F3 New Orleans

Category: Northshore

  • DORA of Fire – from Jose10k

    Remember the great fire of 1979 that supposedly started in your garage when that chipmunk ingested some fertilizer and then fell into a can of kerosene instantly turning him into a flying-lil’, fluffy-lil’ molotov cocktail that set a blaze leveling the whole neighborhood West of Newton’s Hardware Store?

    You started that fire?

    No, but that was pretty cool, huh?

    Bonus points to whoever knows what movie masterpiece I took this quote from. I am counting on Hammer to be the first to respond.
    This was the topic of conversation at the Gipper this morning. The fire that knocked out power for so many of us. In addition to the power outage, the other topic of conversation was the increase of persons with no fixed address at the Gipper. Anywho, 6 showed up to a relatively cool morning to get some exercise in before starting their day.
    Warm-up: y’all know
    The thang: Dora with some coupons. Partner 1 ran down the path behind LOLA and back up the front. Partner 2 performed the exercise. 100 Merkins on your coupon, 200 squats with coupon, 300 big boy sit ups with your coupon. Once finished, shoulder presses while the partner ran the loop one extra time. Finished up with 1 minute of deep stretching. COT with Maverick praying us out. Intentions for Phoenix, 3 year anniversary at the A1C this Friday, Bushwacker FireFighter workout this Saturday. We’ll see if Russo copies my beatdown yet again next week.

  • We finished the deck before the A1C, and had better music – from Russo

    We couldn’t even dip down into the 70s to start, as hot and humid weather in the low 80s greeted us this morning.

    Warmup (all 10x)
    – Seal jacks
    – Self love
    – Toe touches
    – Cherry pickers
    – Hillbillies
    – Butt kicks

    Thang

    Because we’re followers of the original Northshore Friday Funky Fun Fest ™, the A1C, Batman and Robin (YHC and Pelican) also completed the deck of death at the Pad. Rep count and exercise were based on suit and number. Deck was split into four groups below.

    Between groups we moved among the various subsections of the Pad like the columns, bus stop, stage, etc.

    Hearts – freak nastys
    Diamonds – step ups
    Spades – durkins
    Clubs – box jumps

    Hearts – shoulder tap plank jacks
    Diamonds – lunges (2 is 1)
    Spades – Monkey humpers
    Clubs – Big boy sit-ups

    Hearts – ballerina squats
    Diamonds – SMCs
    Spades – imperial squat walkers
    Clubs – Star jumps

    Hearts – leg raises
    Diamonds – V ups
    Spades – Gas pumps
    Clubs – Crunchy frogs

    COT, Name-o-Rama, and prayer closed us out. Reminder that Zoolander turns 54 or so around this time, so his birthday Q is tomorrow. Meanwhile, way up North, a week from today is the A1C’s third birthday. A third year anniversary is generally commensurate with a….ahem…and I am not making this up, gift of leather. Do with that what you will, Jose, just remember the goal is to make it to a 4th anniversary.

    SYITG

  • Hottie police officer? I was really looking forward to meeting you in the municipal court on or before June 6th! – from Jose10k

    Short and to the point today…After a warm-up, time for the deck of death. Each member was assigned a suit, and the beatdown began. Merkins, squats, lunges, monkey humpers, burpees, big boy situps, wife pleasers, hello dollys, scorpion kicks were among some of the exercises performed today. Two jokers at the end meant two laps around the A1C to finish things off. COT and YHC prayed us out. Thanks for allowing me to lead, and thanks for reading this backblast. Zoolander’s birthday Q tomorrow (Can’t believe he’s only turning 26). July 28th, 3 year anniversary of the A1C.

  • Nine at The Gipper – from Einstein

    Heat & humidity for the gathered PAX, this Wednesday morning, at The Gipper. With guest pax Assange from the Birmingham mother ship location.
    Maverick and Gilligan rolled in way past hot.

    Long Warmup:
    Toe Touch, SSHops, Neck Rolls, Arm Circles, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Peter Parkers, etc.

    Mosey to the coupon cache location – WHOA – not enough blocks in our normal spot – Moby and company had to run to the rock pile and borrow a few from the Covington Garden Club display.

    Thang – all cinder block work except for the run, and rotating block locations – so we could all get a turn using the two-ton-tony waterlogged cinder blocks

    Round 1: blockees, curls, overhead press, goblet squats, then run around downtown Covington water tower/depot trapezoid loop

    Round 2: big boy situps with block on chest, leg lifts over the block, chest press with block, GRRs(grip,rip,and roll from the exicon) – YIKES
    then run around downtown Covington water tower/depot trapezoid loop

    Round 3: rows, kettle bell swings, murder bunnies up and down the grassy knoll, finished up with bear crawl/block drag up and down the grassy knoll

    Time is up – return coupons

    Circle-up, Count-o-rama, Gilligan leads us out with prayer.

  • We didn’t start the fire at the Roxbury! – from Jose10k

    The mumble chatter was plenty this morning, and it started immediately. 8 showed up this morning, 3 ruckers and 5 gazelles. The runners did 4 miles and YHC had no clue what they talked about. Us Ruckers, that’s a different story. It started off with the new remake of “We didn’t start the fire” by Fallout Boy. Once we started there, then it was all about Hollywood and their remakes (Point Break, Road House, etc…) SNL movies that we love, including the classic Night at the Roxbury. Then it was onto MTV and their shows (Next, Room Raiders, Real World, Road Rules) which led us into comedians from MTV reality shows, then into new comedians vs old school comedians. Think Chris Rock vs Matt Rife. Anywho, made it back to the flag for COT. Shooter prayed us out. Intentions for Backdraft, Phoenix, Cowbell’s M, and all others both spoken and unspoken. Zoolander has the Q on Saturday (his birthday Q) 3 year anniversary at the A1C next Friday, the 28th of July. The F2 was great today gentlemen. As always, I am proud to call you my brothers. Thank you for posting/reading. And a special Happy Birthday to my 17 year old daughter!

  • How Granny got her Pax back – from Russo

    76 degrees to start this morning, and since YHC has been dealing with yet more allergies, I selfishly and secretly thought that flying solo might not be so bad. Easy ruck there and back. But no, fate had other plans, and I’m glad she did. Jose pulled up, fresh off a vacation fighting bears and Dolly Parton, and then Cowbell, for a Pax of 3, and off we went.

    Warmup (all 10x)
    – seal jacks
    – Self love
    – Grass grabbers
    – Toe touches
    – Cherry pickers
    – SSHs

    Thang

    Mosey to the seawall, where every 70 seconds of the travel it was:
    10 merkins
    10 gas pumps

    At the seawall:
    7 freak nastys (IC)
    14 step ups
    7 durkins (IC)
    7 urkins (IC)
    7 BSSs (2 is 1)

    This was where I reminded Jose “we have a lake” and he reminded YHC “yeah, well, we have a Pax.” Touche.

    At RIP’s
    Multiple rounds up and down the step of Rips, while the Pax was knocking out Rocky Balboas and Calf raises (all in about 7 minutes total).

    On the way back, every 70 seconds it was 10 plank jacks and 10 LBCs.

    COT, Name-o-Rama, announcements, prayer, in that order. Continued prayers for our F3 brethren dealing with some difficulties (including Turbo and Boo Boo), a young man named Phoenix, Cowbell and his M on their twin expectancy, and reminders about the 3 year Anny at the A1C on Friday July 28, the St. Vincent 500, Gnarly Nutria (this Wednesday), Zoo’s birthday Q on Saturday, and the Blue Moon night race at Fountainbleu on August 19.

    Thanks for joining/reading.

    SYITG

  • Up and down with the cards! – from BBQ

    Up and down with the cards! 3 answered the call this morning. The average age was 66! 1 year older than Wednesday’s beat down at the Gipper. We started with the usual dozen warm ups. A mosey lap on the top deck to finish the warm up. YHC used a deck of cards to set the exercises. Hearts were Copper Head squats. Diamonds were hand release merkins. Clubs were 2 as 1 LBC’s. Spades were drawers choice. The card number and face card drove the reps. 2-14 with aces 14. Diamonds came fast and furious. Spades drew side straddle hops, gas pumps, cherry pickers and others to mix it up. We had 7 cards left when ran out of time. COT with Nameorama and BBQ prayed us out. It was an honor to be up and at’em with these fine young men!

  • Sizzling 🥵 Scramble – from Shooter

    Well the brief cool mornings were simply a tease of sorts as this morning brought back that the heavy and humid air at the Scramble..
    So much so that Hammer figured he would just go ahead and leave the shirt at home..
    Smart move as by the second warmup YHC already had sweat building on the forehead..
    Lagniappe from both Hammer and Waterpik as they came moseying from the house.. Speedy continues to impress YHC with his discipline of posting the Scramble on a regular basis and for an 18 year old young man to have that type of commitment… Well, let’s just say the future has hope after all as he develops into more of a HIM each and everyday.. Today produced no Ruckers, but the PAX matched up in pairs and journeyed roughly 4 miles through the streets.
    Prior to getting started we completed 10IC bridges left/right, Parker Peters, Peter Parker’s, Mountain climbers and Groiners. Toe Touches, Cherry pickers and 10 OYO slow squats..
    Started the run with 2 groups of 3 and then partners prevailed in the end as Zoolander hung back with the Clydesdale (YHC), Hammer and Waterpik were out front and Cowbell and Speedy in the middle.. Different course for day but some extra was obtained..

    Intentions for the young man out of Covington named Phoenix, who had heart situation last week and is still in the hospital fighting for his life..

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

  • Going to the 7/11, you need anything? – from Russo

    You might know it as The Kart and Karry. Maybe Circle-K. Up north: Wawa. A fan of Clerks? the Quick Stop. My Cousin Vinny more to your liking? The Sack O’ Suds.

    Whatever you call your favorite neighborhood convenience store / bodega, YHC can almost guarantee it brings up fond memories of either (a) spending all of your lunch money on candy, chips, carbonated beverages, gum, or slushies, (b) buying smokes, alcohol, and other age-restricted items you got earlier than you should (or legally could) because you had a friend that played at Miley with the clerk that worked there (what’s up Earl W. from the class of ‘96, Raider Pride), or (c) grabbing some late night fried chicken or meat pies because you had the munchies. For me, it was all three, and it was a 7-11.

    So that was the theme for July 11 (7/11), where everything we did was based on one of those two prime numbers.

    78 degrees or so, with Shooter brave enough to join, and helped YHC understand Medicare a whole lot better among other mumblechatter.

    Warmup (all 11x)
    – Seal jacks
    – Toe touches
    – Cherry pickers
    – Arm circles
    – SSHs

    Thang

    Mosey to the bridge, where every 70 seconds of the travel it was:
    7 shoulder tap merkins
    11 ballerina squats

    At the bridge (while partner traverses the length of the bridge):

    70 merkins
    110 Apollo ohno’s

    70 Peter Parker’s (2 is 1)
    110 squats

    70 leg raises
    110 gas pumps

    70 groiners
    110 side lunges (1 is 1)

    70 monkey humpers
    110 lbcs

    Recovery walk/mosey back with a few more merkins and squats thrown in.

    COT, Name-o-Rama, announcements, prayer, in that order. Continued prayers for our F3 brethren dealing with some difficulties (including NS Godfather Turbo), and reminders about the St. Vincent 500 and Gnarly Nutria (next Wednesday 7/19).

    Until next time, SYITG

  • Hot and Humid Jenga – from Hogs Breath

    YHC began the morning with a phone that had completely turned off during the night. Luckily YHC’s body normally wakes up for F3 time. So he was able to hop out of bed, scramble on the pre-placed F3 clothes, and amble to the 007.
    YHC had previously spoke with Pauly D and was going to create a leg focused beatdown. But the dead phone and the 90% humidity with an 80° temperature dissuaded him. Instead a round of the F3 Jenga ensued!
    The game is simple, a Jenga yard game with F3 exercises written on the blocks. Each time a PAX draws out a Jenga block. We perform 10 of the beatdown listed. If a blank blocks is drawn, we perform dealers choice.
    At first, it was YHC and Pass Interference, we did a warm-up of some SSH and others. Then we hopped directly into the game, after about 20 minutes Pauly D rambled up in his large black pick up. He was able to hop right in to some mountain climbers . Eventually, YHC was the one that toppled the tower, so YHC and Pauly D performed burpees while Pass Interference reassembled the tower. With the time at 6:13 AM we moseyed one circle lap and ended with a COT promptly at 6:15. Although all pax said that we didn’t have time for coffee, we still ended up talking for 25 minutes around the shovel flag.
    Thank you for the chance to lead these HIM we also decided to have a happy hour soon, more details to follow…