F3 New Orleans

Category: Backblasts

  • And the North Wind Blew – from Mobydick

    Felt a whole lot colder than it was. Enough to keep the fart sacks full of Gippers except for the oldest Gipper. Just as well cause he was just off a Chiropractor visit that confirmed his lower back was locked up. Good news is all will be loose in time. It gave YHC a chance to stretch without having to provide a beatdown for the masses. The seasonal adjustment will see more participants next time. This is not the worst the guys have turned out for.

  • Accountability trumps blustery weather – from Bolt

    YHC debated posting as he handed out candy and occasionally ate some (to merely enhance the taste of the wine—er, I mean heart “medicine”). Charmin shared he was a scratch, choosing salvation over suffering in the gloom, as did Minute Rice…my likelihood of posting was dropping with the temperatures. War Eagle called for attendance in Slack and offered to Q—there was no going back; I had to Q lest I be subjected to whatever War Eagle would’ve cobbled together and with text commitment from Rev, it was decided.
    Waromrama of the usuals sans music (I did not like it—one and done). Queue the music for the Thang:
    30 sec timer holds a pull up position while pax do an exercise AMRAP, rotate until each pax is timer: Merkins, Squats, Derkins, Lunges

    Make our way to gym equipment changing mode of transport every other light pole: high knees, mosey, shuffle each direction, Carioca facing each way, walk forward/ backwards, toy soldiers, open/close gate.

    Once at the gym, Morning Calls (5 pull ups called while pax plank and move on the count: derkins). The Thang, Thang: Four stations with 1 minute of work
    Followed by 10 sec rest/switch stations: Incline press, tricep dips, step ups, decline big boys. Rinse and repeat then mosey back to flag on Rev’s pace.

    Not wanting to cheat the pax out of their final minute, on the six for everyone’s favorite: Protractors! That seemed like and 86 second minute.

    COT. Prayers for PVC’s nephew, Boo Boo, War Eagle’s wife’s pregnancy, and Bolt’s boss after the loss of her dad. Thanks for keeping me accountable, men.

  • Welcome Back Smooth, When in Charge Take Charge and Four Lucky Winners Treated to a Loofah Gourd – from Heisenberg

    YHC was running late after gathering four large Loofah Gourd’s from my back yard and loading up my vehicle with an 80# sand medicine ball, 60# sandbag and a frisbee. I had agreed to Q at Frac’s suggestion after coffee on Saturday. I didn’t complete the signup until 6:00 am on Sunday, which created some confusion as Vagabond saw an empty signup sheet and was intent on Qing a Halloween themed workout. I arrived at 6:30 ran to the PAX who were lined up and took charge in my rightful role as the officially signed up Q. Vagabond kept the PAX entertained with a Halloween themed selection of music.

    The warm up – Grass Grabbers, Abe Vigoda, Imperial Walkers, Side Straddle Hops.

    The Thang – Mosey to the Foundry for some Murph training. Two pax took the sand bags while the other PAX used the Frisbee to move to the Foundry. After 5 frisbee throws the coupons would rotate. If the frisbee fell to the ground three burpees. Once at the foundry we began rounds of 5 pullups/rows, 10 Merkins, and 15 Squats. I think the winner was Vagabond with 14 rounds. Using the same mode of transportation we headed to the back of NOMA for some Mary (LBC, Flutter kicks, Freddy Mercuries). 5 Sunday mornings then back to the flag. Where minds were tricked with Loofah treats.

    Welcome back Smooth who returned the day before from Spain after finishing his four year work assignment.

    FYI My neighbors have an extensive trellis in their back yard and I am often the benefit of their botanical bounties that grow on my side of my fence.

    Not a typical garden vegetable, luffa grows slowly and matures well into autumn. It prefers plenty of sunshine, hot summer temperatures, adequate water and well drained soil. In the right conditions, luffa vines grow vigorously, sometimes as long as 30 feet. When provided an overhead trellis, the vines’ tendrils twine and wind up and across overhead supports. They can even create a natural shade canopy.
    Eye-catching, sunshine-yellow flowers appear in late summer through early fall. The flowers attract bees, ants and other pollinators. After the flowers are spent, elongated fruits form up and down the vines. They dangle here and there in random fashion.
    The adage “things get better with age” applies to luffa. The fruit should fully ripen on the vine before it is harvested. As it matures, the fruit lightens in color and loses water weight. The shell hardens and starts to separate from interior fibers. Typically the vine starts to dry, as well. However, wait too long and the outer shell may over harden, which makes peeling difficult. Decay also can begin, as evidenced by dark spots, when fully ripened fruit is left too long on the vine.
    Growers typically break off the mature fruit’s outer shell by slamming it on a hard surface or crushing it with a heavy utensil. If peeling is still difficult, a drench of water sometimes helps. Peeling reveals a spongy fiber within, which should be extracted, washed and squeezed to remove excess water. A bleach-water soak can lessen persistent stains. Otherwise, the fibrous “sponge” should be left in the sun to thoroughly dry, which helps curtail mold growth.

  • Happy 9th Man-iversary F3 NOLA – from Hokie

    10 Pax showed up to celebrate 9 years of F3 in NOLA

    Thank you

    Double Fudge
    Fast Tax
    Hand Grenada
    Hokie
    Manuel
    Mayhem
    Mr Rodger’s
    Pool boy
    PVC
    Vagabond

    For coming out to play!

    Warmorama

    10 Abe Vigodas
    18 grass grabbers
    14 arm circles
    9 low slow squats

    The THANG

    4 corners at the goal line and the 50 honoring 10.18.14 birth of F3 NOLA and our 9th Man-iversary

    Round 1 – 10 Honest Merkins each corner with mode of transportation between corners as follows

    50 to Goal line – forward lunge
    Close goal line corner to far corner backwards run
    Goal line to 50 – backwards run
    Far 50 to close 50 – forward run

    After Doing the same # of reps and the same exercise at all four corners each round Pax would Shoulder taps waiting on the six to complete each round

    Round 2
    18 bicycle big Boi
    Same mode of transportations

    Round 3
    14 Star Toe Taps
    Same mode of transportations

    Round 4
    9 jump for Joy
    Same mode of transportations

  • Brain Games – from Goose

    Last Monday, it was the same thing. Crickets on GroupMe after a tough Saturday and a last minute Goose fill-in on a blank Q slot. Thankfully, Safety Valve had already HC’d on the Jurptown group, and Paradiddle started chirping early enough to prove he was already on the road navigating the killer cane trucks appearing suddenly out of the fog. So, YHC knew that he and Pope wouldn’t be attacking the points monster alone.

    And, this proved to be the attendance list–four men, unafraid of posting two days in a row; unafraid of the nonsense that comes into YHC’s head at 10pm the night before a Q. This time it was math, psychology. and diamonds.

    YHC knew we had to try to get as many points as possble in a 45 minute window while not destroying the morale of a small crew and keeping it somewhat interesting. So, a brainless grind was off the table, as was any strong theme that might suck up time. YHC settled on the 7 of Diamonds. Any ladder exercise gives you an insane amount of reps while not feeling like an insane amount of reps because you’re doing a limited number at a time and you’re very focused on counting.

    After some solid warmups and a trip to the coupon stash, we stowed our coupons on the far side of the stage patio and then gathered on the lot side for instructions.

    Round 1:
    -First corner of the track = 7 burpees, run to next corner
    -Corner 2 = 7 burpees, 14 merkins
    -Corner 3 = 7 burpees, 14 merkins, 21 V-ups
    -Corner 4 = 7 burpees, 14 merkins, 21 V-ups, 28 Curls

    The mind trick here is that you think you’re just adding a few more of something at each corner. But, you’re actually cranking out the reps, which is pretty exhausting, and we needed a ten-count before Round 2.

    Round 2: (carried coupons with us this time)
    -Corner 1 = 7 burpees
    -Corner 2 = 7 burpees, 14 Bonnie Blairs
    -Corner 3 = 7 burpees, 14 Bonnie Blairs, 21 Curls
    -Corner 4 = 7 burpees, 14 Bonnie Blairs, 21 Curls, 28 Big Boys

    At this point, YHC explained that we had just done 56 burpees in about 10 minutes, in the midst of other not-so-easy exercises. And those were the easy part. It’s amazing what the body can endure when the brain is focused elsewhere. So, YHC then explained that we’d be doing 11’s with manmakers and merkins, which was similar to last Monday. This initially made SV and Pope doubt the wisdom of posting this morning; but, just like last Monday, we’d start with 10 of the hard one, and work our way down. The brain can then focus on the relief it’s getting with every round instead of on the fact that we’d be completing 55 manmakers in 15 minutes in the midst of running and nurring over a half mile and doing 55 merkins.

    These guys are beasts, and they flew through these despite YHC’s interesting new playlist rolling along behind them (and maybe the strange combination of songs provided a bit of a distraction from the pain as well). And, so, four men, in just making the decision to get out of bed, show up, and not say no, completed the following number of exercises one set, one rep at a time:
    55 Manmakers
    56 Burpees
    100 Merkins
    42 Bonnie Blairs
    82 V-ups
    70 Curls
    28 Big Boy Situps
    1 Mile
    Total: 600 points

    On this second-to-last day of Jurptober, YHC is proud to be joined by these men and driven by them and for them to choose to keep pushing the limits of what’s possible in 45 minutes. These are things that I would never do for myself, but just as in every other aspect of life, I always benefit more from the decisions to let go of my comfort for the sake of others than I do when I’m chasing my own fulfillment. This is what life is all about, and it makes me extremely grateful for these experiences with you guys.

    SYITG,
    Goose

  • Modified Combine – from Hogs Breath

    First things first, yhc seriously considered calling an audible and fartscking this morning. It was only that yhc knew he had a commitment to show up and Q.

    As yhc pulled into The 007, there was Pass interference waiting and eager!

    Warm up:
    SSH, buttkicks, mountain man poopers, squat + touchdowns, and arm circles

    The thang:
    YHCE recently saw an Instagram reel which explained 95% of men over 40 will never sprint again in their lifetime.

    So we began with a couple of combine style 40 yard sprints. One pax kept a timer while the other would sprint, then mosey back and switch. Rinse, lather, and repeat for three rounds.

    A round of pull ups.

    Then a best of a 3, backwards Sprint.

    Next on to the strength portion of our combine, we mosey’d over to the rock pile, and grabbed the biggest coupons we could muster.
    Three rounds of chest press, and three rounds of squats.

    Back over to the flag for agility. A few rounds of twinkle toes, which included left, right, foreword and backward shuffles, and dropping for a merkin.

    Finished off with a lap mosey and COT.

    Thank you for giving me the opportunity to lead, and knowing pax counted on me for the Q.

  • 4 Corners – from Akbar

    PAX: Akbar, Bird, Hammer, Moby Dick, Waterpik, Turbo Dog

    Conditions: Pleasant 66, foggy, full moon

    5 HIM today at the Marsh, for another gloomy gloom and another 4 corners.

    Warm Up – Toe touch hold for 10 count, SSH, Imperial Walkers, Arm Circles, Self-Love, Grass Grabbers, Windmills

    Short jog down Lamarque to the stop sign and back to the court for the Thang.

    4 corners on the court. Freak Nasty, Squats, Merkins, Shoulder Taps on each corner, starting at 40 reps and working down 10 reps each round (might have skipped 20).

    Long side of court bear crawl, short side of court lunge walk. Once done, mosey to the playground for max pull ups and another jog down Lamarque to the first stop sign and back.

    Rinse and repeat to 5:55am.

    Mary
    LBC, Hello Dolly, Rosalita, Flutter Kicks, JLo’s (7), Wife Pleasers, Jane Fonda x 15 IC

    Count, Name, and YHC prayed us out. Intentions for Hammers brother-in- law after a bike accident, Calliope on the South Shore (bike accident), upcoming Holiday safety through the rest of the year.

    Announcements: YHC has the Q Saturday, F3 camping trip this Saturday at Kokomo (see slack), HogsBreath HIM November CSAUP – look for Google Sheet coming soon.

    Thanks for following the lead.

    SYITG – Akbar

  • Don’t Fear the Reaper – from Paradox

    YHC rolled in a touch early to the Peltch to lay out a few stations for our trick or treaters. Greeting Ronnie and Fresh Gi on the way I made a few cone deposits, worked up a lather and visited the haunted ghost toilet for an early backblast. Jeaux had been correct previously noting the eeriness of a densely fogged peltch morning and YHC planned to weave it into todays theme.

    On return Ronnie and Gi had been joined by a stout group of 12 more pax. It was another true gloom and YHC had trouble distinguishing everyone but found early inspiration in a returned Fire in the Hole and a sweaty HoneySuckle, already 7 miles deep on the day. (Campaign to rename him RunnySuckle?)

    Slowly noting my error in a late groupme invite to wear a costume YHC was ready to be “that guy”’when the Old Testament Tundra rolled in and out stepped Malachi Obadiah Dawson the IV , the great Shepard/Prophet/Early Church Father( his story is in one of those apocryphal books so don’t sweat it ).
    It was a clear sign the cardio strain was about to get biblical.
    Let’s get it !

    Duke! Get the candy corn
    It’s F3 Thib Halloween!

    Warmup
    SSH
    IW
    Frankensteins (shout out to America’s FrankenBeast )
    Bat Wings (10 AC, 10 CP, MNCs, Self Love )
    HIgh Knees, Butt Kicks

    Indian run to ThunderDome with last man dropping off for 3 Peter Parker Merkins as a shoutout to Gooses lifelong love of the spidey suit.
    Because if a full grown man can’t be spiderMan every year till he’s 99 then what are we even doing with all this freedom ?!

    We had a fine Indian run with some Halloween selected jamz leading us back to the Tdome for jurps and treats.

    As this backblast goes to print we are 28 days into what the critics are calling the greatest ISI of our age. Jurptober has had it all. Feats of strength, bonding, betrayal, ghost poops, Merkin miles, berkin miles (hushtones), ageless wonders, Google sheets meltdowns..all under the careful eye of the Architect. So it was difficult for YHC to refresh the jurpee but if there’s one thing that always moves the needle in F3 Thib it’s the feared emom timer…
    YHC dialed up 2 minutes with 3 kraken burpees as the kicker.
    All finished in fine form and Smooth beat the clock on round two of the Kraken by atleast 14 seconds.

    **Trick or Treat**
    Roll first dye – Take standard 15 reps (treat) OR add the trick and roll the second die with lower or higher. (Die have 5-10-15-20-25-30)
    We rolled every time we change locations or as a ten count.
    Along the way we did Burpees , BBSU, LBCs and Most Pax chose the conservative 15 rep approach. (Lame!)

    Mosey to the Chimney to start the Monster Mash

    The Main Thang was all about releasing dat Monster within.
    We trained in each of the 4 traditional Halloween monster disciplines. Listed below with their correlating groupme hype actors. Name image and likeness were taken from these men with no consent and they will have little help with litigation as my legal team is busy battling no less than 17 active Jurp citations this month.

    Da Monsters:

    I.) The Werewolf (Yankee Jeaux Jackson before turning full werewolf in the Thriller video)

    7 Werewolf’s (Carolina dry dock into upward dog yoga pose )
    Run to the chimney , Nur back
    1 BBSU
    Increase the BBS and decrease werewolves until complete.
    This had several pax booking early Monday chiropractic appointments for shoulder evals.

    2.) The Zombie
    Pax split into equal teams
    Hold plank in a line with enough room to frog hop in between. The last pax hop to the front and do 5 merkins. Repeat until your entire team crossed the cone. The return race would be a team arm linked lunge. Epic graveyard race and YHCs vision was too blurry to call it anything but a photo finish.

    Mosey to monkey bars

    3.) The Vampire (Count Goosula)
    Hanging in the Cave
    P1 hanging leg raises AMRAP
    P2 10 burpees
    2 rounds each to complete 40 burpees as a pair.

    4.) The Mummy (our Knights in shining Armor Ronnie and Tana)

    Pyramid Scheme of Burpees

    Bearcrawl to cones
    Increasing burpees , then crawl bear during descending burpees
    1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1

    YHC set the course up for some intended gang clashes and was not disappointed when I hit a smooth wrecking ball and was almost shanked by a an optometrist. Ya love to see the competition.

    Back to the flag for name off count off

    Jurpee numbers (adjust if you see fit)
    1 jurp
    67 burpees
    Merkins depending on graveyard race cycles
    50 BBSU

    Intentions
    Announcements:

    AB house party upcoming Nov 11

    Goose Leaving the Nest party on Nov 12
    (I’m still in denial, it’s just a prank…sigh)

    More deets on these in the GroupMe

    Ronnie Prayed us out

    Had a blast getting better and finding some monsters today men.
    Great work
    Enjoy a feast on your 2.0s candy
    It was well earned.

    Here’s a Dox of Chocolates:

    Ever found yourself curious as to what a psychedelic experience would feel like? No?…
    No one? Okay okay then, play it coy, your secrets safe with me *wink *wink
    Buttttt if you had, and didn’t want all the baggage, (health risk, weird shaman named Marley, unhealthy fear of leprechauns) then yesterday morning at Peltier park at approximately 6:39am you had a perfect opportunity. You could have sat right in the Thunderdome, on a bleacher, sober as a church mouse and witnessed quite a trip:

    A light fog sizzling off the hard pan spicy grass, backlit by a tremendous blazing full moon. A shadowy hearse standing ominously at center stage. Street light splotches of hazy orange along the pavement. Fluorescent greens and purples from a blow up haunted house add to the dizzying effect. And then you hear the growing foot falls of 11 men, 3 children and a well worn wagon. Led by a desert prophet they jog by single file maniacally tossing dice to and fro. Anchored by a ghostbuster, occasionally one loses all function, drops to the ground and pretends to be spiderMan. They continue in this manner until reaching a pre arranged destination surrounding the hearse. That’s when the shrooms really kick in. They start a synchronous series of exercises while the Blue Oyster Cult reminds them to not fear the reaper. Not satisfied with this they disappear into the gloom looking for more monsters to mash with.

    Ya know
    Maybe my 6th grade DARE teacher was right
    Maybe you can get high on life.

    I’ll need a few more beatdown to be sure…

    SYITG
    Dox

  • All together now! – from Kenna Brah

    Mosey to the Rock Pile
    Warmups with a side of chaos – changing counts, tweaking cadence in order to send waves of disruption unto acceleration.
    Imperial Walkers
    Toy Soldiers
    Surprise!! – 5 Burpees OYO
    Arm Circles F/B
    Surprise!! – 5 Burpees OYO

    Pick out a rock circle with Me

    PAX to my left was the TOP OF THE CLOCK – The person there calls the set as follows:
    5 Curls
    5 OHP
    5 Sumo Sq
    The Entire PAX shifts one position clockwise – repeat until all pax execute the sets. leader has freedom to add any spice this gumbo he sees appropriate, and a few did, but cherry picking/dropping ain’t gonna cut it Charmin.
    Toes on Rocks – 10 Merkins facing out from circle
    Brief conversation of being prepared for the unexpected.
    Next Thang –
    Like above but with:
    10 Pullovers to Chest Press and Back – God help those who got Triples boulder.
    10 Calf Raise
    10 Lunges L/R ( 5 a leg )
    Called it quits at 6 sets
    Return Rocks
    and did some Jane Fondaesqe leg work. Hurry back to COT

  • Making It Great – from Thighs

    This week we only had a few PAX. But we still strived to make it great.

    We started w/ a mosey around the block.

    Then we did a warm up:
    15x Side Straddle Hops
    7x Windmills
    7x Cherry Pickers
    7x Merkins
    7x Peter Parkers
    7x Parker Peters
    7x Squats
    7x InTempo Squats

    Then we moseyed over the Farmer’s Market to start the Grind.

    We started with a set of 11s

    1x Lunge going to 10x Lunges
    10x Burpees to 1x Burpee
    Running to each end of the Market

    Then we started The Gauntlet:
    Starting w/:
    5x Diamond Merkins
    Running to the first Station
    10x Bonny Blairs
    Back to the beginning and doing that set, then running to the first station and doing that set, and then running to the second set.
    20x Merkins
    We kept going in that manner until we finished the final two sets
    30x Squats
    40x Flutter Kicks

    Then we mosey-ed back to the beginning to do:

    Ring of Fire:
    6 inches until the person was done doing their set
    10x Reverse Crunches
    10x Box Cutters
    15x Hello Dollies
    15x LBCs

    We ended with the usual close out, sending us off with a prayer.

    Looking forward to next time!