Tag: Hoedown

12 studs gathered at a cool Hoedown morning to kick off another week. Here’s how it went:

Short mosey to the top of Lindsey for a COP – 15xSSH, DMH, 10xCP, 15xLBC, 10xMerkins. Quick start into Lindsey – partner up to head to the bottom, alternating side shuffles & 10x MH’s. New partners for the climb back out; timer runs to the top & back while partner bear crawl, lunge, burpee broad jump and crab walks.

Head to the upper parking lot for a triple check of WWII, box cutters and 10x box jumps on the little wall. Intermission planks with a classic Swirly invitational to hold it. Triple check #2 commenced on the super dark upper field of HRM, squats and a timer run to 5x pull ups.

The school lights finally came on. Handshake was relieved to be through the longest 30 minutes ever.

We stopped for 2×12 jerkins at the handrail on the way back down and knocked out a curb crawl up to 5 and back down at the drop off loop. 5 min of Mary wrapped up our time with APDs, FKs, H2Hs, HD’s, WW1s and a plank. YHC botched a dad joke and we moved to Numberama, Namerama, Announcements (prayers for Handshake’s 2nd cousin 9yr old; bone scan situation)

YHC took us out. I’m super thankful to be able to gather with such a fine group to stay active and grow. Enjoy the day gents & until next time, GP.

Fourteen men of purpose rolled into the latest edition of Hoedown. Temperatures were 70 and sunny. According to the driver who literally drove into the AO, the following might have happened:

Mosey backwards around the Horseshoe to the steps to the school front across Forest to the Church Parking Lot.

SSHs x50
Dead Man Hang
IWs
LBCs
Flutter Kicks
HRMs

Mosey back across Forest to TES

Elevens from the bike rack to the parking lot. Monkey humpers and flutter kicks. Finish in the parking lot.

Mosey No Further. Pick a parking space. 3 hand release merkins, 3 WWIIs, 3 deep squats. Pencil roll to the next space. Continue around the lot and complete the loop.

Mosey to the corner of Forest and Lindsay. Triple check. WWIIs on the hill, monkey humpers, and bear crawl to the TES sign (run back).

Mosey back to the VSF / horseshoe for 30 seconds of Mary.

Numbers, names, and YHC took us out. March continues to be a quiet Integrity Month. The Challenge is to step up our game. Push yourself to be upfront, truthful, and honest in your private life, your work life, and all around town. From the simple to the complex – your exercise count, your name, your relationships, and so forth. Represent yourself and your family well.

Reminder: Gomer reminds us to be thankful for what we have. After a week in India, Gomer reports that what we have here is everything. Folks in India have unbreathable air, unbelievably crowded conditions, and a growing, but still poverty-ridden, country. Having been there, YHC challenges each of us to wonder why we complain about anything. Be thankful.

14 F3 Brother’s, Friends and Co-Workers gathered this morning to support me on surviving my 1st year of F3. I could not have done it, or really stuck with it, without ALL of your support.

I would like to give Swirly and Handshake a big Thank You for their constant encouragement, badgering and mentorship. This has made all the difference. I often wake up feeling sore and beat down not caring one bit about going to a work out, but then I think of the privilege of getting to hang out with all of you high level F3 brothers running around mumbling in the dark cold gloom wet and cold acting like kids again and I say to myself. Hell Yea I’m going.

This is somewhat probably what went down this morning.

1 Burpee to get everyone’s attention.

Mosey around bus loop to right back corner of school for COP. SSH, Imperial Walkers, Dead Man Hang, Don Quixote, Merkin, HRM, LBC.

Mosey to back soccer field for 4-Corners. 15 Merkins, 20 Merkins, 25 LBC, 30 Squats. Round 2. 4-Corners. 20 Merkins, 25 Merkins, 30 LBC, 40 Squats.

Mosey to soccer goal. Line up for some wind sprints to other soccer goal. Recover with 50 Squats. X4.

Mosey to back jungle gym for 8X4 Partner pull ups.

Mosey to school for a triple check. Muhammad Ali Wall Sits & Dips while timer runs to jungle gym for 1 pull up.

Mosey around entire soccer field to side of school fenced in area. Line up near school for some bear crawls. Bear crawl to fence for 20 merkins then run back. Bear crawl to fence for 30 LBC then run back. Bear crawl to fence for 30 deep squats then run back.

Four Corners of concrete. 20 merkins, 30 LBC, 40 Spuats, 50 WW2.

Mosey to flag for COT.

No Prayer Requests.

(1) Announcement. 5PM Pickle Ball with Oyster.

Seńor Frog closed us out with a somewhat lengthy inspiring prayer.

14 strong-willed men joined to unknowingly celebrate YHC’s 6 year anniversary and this is what happened:

Mosey to Third Presbyterian Church parking lot for part 1 of the COP

Mosey to CVS for part 2 of the COP

Mosey to Kanawha Pool for a Triple Check. P1 runs down the hill and back, P2 does WW2’s with back facing downhill, P3 does HRM’s with head facing down hill

Mosey to the back of the SHRM building and in the parking lot Bear Crawl between parking spots and do 10 good Squats at each spot. Ab exercises for the 6 and then the group was introduced to the Pencil Roll.

Mosey back over to CVS and Murder Bunnie (Sans Blocks) across the Parking Lot.

Mosey over the Bodo’s Annex parking lot and partner up for some Wheelbarrows.

Mosey back to the Hoedown Lot and get on the hill behind our cars to finish up with a Derkin, Pencil Roll left, WWII, Pencil Roll right, Derkin, and repeat until time.

Announcements: 1) Senor Frog 1-year Anniversary Q next Monday at Hoedown. Senor Frog is #6 in postings in F3RVA his first year 2) Grow Ruck coming in May 3) Breaking Bread – Sign Up

Prayer Requests – non

NMS – great morning, 45 degrees. Also a lot of Mumble Chatter, but unfortunately hard to participate it it while leakind the workout.

Twelve body sculpting craftsmen shook off the chill of a late February morning in time to answer the work bell for the latest edition of the Hoedown. Temperatures were 70 and sunny. According to the guy breaking into the Third Church construction site, the following might have happened:

Mosey across the school parking lot, stairs, and grass, then over Forest to the Third Church parking lot (but just left of the normal spot) for the COP.

SSHs x50
IW’s x20
Dead Man Hang (with elbow grab)
Fudd’s Wife
Wilson’s Wife
Pigeon right, pigeon left
Fudd’s Wife
LBC’s
Reverse Crunches
Flutter kicks
HRMs x15

Mosey across the front of Third Church, then right to the back parking lot / construction site. Climb fence. road.

Dora. 50 merkins per man, 150 LBCs, and 200 SSHs.

Circle up for some stretching. Fudd’s wife, then various leg stretching.

Mosey to the Block Parking Lot. Three groups of four.

1. Walk with block overhead.
2. Air presses
3. slow squats
4. monkey humpers

Rounds 2-3, modify to walk while doing overhead presses.

Mosey to the Walgreen’s Parking Lot. Triple check. Run the building (“It’s a big building”), WWIIs, and Carolina Dry Docks. Time narrowed this to one round.

Mosey back to the front of the school, then line up for an elephant walk (aka, bear crawl in a line).

Mosey back to the horseshoe. 2 minutes left for a set of merkins at each traffic cone. Call it 10–20 slow merkins.

COT – Numbers, names, and YHC took us out with a message about .

NMS:

Hitch makes some interesting noises.

Bodo’s has a lot going on, but still has enough free time after running a parish, a family, and a construction company to start a vehicle salvage business. He’s looking for investors in the start up. Kudos to his daughters for making their donations. Let’s go!

Last Call believes that Walgreens is a “big building.” YHC notes that LC finds no problem with running YHC’s cold butt 1.5 miles down River Road in the pitch dark from First Watch to Panorama.

Billy Surf may not quite have Hutton’s speed on the bear crawl, but he definitely has the stamina. Nice work!

Several guys are on the mend…or just still recovering from their Saturday night hangover, or both.

Announcements:

None mentioned, but YHC notes that some dudes are adding fake weights to their bodies and learning to “live like a Clydesdale.” YHC guesses this is what is meant by walking a few miles in another man’s shoes.

14 Scholars of the Morn, joined by a lost FNG, rose sooner than most of their Westhoe neighbors to converge onto the darkened lot of Tuckahoe Elementary. Fudd’s arrival signaled the start of the day so off we go. According to the Westhoe Ring cameras, here is how things went down…

Mosey to the Church Executive Parking Lot for introductions, disclaimers and to welcome our new FNG. Warmups included SSH’s, DQ’s, Dead Man Hang, Jazzercise (with toe taps), Merkins, WWII’s & Freddie Mercuries. All is good, let us move on.

COP #1: Mosey to the commoner church lot to collect some coupons. Only 3 block survivors, so lets modify. Triple Check is the call. Timer runs the lot, Flutter kicks and LBC’s performed by the partners. Rotate 3 rounds each.

COP#2: Mosey to the bank parking lot for Love Lots. Partner Up. 1 person runs around the bank to catch the Partner from behind while Partner performs Bear Crawls for Round 1, Lunges for Round 2, Broad Jump Burpees for Round 3. Continue around the building until everyone performs all exercises 1 time. Front Running Bastards proceed back to starting point upon completion.

COP#3: Back to commoner lot for elevating 4 corners. 10 merkins, then 10 merkins/20 squats, followed by 10 merkins/20 squats/30 imperial walkers, finally 10 merkins/20 squats/30 imperial walkers/40 APD’s. Everyone watch Handshake complete his thrusts, let us continue.

COP#4: Return to now illuminated school lot for a 2nd triple check. Timer runs across lot then Bernies up the asphalt hill to fence and returns. Mountain Climbers and Monkey Humpers are the performed exercises.

COP#5: Arrows. Mosey to the arrows. Bearcrawl to 1st arrow and perform 1 merkin. Lunge to 2nd arrow to perform 1 squat. Back to bearcrawl/2 merkins. Squat to next, 2 squats…..

BTTVF: Still time for some arm circles, Michael Phelps, Dead Man Hang. Time is finally called. Names/Numbers/No Announcements. Upchuck took us out with some thoughtful words.

NMS: Phenomenal turnout this morning at Hoedown. YHC had been fartsacking the last few weeks so signed up for the Q to ensure he could start the week strong. Thank you to everyone for joining. The clock seemed to be running a bit slower this morning as we were having so much fun. FNG Billy Surf lives nearby and stumbled upon us a few weeks ago doing stupid things at a ridiculous hour and decided to join in. Welcome and hope to see you back again soon. Enjoy the day off for some.

Five Hoedown regulars showed up the morning after Taylor Swift’s boyfriend’s team won the Super Bowl wondering why it was so quiet across RVA. Realizing that no one had signed up to Q, a hot potato commenced.

Oyster Q

COP – Deadman hang, Squats, Don Quixote, Flutter Kicks, LBCs, Merkins

Mosey down to the carpool drop off circle for modified triple check, aka double check. Timers run around the circle while others do Merkins and then mountain climbers.

Faceplant Q

Mosey up to pull up bars for a second double check. One group does 5 pull ups while the other holds plank on the wall. Rotate and then hold dip. The PAX did two rounds of this.

Then, mosey back down to the smaller parking lot for 11s. One-count lunges and then merkins on the curb.

Hitch Q

Mosey to the bottom of Lindsay. Timers run up the hill and back while the others do lunges. One round and then bear crawl for second round and third round is jump frogs.

1-800 Q

At the top of Lindsey, YHC took over and called for 3 burpees OYO. Then, mosey back to the school for a round against the wall. Sit against the wall and do 10 air presses, then balls to the wall for a 10 count, then wall sits with 15 air punches, then 10 donkey kicks, and then wall sits for a 20 count.

With a little time left, we circled up for some mary: Wilson’s wife, Fudd’s Wife (with left and right side high), Suzanne Summers (both sides), and Alabama Prom Dates.

Numbers, Names and Pigskin took us out with a prayer he kept tucked in his pocket. As always, the mumble chatter was good and covered a wide variety of topics.

14 of the Most Interesting Men in Westhoe converged for a Monday morning beatdown. Here’s what happened:

COP in the first Third Church lot: Deadman hang // DQs // Imperial Walkers // Ukranian Soldiers // LBCs // Hand Release Merkins // a whole lot of Pickle Pounders. Mosey to Third middle lot

Jump Rope Triple Check: P1: Jump Rope // P2: Plank Jacks // P3: Run the loop, Bernie Sanders the second half. Mosey back to TES dropoff loop.

Elevens: Grab a place on the wall. 1 Mike Tyson on the wall, bearcrawl to the other side, 10 WW2s, lunge back. Keep going until 10 and 1. Mosey up to blacktop.

Blacktop Sprints: Sprint to the other side of the blacktop and do 100 LBCs. Sprint back across and do 75 SSHs. Sprint back, 50 Merkins. Sprint back, 25 Burpees. Mosey back to the flag.

Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out.

NMS: Welcome FNG Dos Equis! Handshake was whiney that I named him so quickly, but when a good name is suggested, why waste time? Lots of shoulder work this morning, Pigskin take note for tomorrow. Thanks for letting me lead guys! SYITG.

11 HIM posted for a Fudd beatdown at TES.

Mosey to the 3rd parking lot for COP. SSH’s, helicopters, DQ’s, plank, merkins, stretches, flutter kicks, HTH, arm circles.

Mosey to the blacktop for some tunes and ground & pound.

1st song – Beat It – hold plank and do 1 shoulder tap merkin each time MJackson sings “Beat It”. Not sure how many we did in total but it felt like a lot.

2nd song – The Beast by Sixwire – rotate between 4 exercises, changing with each new riff/song. Squats, forward alternating lunges, backwards alternating lunges, speedskaters.

3rd song – Heroes – do SSH for the entirety, stopping to do 1 burpee every time we hear “We could be”

4 corners on the blacktop. Rd 1 merkins x 10, squats x 20, 2 ct flutters x 30, LBC’s x 40. Rd 2 add 10 to each set and repeato.

Finish in the first corner with various Mary exercises…..2 ct flutters, HTH, Freddie Mercuries, American Hammers, and maybe something else. Mosey back to the SF for numberama, namerama, YHC took us out.

NMS:

Always seeking to change things up from the usual, YHC decided some tunes would be a nice distraction. The PAX did not seem disappointed and it seems a solid beatdown was enjoyed by all. YHC’s legs are a bit more sore than was expected, and that is a most welcome development. Tclaps to everyone for putting out a great effort. Nice to have Pigskin back from Honduras.

Announcements: Westhoe ShieldLock at Dunkin on Patterson Tues nights at 7pm. We are reading “Heart of a Warrior” by Michael Thompson so if you plan to come you’ll need to buy the book.

Sign up for Breaking Bread in the month of your birthday.

Frozen Triangle Feb. 10th.

Thanks for letting me lead today fellas. Let’s remember all of the blessings that we have, especially those that we take for granted. And don’t forget the reasons you post in the gloom…..everyday people do everyday things but we can’t be one of them. You are a hero to more people than you know…..especially your 2.0’s and M. Go be the best version of yourself today for them.

And never stop chasing the wabbit!

Fudd

10 Burpee eating machines made their way out of the heated cars to see what was on todays agenda. Just as our COP was ending Face Plant made it 11. According to School administration this is what may or may not have happened.

Mosey up to the play area for COP

SSH’s, one Burpee (OYO), DQ’s, two Burpees (OYO), Helicopters, three Burpees (OYO), Imperial Walkers, four Burpees (OYO), WWII, (Oyster made us do 10 Burpees OYO), Rosalitta’s, Hello Dollies and American Hammers

Mosey to the church parking lot

Four corners #1 10 – Hand Release Merkins, 20 – Merkins, 30 – Shoulder Taps, 40 – Squats

Four corners #2 10 – Schrunchy Frogs, 20 – American Hammers, 30 – Sugar Sticks, 40 – Jump squats

Four corners #3 10 – squats, 20 – Toe Taps, 30 – Jump Squats, 40 – Ball Dippers

Mosey to the front of the school

11’s – 1 Incline Merkin run to parking lot 10 Schrunchy Frogs so on and so forth

BTTF (Face Plant needs to get some Burpees in) 10 Burpees OYO

Numbers / Names Oyster took us out

NMS:

YHC only had half a plan when he got to the AO this morning but one thing he did plan was four corners around the church. Unaware that there was construction going on that prevented safe passage around the church a reroute was in order and a solution was presented. Oyster loves Burpees so much that he didn’t want his friend Face Plant to miss out on his share, so YHC was forced to grant 10 Burpees OYO at the end of the beatdown.