A dirty dozen left the fartsack to embrace an anniversary beat down on this fine October morning. COP – Mosey to the front of the school Arm Circles Don Quixote Hillbillies DRMs Crab Cakes First order of business – 11s! Box jumps on the front steps Abyss Merkins on the bike rack Drop down to the visitor parking lot for the following: 20 right oblique crunches 20 PLTs 20 left oblique crunches 20 PLTs Back to the field of darkness, lining up along the long side of the field. Anhinga half way (army crawl with burpee popup every 10 paces)…

8 middle aged dudes who like to think of themselves as warriors shook off the pull of the fartsack to post for a celebration of several things.  The air was full of mist and the air was cool…..perfect conditions for a Fudd beatdown.  Here’s how it went down, more or less: COP SSH x 41 Helicopters x 10 Don Quixote x 10 Merican x 15 Crunchy Frogs x 10 LBC x 20 Arm Circles x 30 (15 forward, 15 backward) 31 burpees OYO 10 count from Splinter and then mosey to the visitor’s parking lot for curb crawls, south…

15 warriors resisted the fart sack  this morning and posted for a great start to the week.  Here’s how it went down: 9 Burpees = represents the number of points the Skins scored yesterday while being defeated. COP: Side Straddle Hop Copperhead Squats Merkins LBC’s Flutter Kicks Thang: Quick lap around the neighborhood and back to the parking lot hill (going up to the blacktop).  Taking a page out of EF Hutton’s playbook we did the following: Partner up:  Partner 1 does Bernie Sanders (Run backwards up, and run forward back down) 3 times while P2 performs Merkins and Burpees.  Then…

Fifteen faithful found their way in the dark to Hoedown to find things back to the normal school routine: Cop – SSH, Don Qs, Scorpion kicks, Merkins, Flutterkicks, Hillbillies. Redskins tribute: 24 Burpees for 24 pts in their win yesterday. Mosey to Blacktop for 4 Corners: 10 V-Ups, 20, Hand Release Merkins, 30 Jump Squats, 40 WWII Situps. Partner up- Wheelbarrow width of blacktop, each man twice. Head to field- 2 sets of sprints up n back. Then 3 sets of PLTs. Partners head to wall. 3 rounds of altnerating Donkey Kicks while other runs field, 5 pull ups and…

12 athletic behemoth PAX and the Fireman showed up to witness the Fireman’s second q on a low 70s humid morning. Even though I am a Jets fan, I am excited about football season coming upon us in 6 days for college and 10 for NFL.  Our exercise routine went a little something like this: Warm up:  In honor of Spinal Tap, 11 Don quixotes, 11 helicopters; then 20 Side Straddle hops, 20 Freddie Mercurys and 10 forward arm circles and 10 backward arm circles. First exercise:  Mosey to parking lot at corner of ridge and forest, partner one lunges with the partner…

The Great Eight posted for a Monday workout and here is what they got. COP 10 Burpees – Welcome back from vacation!  A gift from YHC to YHC (and the Pax) Helicopters Imperial Walkers Don Quixote HRM (or DRM at the Hoedown) LBC Mosey down Lindsey and ford the stream to Dogwood Park. Perform the Anhinga across the field.  YHC crafted this exercise after watching this bird in its natural element.  We performed the following in our interpretation:  Army crawl 10 paces and launch into a burpee.  Repeat until you have traversed the field and perform SSH. Triple Check! Karaoke…

9 hardened veterans in total showed up at Hoedown this morning.  Thankfully the rain ended last night and the morning was actually not bad at 69 degrees and humid. The Fireman started things off promptly at 5:30 which seemed to surprise Garbage Plate and Bodos. The hoedown went a little something like this: Warm up:  20 Side Straddle hops, 20 Don Quixotes, 20 Arm Circles and 20 Mercans Mosey to one of the nearby parking lot on Forest asked the PAX the last time the Jets won a SuperBowl and the answer was 1969.  As a result we did 19…

11 Warriors attacked Hoedown in the dark gloom this morning.  Condition were 70, Sunny and Humid!  This is what went down: COP: Invisible Jump Ropes x 15 Don Quixotes x 15 Helicopters x 15 LBC’s x 15 Carolina Dry Docks x15 Mosey back to YHC’s truck and collect coupons (2 x bricks) Thang: Head down Lindsay Ct to the bottom and commence SUPER 21’s with Coupons 1 x Merkin/1 x WWII/1 x Squat 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x Butt Kickers up Lindsay with coupons held high 6x, 7x, 8x, 9x, 10x High Knees up Lindsay with coupons held high 11x,…

Six hoe regulars convened in the bus loop, waiting for the rain.  No one signed up so we stole from Batteau this AM and hot potato’d it.  Once the rain started, off we went to the front of the school for: COP (Splinter) Invisible Jumpropes – 25 Copperhead Squats – 25 Don Quixotes – 10 Mountain Climbers – 20ish Merkins – 10 The Thang Splinter continued from COP and we mosey’d over to the bus drop off lane for an impromptu series of polar bears.  Polar bear lunge the length of the bus lane, jump squatting after 5 lunges.  Turn…

5 RVA regulars and an out of town visitor sat in their cars for the light show until 0529 and jumped out to get the beatdown going.  As YHC contemplated what to do in case of lightning at an AO only visited once in the middle of the night the rain started to slow. THANG A few flashes took the warmup under the metal awning held up by metal posts, maybe not the best place but better than out in the open.  DQ, Helicopters, SSH, Alternating Shoulder Taps, LBC. Mosey to the corner of the blacktop for Compounding Four Corners.…