon for you and your family and you are in RVA permanently!! Honeymoon, thank you for intel on tennis courts and the gate! Tell Marmaduke YHC said congrats and hope all is well! Yes, YHC is competitor but no anger……all heart and this morning PAX tried to get it all out!!

Gentlemen, thank you for following and have a super blessed day. Only those who post understand!

Loud and Proud!!

Flatline