10 rested souls ready to take on the day.. What’s the Jump Rope for? Warmorama: Mosey to the Toll Booth, SSH, DQ, Helicopters, Imperial Walkers, Cherry Pickers, Merkins, LBC, Rosalitas The Thang: 1 Mile short cut to the Rusty Cage for a Triple Check.1. Knee Ups, 2. Squats, 3. Run to the Fire Hydrant + 1 Burpee. 3 Rounds add an extra Burpee each round. Mosey to the Penny Stage and grab a Coupon.1 Person goes on stage and Jump Ropes to 30. Snag the jump rope and you start over. The Jump Rope is the clock. When you get…

According to anecdotal accounts of events, 11 men materialized from the gloom at Dogwood Dell to take part in organized exercise and self-improvement. This is what transpired. PAX started carrying coupons freshly snipped from the latest Penny Saver over to the Ha’ Penny Stage where CoP was convened: SSH IC x 10, Helicopters IC x 10, Imperial Walkers IC x 10, Dead Man Hang, LBC IC x 10, The Merkin IC x 10 Remaining in the general vicinity, Touch a Tree: Partner up with one coupon per team, 3 rounds, runner touches 4 different trees per round. Coupon exercises per…

What should have been a unique exploration of RVA’s most bucolic and sprawling AO’s lovely lakes turned out to be a brutal death march. Nevertheless, 9 brave souls answered the call, soldiered on to the end and got this beat down done. COP: arm circles, cherry pickers, DQs, SSHs, Mt climbers, WWIIs & Merkins. The Thang: At Shields Lake, we partnered up and Wheelbarrowed for 20 steps, then lunged together (20 single count), then switched positions for another 20 steps of Wheelbarrows, followed up by a 20 count run, before we Rinsed and Repeated.  Audible: Only 10 lunges and 40 count run.  This…

13 flannel clad faithful came out to celebrate the 31st anniversary of Pearl Jam’s first album and recreate the themed beatdown from 6 years ago. Ma Bell joined us from Carpex and we provided him with the chance to join in on the fun: COP: 10 Burpees, Invisible Jumprope, Ukrainian Soldiers, Helicopters, Merkins, Flutterkicks, Scorpion kicks. Mosey over to penny stage and grab a coupon. Triple check: Block the Plank, Block Thrusters, and run to tree and back. Next partner up and flapjack Murder Bunny length of field alternating 5 burpees and catch up. Way back lunge with block instead.…

Eight RVA pax came out to Dogpile to see what a guest Q would look like. Chewy from Carpex took us to the traditional COP circle but told us to get ready for a Tabata station beatdown. 1 minute per station then 2 loops around the circle in the down minute then on to the next station. Stations were: KB swings, benchpress, skull crushers, merkins, lunge, WWIIs, curls. 50 minutes of this and then mosey back after a few burpees. COT and Chewy took us out. NMS: Oyster came in hot with some strong feelings about the Qs plan. To…

Perfect Triple Check numbers (9) joined for a beatdown and this is what transpired Mosey to the Toll Booth parking lot for a COP, luckily not Toll Booth Willy came out and yelled at us. COP with various exercises. Mosey to the Nickle Bridge for some Lightpole fun. Round 1 – 10 WWII’s and 5 HRM’s on the way out Round 2 – 20 LBC’s with 5 Merkins (every other light). Mosey to the front of Pump House for a Triple Check with the Pipe Loop (luckily not Fire Ants this week). P1 runs the loop, P2 Squats, P3 WWI’s,…