Seven suspects came out on April Fools day to see if it indeed might be an All Burpee-Beast. Turns out only Toga would do that to the PAX but we did do our share of Burpees. COP – Invisible Jump Rope, Don Qs, Russian Soldiers, Merkins, Freddy Mercurys. Head over to bowl field for the Beast: Round 1 Burpees, R2 Merkins, R3 WWIIs, R4 JumpSquats, R5 LBCs, Round 6 Burpees Again. Then head over to playground to introduce Batteau pax to: Chazz Michael Michaels: 3 Rounds of 8. Then 3 sets of 25 Boxing Dying Roaches. Then set of Pickle…

7 Veterans and 1 FNG descended upon the hills of Forrest Hill Park to celebrate Virginia Tech’s glorious victory and berth in the Sweet 16. Here is how it went down, more or less. Mosey about 10 steps to warmup and pick up stragglers. All IC: SSH x 16, Helicopters x 16, Don Quixote x 16, LBC x 16, Merkins x 15 (yes Q screwed that count up) Mosey through the pit and down the Hill of Ill Repute only to discover all the lights around the pond were off. Well, we need to get back up the hill so…

Seven leprechauns came for all the green Batteau had to offer. Here’s what we found at the end of the rainbow: Vinny Q: SSHs x 20. Imperial Walkers x 15. Russian Soliders x 15. LBCs x 15. Merkins x 10. Stay on the tennis courts for Crab Walk 11s. One exercised per side. Doubles line to doubles line. LBCs and Squats. ABBA Q: Mosey to playground. Partner up for 5 by 5s. 5 Pull-ups timed the dips. 5 rounds each. Mosey to the grassy knoll for more 5 by 5 fun. 5 Flutter Kicks at the bottom and 5 Merkins…

Six of F3RVA’s finest posted at Batteau for another weekly installment of hot potato. We all survived, but barely. Swirly Q: SSHs x 20. Helicopters x 10. DQs x 10. Imperial Walkers x 10. Merkins x 10. Mosey to the F3 quarry. Grab a partner / grab a rock. Partner 1 lunges to first light and back while partner 2 completes overhead presses. Repeato for each of the following: High knees + Curls. Butt Kickers + WWII Presses. Karaoke + (I’m smoked / Can’t remember). Vinny Q: Mosey to bottom of Hill of Ill Repute. Partner Up. Partner 1 runs…

4 Pax and 4 parts COP–Lab Rat leading. SSH, DQs, Arm circles, IWs, Helicopters, Merkins Face Plant leading Mosey to the bottom of the hill for a Quadruple check, each Pax does each exercise twice. Exercises were: Run up and down the hill, flutter kicks, burpees, 6 inches. Sippy Cup leading. Shifting sands. All of the way up the hill to the parking lot 20 paces running up followed by 4 lunges (2 each leg) back. Hardywood leading. Alternate bear crawl and crawl bear half-way down the hill, 20 paces before switching. Then in the bowl, 3 sets of 10…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWofTFZRsDQ Six sun seekers met in the clear darkness of Batteau to enjoy Hardywood’s drug of choice. Here’s how we rolled it: COP: Arm Circles (to test out the old wing) x 10. SSHs x 20. Russian Soldiers x 10. Imperial Walkers x 10. Merkins x 10. Coffee Black: Batteau Beast (in the bowl). American Hammers + Plank Jacks + Mountain Climbers + WWIIs + (an exercise that completely escapes me) + HR Merkins. Cigarettes: Triple Check. Swing Planks + SSHs while timer runs to the tree (see Bleeder for further aborist information as to the type) and performs 5 merkins of…

I hope this works – seems the page has changed – Anyway here we go … 3 studs posted this rainy Monday morning and here is how it went down. Warm up : SSH’s Helicopters, Windmills, IW’s Three Sets : 10 derkins – run up steps – 10 V’Up’s – 15 incline merkins – run steps 15 WWII’s – 20 dips run steps – 20 Flutter Kicks. Three Sets : 10 Boulder curls – 10 crabcakes. 10 Boulder overhead press – 10 Boulder squats – 10 Boulder bench press – 10 Boulder WWII’s. Playground : 5 pull ups – 5…

My Dear PAX, Greetings to you on another glorious Monday morning! YHC arrived at BATTEAU’s Stone House to find GREENBOW’s truck circling the loop in search of a familiar face. We were shortly joined by the vehicles of VINNY and BLEEDER, and by the time YHC was planting the ShovelFlag, SWIRLY arrived on foot. Expecting the F3RVA Spirit Animal to arrive at any moment, YHC led the gathering men for a few moseycize laps around the loop, and sure enough HARDYWOOD came skidding in on 2 wheels, followed closely by SIPPY CUP on foot – both joining us just in…

5 strong posted for a Monday morning  Hot Potato beatdown and here is how it went down. Swirly : SSH’s Helicpters, Windmills, Merkins, Fluttler Kicks Lunges across Tennis Court – 10 Donkey Kicks Lunge back – repeat with Bearcrawls – Russian Solders, Polarbears, Butt Kickers, High Knees. Flange : Figure 8 : Run the big loop and the small loop back to the start  with LT. Dans and Carolina Dry Docks – repeat 8 times. Sippy Cup:  Shadow boxing – run around the house between sets. Great job guys : Awesome to see Flange back out there – we missed…

8 strong posted at Batteau this morning and here is how it went down. Flutter kicks, APD’s, Russian Solders, IW’s, Squats, SSH’s – 20 burpees. Teams of 4 – swing jacks – step ups, decline merkins until the runner gets back – everyone goes through rotation once. . 3 Sets : 5 pull ups – 10 incline merkins – 15 sit ups. Indian run – around the park – to the circle in the bottom. Partner up : 2 sets of 25 Wilson’s boxing cockroach 3 sets – 10 dips 15 incline merkins – run to the top of the…