8 SOJ regulars posted to SOT this morning maybe expecting slightly warmer temperatures, but once you cross through the gate toward the football field of broken dreams, you are always entering a dark polar vortex, and today was no different.  Today’s beatdown went like this: Mosey around the bus loop and back to the small parking lot to pick up McRib (new wheels but still LIFO) for COP, all IC, including: SSHs x30 DQs x10 Helicopters x10 Imperial Walkers x15 Arm Circles x15 (10 small, 5 large) – forward and backward Merkins x10 LBCs x20 (or so I think -…

7 hearty souls looking for an excuse to consume a little extra tomorrow posted to SOT for a Thanksgiving appetizer of Gumbo, it tasted a little like this: Mosey around the bus circle and form up for COP in the adjacent parking lot, including the following exercises all IC: SSHs x20 DQ x10 Helicopters x10 Imperial Walkers x20 Arm Circles (sorry Flashdance) – 10 small, 5 large – forward then backward Merkins x20 LBCs (nice and wet and cold) x20 THE THANG- The Suck – six exercise locations – each on a parking spot line with two parking spots in…

9 SOJers who are probably tired of Gumbo being on the Q menu showed up this morning at SOT in the frosty temperatures anyway, and YHC appreciated it.  To show that appreciation, we enjoyed the following: The dictionary definition of “gross” includes, among other expected definitions, the following: noun: an amount equal to twelve dozen; 144 (i.e., “fifty-five gross of tins of processed milk”) Who says F3 isn’t educational….back to the beatdown… Mosey over to the frozen tundra of the track and football field and continue one lap around the track (it just gets colder and darker once you cross…

An apropos 9 posted to SOT this morning for a tribute to Roy “Doc” Halladay – a great MLB pitcher (and by all accounts a great guy and one of the hardest working guys in baseball) who died yesterday in small plane crash at 40.  Our small tribute went something like this: Mosey to the windy front of the school for COP, including: 2 Burpees OYO for each of Doc’s Cy Young Awards 27 SSHs IC and 49 LBCs for Doc’s 2,749 Innings pitched in the major leagues 16 Merkins for Doc’s 16-year career 21 Imperial Walkers IC and 17…

7 fearless men, including 1 FNG, broke free from the fartsack, shook off the post-Halloween cobwebs and posted to SOT to start off No Shave November (or MOvember) right with a little themed beatdown.  YHC’s back was not cooperating but we pushed through….literally.  This is how it went down: Mosey to the front of the school for COP (all IC), including: Merkins x15 SSHs x20 SLOW DQs x10 Imperial Walkers x15 LBCs x20 Merkins x10 Mosey to the basketball courts to begin our theme – S-T-A-C-H-E S = Suicides 3 rounds of suicides – regular, backward and side shuffle T…

The PAX  double digits (10) for the first time in a few weeks as the brisk morning got started at SOT this morning! The Thang 10 guys, Grab a Cinder Block and Mosey to the track COP- SSH x20 DQ x 10 Helicopters x 10 Copperhead squats X 10 Merkins x 10 LBC x 15 Mosey to left side of track Dora #1 Partner up, First Partner Runs Length of the track while second Partner Does exercises, total as a team Exercise 1 – 100 Curls with Cinder Block Exercise 2 – 200 Shoulder Presses with Cinder Block Exercise 3…

10 strong men gathered SOJ @ SOT on a fresh 39degree Oct morning for a beatdown that went something like this. THANG Run around bus loop COP: SSH, DQs, Ballerina Squats, Merkins, Flutterkicks, Hello Dollies, Bob & Weaves Mosey back down to bus loop Crab Curb Crawls: crab walk across, 2 dips, crab walk back, 4 dips…repeato up to 8 and back down Mosey to side of school Clay Aiken Ladder: 10 squats, 10 box jumps or step ups, 10 forward lunges each leg, run a lap…repeato, increasing by 5 up to 30 Mosey to basketball court 2 rounds of…

Thunder and Lightning and the late downpour didn’t stop 6 brave souls from making it out to SOT this morning. The Thang: SSH x 20 Copperhead Squats x 15 Arm Circles – Welcome McRib (Lifo) Merkins Helicopters Mosey to Track Track Style 11’s 1 Carolina Dry Dock run 100, 10 WWIIs run 100, continue around track 100s at  time….Complete the 11s, total 5 laps around the track Plank Lunge halfway 50 yards Triple Check – Run 50 yards and back, Dips, Flutter Kicks Mosey to Tennis courts – 2 rounds of 4 corners Round one – 10 Merkins, 20 Monkey…

A lucky (and completely useless for YHC’s plan) number 7 PAX broke the warm embrace and Posted in the deepest and darkest of gloom’s at SOT this morning and this is what greeted them: COP in the parking lot with DQs, IWs, Arm Circles, SSHs, Tempo Merkins and LBCs Line up for a 1-mile Native American Run to the track, 1 lap around, back around the bus loop and out onto Old Hundred Road (with headlamps illuminated for safety – SOP per LabRat) down to Brandermill Pkwy and around into the front parking lot of the school.  NOTE – Native…

11 were present for Saab’s VQ at SOT as part of Tuckahoe Takeover.  This is what transpired – more or less… COP:  DQ’s, 5 Burpees, Imperial Walkers, 5 Burpees, Arm Circles, 5 Burpees, LBC’s , 5 Burpees) Doras:  Merkins, Squats, LBC’s (119, 219, 319).  Partner runs around bus loop AMREPS:  Go to Courts:  5 Burpees (started with 10), run to other side perform 20 of exercise then return…repeat.  Alternating exercises were Merkins, J-Squats, WWII’s, and Monkey Humpers (by demand). Ring of Fire, then 5 minutes of Mary (Rosalitas, Box cutters, Heels to Heaven, Flutter Kicks). Moleskin: Well it has been…