A nefarious nine assembled in The Gloom for the latest edition of Hoedown. Weather conditions remained 70 and sunny. According to the two guys chatting at the edge of the Hoedown parking lot, the following quite possibly happened: Mosey along Forest to the 3rd Church Parking lot for The COP: Side Straddle HopsDon QuixotesDead Man HangStretch to the Sky (there’s some yoga name that YHC forgets)Arm Circles (only big ones – none of this small stuff). Backwards, too.Hand Release MerkinsReverse CrunchesRosalitas Mosey to the Walgreen’s Parking Lot for a Triple Check Pax 1: Run the perimeter of the lotPax 2:…

Garbage Plate showed up at the last second this morning to round out a perfect Triple-Check-ready nine. We took off in the gloom at 0530 ready for a new week. Here’s what happened: COP in the parking lot behind the Center for Christian Counseling : Arm Circles // Helicopters // DQs // Ukranian Soldiers // Crabcakes // Hand release merkins // LBCs// Inverted Crab Cakes // Elbow Plank // Pickle Pounders // SSHs. Mosey to Lot behind Third Church 1st & 10s: Run to the first parking space line, perform 10 Merkins, 1 Burpee, sprint to the end of the…

Sweet Sixteen, Elite Eight, Final Four… and a Perfect Dozen at a crisp Hoedown today. Here’s how we rolled: COP: Active mosey a couple times around the bus loop with high knees, butt kickers and karaoke to the teacher’s parking lot for 20xSSH, DMH, 10xHC, 10xLBC, 10x leg lifts each side & 10x crowd favorite Scorpion Kicks. Enough warm up and walked towards the glow of the Tuckahoe sign to kick things off. Big Dora: 50x Big Boy Sit-ups, 100x HRM, 150x WWII, 200x MHs, timer runs to the front school walkway and back. Various Al Gore for the six.…

At Hoedown today, I mostly recycled my standard workout. Bitch, bitch, bitch. It looks like I need to come up with something new. However, I’ll note, that for Trainer, it was all new. This is his second workout, and his first with me as Q. Warmup: Corner Parking lot: 20 SSHs, 10 Man-maker Merkins, 15 knee-ups, stretching exercise Warmup: Upper Parking lot: 20 IWs, 10 Diamond Merkins, 15 Ukrainian Hammers, stretching exercise Warmup: Corner Parking lot: 20 Ukrainian Soldiers, 10 Wide Arm Merkins, 15 Crunchy Frogs, stretching exercise Warmup: Upper Parking lot: 10 Lunges, 10 Merkins, 20 Dollies, stretching exercise…

Ten men took on the Hoedown darkness. Headlamps were not recommended. Here’s what transpired. Slaughter Starter – 10 Burpees Mosey a couple of laps around the Horseshoe. COP (IC) Don QuixotesImperial WalkersHelicoptersJazzercisesMerkinsPlankoramaScorpionsSuzanne Somers L/RFreddie Mercurys Mosey down Lindsay Dr, right on W Drive Cir to the triangle Self Dora 100 Merkins, 200 Monkey Humpers, 300 LBCs (run a lap after each 25/50/75 of the exercises– 12 laps total) Mosey back to TES parking lot Triple Check P1 – Run across parking lot, Bernie up the paved hill, run backP2 – Mountain ClimbersP3 – Imperial Squats Mosey to center of Horseshoe…

Fifteen rogue warriors creeped into The Gloom for the latest edition of The Punisher. Temperatures were disturbingly close to 70 and sunny. According to the unexpected Zing Fitter walking through our AO, the following quite possibly happened: Mosey through the TES walkways to the Third Church outdoor calisthenics lot for the COP: With 2 FNGs present, a complete, unabridged, autographed disclaimer was provided. 7s – unannounced. 6 SSHs, 1 burpee (groan). 5-2 (louder groans), 4-3, 3-4, 2-5, 1-6. Ukrainian SoldiersDQ’sIWsHillbilliesReverse crunchesFlutter kicks Mosey to the Third Church front steps for Touch-a-Pole. Partner up. First partner performs a movement and touches…

Hoedown: we had a dozen gather in the gloom at Tuckahoe. I turned on my headlamp with fresh batteries as we gathered prior to the start. This resulted in a ‘vampire terrified of light’ reaction from Handshake. Tuckahoe is pretty dark until the lights at the school turn on at 6:00 AM. EF Hutton and I have been to a lot of workouts together but this was the first time where he was here when I Q’d. Garbage Plate and Neutral came in a bit late but still found us. One of the exercises I called is labeled “LaLanne” back…

Seventeen elite gentlemen gathered in the moon-lit parking lot for today’s iteration of Hoedown. Men gathered from afar, likely due to today’s pseudo-holiday. Hitchhiker attempted to steal the Q but no one listened. YHC called let’s mosey and the PAX followed down Forest to Trinity. COP 20 SSH10 Helicopters10 Imperial Walkers10 Don Quixotes10 Merkins10 Freddie Mercuries The Thang While thinking through Q options this weekend, YHC felt like a higher intensity, cardio workout was due. Therefore, a 1K 5K was called. Partner up for 1000 exercises while your partner runs the horseshoe, to Stuart Hall, and back. Exercises were 100…

9 resilient men sloughed off the soporific haze of beer and nachos to start a new week in the right way. Ahem, to start the second day of the week in a slightly better way. Here’s what went down: Mosey to the Third Church office back lot for COP: Dead man hang // Helicopters // DQs (aborted for bad counting) // Imperial Walkers // Russian Soldiers // Copperhead Squats // Plank Jacks // Elbow plank // Pickle Pounders // APDs // LBCs // 44 SSH (not my birthday). Mosey to middle lot. Triple Check: P1 Squat Thrusters // P2: WW2s…

A quiet and lucky 13 started the week off right with a morning at Hoedown. Short stroll over to the small parking lot for COP – Helicopters, Don Quixote, SSH, Russian Soldiers, and Hillbillies. 11s in the parking lot. Exercises are Merkins and 4 count American Hammers. The form of locomotion was call by each Pax member to go over and back. Off to the grassy island around the horseshoe for PLTs – three sets of 25s. Off to the Jerkin Gym for three sets of 7. Over to the sea of blacktop for descending 4 corners: Corner 1 -…