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  • Curls for the Girls! – from BBQ

    The weather was cold and rainy but that did not stop 10 sturdy and strong NS F3 men from rising to the challenge. The beat down moved under the trailhead shelter and went heavy on coupons. The warm up exercises were side straddle hops, torso twists, self love, wind mills, arm circles with little balls and biggest balls, grass grabbers, mountain climbers, inverted mountain climbers, plank jacks, merkins and shoulder rolls. YHC had some struggles with cadence and count but I think I am making some progress! Coupons were used for 4 rounds of 11 exercises. 3 types of curls, overhead lifts, rows, kettle bell swings, squats, Al Gore meets George Thoroughgood, LBC’s, leg raises and flutter kicks. Shooter will be sad to miss this beat down. Curls should continue to be a focus to be ready for the girls at the joint NS F3 and FIA workout on 2-25! We did one round of tricep curls at the end to keep arms from becoming too bicep heavy. Mobydick inspirationally prayed us out.

  • Running in Circles – from Tinkles

    Selfishly, I wanted the miles and running workouts are pretty easy to Q. In past iterations of the February running challenge I found myself skipping the beatdowns and just running. With an all-time interest (t-claps to the HIM men who got us motivated) maybe the Q’s will find a way to blend the two. Today was an attempt at that.

    Warm up: SSH X 20, Grass grabbers X 20, couple of hamstring stretches

    The Thang: OYO laps starting at the bandstand and heading downtown on the dirt path to the main track where we headed toward the river and back uptown cutting back to the parking lot and main shelter (classic El Wire route). When back to the shelter do 10 merkins. Repeat and when back to shelter, dips X 10. Repeat and when back to shelter, decline merkins X 10. Keep that rotation going through as many laps as possible. Each lap was about .4 miles and several guys knocked out 11 laps with most hitting ten. Well done!

    Count off, namorama, and intentions. Prayer to help us be mindful of lifting up others. SYITG!

  • We all do this, don’t we? – from Waterpik

    Today’s beatdown was plagiarized from Hogsbreaths beatdown at the marsh a couple of weeks ago. We all copy workouts, don’t we? Here we go: PAX grabs a cinder block, lines up in a single file line on Lamarque st and starts heading towards the lakefront. Instructions were to walk to the lakefront with the coupon. Last man in line jogs to front of line with coupon. Rinse and repeat. At the lakefront sets of Tabata were on the menu. , 30 secs with 10 secs rest. Exercises were merkins, 100s, big boy sit-ups, Supermans, freak nasties, rows w/ coupon, presses w/ coupon, kettle bell swings, leg raises. Rinse and repeat. With 15 minutes to spare, grab coupon and head back to the marsh.
    5 minutes left: hit the 6 for some Mary: cowbells crunchy frogs ((where was cowbell?), flutter kicks, chill cut plank.

    Have a good week guys! Y’all bring out the best in me! I hope F3 brings out the best in all of you too

  • 7 Pax and a Whole Lot of Thangs – from Fracsac

    7 Pax made a choice to take the DRP on their journey to get right and posted at The Renaissance at 0630 to see what unique beat down YHC had in store. With a shovel flag planted, disclaimer was given, then:

    Warmup facing the Bacon:

    Abe Vigodas IC x 10
    Grass Grabber IC x 10
    SSH IC x 20
    Imperial Walkers IC x 15
    Hillbilly IC x 15
    Fwd AC IC x 10
    Rev AC IC x 10
    Michael Phelps IC x 10

    The Thang 1:
    Mosey to the grass area by the tree line.
    Variation of The Suck

    3 SSH, 3 Bobby Hurley’s, 3 Burpees for 3 minutes. Count out loud as each Pax completed a round.

    The Thang 2:
    Line up at the first tree. Burpee broad jump 5 times to second tree (mosey once 5 burpees complete) then bear crawl to third tree. Rinse and repeat x 4.

    The Thang 3:
    Route 66
    Starting at light post #1 do 1 Burpee. 2 Burpees at #2 light post, etc until reaching 11.

    The Thang 4:
    Mosey back to grass field.
    EMOM x 4 minutes x 10 burpees.

    The Thang 5:
    Mosey back to start of tree line and circle up.
    Catalina Wine Mixers IC x 10

    The Thang 5:
    Mosey to back of NOMA for Sunday Mornings x 5 or more.

    COT

    NMM

    • We completed approximately 150 burpees, some had more, some had less. Each Pax had more than 100.
    • The speaker has a psychological effect, it really works.
    •. YHC threw a couple stretches in, but didn’t feel like documenting.
    • Way to finish January strong!

    SYITG

  • Wata Windy Morning (Okwata 2021-01-28) – from Catfish

    A windy, chilly day at Okwata with 9 PAX: Triple Shift, Snooze, Saban, Kuch, YaMamaNem, Pop Tart, Griswald, Low Notes (FNG), Catfish. Started by moseying over to the dampened lake area for a warmup with Abe Vigoda, Grass Grabbers, and SSH. Continued with Imperial Squat Walkers, then moseyed over to the grass across the street to get away from the noisy wind. For the record, didn’t do much.
    On to faces for Peter Parkers and plank jacks. Back up to feet for five minutes of EMOM burpees.
    Moseyed over to the House of Pain for stations: Pull Ups, Merkins, Jump Squats, and Dips. 10 pullups was the timer, did 2 rounds. Moved to other side of the levee for a timed exercise with 20 Abe Lincolns at the bottom, Bernie Sanders up, 20 leg lifts, mosey back down. Rinsed and repeated for about 5 minutes.
    Back to the top of the levee for an Indian run down to canal, then looped back to the parking lot for another five minutes of 10 EMOM burpees. Back to flag for COT and naming of FNG. He’s a bass player, so Low Notes was the decision.

  • Blayne is a Bitch – from Saban

    I had looked on the Q sheet a few weeks back to sign up for the anniversary of my dad’s passing. Unfortunately there was another anniversary, High Rise had signed up to Q his two year anniversary. Guess it wasn’t meant to be…or was it. Early in the week, High Rise posted that he wasn’t able to take the Q so I jumped on it. Guess it was meant to be!

    I arrived slightly before 5:30 and was surprised to see 9 PAX getting ready to go and one PAX already on burpee #73! Nice work Catfish. A quick disclaimer and we were off. Stayed under the pavilion to get warmed up with:

    SSH X 20
    Imperial Walkers x 15
    Monkey Humpers x 15
    Peter Parker x 15
    Parker Peter x 15
    Mountain Climbers x 15
    10 burpees OYO

    Moseyed over to the mountain

    Let the PAX know that this was the anniversary of my dad’s passing. My dad was a fighter. He had cancer for over 15 years of his life. And each time a new bit of cancer popped up and things got tough he pushed through and overcame. He had it in his kidney, lost that kidney and recovered. He had it in his spine, lost feeling in his legs and was assigned to a wheelchair for the rest of his days but he continued to push. He had it in his knee so they cut off his leg but he pushed on. Even after the doctors issued him his last days. He pushed on for several more months! So what I have planned is going to be tough and will take most of us the whole time to finish but push through and fight until the end!

    This workout was inspired by Tinkles. It was my last workout before I found out that I had Covid. I had gone to Pontiff to support my uptown brother and this is what we did on a football field and it was really tough. I thought doing the workout up the mountain would add another element.

    I guess we can call these Mountain BLIMPS. Also, for some added fun I got to the mountain early to add the names of our late Wisner Mountain grafitti artists – Puke Dick, Dog Dix, Lucid, and of course Blayne is a Bitch. This created some great mumblechatter: How did Puke Dick get his name? Is Dog Dix French and pronounced Dog Dee? Was Blayne a girl or a boy? I guess we will never know…

    The Thang

    Run up 25 yards – 5 burpees – run back down

    Run up 50 yards – 10 burpees – run back down

    Run up 75 yards – 15 burpees – run back down

    Run up 100 yards – 20 burpees – run back down

    Rinse and repeat for Lunges, Imperial Walkers, Merkins, Plank Jacks, and Squats.

    About half of us finished. From there we moseyed back to the pavilion.

    COT, Count-off, Name-orama, announcements, and prayers. Prayed for everyone dealing with Covid and for everyone to be present to the loved ones that we still have in our lives. Thankful that my dads legacy can live on through F3!

  • Shhhh HIIT! – from Akbar

    YHC has been thinking about a HIIT workout for a while but wanted to keep it a secret of sorts. Kinda like when you tell pax to bring gloves, and they don’t show at all. So I kept it quiet, within the family circle. Like the Grinch, tip toeing around with an evil wide grin before stealing presents. Shhh! We are going to do some HIIT today.

    The gloom was a humid 61 degrees, which felt like 85 after so much cool weather the last few weeks. YHC and Grover arrived 10 minutes ahead of go time, and quickly saw the blinding LED lights of Waterpik pull up behind. 3 flags planted, 5 on the basketball court picking up trash from the day before, and we were ready to go.

    Warm Up: x10 IC – SSH, Grass Grabbers, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Self-Love, Torso Twist

    Quick warm up run to the stop sign and back, pick up a block and head to center court. About this time, Cowbell showed up to make 6. T Claps to Pixie Stix for grabbing a man-sized block at age 15, it was duly noted that Grover was using a half block until last month.

    Thang: HIIT

    It was one of those days when some things look good on paper, but you quickly need to modify. We went through multiple sets of Tabata with varying work and rest times focusing on form, power, lean, and some plyo work

    Set 1: Power 3 sets of each exercise; 15s all out work and 40s rest

    Mountain Climbers, Squat Thrusters, KettleBell Swings

    There was some low mumble chatter about going all out for 15s and a 40s rest. It did seem like 40 was long so a modification/intensification was needed and we bumped it down to 30s rest

    Set 2: Lean Explosion 3 sets of each exercise; 20s work, 10s rest

    Sister Mary Katherine’s, High Knees, Jump Squats

    Set 3: Plyo Set 3 sets of each exercise; 30s work, 15s rest

    Plank Tuck to Tuck Jump (2 groiners and a jump squat); Plyo jack merkin, Balance Bicycles (Goblet Squat Freddy Mercury); then Block Press Freddy Mercury’s

    Set 4: Chest, Tri, Back, Shoulders 30s of work, 15s rest

    Tricep Chest Press, Tricep Chest Press with knee raise; Tricep Chest Press with knee raise and leg raise

    Block Row, Block Row with Inchworm merkin

    Elf on the Shelf; Alpos, Block Curls

    Put up blocks, time for 5MOM

    Mary x 10 IC: Heels to Heaven, Hands to Heals, Leg Raises, LBC, American Hammers, Crunchy Frogs

    Count/Name

    Announcements: Krazy Ivan, Run Cajun Run, F2 a week from Thursday with FIA – Tap Room in Covington

    Grover prayed us out.

    Thanks for hanging in there this morning and giving it your all,

    Till next gloom – – Akbar

  • Where’s the Workout? (Whoopie 2021-01-20 – from Catfish

    A late, but still effective, beatdown where Catfish comes to Kenner. 3 PAX in attendance – Fracsac, Mambi, Catfish (Q).

    Started on north side of levee with Abe Vigodas, Grass Grabbers, and SSH. Did some Imperial Squat Walkers, then moved to faces for Peter Parkers, Plank Walks, and Parker Peters. Back to feet for 5 minutes of EMOM burpees (10 per minute).

    Moved to other side of levee for a 5-minute (ish) timed exercise. PAX did 5 8-counts @ bottom of levee, then ran backwards up levee for 5 Dr. Ws at the top. Got through about 5 rounds of this, then went back down to north side.

    Got on our sixes for a round of Bruce Lee (Hammers, Leg Lifts, LBCs, Crunchy Frog, Penguins, and 100s). Did another 5-minute round of 10 EMOM burpees, then finished out with the Motivator.

  • Tsunami Mile Trial #3 – from Bieber

    Today marked our third mile trial at the Uptown Tsunami AO since we decided to copycat (sort of) the Wally Sprint. Perhaps in a time when COVID isn’t as rampant we can do a joint time trial with our cross-town brothers. On this Tuesday, however, the uptown usual suspects gathered at the starting line for 45 minutes that would see their heart rates peak early, and from there it was a task just to hang on.

    The Thang: .5 mile warm up followed by some light stretching, high knees, butt kicks, shuffles, and a sprint.

    1 mile at your best. Times ranged between 5:50 and 7:30 for the 7 runners.

    Next, we used the “Running Man” markers on the track at the park to fuel the rest of the workout, progressively speed up for 5 running men, jog for 5. That got us another lap around, followed by a .5 mile cool down.

    4.something miles total (depending on your watch)

    Excellent effort by all. Thanks for the opportunity to lead.