On a cold but sunny morning 7 Pax showed up ready to work. After the warm-up, we did modified beast: starting with 12 hand-release-merkins, going to 18 WWII, 24 squats, down to 6 burpees, 12 Freddie Mercuries, finishing with 18 hammers. After some running did three sets of People’s Chair 15 Air Press, 10 BTTW Hip Slaps, 15 Donkey Kix OYO. Some more running, three sets of 5 pull ups and 20 dips. Finished with ring of fire of merkings. My sincere apologies for posting so late. May be some kind of record.

World Cup Fever descended upon the GridIron this morning. Since the WC has 32 teams in 8 groups of 4, we too had plenty of 32, 8 and 4 counts. After a brief warm up we headed to burpee hill for 4 reps of 8 burpees to get our cardio going. Then a mosey to the soccer field for a modified Beast (4 reps and 8 counts) of WWIIs, Squats, Fredy Mercuries, Merkins, and more. Broke up the Beast with a break of short sided soccer with 1/2 doing crab walks and 1/2 doing bear crawls, and penalty shots with…

With some of our brothers running the Richmond marathon today, five noble warriors had some fun and honored them on the Gridiron. Here is how it went down: COPSSHHillbilliesDead man hangHelicoptersArm CirclesSuzanne SomersLBCMarathon boot camp – run the length of the football field and do 26 reps of an exercise, run back and do 2 burpees; repeat 26xMerkinsWWII sit-upsSquatsCDDLBCMonkey humpersDiamond MerkinsCrunchy frogsAlternating lungesWide grip merkinsSide crunchesStorm squatsHRMHeels to heavenSquat thrusters (with air press)Shoulder tapsReverse crunchesAPDCrab cakesFreddie MercuriesFlying nunsChuck Norris merkinsFlutter kicksAir pressesDollysHammersCOT with YHC taking us out Good mix of arms, abs, legs and cardio. Prayers up for all of…

Twelve gentlemen, most unaware it was the Merkin Challenge Month, posted to GridIron expecting less than 300 merkins. Two travelers, looking to go west, led the PAX in a merkin intensive beatdown that went something like this. Opus Q COP -All IC – Merkins, hillbillies, crabcakes, scorpion kicks, arm circles, copperhead squats, IW, freddies, crunchy frogs Bear Crawl Mixer Bear Crawl left, 5 merkins, bear crawl right 5 merkinscrawl bear out, 5 HRM’s, bear crawl in 5 HRM’sr hand out , then L leg out, bord dogs, then do the other waycobra, downward dogs Dora Partner Up and do -100…

11 men of various speeds and ages showed up in the temporary gloom at Gridiron. It will be nice when the time changes next weekend. COP: DQs, CPs, HRMs, MCs, FMs, ACs (I tend to do the same COP exercises). White Deer gave his backblast of approval and a car was a few feet from hitting Chum. Mosey to secondary football field. E1: Elevens with WWIIs and Diamond merkins. Mosey to bus loop. E2: Pacer runs the bus loop and the rest alternate between HRMs, Flutter kicks, Jump squats, burpees, heels to heaven, Carolina Dry docks, Pole smokers, Lt. Dans,…

Five strong redwoods avoided the long training runs to battle the Gridiron gloom. Here is how it went down: COPSSHUkrainian soldiersDQArm CirclesHelicoptersSuzanne SomersMerkinsLBCMosey to the tennis courts for a one-man Dora (all reps for each man)100 merkins200 squats300 LBCMosey to the bus stop where one man bear crawls to the end of the line while the rest do pole smokers and then shift to pole sitsMosey to the playground for a Jack WebbMaryFreddie MercurySide crunchesCrunchy frogsCOT with YHC taking us out Great work by the PAX today. Prayers for Mr. Rogers family and their son’s transition to the military. Continued…

A tad chilly so we warmed up with an immediate mosey over to turf field for warm up, followed by: – Ab-Beast starting on the end line of soccer field (white line) down and back of a 100+ yard field, stopping 6 times for 6 sets of each exercise (WWIIs, WWIs, Reverse Crunches, Crunchy Frogs, Side Crunches, and American Hammers. – 4 Corners beginning at the corner (of two while lines) with 5 Merkins, 10 hand release Merkins, 15 Carolina Dry Docks, and 20 shoulder taps…followed by a round of cumulative exercises at each corner – Side line of field…

Pre-workout discussion of changes to Pouncey Track Park. Additional Pickleball courts are proposed, along with additional parking and moving the pull-up bars. There’s also the Tuckahoe Tomahawks playing today. Mosey to near the pull-up bars. It’s great to have a workout to go to on Saturday mornings (and the rest of the week for that matter.) One thing I do miss is the 2nd F after the workout on Saturday. Between Vacations, childcare and in the next two weeks, Cub Scouts, I’ve missed a lot of 2nd F on Saturday. I’m hoping to get back to showing up starting in…

Hurricane Ian couldn’t keep 7 of us from working out this fine Saturday morning at GridIron. After a brief warm up on the cold, wet asphalt we moseyed to the more comfortable not so wet turf field for a workout. Dora of 100 2count lunges, 200 squats, and 300 heel raises with a 40 yard jaunt between exercises. Series of (5) 20 count WWIIs every 10 yards with bear crawls between, followed by 20 count of Reverse Crunches, Freddy Mercury, Heels to Heaven, and American Hammers with bear craws between the sets until we finished the 100 yard field. At…