F3 New Orleans

Category: Northshore

  • You don’t skip leg day – from Jose10k

    YHC has been working out with his wife everyday since his return from the Caribbean. However, he did sleep in on Wednesday, which was leg day. Katie hasn’t let me forget that I skipped leg day, so here we go…

    Warm-ups: ssh, windmills, grass grabbers, self love, torso twists, arm circles, high knees, butt kicks

    Thang: 4 corners with a twist

    Cooper Head Squats at each corner, 15 count. Lt. Dan the long stretch, two lunges, 1 squat, 4 lunges, 2 squats, etc…

    Sumo Squats at each corner, 20 count. Lt. Dan the long stretch..

    Side lunges at each corner 25 count on each leg, Lt. Dan the long stretch.

    Great conversations with all, including our newest member of the A1C fight club, our very own Magnum PI (dark wing duck). Still, where is BBQ?

    Finished up, COT, Moby prayed us out. SYITG

  • One and Done – from Russo

    Mid 60s this morning at the Pad. I suspected Pelican was out (injured with a steel chair to the head by the nefarious A1C posse), so the “Leader of one” as Zoo noted last week was a Leader of None, flying solo this week.

    Warmup
    Nothing formal or IC, just a lot of stretching and moaning and groaning loosening up the muscles and making sure I could still touch my toes.

    Thang
    Tabata:
    – 1 minute each with bricks, 20 seconds rest, with some moseying through the columns or around the block after each of the four rounds

    Round 1
    – Modified 8 count body builders (swap the plank jack for an arm curl)
    – side to sides
    – Overhead claps
    – Nutcrackers
    – Hallelujah squats

    Round 2
    – Tricep extensions
    – Arm curls
    – Air presses
    – Side to side squats
    – Arm circles
    – Milk maids

    Rinse and repeat rounds 1 and 2 for 3 and 4.

    Quick prayer before heading back to start a Friday.

    Reminder that the Zoorich Classic is this weekend and for my money it is one of the highlights of the F3 Northshore calendar.

    Also, if anyone is interested, our church is having their annual Men’s Dinner this upcoming Thursday at 6:30. Reach out if you’re interested in attending.

    SYITG

  • Whose Flag is That Anyway? – from Bushwacker

    YHC FINALLY remembered to bring a truckload of shovel flags from the Fury, and, somehow still went home with 2/3 of them 🤔

    Good temp, succinct warm-orama, great cameo! Let me speak only honest words: QIC was relieved to not see Speedy upon last-second arrival. First “shared run” on new shoes, humidity on the rise again and YHC in less than peak form, you’ll forgive El Wackador if inner jubilation was present. I still love you Speedy.😘

    The consummate odd couple of Severn Ave. decided to ruck off in the direction of Sunset Point whilst the remaining trio ran for just over 4 miles that both broke down my silent resolve to be silent, and had a former Scramble shuffler potentially EH’d to return as maybe ruckless rucker? Good ol’ Garfield ran a little stretch of the lakefront with the crew, aflight such as we were.

    A brief slathering of yoga-esque recovery until the ruckers descended on the flag(s) deep in the throws of discourse.

    Count/name, Zoorich Classic Saturday – bring frisbees and friends if you’ve got either. Men’s dinner at St Timothy tonight @6:30 hit up Russo if interested in going. JV prayed us out.

    Many thanks, gents!

  • Gipper Good & Plenty – from Einstein

    A pleasant 53 degrees for the gathered PAX, this Wednesday morning, at The Gipper.
    Good to see Maverick strolling out of the gloom and into the Gipper AO. I thought he was an FNG

    Long Warmup:
    Toe Touch, SSHops, Good Mornings, Neck Rolls, Arm Circles, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, High Kneees, Butt Kicks, Scissors, Thumb Drives, Swimmers, Hi-Jack-Hi-Jills, Smurf Jacks, Ice Skater Hops etc.

    mosey to the coupon cache location

    Event: grab your cinder block
    Round 1 curls, rows, overhead press, then right arm farmer carry around the AO
    Round 2 leg lifts over the block, alernating plank pushups over the block, bridges on block, then left arm farmer carry around the AO
    Round 3 big boy situps with block on chest, presses from the horizontal, lunge walk forward, lunge walk backward, then rifle carry around the AO
    Round 4 murder bunnies up and down the small hill

    Mary: one minute plank

    Count-o-rama, Maverick leads us out with prayer and intentions.

  • Late to the Party – from Akbar

    7 strong this morning, with YHC 15 minutes late, setting the alarm for 4:50 pm. Body clock woke me up, quick text to Hammer to get us started, and on the way. Arriving to 6 pax and the shovel flag that Quarterpipe picked up from a previous beatdown, we were ready to go. Day 1 home alone while the M is out of town for 2 weeks. Expecting the Whacker to show up after 3 days of silence, disappointment set in for a no show. Great to see Moby Dick down from Covington.

    Hammer got started with 11’s, Merkins and abs – which didn’t register with YHC – we started with a DORA. Plank Jacks, Merkins, and abs of choice. P1 works, P2 runs to the white mailbox and back to relieve.

    Head to the playground for pull ups and jump squats x 10 OYO, 3 sets

    Benches: Bulgarian split squats and freak nasties x 10 IC, 2 rounds

    To the swing set for Swerkins – Feet on swing, Merkin and tuck x 10. Jump squats after x10

    Lungewalk to center court and finish with abs x10 IC
    Flutter Kicks, Rosalita, Wife Pleasers, E2K left and right, Hello Dolly.

    Count, Name, and Hammer prayed us out with thoughts of his case and me home alone with kids for 2 weeks while the M is out of town.

    Announcements – Zoorich Classic Saturday at the Lakefront. Men’s Dinner and speaker at St. Timothy Thursday.

  • Ramp Work at The A1C – from Einstein

    A cool 57 degrees at 5:15 a.m., at the A1C, atop the Justice Center Parking Garage.

    Warmup:
    all 15xIC: toe touch, ss hops, imperial walkers, neck rolls, high kneees, butt kicks, shoulder press, hi jack hi jill, arm circles, hillbillys, smurf jacks, thumb drives, ice skater hops, etc.

    Thang:
    Set of Elevens on the up-down parking ramp;
    pop-up and pop-down squats at the top, forward and reverse lunges at the bottom, back-peddling and fore-peddling on the flip-flop run up and down the ramp.

    All had fun…with mumble chatter about Jose10k honeymoonig, BBQ missing in action, and cuz Bushwacker dealing with sequestration under the Jesuit “cone of silence.”

    Count-o-rama
    Prayers/intentions offered for cancer patient, heart patient.
    Prayers/intentions offered for cuz Bushwacker – while he’s silently retreating at the Manresa facility in Convent, LA.

    DarkWingDuck led us out with prayer.

  • Old Faithful on a Friday – from Russo

    Pleasant morning that was a little breezier than it has been. Hammer took the opportunity to cheat on the A1C with Jose out, and YHC is glad he did.

    Warmup
    – SSHs
    – Toe touches
    – Self love
    – High knees
    – Grass grabbers

    Thang

    Quick mosey of the block, directly into the deck of death. Rep count and exercise was based on suit and number. Deck was split into four groups below. First flip: Ace of Spades, 15 8 count body builders Huzzah!

    Between groups we slalomed the columns and continued on our efforts to solve all of the world’s problems.

    Hearts – wide merkins
    Diamonds – Peter Parker’s
    Spades – 8 count body builders
    Clubs – merkins

    Hearts – burpees
    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.

    SYITG

  • Scrambling along!!! – from Shooter

    Great mix on this mild morning at the Scramble.. We had 3 runners, 3 joggers and 2 Ruckers and it all worked according to plan.. YHC would like to thank two of the runners Bushwacker and Zoolander for pulling back their reins 🐎🐎 to jog along with the BIG 🐳🐳 of the group. Admittedly, as well as visually the Q has packed on some pounds and the time has come to get focused again too shed the extras gained.. The Queen has always been the struggle.. JV and Russo graciously and comically reminded YHC about his statement from coffateria on Saturday.. Committing to eating 🐠 🐠 for the next two weeks as he and the M travel abroad on a cruise filled with endless buffets and refreshments to satisfy anyone’s pleasure… Guys, this is the moment one must literally remove my 🦶🏻from my mouth… What was I thinking in saying this? The temptations will be overwhelming and this guy has fallen to less pressures admittedly… I guess the short of this rant, I will do my best to hold true. I am grateful that the Raiderpride community amongst the PAX are sure to ask upon my return how things went…

    Let me just give you the answer now..
    #epicfail 😬😬😬

    However, when I return I look forward to these F3 brethren pushing back at me and holding me accountable to the main goals… ACCELERATING in all 3Fs that has kept me committed to this PAX for 6 years…

    Warmup
    10IC Grass grabbers, Carolina dry docks, Toe Touches, Scorpion kicks, Bridges, wife pleasers, SSH and self love..

    Thang
    Steve, Speedy and Waterpik off and down W beach ti Lakeshore and backup the street passed the bridge.

    Bushwacker, Zoolander and YHC standard route with sunset point minus the pier still..

    JV and Russo rucking to Sunset point and returning..

    Joggers and runners received 6 mins of Mary consisting of ETKs, LMCs, Flutters, Hello Dollies, Rosalita’s, Nolan Ryan’s, Leg raises, 💯s and Jane Fonda’s!!!

    PAX announced and placed wagers on how long Bushwacker survives silence at Manresa this weekend. Contact your local book for the odds.. 😂

    Seriously though the PAX hope he enjoys the experience, which I am sure he will..

    Appreciate you HIMs for showing up and showing out as usual until the next Gloom
    👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!

  • …and Zoo made two – from Russo

    Right at about 60 degrees this morning for Pax of 2.

    Warmup (all 10x to 15x)
    – SSHs
    – toe touches
    – Grass grabbers
    – Arm circles
    – Self love
    – Good mornings

    Thang
    Maybe not tradition, but as has become the norm, we moseyed around old Mandy, stopping every block or so to do a 5-4-3-2-1 rep for different exercises, even stopping a couple times at the Marsh to play on the swing set. Or at least take advantage of monkey bars.

    Reps/ exercises
    5 T merkins
    4 Peter Parker’s
    3 Wide merkins
    2 8 count body builders
    1 Burpee

    5 SMCs
    4 Ballerina squats
    3 Imperial squat walkers
    2 Star Jumps
    1 Smurfjack

    5 pull ups
    4 dips
    3 calf raises
    2 hanging knee raises
    1 leg raise

    5 Leg raises
    4 Crunchy frogs
    3 V ups
    2 Gas pumps
    1 Big Boy sit-up

    5 freak nastys
    4 durkins
    3 BSSs
    2 Box jumps
    1 Urkin

    Reverse! On the way back and at home base, we reversed the rep count (e.g., 5 urkins, 4 box jumps)

    Wrapped it up with some Mary: 3 calf raises all the way up the pilot house, and then a slaloming of the columns before count, name-o-Rama, and prayer closed us out.

    It is reported a good time was had by all.

    SYITG

  • Baseball Themes – from Hogs Breath

    YHC was throwing a small boil on Easter Sunday for his father in law, when he saw Pauly D bee-bopping around the neighborhood. Taking it as an opportunity the HIM invited Pauly D and his 2.0 in for some hot crawfish. YHC EH’d his 13 year old 2.0 to Monday’s beatdown but only if it was ‘baseball’ themed.

    Challenge accepted

    Disclaimer – Given

    The warm-up:
    Some toy soldiers, butt kicks, mountain man poopers, and good mornings.

    The Thang:
    A good round of Monday Motivator, which is SSH, Star hops, legs only SSH, and then hops from a countdown of 10,9…2,1.

    After this we mosey’d to prearranged baseball Diamond with yard cones, in lieu of bases. We performed a 7 of Diamonds. Which is, 7 merkins at 1st base, 14 at 2nd, 21 merkins at 3rd, and then steal home. Rinse lather and repeat with LBC’s, air presses, and squats.

    Then YHC continued with the ball theme and pulled out a softball where we played a few different games of ‘hot potato’ (borrowed the idea from TurboTax) every time a pax dropped the ball, we did some ‘punishment’ we’d weave and Bob, foreword and back, passing the ball, then switching up the order, all in all fun was had by all! A great game of dynamic catch.

    Props to Lucky Dog who was able to catch and throw with his non-dominant (which is great physical therapy for him!).

    We rounded out with naming Pauly D’s 2.0 he was a gamer, so we went with GTA or Grand Theft Arson, there was another name, but it was copyrighted!

    Ended with a COT. YHC had to run for a Dr. Appointment, but several did go for Coffeteria at Starbucks.

    Thanks for giving me the opportunity to lead this morning. I look forward to seeing everyone in the gloom again!