Author: EIEI

Alright, so what’s worse (or better???) than one guy way older than you who can easily smoke you in a workout??  Yes, two!

YHC rolled up to the AO, under the watchful eye of Ronaldus Magnus and observed a man, the appearance of whom was eerily reminiscent to that of Turbo Tax.  Sure enough, this was our FNG for today; the first FNG to post at the Covington Trailhead I might add.  He and Turbo have been buddies for years, and they are either identical twins or they just look like identical twins.  Either way.

THE THANG

Warmup, proximal to Gipper

1. SSH x 20 IC
2. Hillbillies x 20 IC
3. Merks x 10 IC
4. Seal Jacks x 20 IC

Mosey to Justice Center – distal to Gipper

1. Jog down steps
2. Sprint to end of quad (50 yards). Lunge walk to Station 1 for
3. Right Leg Stepups x 10. Lunge walk to Station 2 for
4. Left Leg Stepups x 10. Lunge walk to Station 3 for
5. Box Jumps x 10
6. Run back up steps
7. Jog down steps
8. Sprint to end of quad (50 yards). Lunge walk to Station 1 for
9. Freak Nastos x 10.  Lunge walk to Station 2 for
10. Derkins x 10. Lunge walk to Station 3 for
11. ? x 10
12. Run back up steps
13. Jog down steps
14. Sprint to end of quad (50 yards). Lunge walk to Station 1 for
15. Squats x 10. Lunge walk to Station 2 for
16. Split lunge jumps x 10. Lunge walk to Station 3 for
17. Freak NasTAAAAAYs x 10
18. Run back up steps

Plankorama

1. Plank and hold
2. Man maker left hand high
3. Man maker right hand high
4. Plank shoulder taps x 20 IC
5. Right leg high
6. Left leg high
7. 2 Merkins
8. Man maker left hand high
9. 2 Merkins
10. Man maker right hand high

Mosey to other side of Justice Center

YHC requests a 10 count to avoid Splashing Merlot

YHC then announces Jack Webbs will be next, and also that Turbo explain to FNG so that YHC may continue Merlot Spashing Avoidance (MSA).

Jack Webbs. 1:2 Merk to shoulder press ratio.  Reps from 1 up to 10.

Typical mumble chatter about how that’s harder than it sounds.

Mosey to Armed Services Memorial; YHC requests another count for MSA purposes (is there really any other purpose for a count?)

Irkins x 10

Squat Jumps x 10

Irkins x 9

Squat Jumps x 9

etc, descending reps to 1.

Mosey to Ronaldus (shovel flag dutifully left in truck) for Mary:

1. LBC x 30 IC
2. Freddy Merc’s x 20 IC
3. Vladimir-The-Tiger-Whisperer-Putin’s x 15 IC

Namorama.

Welcome, Blackbird.  Way to be in better shape than I am at 20 years my senior.  Respect.

The usual PAX  posted for a Tuesday morning workout.  We have noticed some chicks also showing up around 5:15am at the trailhead, most certainly in a (weak) attempt to execute their “version” of an F3 workout.  Nice try ladies.  Although you will not be allowed to post with us, you can observe our manliness.  We are cool with that.

Speaking of manliness, Nacho treated us to some exceptionally enlightening mumblechatter this morning wherein he described a particularly successful point system (excel-based, of course) he uses to, well – how shall one say? – hmm, how SHALL one say? – …remain manly.  Nice job Nacho.  Whatever it takes man.  Whatever it takes.

 

The Thang

Warmup

1. Three laps around trailhead
2. SSH IC x 20
3. IW IC x 20
4. Merkins IC  x 10

Mosey to stage/amphitheater for:

1. Crabwalk up hill; 8 box jumps from high side of platform (man jumps)
2. Run down hill; people’s throne with 20 air presses
3. Crabwalk up hill; 6 box jumps from high side of platform (man jumps)
4. Run down hill; people’s throne with 20 air presses
5. Crabwalk up hill; 4 box jumps from high side of platform (man jumps)
6. Run down hill; people’s throne with 20 air presses
7. Crabwalk up hill; 2 box jumps from high side of platform (man jumps)
8. Run down hill; people’s throne with 20 air presses

Mosey to shovel flag for:

1. Lunge walk 25-30 yards
2. Jog back to flag
3. Rinse & repeat 2 more times

Mosey down the trace for two blocks, out and back.  Half a block back pedaling, half a block moseying.  Stop at each block for:

1. Hillbillies IC x 15
2. Carolina Dry Docks IC x 10
3. Smurf squats IC x 10 (awkweeeeeerrrdd)
4. Sprint back to trailhead

Mary

1. LBC IC x 30
2. Heels to Heaven IC x 20 (?)
3. Captain Thors with Putin/Situp ratio 2:1.  Increasing situp reps from 1 to 6.  Killer.

Countdown, Namorama, COT.

Nice VQ, Sea Bass.

My wife makes me watch Dr. Phil and Big Brother.  I’m ok with that.  Fortunately she does not make me watch QVC.  The relevance of this little tidbit will be revealed in the text following this preamble.

It was good to see a young FNG out on the lakefront Saturday morning.  Green Mile brought his 16 yr old son and, following F3 Northshore tradition/protocol/requirement, his name is….wait for it…..Chris.  Big surprise.

THE THANG (note: all moseys are of distances ranging from 10 to 20 yards, max)

Mosey

Warmup, prime number reps (fate or design? you decide)

1. SSH IC x 11
2. IW IC x 13
3. Squat Jumps x 17 IC

Tabata #1

1. Bicep curl with those adjustable dumbell thingies that you can prolly buy on QVC.  Look: http://www.qvc.com/Bowflex-1090-Dumbbell-Pair.product.F247294.html
2. Gazebo Freak Nasties
3. Jump rope, definitely a good QVC find: http://www.qvc.com/Gofit-Pro-Cable-Jump-Rope—9-Ft.product.F248065.html
4. TRX lat pulls.  Can you get this on QVC?  Duh. http://www.qvc.com/TRX-Essential-Suspension-Trainer-Kit-with-DVDs.product.F11929.html

Mosey

Tabata #2

1. QVC Jump Rope
2. QVC Dumbell Shoulder Press
3. Stepups
4. Merkins
5. Albert Gore, Vice President and Global Warming Alarmist/Profiteer.  Click here to purchase his DVD, the production of which exacerbates global warming: http://www.qvc.com/An-Inconvient-Truth—DVD-(Widescreen).product.E171588.html

Mosey

Lt. Dans

Mosey

Tabata #3

1. TRX (QVC) Bicep curls
2. Plank
3. QVC Dumbell Tricep Extensions
4. Plank Shoulder Taps

Mosey

Plankorama

1. Plank and hold
2. Man makers, left and right
3. Superman, left and right
4. Other plank insanity, cant remember because I was dying.

Mosey

Mary

1. Captain Thor

 

Countdown, Namorama, COT, Coffeteria.

Great workout Nacho.

Three men gathered in the presence of Ronald Reagan’s statue, and it began.  TurboTax volunteered YHC to Q, and YCH accepted.  Since the Gip prefers to watch Mary as opposed to warmup, we moseyed to the Justice Center to commence warmup:

THE THANG

SSH x 20, Jump Squats  x 20, Seal Jacks (new fave) x 20, Obligatory IW’s x 20, all IC

Mosey to top of steps for:

1. Jog down steps
2. Sprint to end of square
3. Lunge walk to first set of benches for 15 freak nasties OYO
4. Lunge walk to second set of benches for 10 Dirkins OYO
5. Lunge walk to third set of benches for 10 box jumps OYO
6. Jog back up steps

Rinse & Repeat

After first rinse and repeat, YHC had pure and honest intentions to rinse/repeat a third time.  YHC instructed the PAX to plank, and each man do a 20 count, for a total of 60 seconds of plank.  Nacho took the first 20 count, and then, in a most presumptuous, assertive and unexpected manner, commenced the first ever (to my knowledge) Hijacking Of The Q.

THE HIJACK THANG

Starting where we left off, at the end of the 20 count plank…

1. Man maker left hand high 30 count
2. Man maker right hand high 30 count
3. Right leg high 30 count
4. Left left high 30 count
5. Right arm high 30 count
6. Left arm high 30 count
7. Shoulder plank taps x 20 IC (this is great, thx Nacho)
8. Shoulder plank taps with Merks x 10 IC
9. Plank Walk-Around-The-Clock (I propose this exercise be coined “The Fonz”) – 2 revolution right, 2 revolutions left

Shoulders are now completely melted.

Tabata time, each exercise 20 secs with 10 sec break x 4

1. Jump squats
2. Freak Nastiness (one of the PAX, to remain unnamed, was reminded not to turn tabata into vujana)
3. Step ups (2 right leg, 2 left leg)
4. Decline box jumps with a long jump after (Don’t ask.  Just know its hard.)

Mosey back to the Gip for quick suicides consisting of 3, 5, 10 yards, x 3

Countdown, Namorama, COT

No Mary; sorry Gip.

Great workout.  Nice hijack Nacho, it was killer!!

EiEi

Nice morning at the Mandeville Trailhead, not too hot, but certainly humid.  In lieu of a warmup, Nacho and YHC bared their chests, exposing total manliness, the magnitude of which was admired by all the PAX.

THE THANG

1. Run up tower steps for 5 burpies, run down tower steps for 10 squat jumps.
2. Mosey to stage for Jack Webbs with Nacho-requested 4 (yes, four):1 air press/Merkin ratio, all the way up to 9 Merks.
3. Mosey to concrete benches for jump lunges x 10, followed by freak nasties x 10.  Rinse,repeat.
4. Mosey to big green box (which serves as the soundboard man’s platform for live performances at the amphitheater) for box jumps x 10 OYO, followed by Irkins IC x 10.

Mosey back to tower.  Mosey around the Old Rail block (alternating with backpedaling, thanks TurboTax), stopping at two corners for seal jacks x 20(?) IC and Hillbillies x 15(?) IC.

Mosey back to tower.  Rinse and Repeat 1 thru 4 above. Then mosey along trace to Marigny Ave (again, alternating with backpedaling).  Sprint back to Girod Street along Trace.  TClaps to Nacho for killing the sprint.  No Merlot, sadly, but close.

Back to shovel flag for some quick Mary: LBC x 31 IC, flutter kicks x 21 IC, Vladimir-the-Tiger-Wrestler Putins x 12 IC.

Namorama, COT.

 

 

I showed up solo at the Covington Trailhead at 0600.  The morning gloom was burning off; the rising sun and the bronzen Gipper were my company.  After staring at the Gipper until 0605, I worked out by myself.

THE THANG

30 SSH IC

30 IW IC

30 Peter Parker IC

 

Mosey to Justice Center for:

• Run up/down courthouse steps
• Run to 1st bench for 10 left leg stepups
• Lunge walk (thx Turbo tax)  to 2nd bench for 10 Freak Nasties
• Lunge walk to 3rd bench for 10 Freak Irkins
• Lunge walk to 4th bench for 10 right leg stepups
• Lunge walk to 5th bench for 10 Freaks Nasties
• Lunge walk to 6th bench for 10 Irkins
• Rinse and Repeat 3 times

Mosey to parking garage.  Sprint up ramps, slow jog on flat decks all the way to top.

At top, Jack Webbs with Nacho-patented 3/1 shoulder press/merkin ratio.  From 1 to 10 reps.

Run back down ramps to back of Justice Center.

10 more Irkins.

Mosey back to the Gip.

Zero Mary.  I was lonely, don’t judge.

 

The usual PAX posted to a new AO for a trial run/scouting workout at the Koop Drive Trailhead on the St. Tammany Trace.  I hate to give away the ending, but yea, it wasn’t that great.  We can do better.

Chewy, although technically not late, arrived at 5:15 on the dot avec socks but sans shoes.  If he can show up with both socks and shoes on (and yes, tied) it will be a Christmas Miracle.

THE THANG (most of this will only be mildly accurate, certainly out of order, or completely false)

2 laps around locked playground containing plentiful apparatuses (apparatii??) on which we could not do upper body exercises.

Burpee suicides.  5, 10, and 15 yards with 15, 10, and 5 burpees, respectively, at each Solo Cup (read: cone).  Note: these were the shortest suicide distances ever, in recorded history.

 

Mosey to pavilion for:

Frankenstein (Nazi/Kim Jung Un/insert living/dead despot or regime) march – 20 yards

Over/Under hurdles – 20 yards

SSH x 13 IC

IW x 13 IC

Merks x 13 IC

 

Mosey aimlessly looking for somewhere to COP.  Ended up near a Coke machine and the Men’s Room.

 

Rotating Circle of: Stepups, weird handstand thing against metal door, Iron Cross.  Two cycles completed whilst the guy on stepups did 10 per leg.

 

Mosey back to pavilion for the following x 2:

HFUAB (hang from underneath a bench) – 10 second count

Freak Nasties x 20 IC

Derks x 6

 

Mumblechatter about how this place sucks.

 

Back to Coke Machine/Men’s Lou for:

Modified Iron Cross whereby man on ground holds ankles of guy standing up; guy standing up pushes ground guy’s legs back and forth; all the while ground guy tries not to let his legs touch ground.  I am sure there is a name for this, but our experience today would indicate that we should name it the Man Sieve (basically, it separates the Men from the Boys.  Today’s verdict: Nacho is a man.  Chewy and EiEi, not so much).

I feel like I’m leaving out about 20 Merks, so just asume 20 more were done at some point.  I need to get better at making a mental note of the thang, otherwise these BB’s will eventually evolve into complete fiction.

Did I mention this place sucked?  We even forgot to do COT.  We just left.  But, we got a great workout in while most of the city fartsacked.  That, in and of itself, is a good thing!

 

EiEi

 

 

Four men, gloom, a flag and a shovel. Notable: Toots wasn’t late, and Chewy arrived with shoes on, although not tied. Baby steps.

This was Toots inaugural Q. Hats off, almost a smoke fest. Started off with some mumble chatter about something. Then Toots shut it down promptly to begin the beatdown.

It started innocently enough with 2 laps around the Mandeville Trailhead Swap Meet Pavillion (note: capital letters do not necessarily indicate official name of structure); each lap approximately 400 yards as posited by Nacho. Then:

SSH x 20something IC

Hamstring string stretches

Quad stretches

SPS Suicides x 10, consisting of:

4 suicides of progressively increasing distance from 10 yards to 50 yards

10 LBC (Sit-ups)

10 Merkins (Push-ups)

10 Jump Squats (Squats)

Note: Parenthetical capital letters indicate SPS.  I guess this should have actually been called LMJ Suicides, but whatever.

Did I mention that this was x 10??

COT

Namorama

Prayer

 

Nice job Toots  I will have my revenge next Q.

 

EiEi