F3 New Orleans

Category: New Orleans

  • Stupid is is Stupid Does – from Goose

    Armed with his trusty Anker, YHC rolled up to The Stage to a solid crew that included the newly minted Lil’ Cuz and an FNG from Cardinal’s parish in Chackbay (which was somewhat overdue for the king of EH-ing). After a lengthy disclaimer and a warmup of the usual, Anker was fired up, and YHC explained the culture of epic movies back in the day. When a big budget movie came out, everyone saw it dozens of times, quoted it for years, and it defined culture for decades. Though that happens more rarely these days given the glut of video media produced, YHC though it important to dive into one of the greatest epics of the 90’s, Forrest Gump.
    Using highlights from the soundtrack, we took a trip with Tom Hanks through the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s, with a different exercise for each song (each played to the end, Paradox) as follows:

    * Hound Dog: Mountain climbers for the duration, 2 Carolina Dry Docks on “hound dog”
    * Walk Right in: Imperial Walker’s for the duration, prisoner squats on “sit right down”
    * Land of 1000 dances: Q calls different core exercises (cuz of all the dances), 100’s on “Na-nas”
    * Blowing in the wind: burpees for the duration, rest on refrain (How many burpees must a man throw down, before he can break for oxygen? The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind…)
    * Fortunate Son: Chinooks for the duration, genuflection on “It ain’t me”
    * California Dreaming: SSH for the duration, Bonnie Blairs on “California dreaming” (2:1–you know, cuz she’s a speed skater…on ice…”on such a winter’s day”)
    * For what it’s worth: side plank, Mission Impossible plank for refrain, then switch sides (elbows in, Montana!)
    * Volunteers of America: bear crawl in a circle, switch to crab walk at “revolution” (once per refrain)
    * Let’s get together: Partner 1, back plank, feet on the back of Partner 2 who’s high planking, switch on refrain
    * Turn Turn Turn: wife pleasers, switch to J-Los on “Turn, Turn, Turn”, then back to wife pleasers, etc. (required some Q tweaking to even it out).

    The Pax enjoyed commentary comparing the lack of creativity in lyrics from the 50’s and early 60’s to Lil’ John’s “Turn Down for What” as well as Lil’ Cuz’s rookie realization that songs used in beatdowns are forever ruined and have to henceforth be removed from all playlists. Thankfully, most of these weren’t on any of his playlists.
    Count-off and name-off, including the naming of the FNG, which required an explanation as to how F3 names work, though Paradox wasn’t there for the standard example, so Enron had to suffice.
    Welcome to the crew, Super Fun! Excellent work, especially in having to approach a group of strange, middle-aged men standing in a circle in the dark and letting another man put his beefy, sweaty legs on your back. Looking forward to seeing you out there Saturday!
    COT and Lil’ Cuz prayed us out.
    Thanks for posting, gents! It’s an honor to be joined by you in the gloom!
    SYITG,
    Goose

  • We Only Lost One – from MANCHOVY

    We started simply enough with 24 PAX and a mosey to the field in front of the zoo for a warm-o-rama which included SSH x 20, arm circles forward and backwards x 12 each, Windmills x 15, Peter Parkers and Parker Peters x 15. Then it was over to the Audubon statue for BLIMPS.

    Following the BLIMPS it was over to the levee for 7s with squat jumps at the bottom and Jack Webbs at the top of the levee. Afterwards we planked on the railroad while the PAX on the end did 5 merkins, ran to the end of the line, and re-planked. After two rounds it was back to the statue for right and left leg step ups, dips and a round Mary. We lost one PAX sometime during the above.

    We returned to the flag for count-o-rama with 23 PAX, the name-o-rama and welcomed FNG #Slow Poke .

  • Yen Yang: Scrum Edition – from Bolt

    Squats/Yang: hold bottom of squat for 3 count and push ground away, squeeze glutes at top for each rep
    Merkins/Yang: hold mission impossible for 3 count and extend arms with plank jack at top for each rep
    Reverse lunges R/Yang: hold left leg at 90 degrees/R leg full reverse lunge with tall torso for 3 count, stand up and touch L elbow-R knee
    Derkins/Yang: one derkin to Peter Parker to derkin for each rep
    Reverse lunges L: hold right leg at 90 degrees/L leg full reverse lunge with tall torso for 3 count, stand up and touch R elbow-L knee
    Irkins/Yang: one irkin to Parker Peter to irkin for each rep
    Side lunges R then L: focus on driving through lunged heel, “pushing Earth away from you” on the up
    Diamond merkins/Yang: diamond mission impossible for 3 count, extend arms with shoulder taps at top

    Tricep dips
    Last Man Sitting (hold people’s chair as long as possible and begin squats upon tapping out until last man breaks people’s chair)
    Mtn. climbers
    Mary (LBC, dying cockroaches, penguins, American hammers)
    Burpees sprinkled in with every song skip
    COT

  • False Fall is gone – Make America Burpee Again – from Hokie

    YHC awakened to another day and another Q-less calendar so I took the Q at Renaissance

    As 0630 approached 8 Pax gathered at NOMA

    WARMORAMA
    20 SSH
    Roll some ankles
    Shrug some shoulders
    Roll some necks

    THE THANG
    Partner workout

    Team up in teams of two
    EVERYtime the team pairs up 10 Burpees

    Pax 1 then runs around NOMA
    while Pax 2 start towards 100 team count of called exercise

    EVERYtime the team pairs up 10 Burpees
    Switch and Pax 1 continues exercise and Pax 2 runs around NOMA

    That is a lot of burpees over 35ish minutes!

    At 0710 back of NOMA for 10 more burpees and 100 seconds of Sunday mornings

  • No cars were damaged & Frac possibly broke a sweat – from Hokie

    At 0600 YHC noticed no one had signed up to Q either workout in New Orleans so I took Mothership and took a quick “minute” to decide, based on recent broken windows how to protect our cars.

    We gathered at our normal spot and did a minute each of warm ups with Slow Vigodas followed by grass grabbers and Imperial Walkers.

    We then moseyed about 20 yards towards the peristyle and specifically to 4 sets of benches with two pax per bench.

    With the continued theme of these thugs taking less than a minute to break into cars, we would do the following for one minute each

    First evolution – legs!

    1. L leg step ups
    2. R leg step ups
    3. L leg Bulgarian split squats
    4. Surprise… R L BSS
    5. Bobby Harley’s…
    6. Monkey Humpers
    7. L leg forward lunges
    8. R leg forward lunges
    9. L leg backward lunges
    10. R leg backward lunges

    At this point, my quads were already feeling the leg focus but Frac was complaining he wasn’t sweating and the ladies in the peristyle were working harder than we were, YHC did not allow the Mumblechatter to distract than plan so we did a rinse and repeat to focus on legs for this 1st evolution.

    Next a Tabata with …. ONE MINUTE of work and 15 seconds of rest and the goal was for the Pax to work for the entire minute in each of the 10 rounds. 10 rounds of 1 FULL minute of burpees followed 15 seconds of rest was the plan but modifications seemed to be the plan of most Pax

    Next evolution…. SHOUKDERS

    Another Tabata EASING up on the Pax so only 45 seconds of work and 15 seconds of rest…

    1. Hindu Merkins
    2. Mountain climbers
    3. T—Merkins
    4. Shoulder Taps
    5. Angle grinders

    Rinse & Repeat

    Last evolution

    Only 30 seconds of work, 15 seconds of rest
    10 Rounds
    Burpees

    Thanks for allowing me to Q. Sorry it was too soft. 😜

  • God Save The Queen (and us) – from Tinkles

    Good idea, poor execution. We ventured away from higher learning and back to our playground roots. After a warm up we BLIMPED our way down St. Charles to Daneel playground. Partnered up for some Dora 1-2-3 with burpees, LBC, and squats. Noted on the corner was the house of one of our limey pax flying the Union Jack. A moment of silence was considered but we were short on time. Indian run back the flag with modification and chaos ensuing. Oh well. Count off and namorama with a welcome back to Poboy. Blessings for a great weekend.

  • Great fall weather – from PVC

    Warmorama
    Abe Vigoda, grass grabber, arm circles, imperial walker, mountain climber

    Thang:
    End zone to end zone:
    5 merkins hustle to 25yard line add 10 BBS hustle to 50 add 15 SSH hustle to 75 add 20 squat. Rinse repeat for 4 cycles.

    Deck of cards:
    Numerous merkins and exercises plus a 400m sprint

    Coolorama :
    Abe Vigoda, grass grabber, arm circles, imperial walker, mountain climber

    COT
    Keep Brushburn in your prayers during the battle he is in at the moment. Let’s pray the Lord guides him into peace and joy.

    Respectfully,
    YHC

  • When Love Turns Violent – from Goose

    Five sore PAX and and FNG gathered in the gloom this morning to douse themselves in bug spray and uncover the “great plans” YHC had sneakily advertised the night before. After a warmup of the usual with some added hillbillies, mountain climbers, and requested grass grabbers to work out the soreness, YHC led a mosey to the start of Rich Man’s Loop (phone in hand).

    Thang 1: What’s in a Name?
    Today, Catholics celebrate the feast of the Holy Name of Mary, a chance to rejoice in the ways God showers blessings on those whom He chooses to take part in His saving work on earth. Mostly as a way to get a good many sprints in, YHC had a list of the many titles that have been given to Mary over the centuries, and the PAX had to fill in the blanks correctly or sprint to the next light post. If they got it right, it was only a mosey. YHC knew that Cardinal was on vacation, so the chances of success were low, but the PAX did surprisingly well, even those who didn’t grow up Catholic, so it really didn’t get rough until the last few posts. Yet another example of how imminent pain will jog even the most remote corners of the memory.

    Thang 2: More Enculturation
    In a repeat of last week’s structure, YHC introduced two more songs to the uncultured PAX. The first was another Irish shanty, this time about chemical plant workers, “The Chemical Workers Song,” by Great Big Sea. Plank for the duration, and merkins for every “Go”.
    The second was yet another ridiculous spoof (to follow last week’s “I Wanna Marry the Troops”), this time reaching back to some of the roots of spoof in the 70’s–we went with “Happy Boy” by the Beat Farmers, an absolutely ridiculous song that may have later set the tone for Weird Al’s career. Six-inch hold for the duration with knee tucks on every “Happy Boy”.

    Thang 2: F3 Poker
    While the PAX recovered from the brain numbing song, YHC retrieved the Deck of Death and then dealt 5 cards to each PAX. 2’s and Jokers were wild, which meant Paradox held four Jacks (including two Jokers), so his hand dictated the next 15 minutes or so of exercises. YHC decided to allow each of the Jokers to be something a little out there, so the first was 10 power merkins (partners perpendicular with partner 1’s feet on partner 2’s back). Both completed 10 merkins in unison then flapjacked.
    For the second Joker, YHC pulled out an old favorite, the Tunnel of Love. We were shocked when Paradox said he’d never done it–YHC assumed the FNG and maybe Montana would get a kick of doing it for the first time, but surely Paradox had done it before. But, his lack of experience was proven when, as YHC was recovering after all PAX had passed through the tunnel, he tried to go through again, only to receive a solid knee to the temple, UFC style. The sickening smack silenced the PAX for a brief moment, and then Goats instinctively popped up the concussion tent and asked him what his wife’s middle name was. He didn’t know, but he assured us that he’s a medical professional, he spent 10 years in school, his wife’s a doctor too, and he’s fine. So, on to the second hand.
    Goats blew away the competition with a royal straight, which started us with 25 burpees–a nice touch after the Iron Pax Challenge just a couple of days ago. YHC doesn’t remember much about what followed, just that 6:15 couldn’t get there fast enough. It did get there, though, before we could finish the hand, so all promised to do 25 dips in the car on the way home.

    Name-off (welcome Lil’ Cuz! Heck of a first workout!!), COT, and Goats prayed us out.
    It’s an honor to be part of such an awesome group of men.
    SYITG,
    Goose