Tag: Hoedown

YHC doesn’t do a good enough job of checking Slack and missed the post about The Deep being on the Summer Tour list for this week, so was indeed surprised to only see Senior Frog’s truck in the lot upon arrival. 5:30 arrived and we were off…..

To the parking lot with the blocks because that’s the newest fad at Hoedown. YHC ran us through a quick disclaimer and COP, halfway through which we were joined by Saltlick. The three of us grabbed some blocks, did some manmakers, and proceeded to hot potato the Q after every exercise to keep it interesting.

After we grabbed the blocks YHC said, “Any ideas on something new or different we can do with these blocks?” Senior Frog smiled and said, “Follow me.” At his direction we then rifle carried to the Rite Aid parking lot, and during the walk YHC was eagerly anticipating whatever Senior Frog was cooking up in his head. But when we got there, the “New and Unique” thing that Senior Frog had cooked up, was simply to go to the Rite Aid parking lot…….”I’ve never worked out here with blocks before”. Fair enough.

Saltlick’s turn…..rifle carry over to the Tuckahoe Shopping Center and do some exercises in the lot. Rifle carry back to Rite Aid and do lunges, curls, and block swings across the lot. Rifle carry back to the original lot and do a bunch of manmakers, more lunges, overhead presses, sit and press, more rifle carry…….at one point Senior Frog said, “I’m really smoked from all those rifle carries…..let’s do some more.” Copy that.

We were all sufficiently smoked by the end, returning the blocks to the pile and moseying back to the VSF for some Mary before numberama, namerama, and YHC took us out with prayers for Senior Frog’s friend Bob who has throat cancer and Saltlick’s family as they navigate a difficult development.

Enjoyed it today fellas. That was one of the tougher workouts I’ve done recently.

Never stop chasing the wabbit.

Fudd

4:24 YHC rolls over to see he had 36 more minutes of sleep left, so YHC put the phone under YHC’s pillow so the alarm wouldn’t wake up his M. 5:27 YHC wakes up and realizes the sound on the alarm never went off and YHC was the Q.

YHC gets to Hoedown as quickly as possible wondering if he will be able to find everyone. Luckily Bodo’s had the thought to go over to the Third Church parking lot for a COP since he knew YHC was going to head for the Coupons

YHC caught up with the guys and Bodos graciously handed the Q back over.

YHC took the Pax over to the far Parking Lot and grabbed the Coupons.

A couple rounds of Triple Check to work on the Arms/Abs/Chest.

Announcements – Dry July is happening. See Slack/Google Sheets for details.

Prayer Requests – Charlottes, YHC’s M’s Cousins Daughter went to the Hospital the other day and they found fluid on her lungs. They are trying to figure out what it is and we are praying the Cancer has not moved. Continued Prayers for Mary, Fudds sister. The Cancer is stable and prayers that it stays like that. Prayers for all the families impacted by the Floods in Texas, truly a tragedy.

NMS – YHC was appreciative of the graciousness of the Pax. Worst fear of F3 is to miss a Q, second worst fear is to be late.

A triumvirate of mighty men gathered at Hoedown to start the week off right. Here’s what happened:

COP: Mosey to the first Third Church lot. Stretching excercises, including DQ, Cherry Pickers, Helicopters, and other stuff, ending with SSH x48 IC to celebrate YHC’s next lap around the sun. Mosey to middle lot.

Coupon Triple Triple: Three rounds of three triple checks with coupon work. Round 1: P1 Goblet Squats, P2 Kettle bell swing, P3 run the loop. // Round 2: P1 Lunge pass throughs, P2 overhead press, P3 run the loop // Round 3: P1 – alternate rows 10x P2- Bench press, P3- Run the loop. Deposit the coupons and back to school parking circle

Final COP: end with some ab work. LBC 25xIC, Freddie Murcury 25xIC, American Hammer 25xIC, WW2 x 25 OYO, Shoulder Taps 10xIC, Merkins 10xIC. Plank/Elbow Plank/Plank.

Namearama, Numberama, YHC took us out.

NMS: Small numbers but strong men today at Hoedown, grateful for Salt lick and GP, grateful for the new day, the sunny skies, and good company. Grateful for another year of life. SYITG.

6 WestHoe regulars and one late arriving FNG convened for this week’s edition of Hoedown.

Warm Up on the upper black top

• SSH
• DQ
• Cherry Pickers
• Merkins
• Scorpion Kicks
• Flutter Kicks
• WWIIs

Our late arriving FNG found us during warm up before we headed to the front of the school for 11s – Derkins and WWIIs.

We then moseyed to the far Third Church parking lot and retrieved some blocks for a Triple check. P1 – run the loop. P2 – flutter kicks. P3 – block exercises (R1 – overhead presses. R2 – curls. R3 – swings). Replace the blocks.

Stayed in the same lot for 4 corners. Corner 1 – 10 HRM. Corner 2 – 20 Rosalitas. Corner 3 – 30 American Hammers (2 count). Corner 4 – 40 SSH.

Lined up for the run back to the flag. We finished up with some mary.

Numbers / Names / YHC took us out.

FNG – We were happy to have Cupid join us today, albeit a few minutes late. He lives near Gaskins and River, has two daughters and owns an online dating website (hence the nickname). Despite the heat, we hope to have him back out soon!

No Q on the sheet, YHC grabbed the bull by the horns.

Here’s what transpired:

Mosey to the closest Third lot

COP (IC)

• Don Quixotes
• Dead Man Hang
• Cherry Pickers
• Copperhead Squats
• Arm Circles
• Overhead Claps
• Seal Claps
• Ukranian Soldiers
• Plankorama
• Merkins

Mosey to back Third lot

Dora 1-2-3

• Merkins x 100
• Donkey Kicks x 200
• Wall Sit w Overhead Press x 300

Mosey to far Third lot

4 Corners

• C1 – HRMs x 10
• Lunge to C2 – Jump Squats x 20
• Bearcrawl to C3 – Monkey Humpers x 30
• High Knees to C4 – SSHs x 40
• Karaoke back to C1 – Ferris Bueller it back to C1 (reverso of all prior movements)

Mosey to Third front steps

Partner Boxing Cockroaches 3 x 20

Mosey back to TES paved hill

11s (Bernie up, Mosey down)

• At bottom – LBCs
• At top – Merkins (downhill)

Numberama, Nameorama, COT

MOLESKIN

YHC was determined not to get his back soaking wet today, but every time there was even a slight hesitation while deciding on an exercise Senor Frog called for LBCs.  A Frog needs to be wet.  Finally gave in at the end.  Never too late to hop on the summer tour, next stop Ruckhenge.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Bridge – July 19^th (letting the cat out of the bag now – this will be a Summer Tour stop)

July 4^th Convergence – Details to follow

Nine Tuckahoegeans gathered on the lower pavement for today’s iteration of Hoedown. Some hoped for rolling around in newly laid sod but the PAX went north instead. Short mosey to Trinity for:

COP

• 20x SSH
• 15x Helicopters
• 15x Copperhead Squats
• 10x Merkins
• 10x Inverted Scorpions
• 15x Freddie Mercuries
• 10x DQs
• Probably something else

The Thang

No mosey as we were already there to the first small parking lot on TUMC campus. Small 4 corners. 10x Merkins / 20x Jump Squats / 30x LBCs / 40x SSH.

Mosey 10 feet to the second parking lot for larger 4 corners. 10x HRMs / 20x Squats / 30x Flutters / 40x MCs.

Mosey another 10 feet to the narrow parking lot in front of the church. Burpee ladder. 10 parking spaces (confirmed by Pigskin and reconfirmed by Garbage Plate). Run to the first, 1 burpee, return for 25 ab exercises. Run to 2nd parking spot, 2 burpees, return for 25 ab exercises. Continue until we hit all 10 parking spaces and 10 rounds of ab exercises (LBCs, Flutters, American Hammers, APDs, something else).

Dudes run BTTVSF for a quick round of Mary with HTH, WWIIs, Rosalitas.

Numbers, names, YHC took us out.

Moleskine

Solid push by the PAX today. Pucker still hasn’t adapted to the Virginia humidity and his shirt showed it this morning.

See y’all this week at various places.

Splinter out.

As YHC stood in the parking lot enjoying the quiet morning, I wondered whether this would be a solo workout. Fortunately, with a couple minutes to spare, Garbage Plate and Vandelay arrived. At 0530, we launched.

Moseyed across Forest to the Third Church Parking Lot A for warmup that included dead man hang, side straddle hops, merkins, and WWIIs.

Mosey behind the church along the playground to the back parking lot for a triple check. P1 – BTTW. P2 – Squats. P3 – run to the end of the parking lot and Bernie back.

Mosey to the tree covered lot across Silverspring for 4 corners. The PAX was pleasantly surprised to find a good size stack of fresh coupons hidden in the trees. Once each retrieved a coupon, we started the first 4 corners. Corner 1 – curls. Bear crawl to Corner 2 – WWIIs. Run to Corner 3 – shoulder taps. Crab walk to Corner 4 – jump squats. Bernie back to start. Picked up our coupons for second 4 corners, coupons traveling along this time. Corner 1 – overhead presses. Corner 2 – WWIIs with coupons. Corner 3 – alternating merkins with one hand on the block. Corner 4 – block swings. Back to start and return coupons.

Mosey back to TES and around back to the main parking lot for 11s. Merkins, starting at 10, run across and Bernie up hill for WWIIs.

With a few minutes left, we wrapped up with some mary – american hammers, flutter kicks, heels to heaven.

Numbers, Names and YHC took us out.

Thank you to Garbage Plate and Vandelay for showing up this morning – great start to the week.

I got an offer from Bodo’s for some new Coupons for Hoedown. His thoughtfulness was such that I had to take him up on the offer.

Warmup:

Mosey to the parking lot at Third Church

• 20 SSHs
• 10 Man-Maker Merkins
• 15 Crunchy Frogs
• Stretch: on the ground, right hand to right foot with left foot on right thigh and then flapjack

Mosey to parking lot behind Third Church

• 20 IWs
• 10 Diamond Merkins
• 10 each side Heels to Heaven
• Stretch: Plank position, right foot to right hand and then flapjack

Mosey to the parking lot south of Third Church, find coupons and partner up for a triple check

• Partner 1 runs the parking lot
• Partner 2 does curls with the coupon
• Partner 3 does presses with the coupon

Second Triple check:

• Partner 1 runs the parking lot
• Partner 2 does rows with the coupon
• Partner 3 does triceps with the coupon

Mosey back to the school for BBTW routine:

• 15 People’s chair airpress
• 10 BTTW shoulder slaps in cadence
• 15 Donkey Kix OYO
• 15 People’s chair Milkers
• 10 BTTW Australian Mountain Climbers
• 15 Donkey Kix OYO
• 15 People’s chair Muhammad Ali
• 10 BTTW Toe Taps
• 15 Donkey Kix OYO

Mosey to railings on sidewalk for Bulgarian routine:

• 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

To the “flag” for

• 15 Copperhead squats in cadence
• 60 count 6-inch leg lift

Announcements:

May 26: Convergence at Tredegar: 7:00 AM

Happy 2 day anniversary to Señor Frog (He got married Saturday!)

COT

The part is “ ”s are things I copied more or less completely, from the internet.

“Thomas Aquinas (ca. 1225–1274) takes inspiration from antiquity, especially Aristotle. It was Aquinas’s conviction, that the Christian faith could only benefit from a profound engagement with philosophy and science. In 1879, Pope Leo XIII called for a revival in the study and teaching of Aquinas.”

 

“The master principle of natural law, wrote Aquinas, was that “good is to be done and pursued and evil avoided.” Aquinas stated that reason reveals particular natural laws that are good for humans such as self-preservation, marriage and family, and the desire to know God.”

We had a brief discussion afterwards. Whether you agree with Thomas Aquinas about natural law or not, I think he had something important to say. What is ‘good’? What is ‘evil’? Has the definition of ‘good’ changed over time or is it eternal? Is ‘good’ universal, the same for an atheist as for a Christian? How do we know something is ‘good’? Is it subject to empirical evidence? Is it a product of reason? Do we reason backwards from its consequences?

Like perhaps all of you, I took plane geometry and I remember learning that an axiom or postulate was something we could not prove, but we took it as ‘true’ because it made ‘sense’. From that, we derived ‘corollaries’ or something that is true assuming the axiom or postulate is true.

In other words, some things in life we accept as true even if we can’t prove it. I think that is the nature of a lot (or all) of philosophical and religious thinking. It makes sense to us. We take it on faith, but it cannot be proven. (You are welcome to disagree!)

Oddly enough, science is not something that can be proven. Science is something that can only be disproven empirically. The philosophy of science is that an assertion is a scientific assertion if it can be disproven.

“Karl Popper defined science as a system of theories that are falsifiable, meaning they can be tested and potentially proven wrong through observation or experimentation. This concept of falsifiability is the key criterion” of science.

4 Hoedown regulars ready for a proper Hot Potato…. Let’s Go

Warmarama: Hutton takes the Q. Mosey to the small parking lot, Helicopters, DQ, Imperial Walkers, SSH, Copperhead Squats, Hand Release Merkins, Planks…

Round1: Hutton keeps the Q: Partner up – 3 rounds
Partner Jerkins x 10, Partner PLTs x 20

Round2: Hutton keeps the Q: Mosey to the pull up Bars – 3 rounds
Incline Planks, 5 Merkins – Switch x 3 rounds.

Round 3: Hutton passes the Q to Salt Lick.
5 Burpees
Bear Crawls
Merkins
Lunges
Bear Crawls
Lunges

Round 4: Salt Lick passes the Q to Oyster: Mosey to the small parking lot
Corner1: 20 SSH, sprint to the next corner
Corner2: 20 SSH, sprint to the next corner
Corner3: 20 SSH, sprint to the next corner
Corner4: 20 SSH, sprint to the next corner
Run it Back

Round 5: Oyster keeps the Q
Corner1: 10 Merkins
Corner2: 10 Squats
Corner3: 20 Calf Raises
Corner4: 20 Toe Taps
Run it Back

Round 6: Oyster keeps the Q
Ring of Fire
5 Minutes of Mary

Numberama: Namerama
Billy Surf – Took us out!

Moleskin: Great Hot Potato today boys.