04/17/2025 Hogan’s Heros – Impromptu 3rd Anniversary of Hogan’s Heroes

April 17, 2025

WHEN: 04/17/2025
QIC: Pumpkin
PAX: Nightshift (respect!), OC (respect!), Bearclaw (respect!), Laces Out, Elwood, Squatch (respect!), Balki, IcedTea
ME HEADCOUNT: 9
EC HEADCOUNT: 5
COFFETERIA HEADCOUNT: 8

In preparing for today's workout, I went through the backblasts for 2022, looking for the various ways the early Qs utilized the layout. Some Qs will occasionally do a neighborhood mosey string of pearls, and there are some fun features scattered around the area, YHC decided to keep it on site and focus on some of the key spots. Below is how it turned out.

WARMUP:
Similar to many of YHC normal warmups, with a couple variations in the exercise or count based on what previous Qs had done.
Side Shuffle Hop (20 IC) – @Vice 3/31/22
https://f3churham.com/inaugural-workout-for-hogans-heroes/
Willie Mays Hayes (10 tempo) – @Elwood 4/14/22
https://f3churham.com/04-14-2022-hogans-heros-testing-out-the-new-site/
Hillbilly Squat (10 IC) – @Nightshift 5/12/22 (with a demonstration to make sure we got the cadence correct).
https://f3churham.com/05-12-2022-hogans-heros-day-late/
Imperial Walker (10 IC) – @Balki 5/26/22
https://f3churham.com/05-26-2022-hogans-heros-pool-season-is-pull-season-and-may-should-be-merkins-month/
Harvester (9 IC) – @Loverboy 8/25/22
https://f3churham.com/08-25-2022-hogans-heros-no-music-but-your-heartbeat/
High Knees (15 IC) – @Golden Boy 9/1/22
https://f3churham.com/09-01-2022-hogans-heros-pyramids-of-lake-hogan-farms-unearthed/
Squat – (10 tempo) – @Spud 10/27/22
https://f3churham.com/10-27-2022-hogans-heros-mc-scat-cat-fox-holes-on-a-thursday-morning/
THE THANG:
Courtesy of Vice from the soft launch workout, mosey over to the playground for a pull up/monkey humper circuit. Pair up, and swap max pull ups while the other pax does monkey humpers. Keep swapping exercise until each PAX has had 3 rounds of each. There was some lively mumblechatter about the origins of Hogan's Heroes, why it was at the Clubhouse (vs the alternate Morris Grove location), and how it got it's name (credit to Laces Out for a great callback to a classic show!).( https://f3churham.com/inaugural-workout-for-hogans-heroes/ )

Mosey back to start for a snippet of a Nightshift burner.
5 Burpees, 10 Merkins, 15 Dry Docks, 20 lunges, 25 squats, 30 LBCs (he did this as an escalator with a bear crawl lap between each round…glad we only had time for a quick glance haha. https://f3churham.com/05-12-2022-hogans-heros-day-late/ )

Paula Abdul (discussion about if this should be Abdul Paula) – Bear Crawl 2 parking spaces, 1 crawl bear back. Repeat until we reach the stairs leading to the basketball courts.
https://f3churham.com/10-27-2022-hogans-heros-mc-scat-cat-fox-holes-on-a-thursday-morning/

On the courts, a modified version of a @knope tabata style workout. His initial workout had 45 seconds on, 10 off, 45 seconds on for each exercise. We pared it down to 30/10/30 for time, and limited it to 4 select exercises (Squat, Alternating Shoulder taps, American Hammers, and Inch Worm Merkins) from his list of 16(!).
https://f3churham.com/06-30-2022-hogans-heros-sweat-puddles-on-the-sport-court/

Staying on the basketball court, we did a modified version of a ricky bobby courtesy of @loverboy. All PAX line up along the side line and start to do mountain climbers. Last PAX does a bear crawl to the front. Keep doing mountain climbers until the PAX that started at the front is at the front again, then switch to Flutter kicks. Continue the ricky bobby crawl for 4 minutes, adding in plank jacks once Squatch got to the front again.
https://f3churham.com/08-25-2022-hogans-heros-no-music-but-your-heartbeat/
Mosey up to the parking lot for a @Golden Boy legarama pyramid. Between each exercise, do a sprint up to the first island and bernie sanders back. Leg exercises were as follows (with debate about hand movement on the ballerina squat)
Bonnie Blair – 5 cadence count
Ballerina Squat – 10
Sumo Squat – 15
Johnny Drama – 20 cadence count

With just a few minutes left, we mosey to start for Mary

MARY:
Spud 10/27/22
https://f3churham.com/10-27-2022-hogans-heros-mc-scat-cat-fox-holes-on-a-thursday-morning/
10 Foxholes (2 WWII & 1 Merkin)
10 Flutters (IC)
10 Hello Dollies (IC)

ANNOUNCEMENTS / COT:
Nightshift welcomed all to join his Church on Sunday for Easter service. He paraphrased a Food Lion analogy comparing it to F3, encouraging the PAX to come check it out.
Laces Out and Iced Tea mentioned how this was an appropriate impromptu celebration of Hogans Heroes with the 3rd Anniversary of the site happening just the other week, while lots of PAX were busy with Spring Break. YHC didn't realize the timing when the plan for this homage Q was built, but is humbled that it worked out this well.
Quoting Nightshift from a previous COT YHC stumbled across, I reiterated his message of one of the purposes of COT and F3 in general: support for each other. There are times a COT has no announcements or prayer requests, and perhaps it's because everything is going great in the PAX's lives, but we should remember that we are here to help each other improve ourselves. And one of the best ways to do that is to reach out for support when going through something. Nightshifts original message included a comment about how a rope with 3 strands is hard to break, so let's all accept the help of the other stands in our F3 brotherhood. Aye!