F3 New Orleans

Category: Northshore

  • Bring on the BEAST!! – from Shooter

    Boy that’s a big statement coming from a guy who was in then out, in again out again and now yes it’s official. Or maybe I was simply acting like an M on a date night trying to decide if this restaurant or that restaurant is what I want… All I do know is the motivation came from many. Started with my brothers Hammer/Zoolander. Then the consistent nudges of Bushwacker, which everyone knows is the most persistent of CSAUP advocates on the planet.. Then, who truly wants to decline the always happy and smiling Steve? Or the just so happened bump into the freshly returned Manny at planet fitness simply stating yeah I am in… I must be honest though the icing on the cake was a post by BD (MarshMadness) title holder for 2024 that sealed the deal. There is something about a new F3 brethren who initially posted with Ruckers but decided now it’s time to get ready and join the runners at the Scramble.. And get this, Zoolander and I were informed he has begun the QSOURCE podcast already… So, YHC brought out the coupons (cylinder blocks) to get some hardness started on the PAX soft hands… No one brings gloves to the Scramble 😬😬..

    Warmup 5 one min intervals, Curls, Presses, Left one arm rows, Right one arm rows and SSH.
    10IC Imperial walkers and Grass Grabbers

    Ruckers 18 out and back and Runners the ole traditional with Hermitage loop and 3/4 loop around the park on return..

    Announced the Murph on Monday at the Marsh with Akbar at 0630 with coffateria to follow..
    Zoolander as promised an introduction of some obstacles to expect for the BEAST…

    VQ coming for Brexit Saturday at the Mothership (sorry to miss). I know he will crush it..

    Great morning, with great men and until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!!

  • A motivated James Bond coupon – from Hogs Breath

    Began with a warm-up. Abe Vigoda arm circle, self love, Einstein’s theory of relativity, world’s greatest, and a new one Inca gods.

    We began with a rousing rendition of a motivator. A 10 to 1 SSH beatdown. We began with a full SSH, star hop, leg only, and a bunny hop. Much to Jose’s delight, the balls of our feet and our calves were aching…

    The thang

    Next up was some Slidell [the 007]love. YHC saw an article from “The Art of Manliness” about a James Bond workout. Ian Fleming, who wrote the James Bond series of books, described the famous spy’s workout routine in one of his books. The article even had a nice graphic of a tuxedo’d James Bond performing various exercises. The beatdown began with 20 slow count Merkins. This is then followed up by some leg levers and grass grabbers. And ending with freak nastys. This was a great rendition, especially since the Q was visiting from the 007 AO!

    Next up was a coupon walk and the Deck of Death. One pax would walk with the coupon, while other pax drew a card and performed the exercise listed. Once the coupon was dropped everybody else sprinted to said coupon. The pax then rotated out and begin again.

    Next step was a hot potato, swapping the coupon back-and-forth while all pax went the stairwells and did calf raises.

    Ended with a few minutes of a circle of trust.

    A great Motivated way to begin our Friday!

  • Til the Medicine Takes – from Akbar

    Mid day text from Whacker alerted YHC that rain was in the forecast. Even when there is an 80% chance of rain, there is an 80% chance that it won’t rain. Last minute change to the Marsh was necessary. We finished the original workout in 30 minutes, which is the average time it takes a medicine to start working. Good thing YHC has done this before, we filled the time quite nicely – with only 1 moment of thought blockage.

    PAX : Baby Yoda, Duke of Hazard, Buttsplice, The Hammer, Jose10k, Russo, Trucoat, Brexit, Bushwhacker, Grundy, Zoolander, Steve, Akbar

    Warm Up:
    SSH, Grass Grabbers, Arm Circles, Self-love, IW, Hillbillies, Windmills

    Thang:
    Full body 4 ways: with runs and bear crawls in between. And some other stuff made up on the spot – Steve Style.

    Each set included 2 exercises, performed with 4 variations: Cobra style, regular, fast, and a 10 count hold in the middle of said exercise to finish. x10 IC each round

    Round 1: Merkins, Lunges, Bear Crawl to the White mailbox, run to the stop sign and back

    Round 2: Stone Mountain, Freak Nasty, Bear Crawl to the White mailbox, run to the stop sign and back

    Round 3: Pull Ups, Supermans, Bear Crawl on the court, run back.

    Intermission 1: Bear Crawl court again, sprint back.

    Intermission 2: Swerkins (Knee Tuck Merkin with feet on the swing) while partner holds Chill Cut – 3 sets

    Another set, 3 rounds of Freak Nasties and Bulgarian Split Squats x10 IC.

    Sprints on the the basketball court, high knees and run, then 11’s of Crunchy Frogs and Little Manny Crunches. There may have been other things as well.

    Mary – Flutter kicks IC for 1 minute

    Count, Name, and Zoolander prayed us out.

    Announcements
    Atlanta Beastrun in October – still taking sign ups.
    Brexit VQ / Birthday Q next Saturday
    Saturday Q sheet is full through June 22

    Thanks for the opportunity to lead –

    SYITG, Akbar

  • Birds were the word – from Russo

    Not cold this morning after last night’s storm. I was so busy figuring out if I was a better Bob Breck or Margaret Orr last night to set my alarm, so I rolled over onto my phone around 4:53 and hustled out of bed, arriving juuuuuusssst before Pelican and Bird made me an honorary member of the Aviation Krewe (code name: Dodo).

    Warmup – 10x IC
    Seal jacks
    Toe touches
    Arm circles
    SSHs
    Self Love
    Torso twists
    Cherry pickers

    Thang
    Walls of Jericho at the Treen / Training / Trane Center (7 count of seven exercises 7 times around)

    – Crunchy frogs
    – Lunges
    – Star jumps
    – Merkins
    – Monkey humpers
    – Shoulder tap plank jacks
    – Jump squats

    Mary
    7 calf raises then up and down the pilot house (7 times)
    IC 7x LMCs
    IC 7x wife pleasers
    IC 7x Rosalitas
    IC 7x Hello Dollies
    IC 7x Right and Left Leg Bridges
    A slalom of the columns

    COT, Name-o-Rama, and prayer wrapped us up. Fun fact to go: David Treen was Louisiana’s Governor in God’s decade, the 80s, sandwiched between Edwin Edwards 2nd and 3rd terms. Edwards took those four years off to practice holding out his hand for kickbacks and signing casino licenses. At least I think that’s right. I learned it in 8th grade Louisiana History, shout out to Mr. Altobello, Raider pride!

    SYITG

  • Weekday Wild Q!! – from Shooter

    Picking up the Q at Granny’s proved to be Wild in many ways. First off was the continuation of conversations about Madonna from Saturdays beatdown… Which by the way aged YHC, but probably not to the point made about 130 years referencing things I won’t state here.. See Jose10k, we know how to keep it clean on the BB for Granny… Secondly it was Wild to get a Quarter pipe sighting on our journey through Mandeville along with a shoutout good morning to the PAX… I know the question you all are wondering, did he join the PAX? 😬
    Let’s just say we may not have another post from QP until he thinks of another AO to create and handoff to the PAX to run TBD.. 😂
    Third, there is something Wild and eerie about a cyclist cruising the trace in the dark morning hours blasting Beethoven, as he cruises around passing the PAX not once but twice..

    Enough chatter and here’s the details.. Warmup was variation of 10IC GM, Arm circle’s, Superman’s, Scorpion kicks, bridges, self love and Cherry pickers..

    Wackers dice came along for the Wildness on this Gloom and the Wild Q presented itself on multiple occasions. PAX moseyed around stopping at various points to roll the dice.. Jump squats won the day with multiple reps, as well as mixes of Merkins, Donkey kickoffs, some stretch’s, gas pumps, MCs, Peter Parker’s, calf raises, Rock balboa’s, bunny hops, SSHs and some others I probably missed… Returned to Granny’s with a min plank to close.. Announced the BEAST with the same somber responses of consideration with exception to Russo.. Wacker that’s your Q to launch the EH tentacles!!🦑

    Appreciate the post and safe travels to Chewy for his trip to Mexico..🇲🇽

    Until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!!

  • Buns of Steel – from Akbar

    3 at the Marsh for an early morning get together – starting the week out right with good conversation and sweat. School, inflation, a little bit of baseball, and always wondering why people drive up to the park and sit in their cars at 5:30 am. They must be related to Soccer Girl.

    Here is how it went.

    WU – SSH, Grass Grabbers, Windmills, arm circles, self love, hillbillies, imperial walkers

    Trying to stay away from Glutes this morning, we mosey to the playground for 4 sets of 10 pull ups, calf raises, hanging knee raises, and 10 count dead hangs

    Mosey to the Lakefront wall for Freak Nasties and Shoulder Taps x10 IC, then Scuba Steves and Glute Bridges each leg x10IC. Yes, we did more Glutes, on accident.

    4 sets of that rotation and we ran back to the Marsh stopping for Merkins and Abs.

    Mary – Plank til time.

    YHC prayed us out for safety, those with exams and graduation, and for good influences in our lives.

    Announcements:
    Memorial Day Murph at the Marsh 6:30am start
    The Atlanta Beast run- talk to Hammer if you want to go

    Thanks for the post, always a great way to start out the week.

    SYITG – Akbar

  • Tabata in Africa – from Hogs Breath

    Pass Interference and I met at the shovel flag and began our weekly start of the week ritual.

    Warm up:

    Toy Soldiers, slow butt kicks, Abe Vigodas, imperial walkers, hill billies, and SSH.

    The Thang,
    To commemorate Murdoch’s upcoming Africa trip, we played “Africa” by ToTo. The pax had his choice of SSH, Imperial walker, or Hill Billy and every time “Africa” was mentioned, we did a burpee. Basically, “Africa” is mentioned a lot less than I originally remembered. So the total amount of burpee’s was only about 10…
    The next thing was a trip to the coupon pile and selecting a coupon. We traded it back and forth while we mosey’d back to the shovel flag.
    A round of Tabata. 20 seconds on, 10 seconds rest for eight rounds. Exercises included a coupon hop over, mountain climbers, and squats. In the middle, a pickup truck pulled up and Royal Ralph arrived. Tclaps for showing up, many newcomers would be deterred from showing up if they messed up the time or showed up late, but not Royal Ralph! Royal still arrived, albeit 25 mins late! He jumped into Tabata with us, followed by a mosey around the park. And finishing with 5 mins of Mary.
    Ended with COT and coffeteria at Starbucks.

  • Nickel and Dimed to Death OR Steve Is a Mean Stupid Face – from Bushwacker

    First off, let’s just take a moment to recognize the Pax that got out there early for the pre-thang – I think there were 7-8 guys? And that’s not counting Jose and JV, who started even earlier to roll at their own pace. AND, an additional t-claps to Jose for not only EH’ing JV, but also for getting out to the Marsh extra early for a pre-pre-thang of 30 minutes of pull-ups.

    And I’d argue we were off to a good start even before that, when in the wee hours of the morning the temperature mercifully dipped down into the mid-60’s. That small fact made all the difference – were it not for those 8-10 degrees, JV (by his own admission) would’ve punched that guy on roller blades in the face. And hasn’t Christian Slater suffered enough these last few years?

    Usual warmorama (can you decode them all?): WM’s, IW’s, GG’s, HB’s, AC’s, SSH’s. And 20 Merkins OYO.

    Split Q today, with YHC (Steve right now), up first. I tried to find the most pricker-filled patch of grass to mosey to for our first set of:

    Nickel and Dimes I:
    5 burpees, 10 hand release merkins, then SSH until next minute – for a total of 5 minutes. (Shout out to Catfish who taught me that one way back when.)

    Many noticed PI’s entrance at this point, but few saw Zoolander’s sly exit.

    Next up: Partner Races (or foot races, if Turtle had been there):
    Line up at the start of Marigny for a sprint down the longest block known to man. Winner does 10 merkins, loser 10 burpees.

    Tank, who positioned himself as the final sprinter, noted that every guy looked good running that block. “If I was passing by and saw those guys, I’d say, ‘Wow, those guys are athletes.’” High praise from the leader of the gazelles.

    Back at the pricker-filled, ant-infested (sorry Bird) patch of grass for:

    Nickel and Dimes: First Blood Part 2
    10 Sister Mary’s (2:1), 5 squats, plank until next minute. 5 minutes.

    And another partner race down Marigny, with winner taking 10 merkins, loser 10 burpees.

    There were plans for Nickel and Dimes III: Nickel and Dimed With A Vengeance, but thankfully Bushwacker had arrived and it was time to cede leadership duties. Even I was hating myself by this point. (Though I’ll point out, quite a few guys still had plenty fuel left in the tank for Wacker – including Russo, who was somehow able to calculate the age of Madonna’s hoo-ha in between Side Straddle Hops [approx. 130 yrs old, if I heard correctly].)

    So without further ado, time to turn the pages of this backblast over to the man himself, the Wacker of Bushes (and here you thought he was the long-winded one!).

    Geez! Chatty Cathy, huh, guys?

    Anyhoo, YHC got a taste of this race business (10 Burpees courtesy of Mr “I’m not really trying hard” Tank), and no thank you sir! Instead, a healthy order of circuit training was on the menu.

    All OYO, plank for the 6:

    50 100s, 40 SSH (single count), 30 Freddy Mercury’s (2is1), 20 Jump Squats, and 10 Burpees. 1 lap around Noah’s Ark and plank for the six. I reckon we made it through 5 or six rounds, with the final lap continuing to the flag.

    COT

    Count, Name, Steve prayed us out. Guys, I don’t know why you put up with Steve and his shenanigans, but I know he appreciates the allowance of said pied piper status. On a much more humble note, I appreciate this brotherhood and the ability to contribute in any small way to its lively and fulfilling existence.

  • Nickel and Dimed to Death OR Steve Is a Mean Stupid Face – from Bushwacker

    First off, let’s just take a moment to recognize the Pax that got out there early for the pre-thang – I think there were 7-8 guys? And that’s not counting Jose and JV, who started even earlier to roll at their own pace. AND, an additional t-claps to Jose for not only EH’ing JV, but also for getting out to the Marsh extra early for a pre-pre-thang of 30 minutes of pull-ups.

    And I’d argue we were off to a good start even before that, when in the wee hours of the morning the temperature mercifully dipped down into the mid-60’s. That small fact made all the difference – were it not for those 8-10 degrees, JV (by his own admission) would’ve punched that guy on roller blades in the face. And hasn’t Christian Slater suffered enough these last few years?

    Usual warmorama (can you decode them all?): WM’s, IW’s, GG’s, HB’s, AC’s, SSH’s. And 20 Merkins OYO.

    Split Q today, with YHC (Steve right now), up first. I tried to find the most pricker-filled patch of grass to mosey to for our first set of:

    Nickel and Dimes I:
    5 burpees, 10 hand release merkins, then SSH until next minute – for a total of 5 minutes. (Shout out to Catfish who taught me that one way back when.)

    Many noticed PI’s entrance at this point, but few saw Zoolander’s sly exit.

    Next up: Partner Races (or foot races, if Turtle had been there):
    Line up at the start of Marigny for a sprint down the longest block known to man. Winner does 10 merkins, loser 10 burpees.

    Tank, who positioned himself as the final sprinter, noted that every guy looked good running that block. “If I was passing by and saw those guys, I’d say, ‘Wow, those guys are athletes.’” High praise from the leader of the gazelles.

    Back at the pricker-filled, ant-infested (sorry Bird) patch of grass for:

    Nickel and Dimes: First Blood Part 2
    10 Sister Mary’s (2:1), 5 squats, plank until next minute. 5 minutes.

    And another partner race down Marigny, with winner taking 10 merkins, loser 10 burpees.

    There were plans for Nickel and Dimes III: Nickel and Dimed With A Vengeance, but thankfully Bushwacker had arrived and it was time to cede leadership duties. Even I was hating myself by this point. (Though I’ll point out, quite a few guys still had plenty fuel left in the tank for Wacker – including Russo, who was somehow able to calculate the age of Madonna’s hoo-ha in between Side Straddle Hops [approx. 130 yrs old, if I heard correctly].)

    So without further ado, time to turn the pages of this backblast over to the man himself, the Wacker of Bushes (and here you thought he was the long-winded one!).

    Geez! Chatty Cathy, huh, guys?

    Anyhoo, YHC got a taste of this race business (10 Burpees courtesy of Mr “I’m not really trying hard” Tank), and no thank you sir! Instead, a healthy order of circuit training was on the menu.

    All OYO, plank for the 6:

    50 100s, 40 SSH (single count), 30 Freddy Mercury’s (2is1), 20 Jump Squats, and 10 Burpees. 1 lap around Noah’s Ark and plank for the six. I reckon we made it through 5 or six rounds, with the final lap continuing to the flag.

    COT

    Count, Name, Steve prayed us out. Guys, I don’t know why you put up with Steve and his shenanigans, but I know he appreciates the allowance of said pied piper status. On a much more humble note, I appreciate this brotherhood and the ability to contribute in any small way to its lively and fulfilling existence.

  • MotherF**ker Jones – from Jose10k

    Let’s see, 77 degrees outside with a nice breeze that broke up the humidity. 4 HIMs took the red pill this morning. The keys to the bus were available and YHC picked them up. After running at the Scramble yesterday, I honestly had no clue what to do. I decided to utilize the outside of the A1C this morning. After a series of warm-ups, we moseyed to the outside of the parking garage where there are concrete seats. We did a series of exercises, followed by a lap around the entire parking garage. We did bulgarian split squats, regular squats, wife pleasers, another core exercise, freak nasties, and derkins. We successfully completed 3 rounds of that. We then did Lt. Dan up the parking garage, moseyed the straight away, then Lt. Dan up the next level to the top. We circled up to finish up with some deep stretches to a count to 10 in a different foreign language including German, French, Spanish, Pig Latin, Roman numerals, and binary.
    COT: Moby prayed us out. Reminder: Mother’s Day is this weekend. And our own DarkWing Duck will celebrate his 18th wedding anniversary on Sunday as well. TCLAPS to him and his M.
    Double Q tomorrow from Steve and Bushwacker. I even EHd JV to do the prethang tomorrow.

    Spartan Beast Race in October, see Hammer for the information. Join the group of crazy men who are already doing some insane workouts to prepare for this event.
    Thank y’all for letting me lead, and thanks for reading this bb.
    Oh Shooter, I noticed no Mandevillians posted today 🙁