Tag: Hoedown

16 strong came out to soak in the cooler temperatures at Hoedown. Here is what went down:

COP – SSH, Helicopters, Merkins, Scorpion Kicks, Flutterkicks, Don Qs. Mosey over to Tuckahoe Shopping Center. Partner up:

Wheelbarrow across lot, 10 Shoulder Presses. Switch partners going back. Repeato x3.

Cross street to Church lot for 4 Corners. Reps of 10, 15, 20, 25. First round: backwards run & merkins. 2nd round: karaoke & Heels2Heaven. 3rd round: High knees and Mtn Climbers.

Mosey to back of TES. Partner up again. Donkey Kicks & partner runs field & 5 Pull-ups. Repeato x4.  Then Elbow plank, 4 sets of 20 PLTs. 10 Burpees then back to flag. Finish up with Freddy Mercurys & American Hammers.

NMS – YHC had wanted to try out the Shopping center lot for a Q for some time just to change things up. All started well until several tomatoes pulled in for their workout at Zing Fit. we must have been quite a sight at 5:40. Fudd was disheartened for not a single tomato gave a ” Hi Roger” as they moved past us.

Saab was warned before the start his choice to go glove less might not be wise. We also used the other church lot for the first time. A lot easier to try things out in the light of June mornings. Also good to see Gucci back in the gloom, now a regular again.

Please pray for Ronnie and Kubota as they both are on IR for a while. The Hoedown Q is open next Monday with Kubota out.

YHC was glad he could Q on his 3 year Anniversary of his first post. Amazed at what great friends I’ve made and how you PAX have made me a better man.

 

13 Strong showed up on a beautiful Monday morning for a great start to the week:

COP:

Lap around the hood

Side Straddle Hop

Helicopters

Flutter kicks

LBC’s

Merkins

THANG:

Mosey to the top of Lindsay for a good old fashioned 11’s sequence (Merkins at the top of Lindsay Drive and Crunchy Frogs at the bottom)….

 

 

Mosey back to the flag for Merkin Ring of Fire, Mary (American Hammers X30, 6 inches X 30 count), COT, Numberama, Namearama, Announcements, and Splinter took us out.

NMS:

YHC was excited to Q on such a nice morning.  In thinking about the plan last evening, YHC decided that although partner carries and wheelbarrows are fun, it was time to change things up.

YHC decided to challenge the PAX with something YHC isn’t so good at which is running.  What a better track (back and forth) than Lindsay Drive for some 11’s.  I believe down the hill one time is .2-.25 miles, and it’s a hard, steady climb back up (obviously same distance).  Doing that 20 times was a real challenge for YHC!   Tclaps to Garbage Plate, Gucci, Splinter, and Offshore for leading the way, man you guys are FAST!

Simply put, YHC loves how F3 pushes each of us to be better not only physically but overall as men.

Go get ’em today fellas, what a great start to the week!

 

Announcements:

Memorial Day Convergance at Tredegar/Belle Isle May 28th.

Summer Challenge:  Post at every AO between Memorial Day and Labor Day.

16 youngsters appeared in The Gloom for the 70^th Anniversary School House Edition of the (Tucka)Hoedown. It’s very possible that the following happened.

Neighborhood lap

COP (in Factors of 7)

Hillbillies (7)
SSH (14)
Mountain climbers (21)
Imperial walkers (21)
LBCs (14)
HR mercans (7…save these for later, eh?)

Run to School Day

Partner up
Both partners polar bear crawl to first SUV. Mercans every so often along the way.

SUV Shuffle (Omage to All the Mom’s)

Stay with your partner.  Or, apparently, don’t.
10 mercans at first SUV, then Bernie Sanders to top of hill.
Run back down to second SUV. Repeat mercans, and repeat BS to top of hill.
Repeato at each SUV on the street, or until Q decides on the definition of an SUV and the definition of “on the street,” and whether the PAX has done sufficient mercans.

Al Gore for the six

Parking Lot Arrows

Line up on first painted arrow in the parking lot.  Partner up.  (Note: this version of partnering up is purely social, and is in no way related to any exercise.  Just trying to keep it social).

First Round:

7 of an exercise at each arrow. Saab selected hand release mercans.  YHC says there are 10 arrows. This may or may not be true. But, if the Q says it, the PAX does it. 70 HR mercans.  That slowed the Mumblechatter for a while.

Bear crawl between arrows.

Al Gore for the six.

Second Round:

LBCs. PAX did 14 at each arrow. Side straddle hop in between. (Wait for the running moms to pass before starting.)

LBCs for the six.

Mosey to the SF.

4 Minutes of Phys Ed. (aka Mary)

Rosalitas
APDs
Reverse crunches
LBCs
Hello Dolly
Possible the PAX did other ab exercises as well.

Number-am-a, Name-a-ram-a, YHC took us out.

Announcements:

HDHH Wednesday.  Gumbo is providing golf lessons, or golf balls, or some such fun.  You buy your own beer / wings / food after.  See him.

Golf Friday For the Cause.  See Wilson.

Puppy Pile Saturday at 7:05 a.m.

Breaking Bread…May 27…would love to have one more family join YHC’s.  Hard to market “Food by UpChuck,” even to the homeless.

NMS:

YHC had quite a night.  Mother’s Day with in-laws ran late, CAPS, CAPS, CAPS, and then a client issue.  Thus, no preparation today.  According to Inspector Flipper, it was apparent.  Perhaps YHC saying,”Man, I really don’t have anything planned” gave it away.  Well done, Inspector.

Hats off today to the PAX for putting up with some disorganization.  What can be said?  Sometimes you just need to grab a partner.  2nd F during the 1st F.

That said, the PAX did reach some milestones.

HoneyDo did not puke.
Saab called for an audible.
Gomer Pyle learned that YHC cannot (or does not) bother to count.
Fudd is still counting SUV’s on Lindsey.

Footnote: An SUV is whatever the Q says an SUV is.

Side note: Was it Kubota who pointed out the need to respect the Rural SUV (aka pickup)?  YHC thanks him kindly for his support.

Endnote: YHC continues to be impressed that Fudd shows up on days he is traveling.  This is not easy given the commuting pressures, tightness from sitting in the car, etc.  Great to have him out there.

Way to push it, Hand Shake. Hope that ankle keeps coming along.

Thanks to Mr. Holland for pushing YHC up the hill, backwards.  Well done.

UpChuck spits the bit.

21 of RVA’s finest came out for good weather, a workout, and chance to steal a Ghost Flag.

Mosey up to the sea of blacktop for COP:

• Don Quixote (slow style for Saab)
• Helicopters
• SSH (43)
• Russian Soliders
• HRM (which turned to regular Merkins upon YHC ingesting a pollen cloud )

Up to the field for Dora 1-2-3:

• 100 Copperhead Squats
• 200 Box Cutters
• 300 Scissors (2-ct)
• Partner runs across the field and back

Elbow Plank

Down the road to the bottom of Lindsay for Lindsays:

• 30 2-ct Mountain Climbers
• bear crawl 5 paces
• 10 Scorpions
• bear crawl 5 paces
• Repeat until the 30/10 ratio is 10/30.

Partner up for some catch me if you can up the hill.  Partner 1 runs backwards and Partner 2 does 5 burpees and runs to catch him.  Reverso and repeato until you reach the top.

Elbow Plank

Mosey over to the green grass of the horseshoe.

• 20 left oblique crunches
• 20 right oblique crunches
• 20 PLT
• 7 4-ct BooYah merkins
• Repeato

Circle up for Merkin Ring of Fire.  Pax member calls 1, 3, or 5 quantity of a style of Merkin for the Pax to perform.  One cannot repeat what the prior person called.

YHC took us out.

NMS

Nothing like spring light to illuminate the Hoedown AO.  Perhaps the first time we have had light and no rain.  Perfect for seeing all of the tripping hazards.

The Pax was strong today.  The oblique crunches offered the Pax a dilemma: spooning someone or face to face.  Multiple opinions were rendered on approaches, but regardless, it was good Keymaster was not there to crop dust in this scenario.

With 21 Pax present, we had 3 from SOJ, 3 from DaVille, and 1 form Richmond Proper.  How to break the tie?  YHC decided that SOJ and DaVille would each put forth one person for a 20 rep burp-off.  Shakedown and Spit were the representatives and the they were off!  Aided by form in which he seemed to pounce straight up and land like a cat in burpee position, Shakedown pulled ahead slightly taking home the flag for SOJ!  Well done Spit and Shakedown. Way to represent!

Announcements:

• Shakedown (and Mr. Holland?) are shaving their heads for a good cause.  (https://www.stbaldricks.org/participants/mypage/984556/2018)
• Puppy Pile on 5/19 – Hot potato Q for the 2.0s.
• Ghost Flag rules for those interested : https://backblasts.f3rva.org/2017/07/20/ghost-flag/

 

10 strong attended a “No Cones, No Coupons, No any kind of Props” Kubota Q in the gloom this morning.  This is what transpired:

Mosey around bus loop to see if there were any LIFO’s (Mr. Holland)

COP (IC)

Big Arm Circles (forward) x 10

Big Arm Circles (backward) x 10

Helicopters x 15

Don Quixote’s x 10

SSH x 20

Imperial Walkers x 10

Hand Release Merkins x 15

WWII Sit-ups x 15

 

Short Mosey over to school steps for:

Lindsey’s (40’s)

30 Box Jumps on steps/10 Merkins, 25/15, 20/20, 15/25, 10/30

 

Mosey over to and down Lindsay Court for:

Lindsey’s (40’s) on Lindsay Ct.

30 Lunges/10 Russian Soldiers up the hill that is Lindsay Ct., 25/15, 20/20, 15/25, 10/30

When done with Lindsey’s, run backward up the rest of the hill and plank-o-rama.

 

Mosey over to basketball courts for:

Four Corners Escalator

5 WWII Sit-ups

5 WWII Sit-ups/10 (2 ct.) Mt. Climbers

5 WWII Sit-ups/10 (2 ct.) Mt. Climbers/15 Monkey Humpers

5 WWII Sit-ups/10 (2 ct.) Mt. Climbers/15 Monkey Humpers/20 Dive Bomber Merkins

 

Mosey to the back field for:

WWII Sit-up Suicides

Run to 25 yard line and do 5 WWII’s, run back to start line and do 5 Burpees

Repeato for 50 yard line, 75 yard line, 100 yard line

Flutter Kicks to wait for the six

 

Mosey to Cafeteria Wall for:

Partner Work

One partner does Dwight Howard’s on wall (about 50 each) other partner runs horseshoe.

 

Mosey to Shovel Flag for 5MOM:

WWII Sit-ups

Rosalitas

One Minute of Superman

 

COT, Numberama, Namearama, YHC took us out.

 

Announcements:

Puppypile 2.0 on May 19th at 7:05am

Breaking Bread (I think Upchuck is taking the Q though he will need a couple more Pax for help)

 

NMS:

April 30 and it was 38 degrees in the gloom this morning. When is “Old Man Winter” going to quit?!  YHC kept it simple this morning.  Cones and bricks were in the back of the truck, but were of no use this morning.  Back to the basics it was.  YHC is not sure what happened during the partner work, but we had 10 Pax members working out this morning and during the partner work, 6 were running the horseshoe and 4 were doing Dwight Howards.  I blame it on Monday morning or a long weekend for some or maybe it was YHC’s fault.

YHC forgot to explain the frenzy of WWII’s this morning, but it was to honor YHC’s Grandfather who turned 95 a couple weeks ago.  He is a WWII vet who served on the USS Iowa in the Pacific theater.  We did around 95 WWII’s this morning to honor him and the 20 Dive Bomber’s actually represented the 20 Kamikazes that he witnessed either try to hit or hit the Iowa’s support ships!  None of the Kamikazes tried to hit the Iowa itself, because the Japanese pilots pretty much knew they would not get through the gunfire of the Iowa.  This morning was one of YHC’s ways of honoring his Grandfather whose health has really started to fail since his birthday.

Thanks for coming out this morning and lets continue to pray for our fellow Pax, Pax family members and any unspoken prayers that anyone may need.

See you in the Gloom!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A lucky 13 descended upon Tuckahoe Elementary expecting Lockjaw, but finding a rusty Saab in his place.  This is what transpired, more or less…

COP:  Windmills, DQ’s (varying speeds), HRM’s, and LBC’s

Tuckahoe field:  DK’s, bear crawl, merkins, run across field, WWIIs, then return running backwards.  Start with 10 count, 20, then 30 for each.

Dora Countdowns:  300 Flutter Kicks, 200 LBCs, 100 Burpees.  Partner runs across parking lot and up embankment.

Mary:  Rosalitas, Dollys, Heels to Heaven

11’s (between light poles):  Jump Squats and HRMs

Moleskin:

YHC was a substitute Q for Lockjaw after he suffered a hand injury over the weekend involving stitches.  Some surmised it may have been a result of Lockjaw punching his insolent neighbor who reportedly built a fence over the property line.  YHC views Lockjaw as a gentle soul who would never resort to physical violence, but everyone has their breaking point I guess…and Lockjaw’s is apparently 8 inches.

It had been sometime since YHC had Q’d, which was evident to the PAX.  Cadence was variable speed, and instructions sometime differed from the intended exercise.  Despite that, there was nothing but kind words of support from the PAX given throughout the workout (not really).

Always a pleasure to be part of this group

Saab abides

12 Strong resisted the fartsack following a successful CSAUP weekend.  Here’s what ensued:

COP

Side Straddle Hop X 20

DonQ X 10
Merkins X 10
LBC’s X15
Flutter Kicks X15

Copper head squats X 10

RUN around and the neighborhood
Then, Mosey to Bottom of Lindsay: (Partner UP)

-100 Merkins, sets of 10, P2 planks while P1 exercises

-100 LBC’s, sets of 25, P2 holds legs 6 inches while P1 exercises

-100 Jump Squats – Sets of 25 while P2 holds squat lunge position.

MAIN EVENT:  Bear Crawl .23 miles up Lindsay (stop every 20 paces for 5 Merkins)

Mosey to Horseshoe for Triple Check – Balls to the wall, flutter kicks, P3 Runs (each team 3 times through).

Mosey to the Field For Wheelbarrows = Wheelbarrow to the 50 Yard line, stop and team does 10 burpees.  Switch and P2 Wheelbarrows back….

MARY

 

American Hammers (X50), 6 inches (X25), Hello Dollies (X20), Leg Lifts (X15)

Numberama, Namerama, and YHC took us out….

NMS

YHC appreciates 12 strong showing up to Hoedown this A.M., particularly after a successful CSAUP weekend!   Fudd made it known that the welcoming committee at the CSAUP finish line was too quiet on Saturday considering the circumstances.  YHC was not present at the end of the race Saturday morning, so no personal comments can be offered.  Fudd did however, demonstrate proper verbal support and tclaps for the pax while we finished Bear Crawling up Lindsay this morning indicating that “this is how to support your team members”.  Love you Fuddski!

Speaking of Bear Crawls, well done fellas!  That was a long way and Honeydo smoked the rest of the PAX…  YHC can only imagine what the driver of the passing car must have been thinking about 12 dudes crawling up his street at 5:40ish a.m.

Finally, wheelbarrows were fun today, right?  Great to partner with you Wedding Singer way to push it!

Announcements: 

-Slurpee:   YHC has the Breaking Bread Q this Sunday, Kubota has volunteered to help and we please need one more….

Thanks for letting me lead today fellas, have a great Monday!

 

13 strong came out for Hoedown before the rain came in.  Here is what went down:

COP – Invisible Jump rope, Don Qs, Merkins, Reverse Crunches, Scorpion Kicks

Mosey to back field for Triple check – modified to Dora:  100 Burp ups, 200 Jump Squats, 300 LBCs.  Flutterkicks and run other variations.

Head to blacktop for real Triple Check – Plerkins, Elbow Plank, & Run length of courts.  Back to flag for some mary:  Hells2Heaven, 1 legged APDs, American Hammers, & Windshield wipers.

Announcements – CSAUP this weekend, Puppy pile next weekend?

NMS – YHC thought we had the perfect 12 when we saw Mr Holland pull in on the initial mosey.  However Lockjaw made the PAX 13 by magically appearing somehow.  The 100 Burp-Ups took a while as the initial Dora lasted quite a while.

There were a lot of groans during the Scorpion Kicks in the COP, either backs were cracking in a good way or a bad way.  YHC is happy that Flipper is on our Masters team, word is he might have his magic laser with him this weekend.  The Plerkins on the Triple check might get Flipper some business this week.

Handshake put in solid work, great to see him at a 3 x’s a week poster now.  On the drive over to the AO YHC saw Slurpee and Kubota running to the AO, always a good sign.

Thanks for all the encouragement from the PAX as YHC is changing jobs today.  Taking the Q helped me get some nervous energy out and YHC would never dare take such a risk 3 years ago before starting F3.