Tag: Hoedown

13 came out from across the area, including our visitor from Nashville, to Hoedown to see how much bear crawl YHC would serve up. We did

COP on blacktop: SSH, Don Qs, Russian Soliders, Merkins, Flutterkicks, Scorpion kicks. Down to bottom of Lindsay.

Partner-up: 1 PAX start bear crawling up hill, other does 15 HRMs then run to catch up & flap-jack. Mosey to field at back of TES. Partner up again: 3 rounds of 10 Pull-ups & step ups.

Over to 3rd parking lot. 4 Corners: 10 Burpees, 20 HRMs, 30 WWIIs, 40 Jump Squats. 2nd round increase all by 5. Back to Triple check loop: Balls2Wall, LBCs, run loop. Call time and back to flag. Toga took us out.

Announcements: Probation VQ tomorrow. Hill run and HDHH at 5:30 at YHCs place.

NMS: PAX just kept rolling in steadily from 5:20 until 5:30. We were at the perfect pax # of 12 until Garbage Plate pull in to give us a prime number PAX of 13. YHC didn’t realize an F3RVA OG Toga was in the pax until the COP, as Hoedown is getting darker by the week. COP on the blacktop was a mistake as it felt like we were on a hot plate.

Any PAX who were at Dogpile on Saturday must have hated the pull-ups since their arms were still sore. There were ample groans from the PAX on the 2nd round of 4 corners so much so that YHC debated a 3rd round with another increase but we were short on time at that point. Roger Roger took a break behind the dumpster during that 2nd round but said it was to stretch his back not spill Merlot.

Lastly so good to have Toga back in the gloom at F3RVA. His ability to dish out and take Mumblechatter is top notch. Hopefully we’ll see him back in the gloom at other AOs this week.

Eight of us came out in a sticky hot this morning. Here’s how it went out:

COP:

• Mosey to the basketball court of the school
• Deadman hang IC
• Leg crossed stretch X10 IC
• Helicopter x10 IC
• DQ x10 IC
• SSH x25 IC
• LBC x15 IC
• American Hammers x20 IC
• Merkins x10 IC
• Scorpion Kick X10 OYO

Exercise #1: Mosey to the end of the basketball court

• Workout 11
• Run to the fence, do merkin x10, x9, …, x1, run back to the starting point , and do SSH x1, x2, …, x10.

Exercise #2: Mosey to the triangle of the neighborhood down the school

• Dora
• While one partner runs around the triangle, the other partner do the following exercises
• 100x Merkins, 200x SSH, 300x Jump Squart

Exercise #3: Mosey to the parking lot of the school

• Lateral Plank Walks x1, x2, …, x10 on side of the partking lot, run to the other side, bernie saunders up the hill, touch the fence, and run back repeat

YHC took us out.

NMS – As Doozy said, it looks great on the paper. My elbow hurts a bit after the plank walks.

“Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life’s problem fall into place of their own accord.”

J.I. Packer, ‘Knowing God’

10 heroic he-men gathered in the gloom to start a new week in the right way. To the best of our memories, here’s what happened:

COP: Mosey to the bottom of Lindsay Ct. Deadman hang IC // helicopters IC // DQs IC // Imperial Walkers IC // Copperhead Squats IC // LBCs // Crabcakes (interrupted by paper delivery person) // Merkins // Peter Parkers // Picklepounders // Elbow Plank // SSHs 21s // 5 Burpees

Up the Hill: Parter up. P1 runs up to the top of Lindsay Ct and back. P2 performs lunges. Flipflop when P1 returns. // Round 2: Bear Crawl // Round 3: Broad Jump Burpees.

Mosey down Forest Ave. to middle Third Church parking lot

Flora (Dora + coupon): Grab a coupon and a partner. 100 Derkins on coupon // 200 LBCs // 300 Squats with Coupon.

Head-Shoulders-Knees-and Toes!: Everyone grab a coupon. Start with coupon on ground in front of you, feet shoulder width apart. 1/ Deadlift coupon to thighs 2/ Front Lateral Raise coupon, straight arms 3/ Pull coupon, laterally, to chest 4/ Press coupon overhead 5/ Lower coupon behind your head, elbows pointing up 6/ Extend coupon back over your head, keep elbows up 7/ Lower coupon to chest 8/ Extend coupon out laterally from chest, until arms straight 9/ Lower coupon to thighs, arms straight 10/ Lower coupon to ground, via reverse deadlift. That’s 1 rep. 10 Count IC x 10 plus 1 more for fun! Mosey back to TES

Final COP: Flutter Kicks IC // Alabama Promdates IC // 10 Burpees OYO.

Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out.

NMS: Great to have so many at Hoedown today. During mumblechatter in the parking lot, we caught a rainbow sighting in the western sky. If you don’t know, a rainbow is a meteorological phenomenon that is caused by reflection, refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky. It’s also a promise from God that he will not destroy the earth. A welcome promise for a new day in these crazy times! SYITG.

June 29th being the occasion of YHC’s 43rd birthday, the dream of designing and running a ninja warrior course was in order. After greeting the pax and conducting a quick COP including 43 SSHs, we moseyed through the course so YHC could explain the various obstacles and exercises.

After returning to the start of the course in the parking circle of TES, we divided into pairs. The first pair, YHC and Doozy, took off at the sound of the starting buzzer and the race began. The second pair, GP and Probation, started after waiting one minute, then the third pair after another minute, and so on, while the rest of the waiting pax conducted more COP (thanks Splinter for leading the COP).

Course was as follows:

• Run to the handicap ramp, perform under/overs on the ropes suspended across the railings. // Second set of railings: Bear crawl in the air horizontally up the second set of railings // Third set of railings: Crab walk in the air horizontally up the third set of railings.
• Mosey up to the field to the exercise equipment. Shimmy across the parallel bars with arms in locked position // Perform 3 pull ups on each of the escalating pull up bars // Swing across the horizontal ladder // Run across the spring bench // Climb up the chain link wall and down over the other side // Monkey swing across the rings using only one color of ring.
• Mosey to the swing set. Perform 25 swerkins on the swing set (Get in plank position with feet rest on a swing, Pull legs in to a reverse crunch position, extend legs back out and then do a merkin).
• Mosey to the front southern corner of the TES school property. Run up the large mulch pile then scale and jump over the chain link fence. Run around the back of the office building and then across Forest Ave. into the middle Third Church parking lot.
• In the Southeastern corner of the parking lot, grab a coupon. Perform 25 squats with the block // Run to the next corner, 25 Overhead presses // Run to third corner, 25 curls // run to next corner, 25 incline merkins on the block // run back to the original corner, deposit the coupon back in the pile
• Bear crawl through the center retainer ditch and out the other side. Once through, run to the back parking lot of Third Church.
• Mosey to the playground. Jump, leap, or climb over the playground fence using the green bench. Climb up to the top of the slide then slide down face first on the nobbly slide, at the bottom, keep feet on slide and perform 25 Derkins.
• Mosey to the fire escape. Original plan was to climb rope ladder suspended on the outside of fire escape, but better judgement (M’s lecture) prevailed. So modified instructions were to bear crawl backwards up the fire escape, but YHC and Doozy discovered it was pretty much impossible, so we modified to lunges. Lunge forwards up fire escape stairs, perform 25 WW2s on the top, lunge backwards down the stairs.
• Mosey to side parking lot. Burpee Suicides. Start on the curb, run to the first parking lot line, perform 1 burpee, run back to curb. Run to second line, perform 2 burpees, run back to the curb. All the way up to 8.
• After 8th burpee round, run back to touch the curb, then run back across Forest Ave., around the front of the school, and back to touch the tree for the finish.

First finishers performed COP while waiting for the pax. Once pax was in, we finished with some ab exercises and a merkin ring of fire.

Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out.

NMS: Tclaps to Doozy, Garbage Plate and Probation for finishing the course in just under 20 minutes. Well done!

Thanks so much guys for bearing with me this morning in this experiment. I had a ton of fun and I hope you did too. It’s a rare gift that 40+ year old men can get outside and do stupid stuff together for fun and fitness, and I’m really grateful for this group. Also grateful for my sweet M who delivered donuts and coffee to us at 6:20am sharp! Great to hang out.

Have a great day guys. peace+

A nefarious nine gathered in the gloom for a beat down on a cool misty morning . Here’s what happened:

COP: Mosey to the bottom of Lindsay. Deadman hang // Helicopters // DQs // Imperial Walkers // LBCs // Crabcakes // Peter Parkers // Tempo Merkins // SSHs 21s (count to 5 in Candace, to 21 silently in our heads, all stop at the same time, Hitchiker messed up so we did 5 burpees).

Up the Hill: parter up. P1 runs to the top of Lindsay and back to P2, while P2 does lunges. Switch. Next round: Bear Crawls. Next round: Broadjump Burpees. All the way to the top of the hill. Mosey to blacktop.

7 of Diamonds: On the blacktop, run from corner to corner, 7 burpees in each corner // Next round: 14 LBCs each corner // 21 merkins // 28 squats // 21 two count flutter kicks // 14 carolina dry-docks // 7 Burpees. Mosey to field.

Triple Check: P1: Wallsit // P2: Dips on bench // P3: run to monkey bars, 3 pull ups, run back. Mosey back to the flag

Numberama, Namerama, Socially Distanced COT. YHC took us out.

NMS: YHC confused Pickle Ball with the Gaga Pit, thus Pickle Pit, which we think may be a seedy bar in Tampa.

Eleven eponymous eggheads circled up on the warm pavement for this week’s iteration of Hoedown. Greetings and salutations were exchanged for YHCs first F3 Q since the March Madness that never happened. Scuttle around the drop-off loop up to the blacktop ocean for COP that went something like this:

COP
10x Helicopters
15x Smurf Jacks
10x Don Quixotes
20x Imperial Walkers
15x Arm Circles
10x Merkins

The Thang
Short mosey over to the end line closest to the school for the first of many iterations of 3 sets of 3 exercises of 12 reps.

Batch 1
12 squats
12 WWIIs
12 merkins
Run to the end of the blacktop and back
Repeato for a total of 3 sets

Batch 2 – Mosey to the bottom of Lindsay
12 lunges (each leg)
12 4-count american hammers
12 shoulder tap merkins
Bernie Sanders halfway up the hill then run back
Repeato

Batch 3 – Mosey to the small parking lot
12 jump squats
12 4-count flutter kicks
12 inchworms
Bear crawl to the other side and commence second set
Repeato

Batch 4 – Mosey to bigger parking lot
12 single leg APDs
12 torso lifts
12 hand release merkins

Al Gore until time expires

Moleskin
It was a majestic day today. Conversation was abundant even with the excessive amount of internal counting. Clearly, the PAX has been busy with their Ms the past few months. Multiple references to special korean wine and breaking in tree houses.

The format of this workout and a few of the exercises were pilfered from my daughter’s COVID workout routine. YHC is especially thankful for the introduction of the inchworm.

Good virtual coffeteria post workout. Glad to be back.

Splinter

With a slight chill in the air, 9 red hot warriors gathered in the Gloom to form what resembles a PAX at Hoedown. With no Q on the sheet someone suggested that we make it a Doozy Q and YHC was willing to oblige.

With no plan of attack lets mosey to get us going, on to Bodos place (Bodos was nowhere to be found)

DQ’s, Helicopters, Cherry Pickers, Imperial Walkers, 1 penalty burpee OYO for Doozy’s mistake, possibly some other things but I can’t remember.

Mosey to corner for 4 corners prostitute

Corner 1 – 10 Merkins, Corner 2 – 20 American Hammers (2cnt), Corner 3 – 30 Jump Squats, Corner 4 – 40 Heel raisers (20 inner and 20 outer)

Mosey back to flag area

Man Killers – Mr. Holland made a comment about YHC’s not screwing up the count on these, so as is par for the coarse YHC screwed up the count. 5 penalty burpees OYO

Mosey to the playground, triple check

Partner 1 – merkins with feet on the wall (balls to the wall style but not quite a chicken pecker), partner 2 – dips, partner 3 run to the monkey bars 5 pull ups and return (X3)

Mosey back to flag parking lot

Parking lot merkins X10, bear crawl at each line increase merkins by 1, what goes up must come down Crab walks stopping at each line for LBC’s increasing by 2 at each line

Mosey to teachers parking lot 10 burpees OYO

Mosey to the flag merkin ring of fire 5 each of your own style

Numbers / names Greenbow took us out

NMS:

YHC had thoughts of Q’ing every day this week but had not signed up for this morning. When arriving at Hoedown and the opportunity to Q was thrown out there YHC thought it must be divine intervention or at least a happy coincidence, so a Doozy Q it is. Once YHC returned home to sign up for the Q the rest of the week he found that the return of DTH will be at the Forge on Thursday so a full week of Doozy Q’s it will not be but YHC will not miss the Forge and the return of the man, the mith, the legend that is Dr. Try Hard.

6 gathered at Hoedown this morning in light drizzle to start the week off right.

COP: (New favorite) 9x dead man hang, 9x Cherry Pickers, 15x SSH, 10x DQ, 10x WWII, 10x HRM, 10x Scorpion Kicks. Mosey down Forest Ave to the Trinity church lot

Big 4 Corners: 10x burpees, 20x merkins, 30x jump squats, 40x crab cakes. Reverse for 40x MH’s, 30x mt. climbers, 20x merkins, 10x burpees

Partner up and traverse the front parking lot – alternating Bernie run & lunges until both partners reach the top of the hill.

Mosey to the back parking lot for the main event: Blackjack – total of 21 each rep, starting with 20x Merkins on one side of the lot and 1x LBC on the far side of the lot, repeat with 19x Merkins and 2x LBC, etc…

Fast mosey back to the flag as YHC went a few minutes into overtime.

Numberama, Namerama, Announcements (Memorial Murph), YCH took us out.

Two highlights this Monday morning:
– Hitchhiker tallied us at 260 merkins today: strong work guys!
– Pucker opened our world to the wonders of Poop Map.

Until next time, GP