Eleven eager men came out to Hoedown for the start of Super Bowl week.  38 degrees felt warm to many PAX some were still having flashbacks to last week’s 14 degree Phonics beatdown.  We did: COP:  SSH, Imperial Walkers, Don Qs, Merkins, Flutterkicks, Hillbillies. Head to Bodos parking lot:  5,10, 15, 20 of:  HRMs and V-Ups.  Then 2 sets of 30 Wilson’s Boxing Dying Cockroaches (time for a better and shorter name!) Head to other lot for 4 corners of:  10 Burpees, 20 HRMs, 30 Jump Squats, 40 WWII Situps. Bear crawl between each corner.  Mosey to TES back field,…

Eight men including 4 with bare knees posted at Tuckahoe Elementary School for an 18 degree beatdown on Martin Luther King Day.  This is what occurred. COP 30 SSH IC 10 Lunges IC 20 Smurf Jacks IC 10 Don Quixotes IC 15 One Leg Lunges IC then rotate to other leg for 15 IC Arm Circles – 10 small, 5 big IC  – Reverso 10 Ball Dippers IC 10 Merkins IC 10 Angled Knee Jumps IC 10 Plank Jacks IC 10 Mountain Climbers IC 20 LBC IC 20 Flutter Kicks IC 20 APDs IC 10 Burpees OYO Mosey to Blacktop…

YHC arrived on the frozen tundra AO to find no one.  While walking down the road, he heard the sound of Saab’s Land Rover round the bend, but alas, it was only a snow plow dropping salt. Handshake shows and then BT and off we go on the prime winter wonderland. COP on the upper blacktop Don Quixote Russian Soldiers SSH Leg Lifts – right over left Leg Lifts – left over right Scrum, Dr Tryhard, and Escobar come in hot and join us. Ascending, Incremental 4 Corners – on the upper black top Run to corner 1 and 10…

We have 18 strong PAX including yours truly; that includes 3 FNGs which is awesome.  We went to work on a somewhat mild winter morning. Workout went something like this: Warm up:  16 Side straddle hops (in honor of the Bears score, poor Cody Parkey), 15 forward arm circles, 15 backward arm circles, 20 LBCs and 25 Freddie Mercuries First Exercise:  Mosey to the Rite Aid after figuring out how to best navigate the Ridge Road crossing.  Do 4 corners – start with 10 burpees, then next corner 10 burpees and 20 WWIIs, then 10 burpees, 20 WWIIs, 30 jump squats, and…

12 strong decided to send off the 2018 gloom with a tour of Westham and a review of the year of Hoedown.  5:25am and Phonics appears and surprises everyone with the “cross-town” trip.  5:28am and Mr. Holland arrives one minute early.  5:30am and it’s time to mosey to the front of the school for: COP: Don Quixote x 12 SSH x 31 Copperhead Squats x 20 LBC’s x 18 12/31/2018 Mosey down Ridge Road to the Trinity Methodist parking lot.  There were two VQ’s at Hoedown this year.  Fireman Ed had one of them.  Fireman Ed is a J-E-T-S fan…

17 Strong including 2 FNG’s and a visitor from Charlotte arrived at Tuckhoe Elem this morning to burn some calories before Christmas. This how it when down Mosey to the front of the school COP (ALL IC) – SSH, DQ, Hillbillies, Merkins, LBC’s, Dying Cockroach, Arm Circles THANG Mosey to blacktop Suicide Dora – Partner up, 1st partner completes exercise while 2nd partner doing a suicide. Switch, Rinse, and Repeat. Exercises: 100 Merkins, 200 LBC’s, 300 Squats Mosey to the playground field 4 Corners – 10 Burpees, 20 Merkins, 30 WWII Sit-ups, 40 SSH 4 Corners (Reverse) – 40 SSH,…

13 strong posted at Hoedown on a foggy Monday morning. THANG Mosey to the back office lot for a warmup of 20xSSH, 10xMK, 20xLBC, 15x Hillbillies Mosey to the circle of Paris Ridge.   En route we honored 16 Redskin points with 16 strong burpees. Partner up for a trip up the Ridge, trading off for inchworm Merkins and Bernie runs.    Celebrated at the top with two sets of PLT x20. Return to Tuckahoe for four sets x8 of Jerkins and a four corners extravaganza in the back lot – 20x WWII, FK, Carolina Dry Docks & Burpees, then…

What started out as an Awesome Eight evolved into a Fine Nine with Mr Holland LIFO’d in. Mosey to the Horseshoe for COP. Helicopters Arm Circles Imperial Walkers HRM Freddie Mercuries Over the the edge of the horseshoe and wheelbarrow across the infield.  5 Derkins and reverse with partner for the return trip. Triple Check! – Partner 1 high knees around the horseshoe, Partner 2 does Donkey Kicks, Partner 3 does Flutter Kicks. Over the teacher’s lot adjacent to Lindsay for Lindsays. American Hammers/Copperhead Squats Lunge over, backward lunge back Back to the playground field where Mr.  Holland mysteriously joined…

8 Trumpeteers and one conductor struck up the band for a unseasonably warm rendition of the soundtrack to “The Gloom.”  A few of the high notes included: Mosey to the corner of West Drive and Beechwood for the COP.  Exercises were something like: SSHs x19 LBCs x24 Merkins x8 Hillbillies x21 Mosey onto Westham Parkway and back to the parking lot. Curb Crawls of Pain: Round 1: Bear crawl across bus loop, at first curb 5 merkins, then Army crawl across grass, then 5 merkins, then bear crawl across bus loop. 5 merkins.  Reverso. Round 2: Crawl bear, 5 merkins,…