Tag: Hoedown

At 2200 hours on Sunday, March 23rd YHC checked the Q sheet and saw it was empty. YHC felt compelled to rectify the situation and signed up.

0529 hours on Monday, March 24th YHC pulled into the Parking Lot to see a crowd of men looking for their Q. Cheers of jubilation we let out scaring the neighbors.

0530 hours we stepped off following Senor Frog. 5 steps in a hard right was taken so that Senor Frog could remember who the Q was. We moseyed down Lindsay for a warm up. Various exercises completed. Next up grab 2 partners for a Triple Check. 1st man runs to the 6th car on the left (not the first car on the right, insert eye towards Valadelay).

Next up mosey back to the 6th car on the right. P1 Bernies up the Hill, P2 does 5 WWII’s then Bernies, P3 does 10 WWII’s then Bernie. When P1 gets to the top he does 15 WWII’s.

Mosey from the top of Lindsay Court up the Recess Yard. Four Corners. C1 40 2-Count SSH’s, C2 10 Squats then 5 Pull Ups x 3, C3 10 2-Count Australian Mountain Climbers x 2, C4 100 LBC’s.

Mosey to the top of the ramp at the Door into the school. Bear Crawl down the Ramp.

Next up a game of Centipede. Mosey down/up/over/various ramps trying to not get caught by the Q.

Finish with some Mary.

Announcements- Century Classic Friday-Saturday May 2nd-3rd (overnight). Breaking Bread, April is full. The Bridge.

Prayer Requests – none

NMS – good times. A new exercise was officially released today, The Senor Frog Release Merkin. It will exercise you Arms/Shoulders/Back

Nine made perfect numbers for triple check, despite the Pax’s desire to form teams of 4, 2, and 3. But first, off to the small parking lot for COP – hitting the usuals.

Once warmed up, we moseyed to the lucky horseshoe for triple check.

Triple Check 1 – run the horseshoe, BTTW, donkey kicks

Triple Check 2 – run the horseshoe, HRM, LBCs

Triple Check 3 – run the horseshoe, flutter kicks, squats

Triple Check 4 – run the horseshoe, box cutters, Carolina dry docks

Triple Check 5 – run the horseshoe, right oblique crunch, left oblique crunch

Some stretching at the end kept us loose. YHC took us out.

Announcements:

Century Classic is coming back – 100 miles of rucking, running, and maybe something else.

Breaking Bread is up for grabs in coming months.

The Bridge will be back in the Spring.

The Great 8 skated to another win over the Fart Sack in the latest edition of The Hoedown. Temperatures were 70 and sunny. According to the guy with a light in his pocket, the following might have happened:

Mosey to the street, grass, circle, grass, steps, and grass for the COP.

100 SSHs
Dead Man Hang
Fudd’s Wife
Right Leg High, then pigeon
Wilson’s Wife
Fudd’s Wife
Left leg high, then pigeon
HRMs
LBCs
Flutters
Box Cutters
Imperial Walkers

Mosey Across Forest to the 3rd Church (Don’t you dare call it Third Presbyterian)

Partner Up. Dora 1-2-3. Each man does 50 ‘mercans, then the team does 100 4-count flutter kicks, and 200 SSHs. 3 boo-yah ‘mercans with each transition.

Mosey to the front of the school. Elevens. ‘Mercans and squats. Try to pick the right tree, or run to the bottom of the stairs, you choose. Reverse crunches for the six.

Mosey to various spots on the front lawn. Circle up. Do things like WWIIs, flutter kicks, hello dolly, and so forth.

Mosey BTTVSF. Numbers, names, and YHC took us out.

Announcements:

Joey’s Hot Dogs. Tuesday. Noon.

3rd F Opportunities:

As mentioned recently in the interview with Dark Helmet that many of us read (and which was posted on Slack), the 3rd F is not about religion, but about getting yourself right with the world around you (for some folks, this can be religious or religion might be a part of it). The key aspect is to contribute to things bigger than yourself. Many guys contribute extensively (and some guys…we would encourage them to join us, support us, and make an impact). Whichever you are, let’s go!

Breaking Bread continues. For those newer to F3RVA, this is F3RVA’s long-time volunteer opportunity, going on about 9 years. If you haven’t taken the opportunity to contribute, check it out. Sign up on the Q Sheet, contact Oyster for directions, and make a difference.

The Bridge is back…this is a transitional facility where guys moving from the prison system to the free world learn skills that will, hopefully, help them to earn a living and stay on the straight path. We had tremendous success this fall, and we’ll have dates for the spring shortly.

Six men started the week at Hoedown this morning full of hopes, dreams and positive affirmations until they realized YHC brought cold coupons. I was just thinking in my reptilian brain “I can’t feel my flippers” when I noticed we were missing a man…. I guess he got cold feet also. Or maybe a forgotten tooth to drill. Maybe I’ll bring him some better mittens next time.

COP- Introductions & Disclaimers.

Mosey to big church near Patterson rd. While scoping out Bodos’s competition we partnered up for a triple check. Dips while timer runs around play ground. X3

Mosey to front of church. Timer ran up and down steps while partner did some arm exercises. X3.

Mosey to front right corner of parking lot for some sprints and LBC’s. X3

Mosey back to flag with a few squats along the way.

We did some Mary Get-Ups until Handshake called time.

YHC took us out.

Thank You for letting me lead! I can’t think of a better way to start my day!

A lucky 6 gathered for this weeks Hoedown. With no name on the Q sheet at 8:00 last night YHC took the opportunity to sign up. Perfect numbers for partner work or a Triple Check but neither were to be found today.

Mosey down Forest with a left on Spottswood and after some quick Monkey Humpers in 1-800s driveway we moseyed up all the way up Spottswood through the Dogleg and all the way to the end. Mosey to the first mailbox then complete 10 of an exercise, then mosey back and to the second mailbox and 20 of an exercise repeating all the way to 100 exercises. Quick stop at 1-800’s driveway again on the way back and we made it to the flag with 20 seconds to spare.

NMS – good times, Honeydo was a good sport after being made fun of for his fabulous shorts. Also, with his “busy” weekend he be became the butt of the jokes.

A strong 10 showed up for this week’s edition of Hoedown. Temperatures were sunny and 70 despite the impending snow later this week.

We started with a mosey around the carpool drop off loop to give the late arrivals time to catch and then head down to the bottom of Lindsay Court for a warm up that included SSH, Arm Circles, Don Quixote, Dead Man Hang, both wives, WWIIs and Flutter kicks.

With everyone warmed up, we partnered up to head back up Lindsay. Partner 1 runs to the top of Lindsay while Partner 2 works his way up the hill doing a series of exercises which included Bear Crawl, Broad Jumps, Crab Walk and Polar Bears (if needed).

After a 10-count, we mosey to the southern end of West Drive Circle for a triple check. Once everyone counted correctly, here is how it went down. Partner 1 ran around the circle. Partner 2 jump squats. Partner 3 Hand Release Merkins.

Next, mosey across Lindsay Dr to the northern end of West Drive Circle for a Dora. Partner 1 runs to the light at the end of the street. Partner 2 does series of exercises. 50 Merkins, 100 LBCs, 150 Flutter Kicks. After dissension amongst the pax about which light YHC meant, we completed the dora.

Then, line up for an indigenous people’s run back to the parking lot for 11s. Bernie sanders across the parking lot and up the hill for WWIIs then run back to the other side for merkins. Start with 10 WWIIs and 1 Merkin. YHC called time when the pax got to 3 WWIIs and 8 Merkins.

Numberama / Namerama / Announcements

Breaking bread this week. Last Call has Sunday. See Oyster to pick up Saturday.

YHC took us out.

Four scored a block-tastic beat down before seven this morning at the latest edition of The Hoedown. Temperatures were 70 and sunny. According to the ladies learning to Zing Fit, the following saga will be proudly recounted:

Form up at the white arrow. THIS white arrow, not over THERE.

Run the loop, then the steps, then the weirdly angled handicap ramp that turns inexplicably into stairs and back to the wall.

COP:

SSH. Just one. Fail.

SSHs. Just two. Fail.

SSHs. 100 x 4 count. Mostly success, until YHC changed the cadence and threw everyone off. Q Fail.

Dead Man Hang. Fudd’s Wife. Right leg high. Left leg high. Pigeon left. Pigeon right. Recover. Left leg over right. Right leg over left.

Hand release merkins x20.

WWIIs x10.

Imperial Walkers x10.

Mosey to the auxiliary to the secondary church parking lot at 3rd Church. (Fun Fact – Third Church officially ranks 7th in Virginia in the number of parking lots among suburban class AAA Presbyterian Churches, but only 28th in the number of parking spaces, giving it the smallest average number of spaces per lot in the assembled general presbyterian session. Yet, 3rd received an NPS of 79 in the quality of the parking.)

Four Corners – Prostitute Style (Always come back to the same corner)

Grab a block. Carry the block. Corner 1: 10 curls, then back to the start. One squat.

Corner 1, 10 curls, then Corner 2, 20 bench presses. Then back to Corner 1, then back to home base (repeating the exercises). Veterans know the drill.

Senor Frog mentioned the team that won the Super Terrible Bowl last night. Burpee. Each subsequent mention…burpee.

Corner 3, overhead presses. Then YHC’s shoulder started to feel enough pain that it was time for an audible. (Good use of the F3 Q School Rule: if you can’t do it, don’t Q it.)

Corner 4, squats. (And, Corner 3 updated to swings).

Someone said the name of the Philthadelphia football team 3 times. 3 burpees.

Then, someone mentioned Beagles and Snoopy. Well said.

Mosey to the front of TES. Touch-a-tree.

Round of 10: SSHs

Round of 4: something else.

Round of 2: (Run to the trees…) merkins

Round of 1: Burpees

Mosey to the circle. Alabama Prom Dates until time.

Numbers, names, and Hutton took us out with an invigorating prayer.

Announcements: Frozen Triangle in 51 weeks.

NMS: If you have a habit of grabbing your junk at work, which careers are appropriate for you?

Not Appropriate: Clergy, medical provider, waiter at pizza parlor. Seriously, it will get you fired.

Appropriate: football player (D-line, linebacker), baseball player (outfield)

Never Appropriate: wavy haired, expertly tattooed, middle aged (yeah, I said it) man staring in the window of an office building before dawn.

UpChuck spits the bit.

One of the exercises today was the ‘getup’. The idea is that you sit on the ground and then get up to a standing position without using your hands. It’s not easy to do. I find that to do it, I have to roll backwards and put my hands over my head (parallel to the ground), then swing my arms forward as quickly as possible ending up with my hands in front of me almost touching the ground. Simultaneously, curl up as tight as possible and cross my feet. If I do it right, my center of gravity is over my feet and I can stand up.

This is the first time I have done this in awhile and it took me a few tries to get it right. I find it difficult to do. Salt Lick pointed out that this is a good test for old people. I need to perfect my skill here. Gracias to those who participated in today’s activities as I try to stay out of the nursing home!

Senor Frog pointed out that the wall was not available as it was under construction. Fortunately, by the time we got to the wall, construction was completed and we were able to do the standard wall exercises.

Mosey to corner Parking lot and give standard disclaimer.

I honor of January is Make America DoBurpees Again, we did a token 10 burpees.

• 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 Asphalt playground

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

Mosey to corner parking lot

• 20 Squats
• 10 Stagger Arm Merkins
• 15 Dollies
• Stretch: Stand up and touch the ground

Mosey to asphalt playground

• 10 Don Quixotes
• 10 Stagger Arm Merkins
• 15 Ukrainian Hammers
• Stretch: I forgot what else we did

Line up on sidewalk to the asphalt playground for 11s

• Mike Tyson & V-Ups

To the grass playground in back; Count off by 3s. Rotate Clockwise. Each group starts out at a different station.

• 10 Get-ups at the swings, (lay on you back and then stand up without using your hands. See description above.)
• 20 Hanging Knee-ups at pull-up bars,
• 30 Dips at benches,

To the wall for

• 15 People’s chair airpress
• 10 BTTW shoulder taps in cadence
• 3 burpees
• 15 People’s chair Milkers
• 10 BTTW Australian Mountain Climbers
• 3 burpees
• 15 People’s chair Muhammad Ali
• 10 BTTW Toe Taps
• 4 burpees
• 15 Donkey Kix

On the patio in front of the wall for

• 60 count 6-inch leg lift

Time’s up!

Announcements:

Frozen Triangle

COT:

Prayer requests: Guidance on summer camp selections!

There’s a lot of angst over politics these days. Whatever your opinion, try to understand the other point of view and hold back on the judgment. Try to keep an open mind, maintain a sense of humor, evaluate policies and not politicians and appreciate that just because someone has a different opinion than you do, shouldn’t mean we can’t be friends. Finally, remember that’s whoever is in the White House doesn’t care about your house. That means you need to care about your house (and worry less about the White House.) Let’s all dedicate ourselves to being civil to each other and turning down the temperature. It takes self-control. It’s not easy but it is vital.

Galatians 5:22-23 says this, “But the Fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.”

Let’s access the fruit of the spirit in these difficult times. Or as the joke goes: “God. Give me patience and give it to me NOW!!!”

Five faithful won over the Fartsack to start of the week at Hoedown. Temps were downright balmy at 38 degrees. We did:

COP: SSH, Don Qs, Ukrainian Solders, Merkins, Flutterkicks, Freddy Mercurys, Scorpion Kicks. Mosey to 3rd overflow lot for some 4 corners: 10 Burpees, 20 HRMS, 30 Heels2Heaven, 40 Jump Squats. 2nd round alternate Bear Crawl and lunges with 15 Merkins, 25 LBCs, 35 Flutterkicks, 45 SSH.

Mosey back to pick up Coupons from YHCs truck and over to the TES rock grass section. 50 Block presses. Then run lap and back to Block for exercise, a lap after each set. 10 SitnPress, 20 Swings, 30 Curls, 40 Squats. Stay with the numbers them so 2nd round: 15 Block Thrusters, 25 block extended Flutterkicks, 35 block swings, 45 block presses. Vandelay did Bodos proud by breaking his block after the 1st round but found a spare block to grab for the 2nd round. Drop coupons back in the truck and then finish with a few rounds of parking lot sprints and 1 min of Mary til time.

NMS: Solid PAX this morning. EF Hutton saw YHCs truck loaded with blocks yesterday getting gas at BJs and avoided Hoedown. Vandelay came out dressed for last week’s weather and proceeded to shed a few layers as we kept moving.