F3 New Orleans

Author: Shooter

  • Nightmare before Christmas hangover!!

    With the dreaded sound of the alarm at 0430 Q arose still haunted by the previous Nightmares he experienced midday Sunday. While a fartsack is much easier to pull off when your not the Q for the day, consideration of pitching a curveball to a fellow F3 Brother did indeed cross my mind. However, knowing I Ehed Garfield from the Nightmare before Christmas it was most fitting to skip the snooze and commit with no excuses. Arrived hot at 0500 to 4 brethren awaiting at center court of the Marsh. Knowing we would be down one of our regulars for the day Ringo, instructions were brief and jumped right in.

    Warmup

    All IC 10 Good mornings, Toe Touches, Windmills, Butt kicks and Mummy kicks..

    Moseyed to the seawall for some Aiken legs. Consisted of 20 Squats, 20 Box jumps, 20 Leg lunges and 20 skip Jacks. R/R (3). Recovery walked a few and then moseyed to our lighted bus stop on Girard. Upon arrival we did a series of Burp O  to 10 R/R (3). Squat position down to Merkin and back to squat. This one reminded Water Pik of a lineman football drill in his distant past in which he may or may not have participated. Will need to clarify that one with some chatter at the Scramble. Moseyed back to the AO for some Bolt 45s with a little lagniappe on top. Did 4 rounds of Bolts followed by 70,80,90 and 100% sprints baseline to baseline between each set.. With 5 mins to spare we took to our six for Coconuts favorite of the day Core work. LBCs 20 IC, Hello Dolly’s 20 IC, Nolan Ryan’s each side 10 IC and finished things up with a min of Chilcut plank..

    Count, announce, COT

    👏🏻 to Coconuts for praying us out with a reminder of the season and the reasons of thankfulness!!

    👊🏻 to the PAX for keeping me accountable and allowing me to lead.. 

    ✌🏻 till the next Gloom!

  • Strangers at the Scramble!!

    The Scramble has impressed the Site Q week in and week out as of late with some great consistency. PAX have ranged from 8-10 gathering for our rountine 5k with a mix of exercises. So much so that we tend to have a PAX magically appear along the way at which another PAX Water Pik turns around to the surprise of Burgundy after about a mile in.. Conversations always prove fun and engaging with a variation of topics such as about our Saints discussing the success as of late and the need for some Fantasy football guys who need certain people to step up in future weeks as the playoffs have begun. ..

    Warmup 

    All IC of 10 Windmills, Toe Touches, Scuba Steve’s and Scorpion kicks..

    Thang 

    Journeyed the common route through the streets of Ole Beautiful Mandeville. Returning to the AO for 10 mins of a mixer of ISI, Merkin Wave, Flutter kicks, LBCs and Pull-ups. Circled up to count off and announce the future Nightmare before Christmas on 12/16 at the Mandeville Lakefront at 1300 for any PAX looking for a true punishment shared amongst brothers.. Also touching on the Crazy Ivan 1/19/19 at 2100 at which we need to pry the Hammer out of the hands of EiEi for visual inspiration to come soon..

    COT 

    Q prayed us into the day!

    Much appreciation to the F3 men who decided to flatter the Q on this Spring like Gloom before the next cold front to come!!

  • Tabata Tuesday

    Grandmas house posted a respectable 7 PAX, including an FNG on this mid 40s Gloom.. Arrived to the sights of Water Pik and Ringo stretching and preparing under the canopy of lights at the Trailhead. Quickly the PAX increased with the arrival of Coconuts and (FNG) POSH spice followed by Chewy right at 0515..  Knowing that POSH spice had been Ehed by Backdraft, Q started our warmup with intentions of hanging close to the AO for his expected late arrival.

    warmup

    20 IC SSH

    20 IC Mummy kicks ( Tanked up exclusive)

    10 IC Windmills

    15 IC Arm circles Forward/Reverse

    20 IC Butt kicks

    15 IC Overhead claps

    Thang

    Moseyed to the tunnel for our Tabata work. Instructions Upper, Lower and Core.

    First series Merkins for 25 sec work and  rest for 10 sec (8) followed by 25-30% run down the ramp stepping up to 50-60% on the flat and all out 💯 sprint back up. The youths of the PAX were quickly humbled by Coconuts ability and quickness through the tunnel.. Recovery walk back. Second series Squats and R/R the tunnel. Final series Flutter kicks and R/R tunnel. Moseyed back to the flag for 5 min of Flutter kicks while each PAX took turns running 25 yard and 50 yard suicides to closeout the beatdown..

    count off, announcements, naming of FNG, COT

    Much Appreciation to Ringo for praying us out into the day. Also on keeping his streak going at 7 in a row.. Glad to have you part of F3..

    ✌🏻Till the next Gloom

     

     

  • Calling the audible at the Marsh

    When a fellow F3 Brother gets called in early to work, it becomes necessary for an audible by the PAX to make sure we start the week off right at the Marsh..

    Arrived to the Marsh noticing Ringo ready to roll for his 6th Post in a row.. Coconuts has nailed down the exact timing of the snooze, alarm to arrival at the AO coming in at 0500 sharp…

    warmarama

    All IC to 10, Good mornings, Toe Touches, Windmills, SSH, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies and ISI 24 Jump Squats..

    Moseyed to the Lakefront for use of the Wall 15 IC Freak nasties (Steve fav) looking forward to his return, Step ups 15 IC and 15 OYO Derkins. R/R.

    Moseyed to RIPS for a little stair work. 2 PAX stayed down completing a series of Plank Jacks, lunges and Merkins as the each cycled up and down the stairs until each completed.

    Passed the baton to Coconuts for the close. Moseyed the PAX back to the court for fun and games. Bear crawled baseline to baseline, bunny hopped back 5x at which we dropped for  3 Burpees. Each PAX tried implementing Jordan or Wilkins style hops to get as few Burpees as possible. Cycled 2 rounds which proved to be enough for now with hopes of getting to 5 cycles in a future post near you. With 13 mins to spare we converged on the playground for 3,6,9 (10)

    3 pull-ups, 6 Merkins and 9 Squats in 1 min cycles..

    Met back at center court for the count, announce and COT.

    👏🏻 Once again to Ringo for the consistency in his second week of posting..

    Appreciation to Coconuts for the co-Q and taking us out in prayer…

    ✌🏻 Till the next Gloom..

     

  • Card tricks at the Marsh

    Arrived at the Marsh from the Holiday weekend with the deck of cards in hand. Looked to be a ghost town as the Q only noticed the sights of Garfield sitting in the warmth of his vehicle. Next a new vehicle the Q had not seen in post past pulls in. Out jumps our FNG at the Marsh, welcome Ringo. As he walks up to the PAX Q noticed another coming in hot. But of course a weekly AO would not be the same without the POSTmaster himself Coconuts.. Read quick disclaimer and jump into the warmup.

    15IC Imperial Walkers, SSH, Hillbillies, Smurf Jacks and Tor touches.

    YHC dispensed the instruction of how the deck would flow at multiple points throughout the workout.. Cards were worth face value  ♥️ Representing cardio, ♦️ Legs, ♣️Core and ♠️ Upper body..

    First round showed mostly ♦️ (Squats) and some ♣️ (Flutter kicks). As well as the first joker at which the FNG was offered the opportunity to chose upper or lower for a 25 count. Choosing upper we did 25 shoulder taps.. Moseyed to RIPs on the lake.

    Round 2 produced ♥️ (Sprints up and down the stairs) and a few ♦️ (Leg Lunges). Moseyed to the make shift bus stop.

    Round 3 ♥️ (Knee ups), ♦️ (Leg lunges), ♣️ (Freddie Mercury’s) and our first introduction to some Merkins. Moseyed back the court

    Final round included some ♦️ (Leg lunges), ♣️ LBCs and our 2nd joker made its appearance at which the PAX had to complete 25 pull-ups or as many as possible with the 4 mins remaining. Kudos to Coconuts completing the 25 OYO..

    At completion we circled up to learn some more about our FNG restaurateur-drummer named Ringo… talked about Matheletes beatdown from Saturday, which seemed to be interesting with varying concrete bowling balls.. Garfield shared they were up for adoption to anyone interested which tells me it’s not the last of those balls at a post near you…

    Thanks for the lead and Appreciate the commit to post brothers of F3!!

    👍🏻👊🏻💪🏻✌🏻Till the next Gloom

  • Guilt training before Glutinous activity!

    With the looming phosphate injected turkeys, pork roast, hams, yams, oyster dressings, stuffed chickens, cornbread casseroles, pecan pies, pumpkin pies, dinner rolls, etc, etc, etc awaiting us on this day. 6 PAX managed to meet in the Gloom at The Scramble to burn some pre-calories before our most glutinous performance to come later in this day of Thanksgiving. With football, couches, conversations, naps and possibly a few toddy’s ahead we were all convinced the Scramble would make for a little less guilt as we journey out into our glutinous endeavors with hopes to only add a few unwanted pounds to later shred at another beatdown..

    Began with a light warmup

    20 IC Mummy kicks

    20 IC Butt kicks

    10 IC Good mornings

    20 IC Toe Touches

    Journeyed our routine path splitting into pairs as we chatted  about the day ahead.. 👏🏻 To Jose Moreno for making his 4th Post in a row and to OD for his return at the Scramble after his Virgin Post last week.. Look forward to seeing both of you in your progression with F3 👊🏻!! Zoolander also returned for his 2nd Scramble at which he and Jose chattered early about the recent soccer contest they had played and how the next game would be different from one to the other.. Guess it had something to do with one losing and another winning the contest.. Glad to see you guys leave it on the field 😬. Q had checked the Q sheet after awakening and noticed Chewy had signed up for future Qs, which usually means a fellow PAX could post before the next Q in which he did indeed coming in hot as routine, except this time with shoes and socks already equipped.. Garfield being the kind fellow of the PAX  allowed us to keep up while holding back his own Raines.

    The return allotted some time for the PAX to take too our 6 for 20 IC Flutter Kicks, 20 IC Superman’s, 10 IC scorpion 🦂 kicks, 20 IC Putin’s (American Hammers) and 20 IC Merkins..

    Well wishes to our Q of record Bushwacker who had to audible on this Gloom!!

    Thanks to Zoolander for praying us out into this day of THANKSgiving!!!

    Always enjoy the lead!!

    👍🏻👊🏻💪🏻✌🏻 Till the next Gloom

     

     

     

  • Pre thang before Turkey day!

    The Gipper produced multiple members of the forty one club on this Gloom. With Turkey day fast approaching the Q wanted to make sure the PAX burned some unwanted calories in preparation for the gobbling of feast to be consumed in future days to come.. With many regulars out of town the Gipper still produced 5 PAX with Jose and the HAMMER making holiday week guest appearances on this brisk morning..  Arriving right on time after the gauntlet of 🚦🚥 YHC planted the flag and jumped into the warmup..

    20IC SSH

    20IC Hill Billies

    10 IC Good Mornings

    20 IC Windmills

    20 IC Toe Touches

    20 IC Butt kicks

    Moseyed to the old school house for a round of plank holds with ascending Merkins around the circle as each PAX bear crawled to and fro the flag pole to 5 and backdown. Picked up or things and moseyed to the parking garage. From the bottom we dropped for 5 Burpees back pedaling halfway up turning and sprinting to the next level and completed 10 Squats. R/R 3x to the top. Recovery walked down to the middle for cycles of 5 pull-ups at each end 4x using the rafters with Carioca, back pedaling and finishing with an all out sprint for the heart rate.. Moseyed to the south side of the court house for the finale. Broke into two groups for The W.A.S.H  series of 50 Wekins, 100 American Hammers, 150 Step ups and 200 Hip thrusts. Partners kept count as other partner Moseyed up the justice center steps with the completion of a Burpee at the top and returning to pickup the count. Moseyed back to the flag for the assist with the tables..

    Maverick started off the count with all the rest of the 41s  calling out and the senior of this day being our  elder Hammer with the sound of 43 and the reflection of actually being born before Star Wars…

    Much appreciation to the F3 brothers for posting on this holiday week as the Q prayed us out into our day..

    Thanks for the lead

    👍🏻👊🏻💪🏻✌🏻 Till the next Gloom!!

  • Saturday night social pays off at the Scramble!!

    4 PAX decided to post at the Scramble with moderate temperatures in the 30s and wind chill factor making it feel like the high 20s.. 👏🏻 Welcome to FNG “OD” for posting his first AO. With multiple EHs coming from all directions, Water Pik put the close on our new brotha at a Saturday night social that sealed the deal.. Knowing the crowd would be a little lighter as hibernation season approaches YHC started right in not expecting any late arrivals..

    Warmup

    10 IC Good mornings

    10IC Windmills

    20 IC Butt kicks

    20 IC Imperial Walkers

    20 IC High knees

    thang

    Moseyed the course splitting into pairs and striking conversation along the way.. Learning more about your brethren as you go through a beatdown is one of the things this YHC enjoys the most about F3.. Remembering where we came from and the joys of life we have experienced as we continue the journey of life.. Appreciate the conversation Garfield..

    Upon return, we hop over to the new fitness section of the park to get some use out of  the new equipment our tax dollars recently purchased. First up we did 20 IC Freak nasties, 3 pax then took to their 6 for LBCs as each man cycled through 5 pull-ups returning and then a round of Flutter kicks with another 5 pull-ups. As promised to a few at the Marsh on Monday the PAX closed out with some Yoga stretch. Down dog alternating calf stretch, inner lizard 🦎 stretch and outer 🦎 stretch closing with 🦂 kicks IC 20 and reach backs for the Hammies..

    COT, naming of “OD”, announcements

    Q prayed us out into the day!!

    Appreciate the lead men, until the next Gloom!!

    👍🏻👊🏻💪🏻✌🏻

  • EHing in the Gloom at Grandmas House!!

    Theee PAX embarked on the Chilly and Wet Grandmas House with no Q on the board. After brief discussions we decided on a round robin of sorts with the YHC typing up the blast and contributing to the warmup.  A fellow man  appeared from under the staircase at the Trailhead looking like someone wanting to get in on a beatdown as an FNG as I yelled out “join us.” Briefing with the disclaimer we jumped into it as our visitor called  “Driftwood” accompanied us with the warmup. Then as we began to Mosey to the tunnel he reverted back to the stairwell.. One doesn’t always know of another’s situation, however it’s always worth extending the gesture even when unsure..

     

    Warmup

    15 IC Windmills

    15 IC Good mornings

    30 IC Imperial walkers

    30 IC Butt kicks

    15 IC Arm circles front/back

     

    Passed the baton to Bushwacker as we Moseyed to the tunnel. Upon arrival Bushwacker instructed the PAX of reps 25,100,150,200. Not sure of the counting formula here but effective it proved to be..

    With only 3 men one would jog to the bottom and sprint to the top on the other side while each man completed OYO to the counts representing Burpees, LBCs, Merkins and Squats as each man completed the journey down and back up returning where one had left off of their own count.  Taking us to 3 mins remaining upon completion by all Moseyed back to the AO..

    COT, countarama, announcements

    Thanks to Bushwacker for praying us out and most importantly offering thoughts to our recently brief meeting of  “Driftwood”

    Appreciate the beatdown this morning men and see you at the next Gloom..

    👍🏻👊🏻💪🏻✌🏻

  • Grandmas Century club!!

    Grandmas house produced 3 PAX on this Gloom. Having introduced the Millennial at the Gipper last Wednesday I figured Mandeville’s AO could use a dose of something similar, so the Q dove into the exercise list and spotted Four corners escalated.

    Warmup

    15 IC WM

    15 IC GM

    20 IC SSH

    20 IC BK

    20 IC Forward/Reverse AC

    20 IC HKnees

    Moseyed around the corner to the Treen center for the explanation of our beatdown. Consisted of only 4 exercises escalating  around the building as we stopped at each corner. Example first exercise  was the Merkin 10, 20, 30 and 40 on the last corner. Second was the Flutter kick. Third Squats and the finale the Burpee.. Doing the count equals a 💯 per exercise hence the name Century provided by Coconuts as we worked our way to completion. Q felt as though the beatdown was successful upon the panting of his own breath. With 8 mins remaining we recovery walked around the corner back to the AO finishing with a casual Mosey.. Needing 4 mins for the closing of our beatdown the Q introduced a little music inspired by Maverick and Grundy on previous leads. “Let the Bodies hit the floor” by Drowning Pool was the selection. While holding plank when they said let the bodies hit the floor each PAX would complete a donkey kick and when each number was mentioned it represented a Merkin. Total 26 Donkey kicks and 21 additional Merkins upon completion.. Butt Splice mentioned how the song seemed forever and no one could deny his obvious observation..

    Counted off, announcements COT

    Q prayed us out into the day!

    Appreciate the post and allowing me to lead my Century Brothers!!

    👊🏻👍🏻✌🏻