YHC rolled into the Forge to find Tuckahoe clown cars erupting with First Watch maniacs (all proudly wearing their nonsense shirts …you have to be one to understand), including Kubota who claimed a virgin attendance at the AO – well that changes everything! Scrapped the planned field trip for a caber beatdown to run a tour of the Forge favorites. Here we go!  The THANG: WARMERAMA: Mosey loop around the top lot and circle up Welcome & Disclaimer Variable IC Reps to get the muscles warm top to bottom COP #1: KNOLLS TRIPLE NICKLE x5 Jump Squats at the bottom…

Backblast (better late than never?) Title: NTB should have bought the road hazard coverage Date: 2023-06-22 AO: #ao-forge Q: @Greenbow PAX: @Don Draper @Dr TryHard @Machismo @NTB @Dealer @Greenbow (did I miss anyone? I swore I had a video of nameorama..) FNGs: none Count: 5 Moleskine: GQ (Greenbow Q) as it’s not my first but also it hasn’t happened in a while. We sprinted. Maybe too quickly. NTB blew out a tire on the 2nd lap. Was great to get out there the week before I traveled to India WARMUP: Running approximately .25 miles. Not quite enough to get the…

The Macheesman was ready to skip and start work early but opted for a slutterstart at the Forge instead. The pax not warned nor prepared started with a pole to pole American Burpee Bigmac. 3 burpees 10 American hammers repeato to the primary school. Warmarama included: Ukrainians, Merkins, imperialists, Rosalitas, Don Qs, Freddie’s, it was a Star studded line up. On to a Dora while admiring the sunrise with 100 dips, 200 LBCs, 300 flutters. Echo chamber for dirty hookups. Eye of the hurricane 10 burpees middle with 20S hammers, WW2, CDD, SHOULDER TAPS, Back to the echo chamber for…

The Forge welcomed 13 stallions of the gloom for a hearty game of Ultimate Frisbee on the best turf field in RVA – here are the highlights: The THANG: WARMERAMA: Mosey to the end of the parking lot and circle up Welcome & Disclaimer Variable IC Reps to get the muscles warm top to bottom, and to pick up any LIFO’s (lookin at you McRib!) Mosey down to Snuff’s Back Gate (always open to a group of studly men) to access the perfectly mowed turf football field. Cleats on, cones placed, and Bodos got the teams divided up 6v7. The…

A PAX of 10 hit up The Forge this morning. According to the nearby news crew, it went something like this… Mosey by the news crew so Snuff can get a shout out and circle up in front of the school for COP: SSHs, IWs, DQs, Cherry Pickers, Jazzercise, Merkins, Tricep Extensions, LBCs, Flutter Kicks Mosey to the amphitheater for 11’s: WWIIs and Lt. Dans, box jump up the amphitheater steps in between. Head around the corner and grab some wall for Jack Ass Webbs: 1 burpee, 2 donkey kicks; 2 burpees, 4 donkey kicks; all the way up to…

6 is the perfect number unless we had 10 then that’d be perfect too. Starting with a working memorial to the fallen we did 36 ssh then 18 imperial squat walkers. LBCs, obliques L and R, rosalita whips. Huguenot High Rollers Bear crawl up slope crab walk down. Tpole burpees 1 per to the end of grade school. looped around and hit the @lastcall gate to the field. 1st and and 10 11s with a twost 10 burpees 1 WW2 sprint to the touchdown rinse back to the 20 for 2 and 9 repeat down the field. do what you…

7 students at Huguenot High said their farewells to another school year to the tunes of the Dazed and Confused soundtrack. Alright alright alright. Mosey to the flags, warmarama at speed. SSHs, DQs, helicopters, imperial walkers, copperhead squats, mirkins, stretches, LBCs, Rosalita whips (the slightly more kinky version of Rosalita dips). Mosey to the amphitheater for a triple check – timer goes up and around, hand release mirkins, flutter kicks. Box jumps with ascending squats all the way up. Going back down the steps with ascending dips x 3 (3, 6, 9 all the way to 21). Since it wasn’t…

10 SOJ studs posted to The Forge including one daring FNG, and DTH provided the following beach season readiness program: WARMERAMA: Slaughter Start with BEARPEES to the end of the lot and circle up Welcome & Disclaimer Variable IC Reps to get the muscles warm top to bottom Between usual warm-up reps, PAX directed to get up&down the nearby grassy knoll with variable movements (bear crawl up then crawl bear down, inchworm up then jog down, bernie up then jog down) THE THANG: Mosey down to find access declined to the turf football field …audible called to continue on to…

7 HIM came out for a House Party Q. This is how it went… COP 20 x SSH 10 x Don Quixote 10 x Ukrainian Soldiers 10 x Copperhead Squats 10 x Tempo merkins 10 x LBC’s To the top of the hill… We ran down the hill stopping at each light pole to do 5 WW2’s for a total of 75. Dora at the bottom of the hill… 100 x Merkins 200 x squats 300 x LBC’s 400 x toe taps Back to the top of the hill… Ran up the hill stopping at each light pole to do…

It was throwback Thursday at the Forge this morning. 9 of SOJ’s finest joined the festivities. The following is a brief summary for your view pleasure:Massacre Start on the knolls – Big Rig Jig up the hills, Lunge Walk Across the tops, Crab Walk downTo the parking lot for Warm-Up:SSH’s, Clapping Ukranian Soldiers, Jazzercise, Mummy Kicks, Apple Bottom Poppers, Hand Release Merkins, LBC’s.Through the parking lots: Mario Jumps, Bernie Sanders, Side Shuffles, High Knees.Exercise One: Mt. ChaplainOn the ascent: Parking lot 1 – 2 burpees, 10 Mountain Climbers. Parking Lot 2 – 3 burpees, 10 Mountain Climbers. Follow pattern for…