F3 New Orleans

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  • Soggy Morning Beat Down

    F3 Northshore officially is back in business. Sixteen PAX posted to the reopened Mandeville Lakefront Saturday morning for a beat down, and a soggy morning beat down it was.

    After a Warmup consisting of:

    Imperial Walkers 20x, Merkins 10x, Windmills 20x, Plank Jacks 20x, Copperhead Squats 20x, Mountain Climbers 20x, Hillbillies 20x, all IC, and with 10 Burpees OYO tacked on at the end

    the PAX walked Eastward down the Lakefront for a bout of Dora 1-2-3

    (It should be noted at this point that at least one PAX, namely Russo, was primed to mosey and visibly was disappointed in the walk. Apparently Russo has made good use of his COVID 19 break to become a runner. Don’t worry, Russo, you will have your chance to shine, and T claps to you for improving yourself while the rest of us have been eating ice cream on the couch. (And by “the rest of us,” I mean YHC)).

    Back to the Dora 1-2-3:

    We partnered up and together did 100 shoulder taps with feet elevated on the sea wall, 200 airplanes, and 300 OH hand claps, all with a four count and making our way to the street and back to relieve our partner by rotating low and slow side shuffles with 45 degree angled low and slow walks. This one ended up going on longer than YHC projected on account of the four count so we called it a bit early, right before Tanked Up’s head exploded from counting, and moved on down the Lakefront.

    Circling up we did hit 10x hand release Merkins, 10x Nolan Ryans each side, 10x flutter kicks, 10 more hand release Merkins, 10x Jane Fondas each side, 10x wife pleasers (with Hammer demonstrating perfect form), 10x more more hand release Merkins, 10x jackhammers each side, and 10x Freddy Mercuries. Then it was time for a Merkins wave and an Al Gore hold/squat jump wave with Akbar wrapping us up each set at the magic number 113. 10 burpees OYO and then it was time to walk back towards the shovel flag.

    Stopped along the sea wall for Bulgarian split squats 25x IC each leg. If you are sore today, thank Steve. YHC did not know these exercises existed until he introduced them and made them his standby exercise. So it’s Steve’s fault.

    We then made our way back to the flag for a set of A-B-C-D abs and some final burpees.

    Countorama, nameorama, and coffeeteria after Grundy prayed us out.

    Great to be back in business. Thanks for letting me lead guys.

  • 20-20

    5 veteran PAX rang in the New Year in the Gloom at The Gipper. After a quick warmup of 20 SSHs, it was off to the races with a fast mosey to the Justice Center for our first 20.

    20 minute AMRAP (as many rounds as possible) with each round consisting of 20 hand release Merkins, 20 plank jacks, 20 ice skater hops and then a 420 meter run. Grundy led from the front and almost lapped the rest of us by the time the buzzer sounded.

    Recovery walk back to the Shovel Flag for our second 20. This time it was EMOM (every minute on the minute) for 20 minutes. We hit 10 exercises two times each for a total of 20 reps per exercise: SSHs, Bobby Hurleys, IWs, Sister Mary Katherines, Hillbillies, Star Jumps, Seal Jacks, clap Merkins, mountain climbers and one leg hops.

    Countorama, nameorama and Einstein prayed us out into the New Year.

    Thanks for letting me lead guys. Looking forward to another great year together!

  • Misty Morning Beatdown

    YHC ate way too much over his Christmas break and so was quick to respond to Steve’s call to Q this morning. After joining Legal, Hammer and Zoolander for a little Foreplay in the Gloom, YHC circled up the PAX, partnered up with Grover and got down to business with a warmup.

    YHC and Grover rotated warmup exercises of Imperial Walkers, SSHs, Hillbillys, Seal Jacks, Butt Kicks and High Knees, all 20x IC. Good job Grover in leading for the first time.

    The PAX then headed down the Lakefront for a set of Dora 1-2-3s with a partner: 100 hand release Merkins, 200 45 degree lunges, and 300 SSHs with bear crawls and crab walks in between.

    After a brief recovery walk and a short mosey a little further eastward down the Lakefront, YHC set up a few cones for a version of Catch Me if You Can. Partner 1 backpedals about 10 yards from cone 1 to cone 2 while Partner 2 holds at cone 1. As soon as Partner 1 hits cone 2, Partner 2 sprints to try to beat his backpedaling partner to cone 3 about 30 yards away. Recovery walk back with the partners switching spots and then repeating.

    Three more sets with three different partners and it was time to dig into the bag of tricks to retrieve a ball for the next stage of our beat down.

    The PAX divided into three teams, each with a ball, for a race to the Harbor playground. Despite HanDcock, Esquire’s attempt to confuse matters with lawyerly questions, the rules were very simple for the race: PAX cannot run when holding the ball and each time the ball hits the ground the entire team has to do one burpee before getting underway again. Serious high jinx ensued, and YHC cannot even remember who won except that it wasn’t his team.

    The PAX then hit some staggered Merkins and took a brief reprieve and then it was a race back to the starting point, this time using only your non-dominant hand to catch and throw.

    Mosey to the virtual shovel flag for some Mary with dynamic back and front planks.

    Countorama, nameorama and Goose led us out in prayer on our way to the coffeeteria.

    Moleskin

    If you are old and grumpy like YHC and think that our youth should be doing something other than spending all of their time glued to their phones, then you need to meet 9 year old Bear and 17 year old Grover. Bear can bear crawl like, well, a bear and singlehandedly kept his team in contention for the ball games this morning and his dad honest on the hand release Merkins. Grover quickly accepted YHC’s invitation to lead this morning’s warmup and cheerfully executed like a seasoned veteran. It is absolutely fabulous to see these two young men join their dads in the Gloom. Mathlete and Akbar should be very proud of their 2.0s.

    The Krazy Ivan is coming up, Comrades. All Northshore PAX need to clear their calendars for the evening of January 18th. It is imperative that we have maximum participation. The Southshore PAX have been gloating over last year’s victory and posting pictures of themselves with the Freedom Hammer all year. It’s enough to make you sick.

  • 21 Gun Salute

    21 PAX braved the foggy Mandeville Lakefront for the running of the H8! After 20 SSHs IC and a short mosey down the Lakefront, the PAX pumped themselves up for a 45 minute DownPAINment on the weekend. It looked like this:

    First round of one burpee (with eight hand release Merkins inside it), followed by a second burpee (with seven hand release Merkins inside it), then a third burpee (with six hand release Merkins inside it)…all the way down to one burpee (with one hand release Merkin inside it)…bear crawl for 35 yards, round trip run for .4 miles, bear crawl for 35 yards back to the starting point to complete the first round.

    Second round starts with one burpee (with seven hand release Merkins inside it)…descending to one last burpee (with one hand release Merkin insdie it)…bear crawl, run, and bear crawl back to the starting point.

    AMRAP in 45 minutes with an objective to hit 7 rounds.

    The Northshore PAX definitely is growing in fitness as an impressive number of men completed 7 rounds and some men completed even more. Not bad considering 7 rounds translated into 36 burpees (with 120 hand release Merkins inside them), 490 yards of bear crawls, and 2.8 miles of running.

    Slow mosey back to the shovel flag where Speedy Gonzales prayed us out after the countorama and nameorama. Then it was off to the coffeeteria.

    Thanks for letting me lead, guys. It’s great to see everyone getting better.

  • 10 Turkeys at The Gipper

    Eight veteran Northshore PAX, a visitor from F3 Louisville, and an FNG from Monroe, NC descended on The Gipper in the Gloom this morning for a pre-Thanksgiving beatdown. After a quick warmup consisting of SSHs, mountain climbers, seal jacks, merkins, imperial walkers, plank jacks, and butt kicks, all 10x IC, we headed to the Justice Center for

    B-L-I-M-P-S since we’ll all look like one tomorrow.

    The PAX partnered up and together knocked out 50 burpees, 50 lunges, 50 imperial walkers, 50 merkins, 50 plank jacks, and 50 squats with partner 1 exercising while partner 2 ran up the Justice Center stairs and down the “NO SKATEBOARDING” ramp to relieve partner 1.

    Short recovery walk to Oak Alley where we alternated sprinting and jogging at each live oak tree. That effort turned into a mosey back to The Gipper trailhead and the undisclosed secret location housing our cinderblocks.

    Each man checked out a cinderblock from storage and got together again with his partner. The PAX knocked out 10 reps each of thrusters, swings, manmakers, merkins, around the worlds each direction, figure 8s, goblet squats and RDLs. Between exercises, one partner backpedaled while the other farmer carried two cinderblocks 25 yards. We held our blocks overhead while waiting for the 6.

    After returning our cinderblocks to storage, the PAX moved to the bandstand area and with the three and a half minutes left hit as many rounds as possible of bear crawls down the hill, jump or step up onto the bandstand, jump or run down the ramp or stairs, and raccoon crawl up the narrow concrete ledge back to the starting point.

    Countorama, nameorama, and a nice prayer from The Hammer to wrap things up.

    Welcome FNG Rogan!

    Thanks for joining us this morning Leprechan!

    Happy Thanksgiving guys!

  • No Time to Waste

    Seven veterans and an FNG rolled into The Gipper AO for an abbreviated beatdown ahead of Thursday evening’s F2 get together at The Tap Room. With no time to waste, the PAX warmed up with 10 reps each IC of SSHs, Merkins, Toe Touches, Mountain Climbers, Seal Jacks, Plank Jacks, Windmills and Peter Parkers.

    The PAX then retrieved cinderblocks from the undisclosed top secret location and got busy with a set of 7s…6 manmakers with a cinderblock followed by 1 set of lateral jumps over the cinderblock with 25 yards of suitcase carries in between, 5 and 2, etc, etc.

    Then it was time for one off cinderblock exercises: 10 reps each of Merkins, Swings, Around the Worlds, Figure 8s, Woodchoppers, Goblet Squats and RDLs with a 25 yard OH cinderblock walk inserted between each exercise.

    A final 25 yard out and back sprint and just when things seemed to be getting started they were over. Countorama, nameorama with our new FNG (TankedUp!’s fully grown 2.0) scoring his nickname Donovan, and a prayer courtesy of Moby Dick to end the festivities on a positive note.

    Thanks for letting me lead, guys, and thanks for the post-beatdown fellowship. It was a fun night.

  • Taking Care of Business

    Nineteen men posted on the Mandeville Lakefront this morning and took care of business. It was a beautiful morning in the land of milk and honey, and the PAX wasted no time kicking things off after some of the boys wrapped up their 2 miles of foreplay. Brief disclaimer for our FNG Grover and then a burpee OYO, followed by

    20 Seal Jacks IC

    3 Burpees OYO

    20 Copperhead Squats IC

    5 Burpees OYO

    20 Toe Touches IC

    7 Burpees OYO

    10 Windmills IC

    9 Burpees OYO

    20 Mountain Climbers IC

    11 Burpees OYO

    10 Merkins IC

    12 Burpees OYO

    20 SSH IC

    We then moseyed Westward for a round of 11s: lateral step ups with a jump on the sea wall on one end balanced by ice skater hops on the other end with lunge walks in between. We partnered up for these manly exercises because old guys like YHC need assistance remembering the count when it gets to 5 or 6 (thanks Speedy!) and ended up a little early because the whole production was taking longer than YHC had planned.

    Moving further Westward down the Lakefront the PAX circled up around a cone for a Ring of Fire: merkin wave, t stands, shoulder taps, bear crawls to and back from the cone, as well as plank walks to the left and right kept us busy for a while and then we recovered and moved on further down the Lakefront.

    YHC set up three cones in a V shape, and it was time for some agility drills. Repeating each drill twice we shuffled facing outwards, shuffled facing inwards, did the carioca facing outwards and then inwards, hopped laterally with vertical jumps between hops, and backpedaled with a sprint to finish things off.

    Worked our way back to the Shovel Flag with a Horses to the Barn sprint from about 300 yards out. Collected the Six for our countorama, nameorama (named our FNG Grover), and prayer before retiring to the Book & Bean for the coffeeteria.

    Thanks for letting me lead guys. It’s always fun, and you always manage to play along with good attitudes which YHC truly appreciates.

  • Dinner, then Dessert

    Ten men posted at The Gipper Wednesday morning ready for fun and games as a reward for completing the Iron PAX Challenge only to learn that they would have to eat their green beans before enjoying dessert. So after a disclaimer and a warmup of Imperial Walkers, Squats, Merkins, Groiners and Seal Jacks, the PAX made their way to the temporary resting place of two newly acquired coupons otherwise known as tractor tires. Assembling into teams of 5, teammates took turns flipping those bad boys to a secret undisclosed location. Don’t worry, Barely Legal (who knows everyone in Gipperland apparently) had secured “permission” for our coupons’ final resting place. Hopefully they’ll be there next week.

    The PAX then transported themselves to the Justice Center via the mosey method where they teamed up once again, this time in teams of 2. Each team selected a ball (most went for the always safe tennis ball and no team was brave enough to select the sole Mardi Gras vintage superball) for surprise exercises. First up was the burpee: partner 1 performed the burp while partner 2 threw the ball high so that partner 1 had to stretch to catch it while jumping out of the burpee. Flap jack and repeat for a few rounds. Then we moved on to 180 hops with partner throws. Amazing feats of athleticism ensued, and it’s too bad ESPN was not present because there was at least one top 10 play of the week involved.

    The partners also hit some shuffles with ball exchanges and in between it all the ball play hit some Mary consisting of A-B-C-D abs, alternating Supermans, and Nolan Ryans.

    Then we recovery walked over to the Justice Center entryway for four rounds each of 40 yards of:

    Accelerate, float, sprint;

    Shuffle, sprint; and

    Backpedal, sprint.

    Mosey back to the shovel flag for countorama, nameorama, and Ringo prayed us out. Thanks for letting me lead guys and remember that the best part of dessert is in your imagination and anticipation, not the actual dessert.

  • In the Books

    The 2019 Iron PAX Challenge is now in the books for the F3 Northshore PAX. T claps to F3 Greenwood for throwing the challenge out to the F3 Nation and keeping so many men across so many regions working hard and engaged for an entire month. The beat downs have been epic, and there is something really positive and rewarding about overcoming physical and mental challenges throughout the course of a month. Monday sees the return of our regularly scheduled program at the Milestone Marsh.

    After a combined warmup of 15x IC of Seal Jacks, Mountain Climbers, Windmills, Butt Kicks, Merkins, OH Hand Claps, and SSHs, the PAX split with Grundy taking the IPC PAX westward and YHC taking the non-IPC PAX eastward.

    The eastward bound PAX circled up across from Rips for some Peter Parkers and Parker Peters, 15x IC, and then made their way to the Rips stairs for 5 minutes AMARP of 10x regular Rocky Balboas, 10x lateral Rocky Balboas, and a trip up and over the stairs. Then it was time to mosey down to the Harbor playground for fun and games.

    YHC deployed some cones and balls from his backpack and engaged the PAX in a passing game with increasing levels of difficulty. We started bounce passing the ball to one another in a predetermined order within the confines of the paint (an area otherwise known as the spash pad and usually occupied by wet and screaming rug rats). Every dropped pass earned the PAX a penalty exercise of 5 burpees, Bobby Hurleys, Bonnie Blairs (hair of the dog), Merkins or I’m a Star Jumps. Proficiency ensued and so the PAX advanced to Level 2 where a trip out of the paint and around a cone was required after passing and before receiving the next pass. The game continued with increasing levels of difficulty and at the very end, before our Indian Run back to the Shovel Flag, the PAX returned to Level 1 and impressed themselves with their passing and communication prowess. Forty minutes of honing skills paid dividends.

    Countorama, nameorama and then over to the coffeeteria after reuniting with our worse for the wear looking IPC brothers.

    Thanks for letting me lead guys and congrats to all of you who participated in the IPC. You are all better men than you were 4 weeks ago.

  • Concrete Jungle

    The Gipper PAX closed the books on the 2019 Iron PAX Challenge in the Gloom this morning. Hauling their concrete blocks to the concrete roof of the concrete parking deck of the Justice Center, the PAX jackhammered and pounded their way through the grueling Week 4 workout. Merkins, squats, swings, Bonnie Blairs, thrusters, lunge walks and cinderblock carries for time…it was all an oxygen deprived affair in tropical conditions. To its credit, the PAX refrained from tossing the cinderblocks from the roof when the final whistle sounded, but it’s safe to say that it may be a while before The Gipper AO sees cinderblocks again.

    Thanks for pushing yourselves and YHC, guys. There’s something powerful about tackling a month long challenge with your buddies. None of us would have pushed ourselves as hard alone.

    Now we need to get creative and come up with a challenge that we can send F3 Greenwood’s way…