Tag: Hoedown

13 men came out for the 2nd Hoedown of the year and YHC’s first Q. Here’s what went down.

COP: Head up to the blacktop. Dead man hang, lean left/right, 15 SSH, jog, karaoke, and back pedal to fence and back. We would’ve skipped too, but that was shot down due to the wetness of the blacktop.

Partner up for a mini dora: 50 burpees, 100 double count shoulder taps, 150 double count mountain climbers. Partner bear crawls to fence and back.

Head down to the wall and wall sit for 30 seconds with the Pax counting to 30. 10 donkey kicks. 20 SSH. Repeat 5 times.

Indian run 6 laps around the carpool loop. They were the Tuckahoe Indians when YHC went to school there. No idea if they still are or not.

Circle up and plank for 60 seconds with each member of the Pax counting out then 10 squats. Repeat 3 times. May need to work on counting going forward.

Head back up to blacktop for four corners. 10 merkins, 20 LBC’s, 30 monkey humpers, 40 squat jumps. Repeat and add 10 for each.

Head down to parking lot and partner up. 1 partner bear crawls up to fence and crawl bears back down. Other partner does WWII’s.

Circled up and stretched. Ended with 5 burpees.

Numberama and Namerama. Pretty sure there were two announcements, but YHC can’t remember what they were. Will work on this next time.

*Thanks to everyone who showed up and encouraged me to sign up for my VQ. Special shoutout to offshore who invited back in the summer and introduced me to F3. I’ve enjoyed it.

9 fine gentlemen gathered to start the first Monday of the year off right at Hoedown. Here’s how things went:

COP: SSH x 20, DQ x 10, CP x 10, IW x 12, shoulder taps x 10, mosey to somewhere dry, aka church parking lot loop.

Partner up for a Dora: 100 HRM, 200 Superman (crowd favorite), 300 LBC

Keep same partners for Something New – 30-60-90-90-60-30. Two exercises (plank / jump squat). Partners alternate every 30 seconds, 60 seconds, 90 seconds, repeat 90s and back down. FIA to the back church lot for…

11’s with Gomer’s favorite Crab Cakes and Lt. Dans. After a quick mosey back towards the flag we wrapped up the morning with another something new 30-30-60-60 including burpees and people’s chair. Significant fun was had by all.

Numberama, Namerama, Announcements (Triangle in January, Pre Grid Iron breakfast coming soon, prayers for Swipe Right’s family – funeral on Wednesday), and YHC took us out.

Moleskine: Thanks for the privilege to lead this morning & humbled to realize we couldn’t even watch the world record 9+ hr plank hold at 2x on youtube… until next time, GP.

It was back to the old stomping grounds for YHC, who was joined, eventually, by 9 other frozen companions. After Handshake completed his double parking spot parking job with the mini-van, this is what went down:

Mosey around half of the horseshoe into order to collect an oblivious Garbage Plate (LIFO) who ran to the AO from his house. Circle up in front of the school for:

COP:

SSH’s, Jazzercises, Helicopters, DQ’s, Fudd (LIFO) arrives, Imperial Walkers, Hand Release Merkins, WW2 Sit-ups, Copperhead Squats

Mosey to the Horseshoe and get in teams of three for:

Triple Check:

Timer runs the horseshoe

Wilson’s Dying Boxing Cockroaches (Boxer)

Wilson’s Dying Boxing Cockroaches (Receiver)

3 Rounds, of course

Mosey through main parking lot to Lindsay and Lindsay to begin a:

Lindsey:

LBC’s and Carolina Dry Docks travelling down Lindsay, Westham Pkwy and Sunset Dr.

40/0, collect Last Call (very LIFO), 35/5 30/10 25/15 20/20 15/25 10/30 5/35 0/40

Mosey around Crest Dr. to the parking lot in front of Dickie’s (Bubba’s) Barbershop for:

11’s:

Jump Squats then run across lot for Merkins. Back and forth.

Mosey to the front of Zing Fit and pair up for:

PLT’s:

3 rounds of 20 each partner

Mosey back to the VSF for:

40 seconds of Burpees

Time!

Numbers, Names, Announcements and YHC took us out!

NMS:

A calm 17 degrees awaited the pax this morning. Constant movement was key to overcome the chill, with the lack of wind making things more bearable. Garbage Plate didn’t see the pax run almost right beside him on his way in. Fudd was lucky to see us in COP while driving by the front of the school, Last Call sent his M on her way north (possibly on the wrong train) and was very lucky to catch us before we disappeared towards Westham Pkwy (thanks for going to get him, Handshake!) Very quiet and still morning and the workout seemed to go by very quickly. Mr. Rogers posted at Hoedown for the first time and took the mandatory “first time there” entrance to the AO.

Starbucks for 9 of the 10 afterwards with discussions of how to properly use the bathroom and take a shower in different areas of the world. Bodo’s enjoyed his female-filled Christmas. EF Hutton is up to 322!

Great job this morning, men! Way to work!

SYITG!

Kubota

Coming in hot because YHC’s dogs are a pain in the A$$, 10 men of steel have made their way out of the Gloom to muster at Hoedown

Mosey up to the basketball courts to check for ice and do a little COP

DQ’s, Imperial Squat Walkers, Helicopters, LBC’s, Hello Dollies, Rosalitta’s.

Mosey to the other end of the courts

Jack Webb back and forth, on this side of the court do one set of Jack Webb 1 American hammer (2 count) and 4 LBC’s. Run to the other end of the court and do 1 Ball Dipper (2 count) and 4 squats, Repeto until 10 and 40 on both ends. Lots of counting

Mosey walk to the corner by the school for 4 corners prostitute

10 – American Hammers, 20 – Plank Jacks, 30 – Schrunchy Frogs, 40 – Mountain Climbers

Mosey BTTF for a Ring Of Fire

Numbers / Names Pigskin took us out

NMS:

A good bit of Mumble Chatter started out the morning but about 3/4’s of the way through the Jack Webb’s it settled down a bit. Last Call mentioned something about making these last 45 minutes but we had the 4 corners and Man Killers on the books. We did get in the 4 corners but the Man Killers will be saved for another day.

Wojo let it be known at 0500 that he would in fact not make his Q.  There were bettors.  Here’s the hot potato that ensued:

EF Hutton Q

Mosey around the horseshoe

COP

• Don Quixotes
• Dead Man Hang
• Jazzercises
• Imperial Walkers
• Copperhead Squats
• Hand Release Merkins
• Freddie Mercurys
• Inverted Scorpion Kicks
• SSHs

Mosey to the small visitor parking lot

4 Corners

• Bearcrawl long sides, Crabwalk short sides
• 20 Merkins, 30 WWIIs, 40 Jump Squats, 50 Monkey Humpers

Handshake Q

Mosey to the Third Church far lot

Triple Check

• P1 – Run Loop
• P2 – Blocks (Curls, Press, Tricep Press)
• P3 – LBCs

Hitchhiker Q

Mosey to Third Church office lot

Dora (P1 Exercise/ P2 Karaoke long sides of building, run short sides)

• 100 Merkins
• 200 Squats
• 300 SSHs

Snuff Q

Mosey back to Horseshoe

• 5ish minutes of Burpees
• 4ish minutes of Complaints from PAX
• Stretches
• Elbow Plank for time

Numberama, Nameorama, COT

MOLESKIN

In addition to the missed Q there were no less than 2 missed fist bumps.  Never leave your brother hanging.  The PAX was happy to hot potato the Q, but a missed greeting is unacceptable.  Go forth and fist bump the world.  Prayers for all those struggling, especially during this time of year, and specifically lifting up Snuff’s young friend gone too soon.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

See all the posts from last week

Nine fine gentlemen gathered at the no longer darkest AO in RVA to compare winter gloves and who wore them best. Eight launched promptly at 0530 to the front of the school while we picked up one that ran to the AO on the way. COP was frosty and was as follows:

COP

• SSH x25
• Imperial Walkers x10
• Helicopters x10
• Copperhead Squats x10
• Don Quixotes x10
• Mountain Climbers x10
• LBCs x20
• Merkins x10

The Thang

Very short jaunt across the street to the church parking lot, avoiding curb obstacles, for the first set of exercises. This exercise is called Escalating Fibonacci Arrow Trifecta Plus Bonus. Start at the first arrow (arrow 0). Three exercises at each arrow, running back to the start after each arrow’s exercises were finished. Exercises were Merkins, Squats, WWIIs. When we made it back to the start we finished the set with said number of burpees. There were 8 arrows (plus the zero’th arrow) so we did sets with the following reps 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21.

Mosey back to the now very well lit blacktop for a similar format but following the numbers painted on the ground. We ran to a number, did 3 exercises of that number, then ran back and did burpees for that number. Exercises were Diamond Merkins, Jump Squats, WWIs. Numbers were 1, 2, 3, 6, 5, 4. Wait for Fudd to collect his sweater and off we went.

Medium length meander to the top of Lindsay for more exercises and running. Partner up. 1st partner runs 25% of the way down the hill while the other performs an exercise. Flapjack and repeat. Then 50%, 75%, 100% with different exercises. Exercises were Werkins, Lunges, SSHs, LBCs. We didn’t get to 100% so we did LBCs to collect the 6.

BTTVSF where announcements were made and YHC took us out.

Announcements

• Happy hour 3-6 Saturday at Hardywood West Creek with some F3 brothers from The Capital region
• Honeydo Sings the Carols @ Fudd’s house on 12/18. Details on Slack.

Moleskin

YHC was promised questions a plenty, only received a few, with the rest being substituted for $h!t talking. Said talking subsided after number 2 of Mr. Fibonacci’s sequence. YHC believes everyone was disappointed there was an 8th arrow. Well done fellas.

Kudos to Pigskin who showed up, modified, and still crushed many of the exercises. Find a way to post. He did. What’s your excuse?

Mumblechatter was high between exercises but not so much during. Too much counting? My 5th grade math teacher would be proud.

See all y’all in the gloom one day this week.

Splinter out.

12 of Richmond’s favorite sons made their way through the Gloom to see what Doozy might have in store for them this morning.

Mosey to the Basketball courts for COP

DQ’s, Cherry Pickers, Helicopters, Imperial Walkers, Ukrainian Soldiers, LBC’s

Mosey to the corner for a 4 corners Prostitute. Corner 1 – 10 WWII’s, Corner 2 – 20 Squats, Corner 3 – 30 LBC’s, Corner 4 – 40 Jump Squats

Mosey to the front of the school for elevens 10 dips run to the parking lot 1 (your choice) WWII’s or Merkins. Repeto increasing / decreasing but always equaling 11

Mosey to the side entrance for a quick triple check. Partner 1 – Wall sits, Partner 2 – (your choice) American Hammers or Scrunchy Frogs, Partner 3 – runs around the island.

BTTF

Numbers / Names – Faceplant took us out

NMS:

YHC had taken some time off from posting while in SC for Thanksgiving, only posting once over a 5 day span (convergence in Fort Mill, SC with 80+ PAX), it was good to get back after it today. It was good to see a handful of guys that YHC hasn’t seen in a while. The PAX will continue to wait for the arrival of the latest Faceplant addition.

10 studs convened in the first 20 degree morning in the dark for a beatdown. After a mosey to the middle Third parking lot, YHC wanted to try out a Tabata workout. A Tabata is 4 minutes of intense exercise with 20 seconds on and 10 seconds off, repeat 8x. Our goal was to 8 rounds total with one minute rest in between. Here’s what we covered:

• Round 1: SSHs
• Round 2: Burpees
• Round 3: Copperhead Squats
• Round 4: American Hammers
• Round 5: Merkins
• Round 6: WW2s
• Round 7: Mountain Climbers
• Round 8 (half round): High Knees

75% Run back to the flag. Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out.

NMS: Fudd and Handshake complained a lot but we persevered. The inspirational quotes in between rounds helped. Especially this one from Kurt Kobain: “It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.”

It was a bilingual beatdown this chilly autumn morning for eight of Richmonds elite athletes looking to start the week off with a bang. Conditions were clear but crisp 70 degrees.

5.30 hit and off we go for a quick jaunt around the bus loop then line for COP. Introductions, disclaimers were quickly followed by Invisible Jumprope, Helicopters, DQ’s, Jazzercise, Hillbillies and Dead Man Hang. All seemed warm, lets begin:

Quick mosey down Lindsay Court for some additional work. Plank, Merkins and shoulders stretches. Love Hill to get back up. Runner runs, while partner bear crawls, lunges and broad jump burpees.

At the top, lets mosey over to Puckers Park where the real fun begins. Numbers were ideal for a quadruple check. Timer runs the loop, remaining partners do merkins, LBC’s and Monkey Humpers. 4 rounds.

Back to the flag with a Brocode Lindsey along the way. Carolina Drydocks and Heals to Heaven. Various stops along the way.

Still time on the clock for some Broga. Names/Numbers/Announcements. Bodos took us out with some inspiration.

Announcements; Spider Run 10k Turkey Trot – Tuesday 11/22 – route is posted on slack, start time is up to you. HDHH – Hardywood West Creek – Tuesday evening 11/22, starttime around 5ish or at your convenience. Forest Hill Loops – Friday 11/25 at 7 am – Forest Hill Park.

NMS: Great work this morning. Good to see Termite and Tater at Hoedown as the ventured from lands afar. Quadruple Check was a bit more difficult than imagined. Some additional explaining was needed after everyone decided to run. Still some confusion as Doozy and Bodos ran 8 times, you do you. Cooler temps means winter glove season will soon be upon us but it was a great morning. Well done gents.

9 of the worlds most highly trained and physically fit athletes made their way to Hoedown to see if Doozy wanted to sit in child’s pose or actually do something in this beatdown. According to Bodos’s organ player this is what happened.

Mosey across the street and 1 lap around the church and back to the far corner of the A lot.

COP – DQ’s, Helicopters, Deadman Hangs, Imperial Walkers, Ukrainian Soldiers and possibly a few other things

Bust out the plastic bowls one empty and one full of small slips of paper with numbers on them. Each HIM in time draws a number and the PAX does the exercise and amount of times that match the number on the master sheet. After each 5 HIM drawing a number PAX runs one lap around the church. PAX made it through all 20 numbers and 3 extra credit drawings.

Mosey BTTF 5 minutes left, use the hill from the lot to the fence. Bernie up the hill for 10 squats, mosey down the hill for 10 2 count ball dippers repeto until time is called

Numbers / Names Pigskin took us out

NMS:

An oldy but a goody as my Grandmother would have said. Perfect weather once again for a beatdown in the early AM. Always good seeing some of the guys that YHC hasn’t seen in a while and then meeting some new guys.

Just saw a slack that there is a Happy Hour happening 11/22 at Hardywood West Creek starting at 5:00 until …..