F3 New Orleans

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  • Are you calling me fat? – from The Hammer

    5 took the red pill this warm and humid morning. Activities at the playground/workout equipment. 5 rounds of max out pull-ups and 10 IC ab exercise. Jose10k apparently chose to do ab exercises that didn’t cause him pain. This angered Bushwacker. You are supposed to follow the Q, he yelled.. Then Bushwacker attempted to compliment Jose. Hey Jose, I am impressed with your dedication and consistency with your posting. Jose replies: “Thanks Bush” Bushwacker responds” You think you’d be in better physical shape with all those posts” Ouch!. That’s cold Wacker. I heard Jose has been eating his feelings this morning.

    Anywho, another lap. Rinse and repeat replacing pull-ups with merkins. Jose left early, hurt by Wacker, but sometimes the truth hurts.

  • What This II – from Hogs Breath

    Warm & Humid at the A1c this morning with our amigos posting; Fletch, Jose10k
    Moby Dick, Einstein

    Warmup: Extensive

    Thang: 3 sets of the following eight
    Reverse Lunge
    Side to Side Lunge
    Mountain Climbers
    High Knee Walking Lunge
    Low Cossack Lunge
    Side Planks
    Pistol Squats
    Reverse Crunches
    Each set followed by a sprint

    Fletch prayed us out, with intentions for his Mom, and those seeking work.
    T-Claps to Jose10k who hung in there even tough he wasn’t feeling well.

  • What’s this workout???? You’re Will to Live – from Einstein

    Einstein, Moby and Hogs Breath all took the pill and got out of our fart sacks to show up at the Gipper .

    As we entertained ourselves prior to the scheduled beat down time, Einstein stated, no one had the queue, so we began a round robin. Each Pax picked an exercise and began, normally to a count of 10. Hogs breath threw in a few funky things “Persian gods” which began in a squat and rotating the upper body to the side of the front leg, to a count of four just like facing the Persian gods to the east . Another good one was mountain man poopers, always a hit!

    After about 10 minutes of a warm-up, Einstein suggested blocks. We mosey’d to the coupon pile. Hogs breath had everyone pick a block and run over to the A1C. Backpedaling up the parking garage ramps. Some coupon work went on for about 10 minutes at one point Moby asked “what does this work?”
    The response came back “your calves, stamina, and will to live…”
    We returned the coupons back to their pile and finished off with a round of Mary, going one minute over the time!

  • Let’s Ruck a little more! – from Shooter

    With humidity in full swing 6 PAX emerged on the Scramble for a little extra.
    YHC decided to bring an extra coupon to the party. We had 3 Ruckers and 3 runners on this day. Ruckers carried the coupon through Mandeville and the Runners enjoyed some coupon work at the return to the AO.
    Hammer joined in on some rifle carry at the end.
    Warmup
    15IC SSH, Imperial walkers, Mummy kicks, Butt kicks
    10IC Grass grabbers, Good Mornings

    Runners enjoyed the standard route with a loop in and a loop out.
    Ruckers to the end of Messina and back with an added cylinder block rotating around.

    Returned to the AO with each PAX getting in some shoulder presses with coupon while remaining PAX completed stated exercises.
    Mountain climbers, Peter Parker’s, Squats, Merkins and Carolina dry docks 20 OYO each.

    Stated announcements, count off and COT.

    Prayers for the Nuss family with recent diagnosis of stage 4 cancer, safe travels and success for Brother Martin in the baseball state Championship, as well as for healing throughout the PAXs families…

    Love sharing life with you men of F3!

    Appreciate the post and until the next Gloom
    👊🏼👍🏼✌🏼!!!

  • Anyone Home? – from Shooter

    Hello! Good morning! Are you alright? Anyone there? Give us something already sir Wacker..
    5 PAX converged on grandma’s place with all types of chatter. However, one PAX needed a little more warming up to the Gloom to get it started, while others were primed and ready to deliver..Akbar surprised us all posting on this Gloom, and Jose10k wasted no time grilling why he missed the Marsh on Monday when he was signed up to Q. After debate back and forth for a min YHC got the PAX warmed up with 10IC arm circles, Cherry pickers, Imperial walkers and hillbillies. Moseyed halfway around to the stage with instructions provided for the walls of Jericho.
    7 reps each exercise followed by 7 moseys around the trailhead.
    8 count bodybuilder
    Jump squats
    Groiners
    Carolina dry docks
    Donkey kickoffs
    Apollo Onos
    Merkins

    With 2 mins remaining ETKs 15IC each side..

    Circled up, count annouce and COT..

    Until the next gloom 👊🏼👍🏼✌🏼!!!

  • National Limerick Day – from Waterpik

    At dawn, we all gathered with pride,
    But Akbar? That dude went and hid.
    Waterpik took the lead,
    With Coachella stampede—
    On cowbell time, chaos applied.

    To the bars where our arms met their fate,
    Six rounds ‘til our lats couldn’t wait.
    Supermans on the ground,
    Moaning sounds all around—
    It looked like a CrossFit first date.

    Then burpees and merkins galore,
    At intersections—we cursed, then did more.
    Our lungs begged for peace,
    But the sprints didn’t cease—
    Lakefront pain’s what the sadists adore.

    A return to court,
    We repeated that sort,
    Crushing at each intersection,
    A series of chest extensions.

    Big Thanks to this weekends host, Mr. Legal
    His Party? Straight up F2-regal.
    We drank, laughed, and ate,
    Now prepare for the next date-
    A Murph is coming, so cancel your kegel!

  • 75 is the new 40 – from Mobydick

    Cool and cloudy making for a good sweaty challenge. After a good warmup of ssh torso twists arm circles windmills good mornings grass grabbers calf raises cherry pickers it’s off to the first of four corners. Corner 1 is 20 freak nasties karaoke to corner 2 for 20 sumo squats back peddle (100 yards) to corner three for 20 big boys lunge to corner 4 for 20 merkins then side Lu ge 50yards turn and 50 more. Round two rinse and repeat only now it’s 25 reps. Third round is 30 reps. That adds up to YHC favorite number 75. Cap that off with 100 yard sprint to try to beat the old guy. They did but not by much. Back to the flag and finish with 5 minutes of stretch lead by BBQ the stretch master. COT and the old guy prayed us out.

  • I am no Gambler, but if I was… – from Shooter

    Well the Lord above bestowed yet another beautiful morning following the downpours of the previous day.. Something certainly felt different about the Gloom, especially to have such cool temps in May.. YHC arrived to a fellow PAX in Steve, illuminated by his matching fluorescent green run shirt.
    No Jose10k? That is odd, but could it be turning the corner? Nope, it’s Waterpik with his consistency that never fails..Then all of sudden here comes Jose10k rolling in hot.
    As he is sharing the EHing of Coachella and JV two cars round the corner.
    Could it be the headlock coming to fruition?
    One car swings in with Akbar and then a mysterious vehicle of sorts rolls into Wacker or Cowbells parking area… Wait, what?
    It can’t be 0514 and out pops Cowbell..
    All we can say is where is Hammer?
    This is a monumental day at the Scramble possibly never to be duplicated again…
    Anyways, if I were a betting man today would be the day I might just take the chance and let it ride.

    Brief warmup
    Standard route double loop and added park path.
    20 merkins, LBCs, Jane Fonda’s with pulses and 20 merkins.

    Appreciate the chatter and the post gents.

    Prayers for Waterpik’s graduates, Cowbells travels and in-laws return, as well as my coworker battling through Chemo.

    Legals host this Saturday evening.

    Until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!

  • Repeat 52 Get-Up at The Gipper – from Einstein

    Rainy morning, at The Gipper, and hard to find any dry spots.

    WARMUP: all IC15x; toe touch, side staddle hops, snap-crackle-pops,
    shoulder rolls, etc.

    THANG: Deck of Doom – each player chooses the exercise when their suit is drawn.
    with the usual rule; everyone has to get up off their six
    between card draws – hence the 52 get-ups.

    Diamonds – BBQ
    Clubs – Mobydick (with any more weight loss, Moby will have to be renamed to Flipper)
    Spades – Einstein
    Hearts – Barely Legal

    Joker – bear crawl, sprint with back peddle

    Mary: no time

    BBQ prayed us out

  • Six Months In – from Steve

    If you missed Granny’s this past Tuesday, then you missed the customary gifting of a cinderblock that happens after six months of posting. (That’s right, somehow Coachella has passed the six-month mark, though how that’s possible when YHC swears he just started two months ago is beyond me.)

    Jose enlisted his junior high talented art class to hand paint one of our beloved coupons, trying their best to out-paint Waterpik and his tiger cinderblock. The result was a wild watercolor collage of some of Coachella’s favorite things: medieval plate armor, d10 dice, block blast, dead bears, and this cool matrix-like code covering the whole thing.

    Shooter officiated the ceremony, unveiling the freshly painted block as Jose played one of his classics, the extended cut of “Jenny Says.”

    Ok maybe that didn’t happen. But apparently, this IS a thing in F3 Houston. And since it was mentioned, and Coachella did indeed hit the six month mark, we offered one of our dirt-crusted coupons up in honor of his milestone. In all sincerity, it has been incredibly inspiring seeing Coach hit the type of consistency he’s had over the last few weeks. (Though, he’ll have to stencil that block on his own.)

    Anyway, beatdown was as follows:

    Grab a coupon, head to the stairs for some 11’s: Curls up top, squat thrusters down below, rifle carry the coupon up the stairs for each round.

    After that we did some Lt. Dan’s down to the stage, where we knocked out some Sister Mary’s in cadence, as well as some merkins (and maybe some other stuff?), before heading back to the stairs for the second round of 11’s with the coupon:

    Chest presses at the bottom, Alpos up top.

    Finally, over to the new benches for some more leg work: Bulgarians, step downs, etc.

    Finished with a quick run through of as many Mary exercises as we could squeeze into 4 minutes, and then on to COT, where Shooter prayed us out. Thank you gentlemen for the accountability and for the camaraderie- it means a lot. Also, looking forward to Russo’s return – I know Granny has missed her favorite Pax.