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  • Rocking out at The real RC – from Mahatma

    Warm Up
    SSH
    Mnt man poopers
    Side lunges rt to lft
    Frinkle Swings
    Hillbillies
    Febreeze – 2/4 4/8 6/12…….10/20
    BB then hold legs 6” air press

    Grab rocks – 2 large the rest medium

    Head to the football field – with a little encouragement from Bogey that I didn’t bring the big ass speaker to look at YHC was connected on the Rock Playlist was on.

    2 to 10 starting at the goal line
    Kong out 5 yards 2 merkins 2 double unders 2 plank jacks then alt bear crawl 5 yards do 4 each then kong out 5 yards 6 ea then flip flop 5 yds 8 ea then 5 more yards 10 ea.
    Gas pumpers waiting on the 6 then 1 minute recovery the same way starting with 10 to 2 same alternating exercises.

    Now line up at a rock: tabata 30 on 10 off each pax to move down the line switch to the next exercise.
    Chest press
    Curl
    Over head press
    Squat
    Bus driver
    TriCep
    Chest press
    Curl
    Over head press
    Squat
    One round each completed

    5 poles 3 exercises
    Side to side toss
    Over head rainbow swap
    Curls
    5 pax perform exercise 5 pax timer run the length of the field 2 burpees then flip flop
    Bernie Sanders run back 4 burpees flip flop
    Bernie Sanders run back 6 burpees flip flop
    Rtn the rocks

    Head to the flag COT

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  • Creativity Gone Awry – from Fast Tax

    The Uptowner 4/01/2022 – Yes, I know it’s late…

    Notwithstanding that YHC originally listed Battle Frisburpee on the website as a description for the day’s exercise, YHC was hoping to debut (or beta test) a few new ideas. However, the Pontiff custodians threw a curve ball, given that the usual gate to the field and our COT area was locked. No matter…persevere, adapt, and overcome.

    After disclaimer being said on the jogging path, we headed North along the fence for 30ish yards and stopped for warmups consisting of:

    Bat Wings
    Manatees
    Crab Merkins Plank
    Australian Mountain Climber (upside down, vertical mountain climber performed against the fence)

    While still against the fence, and having some success trying out the Australian Mountain Climber, YHC thought it was a good time to dive into his next creation – the Crazy Indian Chicken Pecker.

    All PAX against the fence (or wall of a building) in balls to the wall (BTTW) position. While all PAX are doing Chicken Peckers (aka upside down shoulder taps i.e. Feet up on the fence/wall, hands on the ground, lift your hand and touch your opposite shoulder) the last PAX drops down from BTTW and runs to the front of the line then gets back into BTTW position and continues the Chicken Peckers. Next PAX follows and this repeats until Q says to stop or PAX begin to mutiny. It took less than a minute for signs of an impending mutiny to be evident. Time to abort. Maybe retool and reintroduce later, maybe not.

    On to the next exercise, the Triple Check: Separating into teams of three, the first PAX holds the peoples’ chair, second man in front of him in plank, third man sprints 100 yards and back, then cycle positions, rinse and repeat times two more times.

    Final exercise before the game was the Mad Mad Race.
    Keeping the teams of three, each PAX in the team chose one of the following exercises: soldier crawl, broad jump, or crab walk – no duplicates. From the line, the teams had to traverse 40ish yards, switch positions, and come back. Losing two teams had to do 15 burpees and the winning team did five. With Bolt lamenting the lack of Burpee opportunities, we all added 10 more.

    With 25 minutes left, it was time for Battle Frisburpee. As YHC hopped the fence and began to setup the cones, the remaining PAX were running to the next gate, since the usual entrance was locked. Alas, entry to the field was not meant to be…all gates were locked. Quickly picking up the cones and vaulting them and me over the fence, we made it to the baseball diamond with about 15 minutes to spare.

    Battle Frisburpee:
    Team 1 – Pillsbury, PVC, Hand Grenada, and Bolt
    Team 2 – Boo-Boo, Bogey, Scantron, and Fast Tax

    Team 2 prevailed, 4-1 (I think…could have been the other way around or I could have screwed up the teams since it’s been 8 days since we played 🙂

    With game over we headed to COT for name-o-rama, announcements, intentions, and prayer.

    Thanks for the fellowship! SYITG

  • War Eagle Would Have Been Proud – from Fast Tax

    El Diablo 3/23/2022 – Better late than never…

    As YHC was heading to El Diablo that fine morning, the plan was to introduce a few new routines that had bounced around my creative brain yesterday, together with some Fast Tax favorites. However, as YHC walked up to the flag and saw the 15 other PAX in attendance, that plan got tossed as YHC realized, with a little prodding from Rudy, that we have never had a 16 PAX game of Battle Frisburpee. Time for an audible…

    With disclaimers being said, we headed down the jogging path toward the rock pile pausing every 30 yards or so for warmups, consisting of:
    SSH
    Hairy Rockettes
    Swan Dives
    Crab Merkins Plank

    Once we arrived at the rock pile, and unwilling to jump right into the Battle, YHC began the day’s festivities with Fee Fi Fo Fum: PAX selected medium rocks then starting on a line with your rock, each PAX performed the following sequence OYO: Squat, double arm shotput rock, broad jump toward rock, lunge the remaining distance and repeat the sequence until Q said stop. Repeat back to the rock pile.

    Welsh Dragons were next.
    Remain in plank position the whole time. Bear crawl forward 4 steps, do 1 merkin, 1 plank jack, and tap the BACK of each shoulder 1 time. Repeat adding 1 rep to each exercise each time – bear crawl forward 4 steps, do 2 merkins, 2 plank jacks, 2 sets of back of shoulder taps… etc. Go until you get to 10 reps each, you’ve covered 30-50 feet, or until your arms fall off – whichever comes first.

    Next event was Wall of Fire: While PAX are doing People’s chair, take turns doing 10xmerkins 10xLBCs and 3 burpees. YHC quickly realized that 16 in a circle may be a little too much to hold people’s chair 3 times around…Time for Battle Frisburpee

    Battle Frisburpee:
    After laying out the cones and a quick recap of the rules for PAX in attendance, we divvied up into teams and began to battle. YHC later realized that with 16 people, the field should have been at least 5 yards wider. Thus, the new width guideline is 15 yds for 10 or less people, 20 yards for 12 – 14, and 25 yards for 16+.

    Team 1 (Shirts): Vagabond, Hawgcycle, Rougarou, Left Coast, MacGyver, Pilsbury, Bogie, Hand Grenada
    Team 2 (Skins): Hokie, Scantron, Rudy, PVC, Gabrielle, Boo Boo, Mahatma, Fast Tax

    The battle was hard fought and close. The “last one touched” rule (strategically hit opposing team members that guard too closely) was used effectively and often by both sides. The potential of the Baller to dole out punishment (vis a vis penalty burpees when the ball hits you) was best epitomized by Hawgcycle, who was by far the most promiscuous Baller in history. Also notable was Team 1’s (and maybe Team 2 once or twice) utter lack of regard for the 3-burpee contact rule.

    However, the most noteworthy was MacGyver’s expansion of the game into a full contact sport in a way that would have made War Eagle proud.

    In the end, Team 1 could not overcome Team 2’s superior strategy and execution.
    Team 2 carried the day with a final score of 5-4.

    With game over we headed to COT for name-o-rama, announcements, intentions, and prayer.
    Followed by Coffeteria and a discussion/clarification of the rules at PJs (See below).

    Rule clarification:
    1) If the Frisbee goes out of bounds in the air and then back in without touching the ground, it is still considered out of bounds and a turnover at the point it initially went out.
    2) If a PAX catches the Frisbee in the opposing team’s goalie box and is hit by the baller at the same time, THE TIE GOES TO THE FRISBEE RECEIVER.
    3) There is no interfering with the other side’s ball.

    Thanks for the fellowship! SYITG

  • Best Warm Up Ever … words not heard – from Hokie

    YHC arrived at El Diablo and at 0529 gave a disclaimer including we would push ourselves but not hurt ourselves.

    We moseyed to the football field and Rudy was kind enough to get his speaker and 311 playlist.

    Today’s Tabata Style workout would have a leg portion, then shoulder portion and would close with an ab portion.

    YHC “claimed” the leg portion would serve as a warm up. Fast Tax, Boo Boo and Rudy mumbled and chattered indicating they did not agree.

    Each portion would have 7 exercises with 45 seconds of work and 15 seconds of rest. We would do each portion twice through. 14 minutes per portion.

    Tabata #1 – Legs
    2 rounds, work for :45, rest for :15
    – Bobby Hurley’s
    – Speed Humpers
    – Low slow Squats
    – Bolt 45’s
    – Lunges
    – Bear hold
    – Scorpions (L 1st time, R 2nd)

    Tabata #2 – Shoulders
    2 rounds, work for :45, rest for :15
    – Apollo Creed Burpees
    – Merkins
    – Mountain Climbers
    – T Merkins
    – Shoulder Taps
    – Angle Grinder (Merkin/Knee tsp)
    – Bear crawl/crawl bear

    Tabata #3 – Abs/Core
    2 rounds, work for :45, rest for :15
    – LBC
    – Flutter Kicks
    – Bohemian rhapsody Freddy Mercury with 5 sec hold
    – Star toe taps
    – Big Boy Sit Ups
    – v-ups
    – Box Cutters

    I love F3 and thank you for allowing me to associate with you all.

  • Something Old, Something New – from Fast Tax

    8 PAX were in attendance this morning as YHC made his first ever trek to The Foundry. After the usual disclaimer, we moseyed a ways and began our warmup, albeit with a slightly smaller group as 2 PAX modified the entire workout into a run.

    Warmups:
    SSH
    Grass Grabbers
    Hairy Rockettes
    Crab Merkin-Plank

    Sufficiently warmed we headed to the track for a lap of Catch Me If You Can.
    PAX partner up. Partner 1 performs 5 burpees and then sprints to catch the Partner 2, who has been running backwards. Partner 2 now does 5 burpees while partner 1 runs backwards. The cycle continued until we finished a lap with YHC switching from burpees to 10 Merkins, and then to 5 absolutions.

    The next event, Triple Check, was new to YHC and admittedly, could use a tweak or two.
    Triple Check: Teams of three. First man in a peoples chair, second man in front of him in plank, third man sprints 50 yards and back, rinse and repeat two more times.

    With legs burning, YHC decided to introduce City Park PAX to Welsh Dragons – a Fast Tax favorite:
    While remaining in plank position, PAX bear crawl forward 5 steps, do 1 merkin, 1 plank jack, and 1 shoulder-tap (2 is 1). Repeat adding 1 rep to each exercise each 5 yds – bear crawl forward 5 yds, do 2 merkins, 2 plank jacks, 2 sets of shoulder-taps… etc. We continued until we got to 12 reps each (about 50 yds), which is a new Welsh Dragons record! For those who like to keep score, we did ½(n)(n+1) of each… for those who like to keep score but don’t like math, we did 78 merkins, 78 plank jacks, and 78 shoulder taps.

    With 20 minutes to go, YHC called an audible (to himself) and scrapped the rest of his workout plan, electing to teach the Foundry crowd the finer points of BATTLE FRISBURPEE, a Fast Tax creation that the Pontiff PAX know and love.

    Team 1: Scooter, Breadsticks, and Kuch
    Team 2: Snooze, Screw Top, and Fast Tax

    After a recitation of the rules for those PAX who were new to the game, i.e. all of them, we commenced. The battle was intense, in part because there was a lot more running with only 3 people per team. In the end, it was a decisive victory for Team 1, winning it 3-0.

    With game over we headed to COT for name-o-rama, announcements, intentions, and prayer.

    Thanks for the fellowship and the chance to lead at The Foundry!

    SYITG

  • I will Rock Q – from Kenna Brah

    March 14 2022 Rock City
    15x Wanm up
    Arm Circles front/back
    Standing Twists l/r
    Imperial Walkers
    Tin Soldiers

    To the Rocks, to the field
    RND 1
    15x each
    Pullovers
    Chest Press
    ON KNEES- OHP
    ON KNEES – CURLS
    From KNEES Single Leg Up
    Run around goal post repeat for 3x

    RND 2
    From KNEES Single Leg Up ROWS
    DeadLift
    Front Raise
    Tricep Extension
    Run around goal post repeat for 3x

    7 min of Mary with ROCK
    Back to flag –
    COT – OUT!

  • It Was A Painful Morning – from Fast Tax

    Saturday, March 5, 2022
    It had been almost a year since YHC Q’d Mothership so I was rather looking forward to it…at least Friday evening. After a long night entertaining the relatives and drinking waaayyyy too much wine, I finally hit the bed sometime around 1 or 2am. Needless to say, when the alarm went off at 6:00, I knew it was going to be a very painful morning. Nevertheless, Tax Credit and I managed to get there just in time.

    After disclaimer was given, 8 Pax moseyed to the parking lot for some warmups consisting of SSH, Abe Vigodas, Nancy Kerrigans, and Hairy Rockettes. YHC’s inability to do the left side of the Nancy Kerrigans did not escape the attention/commentary of those in attendance…

    Unwilling to jump right into the highly anticipated main event, YHC kicked things off with 50 ish yards of Welsh Dragons.
    Welsh Dragons: While remaining in plank position, PAX bear crawls forward 5 yds, does 1 merkin, 1 plank jack, and tap the BACK of each shoulder 1 time. Repeat adding 1 rep to each exercise each 5 yds – bear crawl forward 5 yds, do 2 merkins, 2 plank jacks, 2 sets of back of shoulder taps… etc. We continued until we got to 10 reps each (I think), holding plank for rest of PAX to finish.

    Next bit of fun was the Indian Crab Walk Snake with a crabby wife pleaser twist at the end.
    Indian Crab Walk Snake: While lined up on your six doing LBCs, the guy in the back crabwalks to the front, weaving in and out of the PAX as he makes his way to the front where he performs two crabby wife pleaser merkins. As each PAX makes it to the front, the guy in back starts, at least in theory…It seems this proved too difficult b/c when YHC got to the front and looked back, there were at least three crabs heading his way.

    With time to spare, YHC thought Indian Rabbit Hop , sure, why not…
    Indian Rabbit Hop: PAX lines up, face down in plank position, all facing left with 2-3 feet between PAX. Last man broad-jumps over the planking PAX to the head of the line, Indian Run style. We continued cycling through until Q said stop.
    After retrieving his balls and cones, and dishing out a few penalty burpees, we headed to the Great Lawn for BATTLE FRISBURPEE.
    After a quick recap of the rules for PAX in attendance, we divvied up into teams and began to battle.

    Team 1 (black shirts): Almonaster, Tax Credit, Willie, War Eagle
    Team 2 (non-black shirts): Boo-Boo, Fast Tax, King-Kong, Mahatma

    The battle was hard fought and close…ish. Several PAX took advantage of the “last one touched” rule to strategically hit members of the opposing team that guarded too closely (mostly YHC), forcing them to stop and do 3 burpees. Almonaster learned (repeatedly) that you can be hit by the Baller even if you aren’t holding the Frisbee. Meanwhile, more than once, War Eagle’s demonstration of full-contact Frisburpee in a prior game was revisited on him and his teammates.

    Even though YHC’s referee skills maintained a fair and level playing field, Team 2’s victory was decisive with a final score of 6 to 2.

    With game over we headed to COT for name-o-rama, announcements, intentions, and prayer.
    Breakfast at Café Navarre followed for most.

    Thanks for the fellowship!
    SYITG

  • Day One of Lent – from Boo-Boo

    Five PAX braved the 48-degree, post-Mardi Gras gloom to start Lent off right! Disclaimer given and mosey to the rock pile. Vagabond was a little behind to bring the real wood donated by Scantron.

    Warmup: 31 SSH, 15 GG, Batwings, LSS, and Toy Soldiers (hairy rockettes)

    Grab a rock you can lift over your head at least 100 times.

    Three rounds of the following were completed:

    25 triceps extension/chest press
    Run 50 yards out, 10 mountain climbers (2 is 1), and back

    25 rows
    Run 50 yards out, 10 plank jacks (2 is 1), and back

    25 squat, curl
    Run 50 yards out, 10 American Hammers (2 is 1), and back

    1 minute low plank just for good measure!

    Coupons returned. Lazy Boyz and dips completed near the rock pile. Indian run back to the flag handing off the 60 poundish wood!

    COT- Prayers for Brian suffering with ALS, Tara fighting breast cancer, and YHC’s M for a clean bill of health.

    120% participation at coffeteria (Triple Shift attended despite no workout)

    It’s always an honor to lead HIM!

  • Help you RCR Miles out – from Mambi

    Knowing YHC hasn’t done as many miles as he planned or wanted given the opportunity to Q and add miles is always to plan. YHC showed up to the Flag hearing things like “I told you, a little faith Hokie”, “I thought I was going to win this bet”, “Then I hear Q needs to be here 15 minutes before working to welcome the PAX and any guest.” OK, well, “Welcome” then YHC waiting a few minutes did the disclaimer and instructed the PAX to grab a rock then head to the football field for warmups.

    YHC lead PAX in various warmups and a little stretch. Then instructed the PAX on the THANG.

    Somewhat of a BLIMPS but modified.

    B= x5 Man makers Blimpy with a Rock overhead
    L= x10 Lunge Twist with a Rock
    I= x 15 Isolated Curls with a Rock
    M= x20 Merkins alternating hands on Rock
    P= x25 Bent-over Row with a Rock
    S= x30 Squats with Rock
    Run 1 Lap

    Repeat until time expires

  • Dirty MacDiablo – from Rudy

    Weather: 70 and humid. Feels more like early summer than winter, which we were in just a few short days ago (and apparently will be in again within a few days). 9 PAX gathered around a giant piece of wood (thanks to Scantron), while we awaited the tiny piece of wood that is now the namesake of the Wednesday workout. with 30 seconds to spare, Fast Tax appears carefully carrying the bat (carefully to ensure we don’t accidentally break it by dropping it).

    So 10 PAX head out of the gate towards the rocks. As YHC nearly breaks his ankle stumbling over a tree route – he remembers the Disclaimer. Quick stop for a disclaimer and a reminder to watch your step. Then back to the rocks, perhaps a bit more carefully than a moment ago.

    Quick warmup with some very slow stretching, which seemed to put Vagabond to sleep. So lets get to the thang. Grab a rock, feel free to go heavier as we won’t be running with it (once we get to the football field). As expected, Rougarou did not go any heavier than normal.

    At the field, circle up for the Dirt McDeuce: 4 sets. Each set is 3 exercises followed by a lap. Most of the exercises (arm/core/leg) will be in cadence, and often it will be 12 count. But YHC was clear that he would be modifying as desired. Overhead, BBSU, Squats, Lap. Curls, FK, Lunge, Lap. Rows, Twists, Monkey Humpers, Lap. Chest, LBT, Calf Raises, Lap. YHC had the distinct pleasure of feeling War Eagles soft and delicate tushy during the Monkey Humper stage. Pillsbury looked on in sheer terror, wondering just what he’s gotten himself into.

    Last thing: groups of 3 (while Hokie chose to just lay on the soft grass and stare at the sky): PAX1 takes a rock 50 yards down and starts Chest Press. PAX2 starts rowing. PAX3 sprints to PAX1. And so it repeats. One pax running, one chest pressing, one rowing. Got about 8 mins of this. Then it was time to return our babies and head back to the flag.

    COT: announcements and intentions. In particular, YHC is asking for peace, serenity and healing for in-laws while they navigate a recurrence of CLL. ANd also asking for empathy for he and his M as we together try to help her parents through a very difficult time. Thank you all for your prayers and thoughts this week!