Tag: TwinTeam

  • Yah, yah, yah I’ll get too it

    Only 2 brave enough for Suicides on Twin Team, Tobit and Doozy talked about just getting in a Ruck but decided to get after a beatdown instead. Lets head to the hill

    COP at the bottom with DQ’s, Helicopters, Imperial Walkers, LBC’s and a few others

    Run to the top pick four stopping points on the way up

    Run to first stopping point turn and lung back up, run to second stop American Hammers, run back to first stop lung to top, run to 3rd stop Jump Squats, run back to 2nd stop for American Hammers, Run to 1st stop lung to top, run to fourth stop for sugar sticks BTTF

    Numbers / Names YHC took us out

    NMS:

    Lots going on this week and really just forgot to write this BB. Had a great Friday night with Tobit, Orange Crush and Nancy Lopez watching the mighty Monacan Chiefs win their football game. YHC promised Tobit that he would get this BB out as not to mess with his Big Data points.

  • Long Poles

    5 Godlike Titans rose before the sun and descended onto Bettie Weaver to make themselves better prior to a weekend of debauchery. According the yippy black dog walking his owner around the parking lot, this is what was rumored to have occurred.

    4 bootcampers ventured out leaving behind a solo rucker transcended parts unknown or atleast not told. Bootcampers moseyed down to James River High School for quick disclaimer and warm up that included invisible jump rope, helis, cherry pickers, jazzercise, merkins, X planks, LBCs and hello dollies. All seemed warm so we moseyed over to the bus loop:

    The THANG:

    Triple Check with 4: Timer runs across the parking lot and up the Regimental Tower. Others performed a variety of wall work that included Australian Mountain Climbers, Dirty Hookups and Hoedowns.

    Upon completion and the gathering of various clothing items, mosey to the student parking lot for some Parking Lot work: Bear Crawl across the parking lot, stopping at the lines for ascending merkins 1-10. Next round, lunges with ascending squats 1-10. Finished – lets work on those abs

    Indigenous Pole Smokers. Grab a pole and hold 6″, Far left person does 3 pole smokers and takes the vacant pole on the other side. Continue the leap frog until the end, which took a long time.

    BTTF for quick Not So LazyBoy Mary.

    Numbers, Names, Announcements, Prayers:

    HDHH – Ponch VQ @ Rock and Roll Tomorrow – 7.00; Veil Brewery on Forest Hill – Thursday 10/20 5.30; Beer Mile 10/29 – See Faceplant for deets.

    NMS: No real plan today other than to incorporate some vertical work and long line of pole smokers. Great mumble chatter included scouting youth football, youth Halloween costumes, and upcoming camping trips. Twin Team is always a great AO with tremendous variety of exercises partnered with comradery. Appreciative to this group after an interesting week personally. Great advice and guidance has been a blessing. Thank you for the fellowship and thoughts.

  • Introducing………Your Starting Five

    PG – Doozy
    SG – Chaplain
    C – Florence
    PF – Last Call
    SF – Tobit

    A gritty, yet offensively challenged team gathered on the courts of Bettie Weaver for a basketball inspired workout. Here is a brief summary for your viewing pleasure.

    Grab coupons and mosey to the back of the school for Warm-Up:
    SSH’s, Imperial Walkers, Ukranian Soldiers, Mummy Kicks, Apple Bottom Poppers, Plank Jacks, Alabama Prom Dates
    AND Butt kicks, High Knees, Karaoke across the parking lot.

    Exercise One: Rotating circuit with three rounds
    Round One: Upright Row with Kettle, Lawnmower Pulls with Kettle, American Hammers with Medicine Ball, Shoot three pointers, runner does lap around the track. Rotate through each station.
    Round Two: Reverse Forearm Curls with Kettle, Sumo Squats with Kettle, WWII’s with Medicine Ball, Shoot Three Pointers, runner does lap around the track. Rotate through each station.
    Round Three: Bench Press with Kettle, Bent Over Row with Kettle, Flutter Kicks with Medicine Ball Hold, Shoot Three Pointers, Runner does the Last Call Loop.

    Winner of the Three Point Contest (YHC) picks the next exercise: Merkins x 10

    Exercise Two: Bobby Hurley’s x 10, run across the Basketball court, Bobby Hurley’s x 20, run, Bobby Hurley’s x 30

    Gather coupons and mosey back to the flag. One minute of Monkey Humpers to wrap things up.

    Numbers/Names/Announcements/Prayer Requests

    Tobit took us out

    Final Thoughts: Strong work this morning fellas! We were not exactly lighting up the scoreboard during the 3 point contest. Blame was placed on the ball, poor lighting, tight forearms, uneven pavement, and other external factors. We were using a deflated soccer ball, so that part may have been legit. Lots a great mumble chatter including a break down of Chokies football as well as the team from Free Shoes University. Tobit had a funny anecdote about challenging a middle schooler to a pull-up contest.

    As always, it was an honor to lead

  • Murph & IPC Week 4 ”Death By Skinny Runner”

    3 Murph Bros and 3 Iron Bros attacked the day at Twin Team. Honeymoon, Marmaduke and Rosie did the Murph : run 1 mile from BWES down to JRHS, do a lap around Track then continue to playground. 10 sets of 10 pull ups, 10 Merkins IC, 15 Squats IC. Then reverso run back using the same path.

    Machismo, Judge and YHC did this for IPC Week 4 :

    1. 100 Gas Pumpers (Knees to Chest ab exercise)
    2. 50 Invisible Jump Rope
    3. 1 mile run
    4. 25 Hello Dollies 
    5. 25 Burpees
    6. 50 Invisible Jump Rope
    7. 400-meter run
    8. 25 Hand Release Merkins
    9. 25 V-Ups
    10. 50 invisible Jump Rope
    11. 400-meter run
    12. 25 Leg Raises
    13. 25 Jungle Boi Squats – 2 spoons style 
    14. 50 invisible Jump Rope
    15. 400-meter run
    16. 25 4-count flutter kicks 
    17. 25 Ball Dippers (hard way – right leg and left leg counts as 1)
    18. 50 invisible Jump Rope
    19. 400-meter run
    20. 100 Big Boy Sit-ups
    21. 50 invisible Jump Rope
    22. 1 mile run

    Stats :

    Judge 39 min, 37 sec

    Florence 39 min, 40 sec

    Machismo 40 min, 37 sec

    We finished IPC early so YHC went to BWES playground to finish the Murph.

    5 min remaining after Murph so we did ring of fire 5MOM : 10 Alabama Prom Dates IC, 10 Freddie Mercuries IC, 10 American Hammers IC, 10 WWII’s

    DONE

    Numbers, Names, Honeymoon took us out in prayer after COT

    Prayers to all those impacted by Hurricane Ian including YHC’s family in Venice FL which was one of the hardest hit.

    Circle K with the Q at DogPile tomorrow. Speculation that he might be bringing “The Hard Way” or ”The Michigan” workouts.

    Chaplain with the Q at Rock N Roll probably playing in the soup getting down and dirty like Chaplain usually does.

    Remember F3 is offered RAIN OR SHINE

    NMMS : Good push today all around. Glad to be done with IPC.

  • IPC Week 3 “571” & Running Bootcamp

    3 Iron Bros and 2 Running Bootcampers hit the playground and streets of BWES. Two joggers running behind the playground witnessed the following :

    THE THANG : From the Men of F3 Pugent Sound (Seattle, WA) – “This WOD was dedicated to Kathleen Walzer (Burns’ M). She courageously battled Pancreatic Cancer. A **571** day battle fought with love, grace, and trust in faith”

    5 ROUNDS OF:

    20 Cinder Block Overhead Presses

    20 Burpees

    20 Cinder Block Curls

    20 V-Ups

    20 Cinder Block Goblet Squats

    13 Cinder Block Man-Makers

    400M Run

    AFTER THE 5TH ROUND

    one more 400M Run

    DONE

    Judge and Machismo got far into the 5th Round but had to stop so they could give themselves enough time to head home and get ready for work. YHC finished the full workout in 44 min, 45 seconds.

    Rosie and Doozy got in 4 and a quarter miles of running with exercises mixed in on a compounding Horseshoe circuit. Very impressive they did that in 45 min.

    Numbers, Names, YHC took us out after COT

    Prayer Requests : Gypsy’s sister had a stroke so he’s going to see her after the Convergence. Continued prayers for all those on IR : DTH’s sister Elisabeth, Lab Rat, Doublemint, Fresh Prince, Chaplain

    Announcements : TOMORROW 9/24 Convergence at 7:30 am at Grid Iron then Retreat in the afternoon in Amelia (contact Gomer)

    NMMS : On the last round of 20 Burpees, YHC swallowed grass on the way down to the ground and almost spilled merlot. Started dry heaving for a solid minute while still continuing the workout haha.

  • IPC Week 2 : Belle Ringer

    2 Iron Bros had a date with Cindy. She’s a mean old bessie. Here’s what happened :

    THE THANG :

    Setup 5 Cones in the shape of a Star. Place another Cone in the middle of the Star. Each outside point of the Star should be 25 yards from the middle of the Star.

    Starting at the center cone (cone 1):

    5 ManMakers in the middle. Rifle carry to cone 2 and perform 10 “We’re Not Worthy”. Farmer carry back to center.

    5 ManMakers in middle. Rifle carry to cone 3 and perform 15 Goblet Squats. Farmer carry back to center.

    5 ManMakers in middle. Rifle carry to cone 4 and perform 20 Overhead Triceps Extensions. Farmer carry back to center.

    5 ManMakers in the middle. Rifle carry to cone 5 and perform 25 KB Swings. Farmer carry back to center.

    5 ManMakers in the middle. Rifle carry to cone 6 and perform 30 Curls. Farmer carry back to middle.

    This completes 1 Round or 125 reps. Count Total Reps completed in 45 minutes.

    DONE

    Numbers, Names, Machismo took us out in prayer after COT

    Prayers for Chaplain’s back and DTH’s shoulders.

    Stats : Machismo completed 535 reps. YHC completed 514 reps.

    NMMS : This was a really tough workout. Extremely hard to maintain good form. YHC’s grip faded fast. The “We’re Not Worthy’s” were the worst in my opinion even though there was only 10 reps of them each round.

  • IPC Week 1 while Doozy Runs

    3 Iron PAX and 1 Runner descended upon BWES. Here’s what the lunch lady observed :

    Doozy ran around parts unknown and eventually met up with us at BWES parking lot. Here’s what the Iron PAX did :

    Care Bear Squared : Done using a square area. Bear crawl forward 25 yards to first corner then do 25 Squats. Bear crawl left 25 yards to second corner then do 25 Merkins. Crawl bear backwards to third corner then do 25 Big Boi Sit Ups. Bear crawl right 25 yards to fourth corner then do 25 Burpees, which completes 1 Full Round. Count your Total # of Reps completed in 45 Minutes.

    DONE

    YHC forgot to do Numbers and Names but did take us out in prayer

    Announcements : See Slack as there are many. Good luck to the BRR folks. The F3RVA 8 Year Convergence is Sat 9/24 at Grid Iron 7:30 am then later on that same day is the Retreat (contact Gomer for Retreat address)

    Stats :

    Fiona (Got a late start and did modified version) : ~400 Reps

    Crab Legs (regular version) : 475 Reps

    Florence (regular version) : 575 Reps

    NMMS : T Claps to Crab Legs posting twice this week in his first week of F3. Little did he know that Today would be IPC…Let it be known there was no deception on YHC’s part. He just looked at the schedule online and wanted to post at Twin Team.

    Great to meet Fiona and to see Doozy

    YHC ate like crap last night and woke up during the middle of night thinking I was going to spill merlot. I was worried this morning I might also spill merlot before and/or during the workout but thank God I didn’t. In fact, maybe the extra calories helped?

    Proverbs 11:17-19 NIV :

    17Those who are kind benefit themselves,

    but the cruel bring ruin on themselves.

    18A wicked person earns deceptive wages,

    but the one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

    19Truly the righteous attain life,

    but whoever pursues evil finds death.

  • IPC Week 0 : Fat COE Sandwich

    4 Iron Bros took on IPC Week 0. Workout was the following :

    5 Rounds of : 20 Coupon Thrusters, 20 Merkins

    3 Rounds of : Bear Crawl out 100 feet then Broad Jump Burpee back 100 feet (Each Broad Jump Burpee was 3 Burpees and 5 Broad Jumps)

    5 Rounds of : 20 Coupon Thrusters, 20 Merkins

    DONE with time to spare

    Numbers, Names, YHC took us out after COT

    Stats :

    Chaplain did Standard Workout using 30 pound kettle bell – 32 minutes

    Boberry did Modified Workout using 35 pound dumbbell – 34 minutes

    Florence did Standard Workout using 35 pound dumbbell – 35 minutes, 58 seconds

    Machismo (FKA Juanita) did Modified Workout using 35 pound cinder block – 37 minutes, 25 seconds

    NMMS : Great job to all who posted this morning. That workout would’ve sucked even more doing it solo. This was the first time I felt confident that I maintained good form through an entire IPC workout. As David Goggins would say, “STAY HARD!”

  • Righteous Murph

    3 humble and upright brethren attacked the day with the monthly Murph to pursue righteousness. 1 mile run from Bettie Weaver down James River Rd to JRHS. Do a lap around parking lot and continue to Bettie Weaver playground. 10 sets of : 10 Pull Ups, 10 Merkins IC, 15 Squats IC. 1 mile run back using the same route.

    Mary with time remaining : YHC led 30 Standard Sit Ups IC, Tobit led 20 American Hammers IC, Rosie led 10 Marching Alabama Prom Dates IC (ask Rosie for demonstration next time you see him)

    DONE

    Numbers, Names, YHC took us out after COT

    Prayer Requests : Tobit has a friend whose mother is in bad shape with a brain bleed. ; YHC’s baby girl Rose has Lyme Disease from a tick (It sounds worse than it is. We got her on a prescription antibiotic quick)

    Announcements : Flannel attire for DogPile tomorrow for Honeydo’s grunge Q. YHC is heading to Crucible after DogPile for Anthrax’s Q there. Fireman Ed has the Q at Grid Iron tomorrow and Snuff has the Q at Rock N Roll.

    NMMS :

    Proverbs 11:2-4 NIV : “When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom. The integrity of the upright guides them, but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity. Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.”

  • Happy Birthday Pop

    Happy Birthday Pop

    YHCs grandfather (Arlett Franklin Edwards, Jr.) was born August 19, 1922 and left this world on June 13, 2022 (just a little more than two months shy of his 100th birthday). Five HIM joined YHC at Twin Team this morning to help pay tribute to a man that inspired me more than I can ever express. Here’s what went down this morning:

    COP:

    Burpees x 8

    SSHs x 19

    Merkins x 19

    LBCs x 22

    Burpees x 6

    DQs x 13

    Helicopters x 20

    Cherry Pickers x 22

    Mosey to jungle gym for Morning Call:

    Plank up in a line. First PAX member does five pull-ups and the rest of the PAX does a merkin for each pull-up. Repeat for all.

    Crawls and WWIIs: Starting at the end of the field, 1) army crawl to somewhere that looks like 25 yards and perform 10 WWIIs, 2) then bear crawl to the 50 and do 15 WWIIs, 3) crab walk to the 75 and do 20 WWIIs, 4) polar bear crawl to the end and do 25 WWIIs.

    Mosey to black top for Millennial (or 10 100s): Exercise is called. First person to 100 ends the round and PAX runs to the other end of the black top for the next round. Exercises included American Hammers, Jump Squats, Merkins, Shoulder Taps, Flutters, Burpees (done as a collective), something kind of like Peter Parkers, Squats, and two more I can’t remember.

    BTTF for 5 minutes of Mary: Rosalitas, Crunchy Frogs, Alabama Prom Dates, Dying Cockroaches, and something else.

    Numbers, names, announcements, prayer requests, YHC took us out.

    Announcements: F3RVA retreat coming up (see pre-blast for details), Labor Day Convergence at Dogpile (7am)

    NMS: YHC is gonna admit it, today is tough. Pop was a constant in my life for 42 years and a HIM that inspired me to work hard. YHC is grateful for the HIM of F3RVA that also inspire me to be a better version of myself. Special thanks to those that endured my tribute to Pop this morning.

    Pop was a very proud WWII vet serving in Europe from 1942-1945 with the Army’s 2nd General Hospital 44th Evac Hosp. His constant stories of those good ole days always served to remind me why they call his the greatest generation. He owned a tv and radio repair business in Danville for many years…and although he shut down that business in the 80s, he kept working until he was 90. I never met a man that worked as hard as he did. He was married to my grandmother for 75 years before she passed in 2021. He truly missed her and I suppose it makes sense that he followed her as quickly as he could.

    Have a great Friday fellas! Hug your families and let the know how much you love them. Peace!