F3 New Orleans

Category: Northshore

  • Better late than never – from Akbar

    YHC woke up to a foggy gloom to start the week out right. Wondering what the neighbor was doing leaving so early for work, a glance at the clock read 5:35. Undeterred, YHC kept on going and arrived at 5:45 – just in time for Waterpik to come running up after his solo beatdown.

    We saw two other guys at the playground doing pull ups and merkins and went to introduce ourselves. Turns out one of them was Awol, who has joined us at the lakefront in the past. Invites were issued to both to join us again and we headed to center court for COT. Pik prayed us out with intentions for one of his patients, and an upcoming interview for myself. YHC went back into the gloom for a quick workout before heading home.

  • Iron Pax week 4: We’re all super ants! – from Russo

    Pretty nice weather, a little on the humid side, but that’s picking nits, for the final week of the 2021 Iron Pax at the Lakefront this morning.

    Between a storm, a sinus infection, and vacation, YHC has been MIA for most of this year’s IPC, so my goal was to at least proctor and attempt some of the fun this week.

    As we gathered, Tanked Up took things to that next level with a (homemade) tee showing off his Raider Pride. Any Rummel alumni worth his salt (admittedly not much) knows the story of the Super Ants: an underdog Raider football team defeated the might Chalmette Owls (!!!) back in the day, and the moniker Super Ants made it into the newspaper write up (remember those?). From them on, a super ant is anyone that displays courage, heart, fight, and a motor that never quits (all characteristics of your typical college football “possession receiver”). Think Don Beebe running down Leon Lett. Danny Amendola. Abram Booty. Any Iowa receiver.

    I digress, but this week there was a colony of super ants that gave an incredible effort and pushed themselves HARD in the gloom.

    Pre Thang
    Quick warmup of seal jacks, cherry pickers, toe touches, and mummy kicks approx. 10x each, all IC)

    Thang
    A descending ladder, each set 25 reps, with a 25 yard run, followed by three burpees, and then 25 yards back for the next round of 25 reps.

    Rounds were:
    8 sets of curls (200 total)
    7 sets of squats (175 total, you get the picture)
    6 sets of overhead presses
    5 sets of kettle bell swings
    4 sets of merkins
    3 sets of thrusters
    2 sets of Bonnie Blair’s
    1 set of blockers

    Finish those, and you work your way back up the ladder, times for a total of 52:30.

    Major T claps to Grundy and Tanked up for setting the pace, but incredible effort and very little resting (excluding YHC) from what I saw.

    A mosey back from the Shaft and a COT closed us out with name-o-rama, announcements (F3/FIA mixer on the 21st and NOLA convergence on the 16th), and a prayer. Special appearance by Speedy and Cowbell, while Bean, Swoll Patrol, and an FNG had to scamper out early.

    Much respect to Zoolander for commandeering the coupons and markers and helping to coordinate this week. It was very much appreciated.

    Raider Pride and SYITG

  • Obstacles aboard – from Shooter

    3 PAX posted at the Scramble to run through the streets of Mandeville. After a warmup of Toe touches, Torso twists, Windmills, Imperial walkers, Arm circles, Leg swings in and out and front and back all 10IC. Leaving out the park would throw the first obstacle with our gazebo covered with a tree down. Ran the standard route bypassing the barricades to Sunset point seeing all the crane trucks staged along the way.. Returned to AO and wrapped up with some staggered left/right Merkins 10IC, LBCs, Jane Fonda’s and Flutter kicks..

    Count, intentions for a fiend of Waterpik, COT..

    Thanks for the post Hammer and Waterpik, great to be back out at the Scramble!!! T 👏🏼👏🏼 to Zoolander for holding it down for the YHC the last few weeks..

    Till the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!

  • MaryAnne’s Mayhem at The Gipper – from TurboTax

    Some guys liked Ginger best, but YHC always found himself in the MaryAnne camp with the Professor. Until this morning in the Gloom, that is.

    The Gipper PAX tackled the latest and last installment in the 2021 IronPAX challenge, MaryAnne’s Mayhem. 52:30 minutes of hard work. YHC doesn’t remember anything of that nature happening on Gilligan’s Island but maybe he missed something. 200 coupon curls, 175 body weight squats, 150 OH coupon presses, 125 coupon swings, 100 Merkins, 75 coupon thrusters, 50 Bonnie Blair’s, and 25 blockees as well as multiple 25 yard runs and burpees were the order of the day. Everyone made their downpainment on the day and got their money’s worth this morning.

    Thanks for letting me lead guys.

  • Something Borrowed – from Akbar

    3 PAX at the Marsh this morning, arriving to a near perfect 61 degrees. Mumblechatter before warm up was of course IronPax, and JV was telling his tales of Saturday.

    Mentioning his sister’s wedding happening this weekend, the tie in was perfect since YHC had already planned to borrow some ideas of a recent workout and modify it for the Marsh. We could have made the tradition work since Waterpik was wearing something blue and JV is new. But YHC is not old, and no one knows what a sixpence is.

    Warm Up: Walkout plank merkin hold x 10. (Standing position, bend at waist, touch the ground and walk out to plank, merkin, walk back up = 1)

    Mosey to the lakefront stopping for SSH, IW, Self-Love x10

    Lakefront Wall: Freak Nasty/ Bulgarian Split Squat L/R leg 12,8,5 IC

    Rips: wall sit + 50 air presses; 25 Calf raises OYO

    7’s at Rips stairs: T Merkins bottom, SMC top. JV guessed where this came from, one of Steve’s favorites.

    25 calf raises OYO

    Lakefront Wall: Freak Nasties | Copperhead Squats IC 12,8,5 IC

    Mosey back to the Marsh, stopping at the first 3 intersections for bear crawls and 5 Merkins. Jog to the Marsh for another round of Wall sit and 50 air presses

    Mosey to playground for 7’s: Pull ups and LBC’s

    Count, Name, and Pik prayed us out.

    Announcements: 7 Year Convergence October 16th at City Park/Mothership

    Thanks for letting me lead – Akbar

  • Deck of death with a bunch of old cores – from Jose10k

    On a beautiful crisp morning, YHC arrived to the a1c realizing that he had forgotten to create a workout for this morning. Softball had kept him out to late the night before, so he reached into his bag for supplies. The usual crew showed up. I quickly found a deck of cards and it was on!
    Warmups: arm circles, self love, torso twists, and something else ( with 10 hand released merkins in between). Inspired by STEVE, lt. Dan’s across the parking garage. Moseyed back to the center, rock music playing, the deck of death began. Hearts: leg raises. Diamond: big boy situps, spades: gas pumps, and clubs: freddy mercurys in cadence, the joker was 5 calf raises on each step, up all 3 flights. Deck of death, core style! COT, and einstein prayed us out! Thanks for letting me lead brothers.

  • The Wobble – from TurboTax

    YHC had to dust off his PhD in theoretical physics to understand it and employ the oratory skills of Socrates to explain it, but make no mistake, The Wobble is worthy of its name.

    Four PAX materialized out of the Gloom right on time, and we got right down to business. 50 Kracken Burpees, 50 DBE Burpees, 50 Bonnie Blair’s, and 2400 meters later Iron PAX #3 was in the books. It was a solid downpainment on the day, and the geriatric PAX wobbled back off into the Gloom to start theirs.

    Thanks for letting me lead guys.

  • I know where I’m going – from Waterpik

    With a hurricane evacuation and some knee soreness in the rear view mirror, it was good to get back on the Q sheet.

    Not having been to the marsh in a while ,there was no doubt in my mind that today’s beatdown would include a mosey the lakefront. Its always enjoyable to work out with the lake as a backdrop.

    So after a brief warmup and disclaimer, YHC lead the pax to the lakefront for exercises at the sea wall: derkins, freak nasties, step ups, Bulgarian split squats.

    Mosey back to the marsh for countoff, prayer.

    I’d like to send out a big F3 welcome to fng Junior Varsity who is spending time in our parts while his house in Destrehan is repaired following damage during Ida.

    It was good to be back out in the gloom with you guys this morning.

  • StarJump Ladder – from Einstein

    Short disclaimer…

    Warmup:
    all 20xIC: Toe Touch, Side Straddle Hops, Good Mornings, Hill Billys, Shoulder Shrugs, Imperial Walkers,
    Swimmers, Arm Circles, Seal Jacks, Thumb Drives, Smurf Jacks, Drew Brees, Fake Jump Rope

    Thang:
    Using the twenty four parking space striping, the Pax performed a StarJump ladder:
    1 jump every other space, 2 jumps every other space, 3 jumps every other space, 1 jump plus 1 up to 13 for ecery other stripe, then back down the ladder
    Core exercises done between each round included: iron crosses, left elbow-right knee, right elbow-left knee, right hand-left foot, left hand-right foot,
    scuba Steves, reverse arches.

    The PAX: BBQ, Einstein, Jose-10K, MobyDick

    Count-o-rama, Jose-10K leads us out with an excellent prayer.

    Thanks guys. Always extremely decent of you letting me lead.

  • 7 Card Studs – from Mobydick

    In the gloom and drip of a passing storm the oldest pax I have ever seen ( combined average 67 years) assembled under the shelter of the Depot. Mobydick Dick, Einstein, BBQ showed up despite the wx.
    Since I wasn’t aware of the current challenge I came with a deck of death. After a reasonable 20x stretch of SSH/Gm/AC/SL a hand of seven card stud was dealt. Hearts were burpees Spades deep squats Diamonds hand release Merkins Clubs were knee touch Lunges. Never saw so many big hearts. Closed out with 100xs crunches and 20x Jane Fonda’s/Leg lifts/Crunchy frogs. Einstein won the Q next week with Full house Aces over 8s. Mobydick prayed us out. Not bad for some old guys.