Tag: Hoedown

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.

Three motivated men of hard choices posted to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day edition of The Hoedown. Temperatures were 70 and sunny. According to the drivers on Forest, the following might have happened:

Parking lot tracers. Pick up Plus One.

Parking lot tracers with Plus One.

COP

SSHs x60 (4 count)
Dead man hang
Right leg high, left leg high, drop the hips, pigeon right, pigeon left
Imperial walkers
Don Quixote (Froggy did something funny, and Handshake wasn’t there to comment)
WWIIs
Reverse crunches

Mosey to the teacher parking lot for parking space intervals. 3 merkins, 3 WWIIs, 3 squats at each parking space.

Mosey to the front of the school…but, walk the steps, which actually have no ice.

Starting at the bike rack, 5 merkins, run to the front door and back, then 10 dips. 3 rounds, bro-code.

Mosey to the “attractive nuisance” known as the Third Church Parking Lot. (No actual injuries or insurance claims were incurred.)

Triple check…one man runs across to the school, one man does WWIIs and Carolina Dry Docks. 3 rounds. Make sure to call out the curbs. Do this every.single.time.

Touch-a-Tree. 5 trees. WWIIs and reverse crunches. Or, something like that.

Mosey back to the virtual shovel flag with a history lesson about kicking a curb accidentally (“Goldberg!” Or “Gomer”).

Numbers…Froggy…Numbers!…Names, and YHC took us out.

Announcements:

Pigskin is leading The Bridge on Saturday, January 24 (this weekend). It will be cold, which is more of a reason to go. When Pigskin’s leading, get on the bus. Push off is early Saturday morning, return by about 10:30. This is a great opportunity to be an Actual HIM.

Breaking Bread…Saturday evening…make dinner for 8-12 humans recovering from medical issues. These are people in need. WWJD? He’d help. Another opportunity to be an Actual HIM.

Requests:

Prayers for my high school pal, Becca. She has glioblastoma (brain cancer). Almost no treatments available. Short term outlook. 53. Good human.

For our country. As one PAX member described it, “What a mess.” Indeed. Self-inflicted mess.

1/12/26

Q: Spine

PAX: Wojo, Handshake, Data, Pigskin, Salt Lick, Vandelay, Oyster

We met on a crisp, clear Monday morning.

Warm-Up: Thorough stretch routine, circle arms, arm circles, Don Q’s

Leg-Killer Mile (#1): 1/4 mile running, then 15 cadence count lunges, 20 squats, 25 cadence count side straddle hops. Repeat 4x at every 1/4 mile

5 Burpee Interlude

Mary Mile (#2): 1/4 mile, then 15 cadence count flutters, 20 LBC’s, 25 Alabama Prom Dates. Repeat 4x at every 1/4 mile.

This took the entire 45 minutes.

COT. As I do, we did a share round of highs and lows (prayer requests welcome as part of this before ending in the ball of man.

Didn’t get what you want for Christmas? Turns out “a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions” (Lk. 12:15).

Disclaimer + Warmarama

Fun & Games

–After some bungled instructions from YHC, the 9-strong PAX eventually figured out a pretty good workout circuit, which included using my shiny new Christmas kettlebell, merkins, fingertip squats, WW2s, ab stuff, etc. on the blacktop.

–Polar bears and crab-walk-sit-ups across the basketball courts.

–Pull-ups, leg lifts, and step ups at the playground.

COT

–Each man turned to his workout partner, told him what his next big purchase might be, and asked whether or not his partner thought it was a good idea to buy that thing.

Announcements

–Oyster: Breaking bread sign up is available for January

–Handshake: Pigskin is leading the next trip to the Bridge

–Doozy: Frozen Triangle is coming up

We only did 10 mercans today.

Salt Lick is promoting MABA; Make America Burpee again. The idea is that you average 100 Burpees per day for the month of January, or 3,100 Burpees. This will be his 4^th year. I thought maybe we can do that today!

We began with a short mosey to the upper asphalt lot by the school with the usual disclaimer, but in German!

• ich heiße Schweinehaut.
• Ich bin kein Profi.
• Ihr könnt die Übungen anpassen.
• Fordert euch, aber übertreibt es nicht.
• Du gegen dich selbst

Warm up

• 20 SSH
• 20 IW
• 20 Copperhead squats
• 20 Crunchy Frogs
• 10 Don Quixote
• Stretch

Knock out 70 Burpees

• 7 minutes of burpees
• Stretch

Mosey to the wall for

• 15 People’s chair airpress
• 10 BTTW hip slaps in cadence
• 5 Burpees OYO
• 15 People’s chair Milkers
• 10 BTTW Australian Mountain Climbers
• 5 Burpees OYO
• 15 People’s chair Muhammad Ali
• 10 BTTW Toe Taps
• 5 Burpees OYO
• 15 People’s chair Lalannes
• 10 Dirty Hookups
• 5 Burpees OYO

Now we’re up to 90 Burpees! Mosey to the railings for

• 10 single count Bulgarian split squats: right leg back
• 10 single count Bulgarian split squats: left leg back
• 10 single count Derkins
• Repeat above except 9 single count
• Then 8 and so on down to 1

Mosey to the playground for two rounds of

• Partner 1 is the timer: goes to the pullup bars for 10 Pullups
• Partner 2 does Dips and/or Step ups

Mosey to the flag

• 5 Burpees
• 20 Dollies
• 15 Crunchy Frogs
• 15 APDs
• 20 Boxcutters
• 10 Mercans
• 5 Burpees
• 60 second 6-inch leg raise

100 Burpees!

Numberrama, Namearama

Announcements

January 1: Convergence 7:00 AM at Dogpile (Dogwood Dell)

January 1: MABA: Sign up on Slack

January: Sign up for Breaking Bread

COT

The gospel lesson for this past Sunday was about the King Herod’s murder of the babies in Bethlehem. Such an awful story seems out of place in this season of Christmas. I’m more positive than some people. I believe we’ve made progress in the last 2,000 years. Yes, there are plenty of examples anyone can give of terrible things that are taking place in the world today. And yet, Christmas is still about Peace and Goodwill to all. Lord, guide to do our small part.

The Hoedown Globetrotters will take on any and all challengers with this formidable front court. 

Today’s training consisted of the following.

Mosey around the horseshoe to the TES guest parking lot. 

COP

• Copperhead Squats
• Helicopters
• Dead Man Hang
• Good Mornings
• Plankorama
• Merkins
• Freddie Mercurys
• APDs
• SSHs

Mosey over to Spottswood past Casa de 1-800.

Dora 1-2-3

• P1 – Run to the Inflatable Christmas Dragon and back
• P2 – HRMs x 100, Reverse Crunches x 200, Monkey Humpers x 300

Auto Bingo Christmas Style – Bernie/ Run up Spotswood down Carriage and right on Silverspring

• Light Display – Merkins x 10
• Inflatable – Squats x 10
• Deflated Inflatable – Burpees x 2

Mosey to Third rear parking lot

• Triple Check – Wall Sit (Milkers and Tysons), Flutter Kicks, Run the Lot

Mosey back to Horseshoe Infield

• 1 minute of Burpees

Numberama, Nameorama, COT

MOLESKIN

Apparently today is National Short Person Day.  YHC is exactly the US average and a solid inch and a half over the world average, so not sure why Splinter shared that with me.  Doesn’t matter anyway when you far eclipse some more important averages, like intelligence, looks, athleticism, length and girth.  I would enjoy watching this PAX play basketball against another AO though.  Bring it on Alamo A$$clowns or Deep D-Bags.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Rosie’s 12 Days of Christmas at NoToll tomorrow and Secret Santa exchange

The Bridge – 12/27

New Years Day Convergence at DogPile – 1/1