Tag: Hoedown

Three dudes converged on Hoedown without a designated Q as Spring Break is in full effect for many. After deciding Tuckahoe surely had better weather than anywhere sunny and warm, a hot potato was called and here’s a little sample of how it went.

Garbage Plate kicked off with a warm up and slightly discombobulated set of 11’s

Salt Lick led bench exercises, a set of US state themed Mary and a good bit of running.

Data closed out the morning with some jerkins and a wicked frog hop rotation.

Numberama, namerama, a few announcements and YHC took us out.

It was a pleasure to kick the week off right with you all! Until next time, GP

Dr. Saltlick “You don’t look to good”.”What should I do if you die or something?”

S Frog “Do some Doctor Shit”….

Dr. Saltlick “Ah… Some Doctor Shit.. Yea.. Got It.”

6 started the week early this morning at Hoe Down with some high expectations.

EF Hutton called 0530 and we started with a short mosey around the parking lot.

Circled up for a standard COP warm up.

Each man armed themselves with 10 LBs of CR coupons and we were off.

Mosey a loop around Lindsay Dr, Westham Pkwy, Baldwin Rd, Stuart Hall Rd, Forest Ave. @2.2 miles.

Stopping for some deep squats along the way.

Triple Check at Trinity United. LBC, Chuck Norris RIP, Loop around playground.

Time Check: S. Frog “How long does it take to get back home from here”?

Data- “We’re are good We’re right across the street”…

S. Frog “Data’s lost. We have a 1/2 mile mosey up hill with coupons with 6 minutes on the clock to go”…

Top of the hill. I can see the parking lot. Frog Down.. Frog Down.

Allergy season is here.

Thank You for letting me lead this morning.

Spine prayed for us.

Saltlick did some verbal CPR.

Lots of good mumble chatter.

6 men braved the weather to check out this weeks Hoedown. 5 of us haven’t been on vacation, but Beta was just on a vacation to a place so elite it even makes Fudd jealous.

COP with various exercises.

Partner up for the Jerkins.

Mosey to the front of the school for alternating 20 Merkins, 20 Dips, 10 Merkins, 10 Dips, 5 Merkins, 5 Dips.

Mosey over to Third Church’s Block Depot and each grab a Coupon. Various exercises and Mosey around the Parking Lot 10-12 times.

On the way back stop at various locations and do 20 of an exercise.

Finish with 20 SSH’s and 20 Squats.

Announcements – Oyster is looking for a Sunday Q of this months Breaking Bread. Upchuck is looking for someone to take over Q responsibility for The Bridge.

Prayer Requests – Wojo’s Mom who is recovering from a broken hip. Roger Roger’s FIL who is in hospice. YHC’s M’s first cousins daughter, Charlotte, who is entering the final days of her cancer fight. Prayers for her and her family. EF Hutton saw a tree fall on a gentleman. He is not doing well, he is on life support.

NMS – Breezy 65 degrees today with a touch of rain. Nice weather to be out with the guys. Be safe out today with the incoming storms.

Three absolute animals sprang out of bed into the first regular workout of Daylight Savings Time. Temperatures were 70 and sunny. According to the half dozen delivery vehicles visiting this morning, the following might have happened.

Mosey to the teacher’s parking lot for the COP.

50 SSHs.
Dead Man Hang
Lisa’s
Pigeon left / right
Don Quixotes
Imperial Walkers
Hillbillies
WWIIs
Flutter kicks
Hand Release Merkins

Parking Space Exercises

3 merkins, 3 WWIIs, 3 squats at each space. 3 burpees at the No Parking Zone.

Reminder: Time for us as visitors was limited to 15 minutes, according to the signs.

Touch a Tree (Rules explained; no questions of any sort)

Rounds of 10 and 8…WWIIs and Flutter Kicks

Rounds of 4 and 6…squats and monkey humpers

Round of 2…les burpees

Mosey to the parking lot…bear crawl up the asphalt hill, run back down, across the parking lot, 10 merkins, 20 squats, and Bernie Sanders back to the asphalt hill. 3 rounds.

Numbers, names, and Salt Lick took us out with a message about gratefulness.

Announcements:

Looking for a site Q for The Bridge going forward.

NMS: 56 and foggy is perfect. Who needs to sweat when condensation does the trick?

Hoedown is where it all started. On a cool March morning in 2018, 6 weeks after my second child was born. I don’t remember much of the actual workout but I do remember having to crawl through a tight Crawlspace during my first appointment and my arms and chest were so sore and by 2:00 I was ready for a nap.The amazing thing is of the 12 guys at that workout 9 are still regulars. One has moved and two no longer post.

YHC has decided to make a week of it and Q Monday-Friday. It’ll be hard to think of new and exciting things to do each day, but YHC will try.

As the clock struck 0530 Vandalay and Oyster were exiting their cars. We made our way down Hepler for a COP.

Mosey from Hepler back to the mini loop at Hoedown for a Triple Check. P1 HRM’s, P2 WWII’s, P3 Run the loop. 3 rounds.

Mosey to the Third Church Parking Lot to recover the Coupons. Get back in your Triple Check groups. After a failed attempt to do something on the fly YHC audibled to something easier to describe.

We finished with a Coupon Handoff. 12 guys circled up, a Block every third man. Block Man completes 10 of a exercise and the other two men complete a different exercise.

Mosey back to the flag to close out the beat down.

Announcements – Breaking Bread. Saltlick has this month but we need a Q for next month. The Bridge is open for March, check the Q sheet and grab some friends.

Prayer Requests – Upchucks friends that are battling illness and unfortunately nearing the end.

NMS – fun morning with 12 of the best people to hangout with 0530 on a Monday morning at an Elementary School. Excited to start off my 8 year celebration where it all started.

11 men met in a dark, cold, semi-wet parking lot on YHC’s birthday. YHC’s clock showed him as being 31 seconds to the workout, but YHC guesses others aren’t on Apple Standard Time.

Quick Mosey to catch up with the Pax and circle back from a COP. COP consisted of various exercises then sets of 5 Burpees to make our way to 42 to represent YHC’s age (with a bonus Burpees for the start of YHC’s 43rd year).

Mosey to the Third Church Parking lot by Bodo’s office to grab the Cinderblocks. Get in groups of 2. P1 does an exercise and P2 runs the lot, this happens 6-7 times. Switch to P1 doing an exercise and P2 Squats, do this another 4-5 times. Put blocks away and do some Mary (Flutters, WWII’s, LBC’s).

Mosey back to Hoedown lot, 20 HRM’s, times up.

Announcements – Breaking Bread. Gumbo and Splinter too this Saturday/Sunday, but next month is open.

NMS – F3 Birthdays are unlike another other. They start with advance thought to sign up to Q. Then you post on Slack to hype your own Q. The morning of rather than enjoy some extra sleep on your special day you wake up uncomfortably early to lead a bunch of grown men in a workout. Lastly once this is all complete you then have to write about it on the internet. That all being said we love them. Thanks to everyone for making it out to celebrate 42 years on this earth. YHC is thankful for these men.

5 regulars and an FNG that EH’ed himself made their way through the Gloom on a wet post rain morning. Pigskin was feeling under the weather and offered up the Q which YHC picked up.

Mosey don’t mosey to the spot of the parking lot that doesn’t have standing water. For a Slaughter start 10 Burpees, 10 Merkins (take a minute for disclaimer) and 25 LBC’s, Hyper DQ’s and helicopters

Mosey to the playground (mud pit) for a triple check. Partner 1 dips, Partner 2 Chicken Peckers, Partner 3 run across the field do 3 pullups and head back

Mosey to the blacktop play yard. 4 corners regular, Corner 1 10 Merkins, Corner 2 20 Ball Dippers, Corner 3 30 LBC’s, Corner 4 40 Bobby Hurlies

Mosey to the lower wall for another triple check. Partner 1 wall sits, Partner 2 Shoulder taps and Partner 3 runs the island

Mosey to the main parking lot. 4 corners (prostitute) Corner 1 10 Wide grip, Corner 2 10 Rangers, Corner 3 10 Diamond and Corner 4 10 Shoulder taps

Circle up for Man Killers

10 Burpees OYO

Numbers / Names Salt Lick took us out

NMS: Welcome to Beta who much like the rest of us is not the Alpha of the family unit and said he was fat shamed into the open arms of F3. It’s funny because when you meet Beta, he’s not fat.

•Warm-Up (which was desperately needed): 20 count Side Straddle Hops, Arm Circles, Circle Arms, Deadman Hang + Stretching, 20 count Mt. Climbers, 20 count Plank Jacks

• Thang 1 (Bear Crawl Alley): 20 Australian Pull-ups, 20 LBC’s, 20 yards bear crawl, mosey back; 20 Hand-release Merkins, 20 American Hammers, 20 yards bear crawl, mosey back; 20 Burpees, 20-count flutters, 20 yards bear crawl, mosey back.

•[Interlude: Mosey to Church Parking Lot]

•Thang 2 (Super Bowl *60* w/Coupons): 20 Curls with coupons, 40 squats, 2x mosey around the lot; 20 Curls with coupons, 40 Bent Over Rows, 2x mosey around the lot; 20 Curls with coupons, 40 Kettle Bell Swings, 2x mosey around the lot.

• Thang 3 (Carry the Block): Hold the block with one hand 20 yards, 3 Blockees; switch hands for another 20 yards, 3 Blockees; Rifle Carry 20 yards, 3 Blockees; Lunge with block 40 yards (completing a circle in the lot).

• [Interlude: Mosey back to AO]

• Ended with Man Killers (i.e., Motivators, where I started F3)

All are grateful for the warmth of fitness and fellowship.

Six salty stalwarts answered the call to post at Hoedown. With the TES lot a skating rink all the PAX found their way to the 3rd Prez parking lot for the beatdown.

Start off heading over to TES to look for anyone who might have gone to the normal spot, catch Handshake pulling into 3rd’s lot for the COP:

SSH, Don Qs, Imperial Walkers, Ukrainian Soldiers, LBCs, Merkins, Flutterkicks. Mosey to other lot for a Triple check: HRMs, Heels2Heaven, run the full lot. Back over to YHCs truck to pickup frozen Coupons. Partner up for a Dora: 100 Presses, aka thrusters, 200 block presses, 300 Block swings while partner runs the lot.

With 6 why not another Triple check: Block lunges, WWIIs, run out of lot over to TES and back. Finish with another loop of 3rd and 2 min of Mary. An angel opened up the 3rd lobby for an indoor COT and coffee.

Announcements: Frozen Triangle this weekend.

NMS: Without the wind the 12 degrees was not too bad, and 50% of the PAX were SOP! Thanks to Bodos and the 3rd staff for clear and safe parking lots. The indoor COT and coffeteria were a great way to start the week and month. Considering the weather not much doubt whether Groundhog day means 6 more weeks of winter.

Joey Chestnut arose to hear someone else’s alarm going off and was greeted downstairs by Offshore… the same Offshore who basically ran a marathon the day prior. Joey did not expect to be accompanied by his lone counterpart but was appreciative of the company and dadication nonetheless.

With less-than-ideal road conditions, the two set off on a mosey to the AO, arriving about five minutes late. After realizing no one else was around, Joey took the Q with Offshore providing ideas along the way.

Warmarama:

The mosey to the AO had us mostly warm, but we hit a brief warm-up of:

• Imperial Walkers

• Dips

• Merkins

• Heels to Heaven

• LBCs

• APDs

Joey quickly realized this would be the only time spent on our six.

The “beatdown”:

A short mosey took us to the upper playground monkey bars, where one PAX performed squats while the other knocked out pull-ups on each bar. We rotated through this for two rounds.

After a trek across the field, we completed a couple sets of 10 derkins and 20 dips. At this point, Joey Chestnut was mesmerized by all the room for activities, yet constrained by the elements.

We returned toward the monkey bars for 3 sets of 8 jerkins, followed by 10 box jumps on nearby playground equipment.

Next came 3 sets of 12 incline merkins, alternating with step-ups on a nearby bench. We then switched locations and repeated incline merkins where step-ups were previously performed, and vice versa.

With only a few minutes left, we hit the blacktop for sumo squats and a burpee (performed at a safe speed), because what’s an F3 workout without at least one burpee?

Wrap up:

A final mosey led us to the walkway, where we plank-walked along the rails with a bear crawl back to the top before heading the opposite direction and ending in COT.

Prayers were lifted for a safe mosey home and for those in need of extra love and care during this winter weather.

Special appreciation for Offshore’s dadication to show up and show out. Technically Joey Chestnut’s first solo Q, and hopefully the first of many — Joey may need to revisit Hoedown soon with some new ideas.