17 gentlemen presented themselves in 36 degree temperatures prepared for morning calisthenics. This is what transpired COP: Helicopters, DQ’s, Imperial Walkers, Pickle Pounders, LBC’s Amphitheater: Bear crawl from top step to bottom. Perform 5 Derkins each step. Lindays: 30 dips, run to top, 10 Merkins Doras (Modified): Flutter Kicks (102), Freddy Mercurys (153), Merkins (204) Triangle: WWII’s (20), bear crawl, Merkins (20), Burpees (20). Two rounds Inverted pole smokers: Derkin position. Perform 3 derkins, and 1 derkin each time someone passes. COP: Flutter kicks (51), LBC (21), Merkin (17), Burpee shuffle NMS While most arrived appropriately suited-up for the chilly…

19 Faithful and 1 FNG posted to Dogpile on a slightly chilly “Sunny and 70” Saturday morning. THE THANG Swirly took the Q, Mosey to the Second Circle of Dogpile for the first COP 20X SSH 20X Helicopter 15X 2X arm circles 20X Deep Knee Bends Mosey to the Bottom of the Hill Pair up for Polar Bear Crawl up the Hill, 5x Merkins every 5 steps, partner runs to the Circle. Hand off to Bleeder’s Q. Mosey to the Carillon. Polar up the Steps, 5x Merkins every 5 steps, up the top around the back of the tower, 20x…

19 men and 1 FNG (Friendly New Gal) started the weekend off the right way and this is what we did: The Murph – 1 mile run, 50 pullups, 200 merkins, 300 squats, 1 mile run Mosey from flag to circle at the top of amphitheater for Dora 123.  Partner up. While one partner runs to Carillon, up steps, around back of Carillon, down steps and back to partner.  Other partner performs exercises.  As a team, perform 100 WWII situps, 200 flutterkicks, 300 LBCs. Mosey to hills behind amphitheater for Modified Jacobs Ladder. Run down hill to and up hill…

20 PAX, near and far, new and old, posted for a 1.0 friendly workout.  A little Eminem started the day then a quick mosey to the far circle for disclaimer and COP. COP – SSH x25 – Hellicopter x15 – Don Quixote x15 – Imperial Walker x15 – Arm Circles x10 small x5 large.  Forward & Backward The Thang Quick mosey to base of Carillon for 11s.  Burpees / WWII.  Start at the base of the Carillon, run to the top platform for 10 burpees and 1 WWII sit-up.  Run back to the bottom platform for 9/2.  Up and down until 1/10.  Flutter…

44 faithful posted at 0600 for a Swirly beatdown, and 41 Faithful and 3 FNG posted for the 0700 for a Bleeder COP and a TYA breakdown to TYA, LugNut, Swirly and Bleeder THE THANGS 1st Beat Down Mosey to COP 20x SSH 10X Don Quixote 10x Helicopters 10X Merkins Run the VITA trail with Merkins & Knee Bends every stop Mosey for Some Curb Crawls, Burpee Shuffle The Indian Run back to Shovel Flag Abacus took us out at the COT 2nd Beat down Mosey to Amphitheater 18X SSH 15X Merkins 77x LBC’s 164x Armcircles TYA breaks the PAX…

Seventeen sweaty and soggy faithful posted to Dogpile for yet another rainy and humid beatdown. Theme for the day was 100 in respect to our brother Saab undertaking the Cloudsplitter today.  It went down like this: COP:  100 SSH, 100 Merkins, 100 LBCs.  SSH were IC. Mosey to field:  100 PLTs, each partner 4 sets up to 100.  Then Elbow plank – Indian run to end of field.  Then Burpee Road, but escalating.  All the way up to 8 burpees at the 8th streetlight. Mosey down road to right.  Partner up again.  Bear crawl across street and up hill to…

27 faithful and newly anointed presented themselves at Dogwood Dell today for what YHC hoped would be a satisfactory beat-down. This is what transpired (more or less)… COP: SSH, DQ’s (Abe/Swirly style!), Arm Circles, LBC’s, maybe something else… 4 Corners (on a Triangle?): 25 WWII, (Bear Crawl to next station), 25 Merkins, 25 Burpees, 25 Flutter Kicks (4 count)…all done near “far traffic circle” past the Carillon. Doras (Carillon): 100 Merkins, 100 LBC’s, 100 Box Cutters, 100 Jump Squats, Rusty Cage: 5 pullups (overhand, underhand), 5 Jerkins (overhand, underhand). Repeato Jacobs Ladder (Burpees) on pit of pain Amphitheater: Lindsays (Dips…

It’s been a while since YHC has experienced such a wet & muddy AO. 20 brave & strong men left the comfort of the fart sack looking for a solid beat down. The THANG: Mosey to the amphitheater stage for a dry comfy Earth Worm ground & pound style workout to music! Perform the called out exercise for the entire song! Disclaimer – not the normal one, but one from Wilson’s wife. “Don’t get injured or let anyone else get injured a week before BRR!” She got a bit worked up over it…more on that later! SSH – Yankee Rose…

Twenty “Teen spirited” tallboys took to Dogpile on the 25th anniversary of Nirvana’s debut video on MTV.  For the Silver anniversary occassion YHC requested the PAX show up in Grunge garb to enjoy another themed beatdown.  Temperature at 6 was 84 with high humidity, not ideal for extra flannel layers, but still the PAX persisted: COP – 30 of all exercises to note 30 million albums of Nirvana’s Nevermind.  SSH, Merkins, Flutterkicks, IWs, Arm Circles.  Mosey to Amphitheater for Modified Beast – 6 sets of exercises, 6 for each step, up to the 6th Step.  6 also was the highest…

15 faithful emerged from the fartsack and decided instead to attack this beautiful morning at Dogpile to get their day started off right.  After possibly the shortest mosey in Dogpile history and figuring time would be of the essence today to complete the planned decathalon, YHC dispensed with a quick disclaimer seeing no FNGs and got right into a short COP that went something like this: SSH x20 IC DQ x10 IC IW x15 IC Merkins x10 IC LBC x20 IC In the spirit of the Olympics and after watching American Ashton Eaton successfully defend his Decathlon title this week,…