Tag: Hoedown

Sixteen studs came out to the first Hoedown of the decade. With Mid 30s temps and darkness across the AO mosey’d to the front of school for:

COP: SSH, Imperial Walkers, Helicopters, Arm Circles, Merkins, LBCs, & Don Qs. Pass a cold week-old Potato to Splinter. Splinter took us back to the parking lot for 11s: Imperial Squat Walkers & Derkins. Splinter passed Q back to YHC, over to blacktop. 4 Corners: 10 burpees, 20 V-Ups, 30 Merkins, & 40 Jump Squats. 2nd round increase all reps by 5.

Back down to parking lot, quick elbow plank & 20 Pickle Pounders. Then follow the arrows: Crab Walk arrow loop, 3 Hand-release Merkins each arrow. Head over to the flag for Mary: Flutterkicks, Hello Dollys, APDs, Kimchi Twists, American Hammers. YHC took us out.

NMS – Great to have 16 out to start new year. Lots of new faces and old ones we haven’t seen in a while. A Slurpee sighting in the gloom is always a good thing.

YHC was hoping Splinter would be in attendance to pass him the Q without his prior knowledge. He promptly dropped the 11s on us. Backwards running in the pitch black is always a good call. But somehow Gomer Pyle did not hurt himself during the 11s.

Mr Holland was back to form, looks like he back is better. Kimchi Twists are all the rage at hoedown so YHC felt compelled to drop them on the larger pax. Maybe Doozy while take them down SOJ soon.

Prayers for Offshore’s In-Laws. Winter Tour is in full swing. Also YHC has taken the liberty of creating an F3RVA group on Slack. Be on the lookout for invites via email. Other F3 regions are using this to good effect and with new year YHC wanted to give it a try.

Announcements: T Shirt order see link below:

SPREAD THE WORD – GET YOUR T-SHIRT ORDERS IN THIS WEEK
https://f3.mudgear.com/products/f3-rva-shirt-pre-order

7 of RVA’s most coolest cats attended a Q-less Hoedown and this is what transpired:

Upchuck – kicked it off by a wrong-way mosey around the loop and moved into the COP

Gomer Pyle – finished off the COP and moved to the Loop to Bear Crawl between arrows and 10 Merkins at each arrow for the first half, then Crabwalks with WWII’s for the second half

Garbage Plate – Lungs across the Parking Lot a then another wrong-way run around the loop (thanks Upchuck) followed by a People’s Chair. Lastly a Crawl Bear up the ramp to the Door.

Hitchhiker – Partner up on Recess Blacktop – first partner runs to opposite fence and back (that Blacktop is a Slipping Slide when wet) second partner completes Kimchi Twist ***new exercise brought to us by Hitchiker borrowed from his military service time*** Rinse and repeat 3 times

Handshake – Partner Wheelbarrow from steps up to the Ramp and then to the Door, switch when needed.

BoBerry – excellent 10 count, best. one. ever.

Handshake – Triple Check – Partner 1 Runs and 5 pull ups, Partner 2 WWII’s, Partner 3 Donkey Kicks

Time ended.

Announcements:

Convergence at The Forge at 7:00 on January 1st (Huguenot High School) brought to you by Dr. Tryhard. Coffeteria to follow at the Einstein’s Bagels at Stony Point (shopping center, not the mall).

Gomer Pyle is looking to start a West End run on Friday’s. At this moment Deep Run Park is being thrown around, but during the winter (at least) the Gates would not be open in time. It would be a great way to bring more West Enders into the F3 fold.

NMS – Hot Potatoes are rare at Hoedown, but they are always fun. It was nice to see Boberry come from the Brandermill/Woodlake area. Also it appears Hitchhiker is becoming a regular at Hoedown. Splinter was saddened by not having enough time for him. He said he was planning on completing 1 minute of Burpees if time had allotted.

We finished with Coffee at Starbucks. Everyone but Splinter was in attendance, YHC thinks his feelings were still hurt even though he said something about needing to go home so his M going could exercise.

YHC has enjoyed his time with the men of Hoedown. YHC looks forward to 2020 with you men.

14 Strong attended and conquered today’s edition of Hoedown! After everyone found the correct entrance to the parking lot(some hit the bus loop at first and then corrected themselves), it was time to take off.

Mosey to the front of the school and circle up for:

COP:

SSH’s x 20

DQ’s x 15

Russian Soldiers x 15

Copperhead Squats x 10

LBC’s x 25

Scorpion Kicks x 15

Tempo Merkins x 15

Mosey to the field behind school and line up on wall for:

10 Donkey Kicks, Bear Crawl halfway across, 5 Burpees, Run to Pull Up Bars and complete 5 Pull Ups, run back to wall.

15 Donkey Kicks, Lunge halfway, 10 Burpees, Run to Pull Up Bars and complete 7 Pull Ups, run back to wall.

20 Donkey Kicks, Backwards Run across field 10 Hand Release Merkins, Run back to wall. Wall Sit for the six.

Mosey to blacktop for 4 Corners:

Corner 1: Dive Bombers x 10

Corner 2: WWII’s x 20

Corner 3: Lt. Dan’s x 30

Corner 4: Squats x 40

Al Gore for the six

Mosey to the Asphalt Hill and grab some hill about halfway up for:

Clock Work Merkins:

1 at 1:00, 2 at 2:00, 3 at 3:00 and so on until 12 at 12:00

Mosey to Bus Loop for Triple Check:

Partner 1 runs the loop

Partner 2 does Flutter Kicks

Partner 3 does 5 Chicken Peckers on wall then holds Balls to the Wall until runner gets back. 3 Rounds.

Upchuck leads Plank-a-rama because YHC is slow getting back.

Mosey to railings and partner up for 3 rounds x 7 Jerkins each partner.

Mosey to the VSF for Mary:

Heels to Heaven, Alabama Prom Dates, Reverse Crunches, American Hammers and hold 6 Inches for 40 seconds.

Numberama, Namerama, Announcements and YHC took us out!

Announcements:

Upchuck has Christmas Day WDOG Q. He has no theme.

If you need a Christmas Eve church service tomorrow, see Bodos. He is only preaching 5 different times! 🙂

New Year’s Convergence? Only Q I see signed up for that day so far is DTH! What say you?

NMS:

YHC hasn’t been able to post at Hoedown since the Summer due to his family’s early morning school rush, so it was nice to finally get back out there and lead you men! Well done to all! Obviously, the Q was dragging because of lack of consistent posting, but nonetheless, YHC is glad you let me come back out and lead without giving me too hard of a time.

Men, please remember what Christmas is actually about. Jesus Christ our Messiah and Savior, was born in order to show love to all and teach the Good News only to die to save you and I from our sins, because we are all sinners! Forget about the stress that comes with the Holiday season and sit back and enjoy what you have in your life: God, Salvation, Family, Friends, Health and F3 Brothers!

Merry Christmas to all!

Kubota

A terrific 10 took over Tuckahoe for another edition of Monday’s HoeDown. With YHC reeling from a weekend full of holiday food, drink and cheer it was time to detox. Utilizing Handshake’s timing gadget, 530 hit and it was time to boogie.

COP

Mosey a lap around the carpool loop to the Teacher’s Lot for COP.

F3 Welcome, Disclaimer and Mantra.

SSH, Imperial Walkers, DQs, Plank Jacks, Hello Dollies, Rosalitas, Alabama Prom Dates, LBCs, Arm Circles. Warm? Mosey to the blacktop.

Exercise I – Dora

Put on those runnin’ shoes. All the way to the fence and back.

100 Merkins, 200 Jump Squats, 300 2- count flutter kicks

algore for the six.

Exercise II – Triple Check

Mosey up to the TES ball fields

Pace Car: Run to and from the Building to the Playground, perform 5 pullups

Remainder of team: donkey kicks and People’s Chair

People’s Chair for the Six.

Exercise III – Merkin Centipede

Utilizing the cover of the sidewalk with awnings, 5 merkins as we snake down the sidewalk. PAX holds plank. 5 rounds for each PAX.

Arm Circles superset.

Exercise IV – Mini Jacob’s Ladder

3 car pool loops, up to 3 burpees.

Handshake led flutter kicks for the six.

Mary

100 seconds of LBCs till the horn.

Numberama, Namerama, Viral took us out.

Sluggish Mondays are a great reminder of the fitness F of F3. Appreciate everyone grinding it out this morning.

Announcements

• 12 days of Xmas tomorrow @ NoToll
• Upchuck has WDog Q on Xmas
• Please be with those named and unnamed during the prayers this morning. Many PAX members are dealing with sick family members, injuries, and general holiday stress. Lean in for the understanding and trust the journey.

Have a great day fellas! SYITG.

Baseball has always been an enormous part of my life. Since as long as I could remember I loved playing the game, watching the game and generally being around the game. I have no idea where the passion came from, neither my Mom or my Dad had any interest in it at all when I was growing up. I don’t remember an uncle or a friend introducing it to me. I guess I just found it when I was young, and it stuck.

I was incredibly blessed to be born left handed. For that reason, and really that reason only, I was able to play baseball in college. Left handed pitchers are hard to come by, and I was one…and I guess, all things considered, I was good enough for some college coach to recruit me and want me to play for their team.

Spending four years on a college baseball team was pretty much like spending four years of my life in a sitcom. It was non-stop laughter. Not stop jokes. And absolutely non-stop ball busting. I mean, Professional Ball Busting.

Look, no doubt, we can give eachother a hard time at an AO…and it’s funny and we all get a kick out of it. But it PALES, dramatically, to somewhat intelligent baseball players in college…many of whom were from above the Mason Dixon Line.

Not surprisingly, it took some time to get used to. Early on my freshman year…and, honestly, throughout my whole career, I was a pretty easy target. Put a non athletic left handed pitcher with a big nose on the squad with those guys and it’s like throwing chum in shark infested waters.

I can distinctly remember calling home and lamenting to my Mom. (Who else are you going to lament to, in that case…the strength coach?) And Mom would remind me about her first job when we moved to NOVA when I was 16. Mom worked for the Fairfax Government in the adoption services division. Here she was, this distinctly southern woman working with all these government working grizzled veterans. What she would tell me is this…

“David, you just have to keep being yourself. Keep loving on them. Keep ‘killing them with your kindness’ and they’ll soon figure out that you are genuinely that nice…and they won’t help but like you.”

At the time, it was counter to the advice I wanted, which was “just punch them in the face”. But in the end, it was about the only way I knew how to handle the situation (do you know any un-athletic left handed pitchers who could win a fight? Me either.)

There were times during college that I was close to pulling the rip cord and wanted to transfer. It just wasn’t worth it in the end, I thought. But I heeded Mom’s advice and did what she told me to do.

All those guys are really good friends of mine now. Mom was exactly right. I go to football tailgates and it’s all laughs and hugs and chuckles. They still bust my balls…but usually pretty funny and well deserved. Again, Mom was exactly right.

So here’s to you, Sandy Robinson…here’s to you bee-bopping into that 5th floor in Fairfax County with a smile on your face…just loving on those county government workers until they loved you right back. I hope you know how much I miss getting a bit of that love here on earth.

The Thang

Donald Quixote X12

Helicopters X9

Side Straddle Hops X42

Arm Circles X15, Reverso X 15 (did this twice)

Russian Soldiers X12

Hillbillies X15

Arm Circles X15, Reverso X 15 (twice)

Mosey to the west end of the TES Blacktop for baseball-esque agilities.

Head East at your own pace on the Blacktop. At the end do 5 burpees. Head back and do 5 mercans.

PAX then did the following agilities Kareokes

Ballerinas

Straight Steal of 2nd

Left Handed Pickoff Move Steal (Needs to be a better tutorial on this) (twice)

Tag Up at Third

Mosey to the Bottom of Lindsay

Explained “Bat Pole’s” to the PAX. A Bat Pole is when you run with your hands over your head, as if you were holding a bat over your head. The Genesis of this was when our team got caught violating curfew one night and the next day we had to run with a weighted bat over our head for about 45 minutes.

Bat Pole run halfway up Lindsay and Back

42 Lunges to halfway up Lindsay and Bat Pole Back

Bat Pole Arm Circles…clockwise, counter clockwise…X9

Bat Pole run halfway up Lindsay

Partner Up….Partner Bear Crawls while other runs to the top of Lindsay. Rotate

Bat Pole Arm Circles, clockwise/counterclockwise…X9

Bat Pole run to the bottom of Lindsay

42 Lunges up Lindsay, Bat Pole run to the top

Arm Circles X15

Back to the Flag

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor Gloom of night stays these [warriors] from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. – Sort of the Postal Creed.

ONE Pax launched into his appointed Rounds for the latest edition of Hoedown. To a superficial being, rain fell and a chill was present, but to YHC temperatures were sunny and 70 in his heart, his zeal for F3 and country carrying him forth for…

3 loops around the horseshoe (but, can you loop around a horseshoe, or does that really make it an oval?), followed by…

COP of 1 At Cafeteria Wall:

SSHs, IW’s, DQ’s…Mosey to the Overhang by the Gym for…

Continuation of the COP on Dry Ground…

LBC’s, Flutter Kicks, and tons of HRMs.

Mosey around the Blacktop (and Welcome the arrival of Handshake, today’s LI-LWEE). (LIFO is accountant-speak for “Last In, First Out” which makes no sense in this case because, while he was last in, Handshake Left With Everyone Else.)

With steady rain coming down, the PAX agreed to focus on “Under the Roof” exercises…

Starting at the school door, bear crawl to the Gymnasium walkway, then switch to Crabwalk. 30 of an exercise at the Gym door.

Squats, LBCs, HRMs (or something like that)

Back to the Overhang for Bernie Sanders on the incline…5 rounds.

10 derkins on the picnic tables.

Mosey to the Horseshoe for the infamous One Man Triple Check.

Each PAX is his own team. 3 exercises. 3 rounds. Run the loop. Balls to the Wall (Handshake managed the “Hoooollld it” duties). Flutter kicks (YHC called cadence).

Flip Q to Handshake for…neighborhood loop run. Call it a mile or so.

Names, numbers, announcements.

NMS:

Out of the gate, YHC notes that the Directions today were excellent. Clear, concise, and enjoyable to share. Saab would be proud.

Great to have Handshake join today after about 10 minutes of solo time. Definitely a day when the Temptation to Fart Sack was strong.

No Announcements

Ten plump turkeys strutted their way over to the parking lot for this week’s iteration of Hoedown. Nary a mention of the Redskins today so off we mosey’d to the front of the school, passing the neon ladies, for something that went like this.

COP
High Knees x15
Butt Kickers x15
Speed Skaters x10
Don Quixotes x10
Flutter Kicks x20
Mountain Climbers x10
HRMs x10

The Thang
Mosey back over to the blacktop for Lindsays. Squats and straight up merkins. Run the distance of the blacktop between sets.

Scurry over to Linsday Ct for repeating iterations of catch me if you can. Partner up with one partner doing 5x burpees while the other Bernie Sanders up the hill. Burpee-er catches Bernie by running forwards then switch. Recover back down the hill and repeat 2x with WWIIs and Jump Squats.

Meander through the darkness towards West Drive Circle, stopping at the circle. Since we lost Toto we could safely complete a triple check. LT Dans and WWIIs while the third runs the loop.

Dosey Do back to the AO proper, stopping at each mailbox and performing 5 merkins. We completed 0 merkins.

Audible and ramble down Hepler, stopping at each lamp post or house light and perform 5 merkins. Collect the PAX at the bottom and then run back to the VSF.

Sequentially declare our position, state names, announcements, random thoughts by Offshore and then YHC took us out.

Moleskin
Great job by the PAX this morning, enduring another Splinter workout with no theme nor reason for leading.

YHC forgot that Westham doesn’t have mailboxes (at least none at the street) but a SNAFU was avoided by modifying to lamp posts.

Mumblechatter was minimal this morning. Everyone appears to be ready for the week of giving thanks for all that we have.

Announcements

• Celebration of gathering at Berkeley plantation is at 6am on Thursday morning at Mary. 1 hour special.
• Black Friday CSAUP 7am Forest Hill Park

Splinter out.

9 fine PAX members gathered at Hoedown to play a hot potato game of Where’s Wojo. Here’s approximately how it went:

Mosey to the upper parking lot for a Splinter warmup 20x SSH, 15x IW, 10x DQ, 15x AC, 10x Merkins. Partner up for 3x of squats, WWII, Merkins while the other partner runs the length of the lot. Rinse and repeat with 3x American Hammer, Carolina Dry Docks while partner karaoke’s the lot. Gracious audible called on 3rd round.

Toss the Q to Pucker and mosey to upper grass lot for modified beast. 6 stops of 6x, three rounds: 2 count Lt Dan’s, 2 count LBC, 2 count Freddie Mercuries.

Quadruple Check on the upper field with balls to the wall, flutter kicks, side straddle hops and the timer running across the field for 5 pull ups.

Q to Handshake for 30 Derkins

Q to Garbage Plate. Mosey to side ramp for two rounds of 10x jerkins. Mosey to the flag for two rounds of 20x PLT’s.

Numberama, Namerama, Announcements, YHC took us out.

Welcome to Prince Tuesday – strong showing and it was a pleasure to have out of town company at the Hoedown this week.

We had 9 of able bodied souls at U of R west (Tuckahoe Elementary) going for a work out on Veteran’s Day. Even though I am not a veteran, I respect the sacrifices those individuals have made to allow us to keep the freedoms that most nations don’t have. Off to the workout:

COP: 34 SSH (in honor of the Jets’ epic 34-27 win over the Giants), 10 DQs, 10 Arm circles, 10 Merkins. Mosey to Bodos’ 3rd parking lot across the way from his church.

First Exercise: Four corners: 10 HRMs, 20 jump squats, 30 monkey humpers and 40 2 count flutter kicks. Follow this up with a burpee with bear crawl per parking space for one side of the lot (~15 burpees)

Second Exercise: Doras with 100 bike rack merkins (BRMs), 200 box jumps, and 300 2 count flutter kicks (I like those flutter kicks).

Third Exercise: Triple check with Donkey kicks, WWIIs, and run to the chin up bar and do 8 chin ups.

Finish with 19 American hammers (not sure why I ended with 19), 34 Freddie Mercuries and 10 arm circles.

Announcements: CSOP on 11/29 at Forest Hill Park. Working off the gluttony of turkey, mashed potatoes by doing some loops. See TYA for details. Gridiron this Saturday 11/16 will NOT be held at its normal location in order to support Blue Moon running the VCU Health Marathon that morning.

Even though I was not on my A game (forgot an exercise, COP cadence a little off and a couple mispronunciations) I am happy to lead this group and I hope everyone takes a few minutes to think about all that our Veterans do for us. Thank you Gomer for your service.

Eight eager PAX picked up a LoveSeat on the side of the road to make it an odd number 9 for some Merkins. We also did some other stuff:

COP: SSH, Merkins, Imperial Walkers, Hairy Rocketts, Merkins, Flutterkicks, Scorpion Kicks, Merkins. Mosey over to 3P dark lot for 4 corners: 20 Merkins, 30 WWIIs, 40 JumpSquats, 50 LBCS. Alternate run & bear crawl.

Over to Rite Aid lot: 4 Rounds of 10 Merkins, backwards run length then 5 Burpees. Back to TES, the blacktop: Broad Jump across, 20 Merkins then lunge back, 15 Heels2Heaven. Repeato x3. With parking lot lights finally on head over for: 5 Merkins per arrow, bear crawl around loop.

Back to Flag for Upchuck APDs, Hello Dollies, Freddy Mercury, & finish with 20 merkins. YHC took us out.

NMS: First legit cold morning of the fall with temps at 33. Long sleeve weather (SOP natch’) with some opting for hats as well. YHC was expecting more attendance with 5 am feeling like 6 am but 9 strong we were.

Plenty of merkins this morning, total count was 280 for those in the challenge. YHC decided afterward to sign up at day 4. Never too late sign up! Good to see Ponch and Love Seat back out in the gloom. Now if we can just get Keymaster and Slurpee back out at Hoedown…