Tag: Hoedown

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.

Nine-man PAX in the frigid gloom.

Theme was the power of words, for good or ill, and the exhortation from Ephesian 4:29 to get rid of foul talk and replace it with speech that builds others up.

Exercised in snow and on pavement.

No prayer requests or announcements.

Highlight: Crunchy Frog’s penguin slide down the icy slope

Fortunately, the answer was ‘yes’. Given the rain, and with the snow on the ground, we opted for the covered walkway and stayed dry. We did a ‘Hot Tater’ and dreamed of 67-degree weather in Florida.

Actually, I’m hoping for a decent snow. Since I moved here 3 and half years ago, we haven’t had much snow. I’m hoping the rain doesn’t wash it all away.

Upchuck started us off with: (this is roughly right)

• 35 SSHs in cadence
• 10 Monkey Humpers in cadence
• 15 Imperial Walkers in cadence
• Stretch (touch the ground)
• Cobra
• 10 Reverse crunch in cadence
• 10 WWIs in cadence
• 3X: Bear crawl to the break in the railings, 3 merkins and mosey back

1-800 took over:

Triple check: This was harder than it sounds. We had to pick 2 other partners. Very challenging. The other challenge was remembering to rotate thru the 3 exercises. It takes a Harvard education to do this correctly.

• Partner 1: Bernies up the walkway to the door and moseys back (touch door lightly so as not to set off the alarm)
• Partner 2: Merkins
• Partner 3: Squats

11s up the covered walkway to the doors

• Jump squats
• WWIIs

Pigskin finished:

To the wall under the covered area by the gym

• 15 People’s chair air press in cadence
• 10 BTTW Hand touch in cadence
• 10 Mike Tyson OYO
• 10 BTTW Australian Mountain Climbers in cadence
• 15 Donkey Kicks OYO
• 10 BTTW Toe Taps in cadence
• 10 Mike Tyson OYO

To the Railings

• 10 single count Bulgarian split squats: right leg back
• 10 single count Bulgarian split squats: left leg back
• 10 single count Derkins
• Repeat above except 9 single count
• Then 8 and so on down to 1

Finished with some Mary

• 15 Crunch Frogs in cadence
• 15 Heels to heaven in cadence
• Plank, right arm and/or leg high
• Plank, left arm and/or leg high
• Elbow plank to count of 45
• 6-inch leg lift to count of 60

Announcements:

The Bridge on Saturday, January 25. See Fudd (not Fud, Fudd). This is a ‘halfway house’ (my choice of words) to ease inmates back into the outside world. As the saying goes “every saint has a past and every sinner has a future”. We all have regrets, it’s a part of life. Dedicate yourself to forgiving the ‘f-ups’ of others as well as your own ‘f-ups’. I think it helps when we think of these things as ‘opportunities to learn from experience and get better’.

Tomorrow at Heartbreak Ridge, the Q sign-up sheet has Honeydo with a “?” mark. Will we be pencil rolling up the Ridge? Scorpion Kicks in the snow? If you want to find out, show up!

1-800, Upchuck, Pigskin

14 gathered for an end of the year Hoe Down Monday morning beat down.

Mosey to Bodos’s office complex parking lot for a standard Introduction, Disclaimer and Warm Up. SSH, DH, DQ, EW, US, MERK, LBC

Mosey to Rustique Salon & Spa for a Triple Check. MERK, LBC & Timer runs around Walgreens.

Mosey across the street to Cocoanut Jewelry. Looking down said shopping plaza for potential Yoga girls to gawk-at, at Zinger Fit YHC noticed 54 structural walk way poles he could potentially put to good use. Something Simple, Something Easy. Easy as One, Two, Three. So YHC quickly formed, in the back of his reptilian brain, an articulate plan of action. ONE Burpee, TWO WW2, THREE Merkins at each of the 54 structural support poles. Sounds easy enough….

YHC had to call an “audible” at pole 42 just shy of Bistro804. Something about only having 5 minutes to make it back to the flag.

Mosey back to the Flag.. With 1.25 minutes to spare. “I figured we had time for a few more poles.” Names & Numbers. A few discussions concerning New Years Resolutions. 1. Read more books. 2. Use less profanity. 3. Join Oyster at Breaking Bread.

No Prayer requests.

Announcement- JAN 1 Dog Pile Convergence. See Slack. Gypsy Q.

Thank You Bodo’s for praying for us.

Thank You Pax for letting me Q!

A cool dozen emerged from the warm enclosure of their idling cars. The clock strikes 530 and off we went with a short mosey to the small teacher’s lot. The circle was small to preserve warmth, and got even smaller with the Ukrainian Soldiers bringing us in nice and snug.

A jog down the road and up west drive got the blood flowing as we transitioned into teams of three for triple check. Run the loop, monkey humpers, and box cutters. Though the little dog noticed us with barks, no angry neighbors shouted out the time of day.

Over to YHC’s house for two sets of 20 PLTs. Mosey down to the shopping center and form a circle for a ring of fire with Mary. Dealer’s choice as we worked the abs.

Mosey back to the AO with some 11s – Bulgarian squats and derkins. Now let’s finish with BTTW – last man standing. It came down to Bodos and Pigskin and Pigskin prevailed.

YHC took us out.

Announcements – Welcome Salt Lick to F3 Richmond. He joins us from the middle of Texas.

Excellent 2nd F coffee and a tour of Bodo’s pad. A spectacular space and an office that is exactly what you would imagine Coffee and discussion rivals none. Who will take us on next month’s tour?

0500 when the alarm went off YHC would head the sound of steady rain outside there was a strong pull to stay in the Fartsack. The idea a wet and cold muffin top was not high on the list, but after YHC Fartsacked last week after writing “Hawt Potato” on the Q sheet YHC knew it couldn’t be done twice in a row.

YHC pulled into the parking lot at 5:28 and saw one lone vehicle, Vandalay. YHC was happy to not be alone, it almost 7 years YHC has avoided being a solo poster and today wasn’t going to be the day.

We opted to keep things dry. We moseyed from Hoedown down to First Watch and did various exercises. YHC has never had a one-on-one conversation with Vandalay and it was a great opportunity to get to know him.

Announcements – none

Prayer Requests – Fudd’s sister (Mary), Roger Rogers M, YHC’s M’s Cousins daughter, Charlotte.

NMS – Great morning, YHC is glad he posted.