Tag: Hoedown

No Q on the sheet, YHC grabbed the bull by the horns.

Here’s what transpired:

Mosey to the closest Third lot

COP (IC)

• Don Quixotes
• Dead Man Hang
• Cherry Pickers
• Copperhead Squats
• Arm Circles
• Overhead Claps
• Seal Claps
• Ukranian Soldiers
• Plankorama
• Merkins

Mosey to back Third lot

Dora 1-2-3

• Merkins x 100
• Donkey Kicks x 200
• Wall Sit w Overhead Press x 300

Mosey to far Third lot

4 Corners

• C1 – HRMs x 10
• Lunge to C2 – Jump Squats x 20
• Bearcrawl to C3 – Monkey Humpers x 30
• High Knees to C4 – SSHs x 40
• Karaoke back to C1 – Ferris Bueller it back to C1 (reverso of all prior movements)

Mosey to Third front steps

Partner Boxing Cockroaches 3 x 20

Mosey back to TES paved hill

11s (Bernie up, Mosey down)

• At bottom – LBCs
• At top – Merkins (downhill)

Numberama, Nameorama, COT

MOLESKIN

YHC was determined not to get his back soaking wet today, but every time there was even a slight hesitation while deciding on an exercise Senor Frog called for LBCs.  A Frog needs to be wet.  Finally gave in at the end.  Never too late to hop on the summer tour, next stop Ruckhenge.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Bridge – July 19^th (letting the cat out of the bag now – this will be a Summer Tour stop)

July 4^th Convergence – Details to follow

Nine Tuckahoegeans gathered on the lower pavement for today’s iteration of Hoedown. Some hoped for rolling around in newly laid sod but the PAX went north instead. Short mosey to Trinity for:

COP

• 20x SSH
• 15x Helicopters
• 15x Copperhead Squats
• 10x Merkins
• 10x Inverted Scorpions
• 15x Freddie Mercuries
• 10x DQs
• Probably something else

The Thang

No mosey as we were already there to the first small parking lot on TUMC campus. Small 4 corners. 10x Merkins / 20x Jump Squats / 30x LBCs / 40x SSH.

Mosey 10 feet to the second parking lot for larger 4 corners. 10x HRMs / 20x Squats / 30x Flutters / 40x MCs.

Mosey another 10 feet to the narrow parking lot in front of the church. Burpee ladder. 10 parking spaces (confirmed by Pigskin and reconfirmed by Garbage Plate). Run to the first, 1 burpee, return for 25 ab exercises. Run to 2nd parking spot, 2 burpees, return for 25 ab exercises. Continue until we hit all 10 parking spaces and 10 rounds of ab exercises (LBCs, Flutters, American Hammers, APDs, something else).

Dudes run BTTVSF for a quick round of Mary with HTH, WWIIs, Rosalitas.

Numbers, names, YHC took us out.

Moleskine

Solid push by the PAX today. Pucker still hasn’t adapted to the Virginia humidity and his shirt showed it this morning.

See y’all this week at various places.

Splinter out.

As YHC stood in the parking lot enjoying the quiet morning, I wondered whether this would be a solo workout. Fortunately, with a couple minutes to spare, Garbage Plate and Vandelay arrived. At 0530, we launched.

Moseyed across Forest to the Third Church Parking Lot A for warmup that included dead man hang, side straddle hops, merkins, and WWIIs.

Mosey behind the church along the playground to the back parking lot for a triple check. P1 – BTTW. P2 – Squats. P3 – run to the end of the parking lot and Bernie back.

Mosey to the tree covered lot across Silverspring for 4 corners. The PAX was pleasantly surprised to find a good size stack of fresh coupons hidden in the trees. Once each retrieved a coupon, we started the first 4 corners. Corner 1 – curls. Bear crawl to Corner 2 – WWIIs. Run to Corner 3 – shoulder taps. Crab walk to Corner 4 – jump squats. Bernie back to start. Picked up our coupons for second 4 corners, coupons traveling along this time. Corner 1 – overhead presses. Corner 2 – WWIIs with coupons. Corner 3 – alternating merkins with one hand on the block. Corner 4 – block swings. Back to start and return coupons.

Mosey back to TES and around back to the main parking lot for 11s. Merkins, starting at 10, run across and Bernie up hill for WWIIs.

With a few minutes left, we wrapped up with some mary – american hammers, flutter kicks, heels to heaven.

Numbers, Names and YHC took us out.

Thank you to Garbage Plate and Vandelay for showing up this morning – great start to the week.

I got an offer from Bodo’s for some new Coupons for Hoedown. His thoughtfulness was such that I had to take him up on the offer.

Warmup:

Mosey to the parking lot at Third Church

• 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 parking lot behind Third Church

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

Mosey to the parking lot south of Third Church, find coupons and partner up for a triple check

• Partner 1 runs the parking lot
• Partner 2 does curls with the coupon
• Partner 3 does presses with the coupon

Second Triple check:

• Partner 1 runs the parking lot
• Partner 2 does rows with the coupon
• Partner 3 does triceps with the coupon

Mosey back to the school for BBTW routine:

• 15 People’s chair airpress
• 10 BTTW shoulder slaps in cadence
• 15 Donkey Kix OYO
• 15 People’s chair Milkers
• 10 BTTW Australian Mountain Climbers
• 15 Donkey Kix OYO
• 15 People’s chair Muhammad Ali
• 10 BTTW Toe Taps
• 15 Donkey Kix OYO

Mosey to railings on sidewalk for Bulgarian routine:

• 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

To the “flag” for

• 15 Copperhead squats in cadence
• 60 count 6-inch leg lift

Announcements:

May 26: Convergence at Tredegar: 7:00 AM

Happy 2 day anniversary to Señor Frog (He got married Saturday!)

COT

The part is “ ”s are things I copied more or less completely, from the internet.

“Thomas Aquinas (ca. 1225–1274) takes inspiration from antiquity, especially Aristotle. It was Aquinas’s conviction, that the Christian faith could only benefit from a profound engagement with philosophy and science. In 1879, Pope Leo XIII called for a revival in the study and teaching of Aquinas.”

 

“The master principle of natural law, wrote Aquinas, was that “good is to be done and pursued and evil avoided.” Aquinas stated that reason reveals particular natural laws that are good for humans such as self-preservation, marriage and family, and the desire to know God.”

We had a brief discussion afterwards. Whether you agree with Thomas Aquinas about natural law or not, I think he had something important to say. What is ‘good’? What is ‘evil’? Has the definition of ‘good’ changed over time or is it eternal? Is ‘good’ universal, the same for an atheist as for a Christian? How do we know something is ‘good’? Is it subject to empirical evidence? Is it a product of reason? Do we reason backwards from its consequences?

Like perhaps all of you, I took plane geometry and I remember learning that an axiom or postulate was something we could not prove, but we took it as ‘true’ because it made ‘sense’. From that, we derived ‘corollaries’ or something that is true assuming the axiom or postulate is true.

In other words, some things in life we accept as true even if we can’t prove it. I think that is the nature of a lot (or all) of philosophical and religious thinking. It makes sense to us. We take it on faith, but it cannot be proven. (You are welcome to disagree!)

Oddly enough, science is not something that can be proven. Science is something that can only be disproven empirically. The philosophy of science is that an assertion is a scientific assertion if it can be disproven.

“Karl Popper defined science as a system of theories that are falsifiable, meaning they can be tested and potentially proven wrong through observation or experimentation. This concept of falsifiability is the key criterion” of science.

4 Hoedown regulars ready for a proper Hot Potato…. Let’s Go

Warmarama: Hutton takes the Q. Mosey to the small parking lot, Helicopters, DQ, Imperial Walkers, SSH, Copperhead Squats, Hand Release Merkins, Planks…

Round1: Hutton keeps the Q: Partner up – 3 rounds
Partner Jerkins x 10, Partner PLTs x 20

Round2: Hutton keeps the Q: Mosey to the pull up Bars – 3 rounds
Incline Planks, 5 Merkins – Switch x 3 rounds.

Round 3: Hutton passes the Q to Salt Lick.
5 Burpees
Bear Crawls
Merkins
Lunges
Bear Crawls
Lunges

Round 4: Salt Lick passes the Q to Oyster: Mosey to the small parking lot
Corner1: 20 SSH, sprint to the next corner
Corner2: 20 SSH, sprint to the next corner
Corner3: 20 SSH, sprint to the next corner
Corner4: 20 SSH, sprint to the next corner
Run it Back

Round 5: Oyster keeps the Q
Corner1: 10 Merkins
Corner2: 10 Squats
Corner3: 20 Calf Raises
Corner4: 20 Toe Taps
Run it Back

Round 6: Oyster keeps the Q
Ring of Fire
5 Minutes of Mary

Numberama: Namerama
Billy Surf – Took us out!

Moleskin: Great Hot Potato today boys.

7 brave men entered the foggy gloom for a workout of cards & coupons.

Warmarama

Moseyed to the creek, caulked the wagon, and forded the stream. Picked up fresh coupons and used a deck of cards to determine how many reps our upper body beat down would be. Props to @Marv for a quick glove run home and back. Stashed coupons for future use.

Abs.

Attempted to polar bear up the hill back to the flag but feared mutiny halfway through and audibled.

Word for the day: all authority has been given to Christ, may we steward well the authority delegated to us.

Thirteen, that’s right, thirteen of the hoe’s and near-hoe’s finest, gathered in the fading gloom for this week’s iteration of Hoedown. After the celebration of Oyster’s arrival, we avoided the petting zoo gifts and mosey’d to the front of the school for:

COP

• 25x SSH
• 10x DQ
• 20x Copperhead Squats
• 20x LBCs
• 10x HRMs
• 10x Mountain Climbers
• 10x Side (not front) lunges

The Thang

Mosey back to the top of Lindsay Ct and partner up. With odd numbers, YHC joined forces with NTB and Señor Frog. Inverse love hill. Partner 1 runs to the bottom and back while partner 2 does exercises. Flapjack and continue until you reach the bottom of the hill. Exercises were crab walks, lunges, broad jumps.

10 count followed by 20 merkins.

Back up the hill. Same partners, this time exercises were polar bears, duck walks, broad jump burpees. Tons of excitement as we went back up the hill. Al Gore at the top for the 6.

Short saunter back over to the traditional 11s place for, you guessed it, 11s. Bernie to the hill and up it, WWIIs at the top. Mitt Romney back to the other side for jump squats.

Circle back up for 4 MoM which included 10x APDs, 20x freddie mercuries, 10x HTHs, 20x american hammers.

Numbers, names, YHC took us out.

Moleskine

Upper 40s brought out some overdressed PAX members. Even with the extra layers, energy level was quite high today. Oyster even earned a round of applause for joining pre-launch.

BB title comes from the impeccable timing of Classic Rewind this am. As YHC got in the car to depart, Bicycle Race by Queen started on the radio. With a fade in effect as if they were waiting for me to start the car. Must have been the Freddie Mercuries we did during Mary.

Announcements

• The Bridge 5/10. See Hermes for details.
• CSAUP this Friday. See your local lead.
• Breaking Bread is available in May. Sign up!

Have a blessed day everyone.

Splinter out.

Five Pax listened to the chirps and political rants of the predawn Northern Cardinal.

Here’s what transpired:

Traveling COP (IC) – stops along Lindsay – Forest – Spottswood – Silverspring

• Invisible Jump Ropes
• Don Quixotes
• Imperial Walkers
• Monkey Humpers
• Arm Circles
• Overhead Claps
• Merkins
• Heels to Heaven

Mosey to Third Church back parking lot

Solo-Dora

• 100 Merkins/ 200 Monkey Humpers/ 300 LBCs – broken into 4 sets of 25/50/75 each
• Run a loop of the parking lot after each set (12 laps)

Mosey back to TES

Booyah-Berns w/ Partner

• Booyah Merkins x 10
• Booyah WWIIs x 10
• Bernie up the Blacktop hill and mosey back down
• Repeato x 9, x 8…..x 1

Mosey to the Horseshoe

Mary

• American Hammers

Numberama, Nameorama, COT

MOLESKIN

Topic of the morning centered around Bodos’ ability to quick change between the Traditional and Contemporary service, including hair gel, temporary tattoos, skinny jeans, and Jars of Clay.  The PAX also learned that Bodos knew the Pope personally and can identify birds by their chirps but is still working on the translation.  YHC mentioned the joke clip of a man identifying a mockingbird only to have the mockingbird mock the man back.  Salt Lick was overly entertained.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Bridge

CSAUP

11 energetic PAX chose to start their week of right at Hoedown. Before we started Pigskin was weary off a tax-day theme repeat from last year but YHC grabbed the Q to get his ass out of the fartsack. No tax theme just some basics:

COP in staff lot: SSH, Don Qs, Ukrainian Soldiers, Merkins, Reverse Crunch, Scorpion Kicks.

Mosey to the 3rd parking lot for 4 corners: 10 burpees, 20 HRMs, 30 Jump Squats, 40 LBCs. Head over to the RiteAid parking lot and partner up for a Dora: 100 HRMs, 200 Heels2Heaven, 300 SSH. Mosey back over to TES bus loop for Handshake’s Sexteplet-check with partners and an array of exercises while timer runs the loop.

Finish up with 2 rounds of 25 PLTs and burpees to close us out.

Announcements: Bridge is starting back up in 2 weeks on Saturday. Century classic on 5/2. Marv was so stirred by the pitch he HC’ed on the spot!

NMS: No need for long sleeves or cold-weather gloves this morning. Handshake opted for no-sleeves at all, getting the guns out early for summer. Marv shared that is crushed the Monument 10k Saturday with a blistering 44 minutes. Makes sense since he does good work at the Siegel center during the season as well. Good to have 11 out this morning after Senor Frog posted Solo last week.

S. Frog opened Hoedown at 5:30AM.

S. Frog closed Hoedown at 5:40AM.

S. Frog went to the DEEP.