Tag: TwinTeam

Three strapping Beast hunters showed up at Twin Team unaware of the story they where about to hear. This is a tale of misery and woe and not suitable for young children.

Mosey to the bottom of the hill AKA Twin Team for COP

DQ’s. Helicopters, Cherry Pickers, Dead man hangs, Imperial Walkers, Merkins, Mountain Climbers, Plank Jacks

Mosey up the hill and mark out 4 lines in chalk on the steeper part

Legend has it the long before the Revolutionary War when the Colonists came to this area there was a beast that roamed Twin Team and it was our duty to retrace the footsteps of those early Colonists and try to find the Beast. First they had to get through the woods by getting down and up and around the thick branches Kind of like a Burpee (6 at each line down and back). They did not see the Beast so they figured they would jump around waiving their hands to try and get his attention kind of like a SSH (6 at each line down and back). After still not seeing the Beast and getting tired from the trip they decided to rest for the night but they kept hearing things and would have to wake up in a start kind of like a WWII (6 at each line down and back). In the morning without much sleep they decided they would need to push themselves up out of bed kind of like a Merkin (6 at each line down and back). Our hero’s where not quit out of bed when they heard some noises that made them jump kind of like a Jump Squat (6 at each line down and back). It was at this time that the PAX decided they may not see the Beast this day and they better head back to the ship (AKA the Flag) but to get there they would have to go back through the woods kind of like Ball Dippers (6 at each line on the way down)

Kind of like the baseball pre season games, College softball & baseball reruns that YHC has been watching – Due to time constraints we had to jump ahead in the program.

Numbers / Names Tobit took us out

NMS:

The Legend of the Twin Team Beast is a part of Midlothian VA folk tale lore and further exploration and research will need to be done to prove if this is fact or fiction but as for YHC and those fine young men who where brave enough to come along for the adventure, we believe.

To be continued ………

5 bilingual redwoods arrived on the sprawling campus of Betty Weaver Elementary School to tackle a long awaited Twin Team VQ for YHC. 5.30 and 4 were about to head off when headlights appeared in the distance. Pigskin, making the trek from Charlotte, came in hot to join the party. Tales have been spread over time but this is how it will be remembered.

Mosey down the James River High parking lot for COT. SSH, DQ’s and Helicopters were on the menu. Warm? lets get to the main course.

Mosey over to the Swamp to utilize the Field for a Beast with the following exercises: plankjacks, doubletap merkins, WWII’s, squats, calf raises, burpees. Everyone looked good, continue on to the parking lot.

5 corners in the parking lot starting at 10 and continuing to 50 count. Exercises included merkins, 2 count American hammers, jump squats, mountain climbers, then up the hill to finish with lbc’s.

Mosey to the back of the school for Bear Crawl Ladder. PAX up against the building alternating between peoples chair and balls to the wall. 1 person bear crawls to the opposite curb and rejoins PAX at the end. 2nd person begins bear crawl. Round 2 switched to lunges.

BTTF

No announcements or prayers today, YHC took us out.

During COT, Pigskin and Mr. Holland were alternating counts between German and Spanish. YHC can hardly speak English with Math also being a challenge, making it difficult to determine when to stop. This gave us the German title (tclaps to Google Translate).

Welcome Pigskin, up from Charlotte visiting his family and possibly relocating to Richmond in the future. Turns out Mr. Holland and Pigskin are long lost distant family friends and possibly cousins from Mathews county. Small world.

Enjoyed working with you gentleman this morning. YHC has been looking to Q Twin Team for a while since Doozy brought me out a few months ago. Happy to avoid the Twin Team hill but only assume it will be revisited in upcoming AO’s. Stay safe this weekend and seize the day.

4 faithful made it out to Twin Team and wondered were the piles of Mulch around the school part of the Q’s plan for the beatdown? Instead we took off and did:

COP: SSH, Imperial Walkers, Don Qs, Merkins, Flutterkicks.

THE THANG: Down to the big parking lot. 4 sets of 3 lightposts. Start at 1 burpee, run to next one then do 2 Burpees, all the way up to 12th light. That’s 78 Burpees!

Over to baseball stadium: 4 rounds of: Benchkicks and Derkins. Benchkicks start at 20 then increase by 10, Derkins stay at 10 reps. Over to BWES field: Lunge across, Pickle poumders, Bernie back then 20 WWIIs. Karaoke across then Flutterkicks.

Over to playground: 4 sets of 8 Pull-ups. Then back to field for spring across, 20 HRMs, spring back then 20 more HRMs. Mosey back to flag with a few stops for bear crawl and mary. BoBerry took us out.

Announcements: Puppy Pile this Sunday, 7:00 am at NoToll. SlipNslide is rumored to make an appearance again.

NMS: Strong showing from the PAX this morning. Escalating burpees right off the bat will get the blood flowing. Doozy was already warmed up after almost hitting a deer coming into the AO. He made the burpees look easy.

Several piles of mulch sitting around BWES waiting to be spread out or played with. BoBerry, always on the lookout for a Q theme or angle, kept eyeing the piles. Both the baseball field and BWES field were in perfect condition this morning- well mowed and not too dewy. Bullseye audible’d every exercise YHC called which he said was because of an Ab injury but YHC was starting to get a complex by the end.

Arrived to find Twin Team empty other than some of Chesterfield’s Finest. 5:30 hit and YHC was solo other than Jake. He left before he could be EH’d. Solo Q was the soup d jour so on and away! According to the confused Bettie Weaver employee it went something like this:

Mosey to basketball courts for:

COP

• Nancy Kerrigans
• Jazzercise
• Helicopters
• Don Quixote
• Low Scissor
• High Scissor
• Merkins

Mosey to playground sets for

THANG #1

Four Corners (four playgrounds?) prostitute style

• 10 Pullups (Jerkins)
• 20 Incline Merkins on the park bench
• 30 Sumo Squats
• 40 WW2s

Mosey to hill adjacent to baseball fields for

THANG #2

11s with burpees and Heels to Heaven

Then run the long way around and mosey BTTF

NMS

• If there is no backblast, did it actually happen?
• Many thanks to all the PAX who have pushed YHC. If this had happened earlier in the year, YHC may have just left at 5:30.

YHC arrived at Twin Team with about 5 minutes to spare. Expecting the usual Twin Team attendance, YHC was stoked to see the cars rolling in. A PAX of 15 arrived to help YHC say goodbye to his 30s. Here’s what went down:

Mosey to black top behind BWES.

COP:

6 burpees OYO

19 DQs

19 hand release merkins OYO

80 LBCs OYO

40 SSHS

Mosey to jungle gym. YHC has not done a single pull-up since quarantine…time for a change.

11s:

Pull-ups and box cutters with a run halfway down the field in between.

Mosey to the Swamp.

40 yr old Beast: The usual Beast with 4 extra of the exercise at the end (just to make an even 40)

Round 1: Burpees

Round 2: WWIIs

Round 3: Burpees

Round 4: 2ct Mountain Climbers

Round 5: Was gonna be burpees….but out of time.

Mosey BTTF for 2 MOM: American Hammers (x20), Crunchy Frogs (x15), 5 burpees OYO.

Numbers, Names, Announcements, Prayer Requests, YHC took us out.

Announcements: Same as all week

-July 4th convergence at No Toll (6am)

-3rd F this upcoming Tuesday (June 23) at 8pm on zoom

Prayer Requests:

-Prayers for Don Draper’s dad

-Rosetta’s cousin

NMS:

For YHC, this morning was a great way to welcome the decade of silence. YHC’s age never really seemed to matter that much before (except maybe 16 and 21) but 40 has been on the brain for a while…seemed to mark the end of when one can call themselves “young” (and act young too). But, this PAX continues to remind YHC that such thinking is a waste of time. You guys are awesome and YHC is humbled to lead.

YHC was pumped to see some faces that he hadn’t seen since quarantine began….great to see Gumbo, Rosetta, Mr. Holland, and Don Draper! Missed you guys.

Thanks to the New Market crowd for shutting down Satan’s Hill today to make the trip to Twin Team….means a lot!

Also, thanks to DTH (and Cooper) for hitting all of YHC’s Qs this week.

Peace!

A PAX of two hit the humid swamp at JRHS for a hot potato beatdown that went something like this:

Tobit Q:

Mosey to the swamp.

COT: DQs, Russian Soldiers, LBCs, and Flutter Kicks

Track catch-me-if-you-can:

Partner up (easy).

Round 1: Partner 1 bear crawls around the track while partner 2 runs. When partner 2 reaches partner 1, switch.

Round 2: Repeat with crabwalk

Round 3: Repeat with Bernie Sanders

Boberry Q:

Ascending Beast:

Round 1: Merkins

Round 2: Add Peter Parkers

Round 3: Add WWIIs

(So thankful we only had time for three rounds!)

Mosey back to the flag for 2 minutes of Mary.

Numbers, Names, Announcements (nothing new), YHC took us out.

NMS:

YHC found Bettie Weaver’s parking lot empty at 5:25 arrival and starting getting a little anxious about a solo workout. 5:27ish, Boberry arrives and saves the day making it a PAX of two. Hot potato called (second one for YHC this week) and off we went to the swamp.

Nice having Boberry back from the quarantine this week!

3 drivers and a runner pulled into the Watkins ES parking lot this morning for a Doozy Q

Mosey to JRHS parking lot 1 for COP

DQ’s, Helicopters, Dead man Hangs, Cherry Pickers, Imperial Walkers, Inverted Scorpion Kicks, LBC’s

Mosey to the Swamp

Home side bleacher 4 corners

Up bleachers corner 1 – 10 Incline merkins, Across bleachers corner 2 – 20 Dips, Down bleachers corner 3 – 30 Decline merkins, Across bleachers corner 4 – 40 incline plank jacks

Stay on bleachers

Elevens – up bleachers 10 inline merkins, down bleachers 1 Dip and so on

Mosey to the field

Suicides 25, 50,75, 100 exercises are 25 -American Hammers, 50 – Rosalitas, 75 – Hello Dollies and 100 – LBC’s

Indigenous people run around track last person does 3 burpees and goes to the lead

Mosey to Watkins basketball court

Calf Raises, 20 inside and 20 outside. Man Killers followed by 5 burpees

Mosey to bus loop with about 4 minutes remaining. Curb crawl indigenous people style

BTTF

Numbers / Names YHC took us out

NMS:

First DRH and Flange made there way out of the Gloom yesterday and today Rosie made an appearance, bring on the Gumbo

Now that the reigns have been loosened we are starting to get bigger showings at the AO’s and things are looking a little more normal

Welcome back Rosie

4 willing participants showed up without masks at Twin Team, bright eyed and ready to see what Doozy had on the schedule this is how it went

Mosey to JRHS student drop off area

COP

DQ’s, Helicopters, Cherry Pickers, Imperial walkers, Copperhead Squats, Snake Bites (right & left), Rosalitas, American Hammers, Man Killers, (5) burpees

Mosey to student parking lot #1 – large perimeter of the parking lot

4 corners, 10 – merkins, 20 – dips, 30 – plank jacks, 40 – Carolina Dry Docks

Mosey to lower classman parking lot – large perimeter of the parking lot

4 corners, 10 – ?, 20 – ball dipers, 30 – squats, 40 – calf raises

Mosey back to the first lot

4 corners using small square within the large perimeter

10 – WWII, 20 – american hammers, 30 – LBC’s, 40 – hold elbow plank and slow count to 40

Mosey to next square within the outer perimeter

4 corners – 10 – merkins, 20 – dips, 30 – plank jacks, 40 – Carolina Dry Docks

Mosey to the small basketball court in front of band entrence

4 corners (prostitute) 10 – merkins, 20 – american hammers, 30 – ball dippers, 40 – hold elbow plank for 40 count (slow)

times up BTTF

Numbers / Names Pee Dee took us out

NMS:

Sad news this morning, it seems that Pee Dee is moving back to the Raleigh NC area. It has been great having Pee Dee’s presence at our AO’s and we are better men for having been able to work out with him for the past few months. YHC speaks on behalf of the RVA PAX in saying that Pee Dee will be greatly missed but we hope to see him from time to time and pray that his house sells fast and without issue.

3 friends gathered in the warm rain soaked gloom of Twin Team to see where Doozy would lead them this morning.

COP

Mosey under the front cover of the Betty Weaver front door

DQ’s, Helicopters, dead man hangs, Cherry Pickers, Inverted Scorpion Kicks, Scorpion Kicks, copperhead squats, snake bites (right and left leg)

Mosey around to bus loop for Man Killers with 5 burpees at the end and add another burpee because Doublemint snickered when YHC lost count and went to 10 instead of 9 on the second round

Mosey to Twin Team

At the start of the bigger incline find 5 evenly spaced glow sticks, at the first Bernie Sanders from the first stick to the second, turn and run to the 3rd, turn and Bernie to the 4th so on and so forth. At the top start Twin Team Suicides from the top to the bottom and back up alternating the run back with Bernies and run. First exercise at bottom Stick 5th, 20 Merkins, fourth stick, 20 LBC’s, 3rd Stick 20 SSH’s.

Time is up from the top pick up sticks first stick 5 Burpees, second stick 20 American Hammers, third stick 20 SSH’s, way out of time pick up remaining sticks and BTTF.

Numbers / Names YHC took us out

NMS:

Not much to report on.

YHC really wanted to get Last Call to the top of Twin Team for his first full view of the hill. Last week Wojo gave Last Call a glimpse of it but didn’t get to the meat and potatoes of it.