F3 New Orleans

Category: Backblasts

  • An Uninteresting Stat – from Glitter Balls

    So, we’re on week 4 of GB’s Foundry monopoly, and we’re loving it.

    Actually, Goose had the Q on the sheet but I think that was a misclick because Goose was nowhere to be found and none of us are sure who Goose is.

    Anywho, it was humid as all get out and we had Upchuck from Birmingham with us, so let’s go see some of the park.

    Mosey towards NOMA that ended at the bridge by the sculpture garden for 5 burpees OYO, then a quick warmup at the sculpture garden and contemplation of the opening piece:

    20 SSH, 10 Windmills, 20 IWs, 10 Count of Self Love.

    Mosey to the Great Lawn. Some stretch from one side to the other of Lunges, Bear Crawls, Crab Walks, Lunges, 5 Burpees OYO, a 10 count and run it back.

    Mosey to the little Foundry for Dips, Squats, Decline Merkins and Pull-ups, then a quick hop to the Children’s Museum for some core work:

    LBCs, Levels, Right Leg V-Ups, American Hammer, Left Leg V-Ups, Box Cutters, Flutter Kicks.

    Mosey back to the flag.

    COT.

  • Brick by Brick, redux – from Sandbar

    WARM UP and Merkin-0-rama
    Mosey the parking lot to the truck to distribute 2 bricks per PAX. PAX moseyed across the street to the field in front of the zoo. 20 merks OYO. SSH IC, 10 merks OYO. 20 Grassgrabbers IC, 10 merks OYO. 20 Windmills. 10 merks OYO. 20 hillbillies IC. 10 merks OYO. 20 Imperial Walkers IC. 20 Merks OYO.
    THING 1 – BLIMPS (with Bricks) at the corners of field, 5-10-15 etc, 2 is 1.
    PAX then slow moseyed to the green wall outside the zoo, with curls on the way.
    THING 2 – Grab some Wall. Dodo Bird (With two bricks assume the People’s Chair, brick in each hand and at rest down your sides is the default position. In cadence Wonderbra (assume the People’s Chair position. Start with bricks close to body at chest level. Push bricks up over head fully extending arms, bring bricks back down to chest position, then push them straight out in front until complete arm extension reached. Return to starting position). 2 sets of 4 count 10 each. 10 count between. Then the PAX finished with some balls-to-the-wall decline merks, with elevation to the
    THING 2 – PAX paired up for CBGB (Carolina Drydocks, tricep extensions, Brick-flys, trap shrugs ), one PAX lifts while the other runs with the bricks up two lights and back and flapjack, until all PAX complete.
    Line up two rows for Indian run back to Oak Alley. Circle up for Mary – Angie led on 30 4 count LBCs. Then 35 4-count Freddy Mercurys. Then 40 4 count penguins, then LBOs. Finish with 10 more merks OYO.
    COT
    Back to the flag for countoff, name-o-rama, announcements and intentions.

  • No Tommy Trucker Carries Today, OG Farmer Carries for the Win – from Wedding Planner

    After a horrible loss last night all discussion of anyone who played yesterday was left out. My original thought behind the workout had to get back from LSU theme to the OG naming and the VQ got underway!

    Jog to the grass by the rock pile and let’s get started. Warmup included side-straddle-hops, “Fast” Abagodas that had to be dialed back to “slow” Abagodas as this new Q was figuring out counts and how to breathe. Found a rhythm and with the PAX moved through Empirial walkers, grass grabbers, Peter Parker’s, big arm circles, a little self love, and some Parker Peters to round it out.
    Time to grab a rock and head the the football field. The pax split into 3 groups. One man in each group did Farmer Carry from one sideline to the other and back with 40lb sandbuckets while the wrest of the group stationed off for chest press, squats, shoulder press, lunges, or big boy sit-ups and alternate the circuit as each person came back from farmer carry. 10 burpees and repeat with a reminder that good grip strength is strongly correlated to longevity so hold those buckets tight men. Finish round 2 of the circuit with 10 burpees then head to the other side of the field for a DORA in pairs of 2 where one partner did LBC’s while the other ran 3 up and downs on the bleachers. Goal was 203 LBC’s for each team to give us a little hope for tonight as we remember the 203 strikeouts Paul Skenes as thrown this season.
    Next we grabbed our rocks and “jogged” back to the rock pile. Drop the rocks and circle up for some ab work in cadence, exercise. Jog back to the flag and six is in, Countoff, Namerama, and COT with sweaty ball of man prayer. VQ complete.

  • Just Make Sure You Remember to Forget – from Yankee Joe

    It’s 1996 in Omaha for the 50th anniversary of the College World Series. It’s the Championship game between LSU and Miami. Warren Morris, who has been inactive most of the season due to a wrist injury, convinces the Skipper before the game to put him in the line-up.

    It’s the bottom of the 9th. LSU is down 8-7 against a prolific Miami Nine. Morris strolls to the plate with a man on third. There are two outs. The first pitch is a hard curve low and away. Morris swings with everything his wrist can handle…and it’s all over. Gone. The Walk-Off has been called by some the greatest moment in college baseball history. Morris certainly couldn’t know as he rounded second base that the Miami shortstop crying and pounding his fists in the dirt would end up being a three-time World Series champion – Alex Cora. Go Sox.

    So, if you’re LSU, you should remember 1996. Also, if you’re LSU, you should thoroughly absorb and then forget the Game 2 debacle yesterday as Florida hung 24 runs on ya. As Paradiddle reminded us about the quote from the great Ted Lasso. “Be a goldfish.”

    We would use ’96 and 24 for rep counts throughout. Just to keep us in balance.

    YHC arrived at The Stage about 20 minutes early to make sure that my burner phone would successfully hook up to BAPS. Smooth Operator was right on my tail, followed by Goldilocks, Cardinal, and Econoline. YHC had yet to meet Econoline, so this was an added bonus after a week hiatus due to being on the IR.

    Paradox rolled in with the shovel flag. He was followed by Montana and French Horn…wait no…they ballsacked again? I just assumed they would show up when prewriting my blast because they…you know…HC’d. Oh wait. They came up with their own version of “hopeful commit?” Is that a thing? Does F3 recognize that garbage? Regardless, Sans the Captain and the Pusher, the PAX finally closed ranks with the standard late arrival of Paradiddle. I’m running out of excuses to make for this guy.

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    Thang 1: Skipping through the daisy fields – gotta be humbled.

    – (Mario punches) to sidewalk, 96 LBCs at sidewalk; then Mario punches back to stage, 24 J-Lo’s

    If you thought Cardinal was fast as a crab, you should see him tear up the pitch as a 1992 Nintendo character. I swear it looked like his feet never touched the ground.

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    Thang 2: Humility and the Mumblechatter killer

    – Flying Nuns (lunge walk with baby arm circles) to sidewalk; 96 leg raises; Reverse Flying Nuns return to stage, 24 J-Los (2:1)

    It was during the reverse nuns that Paradox offered up his only real bit of chatter. Something to the effect of my fresh legs after a month off. If you want to keep chatter at a minimum, make YHC take the Q and don’t let Paradox get near Goose, Tana, or Enron. Take away his primary voter base, and his platform starts getting creaky.

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    Thang 3: An American in Paris

    – Frog jump to sidewalk; 96 American hammers (1:1); Frog jump back to stage; 24 J-Los (2:1)

    This was impressive on all fronts. Smooth, Paradox, and Goldilocks traded the lead several times. I swear Goldilocks was clearing 6 feet with every jump. He and Econoline have added to what is becoming the stoic caricature of F3 Thibodaux. Like Smooth, Lil’ Cuz, and Superfun(d), these two maintain the same facial expression and just plain GRINDDD. No complaints, no chatter, no shortcuts. It’s pretty durn awesome. Also, did you know that Smooth is a J-Lo machine? His hips not only don’t lie, they’re straight up insulting your family and calling out your darkest fears. Kilmer would be proud.

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    Thang 4: The Jake Sully

    – Zombie crawl to sidewalk; 96 Superman’s; Zombie crawl back to the stage; 24 J-Los (2:1)

    YHC believes that the zombie crawl is the single most effective (and awful) core exercise in F3. The correct form means your knees never touch the ground as you essentially elbow plank crawl with J-Lo’s. It’s brutal and it puts your lower core and obliques on full blast. It’s one of those barometer exercises that can clearly demonstrate your progress. Last March, YHC couldn’t go five yards. It’s a little better now. BUT Holy Dang, Paradiddle!!! His core strength is just stooopid.

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    Thang 5: Run Toward the Fire, Full Speed Ahead

    – Ongoing sprints to sidewalk, nur back until time (last 6 minutes) – goal of 24.

    I wish YHC could make some sort of commentary about the PAX performance at this point. However, my only memory between blackouts and Paradox simply flying was me yelling, “Do you want to be Morris or Cora?” I expected Goldilocks to give me a knowing nod. He admitted he had no idea what the hell I was talking about. Then it hit me that when Morris rounded the bases in that epic 1996 moment, Goldilocks wasn’t even born. I then looked around for my walker, but couldn’t find it because I couldn’t see without my glasses and was tripping over my balls…I mean dentures.

    COT and Econoline prayed us out.

    Good to be back in the swing of things. Geaux Tigahs!

    SYITG,

    YJ

  • Back to Normal – from Akbar

    The fab four was back in action this gloom, with Hammer and Pik returning from travels. Today is World Refrigeration Day – don’t take for granted the importance of refrigeration in modern life. We could have used one today. This is how it went:

    Conditions
    81, partly cloudy, slight southwest wind at 6, slightly muggy

    Warm Up – SSH at center court, mosey to the Lakefront stopping for Grass Grabbers, Windmills, arm circles, self love, high knees, butt kicks

    Wall: Wall exercise, mosey in between to sidewalk, return x15 on each side, OYO
    • Derkins, Squats
    • Irkins, Sumo Squats
    • Freak Nasty, Sister Mary Catherine’s
    • Stone Mountain, Superman’s

    Rips
    Wall Sit, 15 count each pax – Moby’s count was at least a minute

    Stairs
    Exercise 1 at bottom of stairs, run to top for 15 calf raises, return to bottom for 2nd exercise.
    • Plank Jacks, Rocky Balboas
    • Shoulder Taps, Rocky Balboas

    Return to home base stopping at each intersection for 1 exercise x15 IC: Merkins, Squats, Superman’s, Sumo Squats, LBC’s

    Mary at center court x 15IC. Rosalita, Hello Dolly, Heals to Heaven, Flutter Kicks, Wife Pleasers

    Count, Name, and Moby prayed us out.

    Announcements
    Chainsaw has Lakefront Q Saturday, sign up to Q

    Always a pleasure to start me week of right with you guys –

    SYITG – Akbar

  • Sweaty Bells – from Strings

    first 15 minutes mobility exercises and stretching, warmups. Kettblebell swings, Russian and American style; painfully slow burpees, snatches, shoulder press using 2 second concentric 3 second eccentric. Curls, halos, single arm rows, one lap. abs

  • Hot, Humid and Hellacious (very great, bad or overwhelming) – from Triple Shift

    Last Sunday, I totally screwed up and thought I was the Q and Vagabond so graciously let me Co-Q the workout with him. This week, for sure, I was the Q and I didn’t want to disappoint! Time to implement all the crazy ideas I had to help us make a downpainment for the upcoming week.

    I gave the disclaimer and then moseyed to the front of the Museum and faced the bacon. I instructed the PAX to do hip circles but meant to perform the Open the Gate exercise and was thoroughly corrected. Not to be thrown off my game, I quickly corrected my terminology and moved forward with the Warmup exercises.

    10 Open the Gate (both legs), 10 Low Slow Squats, 10 Low Slow Merkins finished with 30 SSH all in cadence.

    Thang 1 – Split up into two team for a Bataan Death Crawl at the front of NOMA and head toward the back of NOMA. The last person in the bear crawl line does 10 squats with weights and then runs to the front of the bear crawl line. As they reach the last person in the bear crawl line, they give them the weights and that person does 10 squats as they head to the front of the line. Keep repeating this routine till the group reaches the back of NOMA. From there, we switch to the Bataan Death Lunge Walk with the last person in the lunge walk line perform 10 overhead presses then runs to the front. As they reach the last person in the lunge walk line, they give them the weights so they can perform 10 overhead presses. Repeat till we reach the front.

    Thang 2 – Split up into 2 person teams and PAX 1 performs a cumulative 30 burpees and 60 stair rail body rows/kettlebell rows while the other farmer carries two weight to the yield sign and back to switch out.

    Thang 3 – Running out of time, I had to significantly change Thang 2 to get to the Jackass Burpee Webb at the back of NOMA. We worked our way up to 8 burpees in cadence and 16 donkey kicks. That exercise is a fan favorite! We were all gassed needless to say and finished up with one Sunday morning.

    Countoff, Namerama, and COT – Naked Man Moleskin (NMM) Closed us out with a prayer of thanksgiving for the Pax and their vocal correction of me when I screw something up. Because I know it comes from a place of love and honor, I gladly receive it because it helps me to be a better man for my M, family, and community. I wonder how many men encounter that type of gracious correction in their daily lives. I’m not sure the answer to my pondering but I am sure that I’m better because of it. Thankful for the opportunity to lead!

  • Hot, Humid and Hellacious (very great, bad or overwhelming) – from Triple Shift

    Last Sunday, I totally screwed up and thought I was the Q and Vagabond so graciously let me Co-Q the workout with him. This week, for sure, I was the Q and I didn’t want to disappoint! Time to implement all the crazy ideas I had to help us make a downpainment for the upcoming week.

    I gave the disclaimer and then moseyed to the front of the Museum and faced the bacon. I instructed the PAX to do hip circles but meant to perform the Open the Gate exercise and was thoroughly corrected. Not to be thrown off my game, I quickly corrected my terminology and moved forward with the Warmup exercises.

    10 Open the Gate (both legs), 10 Low Slow Squats, 10 Low Slow Merkins finished with 30 SSH all in cadence.

    Thang 1 – Split up into two team for a Bataan Death Crawl at the front of NOMA and head toward the back of NOMA. The last person in the bear crawl line does 10 squats with weights and then runs to the front of the bear crawl line. As they reach the last person in the bear crawl line, they give them the weights and that person does 10 squats as they head to the front of the line. Keep repeating this routine till the group reaches the back of NOMA. From there, we switch to the Bataan Death Lunge Walk with the last person in the lunge walk line perform 10 overhead presses then runs to the front. As they reach the last person in the lunge walk line, they give them the weights so they can perform 10 overhead presses. Repeat till we reach the front.

    Thang 2 – Split up into 2 person teams and PAX 1 performs a cumulative 30 burpees and 60 stair rail body rows/kettlebell rows while the other farmer carries two weight to the yield sign and back to switch out.

    Thang 3 – Running out of time, I had to significantly change Thang 2 to get to the Jackass Burpee Webb at the back of NOMA. We worked our way up to 8 burpees in cadence and 16 donkey kicks. That exercise is a fan favorite! We were all gassed needless to say and finished up with one Sunday morning.

    Countoff, Namerama, and COT – Naked Man Moleskin (NMM) Closed us out with a prayer of thanksgiving for the Pax and their vocal correction of me when I screw something up. Because I know it comes from a place of love and honor, I gladly receive it because it helps me to be a better man for my M, family, and community. I wonder how many men encounter that type of gracious correction in their daily lives. I’m not sure the answer to my pondering but I am sure that I’m better because of it. Thankful for the opportunity to lead!

  • Seriously FUN Mothership (Mothership 2023-06-24) – from Catfish

    Conditions – Nice and cool and definitely NOT humid at all…

    The Thang

    Quick Mosey over to the peristyle for a warmup:

    Hip Circles (clockwise) x 5 (in cadence)
    Hip Circles (counterclockwise) x 5 (in cadence)
    Abe Vigodas x 10 (in cadence)
    Grass Grabber x 10 (in cadence)
    Peter Parker Peters x 20 (in cadence)
    8-Counts x 10 (in cadence)

    Moseyed over to the Great Lawn and split into two teams for 10-ish minutes of ultimate frisbee. Followed this up with Jack Webbs by fives (i.e. five and ten, then ten and twenty) up to twenty merkins and forty air presses

    Did a frisbee-toss mosey over to the Tool Wall. PAX tossed frisbee between each other, and a dropped frisbee resulted in 3 merkins for group members. When at the Tool Wall, got in some calf action:

    Calf Raises (right leg) x 20 (in cadence)
    Calf Raises (left leg) x 20 (in cadence)
    Calf Raises (both legs, toes in) x 20 (in cadence)
    Dips x 20 (in cadence)
    Calf Raises (both legs, toes out) x 20 (in cadence)

    Moseyed over to the mini foundry for a quarter murph (25 pull-ups, 50 merkins, 75 squats). Did some Mary waiting for the six to finish:

    Real Freddies x 20 (in cadence)
    LBTs x 20 (in cadence)
    Crunchy Frogs x 20 (in cadence)

    Continued the mosey to back of the museum to hit the legs:

    People’s chair hold plus Air Presses x 20 (in cadence)
    Monkey Humpers x 20 (in cadence)
    People’s chair hold plus Air Presses x 20 (in cadence)
    Low Slow Squats x 20 (in cadence)
    Left leg front extension x 20 (In cadence)
    Right leg front extension x 20 (In cadence)

    Back to flag for COT, coffee afterwards @ Navarre.

  • The Greatest Kickballer Among Us – from Lil Cuz

    YHC found himself following two F3 Thib Legends into the Peltch this humid June Morning. The need for a fun Saturday was felt through all and as I drove up it seemed we finally had enough people on a Saturday to play America’s favorite Past Time, that’s right KICKBALL!!! Who didn’t have dreams of blasting one straight over the outfield and running the bases staring at your middle school crush as you round third hoping for the game winning kick celebration kiss? Just me…alrighty then. Moving on…

    Today is June 24th which is the feast of John the Baptist, who was called by Jesus Himself, “Among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist”. (Matthew 11:11 for those interested in reading more) So before we played a rousing game of kickball we had to rise to the occasion and chase after the G.O.A.T himself.

    Thang 1:
    Cindy Crawford – this was to get our whole body in the best shape it can be, which of course is bikini body ready. It’s beach vacation time after all.
    AMRAP:
    – 5 Pull Ups
    – 10 Merkins
    – 15 Squats
    – 20 LBC’s
    – 25 Toe Raises
    This lasted 15 minutes and TONS of mumble chatter later everyone realized they can do WAY more pull ups than they thought before we started. T-Claps all around!

    Thang 2:
    Coach Burpee – YHC has been coaching his oldest 2.0’s baseball team and it has taught me more patience and made me realize we are viewed outside of our homes sometimes more than in it and a good coach can get even the most un-motivated player to do things neither thought they could do.

    Pax split into teams of 3 or 4 due to number of Pax at Peltch today.
    – P1 does Burpees
    – P2 yells encouragements to keep going
    – P3 runs ¼ mile
    – P1 switches to P2, P2 switches to P3, P3 switches to P1.

    This originally was supposed to be until all Pax had completed a mile, but due to unfortunate time constraints this was changed to ½ mile and not at all due to everyone being gassed from hitting, by my latest estimate, 275 burpees in 15 minutes. It was awesome to hear yells of encouragement coming from all coaches and I know a bunch of Pax hit numbers of burpees they did not think they would hit prior to starting. T-Claps all around!

    Thang 3:

    KickBall Game:
    Split into 2 teams. Buy in is 5 Squats or 5 LBC’s. No one chose LBC’s which was expected or because no one heard me say this and just kept with squats. The world may never know.
    When kicking, you can kick normally and all defense has to do 2 merkins before they can play the ball.

    Can choose to do a trick kick (ex: kick backwards, kick behind back, left foot), if this is chosen then defense must do 5 merkins before playing the ball.

    When running the bases: normal kick – bear crawl to base. Trick kick – lunge walk to base. This was changed to run after the first inning to get some runs in.

    True colors truly came out in this game. We had quitters whose team never let him live it down and to this day is known as “Quitter-Mcgee”. Strange world we live in when guys who can’t show up on time start pegging 2.0’s with dodgeballs as they run the bases. After the mayhem Team 1 had to show Team 2 a lesson for hitting innocent 2.0’s and loaded up the bases with said 2.0’s. Then threw out the big guns in Smooth who absolutely crushed the ball with his left foot and brought all 2.0’s in for a score with the biggest hit single in kickball history! Truly awe-inspiring stuff!

    There were no cute girls to wink at while rounding third, just Enron dripping sweat and cheering on his team and Dox asking for the ump, who could not be found. I think we made John the Baptist proud despite all of this but he is still the G.O.A.T. Thanks for pushing hard today fellas!

    SYITG,
    Lil Cuz’