Tag: Hoedown

Twelve HIMs started off their work week with journey across the AO at this week’s edition of Hoedown. With only 75 seconds to spare to the start (source: Garmin), YHC needed a couple laps around the bus loop to shake off the cobwebs and collect any late additions. With 12 strong ready for battle, time to venture to the upper fields for COP.

Quick COP of DQs, Imperial Walkers, Merkins, Scorpion Kicks, LBCs, Helicopters

The Thang

Exercise I – Triple Check

Pace Car runs down to the jungle gym, performs 5 pullups, runs back

other exercises are peoples chair and box cutters

algore for the six

Exercise II – Car Pool

OYO – bear crawl/crab walk the car pool line/loop, switch as each arrow, plankarama for the six

Exercise III – Catch Me if You Can

Mosey to the bottom of Lindsay Court, partner up.

runner: Bernie Sanders up

chaser: Merkins then chase

algore for the six

Exercise IV: Elevens

OYO – On the curb, mosey up the blacktop fence – 10 merkins

run back for 1 WWII; repeato until the inverse

ABCs for the six

Exercise V: Down the Line, People’s Chair

Going down the line, PAX stays in peoples chair, while the pace car Polar Bears to the shrubs by the stairs, Moseys back, rotate thru

Mary featuring flutter kicks, alabama prom dates, freddie mercuries and ring of fire (merkins).

Numberama, Namerama, YHC.

Gridiron Labor Day Convergence @ 7am. Coffeeteria and donations to follow.

Iron PAX tomorrow @ Heartbreak Ridge and No Toll (and maybe DaVille?)

Strong work today Fellas, Had to improvise after the elevens because y’all flew through them. Tried to cover as many areas of the AO as possible and appreciate the effort and mumble chatter. Strong way to end what’s been a incredible month.

Have a great day and SYITG!

After months of avoiding any appearances in the gloom, yours truly decided to go back out and Q. It was nice to see 14 able bodied warriors descend upon the fashionable Westham west location. The workout went like this:

COP: 20 SSH, 10 DQs, 15 arm circles each way, 25 Freddie Mercuries

Exercise 1: Mosey to where Bodos holds his outdoor services. 4 corners: 10 burpees, 20 WWIIs, 30 2 count mountain climbers and 40 2 count flutter kicks

Mosey to another parking lot. Lunge about 200 feet. Curb bear crawl up to 6 merkins

Mosey back to school. Elevens with merkins on the bike rack or nearby with run to teacher’s parking lot and do WWIIs. 55 Merkins total. I nearly tripped checking out the nearby running group.

Mosey to nearby wall and partner up. Partner runs the horseshoe while other person does donkey kicks and then balls to the wall for the second loop.

Finished with SSHs led by Tryhard, DQs and cherry pickers (stretching is good when you are getting old).

Announcements: Iron Pax information should be on another backblast. I think that Twin Team will have the first installment led by Dr. Tryhard.

Campout (2nd F) to be held in Amelia County on 10/3. Registration should be on one of the backblasts.

The seasoned folks at Gridiron are discussing holding a convergence for Labor Day (9/7). More details or a vehement denial will be posted this week.

I enjoyed getting back in to the early morning workout. More to come.

An excellently divisible twelve showed up for Hoedown on the the first cool morning in a while. After a hasty sign up for the Q at 5:20, YHC got us going with a mosey to the closest Third Church parking lot:

COP: Deadman hang // Helicopter // DQ // Crabcakes // LBCs // Merkins // Peter Parkers // Pickle Pounders // Lt. Dans // SSHs 21s. Mosey to next parking lot.

Dora with a Coupon: 100 Curls // 200 2x Flutter Kicks // 300 Squats with Coupon. Run the circle. Mosey to back parking lot

Windsprints: Group 1 sprint to other side of lot and back, Group 2 plank. Switch. 5 times. Mosey to Field behind School.

Triple Check: Merkins // WW2s // Run to bars, 5 pull ups, run back.

Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out.

NMS: Crossing over Forest Ave. has never been so dangerous. As we crossed, multiple vehicles came speeding down the street both directions, breaking up the pax and causing confusion and at least one fall. Why so many people were driving around so fast so early in the morning we do not know. Thankfully no one was flattened.

Pray for Wojo- he’s getting married on Saturday! We suggested he get married at Hardywood’s on Saturday and his bride could come down the aisle on an El Paca. He seems very interested.

11 strong gathered at Hoedown this morning to start the week off right.

COP: Mosey to the side church lot for 20 SSH, 10 DMH, 5 DQ, 15 LBC, 10 MK, 10 Scorpion Honeydo Kicks, 10 bonus HC.

Jumped right into a regular Dora, partner up for 100 HRM, 200 jump squats, 300 box cutters with the timer running around the church building.

Mosey back to Hoedown central lawn for some Fat Man & Little Boy (40lb & 10lb coupons). The PAX circled up for Q led core work including Supermans, back extensions, hip dips, LBC, WWII, MK, Carolina Dry Docks, and reverse crunches while the PAX took turns with the coupons for 12x squat thrusts or squats with Fat Man and 12x 4 count American Hammers with Little Boy.

Head up to the gaga ball pit with just enough time for 6 minutes of fun. Partner up for ascending, alternating partner burpees: 2, 4, 6, 8…. for 6 minutes running clock.

Slow roll back to the flag for numberama, namearama, announcements and YHC closed us out.

Announcements: See Honeydo to sign up for Slack, etc. The Bonethug 10k is next Friday at RAMM, 5:15a start time.

Moleskine: YHC intentionally avoided crawl bear this morning, saving up the GP special for next time. Not sure how many PAX picked up on the WWII coupon reference from 75 years ago but none the less YHC enjoyed planning and mixing things up this morning. Unfortunately the dew is back out for the first time in a long time and the Hoedown lawn hasn’t been mowed in a long time which made for a very soggy start to the workout week. Until next time, GP.

A cool nine regulars attacked the day with nary a triple check to be had, but plenty of questions.  Here’s what transpired.

Mosey to the near Third Church parking lot.

COP (IC)

• Dead Man’s Hang
• DQs
• Copperhead Squats
• Monkey Humpers
• Jazzercises
• SSHs
• Merkins
• Suzanne Somers L
• LBCs
• Suzanne Somers R

Mosey to the far Third Church parking lot

Matriculating Down the Parking Lot

• Merkins + 1 at each parking spot (1,2, 3…14)
• Reverse Crunches (1,2…12)
• Jump Squats (1,2…18)
• 2ct Mountain Climbers (1,2…11)

Mosey to Silverspring Dr

Burpee Road – 1 Burpee per SUV (liberally classified)

Cross Forest to Paris Dr

WWII Highway – 1 WWII per SUV up to Lindsay Dr

Mosey to TES parking lot hill

Clockwork Merkins – 12,1,2….11

Mosey to Flag

Mary

• Flutter Kicks
• Wilson’s Spaghetti Party
• Heals to Heaven
• Hello Dollys
• American Hammers

Numberama, Nameorama, COT

MOLESKIN

YHC mistakenly claimed that doing an exercise and adding one repetition at each parking spot while moving from one end of the parking lot to the other was foolproof and the antithesis of an UpChuck Q.  WRONG.  Questions abound, and they didn’t stop there.  The PAX finally caught on halfway through the Jump Squats.  YHC should expect no less.  Greenbow suspected an 80s theme with the inclusion of Jazzercises and Suzanne Somers in the COP, but legwarmers and leotards will be reserved for another day.  More questions were raised regarding crossovers qualifying as SUVs, particularly Subaru Outbacks.  Most were included just to be safe.  Bodos questioned the Q calling for only 1 merkin per hour of the clock, you vs. you buddy.  Last question of the day was about Wilson’s Spaghetti party, that one will mostly remain a mystery.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Bone Thugs VQ and 10k upcoming

F3 RVA CSAUP and Retreat coming this Fall

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+