Two cold steel military men and three VMI-hardened gloom warriors posted to The Creek for YHC’s last leg of the DTH-Summer-Q-Tour. This small AO’s well lit parking lot and accompanying cool temps seemed a perfect match for a high intensity bootcamp beatdown…so YHC unleashed the F3 Deck. The THANG: Warmerama: Mosey around the ChurchDQ’s, Hairy Rockettes, Big Arm Circles both ways, Cherry Pickers 5 Card Round #1: Merkins x10 ICWWII x10 ICHeels 2 Heaven x10 ICBall Dippers x10 ICFreddie M’s x25 ICMOSEY PARKING LOT LOOP 5 Card Round #2: Merkins x25 OYOBear Crawl across lot & backLunge accross lot &…
Browsing: The Creek
9 Davillians and 1 summer tourists, came out for YHC return to The Creek. This how it went down: Short mosey around the parking lot for any LIFO’s COP (ALL IC) – DQ, Helicopters, Arm Circles THANG Merkin Mile – mile loop around Ash Creek to the clubhouse stopping every 1/4 mile for 25 Merkins Suicide Dora – First partner does suicides on the court while second partner works on the exercises. Flap Jack, Rinse, and Repeat. Excerises has follows: 50 Skull Crushers, 100 WWII Sit-Ups, 150 single count American Hammers, 200 SSH 3/4 Merkin Mile – Head back to…
YHC, trying desperately to finish the Summer Tour, found himself at The Creek this morning and was surprised to be volentold that he was the Q… so be it COP SSH, Don Quixote’s, Helecopters, Merkins, Imperial Walkers, Russian Soldiers, LBCs or something like that. Parking lot tracers Mosey to the picnic tables trying to come up with something when I realized we were 7. No triple check, no partners, but we were 7 and earlier this week Gumbo introduced the 7 of Diamonds so the choice was made to spread that joy to the east side. Laps around the church…
2 Davillians forsook the fartsack and pushed through another Friday workout. Mosey to rear of church for COP: SSH, arm circles, Imperial Walkers and DQ. Mosey to field for start of history lesson. On this day in 1173, construction began on the leaning tower of Pisa. It took 200 years to finish (poorly), so we did 50 each of shoulder taps, reverse crunches, blades of steel and SSH. Stay in the field area, because on this date in 1854, Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, was first published, an account of his time living simply for 2 years, 2 months and…
5 noble warriors made a visit to the creek this morning. YHC got a bit of an early start to the upper regions of the RVA this fine A.M. and passed through what seemed like more than one time zone. The following is what I think just happened or at least it’s how YHC remembers it happening. 5:30 (Thanks Mud Face for being the time keeper today) Mosey and circle up Don Quixote’s, Helicopters and Man Killers (Start with ten SSH’s after ten – arm position changes to shoulder height, after ten – arm position changes to hip height, after…
11 Davillians and 2 summer tourists stormed into the parking lot this morning for another humid time in the gloom that went something like this… Mosey to the far side of the building. COP All IC – 25 SSHs, arm circles, 10 don quixotes, 10 hand-release merkins (HRMs), 10 plank jacks, 10 HRMs, 10 tempo LBCs, 20 crab cakes Mosey to the front corner of the building. L(otta)BCs Start with 10 LBCs and go to the four corners doing 20, 30, 40 LBCs and return to the starting place to wait for the PAX holding six inches. 25 LBCs IC…
9 Davillians and one sojourner showed up to assist YHC in closing out his fifth Q of the week. Spoiler alert, there was a theme! Mosey to slightly different part of the parking lot for COP: SSH, LBC, Merkin, Freddy Mercury’s, arm circles, DQ. Mosey to field for 4 corners: run to first corner, 40 LBC’s, bear crawl to second corner, 40 SSH, run to third corner, 40 Freddy Mercury’s, bear crawl to start, 40 low, slow squats. Adjourn to picnic area and count to 25! Skullcrushers (25 each leg), derkins, dips and calf raises, plank for the six. Mosey…
5 firecrackers showed up today for a July 5th beatdown. Run around the church — hide behind Truck until Phonics found us. 10 burpees OYO, continue run with some karaokes in there for good measure. COP — High KneesButt KickersTwisty Jumps (aka the Richard Simmons, Emoji loved these)HillbilliesCherry PickersTempo MerkinsAlternating Shoulder TapsWW2’sFreddie MercuriesSSHLine up the PAX for some sneaky merkin fun1st time — 5 sneaky merkins, run to first curb, 5 mountain climbers, run back, 6 inches for the 62nd round — 10 sneaky merkins, run to second curb, 10 mountain climbers, run back, 6 inches3rd round — 15 sneaky…
Warm Up – Side Straddle Hops, Hand Release Merkins, LBC’s, Don Quixote’s Mosey to the Field For a Wilt – Two times around the field doing 50 of each of the corners (total 100 each exercise) – LBC’s, Flutter Kicks, SSH’s and Skull Crushers. Mosey to the parking lot. 4 Corners of The Church – 10 Bobby Hurley’s, 10 Merkins, 10 Mountain Climbers, 10 WWII Situps. Plank and wait for the six. When running between the corners, always face the west woods. Go around again doing 20 of each. Plank up and wait for the six. Indian Run until we got back near…
6 Davillians and one visitor from the south arrived on a cooler Friday morning to enjoy the “officially” start of summer and the longest day of the year This is how it went down A Burpee Mosey – The PAX started out on a mosey around Forest Lake Hills for 12 minutes. After every minute, YHC would call out Burpee and the PAX completed one Burpee for a total of 12 Burpees Mosey to the field COP – DQ, Helicopter, Arm Circles Mosey to the Pavilion Friday Morning Dance Party – Concept is simply, complete an exercise while a song…