F3 New Orleans

Category: Northshore

  • What are we doing here? – from Shooter

    YHC signed up prior to looking at the future cast of weather. The previous Thursday Q, multiple PAX mentioned the potential of freezing and snow and it was then that I started to pay attention. With a few early commits, I figured it would be one of those epic beatdowns of the past, when relationships were formed sledding through slush and ice to get to the Gipper with Steve and Bushwhacker.
    Unfortunately, though some of those commits were reduced the night before due to sickness.

    But then there had to be the one, Steve texting to confirm the night before was the icing before the actual icing that would later come..

    We kept it close and simple utilizing the dice and incorporating some laps around and through the brick columns.
    Exercises were mostly core and Wild Qs and then we wrapped it up and got home before the blizzard of 2025 began.

    Appreciate the post Steve and until the next Gloom šŸ‘šŸ¼šŸ‘ŠšŸ¼āœŒšŸ¼!!

  • Grants Tomb – from Akbar

    Mild, foggy gloom this Saturday as 10 took the red pill for Grants Tomb. In honor of Ulysses S. Grant, our 18th president who adorns the $50 bill, we would mosey around doing 50 reps up and down the Lakefront.

    Fun Fact: Grant was invited to Ford’s Theater by President Lincoln on the night of Lincoln’s assassination, but he turned him down.

    Warm up x 15 IC. SSH, Hillbilly, IW, arm circles, self love, shoulder taps, grass grabbers and other things

    Mosey to the Shaft for Grants Tomb: 25 reps on the wall, various styles of Mosey @ 25-30 yards, 25 reps at the other end, mosey back.

    George Thorogoodā€™s, Bear Crawl, Tuck Jumps
    Freak Nasty, Sprint, Superman
    Peter Parker, Crab Walk, Donkey Kick
    Stone Mountain, Sprint, Copperhead Squat
    Squat Jump, Long Skip, High Knees
    Plank Jacks, Murder Bunny, Shoulder Taps
    Good Mornings, Sprint, Big Boy Situps
    Irkin, Sprint, Apollo Ohnoā€™s

    Mosey toward the Gazebo for abs:

    Flutter kick, 20 s Left side plank
    Leg Raises, 20 s Right Side Plank
    Crunchy Frogs, Mountain Climbers
    Hello Dolly, Superman
    American Hammers, Jā€™Los
    Rosalita , Scuba Steve

    Mosey to the flag for several sets of below exercises x 10 IC

    Merkins Stone Mountain, 8 count Body Builder, LBC’s, and finish with 100 100’s

    Announcements: Run Cajun Run sign up for February; Grundy’s Nightmare After Christmas end of January.

    Count, Name, and UHC prayed us out.

    SYITG,

    Akbar

  • LEG WORK & LOWER BACK at THE A1c – from Einstein

    Cool this morning at the A1C ~ 38 degrees.

    WARMUP: all IC15x; toe touch, windmills, side staddle hops, arm circles, neck rolls(snap,crackle,pops), hi jack hi jills,
    shoulder rolls, butt kicks, high knees, merkins, parker-peters, side to side lunges, etc.

    THANG: set of 11s on the upper ramp; narrow leg squats in speed skater position at the ramp bottom, wide leg squats in speed skater position at the ramp top
    UP THE RAMP – slow skater walk up the ramp in speed skater position.
    DOWN THE RAMP – pax choice of: run forwards, run backwards, side shuffle left, side shuffle right, karaoke.

    Mary: all on your six; big boy sit-ups, left elbow to right knee, right elbow to left knee, BBQ’s hip stretch

    Moby prayed us out

  • Well, Well, Well did someone ring Cowbell? – from Shooter

    Shifting to a little more weight lifting in the New year. YHC still plans to keep his AO commitments and his down payment of Qing..
    My what a surprise he would have on this Scramble with Cowbell rolling up in the man wagon (Suburban) in Cowbell fashion right on the dot as the PAX was already starting on the warmup.
    Today produced 3 groups of 3 different speeds of runners and 1 lonely Rucker in Akbar.

    Normal route with 2x loop for some, 1 loop for others and a 20 out and back for the other..

    Prayers for LA fire victims and for Roxanne battling liver issues.

    Appreciate the post and until the next Gloom šŸ‘šŸ¼šŸ‘ŠšŸ¼āœŒšŸ¼!!

  • Shooter Shuffle! – from BBQ

    We did the usual old guys long and strong warm up. In Shooters honor we used coupons in the beat down. A deck of cards was used to pick the exercise and number of reps. Aces and face cards were all 10 reps. The 4 suits represented one exercise with the coupons. Chest press, overhead press, squats and windshield wipers over the coupon. We had a strong PAX and got thru the entire deck. Only one coupon broke by YHC. Name- arama and giving the FNG the F3 name ā€œJohn Deereā€. Prayers for those impacted by the CA fires, Bourbon St attack and BBQā€™s brother Ned fighting pneumonia. Fletch prayed us out. It was an honor to lead these fine young men!

  • Because Jose said I have to – from Russo

    In my former life as an auditor, excluding the requisite beauty and brains, one of the attributes we were told we should have was ā€œprofessional skepticismā€: the ability to question what you see or hear and find the truth. With just a little more thought, I bet I could now see where I became such a fan of conspiracy theories, although Iā€™m not sure how Iā€™m not a fan of the X-files.

    In order to do that successfully, there were two separate but related directives that were pounded into our skulls: ā€œTrust but verifyā€ and ā€œIf it wasnā€™t documented, it wasnā€™t done.ā€

    Jose lives by the latter. He upholds the standard we all begrudgingly accept, and so yes, heā€™s correct we should backblast away. Iā€™m 25.5 hours beyond the COT for this beatdown, so that means in his eyes itā€™s ā€œlateā€. But weā€™re on Northshore homeschool soccer parent time, where the idea of time and deadlines and schedules are a novel concept and not really a thing.

    No weather report since thatā€™s too generic, but it was ā€œcoldā€. Not cold enough to keep Steve and Cowbell from joining, however, and Iā€™m glad that they did.

    Warmup 10x IC
    SSHs
    Seal Jacks
    Self Love
    Torso twists
    Imperial walkers
    Arm circles

    Thang
    Mosey to the bridge, stopping at each block for 14 squats and 14 Merkins (not 15).

    At the bridge, back and forth back and forth, stopping on each side.

    Various traversements (itā€™s a word) included:
    Mosey 2x
    Side shuffle 2x
    Carioca 2x
    Back Pedal 2x
    Skip 1x

    Various exercises included, all core work,
    10 of one of the following on each side
    – Crunchy frogs and Leg raises 2x
    – American hammers and gas pumps 2x
    – Rosalitas and Hello Dollyā€™s 2x
    – Penguins and LBCs 2x
    – E2K and LMCs 1x

    COT, with count, NOR, announcements and prayer to close us out.

    Thanks to you for joining, reading, and keeping us all in order, Jose!

    SYITG

  • 4 Corners – from Akbar

    YHC arrived to Jose rucking in squares at the Marsh dodging the intermittent rain this gloom. Hammer and Pik out for the week, we got to work on 4 corners after a good warm up.

    On the court: Stone Mountain, Freak Nasty, Apollo Ohnos, and Crunchy Frogs, followed up a run down to the first stop sign and back. 5 reps each corner, ascending by t5 up to 25.

  • Misty Mornings – from Hogs Breath

    Hogs breath showed up to a crisp, cold, and wet morning at the 007. Bit seeing any other light, he proceeded to a solo workout. Dodging puddles for a slow mosey around heritage with some Mary underneath the picnic pavilion.

  • Run Cajun Run Mumblechatter, and Teethchatter – from Ballz Deep

    Another Thursday, another 5k. The saddle is starting to feel familiar again after the holiday hiatus. The usual suspects arrived at 5:15. Although we miss #The Hammer as he prepares for the Louisiana Marathon. He will return soon!

    Jose 10k, Steve, Shooter, and I rounded out the group on this cold Thursday morning. Warmups were:
    10 count Ass Grabbers
    10 count side straddle hops
    10 count arm circles, front/back
    10 count windmills

    An ā€œElevensā€ modification was used to honor 01-09 before the normal running route:
    1 mountain climber, 9 merkinsā€¦ 2 mtn climbers, 8 merkins, and so forth. 45 pushups total helped get the blood viscosity higher.
    Mumblechatter included learning the great Run Cajun Run group names. Talked outdoor sports with Shooter. Talked the merits of deermeat burritos, how to justify buying a boat off love for fish tacos, why Adam Sandler never picked Steve for pickup basketball in LA, and how unlikely the Steelers are to beat the Ravens Saturday. #Shooter led the way on a double 3.8 mile loop around Hermitage Court. That, plus the ā€œelevensā€ modification had us return with 2 minutes to spare. Run Cajun Run announcement, and COT to finish. Plenty of hearty mumblechatter to distract us from the teethchatter.

  • KISS with Crucial Taunt – from Jose10k

    Late Friday evening, when everyone else was busy pretending their weekend plans were too important to sweat it out, I decided to keep it ā€œsimple stupidā€ and crank out a Murph at the marsh. Because why not combine the serenity of nature with a borderline masochistic workout, right?

    We kicked things off with a quick warm-up around the flagā€”mostly to loosen up, but also to stall and hope for a miracle excuse to skip leg day. No such luck. Straight to the marsh we moseyed, where we proceeded to grind through 20 sets of 5 pull-ups, 10 push-ups, and 20 squats.

    Now, hereā€™s where the comedy gold begins. Youā€™ve got Bird over there doing jump squats with a full spin like heā€™s auditioning for Cirque du Soleil, and Zoolander showing off with thumb-only pull-ups and one-legged inverted Bulgarian split squats. The rest of us? Oh, we were doing our own kind of heavy liftingā€”debating whether Guns Nā€™ Roses could out-mosh New Kids on the Block, swapping embarrassing stories about our ā€˜90s crushes, and contemplating if VH1ā€™s Behind the Music counts as cardio.

    After wrapping up the Murph and rethinking life choices, we moved on to some Lt. Dan lunge-walkingā€”because who doesnā€™t love a good Forrest Gump reference in the middle of quad destruction? We finally ran into Grundy, who had been ā€œenthusiasticallyā€ searching for us by running laps around the lakefront. (Sure, buddy. We believe you.)

    Stop signs became our new nemeses, where we busted out 20 squats at each one. At the second-to-last stop, we switched it up with two rounds of 20 penguins and 20 LBCs because nothing screams camaraderie like flapping around like aquatic birds. A few brave souls sprinted to the flag to finish strong while the rest of us casually redefined what counts as a ā€œsprint.ā€

    We wrapped up with C.O.T., where Russo prayed us out, undoubtedly asking for divine intervention to heal our sore muscles and to forgive Bird and Zoolander for showing us all up.

    Thanks for letting me lead, gentlemen. Next time, letā€™s try something harderā€”like keeping a straight face when Zoolander breaks out those one-legged shenanigans again.