F3 New Orleans

Category: Northshore

  • Strangers at the Scramble!!

    The Scramble has impressed the Site Q week in and week out as of late with some great consistency. PAX have ranged from 8-10 gathering for our rountine 5k with a mix of exercises. So much so that we tend to have a PAX magically appear along the way at which another PAX Water Pik turns around to the surprise of Burgundy after about a mile in.. Conversations always prove fun and engaging with a variation of topics such as about our Saints discussing the success as of late and the need for some Fantasy football guys who need certain people to step up in future weeks as the playoffs have begun. ..

    Warmup 

    All IC of 10 Windmills, Toe Touches, Scuba Steve’s and Scorpion kicks..

    Thang 

    Journeyed the common route through the streets of Ole Beautiful Mandeville. Returning to the AO for 10 mins of a mixer of ISI, Merkin Wave, Flutter kicks, LBCs and Pull-ups. Circled up to count off and announce the future Nightmare before Christmas on 12/16 at the Mandeville Lakefront at 1300 for any PAX looking for a true punishment shared amongst brothers.. Also touching on the Crazy Ivan 1/19/19 at 2100 at which we need to pry the Hammer out of the hands of EiEi for visual inspiration to come soon..

    COT 

    Q prayed us into the day!

    Much appreciation to the F3 men who decided to flatter the Q on this Spring like Gloom before the next cold front to come!!

  • FNG: Out of Work Hair Dresser

    As YHC pulled up to the Wednesday rendevieu point for “we south of I-12” a familiar looking vehicle simultaneously pulled in a few spots away.Taking the gamble that I wasn’t about to make a fool of myself, I jumped out pointing and waiving my hands. Sure enough, Steve had returned on a more permenant basis to reclaim his moniker of Out of Work Hair Dresser! Shooter pulled up and we were on our way to meet up with the Wednesday warriors of The Gipper.

    The frosty gloom was ripe for a proper beat down, and QIC was ,indeed, hoping not to disappoint.

    WARM O RAMA

    Toes Touches x20

    Cherry Pickers x 15

    Imperial Walkers x10

    Fire Hydrants Rx10 Lx10

    Scorpion Kicks x10

    THANG

    Gathered at Clock Tower, PAX did_____ while each individual did _______…..

    R1 Hi Knees, 50%/100% sprints

    R2 Butt Kicks, Side Shuffle

    Mosied to court house for Irky Dirks: OYO Irkin up each step, Dirkin down each step

    Mosied to parking lot outside parking garage; suicides to each parking space line

    Mosied up the parking garage ramps and down the steps  and over the front of court house for some Freak Nasties, Box Jumps, Irkins, and Step Ups

    Indian Run back to clock tower to continue…

    R3 Squats, Backward/forward sprint

    R4 SSH, Bunny Hops

    COT – Out Of Work Hair Dresser prayed us out

    Many thanks to the brave souls showed up and stuck it out even when they discovered it was Bushwacker they would be following. APPRECIATION

  • Coconutty

    3 pax met up at the Mandeville trailhead, with YHC coming in hot as per usual. The outside temperature read 30 degrees and Coconuts, with only a light jacket… no pants , hat, or gloves, seemed unfazed by the elements. 

    Warm up: mosey to bus stop:

    Ssh and IW x 20 IC

    Forward lunge with bows to the ground x 4

    Back lunge with twist x4

    Lateral lunge x 4

    Sumo squat to stand x 4 

    The thang:

    Step ups x 10/ shld taps x20

    Mosey to corner x 100 yd dash/ mosey x 100 yd dash

    Pistol squats x 10/manmakers x 10

    Mosey/ x 100 yd dash/ mosey x 100 yd dash

    Split squats x 10/ Plyo push-ups x 10

    Mosey to corner, lunge walk 1/4 of the way, x 75yd dash, mosey to corner, back pedal x 25 yds, 75 yd dash (slight modification due to bronchospams)

    Sit to stand single leg x 10/ vaults x 10 

    One more round of modification mosey/ dash

    X 10 burpees to finish off.

    Name o rama, cot, prayer 

    Thanks guys for pushing me out of the warm fart sack this morning! 

    Chewy 

  • Is that the Salvation Army?

    With it being just over two weeks before Christmas, bells could be heard along the lakefront in Mandeville on a cold and dreary Saturday morning. Could it be the salvation army ringing their bells to get donations from the dedicated runners on the Lakefront? No sir, it is a bunch of idiots doing ten burpees everytime they ring a cowbell…..

    Warm Up:

    15 Toe Touches IC, 20 Windmills IC, 20 IW’s IC, 20 SS Hops IC, 20 Butt Kicks IC, 20 High KNees IC, 10 Forward Arm Rolls IC, 10 Reverse Arm Rolls IC, 10 Overhead Claps IC

    Cowbell Instructions:

    Every time you hear the cowbell, stop and do ten burpees. At the beginning of the beat down, that cowbell was like the pretty girl at the dance. Everybody wanted to have some time with it. About half way through, she turned into the ugly girl at the dance. Nobody wanted anything to do with it. BUT, everyone had their chance to dance which meant, with 10 Pax, we did a hundred burpees through out the work out. I think Zoo Lander might have rang it twice, so maybe 110.

    Mosey to first block: Bolt 45s, 5 Dive Bomber Push Ups IC, 5 Lunges IC

    Mosey to second block: Rinse and Repeat  exercises from Block 1 and add 5 Absolutions

    Mosey to third block: Rinse and Repeat exercises from Block 2, and add 10 Freak Nasties IC

    Mosey to the park: Ascending Burp and Groin

    Each pac does a burpee. After the merkin part of the burpee, do a groiner. Everytime you do a burpee increase the merkin and groiner by one rep. Do this until you get to ten merkins and ten groiners. So I guess if you add these burpees into it, we did 120. By this point, who the hell is counting. 

    Mary: Bruce Lees- 10 Leg Lifts OYO, 10 LBCs IC, 10 Heel Touches IC, 10 100s IC, 10 Putins IC, 10 Crunchy Frogs OYO

    Rinse and Repeat this three times. Second set increase reps to 12 for all exercises. On the third set, increase reps to 15. Kudos to Coconuts to ringing the cowbell during the Mary to give our abs a break. Only at F3 is doing 10 burpees a break from anything. 

    Indian run back to the flag.

    Bushwacker prayed us out. Great F2 at the coffeteria after. 

  • What’s My Name?!?!

    This back blast is going to be short and sweet since I am off to train for the Nightmare Before Christmas beatdown 12/16 at the lakefront! 

    It was a little cold so we just started with 50 SSH in cadence to warm everyone up. We followed that with some windmills and merkins.

    Today’s beatdown was a little something I have been doing at the house where you have a list of exercises correlating with the ABC’s. Every letter has an exercise (like 10 burpees, 16 jump squats, or hello dolly’s for example.) During the course of the workout the PAX would shout “What’s my name”? We would spell out their name and do the exercises for each letter. 

    With all of the people at the beatdown, we had to shorten some people’s names in order to get through it. We had the most fun I think spelling out “Ben”.

    One other addition was when all the PAX did a wall squat and we passed a 30-lb plate down the line. Once it was at the end the person at the end took the weight up and down the Taj Mahal staircase and back to the front of the line to start the process again.

    We rallied back at the flag for the last name (Ringo) and Bushwacker closed us out.

    Thanks for letting me lead. Every day we get a little stronger, and that’s because we push each other so well.

    Have a great weekend!

  • Pulling a RIngo

    New F3 term: Pulling a Ringo = a new member of the pax that completes 10 consecutive beatdowns.

    Welcome aboard Ringo glad to have ya!

    The thang:

    Warm up: Mt climbers, merkins, scorpion kicks x 10-20 IC

    Fwd, retro, and lateral lunges x 8

    3.1 mile mosey regular course; pax split up into mustangs (pik, coconuts and garfield) and clydesdales (the rest of us)

    Circle up for 8 min of:   plank progressions: side with R/L arm/Leg high,  Makhtar  N’Diaye, shld taps, Christian Laettnars

    Slow squats x 30, American Hammers x 20, Nolan Ryan x 10, Good Morning x 15 all IC.

    Name0orama, COT, Prayer

    Thanks guys!

    Chewy

     

  • Tabata Tuesday

    Grandmas house posted a respectable 7 PAX, including an FNG on this mid 40s Gloom.. Arrived to the sights of Water Pik and Ringo stretching and preparing under the canopy of lights at the Trailhead. Quickly the PAX increased with the arrival of Coconuts and (FNG) POSH spice followed by Chewy right at 0515..  Knowing that POSH spice had been Ehed by Backdraft, Q started our warmup with intentions of hanging close to the AO for his expected late arrival.

    warmup

    20 IC SSH

    20 IC Mummy kicks ( Tanked up exclusive)

    10 IC Windmills

    15 IC Arm circles Forward/Reverse

    20 IC Butt kicks

    15 IC Overhead claps

    Thang

    Moseyed to the tunnel for our Tabata work. Instructions Upper, Lower and Core.

    First series Merkins for 25 sec work and  rest for 10 sec (8) followed by 25-30% run down the ramp stepping up to 50-60% on the flat and all out 💯 sprint back up. The youths of the PAX were quickly humbled by Coconuts ability and quickness through the tunnel.. Recovery walk back. Second series Squats and R/R the tunnel. Final series Flutter kicks and R/R tunnel. Moseyed back to the flag for 5 min of Flutter kicks while each PAX took turns running 25 yard and 50 yard suicides to closeout the beatdown..

    count off, announcements, naming of FNG, COT

    Much Appreciation to Ringo for praying us out into the day. Also on keeping his streak going at 7 in a row.. Glad to have you part of F3..

    ✌🏻Till the next Gloom

     

     

  • Calling the audible at the Marsh

    When a fellow F3 Brother gets called in early to work, it becomes necessary for an audible by the PAX to make sure we start the week off right at the Marsh..

    Arrived to the Marsh noticing Ringo ready to roll for his 6th Post in a row.. Coconuts has nailed down the exact timing of the snooze, alarm to arrival at the AO coming in at 0500 sharp…

    warmarama

    All IC to 10, Good mornings, Toe Touches, Windmills, SSH, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies and ISI 24 Jump Squats..

    Moseyed to the Lakefront for use of the Wall 15 IC Freak nasties (Steve fav) looking forward to his return, Step ups 15 IC and 15 OYO Derkins. R/R.

    Moseyed to RIPS for a little stair work. 2 PAX stayed down completing a series of Plank Jacks, lunges and Merkins as the each cycled up and down the stairs until each completed.

    Passed the baton to Coconuts for the close. Moseyed the PAX back to the court for fun and games. Bear crawled baseline to baseline, bunny hopped back 5x at which we dropped for  3 Burpees. Each PAX tried implementing Jordan or Wilkins style hops to get as few Burpees as possible. Cycled 2 rounds which proved to be enough for now with hopes of getting to 5 cycles in a future post near you. With 13 mins to spare we converged on the playground for 3,6,9 (10)

    3 pull-ups, 6 Merkins and 9 Squats in 1 min cycles..

    Met back at center court for the count, announce and COT.

    👏🏻 Once again to Ringo for the consistency in his second week of posting..

    Appreciation to Coconuts for the co-Q and taking us out in prayer…

    ✌🏻 Till the next Gloom..

     

  • November heat wave

    CONDITIONS

    YHC arrived to the AO wearing his mukluks and balaclava this morning after all the chilly posts this week but got to dump them when the temps hit 60°F this A.M.

    DISCLAIMER

    Q delivered the classic disclaimer copied from our friend Einstein: “It’s obvious that I’m not a professional.  Be safe out there.”

    THE WARM UP Proper

    The assembled PAX warmed up with the following sequence, all exercises done IC.

    -Split Jacks 15X
    -Toe Touches (just in time for our amigo Chewy to roll-in hot)  10X
    -Hairy rockette kicks 15X
    -Ray Finkles 15X (tough to maintain balance)

     

    THE THANG Scramble style

    YHC fiddled with his fancy fitness tracker gizmo for a minute or two. Then the assembled PAX pounded out the 5k on our usual scramble route.

     

    THE THANG Phase 2

    Paul Cordes park has new exercise equipment which the PAX put to use after returning from our run.

    First they ran through a session of “Morning Call”
    One pax cranked through pull ups while everyone else did Merkins and held plank until our whole crew made it through the circuit.

    With only two minutes to go before the buzzer sounded PAX finished with AMRAP of lunges.

    Thanks Mandeville Parks and Rec for the new toys.  Don’t say big government never did anything for you.

    CountORama, NameORama, and COT

    Thanks to Sprockets for praying us out with encouraging words of thanks and praise.

    MOLESKIN

    Special T-Claps to Ringo who “hit for the cycle” Northshore style and posted four consecutive times.  He started the week as an FNG and is now a regular.

    Thanks F3-bros, for the fellowship, the beatdowns and for being willing to follow my lead.

  • What does everyone want after Thanksgiving?

    …Why a little more Pi of course

    conditions: upper 30s, mostly clear sky, wind calm, magnetic declination; -1.05 degrees

    disclaimer: I’m not a…..

    warm-up: side straddle hops 20xIC, good-mornings 20xIC, arm circles

    mosey to the top deck of the Justice Center annex parking garage

    using Pi out to one hundred decimal places as a template for our event:

    3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679

    for each set of 10 digits we did an exercises for each number in the set, then ran a lap around the deck for example:

    1st set:1 burpee,4 lunges,1 imperial walker,5 merkins,9 plankjacks,2 squats,6 rows,5 iron crosses,3 situps, 5 crunches

    run a lap

    2nd set:8 burpees,9 lunges,7 imperial walker,9 merkins,3 plankjacks,2 squats,3 rows,8 iron crosses,4 situps, 6 crunches

    run a lap

    …etc

    EXERCISES DONE: 43 burpees, 61 lunges, 27 imperial walkers, 54 merkins, 48 plank jacks, 45 squats, 36 rows, 61 iron crosses, 50 sit-ups, 52 crunches, 10 laps of running

    TOTALS: 477 exercise movements, and a mile or so of running

    Coconuts does the 10 count, and graciously pauses to add a few decimal places to the number “3”, (nice touch I must say)

     

    Indian run back to the flag

    Bushwacker (just-be-cuz) prays us out.

    Thanks guys. Fun as always.