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  • All Out Balance – from Charmin

    Pulling up to a red light in the gloom is a common occurrence. Waiting through three cycles without a green light, is uncommon; it seems the Red-Light Rascals were causing confusion once again. Since the vehicles in front of me didn’t feel free to lead (or didn’t know that they can ignore a red light when it obviously isn’t working), YHC had to take the long way to the beat down.

    Being a couple minutes later than normal (still 10 minutes early), YHC expected a plethory of PAX since there was an all call in Slack. Even Boo-Boo received the callout, but the Red-Light Rascals must have prevented him from making it out. That being said, Space Cowboy, the gangster of Love himself, didn’t allow some Rascals to stop him from posting in the gloom.

    That being said, we started with the Warm-o-rama:

    Slow-vagodas x 10
    Grass Grabbers x 10
    Low Slow Squats x 10

    Arms:
    Forward x 10
    Backwards x 10
    T-clap x 10
    Chinooks x 10
    and the fan favorite: MNC’s x 10

    The Thang:

    Based on the Chaos Monkey’s call for balance on Monday, YHC decided to follow along

    Mosey to JPAX, get the coupons.

    YHC lead the pax in 10 skull crushers, then without adjusting grip do 10 bench presses. both IC

    Geting up we thought we saw some Red-Light Rascals by one of the benchs so we sprinted back to the third bench making sure to push all the way through. Turns out we were mistaken.
    As a recovery, we KnOT Walked back to JPAX

    Now repeat skull crushers and bench presses IC at 20 reps with sprint and KnOT walk back.

    Switch to 20 x Curls and 10 Overhead Presses IC.

    Sprint, KnOT walk back and do 20 x Curls and 15 x Overheads. Put up coupons. Sprint back to warm up pad. .

    Cool-o-rama:

    10x Single Leg Wife Pleasers IC, Each leg

    COT and Prayer.

    Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit,
    That my thoughts may all be holy.
    Act in me, O Holy Spirit,
    That my work, too, may be holy.
    Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit,
    That I love but what is holy.
    Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit,
    To defend all that is holy.
    Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit,
    That I always may be holy

    YHC was glad to get some mano-e-mano time with the midnight toker and is on the lookout for those feindish rascals.

  • Don’t Bleepin’ Test Me Bro – from Piccadilly

    YHC feels a change is on the horizon and thought he would cash in on a long overdue Q session. As I arrived 5 minutes early for a change, Enron had beat me to the starting area due to what I’d assume a bad night sleep.

    The rest of the pax arrived and we began…

    Warm O Rama: ssh, Willie’s, mountain climbers, imperial walkers, self love…suddenly America’s Best appears, arm circles, cherry pickers…

    Warm up Indian run mosey around the track until everyone ran to the front one time then off to …

    THANG1

    The Bleep Test

    2 cones were set apart approximately 65 feet and the bleeps began. On first bleep, run to the next cone before the second bleep. Every so many rounds the window between bleeps gets shorter. If you don’t make it to second cone before second bleep, you fail, bye bye. After 2 fails based on the honor system, you’re out.
    Do ssh or air squats while watching rest of pax run and gasp for air…
    It was hard and highlighted my lack of fitness.
    Somehow the age before youth outlasted the lad and Honeysuckle prevailed over pope.

    THANG2

    7s

    Classic 7s starting with 6 burpees at first cone. Run to second cone and do 1 BBS. Complete til 1 burpee and 6 BBS.

    THANG3

    The Bleep Test

    It wasn’t any easier but maybe a bit harder. We, well not me but they, may have made it to round 7 in thang 1, but in thang 2 suckle and pope got to round 5 or 6. Honeysuckle prevails again. This dudes an animal.

    THANG 4

    7s : start with 6 ssh and 1 Bobby Hurley, complete til 1 ssh and 6 Bobby’s
    Then complete 50 merkins and 25 BBS on your own.

    With about 10 mins to 6 AM, we moseyed back to the flag and completed a casual Indian run around the big loop reminiscing about buttermilk biscuits and sir mix a lot.

    Maybe next time gents…we’ll cook up some pancakes.

    COT and Wet Tap prayed us out.

    Thanks fellas for digging deep with me this morning. Always a blessing and a privilege to sweat amongst you PAX.

    -Dilly

  • Solving the Fitness Function – from Steve

    Long before he was counting cards in the Deck of Death, before he was hosting Cinco de Mayo or Pi Day numeric-themed beatdowns, and way back before we all knew him as the only man who could’ve filled Jose’s sweat bucket more quickly than Jose himself, there was a young Russo who competed at the highest levels of high school academia as… that’s right, a Mathlete. YHC got to hear Russo’s origin story, that rare formative experience that, dare I say, altered something in his brain, changing the trajectory of his life and sending him on his destined path as the greatest mathematical mind of the Northshore F3 Pax. (Ok, Grundy may want to challenge you there, Russo….especially if an award is being handed out.)

    Anyway, that story and others were told as Russo and YHC did a Tabata-style Block Party, 45 seconds on, 15 seconds rest. This was another interesting experiment in time dilation (the first being Chewy’s 8-year anniversary beatdown which, with its three exercises repeated ad nauseam, somehow felt longer than last year’s 12 hour anniversary beatdown). Here, the clock slowed to a crawl for the 45 seconds of work, and then miraculously went into overdrive for the 15 seconds of rest. We did 4-45 second sets of each of the following exercises (with a trip up the stairs between):

    – Curls
    – Squat Thrusters
    – Flutter Kicks (holding block up)
    – Goblet Squats
    – Bent over rows
    – Chest Presses

    COT with Russo praying us out. Thanks Russo for the post and the opportunity to lead!

  • Solving the Fitness Function – from Steve

    Long before he was counting cards in the Deck of Death, before he was hosting Cinco de Mayo or Pi Day numeric-themed beatdowns, and way back before we all knew him as the only man who could’ve filled Jose’s sweat bucket more quickly than Jose himself, there was a young Russo who competed at the highest levels of high school academia as… that’s right, a Mathlete. YHC got to hear Russo’s origin story, that rare formative experience that, dare I say, altered something in his brain, changing the trajectory of his life and sending him on his destined path as the greatest mathematical mind of the Northshore F3 Pax. (Ok, Grundy may want to challenge you there, Russo….especially if an award is being handed out.)

    Anyway, that story and others were told as Russo and YHC did a Tabata-style Block Party, 45 seconds on, 15 seconds rest. This was another interesting experiment in time dilation (the first being Chewy’s 8-year anniversary beatdown which, with its three exercises repeated ad nauseam, somehow felt longer than last year’s 12 hour anniversary beatdown). Here, the clock slowed to a crawl for the 45 seconds of work, and then miraculously went into overdrive for the 15 seconds of rest. We did 4-45 second sets of each of the following exercises (with a trip up the stairs between):

    – Curls
    – Squat Thrusters
    – Flutter Kicks (holding block up)
    – Goblet Squats
    – Bent over rows
    – Chest Presses

    COT with Russo praying us out. Thanks Russo for the post and the opportunity to lead!

  • Four Corners of The Apocalypse – from Steve

    Well, I’d hardly call it an “apocalyptic” beatdown. Nor was it truly a “four corners” (more like 6). But hey, sometimes you need a title just to get these things off the ground.

    Marsh-style beatdown on this humid Tuesday (delayed bb here, so this was before out little cool front), moseying to the lake with a stop at each intersection for 15x merkins, 15x lunges, 15x flutter kicks IC. You know you’re firmly middle-aged when conversations yo-yo between healthcare costs and the financial viability of art galleries with wine bars. Other, more fun topics were surely mused over, but hey, YHC is 45 – I can’t remember what happened a week and a half ago.

    Once at the lake, we headed to the Rip’s staircase for calf raises x5 each step. Chewy, Russo, and YHC were there for (and very likely contributed to) the demise of the previous set of stairs at Rips, so it’s good to see that these fairly new ones are still holding up. Then it was over to the wall for some step ups, freaks, step downs, freaks, Bulgarians, freaks, all x12 IC. And back to Rip’s for more calf raises.

    With time closing in, we headed back, this time foregoing the merkins and lunges at each intersection, but stopping once at the midway point and knocking out the flutter kicks all in one go. Once back, COT, nameorama, and Chewy prayed us out. Thank you gents for the camaraderie, and for posting regularly – it pushes me to do the same.

  • Four Corners of The Apocalypse – from Steve

    Well, I’d hardly call it an “apocalyptic” beatdown. Nor was it truly a “four corners” (more like 6). But hey, sometimes you need a title just to get these things off the ground.

    Marsh-style beatdown on this humid Tuesday (delayed bb here, so this was before out little cool front), moseying to the lake with a stop at each intersection for 15x merkins, 15x lunges, 15x flutter kicks IC. You know you’re firmly middle-aged when conversations yo-yo between healthcare costs and the financial viability of art galleries with wine bars. Other, more fun topics were surely mused over, but hey, YHC is 45 – I can’t remember what happened a week and a half ago.

    Once at the lake, we headed to the Rip’s staircase for calf raises x5 each step. Chewy, Russo, and YHC were there for (and very likely contributed to) the demise of the previous set of stairs at Rips, so it’s good to see that these fairly new ones are still holding up. Then it was over to the wall for some step ups, freaks, step downs, freaks, Bulgarians, freaks, all x12 IC. And back to Rip’s for more calf raises.

    With time closing in, we headed back, this time foregoing the merkins and lunges at each intersection, but stopping once at the midway point and knocking out the flutter kicks all in one go. Once back, COT, nameorama, and Chewy prayed us out. Thank you gents for the camaraderie, and for posting regularly – it pushes me to do the same.

  • The Killian – from Smooth Operator

    4/22/24 the Killian
    Popeye
    Safety Valve
    Wet Tap

    Warmarama
    Nothing out of the ordinary

    Last year YHC led a beatdown titles the Samson. Samson was the name of one of the twins YHC and my M lost last year. Well YHC figured today was as good as any to honor his twin brother with his own beatdown called the Killian. Killian’s name comes from a character on the TV show Once Upon a Time. His character was basically a bad guy turned good pirate type. Therefore I felt a little Ruch man loop 4 corners are in order in remembrance of him.
    Therefore we moseyed over to the far corner of rich man’s loop to start thang1

    Thang 1

    Corner one would be a 30 yard bear crawl down the dead end street and lunge walk back to the first street light. From here the PAX would mosey in a clockwise manner to each streetlight and do 1 genuflection a piece throughout the whole loop. At corner 2 the pax would do 25 shoulder tap merkins before resuming our genuflection mosey.
    Corner 3 was 25 goosee and corner 4 was 25 2 is 1 Jlos. After this the fast Pax had a choice to make, they could either complete more Bearcrawl a and lunge walks till the slower pax caught up or pick the 6 up and get everyone to the finish line. The Pax kicked this thangs butt therefore YHC felt compelled to do this one again. The only difference is the PAX only had to complete 2 of the 4 corners of there own choosing. We did a burpee by each light pole instead of a genuflection. Once this was completed the PAX moseyed on back to the flag for thing 2

    Thang 2
    Traffic burpees.
    This is YHC favorite exercise with less than 10 minutes left in the beatdown, but we changed it up a little bit. For this version the PAX was in the plank position and when a car passed the PAX would d a merkin followed by a grounder and a jump squat and fall back into the plank position. The PAX watched 15 cars before the someone had planted the idea to hold 6” and do heels to heaven for the last 3 or 4 minutes.

    0600 arrived and The PAX hustled back to the flag. We counted off and Popeye prayed us out. Thanks for letting me lead fellas.

  • EMOMs and CD-ROMs – from Honeysuckle

    YHC and two PAX convened at the Coliseum ready to carry that weight. The route would take us through campus, and a 3-minute EMOM timer was set up for a 30 minute duration. Each time the timer beeped, we were to do 5 weighted merkins and 5 weighted squats.

    Paradox reminded us of the computer scene in the mid-90’s, including the release of Windows 95 and such gems as Encarta and Myst. Encarta, in particular, was a name that YHC had not heard in a long time. Maneater discussed his list of brilliant business ideas.

    All told we traveled 2.2 miles and each did 50 merkins and 50 squats.

    Counted off, Maneater prayed us out.

    As always, it is a privilege to work out with our Thibodaux HIMs.

    SYITG,
    Honeysuckle

  • Balance – from Charmin

    The theme of this week for YCH is Balance.

    When YHC arrived slightly behind Vagabond, in an effort to make small talk, asked him if he was stretching, and was met with a reply of “Nope, just getting all my farts out.”

    There was the normal mix of runners and KnOTers, along with YHC who was both, a good mix of running and KnOTing.

    Awards were given for “Most farts during a run” to Vag even after his pre-workout release, and to YHC from Scantron for “Best Rolled KnOT Straps”.

    Back at the proverbial shovel flag, Kennah-Brah directs Scantron to start counting off, forcing YHC to be the Q and hence write the back blast; typical Chaos Monkey.

    For those who are interested, this is the prayer we ended COT with:

    Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit, that my thoughts may all be holy.
    Act in me, O Holy Spirit, that my work too may be holy.
    Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, that I love but what is holy.
    Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, to defend all that is holy.
    Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, that I always may be holy.

  • Wild Q seems fitting!! – from Shooter

    Granny proved to be not only Wild with the weather but also Wild with the dice. Knowing this weather will not remain much longer, YHC was still able to provide some general perspiration with his beatdown this morning for the PAX.. As Chewy stated at the end of our morning the one shirt beatdowns are soon to be done and over for sometime..Our full blown summer and humidity will be here to stay, so it was quite pleasant to enjoy this Gloom with its unusual coolness under the breezeway of the trailhead..

    Warmup
    All 10IC Grass grabbers, Good Mornings, SSH, selflove, Torso twists, Butt kicks, high knees, Cherry pickers, arm circles and Abe Vogadas.
    Moseyed around the block and returned for the Thang
    Grabbed our coupons and some dice..
    PAX took turns rolling in between each stated coupon exercise.
    50 Shoulder press
    Wild Q Burpees 5
    15 one right arm rows
    20 4x SSH
    15 left arm rows
    20 4x SSH
    20 squat thrusters
    5 Merkins
    Mosey around and returned.
    30 curls for the girls
    Wild Q 20IC mountain climbers
    20 goblet squats
    Wild Q 10 Eight count bodybuilders
    15 Elf on the shelf right
    Wild Q 10 IC gas pumps
    15 Elf on the shelf left
    25 IC Putins
    Mosey around and returned
    50 chest presses
    Wild Q 10 Eight count bodybuilders
    20 tricep extensions
    10IC Putin’s
    20 Kettlebell swings
    10 Burpees
    10IC Block pleasers

    YHC may be missing some or also might be out of sequence but close enough..

    Felt like a good balanced routine and beatdown and until the next gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!!