F3 New Orleans

Category: Northshore

  • New Year and a New us! – from Hogs Breath

    So here we are! YHC arrived just as Duracell, DR from Baton Rouge, arrived.
    We planted the flag and had some mumble chatter, about each of our holidays, on this foggy morning.
    We warmed up with some imperial walkers, SSH, some worlds greatest stretches.
    Introduced Duracell to a Monday Motivator (like new years, a countdown from 10 to 1; 10 SSH, 10 half SSH, 10 legs only SSH, 10 hops….9 SSH, 9 half SSH…you get the idea)

    The thing was simple and a deck o death, with coupon carry around the circular sidewalk. We started with a lap, when the pax realized they were over zealous with the amount of weight they were trying to carry! So the we went halfway around. Stopping halfway to perform each deck of death carry!

    We enjoyed the mumble chatter and ended with COT and coffeteria!

    Looking foreword to 2023!

  • Only 2 at the A1C – from Fletch

    Took a shooter workout and modified it a bit. Jump rope at the bottom of the ramp, chains at the top, kettle bell at the other end. 60-40-20 reps at each station while partner 2 did 10-20-30 of chest, core, and lunges . Four rounds total, and it was time. No one from Atlanta showed up here either Russo

  • Nutcrackers and Arm Jackers – from Russo

    Right under 60 degrees to start. No one had a correct solution to the riddle, so it was a Pax of 1 for the Warmup and 1st round of the Thang until DR visitor from Charleston, Crawfish, made it a party of two. Interestingly enough, the potential DR visitor from Atlanta didn’t make it, so hopefully next time.

    Warmup
    – SSHs
    – Toe touches
    – Grass grabbers
    – High knees
    – 3 calf raises at each step up the pilot house

    Thang

    Tabata: 1 minute each with bricks, 30 seconds rest, 3 rounds, each of which was followed by two trips of Slalom the Columns.

    -Arm curls
    -Cherry pickers
    -Hallelujah squats
    -Arm circles
    -Triceps extensions
    -Milk maids

    Nut crackers down the columns, followed by 10 IC Crunchy Frogs with the bricks, and then 10 side to side Merkins with the bricks, rinse and repeat 10 more Crunchy Frogs and Merkins.

    COT, Name-o-Rama, and prayer closed us out. Remember co-Q’s tomorrow at the Lakefront are Pickaxe and Chainsaw. Luigi’s and Boom shacka-lackas for everyone.

    Until the next time, SYITG.

  • Ruck or Run – from Waterpik

    With weather in the low 60s and rain on the horizon, seven packs sit out for a 5K this morning.

    3 Ruckers shooter Russo, Jose 10k

    4 runners : YHC Zoolander bird speedy Gonzalez

  • Working Off the Christmas Eggnog – from Einstein

    A cool 40 degrees for the gathered PAX, this Wednesday morning, at The Gipper

    Warmup:
    Toe Touch, SSHops, Shoulder Rolls, Neck Rolls, Seal Jacks, Peter Parkers, Parker Peters
    mosey over to the front of the Justice Center

    Event: partner up for Dora 1-2-3
    partner one starts on 100 burpees, partner two runs up the promenade then backpeddles on the return – flipflop
    partner one starts on 200 flutter kicks, partner two runs further up the promenade then backpeddled on the return – flipflop
    partner one starts on 300 squats, partner two runs up the promenade, bunny hops up the stairs, starjack jump atop, backpeddles on the return – flipflop

    then onto the benches for step ups – left leg, right leg, side and front, box jumps, bench leap-overs,
    freak nasties, incline merkins, decline merkins, decline shoulder tap merkins

    mosey back to The Gipper Trail Head

    Mary: rosalitas, iron crosses, crunches, jane fondas, one minute plank

    Count-o-rama, Barely Legal leads us out with a prayer.

    Thanks guys. Always fun to lead

  • Season’s Beatings – from Russo

    21 degrees to start this morning, which to my recollection was probably a record low for us. What was NOT a low? Christmas spirit.

    On Hammer (with his full body Christmas pajamas), on Akbar (decked in his finest Santa jacket and hat), on Jose10k (lighting up the gloom with Santa hat and blinking Rudolph nose)!

    T claps to TruCoat for bringing his favorite weather with him and semi-DR posters Duracell and Grover, as well as Tanked Up, who took time out of his marathon training to join as well. It’s always nice to see them, and the other bright shining faces that make Christmas (Eve) spirits bright, even if we could only see about 12% of Zoolander’s mug because he was bundled up.

    Warmups (all 10-24x IC) – depending on who you ask, no one was “warm” by any stretch
    – Sealjacks
    – SSHs
    – Toe touches
    – Self love
    – High knees
    – Butt kicks
    – Grass grabbers

    Thang
    Mosey to Granny’s, laughing all the way. Bells were jingling in the cold, and when someone shouted “Deck the halls”, Pax was asked to respond “Fah-la-La-la-la…la-la-la…La!”

    Every block or so we spread Christmas cheer, doing partner merkins spelling out:

    -Merry Christmas
    -Happy Holidays
    -Festivus
    -Hanukkah
    -Rudolph

    Dirty Santa
    Dirty Santa / White Elephant. The rules are simple:
    (1) Each HIM picks a number.
    (2) Number 1 picks a random gift/exercise from the bag and performs said exercise while the other HIM perform the standard (e.g. 20 squats)
    (3) Number 2 has a choice: Number 1’s chosen exercise, the standard, or a new “gift”. If he chooses either of the first two options, the one who had their “gift” stolen can steal or select another mystery “gift”.
    (4) Around and around we go, until all HIM have a chance to select.

    The “gifts”:
    -10 merkins
    -18 jump squats
    -12 freak nastys
    -20 squats
    -7 Hand release merkins
    – slalom the column
    – Trip up and down the pilot house
    -12 step ups (1 is 1)
    -20 hello dollies
    -10 leg raises
    -21 monkey humpers
    -25 plank jacks
    -3 krakken burpees
    -8 SMCs
    -15 murder bunnies or groiners
    -20 bear crawls
    -10 diamond merkins
    -50 high knees
    -10 star jumps
    -2 calf raises
    -20 hip slappers
    -12 hallelujah squats
    -20 cherry pickers
    -6 donkey kicks

    We then climbed the pilot house (the Christmas tree) and topped it with one Star (jump).

    Run run Rudolph
    Indian run back to start, with the 6 bringing the gift (bag) back up to the front, where it was passed back to the 6, rinse and repeat.

    Things we learned:

    (1) YHC is the only one that is a fan of murder bunnies

    (2) After his at least 8th round of them, the bright, shining Christmas star led Hammer to his enlightened Magi state, where he came to the conclusion that bears don’t call them bear crawls, but instead just “walking.”

    (3) I probably should have explained to Duracell that “slalom the columns” did not mean each and every column in St. Tammany parish.

    (4) Krakken burpees are dead. Long live KrackerJack burpees!

    (5) Jose’s 2022 dirty Santa seemed to go better than 2021, as he raised calves better than the shepherds watching their flocks at night.

    COT, Name-o-Rama, Announcements and Prayer closed us out.

    I mentioned last year that I had a chance to catch The Chosen’s Christmas program, and the theme was “They must know.” I again want the to share that sentiment this Christmas with those still reading, that in my mind, all HIM should know:

    Jesus Christ is King, and reigns forever. God chose to come down from heaven, leaving the glory behind, to join us here on Earth, to meet us where we are. To show us who He truly is, to be with us, to right our wrongs, despite the mess we made of his creation and our turning our backs on him or worshiping other gods/idols, in whatever form they take.

    That’s love in its highest form: pure, unrestrained, unconditional, abounding and abundant. I have very little to offer in return, outside of the one thing God requires: my heart. I am going to fall short each and every day, but that’s my goal to him, my family, you all, and everyone I encounter.

    Thank you all for joining, and continuing to make the decision to post and fellowship, even when it’s “cold” outside. I appreciate this group and wish you all the best Christmas season.

    SYITG

  • Die Hard is a Christmas Movie, and Holy Crap it’s cold out here. is it cold out here. – from Jose10k

    After the warmups, the PAX moseyed to the courthouse. The tragedy at Nakatomi plaza occurred on Christmas Eve, and we gathered today to honor the hero of Nakatomi: John McClain. The event occurred on the the 30th floor, so that’s where we started. 30 merkins, 30 squats, 30 big boy sit-ups, 30 leg lifts. In between each exercise ran the length of the courthouse leading up to the stairs, up the stairs and then back down. We now stopped at the front of the courthouse stairs. ‘‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring,except for the four assholes coming in the rear in standard two-by-two formation.
    Paired up. Partner one : lunge walk to the bushes and back, partner 2= holds an al gore . Repeat.
    The terrorists planned to use C4 to blow up Nakatomi Tower. The PAX completed in cadence 15 reps of these 4 “c”ore exercises: lbcs, flutter kicks, Freddy Mercury’s, and cowbells favorite: crunchy frogs.
    Come out to the coast, we’ll get together, have a few laughs.
    Famous line from the air ducts: time to do some ac duct crawling, while partner 2 does squats. Side not, ac duct crawling no fun when you hit the acorns. Once the pax was finished we ran 1 lap around the entire courthouse. Back to the parking garage to do 5 calf raises each step back to the second floor to do a Hans Gruber pull-up: the pax hung from the raptors for 30 seconds. back to the stair well to do 5 calve raises each to the top. And time was up. Cot, Russo prayed us out. Thoughts and prayers to my father-in-law, my niece and brother-in-law. And to further celebrate the heroics of John McClain, a yell of Yippie Ki-yay Motherfu**er. Thanks for letting me lead gentleman

  • No plans necessary with the Scramble!! – from Shooter

    With an EH for Ruckers put out there by Akbar YHC quickly checked the Q sheet to make sure someone had picked up the lead.. On my end it was blank but then in a later Slack message YHC had saw where Akbar stated he was covering it.. So as I arrived I commenced to grabbing my Ruck sack and the shovel flag and as the PAX swelled to 7 and the time to start arrived Waterpik stated you have the Q Shooter. Well alrighty then let’s get started..

    Warmup
    12IC Seal Jacks
    12IC Imperial walkers
    20 Merkins OYO
    22 Jump squats
    12IC Toe Touches
    12 IC Grass grabbers
    20 Merkins
    22 Apollo Onhos

    4 runners and 3 Ruckers.
    Runner’s standard route adding a second loop.
    Returned to AO for some core 12IC Bridges, Wife pleasers, Superman’s, Right elbow/left knee F/J, Hello Dollies and done…

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

  • On the first day of Christmas my True Q gave to me… – from Mobydick

    YHC has never been a big fan of running. But the season and the setup was too tempting. Downtown Covington provided the setting by randomly placing lighted 12 days of Christmas all over. The thang was run from one to twelve and add an exercise and that many reps at each day. The placements meant the route crisscrossed downtown multiple times. On the first day of Christmas your Q gave to the pax one kraken burpee and off-we go. The second day added 2 toe touches the third added 3 windmils +4 lunges +5 merkins +6 squats +7 swimmers + 8 monkey humpers +9 interior walkers +10 cherry pickers +11 SSH +12 crunchy frogs. Add up the multiple rinse and repeats and the nearly 3 miles of mosey and a good time was had by all. The COT just happened to end at the real flag pole in front of the courthouse.

  • 26 + 26 is….7? 4? – from Russo

    Having been tipped off earlier in the day it was the beginning of Akbar’s 53rd trip around the sun, YHC spent a couple minutes coming up with a way to say Happy Birthday in an incorporated unique way (using math of course). So as we jumped into our warmup of 26 SSHs and 26 Sealjacks, I paused to ask him “What’s 26 plus 26?”

    “52” was the response, so I asked “Is that the right number to be celebrating today?” but it was too early for the implication, so a few awkward moments passed until YHC asked “Is it not your birthday today?”

    Then it dawned on him that yes, today was his birthday. Fitting he didn’t think about it, because he is one of the most selfless people I know.

    And then off we went with the rest of warmup:

    All 10x IC:
    – self love
    – Toe touches
    – Grass grabbers
    – Hillbillies

    Thang

    Mosey SW to the Treen building for: Walls of Jericho (7 count of seven exercises 7 times around the hall)

    – Merkins
    – Squats
    – Shoulder tap plank jacks
    – SMCs
    – Groiners
    – Apollo ohnos (2 is 1)
    – Crunchy Frogs

    Followed by: 4×4 (4 more times around, 4 exercises, 4 reps at 4 corners)
    – Hello Dollie’s
    – Leg raises
    – Gas pumps
    – American Hammers

    Mosey back to start where we wrapped up with 20 IC Freak Nastys.

    COT, Name-o-Rama, Announcements and Prayer closed us out.

    Jose gave us a positive update on Katie’s dad, reminders that RCR, Ivan, and Endurathon are all coming up, as is the 2nd Annual Die Hard memorial beatdown at the A1C on Friday and YHC will Q Season’s Beatings on Saturday at the Lakefront.

    Thank you all for joining and reading and one more HBD to Akbar, one of the finest HIM you’ll ever meet.

    SYITG